Youtube comments of wvu05 (@wvu05).

  1. A Fox host saying that someone else wants a dumb audience is the height of irony.
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  2. I have all the sympathy in the world for the kids who didn't do this, but I have none whatsoever for the parents who did this.
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  3. Libertarians: People should not live off other people's labor. Also Libertarians: Support an economic system where the rich literally make their living off everyone else's labor.
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  4. Either that, or it was a scam like The Amityville Horror.
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  5. At this point, I am just exhausted from hearing how so many people are opposed to just about everything Republicans do as long as they keep voting for Republicans.
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  6. The saddest lies are the ones that we tell ourselves. I don't feel for Dave Rubin, but I feel for the kids because of the people he is going to put around them.
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  7. Hearing this, I can't help but think that the biggest parallel to Elon Musk is Ray Kroc, especially insisting on being called "the founder" of a company other people built and eventually pushing out the actual founders. As much as he talks about wanting to be this futuristic visionary, I wonder if he got a copy of a book about McDonald's and decided to copy that method.
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  8. We can survive without the rich. They cannot survive without us.
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  9. When someone has gone 77 years without getting punished or held accountable for his actions, threats mean nothing. Lock him up!
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  10. Here's a thought: if you don't want your constituents following you to the bathroom, stop avoiding them and making all the time in the world for donors.
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  11. Mitch McConnell: I am the worst Senator from Kentucky. Rand Paul: Hold my beer.
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  12. Another issue is the obsession with access journalism rather than investigative journalism.
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  13. I remember one time dealing with a sovereign citizen type who got mad when I asked him if he'd need to get a passport to re-enter the United States from his property or need to come to tariff agreements to import stuff to his property. He sputtered and said that I was trying to distract from the fundamental argument. These people have clearly never asked themselves a follow-up question.
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  14. I am a Caseworker, and I have seen plenty of applications for benefits from people working Uber. I was shocked out how little they actually make.
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  15. "The war must not be won. It must be continuous." George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-four, in the book within the book
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  16. "Comedians find nothing worse than unfunny people who think they are funny." In other words, comedians hate Jimmy Dore.
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  17. Totally ridiculous. My six-year-old daughter is about as much of a girly-girl as you can get (she almost never wants to wear pants, and she is obsessed with JoJo Siwa and unicorns), but she likes to play with trucks and enjoys going to Diggerland. There is nothing inherently gendered about toys.
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  18. The Libertarian Party: Not Asking Follow-up Questions When Forming Policies Since 1971
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  19. If Mike Lindell would have just gone away in 2019, his would have been a heartwarming story about a troubled man who turned his life around and helped his town. Instead, he will be remembered for throwing it all away for a charlatan and a traitor.
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  20. As good as Ruining History was, Shane found a way to make it even better with Puppet History. I'm confident that Ryan can find a way, although I'm sure that the (wheeze) transcript probably won't make it over.
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  21. ​ @LONE_SKUM_DOGE  By "working hard and innovating," you mean buying into a rising company and taking all the credit when it gets big, and then using government subsidies to get rich while trying to take that away from everyone else? What a great role model!
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  22. Never forget, this is a man whose wife had to tell him that WAP is a medical condition to make him feel better about his inadequacies.
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  23. Libertarian thought in a nutshell: Government can't do anything right because they are obsessed with power, but private interests motivated by greed will do the right thing.
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  24. She is exaggerating, but if you were in a National Guard unit, you had some pretty old stuff. Our unit had a few trucks from the 1950s. Even if you have a problem with outdated military equipment... it was Rumsfeld who refused to give us proper equipment.
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  25. The only difference between Trump and Jim Jones is that Trump would charge for the Kool-Aid.
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  26. ​ @rarted  If anything, they might be dumber, because they think he's smart.
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  27. Nearly 10% of Secret Service agents got coronavirus because of this big orange dummy. I have no doubt that they'll be eager to evict him for trespassing.
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  28.  @conalflood7895  Ruining History went to a higher level with Puppet History, so I am hopeful that they have something even better planned.
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  29. The last time I was this early, Sinema was still pretending to care about the important issues.
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  30. Agreed. It's not like he really had good memories of her. He was clearly working through his grief.
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  31. What do you call a failed coup where the instigators aren't punished? Practice.
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  32. Anyone shocked by this? I didn't think so.
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  33. "You've already had plenty of dinners with your father." You could almost feel Eric's heart breaking at that assumption.
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  34. While Roe was a thing, a lot of people (not activists, but regular people) called themselves "pro-life" because they were personally uncomfortable with abortion. However, once it is no longer abstract, a lot of people realized that they were pro-choice after all.
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  35. "On a bed filled with piles of money and lots of women." Rainier Wolfcastle
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  36. Ryan: If we just form a line, we can get finished a lot quicker. Stanley: This is a run out the clock operation.
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  37. The outrage is fake. They want to distract from what they are doing, namely kidnapping children and making sure they will never find their parents ever.
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  38. I don't think it will be successful, but the attempt in and of itself is a problem.
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  39.  @meghanohalloran729  It's not to refute the theory, only to point out that it isn't automatically the case that people who have the same last name in the same small town are automatically related. I've had that experience, too.
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  40. I saw this movie halfway in, and I was annoyed the most of all by that. If they're both manipulating the other one, how can they possibly get mad at each other?
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  41. There used to be private firefighters. We got rid of them for a reason.
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  42. Libertarian: someone who believes the same thing on Wednesday that he/she did on Monday, regardless of what happened on Tuesday.
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  43. Between employer and employee contribution, my health insurance costs 32.01% of my income (27.6% employer, 4.41% employee). Bernie proposes 11% (employer 7%, employee 4%). Would I rather pay the taxes and not have to pay out of pocket? You bet, I would!
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  44. Leo: You're like the son I never had. Hyde: But you have a son. Leo: Yeah, but you're like the son I never had.
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  45. Speaking of dishonest corporate strategies, have you ever noticed how nobody is an "employee" anymore? It's all "associates," "team members," "partners," "family," etc. Is this part of some corporate training to try to engender loyalty or something?
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  46. I'll take "It was never a plan or good faith effort" for 100, Alex.
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  47. What do you call a billionaire who can't afford a $464MM payment? Not a billionaire.
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  48. ​ @backpackerraden6268  Wilson actually had accomplishments. Mr. Beat put it best when he said that he was both a very great and very bad President. Personally, I think that the worst will be Trump or Buchanan, and a lot of that depends on when his influence fades to see just how much damage he will end up causing.
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  49. "I call it racism against poor people." Or as it is more commonly known, classism.
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  50. Given that Pennsylvania has no in-person early voting, and how quickly she is rising, I honestly expect Barnette to win the nomination. I live in the Philly suburbs, and I've seen quite a few of her signs and bumper stickers. Since I've only seen one ad of hers, I hope it's her, because I avoided Oz's show for 18 years, and I'm sick of getting bombarded with his ads. EDIT: I realized that some have misunderstood the point of my original comment. I don't want any of these Republicans as the next Senator from Pennsylvania. I'm just saying that I'd rather their nominee be someone who won't get a lot of money to blanket the airwaves.
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  51.  @somik-i3x  Oh, I waited. If you wait, often you make up for lost time. He, on the other hand, was not willing to learn, as evidenced by the fact that he thought WAP was a medical condition.
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  52. You know it's bad when there's a video with Kari Lake and Marjorie Taylor Greene, and neither is the craziest person in it.
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  53. I remember a few years ago having the realization that I had spent over $100,000 in rent over a certain amount of time with nothing to show for it. With all of the talk about people needing to save, that sure does make it a lot harder to get the money for a down payment. Even if the cost of rent does not increase, these are some baselines for how long it takes to pay $100,000 in rent: $850: 9 years, 10 months $1000: 8 years, 4 months $1250: 6 years, 8 months $1500: 5 years, 7 months
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  54. I've literally seen books talking about how to use your inner psychopath to succeed.
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  55.  @josh6567  They'll probably have to change it enough to avoid property rights, so I think the scrawling blue and yellow print is gone after this season.
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  56. Proof that knowing a lot about one thing doesn't mean that you know a lot about other things.
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  57. This is what happens when you get to a point in life where you have enough money to never hear that you are wrong.
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  58. Those of us who tried to warn everyone about Tulsi and Yang have definitely been vindicated and then some.
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  59. "It takes great courage to stand up to our enemies, and even greater courage to stand up to our friends."
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  60.  @afridgetoofar1818  Because if you can't tell the difference between neoliberals and neofascists, or you think the former is worse, you're doing it wrong. What part of "cleaning up the left" does a red/brown alliance and praising the Boogaloo Boys address?
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  61. The chaos is the point to try to keep us distracted. Don't ever forget their malevolent incompetence and how it affects us all.
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  62. As someone from Appalachia, his book was the kind of thing that we are used to that disparages us and ignores the systemic issues that affect the poor and barely scraping by.
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  63. My parents told me of seeing a "Miss Me Yet?" picture in a gas station. How can we miss you if you won't go away?
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  64. 11:52 No, Matt! You can say both actions are bad. I don't know if it's a question of coming of age after Iraq and having a reflexive America Bad stance or what, but this reluctance to call out Russia for its bad actions is the kind of thing to expect from tankies.
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  65.  @motherofnerdlings  Pointing out the consequences of one's actions (that there were plenty of warnings ahead of time) is not "spreading hate." I simply refuse to spend my limited compassion on those who actively harmed others who are shocked that they hurt themselves. The parents whose kids died who said they still wouldn't get their child the measles vaccine are pure evil, and I for one make no effort to excuse it in those who are unrepentant.
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  66. In "Chasing Amy " he tells the long story, so he clearly does have experience with the ladies.
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  67. If you look hard enough, these theories always seem to find what they are looking for. Not to say there isn't anything there, but it's much easier to explain through the fact that she wants to dominate everything, and femininity just happens to be the currency.
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  68. Darn right! The corporate powers that be are hoping you give up, because there are more of us than there are of them; we have the vote and the ability to organize.
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  69.  @ZiddersRooFurry  There is some evidence in context that Betelgeuse may have also killed himself (the others who worked in the afterlife did), and his response when Lydia says she wants to kill herself is "Why?"
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  70.  @ItsOgre  It's the both siderism express, right on schedule.
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  71. "Do less than you want to do" is the one true guiding principle of all centrists. This is the same reason why when Bernie said 6, Manchin said 4. Then, when Bernie said 3.5, Manchin said 1.5.
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  72. My point of no return was Krystal calling not letting the Wisconsin Green Party ignore the ballot access rules, hire Republicans to represent them, and wait two weeks to file a suit after the ballots were already printed thus meaning that people could get their ballots too late to vote "an assault on democracy" by Democrats.
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  73. Just like Jim Jones, Trump is too cowardly to go out the way he demands his followers go out.
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  74. The statement about Lindsay Lohan isn't even the worst thing he said about young girls and women to Howard Stern. At one point, he bragged about barging into the changing rooms at the Miss Teen USA pageant.
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  75. In all honesty, I think that the support for Sinema will drop as time goes on as Democrats see the sabotage she is causing.
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  76. All a republic means is that there is no monarch. "Republic, not a democracy" is the equivalent of saying, "It's not a grape! It's purple."
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  77. ​ @lanceb7556  I wouldn't say that he "wasn't any better." True that he was largely ineffective in office, but he didn't actively encourage the nonsense of supply-side economics that has damaged out country for nearly half a century, stop enforcing antitrust laws, let companies buy back stocks, and refuse to invest in infrastructure.
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  78. Those are centrists who do that. They aren't on the left.
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  79. English translation: Bernie and Warren have a shot, and I don't want my taxes to go up.
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  80. James Stewart (he hated being called Jimmy), Best Actor 1940 for The Philadelphia Story, nominated a total of five times, and named the third greatest American male actor of the 20th century by AFI, underrated? And this guy wanted to be a screenwriter!
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  81. In Kentucky, Evil Turtle insisted that he wouldn't touch Kynect, the state-based ACA exchange that was the gold standard nationwide, and nobody pointed out that his desire to repeal the ACA would also kill Kynect.
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  82.  @cocolime6496  If the haunting is real, why did no one who lived in there since have any problems other than curious gawkers?
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  83.  @TheBlazersfan22  Not only did she backtrack, but she called Medicare for All "un-American." You can't get a bigger dog whistle than that.
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  84. Who would have thought that someone who only cares about blocking things and defends the fact that in his 16 years in office, not one bill bearing his name as lead sponsor became law said "I didn't come here to make laws" can't build anything.
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  85. I'm shocked, shocked that the woman who claimed that she refused to impeach Trump in order to "unite the country and end the divisiveness" is calling for the resignation of someone who criticized her.
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  86.  @spankyx8606  Potter knew exactly what money it was. He then pretended that George stole the money and called the police on him. There is no legitimate defense of this character on this front.
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  87. Steven Crowder wishes he could have a story about how Mr. Big is a big jerk.
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  88. Conservatives: Rich people work hard for their money and deserve every penny. Also conservatives: Everyone else is greedy and needs to be grateful for whatever pittance they get.
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  89. When is she going to make it official and endorse Bernie?!?
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  90. A classic example of someone doing all the math wrong within the equation, but somehow still getting the right answer
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  91. Speaking of the take, I literally did a double take after I heard how much those dumbbells cost and rewound to make sure I heard right. You could buy gold bars for less than that.
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  92. So, the caller wonders why College should be tuition free, but he doesn't get that the reason why we call it "high school" is because people used to think that eighth grade was enough to function.
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  93. Darn right, David! The answer is to make it harder for them to steal. Every time I hear someone say, "Well, now, the centrists will give up power if they lose and all of our dreams come true," they will hate you and blame you for the loss. The real place to fight for The best is the primary.
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  94.  @MrBreeze66  Republicans gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965 twice in the last decade. What in particular do you find to be a "power grab" other than the Republican thinking that any election where a Democrat wins is illegitimate?
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  95.    If they're selling the movie rights, this whole thing has "they did it themselves" written all over it.
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  96. ​ @federalisticnewyorkians4470  I don't know how. It's not like he didn't have a track record, or farmers didn't get so screwed over in the last trade war that they needed a bailout. Or that he botched the response to the pandemic and contributed to the deaths of over a million people.
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  97. Promoters give them their nicknames a lot of times, and physical evidence proves it isn't him.
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  98. ​ @1987BillyBob  Define "terrible." I remember toilet paper shortages four years ago and the highest unemployment since the Great Depression.
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  99.  @Gregorypeckory  I think that maybe the OP is talking about celebrities who sell stuff.
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  100. It never ceases to amaze me how many things started going on the wrong path in the early 1980s.
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  101. My uncle got polio. He was born in 1947 and couldn't walk until he was five. I have no patience for these idiots who are killing children.
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  102.  @dannydi4  Look up Sam Seder nightmare on YouTube.
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  103. 35 House seats, seven governors, six legislative chambers (including unified executive and legislative control in CO, CT, and ME), so not a bad night at all.
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  104. "I almost beat Ted Cruz, and I can almost defeat Donald Trump."
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  105. I think that episode as a whole is the one where the writers finally figured out how to match Steve Carrell's talents. After all, this is not only the episode with Pam at the art show, but the one where he goes to Ryan's business class, and he tells Ryan that business is not about models or spreadsheets, but about people.
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  106.  @shawnsimmons4718  You mean when the last Bush budget had a $1.4T deficit and Obama's last budget had a deficit of $665B? Yeah, that deficit went up so much that it was cut in half.
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  107. "It's just a banana, Michael. How much could it cost, ten dollars?" Lucille Bluth
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  108. Not since Rand Paul refused to directly answer Rachel Maddow have I seen a US Senator or a nominee dance so hard to avoid answering a straight question about race or civil rights.
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  109. This is what dictators do when they realize they are losing power: destroy everything on their way out.
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  110.  @placebojesus5652  So, the person who spent over 20 minutes screaming is the guy who gets to play Tone Police?
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  111. "I never went camping. I grew up poor. I didn't need to practice being homeless." Dusty Slay
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  112. Caller: Democracy is immoral because people are morons. [...] Sam: Maybe you're one of those morons. Caller: That's not an argument.
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  113.  @elizabeth1050  Which makes them enablers. You can argue about whether or not the ones that you mentioned were any good, but the party has moved well past them.
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  114. A good test is whether or not they insist that others have to follow purity tests, but instead of supporting actual advocates of positions they claim to espouse, they end up endorsing the most right wing candidate not named Michael Bloomberg in the primary.
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  115.  @redskywalker3374  I suppose the gallows outside and people with zip ties chanting "Hang Mike Pence" were just using a metaphor? I suppose that if the pipe bombs actually went off, that wouldn't count, either? "God, you're stupid!" Charlie Kelly
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  116. You cannot negotiate with someone who literally made the Lebensraum argument in order to justify invading a sovereign country for the second time in a decade. Unless the negotiation is "you get out of our country, all of it (including Crimea)," there is nothing to discuss. "People say 'war is not the answer,' but I say it depends on the question." D. L. Hughley
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  117. At one point, my brother told me that the reason why he didn't want to see the minimum wage increased was because "I like the idea of making twice as much as someone else." Well, if you don't realize that the real enemy is someone who gets more in a day than you do in a year rather than someone who makes a little less than you do, you're doing it wrong.
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  118. Sinema thought that she could win by being a "maverick" type. The difference is that McCain was a right-winger who got an occasional pang of conscience and did the right thing. She also thought that her wigs would make her stand out, instead of looking like an evil Effie Trinket.
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  119. Thank you so much for standing up and fighting for our native state! Ojeda for Governor 2020
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  120.  @guynorth3277  What makes her "not qualified" in your opinion? And 56 isn't that old, so there is still plenty of time for her to consolidate power and rise.
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  121. This movie and basically anything Lindsay Lohan has done in the last 10 years on a row are probably the best anti-drug message anyone could else could ever produce.
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  122. Remember that scene in Frost/Nixon where everyone is shocked when Nixon says, "When you're the President, that means that it's not illegal"? Well, these six members of the Supreme Court just ruled that Nixon was right.
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  123. I thought it was particularly beautiful when Manchin said, "Why can't we pass the bill with bipartisan support now and keep working for the other bill?" and the reporter said, "Because the Progressive Caucus doesn't trust you."
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  124.  @TheJohnnyonthespot1  It seemed to take Michael a long time to realize that people he considered to be friends were bad people. It took about a year and a half between the Seder/Dore debate and Dore starting to go after him before he realized that he had been had. He was defending Rising until the very end, although I do think that he seemed to be opening his eyes to the fact that they used him, too. Going after Lula may have finally got him to pull the blinders off, but as great as he was, calling out grifters was not his strong point.
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  125. ​ @jeremyjameslv  Increasing the child tax credit, restoring the Voting Rights Act
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  126.  @ingodwetrust8195  Gotta start somewhere. You can start organizing from such marches.
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  127.  @oremfrien  "If they increase the number of PoC, that clearly means that the PoC weren't qualified." Or, here's another thought: at a certain level, there are far more qualified people than there are people who get the job, and just maybe the people doing the hiring want people they are "more comfortable with," and they realized that is bad not to give a chance to people who are perfectly qualified but have long been overlooked. Therefore, even with quotas, they are still hiring qualified people, just casting a wider net while doing so.
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  128. Sorry, but I have to disagree with you on this one. Letting Russia get whatever they want will embolden Putin. There is a wide spectrum of responses between appeasement and total war, so maybe we should look in that range for the appropriate response.
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  129.  @firebolt352  Nice try, but the exceptions to birthright citizenship are as follows: 1) those governed by Native tribes (due to tribal soverignty), 2) children of diplomats, 3) children of a foreign military. Sorry, no discussion of immigration status, which would be interesting considering that the amendment was ratified in 1868, when there was no such thing as illegal immigrants.
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  130. A lot of people defended Jimmy Dore in the beginning and eventually realized that Sam was right all along, such as Progressive Voice and Rational National.
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  131. "I have a problem with all the amendments that they're adding." Judging by his earlier remarks, it sounds like he really has a problem with number 13.
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  132. ​ @bernardbarry447  GE used to give employees stock, too. Didn't make Jack Welch or Ronald Reagan any less right wing, though.
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  133.  @davidstewart1757  Krystal Ball is making money insisting that we should work with fake populists on the right. Therefore, she cannot be judged in isolation for Saagar "send the National Guard to BLM protests" Enjeti. So, let's look at the average day on Rising. KB: Democrats are bad, so don't vote for them. SE: Democrats are bad, so vote Republican. What do you think the end result of that message is going to be?
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  134. I remember an adult Sunday school where the teacher was trying to make peace between me and someone who was saying that global warming wasn't real. Her peace offering was to say that God could stop it. I replied, "That's true, but even if God were to remove enough carbon dioxide from the air to get us back to preindustrial levels, if we keep polluting, we'll be right back where we started. She admitted that was true. Then again, maybe the fact that I was 26 at the time and the other guy was in his 70s meant that I was more worried about it because I was more likely to see the effects.
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  135. ​ @farlefthasseriousTDS  What's a little coup attempt among friends?
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  136. You are allowed, but there definitely are some times where people do make that criticism based on bigotry rather than reality.
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  137. Indeed. Just like it's also a coincidence that the only bailout that he ever thought was a good idea was buying out slaveholders.
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  138. I'd argue that there was a grifter predating Tim Ferriss, and that is Robert Kiyosaki, the coauthor of Rich Dad, Poor Dad. In his book, he insists that his dad, a college professor, was a sucker. Instead, he uses as his model a friend's dad who ran a chain of convenience stores (but nobody has ever actually been able to find). I read the book in 2010, and it was especially creepy seeing him get giddy over making money off house foreclosures. He also mentioned the shovel salesman as the person who actually got rich in the gold rush, but as a model that you too can be a scammer. I needed a shower after reading that one.
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  139. And THAT is why I am glad that I gave her a dollar to help her get on the debate stage.
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  140.  @emhu2594  Jimmy Dore is not a lefty. If you are going to defend fascists, you are either a useful idiot or controlled opposition. There is no third option.
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  141.  @mfit7110  That was the Bush Administration. Obama took office in January 2009. TARP was October 2008. Even your initial comment said "2008." If you want to be taken seriously, at least learn basic facts.
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  142.  @bpdmf2798  Or they read Ayn Rand books and thought that they were John Galt.
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  143. "Business interests are already pretty well represented by the other 99 Senatirs, so they don't need my help." Paul Wellstone This logic also applies to Cabinet members
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  144. As true today as it was when it was delivered.
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  145. Indeed. The innocents get my sympathy, but not the guilty. The parents knew what they were doing, or they should have known.
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  146. Except for maybe Dear Leader himself.
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  147.  @naturelovingguypeoplenotso3039  Well, he has some competition for most corrupt cult leader. If he asks for a mass suicide after he is out of office, then he wins that title.
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  148. "I'd rather have schools controlled by the PTA." I'm a member of the PTO at my daughter's school. Our role is not to be administrators. Our role is to do fundraisers and help with extracurricular events. I think that most of the people on the PTO would say that they have no desire to watch over the actual classroom. Does this man understand how anything works?
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  149.  @Dog-999i  And she called Medicare for All "un-American."
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  150.  @kellydepaz525  A few days after the last Mothman sighting, a steel beam crackdd on the Silver Bridge, connecting Pt. Pleasant, WV, and Gallipolis, OH. The bridge collapsed, and forty-six people died. Some believers say that the Mothman caused the collapse, and others said he warned about it. There have been no sightings in Pt. Pleasant since 1967, although there have been others in other places.
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  151.  @mbealhighjump  Yes. When she brings up the communist stuff in places where it makes no sense to do so, it is quite cringy.
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  152. Proud to have been responsible for four of those. Onward and upward!
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  153.  @eddietheberniebro5503  "Voting down ballot is important." Kyle Kulinski when founding Justice Democrats "It just looked too dirty." Kyle Kulinski to Joe Rogan about why he didn't vote in 2020 despite several key legislative races
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  154.  Mari Jayne  Daily reminder: Trump did not stop travel from China, he only stopped Chinese nationals from entering the United States. World of difference.
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  155. These are dummies who think that yelling over top of people is making a great point. One of the dummies said "it's a debate" to me, and I pointed out that a debate is supposed to have a back and forth and sometimes one person needs to just shut up to listen to what the other person says.
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  156.  @lohphat  Before Bernie started winning elections, Vermont was the most Republican state in American history. When he first got elected to Congress, only one Democrat had ever carried the state's electoral votes in one election (1964) in fifty tries. You'll never see a streak like that again. To this day, only two people have ever been elected to the Senate as Democrats in Vermont. He helped lead Vermont away from conservatism, and he was far more of a team player after losing in 2016 than any Presidential candidate in history. If Hillary tried as hard to elect herself as Bernie did, we may have suffocated fascism in the crib instead of letting it fester.
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  157. We have defeated the fascist, but we must continue to fight fascism and its enablers. If you want anything done, we have to help Warnock and Ossoff over the line in Georgia to give Bernie the gavel.
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  158. And one of those is the exact opposite of the others.
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  159.  @meganh7526  Or, you can be Jayden Smith and suck for years and still somehow get parts. While Sofia Coppola was filling in for an actor who got sick to play Mary Corleone, anyone else who was that bad wouldn't get the chance to remake him/herself as a screenwriter and director after that bomb.
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  160. "It's just a banana, Michael. How much could it cost, ten dollars?" Lucille Bluth
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  161. Yes
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  162. Once you go outside of the metro area, there is some strange stuff. I remember driving to the Poconos one time with my daughter, and in Bucks County (a swing county, but the wingers used to keep their insanity quiet), and I saw a homemade sign that said "Thank Trump for Saving Us from the Coronavirus" and something about building the wall. Even if you pretend that Der Orangefuhrer did get the wall built, coronavirus didn't come from Mexico, and a wall wouldn't keep it out. Even though I know his campaign is doomed, it is still depressing seeing all the Mastriano signs even in my fairly Democratic area. It's like the crazies have just decided to let the freak flag fly. And it's never one Mastriano sign. They always put several in their yard.
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  163. ​ @violax3467  Give it time. It will come to them, too.
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  164. "What changed since 2005 when it passed the Senate unanimously?" Well, Evil Turtle was a back bencher in 2005.
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  165. Most of the libertarian callers don't seem to understand the inherent cruelty of their position. For this jerk, the cruelty is the point.
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  166. Why would I want White Obama? I'm still mad that the original didn't fight hard enough the last time.
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  167.  @cejannuzi  So, she takes a cowardly vote because she doesn't want to be slandered? Where is the author of the next Profiles in Courage?
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  168. The medium also signed it with a cross, which would have been an odd choice for a Jewish woman.
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  169. It's because people don't pay attention to what he says and notice his extreme confidence. He's like Ben Shapiro.
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  170. This is the real Tulsi Gabbard. Don't forget that she started her political career working with her dad to try to ban gay marriage in Hawaii at the turn of the century.
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  171. "Shouldn't we kill people who don't get the vaccine?" The virus is doing a pretty good job of that on its own.
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  172.  @trentirvin2008  Indeed. My uncle was born in 1947, and he got polio. Couldn't walk until he was five. It so angers me to see such stupidity that willfully makes people seek. At least there was an excuse with my uncle getting sick, because there was no vaccine until he was eight. Watching the PSAs and how eager people were to get the polio vaccine is amazing compared to the idiocy we see today.
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  173.  @zacg_  That is so unfair! Ron Burgundy is actually funny.
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  174. That is so unfair! Danny DeVito is a genuinely good person who just happens to play lovable scumbags.
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  175. Solidarity forever/ Solidarity forever/ The union keeps us strong.
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  176. If someone wants redemption, that person needs repentance. Repentance is more than just saying you're sorry, but working to atone for your past. If they do that, yes. Even then, a part of me is wary of their judgment.
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  177. Well, there's the old adage that libertarians are Republicans with bongs. I think this guy forgot that it's not a good idea to use the bong before trying to make a coherent argument.
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  178. This veteran has contributed and knocked on doors in Philadelphia for Bernie with DSA.
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  179. ​ @LadyHermes  Did you miss the entire point of the video?
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  180. @Zir Alert Bush was awful, but he was not a fascist who tried to overthrow democracy. Trump was worse.
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  181. Oh, my! I'd heard most of those, but that Maine legislator was a whole other level.
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  182.  @dgo792  Max Greenfield also had a small role in The Big Short, and he had a recurring role in season six of Bojack Horseman.
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  183. Shane: It seems far fetched to make up a stalker to sell movie rights. George and Kathy Lutz: Are we nothing to you?
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  184.  @l_michi  Jim bought a house without telling her. Twice. One of those in another time zone. Moving to Philadelphia to enjoy bachelor life while she has two kids at home.
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  185.  @wheelierider455  He would literally have had more money if he just put his inheritance in an index fund. So, you're saying that a majority of people should leave the country because we don't like fascists whose incompetence killed a million people and let to toilet paper shortages and the supply chain issues that created the ticking time bomb that was inflation?
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  186.  @yayorandel6048  Oh, look, someone fighting the last war. The Emperor surrendered. The definition of marriage changed many times through history. Regardless, you completely miss the fact that someone else getting married shouldn't affect your happiness... unless you're jealous or something.
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  187. I get the idea of not using the medical system to send a message, but at a certain point, it becomes a question of resources. If cancer patients or people who get hit by a car get bumped because of people willfully and wantonly disregarding their own health and the health and safety of others, the bigger immortality is that they take a hospital bed from someone who needs it. I'm not saying to refuse all coronavirus patients, or even all of the unvaccinated patients, but there comes a time when we must acknowledge that finite resources exist.
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  188. The "two yutes" also came about because the director was having trouble with Joe Pesci's accent.
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  189. Well, I think it says a lot that her first project after Bernie was called Bad Faith, and she somehow managed to alienate the nicest, most forgiving man in national politics.
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  190.  @harveymanfredsenjenson5417  You mean because she didn't want a stupid tactic that she knew wouldn't work, and instead used her leverage intelligently to get the paygo rules weakened so we were able to get the coronavirus bill and we're on the verge of getting several trillion for infrastructure? What a horrible advocate!
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  191. As an alumnus and former member of TUGSA, the administration thought that we were really stupid. Around 2009-10, the adjuncts were trying to organize, and they sent these e-mails saying, "If you are a union worker, you have to take the pay scale, but if you're independent, you're free to ask for more," as if the adjuncts weren't already on a scale. They want to get rid of tenured professors and turn everyone into low-income adjuncts. The administration is the living embodiment of "knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing." Thank you for bringing this to light, Bernie!
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  192. ​ @richarddeturner  If it were up to the American people, he would have been back to selling tacky real estate. More of us voted for Hillary in 2016 and Biden in 2020. In fact, Der Orangefuhrer was so bad, he inspired record turnout to vote against him.
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  193. The Biden campaign needs to run this ad into the ground.
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  194. ​ @Patrick-sg7cm  Some of us are born with a trust fund waiting for us, or rich parents willing and able to pay to nurture our talents. That's also not counting the contacts that make the track to success much more easily gliding.
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  195.  @BloodMoneyLLC  Funny how literally every argument that Jimmy Dore made in their 2016 debate proved to be false, while literally everything Sam Seder said would happen under a Trump Presidency came to be.
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  196. I was 21 the first time I saw this movie, and I saw it during the day in a well-lit room. This movie still freaked me out more than I have seen before or since.
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  197. Good to see the correction on the facts on the ground, but the problem is with a knee-jerk anti-American foreign policy. Others can be imperialists, too. And don't hide behind growing up and seeing Iraq, either. I lost a year of my life to that nonsense, and it wasn't too hard to see that a country amassing forces on the border of a country they had invaded eight years prior is up to something. There is a whole spectrum of options between appeasement and total war, so while your show is good for many things, and it is the one I watch the most of political YouTube shows, insisting on saying "this doesn't mean we should go to war" isn't helpful.
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  198. "There's no such thing as a moderate Republican in Congress. They might say that they only vote with the President seventy percent of the time, but they vote with the President one hundred percent of the time when he needs their vote." Barney Frank, 2005
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  199. ​ @jaxmiller724  "only very recently have people attempted to align it with socialism." Socialism has been considered a subset of left-wing political thought for centuries.
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  200. This title is incredibly misleading.
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  201. For pure entertainment, the best was a junior member on the committee responding to Gym Jordan and his nonsense by comparing it to paying for sex with young girls (Gaetz) or ignoring the wellbeing of people under your care (Jordan).
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  202.  @alexanderwestphal9777  Michael would always seem to take a while to realize that someone was grifting, but once he did, he called it out. I don't think his blind spot was big enough to not see what Greenwald is doing. Toward the end, he slowly seemed to be turning away from Rising, shifting from ardent to half-hearted defense, but he definitely wouldn't have followed Greenwald down the rabbit hole.
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  203.  @dr.wolfstar1765  Well, I'm 42, and I've talked to people both older and younger in the comments.
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  204. ​ @ronaldnixon8226  So, he went into Russia in 2022? Nice try, but Alternative Facts don't work here.
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  205. Not as much as Sinema. Manchin is way too much of a retail politician to truly love being the villain.
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  206. They are reluctant to throw him in the slammer because it might be seen as political... yet, this is the most political act of all. Any other defendant wouldn't get the "this time I really mean it" treatment.
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  207. ​ @glennfarris305  It was literally caused by a faulty brake after a regulation was repealed requiring railroad companies to get better ones.
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  208.  @triknives  If you think that's bad, look at the one where he begs Ben Shapiro for a dinner or cake with him and his husband for his anniversary.
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  209. "There was no commission where we couldn't serve." Gym, a conspirator in a coup isn't allowed to be a member of the committee investigating that very coup attempt.
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  210. A fun question for libertarians is how they expect "competition" to get rid of monopolies if they end antitrust laws. I guess they have never heard of natural monopolies, either.
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  211. He probably also realized that he couldn't pay off his debt running a pretzel shop franchise and student loans can't be discharged in bankruptcy.
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  212.  @aerialhorizonrc7827  That's a pretty low bar, especially when we have a candidate who could literally transform the country for the better.
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  213.  @LizaMinenkova  Hey Liza, genuine question. Where does your "hustle culture" leave you when someone more desperate is willing to do twice as much as you for half the money? Maybe figure out how much the worker actually brings to the table before giving platitudes. A pizza place once as part of an experiment decided to keep zero profit for the day and pay people based on the production of that day. They got $78/hour. I don't care how many tips you're getting, that is a huge pay increase.
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  214. It was voted out because Roberts spent his whole career trying to gut voting rights, and he pretended that racism was over to do it.
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  215.  @honeysucklecat  Twice as many Hillary 2008 voters went for McCain as Bernie 2016 voters went for Trump.
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  216. And apparently, they forgot that part in Matthew 2 where you find out that Jesus was a refugee.
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  217. @ThreeFingerG  "the ingenious ways it is possible to yield money" Bootlickers are just sad. You are hanging on a turn of phrase because I didn't feel like pointing out the "clever" ways that they make sure that all the money goes to themselves and very little to those without whom they'd have nothing. As Abraham Lincoln reminded us, capital is the fruit of labor, it could not exist unless labor existed first, and it deserves the higher consideration. And this "ingenious wielding of wealth" is, in many cases, ways to say that the people who earned them the money get nothing or just enough over nothing to keep them desperate.
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  218. ​​ @frost1183  He's so "pro-abortion" that he celebrated when Roe was overturned. As far as those others go, he's definitely not the T part, and he spends all of his time taking the right wing position. He's doing the Dave Rubin grift but he's a few years behind.
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  219. The man, the legend!
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  220.  @Armed-Forever  What makes it a "states' rights issue"? This was the same argument used for slavery, civil rights, and basically any excuse for inaction.
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  221. And a substantial portion of his followers will believe him.
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  222. ​ @Zach-ju5vi  How does a debt ceiling "prevent default"?
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  223. Darn right! At that point, net worth is nothing more than a willy-waving contest.
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  224.  @BOYVIRGO666  It was a blood clot in his throat. A horrible way to die.
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  225.  @jaslinc3371  A lot of it seems to stem from the fact that today's right wing is much more anti-left than anything. Having no positive vision, they went along with this con artist, and now, rather than admit that they were played, they are following him into the abyss.
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  226. ​ @rw9573  He specifically accused multiple people of treason on his social media and said treason is punishable by death. Are you playing dumb, or are you just going along with Dear Leader?
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  227. No, that's Sinema. Manchin knows he's not hip.
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  228. I remember watching this game in real time. It was insane how many calls the Lakers were getting.
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  229. A reminder that when it comes to Republican elected officials (with the possible exception of some city councilmember or something) that there are only degrees of bad.
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  230. Yes, because they found another 6'8 man who kinda looks like a Klingon and got him to sound just like him. The idicoy of these people knows no end.
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  231. Ironically, the amount of focus that you have to have on one very specific thing in order to get your credentials as an intellectual often leads to being clueless in other areas. While not academic, Garry Kasparov is arguably the greatest chess player to ever live, but he thinks that all artifacts over 600 years old are forged. I do not say this to mock them at all. I tried my hand in academia (I didn't get my PhD because I couldn't demonstrate written proficiency in German), but I can probably tell you more about the Cross of Gold speech than all but maybe 50 people alive on the planet (most people who study Bryan today tend to focus on the Scopes trial), because that would have been the topic of my dissertation, and once you get to a certain level, you spend an awful lot of time focusing on one thing.
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  232.  @PCMESS  What lies have you pointed out? I have only seen you say that they suck.
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  233.  @karenwhaley8635  I thought that was Boebert. She did say that Trump should invoke Marshall [sic] law to stop the certification of the election, though.
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  234.  @guyclark6260  They probably can't do Unsolved because the series is still active. Ruining History did evolve into Puppet History, so maybe they have a new version I their sleeves.
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  235. Because they know how bad the bathroom argument works for them. Since they lost that one, they moved to the next front.
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  236. "What happened to Big Bird's voice?" Well, Matt. Big Bird is a puppet. His original puppeteer was Carroll Spinney, and he died, so they had to get someone else to play Big Bird.
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  237. Because most Republicans are more anti-left than having an actual ideology.
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  238.  @helicopter2992  "The next time you have a thought, let it go." Ron White
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  239. I checked at the halfway mark, and the campaign is over 563K. We can do it!
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  240. I ran for office in 2006 (WV House of Delegates). My district was pretty small (roughly 6500 voters in 24 precincts in part of one county). When you are in that campaign bubble, it is easy to convince yourself that you will win, because you won't encounter many who will flat out tell you they're voting against you, so I was confident of victory that night. When the polls closed, the candidates gathered at the courthouse waiting for the results. After the fourth batch of preceints came in, I knew that there weren't nearly enough votes left to make up the deficit (if they had said which precincts were coming in and I saw that I wasn't hitting my numbers, I would have known much sooner), and knowing that the last batch of results would come in soon, I told the press that I would make a statement and be available for interviews after all of the precincts came in. When the numbers came in, I congratulated my opponent and wished him the best of luck for the people of our county and our state. I gave a radio and newspaper interview where I freely conceded and only had good things to say about my opponent, even though we didn't agree on much of anything. I get more than most people here how hard a concession can be, but it is the right thing to do and your responsibility to the winner and to democracy. I have no respect for these spoiled brats who refuse. If I could at 27, what is your excuse?
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  241.  @tomfox6084  Where do you get that he tried to murder them? Snape wanted them sent to Azkaban, and that was because he didn't know that Sirius was innocent.
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  242. Don't forget Boebert.
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  243. And Sophia says, "Don't worry, I can take care of myself" or."I'll be fine" (I can't remember the exact one), but Estelle Getty was the first to die.
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  244.  @bpdmf2798  True. It is doubtful they read all 1100 pages of that tripe. I'm still mad at myself for watching that movie thinking it might have kitsch value. Then again, in something that I'm sure would anger her fans to no end, I rented it at the library, so I didn't have to pay a penny.
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  245. That was my problem, too. The people who weren't wearing masks the whole time weren't going to suddenly put them on.
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  246. And Tina Fey should have at least gotten an honorable mention.
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  247.  @MichaelLudden  Says the person backing a libertarian doing the bidding of fascists.
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  248. Funny how all of these "that's the risk you take" libertarians immediately want a bailout when their risk fails.
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  249. I think it's both. Money is the primary goal, but he likes people standing up when he comes into a room and pretending that he is a great and important man.
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  250. Barbarian literally referred to non-Romans, because Roman people believed that everyone else sounded like sheep, so it was a pretty loud dog whistle for anyone who had the slightest sense of history.
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  251. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Einstein himself a government bureaucrat when he came up with the General Theory of Relativity?
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  252. The shoe joke that he took from Dimetri Martin was way too on the nose. The only thing that he really changed (not counting his tendency to extend something through repetition) was changing his show size from a 10 to a 12. Even the shoe size that was too small (9) was exactly the same
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  253. I think he lives in Florida now. I guess he figured that he could ride it out in his gated community without paying state income tax.
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  254.  @fleecejohnson9114  He said there would be a vaccine in October. He also said that maybe 50,000 people would die.
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  255. Someone watched an episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and didn't realize that it was a sitcom. Poor Nastet.
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  256. Indeed. When you justify an invasion by saying that another country as an extension of yours, you're literally invoking the Lebensraum argument, and there will be no end to it unless it is defeated.
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  257. No, he's the one who was mad about having to pay for other kids' student lunches.
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  258.  @LeeCzere  A term used by stupid people who accuse everyone else of mindlessly repeating talking points... while mindlessly repeating talking points.
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  259.  @lijohnyoutube101  There are only so many promotions to go around, but they just love to dangle that carrot. If you make yourself "indispensable," then management will say "good [insert job here] are hard to find" and won't promote you, either.
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  260. @Scott Simmons Show me where people who get their news from any of those sources repeatedly know less on issues than people who don't even consume news media at all the way Fox repeatedly does.
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  261. @Scott Simmons "over sensitive crybabies" is a great description for Der Orangefuhrer.
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  262. ​ @lordchaa1598  He started well before that. I think it was anti-vaccine stuff where he started going off the deep end.
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  263.  @robertjenkins6132  He also claims that everyone laughs at all of his jokes.
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  264. Over 55 years. He was getting arrested fighting for integration in the early 1960s while a certain someone else was a Goldwater Girl.
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  265. And the sad thing is that most of it was obvious. Sam put it all together, and people still listen to this fraud who got everything wrong.
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  266. If any of these cult leaders had read Frankenstein, they would know that the doctor was the real villain. Then again, considering that the only thing that Dear Leader is known to have read since college is a collection of Hitler speeches, I'm not surprised that he didn't learn that when you create a monster, it will ultimately turn on you.
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  267.  @metabolic_jam  And with no government in place, who is going to respond when it is violated? Pithy statements with no thought of the implications. That is libertarian thought in a nutshell.
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  268. ​ @valdi1523  Me, too! Even though not many people do, I still wear my mask when I'm in public (unless I'm exercising and no one is near me), and I tell my daughter to wear hers, and we both have avoided coronavirus the whole time, even with her mom getting two breakthrough cases.
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  269. It's all relative. 16 years ago, I was speaking at a WVU Young Dems event, and I said that we need to hold the line "or else Newt Gingrich will someday be considered a liberal." When people started laughing, I pointed out that Barry Goldwater was already considered a moderate. Wouldn't you know it? By the 2012 primary, Newtie was seen as not far enough to the right.
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  270.  @Trad_Monarch27  You say that you're not dumb, and you assume that everyone who disagrees with you is a Marxist/Leninist or Maoist? You're really not helping your own argument.
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  271. So glad she'll be out of Congress in three months. Sadly, she'll be on Fox providing "balance" shortly thereafter.
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  272. ​ @LouieMcGood-ef6ud  He told the banks one thing, and he told the government a vastly different thing. So, did he lie to the banks in order to get favorable loan terms and more loans than they would have otherwise given, or did he lie to the government to get out of paying taxes? Both numbers can't be true.
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  273.  @Gbnation1  When Jimmy Dore stops grifting, Sam Seder will stop pointing out the grift. As he told Rational National (who later conceded that he was right), if you go to Jimmy Dore wanting to learn about politics, now you know less.
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  274.  @matthewviramontes3131  The guy who could barely control his anger when he got called out by Amy Klobuchar? The one who got angry when people pointed to his wine cave fundraiser?
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  275. I keep hearing all this talk about needing to rebuild the stadium. Look at how this actually worked out for Arsenal and Tottenham. It's far better to make sure that you have a solid team than a massive stadium.
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  276.  @katec3963  Back then, increases in productivity led to increases in wages. Today, everyone knows that they have been stagnant for 40 years.
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  277.    We can never forget, because that is the baseline for how bad the next Republican President will be.
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  278. ​ @woowooNeedsFaith  Their piety is absolutely fake.
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  279.  @scullystie4389  I think he'll be a talking head trying to insist that he knows how to win elections.
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  280.  @barbiquearea  The Confederates invaded a United States Army base in Ft. Sumter. Lee came to Maryland and Pennsylvania in hopes of invading Washington, DC, to force surrender of the United States. If that isn't leading an armed insurrection, I don't know what is.
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  281. @Rifik Amani If she doesn't call him on it, she is complicit.
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  282. So true that you need both mobilization and persuasion. There is clearly a limit to how much mileage you can get out of complaining about the establishment.
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  283. "You probably think Birth of a Nation was the feel-good movie if the year!"
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  284.  @oremfrien  And have you ever looked at the immigration policy for who gets let in? If you come from an Asian or an African country, it tends to be skewed toward the more educated and more professional. Since that is the case, the disproportionate groups may very well be a "work twice hard to get half the recognition" scenario. Therefore, it is not an apples to apples comparison. Cherry picking some data doesn't make you a realist. The mere fact that you think that literally only the person who gets the job is qualified suggests a degree of motivated reasoning. "If you got a better score than me on the test, I don't want a spot, but if we got the same score, then ---- you. You had a 350 year head start!" Chris Rock
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  285. ​ @brg1969  Define socialism and tell us how Kamala fits that definition.
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  286. No, he's not. He's making people choose between what they get now or his money. Oh, and he uses a regressive tax to pay for it. And he opposes increasing the minimum wage. And his answer to rent control when prices inevitably go up is to pool together with several friends to buy "a fixer upper." And he doesn't want to do anything to regulate the monopolies that exist because of deregulation.
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  287. Is there a blue moon this month? Because Sean Hannity told the truth about a grifter.
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  288. "Stupid people elected by even stupider people." Christopher Titus
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  289.  @compulsiverambler1352  Well, I'm sure that given the time that had passed, the smell was gone by the time of the trial.
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  290. Some have. More need to.
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  291. I grew up in a town that peaked in population at 11,000 in 1950. By the time I was born in 1979, it was under 4000. Today, it is probably only about 10% of its peak. Somewhere along the way, we abandoned small towns and rural communities that aren't near highways, and something needs to be done.
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  292.  @WL1264  He is being paid to repeat right-wing talking points. It's not our fault that the dumb stuff he says mirror what sincere righties believe.
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  293. "Remember the Nineties?" The dream of the Nineties is alive in Portland.
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  294. A more charitable explanation might be that it's Sunken Cost Falllacy at work and they don't want ti admit that they were had, but I think that there are just a lot more fascists in this country than we thought.
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  295. It's an open line. He has issued the challenge several times, but there are only so many willing to call in.
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  296.  @capitalistnick6041  You mean the only institution public or private that is required to fund its pension 75 years in advance? And I watched an incompetent government botch the handling of a pandemic. I also saw plenty of competent governments that believed in the purpose of government do a good job of handling it.
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  297.  @nameisamine  Calling a woman wearing a burka a "mailbox" sounds pretty racist to me.
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  298.  @EverRae  If both sides do it, why are we only seeing Republicans do it? Both siderism is lazy and just helps the worst actors.
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  299. *The Supreme Court you picked
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  300.  Polako Polakovic  So, the people who killed socialists and communists were socialists themselves? The elevator doesn't go all the way to the penthouse.
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  301. As a state Caseworker, I have to disclose every gift I get over $50 from someone who is not an immediate relative. I also have to report being a treasurer for a group at my church that pays for scholarships for students in Africa and school supplies for children in America, even though I don't get paid and we meet maybe once a year.
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  302.  Ace Saylor  How is Sam bullying him? He never threatened violence, and he didn't encourage his followers to harass this kid. All he's doing is exposing his ignorance.
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  303.  @frida507  How many rich people actually look at the people waiting on them, though?
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  304. @Scott Simmons So, I take that as a no. What a shock! Follow up questions really are kryptonite to the fascist.
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  305.  @tgr.4550  The polls say that Republicans like it, but as many as 76% of Democrats want someone else. Hopefully, everyone rallies around a solid lefty like Gallego.
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  306.  @lynneanderson4255  Indeed. A lot of people forget that as recently as 1900, childbirth was the biggest killer of women in America. Until WWI, men outlived women on average. Yes, we have things that make it easier now, but sometimes things just go wrong.
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  307. "I do want always corruption" is the first time he told the truth sense "I could shoot somebody in the middle of Fifth Avenue and not lose any votes."
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  308.  Derrick Barnes  Lincoln knew that he couldn't get sufficient support if the primary aim was abolition. You are limited in your ability to go beyond what the populace is ready to accept. And if the Confederate states cared about states rights so much, why did they force the Fugitive Slave Act, and why did they insist that no state or territory could abolish slavery? "Not 100% about slavery" is far different than "a small part." Read a dictionary.
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  309.  @soulife8383  I don't know who this "we" is, but you only speak for yourself or people who either a) don't understand math, or b) would much rather complain than actually get something done.
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  310. If you're in theater, you get several awards. I was in the National Guard and activated for the Iraq War, and I saw no combat. I got something like four decorations just for being there (Army Achievement Medal, Good Conduct, theater medal, and one more that I can't remember, but in my defense, it's been 18 years). Awards mean very different things.
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  311. I did the math. My combined total of income for health insurance is 32.01% (27.6% employer, 4.41% employee). Under Bernie's plan, that will drop to 11% (7% employer, 4% employee). Just maybe, my union could then use that as a bargaining chip to get me a $500 raise every paycheck.
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  312.  @Addamo  No, he just started by telling people that Bernie was the best candidate in 2016 and has spent 2021 playing a minstrel version of the left for Tucker Carlson and encouraging his audience to work with literal fascists.
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  313.  @tacotikki251  That's what this goof is saying? Talk about a bureaucratic nightmare! This is small government?
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  314. Anyone who picked May 2022, you win the pool.
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  315. ​ @sifujacob1259  For some people, if you ever say anything positive about Israel, anything critical of Hamas or the Palestinian Authority, or support Israel's basic right to exist, you are too pro-Israel.
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  316. Another example of dyslexia explaining something in the plot are his six attempts at the bar exam. Paul Wellstone, the late Senator from Minnesota, was a college professor before winning elected office. He got his BA in three years and his PhD in four years (including wrestling as an undergrad and having a wife and small child from his sophomore year). He got less than 800 on his SATs. Obviously a smart man, but terrible at standardized tests.
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  317.  @MrChazz965  The original line is "born on third, and thought he hit a triple." Ann Richards used it to describe George W. Bush.
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  318. So, he really thinks that he could speak extemporaneously and make a coherent statement for an hour? The ego!
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  319.  @bibsp3556  Those are beautiful. The slightest follow up question of "what does [insert right-wing boogeyman of the day here] mean?" and they crumble like he asked them to give pi to 100 places.
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  320. Mittens doesn't always do so, but on those rare occasions when he nails it, he really nails it.
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  321.  @toasterlordtoasterlord4224  Yes, because it is a totally normal reaction during a panic attack to pause, "regain your composure" long enough to look at the people you are trying to win over, and then get right back to it.
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  322.  @LonerWeirdo  Show me Democrats trying to purge voters. Both siderism is the height of laziness.
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  323. He's done it a few times. He tore Krystal Ball a new one over her cheerleading of the Wisconsin Green Party in September.
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  324. He does that once in a while. In 2006 or '07, O'Reilly invited him on while he was talking about an illegal immigrant who drove drunk and killed someone, Geraldo pointed out that the problem was that he was drunk, not his immigration status. Olbermann named him Best Person in the World the next day.
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  325.  @COVID--kf3tx  The OP talks about how much work the supporting actors got after New Girl, and Jake Johnson and Max Greenfield have been far busier in big budget and prestige roles.
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  326. ​ @pecquet-dubalaix8288  No one has the power to universally do so. That would be up to Congress.
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  327.  @tomfox6084  Clearly, it has been a while since you did. Snape was knocked unconscious before Sirius and Remus had the chance to reveal the truth. The Dementor's Kiss, while some argue may be worse than death, it is not execution. Based on what Snape knew at the time, he wanted to see an escaped serial killer and the person aiding and abetting that serial killer punished to the maximum extent of the law. Far different than "wanting to murder them," as you described, and he only revealed himself after Snape justified what he did to Snape 18 years earlier. And, while when Snape was unconscious and being taken out of the Shrieking Shack, Sirius repeatedly and intentionally hit his head against the wall, when the situation was reversed, Snape (when no one was looking) gently and safely removed Sirius.
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  328. @user-mx9th2fx8r He predicted Trump in 2016. He doesn't go based on personal feelings, but what the data shows.
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  329.  @2FadeMusic  If you get her to focus, she is actually good on policy.
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  330. He is finally realizing that the sword of Damoclese will never be removed, so he can go out as a ridiculous figure like McCarthy, or as someone who ultimately decided to be Speaker of the House rather than Speaker of the Republican Party.
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  331.  Robert Hunt  When they bury Trump, there'll be dancing in the streets.
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  332. English translation: I, or someone on my staff, saw how unenthusiastic voters are about me, so I am trying to not rub things in their faces. Yet, he still hasn't taken back saying that he would veto Medicare for All.
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  333.  @BroodallyHonest  He threatened to mess up the restaurant for "discriminating" against him, and he shoved a guy. He got what he deserved.
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  334. Their grift was easier to hide during the primary, but they took their mask off after Biden won the nomination.
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  335.  @BlackStallion23  It's the most right-wing district in the state. The person running against Boebert should have gotten much more attention.
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  336. @Josh White Investigation, laying down the gauntlet on policy by getting Republicans on the record against things that the majority of the American people want, no biggie.
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  337. Mike Cargile may be the most calm crazy person I have ever seen.
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  338.  @ceedeeznuts2595  So, by your logic, surgeons should stop wearing masks when they operate?
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  339.  @Zach-ju5vi  No, those are anecdotes. Low wages, low costs, low taxes, and low infrastructure spending are characteristic of Third World countries. Germany keeps high wages and high union concentration (and their unions are guaranteed seats on corporate boards), and they haven't suffered the massive outsourcing that we have. So, where is your actual evidence?
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  340. Well, it took her three tries to get her GED, so now we know which subject had her stuck.
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  341.  @DontDrinkthatstuff  What did it gain? Showing that a "national movement" could only get 50 people to protest?
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  342. ​ @413smr  Indeed. Most things that seem goofy about what people can do inside the system basically boil down to either "the Founders thought someone like that would never hold office" or "they assumed people would act with honor."
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  343. They should be. The basic rule is that they can't say to vote for someone. Not sure if they're slick enough to avoid those key words that get you on trouble with the IRS as a 501(c)(3).
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  344.  @katec3963  I'm not talking about just inflation, which to some extent is going to happen in a growing economy. What I am talking about is that a rising tide used to lift all boats. However, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, despite productivity increasing, wages remained stagnant. It used to be that, in America, a CEO made about 20 times what the average worker did. Now, that's over 300. Did a CEO suddenly become that much more valuable? Or did boards get stacked with CEOs of other companies, and the boss took all of the increases while leaving the rest of us with scraps?
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  345.  @ongoinglife  So true. I am a union public worker, and I have heard and seen plenty of comments that they don't get a pension, so I shouldn't, either. No, the problem is that you don't get one! Similarly, my brother once said that he didn't want to see the minimum wage go up because he liked the idea of making twice as much as someone else. I pointed out that the real enemy was the person who made more in a day than he does in a year. Postscript: he ended up getting a severe wage cut, anyway. Someone making less than him getting a pay raise didn't cause that wage cut.
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  346. In many ways, Elizabeth Warren is Obama 2.0. A lot of the reason why Obama didn't get more done is that he accepted the restraints of the system as it was. I think that the status quo restrains Warren a lot more than it does Bernie.
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  347.  @frogbIog  People get in over their heads all the time. Considering that we know the husband wrote at least one threatening letter, and the letter writer knew nicknames, I think they realized they were in trouble and wanted a way to make it go away.
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  348. ​ @milascave2  I remember at the time that right wingers in my Guard unit were surprised when I said that he was a libertarian. On that show, he had a mob themed week because "government is like the mafia," and he insisted that people shouldn't need Social Security. He's always had his share of bad takes, but the ratio has definitely turned the last few years.
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  349. ​ @adriannannen5941  Maybe it wouldn't take as long if Republican legislators in blue states didn't put up roadblocks. For example, in my state of Pennsylvania, Republican legislators refused to allow precincts to open and unfold the absentee ballots before polls opened on Election Day.
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  350. ​ @jimohara  [citation needed]
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  351. He appeals to two kinds of people: 1) right wingers who love to hear "a lefty trashing the left," 2) people on the left who want to complain more than they actually want results.
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  352. First, the first black woman to serve as Secretary of State was Condoleezza Rice, so plenty of Republicans applauded that one. Second of all, how to tell people you're a racist without directly saying that you're a racist...
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  353. Another OIF veteran for Bernie here.
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  354.  @schoolinJOO  You clearly missed the point where he said that McConnell would go nuclear. Jimmy Dore said Democrats should hold out for two years, and Sam Seder said it was impossible. Why do all Dore supporters have to lie in order to defend their hero?
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  355.  @schoolinJOO  This is a public forum. Deal with it.
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  356.  @yippedoodah  Internships are the new indentured servitude. Not everyone can afford to do unpaid work.
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  357. "Conspiracy theorists believe both that government is incredibly incompetent and so competent that they can keep these conspiracies a secret." Dr. Richard Clarke
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  358. ​ @JD365-ls5cw  Yes, I do like Biden and he doesn't rig elections. I never saw him tell supporters to vote twice or send his supporters to block the election when he lost.
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  359.  @bleekrisp  The point is that people often don't understand the things beneath the surface that make things possible. If people died of polio, we would almost certainly see far fewer people opposed to vaccines.
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  360. @Jamil Ebdeen Abortions that late are only done because complications arise. Nobody waits until the pregnancy almost comes to term and says, "Oops! I changed my mind. Let's get that sucker out of there."
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  361.  @dd-1280  She was at one point. Obama wanted to give up on the ACA after Scott Brown's election, but Pelosi is the one who held his feet to the fire and got the 218 in the House... including Dennis Kucinich, who voted against the first version because it didn't go far enough, even though it went farther than the final bill.
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  362. "I had the right to remain silent. I had the right, but not the ability." Ron White
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  363.  @andrewforte2018  Glenn Greenwald is a libertarian. His grift was pretending to be a lefty, and now he is back to his true self (see also: Gabbard, Tulsi). Greenwald is awful. I did everything I could to help Bernie win, but if all it took was a few endorsements, it was a foundation of sand.
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  364.  @GSP-76  She's not running for re-election. She has said she will stay in the race all the way to the convention. No poll shows her viable anywhere. How much more evidence do you need that she is not secretly trying to help Bernie? I remember her defending Biden on busing and Iraq, but I don't remember hearing her praise Bernie for being right on Iraq this year.
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  365. Don't forget that "peace candidate" Tulsi supported torture.
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  366.  @jaymorgan7728  He's stupid, but he has that narcissistic instinct of never being able to admit to either a mistake or being a part of something awful.
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  367. If she changes parties, McConnell gets the gavel. What you need is to win enough seats that you don't need her vote in 2022.
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  368. I'm no longer in her district, but I hope she can pull it off against Evans. The machine can be strong in Philly, so turnout will be key.
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  369.  @debi1451  I think I then asked him about the exchange rate for money. When he insisted the distraction part, I told him, "If you want to be able to form your own government on your own land, these are the kinds of things that governments have to do when dealing with other governments." That was pretty much the end of that conversation.
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  370. Pennsylvania Bernie supporter who cast a vote for Biden two weeks ago. #ByeDon
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  371.  @katec3963  I am not advocating that everyone makes the same money, but you seem to have a very unusual idea on what it means to make the money. The highest CEO to worker pay in the United States (not including Goodwill, which is a whole other level of messed up based on the way they get around minimum wage laws) is 6000:1. Do you honestly believe that any CEO does more for the company in one day than the average worker does in 16 1/2 years? That is the kind of thing that can be contained simply by making a rule capping how much a company can deduct a CEO salary/stock option package. The company can still make such a payment if it wants, but the government won't subsidize it. There could also be rules prohibiting executives from sitting on each other's boards to avoid conflicts of interest when setting compensation packages. Other countries do just fine without such disparities, and it is far worse in my country than yours, so why is such outrageous disparity justified? Also, as to the alternatives, just because anyone can doesn't mean that everyone can. Someone will still have to be a janitor, or an orderly, or stock shelves, etc. Shouldn't work have the dignity of a livable wage to go with it? Shouldn't we value work?
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  372.  @jaxmiller724  No, a governor in Virginia lost because people believed lies about what was being taught, and he had the temerity to speak up for teachers.
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  373. When you have privilege, equality feels like oppression.
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  374.  @hepwo91222  [citation needed]
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  375.  @texajp1946  Sad situation when people can't tell the difference between isolationism and peace.
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  376. ​ @jimfleming1979  Well, my brother got it three times and ended up in the ER twice, one of them he lost 50 pounds even though he's not a heavy man.
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  377.  Derrick Barnes  So, a "small part" is the thing that its own vice president referred to as the cornerstone, pretty much every declaration of secession opened with, and that the newly established constitution enshrined as one of the few things that could not be overturned? Yeah, and I'm taller than Shaq.
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  378.  @Patrick-sg7cm  So, by that logic, how long do you think it is before inequality kicks in?
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  379.  @stefbailey3134  There's nowhere for him to go. He is blocked for Congress, and he has proven that he can't win statewide. That's why he's running for President.
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  380.  @aaronsailor827  Brilliant surgeon, but he hasn't practiced in years, instead focusing on selling quack medicine on daytime TV.
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  381. A lot of people thought this about Clarence Thomas 31 years ago. Don't get your hopes up too much.
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  382.  Roof Korean  Staying up all night on a coke binge is not "high energy."
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  383. ​ @Wonderwoman79G  One was McCormick of GA-7. I can't remember the other one.
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  384. ​ @JD365-ls5cw  Yes, because plenty of people who aren't bullies plow through a group of people to get to the front of pictures, encourage others to beat people up, and make up nicknames to belittle people.
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  385.  Mark Ford  We like to live in fear? That's hilarious coming from the side that regularly refers to immigrants as "invaders," has relied on red baiting for 75 years, and has regularly looked for an Other to blame for society's ills.
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  386. A Manchin opponent is basically to put pressure (he is literally the only Democrat who can win statewide in WV), but it is good to make him feel pressure from the left. Sinema, though, could actually be replaced with someone better.
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  387.  Alabama Man 2.0  Says the guy whose party held a seat open when a vacancy occurred nine months before an election because it was too close while ramming one through when an opening came six weeks before the next election after claiming that the former was precedent.
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  388.  @pedrohasselmann  Actually, they did something. They made it worse.
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  389. ​ @digidol52  And everyone else suffers.
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  390.  @hellooutthere8956  In the article that described her abuse of staff, someone forgot a fork for her salad, so rather than let her go and get one, she decided that it would somehow embarrass the staffer if she used her comb as a fork instead.
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  391.  @niccolea2086  She went along with it in an interview, said that she was "disappointed" that he sent people out there "to trash me." Well, her accusation is her confession.
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  392.  @Trad_Monarch27  You mean like how Trump "saved the jobs at Carrier," but all that happened was that Carrier used the corporate welfare he gave them to fund the factories that they were planning to move to, anyway? Or how the tariff war was supposed to reduce the trade deficit, even though it kept going up? "Thank you, sir. May I have another?"
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  393. Still a Christian, but one who left my fundamentalism behind. I've noticed quite a few who left their Christianity behind but kept their fundamentalism.
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  394.  @poeticgangsta6616  Yeah, I saw her fidgeting and making all kinds of evasive gestures when the question was asked. She knew she was on mic and was trying to build drama. Bernie didn't fall for it.
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  395. Not used to being told no, and people who think that they're temporarily embarrassed millionaires who think that this is how to get promoted, when they don't realize that if you do the work of two or three people and become "irreplaceable," that means that you'll never climb any higher because "good [insert current job here] are so hard to find."
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  396.  @longliverocknroll5  Real populism is of the left. People on the right use a style to distract from their fascism. No real populist cuts taxes for rich people.
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  397.  @Bluebelle51  There are degrees. She was a distant second for a long time, but now she is just as bad as the rest of them not named Bernie Sanders.
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  398. Only if you are worried about running out of oxygen from laughing so hard.
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  399.  @jeffslote9671  Telling people to go to the other side of the Capitol and fight is one of the clearest examples of something being his fault possible. It wasn't even "who will rid me of this troublesome priest?" level subtle.
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  400.  @jimbob9407  Trying to use violence to get their way because they didn't like the election results is terrorism.
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  401.  @jontraz5993  If Bernie voted no, this troll would say that he is a misogynistic gun nut, because the bill also included the assault weapons ban.
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  402.  @ethanahmu6149  I can't speak for the OP, but I came home with swollen adenoids, headaches, even as much as two years after I got home black came out sometimes when I blew my nose, and I would freak out when I saw litter on the road (the absolute worst was I swerved on the interstate when I saw something that I thought was bomb a week or two after I got home, and there but for the grace of God, there was no one in the other lane, and I had passengers), and my deployment was relatively uneventful.
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  403.  Sara Mill  No, he doesn't. He is listing a relative's house on his filing papers.
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  404. Because the Supreme Court is in his pocket. They took hardly any time at all to neuter the Fourteenth Amendment so he could run despite inciting an insurrection the last time, but taking their sweet, old time on the immunity case.
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  405. If he's so good at predictions, then he needs to publish his findings and show his work to see if it stands up to scrutiny.
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  406. They came oh so close the last time, so hopefully they finish the job this time.
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  407.  @jackhammer3423  If you have to pay or tax time off work to get it, it is absolutely a poll tax. If you allow someone to use a more exhaustive list including things like a lease, mortgage payment book, tax records, utility bills, etc., that is fine. In my adopted home state, when they pushed this law ten years ago (in the words of the then-House Majority Leader, so Romney could win the state), it was estimated that 9% of adults statewide and 18% in Philadelphia didn't have an acceptable ID... all to prevent something that they admitted they couldn't find any examples of. Oh, and the most cruel provision of the law? Even disabled voters who were homebound were expected to go to the courthouse to show their ID in order to vote absentee. Do you agree with that?
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  408. Well, that's what most libertarians really believe when the chips are down. His dad ranked in the top five in requests for earmarks while he was in Congress.
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  409.  @robinlillian9471  Russia is to the right of the rest of Europe. If John Kasich wants to get rid of the would-be fascist dictator, welcome aboard, but that doesn't mean that he gets to dictate terms once he climbs on.
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  410. "Hold on, you fascists bound to lose." Woody Guthrie
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  411.  @HaliPuppeh  It also doesn't include the story of the rich young ruler, or that part in Ezekiel 15 where God tells the weirdest prophet that Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed because of how they treated the orphans and widows, or how farmers had to keep the corners of the fields unplowed so the poor could glean from the crops. Their Bible has so many holes that it looks like someone hollowed it out to hide their guns.
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  412.  Robert Hunt  Your boy Trump lost his native state twice. Plenty of people have won the popular vote and the Presidency while losing their own state. Irrelevant.
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  413. He tried literally everything else, so that was his only option.
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  414. Yes, because he is going to let someone correct him on why you don't praise fascists.
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  415. 21st century Lyndon Larouche
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  416. Indeed. I literally remember someone using "pursuit of happiness" as an argument against gay marriage.
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  417. I didn't call the crossover, but I did call Dore going down the same road.
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  418.  @nellymartinezcorona3539  I think a lot of those people don't realize that the joke is on them. Dave Chappelle said that he had people who told him they loved the Clayton Bigsby sketch because he says the N word. Apparently, they missed the point that it was about how stupid and arbitrary racism is.
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  419. Oh, no. She was right. Completely on this question.
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  420. He's very good at avoiding straight answers. He never answered the question of whether or not Biden won, although he later implied that he didn't.
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  421. I still remember my first experience seeing her in an interview. She was on Real Time, and Paul Begala had some thoughts about the 1980 election. MM: I wasn't born yet. PB: Well, I wasn't born at the time of the French Revolution, but I know what happened. She still hasn't learned anything.
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  422. I heard of the plagiarism scandal for a long time, but this is the first time I ever actually saw the entire thing. Truly shocking.
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  423. "Cleopatra isn't the only queen of de Nile." Stuart Smalley
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  424. The Human Fund: Money for People
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  425. I remember seeing an interview with someone who was in the top 8% of Onlyfans incone earners... and she made about $200/month. It's hardly the gravy train Dim thinks it is.
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  426.  @patrick9445  The only fact that Jimmy Dore ever learned was that shifting to the right got him a multimillion dollar house. If facts really mattered to him, once literally everything Sam said in the 2016 debate turned out to be true and everything Jimmy said turned out to be false, he would have apologized for misreading the situation.
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  427. I saw a few Dore videos during the 2016 primary, but as soon as I heard him utter the line that we would be better off with Trump than Hillary, I knew that this was either someone very stupid or very deceitful, and I didn't want to waste any more of my time on him.
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  428.  @longliverocknroll5  My master's thesis was on the Cross of Gold speech. I think that I can say with confidence that I know what populism is, and not the version of it that Hofstadter convinced people it really was because he saw it as too vulgar compared to the progressive movement of the era.
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  429. Last night, I heard Jayapal say that she has "over 60 members" who will vote No if they don't see the reconciliation pass first. Even Lawrence O'Donnell said that it is nonsensical for Manchin and Sinema to complain about the price tag this far down the line.
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  430.  @carlosb5523  So, the person who wants to ultimately destroy WIC and daycare subsidies is better for women than the candidate who has been calling for fully paid parental leave and the only candidate to actually support Medicare for All?
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  431.  @thomas2082  You said nothing to debunk. You just don't like that Jimmy Dore is being called what he is.
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  432. When was Jimmy Dore actually funny? Pretty much everything I've seen of him even in the before time felt like watching a bad Borscht Belt comic.
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  433. It looks like those of us who saw it as a bad idea have been vindicated.
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  434. If you're doing Miyazaki movies, can you do Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind ? No less a figure than Roger Ebert named it as the greatest animated movie ever.
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  435. ​ @Corabar  How dare you insult the puppets!
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  436. Only eight people have qualified thus far for the fifth debate. I really hope no one else does.
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  437. In all honesty, I am starting to wonder if maybe he didn't end up where he needed to be. If they are going to torpedo Biden, a member of the club, what do you think they'd do to Bernie?
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  438. Yes. Tulsi has an awful fan base, but at least they mix it up once in a while. Yang Gang bangers have a total hive mind to the point that my phone recognizes complete phrases in response to their talking points.
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  439.  @fefelarue2948  What's the backstory behind that? I missed it, and it's still hilarious in isolation, but maybe that would make it even better.
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  440.  @brentnoury7626  So, the guy who insists that anyone on the left who disagrees with his strategy one time is a sellout who must be destroyed and we should work with the people on the right if they pretend to be populist is a true voice of principle and reason? Yes, and at 5'5, not much of a vertical, and 42 years old, I'll be the next NBA Slam Dunk Champion.
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  441. The Both Siderism Express, right on schedule.
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  442. Or, as Tina Fey used to call it, clap-ter.
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  443.  @BelamarEutravos  The antonym of Libertarian is realism and supporting workers.
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  444. I don't remember her complaining when Moscow Donald went after the Khan family.
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  445.  @captscarlet8793  Bernie knew that if he went after Biden directly, he would get any blame, and he wanted to take no chances of weakening the eventual nominee if he lost. Here's a thought: Bernie knows that some things are more important than his own ego and gratification, and he had no desire to enable a victory by a literal fascist in any way, shape, or form.
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  446.  @joseneto9412  First of all, Yang is a libertarian, not a leftist. Second of all, when has she ever stood up to establishment Republicans? She is incapable of going after Republicans without immediately resorting to both siderism.
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  447. The self-loathing is strong with this one.
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  448. If he's not, I'd hate to see who beat him out for the gold medal.
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  449.  @DoctorBiobrain  Indeed. Ben Carson was a truly great neurosurgeon based on everything that has been reported, but he seems to know nothing about anything else. He was basically a less likable version of The Todd fron Scrubs.
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  450. Yes, because it's always a good idea to challenge a former Constitutional Law Professor about what the Constitution actually says.
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  451.  @bronzeageancientone4844  While running, no less. Jim Fixx. Looking at his health and family history, there is a chance that he probably extended his life by running, but people close to him said that he refused to go to a doctor when he experienced what were in retrospect warning signs. Less likely is not impossible, and that was his fatal mistake.
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  452.  @soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342  If you read his old Salon columns or how he used First Amendment arguments to defend neo-Nazis accused of hate crimes, you get the feeling that any time he did something right was for the wrong reasons.
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  453. So true. Ryan and Shane are doing their thing, and it's quality work. This is quality work, too. Accept the fact that they are just coming back for the occasional Unsolved season and enjoy all of the great work that we get to see.
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  454.  @murphyjanitorial  Democrats lost two seats in the Senate. He clearly did not get that right. Now, we are in a position where we have to hope and pray Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes through the next two years so Moscow Donald doesn't get to push SCOTUS even farther to the right, and never mind the fact that these are people who could be on the bench for 20, 30, even 40 years if their health holds up that long.
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  455.  @NickZedd1  Oh, look. It's the rise of Dr. Google. I suppose you think that it's just a coincidence that numbers are plummeting and plummeting faster where vaccination rates are higher.
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  456. The ethical dilemma comes when you just say Government Bad, instead of thinking like an adult and actually trying to figure out what works and what doesn't, because there are times where government actions have provided more rights and, dare I say, freedoms, for people.
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  457.  @marceybull  It's not "bringing up a valid point." If you or he want to provide evidence that this is what happens, I am all ears. I have seen assertions like this for decades, but when following the advice of union busting and low taxes, we end up with stagnant wages and higher income inequality because the rich keep it all.
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  458.  @s4njuro462  Weeks before he died, he prefaced a segment on the Robinson-Greenwald debate by bending over backwards to say what good people Rising were. I admit that I fell for their grift in the beginning and ignored some of the warning signs, although I thought their defense of Yang and Tulsi were concerning. The veil was fully lifted after the primary for me. While it took Michael Brooks a long time to realize when someone was a grifter, once he saw it, he was very forceful in calling them out almost like penance. This may have been his last straw, though.
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  459.  @alabamaman5994  The fact that Aaron says something stupid isn't surprising.
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  460. Self-awareness has never been the strong suit of the American right.
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  461.  walt charamba  She got too close to the One True Ring, and she is tainted. I think she got in with a what-if attitude about 2016, but once she thought she could win in September and saw it slip away, she sold her soul.
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  462.  @nameisamine  I guess you're not familiar with the concept of dog whistling. It's where you don't directly go after a group, but you say things that an audience knows how it is intended. Yes, people of any race can be Muslim, but it's pretty obvious that he wasn't talking a out white women. And you seriously need to watch John Oliver pointing out how Boris Johnson does stuff like that to appear like a clown so he can get away with it. What's next, are you going to say that Nigel Farage likes immigrants?
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  463. ​ @LurchFetterman  Yeah, Rosie Palmer.
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  464. Someone was trying to suck up at a work meeting and say that this is like a family, and the rest of us audibly laughed. A lot of times, the "family" metaphor is nothing more than an attempt to silence dissent, just like how almost no one is ever called an "employee," and instead of calling themselves workers, everyone is obsessed with the idea of "middle class."
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  465.  @robertjenkins6132  If he's "not anti-vaccine," why does he keep singing off the anti-vaccine hymnal? Not even Jenny McCarthy claims to be "anti-vaccine" any more.
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  466. And to top it off about how cynical this ploy was, here is how OJ thought of race. When he was a college player, he was at an awards banquet, and someone said to him, "You're not like these other Ns." A friend who was with him thought that OJ would be offended. However, he saw it as proof that he had transcended his race, and would regularly say, "I'm not black, I'm OJ."
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  467. We call them Dore Knobs.
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  468. ​ @josephgraham1065 When did they have documents they refused to give back?
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  469.  @pbeston73  You miss the point completely. Do you honestly think that Bernie was the second most right wing Presidential candidate? That would be Tulsi Gabbard.
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  470. ​ @stevenkies802  But not until after he could cash those sweet SAG checks.
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  471. If they want to insist that such waste, fraud, and abuse exists, they need to specify where they are finding it.
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  472.  @1neomonkey  Michael Brooks said that anyone who lives in a swing state should vote for Biden... and he said so repeatedly. Tells all we need to know about your honesty.
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  473.  @Troubleshooter125  "I like Ted Cruz more than most people in the Senate, and I hate Ted Cruz." Al Franken
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  474. In other breaking news, the sun rose this morning.
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  475.  @TheBasedGreeg  True. The libertarian who called in was obviously trying to distort the analogy to try to make the coercion sound more justifiable. That's why his analogy was so tortured.
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  476. Darn right! Even in my office with a union job, several of us keep reminding other workers to take their breaks and lunches. All working through it does is screw yourself (because you don't get paid) and everyone else (who then is expected to do the same). The boss wants to do everything possible to wring as much from you as possible without getting you to quit, so accept the fact that this is a "they need to give me overtime or hire more people" situation.
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  477.  @Patrick-sg7cm  So, let's just say that it's one of those things whose inequality kicks in minutes after birth. At that point, isn't it a distinction without a difference? Then again, I'd also argue that if you're rich enough for your parents to be able to afford a fancy birthing suite with a round-the-clock doctor on call and won't get kicked out of the hospital in a hurry after the birth, isn't that an example of the inequality kicking in before you get here?
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  478. Indeed. He could give away 99.9% of his wealth, and his descendants could live off the interest for generations.
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  479. Indeed. That's part of why I think Glenn Howerton's portrayal of Dennis Reynolds as someone barely able to hold it together and easily crumbling is such an important deconstruction of this idea of the charming sociopath.
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  480. Amen, Michael! It's not that they necessarily want to see poor people and sick people suffer, but they don't want to do anything to stop suffering.
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  481. How heavy do you have to be to lose 100 pounds and nobody notices?
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  482. "If someone pays me enough, I'll sell out." Jimmy Dore
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  483.  @mjchakos1  Trump seeking help from Russia is hardly a conspiracy. He did it in plain sight.
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  484. "Which side are you on?/ Which side are you on?" Song popular among union coal miners I guess we know the answer for the Dore Knobs.
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  485.  @timreed402  If every word that Jimmy Dore said in that story was true, it was still sexual harassment. If she really did what he said she did, that isn't how you respond. Someone clearly never paid attention to the sexual harassment video at work.
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  486. It's like Trump's tax returns. At a certain point, you have to wonder what could possibly be more embarrassing than the grief you get for hiding
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  487. He is right up there as one of the best US Senators we have right now, and definitely the best orator.
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  488. More than once, we mountaineers have joked that our motto should be "better than Mississippi."
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  489.  @RocketmanRockyMatrix  Adam Kokesh did come on the show, and he also got into the same corner as the random libertarian callers do because the follow up questions show that it is a philosophy where no one thinks through all the way.
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  490.  @BarnabyWild13  The difference? She hides behind her military service for everything from defending a war crime to the silver streak in her hair. Even now, she tells lies about some report in torture that just came out that she didn't have time to read, even though it reaffirmed what another report said about it not working, and the Army Field Manual and the Geneva Conventions long banned torture. For the latter, there are pictures of her years after she got home with a head of jet black hair.
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  491.  @theunitedcommonwealth715  Indeed. That one was bad. Like, almost jumping the shark bad.
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  492. The problem is that she is actually getting delegates. I want her to take votes away with no delegates, thus making it easier for Bernie to get to 1990.
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  493.  Jude Fenwick  Trump got a lower percentage of the popular vote than Romney and an equal percentage to McCain. He is also the only President who never got 50% support in any Gallup poll.
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  494.  @randolph1917  Yang is a fake lefty, so he won't go on a show that he knows will criticize him from the left, because that will expose his scam.
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  495.  @bernardomedrano1446  Forget taken out of context. Here is what I think happened based on reports. Warren: Do you think Trump will try to use sexism against me? Bernie: Trump will use whatever he can if he thinks that it will help him win. [13 months later] Warren: I'm crashing, so I need to do something to get back in this race. I know! I'll say that Bernie told me that a woman can't win.
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  496. You have to know when to use your leverage and when you have it. The coronavirus bill was not that time. This is.
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  497.  @Captain-Sum.Ting-Wong  It's not about "the exact same beliefs," it's about whether or not someone's beliefs include actively harming the vulnerable in society. Laying the groundwork for cutting Social Security by undermining its support does just that.
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  498. Also Dave Rubin: Did you know that I'm gay?
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  499.  @davidstewart1757  I'm not saying to never engage with conservatives. I am saying don't legitimize literal fascists. If there is a particular issue where we have agreement on the solution, then work on that, but only on that issue. The mere fact that you call a fascist "the most reasonable conservative in America" answers your own question.
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  500. Indeed. And not in the "everyone deserves representation" sense, either.
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  501. Check the date of the video. He didn't really start to lose it until recently.
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  502.  @rw9573  What are you talking about?
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  503. ​@andyroubik5760 Not when science is used to justify oppression.
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  504. Yes, it was. She had a primary challenge to her left, which happened to her every cycle because of how far right she is. It also had the nice little bonus for her of going after who she really hated: Hillary Clinton. This is her true self.
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  505. 15% chance? Considering that he hadn't gone to any of the high school graduations of his other four kids, he never would have gone and is just looking for an excuse to delay.
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  506.  @Juicebrainjoe  People can say whatever they want. That doesn't mean that everyone has to give them a megaphone. Funny how the fascists claim to care about free speech but want to use that free speech to destroy those freedoms they claim to hold dear.
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  507.  @stephenbailey9969  And Alabama tried to leave the Union because they wanted to keep slavery. If it was left to them, they would have never abolished it. Enforcement of the Fifteenth Amendment got seriously gutted by the Shelby case. Or, are you one of these people who is just fine with making it harder to vote, as long as it isn't explicitly based on race, gender, or age?
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  508.  Sara Mill  He doesn't live here now. That is the point.
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  509. ​ @LifeStrike2030  First of all, I have run for offiice (WV House of Delegates, 2006), so how many offices have you run for? Second of all, Green Party organization is notoriously poor because of the obsession with getting to 5% to get that sweet, sweet matching fund cash. Never mind the fact that the only independent or third party movement to get 5% or more in successive elections was Perot, and he got less than half the vote the second time around. (The next closest was the Socialist Party going from 6.1% in 1912 to 4.9% in 1916.) Never mind that Greens have tried for over 50 years and never topped 2.74% The Green Party is notorious for focusing its efforts on the top of the ballot at the expense of down ballot races, even when rules help them out. In Philadelphia, the Green Party ran a candidate in 2015 for at-large seats on city council. The logic was that voters only get to choose five, the top seven get elected, and everyone knows that the bottom Democratic candidate will more than double the top Republican, so use one of your votes to get us on City Council. The candidate got 11,000 votes, with 38,000 being the cut off. I only found out about it a few days before the election seeing a postcard at the train station explaining her strategy. In 2019, several other third parties got the same idea, and a Working Families Party candidate finished in the running. Four years later, both Working Families candidates won, reducing Republicans to the third party on city council (14-2-1, with Republicans winning one seat in NE Philly). Where were Greens the last two municipal elelections? Nowhere to be seen. This should have been a layup, and they didn't even try. Funny how they try hardest in races where their efforts help Republicans.
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  510.  @lilgarbagedisposal9141  She was a Kucinich supporter in 2004. Her policies are to the left. Watch her CNN town hall. She qualifies.
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  511.  @slamandjam2  Tulsi was the candidate who supported torture. Tulsi was the one who compared the Iran nuclear deal to Munich. She spent the whole campaign trying to appeal to Republicans only, and once she flamed out, she ended her Congressional career pushing nonsense from Project Veritas to try to make it harder for the elderly and disabled to vote, and pushing right wing dog whistles about high school sports. And that big takedown of Kamala Harris that tulcels like to bring up? It was to stop an attack on Biden.
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  512. This may be the most easily flustered debater who has ever tried to call in.
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  513.  @lucboy13  How much does Charles Koch pay you every time you copy and paste this?
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  514. Totally agree about Yang Gang bangers being the worst. At least Tulcels mix it up once in a while. My phone recognizes entire phrases that I type when I see the nonsense that I rebut from people who don't seem to understand the definition of regressive and progressive taxes. (More than one has literally insisted that a VAT can't be regressive because European countries use it.)
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  515. With 54 charges still pending.
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  516. Because you've done such a good job dealing with ethics over the last 18 years, Johnny.
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  517.  @smartass0124  Here's a hint: if you want to insult the intelligence of someone else, learn to use grammar that doesn't sound like an old Tarzan movie.
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  518. What do you call a failed coup attempt that isn't punished? Practice.
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  519. ​ @MrAdamo  Plenty of audio exists with CEOs saying that they aren't giving prices back and that they're going to drive them up to keep the money.
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  520. Her district is the biggest concentration of crazies in Georgia.
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  521. Charlie Kirk was a Perot voter? How old is he? I'm 44, and I was too young to vote the last time Perot ran. But this is the guy who has his finger on the pulse of the youth.
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  522.  @Zach-ju5vi  You do realize that the debt ceiling is about paying money that is already spent, right? It is literally threatening to not pay bills that are already accrued.
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  523.  @hepwo91222  People have to do medical quarantine for lots of situations. When Ebola broke out a few years ago, anyone who went to a country affected by it also had to quarantine here. You would have probably been complaining about Typhoid Mary losing her livelihood and ignored that she willfully killed a bunch of people.
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  524. The only difference is that historians believe that Marie Antoinette never actually said it. This is on film for all of eternity.
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  525. Indeed. I think that he took the term "white privilege" and ran with it. I admit that I think that a better phrase can be used (see also: defund the police which a lot of people think is abolition of the police), but there are bad things that don't happen because of race when you are white. If the analogy for being born spoiled and unaware of it is "born on third and think you hit a triple," maybe being poor and white would be born on first at most.
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  526. With Mike Gallagher resigning effective next month, the Republican margin for error is shrinking. The only chance that Johnson seems to have to survive is to enter into a power-sharing agreement. My dollar says he'll never do that.
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  527. Well, can you imagine how many of those he's been on the other end of? I am honestly amazed at how patient Sam is with these people.
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  528. Based on the Johnson Amendment, which prohibits partisan electioneering from the pulpit, it's not supposed to be. Churches have lost tax exempt status, but the real problem is that it isn't strictly enforced.
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  529. I think that the other thing that people forget about a divorce is that sometimes the jilted person doesn't want the one who left back.
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  530. Republicans never learn.
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  531. Give her time.
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  532. Ultimately, you just can't negotiate with Republicans because there is no middle ground with a group that wants your destruction. There are some Repiblican voters who are lazy and don't realize what happened to their party, so Biden has to pretend to listen, but until and unless they are going to make a substantive good faith counteroffer, there is no actual work with them.
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  533. He was a legacy who got into the Naval Academy because his father and grandfather were both admirals, finished near the bottom of his class, and crashed five planes as a pilot. She is more her father's daughter than his myth makers would have you believe.
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  534. Three states tried to do the right thing, but the Supreme Court tried to "avoid looking political" and did the most political thing of all.
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  535. ​ @fifiadan  Tim Pool and Dave Rubin are the only two people to say that they are "pro chouce" who cheered Roe being overturned.
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  536.  @the_ejj  First of all, Trump got 46% and 47% in his two campaigns. Second, no one is saying that every Trump voter should be locked up. We are saying those traitors who tried to lead or participate in an an armed insurrection to overthrow a legitimate election need to be put in jail.
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  537.  @davide9598  Further proof that there is no such thing as right wing populism.
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  538.  @timreed402  Do you have evidence that one of her students backed up his version of events?
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  539. Playing the "working class" card to not do this is stupid. There's a lot of working class people out there with blue collar jobs and student debt. AOC was a bartender, after all.
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  540.  @ticthak  One time in basic training, someone from Mississippi tried to give me crap, and as soon as I heard where he was from, I said, "Oh, no you don't! Everything we're 49th in, you're 50th, so you don't get to run your mouth about my state." You should have heard the laughter.
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  541.  @lstarsabb  [In Jean-Ralphio voice] She's... the WOOOOOORST.
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  542. 1:54 Absolutely. It's no coincidence that Collins, Murkowski, and Romney all waited until after Manchin announced his support in order to offer theirs.
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  543.  @MrMasterDebate  I can usually get a same day appointment. That said, I remember in 2002 as an undergrad when someone gave the "in Canada, you have to wait months to see your doctor." A friend of his, who was from Canada, pointed out that this simply isn't true. The unstated part of "but waiting lists" is that you are saying, "I am fine with a significant proportion of the population not getting to see a doctor at all so I can see mine a little faster."
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  544.  mayrana2  Well, he does say, "I'm sure you have your reasons" after. Maybe the first reaction is that of someone who knows what that decision means.
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  545.  @laquishdanish3386  Campaign means different things. He knows he won't be the nominee, but if he gets to 25% of the delegate count, we can force a minority report, which the DNC won't want, so that will force them to negotiate.
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  546. ​ @adotjon78  So, we need to vote for a party that literally has zero chance of winning and makes it easier for the candidate farther away from our stated goals to win? Yeah, that makes sense.
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  547.  @UsenameTakenWasTaken  The Ayn Rand future would be the beginning of WALL-E. Difference is that the writers know that would be bad.
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  548. For the third debate, the standard gets tougher: 2% or more in at least four qualifying polls AND 130,000 donors. Only 13 candidates qualified under both criteria for the first debate, where each standard was lower, so I think that will thin the herd quite a bit.
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  549. If they would make more money on unemployment with this bonus, maybe that means that the wages are too low to start with.
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  550.  @maxsmart9116  Indeed. He was clearly fine with hunkering down and letting people vote later on. However, sometimes I think Bernie was too good for some of the people who claim to be his supporters. He didn't want people to die waiting for people to see if Biden would fall.
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  551.  @kriz2665  It was after she ran for Congress. She set up a PAC that was supposed to help lefty candidates, but 39% of the money raised went into her pocket, and less than 5% went to candidates.
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  552.  @LizaMinenkova  Here's how you do it: focus on quality rather than killing yourself for people who couldn't care less about you. You might think it works now, but mark my words, you will reach a point where you realize you hit a wall and you're middle aged and will wonder where the time went.
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  553. Indeed. Second attempts tend to work a lot better than the firsr.
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  554.  @garysmokesmeat  In 1935, the average life expectancy at birth in the United States was 63. Now that government is taking a more active role in retirement and health care, it has increased over 15 years. You just work backwards from the idea Government Bad, and you try to make the reality fit, but the evidence is not there.
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  555.  @garysmokesmeat  And yet you insist that people do better when that doesn't happen, and I gave an example of a region where the average person is in much better shape, which pretty much disproves your whole argument. "He believes the same thing on Wednesday that he did on Monday, regardless of what happened on Tuesday." Stephen Colbert, 2006
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  556. Libertarianism is what happens when people don't ask follow up questions. I remember dealing with an individual sovereignty nut and asking him if he'd need a passport to re-enter the United States, if he'd have to pay a tariff to import goods to his own little country (and how that would be negotiated), and if he'd print his own currency and what the exchange rate would be. He insisted that I was focusing on trivial details.
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  557.  @mineflameblade8788  At this point, there are fascists, and there are those opposed to fascism. There is no middle ground. Your both siderism only helps the fascists.
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  558. I give you the Dunning Kruger Effect in practice.
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  559. @Dystopia Plus I think it's mostly Obama nostalgia. Once they seem him on the big stage, they will realize why bringing someone in for balance doesn't mean that person is the one to carry on your legacy.
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  560. They already have that. Corbyn was trying to end austerity. Hopefully, the Blair wing of the party doesn't make a comeback.
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  561. Either that or Crowder buys his fans and subscribers?
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  562.  Jarod Rieth  If anything, that makes him worse, because it's harder for some people to see through the mask. As recently as a couple months ago, I dealt with people insisting that weasel was "economically left."
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  563.  @Vaughndaleoulaw  Why? His husband is the brains of the whole operation. If you should feel sorry for anyone, feel sorry for their kids. They didn't do anything to deserve this.
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  564. I once knew someone in college who whined that his dad "only" made $250,000/year. Take a zero away, and my dad didn't make that until he was 48. Needless to say, we didn't get along.
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  565.  Alabama Man 2.0  Jimmy Dore literally ran a video where he removed the name "Sam Seder" from an interview.
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  566. Caller: No one has a right to be born or to give birth. Also caller: We can't interfere with people who are alive.
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  567. ​ @hangukhiphop  You are aware that we used to actually have a world with much higher personal income taxes at the top and that corporate taxes were 32% of all federal revenue, right? And what happened? The CEO to employee pay ratio was about 20 or 40:1 instead of what we see now, and the government used that revenue to invest in making society better, such as funding education.
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  568.  @MsNickie1001  A nice idea, but you also have to remember to boycott the subsidiaries. For example, during the Frito-lay strike, that meant no Pepsi, either.
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  569. I haven't said this for six years, and I may never do so again, but great job, Tulsi!
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  570. ​@ace9840 Inflation has declined sharply, especially compared to other G7 countries; and your boy Trump killed a right-wing wish list of a border bill.
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  571.  @mfit7110  You are aware that anything that happened after 2008 was defined by the structure of TARP, right? It would have taken a separate bill to do the things that you say that Obama should have done, but there was no political appetite for it.
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  572.  @serpico1616  Vaush imagined two people who crashed on a deserted island. The island had coconuts, and one person passed out in the crash. The person who maintained consciousness took all the coconuts for himself while the other was sleeping. The question was how long it would take the second person to fellate the first in that situation.
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  573.  Derrick Barnes  You need to read an honest history book rather than one designed to prop up one of the most evil regimes to ever exist by pretending that they didn't really want to do the thing they all said they did. Maybe you need to actually read the declarations of secession and the Cornerstone Speech.
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  574. ​ @shkotayd9749  You know the old saying, justice delayed is justice denied.
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  575. It's pretty optimistic to think that he'll pick up on that in three years. Everything else is spot on, though ;-)
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  576. The fight is not to trash unions. The fight is to make unions more open and democratic. I'm in SEIU, and the big fight in every single contract is the health care package. Imagine how much more that will free the negotiating teams to fight for even better things. Maybe a 30-hour work week. Maybe an increase in employee dividends. Fight big, not small.
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  577. I'm a union member in PA, and it baffles me, too.
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  578. He says he's a teetotaler, but he sure does slur his words even more than usual lately.
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  579. If the drinkers out there took a shot every time Tulsi invoked being a veteran or in the military, how long would it take to pickle a liver?
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  580. Great work! Don't forget to knock on doors, make calls, and talk to your friends. We can do this!
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  581. "It takes great courage to stand up to our enemies. It takes even greater courage to stand up to our friends." Albus Dumbledore Emma definitely passed this test. A little bit disappointed that Sam didn't.
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  582. Didn't he also like Bolsanaro?
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  583. How these dummies never realized he was talking about himself, I have no idea.
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  584.  @bpdmf2798  And a public library to boot. I met my first Objectivist in college. One of the biggest jerks I ever met. The others I've met since haven't been a big improvement.
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  585.  @deadwingdomain  Yes, because a candidate who claims to love peace but supports torture and opposed the Iran nuclear deal and abandoned Medicare for All is a great candidate. You're thinking with the wrong head.
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  586. Indeed. This whole thing screams Jonestown.
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  587. Sotomayor was picked when Obama wanted a Hispanic Justice. So much for that argument. Besides, Thomas was picked for his race in a cynical ploy to undo the great and good work of Thurgood Marshall.
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  588.  @Addamo  Boogaloo Boys pretend to be left to pull people into their movement to support a racial civil war. No red/brown alliance. Thank you for playing.
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  589.  @dd-1280  re: Sam scolding Jimmy, if someone is pretending to be a pundit, and is completely ignorant of the basic rules of government, what would you consider the proper response? I remember a few years ago when debating someone from WV who despises Joe Manchin said that "there was no way" that he would vote for Boxer over Inhoffe for Environment and Public Works chair. When I pointed out that his vote to organize with the Dems did just that, her response was "I don't care about the rules." Well, if you want to talk about government in an informed way, you have to at least understand basic rules.
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  590. He's not as smart as my five year old.
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  591. The instant he told people in 2016 that Trump would be better than Hillary, the mask was off.
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  592.  @TheMikeMase  Except his heart is not in the right place. He is now talking up literal fascists and talking down AOC.
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  593.  @shortchubbyneckbeard1681  Yes, because private interests won't just become the de facto government if our existing government was abolished.
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  594. @TheShadowblade No, libertarians are inherently irrational, because they live in a theoretical world where they can't trust this powerful group, but they can just easily trust this other one. It's like the ones who pretend to be populist insisting that they hate the power of corporations but don't see the one effective check on them.
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  595. It's a miracle!
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  596. I've run for years, and I have had high cholesterol on and off for 16 years. Bill Rodgers, four time Boston Marathon winner and NYC Marathon winner, once had cholesterol of 265. Exercise reduces chances of bad things happening to your ticker, but it doesn't reduce it to zero.
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  597. I think there is something to be said about trying to figure out whether the problem with Working Families is their membership or their board thwarting democracy. The mere fact that they won't release it reminds me of the logic of Trump and his tax returns: at a certain point, you decide that what is in the document is going to do more damage than the heat for clamming up. There is no doubt in my mind that the board overruled members.
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  598. He thinks a bill has "bipartisan support" that literally zero members of one party voted for. He is working on a level beyond me.
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  599. Cenk, you have brought on some very good people over the years, but your misses (Dave Rubin, Jimmy Dore) have been huge.
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  600. I used to think they had chosen Harris, but it looks like they changed their minds.
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  601.  @ashleyhope7350  Indeed. As late as 1900, men lived longer than women, and the number one cause of death for women was childbirth.
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  602. How bad is it that she couldn't figure out that 2020-30=1990?
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  603. We do not speak of the Netflix revival.
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  604.  @priyamanobal  Being an actress is far different than being the source of family income. If my daughter wants to do plays or something for fun, I have no problem with that, but I would never put her under that much pressure.
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  605.  @andyroubik5760  Indeed. Sadly, any institution where humans act can be used for evil. For me, there is a Reinhold Niebuhr quote that sums up humanity perfectly: "I believe democracy is possible because of the potential of [humanity]. I believe democracy is necessary because of the limitations of [humanity]." (Word changed to reflect neutral language.)
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  606. It's much harder to elect a Senator in a red state than it is a gubernatorial race (see also: Bullock, Steve). That's not to say it's impossible, but it will take a great effort.
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  607. The irony is that he had a debilitating stutter as a child.
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  608. Nader was awful, too, by that point in his public life. He lied to his exploratory committee saying he'd only campaign in safe states in 2000 in order to maximize his chances of getting to 5% for those sweet, sweet matching funds, and he campaigned exclusively in swing states and got mad when surrogates such as Ani DiFranco and Michael Moore noted that the election was close and if you live in a swing state, you should consider voting for Gore.
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  609. There are a lot of people in middle management whose jobs look a lot more obviously meaningless as they try to justify their positions. So, rather than demonstrate their own value, they want to take it out on workers. After all, you got there by stepping on working people, so at a certain point, that's all you know how to do.
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  610.  @freddistenbrain8287  Saying that we need to work with these people, insisting that we should work with Mike Cernovich to "bring peace," and regularly praising Tucker Carlson. Either you are a lefty who doesn't know any better, or a fascist trying to hide your power level.
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  611. Moscow Donald calling someone else crazy would be like him making fun of John Boehner or Lindsay Lohan for spending too much time in a tanning bed.
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  612.  @shinske3564  How specifically was the side that didn't call for the end of democracy and have a coup attempt "complicit"?
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  613.  @slamandjam2  When it came to healthcare, she called Medicare for All "un-American," and if you don't see it for the obvious dog whistle that it is to call the proposal of the most famous socialist living in America today "un-American," then you don't understand a thing about politics. And Biden has consistently opposed torture. Tulsi used a scenario straight out of 24 to support it even when warned that torture doesn't work. Tulsi Gabbard is not your friend.
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  614. And, when Tiffany was a year old, he said that he hoped she inherited her mother's chest... except he did the holding his hands in front of his boobs gesture. I think he hates her so much because Marla wouldn't let him have his way with his child.
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  615.  Alabama Man 2.0  One of the organizers of the March on Washington was gay. Whatever his personal views, he obviously wasn't in favor of discrimination. How many more profiles are you going to make, you sad, pathetic man?
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  616.  @elaineklein2385  Obviously, you didn't watch the 2016 debate where literally every prediction Sam made came true, and every one that Jimmy made was false. And this was easy stuff like McConnell would go nuclear if Democrats tried to filibuster the first Trump appointee to the Supreme Court.
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  617.  @3natey  It would be great if he made it to Pennsylania and got next to nothing along the way just so I can get the chance of going to a town hall and asking him if he considers the poor and disabled to be second class citizens since they don't get his money automatically, and he considers it a "right of citizenship" for everybody else. I would go so far as setting up a dummy e-mail account just to get in.
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  618. A lot of us have been vindicated. It was pretty lonely dealing with the cult on some threads that went into triple digits.
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  619.  @frida507  Even seeing upper-middle class people, I've noticed that it seems like the more money people have, the less likely they are to look at "the help." They are also much more likely to berate staff. Not always (there are some who just care about being above someone else of all economic levels), but some really do embody that time when Mitt Romney said "I like being able to fire people who provide a service."
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  620. Knock Knock! Who's there? Someone who never ever says anything substantive. Oh, hi, Mike R.
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  621. Thomas didn't say that he would uphold Roe. He tried to pretend that he had never even once thought about the issue in his hearing despite being a law student when it came down.
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  622. Some people think that talking fast equals a fast working brain. His awkward pauses prove that it's just an act.
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  623.  @davidtran6928  There is a huge difference in arguing that people need to do more compared to someone who is actively harming thousands, if not millions.
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  624. @MrBigsexy8 Indeed. It almost makes you long for the bad old days when Dick Cheney represented the worst of American politics.
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  625. May I ask why you haven't jumped ship yet?
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  626.  @800half  *solely You are absolutely correct. It's like these people who complain that wind and solar are too expensive while ignoring the subsidies of fossil fuels.
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  627. I remember seeing Bernie on The Ed Show in 2014 and early 2015 saying, "If no one will run who will stand up against Wall Street greed, I will." It was pretty obvious to me at the time that someone he wanted was Warren, who at the time was the third mist popular politician in America behind Hillary (who at the time was off the stage, which always gains popularity) and Christie (still riding the wave of his Sandy high), so she would have won if she ran. Now, she seems like she has something to be desired.
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  628. I think that it's perfectly fair to "hate the player" if the player games the rules to give him/herself all of the cards.
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  629.  @keithpugh7538  If anything, he may be worse, because he is competent and not easily distracted.
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  630. The Green Party ultimately lost that lawsuit, but it should be more and more obvious by now that the Green Party leadership are a bunch of con artists, and its voters are useful idiots.
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  631. The biggest difference between the movements rising in the 1930snand today is that the Republican Party was in so much trouble that they could afford to lose several points. Hoover was under 40%. We're dealing with at least 46% of the popular vote that will not move from the Republicans no matter what (that is the low mark since 1972 excluding the two Perot elections).
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  632. ​ @jasonmiddledoff3343  What do you base your claims that she is "extremely intelligent" on? Just repeating something doesn't make it so.
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  633. ​ @mechengr1731 Both, probably
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  634.  @ljhcmh614  And wages have been stagnant for over 40 years, so how's that working for you?
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  635. For a party that likes to howl about being the party of personal responsibility, none of them actually seem to want to take it when they mess up.
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  636. ​ @docelecktronc568  He'd win all the gold medals. Nobody whines like him.
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  637.  @jerryhampton5755  Usually. Even if you do have Native American ancestry, there's a big difference between saying that you have such ancestry and trying to use such ancestry for career advancement or to deflect against one's own racism. I have some Native ancestry, but I have never once listed anything other than white on an application, because I have no tribal ties.
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  638. Only if those people vote for the one candidate who can actually defeat him.
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  639. The idea of paternity leave needs to be much more normalized. Even in a nuclear family, Mom needs a break sometimes. When my daughter was born, I asked for parental leave, and one of the people in the chain actually called it maternity leave. You couldn't fix one letter?
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  640. I never expected him to go this far down this road, but he always seemed to have a contrarian streak, and he was prone to both siderism.
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  641. In 2016, I thought that she'd be a worthy successor to Bernie. I thought it was odd that she went to see Trump after the election (I didn't realize until years later that she was trying to get Secretary of State). Then, there was the Assad Apology Tour, but the last straw was seeing a 2014 video where she used a scenario straight out of 24 to endorse torture on Indian TV, even pushing back when the host pointed to studies that torture doesn't work.
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  642.  @robinsss  So, does this mean that you're fine with poison being on the shelf in case someone doesn't have the good fortune to have seen that warning?
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  643.  @robinsss  Okay, I will amend: human poison masquerading as medicine.
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  644.  @Live2swim  And "getting people on record" when you know that there aren't nearly enough votes helps you get that healthcare how?
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  645. On TMBS, in August 2019, while Warren was clearly rising in the polls and almost ready to take the pole position, she said that Bernie was her first choice was Bernie and Warren was her second choice? I guess you're the one with the memory hole.
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  646.  @teslastellar  It was so "factual" that Fox wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole.
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  647. Funny that the last time we actually balanced the federal budget was after tax increases that every Republican voted against.
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  648. ​ @paradoxworkshop4659  Unfortunately, that's something we don't have a lot of when it comes to justice for Der Orangefuhrer. The verdict needs to be in by November.
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  649. Indeed. I saw the debate last week, and Conor Lamb looked like an algorithm spit out what it thought was an ideal candidate. Even his speaking voice feels overly rehearsed and slick.
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  650. She's worse. Manchin comes a state that went R +39, so at least he could legitimately argue that he is representing the people of his state. Sinema is from a state Biden won and has another Democratic Senator who is to her left and much more popular. She has no such excuse.
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  651. Biden defended his position on segregation invoking states' rights as recently as 2019. He is exactly who King referred to in "Letter from a Birmingham Jail."
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  652. I'd rather have a narcissist giving a self-important speech to retire when he can leave a legacy of a decent successor than the narcissism of someone who screwed us all over by sticking around too long and sticking us with someone who can spend 30-40 years undoing her legacy.
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  653.  @hadleyroper6743  Iraq. When Cold Feet Crowder actually does something to prove he loves his adopted country, or when you do something to serve, then you can talk.
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  654. Darn right! If someone is earnestly misguided, that is one thing, but I don't engage with liars online or in debates in any format.
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  655.  @HoldFamily  And a smug misplaced confidence that you're the only one who does.
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  656.  @davidstewart1757  Before she started with The Hill, she literally started what is called a scam PAC where far more money goes to the founders than candidates. She went on her show talking about the hard and rewarding work she did "writing a book"... that was a compilation of Radars that you can get for free online. A book that made the bestseller list. When she told how her job at MSNBC was one where she knew what was expected of her, does she really expect us to believe that a close Trump friend didn't know what he was doing by hiring her? No, she was picked because she sees her really enemy as the Democratic establishment instead of the fascists.
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  657. Indeed. For someone so out of it, he's run circles around first McCarthy and now Johnson, and he spent last month jetsetting to secure aid to Ukraine. He has more than proven that he is still up to the task.
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  658. ​ @ArturoGarzaID .Explain all of the dog whistles that he encountered once he started to rise to power.
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  659. Because the judge wouldn't let the prosecutor give any evidence of motivation or use the word "victim" to describe the people he shot while allowing the defense to call them "rioters," "looters," and "arsonists."
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  660.  @jimbob9407  Yeah, I suppose the cop who got beaten to death with a fire extinguisher is a figment of the imagination, and the gallows and "Hang Mike Pence!" was just a metaphor.
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  661.  @garysmokesmeat  Yes, and that is why life was cold, nasty, brutish, and short for most people before the government stepped in and set up a social safety net.
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  662.  @garysmokesmeat  No, but I'm not the one talking about "freedom vs. highly regulated." I'd say that requiring companies to negotiate with unions to set wages sector wide and a much higher tax rate are things that you'd hardly consider "free."
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  663.  @garysmokesmeat  I'm not a Marxist. And I don't obsess over how "most free[sic] is always better." And I'm not an absolutist, either. Still, if you want to talk about the 1950s, American workers were better then than we are now and the top marginal rate then was higher than what Sweden pays now. You proved nothing, and you will continue to prove nothing because you take an absolutist position that leaves you defending the indefensible
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  664. Because Jimmy is too big of a chicken after Sam exposed him for the idiot he is four years ago.
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  665.  @888strummer  When this was being discussed in January, Bernie wanted 6 and Manchin wanted 4. Now, it's lower than his original offer. If, hypothetically speaking, Manchin went to 3.4 or something, people might say, "Okay, the kabuki is complete. If you vote Yes, we'll go here."
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  666.  @fatbachelors3922  So, you do think neoliberals are worse. Oh, the irony of your post.
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  667.  @interdimensionalsteve8172  The problem is that Kyle Kulinski never says anything bad about people who he considers to be friends, and most of his friends are grifters.
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  668. You've gotta watch Jordan Klepper interviewing Trump supporters. They briefly tried a spinoff with him as a "Stephen Colbert" type, but it didn't work. When he does those interviews, he is in his element.
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  669.  @estacoda545  Well, considering that he has been outraged over the idea of paying for children's lunches and considered anyone the least bit worse off than him to be an unworthy person, he gets far more sympathy than he gives other people.
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  670.  @mynameisgladiator1933  What does a vaccine have to do with an economic theory?
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  671.  @DUNGSI27  If this is true, then he is someone who shouldn't be taken seriously as a commentator.
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  672. Indeed. Republicans need to stop being stupid so we can Live Long and Prosper \\//_
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  673. I dealt with someone who tried to insist that there was nothing else that Trump could have done to improve things. When I pointed out the example of how South Korea, New Zealand, and Japan handled it, he then made out like they had some trade secret for how they had such a better result. These people could literally be standing next to a fire extinguisher, and if Dear Leader says there is no fire, they'll let their house burn down around them.
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  674. ​ @ThreeFingerG  For the sake of argument, let's assume that you're right and billionaires really are hardworking people who put in all these hours. Never mind the fact that once you get rich enough, you bring in money so fast that it's nearly impossible to spend it all and depending on how your wealth is amassed, your kids get it all tax free, but do you really think that the average billionaire works thousands or millions of times harder than the average worker? The ones who have seen stagnant wages while productivity doubled. "Thank you, sir, may I have another?"
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  675.  @ThreeFingerG  So, you insist that you are the "liberty lover," but you think that you have the exclusive rights for the usage of a word used for people who kiss up to the boss? Self-awareness isn't your strong suit, is it? Re: whose onus it is, funny that every time workers try to do just that, the "liberty crowd" uses the power of government to intervene against us. The only "freedom" you value is the value of the rich to lord it over the poor.
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  676. Question: if this guy thought that it was "hyperbole" to call Trump a fascist, what was his acceptable categorization of Trump before then?
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  677.  @respectedlocalgentleman7108  The judge who scored it 118-110 for Leonard couldn't see the ring because the big pile of money was blocking his view.
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  678. They don't care if they hurt themselves, as long as you hurt the people they hate.
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  679. PV showed screenshots of it. It's true.
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  680. ​ @DianaMartin1910  He planted the seeds even before Trump won, saying that we'd better with Trump than Hillary. Nobody should have taken him seriously after his debate with Sam Seder before the election where literally every single prediction Sam made turned out to be accurate abd every one Jimmy made was wrong.
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  681. I am not shocked that someone would come up with such an idea, but I am shocked that there was not one person in the room with enough intelligence and/or ethics to realize that this was a bad idea that would never work and would make him look absolutely vile. He is vile, but I didn't expect him to be that vile and show it to everyone.
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  682.  @johnhand46  And your evidence is? Maybe instead of blaming conspiracies, do the actual work.
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  683. ​ @NotSoMuchFrankly  What happened to Dore? Multimillion dollar houses don't pay for themselves.
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  684. And Bernie actually ran across the stage. All Boris had to do was turn around.
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  685. The problem with that stance is that a woman isn't deciding to terminate a pregnancy that far along unless something really wrong takes place, and we've seen the hurdles women go through trying to prove a life or health exception.
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  686.  @barbiquearea  "Different" and "single mothers" are often dog whistles for black. She knows it's wrong, so she is trying to find one of the few acceptable groups to go after in this country (and the other is Appalachians [if you don't believe me, go into the most woke room and tell a joke about toothless, inbred hillbillies and no one will bat an eye], although that stems in no small part from the class issue) in order to make sure that is all she is talking about.
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  687.  @5353Jumper  Deficit and debt are two different things.
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  688.  @randomthings1293  This guy has been a jerk for years.
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  689. Gee, it's like "right wing populists" really don't care about working people after all. Are you paying attention, Krystal?
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  690.  @TehMorbidAtheist  He lost it before then. Watch his debate with Sam Seder from 2016. Everything he said proved to be wrong, and everything Sam said proved to be right. All he had to offer was Borscht Belt level jokes.
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  691. She won't be a lobbyist. That requires two things: knowledge about an issue, and good relationships with elected officials. She has neither. Definitely a talking head getting her audition reel ready for Fox. That's easy and lucrative.
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  692. One of the things that was the most relieving about this whole thing is that Kari Lake never once held a lead, because had she ever had a lead by a single vote, she would have convinced her followers that the victory was complete and it could have been much worse.
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  693. Indeed. I ran for a seat in the WV House of Delegates 15 years ago, and once I got to the Republican strongholds in the county, I kept hearing complaints about regulation. After this happened a few times, I started asking which regulations were excessive. In the end, only one person gave an answer, and while it was a reasonable answer (too much red tape to get a billboard approved), most of the time it was just vague anti-government nonsense.
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  694.  @timreed402  He brought it up at least four times over the years, long before Ana warned him that she would no longer keep silent about his harassment. Maybe she accepted his apology at the time because she thought it was sincere, but then she realized that he was lying, and every time he bragged about it, it reopened the wound.
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  695.  @BTCBlizzy  How long has Hollywood being trying to cram Jayden Smith down our throats?
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  696.  @stoogefest16  Definitely. If you've never read it, Jacobin has an excellent profile of her called "Tulsi Gabbard is Not Your Friend."
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  697. News flash, Sarah: you had fewer first-choice votes, too.
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  698.  @jonathanhaun6098  Jimmy Dore is so strongly in support of Medicare for All that he endorsed a Presidential candidate who called it un-American, and he did everything he could to keep a champion of the bill out of Congress. With friends like him, who needs enemies?
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  699. The irony of his ad. The candidate she actually supported (Bernie) has never tried to exploit her, unlike Hillary and Biden. Says a lot about them.
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  700.  @darkcrystalmagik3369  I got so annoyed at people who insisted Yang and Tulsi were lefties because they were "anti-establishment." Yang was pushing a right-wing version of UBI paid for with a regressive tax, and Tulsi kept sucking up to Biden to get a spot as VP. The "takedown of Kamala Harris" they all point to? Literally changing the subject when three candidates were going after Biden.
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  701.  @lookhowshegobbledthat  They showed pictures of her, but they didn't go into her story.
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  702. Are you familiar with the expression "cut off your nose to spite your face"?
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  703.  @radicalmiddle9745  I talked to one of these Individual Sovereignty people, and I asked him if he would need a passport to re-enter the US if he were to secede on his own land (I also asked about tariffs, mail, and by what right his definition of property deserved to win out), and the best he could do was whine about how I was distracting about minor points. There have been others, but that conversation was probably the most illustrative.
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  704.  @xiam5941  If your "principle" falls apart under the slightest scrutiny, it is just an intellectually indulgent act rather than a desire for what government or lack thereof will look like. And as far as picking cotton goes, [in Homer Simpson whisper] the cotton gin was already a thing.
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  705.  @robinsss  It should be mandatory that poison is taken off the shelves.
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  706. @MunkeiGUN He deliberately started war in Iraq, a country that had nothing to do with 9/11.
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  707. A libertarian freak out? Merry Christmas to me!
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  708.  @gabbsdy8741  Assuming that is true (and I am highly skeptical given that Scandinavia has the highest tax brackets in the world, and none are 70%), a lot of the wealthy structure their money in a way to minimize their tax contributions. And don't give me "I pay plenty in taxes" while arguing to drop taxes at the same time.
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  709.  @mikev6046  They all are.
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  710. A pilgrim is someone who is on a journey to find truth, so it fits.
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  711.  @antonyhanson4479  Talking about smears while resorting to namecalling. Paging Dr. Irony. Apparently, you also don't understand how sarcasm works.
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  712. No Rubin clip will ever top Larry King taking the phone call from his son, but this one is right up there with Rogan explaining the importance of building codes.
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  713. Blasphemy!
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  714.  @patrickdowning5316  Why? Moscow Mitch has already said it when, in the middle of the worst economy in over 75 years, he said the goal was to turn Obama into a one-term President. He even filibustered his own bills when Obama agreed to them. Also, there is this: "We should let the people decide who sits on the Supreme Court, so we shouldn't appoint someone in a Presidential year." Moscow Mitch, 2016 "We would, because we have a Republican in the White House." Moscow Mitch, when asked about a possible Supreme Court vacancy in 2020, 2019 He is the literal embodiment of everything everyone hates about politics.
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  715.  @RobertoRodriguez-fj3yp  I admire your innocence. If you get rid of any regulatory structure, the people who already have the money will use that money to get more power. Who's taking on Amazon if they don't get broken up by antitrust rules? Their economy of scale mean that they can sell at a loss to keep out any competition, because their infrastructure is where the real money comes from. Don't believe me? They did it go years to crush their competitors.
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  716. As a proud union member, voting for a Republican is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders.
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  717.  @brunoribeiro2347  So true. I am sick and tired of hearing the Jim fans insist that this is justified because he never really loved them. Then, why lead them on in the first place? He shouldn't be saying anyone if that is the case.
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  718.  @publicutility  So, income taxes, direct election of Senators, women's suffrage mean nothing to you? He was at the forefront of each of those efforts.
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  719. And would have taken away insurance for 24-32MM people.
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  720. ​ @MRindependentTHINK  So, pointing out that "thoughts and prayers" isn't enough is "vile" to you? [In Dr. Evil voice] Riiight.
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  721.  @GubekochiGoury  I'm guessing the use of genius was sarcastic.
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  722.  @davidstewart1757  Yeah, if the message is "both parties have flaws," why do the total radars go far more after one side?
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  723.  @markzuckergecko621  "no one should apologize to you psychopaths" Says the guy who supports the party of fascists trying to destroy democracy, in this case the one giving hints to the traitors.
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  724.  @marcning918  Who would have thought Ron Paul wouldn't be the dumbest Paul we've seen in our lifetimes?
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  725. Indeed. It can be difficult to see these things when you are friendly with people on a personal level. I remember being so excited when Krystal came to Philly to speak. She had the DSA crowd eating out of the palm of her hand. I got an autographed copy of her book and took a picture of her with me and my daughter. Then, a few weeks later, I see this Never Biden nonsense. I still haven't finished the book after realizing that I paid twenty bucks for a repackaging of transcripts of something I can see for free online with a one or two paragraph introduction. It isn't good to realize that you've been had, but its something important to admit when you see it.
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  726.  @npgibson69  I must admit that I was nervous about how long AOC was taking, but I think that it's best to have more and more to roll out instead of dumping them all at once so each one has an impact.
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  727. So, he's gone from "I never met her and she isn't my type" to "I just met her and we were immediately attracted to each other"?
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  728. @Maestro Dan Lots of people agree that there is a problem. The issue comes with what they think the solution is.
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  729.  @angrydad1907  You mean for a thing caused by a parasite that is a much smaller dose?
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  730. Libertarians: People who believe the same thing on Wednesday that they did on Monday, regardless of what happened on Tuesday.
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  731.  @bsadewitz  The problem is that some people get lazy or discouraged if the polls suggest that one candidate is a lock to win.
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  732.  @lomak7422  [citation needed]
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  733. Just out of curiosity, she had so, so many marks against her even before this. Why just now? Why wasn't she on that list months ago when she got into the race playing both siderism on the shutdown or when she defended Biden on busing?
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  734. ​ @andrewreynolds9371  It's too late for the cultists, but not too late for the undecided.
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  735.  @v0id_d3m0n  You can't watch YouTube and make a call at the same time.
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  736. And when you're talking like a crackhead who just took a hit of helium.
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  737. She did? I did not know that, but the idea of BJG as a saboteur (she was the leading advocate for the idea that Bernie only needed to try to appeal to 30% of primary voters because the Not Bernie crowd would never coalesce) makes perfect sense.
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  738.  @texajp1946  You mean like when he complained about Biden getting out of Afghanistan?
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  739.  @emblemedfate4270  Yes, good things like making it harder for the sick and elderly to vote, and managing to tie it to her one true passion: hating Muslims. Good things like invoking 24 when asked about torture. Good things like allowing herself to be used for propaganda for one vile dictator after another. Good things like doing the bidding of Sheldon Adelson and trying to get rid of his competition. Tulsi Gabbard is not your friend.
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  740. "If you tell the poorest white man that he is better than the black man, you don't have to pick his pocket; he'll give it to you." Lyndon Johnson
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  741.  @kimwalter8753  Considering that Oprah also foisted Dr. Phil and The Secret on us, maybe it's time to admit that she's no more credible than Gwyneth Paltrow.
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  742.  @Name-jw4sj  So, because there is a lot of reaction to events in the campaign, and people react to it by changing support, is proof that the polls are inaccurate? Interesting.
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  743. As a prop for their bogus arguments, always, but nothing more.
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  744.  jon pork  So, "real liberals" move to Texas to avoid taxes and talk about gutting the minimum wage?
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  745.  @newbieprepper8451  Being guilty of one thing doesn't make someone guilty of something else on a different occasion that isn't related.
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  746.  @jamesparson  Thank you
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  747. David, I like a lot of what you do, but you are wrong, wrong, wrong about this one. Do you think that sports unions would work if superstar players wouldn't join? Do you think SAG would work if the big stars didn't join, or they left once they became big stars? Without everyone, the union won't work.
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  748. So, he likes the Ron Paul variety of libertarianism of "free association." I guess he doesn't realize that Ron Paul doesn't like workers using our right of free association to form unions. So much for "freedom."
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  749. That's because they're not left. He is the spiritual descendant of a man named Lyndon Larouche. Look him up, but you might want to do it Incognito so you don't get messed up ads after that.
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  750.  @AlabamaMan-mp9yq  Income taxes are not the only form of taxation. Pro tip: adding 5000 to the end of your username doesn't fool anyone.
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  751.  @chadfren  Says the man with a flag of treason on his profile pic.
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  752.  @harmoniousrex  He's a libertarian. He only pretended to be a lefty for a little while because Bolsanaro affected his personal life.
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  753.  @samuelmerkel2888  You even provided the context. If she is saying that she is treated like a second-class citizen because of what 19 people did, then the context is clearly about painting people with a broad brush. I haven't seen an Own Goal like that since Craig T. Nelson saying that people should be self-reliant and admitting in literally the next sentence that he previously received government assistance.
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  754.  @robinlillian9471  Maybe if she didn't do bad things, we wouldn't criticize her for doing them.
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  755.  Fives5555 1  Agreed about Republicans as a whole, but I don't think that Chris Wallace has done anything to demonstrate that he wants to destroy democracy.
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  756. ​ @theoldrae  Her man streak seemed mostly to be going along to getting along, and with a different friend group, she wouldn't be mean at all.
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  757.  @2727rogers  Why not support Force the Vote? If we "hold Congress to their word," 27% of the House and 13% of the Senate support it. You don't get a second chance with something that would fail that miserably. Not only that, but you alienate the people who might support you on something positive. It is high risk/no reward. Thank you for proving Emma's point about bad faith actors who conflate support for a tactic with support for a bill.
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  758. What have you done personally to change things? Comments online don't count.
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  759.  @alabamamandeluxe7070  Get banned and need to use another alias, Aaron?
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  760. If your right to throw a punch ends at my nose, your right to expel germs does, too.
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  761.  @Dodtodt1  He wanted Lieberman, but the odds were on Pawlenty as the running mate. Palin was a desperate gamble by a campaign that knew it was in trouble, and this proved why John McCain was not worthy to be President.
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  762. He's always had a cringey streak to himself.
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  763. ​ @kingayy9267  The correct response to stepping on a rake is a low groan and massive hair flopping.
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  764. ​ @johncam8420  Did CNN switch to the formica tables and make the anchors wear microskirts?
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  765.  @szymonharbuz9052  Indeed. Joe Biden's greatest debate line ever was "every sentence with this guy is a noun, a verb, and 9/11." I haven't been able to find it, but The Daily Show imagined a 9 and an 11 getting it on during a Republican primary debate.
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  766. I don't think anyone got killed in Watergate, and Nixon resigned when he knew the game was up.
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  767.  @napoleonpoliticalfinker1002  I didn't know Aaron actually confessed to that, but it doesn't surprise me. He literally seems to have no life other than spamming this channel.
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  768. At one point earlier in the debate, he accidentally said something that shows that he knows the truth , which makes it even worse that he won't tell the truth: he said "the American people hired Kamala Harris," which clearly means she won.
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  769. If Nietzsche is constantly getting misinterpreted, maybe the problem is with Nietzsche and his writing.
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  770. How did a centrist work out the last time?
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  771. "If it were anybody else, I'd say it'd teach you a lesson. Well, you're gonna need more than one lesson, and you're gonna get one more than one lesson." Jim W. Gettys, Citizen Kane
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  772. Just one area of disagreement with you on this one, Cenk. Bernie hasn't been fighting for us for 40 years. He has been fighting for us for 55+ years. Accept no substitutes!
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  773.  @cluelessjoe5745  He is owned by the right-wing audience that bought him a house. Mortgage payments come due every month, you know. Also, how can you say that he "isn't owned by lobbies or billionaires" when he took his money from Syria to spout their propaganda?
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  774.  @hamzazad5258  From what I've seen, it seems like the fame tends to drive mass murderers more than serial killers. Mass murderers seem content to go out in a blaze of glory, but a serial killer would prefer to keep going.
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  775. Darn right! I want my four-year-old daughter to have a bright future and a habitable world.
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  776. I guess what they say about sticks and stones is wrong.
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  777.  @sk-sm9sh  The McDonald brothers already expanded before Ray Kroc appeared on the scene. The difference is that they cared more about quality than quantity. The mere fact that McDonald's consistently ranks at the bottom in surveys of hamburger quality by any national chain says it all. They were right that expanding too quickly would hurt product quality. Without Ray Kroc, they probably end up along the scale of In-n-Out Burger and are known for their innovative model that also helped build Kentucky Fried Chicken and Taco Bell, because the brothers showed both founders how they did it and helped them develop.
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  778.    Libertarians: People who believe the same thing on Wednesday that they did on Monday, regardless of what happened on Tuesday.
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  779.  @michaelharris9805  All I see as an Omega thinking that he is an Alpha.
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  780. There are very rare times where such a strategy works. However, I think that people have to understand that this tactic is very high risk. People like Marjorie Taylor Greene have done far more damage than just casting bad votes.
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  781. #CrowderTheCoward
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  782. They might. The only thing that makes me suspect that they wouldn't is that the only things that they really care about are tax cuts for the rich and judges. There is already no way to defeat those with a filibuster.
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  783. "It's funny. When you look at someone through rose-colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags." Wanda Pierce, BoJack Horseman
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  784.  @soulknife20  Aaron can't take it that his side is so incompetent, so he is trying to project that we're burn it all down types, too.
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  785.  @arod6789  So, the people have to pay for education, but the rich get to keep all of their tax loopholes and corporate welfare? "I love the poorly educated!" Donald Trump
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  786. ​ @anmolt3840051  No, they're not. Silvio Berlusconi was arrested multiple times while serving as head of state in Italy, and Netanyahu is facing charges in Israel. A lot of the protests going on there is because he is trying to change the law to be above the law.
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  787. Nobody forced him to decide to play spoiler on the backs of such a toxic organization.
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  788.  Alpha Omega  The ultra wealthy are doing everything the contain to keep the system from changing to keep their gravy train going. They're not aimlessly going along just taking advantage of a crooked system.
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  789.  @Gembappe  Anyone who lists PragerU and Ben Shapiro as "reasonable" is definitely a Republican. This kid is definitely concern trolling.
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  790.  @TheNastyTank  You are clearly missing the point. It was not that the polio vaccine didn't cost anything to produce, but it wasn't sold as a product. It was given away as a public good.
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  791.  @TheNastyTank  No one is saying that the the government purchase everything and set every market. What we are saying is that there are some things that cannot be left to the whims of the market. Utilities and to an extent public health are among those things. If the climate crisis is a matter of public health, then we need to ask whether or not consumer choice is enough. Given how much comes from electricity (and if we have electric cars, that will only be amplified), the government does need to step in to at the very least make a market possible for clean and renewable electricity. After all, how much is Elon Musk "saving the world" if people are plugging in to coal-fired electrcity?
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  792. He stopped working on me when he came to the 2006 West Virginia Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, gave an underwhelming speech, and couldn't leave fast enough. I went to five of them before I moved to PA, and of the keynote speakers (Edwards, Mikulski, Albright, Mark Warner, and Obama), Obama was the only elected official who didn't have time for the people who paid for tickets or worked to set things up. He had time for the people who gave the maximum $1000 to the party, though. Then, to hear him running for President and complaining about money in politics, I knew that he wasn't who he said he was.
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  793. Honorable mention: Bernie
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  794. He did mention Mastriano, who actually might be worse, because a) he is a full-throttled fascist who organized bus trips for January 6th and led the nonsense hearings in the State Senate, b) believes in absolutely zero exceptions for abortion, and c) in the state with one of the decisive battles in the Civil War, decided that he wanted to dress up as a Confederate for a staff photo at the Army War College. Oh, and he lost by 14 points and took five days to make his concession in a one-paragraph press release.
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  795. Indeed. As someone who had to deal with issues from my deployment for years, seeing people like Crowder try to play macho is unbelievably annoying.
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  796.  @rodolfodoce  Well, outvote the establishment. It takes a bit of work, but it can be done.
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  797. This is post-feminism, not feminism. Real feminism is about equality, not some vague notion of choice.
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  798.  @SlowhandGreg  True that it's a matter of time, but he can do a lot of damage. The bigger concern is that he finds one more way to stay on. As James O'Brien pointed out, people have written his political obituary many times over the past 14 years.
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  799. You are so correct about the spectrum. At a Young Dems event 14 years ago, I said Democrats need to stand strong and fight, because "if we keep meeting them halfway, they'll go even farther and before you know it, Newt Gingrich will be a liberal!" People laughed, and I said, "Barry Goldwater is already considered a moderate." Seven years later, he wasn't conservative enough for the Republican Party.
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  800. If you were in Appalachia, you really got screwed by his non-response to turn 1958 recession, so there are a lot of people (my grandpa hated Ike) who might say the last good one was Teddy Roosevelt.
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  801.  @sparkymcplug3765  Well, then, get to work. Nothing is saying that the lefties have to be a minority within the Democratic Party.
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  802. Imagine being the Stayner parents. One son gets kidnapped for seven years and dies in a motorcycle crash at age 24, and the other becomes a serial killer.
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  803.  @ginawhiteley8834  Past the basics, yes, but presenting history as the exact opposite of what actually happened should not be part of any education.
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  804. ​ @martysouthers  That guy looked like a robot whose program malfunctioned.
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  805.  @somedangoutlaw8088  It's easy to be a "champion debater" if you lie constantly. Heck, Ted Cruz was a champion debater in college, ranked number one in the country.
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  806. Indeed. And Elizabeth Taylor also overcame the stereotype of the child actress. It can be done if a) you have the chops, and b) you don't go for the easy roles for the paycheck.
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  807. "He says a lot of things." Yes, he does, and if you are going to refuse to say that this is a bridge too far, you own it.
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  808. She flipped back. She's always been that person. Jacobin did an excellent article called "Tulsi Gabbard is not Your Friend" that went into painstaking detail about her record.
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  809.  @Cenyon  He did the Seth Rich stuff and Hillary has Parkinson's in 2016. I stopped watching when he said that Trump would be better than Hillary, and the debate with Sam proved that I made the right decision.
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  810. Decades of inaction? Clearly, you haven't been doing the actual work of trying to build grassroots support for Medicare for All.
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  811. ​ @shadebleu  Just because the external appearance is different makes him no less of a theocrat.
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  812. ​ @SeanPat1001  They literally don't. In 2020, they didn't even bother to change the last one and said that their platform is to support Der Orangefuhrer.
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  813. He always defined himself largely by what he was against rather than what he was for. To paraphrase Vaush, plenty of people agree on the problem, but we need to talk about the solutions.
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  814. And these are probably the same people who are refusing the vaccine. Having to wait for months to finally get my first shot yesterday only to find out today that thousands were thrown out in Philadelphia because not enough people are taking them is infuriating. They were begging me to tell as many people as possible. As someone whose uncle got polio because he was born eight years before the vaccine and couldn't walk until he was five, seeing these people refusing just makes me angry.
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  815. His includes every single American.
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  816. Hopefully, the big D picks up at least two seats, so that Manchin and Sinema become irrelevant.
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  817.  @DireAvenger001  The real weakness of our system is that it is based on the honor system for a lot of things. When someone attains power who has no honor and only lust for power, that is the danger. Now, the blueprint is there for any other would-be fascist dictator with a party willing to go along because they have abandoned democracy.
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  818.  @titaniusanglesmith6177  What about Der Orangefuhrer?
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  819. A lot of us fell for her. The scales came off my eyes in 2017 when I saw the interview where she supported torture. That's part of the reason why I push back against the tulcels as hard as I do.
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  820. ​ @ekko808  Well, maybe if he didn't build his empire on a foundation of sand, he wouldn't have that problem.
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  821.  @buckiesmalls  I think you mean she's a worse member of Congress than stand-up.
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  822. So true that there is no joy in vindication. I was mocked by people in my National Guard unit 20 years ago for saying that the Iraq War would be a mistake and giving reasons why. A few months later, quite a few people came up to me and said that I was right after all. I told them that I'd rather they still think that i was an idiot tuan have to find out this way.
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  823.  @pq0557  Jimmy Dore has no character. He's a dishonest actor who tried to get people to work with literal fascists like Mike Cernovich right around the time Cernovich briefly got Sam fired. He is controlled opposition to make it easier for Republicans to continue to govern with minority support. EDIT: I almost forgot, who has more character, someone who goes on MSNBC occasionally to actually push lefty views, or someone who gets paid by allies of the Assad government to spread lies and deny their crimes?
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  824. When I was an undergrad, I rented the room rather than the apartment. For the most apartment, I lucked out, but one time I didn't, a real nut job rented one of the rooms and he was violent towards the other tenants. Once I had the extra money, I didn't do that again (except for when I was broke in grad school and knew the roommate). If you have kids, staying in a low-rent place also usually means a horrible place for your child's education. This scares off people with school age children who want good schools, which only drives up the rent more in places that do. I'm probably paying several hundred dollars more than I otherwise would in rent to get my child into a good school district. The whole thing is a vicious cycle that greedy people like Dave Ramsey perpetuate and then act as though it is a random force of nature.
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  825.  @100AcreWoodz1  You clearly missed the point. As more people pursue STEM (and as employers outsource more), that floods the market. Chasing a hot major just means that you get burned.
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  826. Indeed. I got off the Maher train a few years ago as well. Probably my last straw was the weird Klo-boner.
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  827.  @1848revolt  What have you personally done to build support or "put pressure"?
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  828. The real monster is Dr. Frankenstein.
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  829.  @amandaliu3818  It's possible, but friends and family are different.
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  830. ​ @andrewlockett4569  Lindsey Graham is still worse. There must be something in the water in South Carolina.
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  831. When Pete Buttigieg was in college, he thought it was ridiculous that students would fight for fair wages for janitors. When Bernie was in college, he fought for civil rights. Do the right thing, Iowa!
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  832. The rich also get Social Security and Medicare if they so desire, and they're the most popular government programs around.
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  833. ​ @ForCrynOutLoud  Hillary conceded. So did Gore. And Dukakis. And Mondale. And Carter.
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  834.  @Evirthewarrior  Yeah, that 6-3 Supreme Court majority isn't something that was easily predictable in 2016. The simple fact is that remaking the judiciary for a generation to come made far more impact than any "muddying the differences" ever could. Which Justices are the ones who voted to gut the Voting Rights Act, again?
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  835.  @Evirthewarrior  The point that you completely miss is that the choice wasn't between adding people age 18-36 and keeping the status quo. It was between expanding Medicaid and taking away health care from 32MM people. Apparently, you think the latter is better, because you still think that Trump is better.
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  836.  @goose7378  If his heart is in the right place, why does he constantly seek out and work with grifters, and why did he brag to Joe Rogan about not voting after literally starting an organization devoted to helping elect down ballot candidates? Why do people keep saying this about Kyle Kulinski? Either he's a junior grifter who doesn't deserve our respect, or he's an idiot who doesn't deserve our respect.
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  837.  @vincentjoubert5514  My response after the election was, "People wanted change in the worst possible way, and that's what we're going to get."
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  838.  @10tothebigguy25  Oh, a "tag team." Does it get old creating all of these new accounts?
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  839.  @noneya1238  The best thing that Marla Maples ever did was get as far away from him as possible to keep her daughter away from him.
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  840.  @rr7firefly  I want to see him three more times in my life: 1) getting dragged out of the White House for trespassing (because we know that there won't be a concession) 2) the perp walk 3) the sentencing
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  841. There are many better people if you want to look at healthier ways of dealing with your money. One of those is Your Money or Your Life, which rather than insisting that everyone get super rich, asks people to seriously examine what they want and how much money they really need. (One thing that will blow your mind is the chapter where the authors point out how much you really make an hour once you factor in the expenses of work.)
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  842. Maybe not the logical conclusion, but definitely the natural conclusion.
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  843.  @44hawk28  If there is evidence of all of this malfeasance, why do Trump's lawyers admit that there isn't when they are in a place where they can't lie? You can lie to Tucker Carlson with impunity, but not a judge. And how could someone lose when they are several points ahead in several key states on Election Night? Let's use a little simple logic. Many states had Republican legislatures that refused to let counties begin the count of absentee and mail-in voting until Election Day (my adopted home state of Pennsylvania even had the governor ask the legislature to pass a law to allow them to open the ballots early to speed up the count, but they refused to even do that). One side is being encouraged to vote by mail, and the other side insists that voting by mail is a scam. Of course, the vast majority of those who vote by mail will be on that side (in Pennsylvania, where this was the first election with no excuse absentee voting, nearly 80% of all mail-in votes were for Biden, and he won mail-in votes in all 67 counties despite only winning 13 counties overall), and when that is nearly half of the vote, it's not a stretch of the imagination at all.
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  844. Or become a Mel Gibson-style fundamentalist Catholic.
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  845.  @jackhammer3423  In my state, the law was stricken down as unconstitutional. And someone who advocates the poll tax pretends that there is "no notable effect in turnout"? What a shock! How is "notable" defined?
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  846. The next one should say, "Since you support the free exchange of ideas, will you debate Sam Seder?"
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  847. Michael wasn't as good at calling out grifters as you think. That particular gift has been (and is) most displayed by none other than Sam Seder. During the Jimmy Dore debate, Michael actually wanted Sam to go easy on Jimmy, and he didn't really completely see that Jimmy was a grifter until 2018... in response to a personal attack by Jimmy Dore. When people started to catch on to the Rising grift, he refused to call it out, falling back on "they're my friends," although unlike someone like Kyle Kulinski, he was starting to see the truth before his untimely demise. He was very slow to see a grifter for who they were, whereas Sam is someone who can see when someone is on that track. At this point, Ana seems far too dug in, because she doesn't like criticism from her own side.
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  848.  @justinshin2279  And what does Tucker Carlson want to do about the power of Bezos? Does he support the unionization of workers? Raising taxes? Oh, he just likes to complain about a few people to win over the gullible. That helps us!
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  849.  @johnhand46  Just because she won handily doesn't mean that there wasn't an attempt to get rid of her. Her opponent raised big bucks. The anti-anti-Trump crowd always seems to think that the party can just push buttons, but it is ultimately up to the people.
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  850. ​ @chrissyweikoop7931  He's been trying to convince people that he doesn't rely on subsidies any longer.
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  851.  @DontaesVictimizationNation  I take it you've never watched the sexual harassment training videos at work. His was a textbook example.
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  852. Those of us who called that move a couple years ago when she announced that she was retiring from Congress are making sure our shoes are laced for the victory lap.
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  853. Krystal Ball removed any and all doubt that she is an anti-anti-Trump grifter in 2020. If you don't care about the assault on democracy just because you didn't think it would succeed, you clearly didn't remember what happened the second time around in places like Chile, Cuba, and Germany.
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  854. How is Trump ending the wars? He's trying to build up to wars in Iran and Venezuela.
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  855. Anti-anti-Trump is ultimately going to end up in grift.
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  856.  @samuelmerkel2888  No, you're just making a bad faith interpretation. You even admitted that she is saying what she is saying and gave the proper context. If you want to disagree, have at it, but she is clearly talking about the treatment millions of people have gotten from the actions of a few. Before 9/11, the biggest terrorist attack on American soil was by a veteran whose stated religion was Christianity. Did Christians or veterans suddenly get subjected to treatment anything like what happened to Muslims because of the stated religion of the people who committed those acts of terror? You know, but you don't want to admit you know.
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  857.  @Vunomic  Indeed. There is a massive audience for people who pretend to be left while spending all of their time trashing the left. Probably the quickest heel turn had to be Kim Iversen. It didn't even take her a month to use anti-democracy arguments to defend the Electoral College, and a week later she defended David Duke to defend Tulsi Gabbard.
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  858.  @tcp2257  And who did Tulsi continue to defend all throughout the 2020 campaign? Who did she endorse when she finally got out?
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  859.  @carlosrobinson4230  Well, she was a former Green, and they are either grifters or useful idiots to help Republicans because they see the Democrats as their true enemy.
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  860. "If it were anyone else, I'd say it'd teach you a lesson. Well, you're gonna need more than one lesson, and you're gonna get more than one lesson." Jim W. Gettys, Citizen Kane Unfortunately, those of us who knew how bad this would be also have to get more than lesson because they didn't learn it the first time.
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  861. ​ @skechij5856  So, fraud is "the weakest case"? It's not our fault that the Supreme Court grinded the clock to a halt before the other cases could go to trial.
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  862. ​ @Meng776  Two things are possible at the same time: 1) the police mishandled evidence and the verdict was the correct one, 2) the man who wrote If I Did It was confessing after the fact when he knew nothing could be done about it.
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  863.  @limehouseblues  You are an absolute disgrace of a person if you think that is "fighting" and haven't done any actual work organizing in order to build actual support. It is masturbation.
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  864. Have you ever seen his standup? I saw one a while back, and it was for some gay comics showcase, and it was just him talking about being in a room with so many gay people.
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  865. Indeed. Defeat fascists, and then go after the neoliberals.
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  866.  @t.rolljenkins8321  They're "all the way left"? Why can every other industrialized country in the world afford the stuff that Bernie is proposing and we can't?
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  867. I think there are a lot of us in that situation right now.
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  868. ​ @brandoncameron2686  Well, except for Vaush.
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  869. Sam: Logical argument based on precedent and actually understanding how government works. Jimmy: Random non sequiturs and wishful thinking. We all know how that turned out.
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  870.  @brandonbordelon143  Andrew Yang is a con artist. The biggest thing he did before running for President was a total failure. Venture for America was supposed to train people to "create" 100,000 jobs in poor cities. It was less than 4000 jobs at companies started by people he trained, and half of those went to boomtowns like New York and San Francisco. He now says "college isn't for everyone," but he made his money off test prep software, and who is the audience for that if not nervous parents wanting their kids to get into top schools?
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  871.  @nickolassmith473  And at the end of that forum, he won the audience over. Hardly "divisive."
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  872. Committee assignments, increased loopholes in the Paygo rules to make it easier to pass legislation. Oh, and actually having a Speaker in place to oppose the coup attempt three days later, so I'd say a lot more than the Underpants Gnomes nonsense of vote forcing would have done.
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  873. ​ @Bless0ne  Biden was sworn in at 78, and he's been just fine. Nit all of us are bigoted against older people.
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  874.  @ceceliawight7059  He did. The one thing that he mentioned that is a legitimate treatment.
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  875.  @kahmed6  True, but at least the parties do force the worst actors to resign. That almost never happens here.
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  876. Even when they ratified it, it was never intended to be an individual right, and it wasn't to "overthrow tyranny" because Article I, Section 8 clearly states that one of the purposes of a militia is to stop a rebellion.
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  877. My favorite Cobb quote: Reporter: What do you think that you'd hit today? Cobb: About .200. Reporter: Is that because of new pitches like the slider? Cobb: No, it's because I'm 70 years old.
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  878. Indeed. Ever since I saw a video of the 2014 interview where she invoked 24 to defend torture in 2017, I have been trying to warn people. At the time, it was a very lonely road for quite some time.
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  879. One time, a right winger asked me where specifically in the Constitution that the government has the right to "force people to get health care." I don't think he expected me to resprespond with the General Welfare Clause. As much as these people say that they love the Constitution, it's pretty obvious that they have never read the first paragraph.
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  880.  Lord Shazam  It's Republicans who gutted the VA.
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  881. It's i-DEE-uhs.
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  882. Actually, a small correction, David. George doesn't collect money for himself under the guise of The Human Fund. He gets a card to say that a donation was made on his coworkers' behalf to The Human Fund so he could avoid buying Christmas gifts.
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  883. ​ @vincesmith2499  Libertarianism is not freedom. When there are competing claims, libertarianism always chooses the side of the rich and the property. It confuses survival of the fittest and doesn't understand positive rights and liberties, only negative. Kris Kristofferson was wrong; freedom isn't another word for nothing left to lose.
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  884.  @imofage3947  Well, you didn't really hear about anti-vaccine movements en masse until his nonsense came about. There were pockets where measles vaccines plummeted, and outbreaks began again. When the Amish community had an outbreak in 1979, they decided they were wrong and insisted that their communities vaccinate. It took over a quarter of a century for another outbreak in America to occur.
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  885. "I made my name talking about black athletes protesting and told them to shut up, but I just want to bring people together! You're mean to me!"
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  886.  @JustJulie485  Thank you for proving Sunny Hostin correct. If you go to an event where you know people are going to get roasted, don't get mad when someone makes a mild joke about you.
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  887.    Show up en masse and show the bigots that they won't win. Nonviolent action is what is making change happen.
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  888. ​ @improvisedsurvival5967  So, letting big corporations do whatever they want is the answer?
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  889. He admitted that sort of thing on more than one occasion, and these dummies swallowed it whole.
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  890. Darn right! Maybe if Putin would stop acting as the aggressor, NATO wouldn't be so attractive to the former Soviet states.
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  891.  @avo4077  There were signs even before that. The moment I knew to stay away was hearing him say that Trump would be better than Hillary. The debate with Sam Seder in 2016 should have removed all doubt.
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  892. Yes! This would be a great one. I have read books about sports where there is a supporting character (and a few short stories where they are the lead character), with the most prominent in film probably being Aubrey Montague in Chariots of Fire, who realizes that he/she will never be the star or a champion, but wants to be a part of the world. Since most of us will end up away from the spotlight, I think that it's good to show that story, too.
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  893. Welcome aboard!
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  894. Early voting isn't very big here because it's relatively new.
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  895.  @dcaseng  What "Medicare for All movement"? What have you actually done to build support for Medicare for All? Facebook comments don't count. And all those marches that were supposed to make this big splash? I am on multiple mailing lists for the sponsors in Philadelphia, and I never heard a thing about it until someone complained that Nina Turner would have an event ten days before her election, so now she's a sellout, too. And AOC changed her position because she realized that it was counterproductive. She probably wasn't familiar with the tactic of Catch and Release, which completely invalidates show votes as a strategy. There were one of three possible results in relation to the sponsor list: 1) The list matched the vote and confirmed what we already knew. 2) The Soft Yes members become Hard No, thus meaning that we are now farther away from passage. 3) Catch and Release is invoked, and the members in lefty districts who oppose it vote Yes to fend off a primary challenge. Then, if it ever actually has a chance of becoming law, they'll vote No, thus meaning that you are opening yourself to snakes in the grass. That's the difference between AOC and Dore. She learns and adjusts accordingly. And she didn't support the candidate who called Medicare for All "un-American" in an interview with Anderson Cooper multiple times in the same interview, so it was no slip of the tongue.
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  896.  @dcaseng  He's a misogynist because he responded to Ana by bragging about sexual harassment, and he responded to Emma by wishing some roughneck would punch her in the face. Yeah, that's a totally normal way to respond to criticism.
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  897.  @RKZX2  Who signed the orders to kidnap children and take them from their parents with no intention of ever giving them back? Who oversaw the sterilization of women? I'll give you a hint. It wasn't Obama.
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  898. At the rate he's going, it'll be a Trumpression.
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  899. Or, they just let it sit and stagnate, which kills an economy, because money needs to circulate.
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  900. "Did he look like... you? Was he... African?" "African? No, he looked like YOU!" "So, he's Jewish? An African Jew." "He was caucasian!" Laugh because it's funny, cry because it's true.
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  901. Hive mind at work.
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  902. Hey, Google, your motto is Don't Be Evil. Remember that first word.
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  903.  @ZeldagigafanMatthew  How do you define "relatively quiet"? He has been in trouble with the law several times since killing Trayvon Martin.
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  904. As George Zimmerman proved. For that matter, it seems like that psychopath was in the news for years for run ins with the law because he saw himself as above the law after getting away with murder.
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  905. i-DEE-uhs
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  906.  @spencers4121  If the list of top searches on adult websites is any indication, there's probably a lot of men who've looked for women a lot bigger than she is.
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  907.  @asruluveira  Trump loves Americans so much that he let over 600,000 die because he thought it would help him politically.
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  908.  @theywouldnthavetocensormei9231  Oh, the lengths that people will go to just to say that women didn't hunt. It wasn't an isolated incident.
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  909.  @maniac50ae14  I wasn't saying they were superior or inferior, but that they also hunted, and your comments implied skepticism that they did.
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  910. This all started when the Baltimore Colts literally left in the middle of the night because the city and state refused to give them a free stadium.
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  911.  @AthenaGate  "there is a certain level of importance that comes with gun ownership." Tell people you're compensating without saying that you're compensating.
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  912.  @fakenews2041  You mean people see their approval change over time? No!
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  913. I'd hate to tell this guy, but the government makes sure that the wiring for his toaster isn't faulty.
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  914. ​ @blaizegottman4139  He is a genius at taking credit for what other people do, but that's about it.
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  915.  @owenmccord5078  Pretty much every character they try to look at their background to understand the character. They tried to paint Harry is a villain rather than someone dealing with PTSD and the stress of having to literally save the world.
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  916.  mayrana2  Maybe because he knows what is on the other side, and wonders why anyone would want to endure that fate.
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  917. Unions call it "work to rule" or "work to contract."
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  918. "Treating people just like pawns in chess/wait til the judgment day comes." Black Sabbath, "War Pigs" (still applicable to the way the rich treat the rest of us)
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  919.  @colibri1  Greenwald started off as a libertarian who defended Nazis pro bono for hate crimes on First Amendment grounds. There is an article in The New Republic that goes into detail with criticisms of Greenwald and Snowden from the left.
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  920. When Yul Brynner was dying, he recorded a video to be released after his death begging people not to smoke so they could avoid the same fate as him. If you've ever seen it, it is incredibly powerful. (You can find it on YouTube.) If these coronavirus deniers are willing to warn their friends and family to avoid the same thing, I am all for it.
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  921. ​ nicholastime1513 What does this have to do with the fact that Musk grew up it in until he moved to avoid the draft and never had anything bad to say about apartheid?
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  922. ​ @adamhose9632  We had a very sick President in 1944, who turned out to have only lasted a few months into his final term. What happened? Truman did just fine. That's the whole point of having a Vice President in the first place. If Biden can't make it, that's why we have Kamala.
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  923.    Every President since Kennedy was bloodthirsty? Oh, yeah, Carter was a total warmonger.
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  924. Even if that leaked information reveals information that endangers people's lives?
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  925.  @Zach-ju5vi  And the trade deficit with Chiii-na increased during the Trump years, so it looks like he lost the trade war. There are no winners in a trade war. Ever.
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  926. Even Joe Biden said "you can tell me about your values, but when I see your budget, I know your values." He is the candidate in "Parks and Recreation" who would sit in a room and stare when the camera was off.
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  927.  @gattaca5911  Indeed. Libertarians are people who never asked a follow up question. I remember dealing with one of these individual sovereignty idiots who insisted that he should get to form his own country on his own land. I asked him if he'd have to get a passport to re-enter the United States and pay tariffs for goods he brings to his own country. I think I also asked about whether or not he would print his own currency. He insisted that I was trying to "distract."
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  928.  @jedinxf7  Excuse me, Your Honor. The two yoooouuuuths.
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  929. @Skeet984 That we didn't have our daddy bail us out over and over again, and that we didn't inherit wealth to the point where we're half as rich as we would be if we'd just left our money in the S&P 500 index.
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  930. You insult his memory by insulting his intelligence.
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  931. When I see him, I'm stunned that he's six years younger than I am.
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  932.  @RobertoRodriguez-fj3yp  There is and has never been any such thing as a completely unregulated market, but let's just say that regulation and government disappear, will there be more competition, or will the big players gobble everything up and keep everyone out?
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  933. It's all by comparison. Louie Gohmert makes Ron Paul sound like a genius, but even the way that he always sounds shocked like his subconscious can't believe the stuff that his conscious mind is forcing it to say proves otherwise.
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  934.  @alabamaman5994  Agreeing with yourself again, Aaron? Sad.
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  935. ​ @AdultThirdCultureKid1971  I think the Boogaloo Boy came around the time as the George Floyd protests.
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  936. If you've had people talking about what a genius and person of character you are for years, even when the things that you did that were right tended to be right for the wrong reasons, you have difficulty thinking ahead about possible criticism.
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  937. "The only thing I hate more than lying is skim milk, and that's just water that's lying about being milk." His honesty is part of his appeal. That, and the fact that he respects people of principle, as shown by his relationship with Leslie, and how he was willing to invest in Tom once he showed that he was serious about building his business, and paying for college classes for Andy.
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  938.  Cousin Jimmy Farha  As bad as he is, he is no fascist trying to be President for Life. He is not praising white supremacists and Nazis. If you think they're even close, you are either lying to us to try to help Trump, or you are lying to yourself.
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  939.  @ingodwetrust8195  We are agreed that it isn't enough. You always have to think of your next step when it comes to stuff like this.
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  940.  @whyamimrpink78  You work backwards. You have no true beliefs. If Dear Leader says it, you are all for it, and you will contort yourself into whatever pretzel necessary to do so. You miss the point. He was saying that you care more about who said it than what is being said. Go look at the polio vaccine campaign. There was no "take it if you want to" nonsense.
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  941. Me, too. Not since Walter Sobchak have I seen someone hide behind his/her veteran status so much. When she hid behind it to justify torture, she insulted me and every person who did the right thing.
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  942.  @g0d182  It's "opt in" as in "if you want it, you have to give this up." Therefore, it is not universal and it is not "no strings attached." You don't get to make words mean what is convenient for your argument.
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  943.  @nafaidni  So true. On another thread, one of these dummies was mad at Pelosi for not stopping the confirmation of Barrett to the Supreme Court. When I pointed out that she is in the House, which has nothing to do with confirmation, he insisted that she could have impeached Trump, as though Evil Turtle couldn't just get a motion to dismiss and lose all of one day. I swear, a prerequisite to being a Jimmy Dore fan is not understanding how anything works.
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  944.  @Siures  Indeed. It also helps that a lot were in unions who made sure that they understood why they didn't want to act against their own best interest. Too many today get caught up in the dog-eat-dog idea that they'll somehow make it to the top by stepping on everyone else.
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  945. "There is no such thing as a moderate Republican in Congress. They say they vote with the President 70% of the time, but they vote with him 100% of the time when he needs their votes." Barney Frank, 2005
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  946. "And I've never heard of you until I briefed for this interview." In the immortal words of Pedro Cerrano, that was beautiful.
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  947. At this point, you are either fascist, or you are against the fascists. There is no middle ground.
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  948.  @MrZombiecorpse  [citation needed]
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  949. You shouldn't be expected to do more. You do it, too, and if the boss complains, say that he/she needs to pay overtime or hire more people.
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  950.  @RedPillCosby-012  Are you sure you didn't take some of the Quaaludes?
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  951. Multimillion dollar houses don't pay for themselves.
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  952.  @garysmokesmeat  "Free areas are always more prosperous than well regulated areas." Tell that to Scandinavia.
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  953.  @robinsss  What is the basis for its immorality? Just because you think so doesn't make it so. Funny how libertarians have to go back to that well every single time someone points out that their ideology doesn't actually work for people.
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  954. If you notice, it seems like he is admitting that there is a lot more that can be found. And this is his damage control? Just when I think he can't get any dumber.
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  955. People who love to hear people dumping on lefties.
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  956. ​ @danieltobin4498  Kmowing this court, they'll suddenly find a newfound respect for Presidential restraint under a Harris Administration.
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  957. It's just a matter of time. For now, he has figured that his angle of appealing to 1) right wingers who love to hear "the lefties eating their own" and 2) left wing idiots who would rather complain than get results is something he can make last longer than "why I left the left."
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  958. So right about the need to keep fighting. Barry Goldwater led a movement that ultimately culminated in the disaster that was Reagan 16 years later. When you keep fighting, you organize and win, especially when your ideas help people.
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  959.  @LD86  They have a definition, but their definition is "Democrats doing whatever we want regardless of what he voters want."
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  960.  @katec3963  For the longest time, that didn't happen. Employees largely shared in the growth, and wages grew faster than inflation because they matched productivity. I see no reason that can't happen again, if only workers get respected again and demand our rights. Social democracies seem to have pulled it off, so why can't we?
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  961.  @katec3963  As far as roads not getting fixed, that depends on where you go. As far as foreign aid, less than 1% of the federal budget goes to that purpose, but "All our money goes overseas." Yeah, we liberals are retarded. We're so retarded that we think cutting taxes for rich people will lead to increased revenue and more money for poor people, even though the economy grew faster when taxes on the rich were higher. Oh, wait. That's conservatives. Well, we must have been the ones who voted for a TV billionaire with a history of not paying people in the hopes that he would cut tax on the poor, raise them on the rich, give healthcare to everyone for less money, all while not touching Social Security and Medicare only to find him doing or trying to do the opposite of all of those things. No, that's not us. We talk about how things were so much better 50 years ago, but then vote for the exact opposite. Not us. Oh, we must be the ones who vote for vote for people who insist that government doesn't work only to spend their time in office proving that it doesn't while enriching their donors and then think that no government can perform basic functions even though plenty do. No, that's not us. But, yeah, we're the dim bulbs.
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  962. I miss seeing Eden Hazard wearing that number 10 on the wing, but he gave us seven good years, lots of amazing memories, and served the team. I don't fault him for wanting to go to his boyhood club.
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  963. "I like Ted Cruz more than most people in the Senate, and I hate Ted Cruz." Al Franken
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  964.  @derekwheeler4299  So, I take it that you would have opposed boycotts in Rhodesia and South Africa, as well as opposing the boycotts in Alabama. No regime change against Bull Connor!
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  965. @hadguy1  He didn't become a millionaire until he was 75 and his book became a bestseller. Hardly an example of someone exploiting others.
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  966.  @uncletom356  Yes, finally another veteran of the site calling out Kulinski fornthe gateway drug grifter he is.
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  967. And Jefferson Davis and Stonewall Jackson
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  968. He should have known. He saw the effect of Nader 2000, and he warned people about it in 2020.
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  969. Indeed. I remember a few years ago, someone gave me the Republican corollary to Jefferson's small government quote and said that the government that taxes least governs best. When I pointed out that we were already the lowest among industrialized nations (which he still complained was too high), I then noted that the lowest taxes (excluding Somalia) were Pakistan and Myanmar, so that is what he was advocating for. The backpedal was beautiful.
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  970.  @badsocks756  Tulcels think that anything critical of Tulsi is a "smear." It's their "fake news."
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  971. @Ozan edwards *since 1962
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  972. Indeed. You have to have someone who knows how to play the game just enough to get things done and keep your integrity. Unfortunately, some people are too stupid to try to learn tactics and would just rather complain.
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  973. It reminds me of a few years ago when someone defended the poll tax, I mean voter ID laws, by saying that people need an ID in order to get on a plane. My household income is roughly the national average, and I haven't been on a plane in years.
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  974. ​ @jwbjpb1338  I think that the person you're replying to agrees with you but is being sarcastic in order to show how awful these people are.
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  975.  @Not_that_Brian_Jones  Definitely. That is the paradox.
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  976.  @KB-it9ni  Can't recall members of Congress. The good people of Arizona need to find someone better to beat her in the primary.
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  977.  @Kyarrix  Well, judging by the back and forth at the end of the video, this wasn't humanity's last hope's first call to the show. I don't know what the prior call was like, but I'm guessing that probably exhausted his patience with this guy.
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  978. Thank you so much for speaking out and showing the difference between isolation and peace!
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  979.  @andrewfrank8272  Oh, look, the Both Siderism Express right on schedule.
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  980. ​ @soulknife20  He did, but a lot of his comeback is based on a redemption arc, but how can he be redeemed if he still insists that there was nothing to be redeemed for with Desiree Washington? Bill Cosby had his conviction vacated because of a deal he previously made in a civil trial, and nobody's giving him a new show.
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  981.  @obihave3210  He's not exactly innocent. He is a right-wing commentator.
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  982.  @ΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΑΑΔΑΜΟΥ-β4δ  Someone stopped halfway through Prisoner of Azkaban.
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  983. I was in the military during the Dont Ask Don't Tell era, and it seems like some of the people most opposed to Say and Serve (including one who never got over the idea of the military going co-ed despite doing so before he was born) wanted to show off.
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  984.  @whispersmith  Indeed. This whole thing was his husband's idea.
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  985. @Gamacide Biggs Barrett was only a Circuit Judge for three years before getting appointed. Roberts was a Federal Appellate Judge for two years. Bart O'Kavanaugh was on the long end, and he was an appellate judge for 12 years. Thank you for playing. Vanna, show the lovely parting gifts.
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  986.  @xxSk8ing4christxx  Oh, so you clearly want to make the criticism based on bigotry.
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  987. He's not wrong.
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  988.  @2727rogers  Did you do any actual work to get healthcare in your country, or are you like the guy who I debated last week who rested on the hard work of Clement Attlee and thinks that he is an expert on how to get it? I don't know how I can make it any clearer: there are 118 supporters in the House. This is exactly 100 votes shy of what we need to pass it in the House. There are 13 supporters in the Senate, which is 38 shy if it can go through budget reconciliation and 47 if you can't. How does forcing a vote that will fail miserably which will make it that much harder to pass change anything? The ask is to have a vote, not to pass. Maybe if you stopped acting in such bad faith, you might understand my argument, but you don't want to, because you would rather have your high horse.
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  989.  @ashesmandalay1762  What else does it say that she managed to alienate the nicest and most forgiving person in national politics? Now, we can see more of the why in action.
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  990.  @barbiquearea  There is class in there, but there's race in there, too.
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  991. I would love to get back to the point where the issues were the biggest topic of political debate, but until the MAGA movement is thoroughly defeated to never return, the fight is between democracy and fascism. I welcome anyone to our side who's willing to defend democracy.
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  992.  @pamelaneibuhr6959  No one gets vaccines for the common cold, and there is a limited amount of time that cold immunity lasts. If that is not your real last name, stop disgracing Reinhold and Richard by using their name for this nonsense.
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  993. What things were Jimmy Dore right about? Certainly not the Supreme Court, or that Tulsi Gabbard is the One True Lefty.
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  994. ​ @jadeh2699  Hopefully, she makes it into the top two on Tuesday in the Senate primary.
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  995.  @deefrost5695  And a debt ceiling doesn't prevent default. If anything, it holds a sword of Damocles over everyone's head. If you get rid of the debt ceiling altogether, we never have to go through this nonsense ever again.
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  996.  @ballz4kidz  So, you think that we should just look the other way when a nuclear-armed country threatens to annihilate another? Thank you for giving an example of the adage that an isolationist is not someone who wants peace, but is content with watching the world burn as long as it doesn't directly affect you.
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  997. I am a union worker. Please take away my Aetna and force me to take Medicare for All! Health insurance is, without fail, the biggest fight when there is a contract, and not only would Medicare for All make that go away so we could fight for other things, but Workplace Democracy will require employer savings be passed to the worker. In my case, that would be $359 every other week.
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  998. This is what happens when someone is trying to do the kabuki but deep down knows that he isn't very good at it, and he needs to sound "fiscally responsible" in order to placate voters back home.
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  999. ​ @materg7505  Even with it, someone obviously bought and sold to Russian and Saudi interests got in.
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  1000. Indeed. This is why as soon as I heard that he might be Labor Secretary, I heard that opera singer from Scrubs singing "Mistaaaaaaaake."
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  1001.  @freetrailer4poor  Then why did America have its greatest economic growth for the most people at the time when there was the most union saturation in American history?
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  1002.  @BroodallyHonest  If several people have the exact same misunderstanding, maybe the problem is with the communication. When you explained it in later posts, it makes sense, but your initial posts doesn't read like a bully getting his comeuppance, and right wingers who believe such nonsense that people like this are just "practicing free speech" makes it easier to miss the point.
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  1003. Remember when Katie Porter got out a budget for how much it costs to live in Irvine, CA, and asked how he expected someone to live on that, and he couldn't come up with the obvious answer of "pay them better"? He can afford it. Does he really need that extra ivory backscratcher?
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  1004.  @tylerhackner9731  Agreed. Would women have been better off of Sarah Palin was elected VP?
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  1005.  @sythiadawn  Well, they are keeping McConnell away from control of the calendar, so it's more than that. Doesn't make them any less frustrating, though.
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  1006.  @R_A_3000  You missed the one where his doctor wife spared his feelings by telling him that WAP is a medical condition?
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  1007.  @namanmakkar7106  Well, JK Rowling, maybe, but I think she gave enough of her money away that she isn't a billionaire anymore.
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  1008. I remember being in a church in 2004 and hearing someone complain about gay marriage, and with no sense of irony at all, insisting "What about the pursuit of my happiness?"
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  1009.  @mindandbodymuscle5345  You mean the ones where he pushes against busing while courting segregationists? The ones where he hung Anita Hill out to dry? The ones where he bragged about being from a slave state? You're right, he wasn't a centrist; he was a full-on conservative Democrat.
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  1010. The market of i-DEE-uhs.
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  1011. "It's only a banana, Michael. How much does it cost, ten dollars?" Lucille Bluth
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  1012. He stopped because he was worried that he would lose. Karpov agreed to every demand but two. The one that was an absolute dealbreaker was that Fischer insisted that they play to ten wins, but that if he got to nine, that made him the champion. I think the other was about the share of the winnings where Fischer wanted more guaranteed money than the prize money for the tournament. I think one of his old friends in Bobby Fischer vs. The World explained it best: Bobby Fischer got to the point where he could not accept defeat, but the only way to ensure that would never happen would be to never play. Considering that he hadn't been at the board un the three years of the championship cycle, I think Karpov would have had a better than even chance. (Most people saw the "no draws" stipulation as Fischer wanting to play through the first few games to get his bearings back.)
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  1013. So true. I grew up in a state that had a lot of natural resources, but they were controlled by out of state companies. And result? One of the poorest states in America. Amplify this, and you get our relationship with most of the Southern Hemisphere.
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  1014. ​ @devilsadvocate1597  One of the definitions for "religiously" is synonymous with "regulary" and with respect, so he is using it accurately.
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  1015. And he was so distracted that he smirked at passersby while choking George Floyd.
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  1016.  Mycel  Thank you for noticing that she has been pretending. Shouldn't watching her play Biden's wing woman in hopes of the VP slot remove all doubt that she's not a lefty?
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  1017.  @joshuafarris4597  So, she is abandoning the left, has been a fake lefty all along, and her "stop the wars" is grounded in Ron Paul and the America First Committee isolationism, and you STILL want her as Bernie's running mate? How much more will it take for you to get that she is just not that into us?
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  1018.  @JTR_3  It's always happened, but it hasn't been the vast majority of the big movies these days like Hollywood is just admitting that it has run out of ideas.
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  1019. This is sadly what happens when one party absolutely refuses to play ball. You're not working with 435 and 100. Realistically speaking, you're working with 220 and 50, meaning you have zero margin for error in the Senate and you need 98.6% in the House.
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  1020.  @65minimom  And she only became a Democrat because she believed that Republicans no longer cared about the free market. Yes, she has some good positions, but [in my best Dr. Evil voice] she's the Diet Coke of Bernie. Just one calorie. Not Bernie enough.
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  1021. Indeed. If you have to say you're not, that's never a good sign.
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  1022.  @timreed402  Except I'm saying that she wasn't nearly as exposed as he claims she was. I don't care if she was going commando and he could see her other haircut, he had no business responding the way he did. He clearly gets his jollies off power games with younger women, and he knew he needed to cover his tracks, which is why he sent the apology... which was obviously hollow given the way he's bragged about it for years.
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  1023.  @aarondickson9573  I know who Sam Seder is, but I don't know who Sam Cedar is, so that is why I'm asking. You spend an awful lot of time on these videos for someone who doesn't care what Sam Seder has to say.
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  1024.  @barbiquearea  Except Son of Ron had to create his own board to get "certified."
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  1025. That is so unfair! The Wizard actually had a heart to give the Tinman.
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  1026. ​ @MrMeow-iq7kq  You are allowed to comment on other media. That's basic Fair Use law.
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  1027. If you look at her mugshot, you might disagree. Fake tan doesn't really do it for me.
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  1028. Darn right! This whole thing reaked of someone feeling emasculated because of his wife airing their dirty laundry and lashing out to try to look manly.
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  1029. Andrew Yang got kicked off the Ohio ballot because he didn't bother to submit a sheet with his petition drive saying that what office he wanted to run for. Campaigning 101 will tell you that you must follow the rules to the letter to qualify. I ran for office. West Virginia did not have a petition drive for major parties, but you had to pay a filing fee and fill out a form that included the phonetic spelling of your name so audio files could be created. I filed on the first day the window opened, and there was a bit of confusion about whether I filed at the Secretary of State's office because it was a state office (House of Delegates) or the County Clerk's office (because my district was entirely contained in part of one county). I filed with the Secretary of State, and a week and a half later, I found out that it needed to go to the County Clerk. So, I drove the 40 miles to the Capitol to get my refund and then drove to the County Clerk the next day to fix it. If you are prompt, make a good faith effort, and follow the rules, you will get on the ballot. They didn't follow the rules, and they know that the consequences of failing to do so was not getting on the ballot, so they did not earn their place on the ballot.
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  1030.  @findfreestockscom6168  You can't do the exact thing. For example: Ruining History became Puppet History.
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  1031.  Scott  If you think the one kidnapping children, practicing forced sterilization of women, using stormtroopers to kidnap protesters, and says that he doesn't ever want to leave (with a party behind him that will do pretty much whatever he wants), then either you are not paying attention or you know exactly what is going on and are aiding and abetting. So, which is it?
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  1032.  @stephlynn1982  20 years ago, when I was a freshman in college (man, I feel old saying that), I developed stomach troubles. Because insurance didn't want to pay for the more costly test, I had to go through four or five inconclusive tests... until they finally used the endoscope. How much money would they have saved by just giving me the endoscope in the first place? Yet another example of how inefficient private insurance can be.
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  1033. Well, she is isolationist, not anti-war. She defended Putin for bombing civilians in Syria while complaining that Obama didn't, and she compared the Iran nuclear deal to Munich. She is even worse than your description.
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  1034. Since at least 1935. If you think a permanent underclass working 70-80 hours a week just to survive is a good idea, then you are part of the problem.
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  1035. ​ @maniac50ae14  Have you heard of persistence hunting? That is how a lot of prehistoric hunting was done.
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  1036.  @colico14  True, but if they did their research, they wouldn't be libertarians. These are people who live in the world of The Way Things Ought to Be and don't seem to care about the way things really are.
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  1037.  @lexxb6386  My dollar says she'll be a talking head. It's easy and lucrative.
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  1038.  @barbarjinx3802  "The biggest car company in the world" based on what? It's surely not sales.
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  1039. @Dusty Bottoms Yes, because voting is on the same level as buying cigarettes.
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  1040. Indeed. I even remember seeing Amend for Arnold ads when he was governor. At the time, the Michigan Governor, a Democrat, was also prohibited from running because she was born in Canada. If two big state governors can't make more than a few members of Congress (David Dreier had long supported an amendment to allow anyone who had been a citizen for 20 years to become President and to repeal the Twenty-second Amendment), a YouTube host who couldn't even crack double digits in a Congressional primary definitely won't.
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  1041. Is there where Aaron got the idea? ;-)
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  1042.  @MrRondonmon  Abortion has nothing to do with communism, but nice try. Neither does gay marriage. Ironically, Ceaucescu actually outlawed abortion, as did many countries in the Iron Curtain. So, thinking that overturning child labor laws is a bad thing is communist? If that's capitalism as you want it done, no thank you. Maybe crack open a book and stop listening to people like Limbaugh, and you might understand what these words actually mean.
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  1043.  @xiam5941  And the slaveholders didn't get to keep their "property," either. Your way leads to what Hobbes called the war of all against all. I prefer not to live in a world where life is cold, nasty, brutish, and short. We have tried it before, and it doesn't work. That is why it was abandoned.
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  1044. And Al Gore Sr. voted for every other civil rights bill he saw (Yarborough was the only Senator to go 5/5 on civil rights from a state that tried to secede a century earlier, but LBJ voted for 2/2 as a Senator and 3/3 in signing as President), but if you look, the breakdown on the 1964 Civil Rights Act was far more geographical than partisan.
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  1045.  @psrabe7444  I've had similar experiences dealing with people on the right. I pointed to W vs. Slick Willie for the economy, and he said that was too narrow. Then, I found something that went all the way to Ike, and he said that was too long.
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  1046.  @martinarmenta835  It is never too late to turn things around. You can always help his opponent push him out.
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  1047. @MunkeiGUN And how many WMDs were there, again? When did the UN say that they were done with the inspection? As much as the right goes on about personal responsibility, I don't see it when they make a huge mistake.
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  1048.  @asheronthedruid  And that's why Fox isn't on the air in a lot of other places.
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  1049.  @KimeramonRocks  Olympic Channel. Yes, it is a niche sport, but the point is that there should be some way to make it work.
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  1050. Only the rhythm method, but that involves counting and a lot more self-control than she seems capable of.
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  1051. They're like that preacher who kept changing the date for the Rapture. Even he gave up after the fourth one.
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  1052. Or basic training, for that matter. No one gets out unless you can at least get Marksman.
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  1053. Don't forget Sam Seder and Michael Brooks.
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  1054. Tlaib said that he has money in Amazon (which is considering its own trucks on a larger scale), and that his conflict of interest means that he should resign.
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  1055.  @fatface2911  They killed it for the one thing they cared about: the Supreme Court.
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  1056. That was an absolutely absurd take from Greenwald. Who cares if Bannon realized that talking about rich people not paying enough in taxes was popular if nobody actually tries to do anything about it on the right?
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  1057. They also need to excise the part of themselves that made fascism so attractive to them to let him take over.
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  1058. Because such a move only works if you don't want to do anything, and the squad is better off getting something than blocking everything out of spite.
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  1059. A Present vote has the same effect as a No vote. It takes a majority of Yes votes in order to pass something.
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  1060.  @selfishcapitalist3523  And Donald Trump is the greatest statesman the world has ever known. Saying the opposite of reality is fun.
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  1061.  @MrShanester117  You mean like the fact that we have two Dakotas because Republicans wanted more seats? I don't see Republicans trying to make one Dakota.
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  1062. Actually, she lost because she couldn't unite Republicans. Over 30% of Begich voters went for Peltola. Palin lost the first round by nine points and the final round by three.
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  1063.  @scroopynooperz9051  Jimmy Dore is irrelevant. His purpose is to dump on the left, because that is what his fanbase wants to hear. He is an angry Dave Rubin who is doing a better job of keeping his mask on. The mistake Rubin made was that he went too far and put an expiration date on his act.
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  1064. I gave her a dollar to help her get onto the debate stage. While she went into some weird tangents on the stage, she still had some great and solid points. Let us not forget that she was the first on the stage to call the kidnapping at the border what it is.
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  1065. Presidential and parliamentary systems are quite different. It also doesn't help when one party decides to absolutely refuse to do anything to help people.
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  1066.  @jcspoon573  Indeed. The Constitution that they pretend to love is the biggest federal power grab in American history.
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  1067. Trump wouldn't lose votes to Bloomberg because those votes aren't going anywhere.
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  1068.  @handpaper6871  But the guy only really seems to have been an expert in testing the tires. If he didn't have the recall about what kind of car it was and the traction, it wouldn't have worked.
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  1069. @Dakota Jones A lot of times, once you realize that it is addictive after all, it's already too late. I was prescribed muscle relaxers for a back injury and I started to notice what felt like withdrawal symptoms two days later when I was doing something and was ten minutes late taking it. There but for the grace of God, had I not been distracted and took it on time, I would have been addicted, too. I was even cutting the pills in half, so I used discretion. Nice try, though.
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  1070. What killed Warren was that she looked like she was not willing to commit to Medicare for All. The left is sick of token gestures that don't get us anywhere.
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  1071.  @RobertoRodriguez-fj3yp  If you want "small government," by definition you're not anarcho-anything.
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  1072.  @soulknife20  Indeed. It only seems that way to come because they are so used to a country that has gone hard right in economics for so long.
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  1073. They probably would have gotten away with this one if no one caught it on video.
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  1074. This is a strategy that very rarely works. The last time I can think of that it worked was Claire McCaskill in 2012. My big concern is that people will think that this is something they can do on a regular basis and get some crazies elected.
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  1075. 15 years ago, I called it the Paris Hilton tax. Would it be the Baron tax today?
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  1076. And he's still bad at it.
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  1077.  @uncle-bin1750  True, but I can get through an entire interview without hearing about it. You know the old joke how the thing that every alum learns from Harvard is how to sneak it into every conversation? That is Tulsi and being a veteran.
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  1078. He's lost pretty much every straw poll so far, and party machines still play a role here, so hopefully he's going to lose next month.
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  1079. The eviction will be a thing of beauty.
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  1080. ​ @jasonhahn9255  First of all, it's not a record (we had double-digit inflation in the 1970s). Second, if you understood anything about economics, you'd know that there was a lot of pent-up demand that was going to lead to higher inflation. Third, we have lower inflation than every other major industrialized nation. Finally, there is nothing that Der Orangestraflingfuhrer would have proposed to rein costs in.
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  1081.  @markzuckergecko621  It's not an on/off switch. There are stages and degrees. For the most part, the institutions held. And considering that you are using the word Communist and can't define it or show any evidence of the commies on the march ir rioting for a year shows your own lack of understanding of political ideologies.
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  1082. He has no self-awareness at all.
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  1083.  @abdul-rahimdahman3300  The one that convinced me was hearing her use a scenario straight out of 24 to justify torture. Then, I was especially outraged that she his behind being a veteran. When I was sergeant of the guard with POWs, I always treated the prisoners humanely and made sure everyone else did, too. When she did that, she insulted me and every person who refused to be war criminals.
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  1084.  @keirfarnum6811  He owes me, too!
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  1085. My grandpa did not fight in that battle just to have our military commemorate Nazis 75 years later!
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  1086.  @asifalimirza  "Extremely narrow"? Biden won by over five million votes, and his Electoral College total is on track to mirror 2016.
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  1087. "The tears aren't coming! The tears aren't coming!" Gob Bluth
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  1088.  @toasterlordtoasterlord4224  I saw it play several times with no cut. You see him pause to look with no cut in the camera.
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  1089.  @SouthCom1917  Don't forget the assault weapons ban. The Hill Shills tried to make him out to be Ted Nugent the last time for having a D- lifetime rating from the NRA (the lowest of any statewide elected official in VT) instead of an F. Yeah, that really helped in rural areas in, I don't know, Pennsylania, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
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  1090.  @rtorres4132  Funny how many people insist that they are not opposed to vaccines bit sing straight from the anti-vaccine hymnal.
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  1091.  @DougDimmaDab  His real name is Aaron Dickson. Then, he had a bunch of profiles with Alabama Man with or without a number in them. I think Mandatory Helicopter Rides was the one who accidentally replied to an Alabama Man 5000 thread. So much like Dumbledore always called him Tom Riddle, a lot of us use his real name to cut through the personae to expose the frightened little boy underneath it all.
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  1092. To put that in perspective, this is more than he raised in all of 2015. He started in April, so he has more in three months ($34.5MM) than he did in nine last time ($33MM).
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  1093.  @garysmokesmeat  You said that workers do better "when they are more free." I gave an example of workers getting paid better and with better benefits. So, unless you are talking about some esoteric goal of Freedom which just means freedom to be screwed over by the boss, you have been debunked, because you said that never happens. If that is what you're doing, then you're not trying to figure out what is actually better for anyone.
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  1094.  @beatsmith  I personally felt awkward around people when they would say "thank you for your service." Sometimes, it felt straight-up Pavlovian.
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  1095.  @meamishere1166  Oh, it started while he was still alive. He was quite slow in realizing people were grifters. Part of a consequence of his belief of "ruthless on systems, merciful on people." He didn't see the light on Jimmy Dore until 2017 or '18 and was texting Sam begging him to go easy on him during the debate, and he was only very slowly starting to catch on to the Rising grift a month or so before he died when he let David and Matt savage it when covering the Nathan Robinson article about right-wing fake populists and the Robinson/Greenwald debate at length.
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  1096.  @p.chuckmoralesesquire3965  Did you not watch Shaun's video on the subject? Probably not, because it would puncture your view of your hero.
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  1097.  @bioboost12  The virus was going to come, but telling people not to wear masks and telling them that it would magically go away made it worse. And, he didn't "ban travel from certain countries." For example, he didn't ban travel from Chiii-na, he banned Chinese nationals, and he didn't make those who came from Chiii-na quarantine in order to make sure they didn't have it. That is what is xenophobic. Had he have done what places like New Zealand, Australia, Japan, and South Korea did, easily a quarter of a million people would still be alive today.
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  1098. "I don't care about blame." If you don't care whose fault it is, how do you expect to see it prevented in the future?
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  1099.  @loulfw2513  If Bernie voted against it, his amendment for unemployment, which was the primary reason why poverty didn't go up last year, wouldn't make it. This is what wanting to watch the world burn looks like.
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  1100.  @Juicebrainjoe  False flag? Yes, because the group with no air force and no sarin gas did this to themselves when they were already losing the civil war. And it's right there in his taxes.
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  1101. Well, there has been a Green/red alliance in this country since at least Nader 2000, so maybe she was scamming us the whole time and this is her true self.
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  1102. He's a libertarian, and has always been one. That pretty much never ends well.
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  1103.  @joebrandon8750  Based on what? She has a breath and depth of qualifications and a solid record. Were you whining about Der Orangefuhrer saying that he'd nominate a woman two years ago? Or, if you're old enough, did you whine about Reagan saying that he would pick a woman with his first vacancy 40 years ago?
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  1104.  @f_youtubecensorshipf_nazis  Well, both are culling from the same anti-anti-Trump well, so it's hardly a surprise.
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  1105.  @CA-ly7my  Who got the equity? Who got the asset? As rent goes up and up and corporate giants play hot potato with properties to inflate prices, it makes home ownership next to impossible for most people.
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  1106. Indeed. And she turned out to be much more likable.
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  1107. ​ @redshoes9548  Rush? It's been three years. The prosecution is ready to go. They're just waiting for the DC Circuit to stop twiddling its thumbs.
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  1108.  @Name-jw4sj  What are some specific things that she has done? The only one I can really think of where she didn't buckle like a belt was "Why would anyone run around the country saying what you can't do?"
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  1109. Something else the V-shaped crowd doesn't seem to realize: if people don't have money when things reopened because of paying mortgages and groceries with credit cards, how are people just supposed to spend like nothing happened?
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  1110.  @emhu2594  Video and timestamp, please.
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  1111.  @jpbm1873  Oh, look, the false equivalence brigade right on schedule. Because apparently you can't make a positive step to deal with nuclear proliferation without "regime change wars." I don't care where you're from, because ignorance is universal.
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  1112.  @888strummer  Jimmy Dore wants to divide the left to help the right win. Funny how he has had more nice things to say about literal fascists than people who he supposedly agrees with.
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  1113.  Regis Johnson  Well, either she is the worst strategist of all time, or she is a saboteur. Considering the fact that she alienated the nicest and most forgiving person in American politics (the only other person I can think of who can say the same is Tad Devine, but that was more because of his extracurriculars with Manafort than anything), nothing would surprise me.
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  1114. Indeed. At my job in December, one worker in my unit got transferred, and another took a week off between Christmas and New Year's. We were already one short to begin with, and I just got buried. I refused to be complicit in my own wage theft, and it took me two months to climb out of that hole. In 2014, nobody ever got more than five new cases a day, and now there are days when we get into double digits.
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  1115.  @satevo462  True. Rose McGowan also defended Asia Argento for having sex with a 16 year old boy. I guess it really should be "believe all accusers unless they are my friends."
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  1116. Blanket rules get rid of the good and the bad. I'm not getting rid of Bernie because some voters elsewhere don't pay attention to the state of their elected officials. And limiting it to 70 makes it far more difficult for people who need to work for a living to seek office.
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  1117.  @zelenskysboot361  Yeah, that description sucks. In the 2020 primary, when it came to health care, there was Bernie, and there was Not Bernie.
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  1118.  @deadLEE15  Chris Rock was far more scathing toward The Spice Girls when he hosted the MTV Video Music Awards, and you never saw David Beckham slap him.
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  1119.  @camelopardalis84  It has to be a certain number of people. That is why you will hear donors and donations listed as separate things.
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  1120. When I was in seminary, a friend (at the time he was Church of the Brethren, now he's Episcopalian) knew several families who, because of their objections to war, voluntarily kept their income low enough that they would owe no federal taxes. Why doesn't Jim do that?
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  1121. Well, you had Corbyn. Unfortunately, he gained the Leader seat before defeating the Blairites who then sabotaged him.
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  1122.  @spawniscariot9756  I think I saw one of his usernames the other day.
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  1123. Oh, they clearly want their own. I remember in seminary that there were some who complained about why there were so many denominations in the first place. I was the one who argued that it was okay for people to disagree and still be Christians but want to worship the same way, and the example I gave was a student who was a Methodist pastor and me, a Baptist, coming to different conclusions on whether or not we would baptize someone who joined the church requesting it who were baptized as infants. A lot of talk of unity is thinly veiled "everyone should do it my way."
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  1124.  @chrissyweikoop7931  You are correct, ma'am!
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  1125.  @jim2498  Are you a bot? The OP clearly talked about Palin losing and how her word salad was the prototype for people like Herschel Walker.
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  1126.  @miapdx503  Indeed. Nixon did a lot of underhanded things to attain power, but he never went on a nationwide tour of grievance in 1960, and he didn't try to reverse the decision during the Electoral College count in 1961.
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  1127.  @Vunomic  It was pretty obvious that it would be this if you watched any Rising after the primary was settled. She repeatedly and consistently took the anti-anti-Trump position. That is the road to desolation.
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  1128. There is also the fact that abolishing the Senate requires every state to go along. This is an interesting thought experiment, but nothing more.
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  1129.  @limehouseblues  You mean by not pushing a vote for something guaranteed to fail that people who disagree with a stupid tactic "don't support people getting healthcare during a pandemic" even though not one person would by forcing a vote? Get out of here with your Underpants Gnomes nonsense.
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  1130.  @zoobrizz  The right elected a fascist who lost money in a business where the house always wins who literally speaks at a third grade level.
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  1131.  @MusicIan423  She flat out said that Bernie is sending people out to trash her. She deserves every ounce of scorn.
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  1132. ​ @schoolsgirl  Bernie got childhood poverty cut in half, so yeah, he's gotten more done running as a Democrat than Cornel West playing spoiler.
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  1133.  @TheNextTurn  You mean the guy who said there was nothing to it? "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you find the e-mails." "If it's what you say it is, I love it! Especially in the fall." "I think you're going to find out something very interesting about the e-mails soon." (The last one days before some hacked e-mails came out.) Several indictments and convictions. Oh, yeah, there's nothing there at all.
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  1134. To use an example from a place that shall remain nameless to protect the innocent, there is an amusement park that I have taken my daughter to that, among other things, has characters that look a lot like stories that were Disney movies, but designs just a little bit different. Live by the public domain, die by the public domain.
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  1135.  @gamingislife3332  Or, maybe he's doing what he loves, and he should get to retire on his own terms.
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  1136.  Orphan Annie  Agreed. At this point, it feels like the only reason she is staying in is out of spite.
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  1137. It looks like people are completely misunderstanding the original point: it's not that Kaczynski is a libertarian, but that he lived without governmental interference. I'm not sure if that is completely true. (If "Manhunt" is to be believed, he did use the public library.) Still, he did largely live a life of self-sufficiency.
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  1138. Indeed. Someone even asked him why he changed his mind on Der Orangefuhrer, and he said that it was because he knew he couldn't win a primary otherwise, and people still voted for him.
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  1139. You: They can't do everything by themselves, so they are worthless. Do you think about how ridiculous that sounds before you type?
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  1140.  @f_youtubecensorshipf_nazis  I'm convinced that deep down they would rather complain than actually get results for fear that they'll have to compromise.
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  1141. AOC and Omar have gotten all the attention of the freshman class, but Katie Porter has been quietly becoming one of the highlights of the class.
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  1142. There's a whole playlist called Sam vs. Libertarians. Every one is a beauty.
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  1143.  @TreiberSeptim  I am Bernie or Bust in the primary at this point. I will vote for the eventual nominee because I live in a swing state (Pennsylvania). However, other than that finger to push the button on the machine, no one else will get another finger from me. Bernie will get my Saturdays to try to get other people to vote. If I still lived in WV, no one not named Bernie Sanders would get my vote.
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  1144. Well, he did say that there was a problem with Cardi B downstairs when she released WAP last year, so I think that when he said that his doctor wife agreed, that tells me that she is probably faking a lot in that relationship.
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  1145.  @Dylanarmy69420  Sometimes, knowing what you don't know is more important than knowing what you do know. I'm terrible at foreign languages, so I listen to linguists about subtleties in languages I don't understand.
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  1146.  @seanhovan7426  That's not "electioneering." Electioneering is campaigning for a specific candidate or party. Funny how just yesterday Republicans in a County in Georgia shut down six of seven precincts and changed the rules to make it harder to stand in line while guaranteeing the line would be longer. Then again, there are a lot of lies that Republicans have to tell themselves.
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  1147. ​ @Gum_Cuzzler  He literally sat on the board of advisers. He knew how toxic the MPP is.
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  1148. At this point, maybe the real question to ask if what, if anything, George Santos (if that is his real name) hasn't lied about.
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  1149.  @Farmer1224  I heard you're a jerk.
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  1150. Someone like Bercow needs to be there to bring OR-DAH!
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  1151.  @kimberly8695  I've known plenty of people who went to Harvard. Except for those pretending to be good old boys, the main thing that they all seem to learn is an ability to shoehorn their alma mater into a conversation. I had a professor for three courses in grad school. Not a single class went by without the phrase "at Harvard" or "when I was at Harvard" coming out of her mouth.
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  1152.  @BroodallyHonest  I was saying that he clearly was looking for a fight. He was just surprised when someone delivered.
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  1153. He doesn't care as long as they give him money.
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  1154. @PleaseRecycle Wrong. He supports "Medicare for America," which is a gradualist proposal.
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  1155.  @sunkillsmoon  Just because someone has a law degree doesn't mean that he/she can't misuse it. Why do you think lawyers and judges get disbarred for misconduct?
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  1156. They also sent us Cold Feet Crowder and Lauren Southern. They don't get to get high and mighty with us about crazy people.
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  1157. Sadly, calling out people he considered to be friends was not his strong suit.
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  1158. Caller: I'm not unsympathetic to people. Also Caller: You should suffer because of your poor decisions for the rest of your life.
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  1159.  @bryanice3313  The First Amendment doesn't give people the right to have the government pay to upkeep the tribute to their traitor heroes.
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  1160. Indeed. Like it or not, refusing to vote for Democrats only enables Republicans, and we have seen decades of idiots thinking that holding out will make Democrats bend to their will, when all it does it just pull the Overton Window that much farther to the right.
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  1161.  @BedwetterCDN  The best time to get justice? Yesterday. The next best time? Today. Because people got away with it in the past, we should let others get away with it now?
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  1162.  @itsaaronlolz  Wonderful news! Some candidates have plans or wealthy benefactors, but Bernie has an army.
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  1163.  @theywouldnthavetocensormei9231  Yes. Banning someone who tried to overthrow democracy is an act of care. The people who wrote the Fourteenth Amendment understood that.
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  1164.  @jojosmith1097  Robert Reich did a video several months ago arguing that all billionaires got to a ten-figure net worth by one or all of the following getting that far: 1) exploiting a monopoly that government refused to break up or regulate, 2) inheritance, 3) lobbying against higher taxes, 4) underpaid workers. Can you name one who didn't meet any of those criteria?
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  1165.  @MrNH718  Michael Brooks didn't say that those right wingers were good people who weren't really right. Jimmy Dore gave them no reason to leave the Boogaloo Boys.
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  1166.  @moe433  He supports universal health care so much that he supported a candidate who called Medicare for All "un-American" rather than the candidate who was the lead sponsor of the bill, he insists that no one should vote for the one party that actually has members of Congress who sponsor the bill (and his wife gave $1000 to a Republican opponent of one of those sponsors in Arizona), and he insisted that the Supreme Court (which could easily rule it unconstitutional if it do desires) is irrelevant. With supporters like these, who needs opponents?
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  1167. In Pennsylvania, you're not even allowed to open the ballots until polls open at 7 AM on Election Day.
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  1168. The problem with some of the satire in terms of people getting it is that it has to be over the top and believable at the same time. I saw an earlier sketch that just sounded like a straight up right winger. Then again, even Stephen Colbert, who was a pretty obvious parody of Bill O'Reilly, had a lot of conservatives who were genuinely surprised by his performance at the 2006 White House Correspondents Dinner because they thought he was really his character.
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  1169. She's just as bad as he is.
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  1170. Ask a follow up question. I've been trying for years to get an example of something funny he actually said ;-)
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  1171.  @Vennytube  A lot of them are part of groups and emboldened by having someone in the White House going along with their worldview, even if they think he is incompetent. After all, he can open the door for a competent white nationalist.
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  1172. More hospitals should do like the one in Houston (I think it was Houston Methodist) and say you're fired if you don't get vaccinated.
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  1173.  @brothersandsistersofvalhalla  The OP is talking about Joy Behar.
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  1174. You missed a great example of the coked-up hamster failing on internal logic. He described it as Aristotelian, but Aristotle was neither Jewish nor Christian.
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  1175.  @ReadyFreddie5523  Saying unkind words would have been saying that he needs to be more worried about whose mouths his wife is on instead of a mild joke from a show where everyone there knows that they are fair game for a roast.
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  1176. "Wrong. I was at 1%. Now, I'm at 2%. 1% milk is just water, but you can take 2% and float your Apple Jacks in that. Let me tell you my new slogan. Jindal 2016: Taste the Fat!" Aziz Ansari as Bobby Jindal
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  1177. ​ @zachlewis2751  Mark my words, she'll end up on Fox as a pundit wringing her hands about "not working together." It's easy and lucrative. Lobbying requires actual work (which she is too lazy to do), expertise in a subject, and good relations with elected officials, qualities that she lacks.
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  1178. Not in any of our lifetimes, anyway.
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  1179.  @jasonvegan5761  Maybe not necessarily a payout as much as an understanding of the target audience for his book and comeback not wanting to hear it.
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  1180.  Wallace  A parliamentary system is different. It also takes some time to count votes and deal with close elections. Look at what happened in several races in 2018 where the candidate in the lead on election night lost. A district of 100,000 people is much quicker to count than a country of over 330MM.
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  1181.  @myrmaad  The Democrats didn't have the votes to stop the nuclear option. They all voted against it. As far as impeachment, a) "I don't like the decision" isn't an impeachable offense, and b) conviction takes a 2/3 vote, and at the time you said that, Republicans held a majority in both chambers, so how is that going to work?
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  1182. And the biggest irony of all is how much the birth rates have dropped in places with a generous safety net.
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  1183.  @xiam5941  Except having a government is what prevents the war of all against all. Every ancap ends up with an explanation that is far more convoluted than what we have now or ends up in having rival competing factions. If two teams are playing soccer, does each get to hire a referee who can then determine whether or not the entire ball made it all the way past the line? Of course you wouldn't, because such a suggestion would be ridiculous. Yet some version of that seems to be the solution every time someone asks about how to determine who owns a piece of property, and if you really do believe in the non-aggression principle, you are going to end up with competing warlords defending people against raiders. Great improvement!
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  1184.  @robinsss  Let me repeat, because it bears repeating. The discussion was about companies intentionally selling things that are harmful to people under false pretenses. You opposed the government banning the sale of such things. My point is that when something is used as intended and it causes such harm (which is why I called it poison) you are saying that there should be a warning label. Why is that preferable to banning its sale?
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  1185.  Alabama Man 2.0  "Whatever small amount of power we have" My God, you right wingers are pathetic. When you control the White House, both Houses of Congress, the Supreme Court, the majority of governorships, and the majority of state legislatures, "we only have a little power." Which is it, are you weak or are you strong? "If we try to push through a Republican nominee in an election year, you can hold it against me." Lindsey Graham, 2016, before sticking his head of Trump's butt Numbers are besides the point. I get that your party has no principles other than the pursuit of power for its own sake, but people would at least respect your honesty more if you just admitted it.
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  1186. ​ @boki1693  You think wrong. There is no such law.
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  1187.  @josephgreear5789  I was wondering why he didn't look more or less directly at the camera.
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  1188. ​ @FrankHeuvelman  While our country has its problems, I don't think that you understand it at all. Parliamentary systems are far more likely to give absolute power to one party, and as long as the Electoral College exists in its current form, you are pretty much guaranteed two major parties, and even in multiparty systems, everyone knows before hand that one of two parties or coalitions are going to govern, anyway, so it is really a distinction without a difference.
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  1189.  @ede292  That's not what Mary says. Fred Jr. was the only one to try to get out of under Fred's thumb. Fred valued psychopathic behavior and "killers."
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  1190.  @sargentpilcher  And there it is. The libertarian who says something that proves that he thinks that he will be the Ubermensch in the Brave New World. It turns out that far more than 1% of diabetics have Type 1. If you are really so stupid as to think that there is a legitimate reason why the prices suddenly spike, then you really don't understand greed at all. One day, something bad will happen to you, and you will do an Ayn Rand and do some mental gymnastics that justifies your reliance on the system, but I hope for you that you end up with people who don't think like you when you need help.
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  1191. Maybe his crew secretly hates his guts. Remember how Meagan "My Father" McCain always ended up with these really unflattering hairstyles on The View ?
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  1192. You mean by helping someone who claims to hate government secrecy and went to two of the most secretive governments in the world with sensitive documents? And that he has managed to far outlive actual opponents of dictatorship in Russia?
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  1193. @Midorima Shintaro You're talking to one of the biggest trolls on this channel.
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  1194. What fight should be done for this appointment? If Democrats don't show up, that means that people watching will only hear Republicans say that she's the second coming, and that is fewer people talking, which speeds up the process. The thing that will slow things down the most is forcing a vote on a quorum when it gets to the floor, because if a quorum isn't met, the Senate is closed for a day.
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  1195. I think that quote about wealth and democracy is a Brandeis quote.
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  1196. So true. I used to be a Bill Maher fan, but a few years ago, I just had enough, and didn't want to sift through the slop to find his good takes that I can get from way better people.
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  1197.  @greenlime1997  You're dealing with the most notorious troll on these pages.
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  1198. Our system wasn't designed so much as built by accident, and by the time people started pushing for universal care, the insurance industry had far too much money and could fight its obsolescence.
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  1199.  @Alltime2050  Darn right! The right beats us because too many of our voters are lazy. They vote pretty much every time.
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  1200.  @JoJo-vg8dz  Well, not all of those people are libertarians, but all libertarians (ignoring the ones who are too young to know any better and grow out of it) fall into those categories.
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  1201. It's Bernie's party now :-)
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  1202. [In Dr. Evil voice]: They're the Diet Coke of Bernie. Just one calorie. Not Bernie enough.
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  1203.  @into.the.wood.chipper.  We're not in an economic downturn. The vast majority of the cause for price increases is corporate greed.
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  1204. She probably could explain that to him, but she has to say, "No, Ben. I just don't get orgasms. It's okay."
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  1205. Indeed. The house always wins, but Donnie is a loser.
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  1206. While Christina Ricci was great, Lisa Loring was and always will be Wednesday. She was the only one (until Melissa Hunter) who got both the morbid and the sweet.
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  1207. He has too many important, high-level i-DEE-uhs to contain his hand movements.
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  1208.  Jamis Billson  It's never about winning over the idiot. It's about showing the fence sitters the stupidity of that side.
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  1209.  @smallfootprint2961  "It is easier to fool a man than to convince him that he has been fooled." Mark Twain
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  1210.  @lassesaikkonen501  How does evolutionary biology, often dealing with plants, make someone an authority on gender? Therefore, citing someone as an expert when he has never written anything peer reviewed in that field is, if anything, less relevant to the question at hand than his views on the thing that he is probably best known for in popular culture.
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  1211. One thing a lot of people don't notice is that Bill Gates has more than twice the money he did when he "started to give it all away." How Anand Giridharadas got him to write a blurb for Winners Take All, I'll never know, but that was the greatest thing I have seen in quite some time. Has anyone else ever endorsed a book that calls him/her a fraud?
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  1212. Do you also believe that the world is flat and there is no such place as Australia? After all, "everyone has an opinion."
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  1213.  @shadebleu  Oh, look. Aaron is using another fake account.
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  1214. @Slava Ukraine And defending the imperialism of others. There is a difference between anti-imperialism and anti-Americanism.
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  1215.  @mayavox  She said that Trump was guilty. The only correct vote is Yes if that is what you believe. Her "Medicare Choice" is the exact same thing as Medicare for All Who Want It no matter how much you try to put lipstick on that pig. Nothing about her career screams opportunist? She first made a name for herself by going on Fox and Bill Maher to complain that Obama didn't use the right wing buzzwords to describe Muslims. She went on Dave Rubin's show to agree with him that every other candidate (including someone she claimed to wholeheartedly support as a great man just three years earlier) hated America. At least Zack Morris knows he's trash.
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  1216. If you aren't getting clean dishes, maybe you're overloading the dishwasher.
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  1217. I feel sorry for their kids, but not them. I'm saving all my sympathy for those who are not at fault for that big, orange dummy regaining power.
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  1218. Oh, look. Everyone's favorite troll put up a new username to agree with himself. Sad.
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  1219.  @CCJJ160Channels  She started off as a right winger. The grift was when she backed Bernie.
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  1220. "A single payer with private insurance" is a contradiction in terms. I don't care how many languages you supposedly speak, you don't get to make words mean what you want them to mean.
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  1221.    Jimmy Dore is a grifter. He doesn't want anything to get better, which is why he keeps spouting his third party nonsense. His debate with Sam Seder proved that he doesn't know what he is talking about.
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  1222. Is it wrong that when I first saw this comment as it was the first comment when I opened the video, I thought it was talking about a different kind of interaction between men and women?
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  1223. @Haywire D Correction. He has been convicted and sentenced to 7 1/2 years, but Manhattan is now taking their turn. He will never get out of jail as long as he shall live.
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  1224.  @digitalperson108  Hopefully. My bigger fear is that the fascism launch codes have been set in the GOP, and only their total defeat will allow for its defeat. After all, his enablers got rewarded, not punished.
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  1225.  @douglasmennella4525  I think it can be done by legislation. If you state that all federal judges are randomly listed on the Supreme Court is something that may be doable, because Congress is allowed to set rules about the makeup of the Judiciary, and they can also write it in such a way that it cannot be overturned by judicial review.
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  1226.  @that_heretic  Just include a section in the law that says that it is not subject to judicial review. Congress has that right, and there's nothing that the Supreme Court can do about it.
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  1227.  @quayzie  Ooh, one delegate to zero. That really showed her.
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  1228. There is literally a zero chance that Russian Agent Jill Stein will win. So, you either get Kamala, or the candidate whose only complaint with Netanyahu is that he's been going too easy in Gaza. There's a vote to feel smug about yourself, and a vote about honestly looking at the effects of your actions.
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  1229.  @ebalicious1775  So, by your logic, it is all about his own brain rather than actual evidence of a threat? Well, in that case, all any murderer has to do is say "I was scared," and that's the end of that. Just let them walk free.
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  1230. Most of us would rather not waste our time listening to a fascist and a grifter trying to whitewash fascism for her red/brown alliance.
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  1231. Never forget that Mike Pence did the right thing... only after trying every way possible to justify doing the wrong thing.
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  1232. Sam usually goes on vacation during Passover and the High Holidays.
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  1233. This psychopath read Leviathan and actually liked the war of all against all.
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  1234. Everybody didn't go to high school when states decided to increase education from 6th or 8th grade to 12tg grade. Why does he think it was called high school in the first place?
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  1235.  @bowman4275  Because there is no way that any Senate Republicans would vote to convict, let alone a third of them.
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  1236.  @typeo1164  Margin matters, so never rest on anything.
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  1237.  @charliekirk8570  Bernie is the .most popular politician in America. Trump was the fastest President to majority disapproval, and he is the only candidate to never get to majority approval in Gallup.
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  1238.  @garysmokesmeat  "Life was cold, nasty, and brutish because that's how you start out." You forgot "short." On a more serious note, it clearly isn't that way for the people who already have privilege, and I don't see you telling them to toughen up, because you're whining about "forcing them at the point of a gun" to contribute to a society that gave so much to them. Speaking of which, where does most charity that rich people pay actually go? I'll give you a hint: it goes to things that benefit other rich people.
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  1239.  @garysmokesmeat  "I support it because it's moral and ethical." Just saying that it is moral and ethical doesn't make it either. I personally believe that your position is highly immoral because it is explicitly designed to help those who already have more at the expense of everyone else.
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  1240.  @garysmokesmeat  For people who talk about morality so much, you libertarians sure do engage in discussion in a most dishonest way. You start by talking about how much better your way works, and whenever someone else points to examples of how things that you hate have actually made things better for people, you either deny the example, try to distract with a red herring that still proves the opposite, or failing that, making an appeal to morality? Is that because deep down you know that no one is interested in hearing about how greed is moral, and that's all you have left?
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  1241.  @garysmokesmeat  You don't want workers to keep what they earn. You want the rich to keep everything the workers earn, because once we started following something closer to what you want, pay at the top skyrocketed while while wages have remained stagnant for over 40 years despite productivity doubling in that time.
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  1242. ​ @humbertoramirez8165  Given that Aaron does a copy and paste job for the same few lies over and over again, he clearly thinks it does. Either that, or he's just a masochist.
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  1243. ​ @pcbacklash_3261  He's gotten a lot worse on a lot of things. Either that, or he just started emphasizing those awful things more often.
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  1244. The base year was 1890... just before immigrants from southern Europe started to come in large numbers.
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  1245.  @commenterperson4481  I usually don't. I must admit that my curiosity got the best of me this time.
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  1246.  @wendyscott8425  Because when he thinks he's the smartest person in the room, he won't listen to people who are actually smarter than he is.
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  1247. Did you find a new benefactor, Aaron?
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  1248.  @benzell4  The amusing thing about how stupid the birthers were is that even if everything they said was true, the fact that his mom was a US Citizen at the time of his birth meant that he was a natural born citizen (see also: Cruz, Rafael E. "Ted"; McCain, John S. III; Romney, George W.).
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  1249.  @johnf8122  She could never make it as a lobbyist. In order to be a lobbyist, you have to have two things: good relations with Congress and expertise on a particular policy. Given that she is hated more than any Senator not named Ted Cruz, and how lazy she is, that's not her future. Being a talking head is lucrative and easy, so that seems a much more likely destination.
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  1250. ​ @josefeibl8230  Which ten economies do you think are better, and which metrics are you using?
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  1251. ​ @dft1  Except local governments do this every year with this thing called property taxes.
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  1252. Catholics were, but I guarantee that a lot of her base don't consider them to be Christians.
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  1253.  @ashesmandalay1762  Indeed. He is not our friend.
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  1254.  @rogermartinez4893  That took about ten years to get to. The fact that you think it would take 30 years to pay $100,000 in rent is just adorable!
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  1255. I'm not sure how I feel about this. I like the idea of Thomas not being on the bench any longer, but as much as I would like to say that we can't find anyone worse, Moscow Donald will find a way, and this is someone else who gets to stay there for decades.
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  1256. @trollnerd No Iraq War, no Roberts and Alito in exchange for Obama? I would gladly take that trade.
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  1257. I tried my hand at network marketing when I was in grad school, but that was much more out of desperation than anything. If you have the bad luck of your work study at one achool ending at a time when the country is hemorrhaging 750K jobs/month (and even fast food places want a secons interview), you are much more likely going to go with something where there is little barrier to entry, but being a grad student in a different state, i didn't even know enough people to go more than a couple months without running out of people to ask about it.
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  1258.  @williamgullett5911  Business owners can't find people because they don't want to pay. Oh, that's right. Your phony populism falls apart under the slightest scrutiny because you support the party of low taxes, low wages, low corporate accountability, and low education. These are characteristics of Third World countries.
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  1259.  @joemann7971  You mean the guy who wanted to use a regressive tax to pay for it and force people to choose between their current benefits and his plan, thus making it even more regressive? And Bernie does not favor UBI, he favored emergency payments for the duration of the virus. Richard Wolff put it best: UBI is a failure of imagination. If workers had control, they could use that technology to double their wages and cut their hours so they can enjoy more leisure time.
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  1260.  @imperialmotoring3789  Yes, because business and CEOs aren't greedy at all. Taxes haven't but cut dramatically since 1980 while wages remained flat and CEO pay skyrocketed [eye roll].
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  1261.  @wilcee238  That's the most notorious troll here. I think he's on his fifth or sixth different username.
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  1262.  @DUNGSI27  Fair enough. I just don't understand the love he gets. He seeks out the worst people and defends them to the bitter end.
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  1263.  @occupydemocratsparody5318  So, racism isn't a thing, and you are calling someone a "wild uncivilized oversized animal"? Self-awareness is not a strength of the American right.
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  1264.  @MrBoomersfriend  Getting so many volunteers that they are drafting 300,000 people and banning flights out of the country. Sure, things are just going great, Baghdad Adam!
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  1265. 2011, but watching him sit and stew was beautiful. "Donald Trump says he's thinking of running as a Republican, but I thought he was running as a joke." Seth Meyers
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  1266. She says she's "not allowed" to say things on MSM. She was invited on CNN to talk about it. It sounds like Ann Coulter going all over the press to say that she can't talk on the press.
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  1267.  @thedissidentright9490  [citation needed]
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  1268.  @thedissidentright9490  What's the source? Where are ratings broken down by party?
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  1269. Well, he got burned on this one ;-)
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  1270. Hilarious when he pauses thinking that his line is a great applause line, and the silence before a lackey catches on, and others join in.
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  1271.  @daughterofbob-d5r  If you've ever seen the show Undercover Boss, they almost always turn out to be major screw-ups.
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  1272.  @FelixDaleth  He only supports the ones who he thinks will lose. The instant they win the nomination (See: Ocasio Cortez, Alexandria; Bush, Cori), he calls them sellouts.
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  1273.  @jpbm1873  By your logic, Ron Paul is a lefty. There is a difference between isolationism and peace. People who desire peace don't defend regimes that use chemical weapons on their own people and recite their propaganda. People who desire peace don't compare the Iran nuclear deal to Munich. People who desire peace don't praise a hasty retreat that causes the slaughter of thousands of Kurds. People who desire peace don't support torture ever. People who desire peace don't praise Sisi for killing protesters in Egypt. People who desire peace don't defend Modi and his multiple massacres. Tulsi Gabbard is content to let the world burn as long as it isn't American soldiers suffering.
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  1274.  @HorrorDiva01  And at (what to me will always be) the series finale, when George-Michael confesses his love for Maeby, and Michael asks how long it's been going on. George-Michael says "I don't know, 53 weeks," which was the number of episodes in its original run.
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  1275.  @areaunderthecurve9918  Except he wasn't. Trump did it in plain sight, and several people were indicted and convicted over crimes revealed during the investigation.
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  1276.  @frivolousquan7085  Yes, because non-union schools do such a good job hiring good teachers. The states that prohibit teacher's unions have the worst educational performance. In the ten years since Wisconsin "chopped those teachers unions off at the knees," their academic performance fell from 2nd to 9th. And how is giving schools less money supposed to make them better? You clearly have a problem with public schools in general.
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  1277. Where was this guy a year ago? I would have kinda liked this guy instead of the rat-faced weasel we saw.
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  1278. It looks like he's trying to do Wes Anderson, but doesn't have the chops.
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  1279.  @unitedfools3493  Greenwald is a libertarian. Look at his work in Salon and lefty critiques of his work with Snowden. It was always there to see, which is why some of us were reluctant to get fully on board with him.
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  1280. ​ @franciscobassi3597  According to Allan Lichtman he can.
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  1281.  @Kyarrix  I get what you are saying. My thought process is that this might already be someone who is pretty solidified in his views, and the intended audience wasn't the caller but someone who might be on the fence.
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  1282. She went to Washington to play important political figure while Don Jr. and Eric put their signatures on things.
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  1283. Literally and figuratively
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  1284.  Tony Mario  The people who are fine with tens of thousands of people dying every year for lack of money when we could just treat it as a public service and pay for it that way, like we do with education, police, and fire.
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  1285.  @CaBobProductions  It wasn't a hard right crowd, but it wasn't a Bernie crowd, either. Given the survey and the call and response at the end, I think that he won some people over. Don't forget the All In Trump Country town halls with Chris Hayes in McDowell County, WV, and Kenosha, WI. He was on stage with Trump supporters, and he won them over.
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  1286. This is an example of why we need to get money out of politics.
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  1287. Indeed. I made an error on my taxes a couple of times over a decade ago. Once, I inverted numbers when filling out my form and was actually owed an extra $30 or so. Another time, I misunderstood the wording on the EITC and thought that because my then-wife was under 25, I was ineligible. The IRS told me to call, explained the error both times, and they made sure that I got every penny I was owed. Funny how they actually make sure that the people who do the right thing don't get punished.
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  1288.  @zappafan1176  Oh, look. The train of people who say things they know nothing about has entered right on time.
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  1289.  @andrewfrank8272  If you get paid $100 million to interview people, you should be held to basic journalism standards.
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  1290. Also, do you think that randomly applying tariffs and losing the trade war as evidenced by the increasing trade deficit, all while trying to save a corrupt Chinese country is ending the bad trade deals and standing up for American workers? In a related note, can you name any substantial differences between NAFTA and the USMCA?
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  1291.  @Greendalewitch  Yes! Sign up for a shift knocking on doors and making calls.
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  1292.  @barbiquearea  Well, he did lose his job. Now, he needs to spend the rest of his life in prison. Minnesota has no death penalty, so he'll have a long time to think about what he did.
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  1293. "All of you fascists bound to lose." Woody Guthrie
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  1294.  @vondondolo1582  The evidence was there for all to see who she really was.
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  1295. @Gamacide Biggs That's not even close to true.
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  1296. @Gamacide Biggs Show me the last Supreme Court Justice who was a judge for 20 years, let alone 30, before his/her appointment. Not an elevation, but someone getting to the Supreme Court with 20 years experience. Ever since the cynical move of Thomas, the trend has been going toward younger appointees so they'll be there a long time.
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  1297.  @Ascend777  You'd be surprised. Go watch the video of Ron Paul in a debate where he's asked if a 30-year-old who gets sick without health insurance should die. Paul tries desperately to avoid saying Yes, but several audience members yell it out.
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  1298.  @p.chuckmoralesesquire3965  What are some of his funny bits? I keep asking this question of several people, but have yet to get an answer.
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  1299.  @tsarinaballerina4  Personally, I think that and the true crime stuff are their masterpieces. The expensive food stuff is ridiculous, but Weird and/or Wonderful World was also pretty good, but the pandemic seems to have killed that one.
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  1300. This looks an awful lot like John Adams loading the bench after he lost to Jefferson in 1800. I'm not saying that Republicans are going the way of the Federalists, but this is a sign of a desperate party that knows that its days in power are numbered.
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  1301. You sound like one of these people who don't understand how math works and thinks that you can just demand stuff and get what you want.
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  1302. I hate the "worst trait" question. It's pretty much always an excuse for a humble brag.
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  1303.  @robertreese1275  Imagine blindly following a right-wing grifter who admits that he is an idiot and gets literally every prediction wrong.
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  1304.  @alabamamandeluxe7070  Or did you get lonely and needed to create a new imaginary friend?
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  1305. You're the ones who think the runner-up becomes President, not us.
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  1306. ​ @nura1627  I think it had something to do with some dispute about dumping stuff o his lawn. And then, this paragon of freedom went to Canada for treatment with their evil single payer.
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  1307.  ppm120667  You mean the party that Republicans prop up when they think there will be a close election in a state? The party that couldn't be bothered to get 2000 legal signatures without putting false information about their own vice presidential candidate in Wisconsin and then waited two weeks to sue and nearly caused municipal clerks to send out ballots late? You mean that Green Party?
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  1308. Jimmy Dore is controlled opposition. He gets people to focus on symbols rather than results, and he spends most of his time dumping on the one group that can actually get things done.
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  1309. Ranked Choice Voting would be very good, but the single best thing we could do is have publicly funded campaigns. The money is the biggest factor.
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  1310.  @michaellovullo7363  I see you mentioned deplorables three times. So, calling a bunch of racists deplorable really set you off? Interesting. Still, my point wasn't that Hillary is great, but that she is less bad than Trump. 1) Would have nominated Garland or someone to his left to replace Scalia 2) Every RBG health scare wouldn't be a major cause of dread about getting every good bill overturned by the Supreme Court 3) the Kurds 4) wouldn't be kidding Putin's butt 5) would have actually got out in the rain to walk with other leaders to the centennial of the end if WWI But, yeah, they are exactly the same.
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  1311. @Rachel Barker Wrong. He was suspended because he said that the media exaggerated anti-semitism in Labour, and he wanted to get rid of it.
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  1312.  @guynorth3277  Dog whistle much? She's been in America for 40 years. This is her third term. There have been people elected Speaker in literally their first term. The average over the last few decades seems to be about 10-20 years in Congress to get to the party leader position.
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  1313.  @Slo-ryde  Except Bernie can point to decades of accomplishing things as an elected official and being at the vanguard of a statewide political realignment (before Bernie got elected to Congress, only one Democrat had ever been elected to the Senate from Vermont in its entire history, and it only ever went blue in 1964, even voting for Alf Landon in 1936). What can Cenk point to?
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  1314. They should have a kill switch. That should be the only change. If Biden is supposed to get two minutes uninterrupted, Donny can't talk.
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  1315.  @mjchakos1  So, the point is that Arizona is not West Virginia. Manchin had to overcome R +39 to hold his seat. Sinema didn't, and her state has been moving steadily to port for the last 10 years.
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  1316. It's not the fault of The Beverly Hillbillies.
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  1317. What makes it even worse is that there are people who got coronavirus a second time, so even letting millions of people die still won't lead to immunity.
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  1318. You mean the rally scheduled ten days before the special election in Ohio where he trashed Nina Turner while his wife was giving money to a Republican Congressional candidate in Arizona running against a sponsor of Medicare for All, and the rallies were so poorly planned that I am on the mailing lists of multiple sponsors in Philadelphia, and I didn't hear about it until the YouTube comment section a few hours before the rally? Yeah, he's real serious about Medicare for All.
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  1319.  @blaze556922  I never understood that at all. The baby boom generation was the first one whose parents actually made sure that they had the best they could afford. I am paying way more in rent than I otherwise would so my daughter can get a quality education, because I don't want her to get to high school age and have to go to a school with curtains falling off the rod because they're all torn and whatever the equivalent at the time will be of having an Apple II plus in a chemistry lab in 1998 or doing a computer class on an Apple IIe in 1992. Then again, when I invite my parents and my niece to visit (my brother refused, saying that he didn't want to drive in the big city, even though I now live in the suburbs), my brother's girlfriend is furious that I take her to do fun things because she didn't get to. Well, I didn't get to do a lot of things that I wanted to do growing up, so I'm trying to make sure my daughter can. (Except she wants to go to Disney World, which I can't afford, but at least I take her to a lot of other attractions close by.) If those are things about your childhood that you didn't like, why force them on your child?
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  1320.  @varun009  Would you rather have six more years of Lindsey Graham?
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  1321.  @anonmist2529  Who is replacing Manchin? He is literally the hardest to port who can still win statewide in West Virginia. What we need to do is actually add members in 2022 in places like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and maybe North Carolina. If you want to actually gain power, you do it by adding, not subtracting. By all means, primary Sinema. If there is any halfway decent candidate, I will throw a few dollars his/her way, but we're stuck with her for the next three years, and we are stuck with her and Manchin as the 49th and 50th votes for the next 14 months.
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  1322.  @Omegafox411  Define communist, and which policies in California fit that mold.
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  1323.  @west221b  Agreed that there are systemic issues, but the point that I was making is that there are plenty of Christians who oppose those systems and plenty who support them. You could argue that it's a question of how seriously people take the book that they claim to revere, but that's a question for another day.
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  1324.  @justatiger6268  So, a country makes an argument for expansion, or living space if you will, in order to gain economic power, insisting on looking for people with ethnic ties in other countries should be a part of theirs. Gee, where have I heard this before?
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  1325. Does he also have some if your free time to convince others? We can do this!
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  1326. I get that the transition was jarring, but how is selling things that are expensive and literally kill people similar to selling ads for a company that sells how-to classes online?
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  1327. What do you mean "no ideas"? Rubin even has take a vacation to recover from his high-level i-DEE-uhs.
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  1328.  @steakcrust558  That, and, "I'm calmer than you are."
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  1329. "Because there's a man inside me, and he's desperate to come out." Tobias Funke
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  1330. I know these libertarian callers are all in favor of drug legalization, but just maybe they shouldn't use before they call to defend their positions.
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  1331.  @virgie4715  Point Pleasant is in the Western part of the state, but indeed, Scarberry is a common name. When I lived in Jackson County (northeast of Mason County where the Mothman was), I knew an Army sergeant with that name.
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  1332. 40 year old for Bernie.
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  1333.  @mjchakos1  Wrong. The Mueller Report did not answer the question of what Trump did, because that was not its charge. It did, however, find ten instances of obstruction of justice by Trump, several of his campaign staffers were indicted and convicted, and Mueller absolutely refused to say that his report exonerated Trump when he testified before Congress. Looks like you've got rose-colored glasses on.
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  1334. Jimmy Dore isn't one of us. He only pretends to be left to help Republicans.
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  1335.  @belkyhernandez8281  Yang is worse. He's libertarian.
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  1336. "Kanye West is an artist, not a speaker." Kanye West literally rose to fame by speaking rhymes over records.
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  1337. ​ @octavianpopescu4776  Race is whatever is convenient for the dominant group. If you have Native American ancestry, you have to be at least 1/4 ancestry in order to count. This is extremely controversial in many tribal communities, which is why Elizabeth Warren stepped in it even if she was full-blooded Cherokee when she took that DNA test.
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  1338.  Goodwins all access Media service provider  So, we execute people for counterfeiting? That's even if George Floyd was guilty.
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  1339.  @jamescoogan1137  The problem isn't with the interview style. The problem is with people who deny reality. What interview style do you think would actually work with the Trump cult?
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  1340. I have a plan my union negotiated. Please, take away my Aetna and force me to take Medicare for All!
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  1341.  @Addamo  Tulsi told Anderson Cooper that getting rid of private insurance is un-American. That is not "almost as good."
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  1342.  @sly5190  Is he a comedian, or is he a political commentator? If he is making money doing political commentary, he doesn't get to hide behind being a stupid comedian.
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  1343. Really? Yet more proof that Krystal Ball is not your friend.
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  1344. Republicans want to emulate Chile during the Pinochet years in terms of economics.
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  1345. I have a four year old daughter who I think is quite cute. However, I neither wish she were my daughter or were of legal age, because I am not disgusting.
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  1346. ​ @watata1t  And you answered your own question. Merrick Garland is so obsessed with "not looking partisan" that he bends over backwards to the whims of Trump and his supporters.
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  1347.  ralphy 36  "Remember, it's not a lie if you believe it." George Costanza
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  1348. ​ @the_dj_wood  David didn't say they were. He only said that he didn't want to support any charity without first doing his due diligence.
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  1349. "You paid people more money not to work than to work." Well, Mr. McGraw, maybe the problem is that people weren't paid enough in the first place.
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  1350. Glad to see that you finally admit that Bernie is the only good candidate!
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  1351.  @waterfrodo4304  Ignore Aaron. This sad excuse for a troll has at least eight or nine accounts, and often rotates from one to the other in order to agree with himself. His game got discovered when he forgot which account he was signed in with and ended up replying to someone with the wrong username. Sad.
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  1352. @Theodore Hartman Well, what do you want to do about it, or are you just going full doomer and saying nothing can be done?
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  1353.  @s7robin105  Which is what is so saddening. He can be so much better and often is, but his foreign policy takes can be awful sometimes.
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  1354. In 2016, I described Bill Clinton flailing on the campaign as Willie Mays with the Mets. I wouldn't say that about Biden, because he wasn't that skilled to begin with.
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  1355.  @newbieprepper8451  By definition, he is a killer. If you want to argue murder, so be it, but he is a killer. He killed two people and tried to kill more.
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  1356.  @whyamimrpink78  This shows yet another example of your ignorance and thinking you have won. He isn't the cancer patient, Einstein.
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  1357. Breaking News: Aaron Dickson's lying streak... continues.
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  1358. "I call it Big DeSantis Energy." Does that mean that she is saying that DeSantis is a big tool or that he has one?
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  1359.  @billygibbs9866  Jacking up the bills every year out of sheer greed is the real evil.
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  1360. Indeed. It wouldn't have even taken a great response (See: Bush, George W.), but just about any positive response at all would have given him a boost that would have gotten him over the line. I dealt with some right wing troll earlier today masquerading as a Never Biden lefty who was complaining that Trump would have won if not for coronavirus. You mean failing on the job resulted in losing that job? No!
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  1361.  @AthenaGate  And it is highly regulated in Switzerland. And they don't need a gun to feel important, either.
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  1362. Man, oh, man, Aaron is really getting delusional!
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  1363.  @jdirty3460  What is the middle ground between "government should exist and serves an important purpose" and "government should do the absolute minimum"? Where should each one concede?
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  1364.  @AKeyearea8  I can give you a list: 1) Libertarian notions are based on ideology rather than actual examination of the facts. 2) When competing claims of freedom exist, libertarians almost always side with the rich and big business. 3) Libertarians oppose civil rights, not realizing that the government can actually protect rights. 4) When I ask a libertarian a follow up question, I never get a straight answer. 5) The militia version and their economic notions of it being theft to have a minimum standard of payment but not to conspire with other businesses to keep wages down will ultimately lead to a return to feudalism at best, and tribal warlords at worst.
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  1365.  @AKeyearea8  "government is useless" and "I'm open minded to fact" are contradictory. Internet, roads, bridges, schools, rural electricity, libraries, cleaner air and water, etc., completely nullify your first statement.
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  1366.  @AKeyearea8  You don't ever side with the rich? Do you believe in the right to organized labor? Do you oppose the minimum wage? Progressive taxation? Anti-trust laws?
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  1367.  @dala7862  Actually, 1978 was the point where wages started to stagnate. Reagan cemented it.
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  1368. Maybe it wasn't so hypothetical after all. For all we know, this winner is one of these goofy tax protestors who just hasn't been busted yet.
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  1369.  @xiam5941  Pre-industrial society where might made right, and it didn't work, so it was abandoned, because surprise, surprise, if you have no restrictions on greedy people doing whatever they want to screw people, they will continue to do so. And you can say that that there is no slavery under your system, but others have said that if both sides agree (for example: to pay a debt), then it should be allowed.
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  1370.  @robinsss  Note that I said poison that is being sold as medicine. There are poison labels, but the poisonous effect on humans is when it is not used in its intended fashion. Poison masquerading as medicine is being used as directed.
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  1371.  @robinsss  Are you going the semantic route to try to ignore the question? I'll put as clear as I can. The underlying question was about companies hiding the harm that their products do by making the assumption that it would be cheaper to pay a lawsuit than to fix the glitch. Sam mentioned several products that caused immense harm to people because of corporate indifference to such harm, including death. If you can't think of any medical product that will kill patients when used as directed, that is because the FDA is doing its job. However, you seem to be advocating a world where it is legal to sell such products as long as someone puts a warning label on them, because freedom. Why is that preferable to banning its sale?
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  1372.  Alabama Man 2.0  "while y'all can't even pass a simple reconciliation bill when you hold the WH, the House and the Senate" I guess you forgot all about the American Health Care Act to try to repeal the ACA in 2017. Then again, being a right winger involves a memory like a goldfish, so I'm not surprised.
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  1373. Lewis Black was right when he said that when people get too much money, it leads you to bad places because you feel the need to one-up the other rich people. Apparently, some of these rich people decided that hookers weren't enough of a thrill and just decided to go evil.
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  1374.  @danielmikula1375  It was intentional. A lot of Begich supporters hated Palin, and every H2H poll showed Begich winning if he made the top two and Palin losing. The mere fact that Peltola got over 30% of Begich voters should say it all.
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  1375. And imagine all of the money he was leaving on the table when he healed all of those people. Why Lazarus alone would have meant that he could have bribed Pilate and not gotten crucified!
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  1376. You are aware that Ukraine borders other countries that are NATO members, right? 84 years ago, you would have been saying that Czechoslovakia isn't our problem.
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  1377.  @paulzoom489  Dore isn't left, and Maher identifies as a libertarian. Funny that you look for converts, but the examples you cite aren't even left.
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  1378. His cousin, Mara Wilson, is secular and by all accounts seems to be on the left politically. Does he think Matilda is a "bad Jew"? I would call him a POS, but manure is useful.
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  1379.  @ellenstonehill678  *Tulsi, who not only opposed Medicare for All, but did so in a way that spread misinformation about what it actually was, calling one of the key elements of it "un-American," and is now partnering with PragerU. At least Michael Bloomberg was honest about his awfulness.
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  1380.  @damionalbarr7961  Oh, we know she doesn't mean it. The shock is that she would even go through the motions.
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  1381.  @FelisImpurrator  That's the best one I've been able come up with. Either that, or "anything we don't like."
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  1382.  @kiwimaracuia9834  Someone doesn't get the context of the line.
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  1383.  @fionarofl  I'm sure if someone offered money, they'd take it.
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  1384.  @antonyhanson4479  Yes, because pointing out Jimmy's ability to pick 'em means that he is the one who caused this heel turn that anyone with the slightest political understanding could have seen coming a mile away.
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  1385.  Amerikan Idiot  There was literally a zero chance that anyone other than Biden or Trump would win after the primary was over. What did you do to help Bernie win?
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  1386.  @jackeagleeye3453  Indeed. I do not understand the reflexive anti-government take at all.
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  1387.  @RojirigoD  Indeed. And as a veteran who actually treated prisoners of war properly and made sure everyone else did when I was sergeant of the guard, I find her defense of torture and going all Walter Sobchak when someone calls her out on it especially angering. It is an insult to me and every other person who did the right thing.
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  1388. By that logic, Dave Rubin is the greatest interviewer of our time. The job of an interviewer is to help the audience learn something, not to be a stenographer.
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  1389.  @Zach-ju5vi  If you are so certain that happens, what is your evidence?
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  1390.  @reaperbot  Define "barely leans right." Their entire raison d'etre is to argue for lower taxes on rich people and businesses. When it comes to economics, that is literally the sum total of the goals of the right.
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  1391.  @-suphur  Not if you change the filibuster rules. They are the only two Democrats opposed to it.
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  1392. Indeed. I liked him so much better as a preppie. Maybe because this is who he really is. Still, it says something when a preppie is your best (or, more accurately, least bad) self.
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  1393.  @mattw7057  But she lets open violations of the Constitution and threatening an ally in order to get dirt on an opponent go unchallenged? Nixon was forced out for much less.
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  1394.  @Zach-ju5vi  If we tax companies, we will use it to build the infrastructure to improve logistics and develop talent to make better hires. In 2017, Mnuchin was at a meeting of executives and asked how many would use the (then-potential) tax cuts to invest back in the company or hiring people. Five said yes in a room of hundreds. Most of the money from the corporate tax cuts went to stock buybacks. How is that circulating money? Send the money where it actually gets spent, and the economy will grow.
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  1395. Oh, Jamie. How are you so easily missing the point? As far as "this limited point" goes, he is arguing that the private sector can get the word out about nutrition without realizing that the only ones who have the resources to pay for nutrition studies, if the government is taken out of the picture, are companies whose vested interests are that the food that they make is nutritious whether or not that is true.
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  1396.  Peder Hansen  A lot of people who come to these boards swear up and down that they don't like Ben Shapiro, but they sure do spend a lot of time defending him.
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  1397. More harm, I think, because he steers people to misinformation and away from anything constructive. At least the MSM is honest about its intent.
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  1398.  @fatbachelors3922  Conspiracy theories such as 9/11 Truth and "the Syrian rebels used gas on themselves," for starters.
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  1399.  @boofmcgoof1534  I would ask Hillary for campaign advice. Of course, I would do so in order to know what not to do...
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  1400. The exact phrase was "extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the defense of justice is no virtue." The sad thing is that the GOP shifted so far to the right that in his lifetime he actually became a moderate in comparison. I remember giving a speech at a Young Dems event where I said that we needed to stop meeting the Republicans halfway or before we know it, Newt Gingrich would be considered a liberal. The line got laughs, but seven years later, him acknowledging the reality of the climate and supporting the individual mandate meant he wasn't far enough to the right for the GOP.
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  1401.  @lassesaikkonen501  Oh, I'm sorry, I thought we were talking about you treating Richard Dawkins as infallible because he said other things that you like.
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  1402. There is no way that Sinema gets a job as a lobbyist. Never mind the fact that she's incredibly lazy and lobbyist is an actual job where they expect results, there are two things that a lobbyist needs: expertise on an issue and good relations with members of Congress. She has neither. Being a talking head is easy and lucrative, so expect to see her on Fox in a couple years.
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  1403. If they want to complain about the bill being so big, maybe they should get rid of the silent filibuster and supermajority requirement so we don't just get one bite at the apple every year.
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  1404. 2:33 You can see the exact moment where Vance knows he's been had.
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  1405. @Slava Ukraine And as someone else pointed out, NATO expanded because those other countries asked to join. Maybe if Putin would stop invading his neighbors, NATO wouldn't be such an attractive option.
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  1406.  @mayavox  You're extremely ignorant, because all of those countries have much more stringent regulations of health insurance, and the other countries that allow supplementary insurance like Canada don't have as much coverage as Medicare for All offers. Then again, I'm not defending a fake lefty who still apparently has some people fooled.
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  1407. This guy: Marjorie Taylor Greene wasn't comparing this to the Holocaust, so let me go ahead and point out how this is heading down the road to the Holocaust.
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  1408.  @jessea5044  She'll be replaced by Ruben Gallego. The Democratic Senator who is actually doing what his constituents want him to do in Arizona actually has higher approval ratings. Imagine that!
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  1409.  @aa-id7li  I am a veteran, and it is always awkward when people find out that I am a veteran in the middle of a story and thank me mid-sentence like they have Thank You Tourette's or something.
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  1410.  @in_wino_veritas  Actually, she decided not to run for re-election when she saw the writing on the wall in 2019.
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  1411.  @DOGbackwardz  The stuff in 2015 that you mention was the grift. At the same time she was calling out the DNC, she was voting with Republicans to make it harder for refugees to enter the country. She only supported Bernie to fend off a primary opponent to her left. The fact that she angled to be Trump's secretary of state should tell you all need to know about the reward she really wanted.
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  1412. I get the suspicion that the books around him would be like the books in the Beauty and the Beast room in BoJack Horseman.
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  1413.  @seanmaddex4104  True that everyone gets help. The bigger overall problem with how the meritocracy argument has evolved is that it is an excuse to continue the inequality because of the lie that everyone has an equal chance. I'm not even begrudging people who want to do the best for their children. I personally am paying way more in rent than I otherwise would so my daughter can get into a great school district. One thing that experience has taught me is that these districts, in the words of Harold Abrahams in Chariots of Fire, jealously guard their corridors. My custody agreement has always been 50/50, but I had to slightly rework it so that 50/50 also included school nights and because I rent, I have to verify my residence every year. And the district makes clear that they will check and they'll make you pay the equivalent of a year's tuition, or about $20,000, if your child is not eligible and deny entry the next year. The real problem is not just the inequality, but the way people who have advantage perpetuate it.
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  1414.  @caroljo420  What do we do in the meantime? We're talking about three years of being stuck with this woman.
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  1415. He has slightly more self-awareness than Rod Blagojevich. Hooray!
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  1416.  @alabamaman9476  Oh, look. A triggered right winger. What a shock. I didn't think it snowed that much in Alabama, because the snowflakes are coming out.
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  1417.  @DavidWest2  Redemption requires true repentance. The amount of atonement necessary to show repentance depends on how much damage they did with their support.
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  1418.  @anonymoose116  Claiming to be a messiah, insisting that followers turn over all their possessions and the men practice celibacy while he drives a sportscar and has sex with the women and with girls as young as 11. No, there's nothing cultish there at all.
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  1419. It takes time to build a successful movement. Bernie turned out to be our Moses showing the way, but if we do the actual work, we'll get our Joshua.
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  1420. Thank you to everyone who lived in a swing state in 2000 and 2016 who voted third party because Al Gore and Hillary Clinton weren't pure enough for you. They wouldn't have had the members of the Supreme Court to pull his off without you.
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  1421. I keep hearing that Biden came to the Senate to "fight for civil rights." If so, he didn't seem to last very long before lining up with segregationists against busing.
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  1422. That's already happened to the point where the 11th Circuit sent out a oress release saying they will no longer take them.
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  1423. ​ @Yatra-kj3zq  What work did he actually do? He was the money man. He bought in early on Tesla, and the company needs subsidies to survive. He also relies on subsidies for SpaceX.
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  1424. Another concern about an impending crash: the price to earnings ratio of the S&P is higher than it was for the Nasdaq at the height of the dot-com bubble. These stocks are seriously overpriced.
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  1425.  elijah mikle  Well, I did see a story where he tried to talk her into releasing a sex tape. No one can tell me that he didn't do something to her. Marla Maples will always be the best mother of the three because she had the good sense to keep Tiffany far away from him.
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  1426. Indeed. Putin could end this today if he wanted to by withdrawing from all Ukrainian territory.
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  1427. 50 years. He's just been doing it in Washington for 30 years.
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  1428. @Derek Stairs I'm a guy, and I don't live in Michigan. Enjoy the red mirage.
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  1429.  @VMonkies  You are so right about the low-information voters. I keep hearing how she supported Bernie in 2016, but does that excuse every awful thing she did before or since? Unlike math, the transitive property does not work in politics.
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  1430. Less roads, bridges, hospitals, and schools getting funded, Red Brown Troll.
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  1431. I don't even think they'll give him immunity. The real goal is delay, and they have already succeeded. After all, why give immunity so someone they don't like can use it?
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  1432.  @numinous123  These notjobs think that demanding a vote when you know it will fail miserably and burning bridges is "fighting."
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  1433.  @garysmokesmeat  Deregulation started in 1978, so another swing and a miss.
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  1434.  @garysmokesmeat  "any same person knows it was extremely unregulated compared to today" Tell that to the trucking, airline, and telecommunications industries. The Dunning-Kruger is strong.
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  1435.  @garysmokesmeat  Or, and trying to give you a lifeline here, are you trying to say that there was less regulation in the 1950s because there was no OSHA, MSHA, or EPA? If so, for someone who claims to take the "moral" position, it sure is ironic that you are defending the right of the employer to force workers into unsafe conditions, not pay for the equipment to lessen the chance of workers getting black lung, and to pollute the water and air with impunity. For someone who loves to talk about "violence," what about the violence of damaging the air that we breathe and the water that we drink?
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  1436.  @maskedcritic  There are rules. Those rules for ballot access apply to everyone, and they are strictly followed to the letter. If they don't, then it makes certification of candidates next to impossible because there will always be fights about who it is "fair" to let on the ballot. The Wisconsin Green Party knew those rules, and they didn't follow them. The elections board was still willing to give them another chance by letting them fill out an affidavit to explain the discrepancy. Not only did they not bother, but they waited two weeks after the deadline and used Republican lawyers to sue. They were never on the ballot on the first place, and if they had succeeded, the absentee ballots would have gone out too late for tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of Wisconsinites to vote. That's the real assault on democracy.
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  1437. He was the logical conclusion of 40 years of awful.
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  1438. Conshohocken resident here. So glad to vote for Fetterman rather than just against Oz. I got to see him as part of a Bernie rally at Philadelphia City Hall in 2018. Here's hoping he can bring that Klingon energy to Washington.
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  1439. Some are worse.
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  1440.  @stankyfx6001  That must be why she spent the primary literally living in New Hampshire trying to appeal Republicans and managed to earn a whopping one delegate.
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  1441.  @Juicebrainjoe  But takes Assad and RT money.
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  1442.  @Juicebrainjoe  So, your source is a pro-Assad group? Yeah, that's powerful evidence.
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  1443. Do actual organizing to get members on board. When you get the magic number, demand that they sign the discharge petition. What have you actually done to build support for Medicare for All?
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  1444.  @jftt42  Well, she does blame everyone else for losing...
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  1445. The people who insist that there is no difference or people like Krystal Ball insisting that things haven't changed under Trump are people who are enjoying their privilege and don't care about the millions who have been hurt. If someone is going to brag about being too cool for school and voting third party, that person almost certainly just doesn't care about other people and deserves all of the scorn he/she gets. P.S. I know people in safe states who have said that they are not voting for Biden out of protest. They are not on public forums trying to dissuade people from voting for Biden. That's not who I am talking about.
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  1446. ​ @ErenYaegerPhilosophy  Sadly, some people seem to think that "fixing inflation" means prices going back to 2019 levels, which would cause an economic depression. "I love the poorly educated!" Der Orangefuhrer
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  1447.  @frankpasini4304  You mean the polls that said that he had a 35% chance of winning the morning of the election, and were within the margin of error both nationally and in all but two states, one of which hadn't been polled since September?
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  1448.  @LD86  Indeed
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  1449.  @Isosyth  He has done that plenty of times. He talked about working with Cernovich to stop war.
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  1450.  @generalmartok3990  I remember it vaguely when seeing his special, which was anything but. It was the level of a bad Borscht Belt comedian.
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  1451.  @davidhuston495  And the owners are doing everything they can to jack up the prices to make it next to impossible for most people to buy a house. How are you going to save up $70,000 (20% of the cost of the average house in America) when a third to a half of your income is going toward paying rent?
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  1452.  Owen  It's mockery of something a Libertarian candidate said at one of their conventions.
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  1453.  @synchronium24  [insert Al Gore sigh here] Saagar Enjeti is absolutely not economically left. When has he ever supported raising taxes for the rich, increasing Social Security, enacting Medicare for All, raising the minimum wage, free college tuition, student and medical debt forgiveness, or anything to actual help the poor and working people? And don't give me UBI, because there is a left version, and there is a right version. The way you can tell the difference is what they do to the existing social safety net. And don't give me that he rails against the "corporate elite." So does Rand Paul, but there's no teeth behind it.
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  1454.  @mattl5470  Indeed, these were thorny issues, but she seems to be glossing over them completely. Considering how many times the United States supported fascists in coups against socialist or Marxist governments, which then killed thousands of their own citizens, this is hardly an example of saving lives or employing some scientists.
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  1455.  @imperialmotoring3789  Greed is literally baked into the system for business. The mere fact that you can actually think of no examples shows just how ridiculous you really are. First of all, it hasn't been anywhere near 100B, so it's your attention to detail that I find so impressive. Second of all, containing a war criminal who is making the Lebensraum argument and exposing the weakness of our enemies is always a good decision. Funny how the person talking about how bad government is turns out to be the person who wants to help out a loud and proud authoritarian.
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  1456. When I was in Iraq and Kuwait, my National Guard unit had trucks that predated the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. Our "new" trucks were from the 1970s (this in 2003-04). In my experience, not enough money goes to low-ticket items, and too much to wasteful systems that are either unnecessary or don't work. We could cut expensive weapons in half and not miss them, put extra money in things personnel actually need, and still have $100B left over easily.
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  1457. If you spend most of your time complaining about someone who makes a little bit less than you do instead of someone who gets more in a day than you do in a year, you're doing it wrong.
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  1458. Didn't the TYT pledge also say that they wouldn't take dark money? Her pledge is meaningless when she contradicts it.
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  1459. And she kept lying about what Sam said. Almost as if she was acting in... bad faith.
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  1460. Three years to go. Get to work, Arizona!
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  1461.  @cwx8  Children under 12 can't take it. And the longer people ignore the fact that we live in a society, the more chances this thing has to mutate to a form that vaccines aren't nearly as effective in preventing.
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  1462.  @dariondonte8386  Indeed. If he were a right wing troll trying to sabotage the left, would he behave any differently?
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  1463.  @cornoc  Okay. Thank you for the explanation. If you are an MD, you probably still have some basic medical knowledge, so you can probably help out.
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  1464.  @tyronnemoss  In 2020, he bragged to Joe Rogan about not voting because the polling place was at a fire station and "looked dirty." Some populist! And this was a person who started a group dedicated to electing down ballot candidates who said that it didn't matter in the end because he is "in a safe state." There were some key state legislative races, Kyle.
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  1465. ​ @traviswebb3532  Aaron is the most notorious troll on this channel. He is a sad and lonely boy because he has to make up dozens of usernames in order to pretend to have friends.
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  1466. ​ @adonaiabaddon93  His real name is Aaron Dickson.
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  1467. ​ @Whoyouwishyouwere  NATO members don't pay dues. And if you can't appreciate the lack of self-awareness of someone notorious for not paying his bills to say "you've gotta pay," that's not our problem.
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  1468.  @supernaturalcrimeguru5070  You make more money as a leader, but you have more fun as a follower.
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  1469. I had a similar experience in 2013. Someone was complaining about the evil Obamacare, and I asked him if he wanted to go back to the bad old days of people being denied coverage for being sick. He insisted he didn't, so I asked him what he wanted to do instead, and except for the mandate, he described the ACA perfectly.
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  1470.  @LeonardLeon  It's where rich people schmooze. Mini golf is pretty fun, though, but that's more about the obstacles.
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  1471. "Lowest ever recorded by a President in this century." Bush had 25% in 2008. The right-wing memory hole continues.
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  1472. Even the time where Rubin talked about getting laughs?
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  1473.  @smtpgirl  I think so, too. I don't think that we will necessarily get the realignment that we wanted, but I do hope that enough people have finally realized that you can't work with people who want you dead.
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  1474.  @JustMe-ec2ph  And that is why you're not Bernie. He isn't guided by ego, but by trying to make the world a better place.
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  1475. I swear, these people are Underpants Gnomes. Forcing a vote and losing spectacularly makes you look weak, and it ruins any goodwill for things that we have a chance for like a living wage and Student Loan Forgiveness.
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  1476.  @AlabamaMan-mp9yq  [citation needed]
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  1477. 9:43 Darn right, Sam! Generation X representing!
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  1478. It already had been substantiated. RIP Buttigeg Campaign
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  1479.  @smartass0124  Yeah, autocorrect isn't what made you swallow a few words, either. Even changing that word doesn't make what you wrote sound any more coherent.
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  1480. That's not true! They care deeply about the freedom to starve. That's real freedom to them.
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  1481.  @jackgarrison8497  Except he said "I am work with."
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  1482.  @tomitstube  A small part of me died though seeing Krist Novoselic defend the actions of police in the wake of the George Floyd protests. If you would have guessed between the two that Axl Rose would have taken the side of BLM, you would have won a lot of bets.
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  1483.  Bob upnkiss  Hopefully, one of them gets a good enough cell phone reception to call in soon.
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  1484.  @studiodevelopers2467  True, but elite YouTubers can make a huge difference if they support the union. Look at SAG. Do you think it would help working actors as much if big actors decided that they were too big for the union?
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  1485.  Janet Baker  You mean go watch the liar who praised the Boogaloo Boys?
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  1486.  @thisrichbastard.809  PED stands for performance enhancing drugs. How can you follow sports and totally miss that acronym, especially contact sports?
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  1487. For years, they kept insisting that Obama would try to suspend the Constitution to stay in office. Yet, they have nothing to say about this foray into fascism.
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  1488. He fell down the anti-anti-Trump spider hole. That, and he always had a big libertarian streak (at one point, he supported Ron Paul). The Snowden thing made him a hero among the anti-government lefty types, but he's always been bad. The people who are talking with their dismay about what he's become missed that he's always been bad.
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  1489. ​@@Madie839 The American electorate didn't pick him. It really says more about the Foundres being afraid that the people would elect some demagogue and a group of people free to vote for whoever they want wasn't the safeguard they thought it was.
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  1490. If Republicans wanted to work together, welcome aboard, but nothing I have seen in this century suggests that they do.
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  1491.  @arabezjian1386  Hahahahahahahahaha Hold on, let me catch my breath Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
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  1492. Well, millions in the group known as the greatest generation were antifascist and killed for that. I am proud that my grandpa was an antifasicst.
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  1493. That's why it's up to anyone who fell for her grift to expose it. I fell for hers in 2016, and got suspicious when she tried to get a job with Trump and then went to Syria, but seeing the torture interview was the last straw. I thought Yang was putting a good idea out until I saw the fine print. That's why I fight these grifters so hard in the comment section.
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  1494.  @glennfarris305  Let's assume you're right, that it was a bad wheel that wasn't replaced. You know what would prevent them running the train when they refused to replace it? An inspection of the parts, but wouldn't that be, dare I say it... regulation?
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  1495.  @connorbeveridge2006  Unless they are Dave Rubin or Candace Owens level of stupid, he agrees with whoever he hears last.
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  1496.  @markzuckergecko621  Social Security taxes stop completely after $147,000, which makes it a regressive tax. Payroll taxes are the largest source of taxation for a majority of Americans. Unearned income is not subject to it at all. Over the last 40 years, the richest people in America switched their income more and more to sources like stock options and other things subject to capital gains taxes, which means that their total taxation has plummeted in half since the 1960s. In 1967, the wealthiest 400 families paid an effective rate of nearly twice what the poorest 50% did. Now, it is lower.
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  1497. ​ @rightrightrightuhhuhuhhuh6516  Well, not exactly inexplicable. Greenwald was always a libertarian and at one point defended Nazis assaulting people under free speech grounds. Taibbi has always defined himself y what he was against b rather than what he was for.
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  1498. The others are Diet Coke and New Coke. Vote Bernie: he's the real thing!
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  1499.  @funkmike  How inevitable depends on redistricting and whether or not Democrats can pass something to block the voter suppression bills at the state level.
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  1500.  @9Crow  Yeah, that's why he blocked people for tweeting "Debate Sam Seder."
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  1501.  Joe Curr  How much do you get paid every time you copy and paste?
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  1502. I actually once heard, "I don't want the minimum wage to increase because I like the idea of making twice as much as spmeone," and another time when someone making $30K/year thought the progressive income tax was targeting him. Sometimes, the people on the second-lowest rung of the ladder are the cruelest of all.
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  1503. No complaints here. It's truly amazing that they still haven't recalibrated to figure out that anti-abortion posturing only works politically when there is no chance of success.
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  1504. Because if Kyle Kulinski thinks that you are friends, he will never criticize you.
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  1505.  @davidlafleche1142  If not for my work and the work if others like me, there would be no rich people. Productivity has doubled since 1980, but wages have largely remained stagnant while income for the richest 1% has tripled. Therefore, they took the gains from our productivity. Therefore, they stole from the rest of us.
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  1506. And that's why everyone needs to do what he/she can! It isn't enough to vote. Knock on doors, make calls, donate, drive people to polls, write letters to the editor. Every little bit helps!
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  1507.  @michaellovullo7363  If after all this, you really think they are both the same, and that Trump getting two Supreme Court picks doesn't matter, I have to wonder if you have been paying attention.
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  1508. They haven't thought things through. That's why the simplest of follow-up questions trips them up.
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  1509.  @brentnoury7626  I'm guessing that you replied to the wrong person, but let's look at what actually works. Goldwater got routed in 1964, and rather than whine about things being hopeless, people built a movement, and in 16 years, they took over the Republican Party. We are right on the issues, and you want to give up after five. No wonder we can't get anything done. If a bunch of people on the left are just lazy nihilists, maybe we deserve to lose.
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  1510.  @zedwolf1589  And even as a person of faith, I can tell you that no church would want the liability if something happened on its property, and you're asking a lot of people to come in. That sort of thing isn't easy to coordinate, let alone base child care on. It's one thing to say that maybe kids a little bit older don't always need an adult around to go play for an hour or two (my daughter is six, and my rule when she goes to the park or something is that we has to stay where we can both see each other), but to leave kids unsupervised or rely on volunteers all day is ridiculous.
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  1511.  @smartass0124  You disgrace the memory of the late, great Robin Williams by using him as your profile pic. Oh, and here's a secret: he hated Der Orangefuhrer, too.
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  1512.  @DemonDante1000  So, what are you going to do about it? Are you going to sit and smug superiority and lose, or are you going to accept the reality that the vast majority of voters are casual observers at best and try to figure out how to do actual messaging that gets things done?
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  1513. Agreed. She should be much higher on this list.
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  1514.  @GlobohomoGulag4678  As far as the ones most unique to her, she supports a Department of Peace, which was an idea Dennis Kucinich had about 15 years ago for trying nonviolent methods of conflict resolution. While I don't know what the final version of reparations should look like, I applaud her for taking the lead and putting a proposal forward. On the debate stage, she was the first to call the kidnapping at the border what it is.
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  1515. ​ Billy  Record job growth, inflation down, a President who actually respects the Constitution and doesn't want to be a dictator, so I'd say pretty, pretty good.
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  1516. Is the scumbag caller who Sam annihilated over the border policy? If so, he really, really hates other people's kids.
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  1517. He deserves it. I feel sorry for his kids, though.
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  1518.  @in_wino_veritas  She's aged poorly, but a few years ago, she looked much better. She also wasn't doing this weird Elizabeth Holmes thing of artificially dropping her voice. In 2016, she was a mezzo, and two or three years later, she was playing a contralto.
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  1519. It was even closer than that. If Trump had won Georgia (16), Arizona (11), and Wisconsin (10), Biden would be under 270. His combined margin in those three states? 44,000 votes. This is obscene.
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  1520. You mean you don't like that he had no patience with someone unable to make a coherent argument who kept trying to change the subject every time he asked a question?
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  1521. She knows exactly what she is doing. She doesn't care about results, just appearing pure. This grifter is the one who pushed the idea that Bernie could win the primary with 30% because the Not Bernie candidates would never coalesce around one candidate.
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  1522. The difference between Bernie and Marianne Williamson is that he actually worked on building a movement. What movement building has she done in the last three years?
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  1523. He may have seen one, but he doesn't know what to do with one.
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  1524.  Timothy Murphy  Too bad that bankruptcy court in New Jersey didn't take away his personal assets when he used them for collateral the first time he went bankrupt. If they had, he would have been a Where Are They Now figure and Mark Burnett wouldn't have had the skeleton possible to sell the image of The Apprentice. I miss the days when he was a has-been.
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  1525. ​ @Philbert-s2c  Idiocracy means "rule by idiots."
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  1526.  Mari Jayne  Andrew Yang was a libertarian wolf in leftist clothing, but he is removing any and all pretense now.
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  1527.  @theme34xcp  The snake is useful in the Senate. Like it or not, sometimes we have to work with people we don't like.
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  1528. If he bought a brand-new car for $14,000, he bought it 25 years ago. In other words, he is lying.
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  1529. ​ @robinsss  No, but when you start to see the self-centered nature of libertarian thought, that may very well be the catalyst that makes you dig deeper to see if there is anything else where it is just an excuse to be selfish.
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  1530. So sorry they had to suffer for this ideology.
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  1531. Anti-war as a blanket statement is not a left position. There are times when a larger peace requires fighting an existential threat (see: the Civil War, WWII, for example). Taking the Just War Theory seriously is a big step in trying to figure such things out.
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  1532.  @StoveToTheFace  Darn right! They need to go down the triage ladder unless they can document some legitimate medical reason such as being immunocompromised or having allergies to the vaccine.
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  1533.  @chai_2805  It came before her time on The View. Does she mention it? I only ever really see clips, but I've never heard her criticize his treatment of the Khan family.
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  1534.  @fatrobdouble  Glenn Greenwald is literally a libertarian.
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  1535. I guess that Big Orange Dummy is forgetting that the Kurds helped us defeat the Ottomans in WWI, too.
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  1536. The GM strike proved once and for all that there is no such thing as a good employer-based plan, because they wield it like a sword of Damocles to keep wages down and workers in line.
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  1537. He lies more than any candidate not named Donald Trump. His signature proposal is a lie, because he keeps saying that "everyone" gets a thousand bucks a month, but they don't.
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  1538.  @SecularFelinist  Or pretending that the Founders wanted no restrictions or regulations on gun ownership.
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  1539.  @brunopbch  Challenge: Accept the fact that a lot of us here have rejected libertarian thought because we have read it, and realize that it doesn't work.
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  1540. I remember those honesty tests. I took one of them when I applied for a job at a gas station when I was in seminary. The question was if you caught someone in the middle of the act of stealing, and I said that I would warn the person to put it back rather than immediately turn him in. My application was immediately rejected.
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  1541. Find a county or local party organization. Depending on the town size, why not try running for a city council or school board seat? Maybe a state legislative seat.
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  1542. ​ @user-em6ie2be7x  He voted for Biden's judicial picks and he overall voted with the Democrats more often than not. Getting that much out of the state where Trump got his biggest margin in 2016 and one of his biggest in 2020 was nothing short of a miracle in this day and age.
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  1543. His UBI proposal was horrible once you read the fine print.
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  1544.  @literaterose6731  Very interesting journey in the theater world. I did some plays as a kid in the late 80s and early 90s, but being a teenager with a baritone voice and too short and skinny to play adults pretty much ended that. What you said about writing reminded me about something I read that the members of Monty Python didn't really have too many fights about star turns because they saw themselves as writers first and foremost. Even for The Holy Grail, Graham Chapman ended up taking the lead in part because nobody else wanted it and found the side characters more fun to play.
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  1545. The 2008 election was a dealignment. It always takes a while to see if a new alignment can grow from an existing alignment running out of steam. You saw something similar in 1968.
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  1546.  @ritacampbell3833  Not everyone with Native American ancestry is dark skinned. I am 1/8 Native American (my paternal grandfather had one grandmother who was full blooded Cherokee and one who was full blooded Shawnee) and I'm pretty pale. That being said, I can't help but think that the optics of this are bad. (For the record, I have never listed anything other than white when asked for my race.)
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  1547. ​ @dreamboards1056  I really wish I had the money to short that dumpster fire.
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  1548. Oh, that one stands alone. In order to get the equivalent of the King/Rubin treatment, they would have had to keep him on screen and completely ignore him. Still funny, though.
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  1549. Because some people care more about holding power than exercising that power to help people.
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  1550.  @protestssopeacefulweneedad2017  Yeah, because when nearly half of the country insists on spreading its germs because of these conspiracy theories, that counts as effective social distancing.
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  1551. ​ @PraisingWithFriends  So, voting for the one candidate who can win who actually supports democracy is a wasted vote? Yeah, that makes sense.
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  1552. They are a mixture of a cult and bots. He contradicts himself and they won't admit it.
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  1553.  @john.premose  Emphasis on the word yet. He's engaged to a grifter, most of the people he chooses to befriend are grifters, and he is very reluctant to criticize his friends. I lost all respect for him once I heard what he had to say about not voting on Election Night with Joe Rogan and realized that this is nothing more than a game to him.
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  1554.  @erenjeager2277  Employers pay 7%, and employees pay 4% after the first $29,000. Bernie's Workplace Democracy will actually require employers to pass on the savings to the workers.
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  1555. "You go around the city and figure out what it costs and then you collect a fee." Oh, wait! We already have a name for that. It's called taxes. [Insert Dramatic Chipmunk music here]
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  1556.  @redraven_y2k  Darn right! Under no objective definition did she consent to marriage.
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  1557. "We can have publicly-funded elections in the public interest, or we can have privately-funded elections in the private interest." Dennis Kucinich, at a campaign stop in Huntington, WV, 2004
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  1558. That's because he is either stupid, has no integrity, or both. He is a higher decibel Dave Rubin.
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  1559.  @christiangudmundsson8390  I think he dictated it, and then someone cleaned it up a little. If he typed it, it would have been even worse.
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  1560.  @JamesParker1998  There was, except Beetlejuice (spelling of his name changed) was no longer a villain, and it spent more time focused on stuff in the afterlife.
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  1561.  jakiyaful  So, you mean that everyone should put their races on a pedestal? I thought equality was the goal. I'm not talking about pride in your heritage, but supremacism.
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  1562. When the lawyer asking questions can't keep it together in response to the answer, and you aren't trying to tell a joke, you know you've stepped in it.
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  1563. If they understood feudalism, they would have to admit that this is the logical conclusion of what they peddle.
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  1564.  @j0j0dartiste21  I remember that Obama had a joke at the White House Correspondents Dinner. "We can all come together as Americans: black, white, and whatever color John Boehner is." The original orange goof.
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  1565.  @zxy78267  Indeed. This is someone who once said that people don't plead the Fifth if they're innocent.
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  1566.  @jonathanhaun6098  He always loses to the dum-dum left? I take it that you never saw his one debate with your boy Jimmy where literally everything Sam said proved to be right and everything Jimmy said proved to be wrong.
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  1567.  Scott  Did Obama and Biden separate those children from their parents with no intention of ever getting them back together? Did they lie to women to say that they had cancer to sterilize them? The fact that you keep saying "they're the same" and singing off the GOP hymnal shows that you haven't been paying attention. And I don't see Biden talking about becoming President for Life. The fact that you say the they are both the same shows either stupidity or intellectual laziness.
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  1568. I remember quite a few of them trying to insist to me that Yang was the biggest lefty in the race despite running on a rehashed Milton Friedman proposal that he managed to make even worse.
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  1569.  @user-nm3ve5ro2g  What kind of mask are you wearing that no one can hear you when you wear a mask?
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  1570. Why Schiff? Hasn't he been proceeding with his investigation?
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  1571.  @BONES-qm9qd  You mean being named the amendment king in the House, one of the best mayors in America, and leading the effort in the Senate to get the US out of the Saudi-Yemen war where it has passed in each of the last two years? If that's nothing, what has anyone else running actually accomplished?
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  1572.  @RMor66  So did Stephen Hawking. What's your point? Just because someone has trouble hearing doesn't mean that person is incapable of mental tasks.
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  1573.  @filiprochette7793  This isn't hypocrisy, it's a confession that his fans are too stupid to notice.
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  1574.  @selfishcapitalist3523  "What you just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."
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  1575.  @selfishcapitalist3523  You seriously sound as dumb as the libertarians who insist that, because Karl Marx was one of many people in the 19th century to advocate for universal public education, that public education is a communist plot.
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  1576. The people like Harris are New Coke. I want the original.
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  1577.  @1369Stiles  Indeed. Eliminating the cap on Social Security taxes would pay more than twice the projected shortfalls.
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  1578. The NFL will never change its ways as long as it gets rewarded financially and with eyeballs. The fans have to show the shield that they mean business.
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  1579. ​ @petedog9581 That is so unfair! Virgil could do things as long as people weren't watching. He just got nervous.
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  1580.  @hardbodyfitnessandmotivati6743  The mask was off with "Blame me if Trump wins." Have you ever heard him criticize Jimmy Dore, Krystal Ball, or Joe Rogan? At best, he is someone who lets personal relationships cloud his judgment. Hearing someone using elitist arguments against voting was the last straw. (At one point, he made some germaphobic remarks about how dirty polling places were as if absentee ballots aren't a thing.)
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  1581.  @whyamimrpink78  So, I guess all of those White Only and Colored Only signs were fake? No, you're taking the racist position at all.
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  1582. @Dusty Bottoms I don't care about your personal addictions. I am referring to your ridiculous statement before.
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  1583. I am a Christian, so I believe in redemption, but I also believe that redemption requires repentance. If someone shows true repentance, then I will, but if not, I will give them a wide berth.
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  1584.  @2727rogers  Are you serious? Do you get paid to say uninformed things, or is it the smug arrogance of getting something as a birthright that makes you think that you know better than those of us who are in the arena? "You never know until you try"? That may be the least informed thing I have ever seen you utter. Actually, you do know. There is a sponsor list. Even if you ignore that, the Speaker has said she opposes it, no Republican supports it, and with no Republican support, it takes only four No votes from Democrats to torpedo the bill. Even if it does clear that hurdle, it won't clear the Senate, and Biden said he wouldn't sign it. I can say with absolute certainty that it doesn't have the votes. I can also say with absolute certainty that failed health care efforts don't get a second chance in this country. The next time around, you end up with something much weaker. Compare the Truman plan to the Nixon plan to Hillarycare to the ACA (which was the Republican alternative to Hillarycare that Bill threatened to veto because he said it didn't go far enough). We aren't wasting our one chance on virtue signaling. We are going to do the actual work to get to 218 & 50.
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  1585.  @Turbojonny5  Well, Nixon only left because Goldwater told him that there were enough votes to convict in the Senate. Turtle told Trump he could do whatever he wanted as long as he passed tax cuts and gave him judges to confirm. Nixon resigning says more positive things about Republicans in the 1970s than about Nixon. There's a reason why he fought for two years.
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  1586.  @pinkypony2598  There is no such thing as a closed shop. Taft-Hartley prohibits that. If you want to tell stories, at least tell true ones.
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  1587.  @mikejohnson9606  [citation needed]
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  1588.  @AKeyearea8  Fascist libertarian? Maybe by that logic, I'm a tall short person. One use a the government to lord it over a group of people, and the other believes government should be minimal or non-existent.
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  1589.  @xiam5941  So, you can't voluntarily plan things involving lots of people, but you think this will work? [In Dr. Evil voice] Riiight.
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  1590.  @garyhamlin3299  It's kinda hard for something to work when half the country refuses to go along when trying not to spread a contagious disease. Kinda like how some people love to say that government doesn't work, and then when they get elected, they spend all their time trying to prove it.
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  1591.  luvcheney1  Yeah, "voluntary." Try going without it and getting sick, or try having it and getting sick and watch them drag their feet when it comes to paying rather than try to find some technicality so they don't have to pay.
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  1592. And it was over 30% of Begich voters :-D
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  1593.  @Rjasper499  Yes, and that's why the areas with lower vaccination rates are having a spike in cases. I'm sure that's just a big coincidence.
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  1594.  @sargentpilcher  No, Honda uses planned obsolescence as well. Apparently, you don't seem to get that parts are intentionally updated to the point where even if "the engine runs a million miles," there is ultimately something else that can break down before that, and the parts either can't be repaired or are far too expensive to repair given the value of the car.
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  1595.  @sargentpilcher  Yeah, right, like it is easy to get parts on a 30-40 year old car. That's what it would have to be to prove your theory right.
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  1596.  @demonhoopa  Iversen at one point defending David Duke in order to defend Tulsi Gabbard, and she loves the Electoral College because it is anti-democratic.
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  1597.  @miscaccount9438  One is a fascist. The other has a wing that is fine with the status quo and a wing that wants to make things better. Give me the latter any day of the week.
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  1598.  @Couldnteventhink  The American right does not have any positive vision. They are simply anti-left, so they love him to "own the libs."
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  1599.  @charleymartinez-rodriguez8358  In a week, maybe.
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  1600.  Sparky McCloud  True, but it's better to realize your mistake now than before it's too late. We need to look for converts instead of heretics. Complaining when someone now sees the path only discourages others from seeing it. When I was knocking on doors for Bernie in North Philly in January, my canvass partner and I won over a Trump voter. We did it by helping him see a better way after he saw what was wrong. That is what we need to do. If someone is fully in the cult, have at it, but don't go after people who want out.
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  1601.  @belakthrillby  Yes, because the MSM is going to spend a bunch of time covering a message vote that they know will be doomed to fail. Have you been paying attention at all? To the extent that it would be covered, it would be something along the lines of "AOC wasting time pushing for a vote that she knew would fail, and we should trust that Pelosi knows what will pass." So, you get no bill, and you have a group that you have angered who won't give you anything now. Maybe if you spent less time listening to grifters who aren't acting in good faith, you might actually think through to step two. Literally nothing shows that your step two will happen. Far more historically and contemporarily shows the evidence for my version of what would happen next.
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  1602.  @meatrace  "When it comes to regime change wars, I'm a dove. When it comes to the war on terror, I'm a hawk." "If there is someone who possesses information about a nuclear weapon, I will do whatever it takes." "But studies have shown that torture doesn't work." "But some show that torture does." Yes, such a committed advocate for peace.
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  1603. "Everybody's laughing at us!" Moscow Donald, 2016 campaign. Who knew he could see the future?
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  1604. If you'd like better candidates, what are you doing to get better candidates? "Be the change you wish to see."
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  1605. ​ @franklotion7716  Even in Michigan, well over 70% said that she was too strong against Israel or just right. Isolationism is not the winning strategy.
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  1606.  @drifter402  Kennedy and Connally were not sitting directly behind one another, and Connally was leaning backwards when it happened. I saw someone do a shot using gelatin molds and other things like that to mimic human flesh, with an expert marksman firing a stationary shot, and you see similar bullet wounds and a bullet that looks similar to the one found on the stretcher. There are so many better places to look for evidence of a conspiracy.
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  1607.  @FuddlyDud  I am not arguing that the Dakotas should be one state. I am pointing out hypocrisy. As far as your "best argument against statehood," DC as at the mercy of the federal government for just about everything. The federal district was also supposed to be no greater than ten square miles, so that didn't work out as planned, either. The only reason people oppose DC statehood is fear of democracy. Maybe instead of lamenting that it be an automatic two Senators, maybe try to win the people over.
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  1608.  @31mbur  You mean other than telling people to look the other way at a coup attempt and insisting that Trump's stooge Barr is an honest actor?
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  1609. Her voting record is to the right of Beto O'Rourke. Her endorsement of Bernie was to fend off a primary challenge. Ignore the year or two where she was pretending to be Bernie's heir, and you won't find a left wing bone in her body. Even her "peace" is isolationism. After all, this is the woman who once compared the Iran nuclear deal to Munich.
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  1610. ​ @treybrannon4964  Four years ago when we were in lock down, thousands were dying every day, we had to ration toilet paper, and unemployment was at record highs? [In Archie Bunker voice] Those were the daaaaaays.
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  1611.  @treybrannon4964  If you call letting dictators have whatever they want "world peace," yeah, sure. I prefer Presidents who support democracy at home and abroad, and your boy supports neither.
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  1612.  @cluelessjoe5745  Because when you base your opinion on opposition to someone else, you still let that person/group control you, and that's what's weak. When you are reflexively anti-establishment, that leads to no thinking, and also often leads to things like anti-anti-Trump.
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  1613.  @deathfire096  Too many people have bought the Oliver Stone mythmaking.
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  1614. He wants the immunity and prestige.
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  1615.  @eddietheberniebro5503  Saagar Enjeti is not economically left. Complaining about trade doesn't make you a lefty. Does that make Hawley economically left? Pat Buchanan? Has Saagar started advocating that the top tax bracket exceed 50%? Ruy Teixeira put it best: left wing [real] populism looks at how the rich take advantage of everyone else and want to institute policies to stop it, while right wing (fake) populism finds a scapegoat on the bottom and wants to punish them. There is no such thing as right wing populism.
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  1616. Going after someone pretty much universally loved for over 50 years for saying that people should love everyone? [In Jason Bateman voice] Bold strategy, Cotton! Let's see if it pays off for them.
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  1617. Because he's rich and Republicans love that. Then again, if you look at how he got rich, he's a perfect fit.
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  1618.  @leilanidru7506  Like a lot of people on this show, she is a great character, but I would hate dealing with someone like that in real life. Double fudge... but Angela.
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  1619. The Progressive Caucus did implement some changes, including having actual changes: 1) Having only one chair now. (A lot of people are saying that Jayapal will keep the chair.) 2) Anything with a 2/3 majority vote in the caucus is binding. 3) You must vote with the bound position at least 2/3 of the time. It's certainly a start.
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  1620.  @arod6789  And they have a far more generous social safety net than we do, but even if you don't want to compare to Nordic countries, the United States used to offer free tuition (UC system before Reagan, SUNY, CUNY, among others), so why can't we do it now? Because of this rampant anti-tax ideology.
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  1621. Are there some examples of people being incorrectly accused of racism? Yes, but Donald Trump is not one of those people.
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  1622.  @georgegunnell6319  He made up a fake producer to fire in order to defend himself and took absolutely no accountability whatsoever. There, I fixed it for you.
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  1623. ​ @Vil_Vandelier  Indeed. She could get the chance to wave a magic wand and get Congress to do exactly what she wants, and she'd still call them sellouts. What does it tell you if someone manages to alienate the nicest, most forgiving person in American politics?
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  1624. Conversation I had way too many times earlier in this decade. Right Winger: Obama is destroying the Constitution. Me: What part of the Constitution is he destroying? Right Winger: He's trying to take our guns! Me: What legislation has Obama supported to confiscate guns? Right Winger: [insert goofy conspiracy theory here]
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  1625.  @reaperbot  So, it's not a right-wing talking point but you literally use a right-wing think tank to back up your argument? And I think that the phrase you are looking for is effective rate, not marginal rate. The top marginal rate in the 1950s was 91%, but that was only on any income over and above the equivalent of $4MM in today's money.
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  1626.  @Zach-ju5vi  And I used Germany as an example, and that didn't count in your eyes because you don't think that Americans can make high quality products.
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  1627. And what are you doing to do the actual work of organizing?
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  1628. They're probably worried about evidence that Republicans won't show up because of the conspiracy theories.
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  1629.  @yogoshun  On the right, Barry Goldwater is respected for exposing the John Birch Society for the evil they are. Sam Seder is doing a great favor to the left to steer people away from this evil grifter.
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  1630.  @derekmayers-louther  Were half the teams going broke with attendance plummeting before Lebron James entered the league? Yes, Jordan brought the game to new levels, but it was Bird and Magic who saved the league in the 1980s.
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  1631. "We learned that a lot of people are crazy. Some of them are in our own families." Jim Gaffigan
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  1632. The top grossing film of 1963.
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  1633.  @aliamjon2550  Which party elected David Duke to the Louisiana legislature? Which Presidential candidate did he endorse? Which party is defending Confederate flags and monuments?
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  1634.  @Zach-ju5vi  Depends on the activity. Hoarding wealth does not activity make. You can either have a river or a pond.
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  1635.  @Zach-ju5vi  Fixing the infrastructure that is falling apart would be a big start. And, of course, the reflexive complaint about the one organization that has actually helped working people make a better life. The need for affordable housing and the transition to renewable energy are also things that definitely haven't been completely addressed.
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  1636.  @Zach-ju5vi  Stock buybacks are manipulation of stock prices. There is a reason why they were illegal until the mid-1980s. It also leads to the greater concentration of wealth because the previous preferred method of rewarding stockholders (dividends) got taxed. It doesn't increase the value of the company, it doesn't reward workers, and it doesn't set up the company long-term. All it does is enriches the shareholders while ignoring the stakeholders.
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  1637. George Romney walked out of the 1964 Republican Convention to protest nominating a candidate who voted against the Civil Rights Act. I do remember a CNN/YouTube debate in 2007 when someone asked a question sitting in front of a Confederate flag, and Mittens looked truly disgusted by it. I wouldn't vote for him (unless I lived in Utah and it was him or someone who made Mike Lee look like Bernie in comparison), but he's at least sane, and he will go down in history as the first Senator to ever vote to remove a President of his own party.
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  1638.  @soltkiote7785  And he has about a dozen that he switches between. We all found this out for sure when the wrong one replied.
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  1639. Really, Cenk? That is out of her character? She exaggerated her Native American ancestry for decades, she lied about her parents being forced to elope, she lied about her father's occupation, she lied about being fired for being visibly pregnant, and she lied about her time as a corporate lawyer. This is totally in character for Warren!
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  1640. I envy you so much!
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  1641.  @twochordcool  Define "the world [revolving] around their cause."
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  1642.  steelhound duncan  Don't feed the troll. That idiot just comes to lefty videos to spout racist, sexist right-wing talking points. Note the bragging about white males even though the previous generation bragged about Clarence Thomas.
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  1643.  @jorgegonzalez-larramendi5491  His real name is Aaron Dickson. He got caught when he replied in a thread using the wrong account.
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  1644. @Slava Ukraine For me, anti-American means that you defend or openly praise other countries' imperial aims, but only criticize the actions of America, even when another country does something far worse than the the thing that individual criticizes America for.
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  1645. I'm still surprised that my fifth grade history textbook (which literally asked questions about why people would want to own slaves [harder for a black person to blend in after escaping than a white indentured servant was the answer they wanted] and used more ink for First Bull Run than Gettysburg) did show it, although it probably implied it was a bad thing. And I grew up in a state that literally only existed because we wanted nothing to do with the Confederacy.
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  1646. He was briefly my second choice in 2019. The best way to repent is to try to warn other people from making the same mistake.
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  1647.  @mayavox  Perks of private health insurance? Real Medicare for All includes medical, dental, vision, hearing aids, mental health, and prescription drugs with no out of pocket costs. Literally no private health insurance plan on Earth offers that. The fact that you made that argument shows that you don't understand what Medicare for All is about.
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  1648. In all honesty, if Manchin does give up his seat, I see Justice winning in a landslide. Even if he holds on to run in 2024, I worry that Justice would win anyway. Against a total joke with no charisma, Manchin only won by three. As much as the activists like Paula Jean Swearingen, she lost to Capito by 43 points, so she's not going to win a statewide race, period.
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  1649.  @joeleek9976  Changing your mind when presented with new information that disproves your prior position is far different than just agreeing with the person in front of view. I hope you never meet David Duke.
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  1650. That was the most idiotic thing I have ever heard. Nowhere in that incoherent rambling was anything approaching a rational thought. Everyone in this audience is now dumber for having heard it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
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  1651. I don't want the kids to suffer, but I have no sympathy for the ones who voted for their own harm. Watching the story about the school in KY, I was screaming at the screen, "Trump said that he was going to eliminate the DOE! Repeatedly. Why did you vote for him if you didn't want that to happen!?!"
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  1652.  @renjia3504  Bernie is the amendment king, which means that he knows how to pull the levers. This year, he put a coalition together to invoke the War Powers Act. He knows how to get things done.
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  1653.  @renjia3504  What do you pay in insurance premiums once you add employer and employee contribution? Mine is 32.01% (27.6% employer, 4.41% employee). Bernie wants to replace that with an 11% tax (7% employer, 4% employee). Would I rather pay the tax than private insurance, where I still have to pay co-pays and deductibles? You bet, I would!
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  1654.  @marciamakesmusic  He signed off on killing the President of South Vietnam 11 days before his own death. If he changed his mind, the people who took them out sure did act quickly, especially given what we know about Oswald, is patently ridiculous.
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  1655. Early Tom, yes, but he had some growth that Kelly didn't.
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  1656.  @Kai-tn4yx  Biden never supported torture. She is to his right.
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  1657. I'd like to hear what Benny Boy says about passages in the Torah that insist that farmers leave the corners of their field and not to pick up any harvest they drop so poor travelers can eat.
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  1658.  @GameN3rdz  Republicans: The FDA waits too long to approve life-saving medications. Also Republicans: The FDA rushed the approval for the vaccine.
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  1659.  @jamesheal8157  In fairness, it wasn't the American people who voted him in... but an antiquated system that was brought about because the Founding Fathers thought that we were too stupid too decide for ourselves.
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  1660. If Democrats find themselves needing to vote for a Republican for Soeaker, Republicans need to give some real concessions, includong some committee seats and chairs.
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  1661.  @vanpeters9751  Why is Dave Chappelle allowed to wear whiteface? Show me a century of people using a caricature of white makeup to degrade and stereotype a people that is being brutalized and literally lynched, and then we can talk about why it's not fair.
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  1662.  @robdisch  Yes, that's why the people who don't get the vaccine are the ones flooding the hospitals [eye roll]. Well, my ex-wife got a breakthrough case and my six-year-old daughter didn't because she was vaccinated. My idiot brother got it twice and insisted that the vaccine didn't work, and my nine-year-old niece, who he wouldn't let get the vaccine, did.
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  1663. Oh, happy day!
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  1664.  @absynthe9820  The biggest thing that helped them was that they weren't competing for the crazy. There are four nutjobs dividing the vote. That will almost certainly save her in the end.
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  1665.  @whyamimrpink78  You probably thought it was smart to tell people to inject themselves with bleach.
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  1666. Did anyone else think Michael had a picture of Cody from Some More News on his shirt?
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  1667. See Brian over there? He has 37 pieces of flair. Now, what do you think of someone who just does the bare minimum?
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  1668.  @KatherineUribe-1  I think what the OP means is that Tim Ryan has several such floor speeches.
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  1669. Don't just prove it, Binder prove it!
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  1670. "If any human being were to hear the voice of God, his heart would explode, and his head would collapse, so anyone who claims to be talking to God is talking to me... or just talking to himself." The Metatron, Dogma
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  1671. It takes actual maturity to admit that you made a mistake. You should be commended for seeing the light.
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  1672.  @davidstewart1757  PJ O'Rourke
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  1673.  @riffsthatkill2180  Any who didn't try to overturn a fair election or apologize for the attempted violent overthrow of the government. If you are a right wing authoritarian who supports a fascist, you are a fascist.
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  1674.  @diallo1347  People like the commenter are clearly gaslighting and running interference. I have seen quite a few insist that Krystal Ball criticizes Republicans "just as much as she does Democrats," which a) isn't true, and b) even if it is true, is still bad, because both sides are not equally bad.
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  1675.  @jenniferholloway2513  We have a fascist party now as one of the major parties. That's not a function of the voting system. Besides, Italy is proportional representation.
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  1676.  @undead9999  Don't feed the anti-Semitic troll. This poster put some vile stuff in another thread that I reported and will not repeat here.
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  1677.  @plasmaplasmajohndoe5012  Is anyone taking away your right to speak in a public space? If you want to whine about the First Amendment, maybe take your hood off long enough to realize what it actually guarantees, and understand that it is the right of decent people everywhere to call someone out for spreading vile hatred.
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  1678.  @ComradeCatpurrnicus  Give it a day or two, and some of them will come onto this page.
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  1679. The big problem with the MSM isn't negativity, it's silence. Trump got almost uniformly negative stories during the primaries, but he got nearly $3B in earned media. The political revolution will not be televised.
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  1680.  @MichaelAronson  [insert Lurch groan here]
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  1681. Thumbs up for the Bailey Quarters reference, but Jimmy Dore has been an unwatchable douche for years.
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  1682. Because their wealth was only made possible through unfair tax laws that they lobbied for and refusing to pay the people who made their wealth possible decent wages.
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  1683. ​ @milestailprower  You may be right, but it's always a safe bet to say that Rubin dosen't understand anything.
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  1684. Oh, look. The troll has a friend. How nice. How long did it take you to set up that extra account?
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  1685. @Nuke 'EmAll What else would you rather he do with the leftover money?
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  1686. There was a poll of Libertarian and Green Party voters that showed Sam in the lead last year, so he has taken it and run with it.
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  1687. He needs some Preparation H for that new hole she just tore.
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  1688. There sure have been a lot of midnight deadlines with her and Chuck Schumer the last few weeks.
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  1689. And immigrants.
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  1690. Indeed. My uncle (b. 1947) got polio and couldn't walk until he was five. My younger brother (b. 1982) got mumps when he was two. What I don't get is people insisting that chicken pox are no big deal. I wouldn't wish them on my worst enemy, and seeing people for shingles only reinforces that.
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  1691. I get the point that she is making, and I'm not saying that people should give her grief over a photoshoot, but where is equality on this list? I'm not saying that she's guilty of it, but emphasizing choice over equality is more common among post-feminists than feminists.
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  1692. SNL definitely got her character right.
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  1693.  @columbia2635  Your mental dishonesty is shocking. Where has anyone here cheered children getting hurt? The argument has been whether to use our mental energy sympathizing with the voters who did this to themselves.
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  1694. Just that he doesn't want his taxes to go up or everyone to have health coverage.
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  1695. She started pandering to them when she used anti-democracy arguments to defend the Electoral College. She skipped straight past the "small states need love, too," and jumped straight to arguing that Americans couldn't be trusted with that decision.
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  1696.  @atlaskinzel6560  I remember him when he let his libertarian flag fly, which always minimized the respect.
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  1697.  @deresistance  Well, we saw what happened when Sam a) tried to debate Crowder, and b) when he finally got onto the same platform.
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  1698. Do we know for sure those are all Iowa? Last month, the campaign had me calling Minnesota. The real takeaway? Hardly anyone even mentioned Klobuchar. Also, they said that over a 36-hour period this past weekend, they knocked on over 100,000 doors in Iowa alone. This thing is happening!
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  1699. Indeed. The first two replies to your post proves it.
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  1700. Looking back, I think it was there all along, but they took the mask off after the primary.
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  1701.  @westcoastrenegade8594  If you honestly believe that the Second Amendment is there to allow an overthrow of the government (when militias are clearly there to prevent rebellions) or that people with guns can defeat a government with tanks, you are clearly delusional.
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  1702.  @keirfarnum6811  Indeed. To argue that both sides are equally bad is laziness and enables the worst actors of all.
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  1703.  @garysmokesmeat  Define "using violence."
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  1704.  @p.chuckmoralesesquire3965  The video isn't even an hour long, and it leads with his blatantly dishonest use of the Fortune article. Thank you for proving the point of everyone here who knows what Dore really is.
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  1705. Yes! You don't add by subtraction. The answer is to make them irrelevant, not to give them an incentive to bolt and give Evil Turtle the gavel.
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  1706. I guess fascists like Trump don't like being exposed.
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  1707.  @mrrivers6622  With attitudes like yours, we would have never had civil rights or voting rights, to name others. Also, all a republic means is that there isn't a monarch. How does that contradict democracy?
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  1708. While I think remorse might be a little strong of a word, I love the fact that Booth lived long enough to know how he'd be remembered by history.
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  1709. So, the guy who bum rushed the stage when Cenk had a panel at Politicon is suddenly upset about the idea of bringing in a competent tag team partner? Your boy even admitted that he took the debate because he thought it would be a layup and that he respected people for "entering the arena," only to run from the arena when a competent debater showed up. But, feel free to defend Crowder the Coward.
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  1710. How many of those 99.9% are covering for the 0.1%?
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  1711.  @dinobotpwnz  Okay, now I know you're lying. There aren't four Democrats on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The Wisconsin Green Party knew the rules. They were given the chance to fill out an affidavit to correct it, but they refused. Instead, they sat on their hands for two weeks and got a Republican to help them sue and make it next to impossible for ballots to go out on time. Virgil Texas kept saying stupid stuff like "Well, I'm worried that election officials will use that against Democrats in the future." Newsflash, alleged progidy: Election officials are stickers to everyone regardless of party! Anyone who has ever worked on a ballot drive whether petitions or fundraisers are warned to be absolutely careful about the rules because any violation is cause for rejection. Funny that none of the judges really cared when Kanye West got his signatures in a few minutes late but three Republicans wanted to include the Greens who botched their drive.
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  1712. I think that was a Carville quote.
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  1713. Sam clearly admits it.
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  1714. This is her true self. She was a conservative Democrat as a state legislator. When she first ran for Congress, she loved going to Fox and Bill Maher to complain that Obama didn't hate Muslims enough. When she got to Congress, she sponsored bills advocated by Sheldon Adelson to eliminate his competition, she voted to make it harder for Syrian refugees to enter the United States, and she tried to get a job as Trump's Secretary of State. As a Presidential candidate, she played both siderism on the wall, went after Kamala Harris and Cory Booker for criticizing Biden's questionable history on race, and called Medicare for All un-American. She ended her Congressional career spreading Project Veritas lies that Ilhan Omar won election through bribery and pushing anti-transgender bills. Her support for Bernie was a lefty mirage caused by a) enemy of my enemy, and b) trying to fend off a primary challenge.
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  1715. You mean Jennifer?
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  1716.  @gooddogreallygooddog6157  "Just asking questions" is a technique for people advocating really bad things who want a crutch when called on it.
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  1717.  @dft1  Even if we only get a fraction of it, it still accomplishes a lot. Should we do nothing because we can't do everything?
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  1718. Darn right!
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  1719.  @katec3963  No, not like Venezuela. Examples of social democracy include most of Western Europe, the Nordic countries, and to an extent, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States. It certainly was to a greater extent than today in the video where people actually had their fair shake. Do you honestly think that big corporations will leave the United States if they have to pay a little bit more in taxes but have better roads to move goods, it won't cost as much to move them because better roads mean fewer traffic delays, and a better educated work force? Why didn't they leave when we had a top income tax bracket of 91%?
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  1720. Michael seriously dropped the ball by missing, "Larry, we're live." Dave Rubin is funny in all the ways he doesn't know.
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  1721. That's the dream.
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  1722.  @Greenapoleseedjake  Wrong. The 1937 recession was caused when FDR listened to the deficit scolds and drastically cut funding for the New Deal. If you want to follow your argument further, was it the big government spending of the New Deal or the even bigger government spending OF WWII that got us out of it?
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  1723.  @bruceleroy7193  Indeed. Joe Rogan is the type of person who'd fall for the "Did you know that 'gullible' isn't in the dictionary?" joke.
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  1724.  @duane_313  That's usually how it goes. The last Cabinet vote to fail on the floor was John Tower in 1989. The committee hearings have already been postponed, so I think the nomination is going to be pulled any day now.
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  1725. ​ @frankmorris4790  The rich making everyone else poorer comes from things like taking all the gains from productivity for 40 years. And in the less purely transactional, it comes from things like gutting education, making it more difficult for people to climb the ladder.
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  1726. Unfortunately, the prime suspect is dead. However, they can should bring to justice anyone who was an accessory to the crime.
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  1727.  @carlosb5523  They are talking about the fact that a large portion of the population was told that they didn't need to be productive because their needs would be met. The malaise that followed was what Betty Friedan described in The Feminine Mystique. That being said, I think that you were replying to someone else, because my argument was about Yang wanting to destroy the existing social safety net. And you can talk about automation all you want, but there are two things that I saw when my family visited last month that tells me that it might not be what Yang says it will be, and another as to why his solution is inadequate if he is correct. First, the things that suggest the possibility that automation might not be the end of human labor: when my family came to visit, I took my daughter, my niece, and my parents to two different factory tours: Herr's Snack Factory and Visitors Center, and the Martin Guitar Factory Tour. Both places told something quite interesting: there were some places were human hands produced a bottleneck (a lacquer finish for the guitars, and peeling potatoes for the chips), and by automating those processes, they were able to hire more workers than they ever could have hired had those parts of the process been run by human hands. So, it is quite possible that other companies just might find that automation frees up more hands to be used in a more efficient way. After all, at one point in this country, 90% of the population worked on farms. Now, we produce more food than ever. And why if Yang is correct, his answer will cause more problems: if he is right about 1/3 of the jobs being gone with no replacement, the fact that he also wants to get rid of the existing social safety net and use a regressive tax to pay for it means a very bleak future for most of the population.
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  1728. ​ @darthtechnologies553  Indeed. I don't remember hearing about anyone who got healed getting charged.
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  1729.  @papaofthejohns5882  Sam isn't a boomer. He's Generation X.
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  1730.  @Comrade_Mauri  I watched it. She constantly lied about Sam's initial statements about leverage and insisted this meant that he supported Force the Vote, and every follow up was based on this false interpretation that she kept going back to bo matter how many times that he continued to try to correct her. Then, she made the totally vile and low blow insisting that Michael Brooks would have supported her position. It's almost like she acted in... Bad Faith.
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  1731. I hardly watched their channels for quite some time, but the dumb takes from Krystal Ball and The Humanist Report convinced me that it was time to unsubscribe from their channels.
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  1732. As.a Jets fan, maybe I should trade my picture of Namath at Super Bowl III for the one of Ben Davidson blindsiding him, just because of how much I hate dirty play.
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  1733.  @alexbedrosyan3971  She was always a right winger. She only supported Bernie in order to fend off a challenger to her left in the primary by supporting a popular candidate in her state. She is now showing us who she really is.
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  1734. Go back and read his stuff in Salon. This is his true self.
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  1735.  @BigRedR-o7h  You mean the party that killed socialists and communists, and sat on the far right of the parliament? That party?
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  1736.  @escapethebotnet  Oh, look! Someone who can't respond to the point.
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  1737.  @darkphoenix2  She knows exactly what she is doing. She knows that she is helping Republicans and does it because she sees her real enemy as Democrats.
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  1738.  @moonlightfishin4113  People in costumes reading to kids. What a nightmare!
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  1739.  @jaxmiller724  So, you care about the cost of living, and you support the party that created the bottleneck in the first place and whose ideology decided that we shouldn't enforce antitrust laws, which led to less competition to keep costs down? And you oppose the party that passed the bill to address inflation with no votes from the other side, when inflation has been cut in half over the last year? And is still seeing record job growth despite sabotage from the Fed? Your actions contradict reality.
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  1740.  @maxington26  At this point, I think that is the only thing propping him up. They don't want to admit that they were wrong.
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  1741.  @luismurillo5855  She had a bad first debate, so he (or his husband) probably thought that she would be a layup, but her second debate should have shown them the first debate was a bad night from someone unfamiliar with the format.
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  1742.  @FelixDaleth  It was literally before she was sworn inwhen she said that she would support the winner of the Democratic gubernatorial primary. Once Cuomo won the nomination and she gave this half-hearted statement, he insisted that she was a sellout.
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  1743.  @crystalcorbett6367  Dispatcher: Did he look like...? Witness: Look like what? Dispatch: Did he look like you or did he look like...? Witness: He looked like you! Dispatch: He's Jewish! We have an African Jew with a hoodie. Witness: He was caucasian! I don't have time for this! I have a veterinary exam!
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  1744.  tessmage_tessera  They should, but I think that they are so used to Democrats cleaning up their messes that they've forgotten how to clean up their own.
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  1745. At this point, I think that the reporters who get stuck watching this sideshow should all get together ahead of time, pick a few questions that they want answered, and every time Der Orangefuhrer tries to avoid the question by calling on someone else, say something like, "Getting back to the previous question..." and keep doing it over and over until it is obvious that either he has to answer or get everyone other than the most deluded cultists see what is happening. You can rotate who gets the initial question so that ego is taken out of the way, but it seems like the only way to get an actual answer.
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  1746. Weird ad alert: I saw an ad (at least until I could skip it) for this video showing a manor (it was way too big to be a mere mansion) that starts talking about the pernicious idea that people are equal perpetuated by jealous people. A little too on the nose, and who do they really expect to convince?
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  1747. Dr. Drew may be the worst therapist in America. Has anyone ever actually gotten better after Celebrity Rehab?
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  1748.  @bobdobbz9334  1) Republicans didn't filibuster Garland. They just refused to hold any hearings, because they were in the majority. 2) Democrats couldn't filibuster Kavanaugh (or Barrett, for that matter), because McConnell got rid of the judicial filibuster when they tried to filibuster Garland. The lack of knowledge by you Dore knobs never ceases to amaze me.
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  1749. Vivek isn't running for President. He is running for the second spot. Maybe Fox decided that they want to ax that, although Dear Leader has clearly moved onto other networks that are more pliant.
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  1750.  @dextermorgan4686  Yes, because people like Clinton and Biden were so hated by Democratic primary voters and elected officials that he just needed to "fight harder." You probably believe that dishonest trick where Brianna Joy Gray insisted that if the squad just stood up long enough that they would prevent Pelosi from the gavel because she had less than 40% approval among all voters despite having nearly 70% approval among Democratic voters.
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  1751.  @interestedobserver  It seemed like the video was going somewhere, and then it backed away at the last minute.
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  1752. ​ @dontcensormebro3217  Well, you look at the places that did different things and who had the best results, and you emulate that the next time. Of course, the fact that this turned out to be Australia and New Zealand is something that the "you can't make me" crowd doesn't want to hear.
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  1753. ​ @LONE_SKUM_DOGE  Most billionaires are right wing because they want to keep their money and power, and the right is more likely to get them do it. That doesn't really help your argument.
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  1754.  saigonbond  Did Bernie change his policies when he got his money? Did he exploit people to make that money? For someone who talks about a cult, you are just a hater. He got some money, so apparently you think that he doesn't want anyone to have money. If he changed his policies, you would point out his hypocrisy.
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  1755.  @colleenc.9900  It's possible, but the thing that makes me think it could be them is that we know for a fact that they wrote at least one letter. Sometimes, people do crazy things when they get desperate financially. It may even be possible that one letter was real but then they saw dollar signs and ran with it.
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  1756.  @Addamo  In what world is withholding the vote going to stop Pelosi from being Speaker? If you go through with it, all you do is make the people who withhold the vote pariahs, and you allow people in lefty districts to virtue signal and vote Yes in order to avoid primary heat only to vote No if it ever had a serious chance. I guess you were completely surprised when Republicans voted over 50 times to repeal the ACA and they couldn't get it done once there was a Republican President.
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  1757.  @TheHuxleyAgnostic  Amen. These Dore Knobs really have no step two. They are the Underpants Gnomes come to life.
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  1758. Do you or someone you know own a house? Last I checked, you can borrow up to several times your annual income for that. Maybe if Republicans didn't keep cutting taxes on rich people with nary a peep on deficits when that happens, we might take you "budget hawks" seriously.
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  1759.  @DrewKime  Imagine all of those plus a Harvard graduate.
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  1760.  @emblemedfate4270  I talked about her policy. She'll be gone in 18 days, free to go back to her right wing ways and get a job with Fox or OAN, and the Tulcels will still insist that she is the One True Lefty.
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  1761.  @babygottbach2679  Okay, let's look at her foreign policy. -She opposed the Iran nuclear deal and compared it to Munich. -She praised Sisi for killing protesters in Egypt. -She took a trip funded by Assad loyalists to get a photo op for him and came back spouting his lines. Oh, and she didn't meet with any of the rebels on this "fact-finding mission of peace." -Where was she when Bernie was actually taking action to stop the genocide in Yemen? -She supports torture. -She is to Modi what Trump is to Putin. -She praised Trump leaving the Kurds to slaughter in Syria. -She praised Putin for bombing civilians in Syria while complaining that Obama didn't. Oh, yeah. Great foreign policy, though. If anything, her foreign policy is worse than her domestic policy. Isolationism is not peace.
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  1762.  @emblemedfate4270  And I gave you several policies. Those outweigh the things that she occasionally puts out there to try to maintain street cred. There is no turning back from advocating war crimes.
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  1763.  @J.CashDro  Yes, because you're a doctor who knows all about it.
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  1764. We're not vigilantes, Aaron.
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  1765. Bernie doesn't want to fully eliminate the filibuster, either. In 2010, he gave the first talking filibuster in 20 years. He does want to change the rules to allow it to exist, but make it extremely rare.
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  1766.  @JZSPAID  Not all, but most. Krystal Ball spends the vast majority of her time complaining about Biden and Democrats, and Saagar Enjeti spends most of his defending Trump. It doesn't take a genius to see the end result.
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  1767.  michael battista  Agreed, but it is still below 50%. Therefore, by definition, it can't be "most."
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  1768.  @Philbert-s2c  Isn't his dad a retired cop? If so, paging Dr. Freud when he goes ACAB.
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  1769. When I heard his remarks on WAP, I felt sorry for his wife for needing to lie to him like that to assuage his ego.
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  1770. Have you ever noticed how he's always going to have things ready in two weeks?
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  1771.  @whitedeath9  Amen! In addition to that, my deal breaker is that Tulsi also gave the 24 scenario to justify torture. Her answers since then do not address how horrible her first answer was, and they never amounted to so much as an apology. Sometimes, I get the feeling that a lot of people who say she is "for peace" would have been proud members of the America First Committee were they alive in 1940.
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  1772. Another advantage of increased funding of the IRS is that they can actually afford to hire enough people to process simple returns. I have not been able to contact an actual person or get errors fixed to log in, ti the point where I had to call my Congresswoman's office to get a form to file my taxes. I finally got it I July, and I'm still waiting for my return today. The website says some people can expect to wait as much as six months, and when I went to the library last week, they still have forms so people can file their 1040s, because others are waiting to get their forms. I've never seen them after April before in April in my life.
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  1773. I know what you mean, Ana. I, too, fell for Tulsi's shtick three years ago, and even saw her as a likely successor to Bernie. Then, I saw videos on Peoples War (they have a lot of archival Bernie footage), and I was stunned. Admittedly, seeing her kiss Trump's ring seemed rather odd, so maybe it is a sign of her skill that I just saw that as an eccentricity rather than who she is. That is why, in my small way, I also try to point out that she isn't who people thought she was.
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  1774.  @michael_c2  Force the Vote felt like Underpants Gnomes stuff. They knew it was going to fail, and they never explained how they would get from a doomed vote to being able to organize to successfully primary over 100 incumbents to get there.
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  1775. Literally and figuratively
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  1776. And "she's the whip of the Progressive Caucus" is an example of her reward? The whole point of the CPC is to pull legislation to the left.
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  1777.  calo10able  "In 1954, you could say n*** n*** n****, but by 1968, that would hurt you. So you can't do that any more. Then, you start to say things like welfare or forced busing, and then you're a lot more abstract. It's certainly more abstract than n**** n*** n*****." Lee Atwater, 1981, explaining how you keep the racists without alienating people who are appalled by racism.
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  1778. "Woke" is basically Republican-speak for "policies I don't like," just how "judicial activism" is Republican-speak for "I don't like the decision."
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  1779. She's in a safe district and she still raises more money than almost any Congressional Democrat. Where do you think?
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  1780.  @jascu4251  Indeed. For me, the worst was when they got the news that Kennedy was retiring, and she was insistent on making a plug for some interview on her podcast. She was always trying to find a place to jump in, but she rarely found the right one and just ground the conversation to a halt most of the time.
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  1781. My current employer health care comes to 32.01% (27.6% employer, 4.41% employee) of my income, not counting deductibles or co-pays. Bernie would make that 8.58%, with no out of pocket costs. Would I rather pay the tax than the premium? You bet, I would!
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  1782.  @stumpe9662  Bernie did support busing. He just felt that ultimately we need to deal with housing discrimination as the solution. Not the same thing at all. And what is Bernie's stance that makes him so bad on foreign policy? Getting the Iraq War right?
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  1783. I thought his wife was his producer. Or is this producer like a middle schooler's girlfriend who you don't know who lives out of state?
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  1784. @Xavi Campoverde I saw it in 2016 when Hillary started closing in on the nomination, and he said that Trump would be better than she would.
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  1785. Tulsi Gabbard and hatred of Muslims. No matter how long she strays by becoming a culture warrior, she could never abandon her first and truest love.
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  1786.  @tomfox6084  So, the person who heard the people who tormented him for years claim their innocence, and he has enough when one of them boasts of his attempted murder as a teenager? Gee, no wonder why Snape wasn't convinced of the innocence of Sirius.
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  1787.  @tomfox6084  How do you know that the Death Eaters knew in 1981, or 1994 for that matter?
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  1788.  @fcdraw  This was from 2016.
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  1789. I get the feeling that Parliament knew how awful he was and didn't want a Nazi sympathizer on the throne, so this gave them an excuse to force him out. The world benefited from him thinking with the wrong head.
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  1790.  @qinby1182  That feeling when you can't tell the difference between the anti-anti-Trump crowd and the true believers.
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  1791.  @tcp2257  She already did her part to help him get the nomination by defending him against attacks from other candidates.
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  1792. @@Madie839 Biden works out, and I saw him outmaneuver House Republicans in real time at the SOTU on Social Security, so I'm confident in his ability to not only tie his shoes, but touch his toes.
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  1793.  @apathy7899  You think that saying that African culture is lacking because they have no Nobel Prize winners (I named more than one) or major cities (not knowing Cairo is a major cosmopolitan area that is not from the ancient empire) is you not being racist? And you didn't know those things and I'm the one who didn't do research? I think you have that one backward.
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  1794.  @apathy7899  That's not the issue. The issue is that you started off by saying black people are inherently more athletic than Asians. When I pointed out the huge flaw in that argument, you then went onto to say that Africans never won the Nobel Prize and that there are no major cities in Africa. I demonstrated that both are untrue, but you are so wedded to your prejudice that you couldn't acknowledge my example is legitimate. Then, you argued that Africa has contributed nothing to modern society, and I pointed to examples. We get it. You think black people have nothing to contribute to the world other than brawn. IQ is greatly affected by poverty, and I have already discussed many of the reasons why there is so much poverty in Africa. Hint: it's not because they are stupid.
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  1795.  @Junebug89  Those were the days.
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  1796. "If five people convince you that you can be President, 500 people can't convince you otherwise." Albert Gore, "Let the Glory Out"
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  1797.  @jessestreet2549  Oh, they're so far down the totem pole that they're Omegas ;-)
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  1798.  @Erich161  We are not saying that we think it is successful. We are talking about a clear effort to try.
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  1799. Yeah, let's completely ignore the record of someone who wants to be President in the only elected office he has ever held. Great strategy!
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  1800.  @JPrez1  Also, how do you like those three Justices on the Supreme Court?
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  1801. @D2 E2 Even if the establishment "learned its lesson," Jimmy Dore missed the clear fact that some things don't get a do over. When this theory was trotted out in 2000, the people who died in Iraq didn't get a do-over, and the fact that "electability" became the major consideration in 2004 rather than ideology should have been a warning to anyone who was paying attention. Then again, Jimmy Dore is just a dumb comedian (his words).
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  1802.  Ken Tinman  It isn't just staying silent. She helped spread the first one, and she is raising money off it. Whatever truce there was is gone.
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  1803. ​ @kennymichaelalanya7134  He says a lot of things. He also claims to be pro-choice, but he praised the repeal of Roe.
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  1804.  @dominicvioli7098  He started his career defending Nazztys pro bono. Now, he's trying to get people to believe ridiculous nonsense about laptops.
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  1805.  @johnd6389  "It's not possible for profits to cause inflation." So, by your train of thought, corporations keeping all the money for themselves can never, ever increase prices? Yeah, that makes sense. If that's "disproving with facts," I have to ask which Cracker Jack box you got those advanced degrees from.
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  1806. It took Doug Mastriano five days to finally accept reality and admit defeat. So, now we will see: is Kari Lake even crazier than Doug Mastriano? I swear, if the lead had gone back and forth, she would have done just like Cecily Strong did in the SNL sketch.
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  1807.  @robertreese1275  If you reflexively reject everything they say, and follow the opposite no matter how ridiculous, you are still letting them control you.
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  1808.  @1369Stiles  Do you have friends you can call? Did you even write your member of Congress to state your opinion on Medicare for All? Have you signed petitions? Just because you can't do everything doesn't mean that you can't do something. And voting is literally the bare minimum of your responsibility as a citizen. And you might not like it, but study after study has shown that just commenting online is counterproductive to actual organizing. The reason? It distracts people from doing the actual work.
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  1809. As Americans, we clearly don't have a monopoly on cultural arrogance.
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  1810.  @LBastone  Making an either/or version of UBI that is neither universal nor basic income (i.e., lower than the poverty level), opposing increased wages, doing nothing about housing or rent control (telling people to move in with your buddies is not "doing something"), supporting regressive taxes, doing nothing about antitrust laws. Oh, no, there is nothing libertarian about him at all!
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  1811.  Red Man  Well, I expect to win the NBA Slam Dunk Championship. Oh, wait! I'm 5'5 and don't have a monster vertical. The people decided, and you fascists lost.
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  1812.  @alabamaman9476  Which party is defending the slaveholders and their monuments, again?
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  1813.  @mistylm2365  She literally told people that Bernie told her that a woman could never be elected President. If that is not portraying him as sexist, what do you call it?
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  1814.  @davidfuentes9957  But wouldn't that fall under "the worst"?
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  1815.  @seanhovan7426  You're the one who wanted to talk about deficit spending. Pretty obvious that you can't. But, if you want to try to pivot... And funny that you have no problem picking a white person, but picking a black person is suddenly "picking someone based on race." You said far more than you meant to. And which party is making it harder for black people to vote by shutting down polling places and making it a crime to give people water? And which party is defending the monuments to traitors?
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  1816.  @seanhovan7426  Reagan said that he would nominate a woman. Ditto Trump. Funny that you don't care about that. And what is the "Civil Rights Act of 1965," and what specific violation? The is a Civil Rights Act of 1964 and a Voting Rights Act of 1965, but not a Civil Rights Act of 1965.
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  1817.  @mjchakos1  My point is that Arizona elected someone to her left in 2020, for both Senate and President. Therefore, a primary defeat doesn't automatically give the seat away the way Manchin is the best that people from West Virginia can hope for at this point.
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  1818. I had a supervisor who once gave everyone scratch-offs as a Christmas present. They all lost. Great gift! At least with a $5 gift card, I could get a breakfast at Dunkin.
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  1819.  @freetrailer4poor  That wasn't what I said. I said "for the most people." By that standard, the 50 years following the Civil War isn't even remotely close. There was a long deflation for 25 of those years (1873-1898) that nearly ruined rural America and led to constant wage cuts. The 35 years after WWII saw the rise of the middle class because if actual investments in people. But, if you want to talk wealth, the that period fails as well. You had long periods of economic depression (Panic of 1873, Panic of 1893, Panic of 1907), and the latter avoided becoming the period we call the Great Depression because JP Morgan got into a room with banks and figured out which ones would survive and which ones wouldn't. Also, ending child labor? In the 1910, the Supreme Court struck down child labor laws because Freedom.
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  1820.  @TheBasedGreeg  Sam also said that he wasn't familiar with the Coconut Island analogy.
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  1821.  @whiskeymonk4085  Yeah, you're just trolling for Dear Leader. Well, the algorithm thanks you for your engagement, which brings more people to see the video.
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  1822. Good on the others for saying that this nonsense has no place in our country.
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  1823. What til you see him insisting that WAP is a serious gynecological disorder.
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  1824.  @pure_the0ry  Glenn Greenwald has always been a libertarian. Anything he got right, he did so for the wrong reasons.
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  1825.  @joeblow8750  And there it is. That last sentence just proves it all, for someone trying to argue that equality already exists. And, if you really do make $700/day, you are proof that intelligence is not directly related to income.
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  1826.  @deeprootslandscaping4499  You can't eat at a restaurant on food stamps. For that matter, you can't even get stuff from the store deli or bakery.
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  1827.  @batboy3746  We don't have a maximum age for good reason. Different people are differently. I have seen what Bernie does in a day. I am half his age, and I'm not sure I could do that. Most people can tell when someone is in decline and when someone still has vitality. We don't need to discriminate on the basis of age just because an obscene buffoon also happened to be old.
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  1828.  @batboy3746  So, you're solution is more age discrimination?
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  1829.  @batboy3746  There was a study by Thomas Piketty, looking at over 70 years of election results in the US, the UK, and France, and he found that centrists are sure-fire losers with working class voters, and candidates who actually fight for them are the ones who can win them over.
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  1830. He lies about his signature proposal, too. He says it is "no strings attached," but you have to give up other benefits in order to get it. He is the biggest liar running for President not named Donald Trump.
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  1831. A couple years ago, I asked Trump voters on FB two questions: 1) When was the last time America was great? 2) What will it take to make America great again? No one ever bothered to give an answer for the first one, but half the answers for the second one were things that either Obama was already doing (deport illegal immigrants) or things that have been the case for decades (conservative Supreme Court).
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  1832.  @TheHuxleyAgnostic  I have heard some complain about the deficit under Obama... only to have defended the Trump tax cut, and all of the Bush tax cuts. It reminds me of when a poli sci professor told our class that polls consistently show a majority of Americans supporting the following three things: increased spending, lower taxes, and a balanced budget.
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  1833. ​ @MyThoughtsImJustSaying  For people who like to tell others "facts don't care about your feelings," you sure do pet your fee-fees rule the day when it comes to how your actions affect others.
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  1834.  @muscularclassrepresentativ5663  Krystal Ball started a PAC that was supposed to help elect lefty candidates. Less than 5% went to candidates, and 39% went to her own pocket. She wrote a book (or, more accurately, released a set of transcripts and called it a book she wrote) openly espousing a red/brown alliance. Kyle Kulinski insisted that people should blame him if Trump wins.
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  1835.  @vincesmith2499  That's what you say, but therein lies the fatal flaw. My example was that ot a traveler. That person clearly isn't growing his/her own food. And how is someone going to "grow your own food" if that person doesn't own any land? And my examples were actually real world examples of what happened before the Civil Rights Act of 1964. As a matter of fact, there were certain highways where black people knew not to travel on because food, gas, and lodging wouldn't be available for hundreds of miles. We tried it your way and realized that its claims of freedom were false. Once again, you claim to support freedom, but you only support it for the monied and propertied interests. Give me just one example of where there are competing claims of freedom where you side with the poor over the rich or someone who doesn't own property over someone who does.
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  1836.  @stephenbrady4352  Saying everyone does it just makes it easier for theist corrupt to get away with it.
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  1837.  @britsareweak  And Elizabeth Warren either no longer supports it or is being too clever for her own good by tying it to both immigration reform and a transitional bill.
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  1838. Deadbeats
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  1839. His subscriber base are right wingers. He knows his market. It's people who want their "leftists" crazy and insulting lefties.
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  1840. ​ @CS-ys4sy  Indeed. I think he's off the wagon.
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  1841. Well, he mocked Bernie for including vision and hearing aids in it, so he's pretty much already revealed his hand.
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  1842.  @justsaying3729  I don't think he said it at all. I think that he said that Trump would try to weaponize her gender, just like he would try to do with Bernie's age. Doesn't mean that Bernie thought that it would work.
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  1843. ​ @LovePixels  Dozens!
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  1844.  @peteevers784  He actually got elected in 2018, but no one who argues that has bothered to explain why the "theft" was designed in such a way as to take several days to materialize. There were polls that had Biden winning by several points more than he really did, and saying that it wouldn't come down to the Georgia run-off. If it was really going to be rigged, wouldn't it have been easier to just match the polls? ;-)
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  1845.  @NoahBenjamin-q5f  So, he wants people to "move forward" by eliminating the existing social safety net and replacing something that he admits is insufficient, treats the poor and disabled as second-class citizens, wants a regressive tax, and would lead us to a world with a few trillionaires and everyone else scraping by on less than the poverty level? If this is forward, send me backward any day of the week.
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  1846. What is that music? I have enjoyed it ever since the video of the stupid boy defending The Bell Curve.
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  1847. A few years ago, Anthony Jeselnik said that at the Comedy Central Roast, the person of the hour is allowed to say what jokes are off limits, and Der Orangefuhrer said that he wanted no jokes about his bankruptcies or that he isn't as rich as he says he is. That fact makes this revelation especially beautiful.
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  1848.  mark heyne  I think you're missing the key word: soon. The OP is saying indict them soon, not to let it go.
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  1849.  @screenarts  So, the response to money going to the wealthy donors is to send even more to the wealthy donors?
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  1850.  @jop23ify  My uncle was born in 1947. He got polio and couldn't walk until he was five. You know why you don't hear stories like that anymore? Vaccine mandates. And don't give me this "that's a good vaccine" nonsense, either. The efficacy of the vaccine for the original strain was 90%, for delta it was is 70%, and for omicron it is 40-50%. The efficacy of the polio vaccine is 61%. The original strain of coronavirus is gone. If the anti-vaccine dummies would have gotten their vaccines, this would all be over and done with, because viruses mutate, and they gave it a chance to do so. Finally, the mandate was never a vaccine mandate in the first place, it was a testing mandate, and you were exempt from getting tested if you had the vaccine.
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  1851.  @darkashtar  It also would have been done sooner had he ignored the budget scolds in 1937 and thought that full throttle New Deal programs were no longer necessary. Just like Obama was in too big of a hurry to scale back stimulus and move to austerity in 2010 and 2011.
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  1852.  @jamesambas6708  He's still doing the "I am on the left but spend all of my time going after lefties" grift, but the question is when he shifts to the "I left the left" grift.
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  1853.  @iamnottodd  Jimmy Dore already undermines the left. If he is sincere, he is a useful idiot. He has been helping Republicans for years now and insisting that Democrats are worse. This instinct led him to platforming literal fascists and praising them as lefty allies.
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  1854.  @_Common_Logic_  Actually, it's over 9000 since the election.
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  1855. As bad as McMullin is, he is not enabling Trump, and he won't vote for Evil Turtle as Majority Leader. Given the state we're talking about, that's good enough for me.
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  1856.  @aaronmcconkey1062  What specifically do you think would actually accomplish anything that he's not doing? The only thing that has actually worked in this country's history is getting a foothold and building on gains. Edward Kennedy always said that his biggest regret was killing Nixon's health care plan in 1971 was because he was convinced he could get something better... and spent 38 years trying, and never got anything else as good.
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  1857. @SerFezz Darn right! For far too many, anti-imperialism has just been a code for anti-Americanism, and they have defended the far worst actors. The people who want genuine peace and are bit tankies need to take this time to make their voices heard.
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  1858.  @the_ejj  Yeah, I suppose that guy who broke into Pelosi's office with a stun gun concealed in his cane doesn't count by your logic.
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  1859.  @gwydionml6479  Aaron is truly sad individual.
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  1860.  @MrMasterDebate  Yes. It was hardly a conspiracy. If you don't vote, you don't win.
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  1861.  @UberNoodle  I'd read lots of reports that he was a skilled surgeon, which is why so many of his peers were stunned by his turn to quackery.
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  1862.  @suzettebavier4412  Darn right! His slogan was "Not Me, Us" for a reason. It is no coincidence that his political hero said, "I am not a leader of the labor movement or some sort of Moses. If I were able to lead you into the Promised Land, someone else could just as easily lead you out."
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  1863.  @kungfutzu3779  That's what he wants you to believe, but he came looking for a fight. However, this judge doesn't want the jury to hear that, because he has already decided to do everything possible to put his thumb on the scale to get this killer off.
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  1864. Indeed. I always get the sneaking suspicion that something happened behind the scenes at Air America to cause such animosity, but it can't all be professional jealousy.
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  1865. They do that because if they put it in enough words that are stupid, you're bound to miss some.
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  1866. Not even close to the original version of Coconut Island. It's like he's trying his best to make a libertarian version of the analogy, but he still can't make it work.
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  1867. There have been times that Bernie seems not to hear the moderator, so maybe he was standing closer to help Bernie hear the question better if he needed to follow up.
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  1868. In 1980, Ronald Reagan decided to stop acting on the interests of working people and he a corporate stooge, and too many people who didn't know their history forgot what happened the last time we did that, and Democrats were too frightened to defend working people because they thought they needed corporate donors to survive. A perfect storm that we need a solid fighter to pull us out of.
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  1869.  @sarabear3  There have been quite a few. There would have been more and longer if not for sabotage, but Democrats also need to point out the things that they needed one or two more votes in the Senate to accomplish, and run those nonstop in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
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  1870. They say that everyone has a price. Now. We know the price for Stacey Abrams.
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  1871. @Josh White How is some new AG going to hold the House Judiciary Committee "accountable"? I thought you right wingers were all for the Constitution. It's the other way around. Jerrold Nadler can force the AG to testify in a public hearing. As far as when the right will abandon Moscow Donald, I honestly don't know, but I do know that Republicans supported Nixon until very close to the end. When they see that Moscow Donald is truly toxic and hurting them, and that they are not tied to him forever (after all, every Republican Presidential nominee through 1996 supported Nixon during most of Watergate), they will turn on him. I'm not saying that he'll be forced out (if it was going to happen, timing would have suggested this past August), but the cult will get broken if they see it's their job on the line.
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  1872.  @maniac50ae14  You mean, after they came more into contact with modern civilization? There were also female skeletons that were buried with spears in some places.
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  1873.  @TheStygian  There were also women buried with spears. Doesn't make sense if they didn't hunt.
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  1874.  @bigbankhank1337  "School choice" is a way to gut public schools even more. I have seen plenty of charter schools lose their certification because they aren't actually educating kids, and there is no difference in the overall quality between public, private, and charter, especially when adjusting for the fact that the latter two can discriminate against special education students.
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  1875. His off the grid friends don't have to worry about being overrun by a foreign military force, so even if they just didn't use electricity or internet, they still need government.
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  1876.  @Vanderearden  To the left of Bernie and AOC? Either you don't know what those terms mean, or you weren't paying attention. Her fake Medicare for All was no different than Buttigieg or O'Rourke. She supported torture. She initially compared the Iran nuclear deal to Munich. She played both siderism on the wall and the government shutdown. She repeatedly played wing woman to Biden when people pointed to problematic stances on civil rights in his past. Her relationship with Modi. Her praise of Netanyahu, Assad and Sisi. Her agreeing with Dave Rubin that every other Democratic Presidential candidate supported open borders and hated America. Her Present vote on impeachment. Which of those things were to the left of Bernie and AOC?
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  1877. Daddy won't let him.
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  1878. She also invoked 24 to justify torture, compared the Iran nuclear deal to Munich, and voted with Republicans to make it harder for Syrian refugees to enter the United States. The real grift was the "peace" advocate.
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  1879. If someone works remotely and isn't around other people, jack the insurance premiums way up. If they are around anyone at all, tell them No Jab No Job.
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  1880. The most shameful response was that evil psychopath Pence standing in the area where people were chanting "No showers" and everyone around complained about the stench, and that ghoul praised the border agents for their humane treatment of those being put in concentration camps.
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  1881. Unfortunately, Schumer isn't up in 2020, but we can make a go in 2022. Four terms of sucking up to Wall Street is enough.
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  1882.  @firstlast9916  Libertarianism is believing the same thing on Wednesday that you did on Monday regardless of what happened on Tuesday.
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  1883.  @firstlast9916  You're the one saying that food companies and restaurants are going to do the work so that government isn't needed and they wouldn't just go back to the bad old days before the FDA, but as money has gone down for the front end, recalls have gone up. It's not my fault that you're acting out of self-interest and turning a blind eye, thus disproving your entire argument. Every recall disproves your argument.
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  1884.  @firstlast9916  Yes, because they weren't checking at all before the letter grades were posted. [eye roll]
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  1885.  @sk-sm9sh  There are plenty of things in this world that aren't legal but are definitely immoral. Is "it's not illeg" really your only moral standard for backstabbing?
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  1886.  @drstone6798  I don't know what medical school you are claiming graduation from, but there is no way that someone who can't write a coherent or relevant point got the grades or the MCAT scores to get in.
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  1887. Between this and "Foxcatcher," Mark Ruffalo has done some great and good work exposing awful things done by the Dupont Company and its heirs.
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  1888. @Etevaldo Skylab I am a Caseworker, and I can assure you that the poor don't have basic needs taken care of. The benefits are not nearly as generous as people think.
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  1889.  Wallace  If you look through our system, a lot of things tend to have been written by people who had the assumption that political actors would play by the rules, and there are a lot of gentleman's agreements. (For example, if you watch C-SPAN, there are lot if times where you will hear a request for unanimous consent, often to allow something to be entered into the record instead of forcing someone to read something that may be hundreds of pages, and "Without objection" means that it is approved.) Our system was ill-prepared for one side just refusing to play along.
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  1890. Because they would use that against her to get a reprimand. Like Major League umpires, the word that gets you in the most trouble is "you."
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  1891. ​ @bigbopper6434  Who was wearing the T-shirt of an extreme gun rights group.
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  1892. Not only is Warnock legitimately a good Senator and a good man, but Manchin and Sinema aren't awful on the same things, so this makes a huge difference. Maybe this means both codify Roe and getting rid of the carried interest loophole once and for all.
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  1893. Because Yang said that he wants to get rid of the existing social safety net long term. Because he opposes increasing the minimum wage. Because he opposes efforts to make it easier for workers to organize. Because he supports regressive taxes. Because he wants to do nothing to actually address wealth inequality. Because he opposes actually doing anything to rein in monopolies. He is proposing what Milton Friedman did for the exact same reason.
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  1894.  @SebastianLundh1988  Do you not understand what antitrust laws were designed to do? If you have the monopoly, you benefit from economy of scale, so no one will be able to undercut you. And the people in other towns will work out deals to make sure that they can keep their territories so they don't have to worry about someone else coming in.
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  1895.  @ChewyThomson  The most ridiculous black hole I ever went down with one was finding out this was a special kind of stupid: the individual sovereign types who think that they should just be able to declare their private property to be its own country. I asked if he would need a passport to reenter the United States or pay tariffs for anything he ordered in the mail. He then got mad and sad that I was focusing on distractions. These are clearly people who never thought it through.
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  1896. @Logan Wallace If you take all the "successful people," who is going to build the houses? Or set up the plumbing? Or build the roads? I would love to see people go Galt, because they'll find out that there will be new rich people to take their place, but they won't be able to last without us workers.
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  1897.  @BinaryStarofShaolin  The other difference is that if Hillary was elected, the Senate probably would have been 50-50, because she probably would have helped win seats in WI & PA. Therefore, it would have gotten to the point that the Democrats would have gotten sick of the filibuster, and not only would Scalia have been replaced by someone at least as good as Garland, but RBG would have also retired rather than risk beating cancer a third time.
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  1898.  @MisterNiles  I'm quoting Mitt Romney sarcastically, because that was his response to someone criticizing Citizens United on Iowa in 2011.
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  1899.  Alabama Man 2.0  For someone who wants to display strength and not be a snowflake, you sure are getting sensitive when someone actually remembers things. I could also point to the number of government shutdowns with unified Republican control vs. the number with unified Democratic control.
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  1900.  @emilyhofland8219  Is there a war that John McCain ever opposed in his life? Even hypothetical wars ("bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran")? I can't think of any.
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  1901. I think that she sees that her pathway to relevance is fading, and she is trying to get some of that cheddar before she becomes a trivia question.
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  1902.  @zacg_  Go back and read his Salon columns. He was never the lefty he made himself out to be. For me, the moment that opened my eyes was seeing the interview where she defended torture. When I heard her supporters defend it as a veteran, it was an insult to me and every other person who did the right thing when dealing with POWs.
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  1903.  @Killjoy.Z  He's doing nothing. His products only survive through government subsidies and violating labor laws. How many people did he kill when he forced his factories open despite orders to shut them down in the middle of a novel pandemic that has killed more Americans than any event in our history.
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  1904. Did that grift already implode?
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  1905. @Donag I lost a real-world friend when I found out that he was a literal Nazi. There are some political stances that are just too far.
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  1906.  @sargentpilcher  Do you own a car? Any car at all, because literally every automobile manufacturer on the planet uses planned obsolescence.
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  1907.  @sargentpilcher  What new regulation made the manufacturers of insulin triple the price? The Trump Administration has been cutting regulations.
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  1908.  @sargentpilcher  The percentage is 5% among all adults, and senior citizens are nearly three times as likely as the general adult population to get diabetes. In the words of Principal Skinner, "your metabolism will change someday, too, young man." Even without that, there are people who still get it despite diet and exercise. My grandma was a skinny woman, and she got it in her 50s. My uncle knew this, and tried to avoid it. He keeps his weight under control, exercises, the whole deal, and he got it in his late 40s.
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  1909.  @sargentpilcher  If it is remotely as easy as you say, that would mean that the cars aren't steadily improving. The question was whether or not cars have planned obsolescence, and there are two ways to do it: have parts that only last so long (GM), or continually improve (Toyota). I knew someone who had a 1990 Honda and 2010, and she said that it would be hard for her to get new parts if something ever happened to her car. You might think that there is no planned obsolescence, and it might be for a relatively long time, but it will happen. I had a 1998 Ford until it got hit a year and a half ago (someone misjudged a turn while I was at work), and it was deemed a total loss, but parts weren't the problem with any repairs I ever needed. That didn't mean that I wasn't lucky that I didn't run into a part that wasn't able to be found.
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  1910.  @sargentpilcher  Again, my uncle is not overweight and he works out. I hope that you don't have something where genetics catches up to you. Pretty much everyone has some genetic ticking time bomb no matter what they do. I run, and I have high cholesterol. Chances are, with enough time, you'll run into something that your lifestyle won't protect you against. If you end up with a support network that thinks like you, I will truly feel sorry for you, even if in reality that would be what you deserved.
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  1911. "Stupid people elected by even stupider people." Christopher Titus
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  1912.  @powbobs  If he's half as bad a boss as he is a lover, it would be a terrible thought indeed. Considering that he thinks that Henry Potter is the good guy in It's a Wonderful Life, he probably is.
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  1913.  @ROOKTABULA  How many campaign stops did Bernie make for Hillary in the general election? How many did she make for Obama?
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  1914.  @TheHuffmanator  For someone who "supports Sam," you sure are spending a lot of time trashing him. What is it with you rechtswingers and pretending not to be rechts?
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  1915. OJ also knew ahead of time that Darden was going to do it, so he didn't take hos arthritis medication for several days before trying on the gloves. A few days later, Darden tried to find a replica glove, but that was basically closing the barn door after the cows had already gotten out.
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  1916.  @djohnson5675  She tries to advocate an alliance between lefties and fascists, and she is incapable of criticizing Trump without playing both siderism. Do you think that nothing has changed in the last four years? She does.
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  1917.  @howardfriedman7077  Well, if you don't have the money to buy No Deductible insurance, or your job doesn't offer it, do you really have the option for zero deductible insurance?
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  1918.  @LumumbaKShakur  No offense, but I've dealt with plenty of people who don't want to blow up their spot with someone, so I'll take it with a grain of salt. Even if everything that they said is true, this is someone threatening to pull $65 million out of a small town if he doesn't get his way. This is someone indignant that he didn't get a private audience to air his complaints. Even if he is completely correct on the issue at hand, the entitlement and blackmail are not.
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  1919.  @thetowerstillstands  I think the big reason for the difference is the age of the actresses. Lisa Loring was six, and Christina Ricci was 11.
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  1920. Because Glenn Greenwald is setting himself up for a Why I Left the Left grift, even though he has long had a massive libertarian streak.
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  1921.  @laurenhilbert7805  And if you make your money by exploiting people or polluting the planet, how is that "blameless"?
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  1922.  @belakthrillby  It doesn't take a psychic to see that road, just like it didn't take a psychic to see that McConnell would get rid of the filibuster to ram Trump's SCOTUS nominee(s) through. And, last I checked, Martin Luther King didn't have a vote in Congress. I get that you Dore crowds like to think ever so highly of yourself, but what have you actually done to try to move the needle on Medicare for All?
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  1923.  @joshuaknepshield4687  Then, you remember wrong.
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  1924.  @joshuaknepshield4687  She didn't admit any of that stuff until after Emma said that Bernie was her first choice, and Tulsi had abandoned Medicare for All long before Dore supported her. A lot of us were predicting that she would go full mask off by the time her term ended, but I must admit that I was wrong. I thought she would go to Fox for their money instead of PragerU.
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  1925. Republic and democracy are different categories. Yes, it did bring us closer to democracy, but all republic means is that there is no monarchy.
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  1926. Still on the ballot, so that's all that matters for this strategy.
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  1927.  @arobidy  Have you not heard of at will employment? A lot of places like Wal-Mart and Amazon prefer high turnover so they can keep wages down.
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  1928.  @davidm1926  Well, South Korea has a much greater population density, and if our death rate would have been the same, it would have been less than 10,000, so it is definitely possible.
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  1929.  @rockstarburne  You are aware that Columbia wouldn't be the smallest state, right?
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  1930. "Many white-collar workers haven't returned to the office." And a lot of us never want to go back to the office ever again.
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  1931. Thank you for posting this. I swear, Matt's awful foreign policy takes make some of the videos on foreign policy unbearable. There is a small distance between being reflexively anti-American and being a tankie, and he's pushing that line hard.
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  1932.  @winstonsmith-ministryoftru1609  Their goal is to find pretty women who pretend to be lefties but only help right wingers. Looks like they've found the true heir to Krystal Ball.
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  1933.  @LD-tn6ff  The guy known as the amendment king clearly knows how to push the levers. This is an example of people who said that he didn't have to claim authorship because he just cared about results. And if you show me Bernie giving Trump a standing ovation to signal that he is not really that far left or going to do much, then we can talk.
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  1934.  @TheJoker718  At that point, was Nate really ready to listen? In his own mind, he had already burned that bridge.
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  1935. McCarthy also still doesn't understand that if he wouldn't have gone on Fox to blame Democrats for the near shutdown after giving him the votes he needed, there were almost certainly some frontline Democrats who would have voted against vacating. But, like so many others, he forgot that the job is Speaker of the House, not Speaker of the House Republicans.
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  1936. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
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  1937.  @Zach-ju5vi  So, you're saying that Americans can't make high quality products? There are two ways to try to compete in the world: make cheap crap as cheaply as possible, or make quality stuff that people want to pay more for. So, you are betraying that instead of America First, you want America Third World.
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  1938.  @Zach-ju5vi  The example doesn't count because it disproves your argument. Last I checked, cars and electronics matter a lot more for quality. Just because you want to compete with the third world doesn't mean that we should.
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  1939.  @Zach-ju5vi  By your logic, a third world sweatshop would, but they don't.
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  1940.  @Zach-ju5vi  The biggest selling car in the world is a Toyota Corolla. Japan is not a third world country. And I see plenty of German cars on the road.
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  1941.  @Zach-ju5vi  If you taxed them with a top marginal rate of 64% on income over a billion dollars (Bernie's proposed top bracket of a billion dollars) or 70% on income of over $10MM (AOC/Omar), they will still have money for luxury cars. And I'm not saying that I want everyone to buy luxury cars. I'm saying that I want America to focus on building quality goods and paying workers quality wages. You want Americans to make low wages and not to build infrastructure. I actually want America to be great, and you want America to be a third world country.
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  1942. ​ @Sarah-l8r2w  The libertarian videos are evergreen. Unfortunately, Sam seems to have slayed them all, so they hardly call in anymore :-(
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  1943. Neutral reporting, or even the attempt to do so, is a little over 100 years old.
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  1944.  @AkYabster_907  I'm just glad I wasn't drinking water when he said that.
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  1945. @caleb Flores So, you support 60-70 hour work weeks? What a man of the people you are!
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  1946. As any miler can tell you, it's not where you are in the first lap, but the last lap, that matters. Bernie is making his move at the exact right time.
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  1947. Well, it is primary time now, so it is time to try to get the best candidate. No need to settle unless we have to.
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  1948. ​ @JohnCarter-o1r  No, Ventura wanted to unionize. Hogan busted it.
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  1949.  @woodywood3388  Even getting rid of tax loopholes isn't enough. It can go a long way, but studies have shown that the optimal top marginal tax rate is 71%. I don't think it's a coincidence that the economy worked best for most people when the top tax bracket was never lower than 70%, and things took a turn when the top tax rate was never higher than 50%.
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  1950. ​ @wordforger  Me, too. I watched it I don't know how many times before I picked up on the fact that he gets the tire thing, even with him going back and forth and the music flourish. I was kicking myself for not noticing!
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  1951. Actually, it tells us that Yang Gang bangers don't like being confronted with the truth about their preferred candidate.
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  1952. ​ @dissonanceparadiddle  I call it right to work for less.
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  1953. At this point, I don't know whether Biden is lying or just doesn't know what is going on. "Remember, it's not a lie if you believe it." George Costanza
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  1954.  @makoshark40  His model is not sustainable because of the rare earth minerals that he uses to make the batteries.
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  1955.  @AG-lm5uf  Did you ever have to watch the sexual harassment video at work? My job makes us watch it every year, and making comments about someone's dress to try to belittle that person in front of others is really a textbook example. I don't care if he could see her other haircut, you don't say that. Of course, that assumes that he is telling the truth about the incident in question.
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  1956. Indeed. I think that it would be enough to make two simple changes: 1) require Senators to actually hold the floor; 2) do what Robert C. Byrd tried in the 1980s, and change the rule from 3/5 of all Senators to a 3/5 vote. Those two things alone would mean that Republicans could only really delay rather than defeat legislation.
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  1957. "It is possible to be a problematic person with horrible views, and to be a human being with hurt feelings at the same time. Christian Walker is both." Charles Blow, New York Times
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  1958.  @derrsonn  Even his model did not foresee the butterfly ballot or the Supreme Court abandoning its long-held stated principles to throw the election toward their preferred candidate.
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  1959.  @Zach-ju5vi  Economic activity is what makes the economy grow. Fiat currency isn't based on pulling a number out of thin air.
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  1960. If it's not really going to anything one way or the other, why vote for it, 1993 Joe Biden?
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  1961. Even without that, considering the way that her uncle surrendered the throne and then went paling around with Nazztys, she definitely wanted to keep the "for the rest of my life, no matter how long or short" promise she made.
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  1962. I was born six years after the coup in Chile, and I know it happened.
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  1963.  @sybo59  How do you know that the private companies won't be in cahoots with the companies selling the poison? The tobacco industry had a lot of experts saying that cigarettes were harmless.
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  1964. ​ @captain1jones354  They rear their heads every once in a while, but this is their first time actually trying to field a candidate. There's always some grifter group that does this exact racket of claiming to speak for some forgotten middle, but all ot really does is pad some wallets. It looked like Andrew Yang was trying to do that with the Forward Party this time, but he got outflanked.
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  1965.  @Pathfinder1932-t5d  What is "far left" in American politics that has any traction at all? I haven't seen anyone gain any traction in American politics while arguing for the seizure of the means of production. The most successful American socialists either trimmed their sails while focusing on a few popular items (Bernie) or focused on nuts and bolts operations (the sewer socialists).
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  1966.  @Pathfinder1932-t5d  "a majority of people I've seen argue against patriotism happen to be leftist" Which party blamed Americans for 9/11? I distinctly remember that rant by Jerry Falwell. Ann Coulter on CD e said that the only mistake Timothy McVeigh made was not parking in front of the NY Times building. And Der Orangefuhrer has multiple times said how awful America is. Just because someone doesn't dry hump a flag doesn't mean that person hates America.
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  1967.  @Pathfinder1932-t5d  You seriously implied that the vast majority of the left opposes patriotism while the right embraces it.
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  1968.  @kathydukakis1663  You mean like when he put up that article where he completely distorted it to match his anti-vaccine propaganda and then made up a producer to blame it on and fire?
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  1969. If you don't vaccinate a sufficient amount for herd immunity, herd immunity comes through illness. Great plan!
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  1970. Let us not forget how well things worked out when the US supported a coup against Chavez in 2002. Not that I am a fan of either Chavez or Maduro, but I really hate these coups. Haven't we learned our lesson yet?
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  1971.  @erikbloom3770  And she even said that she knew Trump was guilty. Actually, she was already out of Congress by the second impeachment. Her Present was on the first one.
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  1972.  @fnhatic6694  As opposed to the guy who only debates college students?
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  1973.  @cariopuppetmaster  And people keep forgetting that he is to the left of every Republican in the Senate. Some people have no sense of strategy at all. No wonder we keep losing!
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  1974.  @crithon  Her statement later on of "how could no government possibly be worse than what we have now?" is the exact kind of thing that I have heard from anarchists and libertarians on the right, as well.
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  1975.  @HansKeesom  So, they were born on third and think they hit a triple. Good for them. The country's economy grew faster and more people benefited from that growth in the 35 years after WWII than the 40 years since. There were only a few billionaires, and taxes were high, and the country did just fine.
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  1976.  @ongoinglife  You hear lots of things. Things that are false. She is using Ilhan Omar to get attention and legitimize right-wing talking points about voter fraud. She is playing useful idiot for Trump. Then again, maybe she knows exactly what she is doing and still wants to be his secretary of state.
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  1977.  @mayavox  "Single" means one. The instant you allow private insurance, you are just dressing up the public option or Hillarycare.
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  1978.  @mayavox  Apparently, you have a problem where you stop reading when you have what you think you have to defend the object of your admiration. I was specifically talking about at that price with no out of pocket costs. You're just as dishonest as Tulsi. See my shocked face :-|
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  1979.  Mr Liberty  Did you see anyone's pants down or feet sticking out of the stall?
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  1980.  @kevin6293  1) There is no such thing as the Democrat Party. 2) There is no such thing as an "anti-groomer bill" in Florida. Do you get paid per lie?
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  1981.  @kevin6293  You: You vote for someone who was friends with the leader of the KKK. (If it's who I think you're referring to, he left the KKK before he was 30, and had a 100% voting record on civil rights the last 40 years of his life, and apologized over and over about his past, which he deeply regretted, and said that he would continue to apologize for the rest of his life.) Also you: So what if I support the chosen candidate of the actual active leaders of the KKK today.
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  1982. That is so unfair! Gob is actually funny.
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  1983. Mr. Biden, at no point in that rambling, incoherent statement was there anything resembling a rational thought. We are all dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
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  1984.  @Bluebelle51  I see a lot of people who make statements that are based on an extremely flawed assumption. No one has to get 50% of the votes, it is about who can get 50% of pledged delegates. If a candidate gets less than 15% of the vote, he/she gets zero delegates in that state or district. If you still have 24 candidates in the race, and only two or three getting delegates, with most of those non-viable candidates taking away from the establishment candidate, this helps Bernie.
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  1985.  @emilyhofland8219  He shot people before that.
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  1986.  @catherinebaum3510  What I don't get is why the prosecution doesn't ask for a new judge. He's clearly shown his biases. I tuned in for a little bit today during breaks from work and saw him yelling at the prosecutor in front of the camera and insisting that the prosecutor has to prove that a picture isn't doctored to present it as evidence.
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  1987.  @marvinstutzman432  If you don't vote, then you can't complain.
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  1988. If you think the President committed a crime, you vote to impeach. If you are too caught up in nursing a grudge with other elected officials to do your duty, you have no business being in Congress. She is disgraceful, and anyone who defends this vote of cowardice is also disgraceful.
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  1989.  @HalfBackCrack  That is so unfair! Bobby Boucher is likable and just wants to help people and have friends.
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  1990. @Will Schrank Name a good or great President who lost the popular vote.
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  1991. I agree with you, Sam. Trump is going to try to yell loud enough for another microphone to pick him up.
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  1992.  @OGmolton1  Are you kidding? Gorsuch and Kavanaugh alone answer that question. Are you fine with women and workers losing their rights?
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  1993.  @lisalisa2375  You mean the one who signed off on the nonsense audit?
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  1994. 74 million. Don't do Der Orangefuhrer the favor of rounding up.
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  1995.  @hiropon2985  Indeed. There are multiple occasions where Jim admits that he acts a lot worse when he has someone egging him on.
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  1996.  @MichaelAronson  I think you're missing my point. I'm not saying that it was bad to go after the favoritism Debbie Wasserman Schultz displayed. My point was that it was not genuine, and she was using it to hide the real Tulsi, who was busy voting with her Republican buddies to go with her first love: hating Muslims.
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  1997. Ben Carson: proof that skill in one thing doesn't translate into other things.
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  1998. She may be, but she did us all a favor last night.
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  1999. The amounts debated are over the course of ten years.
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  2000. And Obama inherited the worst economy in 80 years. He left Moscow Donald a booming economy and stock market, and he's built a bubble that is already leaking out.
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  2001. Indeed. She gained weight and looked better. There are so many examples of it. One of the ones that I'd like to see a Take on is why books with source material where an unshaven woman is actually part of her character in the book such as The Hunger Games and The Virgin Suicides doesn't go down that road. It makes a lot less sense in the movie to have the stylists at the Capitol shave bare skin.
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  2002. @independentCog And, that flipped on issues of race beginning in 1948 and solidifying in the 1960s, so what's your point?
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  2003.  @fearsomestm00c0w  He lost the popular vote and was never approved by a majority of voters.
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  2004. If you are only hurting yourself, so be it. The problem is that you are spreading it to other people. My five-year-old daughter can't get the vaccine, and I don't want some anti-vaccine wack job making her sick.
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  2005.  @davidstewart1757  No, but being an authoritarian who supports Trump is, though. Anyone who wants the military to crack down on peaceful protesters is an authoritarian. And there are a lot of fascists in this country based on what we have seen.
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  2006.  @markzuckergecko621  No, but someone is fascist if that person meets most or all of the characteristics laid out by Umberto Eco, and Der Orangefuhrer is either 13 or 14 out of 14.
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  2007.  @fefelarue2948  True, but chasing the money can change you.
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  2008. With that accent, does she not realize that she's next?
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  2009.  @MichaelAronson  Tay Zonday is still a legend. He was the first truly original content creator on the channel, and he didn't do it for the money.
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  2010. No one supports a wealth tax of 70%. Bernie supports a top income tax bracket of 52%, a 4% employee payroll tax to pay for Medicare for All, and a 77% inheritance tax for those getting more than a billion dollars for everything above that level.
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  2011.  @matlockmeat  And what is this "nothing but research" other than "I listened to doctors who disagreed with the official story"?
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  2012.  @matlockmeat  You sound like a typical caller who says that there is so much evidence but never actually provides it. Not the least bit surprising.
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  2013. The alternative is a fascist movement quietly building. What is better?
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  2014. Show me anything the Republican Party has done in the last 40 years to make it easier for people to vote. They gutted the Voting Rights Act, and they are constantly proposing things in the name of "fighting vote fraud" to make it harder for people to vote.
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  2015.  @VMonkies  I have one for getting the top test average on a carpentry course when my National Guard unit switched from engineering in my last year. It's somewhere in my parents' house. I showed it to people when I first got it, but that lasted about a day or two.
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  2016.  @yoomsuu  These people aren't really Bernie supporters. They are trolls.
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  2017. ​ @soulknife20  Exactly. A much better option would be Bernie's idea of a random rotation of federal judges or a pool so that we no longer have nine unelected and unaccountable judges on the bench for life.
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  2018.  @MrBonners  Either you or on his payroll, or you own shares and hope that some other sucker buys to pump up your share prices.
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  2019. Ask President Romney and President Dean what it means to lead in polls a year out, and then you'll see why it was so laughable that Trumpers insisted that it was all over when their boy had a lead last year.
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  2020. Fetch is never going to happen. Stop trying to make fetch happen.
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  2021.  @mosesconspiracy  Turning on the war after it started is not the same thing as seeing the problems with it that a lot of us did, and it didn't take a knee-jerk opposition to the use of military force to see the problems with jt.
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  2022. @Nuke 'EmAll The mere fact that you are saying that Bernie is using campaign funds to enrich his family which is illegal shows that you are lying and probably never gave a penny to Bernie, but coming here trying to sew chaos. Bye, troll.
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  2023.  @RedRomanov  Indeed. I can't help but appreciate the irony that the Electoral College was supposed to ensure that the best and the brightest hold the office, but the last two times there has been a split between the popular vote and the Electoral College, the people selected the more qualified candidate.
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  2024.  @ComradeCatpurrnicus  Indeed. In a poll before he announced, using Lake as the Republican, in a two-way race, Gallego was a point ahead. In a three-way race, he was a point behind.
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  2025.  @wildbill9681  You think that's bad. He has about a dozen different accounts (Aaron Dickson was the original, then several Alabama Man accounts, Mandatory Helicopter Rides, some projecting about groomers, etc.) Easily in five digits.
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  2026.  @furiousapplesack  The Roberts Court has been leading by example. Not a good one, but their example looks like its seeping into lower courts.
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  2027. Darn right! A second referendum was the only option with his party split the way it was. Of course, it was Jeremy Against the World, so people were too willing to give in to this notion. No one could have won as long as the election was about Brexit.
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  2028. ​ @langeroony35  And that's why we have a Vice President.
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  2029.  @peoples2296  Didn't suffer any consequences? Florida only had the most deaths per capita with the possible exception being Mississippi. EVERYWHERE votes to approve a higher minimum wage. That is the one ballot initiative that is undefeated this century. It wins in states blue and red. Now, you could also point to the people of Florida voting to restore the franchise to convicted felons who had served their time, and how DeSantis basically found some loophole to refuse to restore the franchise, but he never got punished for it. Of anything, that only reinforces my weariness. I really don't care about what people say they believe on issues as long as they keep voting for a party that does the exact opposite.
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  2030.  @CandorHispanus  You mean principled like the Green Party that gets funded by Republicans? Or like Jimmy Dore who got literally everything wrong in his debate with Sam Seder? Or Krystal Ball who went from taking 39% of all money she raised in a PAC that was supposed to help lefty candidates to pretending that we can work with fascists? Are those your paragons of virtue?
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  2031.  @nozealotlikeaconvert  Jimmy Dore said all along that he'd gladly sell out if the offer was good enough. Cenk gave his tired comedy a second chance. The instant he said Trump would be better than Hillary, he started laying the foundation for his inevitable sell out.
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  2032. And we are currently turning the squad into a platoon. Next, we need to turn it into a company.
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  2033.  @Jornandreja  Actually, the Three Fifths Compromise is far more insidious than that. The large slaveholding states wanted the slaves to count as whole people in order to give themselves far more power by increasing their numbers in the House. The people who wanted slaves to count as whole people were acting in a way to increase the power of slavery. That is yet another example of how truly evil the Peculiar Institution really was.
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  2034.  @jennanyx4968  I stopped watching Jimmy Dore after Sam Seder tore him so many new ones that he should have given him some Preparation H. I already had the blinds off before Rising came on the scene, but I just couldn't watch them after the primary. The way Krystal Ball went after Bernie turned me off. When, oh when is it going to be AOC's turn so we can finally win at the highest level?
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  2035.  @tiffanyhouchin6055  Actually, Feingold was the only Senator to vote against it. Bernie did oppose it, and voted against it, but he was in the House at the time.
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  2036.  @goodun2974  Well, maybe it shouldn't end, but turn the denier's microphone off and let the candidate who believes in democracy speak to the people.
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  2037.  @kevinschmidt2210  Yes, because this is a dictatorship where one Senator can bend the entire country to his will. He does more for poor and working people in a day than his critics do in a year.
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  2038.  @DougDimmaDab  Oh, it's that much in a week for Aaron. He does this with literally dozens if not hundreds of usernames. He got caught when he used the wrong username to reply to someone else.
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  2039.  @mistertgt3477  The guy with the health care proposal to the right of Pete Buttigieg isn't the answer... especially in a video about Medicare for All. #tact
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  2040.  @westcoastrenegade8594  Keep dreaming. If you have given up on democracy, you aren't part of the conversation. If you want to engage in self-indulgent behavior that doesn't go anywhere, get a room and some lube.
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  2041. 1:30 There was a lot to admire about George Romney. He introduced the compact car to the American public, supported civil rights, and opposed the Vietnam War.
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  2042.  @garysmokesmeat  I can also point to the dramatic plummet in senior poverty since Social Security and Medicare because of those evil taxes that supposedly never help anyone.
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  2043.  @100AcreWoodz1  No matter which field you go into, if too many people enter that field, it floods the market. The same thing happened to law 20 years ago. The same thing is also starting to happen to coding now.
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  2044.  @billclark8241  Sir, but I wouldn't go quite that far. If they really want to show their gratitude, they can do actual concrete things like pushing for VA funding so that the medical issues that we have when we get home get properly treated, and get rid of the prescription and use copays which have a very low floor for means testing out of.
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  2045.  regulator619  The most he ever registers for Trump is mild disappointment, but it never stops him from insisting that people should vote for Trump.
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  2046.  regulator619  And this "economic populist" refused to support Bernie because "he turned to identity politics." You can be an apologist for fascists if you want, but you will be called out every time.
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  2047.  regulator619  He didn't "want Bernie to win." I actually watched the show back then. At least I can tell the truth about what I saw.
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  2048.  regulator619  He didn't care who would win the Democratic primary, because he supported Trump. He only wanted Bernie to go scorched earth because he wanted Bernie to irrevocably damage the eventual nominee. Your question is irrelevant because Saagar didn't care who won the Democratic nomination.
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  2049.  regulator619  Okay. At this point, it is obvious that you are just trolling to apologize for a fascist. You aren't fooling anyone, except for maybe yourself.
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  2050.  @BloodFireDoom  It took a majority of votes for impeachment. If the final total was 215-214-1, Trump would not have been impeached. Present is No for cowards.
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  2051. "Heroes get remembered, but legends never die." Wrong movie, but still fits.
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  2052. In 2020, the coronavirus death rate was twice as high per capita in counties where Trump won 60% of the vote compared to counties where Biden won 60%, so a real possibility.
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  2053. It looks like this caller took the advice of Dwight Schrute to heart: "I ask myself, 'Would an idiot do that?' and if the answer is yes, I do not do that thing." Glad to see that helped him out.
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  2054.  @adilo7467  He didn't even ban travel from China. He only banned Chinese nationals.
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  2055.  @estherc.5559  Oh, after that Andrew Neil interview, you will never see him outside of his bubble again.
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  2056.  @jofez27  If you get rid of Manchin, McConnell becomes Majority Leader. What you need to do is use your head and try to get at least two more Senators so his vote is irrelevant.
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  2057.  @1848revolt  Ooh, you're a locally elected president. Which local? Is your COPE controlled by members or a committee? Because of the work of me and others through many organizations, we actually got a sponsor to Medicare for All. But you have gotten to complain. My union has gotten results on its demands, so funny that you didn't mention actual results.
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  2058.  @jeffroberts6428  He goes on Fox to dump on the left and make lefties look ridiculous. Maybe other lefties would want something to do with him if he didn't spend years insisting that we would be better off if Trump won.
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  2059. Have you seen the way she has gone after Bernie lately? She clearly blames him for her collapse.
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  2060.  @recycled3654  Oh, he refused to answer the question about printing his own currency. My point was that if he wanted nothing to do with the United States, short of being a hermit on his own land, he would have to interact with the government one way or another, and he would have to purchase goods. If I really wanted to push the passport issue, I would have tried to gather his opinion on immigration. Unless he was fully in support of open borders, it would be difficult not to find holes in his logic on that one.
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  2061. For those who think that replacing Manchin with a Republican is a lateral move, remember this: in his entire Senate career, literally every Democratic Senator has been to the left of every single Republican Senator. (The last Republican to be to the left of any Senate Democrat was Olympia Snowe vs. Ben Nelson in the 2007-08 term.)
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  2062.  @thomas2082  Wrong. When you post videos saying that it doesn't work, you are anti-vaccine.
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  2063.  @thomas2082  And March for Medicare for All was a one-time event that was so poorly organized and attended that it was a total joke. Oh, and he let white nationalists use the event, and several of the lefty organizations that were listed as sponsors had nothing to do with it.
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  2064.  @GermanLeftist  Indeed. They are just fine with others committing violence. Then, some of them have the audacity to call themselves pacifists.
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  2065. Indeed. And how many times was it Infrastructure Week?
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  2066. I'd personally argue for Mississippi as the worst, but Arkansas is definitely in the running.
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  2067. What is inaccurate? Yang himself has admitted that the disabled won't benefit from his plan. He admitted that he ultimately wants to get rid of the existing social safety net. Sam didn't force him to make the poorest choose or to use a regressive tax to pay for it.
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  2068.  @reeceh78  Good job on being able to read those run-on sentences with even sloppier thinking behind them.
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  2069.  @888strummer  $3.5 trillion is less than half of what we'll be spending on Defense over the same period of time, and the bill has ways to pay for the spending.
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  2070. Even that parenthetical statement creeped me out. Other than Jim Jones, I have never heard a creepier laugh in all my life.
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  2071.  @AloisWeimar  Exactly. There's a reason why the most successful third parties on the left (Socialists and Populists) focused on the local level.
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  2072. Did they curtsey while doing so?
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  2073.  @theTruthSeekerishere  True, but she understood the rules, and she shouldn't have kept ignoring the Great Lakes states when people kept trying to warn her that her lead was slipping, and she shouldn't have told the DNC to spend $5MM in Chicago and New Orleans for fear that she would win the Electoral College and lose the popular vote. You know where else she could have spent that money to boost her popular vote? Pittsburgh, Detroit, Madison, Milwaukee, etc. Her arrogance also hurt her campaign deeply.
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  2074.  @johnf8122  Thank you. I also forgot that her "we need to compromise and come together" dodge is like catnip to that crowd ;-)
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  2075.  @bentrinker1937  I never said she was stupid. I said she was lazy. Not the same thing. And she made every single "democrat [sic] win" smaller. If you want to pass yourself off as Not a Republican, here's a hint: Democrat is a noun, and Democratic is an adjective.
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  2076.  @janepappas1032  You're missing the point of my reply. I'm responding to the idea that we can just ignore them. Math won't let us. Biden needs to turn the screws. Give them projects and play hardball. Whatever combination of carrot and stick it takes, but just get it done.
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  2077. Union proud and so glad to see Bernie 2020 and its workers making history!
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  2078.  @nebula3911  I have taken to calling a bowel movement "taking a Trump." We can make it catch on!
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  2079. Jim Rohn (1930-2009) was a speaker and writer popular in the sales industry (I had never heard of him until after he died when I was working [unsuccessfully] on my PhD and tried my hand in network marketing because I had no luck finding steady work) and I could never figure out his politics based on his speeches and books, but I was always surprised to hear someone who styled himself as a business philosopher say something to this effect about paying taxes: taxes perform a good for society. They pay for the roads and the sidewalks and things that we need as a society. When I got my money, the top tax rate was 91%, and it didn't stop me. He summed it up as "taxes are the golden goose. Some people will say that the goose is too fat, and perhaps they're right, but better to have a fat goose than no goose at all."
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  2080. I remember someone even in my union (who was actually a business agent before he retired) pulling the "if you don't like the new contract [which kept getting praised for being a record increase, which while technically true, ignored the fact that we were behind the eight ball after the previous contract that was a good deal when inflation was low, but not so much and we should have gotten more upfront to try to play catch up against inflation], you can always work somewhere else" card, and I pointed out that was Management mentality, and why should we change jobs just let someone else screw us over?
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  2081.  @damaged3734  I hope this is sarcasm.
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  2082. The bots are strong today.
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  2083.  @mattl5470  Ryan Grim literally said, "And we allied with Nazis after World War II," and she responded, "And it saved lives." Unless she wasn't paying attention to what he said, she literally defended working with Nazis.
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  2084. Don't insult Milton like that!
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  2085. Alan Colmes wrote a book as well that was pretty good. I got it as a Christmas gift when I was in Iraq. Wrote an e-mail to say I liked it, and he personally responded, and based on things that were in the e-mail, it was clearly not an automatic response. Dave Rubin isn't someone who is just in the wrong medium like Colmes was, he is just an idiot.
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  2086.  @raskassputin7408  There's only so many times people can "joke" about it before it becomes obvious. Let's face it, Cenk has helped some great lefty voices get a platform, but people like Jimmy Dore and Dave Rubin figured out that all you had to do was flatter him, and he'd give you a show.
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  2087.  @oliverwheeler7132  Look it up. It really doesn't hold up at all. Jimmy should have lost any and all relevance after that.
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  2088.  @occupydemocratsparody5318  So, you want cops to kill innocent black people? Go cry in your drink, because one of the killers is finally going to see justice.
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  2089.  @occupydemocratsparody5318  Yes, because leaving your knee in someone's back for nine minutes while you already have them in handcuffs is justified. I'm not the one who is essentially arguing for the death penalty for petty crime.
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  2090. ​ @Frank-r3y2i  Guidelines are fine, as is making sure that poisons aren't being secretly put into food. Or do you think that the pointy heads got it wrong when they founded the FDA after finding out that companies sold meat when humans fell into the grinders?
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  2091. One shouldn't, but when it keeps happening over and over again, it starts to seem a bit more representative.
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  2092.  @whyamimrpink78  Man, oh man, does that parody account nail your particular version of Dunning-Kruger perfectly.
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  2093. People shouldn't have to choose. Yang calls it a "right of citizenship," but the poor and disabled have to choose. However, the rich don't. Here is an example: if someone gets a $10MM house with an $8MM mortgage and a 3% interest rate, we are talking about a mortgage interest of $240,000. With a top marginal rate of 37%, this means tax savings of $88,800. Why don't they have to choose? Here's another example of how the "choice" can screw you if you are middle class. Imagine someone making $39,000/year who takes the "freedom dividend." He/she gets laid off. If this person hadn't taken Yang bucks, this person would have been eligible for biweekly unemployment of $900. Let's hope that person has his/her house paid in full, because mortgage could easily by over $700/month, so that person would be screwed, because he/she is limited to $1000. And that is yet another example of how cruel it is to construct a universal basic income that operates at the expense of the existing social safety net.
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  2094. "She's a lawyer. That's Latin for liar." Gob Bluth
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  2095.  @LaSweet52  How many bald and fat jokes did Will Smith say about James Avery? And since when is physical violence an acceptable response?
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  2096.  @shellyseymore6249  She gave $1000 to a Republican running against Ruben Gallego, not just a solid lefty in Congress and a reliable supporter of Medicare for All, but the most likely primary challenger to Sinema in 2024. I have as much sympathy for her as I do Melania Trump.
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  2097.  Anthony Princeton  Your article is out of date and ignores the fact that the states that the article praises are currently having the worst outbreaks in the nation. Fail.
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  2098.  @xanderprangler8621  I feel for people who try to do things to protect themselves and others around me, but none for people who refuse to do what needs done. My mom was told that she couldn't (I can't remember if it was allergies or a possible reaction to other medications), but she is going to try to find out if it is possible for her to get the vaccine. My aunt got a really bad breakthrough case because some idiot parent sent her kid to school and the kid wouldn't wear her mask while hacking up a lung. Regardless of the size of your platform, if you willingly refuse and have no legitimate medical reason to do so, I have no pity. I found out today that an idiot uncle who thought the virus wasn't even real and refused to wear a mask, let alone vaccinate, I really had no sympathy when he tested positive for it.
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  2099.  @TheNextTurn  Tulsi defended Biden for his Iraq vote, and she supported torture.
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  2100.  @Name-jw4sj  If you know any, you should be able to say, but you can't, because she is offering watered down versions of Bernie's platform.
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  2101.  @o0Avalon0o  Maybe that's because, to use an analogy that the host of Secular Talk would surely loathe, at best he is like an evangelist who is good at getting converts, but terrible at helping people actually grow, so he shouldn't be anyone's pastor.
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  2102. Yeah, and in Australia, you have ranked choice voting instead of first past the post.
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  2103.  @jaxmiller724  I'm well aware of blood quantum (while my grandpa didn't and my mom doesn't consider themselves to be Native American, they both meet the blood quantum standards to claim it, I am under that threshold). Still, I'm not so self-centered to only care about issies that affect me.
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  2104.  @jaxmiller724  There's a difference between "a higher priority on things that affect you directly," and not only not caring about the issues that affect people other than you, but being so angered at any attempt to point out that other people have issues and helping people understand those issues is completely different.
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  2105.  @jaxmiller724  So, you don't concern yourself with how others act, but you claim to be an English elementary school teacher, and you say that you refuse to vote for the Democratic Party (English may have been my minor in college rather than my profession, but at least I can tell the difference between an adjective and a noun) because of a law school course that Democrats refuse to grandstand about? Yeah, that makes sense.
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  2106.  @jaxmiller724  Again, for an English teacher, you're showing a terrible grasp of the English language. Learn the difference between a noun and an adjective. As someone defending Tim Pool, it's not surprising that you opened with "I'm a Democrat, but..." and everything you have said since shows that your first statement in this thread was a lie. Why do so many right wingers have to lie online? If you really think that their ideas are best, just admit it.
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  2107.  @chadsimmons4496  No, the left doesn't need the libertarian vote. Tax cuts uber alles and ignoring the plight of the poor is not something any progressive or liberal or leftist or whatever who supports the people should get behind. Also, there is a difference between isolationism and peace. If anything, you should be aiming for Marianne Williamson on the debate stage if you care about peace.
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  2108. ​ @Thinking-gurl  It can be. There are some who are too friendly with/aspire to become Management and gum up the works, but the building blocks are there.
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  2109.  @donalny  You're not MLK or Rosa Parks. If you want to use them as an example, it took nine years of organizing including building sufficient support. MLK didn't say "Vote now!" to Eisenhower.
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  2110.  @bobdobbz9334  And how is that 6-3 right wing Supreme Court majority working out?
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  2111.  @theother1281  And he did try to do something nice for cancer patients... before Daddy wanted his cut.
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  2112. @D RBS The GM strike proved once and for all that there is no such thing as a good employer-based plan.
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  2113. ​ @basedtruthpiller7140  If California is so terrible, why don't you leave, Aaron?
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  2114.  @billypoe5217  Tammy Baldwin has that distinction. I could be wrong, but I think she was the first openly gay or lesbian US Senator.
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  2115. That's what I think. Arthur Leigh Allen was the original, but he passed the label onto someone else.
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  2116.  Scott  Right 95% of the time? Go watch his debate against Sam Seder in 2016. Literally everything Sam said turned out to be true, and everything Jimmy said turned out to be wrong. Did Hillary Clinton kill Seth Rich? Does she have Parkinson's? Who brought down the towers on 9/11?
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  2117.  saigonbond  Nice try, winger. For a group that likes to call others snowflakes, you don't like being called out. And there are certain things that are obviously between the lines. When you say that someone "is part of the 1%" when that person actually wants to address wealth and income inequality, you are clearly implying hypocrisy on his part. Maybe you need to develop some cognitive ability.
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  2118.  @vlihuha171  Other people who lived there say it never happened, and there has been people who said it didn't happen or was greatly exaggerated if anything did happen. They were a family who got in over their heads and ended up making the money through book and movie rights.
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  2119. I remember reading a book called Get the Rich Off Welfare. It was written 15 years ago, so the numbers may be off, but at the time, welfare for the rich actually cost over four times what welfare to the poor did. Oh, and they just used federal dollars, so it is probably much worse given the race to the bottom.
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  2120. [In Napoleon Dynamite voice] Lucky!
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  2121. Don't call it "right to work." Let's call it what it really is: right to work for less.
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  2122.  @emblemedfate4270  Wrong. The transcripts of the phone call prove otherwise. This is what happens when you support Tulsi Gabbard. You have to keep up with her dishonesty, and you're not even doing a good job of it. She said that she voted No for Cowards because she "didn't want to divide the country." When Obama pulled that for Bush's crimes, we called that out and rightly so, but when it's a pretty woman who says it, accountability goes out the window.
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  2123.  @frivolousquan7085  Unions also provide standards and make sure that teachers and students are treated well and have the resources they need. And why keep the union when it has basically been reduced to a benevolence society? The same reason benevolence societies became a thing before unions had sufficient power to collectively bargain. Then again, I don't work backwards from my ideology of Union Bad.
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  2124. Kyle Kulinski is going down that rabbit hole, too. No wonder he's attracting the same dead enders.
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  2125.  Lel E  Yet. If he ends up normal after dealing with his parents, it will be nothing short of a miracle.
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  2126.  @Literally-hw6jv  Dictators often gain power through a vote... only to take away the norms of democracy. That's a pattern from Mussolini to Orban.
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  2127. She would really hate the fact that my child's preschool has a song called "Sharing is Caring."
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  2128. If you do nothing and Trump wins, expect to see him pull a POTUS for Life stunt, and with the replacement for RBG and possibly Breyer, don't be surprised if it happens. Way to go, guys!
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  2129.  Nathaniel Rojo  Because candidates try to go for applause lines rather than more substantive answers. It is especially pointless if they are not supposed to respond to the candidates such as the general election debates.
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  2130. I can't believe I never caught that before! Mind blown.
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  2131.  @incipidsigninsetup  I know he does martial arts. Not sure if he does it competitively or not.
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  2132.  @Barskor1  And the states that seceded did so because someone who said that he would oppose expansion of slavery into the territories, and they saw that they had already lost parity in the Senate and knew it was just a matter of time before abolition. If they had won the Civil War, they very well may have kept slavery to this day.
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  2133. Indeed. I remember the old line "once alternative medicine is proven to work, it is no longer alternative medicine."
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  2134.  @rhob5730  Yes! Thank you for pointing out that we fight back instead of whining and giving up. Far too many seem to want to do that to the point where I wonder if they are Bernie haters trying to convince us to give up.
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  2135. ​ @sqlb3rn  What fresh idea? According to his website, he has already abandoned Medicare for All to support a public option.
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  2136. I, for one, am sick of the talk of George McGovern as a far left candidate. The way he screwed over labor over and over again proves it. Most famous was reducing labor's influence through the commission that bore his name, but let us not forget that his last public political act was opposing card check in 2009.
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  2137.  Trey Yula  Yeah, so you're not fine with it, but when that is happening, you are using false and inflammatory language. Because usually when people are opposed to something, they deflect to distract from the thing that they don't want to happen.
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  2138.  @greg1685  Looking back, it's who they were all along. I watched their show (or more accurately, listened while at work) regularly during the 2020 primary, although the love for Tulsi and Yang because they were "anti-establishment" seemed odd to me. Still, I took the fact that she focused most of her ire on Biden and Warren as the nature of the primary. Then, the primary ended and the mask was completely off.
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  2139. Elizabeth Warren: Why run for President if you just want to talk about what you can't do? John Delaney: I have health insurance stocks, and I don't want you or Bernie ruining the price.
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  2140.  @RoboBlue2  No one to his left can win. His primary opponent in 2018 won the 2020 nomination and lost to Capito by 43 points. The last Democratic statewide executive official (State Treasurer) lost by 16 points in 2020 despite being pretty popular for helping people recover millions in lost money from the state. Put pressure on him, but we have to understand that it is only to pull him to the left a little.
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  2141. ​ @ccrans1216  I think you mean "Ispecificallyasked fornoboonsin thepages" ;-)
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  2142.  @intersanctum  Why is she better? Her previous support of torture? Her opposition to the Iran nuclear deal? Voting with Republicans to make it more difficult for Syrian refugees to enter the United States? Her praise of Sisi for killing protesters in Egypt? Her sucking up to Biden, by defending him on busing and Iraq? Oh, yeah, she is great all right!
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  2143. @Mind of the North Star I must admit that I am too young to remember his Central Park Five ad. My first memory of him was finding out he was broke in 1990. At one point, before I knew about the racism, I thought he was in on the joke, but the birther nonsense showed me who he really is.
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  2144.  @jdt3594  You might want to read that Mark Twain quote about fools again.
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  2145.  @JavierFernandez01  How many new sponsors did Force the Vote attain? How is telling people to never vote for the only party that has any members sponsoring the Medicare for All bills in the House and Senate going to increase that number?
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  2146.  @brandocalrissian3972  If the people of Delaware thought he did a good job and re-elected him six times, what is the problem?
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  2147.  @msavina9129  Yes. Manchin voted to remove Der Orangefuhrer twice in a state that voted for him by 42 and 39 points. That takes guts. There is a difference between a conservative Democrat and a DINO. Tulsi is the latter.
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  2148. I think it depends. I wouldn't do a panel or anything that isn't live, but I think something like a town hall where people are asking questions is perfectly fine.
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  2149.  @johnhand46  Again, how are you defining "the DNC"? Are you counting all donors, all PACs, or some shadowy alliance that you aren't exactly sure what is what. Pro tip: if you don't see Democratic National Committee on a donor list, it's not the DNC. If you are using "DNC" as some amorphous term to mean "political insiders," that's not how it works.
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  2150. This reminds me of the Community episode where Dean Pelton is trying to have an environmental event and ended up printing more and more flyers.
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  2151.  @Fred.pSonic  Not just that, but make them wear patches like NASCAR drivers for each corporate sponsor, so no one ever forgets who is bankrolling them.
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  2152.  @catofthecastle1681  Aaron pulls all this nonsense out of his own butt. That's why it stinks so bad.
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  2153.  @JustJulie485  How many times did he make bald jokes at the expense of others? I was just thinking of Uncle Phil jokes, but someone found an Arsenio clip of him mocking a member of the band who was bald.
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  2154. Yarmuth isn't elected statewide. Louisville is a blue island in the state that probably has as much in common with Cincinnati as the rest of Kentucky.
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  2155.  Black Monty Burns  And Yang made his money by selling software to nervous parents trying to get their kids into Ivy League schools. Ironic considering what he has to say about college now. It would be like Rick Snyder starting a charity for clean drinking water if he really believes what he says about college now.
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  2156.  @whyamimrpink78  You honestly think that you never come into contact with people and that germs don't stay in the air? That is the stupidity of the libertarians.
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  2157.  @jocksharerock7318  Greenwald would probably still be defending white supremacists and insisting that they didn't mean it literally when they threatened to kill a judge.
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  2158. Note that he didn't directly say whether or not Trump won the 2020 election.
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  2159.  @herrdrumpf3261  You mean the woman who refused to prosecute Steve Mnuchin in a decision similar to Pam Bondi's for Moscow Donald?
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  2160. All of those who keep fighting to maintain private insurance are to the right of the British Tories. Let that sink in for a minute.
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  2161.  @KEVINLOPEZ-np4kj  Having a goal of ultimately getting rid of the existing social safety net while immigrants can't get the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend? And using a regressive tax to pay for it? [In Dr. Evil voice]: Riiight.
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  2162. And maybe hold onto it longer than that.
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  2163.  @dagrimmreepa  The exception is if one of your parents was a US citizen when you were born. George Romney was born in Mexico, and that didn't affect his 1968 run, and Ted Cruz was born in Canada, which didn't affect his 2016 run. This is why the birther nonsense was so ridiculous. Even if Obama was really born in Kenya, and all that stuff was in place in the hopes that a black kid would become President who was born three years before the Civil Rights Act, it wouldn't have mattered, because his mom was a citizen.
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  2164.  @ME2-r9x  He's always been stupid, but at least he could form coherent sentences in the 1980s.
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  2165.  @mpgallogly  Use a little bit of reading comprehension. The person you're replying to said that this was the response people got who were critical of Glenn Greenwald.
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  2166. @Mr Wolf What does the job market look like in your small village? I'm Generation X, but because military and grad school pushed back a lot of my milestones, I have seen a lot if the stuff millennials talk about and can't get a loan for a house because I have high student loans. I live in Philadelphia because that's where work is.
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  2167.  @TrevorHamberger  You are aware that property taxes existed long before fiat currency, right? So, not only are you a conspiracy nut, but one who doesn't know basic history. Not only did property tax come into existence long before 1913, but it was actually the primary method of funding state and local governments before 1913. Apparently, you must prefer the 1800s, because like most people who spout libertarian conspiracy theories, you imagine yourself a would-be master of the universe thwarted by evil government.
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  2168. @1salvaje True, but consider this: "If you can convince the poorest white man that he is better than the black man, he'll pick his own pockets." Lyndon Johnson
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  2169.  @FXDLS-ot1wq  Which reminds me, how do you ask if someone went to Harvard? A: You don't, because they'll tell you they went to Harvard.
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  2170.  @nmarbletoe8210  The problem is that libertarianism is not an ideology that dilutes. Its adherents start with Government Bad and then try to justify why it shouldn't do anything.
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  2171. @Daniel Bausch People don't get suspended for anti-doping violation based on "accusations that are largely anecdotal." He did wrong by his athletes, and even people like Rupp and Farah who got medals will always be under a cloud of suspicion.
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  2172. How is equal pay a BS question?
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  2173.  @luke5058  Well, given the fact that HIV is far more treatable than it was 30 years ago, both are pretty bad. Given that vaccine mandates only apply to large businesses, and people are allowed to test instead, either you're lying or your friend is.
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  2174.  @odintheterridorable8097  If they really were just about open dialogue and challenging guests, that would be one thing, but they are straight up grifters who are enabling Trump. Have you seen their book? Krystal Ball came to Philadelphia to speak to DSA the day of the South Carolina primary and I got an autographed copy of her book... which is charging $20 for transcripts of their radars you can get for free. Saagar is a literal fascist. Once you see it, it can't be unseen.
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  2175.  @odintheterridorable8097  The problem with the show is that they are dishonest actors. I'm sure you can find the book in a library. It's literally excerpts with a paragraph giving context for each one. Charging people for something they can get for free while pretending you "wrote a book" when you merely picked which transcripts to include in order to get people to buy your book is dishonest. Setting up a PAC that is supposed to help lefty candidates where 39% of the money raised goes to you and less than 5% goes to candidates is grift. If you want to support the grift, be my guest, but realize what you are supporting.
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  2176. This is the orthodoxy of the American right. Yes, there might be something to the idea behind the Laffer Curve if the top tax bracket is 99% that people won't work, but we are on the left end of that parabola and have been for at least 40 years, if not 60.
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  2177.  @lexussykes  They praised her because they hated Regina as much as she did, and they respected that Janis was able to dethrone the queen.
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  2178. When FDR signed the minimum wage into, he explicitly stated that the goal was that people could live off it.
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  2179.  @Vunomic  Well, there are Republicans, too, who are just outright fascists these days. People don't seem to understand that the Democratic Party is not now and never has been an ideological party. It has always been a coalition party, pretty much back to Jefferson.
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  2180.  @tcp2257  It wasn't a claim that Biden was racist, it was an accurate claim that he worked with segregationists to stop integration in the 1970s. And in the debate with the takedown that tulcels use for their spank banks, it literally interrupted three candidates criticizing Biden. The next day, the so-called peace candidate went onto Rising to say that people shouldn't hold Biden's position on Iraq against him.
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  2181.  @mjchakos1  Plenty of states and the federal government don't have recall elections. By your logic, are those jurisdictions less democratic?
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  2182. The thing that makes it even worse? If no one gets an absolute majority, the House decides with one state, one vote, and it takes a majority of states. Anyone who defends this system is opposed to democracy, full stop.
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  2183.  @NPC-zf9lz  So, the format was too short because it was 20 minutes, so instead of learning to streamline his answer, he just starts with the irrelevant stuff? You are aware that most House speeches are less than five minutes, right? It reminds me of something I noticed with a guy I went to seminary with. Nice guy, but he spent so much of his time at the beginning of his presentations talking about things that were totally irrelevant that you would literally learn nothing from his presentation.
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  2184.  @apathy7899  Your original post said "inherently," which means that apparently Yao Ming never existed. There are sports that tend to he dominated by black people and other sports where others do well. If I really wanted to drive the point home, I could have asked where the dominating black sumo wrestlers are. (Even as late as the mid-1990s, the ten fastest Japanese marathoners were faster than any other country, including Kenya and Ehtiopia.) Looking at the World Cup, does genetics explain why Brazil and Germany have been the dominant men's teams? It's not racist to point out that there are some things where groups tend to dominate, but it is racist to think that it is inherent and immutable to race. Do you think there is something "inherent" in white dominance of ice hockey?
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  2185.  @apathy7899  The medium limits my chance to list every single African Nobel Prize winner and make a coherent comment (there are 23, btw). If you don't want to give Cairo its due, that's on you. No, you didn't say "culture," but what point were you trying to make if not that? As far as your "2000 years" line, according to the good people at Wikipedia, modern Cairo was founded in 969 CE. You see Egypt and you see "this must be something from an ancient dominant empire," ignoring that it has had history ongoing since that empire, and the Globalization and World Cities Research Network agrees with me that it is a major city. Not the major city, but a major city.
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  2186.  @apathy7899  It is if white people took their resources during the colonial period, and gave them "foreign aid" in terms of loans with high interest. That being said, you keep trying to apply averages to the whole, which is the same mistake "John Connor" was making in the call.
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  2187.  @filip999t  We heard this the last time around. As soon as people in the Great Lakes states realize that Biden supported all of the trade deals and is the one who wrote the bankruptcy bill, that will evaporate.
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  2188. @xXboston-Gaming την♨︎ Editing is your friend. But people can say whatever they want to say. That doesn't mean that you have the right to say whatever you want to say without criticism, though.
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  2189.  @JPrez1  Before coronavirus hit, Bernie still needed nearly 59% of the vote to win the nomination. If all it takes is two candidates to drop out to coalesce behind your opponent, you are not going to win regardless of how much you "fight." In 2000, we were told that voting for Nader would shake things up, and we heard the same thing in 2016. Neither worked.
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  2190.  @JPrez1  So, committing an act of regression and walking right up to a full blown war, all while using record drone strikes in half the time is just fine with you to say "he didn't start any wars"? The anti-anti-Trump crowd is lost.
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  2191.  @JPrez1  They aren't? I guess you didn't see where they involved the First Amendment to overturn coronavirus restrictions, making it harder to vote, and making it harder for workers to organize. But just because they didn't go quite in on an attempted coup, anything else that they do for the next 30-40 years is a-okay in your book? Just admit that you are a Trump supporter and get it over with.
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  2192. @D2 E2 Irony really isn't your strong suit, is it? Thinking that a condensation of someone's attempts to dismiss criticism is the same as saying that someone's second choice is her first choice shows that you are meant for Jimmy Dore.
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  2193.  @dougsteel7414  Gee, that one didn't totally go over your head.
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  2194. Well, everyone should get medical insurance through Medicare, but other than that, you are right. If someone can't run a business while paying decent wages, that person shouldn't be running one.
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  2195. Indeed. I don't remember ever seeing this calculation with Bernie's wealth tax, but with the one Warren proposed, Bill Gates would have still had a net worth of $13B had it been enacted in 1982.
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  2196. He proudly posed as a member of the IDW, and now that they are becoming irrelevant, he is pretending he never had anything to do with them.
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  2197. I would like to see him one more time: doing a perp walk to jail to never be seen again for his crimes.
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  2198. His student loan forgiveness plan is terrible. It's even worse than the public sector student loan forgiveness that we have now, because the latter exempts 150% FPL. By my math, I have to pay 3% of my income in order to repay student loans. If someone makes $30K/year, that means payments of $250/month, which is pretty steep, even with an extra thousand that is supposed to go to all these other things.
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  2199.  @CriticalxMiss  I have heard him say that his universal basic income that is neither universal nor basic income should be used for each of the following: college tuition, student loans, increased rent, buying a money pit with friends (assuming that they will still he friends in 15-30 years after the stress of the "fixer upper," who wants a roommate in their 40s or 50s?). Oh, and paying the inevitable taxes when he taxes consumption rather than income or assets. That's the point: he uses his one idea as an answer for literally almost anything, and he uses it to defend against increasing the minimum wage or fighting for organized labor... because he is a libertarian wolf in leftist clothing.
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  2200.  @MusicIan423  Well, the instant this story gets leaked on top of the other one tells me that Warren has broken the truce.
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  2201.  @MTGWMV1  He literally never stopped "asking questions" or interrupting.
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  2202. You are aware that ABC isn't cable, right?
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  2203.  @johnd6389  Then, you clearly didn't watch it. It shows several talking heads complaining about higher wages and blaming them for inflation. The algorithm thanks you for your contribution in getting the message out to more people.
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  2204.  @johnd6389  Well, I might only have two advanced degrees instead of five, but I can tell what 0:09 and beginning at 2:16 say.
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  2205.  @johnd6389  "Even if they did[,] they would be more correct than [Reich] is about corporate profits." Reich showed his work, and it's quite amusing that you were indignant about the idea that anyone would say that people are blaming higher wages for inflation, and now you're insisting that "even if they did," they'd be more correct. I guess consistency really is the hobgoblin of small minds.
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  2206.  @dalenemoore  Well, sadly, it happens so often these days that it's always soon after such a tragedy.
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  2207. ​ @shadebleu  That's actually not true. There is video if Sam Seder and H. Jon Benjamin knocking on doors for Bernie.
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  2208.  @peacefulman1523  She interviewed for Secretary of State in 2016, so sooner than you think.
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  2209.  @robertjenkins6132  Bernie's tax proposal for Medicare for All is a flat 7% employer payroll tax, and 4% employee payroll tax that exempts the first $29,000 of income. Workplace Democracy will actually require employers to pass on the savings from Medicare for All to the worker. Because very few workers actually see the employer contribution to health insurance on their payroll, they may not realize how much that really is. For me, it works out to $359 every other week. And the employee contribution will drop from 4.41% to 1.54%. The rich will pay more because it is based on income rather than fees, which is preferable because it is all about the ability to pay.
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  2210.  @WeAreAllWittness  Look up the 14 traits of Ur-Fascists by Umberto Eco and tell me how many of those don't fit Trump.
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  2211. @Randy Randelson I don't think Trump has the reflexes Bush did, so he'd get hit square in the face.
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  2212. They love having people who claim to be left who steer people right. No wonder Ryan Grim didn't last.
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  2213. I saw Mark Warner at the 2005 WV Jefferson-Jackson Dinner. He went on about how he didn't care about liberal or conservative but "the past vs. the future." I leaned to a friend and said, "Aren't those the same thing?"
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  2214. She knows that sweet, sweet anti-anti-Trump cheddar is what pays her bills. I remember in 2021 when the House voted to increase the minimum wage to $15/hour, and she tweeted "it should be $20/hour implemented immediately or no deal." This isn't real for her. This is just a game.
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  2215. We need to work like mad to make sure that he gets to 1990 pledged delegates. If he does that, no one will have a chance to take it away.
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  2216. A libertarian wolf in leftist clothing can get right wing support? No!
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  2217.  @GrosvnerMcaffrey  Indeed. There's a reason why ABC went with John Astin for the briefly-lived Saturday cartoon.
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  2218. It was always a battle between Yang Gang Bangers and Tulcels for the most annoying people I dealt with.
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  2219.  @hepwo91222  Sorry, I don't have the tinfoil frequency that you do. You know, Cleopatra isn't the only Queen of da Nile.
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  2220.  @timi3020  How many people did the Obama White House charge for crimes related to the financial crisis, again? How many state and federal legislative seats were lost by Democrats in the Obama years? How many governors did we lose? He had less coattails than a nudist convention.
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  2221.  @nothereyetlost  She's a regular Tuesday guest on The Majority Report and she has her own show.
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  2222.  @KeesBoons  I'm making an Arrested Development reference to the username of the person I replied to.
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  2223.  @scotthunt4206  My favorite line ever about the right and its inconsistent love for the Almighty Market: "If the producers of this film really believed in the market, the fact that Volume I performed so badly would have meant that this movie would have never been made." Roger Ebert, on Atlas Shrugged: Volume II
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  2224. They must be masochists, because they have to call him ;-)
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  2225. Except Hitchens wasn't a case of being right for the wrong reasons early in his career.
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  2226. Sam Seder and the MR Crew have called him out for years.
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  2227. Me, too. At first, I thought it was a function of the primary, but I was wrong.
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  2228.  @joshreisner2190  You mean like Turkey? We promised to protect the Kurds if they helped us fight ISIS. 28 years ago, we promised the same thing if they rose up against Saddam Hussein, and we hung them out to dry. You don't do that to people who help you. Period.
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  2229.  @MasterDoctorBenji  Sadly, it's difficult to miss stuff like that, because there are idiots who say such things.
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  2230. The man who makes the Arby's sandwiches is, too.
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  2231. Yes, each state does have different costs of living. No one is against states going above $15/hour If they want to.
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  2232.  @BoojumFed  Indeed. You can even agree with Israel's right to exist without agreeing with every bad thing Likud does.
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  2233. "It could take days, or weeks, maybe months. Definitely not years." Donald Rumsfeld on Iraq, 2003
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  2234. If it wasn't for the tulcels online, she wouldn't have had a campaign. Tech didn't kill her campaign, it propped it up.
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  2235. Sean Hannity being such a person of principle rather than a partisan hack, I'm sure that he was outraged that Brian Kemp certified his own victory.
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  2236. ​ @ObsidianLife  If Aaron tries not being wrong, he'd never say anything ;-)
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  2237.  @ViralmediaAi  Except Bernie wouldn't have run as a third-party candidate. The only way that Ranked Choice Voting would affect things in a Presidential primary would be if non-viable candidates were automatically eliminated and their votes went to the next viable candidate on their lists. Basically, it would be like the caucus process only not doing so in person. It would be very interesting to see what would happen with that, especially with the Iowa Caucuses on very thin ice after botching the 2020 contest.
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  2238. He is what I call a scared liberal. The kind who say, "I like what Bernie is saying, but..." and some version of being able to actually get anything because they think that we live in a "center right country."
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  2239. Best part of #18? When Janet Reno ran for Florida governor in 2002, she actually had a Janet Reno's Dance Party fundraiser.
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  2240. @aheroictaxidriver3180  Oh, look! An edge lord who thinks he understands it all who is really a tool for the rich propagating the lie that helps them kep their power.
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  2241.  @jacobelledge8424  I can vote out government. I can't vote out a CEO.
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  2242.  @thehornetschool  And the fact that they clearly never asked a follow-up question about their ideology in their lifetime.
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  2243.  @midnightrun2796  i.e., the worst
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  2244.  @SYLRMHA  Who is "you guys"? I'd be surprised if that applies to anyone in this thread.
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  2245.  @phantommensa  Speaking of which, did you notice during his convention speech that he forgot to put the bronzer on his hands? With no bronzer and no way to do his combover, he won't be recognizable.
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  2246.  @mpls1982  Earlier this year, Bernie wanted $6T and Manchin wanted $4T. When it came time to hammer out the specifics between Bernie and the White House, they came up with an amount less than what Manchin initially wanted. Now, the number that was even less than what Manchin wanted is too high. So, tell me again, who is being dishonest in negotiation and killing the bill?
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  2247.  @seanhovan7426  Who was the last Republican President to balance the budget, again?
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  2248.  @seanhovan7426  "Racial minority ruling over the country" Yes, because having a third of the Supreme Court not be white in a country where nearly 40% of the population is not white is "ruling over the country." Maybe if you took your hood off, you could see what you were doing.
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  2249.  @ds8249  She is someone who once defended torture and compared the Iran nuclear deal to Munich. Those are just two of her biggest hits. What were her "reasonable foreign policy takes"?
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  2250.  @johncrosby9312  They didn't have to keep slaves. They wanted to keep slaves to leep wages down. I have seen some of those plantations, so forgive me if I don't sympathize with people wanting to play pauper to fight for the ability to own other people.
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  2251. This crazy person: Breaking the law is unlawful. Over 750 people have been charged. Also this crazy person: Those people are political prisoners who should be pardoned.
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  2252.  @havcola6983  The even bigger irony about the 2008 election is that there actually was a candidate born outside the United States. John McCain was born in Panama due to his father's military service. It also didn't matter in 1968 when George Romney (born in Mexico because his grandparents were escaping polygamy laws, moved to the US at the age of five) ran for President. Even if they were right that Obama was born in Kenya, it still wouldn't matter because he had citizenship at birth through his mother, the same reason Ted Cruz was able to run.
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  2253. Whether Pelosi likes it or not, I just don't see how it can be avoided given the evidence and the furor.
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  2254.  @tinalulumack378  If Bernie had won, Obama's legacy gets immediately diminished. That being said, Chris Rock said that he would know that America was in a better place not when we had our first black President, but when we had our first bad black President. (I can't remember the exact joke, but it was arguing that Jackie Robinson had to be great in order to get in, but that black people had truly arrived in baseball when you could have a black player as bad as the other bad white players.) I don't think that worked, either.
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  2255.  @fffffff6822  I don't know. I guess I like Vaush, but only enough to sit through his clipped streams or watching him tear Rising a new one.
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  2256.  @nameisamine  Compared to how far he was behind, a substantial part of his party openly arguing against him, and the national media out to destroy him, forcing the Tories into a coalition government was a victory.
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  2257. She was never second best. People only thought that because she cut a good ad, and was young and pretty. The slightest look at her record showed that she did her grift in reverse. Now, she is being her true self.
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  2258. Well, there was the one last week where Rubin inadvertently got him to admit the truth about wanting to destroy the existing social safety net.
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  2259. It's not "centrist" as in moderate, but it is in the sense that you have people who endlessly triangulate and pretend that both sides have equally valid perspectives instead of acknowledging reality that one side has gone off the rails and will continue to pull the line farther to the right.
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  2260. Something else people aren't saying: Biden is the one who led the opposition to nominating Warren to run the CFPB.
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  2261. 1) They think their position will be vindicated, 2) This makes it less likely to flip Justices to get a fifth vote to keep Roe, 3) even if it is unpopular, getting out a month early means more chance to dissipate the anger.
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  2262.  @ACyrrock004  No, he said "common ground." A distinction without a difference.
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  2263.  @LittleAl016  FDR was great, but he was elected at age 50. That being said, I care for more about health than the number. I saw an 80-something do an 800m race in a time that I'm not sure I can do, and I'm under 40. I worked at a retirement community for an internship in seminary, and I saw 100-year-olds who looked 70 and 70-year-olds who looked 100.
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  2264. Man, oh man, the more I hear about the stuff Kyle Kulinski pushes, the more obvious it is that he lives in his own world. Actual strikes aren't something for fun and games. You only use it when all other options are exhausted, and you have to have the wherewithal to win a strike.
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  2265. I am union. Between employer and employee contribution, my health insurance costs 32.01% of my income. Bernie wants to make it 11%. Would I rather pay the tax than private insurance and pay nothing at the point of service? Of course!
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  2266.  @b.d.a.8719  One side of the left is trying to call people to action. The other is saying it is left to make money from people who hate the left. Big difference.
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  2267.  @shadebleu  Emma actually voted in the 2020 election and encouraged others to do the same.
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  2268.  @serversurfer6169  He could have always waited until Election Day.
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  2269. Indeed. The reason why Gore conceded was because he knew that there was no way to get a count at that point, and he decided that he didn't want to put the country through a fight that could lead to a civil war. While I will never say that Bush won, Gore made the right decision.
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  2270.  @vincesmith2499  "That is why libertarians only believe in negative rights" In other words, you don't believe in rights. And you can put it however you want, but you are really saying that the right to discriminate is more important than the right not to starve, so you are just fine with Jim Crow. But, yeah, you're the ones who support freedom.
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  2271.  @vincesmith2499  English translation: the only rights I care about are those of monied and propertied interests. The rest of you can sit on it.
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  2272.  @vincesmith2499  No. Eminent domain doesn't count, because you're still defending propertied interests. The mere fact that you think that claims of freedom can never compete with one another shows that a) you aren't serious about actual freedom, b) you only use the word as a cudgel against those who disagree with you, or c) some combination of the two.
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  2273. The people of Arizona are already rejecting her. Nominating her again will guarantee defeat, and the state is going bluer by the day. Your appeal to identity as an excuse for a blue state Senator being this way is appalling.
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  2274.  @fatrobdouble  No, it's because of literally 20 years of writing, and he used to just come out and say it. Look deeper at the Snowden story, and you'll see the libertarian connection.
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  2275.  @fatrobdouble  Libertarians like to say that they oppose corporate power, but literally everything that they propose increases corporate power.
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  2276.  @Hoopla10  What did the campaign say about Warren that was false?
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  2277.  @waparker4  Well, it seems like if you go away long enough, the establishment forgets how much you suck.
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  2278.  @Chuck26814  Wrong. Obama did not order the kidnapping of thousands of children. When families came together, they got to stay together.
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  2279. My big fear is that so many people run seeing blood in the water that 30-40% is enough for him to win the primary.
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  2280. Speaking of the Ted Bundy vibe, did you notice that Glenn Howerton was wearing a lot of turtlenecks while doing publicity for his other show, and he looked a lot like Ted Bundy?
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  2281. He recorded that when he was 50, so he wasn't senile yet, just pure evil.
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  2282.  @MetalDetroit  The biggest cost driver of Medicare is the skyrocketing cost of prescription drugs, which Medicare is not currently allowed to negotiate. Every version of Medicare for All out there gets rid of that prohibition.
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  2283. 18 cents a gallon is a fraction of the price, and nothing will force the oil and gas companies to pass on the savings. Not only that, but now you have less money to fund roads and make rides less fuel efficient, thus fattening the wallets of Big Oil even more.
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  2284.  @ComradeBobby  We're putting cover sheets on all the TPS reports from now on.
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  2285.  @ChalrieD  You cannot be serious if you think Saagar Enjeti, a fascist authoritarian racist, is anything remotely approaching "progressive."
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  2286.  @SwiftJustice  True, but Evil Turtle couldn't have done it without Der Orangefuhrer. My point was that this was one area where they strengthened their grip. Turtle was keeping that seat open, but he needed a Republican President to fill it. That and cutting taxes for rich people are really the only two things that they actually care about.
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  2287. ​ @laskji  How do you define "forced" and "complete failure"? I still have my coronavirus V card.
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  2288. Well, maybe if they weren't peddling such misinformation or lying about their status to let other people take the hit, maybe there wouldn't be any backlash in the first place.
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  2289. They're basically the equivalent of forex traders, except forex (while little more than gambling) is backed up by a country or collection of countries, is backed up by even less, and it is less practical.
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  2290. It's a lot harder to do when he shows what you get for it. Clinton ran on raising taxes for the rich in 1992 and won.
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  2291. I first saw this movie in 2004, and I didn't get it at all. I watched it for the second time in 2017 with my then wife, and all of the sudden, I said, "Wait! I get it now! The first part wasn't real. The second part is."
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  2292. Wait until you go back and see what she said about torture or the Iran nuclear deal.
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  2293.  @interdimensionalsteve8172  Knowingly spreading lies in order to subvert democracy is pretty evil to me.
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  2294. "There's literally not a single white person in the Bible." Well, maybe Pontius Pilate and some of the Roman leaders in Acts, but I get what you mean about the ones to be used as a positive example.
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  2295. ​ @basedtruthpiller7140  I guess Aaron's getting lonely.
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  2296.  @mack_8344  Yes, because all of those 58% will coalesce around someone who can't even win a Congressional primary.
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  2297. I remember when I was in Iraq, and I was talking to someone while guarding the gate, and as we were talking, at one point, I said, "Jesus isn't a conservative, He is a socialist." A day or two later, he must have asked the chaplain about that, because the chaplain said, "Jesus isn't a liberal! 'If you don't work, you don't eat.'" I said, "Sir, if you'll remember, Paul said that, not Jesus, and I didn't say He was a liberal, I said He was a socialist." He was even more shocked and I pointed to the Rich Young Ruler and how the apostles lived after the church was founded with a passage in Acts 2. He said, "That wasn't about conservative or liberal or socialist, or anything, but about the needs of the people" (emphasis his). I responded, "Didn't Marx say 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs'?" He just kind of grinned a little as his way of admitting, "Well, you've got me there."
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  2298.  @johnklein338  "He launched EVs into the mainstream again" Chevy had an electric car just a few years before Tesla. And as far as the "mainstream" goes, when Tesla started, it cost so much that it was clearly a niche vehicle. Even now, Tesla gets most of its money from a bubble stock and government subsidies. "Larger automakers are trying to catch up" How much market share does Tesla have, again? Heck, I heard of the Nissan Leaf before I heard of Tesla. "He helped create PayPal" Correction: he put his blood emerald money into PayPal. He wasn't the innovator. "Created a team that landed rocket boosters" You mean with those government subsidies? Yeah, NASA beat him to it.
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  2299.  @jacobcohen9205  Hey, bud, nobody's covering anything up. The point is that there have been 38 such surgeries nationwide ever, so why focus an entire campaign's message on something that affects 38 people?
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  2300.  @TheHuxleyAgnostic  In another thread, this Jules person talked about wanting the Republicans to win. That tells you all you need to know about the followers Dore attracts.
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  2301. Farther than that. Go look at his whining when Bork lost.
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  2302. Forget chapter, I doubt he could quote one verse or name any of the four Gospels without crib notes.
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  2303. Two seemingly contradictory things can be true at the same time. Yes, Maduro has undermined democratic means in Venezuela through suppression of dissent. However, it is also wrong to support a would-be puppet regime because of this fact.
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  2304.  @Sohbek  Actually, it wouldn't make McCarthy speaker, because he would need 218 votes. It might force a second vote to ultimately get to Pelosi, but message votes only serve to perpetuate the notion that she is a show horse rather than a workhorse. Then again, Jimmy Dore doesn't care about getting things done, so no surprise he's pushing it.
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  2305.  @ricardocabeza6006  It prevents him from running again, and it makes him ineligible for his pension and seven-figure travel budget.
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  2306.  @joseneto9412  Where did I say you did? Why don't you actually pay attention to the argument instead of trying to set up strawmen?
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  2307. I don't think that it was jury nullification so much as it was prosecutors and police doing a bad job.
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  2308. I think the problem is that she only ever had one core belief: "I want to be President." She sold out in 1986 when she took a seat on the board of directors at Wal-Mart. The fact that a) they offered and b) she accepted tells you all you need to know about her beliefs.
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  2309.  @andyrihn1  It's not as coherent as they think it is. After all, they are against antitrust laws because it violates free association, but they also claim to oppose monopolies, and they oppose unions.
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  2310. @LTNetjak Indeed. The other major difference is that the IOC stopped prohibiting athletes from making money for their sport decades ago.
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  2311.  @robertmiller2786  Indeed. It's like all of these people forgot the 2020 debates.
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  2312.  @D5950-h  He wasn't a Cabinet Secretary for either Bush.
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  2313.  @aarondickson9573  Who is Sam Cedar?
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  2314.  @timreed402  I am clearly criticizing Jimmy Dore, and you ask if I am a Dore knob? I know about the four times because I saw the video rebutting Greenwald on the matter.
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  2315.  @theunholinesswithin70  Indeed. I started asking which specific freedoms they think Democrats are talking, and it is other adventures in mental gymnastics or some nonsense about guns or taxes.
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  2316.  @carjaune6793  1) He says that he supports Medicare for All, but he actually supports a public option. 2) Among audiences that will have more left-leaning people, he emphasizes the thousand bucks a month part, but with conservative audiences he emphasizes the whole dismantling the existing social safety net. Those are two of the biggest and most prominent areas if inconsistencies.
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  2317.  @colinmcc8564  Exactly. If anything, term limits only speed up the corporate pipeline (and eliminate career people who honestly don't want to cash out like Bernie) and put more power into the hands of unelected staffers who actually know how to work the levers.
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  2318.  @zaatas  Yeah, that's the theory, but how come it hasn't worked out that way in states that adopted legislative term limits if that's what would really happen? Mine is pointing out what actually has happened in states. Term limits are undemocratic and ignore the system that causes the corruption.
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  2319.  @medes5597  If you look at the job he ended up doing, despite his otherwise libertarian leanings, he was a conservationist at heart. That is probably why he actually let Leslie do so much.
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  2320. 10:16 Emma, you do a lot of great work, but that statement completely ignores what Ukraine wants.
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  2321. 13:07 The books had just enough stuff that could be seen as against bigotry that the other kinds of bigotry weren't seen.
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  2322. [In Ed McMahon voice] You are correct, sir!
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  2323. Before coronavirus, I said that I'd vote for any Democrat except for maybe Bloomberg as superior to Der Orangefuhrer. Probably 99% of my vote was against Trump in 2020. If there is a rematch, it'll probably be 90-95% to oppose him, but the ballot will still be marked for Biden.
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  2324.  @seanie002  If you don't want allow government to regulate such things, the second part is indeed true. Look at how Gary Johnson got booed at the Libertarian debates for saying that he supported the Civil Rights Act.
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  2325. ​ @robnorwood3591  Indeed. I remember his horrible takes on Social Security and taxes. I don't know if it's a question of emphasis, or the questionable overtaking the insightful, but the roots to this problem have always shown.
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  2326.  @dudemantis5612  A broken clock is still right twice a day.
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  2327.  @markzuckergecko621  Life does not begin at conception. That being said, if you want women to make a different decision, maybe you should care about the fetus once it is born.
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  2328. True, but this isn't really about dissuading Masters voters (other than possibly discouraging them about the chances of their chosen candidate), but it is about the people who might he seduced by the evil and keeping them on this side.
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  2329. "He shovels people's driveways. You can't buy that publicity?" True, but the work he has done behind the scenes that doesn't get publicity has been done to help the rich and screw everyone else.
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  2330. Remember in 2008 when Obama said that he wanted to be like Reagan and lead a political realignment instead of being like Clinton or Nixon who accepted the political status quo? Well, you turned out to be just like Clinton and Nixon in that respect.
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  2331. "I said 'with all due respect,' so you can't get mad at me." Ricky Bobby
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  2332. The first time I heard his Alda, I was in another room and thought it was him.
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  2333.  @Disaletteritis  If Jimmy Dore is actually funny, can you give an example of something funny he's said?
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  2334.  @hiataki7  What are some examples of his great comedy?
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  2335.  @clownchaostime3024  I only do it in print formats like this so that someone who is neutral and sees it realizes how dumb they are. When you understand that they aren't your audience, it is liberating.
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  2336. I like them real better, but I really don't get the hypocrisy from the right.
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  2337.  @workyoutube7798  Well after the Tree of Life shooting, he used it as an opportunity to talk about the horrible societal unrest once America becomes majority minority, so he checks that box, too. Also, he is against raising taxes on the rich. We have a Republican match!
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  2338. I dropped off my ballot on Wednesday. As someone who lives in one of the three states that swung 2016, I refuse to sit idly by because I didn't get everything I wanted.
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  2339.  @Mydogslove2laugh  Look at who ran against her. The challenges have always been from her right. Ford, Shuler, Ryan, Moulton. You have to replace someone with something better.
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  2340. When I was a kid, we had She-Ra and Jem, and I remember that boys and girls liked them both.
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  2341.  @dnate697  Agreed. In all honesty, I just expected them to keep nibbling around the edges. After they repealed it, a lot of people who thought they were anti-abortion rights realized that they were pro-choice after all.
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  2342.  @xenomorph_420  That seems more like a response to Unsolved: Supernatural. I am interested in seeing what True Crime develops into, because as good as Ruining History was, Puppet History is a whole other level.
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  2343. All he is saying/Is give war a chance.
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  2344. They don't. McCarthy is an adept fundraiser and a glad handler. He could also point to the fact that he never lost votes in any of the 14 rounds. The anti-Jordan contingent specifically decided to stagger their defections so that he'd lose votes every round. After he lost the third time, other members publicly said that they were abandoning ship.
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  2345.  @robinsss  You're the one who said that income taxes were unconstitutional. Or do you just not pay attention to what you argue?
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  2346. If the boss wants more out of workers, maybe give us back some of what we have earned from increased productivity since 1980 that you kept almost all for yourselves.
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  2347. He's always had a big libertarian streak, and a contrarian streak, to the point where anything good he does is by accident.
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  2348.  @firstlast9916  Because you don't know every industry, and whatever knowledge you have of yours is influenced by self-interest, so the rest of society cannot trust that knowledge to be benevolent or beneficial.
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  2349.  @firstlast9916  Modern society can only exist because of specialization. It is impossible for anyone to gain specific knowledge about anything. The food industry has an incentive to not do quality control, because a) it is costly to get rid of the bad food, b) it reduces profit, and c) it is next to impossible to prove what specific food did the poisoning. Therefore, it is best to have someone acting in the public interest who knows what to look for make sure that they aren't selling poison. As far as the doctor goes, just because something doesn't work doesn't mean incompetence. By that logic, every oncologist is a quack for losing a patient. There are ways to tell whether or not the job was done properly. Maybe it's a situation where you could go to 100 doctors and none could fix your elbow. Maybe it is incompetence. Interdependence is a higher order than independence.
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  2350.  @firstlast9916  Says the man who gives anecdotes not proven by reality.
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  2351. I have a three year old daughter. I have never said that I hope she gets a big rack. Moscow Donald said that about Tiffany when she was a year old. The best thing Marla Maples ever did (or any of his wives ever did) was getting far enough away from him so her daughter couldn't be hurt by this monster.
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  2352.  @aheroictaxidriver3180  Germany and South Korea wanting American forces there is not an occupation, tankie.
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  2353. Should not have watched the Tim Pool part this late.
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  2354.  @selfishcapitalist3523  And could it be that this is because people start trying things like thinking for themselves? The horror!
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  2355. Indeed. These people clearly don't want to contribute to society, but they think everyone else will.
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  2356. And, even if Barr accurately summed up the Mueller Report (and evidence shows he didn't), we saw Moscow Donald in TV saying that he hoped Russia found the e-mails. His son released e-mails saying "If it's what you say it is, I love it!" when told Russia had dirt on Hillary, and that he talked to Wikileaks sources about timing certain doc dumps. Why, it's almost like a reasonable person would think he did something to affect the election.
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  2357. Watching some of the old videos of Michael taking down nut jobs, and I noticed something surprising: Helium Cokehead said that Jewish people who disagree with him should "turn in their badges." Didn't bad things happen when Jewish people had to start wearing badges?
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  2358. That's rough. So sorry you're dealing with that.
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  2359.  @jaysontadlock1871  Gee, it's almost like some people don't understand what feudalism is.
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  2360. What exactly are you trying to get at with this word salad?
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  2361.  @TheHuxleyAgnostic  The guy you're responding to is a total troll, and he thinks that because his country got single payer before he was born and that he gets the story wrong about how it happened that this makes him an expert.
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  2362.  @2727rogers  He so favors Medicare for All that he endorsed the 2020 candidate who called it "un-American." He also mocked expanding Medicare, and anything to cut down out of pocket costs. He supports it the way Mike Huckabee supports weight loss.
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  2363. I remember a few years ago when Manhunt devoted a seasom to how they found the Unabomber. In terms of making TV, they did a good job, but the writers did seem very sympathetic to Kaczynski. At one point, when the linguistic profiler (they focused mainly on the linguistics and the manifesto) meets Kaczynski, he says that the part where the manifesto clicked for him was when there was a red light, and even though no one was around, "I obeyed. I stopped." Really, there was no better way to show how technology enslaces us all than stopping at a red light? That sounds like something I'd expect to hear Sam tear someone apart for saying. However, while in the middle of a true crime binge, I came upon a show that featured interviews with Kaczynski. Hearing him talk, you realize just what a psychopath he is. Also, the voice was very strange. Not what you'd expect from someone his size.
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  2364.  @h12180  No, he didn't. He only tried to ban Chinese nationals who flew in from China. He repeatedly had the chance to provide an example, but he insisted on his superspreader events and mocked those who took precautions from getting the virus, all while insisting that it would magically disappear by April. Nice try, but your propaganda won't fly here.
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  2365.  @MrMagnaniman  No, I just want people to act in accordance with what they say are principles. In my experience, a lot of the talk about "freedom" from libertarians rings hollow, because it often ignores competing claims of freedom or constantly sides with one side over the other, and it ain't working people (i.e., while I would consider Ron Paul a paleoconservative rather than a libertarian, he does use the same buzz words, and he is opposed to anti-trust laws under the Free Association Clause, but he sees no such protection in the First Amendment for workers who want to form a union), or people who want to reap the benefits of society without paying for them. I decided to forego unemployment benefits after my tour because I didn't need the money, while some of the anti-tax and anti-welfare people in my unit gleefully collected them. I also refused to take a housing allowance because I broke my lease when I got activated. Those two decisions probably cost me close to $10,000, but I did it because of a higher principle (don't take what you're not entitled to, and don't ask for what you don't need). Was that "hurting myself," or was that deciding that principles matter and being willing to pay the price?
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  2366.  @MrMagnaniman  What principle are you saying that they violate? Jailing people for tax evasion violates no principle that I know of that the government holds. There is no longer a draft, so no one is being forced to fight a war or being jailed because of this refusal. As far as taxes going to defense, etc., the beauty of democracy is that if you don't like it, you can work to change it, although libertarians run into a snag because of their belief that society is not a thing.
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  2367.  @MrMagnaniman  How do you define what they are entitled to? How do you define what they need?
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  2368.  @scottgrohs5940  The two least? Do you not remember Bloomberg, Gabbard, and Delaney?
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  2369.  @lydiahawkins2416  Yes, the Democratic primary. That being said, that doesn't change people's desperate hopes and prayers for the well being of RBG, because if Moscow Donald gets to name her replacement, all this good legislation will get killed in the Supreme Court, and it will be all for nought.
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  2370.  @l.w.paradis2108  Lost the Senate? It looks like you Dore supporters are as inaccurate about politics as he is.
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  2371. Dore's strategic idiocy will cost us for at least 40 years, as did Bush v. Gore, because had President Gore been re-elected, he would have replaced Rehnquist with someone better than Roberts. Too many on the left ignore the impact of the Supreme Court. Even before Kavanugh, the supposedly moderate Kennedy went along with a decision that cited Loechner in labor policy, which would be the equivalent of citing Plessy v. Ferguson on civil rights cases.
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  2372.  @robinsss  I was using the term figuratively in that it had side effects to harm or kill that were known and hidden. Sam mentioned products that the company knew led to defects such as children born without arms, but they didn't care. The libertarian argument that I often hear is that people will do the right thing if they are only informed. If that is the case, why would it cause a black market if people are informed?
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  2373.  @robinsss  And in a libertarian society, businesses can do whatever they want, because their freedom to make money outweighs my freedom not to be killed by them. When it comes down to it, libertarianism will always favor the powerful, be it rich businesses, or property owners.
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  2374.  @robinsss  That seems to me to be a lot more for the government to do than the status quo. We have an FDA in the first place because people found out how the meat packing industry sold meat no matter how rotten or what fell into it. It was decided to add medicines as well because of the snake oil crowd. I don't remember hearing about a black market for the birth control pill that he mentioned (Yaz) or the diet pill (Phen-Fen). It seems far simpler, and smaller government, to just determine whether or not the medicine works as advertised, and if it doesn't or has severe side effects, it shouldn't be sold.
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  2375.  @garyhamlin3299  Except you see plenty of difference. I guess you're going with the ostrich strategy to cope with the fact that your reckless behavior endangered others.
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  2376. They're pretty representative of their party.
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  2377.  @Knight-Bishop  I also find it odd the way that he HATES Warren Buffett. Say what you will, but someone who has doubled the market for over 60 years clearly must know something about how to look for companies. Is it jealousy? He was saying at the turn of the century that Berkshire gaining 3% in 1999 proved that he lost his touch, but who had the last laugh?
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  2378. Don't forget The Secret.
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  2379.  @ossra100  How is he not? He literally started his public life insisting that he would "create" 100,000 jobs in poor cities with Venture for America and missed that goal by over 98%. He then parlayed that into a Presidential run where he pushed a right-wing version of UBI made even worse by paying for it with a regressive tax.
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  2380.  @denise5088  The Broaddus daughter was also named Maria.
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  2381. ​ @jonathangrunstein-ks2dz  David has previously stated concern about her squoshiness on vaccines. Given what happened after the primary, I think that is a perfectly reasonable objection.
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  2382.  @silentsaturn7604  The point is that they refused to give Harry Potter that benefit of the doubt. Nate was a mixed bag who had a point.
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  2383.  @sargentpilcher  You can have a vegan diet, but if your genetics mean that you have a low HDL, it doesn't make much of a difference. I've known people with almost unreal high HDL, and they can eat anything and get a cholesterol count under 150. Like I said, when genetics and/or age catch up with you, I hope you are surrounded by people who don't believe the same things you do.
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  2384.  @sargentpilcher  This was ten years ago, so I don't really look people up to ask minutiae about everything that happened that long ago.
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  2385. I would like to see Tammy Baldwin as his running mate. Solid record, strength in Wisconsin, and she has already broken a lot of barriers.
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  2386.  @JonValtandtheEvilRobots  My point is that not wanting a theocracy is not the same thing as saying that religious people should ignore injustice.
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  2387. Rubin is trying to get guests beyond his level of fame. A YouTube personality who doesn't have a very busy schedule seems to me like an honest ask rather than asking someone he knows will say no.
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  2388. Why would it work this time when it hasn't worked when tried in 2000 and 2016. What makes you think that this time will be different? Actually, the only thing that I think can be different is that you are counting on RBG leaving until the age of 91 with all of her health problems, because if Trump gets to name her successor, any good thing that President AOC or anyone else can get through Congress in 2025 will be overturned. This argument at this point is the equivalent of closing the barn door after the horses escaped.
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  2389.  @AM.000  It's a dental implant.
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  2390.  @AM.000  If you get a cheap one that breaks off, it can certainly look like that.
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  2391.  @stickjohnny  Given the context, he is clearly implying that the vaccine makes no difference on the likelihood of spreading the virus. Not the possibility existing.
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  2392.  @trickypg7184  It took him a while to catch on to Jimmy Dore as well, so I have confidence that he would have gotten there on these grifters as well.
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  2393.  @daveatkins3796  Please don't take that from actual runners. Let him get Benny Hill music and play it in fast motion.
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  2394.  @2727rogers  UBI can be a left or a right idea. No one would ever accuse Milton Friedman or Charles Murray of being raging lefties. The litmus test is what you want to do with the existing social safety net. If it is a supplement, it is a lefty idea; if it is a replacement, it is a right wing idea.
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  2395. This living veteran is ashamed every day that thanks to just enough people in the right states that we have to suffer this fool.
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  2396.  @LondonWater  Thousands retweet his nonsense about coronavirus. If you want the big bucks, you need to take responsibility for your actions.
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  2397.  @Live2swim  You want to build a coalition by subtraction. There is no way to get to 218, and you are setting back the cause of Medicare for All. Catch up.
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  2398.  @belakthrillby  Let me break it down for you: 1 is not going to happen. Pelosi is too good of a whip to let that happen. 2 or 3 serve no practical purposes, because you already have the list of people who support it. Not only do you not need a vote for 4, but forcing a vote as the price for voting for Pelosi as Speaker means that you've already used your political capital and now have nothing to show for it, making it less likely to demand Neal's gavel as your price. As far 5 goes, you are talking about organizing, recruiting, and funding that is exponentially greater than anything that has been proving so far. It's the equivalent of calling at a poker game when you have a pair of twos.
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  2399.  Dj Luminol  Indeed. We lose because too many people want something to make them feel good instead of actually building power.
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  2400.  @belakthrillby  That was as a negotiation to try to get a final package. And your idea is that the MSM will cover it and give it more publicity. The most overarching bill the House passed in the 116th Congress was HR 1, but did it get any press? I heard TMR talk about it far more than TRMS. The difference of wasting whatever leverage that you have on a bill that you know will fail instead of, as the OP derisively mentioned, pushing for changes to committee assignments and chairs is that with the former, all you have created is bad will, and with the latter you actually gain power. No, you don't delay it indefinitely. You do actual organizing, and you get more and more sponsors until it develops a critical mass. Then, if the Speaker does not want to put it up for a vote, you push a discharge petition, and once 218 members sign it, it has to come up for a vote. That is how Shays-Meehan (McCain-Feingold in the Senate) came up for a vote when Hastert didn't want it. They had the cards, and they played them. We don't. So, what have you yourself actually done to try to build actual support for the bill. In Philadelphia alone, my way got two more sponsors onto the bill.
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  2401.  @l.w.paradis2108  Jimmy Dore took the Assad money. It's literally true. If you don't like it, that's not the fault of Emma for pointing it out.
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  2402. Oh, he knew. The way he halted when he asked if it was satire, he knew he was busted.
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  2403.  @auggiemain  Push someone for ten years, and bad things happen. If he would have simply apologized to Jim, it would have all been over. PS Did you not see the lacrosse stick take out that window? That is literally a deadly weapon.
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  2404. Biden polls better for the same reason that Hillary was the most popular politician in America in 2013. Everyone loves you when you go away. His baggage that led him nowhere in the 2008 primary is still there. Some people are better supporting players than lead actors, and Biden is one of those people.
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  2405.  @joshuaknepshield4687  "Bernie is my first choice." Emma Vigeland, Aug. 2019 I don't know how much clearer she could be.
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  2406.  @joshuaknepshield4687  Even if we grant that she was dishonest from the start about PAC money, that isn't nearly as bad as calling Medicare for All un-American, going on a photo op to prop up a dictator who gassed his own people, praising another who killed protesters, having a relationship to a fascist that is even stronger than Trump's to Putin, and endorsing a war crime. And note that I limited it to things she did before Jimmy Dore endorsed her.
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  2407. In order to hold his seat, 40% of his coalition has to be Trump voters. Therefore, he has to go through a kabuki to look independent to voters in West Virginia. If the election gets nationalized, he is doomed. And if you don't like Manchin only voting our way half the time, look at what Jim Justice (his most likely 2024 opponent) would do.
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  2408.  @GSP-76  When did a Democratic President appoint someone as Postmaster General who had stocks in competing companies. "Everyone does it" is lazy and it only encourages the worst actors.
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  2409. As much as they were clamoring for Big Boy to enter the race in 2012, and he's always been a bully, so they have wanted a bully for years.
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  2410. Can we please stop calling isolationism "non-interventionalism." It's nothing more than a rebranding after the notion was discredited in 1941. It's the same reason why some people think that Ron Paul and his dumber son aren't really that far right.
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  2411.  @darkeimp555  Russia Today
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  2412. If a libertarian believes the same thing on Wednesday that he/she did on Monday regardless of what happened on Tuesday, good on Cuban for realizing that Tuesday happened and his narrow vision wasn't enough.
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  2413.  @b.k.9797  The only incumbent to lose that shocked me was Donnelly (I had GOP pick ups in ND and MO in the pool). The loss that stunned me the most was Gillum, but sometimes you have to take the win. I ran for a legislative seat that the party had long given up on by 2006. The day before the election, the county party chair told me that, win or lose, he was glad I ran and fought so hard, because that is something the party could build on in the future. I got 38%, and the next nominee got 47%. (Unfortunately, she was spoiled by wins in other races and thought that his scandal would be enough.) I saw one of the talking heads argue that Beto dragged two Congressional Democrats across the line, getting Pete Sessions out of there. Celebrate the wins today, and get ready to fight to get some more tomorrow.
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  2414.  @FuddlyDud  How would "one state be more powerful"? You can always redefine the federal district in a way that the people of Columbia can have their statehood apart from the federal district. This is an argument against democracy masquerading as a concern for Constitutional government.
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  2415.  @FuddlyDud  Other than being farther away when trying to plan a trip, it wouldn't matter to me, because there is nothing to the thought experiment. People don't "think like Harrisburg" for the PA legislature, and that is not a slur, either. Even in Texas, the Lege doesn't think at all like they are influenced by the good people of Austin. Just say, "I like taxation without representation if I don't like how they'll vote" instead of doing such gymnastics. You're going to throw your back out.
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  2416.  @aerobique  You are correct, sir or madam. It was the Republican opponent to Ruben Gallego, sponsor of Medicare for All... and now the most likely primary opponent to Sinema in 2024.
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  2417.  @TheHuxleyAgnostic  I still remember at the turn of the century when he said he was a libertarian. It does seem like 9/11 changed that, but he was never a lefty.
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  2418. The better option, honestly, might be for Republicans to go the way of the dodo bird, make a Labor Party as the new party of the left and sane Republicans joining the Democratic Party as the new party of the right.
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  2419.  @Mzee1084  It's always been political. It just went into overdrive at that point.
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  2420.  @elliottbaker201  And you died at twice the rate of us city slickers. Interesting strategy, Cotton. Let's see how it plays out.
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  2421.  @elliottbaker201  I never got it, and my anti-vaccine brother in the hills caught it three times, getting hospitalized the second, and he gave it to my niece twice after refusing to let her get vaccinated. If there wasn't testing where you were, how do you know how you didn't get it. And the areas that took it seriously (both social distancing and vaccines) died at much lower rates. Counties that were at least 60% red were far less likely to get vaccines and got the virus worse, and they died at twice the per capita rate of those who lived in counties that went 60% blue.
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  2422.  @nuclearneo577  Indeed. I swear, the Camelot mythmakers have to be the most effective this side of Reagan's in American history. I don't really care what JFK said he'd do, I care about what he actually did, and LBJ did far more that the left wanted (domestically, anyway) than Kennedy ever dreamed of.
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  2423. She literally commented about a decision about guns the same day.
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  2424. If a third party is serious, it would work on electing candidates and the state and local level instead of vanity campaigns for President knowing that they'll never win and will only enable the people whp they claim to oppose more.
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  2425. ​ @leevy6753  You had a bit of a glitch on the past sentence, bot.
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  2426.  @leevy6753  As far as wages go, if you care so much about that, why do I only hear the immigrants getting demonized rather than the companies that hire?
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  2427.  @leevy6753  Apparently, YouTube doesn't like what I had to say. What is your problem with governing bodies in sports determining when there is no longer a competitive advantage? If you're not bigoted, why use the same framing that the bigots do?
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  2428. You mean the random non-sequiturs that would completely stop the flow of conversation and often were used to try to promote her own show?
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  2429. It's literally the bare minimum duty as a citizen.
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  2430. Obama: Wall Street bonuses are sacred, because they're contracts. Also Obama: The UAW needs to make sacrifices to save their industry. Any wonder that Democrats had the biggest losses in 2010 in states with a lot of auto workers who stayed home?
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  2431.  @shortchubbyneckbeard1681  Quite a bit of libertarians and ancaps do.
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  2432.  @Shozb0t  I don't care what kind of fancy wrapper you put it in, it is still a philosophy not remotely based in reality, especially given his repeated assertion that he doesn't want people to enforce their morality on him while not realizing that he wants to impose his definition of morality on everyone else.
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  2433.  @Shozb0t  No, he wants a return to feudalism and the war of all against all. He just likes to pretty it up with talk of freedom and morality, as do you.
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  2434. So, a fascist and someone whitewashing fascism to pretend that we're all the same is your idea of solid independent journalism?
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  2435.  @eamonminges1541  Saagar Enjeti is. Read the OP.
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  2436.  @alwayz247  What am I basing it on? They wrote a book (well, compiled their radars to be more accurate) stating that their goal was to get "left populists and right populists" to work together, "because we agree on almost everything." Even if you take any feint towards economic populism seriously from Saagar, does it affect his vote? No, because Bernie doesn't go after foreigners. He wanted to use the military to break up peaceful protests, and he supported a fascist. And he is a protege of Tucker Carlson. Krystal Ball spent most of her time on Rising going after Democrats. In the primary, it was easier to hide her true motivations (although seeing her chum up to people like Andrew Yang and Tulsi Gabbard was clearly a red flag in retrospect). However, once the primary was over, she still spent all of her time going after Biden, and so did Saagar. It doesn't take a political scientist to see the end result of that. She repeatedly sang the praises of Tucker Carlson and wanted to work with him, and she belittled anyone who pointed out the dangers of a coup attempt, even responding in sarcasm to 1/6. She is a disgrace. Just because she is pretty doesn't mean that she isn't doing something incredibly ugly.
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  2437.  @haydenwaugh6139  "She was tested and it was negative last month, and now she's positive." Der Orangefuhrer on Karen "Mother" Pence
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  2438.  @warlockpaladin2261  And she's only gotten worse since then. As bad as she was in 2008, she was at least occasionally able to utter a coherent sentence.
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  2439.  @JoeG2324  If anyone wants to work with him, he will, but the problem is that bipartisanship tends to mean "Democrats going along with bad Republican ideas." I don't care about huge vote totals on bills. I would rather a good bill crawl across the line with 218 votes than a bad bill getting over 400 votes.
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  2440. Dunning Kruger at work
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  2441.  @meltedsnowman9637  Yang specifically mentioned SSI multiple times. He also mentioned daycare subsidies, housing subsidies, TANF, SNAP, WIC, and LIHEAP. He said there were 125 total programs, but he never released the full list. He told Dave Rubin that this is a palatable way to get rid of the existing social safety net.
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  2442. And, unlike Nate, before he lost the plot a few years ago, Mourinho was a very good man manager who understood psychology, and he didn't rely on one tactic. His teams set EPL records for fewest goals conceded in a season (15: Chelsea 2004/05) and most goals scored in a La Liga season (118: Real Madrid 2011/12). He would never advocate parking the bus down three goals in a Cup semifinal. Above all, he is a pragmatist.
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  2443. It's Ben Shapiro a quarter of an octave lower and just a little bit slower.
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  2444. This is something I'd also like to know. I remember the postmortem by Allan Lichtman after his keys incorrectly predicted the winner. Originally, he said that Trump unlocked four (it takes six for the challenger to win and eight for the incumbent party to win), but he admitted that it was probably wrong to give Harris the No Party Contest key given the odd way things were decided (but having read his book, I did understand why he gave it to her, because the party did coalesce quickly). The commenters kept insisting that she shouldn't have gotten the Short Term Economy key, pointing out that he didn't give it to Bush in 1992 because a majority thought we were still in a recession at the time. However, in 1992, the recession wasn't yet declared over and unemployment was still high. A recession was never declared in the Biden years and all the indices were very good. The question I kept coming back to was "How do you have a functioning democracy in an era of such rampant disinformation?"
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  2445.  @PROGRAMMINGFLAW-w1m  Oh, I've known people like that. I remember someone making $30K about 15 years ago who wanted a flax tax because he thought progressive taxation "punished" him. He also thought coal was a renewable resource, so there's that.
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  2446.  NotGonnaTell MyName  Before the house of cards was exposed and they were still going by his Forbes listing, I remember Vox said that if he had just put his inheritance in index funds, he'd be worth several billion more than he was allegedly worth.
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  2447. Anyone 3lse watching this during the crazy weather from the wildfires?
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  2448. So, equal work for equal pay is a fluff question? I don't want my daughter to grow up getting 80% of a man for the same job. That is pretty important to a lot of people.
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  2449.  @yer_old_pal_Jerky  That's what the Hills Shills told us the last time.
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  2450.  @anulbead4817  The USPS has been in existence for over 200 years, so that doesn't work. Name another entity, private or public, that has been required by law to load 75 years of pensions in 10 years.
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  2451.  @jacqdanieles  They'll never do that, because they care about power too much.
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  2452.  @baltofarlander2618  Based on?
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  2453.  @TheNastyTank  No, you're just having an expanded definition of "product." The polio vaccine was not something controlled by the Almighty Market. To pretend that it did is either dishonest or ignorant. Your talk that acknowledging that the common good exists and the market doesn't work for everything equals totalitarianism betrays your libertarian tendencies of believing the same thing on Wednesday that you did on Monday regardless of what happened on Tuesday.
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  2454.  @waynepolo6193  It was in the sense that Joe said it, but when he said it the first time, the director couldn't understand what he said. He thought it was funny, so he had Fred Gwynne say, "Two what?" It's not nearly as funny without that, so I've gotta give credit where credit is due.
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  2455.  @AG-lm5uf  I apologize. I did not see this reply at the time. If someone is dressing inappropriately at work, you go to HR. You don't make a remark with others around.
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  2456.  @JavierFernandez01  You are in a cult. Jimmy Dore is the modern day Lyndon Larouche, starting left, going right, and his followers don't even see it coming.
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  2457. A lot of people here don't seem to understand that interns aren't staff.
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  2458. People who think that their idiocy equals someone else's intelligence is sadly having a moment.
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  2459. ​ @NPD2024  Yes
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  2460. I think she is both right and wrong. She is right that the powers that be don't want to see a successful socialist government in the hemisphere, but a lot of the boom in Venezuela was based on rising oil prices. When they fell, the economy was too dependent on oil. Not that sanctions didn't make it worse, but that argument is much stronger in the case of Allende, where he didn't have serious human rights abuses.
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  2461. ​ @rcpilot179  When has an incumbent President ever agreed to a primary debate?
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  2462. How could the one where Hank mugged a guy and then pressed charges when he fought back not only not be number one, but not even be an honorable mention?
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  2463. If you hit 14 of 14 traits on a checklist of fascist tendencies, you're a fascist. The fact that so many of his supporters want to complain about the Eco list rather than actually refute any of the examples shows that they're probably fascists, too.
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  2464. We used to stop paying for school at 6th grade. Then, people realized that wasn't enough, so they went to 8th grade, before finally settling on high school. We could easily say the same for college.
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  2465. At the time, the GI Bill covered far more people both in absolute and relative terms, and gains in productivity meant increases in pay for workers.
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  2466. I gave up on Matt Taibbi when it seemed like the title of his YouTube show was far less ironic than he meant it to be.
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  2467.  @akirakirawabushi7019  Alex Jones still seems to me to be a symptom of the Fox effect. He didn't get big until Fox laid the groundwork.
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  2468. It means "stop showing me up for the triangulating coward that I am."
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  2469.  @merleenberry2976  I was talking in terms of corrupt or not corrupt. I didn't say good or bad.
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  2470.  @jeremypmerrill  Unions put upward pressure that benefits all workers. When people say, "I like unions, but..." what they are saying is that they don't like unions. Show me a fight that benefited workers as a whole, and I'll show you unions at the forefront of the movement. I've worked union and non-union jobs, and I grew up in a family where my dad did the same, and I noticed the difference. Does that mean that every union is right on every issue? No, but I know who's on my side in the end and who isn't.
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  2471.  @drewmorgan878  He plays the macho man in his very persona. Yes, for someone who likes to rip on those with different gender identities, he likes to cross dress a lot, but when he's not doing that, he's wearing the holster and many of his shirt slogans imply an attempt at advertising physical aggression.
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  2472. Probably because they used that slot for Mencia.
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  2473. I don't think she even wants a lobbying job. That requires one of two things: expertise on an issue, or a good relationship with your former colleagues. She is basically the Democratic version of Ted Cruz, so I think that what she really wants is to be a talking head. It's lucrative and easy.
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  2474.  @waliwingman735  I even gave an example to make it more obvious what was happening, and it still didn't sink through. Have you ever worked on or counted an election of any kind? You don't add the votes to the total one-by-one. That would take far too long. What you do is have batches, and then you add the total from that batch to the overall total. If the updated totals are released hourly, or even every few minutes, there will be jumps. So, do you understand now, or are you going to hold onto your willful ignorance?
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  2475. You are correct, Matt. His mom emigrated from Scotland and his paternal grandfather emigrated from Germany, but I can't remember if he came over in the late 19th century or early 20th.
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  2476. No
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  2477. ​ @abhishekdas2972  And yet his opponent couldn't even clear that bar, mocking Paul Pelosi for getting beaten with a hammer by one of his supporters, waiting three hours to tell the traitors to go home and telling them he loved them, etc.
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  2478. That's my Congresswoman :-D
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  2479.  @amiriothegreat  It further cements that he gas a bot army trying to prop him up. Sad.
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  2480.  @sagnorm1863  It's a whole heck of a lot easier to get nothing done than it is to get something done. The fact that you don't see that subtle difference shows how much you miss the point.
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  2481.  Wilbur Whateley  No. Tensions were inflamed because one side never got over losing the Civl War and were furious that the other side wanted them to treat fred slaves equally. Funny that you forgot Nixon in your argument, who resigned before he could be impeached because enough Republicans had integrity at the time to vote to convict. Democrats had massive gains in Congress. That being said, sometimes something is the right thing to do. Tulsi Gabbard said that Trump was guilty, but she refused to do her duty and vote to convict.
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  2482.  @mayavox  You mean that you've had a fit when confronted with her actual words and pretended that she didn't say what she did. You said "she never said that," and then you started to get mad about the person who shared the video of what she actually said rather than actually examine what she said. Now, you are saying that it is a mere "soundbite." You sound like a Trump supporter. "Don't believe your eyes and ears. Listen to what I tell you."
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  2483. Caller: People shouldn't be regulated on their rights to gun ownership. Second Amendment: A well-regulated militia.
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  2484.  @kevin6293  It was Republicans in Tennessee who voted to get rid of age of consent laws.
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  2485. A lot of these people are classic examples of the old adage "born on third, and thinks he hit a triple." I remember one of my ex-wife's friends basically pulled the hating on people less fortunate than them because they were lazy and "didn't work hard like me." His family lived in a massive house and had more electronics than a TV station so he could tinker (when my brother tore an electronic toy or game apart to see how it worked and tried to put it back together, there was no money to replace it, for example), had parents who could fill the gap for his partial scholarship at a school where tuition alone was over $50,000/year, and then his dad gave him the money for a down payment on a house. When I remarked to my then-wife in our apartment, "It must be nice to have your dad have the money to buy a house," she insisted that it was only the down payment. The down payment is the biggest part! Other than that, you may be paying less on a mortgage than a lot of people pay in rent. Even when the privilege is obvious, some people miss it.
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  2486.  @nohbuddy1  Exactly. Probably the biggest lie ever told regarding JFK was that he really wanted to get out of Vietnam.
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  2487.  @colinmurphy3478  He hasn't been back, either. He probably thought he was getting another softball interview like the first two.
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  2488.  @a1ntcry1noveru  First, the amount they could do was limited by the fact that they needed Manchin and Sinema on board since Republicans refused to cooperate on just about anything. Second, I'd say that a record number of judges, distributing 200MM doses of the coronavirus vaccine for free, the Inflation Reduction Act, and the infrastructure bill were quite a lot.
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  2489.  @samuelvimes5770  Individual sovereignty nuts are easy to back into a corner. I remember a few years ago dealing with someone on Facebook and asking him if he would need a passport to re-enter the United States or pay tariffs on goods he brings on his property. While I didn't get the satisfaction of screaming in impotent rage, it was amusing seeing him whine that I was focusing on "trivial details."
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  2490. "I didn't say he was smart; I said he was a cheater." Peggy Hill
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  2491.  @justapeacefulprotester4598  Says the one who supports someone who raped a 13 year old.
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  2492. "Closer to the brink of nuclear war than we ever were before." Cuban Missile Crisis: Am I nothing to you?
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  2493.  Sebastian Thor  No, Bernie hates buying weapons we don't need and going to wars we shouldn't.
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  2494.  @tanyas6643  I could be wrong, but that seemed like sarcasm to me.
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  2495.  @thebillryan  He's been kicked off several times and has to keep changing his username. He's one of the most infamous trolls here.
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  2496. I did those three things, and I was in pretty serious poverty for five years where I am still trying to climb out of the effects of that poverty. Heck, I have two graduate degrees and didn't get married until I was 29, and didn't become a father until age 36.
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  2497.  @lifotheparty6195  Totally. If I were at the dinner, I would have thanked Larry for treating me like a regular person. And did they ever consider that a lot of veterans want to forget what happened.
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  2498. In 2010, I encouraged my parents to vote for the protest candidacy of Ken Hechler in the primary. (I left WV in 2007.) They ultimately did, but they were worried it might hurt him in the general special election. Now, my dad says that he will never vote for Manchin again. If you get a yellow dog to say Enough, you have really fallen a long way.
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  2499. David, you do some great stuff, but the occasional good thing that Tulsi does is only to provide cover for her grift.
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  2500. "There's only one thing that I hate more than lying, and that's skim milk... which is just water that's lying about being milk." Ron Swanson
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  2501.  @maytalcliff9497  Indeed. Any time I hear someone say that Jimmy Dore changed at some later date, I'm baffled. Yes, he got worse, but he had been more than bad enough that anyone could see that he shouldn't be taken seriously.
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  2502.  @MatthewWagnerNOECA  Where is this person he fired? The only producer credit is for his wife, and several have reached out to this person to give him/her the opportunity to tell his/her story. His name is on the show. It is ultimately his responsibility to know what is going out under his name.
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  2503.  @vgaportauthority9932  I don't think he really has much of a lefty audience left. Listen to the ones who claim to be long enough, and they are lying.
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  2504.  @jwomackandcheese73  Not to mention the people who have heart attacks, car accidents, and cancer who can't get treatment because coronavirus patients are filling up hospitals.
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  2505.  @jamescaporale9367  It's almost like they have convinced themselves that the people who they vote for can't possibly be as bad they are.
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  2506. @Anurag Chakraborty What have you been doing to try to move the needle?
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  2507. Indeed. It reminds me of how people wanted to be polite and say that Jimmy was funny (kinda like how people used to qualify criticism of Ted Nugent by saying that he was a good musician), but no one could ever point to anything funny he actually said.
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  2508.  @Tinasburrito666  Other than slowly and methodically taking over a major party, what has actually worked in this country?
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  2509.  @Tinasburrito666  So, let's think this through. Accelerationism doesn't work. Letting Republicans win means that people just want to get them out of office and become too scared to dream. (There's a reason why Bernie went from 44% of the vote in 2016 to 32% in 2020.) As the squad becomes a platoon and then a company, it can start to beat people like Jeffries in the vote. But that takes a lot of work and a lot of time. "Only when people are willing to fight for a future they may not live to see can we get the future we want." Bernie's first rally after his heart attack in 2019
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  2510. You do realize that an impeachment is the equivalent of an indictment, right?
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  2511.  @jessicavictoriacarrillo7254  I really don't understand it. In the book Catching Fire, she laughs about how annoyed Cinna was at the fact that Katniss let her leg and underarm hair grow out, and she saw it as a mark of pride and independence. Do they really think that people will suddenly recoil and think that Jennifer Lawrence is hideous for displaying evidence of puberty? Lots of actors change their appearance in far more drastic ways. No one is making her gain the kind of weight Jared Leto did to play Mark David Chapman.
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  2512. I hope it's either a nice round number, or they send her somewhere remote where she can't cause any damage.
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  2513.  @youknow9092  In 1986, when Reagan was President and Republicans controlled the Senate (with enough Dixiecrats in the House that he was able to get his way there as well), machine guns and armor piercing bullets were banned. I haven't seen anyone overturn that ban.
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  2514. Defending the Electoral College because Too Much Democracy Bad didn't do it? She showed her true colors with lightning speed.
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  2515. The next step: Goofy caller: Let's assassinate him. Sam: You are aware that there are other people in the company who would step up to take his place, right. [Silence]
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  2516. Well, in fairness to Cavuto, he was a minority voice on Fox telling people to get the vaccine.
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  2517.  @emileconstance5851  "If it's what you say it is, I love it! Especially in the fall." [The morning of the meeting] "I think you're going to find out something big about the e-mails." And Giuliani and Stone just happened to know when the e-mails were going to leak, and all of those convictions and plea agreements were fake.
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  2518.  @xyzsame4081  She still pretended that an attempted coup doesn't count. In the video where she "apologized," she did some pretty major gaslighting insisting that she initially toed the party line on the Russia investigation and the impeachment, both of which she opposed from the start. She is there to help Republicans win.
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  2519. Reporter: Where is Earl Milford? Gob: I don't know! I didn't kill him. And don't edit this to make it look like I said-- Gob on TV: I killed Earl Milford. John Beard: Startling confession! More tonight.
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  2520. ​ @NotSoMuchFrankly  Indeed. He's blaming it on "the government" instead of the specific people in the government who decided not to honor his contract.
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  2521.  @BlackAbe007  Selfish? Trying to feed the hungry and running early daycare centers is hardly the act of selfish people.
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  2522.  @BlackAbe007  I didn't say that had things happened. I am saying that the people who joined were idealistic and tried to help people, and the things that helped people is was sucked in more and more idealistic people. Jones was evil, but the people who wanted to help people were not selfish.
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  2523. So did I when I first saw her in 2016, but the more that I learned, the worse I realized that she was.
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  2524. 74 million. Still scary, though.
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  2525.  @michaels8620  Okay, you want to play the semantics game? He "entertained the idea" that was already debunked. He takes money from Syria to repeat propaganda. He said Hillary has Parkinson's. He is a 9/11 Truther. He lied about Russian interference and now gets paid to go on RT. He got the Supreme Court completely wrong. Anyone who listens to him is now dumber.
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  2526. Yang opposes increasing the minimum wage, making it easier for workers to organize, do nothing about wealth inequality or monopoly, use regressive taxes, and said that he ultimately wants to get rid of the existing social safety net. Those all sound pretty libertarian to me.
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  2527.  @princekareem  Clearly, the OP is also critical of those as well.
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  2528. What specifically is Jimmy right about that Sam is wrong about?
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  2529.  @TihetrisWeathersby  That was part of it. She is the most abusive Senator to her staff, to the point that AFSCME wouldn't endorse her.
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  2530.  @xTheOxx  It never ceases to amaze me how many people misunderstood that point about Archie Bunker.
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  2531.  @TehMomo_  Agreed. Sadly, the people of Kentucky fell for it.
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  2532.  @eminkerim7859  To paraphrase another cult classic from the decade whose dream is alive in a different Northwestern city with Kyle McLachlan, you'd be like a child wandering into the middle of a movie and wondering... they posted the next round of the tournament?
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  2533.  @Ken-hs8nd  You are aware that Tulsi endorsed Hillary after the primaries, right? She is a fake lefty, and now she is showing her true colors.
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  2534.  @bartjargengarblbargeler1980  He was the one pulling Obama to the right, and he is already to the left of Obama as President. So, while it may not have worked as well as some have hoped, it has happened.
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  2535. He's... getting... better... at it.
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  2536.  @sonny061188  Except he eventually moved to Florida, which is not so great on that front.
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  2537.  @bbcpfghs  He just goes with whatever his handlers/sponsors tell him. The only one who really seems to believe the nonsense is Shapiro.
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  2538. @Krystal My Amoral, not immoral.
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  2539.  @jamescooke7243  Yes, let's look at Afghanistan. Who negotiated to give the Taliban all of the power in the country? Why that would be your peace loving Trump. And which side made the Lebensraum argument while saying that the other wasn't real in the Russia/Ukraine War?
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  2540.  @FreedomFighter-cr5xg  Be fair! Mussolini actually fought in WWI.
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  2541. Definitely. You cannot build by subtraction. I have heard more than one idiot insist that the job of a Member of Congress is to "hold corporate Democrats accountable." I thought the goal of a legislator was to, I don't know, write and pass legislation.
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  2542.  @langeroony35  There's no reason when Biden us actually doing the job now.
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  2543.  @felwinter7883  [citation needed]
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  2544. ​ @GDino34  All those things that you say about Ron Paul miss the finest points. He is fine with the states doing those things, so considering that the one bailout he thought was a good idea was for slaveholders, his ideology is, more accurately speaking, neo-Confederate.
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  2545.  @motherofnerdlings  Do you see anyone refusing to do anything? We are still calling our representatives and doing other actions to stop this nonsense, but they are the majority in Congress. There is only so much we can do, but they're the ones who insist on touching the hot stove, not us.
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  2546. If memory serves me correctly, Dear Leader was behind in Pennsylvania until about 1:30 AM, so by that logic, he lost Pennsylvania, and should never have been in office.
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  2547. Well, he's mad at Denmark for not being open to selling Greenland, so maybe not them.
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  2548. ​@edgevalmond6173 True, but it's a start.
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  2549. Yale doesn't offer athletic scholarships.
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  2550. So true. I ran for a legislative seat 12 years ago. I criticized subsidies for Wal-Mart, but my opponent raised six times what I did, and they were the only game in town for bulk candy to throw at parades.
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  2551. It's the same thing that happens any time you deal with a Patriots or Brady fan when all of the evidence of decades of cheating get brought up.
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  2552.  @Name-jw4sj  Well, Eugenia didn't abandon Medicare for All, say that the only reason why she became a Democrat was because Republicans no longer believed in markets, lie about her heritage to take an affirmative action spot that was supposed to go to a woman of color at Harvard Law, do the bidding of the hard right at Penn, take SuperPAC money to try to rescue the sinking ship that was her Presidential campaign, and falsely accuse the true lefty candidate in the race of sexism and make sure that she would stay in while the centrists were coalescing around Biden. But, yeah, Warren has done a lot.
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  2553.  @Name-jw4sj  Don't play white knight for someone who screwed over people royally and then get upset when someone points out that, even if you just ignore the last year, Warren was never the lefty savior she pretended to be. At least I admit that I was wrong about her five years ago.
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  2554.  @goodun2974  Hence, why you don't let the election denier speak and escort him/her out of the building, but don't punish the candidate who believes in democracy.
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  2555.  @hermank9647  Bernie was the lead writer of the coronavirus bill that cut child poverty in half. His amendment got the $600/week in supplemental unemployment last year that prevented 2020 from making the Great Depression look like a mild hiccup. It's like you're not even trying to make a decent argument based in reality.
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  2556.  @ladybluelotus  Our textbook covered it, but to say how evil and oppressive the Carpetbaggers and Scalawags were.
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  2557. That's a fairly common idea in the self-help/personal development genre, but the problem with that is that some things are systematic and do need changed. You can try to make yourself better and the world better at the same time.
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  2558.  @garysmokesmeat  That threat of starvation is what keeps people in those bad and exploitative jobs. If you think that's not violence, you're Kevin Bacon in Animal House.
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  2559. It's not just that he was the mayor of a small town, it's that he was bad at his job. He said that he didn't know that his city still had issues with school integration despite court orders. Bernie used his powers as mayor to fight gentrification and revitalized his town for all. Buttigieg used his power to speed up gentrification.
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  2560. "I have enough money to buy the law. I can do whatever I want, and no one can stop me. Big Ern is above the law!" Ernie "Big Ern" McCracken, "Kingpin"
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  2561. *all three Fixed it for you.
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  2562.  regulator619  Well, then, Saagar is an idiot. He has been trying to convince people that Trump is some sort of anti-establishment hero, but he gives them everything they want. This "populist" knows that all they really want is low taxes and regulations, and he has given that in spades. Then again, I don't think that he's stupid. Like his co-host, he's lying.
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  2563.  @kingzut  Yes, it is the max for SNAP, and I am a caseworker, so hardly a week goes by where I don't see an application where someone gets SSI, and most of those people get the max. Yes, there are asset requirements and things like that, but the point isn't to force people to get rid of what they get now in order to get the $1000/month. The point is that any benefits should be in addition to what they are getting now.
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  2564.  @taranullius9221  His producer is his wife.
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  2565. Good on Stephanopoulos for pointing out that Gore turned over stolen debate prep documents.
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  2566. When I see SOS, I think "Message in a Bottle" by The Police.
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  2567. That is the understatement of the year.
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  2568.  @liliachan3753  Heisoneofthesepeople whothinksthattalkingfastermakeshimsoundsmart, buthisbrain isnotkeepingupwithhismouth soitmakes forawkwardpauses.
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  2569. @Vlad and his Puppet Don't show them the video of Trump wanting to date Ivanka of she wasn't hos daughter, or telling Howard Stern that he and Ivanka have sex in common. I have said it before, and I will say it again: Marla Maples was the best mother of any of his three wives, because she had the good sense to keep Tiffany as far away from that monster as possible. (Let us not forget that he told Robin Leach when Tiffany was one that he hoped she inherited her mom's rack.)
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  2570. ​ @jessicaarmstrong5035  It depends on what he gets convicted of. The fraud trial in NYC won't get him off the ballot, the documents case probably won't, but the DC and GA case would.
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  2571.  Jing Bot  She was always stupid, but this is a whole other level.
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  2572.  @DaviniaHill  Oh, look, someone who misses the point that not being on social media doesn't make you an "unperson."
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  2573. ​ @shawnmurray9964  You think that's bad? Aaron has dozens of accounts where he does the same thing.
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  2574.  @alaskantundrawolf8831  You think your left? Spouting discredited alt-right nonsense usually isn't good for lefty street cred.
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  2575. I think a lot of it was giving people the permission to say the hateful things they felt out loud. Comsidering that what passrs for Republican policy these days is punishing people they don't like, this was the ultomate in goal sharing.
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  2576. ​ @wendyscott8425  True, but a lot of them stem from that one.
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  2577. Tiffany Trump proving Mark Twain's adage about fools to be totally true. We liked you better when you left us alone.
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  2578. I really wish that my daughter's PTO didn't mostly exist for communication on Facebook. I've only been on a handful of times in the last four years, and my life is so much better.
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  2579.  @nathandrake5544  There were times where they didn't get along (which happens sometimes), but a lot of times she just wasn't really a good fit. She wanted to use every excuse to bring it to a tangent that killed conversation (the worst was trying to plug her podcast after Sam mentioned that Kennedy had just announced his retirement). It was probably for the best that she could do the show that she wanted to do, and Sam could play off someone who fit better.
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  2580.  @onemansvoice9132  Canceling is not the same as ending it on your terms. For example, Seinfeld was not canceled, but BoJack Horseman was.
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  2581. That bailout occurred under Bush. That being said, for me, the biggest example of his misplaced priorities was, "We can't do anything about Wall Street bonuses, because those are sacred." Then, when Detroit came hat in hand, "Everyone [i.e., union workers] has to make sacrifices."
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  2582.  @cristhianzerimar  He dumped that months ago. There's only so long you can be in the middle of converting.
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  2583.  @Juicebrainjoe  Deplatforming =/= giving them your platform
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  2584.  @mineflameblade8788  "First, they came for the communists..."
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  2585. Maybe I have a bad cut and need something super absorbent while I wait for the doctor.
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  2586.  @R.senals_Arsenal  Indeed. There aren't any decent ones left pursuing policy at the national level.
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  2587. Me, too. I spent too much time and too much energy fighting for Bernie and his message to give up now. I will vote for the nominee in November, but it is 100% because Iive in a swing state. If I still lived in West Virginia, Biden couldn't use my vote, so he wouldn't get it.
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  2588.  @3ld919  Well, looking at Greenwald and his history, I think the good things he has done are either overstated or more of a cover a la Tulsi Gabbard. Taibbi was a straight up heel turn.
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  2589.  @LifeStrike2030  English translation: I mock other people for not running for office, but I never did it myself. As far as why I ran for what I ran for, the district only had 18,000 people total, and about 6500 voters. Even if there was a local issue that interested me enough in city council, I didn't live in the city limit, so I couldn't have run even if I wanted to. Funny how you ignored the point about the Green Party abandoning its strategy in a place where it actually made sense to run as a third party, and someone else came in and actually got the work done.
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  2590.  @carlos_herrera  Okay, let's take your argument at face value that it's those mean major parties that don't give them automatic ballot access because they can't meet the easiest of standards in some cases. In most states, the method of getting on the ballot is petitioning. In Philadelphia, it takes 100 legal signatures to get on the ballot. If you can't get 100 signatures in a city with over 1.5MM people, you clearly aren't serious about building a party. In Ohio, it takes 50 to get on in a Congressional race. They are obsessed with getting matching funds because they don't care about winning. They are there to help Republicans win (look at the Red/Green alliance in Wisconsin in 2020 when the Greens botched their petition drive and took their sweet old time challenging even when given a chance to correct the error) and get money for themselves.
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  2591.  @chriscarbaugh3936  Somebody said that Reagan was a President who could make us proud, and I asked him if selling weapons to the Iranians who held Americans hostage to fund an illegal war made him proud. He never did give an answer.
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  2592.  @leeblount7046  You know what's even more ridiculous? A) Not understanding the basic point that if you want to address the deficit, taxes need to go up (and unless you're making six figures, they aren't going up for you, anyway), and B) not understanding that you yourself are doing the exact same thing.
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  2593. Only if they're high level, important i-DEE-uhs.
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  2594.  @w.iraheta3769  The alternative wasn't a $15/hour minimum wage alone, but a $15/hour minimum wage and - Medicare for All and medical debt forgiveness - Federal Jobs Guarantee - Workplace Democracy - free college, trade, and technical education with Student Loan Forgiveness - Green New Deal with affordable housing - strengthening workers rights - requiring companies that had employer based health insurance to pass on the savings to the workers in the form of increased pay and/or benefits - strengthening the existing social safety net Suddenly, that scale looks a lot more tilted the other way.
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  2595. Ben Carson is a less funny version of The Todd on "Scrubs": a brilliant surgeon, but a total idiot when it comes to everything else.
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  2596.  @charliej766  He had no problem trashing Obama when he was on his way out the door, so the fact that he wouldn't take the bait tells me that he thinks he'll need to work with Biden starting in January.
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  2597. Sometimes, the inner deterioration displays itself externally.
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  2598. The Alaska fund goes to everyone, and it doesn't exclude anyone, unlike his "universal" basic income plan. Another giveaway of Yang's true aim is the fact that he calls it the "freedom dividend."
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  2599. Philadelphia is far less than 81% black. People in cities of all colors pulled Biden across the line. It's perfect poetic justice for Trump to spend weeks trashing my town and my town is the one that kicked him out. As far as Pennsylvania, the Trump Presidency was born here, and it will die here.
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  2600. She isn't in the bottom half for you? For me, she is the worst. At least Biden is honest about being a centrist. She pretends to be a lefty while taking money from both Moscow Donald and his DILF after the birther stuff, she put parents in jail for their kids not attending school as a "tough on crime" prosecutor who fought for two years to keep an exonerated inmate locked up, but she wasn't tough enough in crime to prosecute Mnuchin (who gave her money) for mortgage fraud when, among other things, he tried to remove someone from her house over 27 cents. She is the absolute worst candidate in the race for the Democrats.
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  2601. Right wing populism is fake. It takes legitimate anger at economic oppression and uses it as an excuse to scapegoat minorities.
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  2602. I used his imminent speech as my excuse to take out the garbage last night. Words cannot express how glad I'll be when I never have to hear that big orange dummy sniffing again.
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  2603.  @allygrint-potter6550  You can argue that she isn't the corporatist they are, but her similar approach to meritocracy and accepting the bounds of the status quo cannot be denied.
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  2604. Dore is not a leftist. Nobody forced him to promote horse tranquilizers.
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  2605. 11:35 Well, considering that Santa comes from the Latin for "saint" and Satan comes from the Herbew for "accuser," yeah, I'd say it was a coincidence.
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  2606. No, he didn't. He wanted to get rid of the existing social safety net and use a regressive tax to pay for it.
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  2607.  @Khrysalis01  I hate the Electoral College, too, but that's not gerrymandering. Gerrymandering is drawing favorable Congressional districts. Hillary lost because she got close in states like Georgia and Arizona, but Moscow Donald narrowly won in the Great Lakes states.
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  2608.  @donaldducklas4155  What left wing positions does he take? Which left wing candidates does he support?
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  2609. I don't think there will be a vote on Tanden.
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  2610.  @loulfw2513  Why does it have to be her? Nominations get pulled all the time when it's obvious that the nominee doesn't have the support. Most of the usual suspects have already made it clear that they will vote No, and with Manchin opposing her, she has to get at least one Republican to say Yes, and McConnell is already pushing that no one in the conference give her that vote.
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  2611.  @LB-gz3ke  She'll go back to her roots and lobby for corporations to screw over workers.
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  2612.  @tilleryinnovations592  Yes, because something that ostensibly has 50 supporters is the same as something that only has 13. /s
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  2613. If he really does believe the stupid stuff that he says, he is one of these people who would rather complain than get something done, so he just wants to blow everything up.
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  2614.  @HenryPaulThe3rd  Many of those are people who are "perfectly fine" because they have immunity issues and they can't get the shots, but enough people do the responsible thing. Then again, when people think that there is no such thing as society, it's easy to forget such things because ideology won't allow it.
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  2615.  @b1bbscraz3y  My response to those people usually involves adding slavery the way you add "In bed" to a fortune cookie. They say it was for states' rights," and I say "to keep slaves." They say, "It was about our economy," and I say, "which was dependent on slavery." Never give them an inch.
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  2616. But if he admitted that there was a need for any regulation, he wouldn't be an ancap.
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  2617. *Democratic. Don't use the word Republicans use because Joseph McCarthy realized that it could be used as an insult.
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  2618. Public financing of campaigns is the reform that makes all other reforms possible.
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  2619. Indeed. I'm not a big follower, but I don't go out of my to avoid it, either. I remember seeing a headline that Philip compared Harry abandoning his royal duties to Edward, and I was legitimately shocked, because that's probably about the worst thing that someone like him could probably think to call somebody.
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  2620. We're supposed to act in a civilized way!
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  2621.  @DevinSheaProductions  So, we decide not to fight back? Is that really your solution?
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  2622.  @rockstarburne  Yeah, and how many of those people will still buy once the ocean rises?
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  2623.  @Brams2777  Because some people have grudges. I swear, sometimes atheists are the biggest fundamentalists of all.
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  2624.  @mikesticha114  While she hasn't necessarily abandoned conservatism, it seems like having to be the handler for Sarah Palin in 2008 opened her eyes about the Republican Party. If you ever watch Game Change, hers is the only sympathetic character in the whole movie.
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  2625.  @doctorthirteen5727  I hope that is sarcasm.
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  2626. ​ @cieje  Normally, I would agree with you, but his whole rationale is "Biden can't win." Not like that won't dampen enthusiasm for the ultimate nominee. /s
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  2627. ​ @Mahalo-loa  Usually, I would agree, but if your only goal (besides the obcuous grift of running for an office for which you are ineligible, anyway) is to dampen enthusiasm for the eventual nominee, you will hurt that candidate.
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  2628.  @jshooper7819  Indeed. For all of the talk of how the protest the day of the Speaker election was going to get covered and force their hands, I would have never known there was a protest but for people online bragging about it.
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  2629.  @boreddude3898  Someone tried to tell me that Japan and South Korea are "tiny countries," ignoring that they have much higher population density than we do.
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  2630.  @Isaac-et9wd  So is Mark Zuckerberg. Is he an ally?
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  2631. While she isn't the one who will pull this off, we can never forget that first coup attempts almost always fail, and the second one tends to be much more successful. Vigilance is the cost for democracy.
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  2632. And his father got to where he was because his dad was an admiral.
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  2633.  @lorriec8743  When Bernie said Not Me Us, he meant it.
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  2634.  @shadebleu  Not the same thing.
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  2635. Libertarian freedom is incredibly limited. When there is a dispute among competing claims, a libertarian will always favor the monied interests. For example, they oppose antitrust laws, because it violates Free Association, but when it comes to workers wanting to use our Free Association to form a union, that "destroys freedom." They also don't understand that there are times when freedom is a positive right that is granted, not an absence of action. This is why they oppose civil rights laws.
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  2636. ​ @matthewgagnon9426  Because Aaron is a ridiculous person who sees himself as master of the universe as he types in his mom's basement.
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  2637.  @jprec5174  She is? Was she legitimate when she took Tim Ryan's money and then started attacking him after he realized that far more money went into her pocket than to help candidates? Was she being honest when she insisted that Biden is worse than Trump?
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  2638.  Polako Polakovic  National Socialism is a contradiction in terms. Also, what is the Democrat Party? There is no such thing.
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  2639.  @spacedye2001  Me, too. We were right all along, but it's not like she was hiding this part of herself.
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  2640. And then what? It didn't affect the primary vote when Biden said that he wouldn't sign Medicare for All, and we're talking about it meaning something a year in advance?
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  2641.  @seraphinw1  Indeed. The thing is that there is only so long where you can carry on the grift. Eventually, like Dave Rubin, you have to ultimately admit that you are right wing. Jimmy Dore will have to admit it sooner or later, too.
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  2642.  @jaxmiller724  What issues are they telling you "aren't real" that Republicans are addressing? And your multiple posts on CRT tell me that you clearly are angered by it.
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  2643.  @jaxmiller724  So, culture war isn't your focus, but you came here to talk about culture wars? [In Dr. Evil voice] Riiight.
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  2644.  @jaxmiller724  "actively encouraged riots" [Citation needed]
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  2645. Is this Market Institute an economic think tank in the same way Rand Paul made up his own ophthamology board?
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  2646. From enabling molesters to enabling a man who partied with a pedophile. Be careful who you pick for your heroes.
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  2647. I've seen some of those ads. It is one of the most bizarre arguments I have ever heard. Do they honestly think that people are dumb enough to believe that the same companies that have been gouging them for decades are suddenly going to drop prices out of the goodness of their hearts?
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  2648. @Defund The Tone Police If Jimmy Dore understands politics, what has he actually accomplished other than helping Trump get elected four years ago?
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  2649. @Defund The Tone Police You can reject the premise all you want, but if someone spends his days telling tens of thousands of people 1) not to vote for Hillary even if they live in a swing state, and 2) that it would be better if Trump wins, what do you think that the impact would be? Funny that you anti-anti-Trump types spend all of this time talking about this great strategy, but then you put it down the memory hole when you realize how mad everyone else is at the effects of it. Just like how Nader said leading up to 2000 that he wanted Gore to lose and rarely ever went after Bush, only to deny his impact after his mailing list saw what happened.
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  2650.  @lloydb4469  He has explained. It is guaranteed to fail, and it will create bad will among the Soft Yes voters and make it harder to get anything. You Dore fanboys apparently missed that one.
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  2651. Sadly, he hasn't gotten any better. At another point, he was calling complaining about paying for poor kids' lunches.
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  2652.  @dlawrence2053  Democrats tried to filibuster Garland, and McConnell got rid of the filibuster in response. Funny how the Dore knobs keep getting basic facts wrong.
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  2653.  @jacrispyvulcano9032  And what is your step two after the vote fails? Unlike the keyboard warriors, some of us have actually done the work of building support. You aren't asking for a bill to pass, you are asking for a message.
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  2654.  @DrazenkaHayes  As a Christian who actually takes the red letters seriously, it angers me that people would do such awful things.
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  2655. ​ @pifflepockle  Not if you look at his other material. Funny thing is that Joe Rogan is the one who recommended him.
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  2656.  Trump 2020  So, Biden might give us very little of what we want, but Trump will make things worse. No thanks!
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  2657. With those big gums, he looks like a ginger Butt-head.
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  2658.  @freespeach99  First offense.
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  2659.  @TheAGNOSTIC_who_YT_CENSORS  Just so long as we can make them pay a hefty exit fee on their way out the door.
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  2660.  @ReR7474  Sam was born in 1966, which makes him Generation X.
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  2661. Too bad we all have to suffer due to their stupidity.
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  2662.  @futurotiradormasivo2394  Why not show us the study?
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  2663.  @AdamBladeTaylor  Did he fully support them when he was finding out ways to lay people off when he worked for McKinsey?
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  2664.  @twoshedsjohnson8540  She collected Medicare that she only paid into for five years (at the time, even if she maxed out all five years, she only paid about $1000) because she believed that studies that showed the harm in cigarette smoking were propaganda and got lung cancer.
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  2665.  @emblemedfate4270  It's called being an adult, and deciding whether or not some occasional good thing she does outweighs the mountain of bad. As an actual veteran who treated POWs humanely and made sure that everyone else did when I was sergeant of the guard, this combat veteran who lied more than once and referred to herself as such (I was in a combat MOS, but did not actually see combat in my tour, although my base was fired upon) hiding behind us to support a war crime is an insult to everyone who did the right thing. And when she decides to violate her oath to the Constitution by refusing to impeach someone she knows to be guilty, that is someone who cannot be trusted. Having less integrity than Mitt Romney is not a good luck. Sharing a video of scammers in Project Veritas to say that Ilhan Omar won election by fraud as an excuse to push legislation harmful to democracy tells you which side she is on. I don't care who is friends with whom. I care about what policies they actually push. Speaking of friends, she was actually close with Bernie, so where was she when Bernie did the actual legwork to get Congress to pass legislation stopping our assistance to the genocide in Yemen? When did she take a leadership role? Oh, that's right! She was busy taking pictures with Assad and going along with his lies.
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  2666.  @frivolousquan7085  You are aware that teachers are also expected to train on their own dime during the summer, right? Nice to see that you really put some thought into your anti-teacher screed while insisting that people love teachers.
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  2667.  @lukethedrifter9878  Well, Hillary was one of the members of the Watergate counsel before she married Bill, and she was chosen by her student body at Wellesley to give the address at commencement, so she still would have gone up the ranks. Maybe she wouldn't have been a senator or a Cabinet Secretary, but she wouldn't have been a nobody.
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  2668.  @kimwalter8753  Because of the way he likes to exploit guests, and he doesn't offer any follow-up care. He is Maury Povich with a medical degree.
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  2669. You mean the thing that he admitted to?
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  2670.  @drkarenswrld  Actually, the slide began in October 2018 when his response to the Tree of Life shooting was that this is further proof that we need his plan because white people will become a plurality in 2045 and then things will really get bad.
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  2671.  @thisshouldbeentertaining3386  I think one of the jokes that he was accused of stealing from Louis (the strange name for a kid) was unfair, because they both stole it from Cosby, but the shoe size joke? Blatant Demetri Martin rip off.
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  2672. Caller: people have to work. Well, if the robotics and AI trends continue, I beg to differ.
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  2673.  @christinebenson518  I guess he's never heard of AOC.
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  2674. He is not for Medicare for All, and in the CNN town hall, he said that he can't do anything on rent control, so the solution us to band together with your buddies and buy a fixer upper (i.e., a crappy house that is a money pit). Great solutions!
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  2675. Give it time. Schooling Biden (no pun intended) is the first most people heard of her. Give it time, and now that her numbers are up, people will dig deeper. This is a honeymoon phase, nothing more.
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  2676.  @2727rogers  When has he ever been proven right when most of the left commentators were wrong? Repeating what others say on those occasions when he isn't trying to help Republicans or spout conspiracy theories is not "getting it right."
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  2677. For some reason, it seems like they never notice when their cult leader does it directly.
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  2678. Dry ice? If there was dry ice, you would have seen steam coming out of the envelope.
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  2679.  Trey Yula  Hundreds of children taken from their parents with no way of giving them back or even knowing where to reunite them? Sounds like kidnapping to me. Since you care about the law and all.
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  2680.  Trey Yula  Even if everything you say about immigration law is true, when people are detained for crimes, the idea is not to permanently separate a parent from a child except if the parent is going to jail for life or until if the crime was something that resulted in the forfeiture of parental rights. It is not child molestation, and I wouldn't care where they come from or what they look like. I don't want my government kidnapping children. Your remark at the end clearly shows that you are just fine with it if they have a different skin color than you.
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  2681.  @PeterMcLoughlinStargazer1877  He was never on the left. Like Tulsi Gabbard, he just made a few feints to the left to set himself up for the "I left the left" grift.
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  2682.  @cooprdog3793  She was so competent that she took the textbook case of how to make the ACA work with Kynect, and when McConnell swore up and down that he wouldn't touch Kynect, which was wildly popular, she didn't bother to point out that Kynect and the ACA that McConnell kept trying to repeal were the same thing. And then there was that ludicrous "I won't say whether or not I voted for Obama" nonsense. That is a "competent candidate"?
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  2683. That is the logic that gets Kyle Kulinski in trouble. Sam is usually better than this.
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  2684.  @nataliejansen2371  What shows had he been on prior to 2011? I thought Schmidt was his breakout role.
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  2685.  @renriquez1994  The guy who played Schmidt is on a show called The Neighborhood on CBS with Cedric the Entertainer. I only saw it once when my parents were visiting while it was on.
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  2686. Remember when he kept saying "the world is laughing at us?" Who knew he could see the future?
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  2687. You also have Bernie's brother, Larry ;-)
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  2688. Sam looks kinda like John Turturro in the thumbnail.
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  2689.  @samuelvimes5770  How silly of me! Looking at what someone has actually done rather than selectively listening to the soothing voice and rhetoric ;-) How could I forget that? Or her being the biggest advocate for Modi, even after what he did as a provincial governor.
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  2690.  @newbieprepper8451  Look up the dictionary definition of victim. That is a value-neutral statement. The ones the judge allows are not. And, no not all Trump supporters are racist. They are obviously fine with racism, but that doesn't necessarily make them racist. However, taking pictures with white supremacists and posing with a gun talking about your desire to take out BLM protesters definitely shows someone who is a racist. Your comparison is ridiculous, because there is a direct line between the things that lead people to say that Rittenhouse is a white supremacist.
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  2691. ​ @desertsand8778  So, if you think that $15/hour is not enough to live on, but you don't want to guarantee that people make enough to live on, how is that not increasing human suffering?
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  2692.  @dominoep  Darn right! If someone wants to complain about there not being a good lefty, go knock on doors and make phone calls.
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  2693. Indeed. I'd like to see how some of these keyboard warriors would handle the pressure. My dollar says the vast majority would be like Kyle Kulinski: talk tough about how others shouldn't make deals, and how they should fight, but continue to defend and enable the most toxic people because those are "friends."
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  2694.  @fingersm  Jimmy Dore isn't a lefty.
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  2695.  @nafeeahnafsiraj  Brooks is best of all. I tried their shoes 23 years ago and haven't looked back.
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  2696.  @FakeSchrodingersCat  Nearly 20 years ago, I told someone that Fortunate Son was about people like George W. Bush. He was literally a Congressman's son.
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  2697.  @l-chlorine7919  Same, but with a different generation. I was born in 1979, and getting activated in what would have been my last semester as an undergraduate set me up so that I got my master's in 2009, so a lot of the economic stuff about millennials applies to me, but my outlook is more Generation X.
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  2698. People were ready to move on in 2008, but sadly, we elected someone who accepted too much of the Reagan orthodoxy to change things.
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  2699. Yang is a pretty distant fourth. It looks like the race will come down to Adams and either Wiley or Garcia. With most of the ballots cast, Adams has 31%, Wiley is close to 22%, Garcia is at 21%, and Yang is at 12%, with no one else over 5. As candidates continue to get eliminated, there is a chance that Adams might lose. The real question now becomes which candidates are people's second choice.
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  2700. No Democrats voted for the Trump tax cuts, the vast majority voted against the Bush tax cuts, and it was Democratic votes that got the Clinton and Obama tax increases over the line. Both siderism is lazy.
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  2701.  @Hirnlego999  Yes, it is.
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  2702.  @j.frankparnell  In other words, they stand on a building and think they're floating in the air. I am a Caseworker, and the same people who go on and on about how they don't want any government help are the same ones who want me to count every possible loophole and deduction to make sure that they get that help for their Medicare (another government program, btw) premiums.
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  2703.  @johnhand46  If "the DNC" puts a penny toward a challenger in a primary, that alone is quite a shot across the bow, so what specifically are you describing?
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  2704.  @johnhand46  DCCC is distinct from the DNC. They work together, but they are not the same thing. The former is chosen by the elected officials in that body as people to raise funds. The DNC does the day-to-day operations of a political party. I have actually run for office before, so I am well aware of the different vehicles of party structure. The mere fact that you think that an incumbent getting money from an organization whose primary function is to help incumbents get re-elected shows that you are completely wrong that this proves that Ilhan Omar was the establishment pick. If the DCCC gave a penny to her opponent, that would be an even bigger shot across the bow than the more general party organizations.
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  2705.  @susanteeter5618  Yes, he may be one of the least bad Republicans because he is opposing the fascist overthrow of democracy, but if Republicans retake the House and he is still there, he is still going to vote for Kevin McCarthy as Speaker, who is aiding and abetting the fascists. I would much rather they be so irrelevant that they have to have a come to Jesus moment and decide to embrace democracy than continue their slide.
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  2706.  @GenXGamez  I am a proud union worker. I did the math. Between the employer and employee share, I pay 32.01% of my income in health insurance [27.6% employer, 4.41% employee]. Under Bernie's plan, that would drop to 8.58% [7% employer, 1.58% employee]. For the longest time, I looked at that gap of 23.43% and thought, "Well, my union might be able to use that savings to get me a raise." After his Workplace Democracy plan has released, this removes all doubt. So, would I rather pay the tax than the premium, knowing that I no longer have to pay deductibles or co-pays, and knowing that I would get a raise in either pay or benefits of over 20%? You bet, I would!
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  2707.  @lisaw5604  Which party in Congress includes 100% of the people who don't take corporate money? Pretending that both are equally bad only encourages the worst of the worst to do the worst possible. If everyone is responsible, then no one is responsible.
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  2708.  @lisaw5604  I agree with you that we need to get money out of politics as much as possible and publicly fund campaigns. I think that the difference is that I'm not going the black pill route and instead pointing out that there are some that do the right thing, and we need to continue to encourage them rather than insisting that everyone does it. It's not just largely one side that supports fixing it, it's one side that has everyone who supports fixing it. Over 90% of members of one party support a bill that opens the door to public financing. If you want it to happen, we need to elect more of that party where 90% support it in Congress.
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  2709. So, you would just let it slide and then have a fatally flawed nominee in November? Great strategy.
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  2710.  L  I think that Michael really believed in the idea of be merciful to people and brutal to systems, but once he saw the truth about someone, he would call it out unlike Kyle Kulinski.
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  2711. ​ @adriannannen5941  Her what is going to need them?
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  2712. May I ask what you're still holding onto at this point?
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  2713. And even UBI didn't when you asked the follow up questions and found out that it was neither universal nor basic income, and it was paid for by a regressive tax.
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  2714. If 2/3 of Trump voters still say that Biden lost, and the Republican Party en masse is refusing to deal with the coup attempt, it is entirely fair to use that brush. Those of us who know history know that a lot of coups (Germany, Cuba, Chile, etc.) tend to fail the first time and prove successful on the second.
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  2715.  @squatch545  What examples are there of Republicans using "force the vote" as a strategy, and when has it been successful?
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  2716.  @squatch545  Any idiot can block things. Medicare for All is not about blocking something, but passing something. Funny that the Dore Knobs think that idiots tearing things down should be a model.
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  2717.  @robinlillian9471  What did Kasich actually propose to do anything about it? Saying it's real is a baby step at this point like saying that gravity is real.
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  2718.  @robinlillian9471  I am not one of the people lamenting that Kasich got a speech. My point is that he doesn't get to dictate terms for what things should look like in a party that he is not a member of (especially after he spent decades being part of the problem that created Trump in the first place). He should come to us, not the other way around.
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  2719.  @calixkinggaming7275  I'm shocked, shocked that a channel devoted to workers actually talks about the workers and doesn't give the corporate line.
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  2720. Robert ran for governor of Massachusetts in 2002, and he realized that he wasn't cut out to be a candidate.
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  2721.  @RB_rules  Does he open his meetings by only talking to insiders? Does he have differing public and private positions? Did he pledge no corporate money in the primary and then dump corporate money from his 2018 Senate race into his Presidential campaign?
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  2722. My mom almost died when I was in fifth grade because we didn't have insurance at the time, and my brother had broken his arms three weeks before she found out that she would need to get her gall bladder removed. Eight months (and a bank loan) later, it had become gangrenous. This shouldn't happen to anyone!
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  2723. They're like the Rick James story come to life: Rick James: Yeah, I stomped mud in his couch! Interviewer [off screen]: Why did you that? Rick James: Because, he could buy another one. [A few minutes later] Rick James: I wouldn't stomp mud into somebody's couch. I have more sense than that.
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  2724.  @elephantman2112  What are some specific examples of Democrats doing the same thing?
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  2725. Joe Biden looked like Bob Barker in the thumbnail.
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  2726.  @smartass0124  Actually, if you really meant "brave," that is the wrong word in that context, so autocorrect actually did you a favor.
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  2727. If I did, I could pay off my student loans and put a down payment on a house with the leftover proceeds.
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  2728.  @pierrojules  Also, look at the seats. The 2022 map looks terrible for Republicans, and given how many of them are retiring with every Democrat sticking around, and this should tell you how everyone feels about their chances.
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  2729.  @soulbiscuit2618  True, but the problem is that he lets that cloud his judgment.
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  2730.  @Savetheworld547  True, but McCain voted against the King holiday and didn't have a great record on civil rights.
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  2731. Come and see the violence inherent in the system!
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  2732. Even when Glenn Greenwald got things right, it was usually for the wrong reasons.
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  2733.  @TrevorHamberger  They call you a conspiracy nut because every major country abandoned fiat currency because the gold standard did not lead to economic prosperity, and in fact led to deflation that actively harmed most people, with the biggest example in America being the Long Depression from 1873-1897. This led to increased concentration of wealth and the vast majority scraping by on less than nothing. If I had to choose between the 1880s and 1950s, I wouldn't think twice.
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  2734.  @luodeligesi7238  I don't want Cosby to get a new show. Don't you know a comparison when you see it?
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  2735. He really wants to use it to destroy the existing social safety net. He's a right winger who substitutes robots for brown people in his rhetoric.
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  2736. ​ @MarkTubeG  We didn't elect a game show host, the Electoral College did. The people chose Hillary Clinton. I can't help but think of the irony that the whole logic behind the Electoral College was that people couldn't be trusted to make such decisions, but in the last 130 years, any split between the people and the Electoral College involved the former choosing the more qualified candidate (Gore and Clinton) over the less qualified or unqualified one (Bush and Trump).
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  2737.  MrLilfee  In other words, you've got nothing.
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  2738.  @tomfox6084  Doesn't mean that they knew that he faked his death.
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  2739.  @tomfox6084  He hid in rat from once he killed those 12 people and framed Sirius.
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  2740.  @ronm9357  So, instead of Dimmy Jore, he should be Jimmy Dunning Kruger? ;-)
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  2741. "The limits of the antiwar conservative" That's because they aren't antiwar. They are isolationists. Isolation is not peace (see also: Gabbard, Tulsi).
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  2742. Why? This person made it much harder to get Kavanaugh or Barrett to change their vote.
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  2743. Where are the Republicans who are actually trying to rein in corporate power, Ben?
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  2744.  @glennjanot8128  I remember seeing a nun on TV who explained it best: they are not pro-life, they are pro-birth.
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  2745.  @thepify3539  Yeah, and the Ledbetter case showed us all that it has loopholes big enough to drive a Mack truck through.
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  2746. ​ @floepiejane  Aaron is a pathological liar.
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  2747. If Grimes would have run a halfway decent campaign in 2014, she would be in that seat. Kentucky was the model case of what the ACA could do, and she was so scared of being tied to Obama that when Turtle talked about the evil Obamacare, she refused to point out that (the highly popular) Kynect and the ACA were the same thing. He started the race with less than 40% approval, but he won by double digits. I will forever have anger at Grimes for her malfeasance.
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  2748.  @parsonj39  Ojeda couldn't beat the woman who Manchin beat by 40 points in the 2018 primary and who Capito beat by 43 in the 2020 general. What makes you think that he has any credibility in West Virginia after giving up his (part time) state senate seat to run for President?
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  2749.  @glen7228  Trump won West Virginia by about 40 points. Manchin is literally the only Democrat capable of winning statewide at this time. Republicans also control the state House 76-24 and the state Senate 23-11. This is not fertile ground for someone to heat him on the left. He does respond to pressure, so that should be the real goal.
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  2750.  shaemus ...added on to his jail sentence.
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  2751. Be fair. My three year old makes more sense after she wakes up from a nap. He makes about as much sense as an infant who is just learning how to make sounds into words.
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  2752. And cause indescribable joy.
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  2753.  @sergeikhripun  They have done multiple videos critical of that. What's next, are you going to say that Jimmy Dore cares about the Supreme Court?
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  2754.  @Samuel_Morchin  You haven't been exposed to his idiocy lately? [In Napoleon Dynamite voice] Lucky!
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  2755.  @mrserious444  "Somewhere in the middle"? The right has gone so far off the cliff that Reagan wouldn't fit. Clinton and Obama governed to the right of Nixon. But let's just keep following halfway down the cliff.
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  2756. If your state has not yet signed on to the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, you need to write and call your state legislators to demand it.
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  2757.  @palmbeachcitizen  The only person who got more money than Beto? Ted Cruz. The only otter Democrat in the top 20? Heidi Heitkamp.
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  2758.  @adaminfinity1733  Assuming she's right, that's still a lower rate than the vaccinated population as a whole so you're still less likely to get serious effects if you get the vaccine.
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  2759.  @adaminfinity1733  Because Australia had such a low baseline to start with. That's like people who insisted that vaccines didn't work because the one Kiwi got it for the first time in months.
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  2760.  @batgurrl  She first a name for herself going on Fox and Bill Maher complaining that Obama didn't badmouth Muslims enough. The fake Tulsi was the one who pretended to be a lefty in order to fend off a primary challenge. Hating Muslims is her first true love.
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  2761.  @batgurrl  Seriously, though, people liked her because she was young and pretty, and they didn't dig too deep. I admit that in 2016, I didn't know the truth and thought she could be a worthy successor to Bernie, but as soon as I saw the video of her using a scenario straight out of 24 to defend torture, I vowed to do whatever I could to warn people about her.
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  2762.  @deathstriker9076  You mean being mad at the woman who spent the whole campaign trying to win over Republican voters, who told Anderson Cooper that Bernie's health care plan was "un-American," and spread libel that Ilhan Omar stole her seat? You mean they're still mad at her? Gee, I wonder why.
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  2763. Grover Norquist looks unrecognizable without his beard. He still has that smug, annoying, nasally voice, though.
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  2764.  @Vunomic  When you are dealing with fascism, your real enemy first and foremost is the fascist. Look at what happened when the DKP and SPD refused to work together to build a coalition. If we were in a healthy democracy, one party wouldn't be taking its hand completely off the wheel and forcing the other to come up with votes entirely on its own on just about everything. Defeat the fascists, and then defeat the neoliberals.
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  2765.  @thisrichbastard.809  So, you haven't heard about a scandal that has been out in the public for over 40 years?
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  2766.  @le7mule21  There are effects of evil that continue for generations, but that isn't the same thing as saying that the descendants are automatically evil, too.
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  2767. She may be wrong on a lot of things, but she was dead right about this one.
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  2768.  @kadeemmotley2160  Some people just live in their bubbles and think that just demanding things will change the fact that you have to get to 218 & 50, ignoring the fact that LBJ had a Senate over 2/3 Democratic and FDR had a Senate 61% Democratic in a time where there was a talking filibuster rather than this supermajority nonsense, and a Republican Party that continues to get rewarded for blocking everything.
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  2769. I'd heard of a ridiculously anti-Semitic troth he posted on Rosh Hoshana, but nothing prepared me for that!
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  2770.  Sean M  Yes! I keep hearing people say he's funny, but I've never heard any actual examples.
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  2771.  @jamestepera3356  So, if a woman wears skimpy clothes, is it okay if she gets raped? And that's even assuming that known liar Jimmy Dore is telling the truth about what happened.
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  2772.  I only use this account when I get put in time out  Funny how every other person who was there says that Jimmy Dore is lying about the whole thing.
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  2773.  @nzsooz3884  Like President Snow, poison is Putin's weapon of choice.
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  2774.  @JakeJustJake-cv3gh  Forced? You mean by forming coalitions to win? You really don't understand how politics works. I guess you didn't see what happened in MA-4 when all of the lefties refused to get out of the way and a centrist won with 22% of the vote. Maybe we wouldn't be in this mess if Warren would have endorsed Bernie after finishing fourth with no delegates in Iowa.
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  2775.  @JakeJustJake-cv3gh  You are so "anti-fascist" that you apparently don't know the 14 characteristics of fascism. It is a real thing, and only one party meets those standards.
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  2776.  @charliern  So true. If you really think about it, accelerationists want everyone to suffer because they can't get everything that they want and they think this will have people come beg them to fix everything. There is a term for people like that, and it is called psychopath.
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  2777.  @kappadarwin9476  Indeed. The New Republic did a great critique from the left a few years ago about Assange, Snowden, and Greenwald. Speaking of Snowden, doesn't it seem odd that someone who wants more government transparency went to two of the more repressive regimes on the planet, and he has managed to say safe in Russia for years in a way that actual free speech advocates were not?
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  2778.  @KeviBx  Has been far more destructive in more ways than anyone on this show.
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  2779.  @vonFisch  I have never understood the idea that these people who look like that because of the scalpel are remotely attractive. It never looks right. Melania is just a few years from going full cat face.
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  2780. When I saw his campaign in 2017, I wasn't optimistic at all, but he has definitely been a pleasant surprise. If only he could get the income tax on top earners to really finish out his agenda.
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  2781. Jimmy turned on Bernie years ago. And if you want to talk about holding up the CARES Act, Bernie is the one who got the unemployment supplement added. If Bernie suddenly tried to stop the bill after getting that out, do you seriously think that language would have been in the final bill? If that was the last straw for Jimmy Dore, you are only proving the point that he is a stupid, disingenuous grifter. Way to go!
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  2782.  @alinac5512  There is a real lefty running: Sema Hernandez. That is who needs to be running against Cornyn.
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  2783.  @jeremiahbarnes6313  Relative to that, yes, but my point was that to trivialize what he did in that case as mere "hush money" does a huge disservice to what he actually did.
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  2784. Because she is only running out of spite, and she knows exactly what she is doing.
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  2785. You should have gone the full Casablanca reference and said that they were shocked, SHOCKED.
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  2786. "Instead of cost of living, do it based on inflation." Cost of living is inflation.
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  2787. Nobody ever said that the Republican Party has to be the other major party, or that the Democratic Party has to be the party of the left.
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  2788.  @apathy7899  Zero Nobel Prize winners from Africa? Desmond Tutu, F.W. deKlerk, and Neslon Mandela would beg to differ. And I would argue that Cairo reaches the level of many of the cities you mentioned.
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  2789.  @apathy7899  Cairo wasn't even the dominant city in Egypt during the ancient empire. Memphis and Thebes were. You said Africa, not Sub-Saharan Africa. I could also point to the fact that it was an African immigrant to the US who discovered CTE. As far as why there aren't more major cosmopolitan areas in Africa, look at any place with a lot of natural resources. Far more often than not, people from wealthier areas come in, exploit the resources, and take the wealth with them (similar to the fact that most of the dominant coal companies in WV were owned by out of state firms) leaving the people poor. A lot of places in Africa suffer from that same dynamic, as well as how much aid came in the forms of loans with high interest after the colonization period which made it harder to build infrastructure. It doesn't make them stupid.
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  2790.  @apathy7899  If you are implying that the fact that most African countries are not industrialized, the colonial period is the relevant point for the question at hand.
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  2791. @xXboston-Gaming την♨︎ You are aware that anti-Semitism is a thing, right? You can criticize the actions of Israel without going to that territory. Are you trying to pretend that there isn't to give a veil of respectability to anti-Semitism?
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  2792. @xXboston-Gaming την♨︎ Accirding to our friends at the dictionary, it is "hostility or prejudice against Jewish people."
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  2793.  @kaigreen5641  How many Republicans voted for the ACA (aka, their alternative to Hillarycare in the 1990s)? When did Democrats filibuster their own bill? The problem isn't too little co-operation with the right, but too much.
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  2794. I'm not a socialist (I like a lot of the goals, but some of it seems too utopian to me), but I am a Christian and I'm probably as far left as you can go without embracing the teachings of Karl Marx (who I think did a great job of explaining the problem), because I take those red letters seriously.
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  2795.  @Weaklytune  Well, we're still stick with him until January 20th, but he has clearly been rejected.
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  2796. I just watched Napoleon Dynamite again, which makes the song choice even better at the beginning.
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  2797.  @ellafischbachbrock2352  The animated film was based on a live action movie with Ingrid Bergman in the title role.
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  2798.  @nitePhyyre  It doesn't address the problem if it forces people to choose between their current benefits and his plan. It doesn't if it is paid for with a regressive tax.
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  2799.  @nitePhyyre  Any tax on consumption is regressive. He is forcing people to choose. It does both. Your fellow Yang Gang bangers keep saying that those things are good.
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  2800. The dream of the nineties is alive. Speaking of which, I almost long for the days when Bush being President was the worst case scenario.
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  2801.  @dpersonal4187  So, using actual evidence to refute your point is proof that you're right? I think you must be a gymnast with all those pretzels you're twisting yourself into. Then again, when you live in a world where something is true because you want it to be true, it must be easy to come to that conclusion. The algorithm thanks you for helping bring more people to watch the interview.
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  2802.  @MsDiMera2  He never actually got imprisoned. He was sentenced, but he was out on appeal. Doesn't make what he did any less courageous, though.
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  2803.  @johnd6389  Yeah, I'm not the person saying I have five advanced degrees.
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  2804.  @casyopeia  And some Ravenclaws pretend to be upset just to see him do it.
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  2805. ​ @vincesmith2499  Laura Ingalls Wilder's daughter not only refused Social Security (and she applied for Medicare six years after the program started, so even if she reached the cap, she paid less than $2000 in taxes), so apparently principles didn't matter to Rand when those medical bills came in and she found out the hard way that she was wrong about smoking and lung cancer.
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  2806. ​ @vincesmith2499  That's not true. People are granted a religious exemption from Social Security all the time, such as the Amish.
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  2807.  @walterhankins6882  Correction: it was Miss Teen USA.
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  2808.  @2727rogers  No, the way you got your program was a) having a Parliamentary system rather than a Presidential system b) with much greater party discipline, and c) the NDP winning control of a province. It wasn't because Tommy Douglas kept forcing votes that he knew would fail.
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  2809.  @2727rogers  How would it be helpful to reduce support? A lot of those may very well be soft support, but the time to deal with that is after you get to 218 and turn the Soft Yes into a Hard Yes. Being purer than thou accomplishes nothing.
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  2810.  @2727rogers  If the majority of Americans are not also Hard Yes, how do you explain that the support gets cut in half depending on how the question is worded? And how can those numbers for support be counted on if a majority thinks that you get to keep competing private insurance? If Medicare for All was an issue where support leads to votes, Bernie would be President now.
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  2811.  @danavidal8774  My niece had her first period when she was nine. This Matt Walsh guy is obscene.
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  2812.  @Will_Moffett  He literally calls stuff like this "the fun half."
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  2813.  @gamingislife3332  Mad has nothing to do with it. I just think that there is no reason to put someone out to pasture when he's still effective and has more power to do great and good things than he has had in his Congressional career.
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  2814.  @xy6845  I still go back to the SNL cafeteria sketch at NATO from time to time. It still amazes me how much James Corden as Boris Johnson looks like the late, great Chris Farley.
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  2815. He clearly knows his audience is right wing. He just still pretends to keep that vestigial original audience fooled.
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  2816.  @hadronoftheseus8829  His real name is Aaron Dickson. His initial account got banned, but then he started creating sock puppet accounts. The originals were Alabama Man and Mandatory Helicopter Rides. He got caught when he accidentally replied to something for the other username by mistake. His response since is to just create more and more sock puppet accounts. So, some of us call him by his real name to let him know that, like Voldemort, he's not as clever as he thinks he is, and he is nothing more than a sad little boy.
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  2817.  @tgr.4550  Mark Kelly is to her left, and he is significantly more popular with voters.
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  2818.  @mutoneon  Then, how come I keep seeing Republicans argue some version of "if the President does it, that means that it is not illegal"?
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  2819. Don't want to be called a scab? Here's a simple solution: don't be a scab.
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  2820.  @kpax45  His idea is to send the homeless to detention centers. Yeah, that'll work.
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  2821.  @DaHanG  It's not even close to helping fight poverty. It's lower than the poverty level now, and he forces people in 125 different programs to forfeit them if they take his money. He will do nothing to make it easier for workers to organize, fight tax avoidance and evasion, and he uses a regressive tax to pay for his freedom with 125 strings attached dividend.
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  2822.  @stephaniemamatree5973  Sorry about that. I didn't notice that qualifier. For that matter, Arnold is about the only Republican I'd trust for any public office, but that's mainly because he's more like a CDU candidate than most American Republicans.
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  2823.  @davidbright6790  He's awful. He literally spouted Russia's talking points and defended the Lebensraum argument. I don't know if he's getting paid directly by the Kremlin, but this was awful and indefensible.
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  2824.  @edo2514  Manchin and Sinema are in the Senate, not the House.
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  2825.  @GLORYNEVADASMITH  Maybe do something to actually get Bernie nominated. Make calls, knock on doors, talk to your friends, download the BERN app, make a donation. Find a local group that is working on the nomination. Maybe a local DSA chapter or a local Bernie group. Keep working and then work some more. Instead of obsessing over conspiracy theories, put some of that energy into getting him elected.
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  2826. I got measles when I was 12 because ironically enough, I happened to be sick from school when they offered a booster because the batch our year happened to be weaker than usual. The doctor said it would have been far worse if I hadn't gotten the original dose when I was younger. Seeing parents willfully harm their children angers me. And, yes, this includes those who refused to protect themselves from coronavirus, even in my own family.
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  2827.  @benigntumor  Biden didn't just support it. He was one of the main writers of it. He didn't just spend decades going along with bad stuff; he led the really bad stuff. He sought out Jesse Helms and James Eastland to try to help end the effort to integrate public schools.
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  2828. Our system is definitely problematic if you don't want your kid trapped in a vicious cycle. It's like one of my coworkers would say: if you want a decent education for your kids, you either have to pay the taxes (I would add pay the rent) or pay the tuition. After I paid off my cc, it was close to time for my daughter to start kindergarten. I ended up moving to a district I could barely afford so she could go to the best public school possible given geographic and job constraints. I had to modify the custody agreement because originally our main focus was splitting the days evenly and getting time throughout the week. However, the school district said that my daughter had to be in the district for half of school nights instead of overall. And they told me that they check to make sure that the child is living in the district. The penalty if he/she turns out not to be eligible? You have to pay tuition based on how much the district spends, which it turns out is close to $20,000 per child. No parent should have to do this in order to get a good education. Among other things, we need to stop basing public school funding on property taxes.
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  2829.  @michaelellringer5600  Trump's lies were so egregious that they thought that they were when they listed his wealth as a fraction of what he told them it was.
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  2830. "Are we the baddies?" came from a Mitchell and Webb sketch where one noticed their insignia and the other was initially in denial. The whole sketch is a thing of beauty.
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  2831.  @hepwo91222  And as far as the comorbidity argument goes, that would be like some gun nut saying "X number of people who got shot were fat, so they were going to die, anyway."
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  2832.  ppm120667  If you're fine with ignoring the consequences of your vote for controlled opposition, have at it.
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  2833.  ppm120667  If you don't care what people think, why publish it for all to see?
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  2834.  @richardowens9061  The Supreme Court voted for Bush v. Gore, Shelby, and Citizens United. They did all these things when it was 5-4. What makes you think they'd allow it at 6-3?
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  2835.  @BurmaJo  He's a US Senator. His district map is literally the State of Texas. Why do people automatically say gerrymandering for people elected statewide? Know the real enemy.
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  2836. "I think that's only for fresh crimes." George Bluth Sr.
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  2837.  @johnassal5838  By 1982, there were only 13 billionaires. That being said, at a certain point, net worth becomes a question of ego. It is next to impossible to get that kind of money without doing something to exploit the people who helped make you that money.
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  2838.  @X2LR8  You don't think that it makes a difference when there is an actual plan versus telling states to handle it on their own?
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  2839.  @mandatoryhelicopterrides4596  One side goes after him for what he does. Your side goes after him for who he is. Big difference.
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  2840. Sam, youhavethebeginningsofagoodShapiroimpression, butyouhavetosayitallinonebreath andmakeawkwardpausesbasedonwhenyouneedtonreatheinsteadofbasedontheflowofasentence.
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  2841. ​ @missrayelyn3045  More people voted for House Republicans than House Democrats in 2022. Now, it is accurate to say that the American people didn't vote for Der Orangefuhrer either time, but it is on the people who saw what happened the previous four years and decided to give these dummies another chance.
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  2842.  @juliosanchez4036  The person you're replying to doesn't like what he has to say, so instead of engaging the material, just says a bunch of stuff in the hopes that it will stick, completely missing the point that it helps the algorithm to get the message out to more people.
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  2843. You're like child wondering into the middle of a movie.
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  2844.  @jones1618  Except Alaska doesn't have two in the final election. It has four. And a national primary has a whole host of other issues, such as some states having their order set in stone, primary vs. caucus states, and the fact that it would make the primary geometrically more expensive, because instead of focusing on small states (I'm not saying it has to he Iowa and New Hampshire, but small states) where retail skill and organization matter, then you immediately have to start plunking down hundreds of millions of dollars in ads. It would be much better to have a Presidential ranked choice voting with the nominees once that gets settled. Re: Hillary and Biden winning the nomination, I wanted Bernie to win and I did everything I could to help him (not money or YouTube comments, but real world grassroots organizing), but like it or not, he didn't have the votes. If all it takes is a few well-timed endorsements to derail the effort, it was a pretty hollow lead. In all honesty, given the way the centrists tried to sabotage Biden, of all people, how do we know they wouldn't do it to Bernie and then say this was proof that his ideas failed? Bernie doesn't sit and whine about a raw deal. He uses his gavel to make good things happen. If it is his fate to be our Bryan instead of our FDR, he has done the work and cleared a path for the next generation to lead the movement.
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  2845. Indeed. She is not trying to fill the shoes of Michael Brooks, but she is doing her own thing and working well.
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  2846.  @blairhaffly1777  And God only knows how many other drugs.
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  2847. More than i-DEE-uhs?
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  2848. i-DEE-uhs
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  2849.  @jollyjoker888  Bush never served as a legislator at any level of government. He never vetoed a bill that he pushed in Congress. He never vetoed anything in his first term. In 2005-06, the only bill he vetoed was a stem cell bill that he threatened to veto for weeks beforehand. He was awful, but let's at least keep track of his awful.
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  2850.  @rigocris1076  *a dope Fixed it for you.
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  2851.  @joesuka2114  When someone gets that rich, it is not uncommon to get out of touch (see: Paltrow, Gwyneth). Moving to a state with no income tax shortly thereafter (even if it is a lefty hotbed like Austin) shows what is motivating him.
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  2852.  Steve Austin  Copying and pasting something from another thread by a different user? Found the bot!
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  2853.  @gaybuzzlightyear1294  So, your answer when fascism comes is that what you were offered instead wasn't good enough? History repeats itself.
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  2854. It was a pretty terrible one once you read the fine print.
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  2855. He wants to kill people to reduce the population but doesn't have the guts to say it.
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  2856.  Alabama Man Special Edition  What's the matter, lost another profile, troll?
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  2857. ​ @pagandragon830  Indeed. It doesn't matter how money you have (and there's a big question about how much Der Orangestraflingfuhrer really has) if you refuse to pay people. The whole point of being at a white shoe firm is to get that sweet, sweet cash.
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  2858.  @mjchakos1  No, you're not a right winger. Ironic coming from someone playing the Enlightened Centrist game.
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  2859.  @djgeorge1469  It may be one of the few linguistic traces of the place of his birth, because he is a native Spanish speaker, and the U always sounds like OO, so my theory is that this is why he pronounces it Tool-see.
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  2860.  @TheKingsPride  There was talk that he might get it, but as soon as it became obvious that he might be needed to keep the majority in the Senate (the governor is a Republican and would get to name his replacement), it was obvious he wouldn't get it. That's also part of why Warren didn't get a Cabinet position.
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  2861.  @kashafifi8785  And who's going to stop them in this ancap utopia of yours?
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  2862.  @robbiep.5497  Well, he does muddy the water because not everyone gets the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend, so it is by definition not universal. Even his signature proposal is based on a lie.
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  2863.  @19JMT96  Someone didn't watch the video and just came to defend his object of admiration. Thank you for contributing to the algorithm so more people will find this video to expose this creep.
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  2864. ​ @marcoszavala8435  No, she's not. For all her talk about "forever wars," when Biden ended the war in Afghanistan, she loudly complained. "Forever wars" is her way of saying "wars I don't like."
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  2865.  @michaelcap9550  What specific indicator has been worse? Not "everything sucks," but which specific measurable example? It's not unemployment.
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  2866.  @LarryInNM  Indeed. Who would have ever thought that cutting taxes for the rich and social programs for everyone else would cause such problems?
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  2867. I have dealt with some angry Enlightened Centrists lately. I kept hearing how I was "narrow minded" and "just like Steven Crowder." I asked what the "middle ground" was between democracy and fascism, slavery and abolition, and Death Squads Good and Death Squads Bad. I got crickets.
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  2868. This is what happens when people get too much money: they get to surround themselves with sycophants who never tell them they are wrong.
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  2869.  @arrow1414  Well, the Green Party is a collection of grifters and useful idiots that are propped up by Republicans, so starting as a Green could mean that she has come full circle. That being said, Tulsi Gabbard was never really left. Her support if Bernie was an effort to fend off a primary challenge to her left by supporting a popular candidate, and going with her true hatred of people like Hillary Clinton. The Tulsi Gabbard we're seeing now is the real Tulsi. She's gone back to her pre-2016 form.
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  2870. Well, that's because a libertarian is someone who believes the same thing on Wednesday that he did on Monday regardless of what happened on Tuesday.
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  2871.  @unapologetic-c9y  Your watches and your comments help the algorithm pick this up, so other people see it. Great strategy! Did you really think that people didn't do the same to Dore videos because he is so on point and we don't know better than to help his algorithm or get our feed exploded with other such nonsense?
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  2872. ​ @kd505-s1y if my country murdered enemy civilians in a terroristic attack, I wouldn't treat the terrorists as heroes and refuse to fly flags at half mast. And I would be furious if my country insisted that those flags fly full staff during a memorial for dead civilians.
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  2873. "All of you fascists bound to lose." Woody Guthrie
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  2874.  @PwazX  Not every criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic, but some are.
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  2875.  @nameisamine  Hence, why the OP says the election before last, i.e., the 2017 election.
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  2876.  @CeceMack  That's not how it works, especially in a state where Trump won by 39 points. The last non-Manchin Democrat to hold statewide office was John Perdue, who was actually popular for finding literally millions of dollars in unclaimed funds for West Virginians. He lost to Capito's nephew by 13 points in 2020. There are no statewide elections in 2022. The state is losing a Congressional seat, but no Democratic challenger has been within single digits of a Republican incumbent in Congress this century (the closest was 16 points). Republicans have supermajorities in both houses of the legislature. Where is someone going to "pop up and build a reputation"? Do you think that Jennifer Garner is going to move back to West Virginia and win on star power? When Ben Nelson was in the Senate and actually had a voting record to the right of the most liberal Republican in the Senate for his first eight years in office (Chafee, 2001-07; Snowe, 2007-08), which has never been true of Manchin (Snowe, 2011-12; Collins, 2013-16; Murkowski, 2017-present), and Nelson represented a state where Republicans won by less than half of the margin Manchin has faced the last two cycles, no one gave him anywhere nearly as much grief. I want the most lefty candidate who can win. That is probably Gallego in Arizona. Sadly, it is definitely Manchin in West Virginia, and given that he barely held on against Morrissey in 2018 (who is a total charisma vacuum whose wife was a lobbyist for the leading manufacturer of Oxycontin), quite frankly it would probably take a miracle for him to survive in 2024.
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  2877.  @Peter.F.C  You mean the one whose story has already proven false in one instance? English translation: sexual harassment is fine because the woman is asking for it.
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  2878.  @punkgrl325  1) Block grants started under Nixon. 2) The answer isn't to get rid of what is left.
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  2879.  @janos6644  Congratulations! You have just given the most ridiculous take imaginable. As several others have said, if his plan added to those existing benefits and used a progressive tax to pay for it, there would be no objection. You want scenarios? Here are just a few: 1) Single parent with two kids has SSI and SNAP. Those total $1300/month. That is more than $1000, so this is someone who will be hurt by paying a regressive tax to pay for benefits that he/she can't take. 2) Parents with multiple children in daycare. Daycare is very expensive, so this will definitely hurt them. 3) Someone makes $39,000/year ($1500 biweekly) and takes the "freedom dividend." That person gets laid off. Because he/she already took the "freedom dividend," that person can't get unemployment, which pays out at 60% of income ($900 biweekly). If that person is still paying rent or mortgage, chances are that this is someone who will be easily using over 70% of income to pay rent. So, yes, it is true that very few programs benefit everyone, but the people who Yang hurts are the poor, the disabled, and those who lose their jobs, i.e., the people who need help the most. If his ideology and stealth libertarianism wouldn't be blocking him from helping those people, just maybe there wouldn't be so many complaints about who gets hurt.
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  2880. Congress is a completely separate branch. Congress can fire the President, but it doesn't go both ways.
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  2881. We had an actual illiterate President, and I think he is not the dumbest President we ever had.
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  2882. His real doppelganger comes from the movie Sorority Boys. It's basically a dumb, turn of the millennium movie, but look at the villain Spence. They look a lot alike, have the same haircut, and even similar voices.
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  2883. 3:16 And that is why I think it was a huge mistake for us to start using the term coined by Frank Luntz instead of global warming. He knew exactly what he was doing. If we were going to start calling it anything instead of global warming, we should have done what Al Gore does and call it the climate crisis.
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  2884. She's not an expert, and she is to Democrats as Ted Cruz is to Republicans. No one will hire her as a lobbyist. She'll almost certainly lose in three years, and she's going for a talking head slot.
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  2885. Krystal Ball knows which side her bread is buttered on, and she knows that she is there to serve as a gateway to the alt-right pipeline.
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  2886. He wouldn't have to keep saying the same thing if the powers would have listened lo these many years.
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  2887.  @soulife8383  "Word is on the streets." Okay, Huggy Bear, which streets? And I am just pointing out the only two possible options. If you seriously think that a third party candidate can be elected President, you don't understand math. If you get mad that the man known as the Amendment King before his run for President would try to make things better regardless of the situation, you just want to complain.
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  2888. And this is the difference between real wealth and paper wealth.
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  2889.  @trishajury2959  You'd think, but look a few replies down.
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  2890.  @robinsss  Well, you might have heard such things on a personal level, but the Libertarian organizations don't, and the loudest voices of libertarian thought don't.
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  2891.  @ryanmilliken5950  If you think that's bad, you should read his defense of the National Front in the 1970s. The man makes his living cribbing music from black people and hates their guts.
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  2892.  @Name-jw4sj  You can disagree with David Pakman on foreign policy and understand that he is nowhere near as bad as the other three convincing people on the left to either not vote or vote for Trump.
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  2893. Well, his husband is the puppet master, so he will have to get quite an alimony payment to go away quietly.
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  2894.  @smokeyfgg  Awww, somebody's feelings are hurt because people tell the truth.
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  2895. No, he wants to make sure that coal miners have a job as we phase out coal.
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  2896. Pun intended? ;-)
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  2897.  @vincesmith2499  I just did. Would you like something more concrete about how always favoring the monied and propertied interests makes the rest of us less free? Here's one: civil rights. By supporting the "freedom" of businesses to discriminate, you harm the freedom of people to eat, buy gas, or find a safe place to sleep while traveling in this great land of ours. And an example of government providing positive freedom: if the government were to enact a single payer system, rather than giving employers the "freedom" to extort workers with threats of loss of health insurance and lower wages, workers get the freedom to work somewhere that works better. And there's also the fact that libertarians tend to see antitrust laws as violations of "freedom of association," but when workers want our freedom of association to form a union, that's bad. There's three examples right there of how you take away freedom.
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  2898.  @vincesmith2499  Ron Paul. He insisted that the Wagner Act "destroys freedom." I have heard several libertarians say the same thing.
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  2899.  @vincesmith2499  If no one is willing to serve you, then you will starve. I mean, you can defend segregation all you want, but at least be honest about what you're doing.
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  2900.  @vincesmith2499  No, you're just fine with discrimination. You just don't want to say those words. The freedom of the bigot matters more to you than the freedom of the person being discriminated against if the former has money.
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  2901.  @vincesmith2499  Are you seriously liking your own comments? Sad.
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  2902.  @vincesmith2499  Okay, you did give an example of where you sided with the poor over the rich, but not when it was about rights of the poor against the rights of the rich.
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  2903.  @vincesmith2499  Yeah, you think that banning private discrimination is unnecessary because you have no problem with private discrimination.
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  2904.  @fatrobdouble  Not at all. I oppose corporate authoritarianism, which is what libertarianism leads to.
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  2905.  @jaredhouston4223  The Fed was started in 1913, so it was there long before FDR. It started because J. P. Morgan singlehandedly decided who would get bailed out in 1907 as a panic started, in order to avoid a depression. Before 1913, in the first 124 years of the Republic, we had five major panics/depressions (1837, 1857, 1873, 1893, 1907) and only one since (1929), with another close call in 2008, after banks were deregulated. If regulations made things worse, why do you think that the economy was so much more unstable before Glass-Steagall? And why did we almost have another great depression only nine years after its repeal. Tech companies got so big that they became monopolies because the government didn't regulate them. If anti-trust laws were actually enforced, it would have never happened.
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  2906. My seven-year-old loves Annoying Orange and occasionally goes on binges. Very rarely has a program title been so accurate, and I'd still rather watch that than a rally for Der Orangefuhrer.
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  2907.  @thegreatoneforever5587  Because some jobs require a lot of education, but relatively little pay, such as social work and library sciences, Riddler. And sometimes things happen to individuals along the way that they don't get the high-paying jobs. The fact that some people don't finish med school (or end able to practice medicine when they do for one reason or another) doesn't mean that doctors don't get paid.
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  2908. Sadly, I expect it to be more likely to splinter the vote among Democrats because the people most likely to go for it are the people who think Trump is too gauche and are looking for any excuse not to go Democratic.
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  2909. Indeed. And someone being under 35 is something he/she can't help. Someone being an insurrectionist is a choice.
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  2910.  @mr.giggles4995  Oh, look. Someone who thinks he knows how things work but manages to get everything completely wrong in order to absolve himself of the role he has played in this mess.
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  2911.  @ballz4kidz  And when it shifts to the right, that is because of lazy nihilists who refuse to vote or do any actual work when they don't get their way.
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  2912.  @ballz4kidz  The only reason we don't have a fascist dictatorship now is because Trump didn't appoint enough total sycophants willing to destroy democracy for Der Orangefuhrer. Given a second term, he won't make that mistake again. This isn't a game, no matter how much people like you pretend it is.
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  2913.  @lf9341  Ever been? Not sure how old you are, but from the late 80s to the mid-90s, he was absolutely huge.
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  2914. His "defense" ended up being that she's being put up to let someone even worse take her place.
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  2915. ​ @severalwolves  In fairness, that's not all of us, it just happens that the whiners have the biggest microphone.
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  2916. I personally just like the ritual of going to vote on the day of, but I'll be there ready to go in Pennsylvania.
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  2917. @verity simon He does lie about standing up for working people, though.
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  2918.  @samuelvimes5770  The people who fell for it have to pretend to be shocked, shcoekd that this is the real Tulsi Gabbard.
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  2919.  @DMGIII  I'm not talking about people who fell for it based on first impressions. I'm talking about the people who kept seeing evidence that she wasn't who she said she was and not only chose to ignore it, but were incredibly abrasive to those who were right about her once they saw the evidence and tried to warn others.
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  2920.  @JM-yf3ol  Or, we could just go for Ranked Choice Voting so people don't have to show up to vote twice. That way, people can cast their protest votes with the first choice, and then they can figure out who they actually want with the second.
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  2921.  @alwayz247  Yes, the old "they equally go after both sides" argument, which is not true, but even if it was, this assumes that both sides are equally as bad, which is untrue. Therefore, they are helping the worse actors.
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  2922. What I don't get is why so many economists abd and the Fed are so obsessed with 2% inflation. Three is much closer to the historic average.
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  2923.  @AdultThirdCultureKid1971  But only the 1962 original.
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  2924.  @johnklein338  "he's a technical genius too. Pretending he's not amazing, aside from his bonehead mistakes, should be beneath anyone arguing honestly." Yes, because he has been the one in the engineering room solving the issues at hand because he is such a genius. He's not Wozniak doing the work that made technology accessible to the masses. And, gee, he did it within the last 50 years. Musk didn't even found Tesla, he just bought it out.
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  2925.  @jop23ify  I don't care what you study. If you spout lies and nonsense, you don't know what you're talking about or you are willfully endangering others. And how does the vaccine reduce your chances of spreading it to others. Well, if you get the vaccine, you are less likely to get coronavirus. If you are less likely to get coronavirus, you are less likely to spread it to other people. They didn't teach you that in your expert training?
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  2926.  @jop23ify  And my uncle getting polio doesn't make me an effort. I was pointing out the difference in eras because there is a vaccine that pretty much everyone takes. I could also point out that my daughter doesn't have to take the smallpox vaccine because it was eradicated, and no civilian has for decades. (I didn't have to take it until I was 23 because some brass thought that Saddam Hussein really did have biological weapons.)
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  2927.  @dwise1972  He is telling people that he got all of these side effects and he wouldn't get it if he had to do it over again. He routinely downplays its efficacy, and he touts phony alternative treatments and preventative measures. You know who else got his shots and never directly told anyone not to get it but holds the exact same position on vaccines as Jimmy Dore? Tucker Carlson.
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  2928.  @ItsAllCulturalMarxism  Yes, as opposed to the party that is literally trying to set up a fascist dictatorship and make it harder for people to vote. Vaccine mandates made America possible, when George Washington did it in 1777 to prevent smallpox outbreaks in his ranks. When is the last time you've heard of someone getting polio? My late uncle (1947-93) got it and couldn't walk until he was five. He had health problems for pretty much the rest of his too short life, so your whining gets no pity from me.
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  2929.  @ItsAllCulturalMarxism  That's not the consensus. Every poll shows the majority of voters (and in many, over 60%) support a mandate. And you just proved my point that anti-mandate is anti-vaccine. Funny how it doesn't take long for that mask to slip.
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  2930.  @ItsAllCulturalMarxism  No, you added free thinker as a dog whistle to all of the other anti-vaccine crowd. There is no way that much of a coincidence is there given all of the other anti-vaccine boxes you are checking. The mere fact that you degrade those who get the vaccine and downplay its efficacy proves that you are. I don't deal with liars online.
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  2931.  @darkashtar  Thank you. It always annoys me when I hear, "Government spending doesn't fix the economy. It took WWII to end the Great Depression." So, it was either the big spending of the New Deal that did it... or the even bigger spending of WWII.
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  2932.  @bradleybrown8399  Ana Kasparian, Emma Vigeland, Rachel Maddow, Mara Gay, AOC, etc.
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  2933. It wasn't hard to see.
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  2934.  Illhan Omars brother's wife is Illhan Omar  So, that's why literally the most popular right wing voice on TV has been pushing Russia apologia this whole time? Your memory hole doesn't work here.
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  2935.  @nmnta3424  Deep down, he knows this, which is why he won't ever leave the United States. Ditto for Cheney and Rumsfeld.
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  2936. Did she have an onion on her belt? ;-)
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  2937. Benghazi? If you don't want to prove that Tulsi is the candidate of the right, you have to stop singing off their hymnal.
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  2938.  @ish7957  I stopped watching after she went full Dore. Never go full Dore. The point is that she will go after Democrats freely, but she will only go after Republicans in a half hearted way and immediately follow it by a much more lengthy and heartfelt attack on Democrats. Watching her criticize Republicans is like watching Teleprompter Trump.
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  2939.  @joseneto9412  Proposing a consumption tax instead of a wealth or income tax does nothing to address wealth and income inequality, because those are regressive taxes. And when he finally released his phony Medicare for All, the "public option" was a buy-in option for people who already have an employer based plan, thus guaranteeing that almost no one will take it.
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  2940.  @joseneto9412  2) His plan was literally the weakest in the entire Democratic field. It was set up to fail, and he knew it. You don't limit the plan to people who already get most of their insurance costs subsidized by their employer if you want people to sign up. If you do, you end up with something far weaker because it needs more people in order for the cost saving mechanisms to kick in.
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  2941.  @WilliamStephanusArriel  Name one fiscally left policy of Saagar Enjeti.
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  2942.  @WilliamStephanusArriel  If all it took for Bernie to lose the nomination was Buttigieg and Klobuchar getting out, he wasn't very close. He was much closer in 2016.
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  2943.  @nikeshamorrow9444  I remember those days in a poor Appalachian school. We had mimeographs for ours.
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  2944. He couldn't beat Ted Cruz, so how could he beat Cornyn? He outspent Sema Hernandez by a 4000:1 ratio, and she got 24% of the vote in the primary. She's the best chance. All it will take is a little but of support without some pretender sucking up the option.
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  2945.  @timn5008  He dropped out when he realized that he needed nearly 2/3 of the vote. If all it took for Bernie to lose was Buttigieg and Klobuchar dropping out before Super Tuesday, it was a weak lead to start with. Coalescing around one candidate is just smart politics. If we had done that in MA-4, we wouldn't have had a former Charlie Baker staffer winning the primary with 22% of the vote.
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  2946. Which side are you on? Which side are you on?
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  2947. He did the same thing in 2016. It was more dangerous the second time because he had the levers of power behind him. I can't help but think that we'd all be better off if the Electoral College and popular vote had been reversed in 2016. Dumb Donald could say that the people preferred him, and we would have had a competent leader who didn't botch a pandemic.
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  2948.  @roslyndaniel2687  The OP didn't say "the saddest." It is a sad day watching people go for fear and think that the same thing that worked so well the last time will work this time.
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  2949. ​ @teresamyers9281  I thought she converted from Sikhism to Christianity.
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  2950.  @user-em6ie2be7x  Confirmation requires a majority vote. A quorum requires a majority of Senators be present to conduct business. One Democratic Senator has to be there to suggest its absence. McConnell won't have the vote if he doesn't have enough to pass, but as long as there aren't enough Senators present, he can't hold a vote.
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  2951. And Tim-may is likable. Dore could never be a metal singer.
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  2952.  @dreamboards1056  True, but what would the margin be really? I think it's like $16 a share now. I am happy for anyone who saw it coming and was able to stick it to someone who has screwed so many people, tbough.
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  2953.  @coreysaylor4736  It takes time to build a political realignment. The right had big money on its side, and it took 16 years after Goldwater's defeat. We have only been at it for five.
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  2954. ​ @lights473  I can vote out elected officials. I'm stuck with the CEO.
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  2955. He reminds me of a slightly slower, slightly lower pitched version of Ben Shapiro in his delivery.
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  2956.  @dcaseng  Reading is fundamental. The OP said that Jimmy pretends that Sam doesn't exist. Amusing that the one in a cult is calling someone else a lemming.
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  2957.  @dcaseng  Oh, you were at a march? I did multiple canvasses for a petition drive to get members of Congress to sign on to the bill in Philadelphia. One member (Brendan Boyle) became a sponsor. I volunteered for the one Presidential candidate who consistently supported Medicare for All instead of one who called it un-American. I knocked on doors, made phone calls, served as captain for a petition drive to get him on the ballot in Pennsylvania, and did a reading at a fundraiser. Oh, and I ran for the WV House of Delegates on a single payer platform in 2006. So, forgive me if attending one march and doing no grassroots organizing doesn't really strike me as "doing the work." So, because she once adopted a bad tactic, that should be the tactic for life? You sound like one of these coronavirus deniers who insist that because Fauci said at the very beginning that you don't need masks that you should never, ever wear them
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  2958. "In Living Color" had a sketch about this phenomenon a few years ago. There was a recurring sketch called "Why?" In one of those, they asked why people would suddenly break into a Spanish accent just to pronounce one word with Spanish roots or someone's name. As a follow-up, they imagined what it would sound like if someone tried to do that with everything, i.e., pronouncing frankfurter with a German accent.
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  2959. ​ @abbynormal3068  It's the same troll. Aaron is so lonely that he needs to make up personae to agree with himself.
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  2960. As a neighbor to the west in Pennsylvania, I have to see that Phil Murphy has handled coronavirus better than any governor in America. Wolf has been good, but Murphy has been on a whole other level.
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  2961. In a debate with Al Sharpton in 2007 on Hardball, the good reverend asked him what our source of moral justice if there is no god. Hitchens refused to answer even though Sharpton repeated the question several times.
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  2962. Yes, Andrew Yang says that is opt in, but that misses the point completely. The objection of those of us actually on the left is that he forces people to choose between their current benefits and his plan. The mere fact that he begins every interview by saying everyone gets $1000/month means that he is lying.
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  2963.  @MissJocelyn  Well, Harry wore that Nazi costume to a party, but I guess some people are forgetting all about that. Edward's niece is not Edward, and Edward was not worthy to shine his brother's shoes.
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  2964. And lift a hand to help him out.
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  2965. ​ @orangestink47  You're missing the point. The point is that you aren't being constructive. The video includes a call to action. Don't assume that someone is confusing comments with action.
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  2966. I think Warren is the biggest threat, because she seems to be playing the strategy Obama did of cultivate a reputation to the left of where you really are while playing nice with the establishment. Still, you know what that tells me? I need to work harder to help Bernie, as do all of us who support him. Knock on doors, make phone calls, donate, write letters, go to community groups or unions and make your case. That's how we win.
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  2967.  @davidm1926  There is no such thing as a populist right. There are people who pretend to be populist, but they vote with the same old things as the establishment or worse. Look at Saagar Enjeti, for example. No matter how much lip service he gave to populism, he rejected Bernie for not being a racist and sexist and voted for the man whose tax cuts made the Bush cuts look like Robin Hood in comparison.
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  2968.  @C.Steamer  "Why choose to listen to only one side?" Why choose to listen to liars?
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  2969.  @kaydeedid  Trump literally used messianic language to describe himself, and Republicans swallowed it whole.
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  2970. Maybe we liked you better when you worked for Bernie because we didn't realize that you were nothing more than a mercenary, and we thought that you believed in things that would help people.
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  2971. So, they want to be Harry Potter villains?
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  2972.  @JoshuaWillis89  Indeed. He's gone from bad to worse.
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  2973.  NoT rEaL SoCiAlIsMBeRnIe HaD A GOOd ReAsOn  Not true. The union negotiated their contract, and salaried workers did unauthorized overtime. How dare a campaign have its staff work 40 hour weeks so they can have leisure time!
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  2974.  @georgebynum2659  Indeed. I am not one of these people who tries to show off my credentials, but I realize that there are only a few areas where I can speak remotely credibly when having any sort of discussion, but I do realize what those limits are. My academic training is in religion, and I have some real world experience in politics (I ran for a seat in the state legislature in my late 20s and have worked on a few campaigns, some as a paid canvasser) and I have enough familiarity with a few other subjects that I can discuss the basics, but you have to know what you know and also what you don't know to avoid the thought leader trap.
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  2975.  @OffPHwnr  He's on the podium, too, but he doesn't have that pure idiocy of Dave Rubin. I remember a Beavis and Butt-head comment where a writer said that they had to imagine a point before thought. It seems like Rubin lives in that world.
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  2976.  @ChristianMission  You are aware that Medicare for All is a much bigger mandate than telling people to wear a mask, right?
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  2977.  @MistressOP  She also thrust Dr. Phil and The Secret on us, so it's not like she's beyond snake oil.
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  2978. Yang accepts the Citizens United landscape. Bernie has long advocated public financing of campaigns. He has said that he wants Justices who will overturn Citizens United.
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  2979.  @1MarkKeller  Lindsey Graham turned on McCain as soon as Trump gave him judges.
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  2980.    Would you rather go back to the bad old days before the ACA?
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  2981.  @deadLEE15  She makes movies, and so do his kids. Maybe your real complaint should be about nepotism in Hollywood.
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  2982. ​ @TheRavensOmen  You seriously don't understand the idea that Tucker McNair Swanson Carlson, educated at boarding schools and born and raised rich, has never been to a supermarket before?
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  2983. This really started in earnest with the Baltimore Colts. The city and state refused to give them money for a stadium, and they literally moved to Indianapolis in the middle of the night. Ever since then, people have been so spooked about a move that far too many municipalities give in for fear of relocation. European soccer stadiums are paid for entirely by the team, and they do just fine. What's really frustrating is that, as long as this is decided on the local level, if someone gives in, that ruins it for everyone else.
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  2984. He endorsed... Joe Biden... because he thought... he could get a job.
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  2985.  @JamesBond-st4qu  So, Jimmy Dore deserves credit for coming up with an idea that not only won't work and will waste the leverage that they have, but it will ruin any goodwill to get things like getting rid of seniority for Committee chairs and Student Loan Forgiveness? Yes, the pothead comedian deserves all the credit in the world for coming up with such an awful idea. What have you actually done to try to move the needle on Medicare for All?
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  2986.  @Gr8whitemonster  Who do you think makes Ivermectin and monoclonal antibodies?
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  2987.  @michael-pg8fi  In the world of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. Yes, acknowledging reality is a low bar, but it is really sad how few actually clear that.
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  2988.  Spok  What part of what Bernie is proposing violates the Constitution, and what specific part of the Constitution does it violate?
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  2989.  @augustosolari7721  People complain about James leaving town and getting involved in the love triangle, but give me that over the Civil War arc any day of the week... even if it means hearing "Just You" at every commercial break ;-)
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  2990. @AnniKlami  Sadly, a lot of the loopholes in our system seem to be a situation of the Founders not thinking such a person could possibly get elected to anything.
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  2991. @Badatallthis Stuff How did the second vote go for the Truman plan for health care? How about the Nixon plan? How about Hillarycare? How does forcing a performative vote doomed to fail hurt Medicare for All? Okay, let's go through the logic. Let's say the vote is forced to "put people on the record," even though there is such a thing as sponsorship that does just that. So, you have a vote on the floor. One of three things happens: 1) The sponsor list matches the final vote, so you just wasted everyone's time. 2) The Soft Yes members become Hard No, and you're farther away from passage. 3) Pelosi allows Catch and Release, knowing the bill is 100 votes short. So, members in lefty districts how don't really support it vote Yes to avoid an Eliot Engel situation, but if it ever actually has a chance of passage, they'll show that their support was insincere and just to avoid a primary challenge (See also: Gabbard, Tulsi). So, not only does it not help you get what you want, but it defeats its own stated goal. Not only that, but it was always a primary tactic, not about expanding the map at all. Funny how every Dore tactic is only about hurting Democrats. Riddle me this, Batman, what have you personally done to build support for Medicare for All?
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  2992. Living in his parents' basement.
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  2993.  @aozf05  Dave Rubin said he was on the left for years, and at one point insisted that he still supported lefty positions while using his show to trash the left. If you spend all your time going after the left, and actively try to defeat people on the left, you are part of the right. Either you are controlled opposition who is trying to divide the left, or you are a useful idiot. Which one did you think they are?
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  2994. ​ @dnate697  Roberts usually has the MO of going along with the basic gist of things, but he is more gradual in his efforts to demolish things (such as wanting to rule for the 15 week ban without overturning Roe wholesale), and where he gets in trouble is when he goes mask off. Thomas and Alito can be pure evil, but Roberts is conscious of the fact that his name is on the Court and if he isn't careful, he'll be spoken of in the same breath as Roger Taney, which he surely does not want.
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  2995. It would be interesting to see if Yang is as dishonest with Sam as he is with everyone else, since he starts off by saying that everyone gets a thousand bucks a month, or by calling his plan universal basic income and then saying that it is "opt in." He's terrible.
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  2996.  @garysmokesmeat  No, it's driven by "don't help average people and perpetuate wealth for those who have more."
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  2997.  @garysmokesmeat  Do you know what actually happened when it was entirely voluntary? I do, and you don't, which is why you ignore just how cold, nasty, brutish, and short life has been for most of human history.
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  2998. My only objection is that he is prominently screaming that he is a corporate shill.
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  2999. ​ @gaeron1305  The Amendment doesn't say that you have to be in office to disqualify yourself. It says that once you are in office, if you ever do any of those things, you are disqualified.
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  3000. ​ @formehey7604  He's a libertarian.
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  3001.  @JaxWylds  I did internships at a couple different nursing homes in seminary. There were 70-year-olds who looked 100, and there were 100-year-olds who looked 70.
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  3002. What is "an idealized version of Joe Biden"?
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  3003.  @firstlast9916  You thought that the goal of The Jungle was to turn everyone into vegetarians? That's funny. That's really funny. What did the government accomplish? With every food recall, they accomplish more than the Almighty Market ever did in dealing with the issue of food safety. Last I checked, there aren't any humans in the food supply, so that is a big Mission Accomplished right there.
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  3004.  @jimbow8  So true. They think they'd be a lord, but they'd all be serfs.
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  3005.  @baph0met  You project more than a drive-in movie theater. It's not about the fact that you have a different opinion, it's about the fact that literally every libertarian ends up going down the path of putting their fingers in their ears (which you have clearly chosen) or create something completely untenable. Other than insisting that yours is the one true faith, you haven't actually said anything, or given any reasons why.
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  3006.  @4legdfishman  Don't forget the greedy who want more tax cuts.
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  3007. The Olsen twins didn't say "How rude!" That was Stephanie's catchphrase.
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  3008.  @rxaxlxpxh  Helmsley
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  3009. That's all Asterisks fans. They get caught cheating repeatedly, and then they assume that it is jealousy. I don't remember this much hate for the 49ers, and people accused the Cowboys of being jerks rather than cheaters.
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  3010.  @barbarjinx3802  I'm not the one who thinks that a car manufacturer that has less than 5% of the market share is "the biggest ever." And even if everyone wanted his cars and could afford them, there isn't enough lithium to mass produce. Yes, I should study every word about a man who lies about everything.
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  3011. Jeff: What do you think "hoisted by their own petard" means? Britta [elaborate answer about rich people getting hung by suspenders] Jeff: Never look it up. Your definition is way better. As someone who didn't know the definition before seeing that Community episode, a part of me wishes I had followed Jeff's advice.
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  3012. She didn't support Hillary in 2016 over Bernie. She was neutral, and endorsed after the primaries were over.
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  3013. So, we hold a vote that we know will fail, and then what? Do you Dore fans ever think anything through?
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  3014.  @Dog-999i  Well, his term is up as mayor, so once this is over, he can't hurt anyone in an elected capacity anymore
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  3015.  @mjchakos1  Says the person who spends so much time complaining about content that you don't even seem to like.
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  3016.  @groooah  Noon on January 20
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  3017.  @darrenfleming7901  I did. Neil likes to ask questions from a contrary point of view. That's what he did. Shapiro took that to insist that he must be a lefty, and only walked back when he realized that Neil was a right winger, so does that mean that if Neil was Labour that it would have been right to treat him the same way?
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  3018.  @meafrenchie7143  I won't steal signs, but the one time that I removed a sign was when someone put a campaign sign for a gubernatorial candidate in my yard (that I did not put there) for the most notorious slumlord in Morgantown. When I pulled it out, I twisted it in a way that it could not be reused. I will not take away the free speech of others, but if you put words in my mouth, that's another story.
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  3019.  @georgefurman4371  All a republic means is that it isn't a monarchy. "Republic not a democracy" is the equivalent of saying "It's not a grape! It's purple." Well, except my example isn't being used by people trying to destroy democracy because they know they can't win in a fair fight.
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  3020. I keep getting The Epoch Times.
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  3021.  @nunyabizz50  9/11 truth, Hillary has Parkinson's, Seth Rich, the Supreme Court, the nuclear option, the idea that the two parties are exactly the same, Tulsi is a lefty, among others.
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  3022.  @MichaelAronson  It's never happened for me. Admittedly, if I lived in the last place I lived in West Virginia for a year longer, the county clerk was a good, solid official, so I would have voted for him, but other than some local areas where it is so heavily Republican that no Democrat bothers, I don't see that happening nowadays.
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  3023. ​ @KingJT80  So, about a week? ;-)
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  3024.  @AntonsClass  And in Acts 2-5, we find out that they were expected to give their all (i.e., ability) to share with others (needs). Who said that, again?
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  3025. @Jack Tharp Unemployment spiked because he tried to balance the budget. The reason is simple: the government is the spender of last resort. When the economy sinks, people cut back, causing a vicious cycle. You have to have some entity to step in, and businesses can't do it, because people aren't buying. By 1945, in part because millions were coming home and in part because price controls were lifted, there was pent up demand, and that's why the economy grew. Having learned the lesson of 1937, budgets in the 35 years after were only balanced in times of plenty (and not necessarily then), and the debt as a share of the economy shrank from 120% to 33%. When supply siders took over (and Democratic Presidents have not fully gone away from that consensus), even before the Great Recession the debt was over 80% of GDP. See, that's what happens when you subscribe to an economic theory based in the real world rather than what you want the world to be: over the long run, your theory actually holds up.
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  3026. @Jack Tharp If the private sector can do infrastructure so much more efficiently, why did Indiana roads get so bad 15 years ago?
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  3027. @Jack Tharp Well, if you live in an area that doesn't care or doesn't have a tax base sufficient to provide needs (which often happens due to suburban flight) that will happen. I have lived in places with bad roads and with great roads. There are some places where the disparity is so great that I don't have to see a sign to tell me that I have changed cities or states because I can tell by the bumpy roads. If there are enough voters like you who don't want your tax money going to pay for infrastructure, of course your roads and municipal water supply are going to suck. Why private contractors working on the internet counts as a win for my argument: it was still funded by taxpayer dollars because it was not advantageous for any private company to create it. This is the problem with those taking the libertarian tack: you think that those who disagree with you think that the government does everything better, when our point is that government does some things better.
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  3028. @Jack Tharp Power to tax, power to raise an army, power to federalize the militias, the Supremacy Clause, Interstate Commerce. Those seem pretty big to me. I'm not saying there weren't limits, but to say that the Constitution was written to limit government power and ignore the fact that it increased power in many significant ways is a selective reading of the events of 1787.
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  3029.  @MrMagnaniman  If you have real principles, you are willing to pay a price for them, and maybe if enough people pay that price, it would shame society into saying "you're right, tax evasion should not be a crime." I get that there are competing principles sometimes that might complicate things, but "I don't want to sacrifice for principles" means that, deep down, they are not principles. If you're opposed to taxes and all that the government does, you can always go off the grid. A friend of mine who grew up in the Church of the Brethren said that he knew people who were opposed to paying for war, so they limited their income to a level that they would have no tax liability. That is what a principle looks like.
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  3030.  @kathykelly5930  Ever hear of payroll taxes? That's the largest tax for 2/3 of Americans, and it kicks in at dollar one. There are also excise taxes and tariffs.
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  3031.  @kathykelly5930  What percentage of people own a home? What percentage have at least two kids?
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  3032.  @athenaconquest6218  You have to work in order to get the EITC. It stands for Earned Income Tax Credit. It's right there in the name.
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  3033. True, but his negative income tax was also replacing other social safety net programs, so it's more like moving boxes, and depending on how generous his negative income tax was, most of the poor might have ended up worse off.
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  3034. @Majime You're confusing communism with Marxist-Leninism. The goal of communism is a stateless society where it is "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs," and that sure sounds a lot like the way the early disciples lived in Acts 2 & 4.
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  3035.  @kathykelly5930  How could she have taken advantage of that if not having a system in place to support her child while bettering herself?
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  3036.  @ppantg1  Democrats tried to filibuster Gorsuch, and McConnell got rid of the filibuster. Democrats tried to use the 30 hours of floor debate for Kavanaugh, and McConnell cut it to two hours. Literally zero Democrats voted for those things, but they didn't have the votes to stop it. Now that Trump got a third Justice on the bench, or you finally willing to admit that you got this one wrong?
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  3037. @Julia Sezen Completely dishonest point. Circuit judges are bound by precedent the same way Supreme Court justices are not.
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  3038.  I’M NOT YOU NEVER WILL BE  Your comment didn't age well at all. Your hero Jimmy Dore didn't think McConnell would invoke the nuclear option. He didn't think it matters that Trump could get more than one Justice. Now, Roberts is the swing Justice. If RBG dies in the next year and a half, any good legislation we can get will get overturned in the Supreme Court because it will be dominated by right wingers willing to destroy America to get their way.
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  3039. I did not know that.
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  3040.  @robinsss  And if it has those side effects, it shouldn't be prescribed, and I would argue that it shouldn't be legal to prescribe it.
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  3041.  @robinsss  But how are these rules enforced? Is every store and pharmacy going to be record to keep a list to make sure companies are in compliance? Depending on the answer, it could start getting into "competing private courts" territory.
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  3042.  @robinsss  Sorry for not responding sooner, but I got this just before going to bed and forgot to respond the next day. What is it about the FDA that you consider so onerous? This goes back to my earlier post about the tendency of libertarians to consider the rights of businesses and the rich as more important than the rights of the rest of us. It's too onerous to make sure that something works as directed and doesn't kill people, but having a list of companies that have to keep an accurate warning label (which will involve a lot more inspectors going into stores in order to he enforced, which seems to me like a lot more Big Government than the status quo) is somehow better? Tell me again how selling thalidomide with the resulting birth defects is preferable to not selling it and children not having those birth defects if it is anything more than the rights of the rich uber alles.
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  3043.  @CreepahKillahRSA  If life truly began at conception, every miscarriage would become a criminal investigation. Is that small government?
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  3044. "If schools were protected by security guards with guns." To someone whose school was shot while being guarded by armed security. How did that work out, Marge?
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  3045.  @Michigntiger08  We do reduce speed limits in areas with more traffic and pedestrians. Why else do you think speed limits on city streets are closer to 25 while people can go much faster on interstates that pedestrians aren't allowed on and away from cities?
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  3046. Quite frankly, I think that the real problem is that too many on the left don't want to win, they just want to complain. When that is your point of view, of course you are going to spend all of your time looking for heretics instead of converts.
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  3047.  @TheHugeDwarf  Nobody's saying it's a good show, just that it is a large platform.
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  3048. She said Trump was guilty. If that is what you believe, you vote Yes. Present is No for cowards.
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  3049.  @jalite1991  Who made those investigations? It seems like Russia, Assad, and internet cranks are the main ones who say that. Sisi is the President of Egypt.
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  3050.  @jalite1991  Nearly two years later (and six years after Assad used them the first time), the most she could bring herself to say was that it is "possible" he used chemical weapons: https://theweek.com/speedreads/822211/tulsi-gabbard-says-assad-not-enemy-says-possible-used-chemical-weapons-syrians She still won't say he did, and don't give me "she said 'it's possible,'" because that's the same kind of dodge I heard during the height of the birther nonsense. The support of Sisi does go far beyond defending him for fighting ISIS: https://www.thenation.com/article/tulsi-gabbard-president-foriegn-islam/
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  3051.  @ArgentiumTea  Did she say that torture is unacceptable under any and all circumstances? And did she further recant her statement that torture is acceptable under a scenario from 24? If not, she supports torture.
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  3052.  @jahjoeka  Here is a look at his overall record (let us not forget that in the wake of the dot-com bubble bursting, his hedge fund lost 90% of its value): https://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-statistical-look-at-jim-cramers-skill-level/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-james-cramer-made-me-22-percent-in-22-days/
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  3053.  @Rjasper499  Oh, so you are suddenly pretending that actual news articles that show where it is spiking is insufficient? Oh, the irony.
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  3054.  @calmdownbruh8518  Well, considering that several states that seceded issued declarations of secession, I'd say that isn't accurate. All but one mentioned slavery in the first sentence (and Texas did in the third sentence). The Union may have started primarily for preservation, but the states that seceded clearly did to maintain what Alexander Stephens called the cornerstone: slavery.
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  3055.  @joethethunder4906  How many Green Party candidates have been elected to Congress or to the governor's mansion in 50 years of trying? What makes you think this group will fare any better?
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  3056.  @richardmaclean7581  Union dues are far less than the amount of money the average worker gets compared to a non-union worker in the same field.
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  3057. Saagar calls himself a right-wing Populist. There is no such thing, so by definition he is lying.
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  3058. Anyone advocating a third party, especially at the Presidential level, doesn't understand that it is not a nefarious plot, but an inevitable byproduct of the rules.
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  3059.  @xamphibiax  He's not even in the top eight. He hasn't broken 2%.
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  3060. If Bernie wins, chances are that Congress won't be Republican.
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  3061.  @cuyhater  The law says that the IRS Commissioner has to turn over tax returns to the chair of Ways and Means or Finance, punishable by a fine and up to five years in prison. The commissioner has refused twice under orders from Mnuchin. Why aren't both of them in jail right now?
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  3062. Yang said something similar to the former. He said people could buy a new house with $1000/month.
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  3063. Amazing how some of the fascist apologists like to use left wing names, like the above protester.
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  3064.  @sargentpilcher  It took four days for that perl of wisdom? Learn how HDL and LDL cholesterol works. Well, like all libertarians, you seem to think you're experts at everything. One day, your genetics will catch up with you, and I only hope for your sake that your doctors don't have the same philosophy as you do.
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  3065.  @sargentpilcher  That's what they all say. My uncle said the same thing about diabetes as he kept his diet and exercise under control. Ayn Rand thought the Surgeon General's Report on Smoking was wrong. Are you going to use an assumed name, too, when you realize that you aren't immortal? And I don't take cholesterol medication. Quite frankly, at the level at which mine is over, doctors say it would do more harm than good.
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  3066.  @JonValtandtheEvilRobots  "Whatever you do to the least of those among you, you also do to me."
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  3067. ​ @jimohara  Says the person admitting that he was taken in by a cultist.
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  3068. It seems like pretending that Russia did nothing is the litmus test for the anti-anti-Trump crowd.
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  3069.  @ZenobiaofPalmyra  The attempt in itself was the problem. And the anti-anti-Trump crowd insisting that this was attempts by Hillary voters to "undo the election" clearly speak from ignorance, because Mike Pence would have become President if Trump was convicted. "Attempted murder! You don't get a Nobel Prize for attempted chemistry." Sideshow Bob
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  3070. ​ @BALD_PAB  He probably lies in his sleep, too. "I won the election bigly!"
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  3071. ​ @joshuaburns3167  And last month, I saw him climb actual stairs before the Labor Day parade. Der Orangefuhrer only uses ramps when he can help it.
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  3072. Perhaps the problem is that his is not a free-form YouTube show, but a one-hour syndicated radio and TV show, so it has time constraints that other shows simply don't have.
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  3073.  @LumumbaKShakur  What have you seen of him over the last year or two that contradicts this?
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  3074.  @miscaccount9438  And meanwhile, things get worse and worse and worse while you wait for the revolution. Wishing greater evil in order to get your way is the behavior of a psychopath.
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  3075.  Ohio State  And none of them support working people or the rights of minorities.
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  3076.  @thetowerstillstands  Yes, they are presented differently, but my point is that if they hired another six year old, they aren't getting the dark version from the movies. What you want to do means nothing if you don't have the cast to give you what you want.
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  3077.  @jerrycoffey8825  Yes. I think the movie seemed to focused on the creepy factor rather than the balance. And as great an actor as Raul Julia was, John Astin was, is, and always will be Gomez.
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  3078. How didn't even got nominated for an Oscar for that one is beyond me.
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  3079.  @stickjohnny  He is wrong. If you get the vaccine, you are less likely to get coronavirus. Thus, you are less likely to spread it to others.
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  3080. ​ @usernameryan5982 Why wouldn't the OP's mom get survivor's benefits?
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  3081.  @SeanStrife  Except he brought the right wing version and tried to pass it off as a lefty version, so he actually did a lot of damage to the idea. Robert Reich has a much better proposal that no one will pay attention to now.
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  3082.  @couchman-sw6jy  He specifically told Dave Rubin that his ultimate goal is to completely get rid of the existing social safety net, but that his is more politically palatable. There was no reason to force the poor and disabled to choose while leaving welfare for the rich untouched other than ideology.
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  3083.  @crispinfornoff206  You mean just send a Yes Man out there like he's doing now?
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  3084.  @belakthrillby  The idea originated from Dore, and your "crystal ball" is very similar to his "you don't know what the future will hold" counter when Sam accurately noted that McConnell would go nuclear and he wasn't holding that seat open just to let Schumer filibuster. If you don't want someone to think that you are a Dore listener, maybe don't mirror his arguments exactly. Making Pelosi, a known opponent, force a floor vote on something that she doesn't like will easily give cover for the "told you so" crowd. My goal is to put the pressure on members through organizing rather than meaningless votes. You know how I know that works? After a bunch of organizations took it to the streets and talked to people where they were here in Philadelphia (I went when DSA was pushing for M4A and for Bernie), both Dwight Evans (who had a primary to his left in 2018 over vouchers) and Brendan Boyle (hardly a lefty) signed on to support Medicare for All. I have proof of my tactic, and I have been around enough people and enough negotiations in my day to know what causes bad blood. A Congressional vote guranatees that the opponents will dig in their heels.
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  3085.  @belakthrillby  They are the ones who would gladly say that Medicare for All has no chance of passage and is a bad idea. Examples include Nancy Pelosi and the more vocal Biden supporters in the primary. Still, you don't bring something up for a vote when you know that a) it won't pass, and b) even if it were to somehow pass the House, it wouldn't pass the Senate and may even get vetoed. So, creating bad will is the only goal. Creating bad will means that you end up like Tulsi Gabbard. So, do you want the squad to end up like Tulsi Gabbard, or do you want them to accomplish things?
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  3086.  @l.w.paradis2108  You mean Kyle "I didn't vote in 2020 even though I talk about down ballot races" Kulinski? Krystal "I take 39% of all money from a PAC I started where less than 5% goes to candidates, and AOC is a sellout for voting for the CARES Act but Pelosi needs to take the deal from McConnell to screw over workers" Ball? And Brihana Joy Gray does many things well, but she is an accelerationist, so that faulty assumption is going to lead to several mistakes about the "and then."
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  3087.  @rankat1841  Indeed.
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  3088. ​ @davidhawkins9782  We all lost. You just haven't realized it yet.
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  3089.  Peter De Blieck  It's things like this where making it nearly impossible to amend the Constitution is a good thing.
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  3090. While Manchin gets more of the press, I still say that Sinema is far worse. Manchin is in a state where Trump won by 39 points. Sinema is in a state where Biden won. What's her excuse?
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  3091. Actually, it is the equivalent of a No vote, because it takes a majority of votes. If it was 215-214-1, Trump would not have been impeached. Present is No for cowards.
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  3092.  @sheraldhill2728  Yes. There is a difference between pointing out what is wrong and being able to successfully point out how to get what you want.
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  3093.  @nickbeach7340  Still don't have 218 votes.
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  3094.  @GSP-76  Again, this is laziness and it lets the people off the hook who are actually doing it. If you can't find any examples, you are libeling people because you want to distract from what someone is actually doing. Are you a right winger trying to help deflect from what DeJoy is doing?
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  3095.  @GSP-76  Who is Weinstein? There is no Senator Weinstein of either party. Again, we are talking about trying to dismantle the post office when having stock in a competitor. If you can't find an example of that particular thing, your original comment has zero merit.
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  3096. 123 years ago, William Jennings Bryan said, "If you destroy your cities and keep our farms, the city will grow as if by magic. If you destroy our farms and keep your cities, your cities will not survive." The 21st century corollary would be: if we get rid of your billionaires and keep us workers, new wealth will grow as if by magic. If you keep your billionaires and get rid of us workers, your wealth will disappear.
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  3097.  @anthonymccarthy4164  I don't consider myself to be a socialist, but maybe, just maybe, those of us on the left get incredibly frustrated when our positions are the clear majority, but people vote based on fear instead of what can be. The party of FDR, HST, JFK and LBJ is not alive in today's establishment Democrats.
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  3098.  @felixndayisdebologne9725  Oh, this isn't for the Trump supporter. It's for someone who may be coming along who is on the fence who doesn't know what the ban really was.
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  3099.  @hughjorgen3164  When New Zealand instituted its travel ban, only Kiwi nationals were allowed to return, and they were under observed quarantine before they were allowed to re-enter. That didn't happen here.
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  3100. @Shane Funk Found the troll. Anyone who appreciates Russian interference all while saying that there was no cheating by Republicans is either a bot, a blind partisan, or a Russian agent.
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  3101. Does Dan get isolated from the rest of us so we don't have to pay for his malicious stupidity?
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  3102.  @FuddlyDud  My point was to apply the fallacy that the federal government will be dominated by what people of the area want by looking at what happens when people already can vote who live in the capital. I used Harrisburg and Austin as examples, because people who live in state capitals can vote. The federal district wouldn't get its budget decided by Columbia, and they would only be one vote in the House out of 435 and two out of (depending on the extent to which statehood is granted) 102-112. And Madison, like so many of the Founding Fathers, was weary of "too much democracy," so any argument he made against democracy is best taken with a grain of salt.
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  3103.  @slade5840  It would, but the centrists are actively undermining what the left wants. How do you "work together" when that happens?
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  3104. ​ @anonymoose116  Indeed. I represented myself in the dissolution of property and custody agreements because I didn't have the money to pay a lawyer (but I used a membership plan to get contract review) and we already agreed to pretty much everything I wanted except for some minor, technical points. When my ex-wife tried to change the custody agreement and move my daughter halfway across the country, you'd better believe I paid for a lawyer for that one.
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  3105.  @Terrackhimself  Indeed. I've even known Republicans who lamented the budget deficits of the Bush years in real time, but didn't want to touch the tax cuts and DOD to do anything about it.
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  3106.  @MakoSucks  Indeed. I have told them not to recommend Breaking Points several times, but it keeps randomly popping up. I unsubscribed from The Hill before Krystal and Saagar left Rising (which was months after I stopped watching their videos) and stuff from Dore, when my only relation to his channel is watching critics. I got recommendations for Rand Paul videos for months after watching a few videos of Sam Seder debating libertarians, no matter how many times I said not to. Don't know why the algorithm won't listen sometimes.
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  3107.  @TheKillerKrit  No, Kennedy did not "take a more moderate approach than what followed." What followed was the logical conclusion of what Eisenhower and Kennedy did. He increased advisers and signed off on the assassination of the South Vietnamese President. Johnson escalated with the same set of advisers Kennedy had. This is all part of Camelot mythmaking to give Kennedy the credit for everything good and Johnson the blame for everything bad that happened in the combined administrations. I have literally read books that give JFK the credit for civil rights.
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  3108.  @leevy6753  Is Federer taking hormones to block his testosterone or getting his testicles removed, thus also lowering testosterone? Again, why do you have a problem with governing bodies deciding when there is no competitive advantage? My sport found a perfectly fair way to do so. There are plenty of runners who get the same age-graded performance as a man and a woman, which means that they are about 10-20% slower depending on the event. Why do you want to deny someone with no competitive advantage the right to participate?
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  3109.  @TheRedStateBlue  You: An elected official is not like a regular job because they can create policy. Also You: Therefore, we should hold them to lower standards than everyone else.
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  3110. We had a dealigning election in 2008. If you look at every other dealigning election in our history (1840, 1876, 1968, 2008), bad things usually happen, because it leads to great instability and civil unrest. A lot of times, it tends to happen when people get sick of a particular way of doing things, but the minority party can't quite find a way to build a new vision that wins the people over. In the case of Obama, it was because he accepted way too much of the Reagan paradigm.
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  3111. But how is she walking the line? She said that defense spending should be cut, but she voted for a bill that increased the spending by more than Trump asked for.
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  3112.  @spanqueluv9er  Nobody's saying they didn't. The point was specifically in reference to Matt's horrible take that England bombed Germany first, almost as if to justify the blitz.
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  3113.  @amywilson860  I'm not sure. I recorded it when I saw it in the listings and figured I might not be able to watch it. Probably the part that was most frustrating as a supporter of Fetterman was that he gave a ridiculously vague answer on where the wealth tax should kick in, saying "you know it when you see it" before finally settling on $100 million. If I find it, I'll try to give you the information.
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  3114. Is he any relation to $am $eder?
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  3115. Or when Dave Rubin starts talking about i-DEE-uhs.
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  3116.  Lynette Agueda  Manchin does respond to pressure. I've seen it more than once. In all honesty, though, I think that eventually it's gotten to the point where the balancing act is too difficult and he may well be doomed, given that he only beat Morrisey by three.
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  3117. You sound like a gold enthusiast from a decade ago. A speculative bubble that lasts for a few years is hardly a proven commodity.
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  3118.  @DavidAdkins78  If money is speech, does that mean that no money is no speech?
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  3119. A couple of months ago, I saw a bunch of people protesting outside the library because a drag queen was reading to kids. The horror!
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  3120. If that doesn't convince you, back in his Politically Incorrect days, he argued that fun should be more important than safety. He has always had this side, but the ratio of good to bad has turned the last few years.
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  3121.  @arod6789  What does diversity have to do with anything?
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  3122.  @ringo8410  You are literally bragging about voting in a way that makes it easier for someone who has stated that he wants to be a dictator to win office out of spite, so yeah, it applies.
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  3123. I think the exact phrase is "I suggest that there is an absence of a quorum."
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  3124. Fine for Texas, terrible for national office. He's basically a Joe Manchin who can't win statewide. Edit: No, he's not like Manchin. Joe Manchin never pretended to be anything he's not, and you know you're settling for half a loaf with him. Beto pretended to be a lefty hero.
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  3125.  @alwayz247  She has not "always been a strong advocate for Bernie." Look at what she said when he got out of the race. It was no different than these people who dare to call themselves Bernie or Bust. And if you think Establishment Democrats are worse than literal fascists, you are doing it wrong. I used to watch her radars almost every day until I realized what I was watching. I even met her and got an autographed copy of her book before my eyes were opened and took a picture of her with my then four-year-old daughter. I keep the picture and the book as a reminder to be more discerning.
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  3126.  @alwayz247  She said that she "was promised a coup" and called that a radar. She did everything that she could to downplay the danger to our democracy. I watched her "apology" after the coup, or more accurately I stopped watching when I realized that she was trying to gaslight us all by lying about several of her stances. She also called Bernie a sellout for voting for the CARES Act, but then insisted that Nancy Pelosi should take the deal McConnell offered to take a lower amount and force workers to go back to work in unsafe conditions with employers having total impunity. Some populist!
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  3127.  @alwayz247  Anti-war is not pro-peace. Sam Seder pointed out the truth about both Yang and Gabbard repeatedly. As far as the shine being off, the only people who supported Tulsi Gabbard were anti-anti-Trump types like Dore, Iversen, and House. Seder pointed out for years the dangers of the wrong kind of UBI, and pretty much everyone in his orbit pointed out how that Yang had the worst possible version of a UBI, because the poor and disabled still had to pay a tax for it but didn't get a penny. Clean campaigns is a far better model than democracy dollars, and if you honestly think that lobbyists and corporate interests won't just outspend the democracy dollars anyway, that is incredibly naive. While Pakman said that the idea for a UBI was interesting, he expressed a lot of concern with how Yang structured his version. And again, "feuding with the MSM" (even at a time where she repeatedly acted as wing woman to Biden) shows the fatal flaw of defining yourself against something else. It allows awful actors like Yang and Gabbard to be seen as heroes. Well, the establishment hated Trump, too, and if you read their book, they praised Trump for that. Except the establishment hated him because he was a bigot. That is far different than hating someone who wants to increase their taxes and give workers more power in the workplace.
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  3128. ​ @olong70  That means he had a rich daddy who gave him his money. If he had just put his money in an index fund in 1982 and let it ride, he'd be more than twice as rich as his highest estimate. Real smart! And 99.999% of the people watching this video aren't hundreds of millions or billions of dollars on debt, either.
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  3129.  @SteveGellerMusic  No, they don't. They spend their time getting people riled up over social issues, while when they get in office, they spend most of their time focusing on ways to get the rich richer. (For example, the majority of Reagan-Bush Justices voted to uphold Roe.) Now, they've stopped a lot things, but in our system, it is far easier to stop things than it is to actively do things.
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  3130.  @Addamo  He pretended to be a lefty with the stuff in Brazil.
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  3131.  @JoeG2324  We were told that we needed a centrist the last time. How did that work out? You have lost all credibility with that argument for the foreseeable future. In 2008, the people thought that we were rejecting the neoliberal consensus by electing Obama. (After all, he even spoke of political realignment.) Instead, he turned out to be another centrist, and the party was hollowed out below him. Same thing happened with Clinton. Bernie actually has popular ideas rather than being a wet blanket.
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  3132.  @reaperbot  The effective rate is still plenty different. In 1968, George Romney started the tradition of Presidential candidates releasing their tax returns. The top marginal rate at the time was 70%, and his effective rate was 37%. Fourty-four years later, his son paid an effective rate of 13%. Most of the Presidential candidates this time around had effective rates in the 20s. Still, right wingers always put out the fig leaf of a little bit of a tax cut to ignore the massive tax cuts for the rich. Neutral is a group like Brookings. They aren't completely non-ideological, but they are more nonpartisan than most.
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  3133.  @meltedsnowman9637  "Do you receive any of these 125 programs? Yes? Are you willing to give them up?" seem like questions asked to me. They also seem like strings attached. As much as you bemoan the bureaucracy and insist that such things are simple, do you have any idea thw bureaucracy needed to verify that people are getting the money? Or to get one agency to report to the other so they know to stop payment? This is to say nothing of how long the Freedom with 125 Strings Attached Dividend makes someone ineligible for the other programs. His wording to Dave Rubin of "keeping people out of the system" implies a one-way street. You'd better pray that you don't lose your job if that's the case. Funny how he has no problem with millionaires keeping their welfare, which costs way more than welfare for the poor.
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  3134.  @babstra55  Don't forget that this man who told people that we need the Freedom with 125 Strings Attached Dividend because there won't be any jobs left also told Ben Shapiro that "the magic of a thousand bucks a month is that it is below the poverty level for one person, which means that people will have to work." I thought there weren't going to be jobs because the robots were taking them all.
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  3135.  @JoJo-vg8dz  Indeed.
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  3136.  @phyllisvalentine7411  Agreed. I would like to do go to a sitdown restaurant or get a haircut, but I am an adult. I have fun vacation plans for August, but I am not going to buy tickets to endanger myself of my family while waiting this thing out.
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  3137. 4:22 Why should you get vaccinated to keep your job at Target? I'll take "Because you work around people" for $100, Alex.
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  3138.  @Tr4cK17  Biden voted against the Bush and Trump tax cuts. Nice try, though.
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  3139. It is not the highest, and studies have shown that higher wages have virtually no effect on prices. The inflation increase comes more than ten years after the last increase in the minimum wage. However, what Lyndon Johnson said about seeing someone as worse than you leading to your own robbery also applies to income as well as race.
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  3140.  @TheHuxleyAgnostic  I waged some very lonely battles in many a comment sections (I didn't seek out Yang videos, but commented on channels I normally watched) trying to demonstrate that a VAT was regressive and that forcing the poor and disabled to choose between their current benefits and his plan was also regressive. The most ridiculous response that I got the most often was that Europe does it, so it can't possibly be regressive. They kept insisting that staple goods would be exempt, and I literally showed a document that studied the effects of taxation to show that the bottom 20% pay nearly ten times what the richest 1% do in sales tax despite all of the exemptions we have. People who would be far less likely to get the full benefits from Yang. Then again, libertarians have always attracted a strange cult.
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  3141.  Mitch Lang  It's not about individuals, it is about systems.
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  3142.  @TheNastyTank  Polio vaccine was given away. Therefore, it was not sold. Therefore, it is not a product.
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  3143.  @TheNastyTank  For someone who isn't a libertarian, you sure do echo their talking points. Since simple concepts seem to be beyond your grasp, I will explain it as best I can. Those are days of the week, with Tuesday in the middle. A critique of libertarian thought is that it ignores what happened in the real world. Therefore, if something happens on a Tuesday that discredited the previous ideas, the beliefs should be different on Wednesday.
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  3144.  @TheNastyTank  Projection isn't just for movie theaters. You literally posted a dictionary definition to try to prove your point. And it doesn't take a genius to figure out what the (pretty common, I think Stephen Colbert used a version of it to describe the Bush Administration) analogy of holding onto a belief regardless of what happens in the real world. Someone else pointed to the polio vaccine is an example of the Almighty Market making things worse. Looking at what has happened to public water systems when something that was seen as a public good got commodified is another example. The analogy works because you are talking hypothetical while others are talking about the real world. And for someone who insists that you aren't a libertarian (which does matter, because it is a question of looking at how things really are compared to how you think they ought to be), you sure do use their framing, such as insisting that there are counterexamples to the idea that consumerism will solve us all means that someone is a socialist or Marxist. If I were, I would say that the market works for nothing, but I have said that there are some things where the private sector doesn't work. The inability to see the difference is typical of not understanding that not everything fits into your preconceived notions is a tell-tale sign of a worldview that is obsessed with the hypothetical. Only one example is needed to disprove your argument, and I have given two. Even if you want to think that you get me good because you can think of an example that works, you haven't done so. Heck, I even think that deregulating the phone system has actually worked out for pretty much everybody.
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  3145.  @TheNastyTank  To me, the childish attitude is thinking that we can spend our way out of problems. A lot of the things that you mention as a feather in the cap of Elon Musk are only possible due to government research. My point is not to say that he has done no good, but that his defenders insist that he is "saving the world." Even when you insist that there is nuance, you say that he "solved" the problem when a) neither he nor his engineers invented the solution, and b) any actual solution has to involve something that can be replicated. Instead of giving all of the credit to a supposed genius, we need to look at structural issues. Ignoring them is the childish thing.
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  3146. @Mainely Indeed. In Capitalism: A Love Story, Stephen Moore (no relation to Michael) admitted that he cared more about capitalism than democracy.
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  3147.  @Deepstatedebate  You go to HR to complain. My office had people who wore pants so tight that you could always tell what kind of underwear they wore and usually a camel toe, and action was taken. You don't make such remarks to your coworkers. You're probably the kind who look at what a rape accuser was wearing.
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  3148. As long as the people they hate also get hurt.
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  3149.  @jakeladders7461  To fat what?
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  3150.  @MetalDetroit  I get that there are some people really raking it in, but the point is that the vast majority aren't making enough to get a tank of gas for a compact car, let alone making six figures.
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  3151. Indeed. How deluded do you have to be to lose by 20 in a very blue district and be convinced that you really won?
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  3152.  @GLASSMOSCOWANDBEIJING  Don't forget Ryan and Shane.
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  3153. He takes it off?
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  3154. I was on a canvass for Bernie with DSA in North Philly last month. My canvass partner and I won over a former Trump voter. He no longer supports Trump, but we told him about Medicare for All and Workplace Democracy, and he was all in.
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  3155.  @thomasmendola937  The top marginal tax rate in the 35 years after WWII never went below 70%, and it was as high as 94%. Clearly someone was paying them. The income level required to hit that bracket was the equivalent of $3.5MM today.
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  3156.  Peder Hansen  Except the only questions about bigotry were questions about Shapiro's comments on Jewish people who disagree with him politically or theologically, and the statement he made about the Palestinian people, which he knew was bad because he lied about it.
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  3157.  @lukewand  "My boyfriend likes watches... Oh, you just stepped in some." "Oh, I stepped in it, all right."
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  3158.  @KEVINLOPEZ-np4kj  Lying about Medicare for All. Not telling people about the giant asterisk in his freedom with 125 strings attached dividend unless he is specifically asked about it or speaking to a right-wing audience. Telling general audiences that he wants to give people money because there won't be any jobs left in the future, but telling Ben Shapiro that "the magic of a thousand bucks a month is that it is below the poverty level for one person, which will force people to work if they want to have any life of meaning." Because the effects of his proposal will be a world with a few trillionaires and everyone else scraping by on less than the poverty level.
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  3159. Are you pretending to agree with yourself, or did you forget which account you signed into, Aaron? And saying that people should get their $250,000 FDIC payment is not a bailout, but I can't he surprised that you don't know how insurance works, either.
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  3160. Show me when workers have gotten those benefits without unions. When there is a greater degree of union saturation, employers will give more benefits just to try to keep workers complacent enough not to organize.
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  3161. ​ @lassesaikkonen501 You mean the guy who insisted that atheists never killed anyone in the name of destroying religion, but insisted that Stalin and Mao somehow "don't count"? Yeah, he's not infallible.
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  3162.  @baron1324  And I live in Montgomery County. It's a pretty blue area. It's almost like every nut who showed up to the school board meetings to protest masks or teaching kids that slavery was bad is putting out the signs for a literal fascist.
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  3163.  @Pathfinder1932-t5d  So, you're "well aware of how the right uses this as propaganda," but you go on about how all of the anti-patriots you see are on the right while it is the right that embraces patriotism? That's called a fig leaf. It's not my fault that you didn't expect me to see right through it.
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  3164.  @criticalevent  They don't like her, either. They just see her as useful.
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  3165. They had to do that because Cuomo refuses to raise taxes on the rich, and he enabled the Independent Democratic Caucus to give power to the Republicans. Yes, he deserves the blame.
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  3166.  @joesmith4965  You mean people of color are reluctant to vote for a party that clearly sees them as second-class citizens? No! And the Electoral College was created to give slaveholders more influence.
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  3167.  @balrog322  I think the bot is not understanding that vote tallies aren't released in real time, but in batches like YouTube view counts.
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  3168.  Curtis Ball  Is that before or after all the lies that she said about Bernie and lying that someone hacked her blog eight years ago when she was a nobody to make her look bad?
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  3169. If Biden had a southern accent, would he be able to get away with nearly as much of a defense of the states rights position?
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  3170. Maybe Krystal Ball taught him how to set up a Scam PAC. She has quite a bit of experience.
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  3171.  @mandatoryhelicopterrides4596  Gee, Aaron, for someone who claims to be so much smarter than everyone else, you don't even know the difference between a direct democracy and a representative democracy. The former means that citizens vote directly on laws. The later means that they elect people to vote directly on laws, i.e., representatives.
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  3172.  @HansKeesom Gates came from a rich family. While Howard Buffett did not give his son an inheritance, he was a stockbroker, and when Buffett started out, he got to keep 25% of any profits over 6% for his shareholders. Yes, it is true that he beat the market by an enormous sum, but his compensation package meant that he made his fortune largely from the capital of others.
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  3173.  @davidsuarez7403  How do you define "honestly earned"?
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  3174.  @theone8327  So, you think that people have to live in poverty in order to complain about unfair distribution of wealth? The mere fact that you think that it is a matter of individual choice rather than a system that stacks the deck for the haves and not making them contribute to society shows that you really don't understand the actual issue at hand.
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  3175.  @HansKeesom  Yeah, so we suddenly have a bunch of high school drop out criminals who either get knocked up or knock up others. That's why productivity has doubled in the last 40 years but wages have been stagnant.
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  3176.  @HansKeesom  Then, how do you explain the fact that even though productivity has doubled in the last 40 years, workers have not benefited? Reciting Ben Shapiro doesn't answer that question.
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  3177.  @HansKeesom  Oh, yes, because there is truly mutual consent and no exploitation. If a worker quits because of low or stagnant pay, that worker risks starvation and homelessness because you can't get unemployment when you quit, and the choice of picking a different employer who will do the exact same thing. Great choice! What does the employer get? They get to hire someone else on starting wages, so the employer saves money, because there is always someone who doesn't want to starve or be homeless. Your premise assumes an equitable relationship that exists nowhere ever outside of maybe elite athletes or top entertainers.
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  3178.  @RomaTomatoe  The concept is not necessarily a bad one, but it has been used by a lot of people who want to do harmful things in its application. Yang was one of them.
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  3179.  @mayavox  Provable ties? Show me where Modi spoke at their weddings, or when they posed with a BJP scarf.
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  3180.  @johnmiddleton5519  Yeah, right. She's going to want that sweet, sweet Fox cash. She stopped doing her day job for about a year, and when she literally lived in New Hampshire for months, she got less than 4% of the vote and finished seventh. The more people saw her, the more they got tired of her.
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  3181.  @mayavox  No, that means that it got deleted when I tried to edit. Everything I said after proves that this is what I was talking about. I apologize for not being more thorough in my editing. If you really thought that I thought that supplementary insurance didn't exist, you were really desperate for a win. And, again, her plan is not remotely the same as Bernie's. Hers is the Buttigieg model, to the point where her name (Medicare Choice) is just a more brief name than his (Medicare for All Who Want It). Both are designed to make people think Bernie, but they are both a public option.
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  3182.  @mayavox  You're the idiot who is looking for any excuse to defend what she did. I heard her say the thing about choice more than once. Nobody forced her to say it. Nobody forced her to say that her plan was "Medicare Choice" when Medicare for All specifically says that insurance companies cannot compete with Medicare for All. And, considering the turn that she took in the last year or two, and the positions she had before she endorsed Bernie, it is obvious which is the fake position. If anything, her position on the M4A Caucus makes her statement about choice worse because people like Buttigieg and Delaney could say, "Even members of the M4A Caucus agree that it is wrong the take away private insurance." Then again, this is the danger you fall into when arguing personality rather than principles, especially when the person you are defending has none.
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  3183.  @mayavox  If I played a clip of the video where she agrees with Dave Rubin that she was the only Democratic Presidential candidate who loves America, would you say that it was fake because it came on a right-wing show?
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  3184.    She cited a group that is telling lies about Ilhan Omar as "proof" that her plan that will make it harder for seniors and people who live in rural areas to vote, to the point that a federal court struck down a similar law in Arizona as violating the Voting Rights Act because it discriminates against Hispanic and Native American voters there.
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  3185. Dear Trump supporters, Since your Dear Leader is saying that elections are bad and can't be trusted, why not take a day for YOU? Go on a nice hike in nature, spend time with your family, but don't waste your time. A Concerned Friend
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  3186.  @renjia3504  Bernie offers a $36,000/year salary for field organizers. The fight about wages is because the campaign wants to limit the hours to keep it at $15/hour. I don't know if you're just trolling and trying to throw every lie around since you never actually respond to your original point, but anyone who has worked a union job knows that the union is often adamant about not working extra hours when someone receives a salary. So, peddle your lies and smears somewhere else. If you want to engage honestly, I'm all ears.
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  3187.  @robschroeder8297  My apologies. When you're in the military, you'd be surprised how much people use those interchangeably, and I used the wrong one.
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  3188.  @charisma-hornum-fries  I remember that early on, which is why I was so surprised that she got out. Maybe she switched from National Guard to Reserve or something. I swear, that woman brings up for her veteran status more than anyone not named Walter Sobchak.
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  3189.  @mickeysmythe1403  I think the last was in December. Oh, how I miss them so!
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  3190. It seems like there comes a point where it becomes more and more obvious that she is not a good actor. My breaking point (no pun intended) was hearing her call the effort by the Wisconsin Green and Republican parties to sabotage the election being "undemocratic," because that's when I realized that she is playing the anti-anti-Trump grift.
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  3191.  @huntermosley9396  Isn't Texas really, really enthusiastic about the death penalty? If you are really "pro-life," you shouldn't try to cut or eliminate SNAP and WIC, make it harder for children to get healthcare, fight poverty, and not be so eager to get into war. Very few people who claim to be pro-life really are.
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  3192.  @Bluebelle51  Well, how long you've been at it doesn't matter if you make an amazingly flawed argument because of a false understanding of the rules and who benefits. I will make it as simple as I possibly can: you were making an argument that a big field will keep one candidate from getting a majority, thus bringing superdelegates into play. If you have 20 candidates who are establishment candidates who get 30% between them, those votes disappear into the ether, and Bernie would only need 35%. Most of the candidates are establishment, so they hurt Biden by staying in more than they hurt Bernie.
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  3193.  @eminkerim7859  It is 30 episodes. Once you take out the time for commercials, it works out to 24 hours or so. Is that really too much time, or are you just trolling people?
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  3194. "Which is true, because it happened." Who are you trying to convince, Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson?
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  3195.  @adotjon78  FDR had supermajorities in each House, and a talking filibuster that made it harder to obstruct, as well as moderate Republicans who were actually willing to vote for good bills. If you really are on the left, your sense of strategy and understanding of politics is part of the reason why we can't have nice things.
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  3196.  @turanamo  It was there. Some people just weren't willing to look. Jacobin did a lengthy article called "Tulsi Gabbard is Not Your Friend" in 2017 that laid out the case that she wasn't who she said she was. By 2020, she had defended Biden's stance on busing from the 1970s, insisted that people should move on from his stance on Iraq, and made her big attack on Kamala Harris to change the subject when three other candidates were laying into him. Oh, and she started her campaign playing both siderism on the government shutdown and the wall, and even though she said Trump was guilty, she refused to vote to impeach him.
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  3197. If the Founders wanted the President to have immunity, why didn't they give it?
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  3198.  @rob9726  I never would have thought that my seminary education would come into play on this ;-)
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  3199.  @RMor66  So, because you think that someone who had a hearing issue should just have to pretend to be completely back to normal, you now resort to both siderism after plastering the video trashing Fetterman? Yeah, that makes sense.
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  3200. In all honesty, I don't think they care. They're the type of people who would rather starve to death than see someone they deem unworthy getting a crumb of food.
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  3201.  @Rusu421  You are aware that clinics have business hours, right?
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  3202.  @GameN3rdz  Yet again, how many times have you complained about things not being released? I remember the big furor over hydroxychloroquine. You might use your memory hole, but you can't get away with that here.
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  3203.  @jessea5044  Because you're not an honest actor. Don't pretend to be a lefty actor warning us about how Sinema is the best that we can do when in fact you want someone to go even farther down that road. And the stuff that you're saying is not "all truths," it is either a flat-out lie or cherry picking, and I don't waste my time dealing with liars online.
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  3204.  @jjutt87  That was CBS that said it.
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  3205. He's so in favor of Medicare for All that he supported the candidate who called it un-American.
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  3206. Someone can be a genius in one thing and an idiot in everything else. Watching his REO/Oreo debacle, where he couldn't get past the notion that she was not talking about cookies, tells me that he is clearly ill-informed and unintelligent in his current job. Even jobs that are somewhat related have an entirely different skill set. Look at Michael Jordan. One of the greatest basketball players of all time (I would put him behind Chamberlain and Russell), but he is one of the worst owners today. Does that make him any less great as a player?
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  3207. Jason Sudeikis as Mitt Romney Robert De Niro as Robert Mueller
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  3208. Well, Ben Shapiro is a right-wing racist, so his isn't too surprising. Rubin has no beliefs of his own.
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  3209.  @megauser8512  If they are still right wing after the Trump years, either they are racists or they are pretty comfortable with racism.
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  3210.  @Liliquan  It wasn't even the largest margin in this century. Obama won by seven in 2008 and four in 2012.
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  3211.  @georgecolwell3317  He just wants to go back to the Before Time. The Before Time is preferable to what we have now, but it was still pretty bad.
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  3212. It's not nearly as simple as you or the libertarians pretend it is. That's because of a lack of understanding of economy of scale. The bigger competitor will always be able to undercut the little guy. Always.
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  3213. [In Jean-Ralphio voice] She's... the wooooorst!
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  3214.  @AK36677  What in her day-to-day management of the office other than "I don't like the result" did she do to put her thumb on the scales? Were you this outraged when Brian Kemp not only ran for governor in 2018, but did so after removing hundreds of thousands of people from the voter rolls? Or is it just that your chosen candidate lost? If you can't point to any specific policies or actions, then you've already answered the question.
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  3215.  @AK36677  And it didn't take long for you to rip off the mask, complete with all caps.
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  3216.  @DaveDavidDavidson  Would you rather I called him Dear Leader to accurately reflect his cultish following?
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  3217. @Jonathan Banner I would love to see Jayapal as Speaker, but she doesn't have the votes now. Even if she could count on the entire CPC, that's not even the majority of the Democratic caucus, let alone the 2/3 vote needed to take over. Quite frankly, if Pelosi steps down in 2022, unless someone else can pull an AOC/Bowman, Hakeem Jeffries is probably the leading candidate to take her place. It took Pelosi 16 years of building a network in order to win the leadership vote. Jayapal is only in her third term.
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  3218.  @j0j0dartiste21  That, or some of them realize deep down that there's nothing there except his reputation, and they're worried about stocks tanking, so pick your poison, I guess.
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  3219.  @MatthewWagnerNOECA  Is the producer totally hot, but in another state, and no you can't see a picture? They sound like a junior high kid talking about a fake girlfriend.
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  3220.  @MatthewWagnerNOECA  Yes, the burden of proof is on the person stating that something happened. Jimmy Dore said that he fired a producer. The only producer who has a credit on the show is his wife. Therefore, it is up to the Dore people to provide any evidence at all as to who this person is. Then again, even if this story is true, that means that Dore is hiring people without giving them credits that they can use if they need to look for another job. That doesn't sound very pro-worker to me, nor does the scapegoating. So, did Jimmy Dore fake a producer, or did he not give a producer credit? He isn't bathing himself in glory with either option.
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  3221.  @eltonjimenez1616  I think the point was that there was one less thing to cause stress and animosity.
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  3222.  @johnmcgee636  Every Senate Republican voted against codifying Roe, even the supposedly pro-choice ones.
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  3223. Those user fees worked so well when Indiana privatized its roads in the Daniels era. So well that when I drove through Indiana on I-64, the roads were so dilapidated that I couldn't go above 50 most of the way.
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  3224. Agreed. If you can't manage the government of a city of 130,000 people? What makes you think that you can manage the government for a population 2500 times that?
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  3225. Agreed. It's the first time I've ever seen anyone poison pill his/her own proposal.
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  3226.  @oltedders  MidScream1 is a right-wing troll, so of course he wants an awful candidate to run against his orange hero.
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  3227. Oh, he had a policy. Tax cuts, blaming brown people, and trying to undo the previous eight years.
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  3228. He briefly ran for President under the Reform Party banner in 1999, but he dropped out long before the campaign began in earnest. It was little more than a glorified book tour.
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  3229.  @Maximillion666  Me, too. I was in kindergarten when that happened.
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  3230.  Bryzz Lull  What would you call making kidnapping children national policy?
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  3231. You're welcome. Some of us tried to get both minority party seats out of Republican hands, and we came oh so close to make the GOP a third party in Philadelphia. If O'Rourke got 200 and change more votes, it would be 14 Dem, 2 WFP, 1 GOP.
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  3232. Oliver Stone started this nonsense about Kennedy wanting to pull out of Vietnam. He wanted to get out so bad that he escalated the advisor program and signed off on the assassination of the South Vietnamese President literally 11 days before his own death.
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  3233.  @seanmaddex4104  If their success is hindering the success of others who couldn't afford these opportunities, it clearly proves the lie of the notion of meritocracy. If you pretend it was all you, you deserve all the scorn you get.
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  3234. There's always someone who wants to whine about people who even run for the entry-level stuff, too. I remember when I ran for the WV House of Delegates in 2006. I turned 27 two weeks before the general election, and even making small talk to the Republican incumbent, he told me that he was annoyed by people who were obsessed with my age. He said that he told them, "he has ideas and he has just as much of a right to run as anyone else." We didn't agree on much of anything at all, but if people are going to give grief to someone running for the state legislature who was two years younger at the time than AOC when she ran for Congress, it's really a fig leaf for something else.
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  3235.  @Junebug89  Well, if you look at what Tulsi has to say about Kashmir, she is still pretty bad on foreign policy.
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  3236.  @michellehill4148  You are about the fourth or fifth person who said this, so I apologize if you bear the brunt of the stupidity of others, but you cannot recall a United States Senator. If you want to talk about what we can do, why not at least try to read the rules first to see if that is allowed. If not, you just sound like Ted Lasso in "An American Coach in London."
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  3237.  @BobbyU808  Still showed who impresses you the most. Then again, not surprised considering that you are supporting a libertarian wolf in leftist clothing who has the most right-wing health plan of any Democratic Presidential candidate.
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  3238. Speaking of which, why isn't Moscow Donald a thing? We can make it happen!
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  3239. Indeed. I'm open to the idea of compromise to get things done, but there is no midpoint between fascism and not-fascism that is acceptable.
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  3240. I remember PV taking David's side in that one. If you're not a grifter, you'll come around sooner or later.
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  3241. Well, of course we will be with attitudes like that.
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  3242.  @velocecarriola9214  The political parties are what the voters want them to be. Just because you are too lazy to do any of the actual work doesn't make it impossible.
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  3243. ​ @AdultThirdCultureKid1971  He did
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  3244.  @kkorrupt89  He is just dishonest. He says "everyone gets a thousand bucks a month," but not everyone does. He continues to call his proposal Medicare for All when it is not. He keeps insisting that Amazon would pay the tax, but they pass it on to the consumer with a VAT. There is nothing about his campaign that is honest.
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  3245. His ?????? is "the magic of the market." If anything, makes even less sense than the Underpants Gnomes.
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  3246.  @marygrace7016  Indeed. I remember a few days before, some FTV Dore Knob was bragging to me about how people were going to come out to DC in full force to "demand that Congress vote." Eventually, he admitted that about 50 people showed up. Philly DSA got 75-100 people (and 300 unique people total) every month for eight months before the 2020 primary to do actual grassroots organizing, and working with other groups (such as Neighborhood Networks and PA 4 Health Care), we actually got a member of Congress (Brendan Boyle) to sign up. Eventually, when I asked follow up questions, none of them ever actually did anything.
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  3247. You beat me to it. He is literally a TFB.
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  3248.  @BlackAbe007  I mean that they wanted to see the world become a better place, and wanting to live a life where you share and do the things like feed the hungry, clothing the naked, healing the sick (they did have nurses who had clinics) are people who want to see the world become a better place. They were not motivated by greed. While Stephan said that looking back, the fight against racism and the rainbow family was probably just for show, there were a lot of people for whom that had a great appeal. If you listen to the survivors, they said that at the beginning it felt like the things that Jesus said that He wanted the church to do (I picked those three examples for a reason) were being done. Does that sound like people acting out of selfishness to you?
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  3249.  @FortitudineVincimus  It's possible, or it could just be their belief that any vote not for them is illegitimate.
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  3250.  @seski89  Booming for whom?
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  3251. Rudyard Kipling is rolling over in his grave.
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  3252.  @vorg_  Are you serious right now? First of all, the poverty level for one person is $1041/month. Second of all, replacing the existing social safety net with a UBI has been a libertarian idea since Milton Friedman... because he wanted "to get rid of the bureaucracy" behind need-based programs. Who does that sound like again? Oh, and they are fine with regressive taxes. I guess you don't remember Gary Johnson proposing a 28% sales tax to replace the income tax. And their version of "economic freedom" is about the one thing libertarians consistently believe in. So, increasing the minimum wage decreases bargaining power? Is that why unions have supported increasing the minimum wage for decades? In fact, UBI will actually keep wages down, because employers will say, "You just got an extra thousand bucks a month, why do you need more money from me?" I would be fine with a universal basic income that did not exclude the poor and disabled from full benefits and made wealth inequality worse.
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  3253. ​ @beepboopbeep5456  That makes no sense. The Democratic Party isn't pushing this. If he tries to run, he'll certainly be denied ballot access
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  3254.  @joeanderson9930  Thank you
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  3255.  @finnjones9979  Indeed. My uncle got polio and couldn't walk until he was five.
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  3256. I saw a bumper sticker on the way home that sums it all up: Make America Not Embarrassing Again
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  3257. You can tell which one read the red letters in his Bible.
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  3258. Is Herschel Walker running on an anti-gay platform? Because if so, I have a sneaking suspicion that there might be an interesting conversation in a few years.
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  3259.  @bobwallace9753  Indeed. I wanted Bernie, but I am an adult, and I realize that living either Biden or Trump will be President. I live in a swing state, so I don't have the luxury of what John Lydon called "demanding to be ignored."
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  3260.  @cotinaspann9475  Look at the retirements. With Republicans retiring in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, and Ron Johnson refusing to announce whether or not he will run for a third term, no Democratic Senators retiring, and no Democratic Senators in states won by Trump up for re-election until 2024, and it is a very favorable map.
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  3261.  @MalevolentMonkeyGod  Responding to a "genuine economic grievance" by voting for someone who made the Bush tax cuts look like Robin Hood in comparison is not a good response. There are fascists (who are awful), and there are fascist enablers.
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  3262.  @tomasc4987  You mean with national polls off by one point, and only one state off by more than the margin of error? If it's that wrong this time, Trump STILL loses.
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  3263.  @markzuckergecko621  Wrong. You don't have evidence that every person there did those things. It's like you murder apologists don't even care about reality.
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  3264.  @MrAnonymousteenagers  You mean like when he offered soothing words to the defendant and didn't know the difference between an enlargement and enhancement.
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  3265.  @ebalicious1775  Nope, I am reading. You're not paying attention to the fact that the judge isn't letting the prosecution show intent.
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  3266.  @dddddddddddddddd6368  Indeed. The movie is far better when it emphasizes Miyagi.
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  3267. At one point, people of Irish descent weren't considered White. It's almost like it's a social construct that tends to be flexible over time.
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  3268. Jim's a jerk
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  3269.  @mjm1955  It exists because people like you watch it and then make comments, which feeds the algorithm and tells the creators which content their viewers want.
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  3270. That's the Declaration of Independence. That being said, I'm guessing that no one on the right cares about the fact that provide for the General Welfare does show up in the Constitution.
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  3271. Founders: We don't want a king. Modern Right Wingers: Actually, they meant that all executive power should abide in one person.
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  3272. Tim Pool suffers from Mike Love Syndrome: he thinks nobody knows he's bald if he always wears a hat.
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  3273.  @JenniferDaniels909  Even if you're not well off, there's a lot of Baby Boomer ignorance about what people who entered the workforce during or after the Reagan Administration actually have to go through.
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  3274.  @stubbybrazoo5230  Did Trump win as a third-party candidate, or did he take over one of the major parties? And what is the motivating force behind this group, centrism? Centrism is only popular in the Beltway. There are literally no policy proposals by this group, and we already have one major party that has given up on a platform, we don't need two.
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  3275.  @mjchakos1  Well, anyone who helped those who attempted to overthrow the democratically elected government, for starters. If Boebert was holding tours with those traitors, she is culpable. Mo Brooks clearly knew something was going down, or else why wear a vulletproof vest?
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  3276. Did Bernie lament America becoming a minority majority country?
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  3277.  @krazyknva78  Andrew Yang did just that in a tweet. Michael showed it on a video on Thursday.
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  3278. You did notice that Tulsi didn't raise her hand when they talked about Medicare for All, right?
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  3279.  @Mind_Idiot  I think that poll was from last month, and Sinema had 13% (she also lost H2H in a hypothetical Democratic primary 74-16). I do think that as the race goes on, Sinema will hemorrhage support. If Gallego can lock down the Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents, that will do the trick. Since Republicans in Arizona seem to be embracing the crazy,.that will definitely help.
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  3280. Then, why did he talk about what a sellout the main author of the bill was in 2020 and endorse the candidate who called it un-American in an interview with Anderson Cooper?
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  3281.  @glennyj65  Slowly paying what debt off? The budget deficit has gone up the last two years and is projected to go up again. Not that I am saying that the deficits alone matter, but by definition, when the deficit is growing faster than the economy, that is not "paying it down" by any stretch of the imagination. Oh, and did you see the latest jobs report? Lowest private-sector growth since March 2010, and the previous three months had been downgraded a total of 75,000 jobs. We are almost 10 years into a growth cycle that is clearly showing signs of winding down.
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  3282.  @MikeGalosi  He didn't just do it to one family. The video literally breaks down the award.
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  3283.    Uh oh. Found the bot. Here's a hint. If you don't want to reveal yourself, learn to spell the name Sanders. Also, Democrat is a noun, Democratic is an adjective. I didn't say anything near that. No wonder your program is defending Warren. Both have a classic case of playing telephone.
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  3284.  @jefflittle8913  I don't care how really early he was, he didn't build Tesla. He is not an engineer or an inventor. He was the money man. "Tesla at its peak was making" Assuming that's accurate, emphasis on "was." I could also point to its ridiculously inflated 49.4 P/E ratio, compared to every other major auto manufacturer in the single digits, propping up the profit margins.
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  3285.  @AN-sm3vj  Agreed that you don't have true choice without equality, but since we clearly aren't in a society that treats women equally, isn't it a little bit premature not to include that on the list? Again, I'm not saying that a photoshoot is a betrayal of feminism, just that it seems like equality should be the lead.
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  3286.  @Armed-Forever  [citation needed] Abortions because someone doesn't want a child happen in the first trimester.
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  3287. And spoke Aramaic.
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  3288.  @brian-beeler  I've seen some of his lectures online. They are very good.
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  3289.  @columbia2635  But you're not understanding the situation. You made a false argument against anyone pointing out that there is a distinction between the innocent victims of MAGA and the people who knew exactly what they were doing, but just didn't think it would affect them. As far as winning over MAGA, how has that worked out? I hear over and over about how they can be persuaded. How do you persuade people who refuse to acknowledge any reality that contradicts their cult? How do you win people over who say that they still support Trump after he has directly hurt them and their families? Since you have all the answers, start with those.
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  3290. The Hill "least biased"? Someone else fell for the scam that is Rising!
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  3291. I remember seeing some theory with Saved by the Bell that saod Zack and Screech stayed friends largely because they befriended each other while young. That seems to fit.
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  3292. Michael: You're on trial for treason! George Sr.: First offense. Michael: I've never heard of a second.
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  3293. I ran for the WV House of Delegates in 2006, and by the fall, I ran into more conservative voters talking about regulations (my theory was to try to shore up Democratic voters in the northern half of the county first). After a while, I got so frustrated that I started asking which regulations they thought were excessive. I asked this question for about a month, and I literally only got one answer the whole time. It was about red tape for billboards. His explanation made a lot of sense, and I told him that I would support doing something about it to streamline the approval process. Most reasonable people would want to get rid of bad regulations, but what a lot of them won't tell you is that the regulations that they don't like include things like paying for pollution or putting workers into hazardous conditions made unsafe due to neglect.
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  3294. ​ @tonyuresti8719  Other states have Dairy Queen, too, and it started in Illinois. Maybe Whataburger is the only good thing to come out of Texas.
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  3295. ​ @danajohnson4480  They may be obligated, but they always have funny ways of ignoring what it actually says when it suits their agenda.
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  3296.  @Mr22thou  The movie Gomez died young. John Astin is 91 and still alive.
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  3297.  @IshtarNike  I'm in PA, and while he came off as a lefty, he always had a heterodox streak. The one that really made me cringe was his stand on fracking.
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  3298. Glenn Greenwald: Everybody knows Trump is a crook. Also Glenn Greenwald: Trump didn't really do the thing that he confessed to doing multiple times.
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  3299. And this is more evidence of why it should have been called reproductive rights rather than pro-choice.
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  3300. ​ @gordowg1wg145  The bot program wasn't very good for that one.
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  3301. Good on Beto. After seeing the crocodile tears of Greg Abbott, if I had a gun at hand, I would have been severely tempted to do with Elvis did to his TVs.
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  3302. Indeed. That is why Occupy didn't really go anywhere.
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  3303.  @davidlafleche1142  Says the blasphemer defending a racist right winger.
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  3304. What does the fact that people have other things have to do with it? They would have still been alive. And I don't know what you've been doing the last few months to think that no one had any idea of how to do anything differently. The first thing he could do is actually reinforce rules about masks rather than encouraging people to remove them and getting mad when people don't. He could have done like most of the rest of the industrialized world did and offer security to make sure that incomes were covered. He could have federalized factories to make PPE. He could have stopped telling people that it would miraculously go away on its own by Easter. He could have taken responsibility instead of punting to governors. It's not that hard to think about what he could have done better. If he had, over 150,000 people who are now dead could have been alive.
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  3305.  @sandpiperr  She got 13% in that match-up poll. That number can still drop further.
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  3306.  @Name-jw4sj  What's the point of taking SuperPAC money when the ship is sinking? Looking at the Raytheon donations and her defense budget votes proves that she can be bought, which means that she will always be a disappointment.
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  3307.  @buckiesmalls  Better implies that she's good at something. Worse means it's bad all around ;-)
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  3308.  @OliverNorth9729  Maybe he would be more liked if he wasn't a total grifter.
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  3309.  @GlassesAndCoffeeMugs  It doesn't push the Overton Window left. It slams the window shut. The hard work of Bernie Sanders and thousands of Americans who care about more than empty symbolism is responsible for that.
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  3310. ​ @judiplaz  My Cousin Vinny was a competent lawyer.
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  3311.  @kevinschmidt2210  Oh, look. It's someone being edgy trying to spread cynicism who either doesn't know what fascism really is and is inadvertently helping it along, or someone who knows exactly what he is doing and is trying to discourage people on the left in order to help the fascists.
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  3312.  @kevinschmidt2210  You are only giving out buzzwords, and you are not addressing the situation at hand other than a lazy conspiracy theory. If you want to be treated seriously, don't be unserious.
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  3313.  @kevinschmidt2210  Scroll up. I pointed out that Bernie was the lead author of a bill that is now law that has cut child poverty in half, and his $600/week in supplemental unemployment saved us from an economic cliff that would have made the Great Depression look like a mild hiccup in comparison. Again, no real world examples from you about actual successes or how to get to 218 & 50 for everything you claim to support.
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  3314.  @kevinschmidt2210  And how is he supposed to get to 218 & 50? Since you apparently think that one Senator can force everyone to bow to his will and that he is weak if that doesn't happen, what is your idea? You sound like a Jimmy Dore fanboy.
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  3315.  @kevinschmidt2210  So, you have no solutions. See my shocked face :-|
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  3316.  @kevinschmidt2210  If you don't have a better idea, and all you do is complain that everything isn't better, you're not doing anything to make a difference. So, unless your goal is to sabotage anyone who is trying to do anything, you aren't contributing, but helping those who actively want to make things worse. Just because you don't understand what gaslighting means doesn't mean that it is happening to you.
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  3317.  @hermank9647  Where are the votes? I am talking about the things that Bernie has accomplished. Pretending like the fact that there aren't the votes there means that he is some sort of liar shows that you are either so extreme and/or ignorant about how government works that you sabotage yourself, or you are a right-wing troll trying to depress the left.
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  3318.  @jim2498  I guess you never noticed that part about the general welfare. It doesn't have to be spelled out. Do you know that at one point high school wasn't paid for? Or public education at all? By your logic, why have any public schools at all? Funny how literally every Republican proposal (low taxes, low infrastructure spending, high wealth and income inequality, no free school tuition, etc.) are all characteristics of third world countries.
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  3319.  the super family ost  Each House expels its own members, the last being Jim Traficant in 2002 after being convicted of several felonies.
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  3320. Musk saying stuff like that is especially ironic that it is just about hard work given that his wealth was built on slave labor in the mines.
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  3321. Indeed. If A=A, what is the B that leads people to this goofy philosophy?
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  3322. ​ @WithoutRemorse12  If Russia doesn't want Ukraine to join NATO, maybe they should stop invading and using Lebensraum rhetoric when they do.
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  3323.  @truetech4158  There were a lot fewer self-professed atheists and agnostics in 1955. Many churches have been encouraging people to take the vaccine. Are you talking about the issue at hand, or are you using this as an excuse to bring up your issues?
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  3324.  @rtorres4132  You can't go to school if you don't get the polio vaccine. The cause for your "hesitancy" is irrelevant. You are hurting other people. Full stop. Nice pivot to pretend that the group that supports the would-be fascist dictator who started his political life calling immigrants rapists and drug dealers is the one that really cares about people.
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  3325.  @garysmokesmeat  And, like an actual sane person, I can acknowledge that some deregulation worked well (telephones) and others didn't (given that hardly a year goes by when an airline doesn't ask for a bailout). That's because I don't live in The Way Things Ought to Be, I live in The Way Things Really Are.
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  3326.  @garysmokesmeat  You may work, but you are a stooge of the boss. As far as how much of your $100 that you earned you get to keep, why don't you ask your boss, since you're just fine with him/her taking the lion's share.
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  3327.  @garysmokesmeat  "I know how to evaluate a job offer" English translation: I think I know how to pick the least exploitative option, and I don't care how much my boss takes of my money, even though without workers the boss makes nothing, but I am going to whine about the government wanting a much smaller amount to build the roads that make my job possible and to test the quality of my water so I don't die of dysentery.
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  3328.  @FlowerGirl.MN50  Well, at least since 1877.
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  3329. "They play dirty." Like "sending your supporters to violently overthrow the government" dirty?
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  3330.  regulator619  Yes, because Trump doesn't do anything to benefit corporate America at all.
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  3331.  regulator619  I remember him saying that Bernie had sold out for cutting an ad with a celebrity who endorsed him talked about reproductive rights. Anything he said about hoping Bernie won the primary was all part of the grift. Then again, I'm not an apologist for a fascist.
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  3332.  @leahmeowzers9296  Which party is trying to take away what health care people do have, again? Also, what does this have to do with the point about her awful take on the question of Wisconsin ballot access or going hard after Democrats and ignoring Republican malfeasance unless she can quickly pivot back to Democrats?
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  3333.  @leahmeowzers9296  The Green Party did not qualify. They are the ones who messed up their petition drive, refused to fill out the affidavit to correct it when given the chance, and waited two weeks to file a lawsuit to complain with Republicans doing the legwork. If they succeeded, thousands would have gotten their ballots too late to vote. I don't know if you have ever actually done a petition drive, but I have been a signatory to petition drives, did freelance work for a Congressional campaign, and worked as a captain for a Bernie petition drive. The first thing that you learn is that the elections boards are strict about what it means to qualify, and you have to follow the rules. The Greens didn't, so that's their own fault.
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  3334.  @leahmeowzers9296  "both parties don't want Medicare for All," but only one party has members in Congress that actually do support it. Both siderism is lazy.
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  3335.  @leahmeowzers9296  Not counting members who resigned midterm or nonvoting delegates, 116 in the House alone cosponsored Medicare for All in the 116th Congress. Even if 90% were lying about it, that's still more than double your estimation, and that's just the House. Again, both siderism is just lazy.
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  3336.  @leahmeowzers9296  Doesn't change the fact that you lied about how many people supported it. Either that, or the laziness inherent in your both siderism just meant that you didn't bother to look it up before you started typing.
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  3337. Yeah, a massive percentage of the poor and disabled don't get the full amount or any at all. Such a small detail.
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  3338. I've known quite a few Ivy League graduates in my day. Quite frankly, I get the feeling that the one thing that they truly learn is how to drop their Ivy League credentials into a conversation.
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  3339.  @kingzut  But, you forget that most people on SSI also get SNAP, and in some high-cost states, there is also SSP, which adds to the SSI benefit (in PA, it is $22.10/month for individuals).
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  3340.  @pacoraban513  Well, if you bring it up randomly and try to change the subject, it makes you look a crank who is spamming. Do you take similar non-germane responses seriously?
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  3341.  @TheNextTurn  You're the ones coming here. Oh, the irony.
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  3342.  @EverRae  First of all, there was actual interference in the 2016 and 2020 elections to help Trump. Not ballot stuffing, and no one ever suggested that. It was there in plain sight, and people were convicted for their roles in it. And, yes, it is lazy. You originally insisted that if one side did it the other side had to it, too. And, like it or not, there is a huge difference between pointing out that a propaganda campaign happened and storming the Capitol to try to overthrow the government. To make those remotely equivalent is not only lazy, but indescribably dangerous. And you honestly don't see how it enables the worst actors to play both siderism enables the worst actors, just look at what you have posted. You are dismissing an armed insurrection because someone pointed out that bad things happened in another election. Democrats had a much stronger case in 2000, and no one stormed the Capitol to try to kill Denny Hastert. Al Gore shut down efforts to switch the results. To pretend that they are the same gives zero incentive to the worst actors to do better because "everyone does it." You seriously need to look in the mirror at yourself to see why you are refusing to call out a literal fascist coup attempt.
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  3343.  @jarridbarker1128  So, was he truthful when he said that McConnell would never get rid of the filibuster? Was he right that Trump and Ryan would fight the whole time and they'd never get anything done? Was he right when he said that Democrats would win the Senate in 2018? Was he right when he said that "if Trump wins, we'll get a real solid progressive like Elizabeth Warren as the nominee in 2020"? He is neither strong nor truthful.
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  3344.  @lawsonj39  Those are probably bots. If it was a video on Ohio, they'd complain that it isn't about something else.
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  3345.  @jofez27  But Manchin is literally the best that you can do in West Virginia. No other Democrat can win statewide right now, and I'm not so sure he can in 2024. Look at the stances of his opponents. His first opponent wanted to abolish Social Security, Medicare, and the minimum wage, and go to a flat tax (not surprising since he was a media and coal mogul). Look at the nonsense Jim Justice has pulled, his likely opponent next time. His primary opponent in 2018 got 30% of the vote. She was the nominee in 2020... and lost the general election by 43 points. When Doug Jones got elected, people talked about how great it was to have a Democratic Senator in a state where Trump won by 25 points (and he was the second most conservative Democratic Senator during his tenure). Well, Manchin is holding on in a state where Trump won by 39. No one in the last decade has overcome that much of a partisan lean to win statewide. Yes, Manchin can be frustrating, but he is to the left of most of the "most conservative Democratic Senators" in American history. We need to push for the farthest left candidate who can win. I don't want to kick Manchin out of the tent. I want the tent to be big enough that we aren't relying on him to hold up one of the poles. We need to stop hunting heretics and start trying to win converts.
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  3346.  @TheJennycococure  Yes, because someone with a punch down history isn't going to do so against someone who sees as a much smaller figure, physically and professionally. /s
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  3347. "Democrats have nothing that will lead to impeachment." For someone "following closely," even if all Republican in the House hold their fingers in their ears and sing so they can't hear, 19 Democrats in the House have to agree for him not to get impeached. While I don't expect Senate Republicans to care in high enough numbers to remove Trump from office, that Big Orange Dummy is getting impeached.
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  3348.  @liamjones9115  If Jimmy Dore really cares about Medicare for All, why did he support a 2020 candidate who called it "un-American"?
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  3349.  @pcbacklash_3261  Bill Maher literally ran a show from 1993-2002 called Politically Incorrect. There is always someone who gets mad that the next generation doesn't find their jokes funny.
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  3350.  @kyonhorne  *Fuhrer. I call him Der Orangefuhrer.
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  3351. And too brown for them. And not speaking English and a former refugee? Oh, He'd check so many of their boxes of hate!
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  3352.  @Oldney  I read a book about the manhunt where the story was recounted. It wasn't remorse for killing Lincoln, but more regret that his plan failed and that he lived long enough to realize it.
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  3353.  @asongucollins5917  And your point being? Mini-revolution or similar phrases have been used to describe political realignment ever since Jefferson won the 1800 election and called it a "bloodless revolution" when there was a peaceful transfer of power the next March.
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  3354.  @bobwan420  They never do. Some of them get weirdly defensive and insist that you will just blow off the link that they never provide as bogus. They project more than a drive-in movie.
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  3355.  @bellyhead67  He literally has a portion of the show that he calls "the fun half." You probably think that his Halloween show with the No Sellout Hour was unfair.
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  3356. ​ @sickomode420  Then, why say over and over that he wants to testify if he wasn't going to do it?
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  3357. I think everyone would have been happier if the popular vote and Electoral College were reversed. That way, Trump could always say he won without having to actually do the job, and hundreds if thousands of people would be alive who are not now because we would have had a competent response to coronavirus.
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  3358. ​ @jakes658  It was Ron Paul arguing that the Civil War was wrong because we should have bailed out the slaveholders, not Bernie Sanders.
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  3359. Combinations of fear and not knowing which side they are on.
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  3360.  @recycled3654  I think that it's always a good idea to try to think through whether something is too intrusive, but I think think that their ultimate failure is in insisting that everything is too intrusive, which means that it is really difficult for them to be a part of any constructive conversation. I remember once saying that a libertarian is someone who believes the same thing on Wednesday that he did on Monday regardless of what happened on Tuesday, to which one described, "What is wrong with having principles?" Well, nothing at all, but if those principles aren't in any way shaped by reality, they are meaningless.
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  3361.  @Catalyst94  How did that Supreme Court work out, since acknowledging the role of elections is "gradualism"? What has accelerationism got us?
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  3362. @Steve kombolis The board got half the vote, in essence having the ability to override the membership. The big question is whether or not they used that ability or they reaffirmed what the membership wanted.
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  3363.  @ash-ei1pk  The next Supernatural is their last.
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  3364.  @HispanicAt7heDisco  You think it was a strong move? You do know that a) there is a sponsor list, b) they could only get 50 people to a national rally, and c) the media that most people actually watched was far more concerned with attempts by Republicans to challenge the Electoral College certification, right? No matter what, Pelosi was going to be Speaker. So, what would have happened with the vote? 1) The sponsor list was accurate, which would then be shoved in the face of everyone who tried to bring it back. 2) A lot of Soft Yes members become Hard No, and now you are farther away than before from passage. 3) Pelosi uses Catch and Release, and members in lefty districts vote Yes knowing it will fail, so they can avoid the fate of Engel. So, where was the "strong move"? And what happened the second time around for the Truman health care plan? Or the Nixon plan? Or Hillarycare?
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  3365.  @dinobotpwnz  Virgil even admitted that he didn't know about the specifics of the case. Just because the Wisconsin Supreme Court makes Clarence Thomas look principled in comparison doesn't mean that the case has merit.
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  3366.  @thomas2082  He insists that "everyone will get the virus, anyway," and "healthy people don't need the vaccine." Those are anti-vaccine talking points.
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  3367. This reminds me of my favorite election quote of all time. Charles Evans Hughes was in a close race with Wilson in 1916. Wilson won the popular vote by about three points, but he was behind in California early, and their 13 electoral votes would have made Hughes the winner by a count of 267-264. The results started to tighten in California, so everything was hanging in the balance. (The race ultimately went for Wilson on Thursday.) A reporter called Hughes Wednesday morning to get his response, and his butler said, "The President is sleeping." The reporter replied, "Tell him he's not the President anymore."
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  3368.  @KingJT80  The Delta Variant is still getting a lot of innocent people who can't take it because either they are immunocompromised or too young. Stay well clear of that road, because you don't want to end up where this guy ends up.
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  3369.  @KingJT80  Here in PA, it's on the higher end but not that high. I think it's in the upper 50s in the entire population to get both shots, and we were the ninth or tenth to get 70% of adults to get one shot. Seeing the governor of my native state who is basically a knock off Trump except even he has his limits has been begging people to get the vaccine because they're under 40%. My mom can't get it because she is immunocompromised and my daughter and niece can't get it because they are too young. If people just hurt themselves with their own stupidity, have at it, but it is rarely just that.
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  3370. ​ @michaelburke4048  We had a top tax rate of over 50% from 1935-86 and over 70% from 1942-80, and we did just fine, so what would change now.
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  3371. He's nervous that he might have to give up some of his shares and give up his space colony.
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  3372.  @jessefillmore  So, a competent response to the biggest pandemic "isn't offering anything"? A Supreme Court that respects civil rights and voting rights "isn't offering anything"? Getting rid of the unrealized capital gains loophole that allows hundreds of billions to pass tax free "isn't offering anything"? A $15/hour minimum wage "isn't offering anything"? Yeah, my point still stands.
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  3373. Charley Pride and Darius Rucker (aka Hootie) hit the country charts.
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  3374. One time, my aunt posted something on Facebook saying that improvements to the iPhone were proof of the greatness of capitalism and the fact that the ACA website crashed was proof of the failures of socialism. I asked her to define socialism, and she insisted that it was the government making you buy something (no response when I asked her if car insurance was socialist). Yes, because propping up private businesses is just what Karl Marx dreamed of.
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  3375.  @mandatoryhelicopterrides4596  Assassination attempt? I've got to remind myself to sit down when I read your nonsense, because it will make me ROFL when I don't want to roll.
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  3376.  @uncomfortabletruth5915  Very important lesson: if someone cares more about being "anti-establishment" than the specific policy set, it is easy to wind up on the side that offers more money.
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  3377.  @sleepwithghostsasmr  The whole thing just seemed to me like stalling for time. I don't remember much high school Spanish, but I know that I didn't hear any numbers. I guess it would have seemed more genuine if he wasn't dodging in both languages, because it just felt like a stall for time. Then again, maybe it's bias on my part because he so often comes across as phony to me that this just seemed phony, too.
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  3378.  @Johnywang1  Indeed. As a Christian, I remember someone was shocked when I said that I never claim charitable deductions on my taxes. When Jesus says over and over again in the Gospels that you should not give money for personal aggrandizement, why should this stance be so shocking?
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  3379.  @nikki10bmo  Because Obama had enough control over the party levers to make sure that Perez won the chair.
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  3380. Scumbag Steve also works.
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  3381. Doesn't he say "shocked' twice? ;-)
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  3382.  @wallstreetwoes431  That if Ivanka wasn't his daughter, he'd date her. Also, that one thing they have in common is sex.
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  3383. ​ @squidcaps4308  Well, it's either hang up or just let this guy blather on for another hour, and that isn't good for anyone.
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  3384.  @aaronhumphrey3514  I'm excited that child poverty is cut in half.
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  3385.  @whyamimrpink78  Best argument doesn't mean "throw anything to the wall and hope that something sticks." Legal ethics frown upon knowingly presenting a false argument or putting a client on the stand who you know will lie.
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  3386.  @chazmcgooski83  The effective rate for the richest 400 families was 47% in 1980, and 56% in 1960, and they did just fine, and the economy did just fine.
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  3387.  @davidleomorley889  I am voting for Bernie, too. Mine was in response to the idea that Yang had a few good ideas but his signature idea is horrible. I thought the whole makes Milton Friedman and Charles Murray worse part would give it away ;-)
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  3388. Trump got in after Bernie did, and the degree to which Republicans would embrace fascism was not obvious at the time. As the runner up in 2016, he had an excellent position for 2020. When he ended both campaigns, he worked vigorously to help the ultimate nominee win. Both were open primaries and before the events of January 6th where the Republican Party went fully toward fascism.
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  3389. And he had to get a bond for 0.2% of that total.
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  3390. What specifically should he have done?
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  3391.  @angelajohnsonkeys4199  Sure, they're still mad about it, but it took the evil genius of Mitch McConnell to figure out that if you just say no to everything that the President and his party will be blamed. It succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.
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  3392.  @redemptionhappens7725  Poverty doesn't make people kill, but it does make people desperate enough to do things like give their child to such people.
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  3393.  @Jonuh  He mentioned that he filled in for Keith Olbermann a few times when he was out, but he lived upstate and had small children at the time and couldn't make it to Manhattan every day... so he put in a good word for a fellow Air America host, and she took off like a rocket.
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  3394.  @jenniferb.awesome  Which is more, a few thousand dollars in rent or a few hundred thousand dollars in movie rights, especially if they get something on the back end?
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  3395. ​​ @pi.actual  Indeed. The concession is the most important part of democracy, because you have to accept defeat in order for democracy to exist.
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  3396.  @sardoniclysane  When did he change on those issues? When I watched, he long had a history of supporting the Republican alternative to them.
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  3397.  @sardoniclysane  Well, that's hardly something that makes someone a lefty. It's a no-brainer to admit how much FDR accomplished.
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  3398.  @Darke_Exelbirth  Her national numbers have fallen seven points in the last two months. I'd call that falling.
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  3399.  @agabrielrose  So, someone is pointing out to you that what you want to do would actually backfire, and you just keep repeating yourself? Maybe it's time to step away from the bong.
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  3400.  @SteveGellerMusic  A libertarian who only has one idea is automatically disqualified. Elon Musk with less money isn't what we need.
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  3401.  @rodshop5897  He probably gets his income writing comments here.
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  3402.  @Zach-ju5vi  If you really do operate a small business, then you are defending the giants who make your job that much more difficult.
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  3403.  @Zach-ju5vi  Oh, no, it's never corporate greed causing wage stagnation. I guess you didn't see the leaked e-mail from Applebees about how higher gas prices help them because it leads to workers becoming desperate and accepting lower wages. No, the fact is that people like you have gotten your way for the last 40+ years, and wealth does not trickle down. However, you choose to look elsewhere rather than the mirror to admit that you have sought a workforce with low wages and cut education funding to keep those wages low. The simple truth is that everything the right wants (low wages, low taxation, low government spending, little infrastructure investment) are characteristic of third world countries.
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  3404. On a smaller aside, the real problem isn't having a filibuster, it is a silent filibuster that is an excuse to require a supermajority for passage. If someone is willing to stand up to make a case for something and talk and talk to do so, that is completely different from what Evil Turtle does with the help if Manchin and Sinema.
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  3405.  @imperialmotoring3789  He's not the one making the Lebensraum argument who has literally invaded every single neighbor and said that the biggest mistake of the 20th century was breaking up an empire and spent the 21st trying to put it back together.
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  3406.  @imperialmotoring3789  One has nothing to do with the other, even if your numbers were accurate.
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  3407.  @imperialmotoring3789  Yes, because banning people entering the United States based on national origin is just like saying that we shouldn't enslave people. At this point, I don't know if you just react without thinking or you are a troll account trying to show people just how stupid the right is.
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  3408.  @imperialmotoring3789  And I'm not advocating for open borders. What I do advocate is getting rid of quotas based purely in racism and making immigration much more transparent.
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  3409.  @imperialmotoring3789  "USA should quadruple it's [sic] population every year" Was your worst subject in school maf? "There's no F in math," you say? Your report card begs to differ.
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  3410. ​ @scotgraham3059  Only the ones who tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power or committed acts of terrorism in support of him. Now, if you don't like the fact that supporting a traitor who says that he wants to throw out the Constitution and being a dictator gets called out, then be better.
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  3411. [Like the woman from the car insurance commercials]: That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works.
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  3412.  @kevkus  Then, how do you explain that libertarians tend to oppose the Civil Rights Act? It is property rights uber alles.
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  3413.  @brockalbert5111  Let's get this straight. The so-called Bernie or Bust people were never Bernie supporters. They were Never Hillary people, and Bernie just happened to be the last opponent standing. 88% of Bernie's primary voters went for Hillary in November. That sounds bad... until you remember that only 75% of Hillary voters went for Obama over McCain. Remember PUMA? Hillary lost in no small part because she ignored people like Bernie who tried to warn her that Michigan and Wisconsin were slipping.
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  3414. Thank you to both of you! Bolsonaro was the only word I could really catch.
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  3415.  @russhall1414  Jimmy Dore did nothing. He is a useful idiot and controlled opposition. When you pretend you are above it all, you lake yourself irrelevant.
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  3416. At one point, I said that Buttigeg is the gay Obama. Maybe he's the young Biden instead.
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  3417. Indeed. Bernie grew up poor, and he wanted no one to be poor. She grew up poor, and she didn't want to be poor again.
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  3418. Drugs and dentures.
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  3419.  @LabGoats  And a doomed vote is a useful tactic how? How did the second vote go on the Truman plan for universal health care? How about the Nixon plan? How about Hillarycare? Are you familiar with the concept of Catch and Release? If so, how does forcing a vote have its intended effect?
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  3420. You are so right that he would have been so much better off had he stuck to pillows. He used to have this goofy earnestness that played well on camera. Now, he's just come unglued. My real concern is that he's gotten back on the pipe again or he has some sort of bipolar disorder, because he's been really hyper in a lot of appearances over the last year or so.
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  3421. @cablecow15 If you watch that movie, it's really a Rohrshach test. Yes, they show the destruction, but they also paint it as necessary, especially with Gary's speech at the end.
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  3422. "Refusing to vote is demanding to be ignored." John Lydon
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  3423. @Majime What conservative value do you see in red? The only thing that I can think of is that divorce should be limited to adultery.
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  3424.  @deathmagneto-soy  Kyle Kulinski: forms a group to help down ballot candidates get elected, refuses to vote because he lives in a safe state for the Presidential election; befriends the worst grifters and refuses to ever criticize them; presents himself as the grand strategist but argues the same strategy every time. He's like a novice chess player who has learned the Scholar's Mate and tries to use it on everyone. Krystal Ball: wants to form a red/brown alliance; never criticizes Republicans without finding a way to sneak in both siderism but never does so when criticizing Democrats; formed a PAC between her time at MSNBC and The Hill devoted to elected lefty candidates where less than 5% went to candidates and 39% went into her own pockets; talked about "writing a book" with her cohost that turned out to be nothing more than transcripts from her show that people can watch for free. Combined: started a show that can only be seen behind a paywall
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  3425. ​ @undefeatedmc  That still doesn't give Hamas the right to violate it. If your position is so morally superior, you shouldn't have to commit atrocities.
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  3426.  @unclepatrick2  When Bernie was elected mayor of Burlington, Vermont was the most Republican state in America. No one who cacuses with the Democrats not named Bernie Sanders or Patrick Leahy has ever been elected to the Senate from the Green Mountain State. If you want rural America, you want real left-wing economic populism. Watch Bernie in the town halls where he goes to Trump Country or to Fox and how he wins over the audience. The Republicans are trying reverse psychology on us.
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  3427. This is someone who argued in 2001 that people should just save their own money instead of relying on Social Security and did a Mafia-themed week to compare the government to the mob. He has always had his problematic side, but in the last few years, the ratio of insightful to awful has shifted.
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  3428.  @X2LR8  You mean like they fixed things in the Bush and Trump years?
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  3429. They also say they don't like big government spending, but they support increasing spending for the department that has the most missing money out of any government entity.
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  3430.  @whyamimrpink78  Gee, I thought that you were a rugged individualist.
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  3431. Since probably at least John XXIII.
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  3432.  @sebastianholzl4668  Indeed. Jimmy Dore is already accusing Cori Bush of selling out, if for no other reason than she won, so it's only a matter of time. Jimmy Dore appeals to two groups: 1) right wingers who love to hear "lefties attack their own," 2) people who agree with policies on the left but whose identity is so wrapped up in being the pure outsider that actually winning messes with their self image because they would rather complain.
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  3433.  @sebastianholzl4668  I dealt with one of them on another thread, and I asked him what he did personally to build support for Medicare for All, and his answer was writing Congress to try to force a vote, making comments on YouTube videos, and "enlightening people like [me]." I pointed out that comments sections aren't activism, and literally nothing that he mentioned was an attempt to actually build support for passing Medicare for All. I even gave a contrast to how actual grassroots work got two members of Congress in Philadelphia to sign on to the bill as an example of what real activism is. If they actually got Medicare for All, they'd complain about how it was implemented and call it a sell out or say that anything short of full-on socialized medicine is a betrayal.
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  3434.  @LoboKhan1  I don't think it was guilt so much as someone emasculated by his swinger wife and trying to look tough.
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  3435.  @LoboKhan1  Indeed. Look at how many times he mocked the appearance of Uncle Phil for money.
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  3436.  @rishabhanand4973  I remember someone telling me that gay marriage violated "the pursuit of happiness." Yes, because your happiness at driving a loving couple underground supercedes that couple's right to exist.
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  3437.  @feedingravens  That's fundamentalists. They come in all stripes. Quite frankly, Chirstian fundamentalists seem to have far more in common with the Muslim fundamentalists they hate than Christians who aren't fundamentalist and actually read the red letters.
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  3438.  @lomak7422  So, science proves it, but yet you go on an angry libertarian rant when someone provides you evidence and you refuse to provide to provide evidence when someone else asks for it? Really great job defending your argument!
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  3439.  @Red_Lanterns_Rage  You mean you didn't like seeing Gordon and Albert (which was especially poignant given that Miguel Ferrer didn't live to see the premiere, but he was pretty much the only actor in that category able to do more than one scene or more than one setting)? Seeing how Mike was slowly helping Cooper find himself? While there were parts that did move at a glacial pace, it had some seriously amazing moments, and it certainly held up better than the ten or so episodes after the Laura Palmer mystery was solved.
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  3440. Poverty declined greatly due to the War on Poverty. The only "failure" came after Republicans gutted it and the reduction wasn't as great as initially thought.
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  3441.    No network would allow any spot more than two minutes. These are designed to be shared.
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  3442.  @freebobafett  Actually, all a republic really means is that there is no monarch. There are democracies that are republics (such as France and Germany) and dictatorships that are republics (such as China). When people use "republic, not a democracy," the unspoken is that they want the latter, but it's just as ridiculous a statement as "It's not a grape! It's purple."
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  3443.  @zerocool5395  One party at least has a wing that cares about working people. Giving up only guarantees failure. Some of us would rather not go down without a fight.
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  3444.  Steven Soco  There were more PUMAs who voted for McCain in 2008 than Never Hillary faux Bernie supporters who voted for Moscow Donald in 2016.
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  3445. @Justin Time And how is a regime that has courted the most racist elements to stay in power different in this context than the right here?
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  3446.  @PJBubbles  There is no point. It didn't matter if he lost Tennessee by 20 points if he won Florida or New Hampshire.
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  3447.  @calvinmiguel4405  You mean the point where we get a vote that we all know will fail because LEFTIST UTOPIA?
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  3448.  @asielnorton345  Show me where they have shown to be divided in Congress. Over 95% of Republicans voted against impeachment.
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  3449.  @Name-jw4sj  Funny that you didn't actually list one.
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  3450. Sam Seder, Libertarian 2020 Because he knows how freedom works!
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  3451.  @dadnonlyd3  If he really cares deep down about the issues, why did he tell Joe Rogan what he did about not voting? He was talking about poll places being dirty and not worth the hassle, and he started a group dedicated to electing down ballot candidates, but down ballot candidates had no role whatsoever in his decision to vote. He is someone who has largely done a solo effort over the years, but the first person he decided to develop an on-air partnership with was noted grifter Krystal Ball and he stuck it behind a paywall. If there is still some core there, he is hiding it behind some awful.
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  3452. It depends on whether or not UBI is paid for with a regressive tax and whether or not it is a Trojan horse to gut the existing social safety net. Assuming that it is not, we need the following societal solutions first: 1) Medicare for All 2) Green New Deal 3) Federal minimum wage of $15/hour indexed to inflation 4) Federal Jobs Guarantee 5) Free Public Postsecondary Education 6) Student Loan Forgiveness and Medical Debt Forgiveness 7) Workplace Democracy 8) Affordable Housing Guarantee Then, and only then, do we need to evaluate our situation and determine if we need a UBI and, if so, what it should look like.
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  3453.  @v0id_d3m0n  "The new iPad is like an iPhone that doesn't make calls, or as Apple users call it, an iPhone." Stephen Colbert
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  3454. I saw an interview a few years ago where he was saying that it was a mistake to pick Palin, but he tried to play whataboutism with Edwards. For all of the flaws of John Edwards, he was far superior to Sarah Palin.
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  3455.  Mr. McGringus  Palin is not nearly as superior on the personal conduct level as you are implying. The flaws of Edwards only hurt people in his family. They are not remotely comparable, and let us not forget that the moments which drove Edwards to infamy were long after his nomination. If they were my only two choices, give me the cheater over the candidate who used state police to carry out personal revenge any day of the week.
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  3456.  @Roger-fs5yo  Bill Maher is a libertarian, so you're not helping yourself. And if you think he says what Bill Clinton did in the 1990s, you're either lying or ignorant.
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  3457.  @duhduhduhdiesel1436  Exactly. Sometimes, you have to expose the liars to discredit them just in case others might fall for the nonsense.
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  3458.  @auldthymer  It was him.
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  3459. Jamie seems caught off guard when Michael points out that Venezuela has issues. I agree with Michael that none of these justify a coup attempt, but if you want people to take the idea of left politics seriously, don't take the bait of saying everything is fine there.
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  3460.  @kerrydutter5376  I was thinking of giving him my dollar until I saw him defend 9/11 Truther stuff to David Pakman. If he gets on the stage, Bernie will be painted with that brush and it will hurt him.
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  3461.  @noneya1238  And, while we're at it, Tom Brady who insisted on a kiss on the mouth when his ten-year-old son tried to kiss him on the cheek. Some people get insulated from being told something is a bad idea, and it isn't healthy.
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  3462. It looks like Biden has all the Democrats on board. He doesn't need any Republicans.
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  3463.  mountaingoat1003  Yeah, that makes sense. Obama has disappeared, as have both Bill and Hillary, and Trump has been taking credit for two years. You can't take credit for the good and shift the blame to your predecessor when things take a turn.
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  3464. ​ @sspbrazil  No reason to bring The Edge into it (he's done enough to get away with his choice in apparel), but everything else is spot on.
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  3465.  @tsevere  So, she really believed that is what happened, called Bernie her friend, literally and figuratively embraced him for 13 months, only to drop this story the night before the debate? I agree with the other commenter. I have caught people in lies before only to be told "Are you calling me a liar?" She figured that either a) Bernie would say no because he wouldn't want to offend her, so she could say that he was lying, or b) that Bernie would call her a liar and she would then say that he bullied her. You don't resolve issues like that with a hot mic. This felt like something straight out of Jerry Springer.
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  3466.  @2727rogers  Even her talk of "ending forever wars" masks that she was just fine with other kind of wars to the point where "regime change wars" basically became code for "wars I don't like." Most of her dove talk was really isolationism, which is not peace.
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  3467.  @harveymanfredsenjenson5417  What is stupid about it? In order to first understand how this works as a legislative tactic, you have to understand Catch and Release. So, do you understand Catch and Release as a legislative tactic?
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  3468.  @thomashassall96  Not as creepy as the ones with his face superimposed on Stallone's body from Rocky IV.
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  3469.  @LifeWithCrispyy  I think the best case scenario for Bernie is that he wins the double. He is pretty much a lock in New Hampshire, and if he wins Iowa, momentum will help out a lot. No one has ever won the double and lost, and I think it will propel him to a win in Nevada and a close finish in South Carolina. I think the last establishment candidate standing will be Harris, and her record may very well be the worst of any declared candidate.
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  3470. Never underestimate the ability of a malignant narcissist to take credit for literally everything.
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  3471. "Hold on, you fascists bound to lose." Woody Guthrie
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  3472. Indeed. It is the reform that makes all other reforms possible.
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  3473.  @Kittylover074  I live in a swing state, so I will not aid and abet four more years of Trump. However, when it comes time for me to vote on June 2nd, Bernie is getting my vote. If someone lives in a state where Biden can't use your vote or doesn't need it, have at it, but you are so right. If you live in a swing state, you can't play with people's lives.
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  3474. I get why you would want to keep judges out of electoral politics, but if you're going to do that, there should be a limit, say 20 years, on a federal judge/justice's tenure. That will also prevent the temptation of nominating a 43-year-old to the bench with the cynical goal of keeping that person there for 40 or 50 years.
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  3475.  Alicia Thomas  Too slowly. If he has a pulse, his cult will vote for him.
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  3476. 2028 to finish the legacy of President Bernie
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  3477.  @jameshumphrey9939  He is known as the amendment king for years. If he wins the Presidency, there will be a lot of other left-wing Democrats who come along with him to help him get things done, and unlike Obama, he is not a closet centrist who knows that you can't start off negotiating with yourself.
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  3478.  @toneytorado5520  Unsolved by whom? Everyone involved except for the Lutz family says that it was fake. And the family was a suspect in the video. I said that it was either the whole neighborhood or the family, and I gave a parallel.
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  3479.  @aheroictaxidriver3180  And who sabotaged the peace talks in Vietnam and extended the war for seven years and expanded it into Cambodia and Laos just to get the same thing we were going to get in 1968?
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  3480.  @conservativedragon  Counties that were less vaccinated caught the virus in a higher percentage with a higher death rate. Before the vaccine, the death rate was greater than 5%. Dummies like you make people sicker and gave the virus time to mutate, making eradication pretty much impossible. Great plan!
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  3481. Buffett, Bezos, and Gates, because the bulk of their wealth is in stocks, could pass it to their kids tax free unless they cash it out before they die. Do you think that is fair?
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  3482.  @Addamo  The problem with being pariahs is that we are supposed to ultimately be trying to get things done. If you get some victories here and there, a muscle memory develops and you can get the bigger ones. If everyone hates you, you get absolutely nothing done. Then, you end up irrelevant like Tulsi Gabbard. The mere fact that you have to ask this question shows that you aren't serious about accomplishing anything except for ego gratification.
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  3483.  @Addamo  And we ended up with the ACA after everything to its left was defeated and the issue died in Congress for a generation.
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  3484. Three
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  3485.  @MetalDetroit  So, police, fire fighters, libraries, roads, bridges, sewage, and the military are all failures?
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  3486.  @slartibartfast1268  We need to keep it fresh in people's memories. Never let anyone forget who she really is.
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  3487.  @cliffordlevy3918  What is the Amazon union? I saw the material where Amazon was sending anti-union propaganda to their company and their affiliates.
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  3488.  @SilenceSays416  Oh, okay. That clarifies things. The sad thing is that it didn't have to be this way. Here in the US, we used to have free college, and one parent (I don't care which one) could make enough money for a middle class lifestyle.
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  3489. Who is this Marshall? And what is this law?
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  3490. Every employer/employee relationship is based on exploration and conflicting goals.
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  3491.  @mr.dirtydannnnn  Indeed. That also applies to term limits.
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  3492.  @SoundsSilver  Indeed. I got two weeks, and that was only because two days fell on a holiday, and I had to use the vacation I saved up.
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  3493.  @donHooligan  You "won't stand in my way," but yet you keep trying to convince people to not vote for Biden. I don't think that's how it works. As far as it not mattering, you are aware that someone will be in the White House to either sign bills or veto them. If you encourage people to vote for the latter or ignore the position entirely, you are making the "something" more difficult to actually accomplish. If you want something self-indulgent that will leave you in the same place, you might want to get a room and some lube.
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  3494. Her changed vote didn't even affect the margin, because a Present vote is not a Yes, so it doesn't help pass anything.
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  3495.  @emblemedfate4270  I gave examples. I gave several and you keep saying that I am "avoiding policy." Accurately pointing to her positions on foreign policy, Medicare for All, the violation of her oath of office, and her advocacy of a war crime is engaging in policy.
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  3496.  @frivolousquan7085  Local funding reinforces the vicious circle of all of the money going to the rich districts, which means property values keep going up, which increases the tax base, so they continue to perform better. Meanwhile, the poor schools continue to see a brain drain and schools get worse, which causes property values to drop, which starves the poor schools. It's like you think that the inequality is the point instead of the problem. A child's education shouldn't depend on ZIP code.
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  3497.  @frivolousquan7085  And how do you know they spend most of their time defending bad teachers? Do you feel the same way about police unions?
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  3498.  @frivolousquan7085  Yeah, because having maps that don't know that the Soviet Union is no longer a thing is something that should totally be appropriate in a professional teaching environment.
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  3499.  @frivolousquan7085  So, eliminate the federal government's involvement so that poor states like, say, Mississippi, are just totally on their own, and so that states that haven't gotten over being defeated in their treason 160 years ago are free to lie about their treasonous past. Great plan!
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  3500.  @frivolousquan7085  And those teachers making $100K/year? Those tend to be in the rich school districts where they can actually recruit top teachers.
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  3501.  @frivolousquan7085  You mean because they are lying and teaching propaganda. The states right in question was slavery. The states said so when they left. They supported the Fugitive Slave Act and complained that free states weren't enforcing it strongly enough. The Confederate Constitution had two laws that could not be changed under any circumstances: keeping the Peculiar Institution, and the Fugitive Slave Act. Any attempt to whitewash the Civil War has damaging effects to this day in how people of color are treated. By your logic, we shouldn't have federal civil rights legislation, either.
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  3502. Except Moira Rose is funny and actually tries to make things better.
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  3503.  @forthemanynotthefew5243  And what does that do? It means that Pelosi can say that she gave them exactly what she wanted, it will languish for another decade or more, and the Democrats who may be amenable to other policies such as Student Loan Forgiveness will now refuse to go along because they will see the left as bad faith actors. Did you not see how Tulsi Gabbard ended up after using the debate stage to try to take down other candidates without really offering anything positive of her own? Do you want to turn AOC into another Tulsi?
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  3504.  @vinniemcclung693  There are only 13 Senators who support the bill, so yes, they know it will die there.
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  3505.  @virginiaryno2631  Me, too. She used to be the Trump kid I like. I figured that giving a routine speech was just some price she had to pay, but no more.
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  3506.  Lel E  True. Mostly I don't think of him. Tiffany was the one who I had sympathy for until a couple of months ago when she got into the Twitter game to post stupid memes that looked like stuff that Eric would share. My focus is on the adult children, but I don't think he's innocent.
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  3507.  @christiantaylor1750  If he wasn't dog whistling, then why did he keep wanting Sam to take his glasses off so he could see his "Velveteen Rabbit" eyes? If he "could out-debate him any day of the week," why didn't he do it? And don't give me the "because he crashed the show" excuse, because this guy crashed Cenk Uygur's panel at Politicon.
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  3508.  @christiantaylor1750  And if you look it up, it is an anti-Semitic trope straight out of Nazi Germany, coupled with the fact that his sidekick also called him soulless, and it should remove all doubt.
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  3509. I loved that movie and have seen it many times, but I just can't watch it anymore.
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  3510. Sadly, too many of them are still focusing on what Hillary said about putting people out of work.
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  3511.  @J.CashDro  Several posts of you saying that he'll never get any better and that he can't handle the job sure does sound like going after someone to me.
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  3512. She went along with the birther nonsense, so she is serving her punishment by having to see him.
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  3513. The reason it would be far easier to get rid of what is left (to use Grover Norquist's analogy of making it small enough to drown in the bathtub) is because it is far easier to demonize the people who still get the existing benefits. Yang himself calls the "freedom dividend" a "right of citizenship," but he puts some very serious strings on it at the bottom, so he must not think that the poor and disabled are full citizens.
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  3514. "'Attempted murder! Nobody gets a Nobel Prize for attempted chemistry.' Sideshow Bob" Ana Kasparian
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  3515. "Can't I just have one simple number that is easy to remember?" Sen. Johnny Iselin, The Manchurian Candidate
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  3516. Somewhere, Amy Klobuchar staffers are thinking, "and we thought we had it bad!"
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  3517.  @evanfinch4987  That gets a rimshot.
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  3518. @WheelsAlwaysTurning Sugar Ray had a lot handed to him on the way up the ranks. In his first professional fight in 1976, Leonard got $40,000. Hagler got $75 in 1973. How many fights did Leonard have to fight before he got his shot again?
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  3519.  @robfern66  Indeed. You can't work with fascists. My grandpa and millions of others crossed an ocean to defeat them, and I'm not about to see their sacrifice get thrown away.
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  3520. ​ @cheeto8960  Ukraine never promised to not join NATO, but Russoa did promise never to invade Ukraine. Maybe NATO membership wouldn't be so attractive if Russia didn't have a bad habit of invading its neighbors.
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  3521. Especially after the bill to allow mail-in voting was already part of a bipartisan commission about how to make voting easier for the people, and now they're using this to distract people from their latest power grab of Supreme Court seats by district instead of statewide.
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  3522. Yet another example of why nepotism is bad.
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  3523. I'm surprised it took this long.
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  3524. A lot of us took a lot of heat from the tulcels. It looks like we were proven right once again.
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  3525.  @CouncilOfTheLostGoats  Darn right! Especially if you live in a swing state, voting is not about having a temper tantrum, but about picking someone who will actually govern. Considering that they helped a literal fascist get a toehold on government, that's not exactly something to brag about.
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  3526.  @SuiLover  Indeed. I remember watching Manhunt: Unabomber (and besides thinking that the moment that it "clicked" for the hunter when he was sitting a red light with no one around being silly) was how that it almost seemed to sympathize with Kaczynski. You only saw a brief scene with victim impact statements at the end. See a show that included actual interviews with Kaczynski and he is not a sympathetic figure at all.
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  3527. Well, they have i-DEE-uhs, but once you said helping people, that gets rid of all of them.
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  3528.  @Hairbrain  You mean before she realized that forcing a vote would ensure that it would be defeated and never brought back again if she tried?
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  3529. How did I miss that?
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  3530. "Be careful how you treat people on the way to the top. Those are the same people you will see on your way down."
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  3531.  @bongodave13  I compare their tenures as mayor. Bernie led the push to all renewable electricity, which is now a reality in Burlington. Buttigeg was busy kicking poor people out of their homes for gentrification.
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  3532. I knew his voice sounded familiar! It was bugging me so much that I couldn't quite place it. Thank you, David!
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  3533.  @sirwill619  Indeed. $2MM houses in Pasadena don't pay for themselves.
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  3534. I'd put Biden as the best (or least bad) since LBJ. From McGovern on, there has been a long history of candidates who screw labor over when push comes to shove. Truman and Roosevelt are a pretty high bar, so let's at least push that he gets to "best since" category with them in the list.
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  3535.  Trey Yula  If that's what you tell yourself to assuage your conscience. The instant that they are taken away with no intention of return, that is kidnapping.
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  3536.  @greg1685  Indeed. I kept hearing defenders say she attacked both sides equally, which wasn't true based on any search of her radars (and even if it was, creates a false equivalence between the two). Then, they said that it wasn't far to lump her with Saagar. Well, they are a unit, and if they were "Republicans are better, vote for them," and "Democrats suck, don't vote for them," it doesn't take Larry Sabato to figure out the end result.
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  3537. Indeed. It reminds me of King of the Hill sending up movies with a rematch of an old football game. The original victors said, "Why would we do this? There's nothing to gain."
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  3538.  @Name-cz5jj  If you don't get an absolute majority in the Electoral College, the race goes to the House... where it gets decided by Democrats and Republicans. Maybe spend less time whining about the two party system and understand that it is a result of the rules that we have for elections. Instead of whining about the choices, spend more time actually working on something that might make a difference like Ranked Choice Voting.
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  3539.  @winstonsmith-ministryoftru1609  As soon as I saw the name, I said to myself, "Please, let this guy be born in 1984" :-D I was so excited that he was that I showed just about everyone. I was a little disappointed that maybe 20% of the people I showed it to understood why I found that so amusing.
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  3540. David Pakman understands that hashtag activism is not activism. Why does he need to know about this?
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  3541.  @paddleduck5328  I have zero problem with her endorsing after the primary. You know who else did? Bernie. Because they understood that Hillary on her worst day is better than Trump on his best day. Ultimately, one of those two would be President, and she was the less bad choice.
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  3542.  @georgefurman4371  Darn right! We need to stop thinking that people will know that things are going better when even in supposed lefty media, a lot bury the jobs and wages numbers and obsess over inflation as if to say, "See, this is what happens when the poor and workers get money. You should give it all to us instead and maybe we'll give you some of our scraps."
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  3543.  @governmentcheese2257  I'm a veteran myself, and I swear, no one this side of Walter Sobchack invokes veteran status as much as her.
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  3544. Because if someone can be a real lefty and get stuff done, it will prove that he wasn't smart for taking half a loaf, but he was weak for wanting a dollar and asking for a quarter.
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  3545. There's enough calcium there to prevent osteoporosis in 100 people.
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  3546. He interviewed Marianne Williamson because he thought he could walk all over her. He'll never make that mistake again.
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  3547. Let's not pussyfoot around. They kidnap kids.
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  3548.  @brandocalrissian3972  All a republic means is that there is no monarch. This is like saying, "That's not a grape, it's purple!"
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  3549.  @brandocalrissian3972  Do I think McConnell has done a good job? No. Is it ultimately my decision whether or not he gets fired? As Majority Leader, yes, but not as a Senator. That is up for the people of Kentucky to decide.
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  3550.  @growingandshowing559  And it looks like he is flagging proof that he is wrong. I have posted the definitions twice and it seems like it keeps disappearing.
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  3551. Indeed. Her first six years in Congress overlapped with the six years Beto O'Rourke spent in Congress, and her voting record is to his right. He had the excuse of being in a red state. She had no such excuse.
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  3552.  @cadeholbrook2454  Except for the millions who never get treatment at all because they don't have insurance or their insurance won't cover it.
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  3553. Gee, maybe the problem is that too many people didn't take the preventive measures in the first place. I went to visit my family in West Virginia during the pandemic, and you wouldn't know anything was going on out of the ordinary. Who would have known that viruses mutate when they spread?
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  3554.  @jessd4048  Who is Varn? Yes, I do think that there is some merit to giving someone some grace, but it should have been obvious at that debate, not a year and a half later, that Jimmy Dore was an unserious person who was only doing it for clicks and cash. Telling Sam "go easy on him" was in a sense saying not to expose the grift. Yes, he started to get a bit quicker on the ball towards the end (he even let David and Nathan Robinson go on at length about their problems with Rising on his own show, even if he didn't want to join in himself, so I do think that had he lived a few more months even, he would have completed his acceptance of what they were doing), but at this point in time, we have seen the "how I left the left" grift so many times that we know its beats and rhythms pretty precisely. Michael was great at many things, but grifter spotting wasn't really one of them. Then again, it would make an interesting question of how you handle an ethos of "kindness to people and ruthlessness to systems" when a grift is both slow motion and obvious at a certain point. A month or two ago, I was willing to say that this might be a one-off of an occasional bad take, but the fact that they have dug in so hard seems more and more like evidence that their former proteges didn't betray them as much as they showed them the path.
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  3555.  @ivnarc6430  Indeed. There are times when it is just a weird bad take, but when you see it start to happen, and going to only centrist and right-wing sources to complain about it, this is pretty damning evidence. Ana once said she'd never go down that road because these issues were too important to her, but maybe she suddenly realized that she was in a gated community and didn't care about the world outside her gate so much anymore and maybe started to realize how easy it would be to do the Rubin. David Pakman said that he got offered triple what he was making to change views, so just maybe they decided to say yes.
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  3556.  @argielita  Some. That misses the point. It's basically the "keep your government hands off my Medicare" types who think they're better than the other people getting benefits that I am describing.
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  3557.  @lisaw5604  Absolutely. I'm not sure if the Roberts Court will allow it, but public financing where any viable candidate who opts in forgoes private donations (except for maybe a nominal amount for seed money for initial filing fees and stuff like that) gets a dollar for dollar match for everything that a private dollar gives would be a big step. Wanna say campaign contributions are "speech"? Well, nothing in speech prohibits your opponent from getting "speech" as well.
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  3558.  @lisaw5604  Indeed. When the history is written on this time, Bernie will forever survive as an example of someone who toiled in obscurity making bills better for decade, and said no to the idea that not taking the big money was unilateral disarmament, and he started a movement and still used his position in defeat to start making good bills that those with corporate interests at heart had to respond to.
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  3559. I don't think someone with zero black support who keeps digging his hole deeper has a chance of winning the nomination.
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  3560. Because idiots like you refuse to get vaccinated and allow variants to develop and spread.
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  3561. I went to college with some of these Confederate sympathizers. I could literally add the phrase "to keep slaves" or some version thereof, and it would fit perfectly what they were talking about. States rights... to keep slaves. The agricultural lifestyle... which used slave labor. Defending their land... and to keep slaves on it. I, for one, am proud that my great-great-grandfather was on the right side of history on that war, which is in the top two in indisputably just wars in American history.
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  3562.  @JackFate76  If it didn't mean that much, then why did your boy Jimmy go through such an effort to distort it and make up a producer who is totally hot but lives in another state, you don't know her, to fire?
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  3563.  @impressiveprogressive7343  Indeed. The mere fact that that generation did it 12 times within 16 years of ratification should have been a hint. However, it's only been amended 15 times over the next 218.
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  3564.  @underground-radio-x  Yang doesn't support affordable housing. He has specified that housing subsidies and LIHEAP will force people to choose between their current benefits and his plan. He said that rent control is a local issue, and his answer is that friends band together and buy a money pit (he calls it a fixer upper, but we all know what that means), and I guess hope and pray that you a) don't have to move in the next 15-30 years, and b) don't drive each other crazy so you actually want to see each other day in and day out for decades.
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  3565.  @squatch545  Forcing the Vote didn't bring those things about. In this context, forcing the vote is a message vote when you know that you don't have nearly enough to pass as though that will somehow get the thing that you want. Again, you still haven't given an example.
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  3566.  @johnc3525  If that helps you sleep at night.
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  3567. Your winnings, sir.
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  3568.  @StanfordMommaerts-Brown  Add to that the fact that a Republican governor would have named their successor and kept control of the Senate in the habds of Evil Turtle, and there's a reason why neither got a Cabinet position.
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  3569.  L  He didn't have the sniffles, so he must have injected it this time.
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  3570.  @FredGoldust  I watched his Capone special, so I know quite a bit. He publicly supported Trunp for years abd considered a run again Menendez.
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  3571.  Tony Mario  I'd say well over 50MM agree with that assessment.
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  3572.  Tony Mario  You really don't get how health insurance or taxes work, do you? Even if you look at that figure, it would be a drop in the bucket of American health costs. Based on how much Bernie wants to set the taxes at, I would pay a lot more than $1000, but I would pay a fraction of what I pay now. I don't want to start a new insurance system using private money. I want the existing public one (Medicare) expanded to cover everyone, even if they can't pitch in $1000.
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  3573. Lobbyists have to either have expertise or a working relationship with Congress. She wants to be a talking head. It's lucrative and easy.
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  3574.  @Jessica_Roth  She opposed the Iran nuclear deal. Also, I am no fan of the apartheid label, either, but I am a fan of the First Amendment, and this bill clearly violates it.
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  3575.  @Noreb  I know, I know. It is so much easier to let people talk about "facts" when they make them up. How thoughtless of me.
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  3576. I eagerly await the day that big orange dummy leaves office for two reasons: 1) he can't do so much direct damage to our country, 2) we finally get to find out what the NYAG and SDNY found out about his financial crimes.
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  3577. The real money for a member of Congress isn't in the salary, but in the lobbying opportunities after they leave. That's why they are so reluctant to go after the wealthy interests.
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  3578.  @tray2940  I remember when this first started that people insisted there was "no way" Ukraine could hold up against the Mighty Russian Army. Well, they've more than done so.
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  3579.  @smartass0124  Still doesn't change that there are a few missing words.
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  3580.  @pierrojules  He would never switch. He'd never make it out of the Republican primary. If you don't like getting half a loaf with Manchin (look up his voting record), imagine someone in that seat who wanted to abolish Social Security, Medicare, and the minimum wage (like his opponent in the 2010 special election and 2012 regular election) or a literal billionaire who stiffs contractors and once literally bribed the electric company come to his house out in the boonies to get his power on first while people were dying in a record heatwave (his likely 2024 opponent).
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  3581.  @ladydeerheart1  You can restructure the Court in a way that these nine aren't always the Supreme Court, through rotations and things like that.
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  3582. When activated, there was a guy in my unit who was one of these tax protestors. He had a copy of the Internal Revenue Code, and he asked where it says that he had to pay. Literally, the first few pages answered every one of his follow up questions.
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  3583. "You can either have publicly funded elections in the public interest, or privately funded elections in the private interest." Dennis Kucinich, 2004
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  3584.  @MannyScoot  If you don't want to be treated like a liar, don't be a liar.
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  3585. She's always been a con. Before she endorsed Bernie, she built her name going to Bill Maher and Fox to complain that Obama wasn't harsh enough in his language toward Muslims, she defended torture, and she compared the Iran nuclear deal to Iraq. Her political BFF has always been Modi. The real grift was endorsing Bernie to fend off a primary challenge to her left by supporting a popular candidate in her state. She's always been a right-wing nut job.
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  3586.  @yobased2872  Right wing populism is fake populism. Populism is not defined by scapegoating minorities, no matter how much the elites would have you believe. Populism is about making democracy representative of the people.
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  3587.  @moralkombat66  Agreed. I waited longer than Benny boy, but I actually tried to learn so that I might have some idea of what was going on.
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  3588.  @luodeligesi7238  Oh, okay. I do apologize for overestimating your intelligence before. So, I will talk to you the way I do my seven-year-old child. I was not saying that I want Bill Cosby to get a show. (Quite frankly, as the kids started aging out, I watched The Cosby Show less and less.) I was arguing against someone saying that Mike Tyson has done his time and been a model citizen since. Therefore, by that standard, which I do not share, why isn't that person advocating for the rehabilitation of Cosby. I am not advocating for either, but you seem to be too dim to understand that.
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  3589. ​ @brianbox867  There's a big difference between emphasizing things that benefit a certain point of view and knowingly lying.
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  3590. Pelosi promised that the bigger bill would come first. If she can't keep her word, why should the lefties?
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  3591.  @deafforever3534  I don't think it's a euphemism, but I do think that it is an attempt to scapegoat in a similar way so that people pay no attention to that concentration of corporate power behind the curtain.
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  3592. What are some actual funny things that he said? I have asked over and over, but never seem to actually get an answer.
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  3593.  @Forestien  I don't know. That litmus test leaves people thinking that a pro-torture, pro-massacring protesters, pro-Putin, pro-Modi, pro-Adeslon Congresswoman who is Ron Paul in a dress on foreign policy as a sterling example of left-wing credentials.
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  3594.  @tomfox6084  If they knew, then why does everything else in the book say that nobody else knew? Yes, there are theory channels that say that Dumbledore probably knew, but nobody knew that Pettigrew was an animagus other than the other Marauders, he was gone, and Sirius Black sat there laughing. It is a reasonable assumption that he was the traitor.
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  3595.  @tomfox6084  What specifically would be the cause for betrayal? James and Lily were dead, and very few of the Death Eaters remained truly loyal.
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  3596.  @dynamicworlds1  Indeed. I never subscribed, but I watched some of his videos during the 2016 primary and thought they were good for venting, but I started hearing him "joke" about how in a Trump vs. Hillary race that Trump would be preferable, and that put my radar up. Hadn't seen him for a while after that, but going full Never Hillary told me to stay away.
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  3597.  @dynamicworlds1  Except, as bad as Hillary may be (and she is, and I am sick of her and just want her to stay gone), she isn't a fascist. Could you envision her trying to pull anything like Stop the Steal? She conceded at 2:30 in the morning of November 9th and stayed out of the public eye for months afterwards to let Trump get his chance to govern.
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  3598. The people who made him the 50th vote.
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  3599.  @brokenclock1967  Well, the way CNN is going lately, give it time.
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  3600.  @woody1389  If you think that Democrats are equally to blame, then either you are lazy and not paying attention, or you don't understand what you are seeing. Show me the armed insurrection on the left in this country.
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  3601.  @BlazingOwnager  In 2013, the Supreme Court had a case that gutted the Voting Rights Act, Shelby County v. Holder, and the Republican Justices all voted to scrap Section 5 (which gives it its teeth), and the Democratic Justices all voted to keep it. In other words, because of your laziness, you don't know that there actually is a difference.
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  3602. I am fine with copyright for a shortened period of time, but I don't think that it should be completely eliminated.
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  3603. Stop, drop, and roll was for fires. Duck and cover was for nuclear blasts. Admittedly, I am a little young for duck and cover, but I remember the one for fires very well.
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  3604. He is capable of rising to the occasion, like when he called out Rubin for his nonsense about the Post Office and Shapiro on systemic racism, but it seems like he goes too far the rabbit hole. I really don't understand why people would want to listen for hours on end in hopes of finding those nuggets, though.
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  3605. ​ @icemanvamp7433  Sam Seder never claimed to be a comedian. He only ever claimed to have acted and done some work behind the camera. IMDB backs it up.
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  3606.  @glen7228  He is challenged pretty much every election.
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  3607. Trump supporters sound like Sixers fans who kept saying "trust the process" when they lost on purpose for three years in the hopes of getting enough draft picks to win a championship. To quote an unnamed member of the Rotary Club in "Once A Runner" about a losing coach who said it was a rebuilding year, "Well, how long are we going to be rebuilding before we get to see what we built?"
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  3608. @Abe Tsenoh There is a big difference between left (real) and right (fake) populism. The left version focuses on what the rich have done. The right version looks for some Other to demonize to distract people while they pick your pockets. How many of these supposed right-wing populists voted against the Trump tax cuts for the rich?
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  3609.  @sergeikhripun  Super majority? They have a literal bare majority in the Senate and they need nearly 99% of Democrats in the House to pass anything. A Dore Knob who doesn't understand the most basic facts. See my shocked face :-|
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  3610.  @sergeikhripun  Biden can't do Medicare for All based on the ACA. He can allow states to adopt Medicare for All. There is a provision in the original Medicare bill that it can be expanded for that specific emergency, and it would be the Medicare that exists now with copays. At this point, I have to wonder if there is anything you do know.
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  3611. ​ @curiousabout1  She always had a horrible streak. Yes, in 2016,I thought that she was a worthy successor to Bernie, but once I heard her advocate torture I did everything I could to try to warn people about her, and I got so much grief from the tulcels about it. If someone innocently stumbled upon her and didn't know, that's one thing, but the people who were given the facts and ignored them (I'm not talking about the OP), have no such excuse. Even before she went fully mask off, she lobbied Der Orangefuhrer for a job as Secretary of State, she went to Syra on Assad's dime and spouted propaganda when she went home, she called single payer "un-American" twice in an interview with Anderson Cooper, and it was pretty obvious that her version of "peace" was isolationism with a younger, prettier face.
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  3612.  @luke5058  You are endangering other people based on lies and paranoia. You're darn right that you're the crazy ones.
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  3613.  @luke5058  And no one is going to jail for not getting the coronavirus vaccine. Are you suggesting that we treat it as a misdemeanor?
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  3614.  @luke5058  The test is to see whether or not you are positive. Again, funny that you are insisting that your friend couldn't run his business because 40% of his workers weren't vaccinated, and then when called out on the lie, you said that I don't know the state, and refuse to mention it. Could it be because this is easily verifiable?
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  3615.  @jesperpedersen3430  All he kept doing was reciting buzzwords about "common sense consensus." If you are going to keep repeating that, and refusing to say what your position is on reproductive rights and gun safety, you deserve to get cut off and steered back to the topic.
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  3616. "We don't want to work with fascists who want to destroy us" is not a purity test.
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  3617.  @adaminfinity1733  Oh, look, someone who doesn't understand basic things saying, "I want answers!" Here are your answers: no one ever said that the vaccine is 100% effective. The polio vaccine that the anti-vaccine crowd keeps bringing up to pretend to be reasonable? 61% effective. So, why don't you hear about people getting polio in this country? Because pretty much everyone gets the polio vaccine. When you have a third of the population that absolutely refuses to get the vaccine, the cumulative societal effect is lower, so the virus has a chance to mutate. The original coronavirus is pretty much dead by now. However, because of dummies who either didn't get it or want to spread misinformation, the virus continues to mutate, and there are only nine letters left in the Greek alphabet for variants. We had our chance to eradicate it, but stupid people had to ruin it for everyone.
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  3618.  @lilmsgs  Be fair. That speaks to the intelligence of Northwest Georgians.
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  3619.  @yabutmaybenot.6433  Thank you for demonstrating the difference between anti-imperialism and anti-Americanism.
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  3620. Name any billionaire owner without skeletons. Name one that doesn't use sweatshop or slave labor, participate in money and reputation laundering, etc. "You can't get that kind of money without destroying some dreams." Tim Black
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  3621. People only saw her endorsement of Bernie and thought with the wrong head.
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  3622.  @DMGIII  Charity to change your mind is one thing. Dishonesty about why you changed it or that the change took place is totally different.
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  3623.  @jacobcaldridge99  This is literally a textbook example of a defense that is not acceptable that gets used in sexual harassment classes around the country, so you are a sexual harassment apologist.
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  3624.  @Zach-ju5vi  That makes no sense at all. In first past the post, people are far less likely to pick their first choice. If you have RCV, you can vote for who you really want first. Let me give you an example. I lived in Philadelphia in 2015. The mayoral race was a six-person race. I really liked a lot of what I heard from Nelson Diaz, but he was only polling in the single digits. One of the other candidates was Anthony Hardy Williams, the voucher/charter king of Philadelphia. With a month or two out, he had the lead with a little over a third of the vote. I really didn't want him as the nominee, so I looked at who was second. It was Jim Kenney, who in the final pre-election polls led by a couple points. Not wanting to risk Williams, I voted for Kenney. Apparently, a lot of people did the same thing, because Kenney got an outright majority and beat Williams by over 20 points. Had Ranked Choice Voting been a thing, I could have voted my heart (Diaz) first, and voted my head (Kenney) second. Instead, I couldn't risk voting for who I really wanted because his polling was so low.
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  3625. I tangled with quite a few Yang Gang bangers on these pages in 2019, and pretty much every argument I made against him has been vindicated.
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  3626. @@Madie839 Give me someone who occasionally says something funny but is capable of saying something smart over someone who thinks it's an accomplishment akin to eligibility for MENSA to pass the dementia test any day of the week ;-)
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  3627.  @SolidAir54321  It doesn't have to be a community organizer, but do you know a sure sign that someone isn't running a serious campaign? That person disappears for three years after the last one. If a campaign hasn't done the work, it doesn't deserve to be treated seriously.
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  3628. Jamie is proving that it's not just anarchists on the right who haven't fully thought through their arguments.
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  3629.  @kevonslims7269  He hasn't lost an election since 2000, so what's your point?
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  3630. They also called it Pants on Fire when Democrats accused Paul Ryan of trying to end Medicare as we know it... when he wanted to turn Medicare into a voucher.
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  3631.  @Israel-nb7ip  Right on. Don't have a blanket policy, but they don't get the bed over someone who is not endangering themselves and others through a refusal to basic health responsibilities.
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  3632.  @digitalperson108  Over 90% of hospitalized coronavirus patients are unvaccinated. Some places, it's over 99%.
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  3633. He also refuses to pay his lawyers.
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  3634.  @professorgrimm4602  Indeed. You have to know enough to realize what you don't know. I remember when I was a chief steward in my union, and (obviously on a much smaller scale and not being jerks about it) new trainees were expected to articulate exactly what they were having trouble with in a course. Then, supervisors would say "this person said he/she understood," and the worker would get punished. I would repeatedly tell Management that it was too much of a burden to expect a new trainee to know specifically what mistakes were being made, and to punish them for saying they understood when they really didn't was unfair.
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  3635.  @apathy7899  Natural resources, music, literature, microlending, etc.
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  3636.  @apathy7899  I'm not the one who accuses others of racism while saying that a race of people has contributed nothing to modern society.
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  3637.  @UnknownUnknown-tu3be  Just because they have to see you in life threatening situations doesn't mean that not having health insurance won't kill you. Not every death is sudden. For example, if someone doesn't get treated for cancer until it gets that point where a hospital will be forced to admit you, it's already too late.
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  3638. @xXboston-Gaming την♨︎ Apparently, you aren't familiar with rhetorical devices. Are you a bot? Horrible spelling, posts that make absolutely zero sense unless someone reads them multiple times, not understanding slang or rhetoric. You had me going for a while.
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  3639. @xXboston-Gaming την♨︎ Sorry, Boston Bot, my alert didn't go off. I am not defending any of those things. Maybe if your program would understand the difference between criticizing policies and statements based purely on hate, you'd understand this simple point.
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  3640. @xXboston-Gaming την♨︎ Fix your glitch, bot. I clearly said that it is about someone having the right to criticize. For someone who claims to care about free speech, you don't care about the speech of those who disagree with bigots.
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  3641.  @chadnad4370  And which side did Palestinian authorities support during WWII? See, just going back a few years farther.
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  3642.  @chadnad4370  "I have Jewish friends" I wondered how long it would take for that defense to come into play.
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  3643.  @majsal877  What's not enough. My point was very obvious: criticize the policies, yes, but don't use racistdog whistles or use bigotry when making said criticism.
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  3644.  @LoveGigi99  The mere fact that Bernie got as far as he did both times with the establishment lined up completely against him was nothing short of miraculous. It takes time to build the infrastructure for the movement to take over a party. It took the Goldwater wing 16 years, so as far as he made it in five is a sign of great strength.
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  3645. @Kent Griffith The person you're replying to is a troll. Not of the right wing variety necessarily, but the incoherent contrarian one.
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  3646. ​ @greasher926  In Philadelphia, there is a rule that guarantees that the minority party gets at least two at-large seats on City Council. The bottom Democratic nominee easily doubles the top Republican. In 2015, someone in the Green Party actually understood this and decided to run, trying to convince lefty Dems to vote for her to get rid of one of the Republicans. Seventh place (and winning a spot in council, were voters pick five) got about 38K votes. The Green Party candidate got 11K. They didn't even try to run someone in 2019, and a Working Families Party candidate actually broke through. The Green Party isn't serious about actually winning.
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  3647. And the sad irony is... that his brain clearly cannot keep up... with the train of thought... so he goes toe-to-toe with Beto O'Rourke... for the most awkward pauses... in relation to what he says. As someone who gets grief for not talking quickly, at least I don't sound like Shatner on coke and helium.
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  3648. Nate was never a nice guy. He was always a kiss up/kick down type. The very first time you see him, he's screaming at Ted and Coach Beard before going to the Hugh Grant routine once he realizes who he's talking to. He cussed out everyone when he thought he was being fired before he got promoted, and "finding his voice" was roasting the players on the team while hiding behind a sheet of paper until Roy insisted that he say it to his face. Forget all this "nice guy" stuff, because the clues were all there from the beginning.
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  3649. Mr. Trump, at no point in that rambling, incoherent statement was there anything resembling a rational thought. Everyone in this audience is now dumber for having heard it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
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  3650. You mean the conversation of exposing our weakness on the bill and make it easier to bury it?
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  3651.  Cannabis Dreams  What constitutionally mandated procedures? Where does it say that you pressure state legislators to throw the election to you after you lose the election? Which specific portion of the Constitution gives that mandate?
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  3652.  @dougsteel7414  It clearly did. The idea was that you can say that anything "has value."
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  3653.  @dougsteel7414  And what is the "value"? If your only goal is "embarrassing Democrats," which you seem to think should be the goal, then how does that get any closer to Medicare for All? By getting more Republicans in office?
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  3654.  Dzooky P2P  No one is saying that the interviewer himself is an expert, just that he had help figuring out what to look at.
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  3655. ​ @erebusrealm  He can't. There is no studio audience, and the mic will be cut when it's not his turn to speak.
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  3656. Here's how to address the wealth of Bezos: get rid of the unrealized capital gains loophole, and apply the inheritance tax and/or wealth tax so that there will be revenue.
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  3657. Because they know that Trump supporters literally don't care. Trump opponents actually do care about things like hypocrisy and competence, so what would it accomplish to show yet another video of Trump being incoherent?
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  3658.  @MusicIan423  At a certain point, facts have to play a role. Defending Warren despite all the stuff that she herself has said (she even wrote that she disagreed with Bernie that a woman could win) is blind hope that is ignoring the cruel reality. Warren could have stopped this right away, but she didn't. She went along with it, and she is using it to raise money. She deserves no respect from anyone on the left who wants to see positive change in this country.
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  3659.  Ken Tinman  She did it, and she went along with this slander at 1:59: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjeSc8HZhrI She released a statement saying that Bernie told her that a woman can't win. She is trash and deserves to be exposed for the trash she is.
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  3660.  Don P  And she might have won if, instead of running away from Obama, she pointed out that Kynect and the ACA are the same thing, and Turtle was trying to destroy it.
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  3661.  @dpersonal4187  You claimed that he threw the election to Trump. Now, tell me this since you are the supposed political genius, how is a primary challenger going to throw an election to someone in the general election when that person isn't even on the ballot and worked harder in the key states to help the nominee win than the nominee did? Or, is it just the fact that you operate from a position of hate first and then you work backwards to try to justify it?
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  3662.  @johnd6389  Lots of corporations and media do, even the supposed lefties. The video literally shows it.
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  3663.  @johnd6389  Experts who don't even know how to spell?
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  3664.  @johnd6389  Yes, because prices just magically flow and corporations are just the benevolent recipients of this who just happen to demand more money and get it. Hayek thought that high interest rates were inflationary, and plenty of economists thought that a free-market economy and authoritarian government were impossible, or that it was impossible to decouple wages and productivity, so forgive me if I don't bow to the theorists.
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  3665.  @chaseelder4178  What did the caller say that has any merit? I honestly didn't hear any.
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  3666.  @jimohara  You really have no room to talk about "being precise" when you made such a dishonest claim that Trump was acquitted.
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  3667. @G R So, you think that punishing Democrats, which is clearly your goal, is going to make things better? Oh, yes, because the Republicans are going to make things better. You mean some third party is going to save us all? Yeah, that's going to happen.
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  3668.  @2727rogers  I agree that you personally have a passive aggressive arrogance, and unless you are 80, you almost certainly did nothing to earn Medicare. You're not the left-wing paradise you make yourself out to be. You have some good things, but not as many as your reputation suggests.
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  3669. Indeed. There has to at least be some degree of accountability, even if only to history.
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  3670. What a country!
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  3671.  @jonni2317  Everyone has things they believe that are non-scientific. A survey about 15 years ago by Rodney Stark found that people who identify as atheist/agnostic/no preference are more likely to believe in things like UFOs and New Age stuff. Very few people have a strictly material view of the universe.
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  3672.  @loki2240  They remind me of an old Wanda Sykes joke talking about how it seemed like Tiger Woods became less black with every win. "First, it was 'Tiger Woods, black golfer.' Then, he won the Masters, and we find out that he's half Asian. Then, he won the US Open, and we find out that he's a quarter Indian. If he keeps going at this rate, it'll be 'Tiger Woods, greatest white golfer ever.'"
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  3673.  @1369Stiles  So, you give up before you start. And when did I say anything about Presidential primaries? And this is a long-term project. I grew up in what was the bluest state in America, but now it is one of the reddest. Virginia went red in every Presdiential election since 1964 until Obama won it (including dominance at the local level), and it hasn't gone red since. If you give up before you start, you'll never build anything, and you've already lost. Then again, vote forcing is admission of defeat, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Oh, and the reddest state of all through 1988? Vermont. It had literally only voted for a Democrat once for President in its entire history (1964), it had only sent one Democratic Senator to Washington (Leahy), and was dominated at the state level as well. Realignments happen lots of times at the state and local level, but they require work.
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  3674.  @Obsidian_Iris_  Greens have worked with Republicans to screw over Democrats since at least Nader's first campaign in 1996. What has really changed for Sinema?
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  3675.  @tgr.4550  Why would Evil Turtle get rid of the filibuster? The only things that he really cares about are tax cuts for the rich and appointing judges. He can already do those things without a filibuster.
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  3676.  @osiruskat  A Republican state? Biden won Arizona. Kelly won Arizona by a wider margin than she did. Manchin has the excuse that, by definition, nearly half of his coalition has to be Trump voters. Sinema has no such excuse.
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  3677. ​ @andromidius  What good would giving him the number two spot have done? Honestly. There are plenty of other ways people can make a difference.
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  3678. If Bernie runs for President, you can kiss these hearings good-bye. Sometimes, it is not someone's job to lead people to the place, but show the way. We need to start thinking about the successor who can be the one to finish what Bernie started.
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  3679.  @miked3168  That's how Fred made his money, and his progeny worked with him into his 30s.
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  3680. @Conservative Patriot Even if he was indisputably the greatest brain surgeon in history, what does that have to do with housing? This is someone who literally thought that a committee member was asking him about cookies when she talked about foreclosures.
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  3681. @Conservative Patriot Why the second post? Because I didn't answer your non-point immediately as if I have nothing better to do? Skill in one area doesn't translate to skill in everything, and he should be smart enough to know that, in that particular portion, he should have known that he wasn't being asked about cookies.
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  3682. It was. These are short clips from a longer bit.
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  3683. What did you do to actually try to get Bernie elected?
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  3684.  @quantize  Indeed. Kyle Kulinski is someone who will never criticize someone who he considers to be his friend, but all of the people who he considers to be friends are grifters. Therefore, he is either a) a bad judge of character (and people shouldn't waste their time listening to him), or b) he is a grifter himself (and people shouldn't waste their time listening to him).
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  3685.  @aozf05  Here's a good way out of that feud: don't play both siderism when one side literally bragged about sexual harassment.
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  3686.  @DubhghlasMacDubhghlas  It does, because if no one gets to 270, it goes to the House. Therefore, coalitions are encouraged by voters rather than parties. When there are close elections and a candidate becomes President without winning the popular vote, the winning margin comes from states where the President-elect got the electoral votes in states with a plurality of votes put him over the top, and third party voting made a key difference. In 2000, Bush got pluralities in states (including Florida) totaling 54 electoral votes. Based on how Nader voters would have voted had he not been on the ballot, Florida wouldn't have been close enough for the Supreme Court to steal it. Without those electoral votes, Bush only gets 217. In 2016, Trump won pluralities in states totaling 108 electoral votes, meaning that without them he only gets to 198. When people see how third parties help elect people whose views are farther away, fewer people vote third party the next time. In 2000, the total third party vote was 3.76% of the total. In 2004, it had fallen to 1.00%. In 2016, third party voting was 5.83% of the vote. In 2020, it had fallen to 2.03%. When actual voters see the consequences of voting third party, they move toward the major parties again. Even if a third party candidate were to catch fire, the best he/she could hope for would be to throw the election to the House... where it will be decided by Democrats and Republicans. Our system has always gravitated to two major parties for a reason.
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  3687. ​ @edwardturner2405  Don't worry. He'll get sanitized and deloused once the time comes.
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  3688. The GM strike proved once and for all that there is no such thing as a good private insurance plan. And let's talk about "right of citizenship." Jeff Bezos gets the whole thing. A poor person has to give up one 125 programs. Yang refuses to provide a full list of the programs that people have to forfeit if they take his money. My guess is that those programs affect lot more people than the Yang Gang bangers think. So, if it is a "right of citizenship," does that mean that he thinks of the poor as second class citizens?
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  3689.  @chandlersleziak6416  Libertarian thought leads to authoritarianism, just by the rich rather than elected officials.
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  3690.  @ReVeralife  Maybe put some of that energy into getting Bernie over the line in the first place so you don't have to hope for acquiescence. Part of this conspiracy rests under the idea that the Democratic establishment would rather lose to Trump than win with Bernie, but if people show up in Milwaukee, they will suddenly back down? Richard Clarke once said that conspiracy theories rely on believing in both the total in competence and total shrewdness of the government all at the same time. As for me, I will keep doing the work to get Bernie to 1990.
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  3691. It was a lonely road calling out the Yang Gang bangers in 2019. To this day, my phone still recognizes entire phrases used in rebuttal.
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  3692.  @jry0511  The only lefties who still support them are people who haven't paid attention to their actual views or repeatedly go back to a couple of soundbites.
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  3693.  @9Crow  Of course, it's within his rights. I'm not the one insisting that Dave Rubin will gladly discuss his i-DEE-uhs with someone who he's made it obvious he won't.
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  3694. Because it's bad for everyone. It makes the left look weak, and it creates bad blood with the centrists who will get left-right negative ads.
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  3695.  @deefrost5695  Job growth isn't what is causing this inflation, it is corporate greed and the fact that we stopped enforcing antitrust laws. I can't remember what company it was, but a CEO was caught on tape saying that he wasn't going to give prices back, and you have the Fed seeing this as an excuse to try to cause a recession to take away worker power. The debt ceiling doesn't act as a "check and balance" on spending. At least until Republicans decided to start taking the economy hostage 12 years ago, it was always some excuse for the party out of power to lament the fiscal irresponsibility of it all, but it was always raised because the consequence of not raising it was far too dire. Maybe we need to get rid of the sword of Damocles hanging over our heads and stop with the kabuki. Republicans don't care about fiscal responsibility. They only use that to try to keep Democrats from doing their priorities. It's called the Two Santa Claus Theory.
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  3696. @JV Riley As an Iraq War veteran, I'm not the one who implied that someone talking about cutting the Pentagon budget for programs that don't work and that we don't need means that people want to cut your disability benefits. So, either you didn't know, or you were being dishonest. Which was it?
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  3697. One area where this will thwart McConnell is that it takes 51 Senators for a quorum. Pence can't be the 51st vote. The person objecting to quorum has to be there, so there have to be 50 Republicans... the exact number they have now.
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  3698.  C M  What things are true?
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  3699.  @pennywisem23  They should be labeled as racist if they keep covering for other cops who are racist.
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  3700. As Stephen Colbert said four years ago to describe a potential Ben & Jerry's flavor for Hillary, "Whatever You Want Me to Be."
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  3701.  @kris3706  So true about its purpose. I've shot an M-16, which is very similar to an AR-15. I had to every year I was in so I could keep my certification. Anyone who has dealt with them knows that they are designed to kill, not for self-defense.
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  3702.  @timi3020  I would argue that prosecuting them for things they did that were illegal (and Obama said before the inauguration or any investigation that he wouldn't) would have actually improved the economy, because it would have restored confidence. FDR welcomed their hatred.
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  3703.  @jop23ify  Seem to be doing fine? You'd rather have literal fascists win who want to destroy democracy? Well, that says everything we need to know about you.
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  3704. I don't know what you are seeing. They constantly talk down to Bernie, say that he can't win, perpetuate the Bernie Bro stereotype, flat out make stuff up about his inattention to black voters (Zerlina Maxwell said that Bernie didn't mention black people until 23 minutes into his announcement speech, but after introductions and pleasantries, his work on civil rights was literally the first thing he brought up... five minutes in), and who can forget Mimi Rocah saying "he just makes my skin crawl" with no pushback?
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  3705. The most true thing he has ever said.
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  3706.  @raygaub9861  You are aware that downvoting a comment literally doesn't count, right? Bragging about something that is totally meaningless is the perfect metaphor for a Never Biden person.
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  3707.  @BigCountryKracker  If you shoot them while running away, that is by definition murder. Also, it wasn't his house. You can't claim self defense if you go to someone else's property.
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  3708. FOP is the evil one, and a lot of places they have nothing to do with the AFL-CIO.
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  3709.  ppm120667  Well, if I don't want people to know stuff, I don't say it. You clearly do care what people think, or you would have kept your big mouth shut. And you "don't want voters to act like lemmings," so you advocate a party that serves to divide left opposition to the party that has started the path you claim to hate, so the irony is strong in you.
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  3710.  AUTONOMEN LX  So much for the idea that potheads are mellow.
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  3711. How do you pay property taxes?
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  3712. And I've known some pretty dumb people who were Ivy League graduates. Even when thinking of the smart ones, I had a professor who literally found an excuse in every single class to begin at least one sentence with "At Harvard..." or "When I was at Harvard..." Either type is the worst.
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  3713.  @Chuck26814  I wrote a novel, and I am shopping it. Is any agent who turned it down violating my free speech?
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  3714.  @CUPCAKE0809  One is a grifter, and one is preparing to become a grifter.
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  3715.  @wesleyskinner9477  By sharing the latest right wing conspiracy? The days of people like Bernie or Cornel West coming on the show are long gone.
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  3716.  Spencer Herren  Bernie gives a full accounting. Perhaps more importantly, who will pay if we do nothing?
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  3717. My theory is that it is because he's a native Spanish speaker, and U is always pronounced the same as a long OO in English. That, and the Hindi pronunciation is Tool-see.
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  3718. Whose wife apparently is a doctor who had to lie to him about gynecology in order to make him feel better about his inability to please her.
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  3719.  @Assimandeli  There's a big difference between going back after you're forced to reveal something you don't want to, and going there right away. Fire Walk with Me seemed like a way to take something back.
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  3720. Caller: You can't live on $15/hour in California! Also caller: I'm not going to advocate for a higher minimum wage!
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  3721. *Writer. This was all Tina Fey.
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  3722. They'll talk about i-DEE-uhs.
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  3723.  @lukestrehlau2823  Their anti-tax propaganda that convinced too many people who are not and never will be rich to not pay, which eroded the tax base to pay for schools. As wealth became concentrated, and they built up their property and gutted poor areas, there was less and less available for schools in poorer areas (I was born in 1979, and when I graduated high school, we still had computers that were made before I started kindergarten), which leads to more people leaving the poor areas, which brings down home prices, which makes education worse. It is a vicious cycle.
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  3724. ​ @alabamaman5994  And you do live in California, Aaron? Or are you just going by the scare stories about what California is like?
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  3725.  @jones1618  Any time. I always try my best to make sure to make my argument based on the history when it comes to questions of strategy. As far as the larger question, it takes a long time to take over a major party, but that is really the only thing that worked. Hopefully, by the time President AOC or whoever gets there, the machinery is in place to make concrete change possible.
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  3726. Indeed. That is my line. If you personally support Trump but don't advertise it, that is your right. However, the instant you do, you are virtue signaling for your boy, and I refuse to be complicit.
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  3727.  @darrinpowers5726  In addition to the list given above, they are also shutting polling places in predominantly minority precincts, which is why you see these stories about people waiting eight hours to vote. Oh, and Republicans want to make it a felony to give water to those people waiting in line.
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  3728. Indeed. In all honesty, seeing the pushback that Biden got, couldn't you imagine the pushback President Sanders would have gotten? Maybe, just maybe, he ended up in the right place by getting the gavel of the HELP Committee and continuing to pull the Administration to port.
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  3729.  @thehornetschool  You also deserve credit for using that critical lens. A lot still insist that they are "the only ones with a consistent position" no matter how many times they stumble with follow-up questions.
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  3730. ​ @azv343  And Bernie responded to that by deciding to stop running statewide for a while and to run for mayor instead. Cenk is doing the exact opposite.
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  3731.  @jensdamm7597  What was unfair? Did they not do the things they were accused of?
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  3732. Dave Rubin, attempted stand up: It's so funny being gay! Dave Rubin, attempted political commentator: How dare someone hire a lesbian!
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  3733.  @backpackerraden6268  Even if you're right, that is still not the case for the contenders for worst ever, either. They were pretty much a relentless barrage of awful for their whole time in office.
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  3734. ​ @peterstafford4426  Sam wasn't a comedian. He was an actor, and he still does the voice of Hugo on Bob's Burgers from time to time.
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  3735. Jacinda Ardern just may be the best current head of government in the world today.
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  3736.  @Chris-rg6nm  Indeed. You could also argue that Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio got much more respect when they stopped playing into the pretty boy roles.
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  3737.  @natas12rm  Well, he did invoke a racist work in order to justify a racist argument, so I'd say it fits.
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  3738.  @Alan_Wigz  He's been average. He does some things well, and others not so much.
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  3739.  @mandatoryhelicopterrides4596  So, siding with the tankies, are you, Aaron?
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  3740.  @jboushka  Michelle Obama? What are her qualifications? President is not an entry level job. I don't want blue dynasties and red dynasties. We left England because we didn't want a monarch.
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  3741. I have run two marathons, and if my weight goes above 140 pounds (I am 5'5), my cholesterol shoots way up. Why? Because I have a genetic predisposition for high cholesterol. It's not in the immediate risk for heart attack, but when it is in the 220-240 range, that can cause a lot of problems. This guy might be sitting on a time bomb and not even know.
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  3742. How many does he actually have who aren't getting paid?
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  3743. I don't fault someone for supporting the initial war. That being said, there is a point where you have to ask why we're still there.
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  3744. I saw an interview on another channel, and I immediately made a reservation at the library. Given how many people have put in both before and after me, I think this is a message a lot of people are ready to hear.
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  3745.  @marmalaterjones4526  If you don't like them, fair enough, but if you like Jimmy Dore so much, you should be able to name at least one funny bit of his. I have asked the fanboys several times, and I have never gotten an example. Not even one.
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  3746.  @dbd6393  Oh, look. A bot who has come along to help with the algorithm.
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  3747.  @jocksharerock7318  Thank you, my friend. A friend of mine who is a lawyer joked that I have an ability to poke a hole through any ridiculous argument, so I try my best to use that gift for good ;-)
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  3748.  @bjornyesterday2562  He hates Trump so much that he told anyone who would listen that Trump would be a better President than Hillary and that we should ignore the Supreme Court. He is either controlled opposition or a useful idiot. Which one?
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  3749. @Mars Falcon I am convinced that some of the Never Biden crowd are not hard lefties with no sense of strategy, but right-wing trolls trying to depress voter turnout on the left. This is why they never have anything better to offer.
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  3750.  @Jeph629  Yeah, who needs home ownership when you have big screen TVs?
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  3751. And there is a certain variety that also includes Talk about family values while insisting that morality doesn't matter any time someone mentions their support of a thrice-married serial adulterer.
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  3752. ​ @whiskeymonk4085  Would you have preferred that he sat on his hands to throw the election to Trump?
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  3753.  @arrow1414  I figure that they are propped up by Republicans because at least 10% of money from the Green Party since 2000 has come from Republicans, and a large number of petition drives for the Greens (as well as candidates) have been largely the effort of Republicans in order to split the vote. Remember when the Hawkins campaign botched its petition drive in Wisconsin? Well, rather than respond timely, they waited until two weeks past the deadline, and then worked with a Republican legal firm to try to get on the ballot, when several counties had already started printing their absentee ballots, and if they had succeeded, tens of thousands of voters wouldn't have been able to get their ballots in time. Quite frankly, I don't care what their platform is as long as they work with Republicans to try to defeat what they see as a common enemy (Democrats) rather than actually trying to build a governing body.
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  3754.  @Blunderful19  Both sides implies that it's both side's faults equally. The bill that the House just passed last week is the exact same one that the Senate passed unanimously last month. Coulter, Limbaugh, and Hannity complained, he said he'd veto it, so Paul Ryan wouldn't bring it up for a vote. If one person stopped the bill, it's not equally the fault of both sides. It's not even the fault of one party (except for in its spinelessness for refusing to bring up the bill they already passed) as it is the fault of one man.
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  3755. ​ @mossystone584  You're replying to someone who pretends to be more pious by caring about the fetus (or "unborn child" in their parlance) but do nothing to make life easier for the woman or the fetus once it is born and becomes an actual baby, which ironically, makes abortion a more attractive choice for so many.
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  3756.  @wheeloftime2908  Copy and paste doesn't make it any more true.
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  3757. Actually, your interpretation is off. It goes by state delegations if there is an Electoral College deadlock, but it is one member, one vote for any disputes in the Electoral College count itself. There have been two challenges in the last 60 years (a dispute in 1969 as to whether or not a faithless elector in North Carolina who voted for Wallace instead of Nixon should stand, and in 2005 whether or not Bush really won Ohio). Both times, individual members in each House decided. If Democrats win the House and Senate, this chicanery won't pass.
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  3758. She checked the box on that bar application. The instant she did that, she tried to claim affiliation for herself.
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  3759.  @AnalyticalHeart  If someone claims to oppose all such set asides, benefiting from any is the hypocrisy.
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  3760. I would agree, but the mere fact that the body cam wasn't turned on tells me that the cop does not get the benefit of the doubt.
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  3761.  @ItwasntI  That's the problem. If it were just affecting them for their stupidity, I would say it serves them right, but others will suffer.
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  3762.  @0xLoneWolf  I'm quoting the show. Then again, I'm not the one peddling modern tulips.
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  3763.  @jimboz38  You are aware that making a comment and coming to the video increases the engagement, which makes it go higher in search results, right?
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  3764. @TD Indeed. A lot of the new atheists don't realize that they are just as much fundamentalists as they people they claim to hate. In Religulous, Bill Maher basically insisted that Christians had to use the fundamentalist interpretation of the Bible or we weren't being honest.
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  3765.  @GBGB000  I was confused when I heard people talk about how he was this lefty hero. Even the things he supposedly did right were an accident or dumb luck.
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  3766.  @zappafan1176  is an intelligent poster and not a troll at all. Oh, I'm sorry. I thought we were saying the exact opposite of reality.
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  3767.  @zappafan1176  You are making a nothing argument that is completely contradicted by the entire history of our country. You're the one who makes the argument, so you should be able to back it up.
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  3768.  @lvodlc  It is a good bill, but Manchin and Sinema seem to be balking at that. I don't trust them to be anything other than Lucy with the football at this point, so I don't want House Democrats to give them what they want (the infrastructure bill) until they get what they want (Build Back Better).
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  3769.  @TavaraTheLaughingLion  If Manchin or Sinema leave the Democrats, McConnell immediately takes over, and not only can we forget legislation, but we can also forget filling a Supreme Court seat if something happens to Breyer. Also, the President doesn't fire members of Congress. Congress is a coequal branch elected by the people of their state or district.
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  3770. "So, we're going by your morals?" Pause. "Well, yes..." Beautiful job, Sam!
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  3771. There are quite a few bots for Pete. One of them gave up two weeks ago after called out, but it was back this morning. It wasn't until I saw this story that I realized why.
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  3772.  @janos6644  Because some things are targeted to specific needs, and Yang's proposal that is neither universal nor basic income pretends that there are no special circumstances.
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  3773.  @technosaurus3805  You could have done that on $7.25/hour decades ago, but you can't do it now. That's $15K/year. If you think that you can afford a down payment and then by a house with that kind of income, you are in fantasy world. There is literally nowhere in the United States where you can afford a two-bedroom apartment on $15,000/year, let alone by a house. And blue states with a $15/hour minimum wage? New York, Washington, and several cities.
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  3774. It doesn't take a grand conspiracy to figure this one out. She is from one of the bluest parts of the country, so she had to run as a Democrat. However, being a right winger, she always got a lot of opposition in primaries. Bernie was very popular in Hawaii, getting over 70% of the vote in the 2016 caucus. Since she also hated Hillary, this was killing two birds with one stone. Don't use a conspiracy when a simple case of advantage or incompetence answers the question.
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  3775. Don't insult the great comedic mastermind who brought joy to millions like that.
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  3776. If you don't like the system we have, the way to change that is not to vote third party in the hopes someone will win, but to change the rules. If there are two candidates with roughly equal support on one side of the aisle, and one on the other, the latter can win 34-33-33. That is why a two- party system developed organically in the 18th century.
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  3777.  @DireAvenger001  It was Leo and Hyde. Hyde worked for Leo, so that's where the bond came from.
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  3778.  @deepdish2034  So, when looking at blatant housing discrimination and redlining where black people are kept in poorer areas of town that, because property tax funds schools, is wildly underfunded, there is nothing to be done because that is "artificially forcing people together"?
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  3779.  @megavolt67  We use her for her vote. The goal is to get to 51. You remind me of people who I've known in DSA who don't seem to care for fellow travelers at all. If you think that your only objective is calling people out, you become little more than a mirror of the Freedom Caucus. Any idiot can tear down. Building up takes work.
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  3780. Democrats did participate. They only boycotted the vote.
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  3781.  @austinsmith538  Can't hide him forever.
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  3782. Was he right about Hillary having Parkinson's? Was he right about 9/11 Truther stuff? Was he right about the Supreme Court? Was he right about getting a real lefty in 2020? Was he right about Tulsi Gabbard being a lefty? What are these "most things" that he is right about?
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  3783. Literally everything that Jimmy Dore recommends that people actually do about it takes us farther from universal health care. Saying to ignore the Supreme Court has led in part to a 6-3 majority that would almost certainly declare any attempt at universal coverage unconstitutional.
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  3784.  @oldsrocket8841  He promised that he would give everyone health care for less than the ACA. The ACHA would have thrown 32MM off their plan. He promised not to touch Social Security and Medicare, and his budget is trying to cut them substantially. He promised infrastructure, but he inverted the funding ratio (feds usually pick it up 80/20, he wanted 20/80, which no state could afford) to make it a poison pill. He promised tax reform that would help working people, and he passed a tax bill where 83% of the cut went to the top 1%, which makes the 37% of the Bush tax cuts look like Robin Hood in comparison. Those are some pretty big broken promises.
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  3785. I only really knew because my daughter got a kids meal and it was on the bag.
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  3786.  @BothHands1  Well, his lead in the national Real Clear Politics average is down to 3.7, and if Bernie gets the double, given the way Biden's lead is shrinking in Nevada, he may well lose the first three contests. Suddenly. "I can beat Trump" sounds a lot more hollow. I read a Politico story that they were counting on a split in Iowa and New Hampshire, which is why they are now so desperate to make a bid there after insisting that he could win without them. He has already given up on New Hampshire, so he just might prove to be Glass Joe after all.
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  3787.  @warpath8453  Because that made it partisan, and you have half the country killing themselves in hopes of killing the other half.
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  3788. PR: I'm not a Democrat. I'm unaffiliated. Also PR: AOC is not a real Democrat.
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  3789.  @iamdanyboy1  Honest? His head is so far up the butts of Jimmy Dore, Krystal Ball, and Joe Rogan that he can't see straight. "Blame me if Trump wins"? Even after acknowledging how dangerous Trump is and that Biden was clearly a preferable alternative
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  3790. ​ @misunderestimator5283  Indeed. We have to be willing to accept converts.
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  3791. Maybe he wouldn't have to keep answering that question if his boss would start standing up to white nationalists.
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  3792.  @madcow1998  So, because they aren't technically prohibited from doing so, but face limitations on things like where they can buy a house and Republicans are trying to make it harder to vote, we should just say that everything is fine because it doesn't rich the level of apartheid or the Jim Crow era?
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  3793.  @mickswagger6086  Ah. We don't want your red/brown alliance. How sad for you.
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  3794. When I lived in WV and they went electronic in 2006, they had a receipt printout so you could see exactly who you voted for and correct any mistakes. The county clerk even had a demonstration and went over every possible scenario if someone had any questions. Here in PA, they have an electronic version of the old school voting machines where you flip a dial, but there is no way to know what happens to your vote once you hit Vote. Even if you have those machines, it should be a law that people get to see the paper verification of their votes.
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  3795. i-DEE-uhs
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  3796.  @mushroomsteve  There aren't enough Democrats in West Virginia. Alabama was R +25 and Doug Jones got killed in 2020. West Virginia is R +39. Until this final act of sabotage, I always assumed that he would ultimately sign up for some watered-down bill, but I think that I have finally figured out his true motivation. He barely won against a candidate with the charisma of a pile of mud whose wife was a lawyer for the manufacturer of Oxycontin in a Democratic year where there is no President on the ballot. He will be 77 when his term expires. I have heard rumors for years that he might want to run for governor again. I think that he is going to retire and wants that sweet, sweet lobbyist cash.
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  3797. If you had 2021 in the pool, you win.
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  3798. Ironically, my extended family didn't start switching until the turn of the century. The first to go was one who refused to get married for years so she could get an AFDC check (she lived with the man who is now her second husband for 13 years before they married). For some, the only thing that seems to explain it is either fear of "taking away my guns" or giving them permission to hate. My parents are still baffled by the turn, because they're still true blue.
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  3799.  @missrose0077  I totally agree, and corporate welfare gets my goat far more than welfare for the poor. I was mainly talking about the irony of someone who was the first to switch in my family who was voting for people who wanted to end any program she got, and the way her kids (whose childhood was paid for in no small part by those benefits) look down on those who get it.
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  3800. [weakly] I was saying "boo-urns."
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  3801. Running the 40 in six seconds is actually pretty slow for an athlete ;-)
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  3802. I think the real reason why Delaney is running is that he doesn't want his health insurance stock to tank.
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  3803.  @therealcirclea762  Never said he was. He is who he says he is, though.
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  3804.  @royronson3275  He is passing himself off as a lefty hero, but he is a libertarian. That is where the grift comes in.
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  3805.  @taranehz8918  He was bad, but he wasn't this bad. The last I'd seen of Michael commenting on Greenwald was the debate with Nathan Robinson about Rising. While Michael said they were friends of his, he did let Matt and David go mostly uninterrupted to tear them a new one, and he said that Greenwald was the product of a left that didn't study Marx, although I'd argue that Greenwald was never left to begin with.
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  3806.  @vincesmith2499  If your right to all the money interferes with my ability to pay for basic needs, that interferes with my freedom.
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  3807.  @vincesmith2499  "Even most poor people have SOME property. With the Almighty Market pricing most people out of the housing market, that isn't even remotely the case. A libertarian not understanding basic facts about the real world. What a shock!
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  3808.  @dunker-roo9552  Bernie didn't have the votes. If literally all it took for "the DNC to take it from him" was three well-timed endorsements by one candidate who dropped out months before and candidates in a distant third and fourth despite their strongholds already in the rearview mirror, it wasn't going to last. Maybe the campaign should have ignored BJG insisting that 30% would be enough.
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  3809.  @IPeeInPoolz  If you go by Marx, who said that the state should ultimately wither on the vine, that seems to me like a pretty obvious case for open borders. After all, if there is no state, how can there be a border?
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  3810.  @fatrobdouble  The latter. Not that he has "some livertarian ideals," but that this is his primary political philosophy. There is a difference between libertarians being a stopped clock and getting something right and it being a positive worldview that isn't just a way to lead us back to feudalism, as long as they can be the feudal lords.
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  3811. If that strategy involves helping Republicans get elected, then they clearly don't want to see improvements or are too stupid to have noticed the last 20 years or so when they got their way.
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  3812.  @anthonycastillo8055  I got way too much grief for pointing out the actual details of what he wanted to do, and the Yang Gang bangers were so hive minded that my phone literally started to recognize entire phrases in response to them.
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  3813. ​ @ReadIcculus93  I rate Cavett as number one, but Stern is up there.
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  3814.  @Janpre2001  It reminds me of a joke that I have heard in several churches, but never among fundamentalists. There's a flood, and a woman believes that God will rescue her from the flood. A bus comes along to offer her a ride to a shelter. She refuses the ride, saying "God will provide." The water rises to street level. Then, a boat comes along, offering her a ride, and she says, "God will provide." Then, the water rises and she goes to the roof. A helicopter comes and offers her a ride. She says, "God will provide." Finally, she drowns. She sees God and says, "I thought You were going to save me," and God said, "I sent a bus, a boat, and a helicopter. What more did you need?"
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  3815. I got the second dose last month, and I keep dropping my keys. If I want magnetic not-dropping-keys power!
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  3816.  @Chuck26814  No, he didn't invent that. Kidnapping children and separating them from their families with no intention of ever reuniting them was all him, though. Over a year after a court order to unite the families, over 600 children still haven't been.
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  3817.  @aliamjon2550  How come there are still hundreds of children who haven't been returned to their parents? Are you just allergic to honesty?
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  3818.  @imofage3947  There have always been nut jobs like that, but it seems like he started the latest wave.
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  3819.  @swflmotorsportsfan6667  Define socialism.
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  3820. The video explains what a charro is in the subtitles.
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  3821.  @MarcillaSmith  Not based on any poll in the last year, primary or general. She has already checked out of her job and wants to cash in once it's over.
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  3822. Thank you for bringing attention to the plight of workers! No lefty politics is really of the left if it ignores labor and workers in general.
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  3823. ​ @patriciagrillo1843  He says he quit his crack habit, but given all the marathon broadcasts he did of 48 hours, I wonder how much of his problems were from falling off the wagon.
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  3824.  @davec1406  Corn Pop was a real guy. He died a few years ago. No word on whether or not the alleged confrontation really happened, though.
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  3825.  @chrispoole8630  The problem is that in my lifetime, bipartisan has usually meant "Democrats going along with some Republican bad ideas." I don't care about the party breakdown as much as whether or not it's a good bill.
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  3826.  @eldetailz  Jimmy Dore is an idiot grifter. People like Krystal Ball and Kyle Kulinski should know better, but they don't get that the real enemy is the Republican Party rather than establishment Dems.
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  3827.  @julymagnus493  That's my point. I get talking in riddles, and while my undergrad interpretation of him as a might makes right figure may have been wrong, it seems like looking at him now that he just may be the most celebrated troll of all time. I certainly don't see the massive brilliance that I keep hearing is supposed to be there. Maybe that's just me, though.
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  3828. Eleven years ago, I was sitting around during downtime at work, and my boss was going on and on about birthright citizenship. I asked him what the standard should be, and he didn't know, so I asked if someone should take the citizenship test. He said that seems fair, so I told him that an old poli sci textbook at my parents' house had a copy of a citizenship test. She sent a copy to me, and I got it a week later. The result? "Get out of my country!" Others in the room took it as well. "Welcome to America."
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  3829. I'd be more worried that he has relapsed. He likes to do an awful lot of 48-hour marathon broadcasts.
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  3830.  @ChalrieD  Libertarian? Last I checked, libertarians don't want to use the military to go after protesters, and I thought their big thing was supporting the legalization of drugs.
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  3831.  @alex-qd6of  There is no such thing as a conservative populist. What actual economic policies does he support that actually help working people? Anyone who says that he can't vote for Bernie because of "identity politics" obviously doesn't care about economic issues, or at least sees them as secondary at best, which is not the populist position.
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  3832.  @nocturnalrecluse1216  I never considered her in the top tier at all in this field. By the time I did some research and learned who she really was in 2017, I have been sounding the alarm that she wasn't who she said she was. Look at my history.
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  3833. Good for you, but what does that do for the person with no legs?
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  3834.  @jamesdunn9714  Ironically, the thing that it would take to see him drop to his rightful place in history would be for things to get much worse. If we fully defeat his movement, it would probably be seen as an aberration.
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  3835.  @Diddykonga  Well, that's stupid. The other thing that I saw was him saying that literally every adult from 18-64 gets it. It sounds like he needs to clarify what is going to happen. If that is what his plan is, he will sink like a stone in my ranking of the candidates (I currently consider him third behind Bernie and Inslee).
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  3836.  @anthonydelfino6171  There was literally not one state where Bernie wasn't on the primary ballot. Part of his terms of withdrawal were that he would stay on the ballot, and the Biden campaign would not challenge his position. He got reinstated on ballots in New York after they tried to cancel the Presidential primary.
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  3837.  @richardarriaga6271  Indeed. That's why we should always spell his name Gym to remind people of that.
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  3838.  @sullen2420  That's not their job. Their job is to make their constituent"s lives better. Any idiot can stand up and say that everything sucks and block every bill, but they are not nihilists.
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  3839. Indeed. I quit going on Facebook a few years ago because I realized that I ended up annoyed after I spent much time there, and I was there when it was still The Facebook and you needed a college e-mail address to get in.
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  3840.  @maxwellmontgomery3421  A Supreme Court seat gets stolen when there is a vacancy on the Court and one party refuses to "advise and consent," doesn't even meet with the nominee, and promises to sit on it until they can fill it (during the election, Lindsey Graham said that he'd block anyone Hillary appointed, too). And when they say that it is too soon eight months before a Presidential election, but two weeks before is just fine, that shows that this was only about the pursuit of power, because other than raw power, tax cuts for the rich, and holding court seats, today's American right has no principles.
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  3841.  @ryanagahee5045  Those are all single payer plans that have a set period of time in order to eliminate duplicative health insurance. To pretend otherwise is incredibly dishonest, but support a dishonest candidate, and you start to make dishonest arguments.
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  3842.  @argenys  Why do the poor have to give up theirs but the rich get to keep their mortgage deduction on their mansions with no limit?
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  3843. OF COURSE... I won't.
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  3844.  @Xunxunism  If he hasn't done anything that deserves impeachment, what does deserve impeachment? Sometimes, you need to do the right thing, even if he won't be removed. It also shows how craven and corrupt Republicans have become.
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  3845. The short basketball coach has studied basketball. What evidence is there that Charlie Kirk has studied child development?
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  3846.  @jeffreysanders7334  Are you playing dumb at this point? Everyone should be involved in politics as their duty as citizens. Claiming that you know how children will be affected by something when you have neither training nor practical experience is completely different. This is not a difficult concept to grasp. Does some random person with no background whatsoever deserve the same audience as someone trained in child development for how children develop? There is a finite time we have, and people specialize in things for a reason.
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  3847.  @johnklein338  Oh, look, the goalposts have moved once every example was easily rebutted.
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  3848.  @user-nw2fe3gq7v  Let's Talk Election did a video with the Trafalgar polls and only the Trafalgar polls. Biden still wins according to them.
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  3849. I keep saying ads here in PA saying the same about Casey or Harris and taxpayer funded sex changes.
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  3850.  @jop23ify  He still supported her, and he called her strategy brilliant.
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  3851.  @sheffield99  They weren't voted in to say No to everything. Anyone who thought they would be a mirror to the Freedom Caucus missed the whole point of the Freedom Caucus. They are fine with the government doing nothing to help people, so not passing anything actually furthers their goals. Bernie and AOC want the government to actually help people, so doing nothing doesn't advance their agenda.
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  3852.  @ItsAllCulturalMarxism  Yes, it does, but he is so much more than anti-mandate. He is also spreading false information about the efficacy and saying that, had he known then what he knows now, he wouldn't have gotten it.
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  3853.  @dalekrenegade2596  Thank you. If someone is simply misinformed, I will engage until the cows come home, mainly because I see the primary audience as someone who may be scrolling through and is unsure of what position to take. The ones who are straight up liars are just a waste of time, but I will never tire of telling the truth to try to make sure that these idiots don't kill more people.
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  3854.  @getschwifty7413  Look at how many times Dems have tried to get Republicans to sign on to anything since 2008. The ACA was basically their alternative to Hillarycare that Bill threatened to veto because it didn't go far enough. In order to get that vote on the infrastructure, lefties were promised reconciliation for the bigger human infrastructure bill. Enough House Dems have said that they won't vote for the smaller bill without the bigger to insure its defeat. The real question at this point is how much sabotage will be allowed.
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  3855.  @JiveDadson  It went up because of stock buybacks and record profits.
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  3856. ​ @kevinbrown9102  Indeed. I keep asking people to tell me who could be better than Manchin in West Virginia, a state Trump won by 39 points, and I always got either silence or an answer that told me those people knew nothing about West Virginia.
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  3857.  @tiapia1  A physical therapist or massage therapist does all that without the spinal manipulation that has serious risks, and given the history of chiropractors insisting that manipulation cures all that ails you, it is a very dangerous road.
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  3858.  @j0j0dartiste21  Protestants were virtually non-existent in terms of religion in terms of being targeted for religious identity. Catholics were, but much lower down the line.
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  3859.  @jeff7775  If you think that makes her suspect, look up the PAC that she created between her time at MSNBC and The Hill. She was supposed to be helping lefty candidates, but 39% of the money went to herself and less than 5% went to candidates. There is a bame for that: a scam PAC.
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  3860.  @joseneto9412  How did he "support" Bernie in 2016? He didn't vote in the primary, and he didn't donate to Bernie. He "supported Bernie" like he "supported" Medicare for All. And what does supporting UBI have to do with refuting the notion that he is a libertarian? Milton Friedman supported a version of UBI in order to destroy the existing social safety net. Yang admitted to Dave Rubin that his ultimate goal is to get rid of it, but he thinks a gradual approach is more palatable. He also told Ben Shapiro, whose objection to UBI was that it would be too easy for someone to take the money and not work, and Yang said that he intentionally kept it low because "the magic of a thousand bucks a month is that it is below the poverty level for one person, so it forces people to work in order to have any life of meaning" (italics mean emphasis in original, bold added). He was also against regulation, progressive taxation, or addressing wealth inequality.
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  3861.  @joseneto9412  1) The great majority don't buy online? Also, if you haven't noticed, the VAT isn't exclusively devoted to online purchases. If it was, it wouldn't be nearly enough to cover the costs.
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  3862.  @joseneto9412  You forgot 4. Also, someone who opposes antitrust laws, supports a version of UBI straight out of Friedman that he managed to make worse, who ultimately wants to get rid of the social safety net, who has no proposal for affordable housing other than buy a place with your bros, whose response to global warming is to give up and tell people to sell at sea level is no lefty. The only other person I saw make the last argument was Ben Shapiro.
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  3863.  @WilliamStephanusArriel  So, you think it's all right that some millionaire gets to keep all of his/her corporate welfare and the full thousand but some poor person can't? And if someone already gets more, not only does that person not get a penny, but now that person has to pay a VAT to fund it. Some lefty you are. The problem with setting it at $1000 and not increasing it down the road? If you really believe that a third to a half of all jobs will be gone within 20 years, and you don't let people get other benefits, you are dooming an awful lot of people to poverty and creating a massive underclass. That's the problem with a universal basic income as policy: if you make it universal, it won't be big enough to form a basic income, and vice versa. Ironically, Yang does neither.
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  3864. As long as we have first past the post and a Presidential system, we'll never have a multi-party system.
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  3865. The Georgia bill literally says that the state legislature can invalidate any election they decide is "irregular." No grounds for shenanigans there.
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  3866. What conflict of interest?
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  3867. Why do you still like Krystal Ball?
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  3868.  @ryanl4620  He probably didn't invite Shapiro because he's not well known outside of political or YouTube circles. The equivalent in terms of fame would probably be Ana Navarro.
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  3869. The vote was guaranteed to fail by a wide margin. How would that help it succeed?
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  3870. No way! We like "PAUSE IT!"
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  3871.  @lights473  "zero accountability when they do wrong" Tell me you don't understand how democracy works without saying that you don't understand how democracy works.
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  3872. @Scott Covert Well, show the link or, failing that, provide the title.
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  3873.  discorperted  So, the rich will be taxed, and the rich will get all the money from taxes? You trolls aren't even trying anymore.
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  3874.  discorperted  I take it you have never heard of cap and dividend. Fossil fuels are not sustainable. I don't want a few years of relative comfort for myself with the entire planet becoming uninhabitable in the process.
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  3875.  @Nickelodeon81  Me, too, but if a gold digger realizes she got pyrite, it's only a matter of time.
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  3876. He was a good wingman, but at the risk of mixing metaphors, he's not the one you want at the helm.
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  3877.  @dcaseng  Well, if you think I'm wrong, tell me the fourth possibility. Or any scenario where Pelosi doesn't become Speaker. Or how the vote went the second time around for the Truman health care plan. Or the Nixon plan. Or Hillarycare. Also, what have you done to build support for Medicare for All?
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  3878.  @2727rogers  Wrong. Germany had it in the 1800s. And why does everyone who advocates this nonsense strategy (especially those who have the luxury of not having to been part of the struggle to get it) insist that people who think, "This is a poor tactic, and it is counterproductive" get so dishonestly tagged as "not thinking that universal health care is important"? So, let's think this through. The votes are not remotely close to being there, it took 20 years of pressure for it to happen, it didn't happen until a third party (which is a dead end in this country) won control of a province, and with a completely different system of government is analogous to what people here are billing falsely as "giving people health care during a pandemic"? And, here's a hint: doing actual organizing to gain control of a province is what got you Medicare, not a feel-good counterproductive vote.
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  3879. The right-wing version of UBI. A regressive tax. Opposed to higher wages. Indifferent to unions. A fan of charter schools. Supports a public option. Won't do anything about tax avoidance and evasion. Opposed to higher taxes on the rich. Fine with tech monopolies. Yang is a libertarian wolf in leftist clothing.
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  3880. ​ @basedtruthpiller7140  You're thinking of Tennessee, Aaron. Yet another swing and a miss.
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  3881. Be fair. At least there was a point in Hillary's life where she actually fought for good things. (My date of her selling out would be 1986, when she joined the board at Wal-Mart, although her health care proposal in 1993 was to the left of the ACA, so maybe that was her last gasp.)
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  3882. @Solstice of Snow Yeah, it trickles down so well. Funny that when the top marginal income tax rate was above 70%, the economy grew faster, benefited more people, and CEO to worker pay was at least ten times lower than it is now. How does shoe polish taste?
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  3883. *blame my fake producer His wife is the only credited producer on the show.
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  3884.  @randomlobster5566  Bernie was not a candidate in the general election. There was literally zero chance that someone other than Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump would have been elected at that point. Vote with your heart in the primary and your head in the general election.
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  3885. "I think it's going well." As the judge already determined that he is liable, and the trial is just about determining how much money he has to pay.
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  3886.  @MrBornToWin00  If you don't understand the difference between isolationism and peace, she is wonderful. If you do, this explains why people like David Duke, Steve Bannon, and Ron Paul love her so very much.
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  3887. Or, as we found out, they would end up using horrible software that denied a clean win coming out of Iowa because they are refusing to give partial results for some reason.
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  3888.  @dustinsindledecker154  The closest to an answer I got was "some of his jokes about Hillary were funny." So, one answer in probably two or three years of trying because I got sick of hearing how funny he was.
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  3889.  @samiamrg7  A republic can be a democracy, but they're really two different questions. China is a republic. People say North Korea is, but considering that it is clearly hereditary rule, I don't put them in that category. The main difference is whether or not they have a monarch. That's why Ireland is a republic and the United Kingdom is not.
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  3890.  @IvanDaGrVIII  What have you actually done in this world to try to make a difference? Rather than backing a supporter of torture because she went on my show, I knocked on doors, made phone calls, served as a captain for a petition drive, and did a reading at a fundraiser for the only Presidential candidate who fully supported Medicare for All. I have written an opinion column, run for public office, and now work at a job where I help people get the help they need to make their lives better. Oh, and I don't grift to help right wingers, either, or simp for those who do. If it wasn't for people like me, the people whose names you know would be nowhere.
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  3891.  @N2264J  Oh, so you are demanding to be ignored? And that will help you get what you want how?
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  3892. @Carrie Hew Well, then it was racism on the part of the dispatcher, who is usually a cop.
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  3893.  @C.Steamer  I've seen how he "stands up for unions." If any union actually cares about safety, he repeats the neoliberal talking points denigrating both the union and the workers. And there is a difference between being an isolationist and "against war." Considering the way he parrots the talking points of Syria and Russia when it comes to their wars, and the way that he is quick to dismiss concerns about several other bad international actors as long as they aren't doing anything to us, it is clear that he is the former and not the latter.
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  3894. What is accurate? She says she's not allowed to say it, and she said all of them. Being allowed to say doesn't interfere with our right to say that she is wrong.
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  3895. The only Democratic candidate worse than Booker is Harris.
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  3896. ​ @doesntmatter3902  Dimmy giving people false information on pandemics and treatments that surely people have died from it.
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  3897. As Jacobin said in 2017, Tulsi Gabbard is not your friend.
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  3898. The main difference is that power is inherently in the hands of management/corporations, and labor unions balance the power. Not evenly, but more evenly than throwing everyone into the jungle that is every worker for him/herself. Union proud!
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  3899. Tulsi did, too. She dropped out 18 days before Bernie did.
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  3900. He has let party chairs and presidential candidates speak. What more do you want?
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  3901.  @DavidWilliams-DSW558  He has been doing that for a long time.
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  3902.  @jessestreet2549  And do you literally expect any Republicans to vote to convict?
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  3903. "We learned that a lot of people were crazy during this pandemic. What we really learned was how many of those crazy people are in our families." Jim Gaffigan
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  3904. And she was one of the loudest arguing for a strategy of only appealing to 30% of primary voters because the primary field would never coalesce around one Not Bernie.
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  3905. At one point, she was going to run against Hillary in 2006. (She didn't yell constantly at the time.) However, her campaign never got off the ground, with the most famous example being forgetting a page of her speech when she announced. It was a thing of beauty.
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  3906.  @ursamagickmt672  Who could ever forget that tragedy?
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  3907. I can't hear Tucker Carlson without hearing Seth Meyers and his spot-on imitation.
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  3908.  @ashlomen8432  No, because you're working backward from the idea that Ukraine should negotiate and give up a little bit of territory and hope that maybe, just maybe, Russia won't invade for a third time.
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  3909. Is Kenyatta still in the race? I'm honestly not sure what his angle is in the whole thing. He's a state rep who is being propped up by some TV people after giving a snippet of the keynote in 2020. It seems like he's mostly going for urban and socially liberal voters. That's not enough in November in PA. This Montco resident really wants to get behind someone like Fetterman who can make me proud.
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  3910. You mean at least one more? AOC beat Crowley. Bush defeated Clay. Bowman defeated Engel.
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  3911.  @sleepyhead8681  Indeed. I just don't want people to forget out victories. Forgetting them makes it easier for the people like Jimmy Dore to spread their gloom and sabotage. We must always realize how far we have to go, but also how far we have come.
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  3912. Minimal. Someone did a study on increasing Wal-Mart wages to $14 six years ago. Even if they ate none of the costs and passed them all to the consumer, it would have been 1.4%. In chains and franchises across state lines where there is a higher minimum wage, there is no difference in cost or unemployment. The evidence is all there in the real world.
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  3913.  The last Prussian  I'm guessing you've never even bothered to read The Communist Manifesto. It's only about 50 pages, so you can literally finish it in under an hour.
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  3914. Indeed. Coups tend to have a much higher chance of success the second time around.
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  3915.  Nalidus  They would have done the same thing to President Hillary if she endorsed their idea. Not that I think racism wasn't involved, but I think that tribalism explains a lot of it.
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  3916. Oh, it can be quite amusing. When I beat a narcissist for the election for chief steward, he straight up had a meltdown.
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  3917. ​ @LudwigHorsecock Indeed. The biggest lie he ever told was that people loved his jokes before the Cancel Culture took over. Nobody ever liked his jokes.
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  3918. Hedoesthatbecause hethinksitmakeshimsoundsmart buttheproblem withthat isthatif itisnotnatural, youmakepauses atthe mostawkwardplaces.
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  3919.  Brandon 203  Who endorsed LBJ in 1964 and died while working on the Poor People's Campaign.
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  3920. I remember one time that a shrink told me, after I said that I didn't like meditation but I described my headspace when I run that I was doing something similar then. When I saw the scene in Kissing Jessica Stein where the title character tries meditation, opens one eye to look at the clock and is running in the next scene that I related oh so well.
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  3921.  @josephkelly3152  Yes! I keep hearing people say that he is funny, but when I ask for examples of him being funny, I get nothing.
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  3922.  @JamesBond-st4qu  "power does not concede," and symbolic votes that do nothing but expose your weakness help you build power how?
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  3923. Tell the truth about a conspiracy theorist, and watch the crazies come out of the woodwork.
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  3924.  @thomash1268  If Manchin switches parties, McConnell immediately becomes the majority leader. Is that really what you want?
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  3925.  @thanksbob638  As is the right to criticize those who are doing it because of why they are really doing it.
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  3926.  Spok  Still can't find a clause for anything in particular. Good-bye.
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  3927.  Spok  If you are so convinced that he "violates pretty much all of the Constitution," and you can't name any examples, then that tells me that you probably don't know what is actually in the Constitution. For someone who chose a handle that is a homophone for someone who is defined by logic, you are unable to actually display any.
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  3928.  Spok  Okay, your first paragraph proves that you are full of it. Literally the first sentence is "a more perfect union." The Constitution has its basis in Enlightenment thought and looking at history.
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  3929. Isn't that redundant? ;-)
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  3930. *7200 :-)
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  3931. If enough of us vote and do the actual work, gerrymandering won't matter. While we can't get rid of people like MTG, the way that a lot of gerrymandering works is concentrating as much of the minority into as few seats as possible, so the majority party tends to win closer races. So, an active wave can undo most of it. For example: in 2003, Texas redrew its lines mid-decade once Republicans took control of the legislature. The effect was a gain of six Republican seats. In 2006, Democrats got five of them back.
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  3932. ​ @dustinsindledecker154  "Engaging in childish behavior" is not the same thing as calling someone "a child."
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  3933.  @Jasondirt  You're the one saying that you don't care about who wins elections. The instant you say that, you are abandoning electoralism. When you go to a tangent (I didn't mention third parties in the original reply) that shows that you see voting as a self-indulgent act to placate your ego, you are saying that you don't want to be an adult and have a say in self governance. People insisted that it didn't matter in 2000, and the so-called environmental party threw the election away from the author of Earth in the Balance to a former oil company executive who didn't even believe that the climate crisis was real. Between 2000 and 2016, this led to five of six members of the right wing bloc on the Supreme Court. Oh, and did I mention that the author of Earth in the Balance also opposed the Iraq War in 2002? I live in a swing state, and I don't aid and abet fascism because the alternative isn't pure enough. I have voted third party in local and state elections when I knew that it wouldn't help the right. Because of people like me who use their brains, there is now a Working Families member of Philadelphia City Council who replaced a right-wing Republican. Because of people like you, Bush and Trump happened. Congratulations!
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  3934.  photoshopknight  She wants Medicare Advantage. Not the same thing. So, you think that people like paying more and getting less?
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  3935. So, you just leave people in debt for the rest of their lives? Brilliant alternative!
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  3936. @BASED GOD OF MAGA TEARS Shhhhh! They might hear you.
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  3937. You also have fewer guns, which nutjobs here thinks should mean more crime.
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  3938. I think that what they thought was that this would lock potentially swayable Justices like Kavanaugh and Gorsuch in rather than allowing Roberts a chance to make a deal.
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  3939.  @FortitudineVincimus  As someone who actually earned three stripes, can you please refer to him as Cadet Bone Spurs? Everything else is spot on.
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  3940. Where are the i-DEE-uhs, Dave?
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  3941.  @sprybug  I have no problem with 1% personally. I was quoting the very funny line from Aziz Ansari during the 2016 primary. The quote about milk that is most true to me comes from Ron Swanson: The only thing I hate more than lying is skim milk... which is just water that's lying about being milk.
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  3942. Pakman had a list of Democratic revenue and spending proposals. It only took a few of the revenue proposals to pay for everything and then some.
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  3943.  @AdamBladeTaylor  Well, Hogan and Baker have largely been the rare profile in courage, but I don't think it's a coincidence that both are governors of very blue states and have to appeal to people who aren't fine with fascism in order to keep their job.
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  3944.  @robinsss  The Sixteenth Amendment says otherwise.
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  3945.  @elchapojunior3091  China isn't socialism. It is state capitalism. It stopped being Marxist the day Mao died. Sad how tankies can't even get their ideology straight.
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  3946. She said "one of the two biggest."
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  3947. We need more like you who see the big picture!
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  3948.  @justinfrazier3610  You mean aside from the fact that he took a policy from Milton Friedman and Charles Murray and managed to make it worse by adding a regressive tax to pay for it? Or that he refuses to provide a full list of the programs that people have to forfeit if they take his money? Or his indifference towards unions at best and hostility at worst? Maybe his refusal to address tech monopolies? Or affordable housing and rent control? Maybe his insistence on TV that it was too late to do anything about the climate crisis? Or, how about the fact that he continues to falsely call a public option "Medicare for All"? There's plenty to choose from, so take your pick.
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  3949.  @firstlast9916  And how long did the meat plants in Chicago do what Upton Sinclair described before the FDA became a thing? Never mind the fact that, when we are talking about tainted food, your solution is to wait until after an outbreak of food poisoning, which would be awfully difficult to track without a government agency dedicated to checking, and just let people die or get hospitalized because Free-dumb.
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  3950.  @firstlast9916  Yeah, because McDonald's has never had a food recall. /s
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  3951.  @firstlast9916  Well, make up your mind. At first, you said that salmonella cases in NYC restaurants plunged since 1994, and now you're saying that inspections made things worse since the creation of the FDA. You have totally lost the plot, and just don't want to admit "Maybe I didn't use the best example to back up my argument." Of course, the evidence is irrelevant to you, because you work backward with the solution and try to find the supporting evidence.
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  3952.  @firstlast9916  You provided anecdotes, and the specific example you gave proves the opposite of what you are arguing.
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  3953.  @firstlast9916  That's not a change in standards. It's a change in reporting.
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  3954.  @firstlast9916  Is that the best that you can do? We have already seen in our history what the food industry does when unchecked, and we have seen the things that are legal. All you are doing now is just trying desperately to cling to your idea, because deep down you know that you contradicted it.
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  3955.  @drewjohnson9498  And the difference is that Germany and South Korea are sovereign countries with active treaties while Crimea is an occupied force that was literally invaded by someone making the Lebensraum argument.
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  3956.  @robm6645  In other words, the intelligence turned out to be accurate. Even if it's right 99%, that still leaves the 1% where it doesn't. While the vast majority of the time, peace is the preferred option, there are times when war is the answer. I am not saying that we are at that place yet, but saying "war is not the answer" would have led to the perpetuation of chattel slavery and would have allowed the Final Solution to succeed. The only honest reply to "war is not the answer" is that it depends on the question.
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  3957.  @selfishcapitalist3523  "It is better to remain silent to be thought a fool than to talk and remove all doubt."
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  3958. Bernie had a much better response: should we help no one because someone had to suffer?
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  3959.  @SaborSalek  That sounds an awful lot like the Krystal Ball grift.
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  3960. No, he'd probably point to the picture of Gacy with Rosalyn Carter and say that this proves how evil Democrats are and how that nice young Ted Bundy should just be ignored because everyone knows that Republicans suck.
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  3961. What is step two? Forcing a vote doesn't mean that people have to vote Yes.
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  3962.  @newbieprepper8451  There is no "perhaps." Killer is an accurate term.
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  3963. And for all this talk about not expanding NATO in 1990, in 1997, Russia specifically said in writing that they would respect the territorial integrity of Ukraine and they would respect their right to enter whatever treaties they wanted, including NATO and the EU.
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  3964. Meeting him three years ago was one of the great honors of my life. My then 2 1/2 year old daughter was so excited, she still talks about it to this day.
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  3965.  @KS-cl8br  I think moving down in age is better because you are getting those who are sick and would benefit more by getting it sooner.
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  3966. Personally, I think that general rules tend to get us in trouble. If we had term and age limits, Bernie would have been put out to pasture after the 2018 election at the latest (the end of his second term) and may not have even made it to the Senate (he was first elected to the Senate at age 65). It's much better to address such things on an individual basis.
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  3967. I can't be-LIEVE 40% of Americans will always vote Democrat." I'm 43. The low water mark for the Democratic Party in my lifetime is 41% (Mondale in 1984). Not counting 1992 where third parties got 20% of the combined vote, no Republican went under 40% since 1964 (and no Democrat went under 40% since 1972). How did you not know this, Dave?
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  3968. At least he doesn't grab them by the crotch.
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  3969.  @grahamjones5400  The corruption problem, no, but it will help with constituent services.
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  3970.  @barbarjinx3802  "They don't know how to make cheap EVs." And Tesla does?
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  3971.  @barbarjinx3802  "by value they are" What value? "And this year, they will be by unit volume" Yes, because a company selling such a tiny percentage will outsell everyone next year. Enjoy the stock's inevitable downfall when the voting machine aspect is gone from the price and the weighing machine aspect kicks in.
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  3972.  @barbarjinx3802  I'm pointing out that they are not the biggest, and just asking for evidence. Oh, and as far as you thinking that the weighing machine will make Tesla's price go up farther, let's look at the easiest way to see whether or not a stock is overvalued: the price to earnings (P/E) ratio, and compare Tesla to several other major auto manufacturers (the higher the ratio, the more likely that it is overpriced): Tesla 60.2 Toyota 9.89 Honda 7.82 Ford 8.56 General Motors 5.84 Volkswagen 5.40 One of these things is not like the other/One of these things is not the same/ One of these things is not like the other/ Now, it's time to play our game/ It's time to play our game.
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  3973. Her point is that the lessons are seen as a replacement for legitimate regulations, which it is not.
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  3974.  @maxsmart9116  That seems too ridiculous to be anything other than sarcasm.
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  3975. Only about 14% of Americans owned guns in the 18th century. Remember that.
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  3976. John Kerry sent feelers that he might be open to McCain as his running mate, and he got hammered for it. Why repeat that same mistake?
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  3977.  Roof Korean  UBI can be depending on how it is structured.
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  3978. The polls disagree with you, troll.
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  3979.  @Commander_ZiN  Indeed. I've never understood why so many right wingers refuse to admit that they are right wing.
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  3980.  @speckmmd  Not all of them. There were about 2/3 that were destroyed.
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  3981.  @strawbearrySmoothie  Indeed. He's also notorious for blocking everyone under the sun on Twitter who criticizes him.
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  3982. And what was step two? I swear, the FTV crowd are Underpants Gnomes!
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  3983.  @2727rogers  And there's that smug arrogance borne of something that you did nothing to earn. I don't brag about WWII or the New Deal. I try to learn from them, but it doesn't make me "more civilized." And you are uninformed on how to actually get there. Tommy Douglas didn't demand a vote that he knew was doomed to fail. His party took over a province. You keep insisting that forcing the vote is what got you health care, but you're flat out wrong, just like you were wrong that New York and California are the most fertile grounds at the state level. Literally every pronouncement you have made is wrong. You're like a trust fund baby mocking the poor kids who didn't have the same luck in parentage as you. Unlike you, I actually have done the work and know what obstacles we face. Funny that you had nothing to say when I responded about what is actually standing in the way of getting passed. I know this because I have actually talked to people in order to build that support.
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  3984. And in 2015, she praised Putin for bombing civilians in Syria and complained that Obama didn't. She is about as peaceful as she is loving of Muslims.
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  3985. It would be one thing if he was actually able to deliver votes, but the needle didn't even move in his state.
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  3986.  @LeShawnTho  In this thread: people who understand that 118 < 218 dealing with people too lazy to do the actual work to increase the first number.
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  3987.  @joesuter2466  Which party gets funded by Republicans again? Is there a nonzero chance of anyone other than Biden or Trump winning the election?
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  3988.  @josephrobinetteobidenjr.2971  Almost as stale as trolling?
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  3989. CNN and MSNBC have business shows, but no labor shows. Ditto newspaper sections for the ones that you mentioned.
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  3990.  @3ld919  But how can you stand up to them if they know that you needed their lucre to get into power? I don't think it's a coincidence that Howard Schultz used to say that he would run if Bernie or Warren wins the nomination, and now Warren is acceptable to him while Bernie isn't. Why do you think he and others have changed their tune of late about her if it is not something substantive?
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  3991. *Where are Ryan and Shane?
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  3992. ​ @spaceynb  Clinton and Trump had the two highest disapproval rates of any first time nominees in the history of polling. The combined third-party vote was a little under 6%.
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  3993. It's been time to get rid of it since at least 1824.
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  3994.  @DanielBlaney  Indeed. She's Effie if she doubled down on the awful things she did once she realized how much it hurt people.
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  3995.  @nunyabizz50  Oh, okay. You're an idiot. Good to know. He literally said that McConnell would never get rid of the filibuster. Evil Turtle did.
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  3996.  @nunyabizz50  You're an idiot. McConnell killed it for the Supreme Court in 2017, just like Sam told Jimmy he would in 2016.
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  3997.  @do9138  Well, considering how much money they plunked down for Camden Yards and to give the Ravens a new stadium, sadly, that's not the lesson they learned.
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  3998.  @galactick3816  Grad school loans are much higher than 5%. Mine is 6.75.
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  3999. @Jack Tharp We wouldn't have any sort of modern economy if we were bound by the amount of gold we own. That's why every modern economy abandoned the gold standard and it's more prevalent in Third World countries. Yes, both parties have had debts and deficits, but since people like to throw around the family analogy, going into debt to buy a house is a lot different than going into debt to buy a bunch of stuff on Amazon. You are not getting how the phrase "spender of last resort" is used. It doesn't mean that the government never spends money, it means that there are times that it needs to spend when no one else will. There was also the government as employer of last resort. Not civil service positions, but temporary jobs to help remove the slack in the market. Yes, let us look at the successes: we are having this discussion on the internet (defense project) with products that were shipped via trucks (roads built by the government), trains (tracks built by the government), ships (ports maintained by the government), and planes (air control administered by the government). If you are in a rural area, you have electricity because government stepped in when the free market deemed it cost infleffective. If you went to public school, government again. If your water is not polluted, the EPA made sure it isn't. If you ate food, the FDA inspected it to make sure that it wasn't poisoned. As Sam told another debater, you think you are standing suspended in mid air, but you don't see the building supporting you.
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  4000.  @ChrisPierreBacon  His movies make money. The fault is not in our stars, but in ourselves.
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  4001. @illbback! That's not quite what Sam said. He said that Republicans would invoke the nuclear option because Dems would not retake the Senate if Hillary lost. Even Manchin voted against the nuclear option, while people like McCain and Graham and Flake lamented the nuclear option while voting for it.
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  4002.  @digable_celestial_dwarfs6778  They invoked the nuclear option in 2017. Democrats tried to filibuster Gorsuch, had the votes to block cloture, and McConnell went nuclear with a party-line vote. Does being a Jimmy Dore find require the mental equivalent of Simone Biles in gymnastics?
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  4003.  @TimeBandit2007  This is what a lot of the Dore defenders don't seem to get when they justify the short term suffering that they advocate, so I will make it as clear as possible right now: The Supreme Court can just strike down any bill that President Bernie signs that they don't like. Four of the five Justices in the right bloc (which, in a previous iteration, already weakened the Voting Rights Act, gutted campaign finance laws, and has defended every right wing power grab they pulled), so what makes you think that they won't pull something out of their butts to declare Medicare for All unconstitutional, or even Medicare as we know it? They already cited a long overturned case that overturned child labor laws to gut the right to organize for public workers, so what makes you think that they won't make every state right to work for less, or just declare the minimum wage unconstitutional? What do you say to the thousands of children who were kidnapped at the border? What do you say to the women whose reproductive rights are in danger? What do you say to the workers whose hard fought rights are now in danger?
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  4004.  @gnbaird1123  I don't know. I've known some burnouts in my day.
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  4005.  @xiam5941  There is no such thing as only purely voluntary interactions. If you use property rights uber alles, how do you determine who owns the property in your system? And to use some I asked others who insist that it is possible within the current system. Let's say that we enact your system where people can just voluntarily decide to individually secede from the government. Never mind that this "right" would by definition only be available to the propertied, would you have to get a passport to re-enter the United States? What you have to pay tariffs on imported goods into your own little country? Would you still use the USD, or would you make your own currency, and if the latter, how will the exchange rate be determined?
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  4006.  @BinaryStarofShaolin  You are correct, sir.
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  4007.  @l.w.paradis2108  If Trump would have had a remotely competent response to coronavirus, he would have won a second term. President Hillary would have done that much, and we wouldn't have decades of hard right wing majorities on the Supreme Court.
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  4008.  @l.w.paradis2108  Yes. As long as you have people with memories the length of a goldfish who forget the bad things that happen when Republicans take over and that accelerationism has been proven false, this is the end result. And lest we forget that more people voted for Hillary, but Trump only took office due to an antiquated system that was supposed to protect the people from themselves for fear of a demagogue (Oops!) but the real reason being to preserve the power of slaveholders. Since 2000, Republicans have had popular vote margins of 48-49, 51-48, 46-53, 47-51, 46-48, and 47-51, yet they have held the White House for 12 years. Does that explain something to you? It should help explain why one side feels it only needs to reach out to its base and the other side doesn't.
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  4009.  @akamuzz84  If companies wouldn't want to sell tainted meat, why did so many sell tainted meat before the creation of the FDA, and why does the FDA still find tainted meat?
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  4010.  @Patrick-sg7cm  And in your libertarian fantasy land, who is performing the autopsies? Once again, your best-case scenario is that thousands die for the Almighty Market to separate the wheat from the chaff, and it ignores how much work actually gets done to prevent these deaths in the first place. To me, society is much more free when you have much greater confidence that food is safe to eat. Also, you've never heard of food recalls of vegetables? Vegans get food poisoning, too.
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  4011.  @darthbriboy  I don't know about the poster, but while I thought it was good, in some ways I felt misled by the marketing. The poster literally showed Solomon running, and SPOILER ALERT, he never did. I just didn't really get his rationale for how to get free. I didn't expect him to just wait for a letter proving who he was.
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  4012.  @robinsss  If they remove the unfounded claims, then what is the point of selling it? That being said, there is currently a massive loophole: vitamins. It would ultimately end up getting sold that way, because the FDA does not have jurisdiction over vitamins even to the point of not being able to verify if they have the amount they say they do. Maybe now that Hatch is retired (most of them are made in Utah), maybe we could get them under FDA jurisdiction. If we could get rid of the vitamin loophole, then maybe, but I just don't see the point or the market if it doesn't do what it says it will.
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  4013. So, Daniel Levy never asked his dad for help... yet he literally co-created his breakout hit with his dad. Yeah, that makes sense.
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  4014. "A scrawny, weak man who had a strong will." Did his will triumph, Tim?
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  4015.  @devorahacts  Michael Flynn had high security clearances. How did that work out?
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  4016. Speaking of lies, the UK model is full-on nationalized health care. The private plans are not allowed to overlap with the public plan. The mere fact that she now calls it Medicare Choice and uses the same rhetoric of Delaney, Ryan, Klobuchar, Biden, and Buttigieg tells you that she does not support Medicare for All.
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  4017. That explains it. I was wondering what was the cause of this bit of honesty.
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  4018.  @jalite1991  She has expressed support for drone strikes, which doesn't sound like she wants out. Anti-war is not pro-peace.
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  4019.  @jalite1991  Her support of drone strikes tells me that her real problem is with ground forces, not the intervention itself.
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  4020.  @jalite1991  You mean like actual comments on specific conflicts like Assad didn't use chemical weapons? Or that Sisi is doing great things in Egypt? Her specifics are even worse than her philosophical statements on foreign policy.
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  4021.  @YourMajesty143  My opinion is that her previous statements in torture are a non-starter. Then, there was her deflecting blame from Trump for the shutdown, playing both sides, as if there is a place of compromise between a reasonable position and a ridiculous one. At this point, I would put her at the bottom of the anti-establishment pack.
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  4022. Bernie lost because too many on the left are lazy and don't think long term. How many of the people calling Bernie weak actually did something to help him win? Not just sending a few dollars and thinking that was enough, but actually knocking on doors, making phone calls, talking to your neighbors and coworkers, working a petition drive, etc. When Barry Goldwater lost, the right decided to focus on local races and organize, slowly going for bigger and bigger fish in the pond. By the time Reagan came along 16 years later (in what was actually his third attempt at the nomination), they were unstoppable. The last realignment for good in this country was the New Deal era (the Great Society was largely an extension of the New Deal, and it turned out to be a zenith rather than a horizon, so that doesn't count). Did people just wake up and say Screw Hoover, which convinced FDR to abandon balanced budgets? No, it was the result of 40 years of planting the seeds that began with the Populist movement and the Socialist movement. If you are ready to give up after five years, you are part of the problem.
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  4023.  @xjaskix  Freedom doesn't mean no consequences. I actually respected Cruz a little bit when I thought that he was a vertebrate and defended his wife's honor.
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  4024.  @USUG0  Never underestimate the number of people blinded by a young, pretty woman.
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  4025.  @carlosmartinez6227  The "blue collar guy" who trashes teachers unions?
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  4026.  @Rjasper499  Your proof that places with low vaccines literally opens with the exact opposite of what you said it did, because it talks about the efficacy of the vaccine. Your "herd immunity" didn't get there. If people died at the same rate as they did before the vaccine, and half of the American population contracted it, it would have killed 2-3MM people. Sweden fared worse than Norway and Finland, and places that locked down mist aggressively performed the best of all. I don't deal with liars online, so good-bye.
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  4027.  @irebukeyou353  So peace loving that he is aiding and abetting the Saudi genocide in Yemen and leaving Kurds to the slaughter. Get that man a Nobel!
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  4028.  @Legio2Italica3video  No, the profits don't exist because that is what is allowed. The left side of the ledger has to be approved, but the neglect on the right side of the ledger is all ConEd.
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  4029. It was also amusing the way Shapiro kept complaining about the interviewer asking him about tweets as though there was a statute of limitations for the dumb things that he still defends today.
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  4030.  @Habeebea  Sam was very clear about his problems with the strategy, and she just kept going back to "your viewers were mean!" She may be good as a press secretary, but she is a terrible strategist. Is she going to be the Bob Shrum of the 21st century?
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  4031.  @MrMarket1987  I support Ranked Choice Voting (although, for all this talk of "ending the duopoly," look at how long either Labor or Liberal have held the PM slot in Australia, where RCV originated). My point was that a) we have the system we do because of the rules and not some grand conspiracy, and b) even multiparty systems ultimately come down to two that govern in the end.
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  4032. Mine, too. My great-great-great-grandfather fought to defeat these traitors, and I grew up in a state that exists because we wanted nothing to do with those traitors. It angers me to go back and see those flags of evil and treason.
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  4033.  @stanvans3214  So, you support traitors who thought it was their divine mission to own other people?
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  4034.  @joethethunder4906  English translation: Magical thinking.
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  4035.  @joethethunder4906  Yeah, that's not magical thinking. Magical thinking is believing that something is true because you want it to be true. And you've lain bare why the Grifter's Party is a dead end: it's only goal is to swing elections to Republicans. It wants to be a destructive force. Any idiot can just blow things up.
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  4036.  @floepiejane  It didn't. Some people just want to see the world burn. They also don't understand that when you actually want to improve people's lives, getting some of what you want is better than getting none of what you want.
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  4037.  @floepiejane  Provide an example. If you dig far enough, they tend to be fascists pretending to be populist, like the subject of the video.
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  4038. What they are talking about is changing it from 60 votes to 3/5 voting to chain the minority to the Senate floor if they want to keep it going.
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  4039.  @janwalenta3151  I have no problem finding toilet paper and cleaners like I did last year when those were literally being rationed. If you are really worried about the supply chain, then you need to talk to your representatives in Congress to tell them to get Build Back Better done.
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  4040.  @gordon-1  They weren't begging someone his party hates for support, though. They were asking for money, and what is more representative of the American right than that?
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  4041. He is definitely going down that path. He has a willful blindness to people who he considers to be friends. Eventually, Michael Brooks started to see the light about Jimmy Dore and was starting to get there when it came to Krystal Ball. Kyle Kulinski also refuses to ever criticize Joe Rogan, which he admitted was because he didn't want to blow up his spot. Sam Seder criticizes MSNBC lots of times, and they pay him.
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  4042. Based on his beahvior, I see two possible answers: craving the appluase, or getting half a million dollars in tax debt and child support wiped out has a heavy cost.
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  4043.  @chrishale5213  Indeed. Any UBI (and a real one, not a libertarian Trojan horse to destroy the existing social safety net) needs to wait until societal needs are addressed first. Then, if we have anything left over, we can start looking at our UBI options.
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  4044. Obama nostalgia
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  4045. No, he isn't the commissioner, but he did fire the black police chief who actually tried to expose racist cops. Therefore, it's his responsibility.
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  4046.  Joe Amodeo  You are missing the point. The idea that I was refuting was that people who get Type 2 Diabetes deserve their fate because they are all a bunch of fat slobs who don't take care of themselves.
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  4047.  @southerngent8162  If that's not what it was about, why did several states mention slavery in the first sentence of their declaration of secession? Why did the Vice President of the Confederacy, Alexander Stephens, call slavery the cornerstone of their movement? If it was about states' rights, why did the Confederate constitution ban states from abolishing slavery?
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  4048.  @ZenobiaofPalmyra  What does that have to do with anything in this thread? Did Russia attempt to influence the election or not? Did the Trump campaign try to reach out to Russia and/or receive information or not?
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  4049. Even if he knew she had it, it's just another word for baldness. Either own it or wear a wig.
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  4050. ​ @Bat_Boy  Yes! Accordions have keys.
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  4051.  Lets do this  Yes! Every little bit helps. Like I said on Saturday, Warren has a plan, but Bernie has an army.
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  4052.  @theamericanopry  You know what is funny? Jimmy Dore told people that the candidate who would make those things more difficult to get for decades to come would be better for the left as President. He also didn't think that Mitch McConnell would ever get rid of the filibuster. How did that work out?
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  4053. I need a new pair of pants.
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  4054.  @howardfriedman7077  My theory? A) Healthy people wouldn't spend nearly as much out of pocket just going to a doctor for a check up, B) Insurance companies also have a tendency to delay or attempt to deny coverage.
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  4055.  @ToothbrushMan  Deductible is how much you have to pay out of pocket before insurance kicks in. Co-pays are what you have to pay once you have paid the deductible. For example: if you have premiums that total $400/month, and a deductible of $1000, you have to pay the insurance company $5800/year in order for them to pay a penny toward your health care. And even then, with co-pays, you still end up left footing some of the bill.
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  4056.  @waterandafter  There weren't if you live in a swing state. If Moscow Donald was less bad than Hillary, how do you like those Supreme Court picks that get to stick around for decades?
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  4057.  @waterandafter  And I ask again, if you think Trump was less bad than Hillary, how do you like those Supreme Court picks that stick around for decades?
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  4058.  @lisamurphy7102  In all honesty, I think that Bernie has found the role where he can do the most good. There are just some people in this world whose role it is to show the way, even if they aren't the ones to get us there. The question is who is the Joshua to Bernie's Moses.
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  4059. Bap-ba-ba
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  4060.  @captainchippie4454  He should be running for governor instead.
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  4061. I remember TMR from the Air America days, and I just didn't think it was very good. Once it was reborn on YouTube and he started to do the libertarian debates, I realized that Sam had found his voice.
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  4062. I say let Beto run and take votes away from Harris, since that means that her share of the delegates will drop. As far as the title goes, I say he's poison for the Senate. There was a candidate supported by the Poor People's Campaign who was outspent by a 4000:1 ratio by Beto, Sema Hernandez, who got 24% of the primary vote, and she's running again. Let's support her! If Beto couldn't beat Cruz, he'll never beat Cornyn.
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  4063.  @bennattj  Do you think that Republicans care about the long-term health of this country? They care about power, and they do think long-term about that.
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  4064.  @PackRunner3  Part of it is that he loves the attention, and part of it is kabuki theater, because when you're in a state that is R+39, you have to display some independence or else you'll sink like a stone. If the race gets nationalized, he is doomed (see: Jones, Doug). Sinema has no such excuse.
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  4065.  @tjw1861  Where did I say anything about donations? It's not about donations. It is about whether or not you recognize the threat of fascism, and, like it or not, there is only one party that is in a position to actually stop it, and it isn't these mealy-mouthed people who refuse to take a stand on anything and wouldn't be in a position to try to win.
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  4066. A few years ago, my boss was complaining about birthright citizenship. I asked what it should be instead. After hesitating, he agreed that a citizenship test would be fair. I told him that I had one in my old poli sci textbook, so study up while I wait to get it mailed. He flunked. Two other people at work decided to take it, and they passed. He gave it to his daughter, and she passed. Says it all about nativist sentiment.
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  4067.  @rajashashankgutta4334  Because you can either have publicly-funded elections in the public interest, or privately-funded elections that are giveaways to the highest bidder.
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  4068.  Sparky McCloud  Sometimes, in order to have true repentance, we have to admit how far we have fallen.
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  4069.  @JessMan508  The Green Party is controlled opposition that gets funded by the Republican Party to split the opposition, so pretty much.
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  4070. Speaking of fake, you know that silver streak in her hair? She is trying to attribute it to her time in Iraq, even though pictures of her in 2012 show jet black hair and she had the faintest of traces of it in 2016. The more I get to know her, the more repulsive she gets.
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  4071.  @phil7394  Kennedy used the chair of the Judiciary Committee to defeat Robert Bork. You're welcome.
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  4072.  @phil7394  That's just one example off the top of my head, and it is probably the biggest one in the last 40 years. The fact that we still have Roe for now, among other things, is directly due to that fight.
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  4073.  @josephsiragusa  Thank you. In another thread, I compared them to the Underpants Gnomes on South Park, because they have the same thought process: Step one: Force a failed vote on Medicare for All. Step two: ? Step three: Leftist utopia
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  4074.  @l.w.paradis2108  If Ro Khanna has 218 members who would vote for him, absolutely, I would prefer him, but he does not. All of the challenges to Pelosi have been from her right.
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  4075.  @whosays1977  I would say that the swing states are Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, Georgia, Minnesota, and New Hampshire, with the reach states being Texas, Ohio, and Iowa. Thank you for all your work! I knocked on doors in PA starting in July with DSA, did a reading at a fundraiser, and was captain for a petition drive (if the primary wasn't over by the time it got here, I would have been a block captain). When I hear the keyboard warriors insist that they tried, only to find out that they didn't really do anything, it can be so maddening.
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  4076. There aren't the votes. There are the votes for a talking filibuster. Even Bernie supports the talking filibuster.
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  4077.  @LukeMcGuireoides  If Manchin says that he supports restoring the talking filibuster, there are almost certainly the votes.
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  4078.  @BrokenAbyss  And a lot of us stopped watching TYT after Cenk recited everything from the union busting hymnal.
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  4079.  Dr Downtime  Yes, some rich people pay a lot in taxes. Others don't, and that is the problem. Have you ever heard of marginal utility of wealth?
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  4080.  @user-rh1iv7yp2c  Forcing the Vote was something that even its advocates knew would fail. How would that help anyone "get health care during a pandemic"? And I've done some of the actual work. Because of the efforts of community groups that I was part od the push in Philadelphia, we got a member of Congress (Brendan Boyle) to sign on to the bill. Their goal was to try to raise money by distracting people from actual organizing. Funny how many people think that it's a bragging point for them because they are in a country where someone else did the work for them and they think they know how it's done. You're the equivalent of a trust fund baby giving investment advice to someone who grew up on public assistance. Or, better yet, you are like Jenny Joyce telling the Derry Girls to use their trust funds to pay for the Paris trip.
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  4081.  @markalan804  Because a) she supports torture, and b) she tends to use "regime change wars" to mean "wars I don't like." For all her talk of "peace," look at what she had to say when Biden literally ended a war that had lasted for 20 years.
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  4082.  @markalan804  I think you mean 2020, and she based a huge chunk of her campaign on Enlightened Centrism (playing both siderism on the wall, going along when Dave Rubin said that she was the only Democratic Presidential candidate who loved her country and everyone else wanted open borders, and she called Medicare for All un-American), and once she realized that no one was buying it, she spent the rest of the campaign trying to court Republicans. So, you agree that she's wrong on torture, but where do you think we get the people who get tortured? And don't play this "everyone else does it" nonsense. She's the one who her supporters, her defenders, and her former defenders who don't want to admit that the evidence was there for all to see that she wasn't this dove that she made herself out to be insist was "anti-war." What other people did or didn't do is irrelevant.
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  4083.  @joshuaknepshield4687  And she backed off from it by then. She only embraced it again once she got desperate.
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  4084.  @joshuaknepshield4687  Well, not really surprising given that Emma seems like the kind of person who would be drawn to detailed white papers. In fairness, a lot of the sheen did seem to come off in Emma's mind after she asked her about her vote for the NDAA despite complaining about its price tag and the influence of Raytheon, and the answer almost seemed like a subconscious confession that she got bought.
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  4085. The guy who says that empathy is the biggest flaw in Western culture doesn't understand why people don't like a Nazzty sympathizer who wants to take away their rights. You can't write this stuff.
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  4086.  @jessejive117  You have it backward. If it wasn't for working people building things, and if it wasn't for the populous buying things, there would be no rich people.
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  4087. Taking Hebrew in seminary was the first time that I came back from class without ink-stained hands.
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  4088. It clearly was the economy, stupid, in 1992. Also, this quote that ended up in The War Room proved quite accurate: "That's the problem with the press. If we say '20 and 20 is 42' and the Republicans say '20 and 20 is 42 million,' they'll say, 'You're both wrong on the numbers.'"
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  4089.  @ThreaT650  Yes, she is awful. However, just as America needed a Stephen Douglas to argue for the Union despite being wrong on pretty much everything else, that seems to be her role. It took working with Stalin to get rid of Hitler, but it had to be done. The thing is that we have to understand that it's just for this one thing, and take advantage of the fact that she is useful. Use a little bit of strategy.
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  4090.  @davidm1926  True, but they were also the one country that had its first known case the same day we did, so it offered the most direct comparison. Yes, we had our own failures that put us in league with the biggest blunders like Russia, India, and Brazil (even the UK wasn't quite in our league of awful response, and they were pretty bad). If people want to embrace American exceptionalism, then we need to look at the best of what is possible. Even with Japan botching its vaccine, they are still doing far better. Then again, funny how the Orange Crush always make excuses for how the country they said should be first and great again can't compete with places like New Zealand and Australia, either.
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  4091. ​ @eri4ever466  The way that Tesla builds its EVs has far more greenhouse gases in the production than gas or hybrid cars. You have to drive a Tesla for well over 100K miles just to catch up with a gas-powered car.
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  4092.  @meligoth  Indeed. Elaine: I'm an associate now. George: So am I! Waitress: So am I.
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  4093.  @davidlafleche1142  The Antichrist will be worshipped as a deity. Considering the people who follow the man who said "I alone can fix it" while blaspheming the name of God by pretending to be followers of His son, Trump is a candidate. Maybe you should read I John 2:18 that many antichrists have come. Trump is one of them.
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  4094.  @BigRedR-o7h  If there are enough Dan out there, he is a threat.
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  4095. I remember being shocked at how these same people who loved W in 2004 were insisting by 2008 that he wasn't really a conservative. Except for the contradictory things, he give them everything they wanted! It wasn't his fault that the results of that were a ballooning debt and a terrible economy. That was the fault of modern American conservatism.
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  4096. It is a mark of maturity to admit that we make mistakes, and I commend you for it.
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  4097. And creepy calendars?
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  4098. Being President is all about making the tough decisions. If she can't make this one, she has proven once and for all that she is unworthy of the office.
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  4099.  @nsbd90now  Indeed. I think he was 45 when he finally dropped that label.
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  4100.  @slade5840  Sherrod Brown did it.
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  4101.  @slade5840  The left did quite well in places like KS. If you just offer mealy mouthed proposals, you get beat. If you stand for something, you win. A majority of the American people want Medicare for All, free college tuition, a living wage, and the right to organize. If you don't offer it because your ideas are losers, then you are seen as a loser. AR voted to raise the minimum wage, and WY, ID, and UT voted for Medicaid expansion. How much more proof do you need?
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  4102.  @siriuslyspeaking9720  Bernie ended up outperforming polls by an average of nine points last time out. He is not "falling behind in Nevada," and if Bernie continues to do nine points better on Election Day, that puts him ahead in Iowa. Now that Warren is seeing that her honeymoon period is over, and sue is surely going to have to answer questions about her corporate legal work for a steel company to stiff a miners pension, Dow Chemical to stiff breast implant patients who got sick, and a railroad company from paying for a Superfund site helped by Ken Starr, her numbers will sink like a stone.
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  4103.  @NJ-wb1cz  There is a huge difference between bringing people on to show how much they suck and because you want to "share i-DEE-uhs" while you let them say their awful nonsense unchallenged. Besides, as someone else said, he was offered the big bucks and turned it down.
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  4104. Russia didn't force her not to campaign in WI or MI or spending money for voter turnout in Chicago and New Orleans for fear that she would win the Electoral College but losing the popular vote, instead of putting that money in, I don't know, Milwaukee, Madison, Detroit, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia. Before the 2000 election, people thought Gore would win the Electoral College and lose the popular vote. Where did he end his campaign? Florida!
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  4105. If he is just a dumb comedian, why make money telling people your opinions? It's nothing more than a dodge when your stupidity is exposed.
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  4106.  @ShaithMaster  I thought it was F-U money.
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  4107. Indeed. I remember in 2008 working a job where the boss insisted that nobody wanted to work because he got no one to respond to the help wanted ad. I pointed out that he didn't list the wage, so people just assumed it was minimum wage. Once he put the wages ($11.00/hour, or $13.64 in today's money), he got two within the day.
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  4108.  @CC-vq1yg  Agreed. The GM strike proved once and for all that there is no such thing as a good private insurance plan.
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  4109.  @TheRedStateBlue  To receive votes... to perform a job.
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  4110. And he was one of the architects of the Kansas "experiment in supply side economics."
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  4111.  @AndiDuck  The mere act of impeachment matters a great deal. Even if it fails to remove Trump, it still holds him accountable throughout history. Letting Moscow Mitch get you to say that we can't do anything about obstruction of justice, bribery, the Emoluments Clause, etc., will be our eternal shame.
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  4112.  @grandmaida7819  Jones died of a gunshot, though, rather than go out the same way of his followers, who he cajoled to do so (a lot had injections rather than drinking it).
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  4113.  @cislord8532  Look up the GM strike. There is no such thing as good employer based health insurance.
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  4114.  @kg356  Not really. This is the same person who would prefer no income tax at all, and justified tax cuts for rich people by saying that they'll hire people to build their yachts.
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  4115. UBI is neither left or right. Everything depends on how it is structured. His version was a regressive benefit (the poor and disabled had to give up their existing benefits in order to pay for it) paid for by a regressive tax. He took a Milton Friedman idea and managed to make it worse.
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  4116.  @SportsZombie54  He also said that "Amazon would have to pay for every purchase," which was a ridiculous notion, because every study has shown that any consumption tax in any form gets completely passed onto the consumer. Do you consider books to be a luxury item? I don't. If it is only on luxury goods, it is by definition not a VAT, and it isn't enough to raise $2.5T. A VAT is a broad-based tax. The existing social safety net should not be either/or. Making people give up their existing benefits is the very definition of a right-wing UBI. The key distinction is whether or not is in addition to or instead of the existing benefits. Robert Reich proposed one that doesn't take away what people already get. There are some needs that are specific and acute, and a UBI is wholly inadequate to address them. Why force people in that situation to choose? Example: Of the few that he was willing to specify, Yang mentioned daycare subsidies. Imagine a single parent with two small children making $20,000/year. Since Yang doesn't support increasing the minimum wage, this is entirely feasible. Daycare for two kids is $1500/month. Therefore, it is either take the subsidy or quit the job. Since the former is clearly the best option, you are now making that person pay extra for goods, thus making his/her position worse in absolute dollars, and worse in relative dollars, because the friends from the job who don't have small children are now getting more money to spend. How is this progressive?
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  4117.  @SportsZombie54  Yang didn't say directly that the choice was permanent (he had a problem with giving direct answers on specifics), but when Rubin asked why not just get rid of the existing social safety net now, Yang said that as more people opt into his system, the existing system will start to wither, or as Grover Norquist said, shrink it to the size that you can drown it in the bathtub. It was coded, but it was there.
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  4118. You are correct, Bev. When people just talk about populism as a campaign style, either a) they miss the entire point, b) they want to distract from the actual and valid concerns of real (left-wing) populism, or c) some combination of the two.
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  4119.  Will224000  Did Obama have lawyers argue in court that people don't need soap or toothpaste? Did Obama force a two-year-old represent herself in court? Did Obama refuse to pay for diapers? You love this policy, so don't deflect.
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  4120.  @unopine  First, there is no such thing as right wing populism. Second, after MSNBC fired her, she started a PAC that was supposed to help lefty candidates, but she put more than eight times the donations in her pockets that she did for actual candidates. She took her mask off after the primary was settled. It was one thing to focus your ire on Democratic candidates during the primary, but the way she went after Bernie proved that her support was insincere. People kept telling me that she attacked both sides equally, but checking her most recent ten radars showed that this was never the case except for the Republican convention. She downplayed the attack on our democracy, and she ignored Saagar Enjeti using anti-Semitic bullhorns on Joe Rogan's show. They are more alike than you care to admit.
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  4121. ​ @Rusty_Spy  "Had no clothes" yet had more domestic accomplishments than any President since LBJ despite having no margin for error, repeatedly outmaneuvers the same Republicans who say he's not with it, and just spent the last month securing arrangements for our European allies to protect Ukraine. If that's someone who doesn't have it, what would it take to convince you of someone who does?
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  4122.  @tim211292  Not if Jayapal is chair.
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  4123.  @Junebug89  Other than the Freedom Caucus, who really demands 100% purity? I think that in many ways it took a very long time for the caucus to grow past its beggars can't be choosers roots. The original group was only five. I think that we will also see how things go in the 117th to see whether or not the obvious fake lefties of the Tulsi Gabbard strain will decide that they want to go through with the hassle or if it will give room for the actual lefties to really start putting their stamp on things.
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  4124.  @llew-AZ  A flat tax to pay for the things we need? That's not going to work. We need to enforce the tax laws we have on the books, and then start worrying about where we need to raise taxes.
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  4125. Well, their big mistake by doing it that way is that it makes it a lot harder for the rest to reach viability. If no one else gets 15% and Bernie wins, he gets all of that state's delegates. Let them all run and get there 3-5% each.
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  4126.  @user-mg4zu7bs6i  It costs far more to buy Congress than it does to buy a city council or state legislature.
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  4127.  @SuicidelG  Accelerationism says that you want people to suffer more because you can't get everything you want. That makes you a psychopath.
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  4128.  @bork3592  You flex by winning local office and committee spots. Then, you control the machinery. There is a reason there was a 16 year gap between the landslide loss of Goldwater and the landslide win of Reagan. AOC needs some company in Congress. Bernie needs some company in the Senate.
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  4129. I don't think it will be the full 3.5, but I think it will be over 3.
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  4130. Yes! It can be very lonely trying to point this out on some of these threads.
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  4131.  @Velvetx4cove  There are plenty if less reactionary churches in the United States. We just don't get the attention that the fundamentalists do.
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  4132. If they are both the same, why can't she make up her mind about whether or not she supports Medicare for All? One day, she's "for Bernie's plan," and the next, "there are a lot of good plans, and I want access." She is a smart woman, so she knows that is code the right uses to justify not providing actual health care.
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  4133.  @hurensohn7605  Except it doesn't. That's their idea, but the punishment being that businesses will get punished after they kill people as opposed to putting some basic safety standards in place to make sure they don't kill people is pretty gruesome.
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  4134.  @alwayz247  You have no issue with her support for a libertarian wolf in leftist clothing who pushed the ideas of Milton Friedman and managed to make them worse by adding a regressive tax to pay for them? And the facade had long been removed from Tulsi Gabbard. Praise the establishment and try to please them, or constantly try to go the opposite of them, but it's still about them, and that is what's weak.
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  4135. ​ @jongmod9440  1) She never called all of his followers "deplorables," 2) Considering how many were just fine with a fascist coup attempt and every hateful thing Dear Leader has said and done in all the years since, she wasn't insulting as much as she was describing, and her guess of how many were deplorable was probably low.
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  4136. The only way those words would work in the same sentence would have something like "Fox and Newsmax have no journalistic standards."
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  4137.  @anderseckstrand7033  Polling data so says a lot of things that just aren't true. When it comes to things like civic engagement, people like to talk a big game, but actual data shows otherwise. Voters on the left insist on being wooed, but voters on the right show up every single time. That's why they win when the majority disagree with their policies. And the reason why the Democratic Party shifted right in the 1990s is because it got killed in the 80s. Republicans keep shifting right because their voters keep rewarding it.
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  4138. ​ @jeff61177  Lots of people much younger are bad with names. You're telling me you've never been thinking of two people and said the wrong one?
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  4139. There's no arguable about it. He has been doing this at the highest levels for 25 years.
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  4140.  @MikeAnn193  Here is a summary of the thing with Bernie and Warren that includes what Biden said that his staff now insists was taken out of context: https://www.vox.com/2020/1/15/21064205/sexism-women-candidates-presidential-election-elizabeth-warren-bernie-sanders
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  4141. 1964. When they nominated Goldwater, the die was cast.
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  4142. Maybe they started to realize that the flaws are far more defining than the supposed strengths.
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  4143.  @1369Stiles  I'm convinced that people like that fall into one of two categories: 1) right-wing trolls pretending to be left, or 2) people who don't actually want any of the things that they claim to want as opposed to complaining about things.
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  4144.  @Exoticgirl1  Well, we just need to work that much harder. Every time you get worried, knock on doors, make phone calls, get on the BERN app. We can do it!
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  4145.  @alexanderfreeman  Because people who don't want to regulate their pollution and want to cut their taxes benefits his portfolio. If the people who won't do that are completely discredited in voters' eyes, he sees that as a win.
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  4146. Not me. I don't give him a pass.
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  4147.  @lomnguyen8598  Since Yang forces people to choose between their current benefits and his plan, and many states force people to pay back any benefits that were overpaid, even if it is not the client's fault. You have now just made something else to trap the poor in the system as it currently exists.
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  4148.  @kurisu7885  The workers are the union.
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  4149. I suppose cutting child poverty in half means nothing to you. Would you have voted against it because it didn't eliminate child poverty?
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  4150.  @tookie36  Then, what is the context that totally saves him on this one?
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  4151. Approval voting seems to me to be quite a ridiculous notion. Ultimately, you have to pick someone. Just saying "who do you like?" would lead to candidates saying nothing just to try to get approval. This is the exact opposite of what we should want.
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  4152.  @PoochieCollins  No, approval voting encourages mushy candidates who say nothing. Ultimately, there has to be a mandate for the winner.
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  4153.  @TheHuxleyAgnostic  Indeed. And everybody gets the oil dividend in Alaska.
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  4154.  @anulbead4817  Name another entity required to fund 75 years worth of pensions in 10 years.
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  4155.  @jamesegsmith  Smallpox vaccine was the first vaccine as we know it (and it is where the name vaccine actually comes from), and it was an improvement over variolation. Totally comparable. More so than you realize because the anti-vaccine crowd is nothing new.
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  4156.  @beastmasterx7091  If most people want a third party so bad, why do they perform so badly in the polls? Arguing about third parties when you have a would-be fascist dictator is like rearranging chairs on the Titanic. Are you going to make the same mistake the third largest party in the Weimar Republic did rather than stop the actual threat?
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  4157.  @TheNastyTank  Except you left out a key part of the OP: "anyone claiming to save the world while selling you a product is lying." Even if Musk were totally pure in his intention and really just interested in making the world a better place by selling his car, he can't do it because a) the price point is too expensive to be driven en masse, b) the method of getting the battery involves rare earth minerals that are not sustainable, and c) there have to be systems in place to make sure that people are actually getting clean energy to charge the battery. Otherwise, you are going from the frying pan to the fire, because coal is even worse than oil when it comes to greenhouse gases. Therefore, Elon Musk is not saving the world with Tesla. My point of entry was to agree with another poster that polio was not about marketing a product to save the world. When I pointed out that the Almighty Market can't solve everything, you insisted that I was a totalitarian. That is where the disagreement comes from.
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  4158.  @MushVPeets  That's not the point of capitalism. The point of capitalism is only to increase wealth. It is neutral to the whole saving the world thing.
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  4159.  @AG-lm5uf  What makes Jimmy Dore the wardrobe police? There are people whose job it is to deal with such things. That's even assuming what he says is accurate.
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  4160. Article I, Section 8 clearly says that one of the points of a militia is to put down a rebellion. This is vile.
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  4161.  @intergalacticdegengypsy6135  Until Reagan was governor, the UC system was free. It was considered the public equivalent to the Ivy League. Everyone benefited.
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  4162.  @samkhawam9125  It never ceases to amaze me how people hold onto their first impressions of people. The fact that she took weeks rather than the usual slow burn, and people still think she is a lefty, speaks volumes about that tacic.
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  4163.  @hategreed1  And Bernie never praised someone who toppled a democratically elected government in Egypt, courted the support of Modi, praised Putin for bombing civilians in Syria, or voted with Republicans to make it harder for refugees to enter the United States. Oh, and he never, ever defended torture. It's not even close. Bernie has been better longer than Tulsi.
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  4164.  @gracieallen8285  A somewhat distant cousin of mine was complaining about Bernie endorsing Hillary instead of Jill Stein. I pointed out that Bernie said he would endorse the nominee, and asked why he was so upset. The answer: I thought he would endorse Stein, anyway. I then noted that you can't like someone for being honest and get mad when he keeps his word.
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  4165. AOC 2028!
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  4166. Isn't he some sort of health inspector?
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  4167.  @rcpilot179  The answer is never, and Buchanan and EMK were far stronger than Cenk.
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  4168.  @robertnicholls9917  Did you find the Cambodian breast milk?
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  4169. If too many of them run, that will be counterproductive. In order to get delegates, you need 15% in a state or Congressional district, depending on the rules in each state. I say the more the merrier in the establishment wing, because it will make it harder for any of them to get any delegates at all, thus making it easier for Bernie to win.
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  4170.  @batboy3746  If you can't tell the difference between left and right populism, that's on you. Ruy Teixeira (hardly a populist by any stretch) defined left (real) populism as a battle between the rich elite and everyone else, and right (fake) populism as finding an underclass other who is supposedly aligning with the cultural elite to undermine decent people. They are not remotely the same. One leads to more equitable society, and the other leads to increased division and rancor.
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  4171.  @WAL_DC-6B  George Romney was definitely a very accomplished man.
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  4172. "It's not about the jacket. Take it off to please them, wear it to piss everybody off. Either way, it's still about them, and that's what's weak." Jeff Winger, giving valuable advice for contrarians
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  4173. Affirmative action? Or are you just talking about actual racism?
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  4174.  @cmack17  Well, that's why we have an FDA in the first place.
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  4175.  @Clairevoyante  Indeed. People don't seem to understand that Pelosi wasn't entirely wrong when she said "only four votes." Let's turn the squad into a platoon, then a company, and then a battalion.
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  4176.  Debra Seitz  No, this is the American right.
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  4177.  @EdgeO419  I get how people's personal feelings might affect judgment. I know it happened to me because I ran for the WV House of Delegates in 2006, and I got an endorsement from Joe Manchin, which may have affected the extent to which I would defend him (mainly in the sense of "he is the only Democrat who can win statewide, so half a loaf is better than none at all," although I did support his 2010 primary opponent as a protest vote against mountaintop removal, but not after he threatened to not endorse Bernie) in the past. However, I was honest when I realized that, and I didn't call things out of character when he disappointed me in a way that I knew to expect.
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  4178. I don't remember if he said the white part out loud, but he did say the nationalist part.
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  4179. Wonderful news! One down, 49 to go.
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  4180.  Peder Hansen  I emphasized on these boards. I hadn't seen anything in this thread to rise to a defense, but it seems like you are saying that Andrew Neil railroaded him.
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  4181.  @mypillowguy445  Exactly. My point was that Mueller specifically said when there was not enough evidence on one of the two things that he investigated, only to say "I didn't say he didn't" when asked about the other.
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  4182. Jimmy Dore isn't advocating "direct action." He is advocating a kamikaze plan doomed to fail that cuts the legs out from under the people doing the actual work.
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  4183. Reagan such "peace and prosperity" that pretty much every bad thing started to grow and every good thing started to shrink or stagnate during Reagan's term in office.
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  4184. Actually, Step 4 is "watch poll numbers drop."
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  4185.  @akenawell  For the most part her record is "stellar"? Do you think that her record of defending torture is "stellar"? Or how about her praising Putin for bombing civilians in Syria while complaining that Obama didn't? Or her praise of Sisi for killing protesters in Egypt? Or courting Sheldon Adelson and doing his bidding to try to get rid of his competition in the form of online gambling? Or her vote to make it more difficult for Syrian refugees to enter the United States? Or her playing both siderism on the shutdown? Or her defense of Biden on busing? Is that what you consider to be part of her stellar record?
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  4186. Correction: he needs to do us all a favor and drop out.
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  4187. Oh, it's already there. Case in point, the robot that keeps posting the exact same thing on every single video of Gabbard I have seen, several times, regardless of the context of the video.
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  4188.  @cpvsgvmnt2116  Hint: most wealth in this country is inherited. Just because you are on third base does not mean that you hit a triple. These "job creators" would much rather have robots do all the work if they could and get rid of every human worker if they could.
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  4189.  @Supadupanerd  Look at what they did with W. He gave them everything he wanted, and when he got soundly rejected, except for those "Remember Me?" memes, he went down the memory hole and was "a big government liberal." Well, maybe if you didn't have a morally bankrupt and intellectually inconsistent philosophy, you wouldn't have to do that, Sean.
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  4190.  @ahwasright1364  Well, that shows your stupidity, because she is Somali. I guess bigots can't keep their hate straight.
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  4191.  @ToniHunterOne  Well, he can do all of that stuff if he outlives his prison sentence ;-)
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  4192.  @annkristoff4303  Attitudes line yours make it easier for the corrupt to get away with corruption. After all, if everyone does it, why punish anything?
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  4193. Threatening his life would backfire. Maybe we need to stop being so scared about what the opposition will do and fight.
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  4194. Trump was trying his best with his tweets? I'd hate to see him being careless!
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  4195. I've seen the rally where Rashida Tlaib endorsed Bernie. She smiled quite a bit in that video.
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  4196.  @andrespueblos  Then, he failed.
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  4197. So, you just let them grow unchecked?
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  4198.  @Rob1066-  Well, if they participated in an insurrection, let the courts take care of that. None of this probation or giving bail to traitors so they don't miss their overseas vacation nonsense, either. And, for the record, the biggest mistake we made after the Civil War was not hanging Lee and Davis.
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  4199.  @Rob1066-  Freedom doesn't mean freedom to storm the Capitol because you don't like losing.
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  4200.    If Biden wins and has a Democratic Senate, I will lose all respect for RBG if she is sitting on the bench next October. We just cannot risk Democrats losing the Senate in 2022 or unified Republican control after 2024 on someone who is dealing with cancer and seems to end up in the hospital on a monthly basis.
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  4201.  @PoggoMcDawggo  The numbers look good right now for the Senate. In 2016, though, the moment that I knew things had gone horribly wrong was when Wisconsin was called for Johnson by 11:00, because Feingold had a pretty big polling lead to the point where this was seen as the second most likely takeover. That's why we need to take nothing for granted and vote like our lives and democracy depend on it, because they do.
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  4202.  @littlebitofhope1489  So, you think that republic means whatever you want it to mean to justify your opposition to democracy. Got it. As far as "tyranny of the majority" goes, you wanna know something worse? Tyranny of the minority.
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  4203. Do that, and we get no more judges. A little bit of strategy goes a long way.
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  4204. ​ @greasygranpapy7529  Indeed. That is why I always push back at the idea that the American people elected Donald Trump.
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  4205.  @Pathfinder1932-t5d  Left and right is literally an economic distinction. It sounds like you're a culture warrior mad about not getting your way UK everything.
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  4206.  @Pathfinder1932-t5d  That was a very weird autocorrect to go from "on" to "UK." Anyway, if it's not what this is about, you want to know a secret? Pretty much everything that you have said sounds an awful lot like the same arguments of decades ago with the only real difference being the target of your ire. As far as the "social left and right," Republicans dangled abortion in the face of their base for 50 years, but every single time a Republican gets in charge, rich people get their tax cut. So, you can choose to get used by people who like to distract you, or you can look at what is actually going on.
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  4207. 15%? She won't even get 1.5%.
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  4208.  @denellsullada7697  Because he is trying to convince others not to get the vaccine, just like his buddy Tucker Carlson. Oh, and he lies about the effectiveness of the vaccine and promotes quack treatment as an alternative to vaccination.
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  4209.  @waleuska  How is the candidate who wants to get rid of the existing social safety net and use a regressive tax to pay for his signature proposal pushing anyone to the left? How is the candidate who opposed the Iran nuclear deal and talked about supporting torture pushing anyone to the left?
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  4210.  @sergeikhripun  They literally say that the groceries cost more than half the median income in Russia.
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  4211. Charles Sauer makes the same mistake that every libertarian does when talking about housing: when the Almighty Market doesn't do what he thinks it should do, he insists that it is really some system that undercuts the Almighty Market even though the Almighty Market will do exactly what he says it shouldn't.
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  4212.  @zzzT.  Grant and Arthur, too, but that's it.
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  4213.  @soulknife20  And I say that as someone who overall thinks that Eisenhower did a good job. My mom doesn't care much for Ike, either, though, so maybe it's because they dealt with his biggest domestic economic failings up close.
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  4214. This is the first time I've heard that song past the first few seconds.
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  4215.  @TrotmanOwl  I didn't see that one, but I saw him say in the past that, based on the Germany/Switzerland model, it is possible to have a public option that works if it is very heavily regulated. Which may be true, but at a certain point, it would become redundant.
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  4216.  @inquisitive.lurker  Well, then, I don't know what you are seeing, because he leads in swings states and is often the only Democratic candidate to lead, such as Florida.
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  4217. The more people who take pleas and agree to cooperate the better, because a) every defendant who flips makes the case stronger against the remaining defendants (and we all know which one who will never be offered a deal) and b) it means that it is more likely that every defendant can be tried at once, which means that Der Orangefuhrer will go to trial quicker.
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  4218. "I don't care."
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  4219.  @HansKeesom  So, nothing about paying fair wages, a market that doesn't keep competitors out, government subsidies for the intellectual property, and not exploiting people? Interesting.
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  4220.  @theone8327  I don't know what they should look like, but I do support reparations for descendants of slaves and Native Americans. As far as the distribution question goes, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates made their fortune largely because of rule changes for paying executives with company stock and stock buyback policies. And as far as the question of fair compensation, would they have made their money without people willing to work for them? Or do you worship at the altar of wealth and think that it was just some display of individual brilliance?
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  4221.  @HansKeesom  Oh, yes, it is a totally level playing field, not one where the options are accept this stagnant pay or starve. There is no such thing as equitable negotiations when one side figuratively holds a gun to the other's head. And, yes, it is a legitimate option to tell someone with no money who is taking the low-paying job to take your lack of capital and start a business. The Way Things Ought to Be aren't the way things really are.
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  4222.  @HansKeesom  People are working longer hours and getting less. Of course, when worshipping at the altar of wealth, it becomes necessary to dump all over the people without whom such wealth wouldn't be possible.
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  4223.  @HansKeesom  People should find ways, as opposed to the people who do little of the work, get all of the credit, and most of the pay? And I would say that anyone who argues that people are rich solely because they are intelligent and skilled are either rich and delusional, or poor and want to be rich someday, so they keep sucking up to rich people. The extent that you do it sounds like full on worship. The Almighty Market used to say that factory jobs paid the least, and now they pay some of the highest for blue collar workers. Is that because they got new jobs skills, or is that because they realized that the boss needed them more than they needed the boss and demanded it? "Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves the much higher consideration." Abraham Lincoln
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  4224.  @HansKeesom  Oh, yes, I would have suddenly been able to break a four-minute mile instead of being in the high 5s if only I "understood what it means to be an elite athlete or top entertainer." Again, what is the alternative for not taking it? Going to another low-paying job? Starving? Having nowhere to live? Oh, that's right! The right will say "start your own business." Oh, but if you have no capital, your only hope is to pray that you can get a loan, and hope that everything works out with your business, because if it doesn't, you are in debt for the rest of your life. What a great set of alternatives!
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  4225.  @sodarndonestopthelies6514  Indeed. Forget the weight loss contestants, he is the biggest loser.
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  4226.  @marciamakesmusic  Yeah, that makes sense. The algorithm thanks you for your engagement.
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  4227.  @bru1016  She is not for Medicare for All. You cannot have private insurance for primary care and still support Medicare for All. It's like Todd in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World saying "chicken isn't vegan?" And where could she go? As Dave Rubin showed, there is a lot of money to be had in pretending to be a lefty while spouting right-wing talking points.
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  4228.  @mayavox  You're playing that game? Let's take someone who makes $50,000/year. Show me a plan, anywhere, that offers that level of coverage for less than $3940/year between worker and employer share, which is the combined tax for Medicare for All. You won't. You know why? The average Cadillac plan is over $11,000. My plan from work is close to that level of spending, and I don't get everything free. I actually have to pay anywhere from $20-200 for most health care visits depending on type. If I am so wrong, show me an example.
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  4229.  @mayavox  I don't care what caucus she sits on. Do you think Nancy Pelosi is a big lefty? After all, she was a member of the Progressive Caucus until very recently. What about Joe Kennedy III? Really? I'm making it up that Tulsi Gabbard never used the sake talking points that John Delaney did about "choice" when it came to private insurance? Well, then what was this she said to Anderson Cooper? https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/8/3/1876429/-In-which-Tulsi-Gabbard-literally-calls-her-own-healthcare-bill-un-American-Seriously [Excerpt]: AC: Do you think those who are embracing taking away private insurance from people alternately, is that just politically/strategically a non-starter? TG: I don't know about the politics of it, but I just think about it from the perspective of [...] thr American people... that if all of a sudden you are taking away their choice... that's not a very American thing in my opinion. [...] So, let's do our jobs, try to bring down the cost of healthcare in this country that's exorbitant, make sure people get the quality care they need, and if they still choose that that's not what they want, they can go get private insurance. I didn't put those words in her mouth, and you can watch the video in the link starting at 3:32. The part that shows the flip is at 4:16. Checkmate.
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  4230.  @bru1016  Yeah, when Elizabeth Warren proposed what you are saying, lots of us rightly called that out, too. If you try to let it wither on the vine, you'll end up with what Vermont did. Saying that they tried single payer is a lie. They wanted to tax at the level of single payer, but it was a public option. Of course, nobody liked it!
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  4231.  @bru1016  No, Tulsi lied, too, because she said that her plan was single payer. If you have a competing insurance plan, then you don't have single payer. If you don't have single payer, it isn't Medicare for All. And this idea of "choice" shows a neoliberal bias. The primary importance is rights. Only focusing on choice reduces people to consumers instead of citizens. The fact that she thinks that choice is of primary importance shows that she bought that one hook, line, and sinker. As did anyone who worked backward and decided that they liked her rather than focused on the principle at hand.
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  4232.  @Mulberrysmile  May I ask what is it about her "voice on war" that you like? She defended torture, she praised Sisi for killing protesters in Egypt, she compared the Iran nuclear deal to Munich, she has repeatedly praised Netanyahu, when Modi went into Kashmir she pretended it was about gay rights, she praised leaving the Kurds to slaughter, and unlike Bernie she sat idly by and did nothing to stop aiding the Saudis in Yemen.
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  4233.  @bru1016  So, your preference is to add an unnecessary step in the hope that people choose the government plan? That's exactly what Warren said. He passes it by getting the voters to put pressure and to support incumbents and challengers who do. You don't perpetuate the choice fallacy by calling Medicare for All un-American.
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  4234.  @red-baitingswine8816  What's the problem? Allowing a private competitor that is going to lobby Congresss means that they will lobby them to undermine the single plan and reduce benefits. Having everyone in the same plan means negotiating for better prices. If a single payer system means corruption, why do we pay so much more than everyone else? And what is this "right to purchase"? What about the rights of people who are sick and dying because of the Almighty Market that drives up costs? What about their rights?
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  4235.  @googplay9785  Oh, man! This is what happens when someone has nothing to fall back on. I couldn't care less about Tulsi's religion. I have great respect for Pramila Jayapal, who I would have wanted for the national ticket if she was eligible for the office. (And I think that we should amend the Constitution to allow naturalized citizens to run, but I am not sure if the time period for citizenship should be 20 years or 35.) You have to resort to this because you know you have no answer.
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  4236.  @red-baitingswine8816  Well, that is the exact same thing that Elizabeth Warren said, and the tulcels raked her over the coals for it. The only difference is that one had a prettier advocate.
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  4237.  @radarbob9971  [citation needed]
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  4238. Pee-Wee was on an HBO special, but Pee-wee's Playhouse ran on CBS from 1986-91. It was canceled a few months before the infamous incident.
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  4239.  @woolie118  So, because he bends in the wind and occasionally says something that sane, that means that we should ignore the underlying thread?
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  4240. I think that Stuart Stevens got it right: it was key to the modern conservative movement all along. Just read what Buckley had to say about race in the 1950s. A lot of conservatives defended apartheid South Africa to the point that a sanction bill passed over Reagan's veto. Not that every Republican is a racist, but they are content to go along with racism.
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  4241.  @misterdemocracy3335  Election Day is November 3rdso so that would be a day late.
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  4242. There is always a market for someone who tells greedy jerks that being greedy jerks makes them great.
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  4243.  @Lyric061791  I'm guessing Sunny was going for the baseball analogy rather than the blue one.
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  4244.  @kylereese6202  *easy to score a run
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  4245.  @Cincinnatijames  Indeed. That is probably the most pernicious aspect of the Oliver Stone movie. Bobby didn't even turn against Vietnam until about three months before he was killed.
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  4246.  @jamestcatcato7132  JFK escalated the advisers, and he signed off on the assassination of the South Vietnamese President, which occurred 11 days before his own assassination. If that isn't escalation, what do you call it?
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  4247. I also had a dog that would literally eat almost anything. I joked that he was part mountain goat.
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  4248.  @billyconnelly3568  I take it you haven't seen the videos on Ukraine? While in this one, he pointed out in passing what Russia did, when the focus was on Ukraine, he turned it into an excuse to bash NATO and parrot the line of "negotiated peace."
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  4249. ​ @baxtronx5972  You won't get rid of tie Senate rule, because every state needs to sign on.
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  4250.  @loganm2766  Yeah, because this one will be different from the 60 or so cases that got laughed out of court in the time after the election.
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  4251. "No one will have a big majority." Democrats had the exact size of the majority in the last Congress that Republicans do in this Congress. The difference is that the "extremists" in the Democratic Party aren't nihilists who just want to blow things up.
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  4252.  @ECisvotersuppression  He gave the keynote at the 2004 national convention. He was being touted at the time as a future President, and by the end of 2006, he was in second or third in most polls and in double digits. He didn't come out of nowhere. Hillary was clearly the preferred candidate of the establishment leading up to 2008.
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  4253.  @seanmacd4274  Kyle Rittenhouse was not "defending property." This was on the street. If you want to defend vigilantism, so be it, but don't try to pretty it up and pretend otherwise. It seems like there are a lot of people who believe anything that people with a gun say to defend their desire to shoot people.
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  4254.  @seanmacd4274  Also, Kyle Rittenhouse was not the small business owner. He was a vigilante who crossed state lines with a gun that he was illegally carrying. Even if he was the business owner, he would have had insurance on the business, so he could have rebuilt. The people who he murdered don't have that luxury.
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  4255. Machiavelli and Orwell share the same fate.
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  4256.  @austinhernandez2716  No, they didn't. Most offered something similar to the enhanced unemployment Bernie pushed. The difference was that a lot of countries did it by paying to keep people on the payroll.
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  4257. ​ @therealivydawg  Indeed. Although all they really prove is that they don't know how to run government, just enough dummies miss that distinction.
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  4258.  @rvanzo925  I've never heard of people dying from Advil or pooping intestinal lining.
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  4259.  @Junebug89  I think his idea is right. He himself had an eight-hour filibuster that was the first talking filibuster in 20 years to fight extending the Bush tax cuts for two years. The Civil Rights Act was filibustered, but it ultimately passed. A talking filibuster will both restore majority rule and keep the right of the minority to try to raise objections to get their point heard. Force it to be talking, and change the rules from "all Senators" to "all Senators voting" in order to invoke cloture, and you will solve the problem.
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  4260.  @ulissesarredondo8674  I interpret the original comment as being that he doesn't care if Caleb gets everything good on the left, because he thinks it's a good thing that he's trying to get people out of the alt-right vortex.
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  4261. ​ @margueritewood7036  Indeed. My union spends the vast majority of its time during contract negotiations fighting just to hold the line on health insurance.
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  4262.  @jonathangeorge787  "When people use "literally' when they mean 'figuratively,' like it literally makes me want to bash in your stupid head." Weird Al, "Word Crimes"
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  4263.  @derekmeilinger1519  That's because I don't let myself get intimidated. I had to use Turbotax this year, because my return got lost in the mail. Well, never again. They charged me $100 for things that I already knew how to do so I could claim the child tax credit. Turbotax is a scam, and the vast majority of people would be better off doing it themselves. Accountants are really only for people who have very complex tax issues. While I was the county math field day champion in school and a regional champion twice, my dad always filled his out by hand and he only has a high school degree. (He is retired now, so he doesn't have to pay anymore.) Maybe if people didn't let themselves get defeated before they start by saying it's too hard, they wouldn't be so mystified and baffled by it.
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  4264.  @Bisquick  Indeed. I think it was Warren who proposed having the government fill out essentially a short form with the standard deduction and basic things like the EITC and Child Tax Credit, and if you want to claim more things or itemize, then you can fill it out. I remember 12 years ago inverting numbers when claiming the EITC (I understood the process, but I wrote two numbers backward, and it affected my refund by $27), and it got fixed in a week. There's no reason other than greed that they couldn't do the same thing for everyone.
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  4265.  @brockcarson  You're the one defending something stupid that a stupid person said on a channel that you knew sees him as a stupid dummy and laughs at the stupid things he says, so what did you expect?
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  4266.  @brockcarson  I went to seminary. I took a seminar on the Gospel of John. We had to take a test where there was a passage, and we had to identify which chapter it came in (i.e., this comes from Feeding the 5000, so that's Chapter Six). I got them all right. Do I have the entire book memorized? No, I don't. Is it fair to say that I know it? You'd better believe it. If you think that tax lawyers and accountants can't do the same thing, you are mistaken.
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  4267.  @brockcarson  No, but knowing where to find it is sufficient. That is the point. You don't have to know every detail of charity law to know that you would look in Section 503 of the Internal Revenue Code to clarify any questions about it.
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  4268.  @brockcarson  "Children, knowing where to find the answer is more important than memorizing it." Dr. Perry Cox; also, pretty much every professor you will ever encounter in grad school
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  4269.  @brockcarson  Ask a surgeon to recite the textbook verbatim for how to remove an appendix. Could they do it? Probably not. Do they know how to take it out? Of course. How many tax attorneys or accountants do you think can recite Section 401 Paragraph k of the Internal Revenue Code verbatim? Probably not many. Can they apply it to keep you put of trouble with the IRS? Absolutely. If your argument is that someone has to memorize the entire thing in order to "know" it, then that's a pretty narrow definition of knowledge, and it's completely pointless in determining how vague the tax code is.
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  4270.  @brockcarson  You're the one saying that Dave Rubin is right to say that nobody knows. When people gave examples of what knowledge looks like, you specifically said that it didn't count. Maybe you need to figure out what your argument is.
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  4271.  @brockcarson  Seriously, Brock. Make up your mind what your argument is.
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  4272. What's the Democrat Party? There is no such thing.
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  4273.  @jwomackandcheese73  In all honesty, that's what I first thought about Rush Limbaugh. The first I'd heard of him was an interview in TV Guide just after the 1992 election, and he was excited for Clinton's election, eventually admitting it was because it would be great for his show. I was 13 at the time, so I didn't know any better and thought that he was what "Stephen Colbert" was.
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  4274.  @RMor66  Here's a hint: if you want to insult someone by saying that person is stupid, know where to put a comma. Considering that he can carry on a conversation just fine but that he has a little bit of trouble hearing some things, it's not a question of having mental capacity at all. You're just trying to find some excuse to say that he is unfit for the job, when the thing he is using is the equivalent to a deaf person using a sign language interpreter. Doesn't make either cognitively limited.
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  4275. Greenwald is and always has been a libertarian. The New Republic did an excellent profile of Greenwald, Snowden, and Assange that the anti-American contingency on the left would do well to read.
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  4276.  @kurteisner67  Indeed. Go deep enough, and all libertarians really want a return to feudalism where they are the masters of the universe.
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  4277. I once dealt with someone responding to a Pakman video insisting that 99.99% of people survive coronavirus. I did the actual math (with rounding) to show that this wasn't the case, and his response was that equals 0.0134, so how could I possibly say that more than one percent who get it die. At first, I thought he was willfully ignorant, but then I realized that he was so stupid that he didn't understand what percent means, and then he tried to save face and eventually said "1 in 75 odds of dying are still pretty good, though." Never mind the fact that the vaccinated almost never die from it, so the odds of the unvaccinated dying is much higher.
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  4278.  @celestialbeing4767  Sinema started her political life as a Green Party activist. If you look at their history, the Green Party is a collection of grifters and useful idiots. They have long worked with Republicans to deal blow after blow to the people they hate the most: Democrats. However, because this is literally the first time in her career that she has ever been in the majority party, it was a lot easier to hide her grift.
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  4279.  @jessea5044  "Border pretty much open"? Well, it didn't take long for that mask to come off. Don't you try your reverse psychology on us.
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  4280. Did you notice that the centrists keep saying "I support giving people a choice"? I can't help but think they are tying it to abortion with framing. This is why I think we should start to say "I support reproductive rights" instead of "I am pro-choice."
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  4281. @Zir Alert Neither of those were democracies. And did you not notice how close his fascist army came to the Vice President, Speaker of the House, Mitt Romney, etc.? Hitler looked like an idiot who couldn't pull it off in the Bierhall, too. How did that end up?
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  4282.  Kelly T  So, calling Medicare for All un-American "a smart strategy to win" isn't selling out? Jimmy Dore doesn't want any of those things. He just wants to be outraged. If Medicare for All really had a shot, he would find one clause hidden deep in the bill to pretend that we should throw the whole thing out because of it. How is that Supreme Court filibuster that McConnell wouldn't get rid of working out for you? How is that nearly $2MM house in Pasadena working for him?
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  4283. She has her moments, but it just seems like she is far too eager to take things down her own little paths. And there seems to be a lack of strategy when she does so.
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  4284.  @IMeMineWho  Darn right! She has a long way to go for redemption.
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  4285.  @Mortiis558  Anthony Atamanuik does an amazing Trump.
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  4286. @Suicidal Veteran Trickle down economics is the belief that if rich people get more money, they will bless the rest of it. When it tries to be respectful, it calls itself supply-side economics. You see it in such things as calling rich people "job creators," and the insistence that all tax cuts at the top pay for themselves.
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  4287.  @kennethn10  Except it doesn't raise corporate taxes. It raises sales taxes, which disproportionately affect the poor.
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  4288.  @joepark8872  Hopefully not enough to bring about their insanity.
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  4289.  Lighter Fluid15  If life begins at conception, then every miscarriage becomes a murder investigation.
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  4290. Him faking it goes contrary to everything we know about him. Have you seen just how many other people have tested positive for this thing in Trump's orbit?
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  4291. One thing that I learned about organizations in seminary that a lot of people don't seem to realize is that every organization either grows or shrinks. There is no such thing as "holding your own." It might seem that way, but look ten years back, and you will have your answer (usually that the decline was just so gradual that you didn't notice it). So many people who seem to focus on only finding heretics instead of converts are people who I think don't really want to win, but they just want to complain.
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  4292.  @ar2042  "They'll look at me and say, 'Why she wouldn't even harm a fly.'"
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  4293.  @longliverocknroll5  No, he's not. That's what the red/brown alliance people and the people who want to trivialize Bernie want you to think.
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  4294.  @jgmediting7770  Hence, why it is more accurate to say that right-wing populism isn't real. Just like white supremacists started calling themselves white nationalists and then alt-right and now identitarian, a lot of so-called right wing populists are really fascists engaging in a rebranding exercise.
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  4295. What do you call a coup attempt where the leaders aren't punished? Practice.
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  4296.  @theciakilledjfk5973  Jimmy Dore literally got paid by forces tied to the Syrian government in 2018, and he got a deal with Rumble for half a million a year. Asking people not to donate is often a trick that people use as reverse psychology.
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  4297.  @theciakilledjfk5973  The reason I asked that is because Jimmy Dore does not want anger to go to a productive place. He wants people angry and hyper-focused on him as the outlet to their anger. In 2019 and 2020, he wanted people to support a candidate who called Medicare for All un-American. There is productive anger and there is unproductive anger. If he cares so little about the issue that it doesn't move him in any way, then is it really changing his opinion?
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  4298.  @theciakilledjfk5973  Thank you. I always try my best and want to be as accurate as I can in my comments. When it comes to going from active hate to keeping quiet, we are in agreement. (For example, I thought the Chick-Fil-A boycott was stupid, because people didn't start until after the Cathy family said that it would stop funding groups like Focus on the Family, which seems to me like when a boycott should end, not begin. Although I did make sure not to go when the Religious Right went as a show of hostility to gay people.) As someone who has worked on campaigns for Medicare for All as a canvasser and on phone drives, the big frustration I have is that a lot of people who claim to support it really just have some vague notion of supporting universal health care. That is something that requires more education on our part as to why it should be this way. Heck, I've had Dore supporters insist that Tulsi was right in calling Medicare for All un-American... while being mad about the vote not being forced. I get that some things won't be politically correct (I grew up in Central West Virginia), so I have a bit of a radar on things that are said based in hatred rather than a misstep, and I am far more gentle in the latter.
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  4299.  @theciakilledjfk5973  Iowa carries so much momentum that the last three contested Democratic caucuses (and every contested Republican caucus) has seen the winner lose the next state. Yes, the coin flip thing was insane, but it doesn't change the fact that it was what the rules called for to break a tie. Do you honestly think the Buttigieg campaign snuck in a double-headed coin to each side?
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  4300.  @theciakilledjfk5973  This is what I meant when I said that there is a difference between productive anger and unproductive anger, especially when it comes to Medicare for All. It seems like you focus most of your anger on Democrats, but which party has had literally every single member of Congress (and those who have been a de facto member for decades) supporting Medicare for All? How is defeating Democrats going to make it more likely to get Medicare for All? I'm not going down the "empire" rabbit hole, especially when you defend someone who took money from and still praises right-wing dictators. The biggest irony of all is that you have Dale Gribble Syndrome: you look for conspiracies everywhere, but you miss the true ones right in front of you. The Green Party (which Jimmy Dore supported in 2016) has literally worked with Republicans for decades to try to act as spoilers in elections to defeat Democrats. If your anger on the issue doesn't lead you to actually support the people who will vote for the bill (and I have seen you focus your wrath on Democrats rather than the literal fascists and playing both siderism in regards to democracy), then you won't get Medicare for All. Of course, Jimmy Dore wants this, because he knows that when people are happy because things are going well, they won't listen to someone like him.
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  4301.  @theciakilledjfk5973  Yeah, I saw your username, which is why I said what I did about Dale Gribble Syndrome. And, again, at best you are playing both siderism. There is one party that supported an armed insurrection. There is one party that is literally trying to give itself the power to overturn any election. If you think that coalescing around one candidate in a primary is the same thing, then you really have missed the plot, and that is what the literal fascists want.
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  4302.  @MatthewWagnerNOECA  I can only go by what he said. He said that he fired "a producer." The only producer listed on the show is his wife. Letter of recommendation is far different than a credit than can he easily researched, and it relies far more on the goodwill of the employer (ask anyone who worked for Amy Klobuchar). You're not helping your case.
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  4303.  @MatthewWagnerNOECA  Hence, why so many are skeptical. Literally no one knows who he is. So, this person was uncredited, and has to rely on the goodwill of a known bridge burner for references? Yeah, what a great boss! Now, pretty much anyone who applies anywhere else from this show will be tainted with "is this the person?"
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  4304. Libertarian debates, how I've missed you!
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  4305.  @craigk621  Indeed. Abandoning royal duties is something that is just not done. I remember at the time reading that Philip compared it to Edward VIII and was a bit shocked that he would go there, but he wasn't wrong.
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  4306. ​ @jamesparson  Actually, it's 2/3 of each House of Congress and 3/4 of states, but I fully favor the Compact, because it is constitutional and effectively switches to a national popular vote without needing to clear such a high hurdle, especially given that red states will never go along (that being said, a part of did wish that Kerry won the election despite losing the popular vote so Republicans would suddenly have a reason to care about getting rid of it, too).
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  4307. ​ @joca6282  France is literally The Fifth Republic of France, and Germany is the German Federal Republic. Neither are dictatorships.
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  4308. We control the horizontal. We control the vertical.
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  4309.  @pbtube58  What is he doing that shows that he is "committed to addressing systemic racism"? What policies? What executive actions? Maybe the problem is that if he wants to move up, he should consider Congress or governor.
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  4310.  @isabelatticus4039  Seeing what Yang said on Rogan about Yang was my first warning sign about him. He was complaining about Bernie's idea for free tuition, misrepresented Bernie's position (because Bernie's plan includes vocational and technical education) and had a particularly ridiculous one (ten years to repay student loans at 10% with no deductions).
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  4311. Even during the Presidential campaign, she called it un-American.
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  4312.  @johnmcgee636  Did you learn the correct pronunciation at Ft. Leonard Wood, too? ;-)
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  4313.  @peaceoutpeaceout4267  Wrong on so many levels. First, she used the same line as Delaney in saying that people with Cadillac plans can keep them. Her website even said "public option" on her Medicare for All page. And as a veteran, I am sick and tired of Tulsi and her defenders hiding behind her veteran status to justify the indefensible. She was asked about torture, and her response opened by saying that she was conflicted (if you really oppose torture, there is no conflict on the question), she invoked a ticking time bomb scenario, and then said that she "would do whatever it takes to keep America safe." Of course, very few people are dumb enough to come out and openly support a war crime, so they speak in code. She used literally every part of the code that indicates support of torture. And her back track isn't because it is wrong to even in passing give even the slightest impression of supporting a war crime, but to say that she hadn't read the report (which was one in a series that says torture doesn't work) is a valid defense means that you think that she either never thought about the thing that the Army Field Manual and Geneva Conventions have been very clear is forbidden, or she was looking for a reason to support it. Both of which at unworthy of a would-be commander in chief.
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  4314.  @oltedders  True. I just hope that we nominate someone who has a better message than "I am not Donald Trump," because that worked so well the last time.
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  4315.  @oltedders  I am not saying that is all her fault. I am saying that if you are running against someone with higher disapproval than Wallace in 1968, it should have never been that close. Even Lawrence O'Donnell, noted after she won the nomination that she never increased her vote from polls after she won the nomination in her other two general election campaigns. That trend continued. There were people on the ground in Wisconsin and Michigan begging her to come campaign, because the numbers were tightening. She ignored them, and that turned out to be fatal. Two things can be true at the same time: yes, there were shenanigans, but she also ran a terrible campaign.
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  4316. Clarence Thomas was on the Court when Kennedy changed his mind on overturning Roe. He knew that getting word out that there five votes to overturn would make it nearly impossible to change Kavanaugh's vote.
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  4317. @Kwi Chang Kain I am serious, and don't call me Shirley.
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  4318.  @arcanondrum6543  And William Jennings Bryan
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  4319.  @imgeorge81n  Who else has taken classified documents?
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  4320.  @usffan5775  1) What is your evidence that children who are homeschooled or go to private schools have better mental health? 2) Yes, because an illiterate society will do so much better than a literate one. If private education does such a good job at educating the populace, why wasn't it educated when it was all up to private schools? 3) Well, it would he petty for me to point out the irony of the fact that you misspelled "dumber" and leave it at that, but the only private schools that actually have a proven track record of beating public schools (after adjusting for the fact that most private schools refuse to accept special education children) are those that cost more in tuition than most people make in a year, and constantly have fundraisers to put even more money toward education. My daughter goes to one of the top-performing schools in the state of PA, and what makes it a good school is that it has the resources to educate the children and parents who are invested. Maybe having rundown buildings with computers older than the students and history textbooks that don't get past Vietnam isn't the best way for children to learn.
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  4321.  @georgehays4900  Probably in 2008 when she was running for VP.
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  4322.  @dvderek  And to make it even better, he then said there are other things she could have done. When I asked for an example, he insisted that he posted one but it got deleted. I only found this out because a day later someone replied to me about something else in the thread. I guess he doesn't understand that YouTube still sends the alert even if it gets deleted, so this was clearly his way of trying to bow out of the conversation.
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  4323.  @Nick-gp9et  How did the second vote go on the Nixon plan? How about the second vote on Hillarycare?
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  4324.  @chuckray5543  That's what impeachment is. There is impeachment in the House, and a trial in the Senate.
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  4325.  @joejones9729  I wonder if he's back on the crack.
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  4326. Other than the rare swing state Senator, if they turn on him en masse, he will almost certainly take a Nixon-esque "Resign and Pence will pardon you" deal, because he does not want to go down in history as the first President removed from office, only to go to jail afterward.
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  4327. He has a multimillion dollar house. That should tell you everything you need to know.
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  4328.  @youknow9092  Ah, yes, the "regulated didn't mean that" dodge. Jefferson wasn't at the Constitutional Convention. In fact, most of the people who you cite weren't there, nor were they in the First Congress that debated what ultimately became the Bill of Rights. And the Militia Act clearly defines what a militia does, as does Article I, Section 8, and Article II, Section 2. After all, how could the President call the entire citizenry to war? That seems like a pretty huge government right there. And contrary to this notion of taking down the government, one of the purposes of a militia is to put down rebellions, and it served this purpose in 1794.
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  4329.  @Daneelro  Indeed. I was shocked at just how plausible it was after seeing both the differences in the angles (coupled with the fact that Connally was turned halfway around) and seeing an expert marksman more or less recreate that shot while they weren't moving to show that it was possible for the bullet to look like that.
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  4330.  @solutionsonly5645  It's not for everyone. There are 125 programs that people have to forfeit if they take his money. And he uses a regressive tax to pay for it. If it were both/and rather than either/or, and taxed wealth or high income instead of consumption, it would he an infinitely better proposal.
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  4331.  @sudoleone4159  That's not how it works. It is not based on dollar amount, it is based on a percentage of income. If you give a poor person an extra $1000/month, that will either be spent or used to pay off debts. If it goes into spending, it will only really be about $909/month, if that person spends it all. Given how much corporations hold in cash reserve, and how much of the tax cuts went to things like stock buyback, the rich already have more money than they know what to do with, so they most likely aren't going to do anything but stockpile that money, so it won't get taxed at all, and since Yang's vision is not big enough to either include a wealth tax or tax the unrealized capital gains on inherited stock (as it is now, if Bezos dropped dead tomorrow, his heirs could take their Amazon stock and cash it out tax free, which is obscene), that would be far superior to taxing the poor at a higher percentage of income than the rich.
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  4332.  @AhsimNreiziev  If you think that people haven't given reasons why a tax on consumption is regressive, you clearly haven't been paying attention. Lots of studies have shown that VAT gets passed to consumers, and consumption taxes are regressive because there are certain things people have to buy that are a much larger portion of income for the poor. Since Yang also refuses to list more than six or seven of the 125 programs that people have to forfeit if they take his money, and he won't provide any sort of guideline for what will be exempt (and when trying to court a left wing audience and falsely claiming Amazon will pay the tax, that implies that he thinks books are a luxury item), I have no reason to trust that it will be remotely fair. Oh, and my current home state has a flat tax on income and exempts groceries, clothing, diapers, and medicine, among others, from taxation, and we still have one of the most regressive systems in America. THAT is why I say his tax proposal is regressive. I did think harder, and that is when I realized how horrible most of his solutions really are.
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  4333.  @jordanavery7285  There's nothing wrong with the basic idea of UBI, but there is a big difference between a program that builds on the existing social safety net and uses progressive taxes to pay for it and a plan that ultimately wants to get rid of the existing social safety net and uses regressive tax to pay for it. When he says trickle up, it is literally transferring wealth and income from those who need it the most to the ones who need it the least. So, it is true in ways that his followers don't even realize.
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  4334.  @calbear1568  I pointed to the study that shows that it will get passed along to the consumer. No line of the supply chain is going to eat that cost.
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  4335.  @calbear1568  If you want to talk about a post-work society, a level lower than the current poverty level doesn't get you there. Unless anyone is proposing a post-work society, and as long as people actually want to work, making work possible is the better option. Most people who get benefits now actually work. I am a caseworker, and there are very few applications I get where there is no work history unless someone is disabled. The fact that we have working poor means that we are subsidizing employers to pay poverty wages. Yang's refusal to increase the minimum wage perpetuates that and actually makes it easier for employers to say, "Why should we give you a raise? You're getting an extra $12,000/year," if not cut wages outright since Yang doesn't support any actual policies to make it easier for workers to organize.
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  4336.  @uncletom356  Apparently, reading more than one sentence is too much for some of these people. No wonder they like Jimmy Dore.
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  4337. As long as Bernie is healthy and he wants to run again, he has my support. The fact that he is now the most popular politician in America shows that fortune favors the brave, and taking on Hillary was definitely brave when no one else would.
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  4338. Shapiro, Fetterman, and Dean for me. Don't forget to keep on going down the ballot for the legislative races.
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  4339.  @BobbyU808  So, a libertarian who is known for horrible treatment of employees and union busting is your first example of a great endorsement?
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  4340. Sam should get the make-up people for Sacha Baron Cohen to give him a new look and then have someone send the letter to butter them up.
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  4341.  @aaronwerner8  But only after the Dore Knobs savaged him for not going aggressively enough against Ana Kasparian. Hardly a profile in courage.
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  4342. It would be more fun if his poll numbers were lower.
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  4343.  @zeeone4492  Biden opposes torture. And that takedown of Kamala Harris that all the tulcels like to bring up (fat lot of good that did)? It was literally to stop three other candidates going after Biden. She also defended Biden on his history on busing, and told Rising that people should move on from his Iraq war vote while she was still running.
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  4344.  @MrGolov-te5eb  You mean the guy who is intentionally spreading lies in a way that leads to people's deaths? Literally a majority of the Supreme Court is there because Dore and people like him spend all their time dumping on people who they supposedly agree with and minimizing the damage of the people they don't. Whether it's Dore in his studio, or Nader getting over 10% of his money and 25% of his petition drive volunteers from Republicans, they are saboteurs, and anyone who follows them just wants to feel superior whole actually making things worse.
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  4345.  @MrGolov-te5eb  Oh, look, not one word about the Supreme Court, and you completely deflected from the person who was running in 2000 who opposed the Iraq War. And funny that Jimmy Dore ragged on Biden for ending the Afghanistan War. So, I guess those are things that you either don't care about or you use to deflect. If Ralph Nader was an honest actor, he wouldn't have sought so much from Republicans, including literally hiring them to try to get on the ballot in 2004. I guess being a defender of a useful idiot has a lot of consequences.
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  4346.  @MrGolov-te5eb  Yes, because Pat Buchanan or Howard Phillips are the ones who drew 15,000 more Gore voters than Bush voters in Florida. eye roll Like it or not, there is literally a zero chance that anyone other than a Democrat or a Republican will win a national election. Therefore, if you are closer to the Democrat ideologically and you don't vote for the Democrat, you are helping the Republican. You know how I know it is a zero chance? If by some miracle, a third party candidate arises, builds a substantial base of support, and either takes evenly from the two major parties or mobilizes a sufficient amount of new voters, if that candidate doesn't get to 270, the election goes to the House... where it is decided by Democrats and Republicans. But, wait! What if this third party actually builds a grassroots and wins Congressional seats? Well, in order to actually sit on committees in Congress, you have to caucus with one party or the other, meaning that once they do get there, they become de facto Democrats and Republicans, anyway. Meanwhile, the Republicans move the judiciary so far that you get nothing past them of consequence. Great strategy!
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  4347.  @MrGolov-te5eb  Because David McReynolds got 622 votes. It would take a net gain of 86.4% in order to make up the difference between Bush and Gore, which is incredibly unlikely. Your number of net +23% is far more than the net +16% that I used, because I looked for the most minimal effect in any exit poll. By definition, any difference above the margin of error was sufficient given Nader's total. Because any honest calculation does not automatically add votes of a third party candidate to a major-party candidate, but looks to see the net effect. And as we are now at a point where we literally face a would-be fascist regime, you would insist on playing both siderism. Well, the DKP played that, and look at what it got them. And sure, you can brag about your purity then, but a fat lot of good that'll do you.
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  4348.  @MrGolov-te5eb  And if you don't know what a third party vote gives you, then you are dumber than I thought, which is really saying something. It gives you Republicans who want to destroy our country while you get the smug self-satisfaction of pretending that you had nothing to do with it.
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  4349. "I only did it for the money." Buddy Gecko, "Rocko's Modern Life"
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  4350.  @genuineparticle  It's not just a hypothetical. Look at what Ben Shapiro had to say about vaccine mandates when it came to measles and the notion at the time was that it was mostly crunchy lefties who wouldn't get it.
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  4351.  @genuineparticle  Indeed. I swear, these people project more than a drive-in movie.
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  4352.  @charlesearp6133  Colleges and universities will still have admissions standards. The only difference is that people won't either have to turn it down or go into five- and six-figure debt to go there. Do you think that longer waiting lines when everyone gets health care is a legitimate argument?
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  4353.  @itmecube  I remember hearing his voice on one of the early episodes, and I made sure to watch the credits to see if it was really him, especially since it had been a few years since I had heard him on Air America.
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  4354.  @danielkruger4426  Oh, I agree. If I am watching it, there has to be a very, very good reason. Maybe I will do it again if I get to taste some tears next November, but that's about it ;-)
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  4355. More people voted in Maine than in West Virginia. More people voted in Connecticut than in Mississippi. More people voted in Minnesota or Wisconsin than in Tennessee. Not percentages, but raw numbers. In each case, the latter got more total electoral votes to decide the President. The Electoral College encourages lower turnout, and it doesn't bring candidates everywhere or to rural states, but to close states. I am opposed to multi-member districts because I do want rural voters to have a voice, but my vote shouldn't be minimalized because I live in a big city.
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  4356.  @ra5928  Those Bernie or Bust people never supported Bernie, he was just their proxy anti-Hillary. They would have just as easily been Biden or Bust, Warren or Walk, Martin or Move, etc. I remember FB groups of Bernie supporters who savaged him for doing exactly what he said he'd do all along (support the Democratic nominee). One even said, "I hoped he wasn't telling the truth," but part of Bernie's appeal is that he's honest. Don't dignify those idiots by saying they're Bernie supporters.
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  4357. What are you actually doing to get Medicare for All? Message votes that you know will fail not only don't get people covered, but they burn bridges for pretty much every other policy, too.
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  4358. The moment that his act expired was when he said Trump would be better than Hillary. The moment it should have been apparent to anyone was the debate with Sam Seder a few months later.
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  4359.  @tabularasa0606  My four year old is more coherent.
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  4360. If you weren't sure that she is a Russian agent, how much more did you need? She went to Moscow for RT events, and not since Tulsi and Modi has there been an American politician so cozy with a hostile head of state.
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  4361.  @jasonb886  Or, instead of whining about the DNC, go out there and volunteer. Knock on doors. Make phone calls. Download the BERN app. All this does is lead to despair.
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  4362.  @poeticgangsta6616  She gets easily goaded, like with the DNA fiasco where she managed to outrage a group that sees blood quantum as a way to erase them and marginalize them. Someone who can't realize when to let stuff go is going to play the game on Trump's turf, and that is how you lose.
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  4363.  @poeticgangsta6616  She said that billionaires earned all their money. She conceded the whole rationale of the cult of Trump. The difference between Hillary and Bernie is that he still keeps a far more rigorous schedule than most people twice his age, and he has shown that he has recovered. Unlike her top down approach, Bernie having a legitimate grassroots movement behind him works as quite the antidote to Trump. Show me where Bernie ever took the bait. Warren took the bait on DNA, and she was so scared of being pegged as raising taxes that she put out a regressive tax that will lead to a lot more "independent contractors."
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  4364.  @eng2625  It'd probably be a lawsuit.
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  4365.  @mh5086  I'm not saying they can't do True Crime. I'm saying that they have to change the format just enough to say it's different. That's what they did with Puppet History.
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  4366.  @markgamolka1045  Who do you think makes Ivermectin and monoclonal antibodies?
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  4367. It's original name was Foxboro Stadium. In a similar vein, nobody other than announcers ever call my alma mater's "Milan Puskar Stadium." It was, is, and always will be Mountaineer Field.
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  4368. I would, too, but sadly, I expect to see Trump's college transcripts before I see them acknowledge a right wing leaker... unless Roe does get overturned, and the leaker will be a hero who stood up for the unborn.
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  4369.  John Kochen  Indeed. Some who claimed to be Bernie or Bust were just hopping on to the last opponent standing. If it was Biden, they would have gladly been Biden or Bust.
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  4370.  @vivp9593  Indeed. I remember the criminal trial. I was at a National Guard training when the jury was deliberating, and I said that Michael Jackson would probably be acquitted. People asked why, and I said that it was because the witnesses didn't stand up at all under scrutiny, and they got caught in multiple contradictions. They seemed shocked by that. Like I said about Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn, there is a difference between creepy and criminal.
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  4371. Yes! I felt like a lonely voice saying that two years ago, but it is nice that others are starting to see it.
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  4372. ​ @dogwalker338  At this point, the only way out of the impasse is some sort of coalition government. The pragmatists and hardliners (there are no such things as moderate Republicans in the House) have made it clear that they will veto each other. Therefore, either Republicans have to give Democrats something to get them to agree to vote for a Republican, or a few Republicans have to cross the aisle (or, more realistically, switch parties, because they'll never win a primary after that) to elect Jeffries.
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  4373.  @undead9999  Any time
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  4374.  Puss nBoots  You build from within. The squad is now becoming a platoon. It takes time to lead a realignment. What did you actually do to try to help Bernie win if you think that he "got coopted"?
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  4375.  @crithon  Trump is incredibly weak when he gives statements of support for the vaccine, so most probably don't even realize it.
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  4376.  @crithon  Pretty much. I remember some Trumper sent me something saying that Der Orangefuhrer doesn't talk down to rural America (it was basically talking about him pandering and pretending that it's not a question of if vs. when we transfer away from coal), when it couldn't be more obvious that he despises them.
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  4377.  @iamisaid2295  Yeah, how did going for a centrist work out the last time?
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  4378.  @iamisaid2295  Hillary was the ultimate centrist. Maybe Yang has appeal with right wingers because he is one.
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  4379. Yes! We can all do our part. Here in Philly, I have been knocking on doors for Bernie with DSA.
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  4380. Heck, Bernie even refused an in-kind contribution from the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 2016 because he said they are a corporation and he doesn't take corporate money. (I think it was something like $3000 to cover expenses for a venue for a fundraiser. Bernie insisted on paying for it.) He never got a donation to pay for a database on the order of $175,000.
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  4381.  @johnnikasjr.8161  Bush ran against trickle down in 1980. He's the one who coined the phrase "voodoo economics."
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  4382.  @oggoblin295  He was never on the left. He just thought that's where he could get his money. Eventually, he realized it was from the right.
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  4383.  @matlockmeat  And what is your research? What is your process? And your training to help you discern what evidence to trust?
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  4384.  @TihetrisWeathersby  Apparently, her staffer forgot a fork. I hope this was a one-time thing. The weird thing is that the staffer offered to get a fork, so she somehow thought that would humiliate the staffer.
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  4385.  @blankname6629  She first made national waves going to Fox and Bill Maher to attack Obama from the right on foreign policy. She supported torture by invoking 24. This isn't her acting this way for the last few months, this is her reverting to type. More and more, I think that the only reason why she supported Bernie was in order to fend off a challenger to her left in the primary by supporting a popular candidate in her state.
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  4386.  @VMonkies  And she praised Putin for bombing civilians in Syria while complaining that Obama didn't, then cried conspiracy when it was proven that they were civilians. I don't think she is a Russian agent, but she is definitely a useful idiot.
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  4387.  @ThatGuy0311  Looks worse to only debate people you consider to be inferior and a surefire win.
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  4388.  Real Progressives Allowed  You can't yell Fire in a crowded theater, and you can't say "I'm going to kill you" while making a clear follow up to show that you mean it.
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  4389.  @KL-lt8rc  This is person is clearly a troll, and probably a fascist pretending to be a lefty... just like the one Jimmy Dore platformed.
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  4390.  @RationalAUS  What about the ones who are educated and still have those feelings?
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  4391.  @ebalicious1775  I'm not the one who can't follow internal logic. In one post, you say that the prosecution shouldn't be allowed to show intent, and then you say that the question is whether or not he intended to kill. Well, if you don't let the prosecutor argue the entire question at hand, it looks like your mind is already made up.
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  4392.  @ebalicious1775  This is not a uniform requirement. If he doesn't want victim language for the deceased, the judge shouldn't allow blaming language, either.
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  4393.  @markzuckergecko621  And the judge won't allow them to show the evidence of his intent.
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  4394.  @chris.hartliss  Indeed. When my great grandfather came to this country from Greece 100 years ago, he wasn't considered white, either.
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  4395. He definitely knew what to expect this time.
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  4396.  @alexanderkerensky2984  Yeah, no one at all knows what fascism means or has actually seen it in action in the last 100 years. /s
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  4397.  @brasshouse-fireball  Okay. Let's follow your logic. You are aware that there are a list of sponsors, right? Unless anyone else has signed on between the beginning of the Congress 54 days ago and today that I haven't noticed, we are up to 118 & 13. It takes 218 & 50 (assuming you can get reconciliation) to pass. If you hold a vote, one of three things will happen: 1) The sponsor count is an accurate reflection of support, and the bill loses with less than 1/3 of the vote in each House. The bill goes nowhere, and bringing it up again does nothing. 2) The Soft Yes sponsors are angered by the tactic and vote No. It fails by an even worse margin and you have alienated potential supporters 3) Several people who fear a primary opponent on the left will vote Yes, but not nearly enough to pass the bill, and you have taken the heat off several members who, like when Republicans voted to repeal the ACA knowing it would fail who got cold feet when it was real, are not going to vote Yes when you need it. Literally none of those end in passage, which tells me that either you listened to someone with no understanding of how politics works and didn't bother to think of step two, or you are trying to divide the left to help Republicans.
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  4398.  @brasshouse-fireball  He was so against the outsourcing of labor that he continued to outsource for his own work, and his tax policies did nothing about outsourcing. Complaining about furriners is not populist. That is scapegoating. The mere fact that you are saying "overall farming" means that you are including Big Agribusiness. It has been great for them, because it has made it easier to sweep up family farms. Funny that you keep ignoring the fact that Trump literally said "wages are too high in America." Xenophobia is not populism.
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  4399.  @Blackmark52  Except it never really worked for Trump. He never won the popular vote, and he never once had an approval rating over 50% when polled after he went down that escalator. (Not that he had it before, but the relevant time period is when he was a candidate.)
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  4400. And the first seven on your list all conceded.
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  4401.  @emceesmith6665  I'm conflicted. He clearly doesn't like Eric, but if he labeled "Tiffany's Dad," he won't even know who that is and might not even vote for himself :-P
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  4402. We know it was inncocent when the person advocating for a neo-Nazi party who platforms hatemongers makes a Nazzty salute twice? [In Dr. Evil voice] Riiiight.
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  4403.  @rsync9490  Well, they're pretty good at conserving power.
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  4404.  @franks6349  Oh, they have all insisted that lefties can and should work with people like Tucker Carlson. The anti-anti-Trump crowd is a strange one indeed.
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  4405. ​ @t.a.ackerman4098  "Congressional Medal of Honor" is a misnomer. It is simply the Medal of Honor, and it is for combat. The Presidential Medal of Freedom is a civilian honor, so that doesn't really apply. Congress could commission a special award, but this Congress won't because McCarthy is beholden to several co-conspirators.
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  4406. It doesn't help that too many are too self-righteous and think that they are too good to use talking points.
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  4407. That's the whole point! A monopoly means you can't go elsewhere.
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  4408. I, for one, am sick and tired of hearing the 63MM people line. Do they not realize that 66MM people voted for Hillary Clinton? What about us?
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  4409. It's an understanding of basic math and the rules of the game. A candidate needs an absolute majority of electoral votes to get elected, but a plurality of votes in each state. The best that a third party candidate can hope to do is take votes evenly from the major parties and win enough states to block a majority, when the election goes to the House... where it will be decided by Democrats and Republicans. Great plan!
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  4410.  @georgefurman4371  In the original context, LBJ was talking about why so many poor southern whites went along with a system that screwed them over, too. The original quote was, "If you tell the poorest white man that he's better than the best black man, you don't have to pick his pockets. If you give him somebody to look down on, he'll give you his wallet." It can also apply to any situation when the person who is on the next to the bottom rung of the ladder defends it so ardently. I remember one time someone complaining about progressive taxation as though he were being "punished" that his $30,000 income was taxed at a higher rate than someone making less than $20,000.
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  4411.  @georgefurman4371  I remember someone mocking the idea of raising the minimum wage going up because fast food workers were so undeserving (although in another conversation it was liking the idea of making twice what someone else did), and finally I said that the real enemy isn't someone making a little less, but the person getting more in a day than he gets in a year.
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  4412. And her looks are fading, so she can't get the people for whom that sort of thing matters.
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  4413. Do you think there would be no war if there were no government? Somalia called.
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  4414. That's why I call it what it really is: right to work for less.
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  4415.  @Virjunior01  In 2017, he was trashing Flynn, though.
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  4416. Because the slaveowners knew that they could never control things if they let people actually vote. That's why they cynically wanted slaves to count as full people to pad their influence.
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  4417.  @asifalimirza  You seriously don't understand any of the things that you are commenting on. The problem in American politics is that one party has slowly abandoned democracy because the system works better for them as is. Three election cycles make a full group for the Senate. In each of the last three election cycles, more people have voted for Democrats than Republicans, and Democrats represent 20MM more people in the Senate than Republicans. It is because the system was designed to favor rural voters. As the parties segregated by population density, democracy suffered. In order to win the Senate, Democrats have to win the popular vote by 6-7%.
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  4418.  @vijayiyer8518  In addition to the point made above, it is far easier to nationalize a race for federal office. The individual matters far more for governor. That's why you have Charlie Baker winning office easily in Massachusetts when he'd get slaughtered against Warren or Markey. If you look nationally, there are three Democratic Senators in states Trump won in 2020 (Manchin [first elected 2010], Sherrod Brown of Ohio, and Jon Tester of Montana [both first elected in 2006]). However, despite half as many seats available, you have red-state Democratic governors Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, and North Carolina.
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  4419.  @InternetMameluq  The issue is with the loopholes, not with multiple brackets. The other problem is that unearned income (like capital gains) is taxed at a lower rate, and the flat tax crowd wants to eliminate that entirely. They also want to get rid of estate taxes.
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  4420.  @Armed-Forever  Check the statistics for actual abortions. Show me the person who waits that long and just decides "whoopsie, I don't want to be a parent." Abortions for those reasons are almost always first term, and the ones that go into the second term for that reason just barely get there, and it's usually a case of a woman who so rarely had a menstrual cycle at all that she didn't realize she was pregnant until the second trimester.
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  4421.  @foxweazel798  Supernatural eventsor deity are questions of faith, not something provable by definition. Muhammad was a real person, too, regardless of whether or not one believes that he was the last and greatest prophet. Most people wouldn't say "therefore, the Muhammad in the Qur'an was a fictional character."
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  4422.  @Graeberwave  He did? I hadn't heard that.
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  4423. It says a lot about Briana Joy Gray that she managed to alienate the nicest and most forgiving person in American politics.
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  4424.  @patrec7638  What specific Constitutional rights do Democrats ""actually actively intrude upon"?
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  4425.  @aerobique  Any time. We can no longer pretend that these are people who actually want to make things better.
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  4426. Tucker Carlson's show is prerecorded. Even if someone did that, it would never make it past the cutting room floor.
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  4427.  @robrobillard1746  So, it's absolutely obvious that Hillary Clinton has Parkinson's?
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  4428. I do not like Rush Limbaugh at all, but lung cancer is a terrible way to go that I wouldn't wish on anyone.
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  4429. Drugs are bad.
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  4430. "Give them the chair! The chair!" Beavis
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  4431. Because he led the charge to actively people's lives worse for decades in the Senate. Because he was a go along to get along type who put Clarence Thomas on the express lane for confirmation no matter what evidence presented itself. Because he undercut Harry Reid and made a deal with The Turtle to make 94% of the Bush tax cuts permanent.
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  4432.  @longliverocknroll5  You are right that they need to touch grass. It's funny how defensive these people get when you ask them what they have personally done to work for Medicare for All. If they had, they would have known that there are a lot of people who say they support it in polls, but are extremely vulnerable to the Harry and Louise treatment.
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  4433.  @sclif6834  So, things that disproportionately affect the poor? Great plan!
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  4434. @Hailey Collins Is Andrew Yang offering real Medicare for All instead of just the name? Is he still forcing the poor to choose between their current benefits and his plan? Is he still proposing a regressive tax to pay for it? Is he still fine with tech monopolies doing whatever they want and controlling all of the benefits of automation? Is he still telling people to give up on the climate crisis and take his pittance to move to higher ground? Is he still doing nothing about affordable housing or rent control and telling people to move in with their buddies and hope their friendship survives the 15 or 30 year life of the mortgage?
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  4435.  @kickinitwithmydawg  Then, you're either not paying attention, or you are a right-wing troll. Trump stepped in for Huawei and has praised Xi repeatedly. There is no winner in a trade war. Wait. Seeing the last part about family business and ignoring how much Trump stuff gets manufactured in Chiii-na and how many patents Ivanka was given tells me that you are not acting in good faith but trying to prop up Trump.
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  4436.  @raptorreddelta3986  I would hope this is just a sarcastic way or warning about blindly liking something.
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  4437. And if you don't like Democratic ideas for health care, what do you want to see happen?
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  4438.  @jordanwirth3738  Here's a hint: if you want to sound informed, and not like a partisan loon, Democrat is a noun, and Democratic is an adjective. The name is the Democratic Party.
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  4439.  @jordanwirth3738  Gee, someone praised a person who constantly needs his ego stroked in order to get anything done. What a shock! That's just the proof right there.
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  4440.  @Name-jw4sj  That only proves the weakness of your argument.
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  4441. Trafalgar is intentionally skewing their polls because they are convinced that there is a lot of hidden Trump vote out there. If you take Trafalgar out, Biden has a lead of nearly six in Michigan.
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  4442. Maybe she should have gotten a Snickers bar, because you're not you when you're hungry.
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  4443.  Alabama Man Special Edition  All a republic means is that there is no monarchy. Saying "republic, not a democracy" is the equivalent of saying, "It's not a grape, it's purple!"
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  4444.  @peterbruno657  That's what she liked to say on even-numbered days, but she defended torture in 2014 and compared the Iran nuclear deal to Munich in 2015, and she called Medicare for All "un-American" in an interview with Anderson Cooper. Twice. Oh, and she was one of only 16 Democrats to vote with Republicans to make it more difficult for Syrian refugees to enter the United States. And she courted Sheldon Adelson and did his bidding by trying to get rid of his competition in the form of online gambling. Look in Jacobin for a 2017 article called "Tulsi Gabbard is not Your Friend." And then look at what she said when Biden actually ended the war in Afghanistan.
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  4445.  @pitti-sing1203  Are we really going to use someone's personal decision of how to respond to an adulterous spouse against her? If you have been wronged, and the feelings are still there, and people are willing to work through it, who are we to judge? Stick to the issues. There is more than enough there without making it personal.
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  4446.  @kevinschmidt2210  Yeah, how's that Revolution working for you? Is this going to be the year that people are miserable enough? Funny that I actually gave specific examples of actual accomplishments and you only provided cliches.
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  4447.  Kommisar   The child tax credit is doing just that. Increasing the child tax credit is cutting the poverty rate.
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  4448.  Kommisar   Yes, because there is no difference between tax cuts for the rich and targeted programs that are fully refundable and give money directly to working- and middle-class people. It's funny how difficult it is for the right to understand such basic things and reduce themselves to "Tax BAD! Me smash!"
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  4449.  @MP197742  That isn't blanket immunity. Jim Traficant was convicted in 2002, and then expelled.
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  4450. It never ceases to amaze me the people who complain about welfare for poor people who support corporate welfare that costs so much more just to give people like Jeff Bezos an extra ivory back scratcher.
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  4451. That's why Shepard Smith left.
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  4452.  @andrewscasualmtb  I think the Peter Principle is more accurate than the Dilbert Principle. When an organization promotes, it looks at the ability in the current job rather than the job people want. People tend to be good at the original job, and that's how they get promoted in the first place.
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  4453.  @numinous123  What? I'm mocking the Dore crowd insisting that force the vote is "getting Medicare for All." I've actually done some of the work that was part of an effort that got two members of Congress to sign on.
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  4454. No, they were saying that they didn't want Pence to pardon Trump.
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  4455. Indeed. The debt ceiling contradicts the Constitution and should be stricken. It should be impossible to default given the Full Faith and Credit Clause.
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  4456.  @westcoastrenegade8594  Yeah, let's look at history. The French Revolution begat Napoleon. The Cuban Revolution begat Castro. The Iranian Revolution begat the ayatollah. The Russian Revolution begat Stalin. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
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  4457.  @garysmokesmeat  I actually care about making things better for people, which you specifically said that you didn't when you said that you didn't even care if something improved people's lives because of your personal objection. That makes me a better person than you.
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  4458.  @garysmokesmeat  But your inability to see the violence inherent in the system is a wonderful illustration of the limits of libertarian thought. Because you can only see negative rights from the government, you don't see the times when wealth does far more damage, and government is the only one to stop them. Because you follow an ideology of property uber alles, you can't see how the monied interests act as oppressive forces, and when presented competing claims between the monied and the rest of us, you always side with the former. That is why Rand Paul with a straight face could insist that doing something about segregation interferes with free enterprise without even acknowledging the effects on the segregated. Just a week or two, I pointed out why "they can go somewhere else" is such a disingenuous argument for people when it came to segregated gas stations and hotels when another option might not be available for hundreds of miles. His "freedom" response was to let them sleep on park benches or in their cars. If that is your version of freedom, you are a horrible person. And before you say this example is unfair, I still remember Gary Johnson getting booed at a Libertarian convention for saying that the Civil Rights Act was good.
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  4459.  @garysmokesmeat  There is never an exact answer, because situations vary. You're such a corporate stooge that you complain about the dollar that gets invested to help you while ignoring someone stealing those portraits of Grant from you.
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  4460.  @garysmokesmeat  Oh, I've already given plenty of examples. You keep thinking that you have a gotcha with nonsense about "how much of my money do I get to keep?" when you ignore how much of your productivity that your boss gets to keep, which is a lot more. You have totally ignored the violence of death and illness caused by air and water pollution that you think shouldn't be regulated. Seeing the hurricane go up the East Coast, it's the building regulations that you hate so much that are reducing deaths, and the federal flood insurance that you hate so much as the government forcing someone to buy something that means that people will get to rebuild their houses and places of business. Instead, you want to insist that you are being more moral when I or others point out specifically why your ideology is so immoral.
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  4461.  @MutualistSoc  Yeah, that's like closing the barn door after the horses get out, isn't it?
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  4462. Imagine thinking that your role as a citizen is just checking a box every other year or so. LOL
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  4463. If we nominate someone who will make a full-throttled real populism pitch to counter the fake populism and distraction of Der Orangefuhrer, people will come back from rural areas. Hopefully this time we don't nominate someone so clueless as to say, "We're going to put a lot of coal miners out of work." Someone was actually surprised when I said that she literally cost herself Ohio with that moment.
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  4464.  @b.d.a.8719  If Trump won a second term, there wouldn't have been a next time. The thing that the anti-anti-Trump crowd either doesn't get or chooses to ignore is that the attempt itself is the problem. Most of us have said that it would be unsuccessful. As far as 2024 goes, if Trump wants the nomination again, it's probably his, so he'll have the privilege of being the first candidate to be rejected by voters three times since Bryan.
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  4465.  @jocksharerock7318  Thank you. These people can be unbelievably frustrating. When it actually comes down to it, I actually ended up doing more to try to help Bernie win than the vast majority of these keyboard warriors, which makes it even more frustrating hearing their machinations. I guess people that think Kyle Kulinski is a strategic genius are easily taken in. Quite frankly, I really don't care what people say they believe if they won't act on it. Jesus' brother was right on that one. If Saagar Enjeti really would have voted for Bernie if not for "identity politics," then race baiting and xenophobia are clearly more important to him. I thought it was a smart move to do the town hall, but because I thought that it was important to get the message out there. I would never want Bernie to appear on Tucker Carlson. I remember these same people insisting that Tulsi Gabbard was smart for winning over Republicans. One small problem with that strategy: there aren't nearly enough Republican crossover votes to even make a dent in the Democratic primary, as evidenced by her one delegate.
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  4466.  @PutinsMommyNeverHuggedHim  Kyle Kulinski isn't all the way down the grifter path, but telling people not to vote and saying "blame me if Trump wins" is gateway grifting. He also refuses to criticize anyone he considers to be friends (Jimmy Dore and Krystal Ball) or who he's trying to woo into going on a show (Joe Rogan). Correction: he actually defends those people's worst actions. For someone who talked about down ballot races, he bragged to Joe Rogan about not voting despite their being very close and very important legislative races in his district. How can you trust someone who lets his personal opinions of people cloud his judgment?
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  4467.  @willdasilva4459  Thank you. I don't go into these thinking that I can change their minds, but maybe someone reading it might realize how bankrupt those positions are. And speaking of which, Matt Taibbi may be a very good investigative journalist, but his opinions are awful. I've dealt with several of these purists in my day, and I have come to one conclusion: they don't really want to win, they just want to complain. Winning completely shatters their self images. What's even worse about Kulinski is that he once talked about the importance of down ballot races, but he didn't even bother to vote knowing there were close legislative races in his district.
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  4468. Arrest that man!
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  4469.  @daytripper1023  Probably less than that, because depending on the state, SNAP is between $150-200/month for one person.
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  4470.  @daytripper1023  Well, Yang is a fake lefty, and I have noticed that if you get some of them talking long enough, they will show their righty colors. Some, I am convinced are either blind followers or bots.
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  4471.  @LucianLusilver  Because they either get existing benefits OR his thousand a month. Funny that he has no problem with the rich getting outrageous tax writeoffs.
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  4472.  @LucianLusilver  1) Why should the poor and disabled have to choose? 2) If someone does not benefit, that person will still have to pay a VAT to fund it, so the least among us still suffer from his plan. 3) Respectfully, some things can't be foreseen. If someone makes $39K/year and gets laid off, and took the "freedom dividend," that is someone who can't get unemployment, which would be $900/biweekly. If that person has a mortgage on a $150K house, over $700 will go toward the mortgage. Some freedom!
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  4473.  @dip.2271  Indeed she did. The race was in Arizona, and I think Gallego was the incumbent, and he is the most likely primary challenger to Sinema in 2024.
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  4474.  @p.chuckmoralesesquire3965  And his explanation is false. His wife is his producer, so unless he fired Stef, no one was held accountable. It wasn't just omitting stuff, it was rearranging in a way to make it look like a false cause and effect and left out the whole thing about the overall success in Singapore.
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  4475.  @pacoraban513  The problem comes from trying to hijack threads with subjects that aren't relevant to the topic at hand. Maybe talk about it on videos about coronavirus instead of trying to draw attention away from those who are trying a second coup attempt.
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  4476. He strokes their ego, and he is a cult leader.
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  4477. "And then, to deal with the lines, they created Fast Pass, but then there's a line for that! Now, there's a line to skip the line. Lines! Lines! Lines!" Eric Cartman
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  4478.  @renejean2523  *five
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  4479. 6:29 Well, he's right about it being a war between good and evil, but he's on the wrong side of that war.
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  4480.  Martin Van Lent  I think a lot of it is the power of echo chambers. If they literally encounter no one who disagrees with their opinions in their everyday lives and they rarely stray outside their media bubbles. As the last four years have proven, never hearing No is bad for your mental health.
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  4481.  @greendragonspirit1646  Not at all, because she is knowingly helping the greater evil win.
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  4482.  @ippothedestroyer  Jimmy Dore is the one who casts people out if they don't agree with him 100%... unless their name is Tulsi Gabbard.
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  4483.  @thecoolannishatk.  Your points are so incoherent that I have to wonder if you are a bot, have difficulty following a train of thought, or if English is your second language. No one on The Majority Report changed positions on the futility of third party voting (although Sam did say that Trump has gotten bad enough that he now sees no point in a safe state protest vote). The difference is that Michael Brooks, being personal friends with Krystal Ball and reluctant to call out her nonsense because of that (he used to share that same reluctance when it came to Jimmy Dore, but not after the nonsense takes after the election and trying to get us to work with fascists), so Sam has less resistance to having a segment pointing out how bad Krystal Ball is. What do federal judges have to do with the Wisconsin Supreme Court? Those judges are popularly elected. The grift of Krystal Ball is muddying the waters between the parties to try to get lefties to work with fascists. No thanks.
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  4484.  @EverRae  Well, I'm sorry if you found my response to be rude, but when one side is literally trying to overthrow democracy, we are at a point where either you support democracy, want to destroy democracy, or don't want to do anything to save democracy, it is important to know where you stand. And you did try to compare sewing doubt in 2016 and 2020 as equivalent in your reply which felt like doubling down. I mentioned 2000 because this was the last election where someone directly involved in the election was presiding over the count. Way too many people have insisted that they were "just curious" on these pages when pushing the same narrative, and you posted the false equivalencies after James replied.
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  4485.  @EverRae  I do appreciate that you now see that a reflexive "both sides do it" is problematic. I hope that you will take the next step and point out the outright danger of that statement in these times to help others understand as well.
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  4486.  @DarkestKnightshade  When Biden came calling, she wanted nothing to do with the VP slot. Now that Bloomberg gives her money, she is open to it? This is how such things work. Few people do a complete 180 overnight.
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  4487.  @l.c.7955  Doing what he said he would do and seeing things it get better is what we should be asking of our elected officials. Yes, Biden should get credit for turning this ship around.
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  4488.  @MartianManHunter7  Bernie wants to forgive medical debt, too. The idea is not to put an albatross around people for things that they should have never been charged for in the first place.
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  4489. That is so unfair! Manure is useful. He is more like cancer on the body politic.
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  4490. I only ever used Twitter to share posts when I attempted the world of blogging a decade ago and used it to share links. I haven't been on Facebook except to check my daughter's school's PTO for meeting information in years. I'm just fine.
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  4491.  @rlg6201  Because international vs. isolation doesn't divide neatly along the left/right spectrum.
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  4492.  @b.d.a.8719  The plan is to do the actual grassroots organizing to get to 218 & 50. Then, just to make sure those 218 & 50 aren't Soft Yes, you then put the pressure to get them to sign a discharge petition, which means it is almost certainly guaranteed to pass. Pretending that demanding a vote when supermajorities in both Houses are opposed will lead to Medicare for All is Underpants Gnomes stuff.
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  4493. More like "Somalia."
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  4494.  @deomeslives  Her last name, nothing more.
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  4495.  @jakes658  So, you think that other people should be bought? And I could also point out that libertarians tend to oppose civil rights laws. Saying he supported the 1964 CRA got Gary Johnson booed at the Libertarian convention.
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  4496. All term limits do is increase the power of lobbyists and unelected staffers. If the people of Vermont wanted to give Bernie a third term, what is it to the other states?
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  4497.  @thehumanity0  So true. The only way they add up is if 100% of the board voted for Warren and 22% of the membership did, or something similar.
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  4498.  @thehumanity0  Amen. This vote is their death knell, because anyone who realizes what happened will drop them like a hot potato. I remember reading paperwork three years ago from my union's COPE insisting that people should still give them money even if they were upset about the endorsement because "endorsements are such a small part of what we do." Needless to say, they have never gotten a penny from me, and they never will until they let members vote for the endorsement. I still fight hard for the union itself, but I will not support an undemocratic political committee.
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  4499.  @Rogueorl  This is Wladimir. His brother (I think they're twins, but I'm not totally sure) is the mayor of Kyiv. Both are former heavyweight champions.
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  4500.  @dinobotpwnz  Virgil Texas was wrong and even admitted that he had no knowledge of the situation. I don't think it's a coincidence that he went down the Never Biden rabbit hole shortly thereafter.
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  4501.  @thomas2082  Kyle "Never a Bad Word to Say about Someone Who Might Put Me on a Show" Kulinski is a grifter, too.
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  4502.  @dalekrenegade2596  Indeed. Can't forget that. It was a mess. I literally first heard about it about four or five hours before it was supposed to happen from a Dore Knob complaining that AOC didn't go to the one in New York, because she'd actually rather get another cosponsor. And I'm on the e-mail list of two of the groups that were supposed to be sponsors of the one nearby. I found out later that the impromptu rally to oppose the Ashamed Boys after they were supposed to come to a park in West Philadelphia got far more supporters and press.
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  4503.  @thomas2082  Jimmy Dore literally got caught lying about it and falsifying articles.
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  4504.  @thomas2082  Like it or not, once the primaries are over, there are only two candidates who have a nonzero chance of getting elected President. If you pretend that both are the same, then you help the one farther away from your stated position. Then again, Jimmy Dore doesn't want to do anything. He wants to cultivate anger. That's why he pushes nonsense like FTV and MPP.
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  4505.  @thomas2082  You've debunked nothing. All you did was say, "No, they didn't!" With thinking like that, no wonder you like Jimmy Dore. Well, with your logic, you are defending Jimmy Dore, who endorsed someone who called Medicare for All un-American to Anderson Cooper. Twice. Someone who defended torture, compared the Iran nuclear deal to Munich, praised Sisi for killing protesters in Egypt, praised Modi repeatedly, made it harder for Syrian refugees to enter the United States, praised Putin for bombing civilians in Syria while complaining that Obama didn't, tried to get a job as Trump's secretary of state, and praised Trump for leaving the Kurds to the slaughter. If I go down, you're going down with me.
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  4506.  @thomas2082  I didn't get any videos. And you like Jimmy Dore, who defended Tulsi Gabbard, so my point was that by your logic, you are just as bound as everyone else. News flash: there is no such thing as a perfect candidate anywhere, but if you live in a swing state, you're guaranteeing the worst while you wait. I could also point out that Jimmy Dore said that Trump was better than Hillary, and how in 2016 he compared McConnell eliminating the filibuster for the Supreme Court and Trump getting three Justices to the moon falling into Lake Michigan. One of those three didn't come true. Jimmy thought none would.
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  4507.  @LaPurga1234  "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good to do nothing." If you live in a swing state and refused to vote for Hillary, you aided and abetted the ascendancy of Donald Trump. How did that work out?
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  4508. Look at the frozen expression on Oz's face at 5:25. At first, I thought that there was a glitch in the video.
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  4509.  @brianjames7712  If their beliefs are "you should be a second-class citizen," that just seems a little different to me. I get that there are always members of a group hated by it who join (Jewish Nazis, black neo-Confederates, etc.), but it always seemed strange to me.
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  4510. "Yeah, like the guy in the $3000 suit... Come on!" "Yeah, like the guy in the $5000 suit... Come on!" The difference is that Gob Bluth is funny and likable.
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  4511.  @Juicebrainjoe  [citation needed]
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  4512.  @pietersteenkamp5241  What specific collusion? This isn't one of your Dore conspiracy corners. We ask for actual evidence, especially the bigger the claim.
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  4513.  @afrodinho  Authoritarianism and fascism are not synonymous. Fascism is a subset of authoritarianism. Words mean things.
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  4514.  @TheCaniblcat  Agreed. Sometimes, you have to pass things in one House to show where people stand. If the "Law and Order" party (dun-dun) says that they want the President to be above the law, that damages their brand.
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  4515. Some clarification about the Philadelphia City Council. There are ten districts and seven at-large seats. Parties can only run five at-large candidates, and the top seven win. All seats are up for re-election every four years. The bottom Democrat pretty much always doubles the top Republican. Kendra Brooks won by over 13,000 votes, and Nicolas O'Rourke (who I personally considered the better of the two, and he actually showed up at some DSA events where Bernie was canvassing to rally support for Working Families as a secondary ask) lost by a little over 200 votes.
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  4516. Unless they figured that it wasn't a comedy. Maybe he's on the horror list. I was definitely shocked when he turned out to be right all along.
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  4517. @Jason MacNeil What do you think the purpose of UBI is? Yang even admits that his plan won't help a lot of disabled. Why do people like Yang get the full benefit but the poor and the disabled don't?
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  4518. @Jason MacNeil How will giving $1000/month to people not currently receiving benefits "take the boot off their neck"? Not that $1000/month is insignificant, but he has been saying that it is to help displaced workers. If it is that, $1000/month won't be nearly enough. So, do you see this as a welfare program for the middle class? If so, that isn't universal, and it is misleading to call it universal basic income. Universal means everyone gets it, and he doesn't do that. For someone who is supposedly so open to suggestions, there have been two main criticisms of his proposal from the left: it doesn't cover everyone, and the method of taxation. Has he moved an inch on either of those? Not that I've seen. Given his insistence that these major concerns are trivial, I don't trust him to come back and say, "I realized that it was a mistake to design this program in a way that the poor and disabled either don't get the maximum benefit or even benefit at all, so I will make my program truly universal and open it up to everyone no questions asked."
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  4519.  @ericfowler7738  Bernie's bill requires employers pass on the savings in terms of higher wages and/or benefits. And the employee contribution is still lower. If you make less than $29,000/year, you don't pay at all. If you make $58,000, you pay 2%. And there are no out of pocket costs. You're not getting a plan that cheap from your employer with no out of pocket costs.
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  4520.  @stephenbailey9969  Man oh man, do you love platitudes. And you really miss the logical contradiction that you are making in this one. You have been crowing about how it has to be in the Constitution, basically eschewing the living document theory, but the instant someone points out the obvious hole in your logic, "elections and who gets put on the Supreme Court matters." Never mind the fact that there is one Justice who is there because a seat was stolen and another who was rammed through because that same party that stole one seat knew its time was limited for sufficient control to ram a seat through. You clearly aren't operating under any overarching principle. You are just chasing a result.
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  4521.  @stephenbailey9969  "if one's goal is to maximize social peace" Again, your language is unchanged since John C. Calhoun. This argument was used to defend slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, and discrimination. Oh, you may say that you're on the other side of things now, but that's only because your side lost.
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  4522. Oh, they'll say it, but once you ask them what that fair share should be, that's when it takes a turn.
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  4523.  @aliamjon2550  Arctic Fox laid out better than I could about this notion that Democrats blocked everything Trump tried. A few Republicans were opposed to some his more draconian proposals, so he never had the votes, because all McConnell really wanted were tax cuts and judges, and he got that in spades. Trump never tried to work with Democrats, and he backed out of multiple agreements. Ultimately, when someone is acting in bad faith, you can't negotiate with that person.
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  4524.  @Herehear49  I have heard some say that we should start calling it taking a trump. That way, the Trump name forever will be treated as he left it. We can do it!
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  4525. It is far more common with left handed people. For example, I throw a baseball, spike a volleyball, and work keys and combination locks right handed. My theory: chalk a lot of up to society. To a certain extent, you have to at least try some things with your right hand.
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  4526.  @jessefillmore  MLK endorsed Kennedy and Johnson, so not only do you either not know or misrepresent what is happening now, but you do the same thing to history.
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  4527. You don't understand. He needs that new ivory backscratcher.
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  4528. Even saying that it was offered in exchange for an endorsement is verboten.
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  4529. It falls upon some people to be like Moses and show us the way without getting us there. Perhaps AOC is our Joshua.
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  4530.  @pitchforksdragon1252 That's not how it works. The Epsilon Variant will be much worse, and in case you didn't notice, children under 12 can't get vaccinated. Are you saying that you want my five-year-old daughter to die to thin the herd?
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  4531.  @TimezUp23  My daughter is five and can't get the vaccine. Should she be at the whims of idiot psychopaths? My mom has allergies that mean that she can't take it. Should she?
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  4532. @Rifik Amani You mean like when she called Bernie and the squad sellouts for voting for the CARES Act because it included an unemployment supplement but says that Pelosi needs to accept McConnell offering no additional money to the people and shielding employers from any liability for forcing workers to return to unsafe conditions? Some populist!
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  4533.  @dr.dermixgirlmd7479  When do they actually champion populist policy?
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  4534. @Rifik Amani The problem isn't that Trump will be successful. The real problem is that he is laying the groundwork for someone more competent to pull it off. Pretending that there is nothing to it makes it easier for people to be asleep when the next attempt comes, and the number of Republicans who have gone along with it is proof that there will be another attempt.
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  4535.  @ZooomaCW  [citation needed]
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  4536. ​​ @np4029  He's always had a bit of grifter. In 2016, he loudly proclaimed that Trump would be better than Hillary and even did a debate with Sam Seder notable mainly for literally every prediction Jimmy made turned out to be wrong and every prediction Sam made turned out to be right. In 2020, this champion of M4A endorsed the candidate who called single payer "un-American" and said hers was a brilliant strategy, as well as the "anti-war" candidate who supported torture.
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  4537. What are they saying that is dishonest?
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  4538. ​ @NomadSoul76  Fundamentalism is not the exclusive domain of the theist. Ironically, in that movie he took a more fundamentalist approach than the vast majority of Christians, but he just did it to say how stupid it was.
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  4539. Yes, they are. Then again, they will be the ones unable to do anything to function if they ever succeed.
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  4540.  @skeeveskeeve  Have you seen the Mueller Report? I haven't.
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  4541.  @skeeveskeeve  Well, I'm just trying to figure out how you are so sure that someone was right when the report hasn't been released, and the people who worked on it are saying that it was misrepresented.
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  4542.  @mandatoryhelicopterrides4596  [citation needed] If true, that person should be punished. Unlike your side, I go by principle rather than personality. If it is another of your lies, you really went for bingo on that one.
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  4543.  @3ld919  I do mean a fake leftist all along. Greenwald is a libertarian, and when you look at the Snowden story and what they really believe, it is obvious that he is hardly a hero and (considering the fact that he has outlasted so many dissidents in Russia), possibly an agent. I don't know if coordination is necessarily the correct term amongst the anti-anti-Trump crowd, but there is a lot of overlap. Probably the biggest gateway is caring more about being anti-establishment than any particular set of beliefs. I met Krystal Ball last year when she came to Philadelphia, and she is one of the most dangerous of all. It was at a DSA meeting, and she had the group eating out of her hand. I kept hearing her talking about how rewarding it was to write a book, and I waited in line and got my copy, as well as taking a picture with her and my then 4 1/2 year old daughter. When I got the book, I was shocked to find out that it was a brief essay about what I realized later was a red/brown alliance, and transcripts of the radars I can get for free online. I always thought it odd how often she went after Establishment Dems, but I just chalked it up to the nature of the primary, although her love for Yang and Tulsi suggested a blind spot. I still keep the picture and the book... as a reminder to always beware of possible grifters. My guess is that like Dave Rubin before them, they realized the money was in dumping on the left. The people behind them, on the other hand, are probably coordinating.
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  4544. Somewhere, James Buchanan is breathing a sigh of relief.
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  4545.  @leeblount7046  Then, you are living proof of the theory that if you give people someone to look down on, they can more easily pick your pockets.
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  4546.  @angelas888  There's still the supernatural season, so there's still more ways he can stick it to the man.
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  4547.  @AdamPsencik  Well, the Green Party has pretty much been a party of grifters and useful idiots since at least Nader, so hurting Democrats may have been her goal all along.
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  4548. I think it requires a majority in the conference. They might eliminate the bottom candidate after each round. I remember when DeLay resigned as majority leader and Boehner took his place that he did so on the second ballot because there were three candidates.
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  4549.  @shihyuchu6753  Churches of all ideological stripes have the same rules, and churches on the left and right have lost their tax exempt status.
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  4550.  @xamislimelight8965  Obviously, I want Fetterman to win. I'm talking about who I want to see as his opponent. Given that Oz and McCormick have both bombarded the airwaves with a combined $25MM, I want the candidate who has only spent $160K, because that means that I have a decent chance of getting to ignore her outside of seeing the occasional sign or bumper sticker.
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  4551.  @xamislimelight8965  Fetterman mixes his up, though. I get that ads need to repeat, but given the frequency, it's just annoying at this degree when all you want to do is see the weather report in the morning so you can know how warmly your child needs to dress.
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  4552.  @xamislimelight8965  Well, truth be told, the parties are so far apart on the issues these days that it doesn't require a whole lot of study to see which candidate would be better in a general election.
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  4553. The former head of West Virginians "for Life" had two before her 21st birthday. Her rationale for abortion number two? She had a job at a church and was worried she would lose it if they found out she was pregnant.
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  4554.  @moe433  So, the person who wants health care for everyone is also the same person who told everyone to ignore the Supreme Court? Given the way they have gutted voting rights and look prepared to the same to reproductive rights, what makes you think they wouldn't overturn it if Medicare for All got passed? But the guy who is doing everything he can to help Republicans and suggesting working together with literal fascists is "a great guy who just wants all these things"? Look at what people do, not what they say.
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  4555. Just as Benny Boy said "we're taking it," I got an ad that started with a popping sound. At first, I thought it was the MR Crew making a funny sound effect.
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  4556. A lot can happen, but someone whose only political experience is two unsuccessful runs for office who has no organizational strength is not going to suddenly become a possible candidate. Like it or not, the reason why Bernie got as much traction as he did in his two elections is because he had over half a century of working and building. Do you really think that trying to turn yourselves into Yang Gang 2.0 will end any differently than the original?
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  4557. ​ @RipTheJackR  Two of the bits of "bad progress" Buckley opposed were integration and the anti-apartheid movement, basically arguing that black people were too stupid for self-governance? Was he right, or was he every bit the reactionary this quote suggests?
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  4558. ​ @prometheus3498  And he had awful views on race as late as the 1980s.
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  4559.  @prometheus3498  The whole quote doesn't really make him look that much better.
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  4560.  @stephenlott6968  "One person could warn everyone" And that owner could decide that it is far cheaper to pay bots to bury that bad review.
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  4561.  Harry Mann Jr  You really don't tire of pretending that taxes are the only expense in the world, do you? Okay, I will use simple round numbers for demonstration purposes. Let's take someone who makes $50,000/year. That person currently pays $5000/year in taxes, and $4000/year in health care costs. That person would have $41,000 after those two expenses. Now, let's say that taxes go up $1000 (it would actually be $840, but again, I am just using round numbers, so the point is even stronger in real life). That means $6000/year in taxes and no out of pocket medical expenses, leaving that person with $44,000. $44,000>$41,000, even with higher taxes.
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  4562.  @andrewkowalow3794  "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you find the e-mails." "If it's what you say it is, I love it! Especially later in the summer." [Morning of the meeting with the Russian record producer] "You're going to find out something very big about the e-mails soon." [Days before the Panetta e-mails get released] "You're going to see some of the e-mails soon." Believing there is nothing to the Russia story is the gateway drug to anti-anti-Trump grifters.
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  4563. What big guns are you calling for?
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  4564. @DotPot-c7y $6000 per family equals way more than Ukraine gets. Nice false equivalence.
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  4565. Beanie Man doesn't know the meaning of whataboutism at all.
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  4566.  @PatrickPierceBateman  We are definitely in agreement on this one. I saw Donna Edwards on TV last night, and she straight up said that no one in Congress respects Sinema at this point because she isn't acting in good faith. And as frustrating as Manchin can be, his state is R +39, and Doug Jones got quite a bit of leeway as well in an R +25 state. Sinema has no such excuses.
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  4567. We didn't lose Bernie. He's still there in the Senate and fighting for the people. Agreed that we have to keep fighting for down ballot races.
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  4568.  @Neonb1bLes  While Bernie greatly admires Debs, I can't help but think that in many ways he mirrors Bryan, a figure whose destiny was to be the Moses to show us the way, but not the one to get us there. He will always he remembered as the one who showed us another way is possible. Now, it's up to us to get there.
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  4569. Personally, I think Scalise was the leak, because he was in the conversation, too, and he stands the most to gain from the demise of McCarthy.
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  4570.  john Doe  What's wrong with the Republican Party? inhales voter suppression, supporting an economic theory that has failed every time it has been tried for nearly century, demonizing poor people, wanting power for its own sake, defending someone who defends Nazis, protecting their donors above all else, inaction on gun violence, supporting a health care system that costs more and kills 45,000 people every year because they can't access it, holding a Supreme Court seat for (what they now admit) are bogus purposes exhale
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  4571.  john Doe  You're the one defending centrists, but giving the right wing points, so either you are trolling about centrists and showing your true right-wing self, or you are showing that the Republican Party has pushed things so far right, that Barry Goldwater would be "center" these days. I didn't say failing economy, even though anyone with eyes can see that the economy stopped working for most people in this country around 1980. I said Republicans believe in a theory that has been proven not to work. For decades, Republicans have insisted that tax cuts pay for themselves, and every time they get the tax cuts, they turn out to be even more costly than the CBO thought. As far as voter suppression, Republicans control the voting procedures in Florida, so you only proved my point.
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  4572.  @peterboyd7149  I said "much farther down the list." My point was that she blew it way up to pretend that Christians were the main target, but the group of Christians who were a distant target are people who her base probably wouldn't consider to be Christians in the first place. Thousands of priests killed doesn't sound like "they weren't a target at all" to me.
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  4573.  @dillzzy5141  Indeed. Part of why I'd much rather see investment in the academy than a stadium.
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  4574. ​ @HatstandTuesday  Indeed. I wish that reporters would agree beforehand that if the slippery eels wants to ignore the question that they all repeat the questions until they get the hint that the days of avoiding accountability are over.
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  4575.  @sandpiperr  Ojeda never ran against Manchin. He lost to Swearingen in the 2020 Senate primary. Ojeda pretty much blew his goodwill when he resigned his state senate seat to run for President... and quit the race before the Legislature convened. (As with other small states, West Virginia has a part-time legislature, in this case meeting 60 days a year with special and monthly sessions that usually last for a day or two.) At that point, he gave off serious vibes of wanting to be a celebrity rather than a public official.
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  4576.  @dinorancher5560  So sorry that happened. When I was in fifth grade, my mom needed her gallbladder removed. My brother had also broken his arm a few weeks earlier, and we didn't have insurance at the time, so no one would perform the operation. Eight months later, after my dad got a loan for a down payment, she got the surgery and her gallbladder was gangrenous. It is an outrage that people get sicker because of greed.
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  4577.  @luigimonroe2364  A lawyer's job is not to lie. It is unethical to say things that you know to be false in a trial.
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  4578.  @yossarrian  Bernie was known as the Amendment King in the House. He earned that label because, despite being in the minority, he did everything he could to do the most good given the makeup of Congress at any time. You apparently prefer to wait until everything is perfect and not only get nothing, but let things get much worse while you wait.
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  4579.  @jocksharerock7318  I think you are right, my friend. I did everything I could to help Bernie get elected in 2020 (my daughter was born in Nov. 2015 and there was the one car between me and my then-wife who usually got it because she was more likely to work nights and my job was closer to a continuous route for public transportation, which really limited my activism), but looking back, I think that he may be better off where he is, because with this or a similar partisan makeup, do they honestly think that he would have better luck moving Manchin and Sinema? Then, if he was ineffective, it would have been seen as proof that the left can't do anything. It would have made what the UK establishment did to Corbyn look mild in comparison. What really amazes and saddens me is the laziness. We have the better ideas, and we're fighting to actually improve people's lives, but because Bernie lost, they want to give up. It took 16 years for the Goldwater wing to take over the Republican Party, and they had money. Giving up after five is proof that too many are lazy and expect it to fall to them. As much as it pains me to say it, if people aren't in it for the long haul, maybe we're getting what we deserve.
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  4580. ​ @futurestoryteller  Two words: Twin Peaks. Not everything has to be big-budget schlock. You can tell great stories with smaller budgets and still pay the people who make the show possible happen.
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  4581.  @JollyJeff  Florida law required it be done at the county level, and any recount could only be authorized if the county could determine that there was the possiblity it would affect the outcome. That was the law. Gore offered to drop his lawsuits if Bush went along with a state recount, but he didn't have the money to litigate in 67 counties, many of which could argue there was no realistic change of overturning the election. And he didn't concede until after the Supreme Court ruled that there could be no full recount (which the FL Supreme Court authorized and was working on before the stay). So, you are arguing that Gore shouldn't have conceded when there was no possible recount? How is that going to change the result?
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  4582.  @exiledhebrew1994  Lots of people pointed out the Saudi/al-Qaeda pipeline. Not all of them praised Sisi for killing protesters in Egypt, defended Modi's actions in Kashmir by making up ridiculous nonsense about it being to support gay rights, comparing the Iran nuclear deal to Munich, and using a scenario straight out of 24 to endorse torture. Anti-war is not pro-peace.
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  4583. When I was activated in 2003-04, I noticed that there was a lot of money wasted on expensive weapons and vehicles that didn't work very well (the Stryker tanks were so poorly balanced that soldiers died because one fell over in water and they were trapped) and not enough on things we needed (there were only one or two pairs of night goggles for our National Guard unit of over 100, our "new" trucks were Vietnam era, and we didn't get armor plated vest until we were there for months, and it often didn't fit, which in my case caused back pain that I still sometimes get to this day). We could move those priorities, easily save $100B, and not miss it. You are so right about what it really means to vote against increased Defense spending.
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  4584.  @sheepnoisebah  Would you rather people get no checks at all since you didn't get everything that you wanted?
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  4585.  @sheepnoisebah  Objective reality, people aren't getting nothing. Would you rather sink the bill because it didn't include a $15/hour minimum wage and the payment was $1400 instead of $2000?
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  4586. Krystal Ball is an anti-left grifter. She once said that MSNBC let her know what stances they expected her to take. So, when a close friend of Trump looks for someone to legitimize the alt-right, who better than someone who has a chip on her shoulder and who also started a PAC that was supposed to help lefty candidates but 39% of it went to herself and less than 5% went to candidates?
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  4587.  @roxky3595  Then, how come every other thing about it has said that the main complaint of people who lived in it since was gawkers?
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  4588. Who is over 50% making less than the median income? No one is talking about that.
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  4589.  @user-wp8yx  Define "small business owner." Mitt Romney's company was classified as a small business, but most people on the street wouldn't consider someone getting a nine-figure fortune to be a small business.
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  4590.  @user-wp8yx  And no one is saying that taxes should be 50% for people "under median income." Thom is clearly referring to a top bracket. These are scare tactics that big businesses use to get small businesses to do their bidding.
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  4591. They could block her, but they don't have the power to get someone better yet.
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  4592. Quite frankly, the biggest political malpractice of the Hilllary campaign was ending most of her ads with Trump mocking the disabled reporter instead of him in the debate saying "wages are too high in America."
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  4593. 2:14 Don't worry, Donnie. You'll never be Hoover. At least he tried to put a chicken in every pot.
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  4594.  @KelleyRClarkKel  Because "republic" and "democracy" are different categories. A republic means that there is no monarch. You can be a democratic republic (see also: France and Germany). You can be a democracy and not a republic (see: the United Kingdom and the Netherlands). You can also be a republic and not a democracy (see: China and the former USSR). This idiotic talking point of "republic, not a democracy" is the equivalent of saying, "It's not a grape, it's purple!"
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  4595. Since about May when I realized that Trump's inaction on coronavirus was going to cost him because he absolutely would not do the bare minimum to win, I thought Biden would win the Great Lakes blue wall and Arizona. My dare to dream states were North Carolina, Georgia, and Iowa. It looks like we got one and maybe two depending on how many votes DeJoy's sabotage guaranteed showing up between 11/3 and 11/12.
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  4596.  @sardoniclysane  Since when? I need evidence of this. I heard people say that he supported a higher minimum wage, but everything I have seen is isolationism dressed up as "economic populism."
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  4597.  @LBastone  Never? Gee, I've seen plenty. He pays for college tuition with a financial transactions tax, Medicare for All through payroll tax, paid family leave through a payroll tax of 0.2%, and infrastructure through an increased estate tax, higher brackets for the super wealthy, and cutting defense spending the Pentagon doesn't even want.
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  4598.  calo10able  The vast majority of wealth is inherited in this country. You don't think a 250 year head start has any effect on that? Education is funded by property taxes, thus causing a self reinforcing circle. You don't think things like redlining still plays a role today? If systemic racism has nothing to do with it, why do you think that there is such a racial wealth disparity? Why do you think black people are arrested in disproportionate numbers for things such as drugs when there is no difference between races and drug use and distribution?
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  4599. Center? She went full on to the right. Looking at what she said about him after the primary ended, it was obvious that she only saw Bernie as a tool to help her go after who she sees as her real enemies: Democrats.
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  4600.  @ModernSocialist  Indeed. Last I checked, Bernie didn't start a PAC where 39% of its funds went to himself while less than 5% went to candidates. She did, though.
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  4601. I ran for the House of Delegates 12 years ago, and I wasn't in coal country (the seam had too much sulfur to sell it), but I tried to make the argument that we needed to diversify, with wind in the hills and tidal energy from the Ohio River. A coal miner admitted to me after the debate that I was right that WV is running out of coal, but a lot of people heard "we need to diversify because coal won't last forever" as "he's trying to destroy the coal industry." Never underestimate the power of fear. Sadly, WV could have gotten in earlier and done it in a way that would have enriched the state and the people instead of out-of-state businesses, but King Coal scared them off, and now it's like having the last shares of a kerosene lantern company.
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  4602.  @Zach-ju5vi  Then, how do you explain Germany? They offer both high wages and have a union presence so strong that they are guaranteed seats on the board of directors, and their manufacturing base never got hollowed out. Unfettered capitalism is a death spiral. It leads to greater concentration of wealth and distorts markets. Eventually, there's not enough people left to afford what they are selling.
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  4603.  @Zach-ju5vi  GDP doesn't tell the whole story. If all the wealth gets concentrated at the top (and for the last 40+ years, instead of the long history of a relationship between productivity and wages, the time was severed and wages have remained stagnant, to the point where the average American would make $90,000/year if the wage and productivity relationship remained), and people have to pay more for things that used to be free, that doesn't benefit people. Daycare centers add to GDP, but does having to shell out five figures for someone to watch your kid while you work really make someone's life better? And the reason why people prefer cheap things is because of wage stagnation. If we addressed poverty, then everyone would benefit, and they could afford to buy quality things, but because some people really do believe Ron Swanson's statement that capitalism is "God's way of showing who is smart and who is poor," instead of admitting that we are more interconnected than they think and that cooperation is better in the long run, we end up with a permanent underclass and millions whose potential gets squandered.
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  4604.  @Zach-ju5vi  I'm well aware that unfettered capitalism doesn't exist, but when people insist that they are defending capitalism, those people tend to want to get closer and closer to an unfettered version, and the American version is already tilted too far towards capital rather than labor, because too many have forgotten that, as Abraham Lincoln put it, "capital is the fruit of labor. Without labor, capital wouldn't exist. Therefore, it deserves the higher consideration."
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  4605.  @Zach-ju5vi  "I'd rather see people working for low wages than living in poverty." News flash: the minimum wage is a poverty wage. Considering that you have implied in other places that you would be fine with no minimum wage but the one the Almighty Market sets, you are setting up a situation where people both work for low wages and live in poverty.
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  4606.  @FletchforFreedom  [libertarian claptrap based on The Way Things Ought to Be rather than the way things really are] Yes, because paying people poverty wages with even lower wages than exist now is the way to end poverty.
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  4607.  @BarnabyWild13  No, it shows that she has no courage. If you think a President committed a crime, you vote to impeach. End of story. Anyone who doesn't is a coward.
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  4608. And call your Senators to ask them to expel the ringleaders of the coup in the Senate, Hawley and Cruz.
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  4609.  @zigwil153  If I still lived in a safe state, I probably wouldn't vote for Biden, but I live in a swing state, so I don't have that luxury. A lot of the "no difference" people are either operating out of ignorance or privilege.
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  4610. I saw a YouTube video (I wish I could remember who did it) who explained that the difference between left and right is the belief of equality or hierarchy, and the not rich on the right won't be persuaded because they worry that they would be placed on the same level as someone lower than them.
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  4611.  @imperialmotoring3789  Literally, the very first immigration law was the Chinese Exclusion Act (emphasis added). The 1924 immigration law that anti-immigration advocates seem to think is the gold standard explicitly used quotas to keep people out from Southern Europe because they were seen as so alien. Funny how I never hear anyone complain about people entering the country illegally from Canada.
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  4612.  @simplicitylost  Sometimes, I wonder if it was a mistake to frame it is "I support a right to choose" rather than "I support reproductive rights." I have seen the neoliberals do the same choice language on charter schools. If choice is the only thing that matters, less choice is always bad, even if the bad options are removed.
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  4613.  @simplicitylost  I get that the dynamics are different, but my point is framing it as supporting a right is stronger. For neoliberals, consumer choice is the big goal, and that is why I think choice is wrong to emphasize.
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  4614. Yeah, Dear Leader thought that he was immune... until he wasn't.
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  4615. Jimmy has a video where he said that Hillary Clinton has Parkinson's. How is that not non-verifiable?
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  4616.  @lauraly2712  No one "extended the voting period." All ballots have to be postmarked by Election Day. Do you know what a postmark is? Maybe if the Postmaster General wasn't trying to sabotage the mail, we would have no need to extend the received by deadline.
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  4617.  @colico14  Donny Deutsch admitted it on Morning Joe and repeated it, saying, "I'd rather have four more years of Trump than four years of socialism" until Scarborough stopped him.
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  4618.  @juchou2983  Honest and good? Those two words belong nowhere in a sentence with Jimmy Dore unless it goes something like, "Good God, Jimmy Dore may be the least honest person still pretending to be a lefty!"
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  4619.  @Bluesky0619  This is the most notorious troll on this channel, who is so lonely that he created eight or nine accounts in order to have friends to agree with himself.
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  4620.  @respekted  His audience is right wingers who love to see someone supposedly of the left dumping on the left, and people on the left to stupid to understand what he is actually doing. Much like the GOP is the Green Party sugar daddy, he is controlled opposition in the sense that he spends most of his time dumping on Democrats to make the purists feel better about themselves.
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  4621.  @imogendedo8296  A medicine used to treat a parasite won't work as an antiviral.
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  4622.  @Morning404  Indeed. Alabama must be pretty boring if he can't think of anything better to do.
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  4623.  @carlosb5523  "Do some more research." There's the Yang Gang banger bingo!
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  4624.  @carlosb5523  So, Yang never said that. He never once let those words or a similar formulation come from his mouth? Then, riddle me this, Batman, what do you call this at the 4:11 mark? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is2VWliq7Jg Or this at the 2:35 mark? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eqin3ELGnU Both of those sure sound to me like his long-term goal is to get rid of the existing social safety net, especially the one with Rubin. Or, as Grover Norquist put it, shrinking it to the size that it could be drowned in a bath tub. You keep saying that people just need to do more research, but maybe the problem is that people have already done a lot of research about his program and realize that it is terrible. If someone gets more now and decides to keep what they already have, those people will be negatively affected by the method of taxation. Unless he thinks that he can get rid of disability, or parents needing to send their children to daycare, or poor people needing affordable housing (he doesn't even try on that front), then a lot of people will suffer from either eliminating those programs or not benefiting and having to pay the taxes for them. $1000/month isn't enough to live on now, let alone in the future when there are no new jobs if he is right.
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  4625.  @Zach-ju5vi  So, the problem was that people just became "so entitled," yet up until 1980, workers received pay increases on the level with increases in productivity. Since then, wages have stagnated while pay at the top has more than tripled. Who are the entitled people? Do they make sure to give you extra lube when you take it?
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  4626.  @thunderpooch  My guess is either the latter or someone paid by the former to spout this nonsense.
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  4627.  @Zach-ju5vi  Cost of living has gone down over the last 40 years? Congratulations. You are the winner for one of the dumbest arguments ever.
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  4628.  @Zach-ju5vi  "After adjusting for inflation." You just conceded your whole argument. The instant that you insist that it is cheaper after adjusting for inflation proves that costs have gone up. That's like Muggsy Bouges saying, "If you take away his legs, I'm taller than Shaq."
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  4629.  @Zach-ju5vi  People need something to live in and some way to get around. Funny that you insist that prices went down because you can get cheap goods from China, but when someone points out how much more expensive things are, that is "entitled." Yet, you have no problem with some titan of industry exploiting workers and getting multiples of each of those things. Every post you make shows more and more of the absurdity of your position.
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  4630. I am in 13 days.
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  4631.  @LabGoats  Sam Seder also insisted that the lefties should try to get something, but he never thought a doomed vote on Medicare for All was a good idea. Once he saw this was being used against actual lefties in Congress, he went guns blazing against this nonsense.
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  4632.  @squatch545  Because it will never win. He doesn't want to win.
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  4633.  @riandraegon556  So, Bernie should have been forced to retire before he got elected to the Senate? Blanket rules are not a good idea when it comes to discrimination.
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  4634. Except there is a difference. She had every right to insist that he refer to her as Senator. Also, did he refer to every male Senator as Sir?
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  4635.  @blargh3428  I was a sergeant, and no one ever called me Sir. Quite frankly, it is considered an insult to refer to an NCO as Sir. They are far more nuanced about it than you'd think.
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  4636.  Comrade Kong  His regular weirdness was a giant chin. They had a segment called Iron Jay where he would give dumb answers to fitness questions, and they made his forehead look large instead.
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  4637. ​ @lgroots8691  January 6th, and he became the first Senator to vote to remove a President of his own party.
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  4638.  @KingJT80  Jimmy Dore
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  4639.  @maxsmart9116  Really? Michael hated those kinds of people, so it is surprising that they would gravitate to his site. I must say that I hate that phrase "vote shaming" with a passion. If you don't like someone pointing out the consequences of your actions, maybe try growing up and actually thinking through what you are saying. The one where I couldn't help but laugh at the total unawareness, though, was someone who told me that it was wrong to try to tell other people how to vote. 1) I can't force you to do anything, and 2) the whole point of politics is persuasion. With friends like these...
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  4640. My hunch is that she didn't go at all and just thought that her constituents wouldn't follow her.
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  4641. Amen! And if Trump gets those four more years, he almost certainly gets to name the successor to RBG and possibly Breyer as well. If he does, anything good that we get through Congress will be overturned. Four years will affect the next 40.
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  4642. "Who would have thought that I'd turn out to be the smart one? Talk about a twist ending!" Will Ferrell as George W. Bush, 2017
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  4643.  @credman  So, you are a psychopath who wants things to get worse. Good to know.
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  4644.  @mikesticha114  Nothing like seeing someone totally unqualified and demanding up close to reveal the inadequacies of your party's leadership. I guess it took seeing an even worse example to convince her it was time to sever ties.
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  4645.  @user-fx4qz8pt3w  It's the latest dog whistle. I had the news on MSNBC yesterday while eating lunch, and they kept interviewing Youngkin voters complaining about CRT, and they asked for examples. No one had any, but they were certain that it was happening and it was bad.
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  4646.  Joe Ti  Yes, because Hillary would have picked someone just like Amy Comey Barrett to replace RBG.
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  4647. They actually had some integrity and didn't want to get money off hate, like pretty much nobody wants to publish Mein Kampf.
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  4648. She's four years too young. You have to be 35 by the inauguration. She'll only be 31.
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  4649.  Ruthless Minion  Which party is the one that keeps defending the Confederacy and their monuments to treason, again?
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  4650.  @xanderprangler8621  Thank you. I only pray that she'll be able to take the vaccine when they reassess the situation. It angers me that people won't take it and endanger others who can't. "We are living in a society!" George Costanza
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  4651.  @whytheseaisboilinghot  Even then, it's not enough. My idiot uncle (different one) now thinks that he is immune like it's chickenpox or something.
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  4652. Personally, I think Bernie gave the far superior answer: taxes will go up, but everything else will be eliminated, and all but the richest Americans will come out ahead. We worry too much about the specter of taxes. Her repeated answer reminded me of Marco Rubio in the debate where he kept repeating "Barack Obama knows what he is doing" even after Chris Christie called him on it. She literally did that.
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  4653.  @peterstafford4426  If she has no solutions, what are yours?
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  4654. Personally, I see Liz Cheney as the Stephen Douglas of our time: wrong on just about everything, but happening to be right on the most important question of the day (Douglas was an ardent opponent of secession). This dosen't make them suddenly great, but they are important.
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  4655. What are you talking about? Biden gave the states rights argument on school desegregation. That was how his policy hurt her personally. Biden's vote for the Iraq War helped me get a bad back and the rationale turned out to be false.
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  4656.  Polako Polakovic  Are you using a term that you know to be inaccurate to defend your ridiculous argument?
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  4657. I think it all depends on Iowa. If Bernie wins, then he wins New Hampshire, and the numbers are tightening in Nevada and South Carolina. Momentum can get Bernie to a win in Nevada, and there was a poll that showed that more black voters are open to Bernie than Biden. His only appeal other than invoking Obama in every other sentence is that he can win. If he loses three in a row to the same guy, that will change.
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  4658. Because any proposal that is seen as beyond the realm of reason will hurt the long term goal. Would it kill people to develop just a little sense of strategy?
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  4659.  @Circuitssmith  She lost to Capito by 43 points in 2020, and she is going down the Jimmy Dore route. The real problem is that the left has atrophied over the last 20 years as the state shifted to starboard.
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  4660. In 2006, my native state decided that Robert C. Byrd did a good job and deserved a ninth term. In 2010, my adopted home state decided to deny Arlen Specter a sixth term. That was our right Besides that, term limits put more power in the hands if unelected staffers who know how Congress actually works. I would much rather have someone accountable to the voters who can get voted out.
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  4661.  @cotinaspann9475  Indeed. There was a Tucker Carlson segment last week saying the same thing. As annoying as David Frum can be, he was exactly right when he said that once conservatives couldn't win a majority of voters, they would give up democracy rather than conservatism.
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  4662. 12:38 I realized this the first time when I read the essay in the book by Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti (book being nothing more than a transcript of their Rising Radars with a few oages to tie each section together) where they talked about both Bernie and Trump tapping some anti-establishment mood in the country. It should have been no surprise that she turned out to be a grifter who also liked Yang and Tulsi, the two biggest grifters in the 2020 primary.
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  4663.  @purplemonkeydishwasher9818  Your clicks and comments are only helping the YouTube algorithm for the show, so who's the moron?
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  4664. ​ @tomsweder7459  There were clues on the initial description, but they were just so inscrutable.
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  4665. @Mad Phyn He can say it, but the mere fact that he tried to play whataboutism with Edwards proves that he didn't mean it and still wants to deflect.
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  4666.  @wut3358  They lost billions after they already had several. Not even Forbes had him as a billionaire in 1985, and they have since said that they overestimated what he had.
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  4667.  @wut3358  True, but I can't think of any billionaires who lost a billion before making it. That was my point.
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  4668.  @tamaramontgomery631  Mark Foley
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  4669. "Taxation is theft." Idiot Right Wingers "I love taxes. Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society " Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "Last year, I paid $10 million in taxes. I had a good year. I hope I have an even better year next year and pay even more taxes." Larry King, as told by Bill Press
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  4670. Pretty much. Ayn Rand became a libertarian when her parents had her pick a toy to not play with for a year. She picked her favorite toy with the thought that she would enjoy it that much more when she got to play with it after all... only to find out that her parents gave it away. While eating ice cream, Grover Norquist's dad kept taking a bite and saying "income tax," "sales tax," etc. He came up with his no tax increase pledge at the age of 12.
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  4671.  @enginerdy  The fact that 2 1/2 Men and Arrested Development came on at the same time, and the former got 12 seasons and the latter got three is a travesty. (Yes, I know there are Netflix seasons, but I'm talking about the original run.) I have probably seen the equivalent of two episodes of The Big Bang Theory, and I have only ever heard one funny thing on that show.
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  4672.  @dwaynewilliams3077  Yes, that point is called "birth." Nobody goes through a full term and everything involved just to say, "I don't want to be a parent, cut it up!" in the last week or so of pregnancy. Funny how you claim to hold the "common sense" position while devolving to a child. "I want my big toy!" As far as "not hurting anyone" goes, you've clearly violated that principle many times based on those stated positions in one paragraph.
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  4673.  @TheBanshee90  When a musician does a cover of another musician's song, the original musician still gets paid, though. If a more successful comedian takes someone else's joke and tries to pass it off as original, that is taking food out of someone's mouth.
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  4674. Bernie gave a funding proposal. Existing taxes and funding for Medicare and Medicaid. An employer payroll tax of 7%, and a 4% employee payroll tax that exempts the first $29,000 of income. The big difference is that he is willing to admit taxes go up. It's in the bill.
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  4675. Newtie taught him well. He used to have a list of "contrasting words" to use to apply to political opponents, and there was an interview where he literally just strung about eight or nine together.
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  4676. ​ @SilenceInTheBliss  I saw a new interview where he told Tucker Carlson that he'll do everything possible to help Trump win. Maybe you didn't watch your cult leader as intently as you thought you did.
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  4677.  @VB-dp1vs  He supports a national sales tax. That's not very lefty to me. His direct democracy pitch limits all citizen bills to 5000 words, as though there are no complications that arise that can't be solved within 20 pages.
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  4678.  @VB-dp1vs  Very questionable? Based on what? He doesn't just defend them, but he goes along with what they say.
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  4679. "Not voting is demanding to be ignored." John Lydon, 2014
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  4680.  @iMaDeMoN2012  The issue was to not let a fascist get in power who gets to appoint people for decades to come.
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  4681. Not if the people won't vote for them.
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  4682.  @gypsy97feder94  Probably, but at least that means less of his nonsense spewing out into the world aided and abetted by a less that has an attention span almost as short as his.
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  4683.  @willamschultz2169  The person you are replying to is clearly blinded by his hatred of people who don't work and not working logically. When I pointed out the exact same thing, he literally retreated to "but I have to pay premiums!" even when I pointed out that no one should.
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  4684. Mass institutionalization is not "expanding psychiatric healthcare."
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  4685. Sadly, they are every bit as devoted as "I could shoot somebody in the middle of Fifth Avenue, and I wouldn't lose any votes." This helps keep others out of the cult.
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  4686. She is a far left winger? I'm guessing that was a typo. Go back and watch her interview where she defends torture, or where she goes along with the idea that the Iran nuclear deal is like Munich. This is who she always was. This is the danger of listening to grifters like Jimmy Dore.
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  4687.  @vinniemcclung693  DSA has been doing the work. As part of a larger effort in Philadelphia, they got two members of Congress (Dwight Evans and Brendan Boyle) to sign on to the bill. An effort that you know will fail does nothing.
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  4688.  @sergeikhripun  So, Jimmy himself said that his specials won awards? What awards? And you're just taking his word for it? Do you know that the word "gullible" is missing in the dictionary?
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  4689.  @lloydb4469  Well, when he had her on, he sarcastically asked her if she supported torture and just dropped the issue instead of asking about the times she did, so it still stands.
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  4690.  @mosslinden5058  Well, he also said that it would be as likely that McConnell would get rid of the filibuster as it would for the moon to fall into Lake Michigan. I must have missed that one, because I still saw the moon in the sky. I guess those five Supreme Court Justices aren't really there after all.
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  4691.  @lloydb4469  That is completely irrelevant to him blowing off the question as to whether or not she supported torture.
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  4692.  @mosslinden5058  You're an idiot. He eliminated all judicial filibusters in 2017. I brought up the Supreme Court because his appointees get to affect things for decades. Longer if you count all of the bad precedents that they will set. Ignore it at your peril.
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  4693.  @lloydb4469  So what? How did the Nixon plan go the second time around? How about Hillarycare? If something fails by a 3:1 margin, you don't get a second chance.
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  4694.  @lloydb4469  The 1963 Civil Rights Act didn't lose. It got filibustered. In those days, you only filibustered a bill if you were in the minority. If you want to use precedent, at least understand what that precedent is.
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  4695. @Defund The Tone Police If I vote blue, I get some of what I want. If I vote third party, not only for I get nothing, but I empower the people who will take America in the opposite direction that I want to go. Getting a quarter of a loaf > Vomiting the bread I already ate
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  4696.  @swimdownx6365  Who is Bob Sagon?
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  4697. What would I imagine if government ceases to be? A return to feudalism, at the very least.
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  4698.  @jacrispyvulcano9032  My plan is to use a combination of grassroots organizing to pressure members, primaries and general elections to get rid of the most hostile. We know who they are. Then, when we get to 218 & 50, then we put the pressure on them to have the vote. That way, we have the votes. My timeline is the sooner the better, but a premature vote is fatal. We are at 118 & 13, so we have 100 & 37 to go. What have you done to actually build support for Medicare for All?
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  4699.  @harveymanfredsenjenson5417  Do actual grassroots organizing to build support. Funny how pretty much every Dore knob who thinks that's a good idea has never actually done anything.
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  4700.  @GormTheElder  So, you can't assume that everyone who disagrees tactically is against you, but you are defending someone who says that anyone who doesn't agree with his dumb strategy doesn't really support Medicare for All? Do you appreciate the irony?
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  4701.  @GormTheElder  Jimmy's support for Medicare for All is insincere because he supported the candidate who called Medicare for All "un-American" and then said that her strategy of a public option was a smart political strategy.
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  4702.  @GormTheElder  Jimmy Dore is not an activist. If you think he is, what have you personally done to build support for Medicare for All? And commenting on YouTube doesn't count.
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  4703.  @LifeWithCrispyy  As far as Biden's end, if he fails to get to 15% in Iowa, his campaign is over.
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  4704. Some people are part of a cult of personality and will contort themselves to defend their supported candidate. I had a similar experience in a MR thread where someone blindly defended Yang without even looking at the quote that people said was problematic. I am Bernie through and through, but while he may be a Jewish former carpenter, I don't believe him to be the messiah, and I can say "I disagree, but I still think on the whole he is the best candidate." I can respect that, but if you will defend things you criticize in people you don't like, you are fighting on personality rather than principle.
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  4705. Ojeda for Governor 2020!
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  4706. So, is a worker co-op considered market socialism?
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  4707.  @taragnor  She does have some shaky things, but she didn't support Hillary in the primary. She was neutral. That said, her reasoning for being a Republican ("I believe in markets") and her giving "America will never become a socialist country" a standing ovation (I am more of a Populist in the original sense) are highly problematic.
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  4708. They are fake, but their polls are real.
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  4709.  @sinnsage  Just when we thought that they couldn't get worse than their "Harry Potter is trash" take, they proved us wrong.
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  4710. Is it just me, or did the heckler look a lot like Tom Cruise in the thumbnail?
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  4711.  @RakaZet  So, you think that increasing the minimum wage, when there have long been productivity increases, will cause inflation, but giving $1000/month with no change in productivity won't? What's next, are you going to tell me that having a bunch of buddies buy a house and hope that they stay buddies for 15-30 years is a suitable replacement for an affordable housing or rent control plan?
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  4712.  @milascave2  And Barney Frank was outed as a Congressman due to a prostitution scandal. Baldwin is the first openly gay or lesbian freshman elected to each House (House, 1998; Senate, 2012). Kolbe came out after he was elected.
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  4713. Yang isn't a liberal. He is a libertarian.
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  4714.  @jjstraka1982  This is true. I lived in West Virginia for the first 3 1/2 years of Air America. Huntington had a station in 2006 and maybe early 2007, which I remember because they chose Ed Schultz over Randi Rhodes at 3, and local programming from 9-12.
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  4715.  Anne Bergeron  Depends on the state you live in.
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  4716. He doesn't. He explicitly excludes people who already get benefits, and he has admitted that people with disabilities likely won't benefit.
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  4717.  @TechnoEstate  Ignoring the results of the election pretty much guarantees that Trump gets to name the successor to RBG, so any good thing that President AOC or anyone else can get through Congress could be overturned. Since you want to talk long game, I want to give a chance for any real lefty to actually accomplish things when he/she takes office.
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  4718.  @Derek_The_Magnificent_Bastard  Indeed. Dore didn't really have far to fall, but Max Blumenthal did.
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  4719.  Jeffrey Hittepole  Well, that's why we need to do what we can to get him to 1990 delegates, so there is nothing they can do about it. Less "woe is me," more "let's do this!"
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  4720.  Jeffrey Hittepole  How would it go red in the primaries? It doesn't matter what the Republicans do in the primary. Your primary is Super Tuesday. Even if Biden does well, it's proportional once every candidate reaches viability (15%), so every single vote counts when divvying up those 110 delegates. There is plenty you can do. There is plenty all of us can do.
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  4721.  Bringette Awnn  No apostrophe. Roberts is his last name.
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  4722. ​ @mick8669  You Trump cultists project more than a drive-in movie.
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  4723. After sitting in the owners booth at a Cowboys game, WIP took revenge by showing a video of him falling out of his chair. It was a thing of beauty. I think you can still find it on YouTube.
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  4724.  @conservativedragon  Is your program broken, or do you have a mental defect that you are incapable of saying anything else? If so, I apologize for mocking the feeble minded.
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  4725.  @alex-qd6of  Bernie and Ro Khanna go on to disagree with their message. Grifters like Tulsi go on to amplify it, because people love converts, and seeing that D behind her name (which is only there because Republicans can't win in Hawaii) gives more credence to their talking points with their audience.
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  4726.  @peterstafford4426  Some people run for President to bring attention to an issue. Deep down, Marianne Williamson knew that she wouldn't win, but she was there to bring attention on important issues like reparations that were getting ignored, so she was doing an actual service by running.
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  4727.  @peterstafford4426  So, reparations were a big topic three years ago when she pushed it on the debate stage?
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  4728.  @elianamckee  Well, if the Times story is correct, he has over $400MM in debt that he personally guaranteed (which shows the condition he is in, because he stopped doing that for a long time after his first bankruptcy) that is due in the next four years, and no way to pay for it, because people don't want to stay in his properties or go play golf. If he doesn't succeed in making himself President for Life, he is headed for a hard fall, and it will be a thing of beauty.
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  4729. They tried to re-enact that one several different ways. It wasn't fixed. Game Six was definitely rigged.
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  4730. The real question going into this was whether they would severely water down Roe or outright kill it. I remember the anti-anti-Trump idiots asking what the difference is between a 5-4 majority and 6-3 majority when RBG was still alive. Now you know (unless, of course, you are being wilfully ignorant). Well, thanks a lot!
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  4731.  @halcyonacoustic7366  Gee, I thought it was because only people who supported demanding a vote that they know will fail are the real supporters of Medicare for All. It's obvious that all you want is chaos.
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  4732.  @Rudofaux  Probably half a million before all is said and done.
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  4733.  @wfyfwfyf  First, it was "he attacks everyone when they're wrong." Then, it became "it doesn't make sense to attack Republicans, because we know they suck." Now, it's "he only attacks people he claims to agree with 99% of the time because everyone else obviously sucks." That excuse is wearing pretty thin.
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  4734.  @curbmassa  I have been saying for years that public financing of campaigns is the reform that makes all other reforms possible.
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  4735. You mean the one where she repeatedly lied about his position and invoked his dead friend in order to try to score political points? She did a great job naming her show.
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  4736.  @markmoses4646  So, what is any end result where Nancy Pelosi wouldn't have ended up Speaker? Force the Vote was an Underpants Gnomes move, and that is why nobody went for it.
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  4737.  @donHooligan  Sock puppet accounts? I don't play those games. To the larger point, last year, I took my then 2 1/2 yo daughter to see Bernie at a rally for the now-lieutenant governor of PA. She was so excited that, to this day, she still talks about seeing "Bernie!" and that he patted her on the shoulder. There aren't too many chances to meet greatness, and I don't want to take them away.
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  4738.  @lucboy13  You still haven't shown what David said that is false.
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  4739. When was America great in your opinion?
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  4740. If Biden wins and Democrats get the Senate, who do you think will chair the Senate Budget Committee? Just maybe think about using an actual strategy instead of encouraging chaos because of self-defeating spite.
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  4741.  @donHooligan  Unless there is someone else posting with your exact same username and screen image, you were posting yesterday trying to convince people that Biden is worse than Trump. Not as bad as Trump, but worse than Trump. I'd say that trying to help elect the man who approved drilling in ANWR, pulled out of the Paris Accords, and denies the existence of the climate crisis certainly qualifies.
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  4742.  @donHooligan  Either Biden or Trump will be elected. So, given the choice between someone who will sign legislation on climate compared to one who will veto it, I'd prefer the one who will sign it. Given the choice between Bernie being chair of the Senate Budget Committee and being the ranking member, I'd prefer him to be the chair.
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  4743.  @jimmathers7924  It's times like these where I'm convinced that a lot of these people who claim to support Bernie are really trolls for Trump trying to depress turnout on the left.
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  4744.  @donHooligan  Your accusation is your confession. I'm not the one who claims to have spent 20 years fighting drilling in ANWR, while one candidate voted against it and the other allowed it, and still telling people that either there is no difference or the denialist is better. Either you are lying about something, or you just haven't been paying attention.
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  4745.  @donHooligan  In the other one, you clearly said 20. Then again, considering that you're pimping Trump, I don't believe a word.
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  4746.  @donHooligan  Ooh, big man. Such big talk for the man who keeps insisting that Biden is either no better or actually worse than Trump.
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  4747.  @donHooligan  Show me where I said he was the left. You're just mad that your trolling game is exposed.
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  4748.  @ikexbankai  The guy who said that he wouldn't take money from financial companies so he could stay neutral in 2010 knows exactly what he is doing.
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  4749.  @ikexbankai  Then, why did he say that they were corrupting in his first campaign? Or did he conveniently find a rationale for it when he lost that race by 25 points?
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  4750.  @badman231177  Hence, why I think that it is a stretch to describe her position on Tulsi in that way. It's not a vendetta as much as the fact that Tulsi is awful, and one good thing three years ago doesn't make up for 17 years of awful.
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  4751.  @ronniedeezy4831  Oh, look! The effects of going by who you hate rather than wanting to actually build something.
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  4752.  @mpls1982  We aren't there yet. I heard how we were near the end of it more than once. I'll believe it when I see it.
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  4753. Maybe this explains why so many videos get swamped with people defending Jimmy Dore and sound like they come from a hive mind. Well, his audience is right wingers, so maybe that inspired the most notorious troll on this channel.
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  4754.  @TheKrakatour  A con artist selling insincere positions. Examples: Ben Shapiro is not one because he really does believe his nonsense, but Dave Rubin is.
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  4755. Right wingers have networks that buy in bulk to pad sales.
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  4756.  @frivolousquan7085  Oh, yes, because teachers don't ever have to pay for their own supplies and are famous for how lavishly paid they get. When the funny outweighed the cringe, Bill Maher put it best: maybe we call them heroes because they work cheap. I mean, seriously, where do you come up with this stuff?
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  4757.  @headcrusher1966  If you really want to fight, you need to ask them to sponsor the bill, and then you need to talk to your neighbors and ask them to sponsor the bill. Once it gets a critical mass, then it will come up for a vote. Here in Philadelphia, we actually got two members to sponsor through grassroots pressure. A symbolic vote that you know will fail is worse than nothing.
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  4758. Someone hasn't read the Constitution. Constituents are everyone who lives in the district (ot state, in this case). She sure wasn't complaining when these people were knocking on doors to mobilize voters.
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  4759.  Lel E  Fair enough. I understand that position completely.
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  4760.  @christiantaylor1750  I didn't assume anything. I only asked you questions of your interpretation. I have heard many (including Crowder the Coward himself during the debate) giving the gate crasher excuse, even though he has done it many times. So, again, if those weren't dog whistles, what did he mean? And if he could out-debate Sam Seder, why didn't he do it?
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  4761.  @christiantaylor1750  Then, what does the beady eyes thing mean? Personally, I thought the take off your glasses thing was trying to use his size to bully Sam Seder, but it's funny how beady eyes is a dog whistle that he just happened to hit. You probably thought it was a coincidence 15 years ago when George Allen used an obscure North African racial slur, too.
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  4762.  @christiantaylor1750  If you want the debate to happen, why do you keep defending Crowder for running away? Whether or not you have seen Crowder be bigoted based on race, you can't say that he hasn't shown bigotry. The point of a dog whistle is that the average person isn't going to hear it, but the people you want to hear it will (example: Newt Gingrich saying that he would tell the NAACP, a group of professionals, that they should get off food stamps). When I first heard "take off your glasses," I heard a bully intimating a physical fight. Once I saw the evidence of the dog whistle, it seemed convincing to me.
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  4763.  @christiantaylor1750  It's been three years since Sam has been trying to get Crowder to debate him. At a certain point, you have to look at the larger context. Also, Crowder is the one who started with the insults. Sam popped up on screen, and Crowder immediately went off screen and started saying that Ethan "wasn't a stand up guy," and when he came back on screen, he started going on about Sam Seder's eyes. Literally every excuse he and his supporters gave has either proven to be false or something that he has done to other people. Change My Mind was an attempt to debate the unprepared (although except for choice of opponent, Crowder would have been prepared). He debated people with much smaller subscriber counts. He canceled multiple appearances, and left multiple bookers high and dry, who then confirmed to Sam Seder that he backed out. He has rushed the stage on other people. No objective fact given to defend him has been accurate. If he has avoided debates for three years, how much longer does he have to do it in order to prove his cowardice?
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  4764.  @SammyS1977  Manchin can't win a Republican primary in West Virginia. He voted to convict Dear Leader twice. He attempted to get rid of the gun show loophole. He voted against the Trump tax cuts. There is also the fact that he is a legacy. He is known as Joe Manchin III because his father and grandfather were local elected officials. His uncle was a secretary of state and state treasurer, among other things. There is no way that he is switching. He loves the attention from being the deciding vote. If he switches, he's just another Republican.
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  4765. Darn right! I went on a couple of canvassing trips with DSA in Philadelphia for Bernie. If you don't like what you see, do something! Their tears will be especially sweet when we win.
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  4766. Bernie isn't pushing a Rube Goldberg device for Medicare for All that is designed to fail. That alone puts him miles ahead.
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  4767. "Why should I have to change my name? He's the one who sucks." Michael Bolton, Office Space On a more serious note, they are doing what they can to warn people about the awful things he did, so in a way, it's more powerful coming from people with that name.
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  4768. For those who think that "Well, she paid into it" is a suitable reslonse to the fact that Ayn Rand collected Social Security, here are some things to ponder: 1) Rose Wilder Lane and Isobel Patterson also paid into Social Security, and both refused to take it. Rose Wilder Lane even decided to live a life of voluntary simplicity (echoing the prairie life of her mother, Laura Ingalls Wilder) for many years in order to not have to pay taxes. 2) Sje omly paid into Medicare for sic years before taking it, so she definitely got back way more than the less than $2000 she paid in when she got lung cancer. 3] People of her ilk believe that we shpuld suffer if we make bad choices, but she got lung cancer in no small part because she didn't believe the studies that connected cigarette smoking to lung cancer, so by her logic, freedom should have meant she was on her own. 4) The average Social Security recipient receives much more than he/she paid into the system due to COLAs.
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  4769.  @J.CashDro  So, you're one of these people who gets the benefits of these programs and you spend your time here going after those who want it when we don't have them? That's pretty low.
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  4770.  @creshiell  Well, everything that doesn't benefit rich people.
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  4771.  @Starcrash6984  Aside from the fact that several Yang Gang bangers have told me that they should just get a job, there is the rhetoric Yang uses for his "freedom dividend." He calls it a "right of citizenship," but he makes the poor and the disabled choose between their current benefits and his plan. Does that mean that they aren't full citizens in his mind?
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  4772.  @nick-dq1hh  Like the Chinese fortune cookie game, literally every reason given for secession ends in "to maintain slavery." The reason why those statues were put up was in response to civil rights or in the middle of a campaign to spread Lost Cause propaganda. At least D. W. Griffith felt bad enough about his contribution to that evil (as someone who grew up hearing about the exploits of the Lost Cause from his father the Confederate colonel and honestly didn't know what everyone was so upset about) tried to pare back some of the extremes with Intolerance a year later. The time has come to stop lionizing those who did such great harm for such an evil purpose.
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  4773.  @Cussy69_420  Probably the same way pretty much all the dum dum crowd does: thinking that YouTube comments are actual grassroots organizing. Funny how in Philadelphia, we did the actual work and got a sponsor for Medicare for All (Brendan Boyle) without forcing a vote, but through letters, signatures, and calls.
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  4774.  @idontwantcorporateretaliat6301  It's not nothing. Part of why Republicans win is that they actually know how to celebrate their wins, while if Democrats get 90% of what we want, we spend all of our time complaining about the 10% we didn't get.
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  4775. She had a solid second debate, she took the lead on reparations, and she had a Dave Rubin interview worth its weight in gold. I contributed to try to get her into early debates, and I would say that it was a dollar well spent.
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  4776. True, but who put them in a position to do it?
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  4777.  michael battista  If most don't care, why has his approval never hit 50% in Gallup?
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  4778. My only surprise is that it took as long as it did to prove it.
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  4779.  @aozf05  You mean that it's easier to have a strategy of doing nothing than it is to get something positive passed? No!
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  4780.  @stenfjord1  Biden is starting to come crashing down to earth now that his image as Obama's best friend is starting to slip and Obama picking him to placate conservative Democratic voters is what really happened.
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  4781.  @Labor_Jones  No, it's rooted in fascism.
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  4782.  @Caseylawton  You mean you want to get all of the benefits and pay none of the costs to keep it going?
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  4783. Don't just vote. Knock on doors. Make calls. Download the BERN app. Do whatever you can.
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  4784. Not really sure how you could criminalize it outright, but we need to make it is acceptable as that flag from Germans who were inspired by them 70 years later.
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  4785.  @bcpr9812  Well, he does call his wife Mother.
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  4786.  @Nagpadawala  Ah, you need to work on yours. Apparently, you don't understand that "read the bill to understand the finer points of it" doesn't work when the point is that the very premise is fraudulent. When Arizona tried something similar to what she wants to do, a federal court ruled it out because it violated the Voting Rights Act. Then again, I'm not the one defending the indefensible.
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  4787.  @williamkelley1971  Maybe if the judge actually allowed the prosecution to submit any evidence in this case, case, they could prove it.
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  4788. What would term limits accomplish? Do you honestly believe that if Mitch McConnell and Lundsey Graham were term limited that Kentucky and South Carolina would have elected someone better in 2020?
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  4789. His name is spelled Piketty, and Google has plenty of hits.
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  4790.  @maddoo23  So, you think it's a fact that there is literally no Ukrainian identity?
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  4791.  @maddoo23  That's historically inaccurate because Ukraine has long existed as a nation, even if not always as a nation-state.
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  4792.  @maddoo23  The standard definition is that nation refers to national identity, state refers to a sovereign government, and nation-state is a group with a national identity with a state based around it. 2) Putin said that Ukraine has no national identity, and that it was made up by Russia. Both of those things are objectively false.
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  4793.  Alabama Man 2.0  Oh, Jimmy knows. First of all, that happened when he interviewed someone who got out of the white nationalist movement. Second of all, Jimmy Dore and Sam Seder had a debate in 2016 where literally everything Jimmy predicted turned out to be wrong, and every prediction Sam made turned out to be right (including the number of Supreme Court picks that Trump got). Jimmy was supposed to allow a return engagement on his show, and he refused.
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  4794.  @sergeikhripun  It only makes it more obvious when you make a clunky edit. Distorting Gob Bluth to say "I killed Earl Milford" was less awkward. If I were echoing one of the biggest right-wing trolls on this channel, that would give me pause for thought about my direction in life.
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  4795.  @joaodias2487  Except that's not what he's doing. He's replacing the existing social safety net. Let's just say for the sake of argument that Yang gets his way, and his "freedom dividend" is either/or. If 90% of the population is unemployed, and have to settle for $1000/month, you are talking about creating a vast underclass that has to pay more for things because of how he pays for them, while you have a few on the top with extreme wealth. Maybe the first trillionaire. Yeah, he's really taking care of people!
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  4796.  @joaodias2487  Yang says in the video he hopes to get rid those programs in the long run, so that sounds like a replacement to me. You know what would be even better than a replacement or an alternative? A supplement.
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  4797.  @bobcatbub  He supports the American people so much that he completely ignored a virus that has killed nearly 450,000 at a point where more could have lived had he taken decisive action, he knew it was going to be bad, but he didn't bother to tell people that. With friends like these, who needs enemies?
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  4798. It's not 20-30 times a year. It was 31 times from 2000-2012. It's even less than you mentioned.
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  4799.  @2727rogers  Several people were convicted, and the Mueller Report was not authorized to determine possible criminal charges against Trump, but Mueller did list ten possible instances of obstruction of justice. And really? There was nothing to it? "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you find the e-mails." "If it's what you say it is, I love it! Especially in the fall." "I think you're about to find out something very interesting about the e-mails." Just because Officer Angry Barbrady said there was nothing to see here doesn't make it true.
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  4800.  @TheNextTurn  So, because they don't want to demand a vote that they know is doomed to fail and will only generate bad will and not the preferred policy, they are insincere? Then again, as much as you repeat false talking points, it should be obvious how much you really have learned.
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  4801.  regulator619  Ms. Peace Candidate also defended Biden on Iraq by saying, "He made a mistake and admitted it" when he did no such thing.
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  4802. You mean a regressive consumption tax? No, thank you. Say no to the Unfair Tax.
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  4803.  @user-tf4ho2uo1e  Just because you haven't done anything doesn't mean that no one has.
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  4804.  @TohaBgood2  Funny how so many "pro-labor, but..." people there are out there. There are so many things that put the thumb on the scale in places like South Carolina that it isn't just a matter of being better. That would be like arguing that the answer to gutting voting rights is to just make sure to stay in line rather than fighting those laws in the first place.
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  4805.  monokhem  Who was the amendment king because of his ability to get things done? Who pushed through the bill to restore VA funding? Who was the lead sponsor of the bill that for the first time since the passage of the War Powers Act to force a President's hand to stop a war? But, yeah, he has no idea how the corridors of power work.
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  4806. How will it destroy poverty if the poor can't get it? If you take the $1000, you don't get any government assistance.
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  4807.  @maivaiva1412  People like the OP fall into one of two categories: 1) right-wing trolls pretending to be left to depress turnout, 2) dead enders who don't actually want to make anything better but just want to complain.
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  4808. You mean the Post Office that DeJoy tried to destroy and slow down before the election?
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  4809.  @truegrit2060  First of all, not all states allow early voting. Second, several states have been trying to cut the early voting time. Third, that doesn't do anything for invalids who have a relative or caretaker drop it off. Then again, that's not what this is about, and you know it.
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  4810.  @davidriley2828  I remember that song at my basic training graduation. I hate it!
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  4811.  @wirelesmike73  So true. People complain about the options, but how many actually run as candidates or run for local party positions?
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  4812.  @VMonkies  So, you're fine with Trump getting to name the replacement for RBG and possibly Breyer, thus meaning that anything good that President AOC or anyone else can get through Congress will be overturned by the Supreme Court? How did "making the Democrats pay" work in 2000 or 2016?
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  4813.  @Name-cz5jj  I didn't say that it was the end all be all. My point was that people do what the rules encourage. And as long as it takes a plurality to win a state and an absolute majority to win the country, it will always boil down to two. Complaining about two options (and if you think that anyone other than the major party nominees have a non-zero chance of winning, you haven't been paying attention) without understanding the rules shows that you won't get any of the things that you want.
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  4814.  @winstonsmith-ministryoftru1609  I do if it's from people like The Majority Report. In an unrelated note, I am a caseworker, and when verifying income, I once saw a client named Winston Smith Jr. ... who was born in 1984. It made my day ;-)
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  4815.  @dawnmarieallenkent2495  Except Cartman could actually plan things.
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  4816.  @warren2398  So, ego boosting things that do absolutely nothing constitute "a good start"? Yeah, that makes sense.
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  4817. In fairness, Sam did go on to say that the real danger of Neera Tanden is that she is being put up to fail (except for Trump the cult leader, it seems like every President has at least one nominee who fails early on) and someone even worse will get picked instead.
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  4818.  @alabamaman5994  Well, Aaron, there is this thing called tax evasion, and if you don't give the IRS money to enforce tax evasion, the budget deficits get bigger. And even in pure self-interest, look at how long it is taking for people to get their refunds... because there aren't enough agents to check simple returns. I know people who still haven't gotten theirs from last year. You'd think you'd want to get that money back as soon as possible... unless your checks for spamming come in rubles and can't be so easily traced.
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  4819. ​ @jordant.teeterson3100  Katie Britt isn't bad on the eyes, but oh, that was the worst SOTU response I have ever seen. Somewhere, Bobby Jindal is having a good laugh.
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  4820.  @robinsss  How ironic that the libertarian finds a fee or a payment to the government he fully supports... by making it more difficult for the poor, the elderly, the disabled, and the urbanites to vote. Let me make this as simple as possible: if you have to pay for a government ID, that is a tax. If you have to do so in order to vote, that is also a tax. If you are poor, elderly, disabled, or live in a city, you are less likely to drive, and thus less likely to have said government ID (and wanting people to have to have an ID also goes against your otherwise insistence on small government). In my adopted home state of Pennsylvania, people in Philadelphia are twice as likely to not have a government photo ID as the rest of the state. Therefore, you want those people to pay a tax in order to vote. Therefore, the proposed voter ID laws are poll taxes.
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  4821. I'm voting after work on Tuesday.
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  4822. Wanna know what's not hot? Making up stuff about a man who got shot in the back seven times to defend bad cops.
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  4823.    Typical libertarian trolling. When it comes to your income, you're poor. When it comes to someone else, you compare that person to someone starving in a Third World country. Well, you typed this on a smartphone or computer, so by your own definition, you're rich, too.
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  4824.    You're the one who said, "If you own a smartphone or a laptop, you're the richest 1%" when criticized by someone else who you called rich, all while hollering poverty while talking about your own situation. If you don't understand the problems of internal inconsistency, demonstrating your inconsistency doesn't make it go away.
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  4825.  @StephanieM772  David made a lengthy video going into her policy stances and why he is not supporting her. Since her numbers are so low, he is saying that he sees no need to kick her while she's down. That seems fair to me.
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  4826.  @IMPOTUSx2  True. I was focusing more on the ones on the left who apparently think that the only goal is to become a reverse Freedom Caucus and complain that she doesn't fight enough.
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  4827. I remember when someone said at the time of the stall on the Speaker vote "if they cut the military budget, wouldn't that be a good thing?" I said at the time that it depends on what gets cut, because as a veteran I know that low-ticket items tend to get under spent (I was in Iraq, and our "new trucks" were Vietnam-era) and other things like weapons system are a bottomless pit. Gee, it looks like the holdouts weren't principled opponents of the MIC. What a shock!
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  4828. If you don't like the corporate wing being in power, here's a thought. People need to run for the following: school board, city council, state legislature, and local and state party committees. Nothing is magically putting the establishment there. Too many people sit and whine and don't actually do the work. I know that almost every time I have seen a Never Biden person online and asked what he/she did, I am greeted with misdirection or just voting or writing a check. And you have to understand that these things take time. The last political realignment was a 16 year project from the defeat of Goldwater to the election of Reagan. The fact that people are already giving up after five years when they didn't do the work is very concerning if we are actually going to get things done.
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  4829.  @lwaves  If he does something to prove he is sincere, I am willing to accept, but he has to prove that he is truly repentant and not just a rat leaving a sinking ship.
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  4830.  @lwaves  So true. Maybe he should accept that his problems go back much farther than 2016, and maybe apologize for his Sandy Hook remarks or pay his child support.
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  4831.  @cf453  Agreed. I want someone who has won elections to represent a population at least the size of a Congressional district. Given Bernie's statement that he wants a woman younger than him and Constitutional requirements (which sadly excludes the two best choices: Jayapal and AOC): 1) Tammy Baldwin: Senator from Wisconsin, great voting record, long history as a trailblazer 2) Rashida Tlaib: Fires up a crowd more than any surrogate save Nina and AOC, she has an expansion of the EITC that is far better than the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend, and she is not afraid to fight back 3) Kirsten Gillibrand: a very distant third, but if Bernie realizes that he needs to go for balance to unify the party, she is a good option, her evolution has been leftward so it can be part of a whole, and like Poppy in 1980 she would know what got her there
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  4832.  @thej1615  You can look up Baldwin's record. There is a lot to praise in that record. Note that I said a very distant third. Sometimes, you have to balance a ticket to get consensus. Reagan did it with Poppy. Obama did it with Biden. You might even argue that JFK did it with LBJ. I trust Bernie to know if an olive branch is necessary to win, and that is who I think would be the best pick for said olive branch.
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  4833.  @cjojay  He'll be there as a cautionary tale.
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  4834.  @notetakerx430  I think the term came from when the Hungary uprising was put down in 1956.
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  4835.  @BL-sd2qw  The inherent contradiction in communism is the "dictatorship of the proletariat," which (except for Allende, who didn't want any part of it) just ends of being a dictatorship just like any other.
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  4836. It also makes a difference for people like my mom and my niece who can't take it because of allergies, and people like my daughter who are too young for the vaccine.
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  4837. So, he thinks that governors should use their power to ban circumcision? So much for small government and religious freedom.
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  4838. Then why was the full Starr Report released?
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  4839.  @brandocalrissian3972  Or, given his approval rating and he literally hasn't run a single positive ad in decades, they just hate his opponent more.
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  4840.  @brandocalrissian3972  That is direct democracy, not "pure democracy." And Cuba is a republic, so that is not the definition. The definition of a republic is simply a country that is not governed by a monarch. I get how you right-wing trolls have ignored the American people for decades and now find yourself unable to win, but still want power, so you convince yourself that democracy (where the people decide) is really different from a republic, but they are different types of categorization. You know what's worse than tyranny of the majority, though? Tyranny of the minority.
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  4841.  @brandocalrissian3972  He's literally quoting the first definition in the source that you claimed to cite.
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  4842.  @brandocalrissian3972  There is no such thing as a pure democracy. There is direct democracy. Funny that you claimed to cite Merriam-Webster until multiple people cited it.
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  4843.  @brandocalrissian3972  Biden isn't raising taxes on people making less than $400,000, just as he said.
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  4844.  @KG9551  Imaging being his doctor wife when that song comes out and deciding it's better to lie to him to spare his feelings about his inadequacies.
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  4845. ​ @bcatblues725 If he told me.the sky was blue, I'd have to look put the window to make sure.
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  4846. ​ @philpalmer4877  He's maybe 6'1 with them, so he's about 6'0 most likely,maybe even 5'11
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  4847. And listening to Jimmy Dore means that you now know less.
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  4848.  @johnhand46  In 2019, Bernie got the most of any Democratic Presidential candidate. Did the establishment want him?
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  4849. You mean because you ducked them, or because you're too poor to pay any? I have no problem with the former, but the latter is a different story.
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  4850. Probably because defendants in another trial usually don't testify in a related trial.
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  4851. He's the one being pressured. My dollar says it's someone who saw pubic hair on his Coke can and talked about Long Dong Silver to a coworker.
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  4852.  @Dnxs23  Teacher-led prayer in schools was ruled uncon in 1962. If you think no one is praying in school, you haven't seen seniors before a calculus test.
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  4853. @Sammy N Agreed on Tulsi. I fully expect her to get a job with Fox next year. Yang was very insidious, because he's a libertarian grifter. I saw parts of an interview (Yang is trying to make some money as a podcaster now) he did with Anand Giridharadas (sp?) where he totally misrepresented his position on labor, saying that he supported the right to organize, while insisting that we're a bunch of dinosaurs, so we should just accept his pittance. As bad as Biden is, at least he is honest about not being a lefty. He also seems not to understand how organizing works.
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  4854.  L  So, your example is her going after an establishment Democratic position rather than a right winger? See my shocked face :-|
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  4855.  L  Sadly, it seemed like he started to see her desire for a red/brown alliance, but he didn't quite get there in the end. I do give him credit for letting the others on his show do a brutal takedown of the theory of her schtick.
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  4856. "There's a death tax that gets processed." When my grandpa died, he had a checking account of $23,000, and if you add up all of his assets, it was still five figures. My family didn't pay a penny in taxes.
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  4857.  @billbo747  And Parliamentary systems are different than Presidential systems. You got it because the NDP took over a province.
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  4858.  @billbo747  Ah, the old trying to save face when you know you have lost the argument. I will continue to do the actual work until we get the sponsor list to 218 & 50, and then those of us doing the actual work will apply the pressure to make those Soft Yes into Hard Yes so we can get it done.
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  4859.  @empanada223  The problem is that, unlike us, no matter how much they fight, they still show up to vote. That's why they can win despite the public not wanting their agenda.
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  4860.  @whoismsv8066  Do you listen to people who call you an evil sellout and prove that they are acting in bad faith?
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  4861.  @bellyhead67  There is plenty of good reason for not doing it. He knew it was going to fail, and all it was designed to do was to meet his long term goal of discrediting all Democrats and helping Republicans because he thinks that will mean some brand new party will suddenly rise from the ashes. It also poisons the well for any other efforts to get anything passed. Do you want to get things passed, or do you want to become a reverse Freedom Caucus?
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  4862.  mxt mxt  That's why Bernie's bill adjusts for inflation after it gets to $15.00/hour, so we don't have to worry about that anymore.
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  4863.  mxt mxt  Darn right!
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  4864.  sissyreed1  Do you think McDonald's liked paying $7.25? Workers are nothing more than a line item on the right side of a balance sheet to them. Washington has a higher minimum wage than Idaho, and they still have people at the counter.
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  4865.  @calixkinggaming7275  Still nothing of substance. Just some cliches about "both sides." If something is incorrect, have the courage of your conviction and back it up.
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  4866.  @calixkinggaming7275  You just keep saying that "it's a gamble." It's not. You can compare working conditions in union vs. non-union facilities, and pay and benefit increases on the first contract. The results are crystal clear.
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  4867.  @michaelpondo6324  In fairness, the American people didn't, the Electoral College did.
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  4868.  @mile_high_topher  "A simple 'No' would have been enough."
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  4869.  @Chris.Brisson  What was his way to win? Hillary had more pledged delegates, and the establishment hated his guts. The superdelegates were never going to give it to him even if Hillary dropped dead. There's a difference between saying that we shouldn't try because something is hard and realizing that math is a thing that is not on your side.
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  4870. @Dav If Bernie ran as an independent (never mind the fact that several states have sore loser laws that would have banned him from the ballot), all that would have done is guaranteed Trump's election and his exile as a Senator, because I guarantee that he would have been stripped of his committee assignments. By endorsing the less bad candidate, he got a position on outreach that he has used to bring his message across the country with a higher profile. I saw 2500 people come to City Hall in Philly to watch him speak to a very eager audience. Bernie is the amendment king because he knows how to get things done. Your idea would have killed that.
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  4871. ​ @FredGoldust  He was literally considering running for Senate a few years ago as a Republican. Nice try.
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  4872.  @benburndred2226  She literally tried to sue Google for more than what her entire campaign had raised at that point. It was nothing more than a publicity stunt.
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  4873.  @SixteenJacobsCreams  True, but I only ever remember one person going on Tucker Carlson to call him out, and the only reason we ever found out about it was that was that Rutger Bregman had the footage and released it himself.
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  4874.  @cejannuzi  And that rebuts my argument that she voted out of cowardice how?
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  4875.  @richardmetzger2574  276 is less than 291 (W), 364 (Clinton), a slower rate than 166 in half the time (Poppy), 381 (Reagan), 320 (Carter), a slower rate than 169 in 2.5 years (Ford), 346 (Nixon), 325 (LBJ), a slower rate than 214 in three years (JFK), 484 (Ike), 907 (Truman), 3728 (FDR), 968 (Hoover), etc. It's also a slower rate than 105 in two years (Trump). In raw numbers, he ranked 15th in executive orders, and there were six others who served less time who did it at a faster pace. Silly partisan.
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  4876. If Trump gets to name the successor to RBG, any good thing that gets through Congress will die, because that means appeasing both Gorsuch and Roberts, when the former will become the swing Justice. If you don't understand that, then you don't understand politics and need to listen to those who do. This is whether we are talking about centrists who want to go back to the Before Time, or people on the hard left who want to just throw it to Trump out of spite.
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  4877.  @jocksharerock7318  Not sure what happened to the link, but if you Google Glenn Greenwald Edward Snowden Julian Assange, there is a New Republic article that goes into depths about his actual history. Most disturbing that the example I gave was from his past. He actually tried to use a First Amendment argument for a white supremacist accused of threatening to kill a judge.
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  4878. Welcome aboard
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  4879. I'm a veteran, and I don't respond to torture that way.
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  4880.  @jaye8872  Well, both find an excuse to invoke their veteran status for literally everything, but McCain opposed torture, perhaps because he was actually tortured himself.
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  4881. So, you think that people should get the death penalty for drug use? Last time I checked, resisting arrest is a misdemeanor.
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  4882. ​ @hourwagontoupeeferret6107  How could someone as talented as Mara Wilson have Ben Shapiro in her family tree?
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  4883.  @popformate944  Democrats tried to filibuster Gorsuch, and McConnell got rid of the filibuster. Then, he limited floor debate from 30 hours to two hours. You can't "fight" if you don't even have a pea shooter.
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  4884. 7:33 Yes! You're not going to stick out among other desperate people who will do the work of two or three people for half the money. You are only hurting yourself in the long run if you don't say no.
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  4885.  @CaBobProductions  Fair enough. I guess I was trying to counter the spin that it was loaded with Bernie supporters. To their credit, Fox seemed to get a fairly representative audience.
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  4886. Pelosi was a very good Speaker, but she has shifted significantly to the right since she lost the gavel.
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  4887. That's because he knows that she doesn't mean it, but Bernie does.
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  4888. Not just the first paragraph, the first sentence in many instances. The Vice President of the Confederacy, Alexander Stephens (ironically, Lincoln's best friend from their days in the House), called slavery the "cornerstone" of their movement.
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  4889. Yang isn't offering something universal. People who get other benefits have to forfeit them if they take his money. He is reverse means testing.
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  4890.  @stephanieann6622  And conspiracy theorists rarely say that they believe the thing. They're "just asking questions."
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  4891.  @stephanieann6622  If you devote paragraphs to your suspicion that voting is an illusion, and the people who they want to hold office will do so, and only a little bit at the end to saying that this might not be the case, you know which one gets more attention. Far more people read the erroneous story than the retraction. So, either you are trying to present things a certain way and are trying to maintain plausible deniability, or you are just really, really bad at presenting your hypothesis (I say hypothesis, because I don't really see anything backing it up).
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  4892.  @KEVINLOPEZ-np4kj  Any version of a consumption tax is by definition regressive. You can make it less regressive, but it will always be regressive.
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  4893.  @KEVINLOPEZ-np4kj  A regressive tax means that the poor pay a higher percentage of income than the rich. Once again, words don't get to mean what you want them to mean.
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  4894.  @Mamameloracing  He was the Senate Judiciary Committee chair when RBG was nominated. He helped defeat Bork. Your argument ignores actual history.
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  4895.  @MzferNebula  Channels have no control over what ads get run. If they did, do you really think all these left-wing channels would get ads from the NRA, Trump, or the Republican Party?
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  4896.  @MzferNebula  Oh, okay. It's too much of a coincidence not to be on purpose, and it happens a lot.
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  4897.  @lonerlink1993  "I am a liberal Democrat in the 21st century, which means that I agree with about 90% of the Republican platform under Eisenhower." Rachel Maddow
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  4898.  @Greenmountainferns  I watched that. I was six at the time, not quite old enough to realize how bad it really was.
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  4899. ​ @AConquerorsVendetta  For lack of a better term, he's running the MPP.
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  4900.  @BarnabyWild13  Okay, let's look at her history. She defended torture. She praised Putin for bombing civilians in Syria while complaining that Obama didn't. She praised Sisi after killing protesters in Egypt. She apologizes for Modi's massacre as provincial governor and defends his actions in Kashmir. She courted Sheldon Adelson and did his bidding to try to get rid of his competition in the form of online gambling. She agreed with Dave Rubin that she is the only Democratic Presidential candidate who loves her country and opposes open borders. She played both siderism on the shutdown and the wall. She initially defended leaving the Kurds to slaughter and genocide. She compared the Iran nuclear deal to Munich. That is a record to run from, not a record to run on.
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  4901.  @Someone-uu6rz  It depends on who the audience is. I think she is more anti-left than pro-anything.
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  4902.  @johnmaster420  Ask Stephen Glass, or any number of people who got kicked out of the club for printing things that they knew were false.
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  4903.  @TrevorHamberger  So, massive deflation which led to increased indebtedness in the late 19th century is the system working?
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  4904.  @TrevorHamberger  And do you know what ended the Long Depression? Finding gold in Alaska, which allowed for the increased circulation that the free silver people wanted which finally ended the deflation.
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  4905. She is
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  4906. "I believe in funding K-12." Apparently, this guy doesn't realize that it is literally called high school because 6th or 8th grade used to be the end of free public education in America. He definitely would have opposed funding high school 100 years ago.
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  4907.  @msabccbscnnoanfoxnews  So, the guy who considers it harmful to criticize vulture capitalism because it "tears people apart" has done so much for the people?
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  4908.  @MrMarket1987  The point is that when a bill for universal or near-universal health care fails, it kills any such legislation for a generation. Edward Kennedy learned that lesson when he killed the Nixon plan in 1971 because he wanted to hold out for something better. He spent 38 years trying and failing to get anything better. LBJ, arguably the most effective vote wrangler ever, knew this and only tried to get it for seniors, because he knew that was the best he could get. If you look at the four major pushes for universal or near-universal health care in the United States, not only does it go away when it fails, but each version gets weaker (Truman in 1948, Nixon in 1971, Clinton in 1993-94, Obama in 2009-10). Failure leads to more failure, but success tends to create a toehold as legislation tends to improve after it is passed (for example: Social Security didn't originally cover domestic and farm work). Medicare itself has expanded over the years as well. The ACA was an exception to the rule because Mitch McConnell has basically broken the United States government. The last major health care bill that passed before the ACA was Medicare Part D, and it was a hot mess, but Democrats worked with Republicans to improve the bill and make it work better. Besides, given the fact that literally one-seventh of the economy will rebel against this and throw everything they have at it, you don't need symbolic votes guaranteed to fail, you need a grassroots army mobilizing to educate and get people on board so they won't fall for the scare tactics of Harry and Louise. Given your username, I don't know if you remember them, but when those ads started, support for Hillarycare plummeted.
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  4909. Big difference between the two is that the Special One is loved by many of his former players (at Porto, Chelsea, and Inter especially), while the Wonder Kid doesn't have that level of affection or respect. Mourinho uses psychology rather than insecurity to motivate himself and others.
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  4910.  @patkohler9695  UBI can be a left-wing or right-wing proposal. The key is what they do to existing programs. If it is a supplement, it's a lefty proposal. If it's a replacement, it's from the right. The proposal by Yang, for example, is a right-wing proposal, made even more right wing because it would be paid for by a regressive tax. Milton Friedman supported UBI.
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  4911. If right wing tears are this delicious, I almost understand their taste for ours. Almost.
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  4912.  @casper191985  I am showing compassion. For democracy and the people who he sent goons to try to assassinate.
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  4913. And the fact that it is still a thing and even last year when it people started this "return to normal talk," it was the third leading cause of death in America, behind only heart disease and cancer.
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  4914. The Tulsi cult feels that it needs to defend its obviously terrible candidate.
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  4915.  @za.307  It never ceased to amaze me how often the tulcels would admit that they also supported torture if they engaged long enough.
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  4916. I am a Caseworker for the welfare department. I have seen firsthand their "compassion" for the people who really need it.
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  4917.  @cynthiavaldez5941  Of course, you can write it off to an extent (there's a cap on the child care tax credit). The point at hand is whether someone that rich will send his/her children to the public program. They'll never let their kids go with filthy commoners.
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  4918.  @tomfox6084  The Death Eaters didn't see Pettigrew at the time. He had long since hidden in his rat form.
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  4919.  @boomer4629  This is the real Tulsi. Look at her pre-Bernie. The Bernie period was clearly the grift.
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  4920.  @dynamicworlds1  Yeah. His argument was that there is no way to know that Hillary wouldn't nuke Syria (I know he got his Assad money later than that, so that can't be it for a take that dumb), which is completely ridiculous because there is no way that someone who is, as PJ O'Rourke put it, wrong within normal means would do such a thing.
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  4921.  @georgewbiden2821  You mean the video where she just kept repeating the same thing over and over again no matter how many times Sam tried to say it, and she kept misrepresenting his position? I had the same reaction as her cohost and left after 45 minutes. I guess by your logic, I can't comment because I didn't want to sit through another 2:45 of drivel.
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  4922. Isn't "it's not us vs. them" what Republicans say when Democrats want to fight for working people and poor people?
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  4923. A libertarian telling someone else that his/her thinking is too binary is especially rich.
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  4924.  @jpdewer8727  Oh, okay. I hadn't heard that before. I'll check it out. Thanks!
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  4925.  @BlazingOwnager  Still an improvement over a court that wants to gut civil rights and voting rights.
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  4926. 9:15 That is so unfair to include Lindsay saying that. The episode makes abundantly clear that she thought that George Michael wanted a mother figure.
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  4927.  @biokido575  Okay, here's some simple math. Bernie's plan is paid for by a 7% employer payroll tax, and a 4% employee payroll tax that exempts the first $29,000 of income. His Workplace Democracy plan includes a provision that requires employers to pass on the savings from Medicare for All to the workers in the form of higher wages or benefits. My employer contribution is currently 27.6% of my income, and my share is 4.41%. So, would I pay a little bit of taxes to get a 20% raise, and no longer have to pay insurance premiums, co-pays, or deductibles? You bet, I would!
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  4928.  Mitt Romney stands with BLM  I've never been on the Rogan train. If anything, I've been surprised when he had good takes.
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  4929. Bercow would bring Or-dah!
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  4930.  @armondtanz  Most of his takes are really about feelings. This was just the most obvious example. Other examples: he won't go to his "friend's" house on his wedding anniversary because he feels his relationship is immoral; he believes that a normal gynecological phenomenon is a medical problem. So much of his work is about aggrievement.
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  4931.  @armondtanz  So, you "see both sides" and are "a political nomad," but you've spent the entire thread praising the right and criticizing the left (and saying "both sides" from time to time to try to keep Enlightened Centrist street cred doesn't count), and insisting that the right are the ones who "make sense" and are "logical" while the left makes "emotional appeals"? The beauty of someone like me is that I am actually honest about what I believe, and I acknowledge my theoretical and ideological framework.
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  4932. ​ @EmpressOfCatsup  Indeed. Literally anyone with a thousand dollars can get on the Presidential ballot in New Hampshire. There are usually 200-300 people who file with the FEC for President every cycle.
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  4933. What kind of work do you do, Bob?
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  4934.  @chillybilly1452  Given the poor spelling and punctuation, I think the OP is mocking that argument.
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  4935.  @shinseung829  Well, he is a dum-dum, and he says he's on the left, so if the shoe fits.
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  4936. "I'm not going to stomp mud on someone's couch. I have more sense than that! [Rewinding] Yeah, I stomped his couch!" Rick James It sounds like Eric Adams learned rhetoric from the Superfreak.
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  4937. Corporate Republican Jimmy Dore
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  4938.  @РоманБекиров-с4м  Because good cell phone reception violates their free-dumb.
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  4939. I donated $20.20.
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  4940.  @barbiquearea  Look at how many millions he got hatching this scheme. He knew what he was doing.
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  4941.  @sergeikhripun  The exact same thing? Yes, because Trump pushed for an actual infrastructure bill and voting rights. If you can't tell the difference between a fascist and a neoliberal, then either you're not paying attention or you don't have the slightest understanding of politics. And, let's just follow your argument and say that this time would be the one that wakes the people up and makes an unbreakable electoral force. Well, if the right to vote is taken away a fat lot of good that does, and even if you can overcome that somehow, and the Supreme Court is still to the right, you aren't getting jack squat. Look at how much Marshall was able to do when he was rushed through the Supreme Court after Adams lost and was on his way out the door.
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  4942.  @sergeikhripun  How did Dems roll over when RBG died? Republicans were the majority, and they already got rid of the filibuster for the Supreme Court. Every single Democrat in the Senate voted No. But I thank you for demonstrating to anyone who came here the dangers of taking your news from an idiot who doesn't understand basic things about how politics work and how it warps your own understanding.
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  4943.  @sergeikhripun  A supermajority means that you have larger than a simple majority, often 3/5 or 2/3 in the context of government. That is unified control, and your argument that bare majorities mean that the left should get everything or the entire Democratic Party are sellouts is absurd. The Democratic Party has always been more of a coalition than the Republican Party and less ideologically united. A hundred years ago, Will Rogers said "I belong to no organized party, I'm a Democrat." To expect ideological consistency from Bernie to Manchin is ridiculous.
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  4944.  @sergeikhripun  So, you wanted them to waste their time to demand a vote that they knew would fail, and then what? No matter how many times you hold out, no one not named Nancy Pelosi was going to become Speaker, and there is already a sponsor list. This means one of three things would happen relative to that list. 1) The list is completely accurate, and the bill is 100 votes short, which then wastes that leverage for a failed vote because Pelosi can say, "See? Medicare for All is going nowhere and this was a waste of time." 2) The Soft Yes members become Hard No, and we're even farther away. You saw this even with the calls for Force the Vote when Dwight Evans, who sponsored the bill in the 116th Congress, is no longer a sponsor. Now, you're even farther away than before. 3) Pelosi uses Catch and Release, and allows a few members in lefty districts who would be vulnerable to an AOC or Bowman to vote Yes knowing that it will fail. Now, you have taken the air out of the primary challenge to the establishment that you claim to hate and those Yes votes would become No the instant there was a realistic chance of passage. Congratulations, you have just advocated something that accomplishes absolutely nothing. If you want to engage in self-indulgence, get a room and some lube.
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  4945. ​ @a5cent  Read "Tulsi Gabbard is Not Your Friend" in Jacobin in 2017. She always had tha streak. Her real grift was pretending to be a lefty.
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  4946. I only saw part of it. You're not missing anything.
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  4947.  @luke5058  Name the state that requires the vaccine and does not offer the alternative of taking a negative test for employment.
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  4948.  @luke5058  Well, then, which is it: is the evil government stopping this person from running a business, or was it overstated in order to try to prove a (bad) political point?
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  4949.  @luke5058  Based on what? Just because you don't like it? Your original point does not stand, because there are plenty of ways to confirm test results. I got tested when I went to the doctor with an earache and a runny nose, and two days later I got confirmation that I didn't have it. By your logic, the government was wrong to quarantine Typhoid Mary after they kept catching her changing her name to make more people sick. By your logic, it's overreach to require employees to wash their hands.
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  4950.  @lindaleelaw5277  And then the hippies became yuppies, and we're still paying for that to this day.
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  4951.  @creshiell  He will at the rally where he offers the endorsement ;-)
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  4952. True, but my dollar says that Romney already told her that he'd vote Yes, but was doing her a solid and waited for her announcement.
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  4953.  @Ryanlexz  I support anyone who does good journalism and calls out liars. When Chris Wallace or Sheppard Smith do it, I give them credit, too.
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  4954. I can have an orgasm. A woman who has FGM cannot. Big difference.
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  4955.  Sundered Soul  And convictions.
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  4956.  Don P  They did the same thing on a January day in 2016. It is getting more embarrassing.
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  4957.  @vincentbilodeau2467  The OP is pointing out that we are the ones who have been creating the wealth, but the rich have been getting all of the benefits.
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  4958.  @RLGanley  That definitely happens at higher levels. I'm just saying that they aren't reinvesting as much at that level. There is a level of too high taxes, but we are nowhere near it and haven't been for decades.
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  4959.  @deathstriker9076  Williamson wasn't running to trash everyone except Joe Biden, either. She was running because she had something to say that represented something on the left that no one else had. And Tulsi did affect things, negatively, when she went on Dave Rubin's show and said that she was the only candidate who loved America. When he tried nonsense against Marianne Williamson, she pushed back in a way that even his loyal, right-wing audience noticed. Marianne brought vision, and Tulsi brought spite. No one is saying that comedians can't talk about politics. We're saying that wilfully uninformed people should stop hiding behind their day job when they get criticized for their dumb takes. I've never heard Sam Seder say, "What do I know? I'm just a guy who did a Sex and the City episode" or "I'm not an expert, I just do the voice of Hugo."
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  4960.  @ericgandara7438  By what order does a government that is charged with the General Welfare out of bounds by setting a floor for wages? Just because you don't like it doesn't make it so.
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  4961. @D C You mean from the guy who wanted Democrats to take the deal with Trump and McConnell last fall who insist that he supports "blue-collar workers" when that bill would have forced them to return to work with no legal protections for unsafe and unsanitary conditions? Yeah, those are the people who really care. [eye roll]
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  4962. He'll be a talking head in six months.
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  4963.  @exiledhebrew1994  So, Russia, which has already conquered one province in 2014, invades a country and doesn't want them to join an alliance that will protect them? Yeah, that makes sense. Speaking of agreements, the whole "NATO will never expand eastward" was discussed but dropped from negotiations as the Iron Curtain was falling, but Russia did say that they would respect territorial sovereignty of Ukraine if they got rid of their Soviet-era nukes, and they signed an agreement, but Putin invaded twice and said that Ukraine was never a real country, but an extension of Russia. Yes, he can really be trusted to make peace. /s
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  4964.  @peterstafford4426  These are people who live too much online. They also haven't noticed that Republicans get rewarded when nothing gets done, and 20 years of accelerationism being proven wrong still hasn't convinced them otherwise.
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  4965.  @jamestepera3356  My position is this: based on what the two have already said, we know that Jimmy Dore has lied about parts of the story, because it's pretty obvious that he didn't get the raucous applause that he said he did. Even if what he says is true and that he was the real victim, TYT has an HR department. He could have easily turned it in to them if he was being harassed and she was wearing such a skimpy outfit. This is classic after the fact justification and you fanboys are eating it up.
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  4966.  @nzsooz3884  You hear far more about people being poisoned.
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  4967.  @linuxd  It's not 9% of the population. The sample size was likely voters, so it is really closer to 12MM. Nothing to sneeze at, but when you figure that there were over 100MM who thought that he was a dumb distraction at best and a total idiot at the worst who has an unrealistic notion of government and human nature. He didn't get close to the debate stage, and his support was much lower in polling averages, so that the 4% he got wasn't much of a surprise at all.
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  4968. @Gamacide Biggs I thank you for looking at the evidence rather than holding on for dear life like others do.
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  4969. "So, did he look like me, or did he look like--?" "Look like what?" "Was he... African?" "He looked like you." "I look like a cop. Oh! He's Jewish. We're looking for an African Jew wearing a hoodie." "He was caucasian!"
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  4970.  @Zach-ju5vi  Peltola finished first with both first past the post and RCV. What are you talking about?
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  4971.  @NicoleKisa  The second and third parties could have formed an alliance so that the SPD head would have been named Chancellor, but that didn't happen.
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  4972.  @bradcarlson8349  Well, the Green Party has long been a stalking horse working with Republicans to work on their common goal of defeating Democrats, so has anything really changed?
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  4973.  @KeviBx  Hmm, thinks that I think that are bad that are, in your words, puritanical: 1) Supporting Ron Paul for President. 2) Making a First Amendment argument as a defense attorney defending Nazis who beat and kidnapped Hispanic painters. 3) Spent the days before the election trying to run a discredited story in order to help a fascist maintain the Presidency. 4) Insists that lefties should work with "socialist" Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon. 5) Defends fascists as "right wing populists." Yeah, those are pretty bad. Of course, in your mind, I am a puritan for acknowledging that they are. Well, I'm not a useful idiot defending a grifter.
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  4974. 1:16 Maybe if so many of us didn't spend all our time complaining about the 10% we didn't get or sounding like malcontents who can never be won over, campaigns might cater more to us.
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  4975.  @vonFisch  I mean, there are plenty of examples of aging gracefully and still looking better than cat face. I mean, look at Dawn Wells (Mary Ann from Gilligan's Island). She is 80, and she looks 50. She still has wrinkles and lips that have clearly lost some collagen, but tell me she hasn't aged well.
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  4976. Jimmy is an idiot who encouraged people to allow massive suffering in the Supreme Court just to throw a tantrum.
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  4977. He also proposed "clear skies" to gut the Clean Air Act. He first came to prominence writing the la Iist of positive words for Republicans and negative words for Democrats so Republicans could "talk like Newt." As Al Franken said in "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot," he is evil.
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  4978.  @SG-qg2pg  First of all, there are very specific needs that need those programs. Second of all, Ben Shapiro had this very conversation. BS: So, what will stop someone from saying, "$1000 a month is good, so why not double or triple that?" AY: See, that magic of a thousand bucks a month is that it is below the poverty level for one person, so people would have to work in order to live any life that motivated them and made then want to get up. The emphasis was his. If he is right about automation, his policies will lead to a future with a few trillionaires and everyone else scraping by on less than the poverty level.
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  4979.  @SG-qg2pg  Yang doesn't "get rid of the stigma," because the poor and disabled don't get it. If you are a single parent making $20,000/year with two small children, you can't afford not to take that daycare subsidy, but if you take it, you don't get the Freedom with 125 Strings Attached Dividend, so not only do you get nothing, but you now have to pay an extra 10% on anything that Yang doesn't deem a necessity because he doesn't want to tax the rich. If anything, he makes it worse, because they aren't getting something he considers to be "a right of citizenship." He is literally turning the poor and disabled into second-class citizens.
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  4980.  @Prague3203  Yang specifically told Dave Rubin that this was a more palatable way to get rid of the existing social safety net. It is not perfect, but some people have legitimate long-term and short-term needs where $1000/month is woefully insufficient. UBI isn't meant to fight for better wages. It is meant for employers to say, "You're already getting an extra $1000/month. You don't need more money from me." UBI (although his is neither universal nor basic income) without dealing with societal issues is a recipe for disaster.
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  4981.  @emileconstance5851  Thank you. I am a caseworker, so it is stunning to me to see people who have no idea how these programs actually work make such ridiculously ignorant statements.
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  4982. A simple "no" would have worked.
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  4983. With friends like Jimmy Dore, who needs enemies?
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  4984.  Xeccelerator  Or, he's smart enough to realize it and he figured that the Rubin lane was full, so he tried a new grift.
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  4985. Carter sold his farm because Congress forced him to.
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  4986. Well, he never passed 5% in any state, so at least not many bought the hype. He was the President of the Internet. Ask President Paul how that works out.
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  4987. Ben Carson is an unfunny version of The Todd from Scrubs.
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  4988.  @digitalperson108  And you have no counter evidence. It is your responsibility to provide it, or else you are pulling it from your butt.
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  4989.  @chadnad4370  Pretty sure anti-Semitism was a thing long before 1948. Nice try with the victim blaming, though.
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  4990.  @chadnad4370  Well aware that racism existed before then and existed now. I don't hate every German because of what their country did, either.
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  4991.  @chadnad4370  Very interesting that you would so narrowly try to limit it to 1948 when I clearly said "if you go back throughout history." Then again, I'm not the one trying to justify bigotry, either.
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  4992.  @chadnad4370  You: I don't hate any jew [sic] Also You: People have plenty of good reason to hate them.
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  4993.  @chadnad4370  Yes, the "I don't have [insert group here], I have [said group here] friends" defense. Good rule of thumb: if someone has to look up the definition of the word that you're using as a slander, you're in pretty deep.
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  4994.  @chadnad4370  As far as being "paid," my comment was existing just fine for months, and then you're the one who decided to respond to me. If you want to expose yourself, I guess that's your business.
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  4995.  @101wormwood  Wrong. It is illegal to give that kind of money to one candidate. He has used most of his leftover money and infrastructure for down ballot candidates. Other than donating, what did you actually do?
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  4996.  @DumbAssSpeakingWithMansVoice  Even if George Floyd did all of the things that you accuse him of, none of those are capital offenses.
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  4997. ​ @jamessix2874  What is the Democrat Party? There's a Democratic Party, but I've never seen any such organization with this name.
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  4998. Someone has apparently never heard of Dixiecrats.
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  4999. If only more were like you.
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  5000.  @indymarrow8050  Well, not everyone can, and farmer's markets might still be more expensive than the processed food. When you don't have enough money to eat, you focus far more about not being hungry than how nutritious the food is.
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  5001. Well, they're fake lefties, so I'm not surprised that their followers are fake lefties, too.
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  5002. Yes, Tulsi, there is objective truth (and I must admit that I am no fan of the phrase "my truth"), like that it wasn't a good thing to compare the Iran nuclear deal to Munich, that there is never a valid excuse for torture, and that you can't call Medicare for All "un-American" multiple times while claiming to support it.
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  5003. Indeed. Millions of Christians have taken Matthew 25 seriously to help the poor and Matthew 19 seriously to point out the danger of billionaires when there is so much poverty. When I was in seminary, a friend was a Republican at the time even told me, "If I took the Bible as seriously as you do, I couldn't be a Republican anymore" because it talks more about helping the poor than social issues.
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  5004.  @deep-pond  Give me one specific joke. Everything I've heard from him is Borscht Belt level at best. Also, I find it pretty amusing that you lack the self-awareness of realizing what you just said when you said that I'd have to listen to his old material to listen to something left wing.
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  5005.  @taylor1316  So, the media certified the results in Michigan? The media threw out almost every lawsuit (the exception being letting poll observers stand six feet away instead of ten)? The media made Trump's lawyers admit to a judge (where they cannot lie) that there was no evidence of fraud?
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  5006.  @marksmedley4369  Oh, Trump pronounces that P like he's thinking of chickens.
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  5007.  @soyboystan5858  Yeah, because Hillary would have appointed Gorsuch and Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Now, we have to wonder what fig leaf they'll use to try to block everything President Bernie tries.
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  5008.  @LinkRocks  He's going down the Dore path. It would take a lot of humility to admit that he is wrong about anything that I haven't really seen.
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  5009. We don't want the "fresh face" because we don't trust them to actually fight for them. We learned our lesson with Obama. That said, instead of age, I care about health, and Bernie is healthy and takes care of himself.
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  5010.  @d3m0no  Not only that, but it will help the unions. Currently, my combined share of employer and employee health insurance costs are 32.01% of my income. If we get Medicare for All, that drops to 11%, and I no longer have to pay a co-payment or deductibles. So, not only would I be better off in terms of the plan, but my union just might be able to shove that in the boss's face and demand that we get some of the savings.
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  5011. The conservative Senate Democrats already agreed on the number. Even Lawrence O'Donnell has admitted that. It's time to hold them to their vote.
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  5012. You can't. The two are mutually exclusive.
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  5013. @Christopher Bortle It can't. Nixon was in the middle of getting impeached (the House Judiciary Committee approved it, but Nixon resigned once Goldwater told him that he didn't have the votes to survive in the Senate), and the only reason why he avoided jail is because Ford pardoned him.
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  5014. Well, Pearl Jam tried, but sadly it was a lonely road.
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  5015. Joe Biden spent decades on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. John McCain put his life on the line. Do you think maybe they know more than you and you can't disagree?
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  5016.  @nicholasguillory3354  Let's take some examples of emergencies by Democratic Presidents. Obama used it for Sandy... when we just had a hurricane! Moscow Donald even said at the press conference that he didn't need to act right now, but he wanted to speed up the process. By definition, that means that it's NOT AN EMERGENCY.
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  5017.  @Comicbookyoutubersrock  Definitely. Kamala Harris can also be cringe, but man, was she good at ripping right wingers new ones in Judiciary Committee hearings. Sometimes, it's all about finding the best use for that specific subset of skills.
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  5018.  @MusicIan423  So, she repeated a lie saying that Bernie told her that a woman can't be elected President at this statement at 1:59 and we should let bygones be bygones? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjeSc8HZhrI She said it, and there is no defense. You ignore this at your own peril.
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  5019.  @robertlamb5091  I thought he was to young to vote for Perot.
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  5020.  @ooXie1sh  If he's just a comedian, why is he getting paid to be a political commentator?
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  5021. $54B can do a lot to insulate you from people who don't think that you are the greatest thing to ever happen to humanity.
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  5022.  @aliamjon2550  We don't tolerate fascists who try to destroy our democracy.
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  5023. The weirdest thing of all is when he starts to regain his composure when questioned, and how quickly he puts his mask on.
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  5024.  @ahimsacitta  *Gym Jordan. He looked the other way as an assistant wrestling coach when some of his athletes tried to warn him about a sexual predator. The more we spell his name this way, the more we remind people of his coverup.
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  5025.  @dpersonal4187  A higher percentage of Bernie primary voters went for Hillary in 2016 than Hillary primary voters that voted for Obama in 2008. Nice try, though.
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  5026. He's right about them being useless, but for the wrong reasons.
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  5027.  @IcarusLime  If someone claims to be an "economic populist," shouldn't that person actually support policies that benefit working people? Saagar Enjeti does not. He's just like the other fake populists who want to distract people by complaining about "cultural elites" while continuing to push policies that make the economic elites even richer.
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  5028.  @psmt1234  The parties are whatever people vote for. The beautiful thing is that if enough people do the actual work rather than talk about fantasy things that get nothing done, it is totally possible for a movement to take it over.
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  5029. Cenk, some of your analysis is quite disappointing because it misses basic facts: 1) with proportional representation, it pretty much always involves a coalition government. Not counting the 2001 election which was only for PM, here were the number of seats by the winning party in this century, with 61 required for a majority: 2003 (Likud), 38; 2006 (Kadima), 29; 2009 (Likud), 27*; 2013 (Likud), 31; 2015 (Likud), 30; 2019 (Likud), 35+ *Kadima had 28 seats, but were not given the opportunity to form a government, in part because Liberman finished third with 15 seats and said he would only work with Likud +tied with Blue and White, unable to form coalition 2) Netanyahu didn't want a new election. Israeli rules state that the president (similar to the speaker in the UK) selects the party that gets an opportunity to form a government. If that party cannot form a government, either another party gets a shot at it, or the president calls for a new election. Yes, Netanyahu sucks, and it seems like racism is his only move lately, but this election was forced on him because the president didn't think Blue and White could get majority. Well, I guess they will get their chance.
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  5030. Hootie gets to be on the country charts, and so did Charley Pride. It sounds like a rap song about rural stuff.
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  5031.  @jimohara  Not being found guilty of rape is not the same as being found not guilty of rape. When Trump's attorneys complained about the use of the word, the judge said that in common parlance, it is perfectly acceptable for what he was found liable of doing. "Being found not guilty" implies that there was a trial and he was acquitted. To equate the two is either sloppy, dishonest, or some combination of the two.
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  5032.  @JamesChessman  He looks like Buster Bluth got beaten with an ugly stick.
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  5033. How did it seem that RFK "had the nomination in the bag"? He only won a couple of binding primaries in an era where the convention was the deciding factor. Humphrey won the nomination through connections, and there is no doubt that he would've won even had Sirhan Sirhan never went to the Ambassador Hotel.
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  5034.  @vincesmith2499  Doesn't change the fact that there are people who don't have to pay into Social Security. Given that she was willing to use an assumed name so her friends in the club wouldn't find out about her taking Social Security and Medicare, surely nothing was stopping her from lying about her religion, or making up her own (she was a cult leader, after all) so that she could have gotten an exemption.
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  5035.  @petyrbaelish1216  It's both. Rural America gave FDR his biggest level of support. Ditto LBJ. A lot of what animates West Virginia is a) there is no emphasis on economic issues at the national level, and b) economic anxiety re: fossil fuels. My grandpa and several uncles were coal miners, but it's a dying industry. Rather than acknowledge the reality that you can't rely on fossil fuels forever and people want cleaner energy, demagogues have convinced them that pernicious outsiders are trying to steal their jobs, whereas the non-coal counties actually do better economically because they were forced to diversify. You still don't get it. Organizing and expanding the map is not just about one election cycle. That kind of thinking dooms anyone who actually wants to make a difference, because money never sleeps.
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  5036. She is, and she told him that WAP is a medical condition.
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  5037.  @ashesmandalay1762  I think she was one of the people who insisted that 30% support could win the nomination because the field would stay divided. Then again, she now seems to be going down the third party dead end, so strategy clearly isn't her strength.
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  5038. At one point, I asked others in the room if the applause was piped in.
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  5039. If he thought it through, he should have photoshopped himself into the picture of Rollo after Gob's expulsion saying We Really Demand to Be Taken Seriously.
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  5040.  @jcspoon573  I saw some talk of pushing Ruben Gallego. He would be a great choice with a proven record.
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  5041.  @selfishcapitalist3523  Mining companies used to refuse to pay in cash before workers won the right to organize. It wasn't because the benevolent company took care of them. Go watch Harlan County USA or Matewan to see what things were like when capital had their say.
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  5042. I think she knows exactly what she is doing. Let us not forget that, after she left MSNBC, she set up a PAC that was supposed to help lefty candidates, but 39% of the money went into her own pocket.
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  5043.  @SomeGuy_GRM  She always said that.
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  5044.  @HarryS77  If you get four more years, you get nothing you want and you have given away the seat of RBG to pretty much guarantee that any good legislation that President AOC or anyone else can get through Congress will be overturned by the Supreme Court. Biden will at least through the occasional bone our way, although I will admit that his only proposal that genuinely got me excited was changing the rules for unrealized capital gains on inheritance. (Cliffs Notes version: Bill Gates could die tomorrow, and his kids could cash out his Microsoft shares tax free. Biden's proposal would change it so the basis of taxation would be the purchasing price.) That, and we don't have to worry about him becoming a fascist dictator who refuses to leave.
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  5045.  @thomasmendola937  Before the Federal Reserve, we had major economic crashes in 1797, 1837, 1857, 1873, 1893, and barely avoided one in 1907. The whole reason the Federal Reserve exists is because people didn't like the idea of JP Morgan sitting in a room picking which banks would get to survive. Would you prefer that? If not, what would you prefer?
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  5046. Sadly, a lot of people don't outgrow this phenomenon.
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  5047.  @caroljo420  Can't recall federal officeholders. We're stuck with her until her term is up.
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  5048.  @MsWarriordiva  Please tell me Arizona Democrats are rallying around a good solid candidate like Gallego and not splitting their vote against Sinema.
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  5049. Is there anything Republicans accuse their opponents of that they aren't guilty of themselves? I swear, these people project more than a drive-in movie.
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  5050.  @graphikally  I remember some birther idiot insisting that this would be proven and McCain would become President. I pointed out two facts to kill that: 1) Obama's mother was a US citizen, so it didn't matter (see: Romney, George; McCain, John; and now Cruz, Rafael); 2) even if Obama were found to be ineligible, Biden would have become President. There are a lot of things that you have to believe that are downright dumb to be part of the American right these days.
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  5051. My preference is Jokes Seth Can't Tell.
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  5052. Well, in fairness, she started off as a bigot and a grifter, so she's basically come full circle.
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  5053.  @lydialutz  Define "extremists." This is an enlightened centrist talking point that never explains what makes things extreme and accepts the Overton Window as it is without wondering why it is that things that are so normal in countries that are otherwise our peers don't happen here.
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  5054.  @lydialutz  Re: independent redistricting, [in Homer Simpson whisper] the Democrats tried that in the Voting Rights Act this year, but Manchin and Sinema refused a filibuster carve out. In other words, get two more Democratic Senators and keep a Democratic House Majority, and one of the three is already done by people who are trying to get elected and actually do things.
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  5055.  @sisypheantask9242  Indeed. Like it or not, if you actually want to defeat fascism, everyone needs to unite under the banner of the one party with an actual chance at defeating it, and that ain't Yang.
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  5056. Or, as Joe Kenehan (played by Chris Cooper) said in Matewan, "There's two kinds of people in this world: them that work, and them that don't. We work, they don't!"
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  5057.  @The_Other_Ghost  So, he's just the best friend of grifters, who he never criticizes, after saying that people who don't go as hard after their coworkers as he would prefer is a sellout?
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  5058.  @djVOME  "Blame me if Trump wins." Kyle Kulinski
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  5059.  @themagicalmilkshake  Indeed. I am working my way through his book (it's quite the page turner), and when he beats Asteriskstrong in the event before the 2000 Tour, you really get the feeling that this is when he became a marked man.
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  5060.  @zinaj9437  Any potential major candidate who could get in is already in. Does she have to wait to see if it gets to 30? Any of the potential candidates at this point are centrists that she wouldn't support in the primary, anyway.
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  5061. You can't get term limits without a Constitutional amendment. You are much more likely to get a restructuring of the Court to have a rotation among federal judges.
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  5062.  @TheSandkastenverbot  I use Der Orangefuhrer
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  5063.  @kuruptzZz  *six
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  5064. Will Hurd, the only black Republican in the House, and the only Republican in a district Hillary won, is also retiring, so that seat is a pick-up right there.
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  5065. Is this guy calling from an air hangar?
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  5066.  @subversivelysurreal3645  I've said for a couple years now that Ivanka sounds just like a slightly sped up version of Tiffany from Daria. If you haven't seen it, she's one of Quinn's friends in the Fashion Club who is Asian and speaks with an extremely slow, whispery Valley Girl voice.
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  5067. I don't think you do. The strategy is to grow their numbers and take it over. If you don't like the establishment, run for school board, city council, state legislature, and state and local party committees. If enough people do that and win, we take over.
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  5068.  @elconceptodematiz5574  Ask Syria and Yemen whether or not he is a non-interventionist.
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  5069.  @elconceptodematiz5574  Of course they didn't: https://www.rollcall.com/news/congress/bernie-sanders-override-trump-yemen-veto
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  5070.  @elconceptodematiz5574  Sugar, did you see me defend Obama here? I did not. Your accusation is your confession, because you are so wedded to the notion of team that you assumed that I was praising Obama. I'm not. I didn't. My only point was that, after you pretended that Trump was some big peacenik, it turns out that he bombed a Syrian airfield, and he has assisted Saudi Arabia in its war with Yemen. If you are fine with it as long as other people are the ones dying, you do not favor peace, and you have demonstrated to all the difference between isolation and peace.
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  5071. ​ @sarahshanahan2222  I never thought they'd actually repeal Roe because they knew that it was popular, but all the energy was on their side. Overturning it activated the apathetic majority, which was a pretty predictable outcome.
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  5072. ​ @efulmer8675  Indeed. Similar to how actually putting up a bill to replace the ACA ended up being so disastrous, and so many who voted dozens of times to repeal wanted nothing to do with it once it became a possibility.
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  5073.  @ReVeralife  You are forgetting one key thing: if a candidate gets below 15% in a state or Congressional district, that vote goes into the ether. If this is really an effort to block anyone from getting a majority, this is the absolute worst possible way to do it. Bloomberg isn't about splitting the vote, his candidacy is about the establishment having second thoughts about Biden's ability to win. The ideal number of candidates if the goal is to block a majority is three or four, not 15, because 15 means it is easier to not be viable, whereas in theory, Bernie could win 16%, and second place could get 14.9%, and Bernie gets all of the delegates. Understand the rules when commenting on the game.
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  5074.  @GLORYNEVADASMITH  So, you abhor negative campaigning against the guy who willfully breaks the law and the Constitution on a daily basis and praises Nazis, but you want him to tear into Biden harder? Yeah, that makes sense. Also, the goal is not to win over Trump supporters. If they still like Trump, they are probably too far gone. The goal is to turn out your own supporters.
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  5075.  @tommyanomaly6193  Me, too. It's just taking the adage of "vote your heart in the primary, and vote your head in the general election" to another step, and voting with your heart first and your head second.
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  5076.  @monotronfan1  I'm talking about anyone who gets angry at the idea of anything dealing with women and minorities and reflexively insists that it is "identity politics." Kyle Kulinski is an example of that. And there are the people who insist that Saagar Enjeti isn't really that far right, and that we need to reach out to people like that by focusing on the economics, but once you say that you support civil rights and women's rights, then you lose them completely. If that's all it takes, then whatever economic positions they hold are irrelevant.
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  5077. People can have basic intelligence and still be bonkers. If someone can't answer a basic question, and that's what draws you in, more power to you.
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  5078.  @Isaac-ul8yz  And, unlike capitalism, I can always vote out the government.
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  5079. Didn't last very long.
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  5080. @JV Riley Damocles was a figure in ancient Rome. A sword of Damocles refers to imminent and constant peril. Because the debt ceiling threatens default, it falls into that category.
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  5081. @JV Riley You most certainly did imply it. The post that I replied to isn't showing up now, but you clearly responded to someone who said to cut Defense spending by saying that those people want to cut your disability benefits. Quite frankly, while things may well have changed in the last 17 years, when I was in, there was a lot of money wasted on weapons systems and tanks that didn't work when there wasn't nearly enough spent on smaller budget items such as proper armor plating and night vision goggles.
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  5082.  @jacobjones5269  How does someone who can barely keep a job afford to travel to Mexico City, and how did he get an audience with both the Soviet and Cuban embassies? Why was Ruby able to get into the police station to shoot Oswald so no one ever got to hear his side of the story? Given the fact that he was tracked by intelligence agencies for years and known to the CIA and FBI, why did the parade route go past his place of employment? There is a difference between claiming that you know the answer and acknowledging that there was something more than met the eye.
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  5083.  @jackarmstrong5645  Agreed. Doesn't mean that we can't acknowledge that this was a bad pick, though.
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  5084.  @hepwo91222  Is that the logic you use when someone makes the mistake of responding on the bus? There is no need to retort things so ridiculous, but I did anyway just to be on the safe side just in case anyone might come along and not know how ridiculously debunked the comorbidity argument is.
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  5085.  @hepwo91222  Several of the examples people point to when trying to make the comorbidity argument are obesity and diabetes. You can live a long time with those. I have borderline high cholesterol (low enough to the point where I don't even need to take medication, but still a little over 200). If I were to get coronavirus and die, would you say that it was the cholesterol that killed me?
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  5086. ​ @bobloblaw9679  You're quite a mouthful!
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  5087. When Emma is slamming Warren, you know that she has fallen hard.
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  5088. @Тhغ Pдىтд Мдй He's not defending his property throughout. He goes to a neighbor's house that he booby trapped. Not self defense or Castle Doctrine.
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  5089. There have been missile tests in North Korea. Dave, is that you?
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  5090. Marianne Williamson was incredibly highly searched as well. Was there a conspiracy against her, too?
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  5091.  @jonahkaun891  No is more than 2:1 up
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  5092.  @joshreisner2190  At the expense of how many thousands of Kurdish lives?
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  5093.  @joshreisner2190  So, looking at the Kurdish situation, they did what we asked in exchange for certain promises for decades, perhaps even more than a century if you count their efforts in WWI, and your response is "sucks to be you"? For shame. Even if you are right that we shouldn't have made those promises, it doesn't change the fact that they were made and they kept their end of the bargain.
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  5094.  @oooh19  True, they can be feminine, but it is clear that an out lesbian or bisexual would not have been seen that way in this high school. My point was that theories like these tend to reach and work backwards to find supporting evidence.
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  5095. I'll bet Crowder is wishing he stayed in their good graces for just one more year.
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  5096. Nobody is ghosting anything! If the boss wants you to do the work of two people, the boss should pay twice as much.
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  5097.  @yarweiss  No, that's how he started. Considering that he now says Bernie is a sellout for doing exactly what he said he'd do all along (endorse the eventual Democratic nominee) and AOC (for endorsing Cynthia Nixon in the primary and then saying she's a Democrat and will support the Democratic nominee for governor), he has decided to just torch any officeholder who can actually push the things he says he supports, kinda like Nader getting angry at Joan Claybrook, his top lieutenant, for taking a job in the Carter Administration.
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  5098.  @BurmaJo  Districts are for Congress and the state legislature. The majority of voters in the entire state launched that sniveling weasel on the rest of us.
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  5099.  @electric6877  She denies the fact that he used chemical weapons, and she didn't meet with the "other side" when she went to Syria on a secret mission, so I think that designation is perfectly valid.
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  5100.  @mr.e432  "If we say twenty and twenty is forty-two, and they say twenty and twenty is forty-two million, they'll say, 'Ooh, they were both wrong on the numbers.'" James Carville, The War Room
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  5101. You can't compare Marianne Williamson to Bernie because her one goal is to get on a debate stage, but getting change done requires a movement, not a stage. I am on her mailing list because I gave her a dollar to help her get on stage. In the three years between campaigns, she maintained virtual radio silence. If she really wanted to create a movement, she should have spent the last three years building a movement.
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  5102.  @acegikm  The ideas matter far more than what people have between their legs. Would we be better off if Sarah Palin was President than Bernie?
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  5103.  @davidlafleche1142  And which party is bandying about Confederate flags and defending Robert E. Lee these days?
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  5104. "He is brilliant in ways that he'll never understand."
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  5105. So glad libertarians started calling again.
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  5106. Sadly, too many in West Virginia forgot the lesson of last year by only going for a one-day strike in hopes that Carmichael would give them what was promised this year and that he was just "working through the details."
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  5107. It doesn't amount to much anywhere. You couldn't live off that little money in West Virginia unless you were living off the land.
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  5108. I have heard the "but they were treated well" argument many times. I finally asked someone who gave me that line if he thought it was morally wrong to own another person.
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  5109.  @whiskeymonk4085  Trolls gotta troll.
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  5110. That is so unfair! Boomhauer has principles and integrity.
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  5111.  @GotAbductedOnce  That's a good one.
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  5112.  @elbruces  It depends on the area. It might make it easier for a third party that actually organizes rather than focusing on a doomed Presidential election chasing matching funds* then they might have some strength. Its main draw is getting rid of the spoiler effect, but if the third parties understood this and did the work, they might be more competitive. I don't think that it's a coincidence that the last third party to win a significant number of Congressional seats focused on local organization, won races, and proved their competency to voters. It's how Sewer Socialism became a thing. *as an example, in my native state [one that I left 15 years ago], all it takes to get ballot access statewide is 1% of the vote in the previous gubernatorial election, the Mountain Party [originally started as a statewide party, now affiliated with the Green Party] and the Libertarian Party both qualified, and in 2020, out of a possible 117 legislative seats (where all it takes to qualify as a candidate, you need a filing fee of $100 for the House and $200 for the Senate), each party only fielded five candidates.
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  5113.  @jones1618  Bernie narrowly lost Iowa and had a massive win in New Hampshire. However, Hillary got a very big win in South Carolina and had a huge lead going into Super Tuesday. Bernie won four of the 11 states and was trying to play catch up after that. In 2020, Biden basically gave up on the early states. Bernie was in a very close won in Iowa, won in New Hampshire but not by enough to get more delegates, had a big win in Nevada, and lost big in South Carolina. Bernie led by about four delegates going into Super Tuesday. Buttigieg and Klobuchar had virtually zero support from black voters, and they dropped out before Super Tuesday and endorsed Biden. Biden got a big win on Super Tuesday and never looked back. Bernie always had trouble in the southern states, but he had a shot in Texas and Tennessee. Losing both of those proved to be fatal. Had Ranked Choice Voting been a thing, it may not have made a difference. The Warren voters resented the fact that Bernie got what they saw as their lane, so it wouldn't have been as clear cut as people think. By the time Bernie dropped out in April, he needed 2/3 of the remaining delegates to win, but he was only getting half that.
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  5114.  @jones1618  The 2016 race was down to three candidates by Iowa, but O'Malley was such a non-factor that he dropped out that night. Yes, there was an effort to coalesce around one candidate in 2020, but quite frankly, Klobuchar should have dropped out after finishing fifth in Iowa (which didn't happen because all of the problems of Iowa took center stage, and outside of a surprise third in New Hampshire, she did nothing in Nevada and South Carolina, so the real question was how she even made it as far as she did) and Warren should have dropped out after New Hampshire (she is the only candidate from a neighboring state to ever lose, and she had a pitiful 9% and a fourth place finish but no delegates) and she stayed in past Super Tuesday. In that sense, it definitely hurt Bernie that she stayed in as long as she did, and he may have won Texas and Tennessee without Warren and Gabbard on the ballot. The usual function of the early states is to narrow the field. The only candidate who could have made a case for staying in longer was Buttigieg. Ironically, the 2020 race was more decided by people staying in too long rather than getting out too early. The reason why I mention stuff like that is because a lot of the so-called Bernie or Busters have continued this myth that is completely counter to what happened. Bernie got 44% of the vote in 2016, and 32% of the vote in 2020 before he dropped out. It was a remarkable showing, but it just wasn't enough, and in all honesty, given that his 2020 campaign was running based on the flawed strategy that the non-Bernie candidates wouldn't coalesce around one and this huge field would stay in place to the point where 30% would be enough, that proved to be a fatal mistake. Focusing on perceived slights keeps us from doing the necessary work. Two weeks ago, I got to see Bernie in action. To borrow a phrase from Edward Kennedy, the dream will never die.
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  5115.  @brentnoury7626  Yes, nihilism is coming from those doing nothing. Filing deadlines are quickly approaching for 2022, and the Movement for a People's Party has recruited zero candidates. So, other than raising money from gullible people, what are they actually doing? What did you to help elect the lead sponsor of Medicare for All in 2020? I'm pretty confident that I did more.
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  5116.  @brentnoury7626  Force the Vote does nothing. If you think it would do anything to "expose" the opponents of the bill, please explain the legislative strategy of Catch and Release, and why that doesn't make Force the Vote totally irrelevant. None of you have gotten the former right yet, so I want to see if you can break the streak.
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  5117.  @brentnoury7626  And I have actually knocked on doors to get people to sign petitions and call their member of Congress to support Medicare for All as part of a movement in the Philadelphia area. We got a member on board (Brendan Boyle). When doing the actual work, I noticed that a lot of people who liked the idea of Medicare for All just had a vague notion of universal health care. So, are you doing your part to educate the public about what Medicare for All does and why it would be superior?
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  5118.  @brentnoury7626  And by your definition, no one meets your standards, because as I pointed out in my first reply, in Dore Knob logic, any Democrat who disagrees with you on strategy or tactics one time is a sellout who deserves total excommunication. You can't build by tearing down the few people who are actually trying to get things done. You need to send reinforcements. And the Progressive Caucus was never meant to be a mirror image of the Freedom Caucus. If you want to do things, by definition, getting a little bit of what you want is still an improvement. If you don't want to do things, blocking everything furthers your goal.
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  5119.  @brentnoury7626  And you didn't answer my question from earlier. What is Catch and Release as a legislative strategy, and how does Force the Vote expose people's true intentions in light of that strategy? If you don't know the first part, I can gladly tell you, and then maybe you can answer the second part, or admit that just maybe it is a terrible idea if there is no answer.
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  5120.  @brentnoury7626  Catch and Release is a legislative strategy that was pioneered by Tom DeLay in the 1990s. The theory behind it was that the vote total didn't matter nearly as much as the final result. (In his first Congress as House Majority Whip in 1995-96, he was either 300-3 or 301-2 on bills he pushed.) So, realizing this, he let moderate Republicans rotate the bills that they would support, but he wouldn't let any of them actually vote against him until he had the votes to pass. A decade later, Barney Frank summed up the best I've heard it: "There is no such thing as a moderate Republican. They say that they vote with the President 70% of the time, but they vote with him 100% of the time when he needs their votes." So, given this strategy, and that the whole theory behind Force the Vote is that it will expose members so they can be challenged in primaries (ignoring that there is a thing called a sponsor list), and that the bill is 100 votes shy of passage if the sponsor list is remotely accurate, what would keep Pelosi from allowing members in lefty districts to vote Yes knowing that they will a) extinguish support for a primary challenge to their left so they don't suffer the same fate as Crowley, Engel, or Klay, and b) that they will never vote for Medicare for All when it actually has a chance of passage?
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  5121.  @brentnoury7626  What does immigration have to do with anything I said? Why not actually respond to what I wrote? I even explained exactly what Catch and Release means in a legislative context.
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  5122.  @brentnoury7626  And how many people will get health care because of a strategy guaranteed to fail?
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  5123.  @brentnoury7626  How many people will get covered with a plan guaranteed to fail? I have laid out a strategy and I have actually done some of the work. I am sick and tired of the lazy complaining that those of us who do the work haven't got it done and pretending that we haven't even made an effort, all while defending this strategy of lazy nihilism.
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  5124.  @brentnoury7626  Oh, okay. So you clearly didn't read what I wrote above. I laid out the legislative strategy of catch and release in detail. If you want me to go any farther, you will respond to that. If you are too lazy to read a brief, seven-sentence description of how it works, then you are obviously too lazy to do the work on Medicare for All.
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  5125.  @brentnoury7626  Again, talk to me when you actually engage with Catch and Release as a legislative strategy. Otherwise, you are yet another Dore Knob who thinks you know what is really going on, but if you thought for just a little bit, you'd know why his strategy doesn't work. (Funny how many of you claim to have never heard any arguments against Force the Vote when I have personally responded to dozens on these very pages with exactly why it is dumb.)
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  5126.  @brentnoury7626  Google Catch and Release Tom DeLay. If someone explains to you what it is, and you refuse to acknowledge that it means different things in different contexts, you clearly don't want to acknowledge the reality of why the position you support isn't tenable. I guess willful ignorance is a prerequisite for being a Dore Knob, so I can't say I'm surprised.
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  5127.  @brentnoury7626  Yes, because the same phrase is never used for two things./s Another Dore Knob pretended that I was talking about fishing.
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  5128.  @brentnoury7626  Then again, you have to play dumb in order not to understand how someone would pretend to support it knowing it will never pass. That is especially ironic coming from Dore Knobs when their hero backed Tulsi Gabbard, who while saying that she supported Medicare for All told Anderson Cooper that it was un-American. Twice.
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  5129.  @brentnoury7626  Here's another hint. When someone says "as a legislative strategy," it is obviously not about enforcement policy for immigration. Context clues are your friend.
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  5130. Give him a year or two and he'll be pulling that same "I left the left schtick." He already bragged about not voting in 2020 despite being the "down ballot guy" and there being some important races in his legislative districts.
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  5131. The stock market has been in a bubble for a long time. By late 2017, the S&P 500 had a higher price to earnings ratio than during the dotcom period. All Trump has been doing is making the bubble bigger. Mnuchin mentioned 20% unemployment. I guess Tommy Douglas was right with his cream separator analogy: a recession is when the rich get indigestion and cut off the skim milk.
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  5132.  @onomatopoeia162003  I don't care. First of all, not all of those 330MM people are eligible to vote. Second, voter registration does not matter nearly as much as behavior. Third, and perhaps most importantly, Republicans show up no matter what, so the real question is how many actually vote.
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  5133. If Bernie suddenly changed his mind on tax policy, they might have a point, but he didn't.
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  5134. And if he was such a great student, why did he threaten to sue a teacher if he released them?
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  5135. So true about wanting the narrow yuppie base. I remember in Young Dems in a PA suburban county constantly asking about labor. No enthusiasm at all when I mentioned it, and they wondered why Democrats didn't show up.
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  5136.  @3dartxsi  That has nothing to do with being Speaker. There are literally only two jobs in the United States off limits to naturalized citizens: President and Vice President. Cabinet secretaries are also in the line of succession, and they served with no problem. All that would mean is that her spot would be skipped in line, and in the event of a double vacancy, the President Pro Tempore of the Senate would take over instead.
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  5137.  @Aeroneus1  "Can't find any similarities or say anything nice." Imagine trying to find middle ground if the fascists had their way. "Just goose step a little!"
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  5138. Bernie does. He repeatedly says that they are forgetting what is taken out, and the average family will save.
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  5139.  @NoWay1969  Then, that is a huge problem with his version of UBI. The left version of UBI argues that automation will make full employment or anything near full employment impossible, so you need to have enough to live on so 90% of the population isn't impoverished. When Yang talked about automation, I liked what he was saying because I thought that this was what he was leading to. The right/libertarian version is designed to replace existing benefits. Making people choose who work and don't make enough to make ends meet between funds while people like himself still get the $1000 check is grossly obscene. I haven't heard him say anything about increasing the minimum wage, so he's not trying to make jobs work for people, just pointing to the (not so universal) $1000/month.
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  5140.  @NoWay1969  And the payment method is a huge problem. Consumption taxes disproportionately affect the poor, which is why candidates amd elected officials with actual left credentials (Bernie, Warren, AOC) all propose paying for their programs with taxes on those with the most disposable income: Bernie with higher income tax brackets, financial transaction taxes, and increased inheritance taxes; Warren with taxes on those with assets of $50MM or more (side note: I wonder how many people will disappear from the Forbes list); and AOC supports increasing the top bracket to 70%.
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  5141.  @NoWay1969  Well, he does talk about it as something that everyone can get, but then he says that it's optional for people who get governmental assistance. As I and others have pointed out, this is a huge problem with his version of UBI. Since not everyone gets it, it's not even accurate to call it UBI. Another consequence of the Freedom Dividend is that it may very well keep wages down. "After all, you get an extra thousand bucks a month tax free, so why should I pay you so much?" This is why those on the left have argued that any effective UBI a) has to actually be universal, rather than reverse means tested like Yang's proposal, and b) be high enough that someone could actually live off of that amount to give workers leverage. As far as funding, if that is his answer for why consumption should be taxed instead of income or wealth, if he really is worried about companies avoiding taxes, why not get rid of the loopholes that help them avoid taxes in the first place? The more I hear about Yang, the more I think that he's a libertarian stalking horse.
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  5142.  @NoWay1969  Indeed, but a lot of the details that I have seen don't really address poverty (because the payment is too small to do that) or inequality (because he refuses to tax the wealthy on order to pay for it). I do worry that he does see it as a way to phase out or drastically reduce existing benefits, because the either/or nature of his plan is one of the ways that he plans on paying for it, because on his website, he mentions reduced payments on existing benefits as one of the ways that he plans to pay for it. In one interview, he talks about it as a way to help people start a business, but I have had long stretches of unemployment while in grad school (where I was ineligible for most assistance programs because I was in school), and that kind of money wouldn't have done such a thing for me, because it would have been going toward basic expenses. I could also point to the deep, deep flaws in his proposal on college tuition, because he doesn't adjust it for things like the poverty level, so it would actually be worse than some existing repayment programs.
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  5143.  @imavileone7360  Oh, I agree. The irony is that UBI has some weird left-right overlap, and by focusing almost entirely on this one issue, he made it easy to hide his real economic orientation. I just hope that most of the people who aren't cultists will see the truth about him in a couple of months, and he's just as dismissed an afterthought as the Paul family.
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  5144.  @3ld919  He is excellent in GLOW. If you get the chance, I highly recommend it.
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  5145.  @drewweikum5073  Actually, it is, because you're statements are based on ageist assumptions that an octogenarian can't possibly have enough brainpower to hold public office. And at the state and local level, that makes it harder for people who aren't rich to run for office, especially in states with part-time legislatures (which is the rule rather than the exception) or with city and county governments where it is not uncommon for elected officials to receive less than the median income for the area. It also means that the bench of Not Rich people will be even smaller for Congressional or statewide offices, because if you don't have money, it takes experience to build a resume to hold those offices. And there's also the "baby with the bathwater" problem, because you'd arbitrarily get rid of good people like Bernie or Barbara Lee to try to get rid of people who you don't like who will be replaced by carbon copies.
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  5146. You mean the guy who gets Republican help to thwart the ability of people to vote by mail in Wisconsin? The Green Party leaders are con artists, and if you don't understand why Republicans have funded and volunteered for the Green Party for 20 years (at least 10% of all donors to Nader 2000 and 2004 were Republicans), then you just haven't been paying attention.
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  5147.  Karen Byrd  It's a fake account. "Charlie Kirk" said the exact same thing elsewhere.
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  5148. If only we were so lucky.
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  5149. I've been asked for a couple polls. Zogby was experimenting with online polls in 2004, and I got a call for a State Senate poll last year.
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  5150. @bevwest7428  With an attitude like that it won't. It doesn't take everyone, just enough to ding the bottom line. These companies are like cancer: they need constant growth to survive.
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  5151.  I only use this account when I get put in time out  Well, there are lefty versions of UBI that don't have that same fine print.
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  5152. You mean John McCain was her father?
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  5153. Who is going to see this convention? The solution is public funding. Organizing costs money. If you have no money at all, people will just vote for familiar names.
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  5154. 100 years ago, these same people would have complained about paying for school past the eighth grade. A lot of them probably still don't get why we call it "high school."
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  5155. I would have never thought this 20 years ago, but I think Marla Maples ended up being the best of the three wives, because she had the good sense to get her kid far away when she had enough of Moscow Donald.
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  5156. This veteran never has and never will. Even hearing that he was going to botch the centennial of the end of WWI because he was worried about his hair was bad enough. Let us not forget that he even asked why we fought against Germany. I'm guessing that he heard stories of the Rape of Belgium and thought those were his kind of people.
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  5157. Clearly broken clock theory at work.
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  5158.  @kungfoochicken08  Ron Paul was a corporate today whose policies would have led to people dying for being poor. That is the main difference.
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  5159.  @thedissidentleftist6997  And you know what the answer is? You have to get more Democrats elected to the Senate so you don't need his vote for everything.
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  5160.  Robert Garcia  Indeed. Everyone who has dealt with him in comedic situations says that he has no sense of humor at all.
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  5161. And there is literally zero chance that anyone other than Biden or Trump will be President on January 20. If you live in a swing state, ignoring that fact is abdication, pure and simple.
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  5162. Also, if you believe senior citizens shouldn't have to live in poverty.
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  5163. Unfortunately, he has the power to kill a lot more people than they did.
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  5164.  @mjchakos1  Oh, so you have officially given up on providing evidence that Sinema really is the best Democrats in Arizona can hope for?
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  5165.  @jarredf95  Because Biden was running against a literal fascist who was ignoring a virus that killed hundreds of thousands. Elections with an incumbent President are always first and foremost a referendum on the incumbent.
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  5166. 2:19 I'd argue two of those seats were stolen (Gorsuch and Barrett).
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  5167. Well, Roberts is still a conservative, but it's his name on the Court, and after Citizens United gutted his credibility, he's tried to rein in his crazy. When Kennedy was the swing Justice, he was the tenth most conservative Justice since 1900, and Roberts was to his right. The swing Justice isn't about being a moderate, but being the fulcrum around which decisions get made. Before Kennedy, O'Connor was the swing Justice, and she was also pretty conservative.
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  5168.  @SR-lh4rm  The dictionary is not your friend: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/all "Every member or individual component of."
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  5169.  @SR-lh4rm  You keep saying "Medicare for All." Medicare is a government health insurance system. Making it optional means that it is not "for All." Maybe if Yang would stop using the term for a popular proposal that isn't his for something completely different, people wouldn't keep calling him on it.
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  5170.  @lencortigiano1450  Jimmy Dore wasn't trying to give people health care. He was continuing his fight to be a useful idiot for Republicans.
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  5171. I personally would like to see him as Speaker.
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  5172.  @yetanotherjohn  She was in office. However, the good people of Hawaii's Second Congressional District had enough of her nonsense, and her fundamentals were so weak that she decided not to run for re-election but focus on trying to be Biden's wing woman and translate that into a VP slot.
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  5173.  @patriotforhumanity7174  And you don't think that someone will be lining right behind them to do the same thing? We lose because we have no sense of strategy.
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  5174.  @freetrailer4poor  How much do you think they make? You said that professors are "the rich." I gave an actual example. Are you trolling, or do you honestly not understand who makes more money? Besides, there are plenty of people with a C at the beginning of their total with eight- and nine-figure salaries. I just gave the Fortune 500 as an example.
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  5175. The major officials describing themselves as democratic socialists are probably a little bit to my left, but I would rather have someone to my left so the compromise position might be what I actually want. That is how you negotiate, not by starting out to your own right.
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  5176.  @mcoffeecation2153  She was a Goldwater Girl in the mid-1960s. She became a Democrat near the end of the decade.
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  5177.  @Domzdream  Apparently, they think red letters mean that you ignore that part. I wonder how these people who hijack a faith interpret parables like the Good Samaritan.
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  5178. ​ @margorgogo  Well, there is a certain kind of mess that is very hot initially.
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  5179. Manchin tends to be better on Social Security. Sinema is the threat there.
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  5180.  @ljhcmh614  If you say so. In my union job, I don't get taken advantage of, I get regular pay increases (and because inflation was higher than expected when our contract was negotiated three years ago, I got two bonuses this year and my pay increases got accelerated), paid vacation and sick days, a defined benefit pension, and I have the right to question when my employer does something in violation of the agreement. Oh, and when 5 rolls around, I can not have to worry about my job until the next working day. All without having to work for free and try to convince myself that hustle culture pays off.
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  5181. Does anyone else appreciate the irony of a socialist using the phrase "naming names" in a positive way?
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  5182. ​ @szarosfavefive  Indeed. Knowing Better had an interesting chart on the voting patterns for the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Republicans love to point out that a higher percentage of Republicans than Democrats voted for it in Congress, but when you break it down by region, defining Southern as any state that tried to secede a century earlier and Northern as everywhere else, Northern Democrats voted Yes in greater percentage than Northern Republicans, and Southern Democrats voted Yes in greater percentage than Republicans (the latter was a nice, round number). The overall percentages were distorted because the Solid South was still largely solidly Democratic at the time.
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  5183. And talk about freedom while denying civil rights.
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  5184.  @jamescrow4915  Interesting choice for your username. On to the more substantive point, Trump was impeached for something he did with two weeks left in his term. Democrats impeached before he left office, but McConnell refused to call the Senate back to receive the impeachment. By your logic, if someone gets charged before the statute of limitations expires, but the trial comes later, it should get thrown out. The clock stopped once the 218th member of Congress voted Yes.
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  5185.  @mrbadguysan  That would take literally every state agreeing to it according to Article V. Would it kill people to actually learn the rules before they make such statements? I'll bet you a million dollars that you will never see Wyoming go along with that.
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  5186. Not really, because there are different ways of being a corporatist. Centrist refers to the fact that they are always triangulating. The big mistake that a lot of people make is thinking that centrist means "moderate." As Joe Lieberman inadvertently did us a huge favor reminding us last year, they are not remotely the same thing.
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  5187.  @3112-x9r  She is a medic doing training. She is not going to war.
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  5188. That was almost as bad as, "Where is Earl Milford?" "I don't know! I didn't kill him. And don't edit this to make it look like I said, [Cut to TV] "I killed Earl Milford!" "A startling confession."
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  5189.  @arrow1414  Actually, that wing goes as far back as the America First Committee with Charles Lindbergh in the 1930s.
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  5190.  @arrow1414  I had Morning Joe on this morning while getting ready for work (sometimes, it's important to k know what the establishment is saying, even if only to know what you may have to counter) they had a bunch of Never Trumpers, and one of them admitted that isolationism is the dominant historical thread in the American right, and that the Reagan era was the exception. I was surprised by that bit of honesty by a group that tends to act shocked, shocked that a party that has idolized the rich for decades and insisted that people should elect people to run government like a business would gravitate towards the logical conclusion of that idolatry.
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  5191.  @pbj9270  "Since the Democratic Party treated her so poorly, it looks to me like she has shifted to the center right." She has always been on the right. And if someone really cares about the issues, that person wouldn't "shift to the right" because someone was mean to her. That means that it is all a grift.
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  5192.  @pbj9270  "Some sources say torture does work." Tulsi Gabbard It is a war crime, period. There is no justification. If you think it's acceptable in any circumstance, you support torture. It never ceases to amuse me how the tulcels have to distort themselves in order to insist that she didn't say or do the thing that she said or did.
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  5193.  @Otto81  You seriously don't understand that expression? It means that libertarians ignore the real-world effects of the things that they advocate and focus on The Way Things Ought to Be. To use an example from the video, Rand Paul said that he didn't like parts of the Civil Rights Act that "told private businesses what they could do on their property," but that he wasn't a racist, because he personally didn't like discrimination and considered it "a bad business strategy." Well, plenty of segregated businesses operated with plenty of profits, so his theory of boycott to enact social change clearly didn't work. I could also point to the ways that libertarians insist that selling unsafe food will hurt business, but part of the reason the FDA exists is because people found out that meat packing companies were unwittingly turning people into cannibals. Libertarians still oppose the FDA, because apparently a business's right to keep machinery going if someone falls into a grinder outweighs people's rights to not be cannibals or eat any sort of tainted meat.
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  5194. I see it like getting Al Capone on tax evasion. Not ideal, but sometimes you have to get them on what you can.
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  5195.  @Blunderful19  If you want it to stop, blaming both sides equally is not the way to do it. One side is internationally trying to sabotage any effort to govern. One side decided that they would unanimously oppose a President of the other party even if he offered them their own ideas. One party held a Supreme Court seat hostage when, if they really believed in divine intervention, God was telling them the seat wasn't theirs. One side is refusing to pass a bill that they passed unanimously a month ago, which would end the entire shutdown. If one party keeps doing it, it is not the other party's fault that the other party is doing it. Am I saying they are perfect? No, but I am saying that they aren't actively trying to destroy government.
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  5196.  @razoredge6130  And I'd hate to tell you this, but the fact that you appealed to economics pretty much defeats your earlier snide remark about "a poor baby vs. a dead baby." And your stated solutions still don't actually involve the pre- and postnatal treatment that the woman needs, so thank you for demonstrating for all to see that you only see the woman as a delivery machine and not a whole person.
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  5197.  @danemiller4852  [citation needed]
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  5198. If you picked October 2022 in the pool, you win.
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  5199. Is this the one where Jackie Coogan (Uncle Fester from The Addams Family and The Kid from the Chaplin movie of the same name) participated?
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  5200. 14:25 Indeed. I was saying for 20 years that Republicans would never go through with it because it would backfire on them, but the dog caught the tire.
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  5201. ​ @SeltzerPie  Unfortunately, the wording only prohibits people who held a prior public or military office. This nut found a loophole.
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  5202. ​ @AnalyticalHeart  The scholarship was specifically for children of immigrants, which is a set aside that he claims to oppose.
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  5203.  @AnalyticalHeart  It's all a part of DEI. I remember someone pointed out a comment for set asides when it was first pointed out during his campaign, but I'm not sure where. It's all right. I get that it's easy to miss things in this area of so much overinformation.
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  5204.  @IceMetalPunk  I remember a race in the county where I grew up where the incumbent delegate (the lower House is called House of Delegates rather than House of Representatives) died the Friday before the election. Early voting had already started. He won 59% of the vote. When a candidate dies just before the election, it often becomes obvious who will be the appointee if the deceased wins. Also, in 1998, a candidate for Tennessee State Senate killed his opponent 15 days before the election. Should people have been forced to vote for him? Or should they have been able to vote for the deceased candidate so his wife could fill the seat? It's not as simple as you make it out to be.
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  5205. Harris Wofford ran on universal health care against Dick Thornburgh in 1991 when HW was President, and he won that Senate race.
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  5206.  @simeondobrev5835  Except he specifically said what he saw as treasonous. If you act like a paid agent of a foreign country, you can't get mad when someone Wonders.
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  5207.  @RedceLL1978  Yet, once states seceded, the Confederate constitution prohibited abolition in individual states. Funny how that worked out.
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  5208.  @russellward4624  Indeed. As Rachel Maddow so eloquently put it, vote your heart in the primary and your head in the general election.
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  5209.  @MrHistory1776  So, the legislature, which only meets for 60 days a year, should waste its time by pushing nonsense like this?
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  5210. But we get Luna, so we win.
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  5211. ​ @Liberal_From_Prairies689  The problem with this is that someone who desires to be a dictator can find some excuse to vacate Congress. Also, Jefferies didn't get a majority, he got a plurality. Letting the President override things plays into Trump's hands.
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  5212. What's the cash value on a Schrute buck?
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  5213.  @0xLoneWolf  Oh, my dear God! I tried to give you a hint. Schrute bucks were rewards certificates in The Office. If someone says that a show is being referenced, you'd think that you'd at least have the sense to Google Schrute bucks so you can understand what people are talking about. You sound like a Yang Gang banger always trying to change the subject to UBI.
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  5214.  @samiamrg7  This. I don't think it is a question of economic history, but overreliance on one natural resource. I'm from WV, so I know this pattern well. Different resource, but relying on one thing is preparing for a fall.
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  5215.  @Charliefox71  That is not atheism. That is agnosticism. Atheism says, "I know there is nothing beyond this dimension."
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  5216.  @Charliefox71  I've known plenty of atheists, and they have all to a person said, "There is no Higher Being." By definition, that is not saying that you just want proof.
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  5217.  @davidwright8432  Imagine the social unrest of letting him get power again. Hitler got a light sentence, and look how that ended.
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  5218. Mittens isn't always right, but when he is, he nails it.
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  5219.  @CeceMack  Manchin is up in 2024 as well. However, anyone who knows anything about West Virginia politics knows the real goal of a primary against Manchin is for pressure, nothing more. Who do you think can beat Manchin in a primary to his left and win the general election?
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  5220.  @CeceMack  Okay, let's look at the nature of West Virginia politics. In 2014, it completed a realignment that started in 2000. If the state treasurer literally found millions of dollars for people and lost by 13 points, what makes you think that some newcomer is going to actually win? If you look at the Presidential results, it shows an even bleaker picture. In 2016, no state went harder for Trump than West Virginia (69-27). In 2020, only Wyoming (70-27) went harder for Trump than West Virginia (68-29). The next widest margin was a tie between North Dakota and Oklahoma (65-32). Manchin is the only Democratic Member of Congress in all four states combined (8 Senate, 10 House). Nobody has any hope of getting anyone better than Manchin in any of those four states (as he is literally to the left of every Republican in Congress). So, I will ask again. How are we going to get anyone better in the next three years?
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  5221.  @Cussy69_420  My point was that was the logic of Dore defenders.
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  5222. ​ @quietstrm11  Vin Scully didn't call any such milestone home runs for Mays. The Braves played the Dodgers the night Aaron got to 715.
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  5223.  @johnharris8191  And the Great Bambino more than quintupled the career home run (the pre-Ruth record was 138), and there were seasons where he nearly tripled the silver in the home run race. His first home run title (1918) even came while he was still pitching on a regular basis. There will never be a more dominant player in any sport. Next best was Gretzky, and even he wasn't nearly that dominant compared to Gordie Howe.
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  5224.  @lemartin93  You got me there. I guess I was thinking about the overall content of the video.
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  5225.  @MrRonfrank  Indeed. Even in the moment, Begala knew to back off because it wasn't going well.
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  5226.  @richsackett3423  Well, Andrew Johnson not just wouldn't, but couldn't.
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  5227. Here's an answer where you get stuck at 14:20 From 1932-1996, when liberalism was mostly defined in economic terms, no state voted Democratic more often than West Virginia (14-3, with the exceptions being 1956, 1972, and 1984, with popular Republican incumbents). Not that it will suddenly turn blue, but the only chance for places like that is to embrace full-throttled economic populism (the real kind, not the fake right-wing version of it). Going along with all of the social issues and sucking up to business will only speed the decline, because as Truman reminded us, if given the choice between a Republican and a Republican, people will vote for the Republican every single time.
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  5228. His dad does, too.
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  5229.  @Xianfaquanli  Except it doesn't get rid of scarcity mindset because he forces people to give up their current benefits if they want his money. And he refuses to say which 125 programs those are more than six or seven. And he uses a regressive tax to pay for it. And he doesn't support increasing the minimum wage. Or making it easier for workers to organize. Or fighting tax avoidance and evasion. Again, Band-Aid on a gunshot wound.
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  5230. Bad Faith paired with the cohost of Useful Idiots. The two most ironically accurate names for shows from fake left grifters.
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  5231. First of all, they are not a militia. The militia is the National Guard. As someone who was in an actual militia for six years, I am sick and tired of those cosplay clowns calling themselves a militia. Second, the very people who screwed them over blamed others, and these dummies fell for it. Gretchen Whitmer kept them alive, and their response was to try to kill her, and you're talking about understanding? Get outta here with that nonsense.
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  5232. We'll stave off a fascist dictatorship, and that isn't "nothing much."
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  5233.  @fstorm2  For me, I first started questioning her when she used a Democracy Bad argument to defend the Electoral College, when most who defend it never say that part out loud. My last straw came a few days later when I saw a video where she was upset about a Stephen Colbert interview with Tulsi Gabbard. He asked her about her support from David Duke, and rather than say, "it's unfair to judge a candidate by his/her worst supporters," she said, "maybe because he likes peace." I haven't been back since.
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  5234. As awful as those other three are, Der Orangefuhrer is far worse.
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  5235. Or polio vaccines
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  5236. People seem to love to treat central Appalachia as a lost cause for Democrats because they are so conservative, but they completely forget the fact that no state went blue as often as West Virginia did from 1932-1996 (14-3, with the exceptions being 1956, 1972, and 1984, when a popular Republican incumbent won nationally in a landslide; Massachusetts and Minnesota are tied for second with a 13-4 record in this time). People didn't suddenly wake up and decide to embrace supply-side economics. They felt abandoned on issues like trade and decided to just vote on social issues instead.
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  5237. Most local governments have balanced budget rules. The point is that if they could afford to bust their budget by $3B to throw at Amazon, they clearly had enough to help people.
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  5238.  @emp9413  Jimmy Dore isn't a leftist. He is a useful idiot pulling the same grift as Krystal Ball and Kim Iversen. He literally tells his audience that it is better if Republicans take power.
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  5239.  @oldsrocket8841  He is literally trying to do the opposite of what he said he would do. (Or, in the case of tax cuts, actually doing the opposite of what he said he would do.) What would "giving it time" accomplish?
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  5240.  @oldsrocket8841  So, if we give him more time, even though he's trying to do (or in the case of tax cuts, succeeding in) doing the exact opposite of what he said he would do, but if we give him more time, he will somehow do what he said he would do? How does that work exactly?
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  5241.  @oldsrocket8841  What did Obama do in his first two years? The stimulus, which while most economists say it was not big enough and had too many tax cuts instead of spending programs to work the way it should have, did provide some benefit. He put the plan in place to keep GM and Chrysler solvent. Oh, and he passed the ACA, but yeah, he didn't do anything in his first two years.
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  5242.  @oldsrocket8841  When is the last time a rich person ever built anything all by him/herself and delivered it to you? How many people would rich people hire of poor and working people didn't buy the stuff they sold? Just asking.
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  5243. If you want lefties to win, do the actual work during the primary. For that matter, run for your local party committee. Saying that you want everyone to suffer because you didn't get what you want is straight up psychopathic.
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  5244.  @kdcm6690  That's not what he told Billy Bush, and 20 other women backed up.
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  5245.  @west221b  It's not about the religion as a whole, but people. For example, just as there was a Conforming Church that looked the other way at the worst atrocities of WWII, there was also the Confessing Church opposing them. There has been good and evil, those who care about justice and those who care about prosperity. It's like every large group of people.
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  5246. You mean the Presidential campaign where he lied about the costs and benefits of his UBI proposal, crapped on unions, opposed raising wages for workers or taxes on the wealthy, called his health care proposal Medicare for All even though it wasn't even a public option, and told a debate audience to give up and use his $1000/month to buy a house on higher ground, and rather than supporting rent control said that people should buy a house with their bros? You mean that guy? Not all change is good change.
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  5247. He might have said that rich people ducked taxes too much, but he never tried to do anything about it. He also said that wages were too high in America. That's your "populist"?
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  5248.  @jameshumphrey9939  If centrists win so many elections, why did Hillary lose? Why did Democrats lose over 1000 legislative seats during the Obama years?
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  5249.  @robinsss  You keep insisting that it is unfair to point out the general selfishness and callousness in libertarian thought by saying that some support a welfare state. However, you admit that at best it is a tiny majority "that would get drowned out at local meetings." But you continue to support a movement that is largely driven by those things and have spent years advocating for it on this thread. The reason why I said that saying "we aren't all like that" the way Christians and Muslims often do is because in the latter, most aren't and actually try to distance themselves from those who advocate things we consider harmful. Libertarians don't.
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  5250.  @robinsss  "I have seen no evidence that libertarian thought is driven by selfishness and callousness" Then, I take it that you didn't actually pay attention to the callers and just went to defend your ideology when Sam debates libertarians? Or that you didn't hear Ron Paul, when asked at a debate whether someone should die if they can't afford health insurance that "freedom has consequences"? Or hear of an essay called "The Virtue of Selfishness"? Or the opposition to the Civil Rights Act while completely ignoring its benefits for black people? Or Rand Paul comparing not serving black customers at a restaurant to not letting customers carry weapons? Or is that just because libertarians just happen to be ridiculously out of touch rather than not caring about the real-world effects of their beliefs? If it's "a small minority that does," then it must be a very odd statistical analogy that pretty much every libertarian I have heard talk or spoken to gets there if they speak long enough.
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  5251.  @robinsss  And, no, the market won't always be able to respond. If it is a small town, and the minority group discriminated against is small, there is a good chance that a competing grocery store wouldn't do enough business to survive. Your response would then be "they can move" (because libertarians don't care about community or the fact that moving is expensive, and maybe people live in the small town because that's all they can afford), but a much better response would be "some jerk doesn't get the right to effectively kick minorities out of his/her town."
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  5252. No, we've been screaming for support for Medicare for All. Big difference.
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  5253.  General Popcorn  He called the police in advance, so he was trying to lure them into a trap into the neighbor's house. Still at fault.
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  5254.  @mercoid  Well, we do need to avoid euphemisms and call it what it is: mass child kidnapping. Totally on point at how awful Cheeto Mussolini is.
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  5255. Bitcoin and precious metals are not an investment. They are a bet. An ounce of gold will be an ounce of gold and never anything more. Many people have gone broke trying to time a trend.
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  5256. Methinks it will be more than what we get with Trump, and infinitely more than we'll get through the Supreme Court down the road if Trump gets to name the successor to RBG and possibly Breyer.
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  5257.  @drstone6798  You're probably the dummy who thinks no one can accurately say, "I can't breathe."
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  5258. ​ @Jimmy1982Playlists  Indeed. Idiots who vote to guarantee the opposite of what they claim. To support are the most frustrating of all.
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  5259. Some More News had a great video about that yesterday.
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  5260. ​ @THINJIMI  What do you mean "it is a red state"? Democrats won PA in 2020, and seven of the last eight Presidential election. We have two Democratic Senators and a Democratic governor.
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  5261. Markey will be 78 at the time. I'd rather have someone like Tammy Baldwin who has experience and a positive record on pretty much everything that we care about.
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  5262. Biden meant "first," but he said "only." That was the kerfuffle.
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  5263.  @soulife8383  Anyone who pushes the anti-anti-Trump narrative is going down a grifter path.
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  5264. I think Biden keeps punting until the Presidential election either way. In all honesty, as someone who falls under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness plan, it is personally better for me to see them continue the moratorium for a few more years. There are probably a lot like me, so I think that any small ball amount should also include automatically wiping them out for anyone in the program.
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  5265. ​ @the_easterbunny  What "values" other than the cost of his house?
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  5266. A lot has to do with the fact that America is pretty big, and if you grew up in a rural or suburban area not particularly close to a border, you didn't get much of a chance to practice, and for most people, the window is closed by the time schools even try.
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  5267. Darn right! There are a lot of things that we should do before we even start thinking about UBI (and nothing like the Freedom with 125 Strings Attached Dividend). I remember knocking on doors for Bernie with Philly DSA. One person we ran into was a Yang supporter asked if Bernie was giving people a thousand bucks a month. I responded by asking him what good it would do if he had to go the ER. He had no response.
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  5268. What are some of Jimmy's good bits?
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  5269. And how in the world is the "numbers candidate" going to have such difficulty with 2020-30=1990?
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  5270. Sadly, that's part of the grift. Also, Let's Go....
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  5271.  @injunsun  If so, she lost a lost of weight and figured out how to drop her voice an octave. Clearly in that vein.
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  5272.  @weva3534  He didn't like wokescolds, but he also didn't like grifters who were trying to point people to Trump.
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  5273.  @SamPatricio7  I'm not sure if there is a term for them as a whole, but a lot of them tend to be a part of the anti-anti-Trump crowd.
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  5274. The Supreme Court push saved his seat. The numbers were close, but they started breaking for Graham once he rammed Barrett through.
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  5275. Well, I wouldn't argue everywhere else, but I would say that this guy sees the problem as people lower than himself on the socioeconomic ladder instead of the people who get more in a day than he gets in a year. Never did figure out why it always seems to be the people on the second rung of the ladder who defend the system the hardest, though.
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  5276.  @vincesmith2499  No, you don't want the same things I do. You want the rich to control everything and think that they are so benevolent that everyone will benefit. I want no one to live in poverty. You want business to have the "freedom" to pay as little as they want.
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  5277.  @icemachine79  I've noticed that he doesn't really answer anything outside of using buzzwords.
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  5278.  @chai_2805  Thanks for the follow up. I read the headline and the late senator's remarks, but for whatever reason, it didn't show her tweet. Either way, thank you for providing the information. I'm guessing that was a browser issue.
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  5279. How is Macron a natural ally? He is good on climate, but that's hardly unique in Europe (some Tories are to AOC's left on the climate crisis), but he is Tony Blair Part Deux.
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  5280.  @jessestreet2549  Well, one way to look at it is that this is leverage. The right took over the GOP by voting every single time and eventually becoming a majority. It takes time, but this is how it's done. It took them 16 years, and they had Big Money on their side. We can't give up after six.
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  5281.  @bjones8470  Sometimes, I think that there is a tendency to feel the need to be part of the in crowd by liking certain prestige shows. I never saw Better Call Saul or Mad Men, but I think that about all of the AMC prestige shows that I was supposed to like, but I never did. Not that I didn't like any prestige shows, but there are a few that I look and ask why.
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  5282. Unlike Warren, Bernie actually has a plan for that: political mobilization, and a group like Our Revolution that is working to bring others along.
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  5283.  @DavidRichardson153  Yang himself told Ben Shapiro, when asked why he wouldn't increase it, that "the magic of a thousand bucks a month is that it is below the poverty level for one person, so people will have to work in order to live a life that motivates them." The emphasis was his, not mine. I remember reading somewhere that the ultimate problem with a UBI is that it either excludes people (so it isn't universal) or it is too small to cover the cost of living (which means that it isn't a basic income). I personally think that it is something worth considering once systemic issues are addressed. Even if Yang wanted to give everyone $5000/month, just giving money without addressing the fundamental ills of society is nothing more than a band-aid. If I have the choice between a good UBI and Medicare for All, I wouldn't have to think twice about my preference.
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  5284. Marathons are not the best way to make Jim likable. Even he said that the things that he did to Dwight aren't so funny when you list them all in a row.
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  5285. If they leave their kids as orphans, I'll feel sorry for the kids, but I'm all out of sympathy for the people whose stupidity allowed this virus to mutate.
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  5286.  @Caperhere  There are different programs. A 401k or an IRA are defined contributions. The former often has an employer match. Traditional pensions are defined benefits. Contributions mean you pay in and hope your investment savvy and contribution levels are enough. Benefits mean that you get a check for life based on a formula. Employers are moving away from the latter because it costs them more than the former. I have a traditional pension at work, and there was an option to switch to a hybrid defined contribution. I fought it, and once it passed with people in the old program given the choice of which one to use, I refused to switch and encouraged everyone I could not to do so.
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  5287.  @ivandafoe5451  He was, but it seems like he is going down the road of anti-anti-left.
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  5288. Can we finally admit that Greenwald isn't on our side, and while we're at it, Assange and Snowden?
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  5289. If memory serves me right, they were in the middle of a divorce when Greg died, but it wasn't finalized.
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  5290.  @thegreatoneforever5587  "most Americans that are successful did so without a college degree." [Citation needed] The average person with a bachelor's degree or higher makes $1MM over the course of a lifetime compared to someone who didn't.
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  5291.  @nightlydrugs6927  I'd vote for her if she wins the nomination, but only because I live in a swing state. If I didn't, I would leave my Presidential ballot blank.
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  5292. I've seen the ad with "it should be between a woman, her doctor, and the local elected officials" with it rewinding several times.
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  5293. How is her bid "helping Bernie"? The candidate she kept defending was Biden, and no poll shows her anywhere near viable. If Tulsi voters would otherwise support Bernie, this means that those votes will disappear into the ether in primary states, so it actually hurts his delegate math.
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  5294.  @TheEyeball37  I have heard it said that the most effective form of contraception is knowing that your child will live. As infant mortality rates drop, the change in birthrate is even greater. Deal with poverty and get universal health care (we still have a worse infant mortality rate than Cuba), and people will be more open to contraception.
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  5295. More polite while refusing to address lies is still giving flame to those lies. Don't think that nobody noticed that he said Biden "supposedly won the election."
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  5296.  @alexnorth3393  Really? Is he just good at presenting on TV? There really are very few who can both develop a field and teach it, which is why Carl Sagan is so deeply missed.
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  5297.  @uchennakpaduwa9592  So what if you're not an elected official. You said that you could walk and chew gum at the same time, so what is the evidence? The mere fact that you think that this is a legitimate response for your dereliction of duty as a citizen tells me that you have not done the work to build support for Medicare for All, and you will never do anything to affect what happens with how people vote if this were to ever come to the floor. Some of us have been doing the work, and the number of sponsors have nearly doubled in the last five years. Here in Philadelphia, without such nonsense as "force the vote" but using actual grassroots organizing, we got two members of Congress to sign onto the bill. Your vote is not the end of your duties as a citizen in a democracy, it is the beginning.
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  5298.  @JRMCNEA  And they haven't had a Roe test case yet. Even if you pretend that is the end-all-be-all of the Supreme Court, it is not the Justices nominated by Democratic Presidents who have voted to weaken Roe.
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  5299.  @JRMCNEA  The Casey decision was 29 years ago, and they voted to allow stricter state bans many times over the last 15 years, even if they haven't quite been willing to go all the way to upholding a ban, although four Justices have (the conservative bloc minus Roberts, and Barrett was not yet on the Court).
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  5300.  @JRMCNEA  Funny how you had no response to the question about voting rights.
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  5301.  @rebeccapresti9650  He's a false equivalencies type if you actually read his posts.
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  5302.  @rebeccapresti9650  Any time
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  5303.  @krackerr  So, because a lot of other anti-anti-Trump grifters defend Jimmy Dore, that's proof that he's in the right? Sure, and at 5'5 and 41 years old with not the greatest ankles, I will be the next Slam Dunk Champion.
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  5304.  @ModerateMiddle  Of course, you can have an opinion. My point is that if you want to hold a federal office, and you believe that the federal government has no role whatsoever on an issue (any issue), then your personal opinion is irrelevant to the question at hand. I ran for state legislature in 2006, and I didn't talk about my opinions about Defense spending.
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  5305.  @ModerateMiddle  Oh, and Joe Manchin encouraged Jim Justice to run for governor as a Democrat leading up to 2016. A friend of mine from road races got recruited to run for office (he ultimately declined a run for Congress due to family illness, but he did run for state legislative and county commission races). Sherrod Brown started his career being recruited for a state legislative race as a sacrificial lamb candidate, but he surprised everyone and won.
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  5306. @HEAVY SYSTEMS, Inc. And both screw over workers and fight organized labor. Making a niche product isn't going to solve anything the Musk cult thinks it will.
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  5307. ​ @eemoogee160  You wanna compare Democratic accomplishments and Green accomplishments? I'll be your huckleberry. You go first, then I'll list some, and we'll see which party comes out on top.
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  5308.  @SRSOS1  What in the world are you talking about, and who are you responding to? Because your complaints make no sense in response to what I wrote. My point that no real lefty politics doesn't stand up for labor was a critique of centrists who have sold labor out. I was complimentary of the podcast for addressing labor. Who's your real issue with? Because it's not with me.
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  5309.  @Bablobiggins  Trump has more of a slappable face.
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  5310.  @MetalDetroit  That happens to be the most popular health insurance in America.
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  5311. I keep seeing her on TV talking about visiting safely with coronavirus precautions. That's a little bit like closing the barn door after the cows already got out.
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  5312. Well, then, they should just not vote for US Senate, then, since that was granted by the 17th Amendment.
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  5313.  Andy M  Jimmy Dore is not a conspiracy theorist? Who took down the WTC? Does Hillary have Parkinson's? Was Seth Rich murdered by the DNC?
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  5314. Don't just hope, help.
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  5315.  @johnbrattan9341  Not since Andrew Neil owned him without really trying very hard.
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  5316.  @ChibiHoshiDragon  He didn't know because he didn't WANT to know.
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  5317.  @ChibiHoshiDragon  Someone hasn't watched the video? Not only was your original argument false, but the feds asked him to hold on to the evidence. Yes, because the FBI tells people to hold onto illegal evidence. It sounds like you just want to defend Buttigieg regardless of the evidence.
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  5318.  @ChibiHoshiDragon  So, you watched the video, and yet you are saying the exact opposite of what the video says? Interesting. That is hardly "incomplete."
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  5319.  @ChibiHoshiDragon  Incomplete is not the opposite. The opposite means that it is not true at all. Incomplete means that something is missing.
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  5320.  @andyrihn1  I am a veteran, and I have used a lot of military grade weapons. There is clearly a difference between military and civilian weaponry. Tell me what legitimate purpose exists for a civilian to use a machine gun or an anti-aircraft rocket launcher. Do you know what an M-16 does when it's inside a person as opposed to a hunting rifle?
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  5321. Agreed. I have no problem with legitimate conservative media (sometimes, I'll look at the ones that care about accuracy, but I just happen to disagree), but they lie. Someone asked me why MSNBC was different than Fox, and I said that one emphasizes things that fits its agenda, and the other makes things up to fit its agenda. Big difference.
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  5322.  @ODC88888  But I don't see not wanting Tulsi as "picky"? Being a Democrat should mean something. I wasn't happy that Bernie lost the last time, but I voted for Hillary. I don't know why the adage of "Democrats fall in love and Republicans fall in line" seems to hold. However, for me, there are varying degrees of support. I will knock and doors and make calls for Bernie. I will vote for Biden if I have to, but I'm not giving up Saturdays to go to talk to strangers on his behalf. Knowing that dynamic, shouldn't we go for the bold choice? Sometimes, the safe bet is the most unsafe choice there is.
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  5323. Doug Mastriano was a different case. He already had a huge lead before Josh Shapiro started running ads pointing out his role in January 6th.
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  5324.  @TheMPExperience  Refusing to choose the lesser evil leaves you with the greater evil.
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  5325.  @adriennerango1519  What are you talking about? The Supreme Court is the one thing where their stranglehold increased.
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  5326. It is? It seems like he hasn't made up his mind, because I've seen interviews where he said "In addition to." If it is a substitute, then it is a really, really bad idea, because some things that people get assistance for are extremely expensive, like when Ben Carson said in a debate that "we spend X amount per person on Medicaid, so why not provide that amount per person and cut overhead?" Well, because people in nursing homes would go through their annual voucher in a week.
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  5327. Hopefully, at least five of these sane ones that we've heard so much about but never really seen actually arrive to block Gym Jordan.
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  5328. 8:00 was calling him Pat Bu-Klan-an a Freudian slip?
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  5329.  @ryanchan6922  They know that they don't have the votes.
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  5330. The prescriptions were obscene. My ex-mother-in-law was once prescribed both Oxycontin and Hydrocodone pills with a morphine drip implanted in her back. These pushers know exactly what they are doing.
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  5331. Yang is opposed to increasing the minimum wage. Please remember this the next time he comes on your show.
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  5332.  @pressureGM  What government website? Considering the fact that he is talking about programs over several departments, that doesn't exist. Considering the fact that he has changed his mind on Social Security, I would like to know which programs qualify, and which ones don't. Then again, he keeps lying in interviews about giving everyone money, so just maybe he doesn't want to tell people which programs will force people to choose.
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  5333.  @arnesste000  A primary challenge to Manchin is doomed because of just how far to the right WV really is. Arizona is a different story, so you can concentrate your fire. (Manchin's 2018 primary opponent got 30%, which was impressive, but she won the nomination in 2020 and lost to Capito by 43 points.)
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  5334.  @mjchakos1  The context is pretty obvious. Then again, you came by earlier with bad faith arguments, so I shouldn't be surprised.
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  5335.  @drcurran235  You want a few examples that prove that Andrew Yang is trash? 1) He opposes increasing taxes on the rich and wants a regressive consumption tax instead. 2) He is indifferent to hostile toward labor. 3) He supports tech monopolies buying up everything to make even more monopolies. 4) He insisted that his thousand bucks a month would help people move for global warming because we should just give up. 5) He never provided a full list of the 125 either/or programs for his Freedom with Strings Attached Dividend. 6) He treated the poor and disabled as second-class citizens, including at one point wanting to make VA Disability benefits either/or. 7) He said one thing to lefty audiences and another to right wingers. 8) He repeatedly lied about his signature issue, because a) he didn't want to give everyone $1000/month, and b) he said it was tax free, but it was paid for with a VAT, which not only disproportionately affects the poor, but also affects people who wouldn't have gotten a penny from the Freedom with 125 Strings Attached Dividend. And that's not even getting into his dumpster fire mayoral campaign.
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  5336.  @samuelvimes5770  It seemed like tulcels and Yang Gang bangers were in a competition to be the absolute worst.
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  5337. It falls to some people to point the way, but not get us to the Promised Land. It looks like Bernie is one of those people.
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  5338.  @maxwellmontgomery3421  Which party stole a Supreme Court seat and rammed another one through days before the election again?
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  5339. ​ jcorb  At a certain point, there are only so many times that someone can take the air out of the sails of a conversation of a talk show by making a random tangent to try to turn something into one's pet cause before the host doesn't almost immediately become wary.
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  5340.  @interdimensionalsteve8172  Well, a lot of people have allowed a lot of evil things to happen because they were just doing their job.
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  5341. It's the spiritual descendant of Ron Paul raising his pitch when arguing his crazy theories like his brain can't believe the nonsense that is coming out of his mouth.
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  5342.  @mack_8344  And within two weeks, he was third. He also took votes more or less equally from the two major parties.
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  5343. Gillibrand took out Al Franken for far less than Biden keeps doing, and she has nothing to lose at this point, so I expect her to be the one to go after Biden.
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  5344.  @jameswatson9338  He talks out both sides of his mouth. He also says that he got terrible side effects from the vaccine, and he keeps pushing snake oil as an alternative cure.
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  5345.  @Jose-Gonzalez-cfl  You don't when you try to comb it and it does whatever it wants.
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  5346.  @highneedforcognition9660  As far as refugees, what do you think is the consequence of refusing them entry? The damage is already done. As Sam Seder is fond of telling libertarians, we can't pretend that history started today. We weren't the ones who started the civil war in Syria, but ignoring their pain will create a lot more terrorists.
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  5347.  @highneedforcognition9660  For someone who "never supported it," she had a funny way of showing it: https://www.ndtv.com/video/news/the-buck-stops-here/us-should-not-be-policing-the-world-us-congresswoman-tulsi-gabbard-348891 The question comes at 15:45, and her invoking a scenario straight out of 24 follows at 16:29. If you support it in one circumstance, you support torture.
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  5348.  @brunopbch  I'll mention any country that has public police, firefighters, military, libraries, roads, hospitals, schools, garbage pick up, etc. A mixed economy is the only way forward.
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  5349.  @brunopbch  Ah, yes, the non-aggression principle that doesn't see the force in feudalism ... the end result of letting the rich get everything, which is what your beloved Rothbard would do.
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  5350.  @brunopbch  And if you go with the libertarian or ancap view that history starts today, and we can do nothing to counteract any past injustice (If I had a dollar for every time I heard someone say something to the effect of "I paid for my land" while oblivious to the fact that it was stolen from tribal people, I would be debt free), then that will be the end result. Of course, no one in that camp will admit it, but that is what will happen.
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  5351.  @brunopbch  Agreed that we shouldn't cause further harm, but I am pretty confident in saying that there will be some disagreement over the definition of harm.
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  5352. That would take a constitutional amendment.
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  5353. Knock on doors and make calls, too.
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  5354.  Alabama Man Special Edition  Guess what, Troll Man. A lot of us are parents.
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  5355.  @jeffreysanders7334  A comment that a high school dropout (which means someone who hasn't studied physics) has upended the most important discovery in physics since Newton is "bigotry"? You can't practice medicine without a license in this country. Is that also bigotry?
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  5356.  @jeffreysanders7334  You're really hiding behind racism to defend your contention that it is unfair to be skeptical when hearing that someone who has never studied something has completely upended the field? Is that really the hill you want to die on?
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  5357.  @johnklein338  You mean the guy whose patents were for the outlets for a plug in for EVs "advanced technology in a way no one else has in a century"? Yeah, that makes sense.
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  5358.  @johnklein338  Is he an engineer? Did he design the batteries and boosters, or did he pay someone else to do it? Paying someone else doesn't make you a genius.
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  5359. ​ @ritapresley291  He's so full of honor that he gish gallops and lies in every interview, and he is defending an attempt to destroy our democracy.
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  5360. Indeed. There is no such thing as a right-wing populist. Anyone who claims to be is probably a fascist. No true populist wants to cut taxes for rich people.
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  5361.  @PDXMILO  He could have also pointed to the way that she is supported by Steve Bannon to this day, she took donations from Sheldon Adelson and pushed legislation that he supported in Congress to fight online gambling so people would have to come to his casinos, or her defense of Michael Flynn after everything came out. She is not who you think she is.
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  5362.  @interdimensionalsteve8172  Indeed. Taibbi always seemed like more of a contrarian than a principled figure anyway, so such a move isn't totally surprising. It is more surprising than Greenwald, though, because even the supposed right things he did were always for the wrong reasons.
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  5363. You've got the goofy part in your Rand Paul imitation, but you still need to figure out how to mix it with that dash of smugness that Son of Ron emits.
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  5364. Even with insurance, my mom was told nearly 20 years ago (at the age of 43), my mom was told she needed a heart transplant. She never got it because, even with it, the procedure would cost a quarter of a million dollars out of pocket. Only by the grace of God is she still with us. No one should ever be in that situation!
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  5365. If authoritarians get kicked out of the country, does that mean that we get to be rid of Der Orangefuhrer once and for all?
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  5366.  @Bauks  By changing his entire worldview when big money came calling.
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  5367. Each House gets to approve its own rules. The Senate was always designed to be more deliberate, but it was never supposed to require a supermajority for everything.
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  5368.  @Cool_Calm_Cam  I am skeptical of Kyle Kulinski as well, but if he has an accurate imitation of this guy, that seems to me to be acceptable without following him wholesale.
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  5369. Or what happens when you take too many.
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  5370.  @ambidexterity1  Tulsi is a conservative. Look at her stuff on Modi. More and more, I think the only reason she endorsed Bernie in the first place was to fend off a challenger to her left in the primary by supporting a popular candidate in her state. Now, she is reverting to form.
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  5371.  @JiveDadson  "The market is always open" Define open. In the United States alone, oil companies are sitting on thousands of permits. What changed? A few factors. More concentration of oil companies, more sitting on permits to decrease demand, and the excuse of a major supplier going to war to jack it way up. Something similar happened in the wake of Katrina where they used the excuse of a brief issue with supply to jack the prices up over three bucks a gallon which was nearly double what it was before. It's all about what people are used to paying, seeing a spike, taking advantage of the spike, and then slowly dropping the prices if they notice people changing their driving habits. It's a total boiling frog effect. Oh, and the Trump tax cuts encouraged far more stock buybacks than investment in capital, which was a monetary time bomb. Just because it's higher than it was doesn't mean that the basic practice hasn't changed.
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  5372. Yes. At a certain point, you have to realize when you have a pair of twos. (I swear, I was typing this just as Sam started to say that.)
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  5373.  @matsal3211  I don't care what majorities say in polls. There is one simple thing that will be more than sufficient to cover any potential shortfall: get rid of the cap on Social Security payroll taxes. Not change the rate for working people, but just increase the amount of income subject to it. Of course, people would think it takes something drastic, given the way the privatizers have spent decades scaremongering.
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  5374. Dore wants to make an alliance with fascists and wants to see good people defeated because they won't go on the show. To say that he is toxic is an insult to poison.
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  5375. ​ @chadalpha7983  It won't if you do, but I live in Pennsylvania. Lots of people live in swing/close states who do not have that luxury.
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  5376. That could be, but I think at this point, that ship has sailed. If he switched now, I think it would look weak. Admittedly, he used to be more Allende than FDR, so that might be why he kept the label.
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  5377.  @blasphimus  True, but I think that too many people eschew electoral politics. Even if you lose, you can either a) have an impact on what people are talking about, or b) help people develop a muscle memory for voting for Democrats. In 2006, I ran for a seat in the WV House of Delegates (won the nomination unopposed, and got 38% in the general election). At one point, an elected official lamented why there were so few pro-choice legislators (even in a body that was 68-32 Democratic at the time, only about a quarter were reliable pro-choice voters). The reason? West Virginians for Life not only gave money, but ran ads on behalf of their candidates. WV Free, the leading pro-choice group in the state was a 501c3, so it couldn't give money or run ads for candidates. The rationale? "We can raise more money as a non-profit that is tax deductible." Yeah, but a fat lot of good that does you if you hardly have any allies in the Legislature.
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  5378.  @Xckel13  Oh, look. The both siderism brigade right on schedule with no actual examples but full of self-righteousness.
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  5379.  @abdul-rahimdahman3300  No money to be had in becoming an independent reporter. She knows that the money is in anti-anti-Trump.
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  5380.  @terrystevens3998  Even worse. Left populists giving legitimacy to right-wing "populists" is how you end up with fascism.
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  5381.  @WilliamStephanusArriel  Value added tax is libertarian compared to what we have now. It's libertarians who insist that if we're going to tax, it should be on consumption rather than income. And you are either lying or misinformed about a lot of the rest of what you are saying about Yang's policy.
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  5382.  @joseneto9412  Yes, "liberals" like Neal Boortz and John Linder who literally wrote the book on consumption taxes, and like Alan Keyes, Mike Huckabee, and Herman Cain who made it the centerpiece of their tax plans. The only major party Presidential nominee to even publicly speculate about replacing the income tax with a consumption tax in this century was Bush in 2004. Maybe you should pick up a book. Then again, I'm not the one claiming to be a socialist and giving right wing talking points, either.
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  5383.  @glennwilliams2950  Actually, he didn't support Bernie in 2016. He didn't even vote in the primary. This is another one of Yang's lies.
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  5384. @D2 E2 Haven't learned nothing, says the person who keeps saying that someone who always said that Elizabeth Warren was her second choice in the primary "always supported Warren over Bernie."
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  5385. ​ @VAOdin  But I'm guessing that you thought he was bad for a different reason.
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  5386. How?
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  5387. They wanted change in the worst possible way, and we're going to get it.
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  5388. Not the same thing. If she was truly applying the same standard in 2020, she would have made the announcement the instant the vacancy took place.
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  5389.  @andyrihn1  It's coherent in the sense that if there are competing claims, they will always side with corporate and monied interests over consumers and workers, but it's not coherent in the way they think it is of just wanting the most freedom for the most people.
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  5390.  @andyrihn1  Ask them about unions, and watch them contort themselves. The idea that workers and employers might have competing claims is anathema to them, but it should be obvious to anyone who has ever worked a job regardless of having read The Peter Principle. Speaking of which, if you have never read it, you really should. It's only about 100 pages, so you can get through it in a couple hours, and it's actually pretty funny, too.
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  5391. ​​ @ggananth  She was never anti-war. She was an isolationist. I remember being at a debate watch party with the union members at DSA (not a DSA union, but those of us at that party were union members and i5 was a separate event from the main party). She and Buttigieg were getting into it about her praising Trump withdrawing from the Kurdish areas in Syria. Several in the room applauded Tulsi, and while I was no fan of Mayo Pete, I pointed put accurately that this will lead to instability because it gives Turkey a green light to invade. Not even a week later, there were Turkish air strikes in the region. Sadly, some in the room hadn't even thought that through until I said, "but she's wrong" and then said why. You cannot be for peace if you are content with the whole world burning as long as it doesn't directly affect you.
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  5392. Biden is one year younger, but that one year makes a big difference, don't ya know? Oh, wait, these same people thought Bernie was too old the last time, so it must be something else.
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  5393.  @overtherenowaitthere  Ron Swanson is also a person of character who lets competent people do their jobs, so his only works because it is undercut by a pragmatism that no libertarian has except the one who Michael Shur met while interviewing people in city government who said "yes, I appreciate the irony of being a libertarian with a government job."
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  5394. Make sure that Republicans don't win anything where they would be in a position to make it happen.
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  5395. @Joyously Joyful She will? Please run, Joe! You won't make it very far, and you'll take votes from Harris, thus keeping her delegate count down. And, Meghan McCain will go away.
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  5396.  @lights473  No, businesses never manipulate the market or hide information from the consumer. /s
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  5397.  @Gregorypeckory  The OP responded later, and it was clear that my initial interpretation was correct. Why reply to me instead of him?
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  5398.  discorperted  Apparently, you haven't even bothered to read the funding mechanism: https://berniesanders.com/en/issues/green-new-deal A lot is funded by progressive taxes on the rich. Still more is funded by ending subsidies for fossil fuels. And if we aren't so dependent on fossil fuels, Saudi Arabia doesn't seem like such a key alliance anymore. And, let's talk about redistribution: since 1981, government has made every effort to distribute income and wealth up. In the 35 years before that, the poorest 20% actually saw income and wealth increase fastest of all, and the economy grew faster than it has since. Instead, we have seen the first break in the link between productivity and wages in recorded history. If that is "not redistributing," give me redistribution any day of the week.
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  5399.  discorperted  And there it is. You've run out of arguments on climate, so now you have to resort to xenophobia. If you don't like the immigration, maybe stop trying to get rid of leaders you don't like and let democracy run its course without sanctioning those who don't do what you like. The Cold War is over, so what is the excuse now?
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  5400. You do realize that margin of error is a thing, right? The national polling average was Hillary +3.5 and she won by 2.1. Only two states (Pennsylvania and Wisconsin) were outside of the margin of error, and they weren't polled late. Several states did move late to the point that by Election Day Trump had a 35% chance of winning. Late movement won't matter as much this time because of the increase of early voting.
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  5401. These days, I can't even tell the difference between the useful idiots and the right-wing trolls pretending to be lefties to depress turnout.
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  5402.  @2727rogers  Oh, now I recognize you. 1) How long did it take in Canada? 2) Which state is a lefty third party going to take over? 3) Do you know the difference between a Parliamentary system and a Presidential system?
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  5403.  @dcaseng  So, let me ask you this: is someone bound to every tactical pronouncement that he/she ever makes in his/her lifetime? Or is that person allowed to say, "I don't like banging my head against a wall. Let's try something else"? Do you bring up the fact that Dr. Fauci initially said that masks wouldn't be necessary during the coronavirus pandemic?
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  5404.  @FuddlyDud  Did Bernie change his position on taxes? No, he didn't.
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  5405.  angelbabe dawg  I think he is saying that Trump has an internally coherent message in the sense that he is preparing his followers for the idea that his defeat is illegitimate, and it is dangerous because it is him getting ready to barricade the doors.
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  5406. Please do one on Creed. Per minute, easily the funniest character on the show.
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  5407. Given her answer on military spending, Warren got an A in that course.
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  5408.  @jamescoogan1137  What is different between what Andrew Neil did to Ben Shapiro than what Jonathan Swan did to Trump?
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  5409.  @paulolima6407  Fair enough.
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  5410.  @kait2972  I guess you've never seen the comedy styling of Ricky Gervais, such "Atheists don't kill people, that's nonsense!" I have heard plenty say that if you eliminate religion, you eliminate war. My point was not to denigrate atheists, but to point out that it is no more fair to saddle every atheist with Stalin and Mao as it is to saddle every theist with suicide bombers or the Crusades or Westboro, and the latter is what anyone does when he/she says that if you eliminate religion you eliminate war.
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  5411. @Solstice of Snow All of those tech things that you mentioned were made by workers. If it wasn't for people building them and buying them, those rich people wouldn't be rich. You've got your cause and effect backwards.
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  5412. @Solstice of Snow Who pays the workers? The people who buy the stuff. And the top tax rate leading up to the Great Depression was 25%. Harding and Coolidge cut that 77% top marginal rate years before it all came crashing down. If you want to interpret facts a certain way, at least have the decency to have your facts straight.
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  5413. @Solstice of Snow I never said it did, I said that when taxes are used to create the infrastructure, it makes the opportunity to (among other things) improve the supply chain and create a more educated work force (and we are currently communicating because of the fruits of a Defense research project), and that it discourages stockpiling of wealth, which means that more of corporate income goes toward improving the company and paying people more, thus creating demand. One thing that you cannot ignore, is that the last 40 years, when we followed what you are advocating, have been a disaster for all but a few people, in no small part because the chain between productivity and wages snapped.
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  5414. @Solstice of Snow Those market forces would have never been able to invent the technology to make it happen. They also would have never been able to educate enough people to make the systems to make it work. They never would have built the roads, ports, railroads, and airports to get those goods to the factory to make and for the public to purchase. Funny that you can mostly go with abstract and Wealth Good, but you so easily falter when dealing with the actual circumstances. If low taxes and concentration of wealth are such great things, why have the worst economic collapses in the last 100 years followed both?
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  5415. Were you critical of the Trump tax cuts?
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  5416.  @randomlobster5566  So, with your "conviction," you hand the election to a literal fascist. That's the choice that the DKP made rather than work with the SPD. I'm sure that they felt better about their "conviction" when they went to the death camps.
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  5417.  @URProductions  If you believe that, that is your prerogative, but most of the more prominent libertarians oppose conservation efforts if they are being done by the government.
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  5418.  @KomradeKrusher  I'm not talking about Ukrainian membership now, I am talking about the notion of forever refusing to allow them membership in hopes that it will appease Russia. Also, do you think that, just maybe, the reason the democracy is so unstable is because they are left to their own devices against Russia?
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  5419. I think some are definitely afraid of the backlash from the 1980s. I remember in 2004 when someone (I think it was in The Nation) pointed out that Kerry was to the left of Dean in terms of actual record in office, but Dean was a fighter.
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  5420.  @lilianfowler7988  You cannot gerrymander a statewide race. Why do people attribute things to gerrymandering that have nothing to do with it?
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  5421.  @dmitchel0820  Well, if that is your argument, then by definition, he doesn't want to help those already getting benefits, and he will make things worse for people who get nothing new, because they now have to pay a VAT to pay for this thing that they're not getting. And that also won't help alleviate poverty, because his "freedom dividend" is below the poverty level, which most people argue underestimates the actual cost of living in America.
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  5422. Well, the word "married" might be a stretch if you look at what actually happened.
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  5423. The part of me that despises fascists laughs at how cowardly Hawley was. The runner in me is just a little bit impressed by his form even in a suit and dress shoes :-P
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  5424. I think he went to the Second World War channel.
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  5425.  @Kryojenix  And Workplace Democracy will require employer savings from Medicare for All to be passed to the worker. For me, that works out to $359 every other week in new pay or beneifts.
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  5426.  @lemmon-up4er  You can't get along with people who want to kill you and destroy your country.
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  5427. Not only did he not deliver Ohio, but the margin didn't even change in Ohio.
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  5428.  @Eff_It  Cenk has made some great hires over the years, but when he misses, his misses are bad.
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  5429.  @davidm1926  Populism is not a style. That's what people who oppose populism try to get people to believe. It is by definition politics that attempts to act in the interest of the people. Being a racial demagogue who bemoans "the liberal elite" is not populism. We shouldn't let them get away with it.
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  5430. What are his insightful ideas?
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  5431. Everyone else can say what they want because they're not so stupid as to tamper with juries or threaten witnesses.
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  5432. My ex-wife had to drop from two hearing aids to one because the insurance would only cover one hearing aid.
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  5433.  @N2264J  So, Chris Hedges tries to encourage people to demand to be ignored? Yes, such a wonderful message.
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  5434.  @tedhall6148  A libertarian is less scary? No!
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  5435. So, hundreds of thousands dying and millions suffering from a pandemic when they didn't have to means nothing to you?
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  5436.  @genericamerican7574  Beat me to it ;-)
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  5437. The highest bracket in Bernie's wealth tax proposal is 8%. The average annual growth rate of the S&P 500 is 9%. If you do the math, it won't get rid of billionaires, but it will assure that they don't get to take all the money while the rest of us see stagnating wages.
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  5438. ​ @C.Steamer  What is his actual point? He proved to be worthless with "the moon might fall into Lake Michigan" in 2016. He is there to pretend to be left while spending all of his time either complaining about the left or using right wing talking points. If you want to listen to that, at least listen to an honest conservative.
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  5439.  @C.Steamer  You mean the story where he got almost every major detail wrong? Seymour Hersh has done a lot of great and good work over the decades, but that doesn't make his work infallible.
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  5440. Initially, it did, you ignoramus. For that matter, the original version stopped when someone turned 65.
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  5441.  Black Ninja  Still, she rarely talks in any story about her in the context of her marriage to Prince Harry, or whatever his title is now. The point being that she has just been a pretty face as a princess.
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  5442. Didn't he admit to it? During the primary, the "economic populist" said he couldn't vote for Bernie because he's "too PC," and he defended the stormtroopers in Portland. Forget Zack Morris, Saagar Enjeti is trash.
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  5443.  @adotjon78  Jimmy Dore said that between Hillary and Trump, Trump is better. That sounds like an endorsement to me.
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  5444.  @ashlomen8432  Ukraine isn't the one sending 300,000 conscripts to the front line.
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  5445. I heard that she was furious that she got the blame because she was one of the few people to wear masks at meetings. "My mask protects you, your mask protects me."
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  5446. Not even true. If you look at his Medicare for All plan, it is paid for by a 7% employer payroll tax, and a 4% employee payroll tax that exempts the first $29,000 of income. And there is also the fact that it is less than most employer plans for insurance with no out of pocket costs at the point of delivery. By taxing consumption, Yang is affecting the poor and working class the most.
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  5447. He gets to set the calendar. That's why we have to look out down ballot races, too, and flip The Turtle on his back.
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  5448. My idiot brother tried to tell me that the vaccine didn't do any good. He's gotten coronavirus three times (the second time was pretty bad), and I still have my coronavirus V-card intact, as does my daughter. Normally, I wouldn't care about his idiocy, but he gave it to my niece twice.
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  5449.  @jackrichardson2626  Because we don't want to help the algorithm.
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  5450. Jamie, as someone from the region (WV native), no one calls it that. It is App-a-LATCH-a. At least you didn't go full cringe with App-a-lay-sha.
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  5451. Then the Theta and Iota variants.
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  5452.  @bgmac1219  [in nasally voice]: He is talking really fast. Because talking fast makes some people think you have a lot to say. And a halting rhythm only adds to the effect.
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  5453. Yeah, because we should just want people to suffer.
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  5454. Hillary is a much better candidate than Biden. Biden never made it past Iowa in his previous bids. Let that one sink in for a while.
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  5455. Sam isn't going to pick a Never Biden figure who couldn't quite fully grasp what Greens and Republicans were doing in Wisconsin to damage democracy as host. He has standards.
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  5456.  @YoullNeverKnow284  Sam doesn't claim to be a comedian. Steven, is that you?
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  5457.  @taranullius9221  He voted to convict both times. He goes down in history as the first Senator to vote to remove a President of his own partyy. That was the one where Susan Collins insisted that Der Orangefuhrer "learned his lesson," and well, he did, but not the way she thought he did.
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  5458.  @lauraprosser5084  Maybe they should stop airing their dirty laundry.
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  5459. In order to get her voice that low, it almost sounds like when you watch a video in slow motion.
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  5460. So, let's do the actual difficult work of organizing. That way, you get enough sponsors so it actually passes. Do you bot remember how long it took to get another comprehensive health care bill on the floor after Hillarycare died? 15 years. So, you want to wait another 15 years to get a public option?
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  5461. It's easy to talk about increasing the retirement age when you work a nice, cushy job in an office rather than doing physical labor. Means testing is a Trojan horse that will erode popularity, just like how Social Security is far more popular than anything funded by HHS.
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  5462. He just might replace Bob Ross as my go-to for when I need to go to sleep.
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  5463. Us Generation X people who miss the references just got a little bit of payback.
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  5464.  @ianpatrick3589  Also, have you noticed how few workers are actually called "employees" today? There are a lot of "associates" and "team members," and who can forget the especially toxic "work as family"?
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  5465.  @ToxicAudri  Indeed. The Three Stooges mocked upper class conventions. If they had remained under Ted Healy, they wouldn't have stayed popular 50 years after the end of the act.
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  5466. Deep thought: why not just get rid of the debt ceiling in the first place so we don't have to keep worrying about this?
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  5467.  @nosuchperson284  Indeed. I think that the squeamishness of too many about symbols of patriotism hurts. I'm not saying that everyone has to wear a flag pin everywhere, but defend the very documents that made our country. If they still aren't sure, they need to watch that Jamie Raskin video and he'll show them how it's done.
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  5468. Indeed. It's almost like she took the George Costanza route.
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  5469.  @engineeringartist4801  "He has his good days... and bad." Elaine Benes
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  5470. I always wondered where College Republicans got their money when I was an undergrad. In Young Dems, we had to print off our flyers and design them all ourselves, but our counterparts on the other side always had these slick, mass produced signs, and they even had the money for a printing press to make their own newspaper.
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  5471.  @c.i.a5494  College students, and I knew very well that many of them didn't. And if you work and we don't, how do you explain the fact that every Republican President except Reagan saw an increase in unemployment while every Democratic President saw a decrease?
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  5472. So, you think that it is moving forward to just give up on tax avoidance, wealth and income inequality, affordable housing, and the climate crisis?
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  5473.  @zotaninoron3548  Either some people aren't paying attention to the fine print, or they are just fine with Yang being a libertarian wolf in leftist clothing.
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  5474.  @magister343  I probably went more to the left after my child was born, because I want to pass on a positive future for her.
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  5475. As far as the Supreme Court goes, yes, you can argue that it is technically a difference of opinion, but one is based in an actual understanding of how government works, and the other is based in wishful thinking that the man who was in the Republican leadership when they first proposed the nuclear option in 2005 (the GOP backed away when Democrats agreed to end a filibuster on three judges out of ten being filibustered, while Dems pulled the trigger eight years later when the same person refused to allow three of 93 go through) who already proved his willingness to fight dirty wouldn't go nuclear if the Democrats tried to block the stolen seat from being filled shows that he really doesn't understand American politics.
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  5476.  @chrisweber759  Is your fanboy nature for Jimmy Dore so strong that you can't see what's in front of you? I replied twice. The first, I gave a link and a time stamp. The second, I pointed out why "it's just an opinion" is a faulty argument, because opinions should be based in fact and not obvious falsehoods in order to justify predetermined positions. Considering that I provided a link and you said I didn't, you just proved that point perfectly. You said you would concede the point if provided evidence, and you refused to do so. It's your honor that has been tarnished, not mine.
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  5477. Platoon is the next level up ;-)
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  5478. They're a combination of opportunists and marks.
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  5479. ​ @bortstanson2034  "Member of Face-Eating Leopard Party Shocked That Leopard Ate His Face"
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  5480.  @Wilterweight  NOBODY KNOWS HOW FREE-DOM WORKS! THAT'S WHY IT'S SO IMPORTANT!
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  5481. And run for seats on your local party committees or for city council, school board, or state legislature. If you don't like the establishment, instead of whining that they didn't surrender power easily, get rid of them!
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  5482. There is never a bottom for libertarians with a knack for generating publicity.
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  5483.  @christopherlee9026  She is not anti-war. She is the intellectual heir of the America First Committee. No one can be a "peace candidate" who openly supports someone who incited a massacre as a provincial governor against religious minorities. Who cheers on someone as "courageous" who overthrew a democratically elected government. Yes, she is young and pretty, but I want substance, not the left's version of Ron Paul on foreign policy.
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  5484.  Theshadow Knows  Is that before or after showing that there was a clear distinction between a living person and a fetus in Exodus?
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  5485. ​ @TTownTim  And he voted to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson, and he got into it with Geroge Santos (if that is his real name), so five.
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  5486. Reagan raised taxes 11 times as President. Sometimes, moving the Overton window makes it possible for others to do more.
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  5487.  @roblong9728  Yes, Reagan did. The 1982 tax increase is the largest peacetime tax increase in American history. If Poppy raised taxes "because he had to," it proves that he had a pragmatic streak that his son doesn't, because the deficits were much bigger under W, and his first response to a bridge collapse was that he wouldn't let people use it as an excuse to raise taxes.
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  5488.  @JamesBond-st4qu  You are just sputtering words because you have no response. There are not enough votes, and you want to waste political capital and good will. What have you done to try to actually build support for Medicare for All? Your addition by subtraction theory doesn't work.
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  5489.  @JamesBond-st4qu  So, you've done nothing? I've voted for good candidates, volunteered for the one candidate who supported Medicare for All in the Presidential election, and I worked with others in Philadelphia (my particular action was with DSA and Philly for Bernie, but many others did so and deserve praise such as Neighborhood Networks, and Health Care for All) to gather petitions and get others to contact their representatives, and thanks to our efforts, two members of Congress (Dwight Evans and Brendan Boyle) signed onto the bill, so yeah, I think that I have the right to point out that you have done nothing. What does your puffery and non-action have to do with whether or not Jimmy Dore is right? Well, the mere fact that you think you have done things when you really haven't means that your energy is wasted and not going towards something that will actually get closer to your stated goal of Medicare for All. Hashtag activism is not activism.
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  5490. The year before Biden got through the increased funding for the IRS, I didn't get a letter I needed for the child tax credit, and I didn't get my refund until December. The next year, I got it in March. More funding can often make things more efficient if the machinery is starved.
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  5491. Actually, in Barletta's last term in the House, he ran for Senate against Bob Casey Jr., losing by double digits.
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  5492. He's always been bad. He's a libertarian.
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  5493.  @paulmccarter908  He didn't talk about it often, but once in a while, he would talk about economics and have these awful takes. Someone else pointed out (and I only recently found this out) that he started off as a lawyer doing pro bono work to defend Nazis. Usually, the key way to tell if someone isn't a lefty of any stripe is to listen to that person talk about economics. I'm not talking about the grifters like Dore and Ball, but at least when someone starts off as sincere.
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  5494.  @EnPatrolle  It does if you change it from 3/5 of voting Senators instead of 3/5 of all Senators. Now, theoretically a filibuster can hold if the vote is 59-1. And the instant cloture is achieved, the clock starts ticking on the final vote, which does require a simple majority.
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  5495.  @anmolt3840051  He did. It was for 8 1/2 hours to protest extending the Bush tax cuts. It was the first talking filibuster in 20 years. The one Ted Cruz did where he read Green Eggs and Ham wasn't a filibuster because cloture was already achieved.
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  5496. He's John Boehner minus the tanning bed.
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  5497.  Spok  Well, if it's "pretty much all of it," surely you can find an example. Don't look in the Preamble, though, because the General Welfare part might scare you.
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  5498.  Spok  Yeah, sure you did. And you haven't demonstrated your ability to quote one clause in the Constitution, let alone demonstrate that you actually understand it.
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  5499.  Spok  And how do I know that you are wrong? There are only two mentions of religion in the entire Constitution: banning religious tests in Article V, and the religion clauses in the First Amendment. If they wanted to make America a Christian nation, they would have done so, but if there was any doubt, the Barbary Treaty killed it.
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  5500. @Josh White There is a procedure for an acting AG, and that is Rosenstein. Don't be surprised if there is a court challenge.
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  5501.  @edgarj.3588  Supporting torture. Supporting Modi. Praising Sisi after killing protesters in Egypt. Praising Putin for bombing civilians in Syria while complaining that Obama didn't. Voting to make it more difficult for Syrian refugees to enter the United States. Need any more?
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  5502.  @cloudyskiesnow  Agreed. Last summer, my parents and niece came to visit me and my niece. While here, among other things, we went on a couple of factory tours (Herr's Snack Factory and Tour in Nottingham, Martin Guitar Factory Tour and Museum in Nazareth), and each found that human hands caused a bottleneck (finding rotten potatoes at the former, lacquering at the latter) and getting a machine to do it increased employment, with everyone at Martin in the lacquer department retrained to a different part of the factory so no one lost any jobs. It is completely possible for automation to work in a positive way, but Yang is the "I Give Up!" candidate.
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  5503.  @angelahall4402  It's next to impossible to become a billionaire without one or a combination of the following: inheritance, tax evasion/avoidance, exploiting a monopoly, exploiting workers. If there is evidence that he didn't do any if those, I would love to hear it.
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  5504.  @davidbright6790  They're like Beetlejuice. Saying his name summons the Knobs.
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  5505.  @johnpadilla4661  Because he's not a billionaire ;-) What wealth he has is not liquid at all, and he has who knows how much debt.
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  5506.  @Dan0TheMano  That is different than her position in House leadership, and that is up to the people of her district to punish. When she first won the leadership role, it was actually a win for the left. No one on the left had the clout to challenge her. Hopefully, Jayapal can build it for 2022.
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  5507.  @Dan0TheMano  She was not the point person for Bernie for five years. She was the point person for one year, and then they parted ways once she pulled this Never Biden nonsense. Then, she made the accelerationist argument to Noam Chomsky, so if she had gotten her way, Donald Trump would have won a second term. If you have a vote, it doesn't end up the way that she thinks it will. She does a great many things well, but if your underlying theory is one of accelerationism that has been proven false time and time again, the other assumptions that you make that spring from that will also be wrong. Demanding a floor vote will be worse than nothing, because Pelosi can then say that she gave you what you wanted, and it failed, so now it's time to shut up. And exit polls are completely unreliable on Medicare for All, because it all depends on the wording. I have seen it anywhere from 37-73%. There is a way to build support, and it doesn't involve meaningless message votes. It involves doing actual work. So, what have you personally done to fight for Medicare for All and build support?
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  5508.  @Chris-oz9qx  Oh, boo hoo. People mock you for saying stupid things that endanger others. One of my friends from work told me that she was "hesitant" to get the vaccine. In between my doses, she contracted it. After the first one, I had a sore arm for one day. After the second one (which I took on a Wednesday), I was tired with a runny nose on Wednesday and Thursday, and I had headaches on Thursday and Friday. A couple months later, she took the vaccine. And part of the reason for the changing narrative is people like you who refused to take any precautionary measures and things ended up being worse than initially expected.
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  5509.  @Closeoutracer  So, clean drinking water is something that people in poor cities shouldn't have?
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  5510. ​ @gsp4prez  Indeed. Hulk Hogan is a legend for anyone around at the time, but Terry Bollea is a POS.
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  5511. What are you talking about? Bernie has voted against all three of Trump's Defense budgets.
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  5512.  @sthayer2667  All nonpartisan studies have shown a net impact of CO2 reduction of 40% by 2030. Still the boldest thing to ever get through Congress.
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  5513.  @sthayer2667  So, because it doesn't do everything, you'd rather do nothing? Real smart.
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  5514.  @Jasondirt  So, we ignore who's in office and just allow the people who we know are hostile to our issues take over? WV Free (the pro-choice organization in the state) is a 501c3 focused on lobbying people already there. West Virginians for Life is a PAC. Which one do you think has more influence?
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  5515.  @morphor  I guess you didn't see where they called her a sellout and many of their supporters demanded refunds... and shortly thereafter Dore's wife donated to a Republican in Arizona running against an incumbent who sponsors Medicare for All.
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  5516.  @TheHuxleyAgnostic  Well, Jimmy's wife did donate to a Republican after this, so there goes that they're arguing for getting rid of the two-party system. We saw who they were, and they're not even hiding it anymore, but the Dore knobs prove the adage that none are as blind as those who refuse to see.
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  5517. @Badatallthis Stuff The Democrats hadn't had a veto-proof majority in the Senate since 1966. Funny how the Dore knobs miss such basic facts that their Dunning-Kruger showed. And you know why we got the ACA? Because the proposals of Truman, Nixon, and Clinton all failed. Every time a plan failed, something smaller ended up taking its place. And again, bringing up what Biden can do misses the point that he was explicitly elected as an opponent of Medicare for All. Not only does that not cause a fatality to my argument, but it would be like an old Looney Tunes cartoon where the barrel exploded in Elmer Fudd's face. And the fact that you are making the Democrats to be the villains and not the party that is universally opposed to any effort to even reduce the number of uninsured shows the truth about your political acumen.
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  5518. @Badatallthis Stuff Well, you are one of the few advocates of this goofy strategy who has actually done some of the actual work, so I salute you for that. How could you hold Republicans accountable? Work to defeat them in the general election. If Republicans become the majority in Congress, do you honestly expect a vote on Medicare for All? When they held Congress, they tried to take away health care for tens of millions. If such big majorities support Medicare for All, why did only 21% vote for it in 2016 in Colorado? Why did Biden not lose an ounce of support after saying he wouldn't sign it in March 2020? Why do majorities think that it means you can keep private insurance, with even bigger majorities thinking that who support Medicare for All? When you dig deeper, people like the idea of universal health care, but it is clearly not an indicator of support for the bill. We have a lot of work to do, and saying things like that leads people to think that our work is done. So, given that Catch and Release is a thing, how is having a vote really going to hold anyone accountable? It makes it easy for people to fake it only to abandon it once it has an actual chance to pull the rug out.
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  5519. @Badatallthis Stuff You mean when Joe Lieberman, who endorsed McCain in 2008, was the 60th vote?
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  5520.  @morphor  Their whole grift is to give people anger and nowhere to go with it to depress turnout on the left. To say they are toxic is an insult to poison. Reich Wing Watch did a 52 minute video that included Dore mocking Bernie for including hearing aids and vision in Medicare for All.
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  5521. @Badatallthis Stuff Oh, look. You're still trying to propose your magic wand solution as though you think that won't get struck down by the Supreme Court. You don't want results. You want to complain. You may have wanted results at one time, but you have clearly given up.
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  5522.  @hudson2441  Agreed. One time I dealt with an individual sovereignty nutjob, and I asked him if he got his way and got to form his own country on his own land if he would a) need a passport to re-enter the United States, and b) if he would have to negotiate a tariff with the federal government, and he got mad and insisted that these were small issues to distract from the larger question. I also asked him how it could be "his land," and he said because he paid for it. When I pointed out that people usually don't get to keep things they buy that are stolen, he insisted that it wasn't stolen at all. As Sam said in another debate, "You think you're floating, but you don't realize that you're standing on a building."
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  5523.  @joeking6362  So, you think that befriending white supremacist enablers is a sign of being a true American?
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  5524. What's the difference between George Santos (if that is his real name) and manure? Manure is useful.
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  5525. What about flat-out direct payments, which many companies also get?
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  5526.  @IWLDELJ  I just wanted to make sure what you were saying. You are correct that some on the right oppose corporate welfare (in all honesty, I was surprised to realize just how old-school conservative David Cay Johnston really is when reading a book he wrote about corporate subsidies), but the problem is that it's not a very prominent voice on the right.
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  5527. The only way it might have an effect is if someone either really screws up or someone off the radar does really well.
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  5528. How he and the wonderful and talented Mara Wilson come from the same gene pool is beyond me.
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  5529. I had Chris Hayes on in the background while I was working on some other things (after I gave $20.20), and he broke in to announce the fundraising total had gone over $4MM. Even Joe Crowley (one of the panelists) was stunned and impressed by the haul.
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  5530. No libertarian wolf in leftist clothing.
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  5531.  @synchronium24  Pay has gotten a little bit better thanks to outside pressure, but it isn't great. Bezos can afford to pay his people a lot better.
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  5532. Here's what I've never understood: it took a 65% vote to join, so why was a simple majority sufficient to leave?
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  5533.  @jocksharerock7318  Indeed. He is proof of the dangers of defining yourself by what you oppose rather than what you support
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  5534.  @gregfeasel5874  So true. Out of the literally hundreds of acceptable polls since the beginning of the year, she has never once gotten over 2%. Maybe stop trying to be Biden's wing woman after pretending to be a lefty hero in 2016 after making her name by going on Fox and attacking Obama from the right.
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  5535. ​ @princesskatarina351  He identified as a libertarian until the Bush years. I guess he's come full circle.
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  5536. Some people just want that moral superiority that they can only get by never voting for winners. I remember a guy from college whose self-image pretty much crumbled when he actually supported a winning candidate who proved not to be perfect. People like that are why we can't get anything nice.
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  5537.  C Cato  Fun fact: it has not. If you look at the vote for the Civil Rights Act by region, there were bipartisan majorities for it in the north and against it in the south. However, not one Southern Republican in either House voted for it. Look at a Presidential map for historical context. The Solid South used to be solid blue, and now it's solid red. If you think that people in the South saw the light on civil rights and started voting for the party that opposed them (see: Shelby caee), you are asking everyone else to make quite the logical leap.
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  5538. My parents went to a gas station in WV where someone put a picture of Der Orangefuhrer that said "Miss me yet?" How can we miss you if you won't go away?
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  5539.  @firstlast9916  You miss the point. Not surprised since you lost the plot long ago. My point was that letter grades were not the beginning of food inspection in NYC. You actually made my argument for me. Thank you very much.
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  5540.  @aheroictaxidriver3180  Typical tankie, insisting that he opposes imperialism, all while defending imperialism by anyone other than Americans. Considering that the Korean War technically has never ended (it has been in a state of cease fire for 69 years), there is a reason why those governments don't want the United States to leave. And maybe if Putin would stop threatening his neighbors, NATO membership wouldn't be so attractive to former Warsaw Pact countries.
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  5541.  @robm6645  Again, the answer is to look at the actual situation at hand rather than to have a knee-jerk reaction of any kind. Considering that Russia is ruled by someone who wants to restore the Soviet Union (and not for communism, but for empire), who has invaded numbers multiple times over the last 15 years, it is always going to be a possibility. Do you wait until a country gets full-on invaded before you acknowledge that it is a possibility, or do you actually look at what evidence exists?
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  5542.  @drewjohnson9498  Did you ever think that maybe the reason why the European countries that want US leadership in NATO do so because they are well aware of the existential threat that having a country whose leader openly muses that its neighbors are fake countries and wants to restore its empire means that they want the protection of a larger power? America Bad is just a lazy take.
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  5543. ​ @hopeemch8511  I'm just over half age. I wish I had half his energy.
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  5544.  @jAZZCRU22  And she didn't run again because she would have lost, not to mention that she stayed in the race after literally living in New Hampshire for months and going nowhere.
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  5545. Are you really bringing that useful idiot into the Majority Report?
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  5546.  @Chazreal  "It's very poor. You have to vote! You have to make a change. You're given lousy options, yes, but better that than nothing at all. [...] You're not voting, you're not contributing, you're not even non-contributing, you're just demanding to be ignored, and that's not very smart at all. [...] Vote! Stand up and be counted." John Lydon on Russell Brand telling people not to vote, 2014
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  5547.  @Chazreal  Because one of them will win, and there are degrees of bad. Considering that one candidate wants to set up a fascist dictatorship, become President for Life, ignore the climate crisis, let millions die from coronavirus, use the office for personal gain and to stay out of jail, and the other one doesn't. If you are fine with all of those things, you are clearly a right winger or a psychopath who wants to make people suffer because you didn't get what you want.
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  5548.  @nagantm441  Not my job to prove. I'm not the one saying that these things that look guilty to everyone with eyes, ears, and honesty are all innocent mistakes.
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  5549.  @matthewb8229  You can't even get your talking point right. The line was "keep your plan."
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  5550. ​ @kimberlywalker3970 I personally prefer Stuart Smalley's formulation: Cleopatra isn't the only Queen of Denial ;-)
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  5551. The test of democracy isn't if someone that awful wins, but whether or not the people can get rid of someone that awful.
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  5552.  @CMA418  I don't follow blind links.
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  5553. As a native of West Virginia, it is said not only how many from my native state have forgotten this history, but now side with their oppressors.
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  5554. This is what happens when you nominate someone literally listed as Unqualified to a lifetime position on the federal bench.
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  5555. Okay, that is the most ridiculous take I've ever heard. First of all, it shows your ignorance about the disparity between active duty and reserve components in VA benefits. The only thing she gets VA benefits for is anything directly related to her time overseas. Second, the VA is a provider, and Medicare is a payer. If she really thought what you did, then her understanding of policy is woefully lacking for someone who wants to be President.
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  5556.  @benstromback5809  So, a phrase that was added to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954 is how "it was founded"? I guess that whole "no religious test" and "no establishment of religion" are just empty phrases.
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  5557.  @benstromback5809  Well, why invoke the Founding Fathers for something that was written 167 years after the Constitution? Both are abuses of history.
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  5558.  @Wren6858  I'm pretty sure he took a call from a Libertarian Socialist a couple years ago, but call in.
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  5559. Some countries have a monarchy that doesn't get any formal funding from the government, and they basically just show up for state functions. They are nicknamed "bicycle monarchs." I can see the value of a no-frills head of state rather than blurring the line between head of state and head of government, but I'm not going push for any country that doesn't have one to add it, either.
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  5560.  @barbarjinx3802  Even if you're right about the Model Y (and that's neither this year nor next), that doesn't mean that Tesla is bigger than Toyota in terms of volume.
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  5561.  @barbarjinx3802  I'm not the one upset that someone asked a follow-up about the ridiculous notion that Tesla is the biggest car company in the world right now.
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  5562.  @sk-sm9sh  "nobody bloody knew what McDonald's stood for as it was totally unknown at the time." It was so "unknown" that Colonel Sanders came all the way to California from Kentucky and Ray Kroc came all the way from Illinois to find out how it worked.
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  5563.  @msmith53  You know what would have been even more generous? Not profiting off of paying minimum wage and fighting increases to said minimum wages, not ripping off the actual founders of McDonald's, and not contributing to damaging local economies so wealth could have stayed in the community instead of making her house bigger.
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  5564. ​ @bartfargo6744  Watch the movie Sorority Boys. He has the same haircut and similar voice t Spence in the movie.
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  5565. Indeed. I keep hearing people say that Jimmy Dore is a good comedian, but to quote George Costanza on Superman, I never heard him say anything funny.
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  5566. My nickname for him is He Who Must Not Be Googled.
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  5567.  @aarondickson9573  Yes, because communists like Milton Friedman wanted UBI. It is neither left nor right. The details make a big difference.
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  5568. So, you liked a regressive benefit (the poor and disabled had to give up their existing benefits to get his money) paid for by a regressive tax? May I ask why?
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  5569. There is no middle ground between wanting democracy and wanting a fascist dictatorship.
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  5570.  @Lumby1  He was making fun of that big orange dummy and his recommendation for how to stop forest fires.
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  5571. This is what happens when someone doesn't ever face any consequences for anything and doesn't get told No until after the age of 70.
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  5572.  @GeroldGarthcia  But we're talking about Rushdie and the reaction to the fatwa and his going into hiding. He was quite the cause celebre. Now, had it been someone other than Ayatollah Khomeimi leading the attack, it may have been more positively received, but I don't really remember hearing people saying not to go after Islam in culture at large until probably about 2001-02 to distinguish between fundamentalists and Muslims at large.
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  5573. "I like Ted Cruz more than almost everyone else in the Senate, and I hate Ted Cruz." Al Franken
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  5574.  @rjkmusicmedia  You: How dare you say that I defend rape? I'll sue! Also You: This never happens. Are you insane. [Finds out that it does happen] You: Actually, rape is okay if it is to prevent something that I don't like.
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  5575.  @AdultThirdCultureKid1971  Indeed. And that so-called defender of Medicare for All said that her Diet Coke of Bernie version was a brilliant strategy.
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  5576.  @AdultThirdCultureKid1971  That's the one. She DESTROYED her so much that she's now the VP while Tulsi is going thr Dave Rubin route.
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  5577. The feeling when you realize that your out of i-DEE-uhs.
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  5578.  @billygibbs9866  No one should be living in a car or a park bench, but if people can't afford housing, it certainly seems unfair to design park benches in such a way to make it impossible to sleep on.
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  5579.  @helenpatterson3858  If McSally won, McConnell would be majority leader. That being said, she needs to have a conversion experience to rival Paul or Augustine if she is going to get a second term. Her state can do better, and already is with Mark Kelly in the other seat.
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  5580.  @GGT950  And maybe that's because she realized that it was a stupid strategy. Show me one example in history where Congress has rejected a health care bill and returned with something as generous or more generous that got rejected. Such a strategy makes it easier for fakes to fend off a primary challenge (see: Gabbard, Tulsi) who will then abandon us when we need them. Where was Jimmy Dore in the primary? He was supporting one of the people providing misinformation and insisting that her Not Medicare for All plan was just as good.
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  5581.  @jocksharerock7318  True that he didn't have the House after 2010, but no one forced him to load the Committee with people like Erskine Bowles who were known advocates of privatization. There were limits to what Obama could do, but even as a candidate, he talked about "needing to do something to deal with the long-term deficits in Social Security."
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  5582. True, but what is the pivot is talking about starting war back up in Afghanistan.
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  5583.  @KennethJLave  That is why I have said for years that public financing of campaigns is the reform that makes all other reforms possible.
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  5584.  @TheHuxleyAgnostic  Not only did Tulsi support a public option, but she called Medicare for All "un-American." And given that the history of health care legislation in this country shows that a failure leads to the issue being buried for a generation with a weaker plan at the time (Edward Kennedy said that his biggest regret was killing the Nixon plan because he was holding out for something better, which he never got in 38 years of trying), but passing something tends to lead to that program getting strengthened, so I would argue that his "plan" not only wouldn't get us closer to Medicare for All, it would push us farther away.
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  5585. She did support the Iran nuclear deal... after going along with Greta van Susteren in comparing the Iran nuclear deal to Munich. Gee it's like she has a pattern of going along with right wing interviewers.
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  5586.  @johnmartin4641  If you really think that $95,000/year is "buying the basics," that is Lucille Bluth levels of cluelessness about how the rest of us live.
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  5587. This was always said by people who didn't like the political views being expressed.
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  5588.  @KillerUgly  Or pay him enough.
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  5589.  @jonathansmith4968  Because the only government libertarians believe in is enforcing property rights. If that is the only thing that you believe in, it either leads to unchecked corporate power (fascism) or government dominated by property holders (feudalism).
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  5590.  @robertcarlclayton7724  Or the general welfare.
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  5591. So true, Sam. I remember myself and a friend of mine from my high school days who became a cop arguing with a gun nut who pulled the "can't stop all the guns" argument. I pointed out that you still arrest people for murder, and he pointed out that if reasonable gun control cut the murder rate by 10%, that is hundreds of people who would be alive every year.
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  5592. 8:32 Actually, there were exit polls that did for some reason lump Johnson and Stein voters together. They were asked, if their chosen candidate was off the ballot, would they support Hillary, Trump, another third-party candidate, or not vote at all. To my surprise, despite Libertarians more than tripling the Greens, Hillary was their overwhelming choice. If you add the net percentage who supported Hillary in the H2H (i.e., if they would have been 50-30 for Hillary, add 20% to her total), and she would have won Michigan and Wisconsin. Pennsylvania would have been very close, so I'm not sure if Hillary would have won, but it would have been awfully close. Why did more Johnson voters prefer Hillary? Probably because they were suburbanites who didn't like Trump or Hillary and saw Johnson as a safe place to go. That being said, the argument that Bernie cost Hillary is ridiculous, because that was the primary and he didn't cost her one vote.
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  5593. I'm not quite there. I want to see his dumb face doing a perp walk. Then, I don't ever want to see or hear from him again.
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  5594.  @jamescaron6465  It may have begun the stadiums paid for by tax dollars, but the main difference between the Boston Braves and the Baltimore Colts is that the latter was actually still popular and selling out games. How the Boston Braves didn't straight up fold is beyond me.
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  5595. "The tears aren't coming! The tears aren't coming!" Gob Bluth
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  5596. And he tried to turn Ohio into a right to work for less state.
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  5597. @Jack Tharp When was Denmark invaded? I could also use Iceland as an example. As far as this idea that the US is unique because it was started to be limited, the US Constitution is the biggest power grab in American history. It was debated in secret because those involved knew that the limited government of the Articles of Confederation didn't work and they needed to increase central power. Also, centrist is a dirty libel that does not apply to me. If you are not a libertarian, I apologize. I saw you arguing against the ability of government to do anything right, and I assumed you were a libertarian.
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  5598. ​ @synapse131  Indeed. Pretty much every good thing flattened or went down and bad things started going up right around 1980.
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  5599. Making a good movie is fine, but just trying to check boxes that the Academy likes manipulates the whole process. I want great art, not paint by numbers, in the Best Picture. That's not to say that my tastes must match up with everyone (I will still defend The King's Speech as a better movie than The Social Network [Sorkin is great at writing monologues, but not so much at crafting stories, and so help me, someone fighting to overcome an obstacle is a more interesting movie to me than a movie about a jerk being a jerk and winning]), but at least have a choice you can defend based on its merits.
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  5600.  Intellectual Trumpster  I'll jump in to the murder questions. Corporations can commit actions that lead to the death of actual human beings (unsafe worker conditions, selling dangerous products, etc.), many of which they already know about, but ignore because it is a small business expense to pay off victims' families compared to fixing the problem. If they knowingly do that, and they are people, shouldn't that be considered murder?
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  5601.  Intellectual Trumpster  Republicans destroy unions by diminishing their ability to collect dues and fees from workers, by saying that workers shouldn't have to pay for the union if they don't want to, but the union still has to defend the worker by state and federal laws. This diminishes their ability to negotiate, which leads to a drop and membership and a death spiral. They do it by violating laws about intervention in union elections (see: Corker, Bob, and the Volkswagen organization vote). They do it by restricting the rights of unions to advocate for the union but not businesses which want to bust or defeat unions. They do it by leaving seats on the National Labor Relations Board vacant so they can't ever have a quota to operate, thus weakening their ability to enforce worker protections. And those are just off the top of my head.
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  5602.  Intellectual Trumpster  I have been a union rep in my job, and I can assure you that this is the case. When I get some down time, I can find a link to that portion of the Wagner Act, which was not changed when Taft-Harley allowed states to go to right-to-work-for-less and got rid of the closed shop which required every worker to be a union member. The fair use fees came about as a compromise so union shops could get some compensation for having to represent all workers.
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  5603.  Intellectual Trumpster  You said that unions aren't forced to represent all workers. I provided an initial statement and promised follow up on my down time. Your other arguments seemed to me to be secondary to the question of what unions are required to do. You originally asked how Republicans kill unions, and I gave an example. I mentioned several other ways they do so. Are you saying that Corker should have been fined or otherwise punished for damaging the organizing vote? There are other things that you mention, that quite frankly, show quite a bit of misinformation or misunderstanding about how unions work and the laws that govern them. You don't see me complaining that my other examples didn't get addressed. I even gave a follow up to the murder question, and you didn't answer that one, either.
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  5604.  Intellectual Trumpster  At another point, you asked what seemed like a rhetorical question of how Republicans kill unions, and that's why I provided examples. As far as examples of corporations killing people: the Ford Pinto. They knew the design was faulty and would lead to cars catching fire. There are lots of examples of pharmaceutical companies ignoring side effects. Massey Energy neglected safety inspections and repair which led to multiple mine explosions, the largest leading to 29 deaths.
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  5605.  Intellectual Trumpster  You said that people shouldn't interfere with union organizing if people wanted it, and that was an example of someone who interfered with the effort to vote by publicly providing misinformation in an effort to convince workers to vote against it. The governor at the time did so as well. That's why I mentioned Corker. The question was an example based on the general nature of your earlier statement.
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  5606.  @terryarcona3254  How do you define "victimless"? I get that drugs are often the example used, but there are a lot of rules that libertarians want to do away with that lets people victimize a lot of people.
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  5607.  @MrMagnaniman  I realize I'm late to this, but you say "peaceful people" avoid confrontation and don't need to sacrifice for principles, nut what about literal pacifists who went to jail rather than go to war? I am a veteran myself, but I respect those people, because they were actually willing to pay the price for what they believed in.
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  5608. When we're liberals ever the right wing party in America? They are in Australia and Germany, but the liberals were always the left in this country.
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  5609.  @kathykelly5930  You do realize that there are other taxes besides income tax, right?
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  5610. Emphasis on "almost."
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  5611. @TerrariumFusilage1 Studies have shown that most charitable donations by the wealthy go to things that benefit them (opera houses, museums, private schools, etc.) instead of actually helping the poor. They also show that people who make less than $50,000 a year donate more of their income (4%) to charity than those who make over $100,000 (2%).
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  5612. @TerrariumFusilage1 In general, looking at your "look how wonderful the rich people are for giving scraps out of what means nothing to them because it's way more than the peasants can give," anyone who has such a state of worship of the effects of the rich can mean one of only three things: 1) You are insanely rich. 2) You think that you are or someday may be insanely rich. 3) You have taken on an attitude of total subservience to the rich.
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  5613.  @NoWay1969  Maybe if she didn't use the exact same language of the anti-vax crowd, people wouldn't call her anti-vax. Some ideas are so discredited that its adherents deny it. (Even David Duke says he's not a racist.) My opinion after reading her statements on vaccines means only one of two things: 1) she is anti-vaccine, which is disqualifying, or 2) she panders to the anti-vaccine crowd, which is disqualifying.
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  5614.  @RobertScythe  So true. Ironically, of three of the movies that I have seen where Sean Penn was nominated, I think he lost the one he should have won (Dead Man Walking) and should have lost the ones that he won (Ben Kinglsey was better in "The House of Sand and Fog" in 2003, and Mickey Rourke was better in "The Wrestler" in 2008). I wouldn't be a bit surprised if watching "I Am Sam" would make it a perfect four-for-four.
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  5615. That's not a parable. That's a miraculous feeding. They are discussing a story Jesus told to illustrate a point that the caller doesn't want to see.
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  5616. @Julia Sezen Judges below the Supreme Court level are bound by precedent, so this is meaningless.
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  5617.  @MrRondonmon  Who used a 1910 Supreme Court decision that had been overturned in 1937 (that was originally used to overturn child labor laws) to make a decision about public workers? Hint: it wasn't the Warren Court.
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  5618.  @ppantg1  Dems didn't filibuster because Republicans killed the judicial filibuster, despite the objection of every single Democratic Senator.
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  5619.  @ppantg1  What things did Democrats have the votes to stop I the Senate? They literally were in the minority the entire time.
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  5620.  @ppantg1  1) Manchin and Sinema already said that they would torpedo budget reconciliation if the $15/hour minimum wage is included. Therefore, they don't have the votes. Bernie has already said that he will find a must-pass bill and put it in there. 2) Where did anyone mention Defense spending in this thread? And do you want to know why it is so hard to cut Defense spending? If you haven't noticed, people represent districts. Defense contractors are very good at putting as many parts as possible in as many districts as possible. There are a lot of towns that rely on those contracts to get jobs. The ads write themselves. What positive alternative are you offering if you are talking about taking people's jobs? Yes, the Defense budget is too high with projects the Pentagon doesn't even want, but you have to have something else to take back to the people.
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  5621.  @ppantg1  1) This proves that you are dishonest, because Manchin and Sinema did not campaign on it in their 2018 elections. We do not live in a Parliamentary system. 2) The mere fact that cutting Defense spending was part of the platform of very few candidates proves that it is dishonest to use this as an example of Democrats folding.
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  5622.  @lydiahawkins2416  I'll bet you like seeing workers rights get gutted by the Supreme Court, which used the discredited 1910 Loechner case (which was overturned in 1937 and struck down child labor laws) to do it.
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  5623.  @TimeBandit2007  That's not quite how Supreme Court replacements work. Unless someone dies on the bench, it is his/her decision when to retire, so chances are Kennedy would have stayed on the bench. Instead, you might have had RBG retire so we don't have to worry about whether or not Trump gets to name her replacement. As of right now, Roberts is the "swing" Justice. If RBG dies between now and when Trump leaves office, then you have to convince Roberts and one other right-wing Justice not to do something awful. As far as Obama locking kids up, did I say "locking kids up"? No, I said kidnapping. Obama didn't separate children from their parents, he didn't adopt those kids out, and he didn't send a two year old in court to defend herself without a lawyer to defend herself. If you can't tell the difference between the two, either you are very, very unaware of the worst abuses that he is doing, or you are trying to salve your conscience because of the very real consequences of what you advocated on this front. As far as TPP, if Hillary was elected, Democrats probably would have controlled the Senate by a 50-50 margin (with a swing in PA & WI). Given that Republicans would have done everything possible to spite her, and people like Bernie and Warren wouldn't have gone along, TPP would have been DOA. We would still be in the Paris Accords, we wouldn't have destroyed our reputation in the world, we wouldn't have been playing nuclear chicken with North Korea and then emboldened Kim to thumb his noses at us after dangling the disarmament carrot in our faces, we wouldn't have a President with a long history of scaremongering on vaccines, and maybe these severe measles outbreaks wouldn't be happening. We would have had a bloc of five Justices who wouldn't be trying to turn our country back to the 19th century (with only one right-wing Justice over the age of 65) to the point that minimum wage and overtime, worker safety laws, child labor laws, civil rights, and voting rights wouldn't be in danger for the next 30-40 years. Even President Cruz or President Pence wouldn't have the chance to do more than a like-for-like switch on the Supreme Court, so they couldn't do their damage. And I heard the "No Republican for a generation" after Bush, and that didn't work. No party has won more than three consecutive terms since the 22nd Amendment, so I won't hold my breath. Instead, we have someone in office who we have to legitimately worry might not leave if he is defeated in 2020. But, yes, Hillary wouldn't have given you everything you want, so instead you decided to pout and throw everything away for a generation as though it would suddenly have this great awakening. I heard that argument about 2000/2004, and how did that work out? What makes you think that this time will be any different?
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  5624.  @TimeBandit2007  It would not have happened ten years from now. Ever since what Poppy did to Marshall, Supreme Court Justices try to get a similar ideological replacement. (This was evidenced by O'Connor wanting to retire but not wanting President Gore to name her successor.) If Hillary was President, she probably would have had a majority in the Senate, and she would have named Scalia's replacement or just renominated Garland. Given their age, and the fact that no party has won a fourth term since 1944, RBG and maybe Breyer would have retired, keeping the Supreme Court away from the right for a generation. That was the key election; much like with the climate crisis, the question is how much damage there will be instead of cutting it off at the pass.
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  5625.  @TimeBandit2007  If you would have voted for Hillary if you lived in PA, why are you defending the argument that we would be better off with Trump than President Hillary? If you clearly saw that she was the lesser of two evils, why defend those who imply or flat out say that she was the greater evil?
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  5626.  @l.w.paradis2108  That Republicans will literally vote for anyone with an R behind their name, and Democrats are more easily splintered.
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  5627.  @kylewatson5133  So, you would rather kill people and have their relatives sue than make sure that they don't die from the poison meat in the first place? And without the FDA, how are people going to find out which meat is tainted in the first place?
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  5628.  @kylewatson5133  So, I guess all of the fact that companies no longer allow human corpses into ground beef or sausage when a worker falls in has nothing at all to do with the fact that there are inspectors to make sure that happens. Well, I guess this is what happens when you work backward from the result you want instead of going where the evidence leads you.
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  5629.  @akamuzz84  When the FDA finds out there is tainted meat, they do a recall, and fewer people get sick and die. Getting to the root of the problem instead of letting companies kill people because Freedom. Imagine that!
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  5630.  @Patrick-sg7cm  And therein lies the rub. Because you believe that society doesn't exist, everyone has to be an expert in everything in order to survive, and your solution to killer food is to shut the barn door after the cow already got out.
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  5631.  @Patrick-sg7cm  Vegans get food poisoning, too.
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  5632.  @akamuzz84  Luckily, that is up to me. That pesky general Welfare thing and all. You aren't getting your war of all against all and return to feudalism.
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  5633.  @terryarcona3254  Let's just say for the sake of argument that individual sovereignty is a thing. Let's say further for the sake of argument that you form Terrystan. If you want to leave your property, do you need to get a passport to re-enter the United States? If you order something through the mail, will you have to pay a tariff? Is this something that will need to be negotiated with each individual sovereign, or will there be a set rate? If you have children, and they want to move off that property when they grow up, will they have to be naturalized into the United States?
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  5634.  @dougcasey6117  Visions of Tommy Hearns just before Marvelous Marvin Hagler finished him off just danced through my head.
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  5635.  @dougcasey6117  Three, but definitely the greatest short fight ever. It was just a little too early for me to remember at the time (the earliest fight I remember live was Tyson/Tucker), but I have watched it so many times. Marvelous was definitely the greatest middleweight since the real Sugar Ray, and he won that fight against the other Sugar Ray!
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  5636.  @robertaylor9218  There is definitely a ratio that is higher for libertarians. There are 50,000 Christian denominations (although some are more accurately speaking regional and national bodies within one group, but let's just go with it as a baseline) for two billion people, or "one true version" for every 40,000 Christians. I don't know about the absolute number of libertarian strains, but there are definitely more per adherent.
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  5637.  @mrnocal  I agree. Psycho is 58 years old instead of 48, but at the 50 year mark, I was watching it with friends who had never seen it before, and I absolutely refused to tell them who Mother was.
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  5638. I knew someone who advocated something similar. I went with two prongs to show how silly this was: 1) pointing out that he is living on stolen property, and you don't get to keep stolen goods, and 2) How would this island work? The examples I used were if he would have to use tariffs to have goods imported to his property or if he would need a passport to leave it. I should have asked about currency while I was at it, this being before the bitcoin craze ;-)
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  5639.  @Ironcabbit  And that government would probably enact a tariff that would he high enough that he'd probably be worse off financially than if he just paid his taxes.
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  5640.  @kennyvii  More like he made up his own board for certification.
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  5641.  @kennyvii  That's why there is a board. They set standards based on things that people should learn in medical school or through the latest understanding of research. And because it is a board rather than one person, they have accountability. Someone making up his own board, on the other hand...
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  5642. Those knobs were never Bernie supporters. They were Anything but Hillary. He just happened to be the last opponent standing. Those of us who actively supported Bernie agreed with him that Moscow Donald was too dangerous.
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  5643.  @robinsss  I think a lot of this boils down to two things: 1) who enforces the warning label (sub-question: what is the penalty for violating it?), 2) should things that are advertised as medicine be treated differently than those advertised for recreational purposes? As to the former, it seems to me like it would require hundreds of thousands of beat cops for the FDA to make sure that there is compliance, which seems to me like it would be far more intrusive and far more Big Government to just say, "This is the standard." And it would take a lot of taxes to do so, and literally every libertarian caller has whined to Sam about how unfair and evil taxes are. As far as the latter, I do think there is a difference between the two. I also think that there is a legitimate question about where the line for the common good comes in, which for a lot of libertarians doesn't seem to exist.
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  5644.  @CreepahKillahRSA  That is not a "scientifically verified fact." So, should a miscarriage become a criminal investigation?
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  5645.  @CreepahKillahRSA  No, you are just indifferent to life once birth occurs.
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  5646. ​ @thepolarphantasm2319  So, that's who that is in the RM Brown videos!
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  5647.  @bleekrisp  The difference is that we acknowledge it and understand that not only is interdependence a higher value than independence, but that it actually makes society possible.
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  5648.  @Michigntiger08  The speed limits are where they are based on the conditions of the roads and the likelihood of pedestrians. Or, are you doing that right wing thing where you pretend not to understand that there is an optimal level for just about everything?
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  5649.  @bleekrisp  Well, then, why make the point that I responded to?
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  5650.  @Michigntiger08  Because there are always competing interests. There are going to be times where traffic is lower, and it makes no sense to limit speed to what one would drive in a city street with pedestrians.
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  5651.  @Michigntiger08  No, I am in the camp that accidents are less likely to injure people who are inside a car. Therefore, it is safer to drive faster. There is also the fact that, using your strawman, if we required a speed limit of 15-25 everywhere, it would require a redesign of pretty much every engine on the planet.
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  5652. Howard Dean was always a centrist. He once supported increasing the Social Security retirement age to 70. He has a lifetime rating of A from the NRA. Unions hated him as governor. Yes, he was an early opponent of the Iraq War, and yes when I met him in 2006, he was an engaging figure, and he is the most accomplished DNC chair this century so far (Tim Kaine is the least accomplished), but he was never a lefty on policy. He was anti-establishment, though, but not anymore.
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  5653. All a republic means is that there is no monarch. I get that you don't like democracy because your side has unpopular ideas and only wins by making it harder for people to vote, but you open with a logical fallacy that begins with the equivalent of "it's not a grape, it's purple!"
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  5654. Indeed. So far, it seems like Stuart Stevens is the only one who has said that the problem was with conservatism itself. Not sure if he has repudiated supply side theory, though. If they want to help, fine, but they don't get to dictate terms.
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  5655. It angers me greatly to hear people who should know better endanger people with such lies. Last year, my mom's cardiologist told her that she couldn't take the vaccine because she would have a bad reaction with her heart medication. Then, a few months later, the doctor said, "I didn't get the vaccine, so what are you worried about?" A new cardiologist was infuriated and told her that there is no such risk. My mom got the vaccine two days later. There but for the grace of God, she did not become a statistic.
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  5656. Imagine how much he could have done for those issues by not fighting higher taxes and antitrust laws, and money could have actually gone to global health. Instead, he wants to stamp his name on "saving the world."
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  5657.  @jalite1991  Sorry about the link. If you Google Tulsi Gabbard Sisi, you can find an article from The Nation that details some of the sketchy funding of those who backed the Assad trip, and given the main thrust of the video (that she takes money from sketchy sources and it affects her position), changing her mind in this situation toward Assad is not a mark in her favor. The article notes her support (not just in the sense of "none of our business," but outright support) for authoritarian secular regimes in the Middle East where she ignores their brutal records on human rights. All but the most dyed in the wool will see it as problematic to say the least.
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  5658.  @jalite1991  Thank you for looking over everything and sending the video. You are correct. She did finally say in that interview that Assad used chemical weapons on his own people. I am a Christian, so I believe in forgiveness when there is repentance. In all honesty, I would like to know what changed in the intervening two weeks, because "there is no doubt" is very different from "it's possible." I think that she honestly addressed her change on gay rights and abortion, so I don't hold those against her. (My views have changed as well on those, although in my teens and early 20s rather than my 30s.) Did she see new evidence? Did she hold back because she was worried about being seen as supporting military strikes? This would be interesting to find out.
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  5659.  @jalite1991  I didn't mention Modi before, but she clearly and vocally supports him despite all of the things he did against Muslims and his public statements about them. It is true that she doesn't come out and say, "I like everything they do," but saying "she only supported Sisi for fighting ISIS" is the same calculus those who defend America's relationship with Saudi Arabia make. It is one thing to have a marriage of convenience in foreign policy (see: Stalin, Joseph), but another entirely to turn a blind eye to human rights violations. She previously defended Assad as well, so that puts the burden on her to show that she opposes human rights violations, even if she doesn't support the use of ground forces.
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  5660.  @jalite1991  The part about the funding for the Syria trip comes from the link in the article, which takes you here: https://www.thedailybeast.com/tulsi-gabbards-fascist-escorts-to-syria As far as the larger question of Tulsi vs. Bernie on foreign policy, he got Iraq right, he is getting Venezuela right, and he never, ever defended torture, so on this issue as well, Bernie>Tulsi.
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  5661.  @améliehester6996  Aaron loves his nonsequiturs. They made him feel good because he has nothing else in his life.
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  5662. "You can't turn around an entire economy in thirty days." No, but clearly you can run it into an iceberg.
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  5663. And term limits are anti-democratic. If you don't like her being there, do what you can to help her primary opponent. If the people of her district want her, so be it. If you go with term limits and mandatory retirement age, you get rid of the good people, too, and you get an increase in the power of staff, so not a great plan.
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  5664.  @alecjames9045  And, they will rely so heavily on the staff... who no one votes on.
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  5665. Thank God you are okay! I couldn't possibly imagine carrying the hopes of so many. Let us help carry you to victory. We know you'll be back better than ever once you get some rest.
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  5666. 4:41 Speaking of gradualism, my old apartment was a block away from a stop on the Underground Railroad. I live in Pennsylvania, a free state. I didn't know some of the details at the time (quite frankly, my textbook was so Lost Cause despite growing up in a state that only existed because it opposed the Confederacy that it was ridiculous), they said that Pennsylvania enacted "gradual emancipation" in 1780, with any slave alive at the time of passafe not covered, but how that someone who came from a slave state could bring their slaves with them, but if they stayed for six months, they were freed (when Washington was President in Philadelphia, he would rotate slaves for one day less than six months). There were legal slaves in Pennsylvania until 1849. Definitely emphasizing the gradual.
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  5667. As did I.
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  5668.  @tento3555  I'll watch tomorrow, and if it says exactly that formulation (it doesn't have to be verbatim, but it has to include the basics that there are no acceptable uses, as well as an apology), I will gladly retract. However, if this is like her conflicting statements in whether or not Assad used chemical weapons, forget it. My low opinion of her as a legitimate lefty will sink even further.
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  5669.  @Atmost11  After seeing what happened to Corbyn, there's a part of me that thinks that the establishment would have definitely done the same thing to Bernie had he won the nomination, which would have led to another generation if "this is what happens when you nominate a lefty."
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  5670.  @Atmost11  Sadly, after the Corbyn letters, I think you're right. I made a run for office in 2006, and most of the time, all I heard was how hard to beat my opponent. It wasn't until I called it out at a fundraiser for a state senate candidate (I said, "I know he's hard to beat! I'm 26 and I just moved to the district last year. If he was easy to beat, I would have had a primary opponent.") that they stopped telling that to me to my face, but I don't think they really saw me as a serious candidate until I was able to publicly shame the incumbent into a debate that people knew that I was serious. If they had ridden with the horse they had, maybe I would have gotten more than 38% of the vote. The sad thing is that even that beat expectations.
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  5671. Recalls are for state and local offices only, not federal.
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  5672. The greatest comment ever on the works of Rand or what they inspired: "If the producers truly believed in the free market, after 'Atlas Shrugged: Volume I' lost that much money, this movie would have never been made." Roger Ebert on "Atlas Shrugged Volume II"
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  5673. That's the dance of the "how I left the left" grift. You still say you're on the left, but everything you do helps the right.
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  5674.  @sandrafrancisco  It looks like they're doing a pretty good job to me. Even the Vietnamese didn't win any battles, and look how that turned out.
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  5675. Is she old enough?
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  5676. Indeed. I get that there was that history about a three-word phrase, but the biggest parallel I got was with Forrest Gump, although he was basically someone who just did what he was told. I think that it issues with the sport in general coming out in strange ways.
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  5677.  @andreabrown4541  How does the fact that Herschel Walker sucks make that a racist slogan, though?
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  5678.  @Rjasper499  Now, here is some actual evidence as to who is faring best: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/06/14/covid-cases-vaccination-rates/ Now, you claim to have evidence to back yours up, so I guess we shall see.
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  5679.  @dahlizz99  Yeah, it's weird. It's like there are people who were explicit that they wanted to leave to defend slavery and the idea that they were better than someone else if they didn't own slaves, and decades later they pretended that wasn't the case at all despite saying so at the time. What's even weirder is that people still swallow this Lost Cause nonsense.
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  5680. There are still vestiges of labor in West Virginia. Arizona doesn't seem like it ever really had worker power.
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  5681.  @FMagl  Indeed. As frustrating as Manchin can be, he does respond to pressure. However, when your state is R+39, taking half a loaf really is the best that you can hope for. Since Arizona went blue and has been trending that way for at least ten years, I really don't know what her excuse is.
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  5682.  @williethomas5116  They were willing to sign on to the smaller voting rights bill, but neither was willing to cast a procedural vote to allow it onto the floor.
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  5683.  @Andie1951  Compared to the other Republicans, he is. However, because he is a Republican, that guarantees some positions on taxes, judges, and voting rights that are pretty bad. Even the ones who are more moderate go along with that stuff.
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  5684. What about Australia? They have avoided recession since 1991. I'm not saying "three cheers for capitalism," but some have managed better than others.
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  5685.  @EdgeO419  As long as we have a FPTP system with a chief executive elected who requires a majority in a national system while winning with a plurality at the state level, you will get two parties. It's not my fault that people don't understand how math works. Ballot access laws are there for a reason, and major and minor party candidates are all told to strictly follow the letter of the law. The Green Party did not do that in Wisconsin. They didn't. They were given a chance to file an affidavit to correct the error. They didn't. Instead, they hired a Republican law firm and waited two weeks to file an appeal right before the deadline to send them out. They had plenty of chances, and they didn't earn their spot on the ballot in Wisconsin.
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  5686. Whoever the Republicans nominate can only lose four. Their problem is that there are at least that many nihilists in the conference, so they are doomed. Before the election, a McCarthy strategist said that they'd need at least 230 in order to have a governing majority. He wasn't kidding.
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  5687. As far as the motivation, I was a delegate to the WV Young Dems state convention five times (three representing WVU, two at-large [basically college graduates in a county that didn't have its own chapter]), and I spent three of those years (2005-07) on the Resolutions Committee. In that time, I got eight resolutions to the floor (Social Security, Patriot Act, single payer, living wage, global warming, public financing of campaigns, the Iraq War, and "a conversation on guns"). Guess which one of those was the only one to fail to pass?
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  5688.  @dark3rthanshadows  No, it was the 70s when it was going down the drain. Bird and Magic saved it in the 80s, and Jordan brought it to a new level in the 90s.
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  5689.  @REXX-STRONGSTYLE  True. I was only trying to make the point that the league was already saved by the time Jordan came around. The 80s and 90s were really a golden era for the game.
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  5690.  @donyoung7874  I don't know how well Salon has them archived, but the instant that the question switches from government accountability to corporate accountability, you will see it. If you Google Edward Snowden Glenn Greenwald criticism, you will see an article from 2014 from The Nee Republic that chronicles some of his worst takes. He also had this habit of defending violent Neo-Nazis pro bono based on First Amendment grounds.
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  5691.  @idontwantahandlethough  True, but do you make condescending remarks on how awful his system is without understanding the basic rules of it?
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  5692.  @9876babyboy  The troll is named Aaron Dickson and he just tries to distract people (he uses dozens of accounts), so please try not to feed the troll when the troll is random.
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  5693.  @sisuguillam5109  Have you ever heard of Arrested Development the TV show? I made a direct quote. I'm well aware that there is no party in German Parliament with this name. Are you proving a stereotype right now?
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  5694.  @sisuguillam5109  I'm not saying that I like FDP. I'm just saying that, whoever you are, it would suck to think that you'll be part of a coalition if a certain party wins... only to find out that you get booted when it deadlocks. How great or awful the Free Democrats are has nothing to do with that.
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  5695.  @sisuguillam5109  You seemed hung up on the fact that, even after I explained that it was a reference to the show, that it made no sense. I gave the context for the line and everything. If you don't get the reference, just say that instead of "still makes no sense."
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  5696.  @sisuguillam5109  Here, "far more likely" and "bound to" are not the same thing, because the latter is 100% certainty, while the former acknowledges some chance of it not occurring.
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  5697. ​ @P.O.W.  Here's a thought: because time is limited, they just want to focus on the most relevant point, Aaron.
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  5698.  @P.O.W.  Well, then, Aaron, what in particular do you think that they missed that would have saved the reputation of Jimmy Dore from the part that they did show?
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  5699.  @P.O.W.  Nope. You made the accusation, so it's your job to provide the evidence.
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  5700.  @morenitomoreno1282  She's just tjis side of Walter Sobchack in invoking her veteran status.
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  5701. Are they asking for money to enable a coup?
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  5702. Kim Iversen had the quickest switch to right I have ever seen.
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  5703.  @stanvans3214  Based on what? The traitors gave their reasons for wanting to leave, and slavery was at or near the top of the list every time, and Alexander Stephens called slavery the "cornerstone" of the Confederacy. For people who believed in "states' rights," they sure did support the Fugitive Slave Act, which forced anti-slave states to return slaves to slave states. Not only that, but there were two laws that the Confederate Constitution stated could not be changed: the Fugitive Slave Act, and no law could impede the Peculiar Institution. Your Lost Cause doesn't fly here.
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  5704.  @avidanrev  And in a democracy, who controls the government?
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  5705.  @avidanrev  So, you are fine with the evil government owning utilities... as long as it is the state government. You are aware that this is exactly what de Blasio was talking about in this video, right? You can say that you don't want to repeat Cuba because freedom, but there are just as many dictatorships of the right that let businesses do whatever they want, and they are called fascist. Quite frankly, a lot of what you are saying, when pressed, seems to boil down to not liking the name.
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  5706.  @joethethunder4906  I really don't understand the argument you are trying to make. You are aware that Bush got a second term, right? Everything in your argument is based on not knowing things.
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  5707. Probably because she realized how much the party got mad at her for that, and now she's overcompensating.
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  5708. I think Arthur Leigh Allen was the original Zodiac (there are far too many coincidences), and he passed it off to someone else, other than the East Coast version. That is why it's so hard to pin down the DNA.
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  5709.  @reginaldbowls7180  Are you sure?
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  5710.  @SteveGellerMusic  The reason why the Democrats are having so much trouble governing is that a) Republicans completely refuse to play ball because they know that Democrats will get all of the blame, b) which means that because of the narrow margin in Congress, they have to get 98% of House Democrats and 100% of Senate Democrats on board, c) which is not as easy to accomplish because the Democratic Party is much more of a coalition than a lockstep party. So, is the best way to get what you want to spend all of your time complaining about Democrats, which will help Republicans, or point out the Republican obstruction and try to gain seats so that Democrats get a bigger margin of error to get things done?
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  5711. @DixonYamowthe He clearly saw where his audience was going and chased subscribers. He also got paid by a front company for the Syrian government, and he got half a million dollars a year to go to Rumble. Hey, multimillion dollar houses don't pay for themselves.
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  5712. @Killingdance The fact that this shift (and his refusal to admit it) coincided with buying a multimillion dollar house in Pasadena begs to differ.
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  5713.  @roshansreedhar4727  But let's just say that maybe Jimmy Dore just had a terrible strategy. That means that there are one of two possibilities: either Jimmy Dore has terrible judgment, and no one should pay attention to what he has to say, or he was a grifter all along... and no one should pay attention to what he has to say.
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  5714.  @Kloutkulture  Oh, he'll be impeached. Whether or not he gets removed is in the air, but let us not forget that Republicans stood by Nixon until they didn't. I'm not saying these Republicans will grow a spine, but it is completely possible that if Trump starts to lose his cult, the Senate Republicans will abandon that sinking ship.
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  5715.  @benmidnightflame  You've got to love that real world practicality behind libertarian economic thought.
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  5716.  @bellaraio5783  He also briefly left MSNBC to work on the Howard Schultz campaign, and he was the one who convinced McCain to nominate Sarah Palin as his running mate. It is totally an enemy of my enemy situation.
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  5717. If people sell off their stocks in order to avoid being taxed at a higher rate, that will mean more tax revenue. Does this guy not realize that you only pay the capital gains tax when you sell?
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  5718. And what happens after the vote fails and you've used your leverage?
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  5719.  @matthewcraker6729  Maybe her previous support of torture, or opposition to the Iran nuclear deal, or playing both siderism on the shutdown, or leaping to Biden's defense over busing, or her courting Sheldon Adelson and doing his bidding to try to get rid of his competition, or the "peace candidate" who praised Putin for bombing civilians in Syria and complained that Obama didn't.
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  5720.  @mingperfunctory3210  I want someone whose ideology is similar. She would be a great pick, and she would help with any lingering resentment over 2016.
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  5721. Greene got over 60% of the vote. That corner of Georgia is so ridiculously right wing that Ranked Choice Voting wouldn't matter.
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  5722.  @user-em6ie2be7x  Except the Republican Party is so far gone that she is the better option in their eyes.
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  5723. That was artificially produced testosterone. Castor Semanya has elevated testosterone, but it's not produced in any way that gives her a competitive advantage. Some people look like women externally, but they have internal testicles where ovaries would go. How should they be treated?
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  5724.  @MrDavidBFoster  She said that she was offended, and offered as her defense going to Jerusalem and working for a man who practices Orthodox Judaism. It's the equivalent of the "I have black friends" defense. At no point (other than saying that she resented the audio being played) did she actually address the proper context and show how she was being misinterpreted. An example would be if she said, "If the Congressman played the audio further, it would show that I said this which invalidates the complaint," but she didn't do that, so what is the context of her actual words. Not that she has Jewish friends, not that she supported moving the Israeli embassy to Jerusalem (not realizing that this is a controversial position even among Jewish people), but what were the actual words that show the proper context since she feels that this was out of context?
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  5725.  @MrDavidBFoster  You posted something that you said showed the "full context." It didn't. I pointed that out. If you want to post something over and over again and it turns out that it isn't what you say it is, someone is bound to call it out. So, what was the "context" in the video you gave? Someone being angry about the tactic someone used without actually clarifying what was her own words is not "full context."
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  5726.  @MrDavidBFoster  And I will choose that freedom to be honest rather than being dishonest by posting something that doesn't provide context when saying "full context." Here's a little Logic 101: saying "that is not what I believe" is not the same as "I didn't say that thing that you have me saying."
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  5727.  @Thebotulism  But if one is based on facts and an understanding of the rules of the system, and the other is not, wouldn't you save time by not listening to the one who is ill-informed and will sometimes admit that he has no idea what he is talking about, retreating into "I'm just a comedian" when it is pointed out that he doesn't know what he is talking about?
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  5728.  @boreddude3898  I never said they were. My vote was against Trump, and I did so proudly. My point was that there were clearly not an extra 20MM votes out there for Bernie. If there were, he would have won the nomination. I did everything I could to help, but an honest examination shows that Bernie did much better in 2016 because voters were less mobilized by fear of the fascist, and a lot of his vote ended up being votes against Hillary.
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  5729.  @abnergarzaro4287  The judge should have turned the cameras off first.
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  5730. When I paid off my credit card last year, my daughter was about to start kindergarten, so I moved to an area with a high-performing school district. (I was going to move anyway, but this definitely was a factor in where I moved.) My income is fairly close one way or the other to the national median, but the median income of the school district is nearly twice the national level. When dealing with even the upper-middle class, there can be a certain level of cluelessness as well. My daughter wanted to have a playdate with another girl. I tended to suggest places to go that were free (parks, libraries, etc.), but the other girl's mom always wanted to suggest places that cost money, and I knew they were moving, and she casually mentioned someone offering cash at $40K above the asking price. Considering that I live in a 2 BR apartment, definitely not the kind of windfall I can expect. She was never mean or bragging, but I don't think that she honestly understood how not everyone has such good luck.
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  5731.  Aaron Sanders  That's what Bernie is doing. It is a 7% payroll tax on employers, and a 4% employee payroll tax that exempts the first $29,000 of income. Except he gets rid of the middleman to actually save costs.
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  5732.  @TheHuffmanator  And how specifically is he "shilling"?
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  5733. He made a good point when comparing his worldview to Jain philosophy. That being said, a lot of his jokes were poorly timed in this one in terms of exposing idiocy.
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  5734. Biden makes that mistake quite a bit. He kept saying billion instead of trillion for the cost of Medicare for All and million instead of billion for his own. People need to stop over thinking who other people want and figure out who they want, because if he wins, you have to defend this for the next four years. Is that really what you want?
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  5735.  @Hazegod  It is confusing. The first one seems clearly sarcastic because "peace in our time" was what Chamberlain said in 1938, but the second makes it more confusing.
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  5736.  @Cartman4wesome  Now, now. The Canadian government has apologized many times for Bryan Adams.
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  5737. Any endurance athlete knows how important carbohydrates really are.
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  5738.  @djohnson5675  But Saagar is not disillusioned with his party. He's still voting for Trump. He spends most of his time defending Trump or crapping on Democrats. Krystal Ball spends almost all of her time dumping on Democrats. What is the cumulative result? Also, the book praises Trump, it almost never criticizes the right, and it gets mad any time someone tries to reach out to women and minorities. It is objectively a right wing book. I know. I saw her at a DSA meeting before she ripped her mask off and bought and autographed copy. If you think he's not a fascist, look at his takes. His "populism" is limited to opposing trade deals. He went ballistic any time any Bernie supporter ever talked about social issues. Not all fascists shave their heads and get tattoos. Some look like Michael Palin's character in Brazil.
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  5739. She was much better in the second once she got the hang of the format.
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  5740. A part of me wonders if the follow-up questions ended up on the cutting room floor.
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  5741. If Der Orangefuhrer said the sky was blue, I'd have to go to my window to check.
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  5742.  @LumumbaKShakur  How mix I know?
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  5743. I remember a few years ago when someone was telling me that it was unfair that his tax dollars went to fund public schools while his kid went to a private school. I responded with a reductio ad absurdum that by that logic I should get my tax money back, because at the time I had no kids. Ie didn't understand what I was doing and said that I should. Others in the room got the point I was trying to make.
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  5744.  @lisamurphy7102  True about that. I guess I'm just remembering how New Labour completely sabotaged Jeremy Corbyn and he got replaced by Kier Starmer. I think that the real reason why Bernie ran was to get the ideas out there. (Some of the postmortems of 2016 said that he basically campaigned part time until he thought he had a chance in November 2015, because he was focused on his day job.) He has been consistent that it would take a political revolution to get most of his agenda passed. In other words, the squad needs to become the company or the battalion (it's getting close to a platoon). Debs and Bryan led the way to Wilson and FDR, so maybe someday Bernie will beget the movement of AOC.
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  5745.  @miscaccount9438  I must say that I find it highly amusing that you consider simply asking what you are doing to organize "a personal attack." I guess maybe "I try to get people to think differently" is your admission that you think commenting online is the same as organizing. So, let's think of the consequences of "refusing to be a part of evil," as though that's not a personal attack on anyone who votes for the major-party nominee, especially when those people live in swing states. In 2000 and 2016, we got Presidents who were put there despite pluralities supporting other candidates in no small part because of third party candidates. It was very obvious in 2000, because Nader got over 150 times the margin of "victory" in Florida. In 2016, the exit polling shows that third party voters preferences would have definitely made the difference to swing Wisconsin and Michigan to Trump, and possibly Pennsylvania as well. That got us the Iraq War and over a million dead because of a pandemic. But, wait! There's more. Between the two of them, they put five Justices on the Supreme Court, who provided the deciding margin in the Citizens United case (gutting campaign finance laws), Shelby (gutting the Voting Rights Act), and Dobbs (overturning Roe). So, you can pretend that you're above it all, but I will look at the real-world consequences and remember every time my adenoids are so swollen that I can barely breathe or I get really bad headaches.
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  5746. That would wait for any successful coup. We already have Republicans in several states saying that they can just declare a winner.
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  5747.  @jonfklein  If you really want a third party, even though history has shown that they either get co-opted by one of the major parties or fade into obscurity, you have to look at the rules. What happens if no one gets to 270. The election goes to the House... where it gets decided by Democrats and Republicans. It is math that guarantees two parties in the United States.
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  5748. He's on his way down the Dore grift pipeline. The instant he bragged about not voting to Joe Rogan because he lived in a swing state rather than actually vote for down ballot races that he claimed to care about is the moment he took his mask off.
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  5749. Is there something wrong with the tint?
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  5750.  I'm racist  Why is it that every single Yang Gang banger insists that we "do more research" with their chosen one? Maybe the reason why we don't like him is because we took your advice, and then we saw the fine print, we didn't like what we saw.
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  5751. In 2008, in the SNL sketch introducing Tina Fey as Sarah Palin, Amy Poehler as Hillary Clinton said, "I don't want to be a woman President. I want to be President and happen to be a woman." To a certain extent, that is how she ran in 2008, and Obama definitely ran as someone who wanted to be President who happened to be black. That is how anyone has to do it. You don't see Bernie saying that it is time for a Jewish President.
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  5752.  @paulspringwood7190  Blown out? He got 44% and 32% of pledged delegates. Yes, the country may not be ready for Bernie, but sometimes the loser can set the stage for bigger and better things (see also: Bryan, William Jennings; Smith, Al).
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  5753.  @brendag5263  In all honesty, I wonder if Niko House was hoping he could get with her.
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  5754.  @thetowerstillstands  I even liked the original. I wasn't even disagreeing. I was just saying that a big reason for the possibility of that tone was going older.
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  5755.  @williamstorms3262  So, you never have evenings, weekends, or holidays off?
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  5756. This guy went from "people are doing that because they have been beat down for three years" to "they are reprehensible." Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't a literal Nazi when a Congressional nomination in Illinois two years ago? "Illinois Nazis. I hate Illinois Nazis!" Joliet Jake
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  5757.  @Couldnteventhink  Well, back when Nixon was President, they actually believed in things. I'm not sure where you saw the turn, but I'd say that Gingrich was probably the transitional figure, because while he believed in things as Speaker, he seemed to spend most of his time complaining about the left rather than talking about his actual vision.
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  5758.  @pragmaticpolitics1413  My state exempts staple goods from its sales tax such as groceries, clothing, medicine, and diapers, and the poorest 20% still pay nearly ten times what the richest 1% do as a percentage of income. Consumption taxes are inherently regressive. The best that you can hope for is to make them less regressive.
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  5759. *Continues to prove
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  5760. Feast of Trumpets, indeed! Happy Belated New Year
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  5761. This whole thing reminded me of when the Super Bowl had a power outage a few years ago.
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  5762.  @h..8083  Well, the way you keep digging, sooner or later you'll find the answer for yourself.
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  5763.  @Cbass2311  So, why does he only argue with people who he is confident he can defeat?
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  5764.  @antivaushistscheaktion1148  Yes, because ignoring the courts works so well. The last person I saw make that argument was Pat Buchanan saying to just criminalize all abortion and dare the courts to stop them.
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  5765. Too bad the policies she put out didn't include Medicare for All.
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  5766. Indeed. You saw such a fall in Hungary, and that idiot Tucker Carlson is his new hype man.
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  5767.  @andyandryshak3961  That is completely incorrect. This is something that people often use to justify wealth, but the next thing Jesus says is, "With man, this is impossible, but with God, all things are possible." This tells me that it is a literal camel. Yes, it is possible for a rich man to enter through the grace of God, but that doesn't mean that hoarding wealth and actively making people suffer is acceptable, either.
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  5768. Yeah, nothing at all. This very video points out that Yang views his proposal as a replacement for the existing social safety net. It also points out the problem of using a regressive tax to pay for it.
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  5769.  @superfly2449  Self awareness, maybe.
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  5770.  @nathanlevesque7812  There will never be an expulsion, because that takes a 2/3 vote. You pretty much have to be convicted of a crime for that to happen.
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  5771.  @razzan532  Definitely. As soon as you see the details of how he wanted to do so, it was worse and worse.
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  5772. There was a brief period where I thought that he was a worthy silver medalist. The more I found out, the worse he got.
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  5773.  @SeanStrife  I saw that, but my point was that bringing up a right wing version and passing it off as a lefty version actually discredits the idea rather than bringing it into the mix.
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  5774. ​ @jessealexander2695  I thought Indy was irreplaceable, but I was wrong. Both of you are great in your own ways.
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  5775.  @crispinfornoff206  So, Trump went back in time to 1984 to put Fauci in that position? What foresight!
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  5776.  @crispinfornoff206  Fauci has held the position that would make him the person to handle the response to infectious diseases since 1984. Trump doesn't get credit for letting the guy in the position for decades to his job. He does get blame for repeatedly undermining him along the way.
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  5777.  @crispinfornoff206  You mean like when he blows up at reporters for wearing masks or telling bigwigs to take them off? That's "listening to the advice"? I didn't say that Fauci was. I said the ones who have been point person the last couple of months have been. When is the last time Fauci was at a briefing?
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  5778.  @crispinfornoff206  This is not the first time I have seen you in comment sections. If you haven't seen others, you are blind. And I would argue that "taking Fauci's advice into consideration along with other factors" certainly implies that you think that Trump has been on top of things.
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  5779.  @JessMan508  What happened to that 2016 recount money again?
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  5780.  @robt400  That's what I've been saying for quite some time. If she weren't young and pretty, her support would evaporate.
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  5781.  @mysticonthehill  Oh, he's pretty bad. At this point, it seems like a matter of time before he goes full Dore. The only Kulinski exposure I get these days is when Progressive Voice talks about him, but the fact that he never criticizes Jimmy Dore (who he considers a friend) or Joe Rogan (who he tries to butter up so he can get appearances on his show) should have made it obvious to the people who take his word for gospel that he is a hack on his way to becoming a grifter.
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  5782.  @Deepstatedebate  For which one?
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  5783. Darn right! Too many who claim to care about working people have tantrums when they don't get their way and don't treat elections seriously. As a result, voting rights and workers' rights have been gutted, with reproductive rights next on the chopping block. Some of the people who do this are play actors with nothing at stake.
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  5784.  @stormhawk4277  I voted for Bernie both times, and I actually did everything I could to help him win the nomination in 2020 (having an infant makes it a lot harder to be active). Biden won in 2020 because his voters actually showed up. Having a tantrum doesn't change the fact that the side that wins is the side that always shows up. Those of us who are adults know that we can't wait for the world to change. What has accelerationism gotten us? Five Supreme Court Justices determined to gut voting rights, workers' rights, and reproductive rights.
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  5785.  @whosays1977  If you're in a safe state, that is far different than those who actively advocate for four more years. Good on you for understanding that difference! I live in PA, so I knew all along that I would vote for the nominee no matter what. Only Bernie earned my weekends, though.
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  5786.  @FrozEnbyWolf150  I would argue that there are more then six given the way that Trump is trying to undermine mail-in voting. I'd argue that even second-tier swing states such as Minnesota and Texas should also take pause for taking that course of action and be absolutely certain, although in all honesty, I'd be more confident of that course of action in the second-tier red states than blue.
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  5787.  @RyanTheHammer  You can do a lot of things. Doesn't make it a good idea.
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  5788.  @whosays1977  Well, if the Green Party wanted to get on the ballot in Montana, maybe they shouldn't have worked with Republicans to fraudulently game the petition process.
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  5789.  @whosays1977  It's not coming after you. It's just pointing out that if the Green Party really wanted to just get a lefty message on the ballot that they need to stop conspiring with Republicans to violate election laws. They lost ballot access in 2004 for the same reason. You'd also think that they would stop working with Republicans. Since you made it sound like it was a nefarious plot to disenfranchise the Greens, I was just pointing out what happened.
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  5790. She went from trying to be Trump's secretary of state in 2016 to Biden's VP in 2019-20 to angling to be the GOP VP nominee in 2024, so it looks like she's come full circle.
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  5791. Fred Sr. excommunicated her dad, so his family was able to stay away from that orbit.
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  5792.  @TrotmanOwl  Why should abolition be the goal? When the talking filibuster was a thing, it happened on the average of once every two years or less. While it was done to try to block civil rights, it was also used to delay American entry into WWI. If the minority is determined to make its case to the American people and do the hard work to sustain it, I support that right, because ultimately it is a war of attrition, and just a matter of time.
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  5793.  @DavidTrumbly  While I agree that I have issues with taxing unrealized capital gains, there are two exceptions I am willing to make: wealth taxes along the lines of what Warren proposes, and inheritance. To me, it is the most ridiculous and obscene loophole in personal taxes. Example: if Warren Buffett wanted to give his Berkshire stock to his kids, he could do so tax free to the point where, even if they sell it later, the tax would be based on the rate at which they inherited the money. (I don't know if Bezos has kids, which is why I didn't use "Amazon winnings" as an example.) Surely, that is unrealized capital gains that should be taxed.
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  5794.  @terrystevens3998  The right thing would have been not bragging about sexual harassment and perpetuating it.
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  5795.  @circusfire288  Yes, because it is truly an apples to apples comparison to look at a book written about years ago and looking at something that has the advantages of mass purchase sells and someone begging for positive reviews on several media outlets.
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  5796. Indeed. The math isn't great, but that's millions of dollars saved going after a doomed seat.
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  5797. ​ @JohnnyDelco  Let's say for the sake of argument that every word you said was true. What happened to the perpetrators? When MR covers it when a cop kills a black person, it's usually because the racist cop didn't get punished.
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  5798. Few things are sadder than selling your soul and finding no buyers, but if you go back and look at her history, this is who she is. She defended Biden on busing and criticized Booker and Harris for having issues with his opposition to it. The real grift was pretending to be a lefty by supporting Bernie in 2016.
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  5799.  @markalan804  Except she has given no indication of being dedicated to any form of peace. No one who literally supports war crimes gets credit for "opposing wars of aggression."
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  5800. 11:22 Yes! People need to stop treating the people of Ukraine as pawns or a "buffer."
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  5801.  @FishFinga17  You mean the public that keeps rewarding Mitch McConnell? That public?
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  5802. He is. We are clearly on the left side of that curve. In the original article where he explained the parabola on the napkin that is literally the basis of the American right today, he admitted that the rate may be over 90% in certain situations, but then he got his cut and forgot his original argument that there is an optimal rate (rather than just always lower), although some people have argued that the optimal top rate is around 70%.
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  5803.  @shawnsierra7435  Bernie is the perfect candidate to go against Trump. Once people see real populism, Moscow Donald's fake variety will look hollow. It will big Moscow Donald to no end to see the least wealthy US Senator running against him, and last bit not least, Bernie will shove it down his throat that Moscow Donald said wages are too high in America and bribed Carrier to postpone outsourcing for a year while Bernie got Amazon to give every worker a YOUge pay raise.
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  5804.  @Fragenzeichenplatte  In Living Color had a sketch that suggested that police would do just that. It wouldn't surprise me.
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  5805. I think that one of the best examples of taking down this trope by showing how absurd it was came from a South Park episode where four-year-old Ike was having an affair with his kindergarten teacher. Stan and Kyle were appalled, but the adults kept saying "Nice!" because the teacher was attractive.
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  5806. Now, the real question is whether or not they're willing to defy him in public.
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  5807. "If it was anyone else, I'd say that'd be a lesson to you, but you're gonna need more than one lesson, and you're gonna get more than one lesson." Jim W. Gettys to Charles Foster Kane, Citizen Kane
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  5808. Pakman got a similar letter. Someone must really be pushing hard to save that Embarrassed Boy's career.
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  5809.  @Linge88  Well, if they regret it, why did they refuse to go along with Corbyn as a caretaker PM to actually stop the thing that they say they don't want? If someone realistically has the choice of a Tory MP or a Lib Dem, go for the Tory, but it is looking more and more like Brexit is the one thing that they are running on.
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  5810.  @AA-xb2zm  You clearly missed the implication of the third Hitler quote threatening violence.
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  5811.  @rgdssd  She has been showing them for a while. I'm just glad that more people are finally seeing it.
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  5812. I take my daughter on scenic railroads every year. Maybe I should be his deputy!
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  5813. 1:07 Her hatred of centrists instead of the right finally being useful!
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  5814.  @ThreaT650  Definitely. I have no problem pointing out how awful she is, but I just don't want to emphasize it right now while she is doing something beneficial. The instant this national nightmare ends, the truce is over.
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  5815. Lawyers can't just make things up, though. If the rioters are there for that reason, it is a perfectly legitimate question. This was less like a regular trial, and more akin to a Supreme Court hearing where the jurors get to ask the lawyers questions about what they think are the important issues.
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  5816. True, but most cults at least try to offer something positive to bring people in (e.g., People's Temple fed people and was the first integrated church in Indianapolis before moving to San Francisco, Scientology uses self-help), but I still can't figure out the positive thing that lured in the Trump cult.
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  5817.  @MimiKeel  True, but those aren't positive. I mean, I guess you could say that a powerful person is validating their hate, but most people who come out of cults and are honest about it will tell you what drew them in to start with. If you watch the thing about NXIVM, more than one said, "I didn't join to brand women. I didn't join so someone could have sex slaves."
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  5818.  @steverickenbacher7110  Paul Haggis said that was what brought him in. I'm not saying that it is positive, I am saying that it is easier to understand the hook. The free auditing sessions then lead people to things that they see as improvement. The hatred of psychology and the Xenu story come much later. According to Leah Remini and her series, it costs tens of thousands of dollars to get to the level where you even hear it.
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  5819.  @steverickenbacher7110  We are in agreement. Perhaps I am just expressing my exasperation that at least others could point to things that they were trying to do to make the world better. Those who went to People's Temple because they fed the poor I can understand and have some sympathy for, but it is much harder when people join something that is hateful from the beginning.
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  5820.  @joehoang4826  I take it you did not see them playing Emma Vigeland asking Warren why she voted to give Trump more than he asked for in 2017 for defense.
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  5821. ​ @mananimal3644  Uncommitted and third party have literally zero chance of victory, so no they aren't. And I live in Pennsylvania, and Uncommitted is not a thing on the primary ballot, so you are either lying, ignorant (not surprising giving your other statements), or a bot.
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  5822.  Ghost Yuki  You can make it a campaign finance law, but you can't make it a ballot access law. The Constitution is very clear about standards for a candidate. There was a case where Arkansas instituted term limits for all offices. An incumbent who wasn't allowed to run sued and the law was overturned.
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  5823.  @kiwimaracuia9834  I would hope that people realize that it really isn't.
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  5824.  @anthonymccarthy4164  Funny how your version of left keeps going farther and farther in one direction. Truman wanted a program resembling the NHS, and the one who just wants single payer is getting red baited. And do you honestly think that LBJ would have won in 1968? He dropped out when he did for a reason. And you mention Nixon, but the last two Democrats have been well to the right of Nixon. In Michigan, 64% said that wanted Medicare for All even when it was worded in the most unfavorable way, and Biden said yesterday that he would veto it. Do you really think that will excite voters in November?
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  5825. People in small states might eventually decide to get rid of the Electoral College because the Electoral College really benefits close states. When is the last time a Presidential candidate of either party went to Wyoming in the general election? Also, if the Popular Vote Interstate Compact comes to fruition (states agree to award their electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote, but only if states representing a majority of the Electoral College agree to it, and it is currently up to 196 electoral votes, and it has passed in one chamber in additional states totaling 88 electoral votes, so it is within reach), small states might just be willing to play ball on a Constitutional amendment to get rid of this antiquated system once and for all and get Ranked Choice Voting.
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  5826. Getting to the top isn't the only measure of greatness. The true greats can hold it.
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  5827.  @markchip1  I think the last one should be singular, because the only one he likes is the one he wants to bang.
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  5828.  @dogsenseforu301  I'm not saying that the Present vote was right. I'm saying that it counts the same as a No vote, because a majority is required. For example, if the impeachment vote was 217-216-1, Trump wouldn't have been impeached.
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  5829. Der Orangefuhrer doesn't seem to realize that when you have a 100-fold difference between what you tell the taxman and what upu tell the bank, you're screwed one way or another. So, he's either guilty of tax fraud (if the high is accurate) or bank fraud (if the low is). It seems like he's going for the former.
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  5830.  @hughdismuke4703  So true. I already have a family. I don't need another.
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  5831.  @janreal84  Well, you're defending right-wing extremists who want a second civil war, so it looks like Jimmy Dore is a perfect match for you.
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  5832. Two legends together on screen.
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  5833.  Julianne 2781  The fact that Bernie got to 44% was miraculous. I don't know when you started following, but in the summer of 2016, I would have thought Bernie succeeded if he got to 25% in either Iowa or New Hampshire. Yes, there were things DWS did to put her thumbs on the scales, but even Bernie didn't think he could win until November or December, as evidenced by his campaign schedule.
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  5834. Eric Swalwell, you realized early on that you were better off not wasting everyone's time and staying in the office you currently hold. Thank you for your judgment! Now, if only about half of the rest of the field takes the same hint.
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  5835. He is all over the place when it comes to Trump. It's not like Michael Cohen who has burned that bridge completely.
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  5836. Yang is using a regressive tax to pay for it, so that argument actually backfires, because people who don't get the full benefit (either because they have to give up their current benefits, or their current benefits are high enough that they get nothing at all) still have to pay for the tax.
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  5837.  @creshiell  You could even say that for people who get $900/month, because that person will now have to pay a 10% VAT to pay for the program.
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  5838.  @mikeb2586  You're describing the Pickle Party on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. You can say "we'll do whatever people want" all you want, but sooner or later, you come upon issues where "common sense consensus" doesn't exist, and then what do you do?
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  5839.  @soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342  Except for Greenwald, anything good he did was the grift. He's always been a libertarian.
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  5840.  @lynnash4294  Not how it works in the polling place. Any race that is within ten points in a two-way race would almost certainly go to the Democratic nominee, except for places like Maine and Alaska that have adopted Ranked Choice Voting.
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  5841.  @alexmcbride7563  The problem with a constitutional convention is that everything is on the table. I don't see the First Amendment surviving if we go down that road. I would prefer to go the amendment route, but it won't happen until the GOP are rendered irrelevant because they won't even go for their ideas if a Democrat accepts them (Turtle literally filibustered a tax credit Obama proposed to hire veterans), so I don't see how we get past the 2/3 threshold in each House of Congress and a majority in 3/4 of State Legislatures.
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  5842.  @jonnelson9760  Getting rid of the Electoral College would be a big step.
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  5843.  @redmage7716  Sam doesn't tell people that nothing changed during the Trump years, set up PACs to give the lion's share of the money to himself, say he "wrote a book" and charge people $20 for something they can get for free on his show, tell people not to vote to stop a fascist, and then pretend like laying the groundwork for a future fascist is no big deal because this current one is incompetent. Yes, that is just like saying things like a hearing should be boycotted when it will only speed up the process.
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  5844.  @Stinger430  In all honesty, looking back at the last year, and a Senate where Joe Biden is "pushing too far," my real worry is that if Bernie had won, Manchin would have no problem knee capping Bernie and giving him even less. Since Republicans refuse to cooperate, nothing would have gotten done, and people would have blamed Bernie's ideas for the inevitable consequences. It would have made the sabotage of Corbyn look mild in comparison.
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  5845.  @slade5840  They value "fiscal responsibility"? Tell me what was the moral and philosophical reason for cutting the stimulus $100B. If the answer is, "It made them feel better to stick it to the lefties even though it slowed down the recovery," you are correct. I'm not saying we can't work with centrists at all, but if your goal is to screw over organized labor and make for the social issues uber alles that caused us to lose over 900 state legislative seats and offer Republicans a chance to screw over retirees every few years (Clinton was going to announce private accounts in the 1998 SOTU until Monica broke, and Obama was going to offer chained CPI and raising the retirement age in a "grand bargain" in 2011), step back and let the people who actually want to fight for working people do our thing.
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  5846.  @slade5840  When the Democratic Party emphasized economics and workers, we won. When we started emphasizing social issues and adopted the meritocracy notions of Rockefeller Republicans, only super charismatic candidates could win, and they had no coattails. History proves which is the winning message.
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  5847.  @BlazingOwnager  So, if you really care about issues, you're going to support the other side out of spite? What principles you have!
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  5848.  @BlazingOwnager  Betrays? She's the one who tried to get hired as Secretary of State for Trump in 2017. And she pushed right-wing policies all along. If you actually care about the policies (which you obviously don't because of your lazy insistence that both parties are exactly the same even when given concrete examples otherwise), then you won't want them sabotaged because your personal ambitions are thwarted.
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  5849.  @BlazingOwnager  Funny that you completely ignored the specifics I gave on another thread on voting rights just to keep up your song and dance here. Then again, given your cowardice, I can't say I'm surprised that you're defending the person who, when the Constitution needed protection, voted No for Cowards.
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  5850.  @kaleypittman1105  Indeed. My uncle was born in 1947 and contracted polio, so he wasn't able to walk until he was five. The anti-vaccine crowd is playing with other people's lives.
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  5851.  @VMonkies  Or people who stopped listening at "I'll give you money." It's the stereotype the right has of the left, but he doesn't even want to give it to the most vulnerable. Forget Zack Morris, Andrew Yang is trash.
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  5852.  @joelrunyan1608  Taxes do not necessarily "destroy money." A lot depends on what it is being used for. If taxes are being used for things like infrastructure and education, it creates wealth because it creates the circumstances that make wealth possible. Look at what happened in the years after WWII. Taxing the rich also has the added bonus that it reduces wealth inequality, and the more unequal things get, the harder it is to improve your station.
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  5853.  @marciamakesmusic  Show me the last time candidates have won by focusing on people who refuse to be part of a winning coalition. You are making the petulant child argument.
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  5854.  @nealtauss1715  Yes, because signing onto a coup attempt is so much better, and it is what people who want to end their involvement in a war do.
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  5855. 0:29 Pun intended?
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  5856.  @LinkRocks  This guy has been trolling videos for months. He never, ever has anything substantive to say. Based on the timing, it tells you all you need to know about Biden supporters.
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  5857.  @leevy6753  Now, since your obsession is to change the topic to women's sports (and how much women's sports have you watched, BTW, just so I can know whether this is a sincere concern about the sport or just an excuse for bigotry), sports governing bodies have determined the point at which there is no genetic advantage. For example, distance running used to say that you had to wait until the transition was complete (and age-graded performance also factors in gender, so when someone gets the same score as John than as Jane, it's pretty obvious that the advantage was lost), but they have since realized that once testosterone drops below a certain point, that competitive advantage is gone. Pretty much every major sport does similar evaluation.
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  5858.  @ano1962  Depending on how you do it, UBI can be terrible for people. He also moved to a state where taxes are lower for that very reason, so I doubt he's very committed to those ideas.
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  5859.  @ano1962  And those fees are regressive taxes that don't really matter much to someone who has an eight figure salary. The richest 1% pay on average about 3.1% of their income in taxes. In California, that is 12.4%. On $10MM, that works out to an extra $930,000/year. Yes, Austin is well to the left of Texas as a whole, but he decided, "I want to go somewhere less of my money will go to fix societal problems and stays with me." Joe Rogan is not our friend. For that matter, Dave Chappelle stumped for the UBI candidate.
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  5860.  @CC-vq1yg  And my union always has its biggest fight over the health insurance policy.
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  5861. Yes, Donald, Joe Biden had smaller crowds, but he got 81 million votes because a lot of people voted against you rather than for Biden.
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  5862.  @lespaulismore4538  Then, you don't really understand how unions work. One of the things that unions do is make sure that quality standards are in place. Yes, you may want to argue about what it means to go too far in protecting workers, but that is needed in order to protect the people who need protecting because of harrassment and poor treatment.
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  5863.  @lespaulismore4538  Apparently, you miss the point of quality control for teachers. The states that gutted teacher's unions do far worse in education. It is no coincidence that the worst performing states in education (Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, West Virginia) are all right to work for less states. Low wages, low benefits, and no tenure leads to a brain drain.
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  5864. Republicans: The FDA takes too long to approve medicines! Also Republicans: The FDA rushed this product to the public!
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  5865.  @luperamos7307  When they did the debate on The Majority Report, Jimmy Dore promised a reciprocal debate on his channel. Needless to say, he knew it would be fatal, so he has ducked him to the point where he even edits Sam's name out when a guest mentions him.
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  5866.  @luperamos7307  Everything I've heard about Mate lately is that he has also taken a bad anti-anti-Trump turn as well. Sadly, given how much money is in grifting, we really have to pay attention to the people who claim to be on our side because of how they change their opinions.
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  5867. If he sets up his own government on his property (never mind how he owns it in the first place or whether or not this supposed right is limited to property owners) and wants to buy anything or have anything delivered to him, would he have to negotiate tariffs with the United States? Would he need a passport when he leaves his country and re-enters the United States? Where would he get the passport stamped? Even if you grant all of the questions Sam asks and say that Darryl is right, this is still a ridiculous notion.
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  5868.  @dcaseng  At one point, she was pretty. Also, the people who were box checkers who didn't think that a bisexual could possibly be this bad. It's a shame that she got the attention instead of Tammy Baldwin, who got there first and actually fights for the people. She's who I would have wanted Bernie to pick as VP.
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  5869. There is about as much chance of a third NAFTA as there is of a two bills for Medicare for All in three years. Oh, wait...
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  5870. Oh, they're here. I'm convinced some of them are bots, because they can so easily ignore the criticism that you make and keep repeating their point. I used to think Tulsi supporters were the worst, but at least they mix up their talking points once in a while.
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  5871. Tim Pool supports workers the way Donald Trump supports aging gracefully.
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  5872.  @eddietheberniebro5503  Those things already exist. Saying that they should be higher (i.e., 50% or more for the top bracket) is the question at hand. He has never gone that far that I've seen.
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  5873.  @fleebertreatise1063  You can work with people on the right if you agree with them on a specific solution on a specific issue. For example, Bernie worked with Mike Lee on Yemen. Doesn't mean that they are "coalition partners," just that they found a particular issue where they could work together.
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  5874.  @evasartorius9528  Sadly, a lot of things some of these Republicans are saying are applause points for their audiences. While not every single quote of Mastriano's appeared in the primary, the only thing that was completely new to me watching ads in Montgomery County was that he posed in a Confederate uniform at the Army War College while not doing a reenactment.
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  5875. "They are either lying or incompetent." Why not both?
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  5876. Indeed. This is the same mentality that thinks that asking a follow-up question is a gotcha.
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  5877. I don't think that the goal is to make them go away, but to reduce their numbers to irrelevance.
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  5878.  @tod1way  Okay, name an ideology that has been successfully eradicated.
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  5879.  @tod1way  The people who want to do the genocide think that they are ridding the world of evil people as well.
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  5880. John Oliver has a good one.
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  5881.  @neilarmschlong6315  Hence, "if he keeps this up." 2008 was a dealigning election, because Obama was ultimately unwilling to challenge the orthodoxy of the times. Maybe Biden finally realized what a mistake his old boss made.
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  5882.  @Wildstar40  No, we didn't. Only 46% voted for that big, orange dummy. He's only there because of an antiquated, anti-democratic system deigned to give slave owners a disproportionate share of the vote.
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  5883. Is Trump on drugs in the picture? His pupils are massive in that one.
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  5884.  Amerikan Idiot  Thank you for responding. You'd be surprised how many people didn't do anything or think that writing a check was enough. Ultimately, we have to realize that going as far as we did in five years was actually quite the accomplishment. It took the Goldwater wing 16 years to become the Reagan coalition, and they had big money on their side. I only hope that people don't despair and walk away.
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  5885.  @bwm_72  Gerrymandering is not a thing for a statewide race. You may be thinking voter suppression, but they are two totally different things.
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  5886.  @SportsZombie54  Funny that the rich get to keep all of their tax breaks under his plan. It is regressive because the poor and disabled are the only ones who have to give something up. If they're better off in the existing social safety net, they now have to pay a VAT to fund something that they aren't getting. How is this anything other than regressive? And if it is such a fair choice, why not give a full list of the 125 programs that were either/or? And how long does that choice last? When talking to Dave Rubin, he implied that once you took the Freedom with 125 Strings Attached Dividend, you were forever opting out of the existing social safety net. If so, people had better hope he was wrong about computers taking all the jobs.
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  5887.  @SportsZombie54  I only watched clips. The only Rubin Report I ever watched in its entirety was the Marianne Williamson interview, and that gentle yet brutal takedown was a thing of beauty.
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  5888.  @SportsZombie54  And you don't think that the demonization would be worse if the people getting existing benefits can't get the Freedom with 125 Strings Attached Dividend?
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  5889.  @SportsZombie54  By definition, Yang doesn't want to do it the right way. He told Ben Shapiro that the reason why it wasn't more is "the magic of a thousand bucks a month is that it is below the poverty level for one person, which forces people to work in order to live any life of meaning." The emphasis was his. He wants to use it as a Trojan horse to gut benefits for the people who really need it. Why did you ignore my example of someone making $20,000/year with two small children in daycare? He is making life objectively worse for those people. Stop just regurgitating talking points, and actually engage the points about what he actually wanted to do and the details.
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  5890.  @SportsZombie54  You know what seems silly to me? Offering everyone $1000/month except the people who need it most, and making those people pay a regressive tax.
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  5891. I don't know. After a while, it seemed like she faded into the background. I was stunned at de Blasio's performance. I also thought Inslee did well.
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  5892.  @whyamimrpink78  You mean political like holding a seat open for 10 months to keep a seat open because "we can't do this during an election year" but approving a member weeks before an election is just fine? Do you enjoy lying about literally everything?
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  5893.  @TheLastLineLive  If you don't think that this Tucker Carlson protege is a right winger, then their whitewashing mission has succeeded.
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  5894. I've seen Herschel Walker in videos where he had to talk a few decades ago. Something is clearly wrong with his brain now.
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  5895. I remember one point where I did the math, and employer contribution to health care plus mine turned out to be 31% of my income. If you replace that with a tax of even 10%... well, I have a union job, so just maybe some of that can get passed down.
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  5896.  @FuddlyDud  That's what has been the story for the last 40 years. Has that really worked? Not that some things aren't cheaper, but whether or not that is actually better for workers.
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  5897.  @FuddlyDud  I think we are mistaking each other's intent. I didn't pick up on your initial sarcasm, and I was trying to point out that, around the time deregulation started in earnest (1978) and the Reagan tax cuts (1981), productivity gains no longer led to an increase in real wages. We agree, but we didn't realize it ;-)
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  5898.  @FuddlyDud  Oh, okay. I get where you're coming from now. I agree with you that some consumer products, especially technology, have gotten cheaper. However, there are other things that we either have to pay for now that people didn't have to pay for 50 years ago, or didn't have to pay much for. 50 years ago, you could work a summer job and pay college tuition (or, if you were in California, get it for free). One spouse's income (I don't care which spouse, but one income) was enough for a family to live on, which meant no daycare expenses. Yes, some things have gotten cheaper, but on the aggregate, the actual things we have to pay for have increased, which is why it is a net negative. That being said, you can't isolate and reregulate in a vacuum (you also have to figure out which things worked [like phones] and which didn't [like planes and banks]), you have to have an agenda that actually supports workers' rights. I come from a poor state, and things are cheaper there, but go to a place where you're in relatively the same station, and you'll understand why deflation is bad.
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  5899.  @FuddlyDud  It's not about not having good ideas or not, but I have heard or read each of these ideas before. I don't think the pre-1980 era was a golden era with no problems, but I do think that the economy worked for more people then that it does now. I have heard many on the right argue against higher taxes because people should enjoy the fruits of their labor, but wouldn't decades of stagnating wages despite massive increases of productivity be a perfect example of someone not getting to enjoy the fruits of his/her labor? Re: daycare/childcare; I don't know what you would consider "affordable" or "quality," but here in PA, even the lower end of daycare if you don't really care about quality runs $150/week. Do the math, and that's $7800/year. That's hardly cheap, and that's also not enough on a larger scale to have daycare workers who are well paid. It seems like a lot of the things you advocate result in everyone at the bottom scrimping at the Dollar Tree because they can't afford to shop elsewhere while the owners are billionaires. (I have bought things at Dollar Tree, so I'm not making any statements about people who shop there, the same way I get angered by Shoppers of Wal-Mart as mocking the wrong person.) Re: medical costs; we are the only industrialized country without universal coverage. We also spend far more than any other. If you think that is coincidental, what do you think explains this difference? Re: college tuition; I think this is a question of which event serves as the Big Bang. You seem to think it is student loans, but I would argue that it is the decision to say that the UC system was no longer tuition free under Reagan. I would argue that supporting evidence for my case is the VA. When they started having a nominal fee for prescriptions (I haven't gone to the VA in 11 years, because I am only allowed treatment for things related to my tour of duty because of the decision to emphasize reserve components in our current wars without providing benefit parity, but when I did, I tested out), it was touted as "only a couple bucks a month," but it kept going up. Now, it's $700/year. Not as high as private insurance, sure, but hardly the free care we were promised when we served. A small nominal fee doesn't end there, because people internalize the idea that they have to pay for what was once free that the idea of making it free again is seen as radical. Re: taxes; here in PA, we have flat taxes on income mandated by the state constitution at 3.07%. What are the results? Well, the PA Turnpike is always at or near the top of the list of worst roads in America, there is a direct correlation between the richest parts of the state and the best performing public schools, and cities that suffer because of suburban flight where people in the metro area get the advantages of the cities but don't have to pay, and a party where 66 of the counties use one as a punching bag for political points at home in hopes of gaining office but with the effect of our biggest city crumbling faster. Not exactly a triumph. Re: wasteful spending; I am confused by your argument. Is the argument that stagnating wages aren't bad because goods are cheap, or that people should be content with their lot of making a few people very rich instead of trying to enjoy what they made? These arguments seem contradictory to me. That being said, how many actually poor people own a $1000 phone? Android has over 85% market share, and very few who buy Apple buy every new model. I do give you credit for engaging issues honestly and respectfully. I hope I have also been as respectful to you, and I can assure you that I have tried my level best to look at your ideas. I think there is a lot of value in the Eisenhower-Rockefeller Conservatism, but I just think supply side has run its course and not worked as well as it was supposed to.
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  5900. When I saw the title, I was thinking of Jerry Gergich from Parks and Recreation.
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  5901.  @LD-tn6ff  That one moment doesn't make her corrupt, but it is a crystallization of someone who is far too willing to play it safe. I could also point to the fact that she said that she changed parties because Democrats started to be the better party for markets, you know, that thing that she believes in down to her bones. And for someone who is supposedly schooling me, you are aware that only legislators can actually amend bills, and mayors don't, right? So, that "cherry-picked eight years" was the majority of the time that he could have actually made amendments at the time, and if you actually saw what some of those amendments were, they are hardly nothing.
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  5902.  @DavidAdkins78  Well, you are talking about campaign ads, and those cost money.
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  5903.  @agisler87  Do you want elections funded by the public in the interests of the public, or do you want privately funded elections in the interests of donors?
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  5904.  @agisler87  Corporations are not people, my friend.
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  5905.  @agisler87  And they can give individually, not through corporations so that no one knows who did it.
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  5906. 15:13 No. Elaine returns to the Peterman catalog. Some simple proofreading would have gone a long way.
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  5907. She needed it, because she turned out to be wrong about cigarettes causing cancer, and the Almighty Market didn't want to insure senior citizens... which is why Medicare became a thing.
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  5908.  @65minimom  I guess you're one of these people who don't understand how the rules work, and then you get mad when you don't understand, and rather than learning, you take out your anger on other people. I will explain this as simply as I can, but no simpler than I need to: 1) The OP thought that there was some conspiracy by the DNC to deny Bernie the nomination by splitting money so many different ways that he can't clean up yet. 2) In the Democratic primary, delegates are awarded proportionally to "viable candidates," defined by the DNC as receiving 15% statewide or in a Congressional district as decided by the state. 3) Anti-Bernie votes are fairly fixed and finite. 4) More candidates receiving votes from the same size pool dilutes the strength of that vote. 5) With a dozen or so candidates in the centrist wing, splitting up that percentage of votes means that it is less likely for any one candidate to clear 15%. 6) If Bernie clears 15% and no other not-Bernie candidate does, Bernie gets all of the delegates in that state. 7) If the DNC is trying to encourage as many candidates to run as possible to screw Bernie over, this will backfire spectacularly. Do you follow me now? Or, are you still going along with some conspiracy theory that is about as well thought out as any libertarian caller into the Majority Report?
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  5909.  @arod6789  I took six of them as an undergrad and got four As and two Bs. Still doesn't answer why diversity means that we can't do big things for people. I took four in grad school, and got two As and two Bs, so there is nothing there unless you are trying to dig whistle and too chicken to say it.
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  5910. ​ @ringo8410  Apparently, you aren't familiar with the phrase "cut off your nose to spite your face."
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  5911.  @user-mg4zu7bs6i  Yeah, that makes sense. Oh, wait! It doesn't make sense at all. It takes billions to buy Congress. Depending on the size of the town, it could be done for less than a million. That's the whole point. People on the left, unlike libertarians, don't try to fit everything into one answer. Our answer to the question of government isn't big or small, but how effective it is. There are some things that cannot be done at the local level, because it will just lead to a race to the bottom.
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  5912.  @Devotionorange  We should be telling them to do everything they can to delay the vote so the seat can be filled next year. There is some question as to what defeated Republicans will do in the lame duck session, so that includes taking the calendar from McConnell.
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  5913. Not taking a dump on a friend is one thing. Admitting that she put him in a bad position and it was a mistake to endorse her is totally fair.
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  5914.  @jasonbenson8549  New Democrats vs. No Labels, takes oil money vs. takes coal money, both darlings of the middle. While on aggregate Beto may be to Manchin's left, he sold us that he would be to the left, not to the left of the most conservative Democrat in the Senate. My initial reason for the comparison is that both make sense for their state, but not nationwide. I did the edit to point out that Manchin never pretended to be anything he's not. Beto did.
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  5915. I think his honest statement was that he could shoot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue and not lose any votes. He's closing in on killing more Americans than anyone not named Jefferson Davis, and his base won't budge.
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  5916.  @TheMisterGuy  Yeah, Acts 2 is a capitalistic tract. Jesus saying that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven is all about praising the accumulation of wealth. Anything can be used by anyone for any purposes. Marx was used to justify some of the worst totalitarian governments of the 20th century.
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  5917.  @presterjohn1697  In 2020, Jimmy Dore wanted Democrats to compromise with Trump to sign the coronavirus bill that would force workers to go back without the right to sue for any injuries or illnesses due to unsafe and unsanitary conditions. Then, he insisted that Democrats not accept the Biden/Sanders bill that didn't have such nonsense in February.
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  5918.  @presterjohn1697  Right wingers love Dore because they love to hear people who call themselves lefties dump on Democrats. It's the exact same grift as Rubin and Pool before him, and Iversen after.
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  5919.  @presterjohn1697  I will share the title first, and then the link in a separate video just in case the link gets dropped. There is a video by Reich Wing Watch that chronicles the stances made based on time called "Jimmy, Kyle, Krystal Flip-Flop to Attack the Squad." In explaining exactly what these "populists" were saying that Democrats should accept, Business Insider did an article entitled "The GOP is holding up relief for millions of Americans because they want to make sure corporations have blanket protection from workers who get COVID on the job." If the link goes away, you can look up both the video and the article.
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  5920.  @presterjohn1697  And maybe the reason why you weren't aware of such legislation is because you were listening to the anti-anti-Trump grifters instead of people who actually educated people about why this was a terrible "compromise" on the backs of workers.
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  5921.  @andesvirgo  [citation needed]
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  5922. 4:59 Darn right! What do you call a failed coup attempt that isn't punished? Practice.
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  5923. "Say 'cracked' one more time." Damien, Mean Girls
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  5924. Friends, let me tell you about another group of hatemongers who were only following orders. They were called Nazis!
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  5925.  MD JG  I get the feeling that Jamie is there because she wants to get her message out there, even when it is awful timing.
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  5926.  @theresnoracelikegnome  Indeed. If you ever read Mary Trump's book (I got it from the library and have a few chapters left), you will see how Fred Trump convinced him to never apologize or admit fault, because it is a sign of "weakness," and he's still trying to get the approval of a Daddy who only saw him as useful, but never loved him.
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  5927.  @greghill118  Jeb! is 6'3, and you could see in the debates that Jeb! is taller than Trump. Obama is 6'1, and they both look to be about the same height. Still, I don't believe his weight for an instant.
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  5928. Actually, Manchin started at $4T rather than $1.5T. This is centrism distilled to its essence. It is not about principle or ideology. It is saying "I want to do something, just a little bit less than you do." The thing that makes this centrism on steroids is that he never took Yes for an answer. And the even bigger problem is that the centrists take out the parts of bills that people like best.
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  5929. And his cult will say, "Fake news!"
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  5930.  @Closeoutracer  And what does having a billion dollars have to do with political expertise?
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  5931.  @strumbum946  Does the rich person make everything by him/herself? Build the infrastructure? Create the demand and the market? You didn't build that. You had some help.
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  5932. One time, talking to a Biden supporter who said that her problem with people like Bernie and Warren was that "they are too extreme," and that Medicare for All would never happen, I simply responded by saying, "Obama tried to get a public option, and he had 60 Senators. Why do you think he will succeed where Obama failed?" [Pause] "I just do."
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  5933. The sad thing is that your other Senator is far worse.
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  5934. Not only that, but several centrists vulnerable to a challenge from the left could vote Yes to suck the air out of it, knowing that it would fail, anyway. Just like Tulsi Gabbard did by endorsing Bernie in 2016.
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  5935. They always were untrustworthy, we are just finding out.
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  5936. ​ @geezzyy_8162  Like there were 25K in the Bronx when there were less than 5K and a sizable group of counter-demonstrators, or 50K at Wildwood when the area held about 8K and was half empty? You probably believe the inauguration was the largest in history, too.
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  5937. 2:37 and Puppet History was born.
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  5938. Where is the reveal? Come on, man!
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  5939.  @meltedsnowman9637  It is a regressive program (the poor and disabled don't get it or have to give something up) paid for by a regressive tax. Do you just not know, or are you lying?
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  5940.  @oneroneen  You forgot the people who don't get a penny of his benefits who still have to pay the VAT. Are the poor and disabled invisible to you Yang Gang bangers, or are they second-class citizens? The best case scenario is that he would be hitting the gas and the brakes at the same time.
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  5941. Not to mention that he told Ben Shapiro that he wouldn't increase the amount was that the "magic" of a thousand bucks a month is that it is below the poverty level for one person, so people would still have to work. The emphasis was his.
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  5942.  @meltedsnowman9637  You can include them, but he doesn't. It was on his website. Social Security Disability (which part of RSDI, and based on payment) was allowed, SSI (which is need based) is not. I gave the example of a single parent making $20,000/year with two kids in daycare. At that income level, probably also getting SNAP, WIC, and LIHEAP, and maybe a housing subsidy. The total package is easily worth $2000-2500/month. You tell me which is a bigger "hassle," filling out the forms once or twice a year, or having to suddenly pay a 10% VAT?
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  5943. ​ @ericz.1270  It's over 200 now that Minnesota is on board.
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  5944. He certainly doesn't know better than the people of Kentucky do who can win.
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  5945. She got alopecia and lost all of her hair. I say bravo to her for not being ashamed.
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  5946.  @tonym4415  If they had $3B to give to Amazon, they clearly had $3B to pay for infrastructure.
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  5947. ​ @montecristo1845  Indeed. Sometimes, "not wanting to be political" is the most political decision of all.
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  5948.  @brucesmith6007  Says the person parroting the lines of someone who loves to quote Hitler and mimic the gestures of Mussolini.
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  5949. It also helps explain why so many of his followers sound drunk.
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  5950. That's what I like to hear to end the week!
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  5951. My favorite part of the Joel Rifkin will-call scene is where Lawrence Taylor looks up.
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  5952.  @SAM-ft9jd  Where do you get that he was the first candidate to qualify? He qualified with donors at the end of March. Bernie and Harris did it with donors in their first week, and there were plenty of polls long before that.
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  5953.  @Jianju69  He doesn't pay taxes because when you are rich, you can structure your income any way you want to pay pretty much whatever you want to pay. And he can say that he had "no capital gains" because he didn't sell, but his wealth is the very thing that gives him the leverage to play astronaut. Do you really think that Steve Jobs only got a dollar a year when he came back to Apple?
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  5954.  @Jianju69  Or, just maybe, stock options start getting treated like income, especially at that level. And whether or not unrealized capital gains get taxed at a certain level, his inheritance should not be treated with the stepped up capital gains loophole so that his kids get to inherit hundreds of billions of dollars tax free. That is probably the most obscene tax loophole of all.
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  5955. It matters because he still thinks he was right.
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  5956. He doesn't know whether he's ecstatic or ludicrous.
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  5957.  @willdasilva4459  The most amusing ones are the ones who get all upset when you point out that he takes money from Assad, and then actually show the documents.
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  5958.  @LydiaSings  Then, why focus on people making less than you? If it were up to us, Republicans would be a permanent minority party.
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  5959. Because they only care about power and growing their money. Apparently, an 11-digit fortune just isn't enough.
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  5960. You don't impeach members of Congress, you expel them. It takes a 2/3 vote, and it is usually reserved for things like committing a crime. At least understand the rules.
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  5961.  @damncows  Well, that's pretty much the definition of the term. I'm not talking about norms, I am talking about the Constitution. The thing that every elected official or service member takes an oath to defend. And the very reason why those of us who take it seriously are so infuriated that the people who are supposed to be holding Trump accountable aren't doing it.
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  5962.  @Tailionis  Yeah, I doubt you "have immunities."
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  5963. Trump said that he was "the king of debt" because he was insisting that he could renegotiate the debt. Well, I am not taking a discount on my small amount of Treasury bonds, and I doubt anyone else will either. Never mind that the Constitution guarantees the debt is paid.
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  5964.  @Tampahop  You mean like leaving the Kurds to be slaughtered? There is a difference between isolationism and peace.
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  5965.  @RB-kw1ec  Oh, so aiding and abetting the starvation of the people of Yemen and vetoing a bill to rein that in doesn't count?
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  5966.  @Tampahop  You're the one defending someone participating in genocide and cheering on the slaughter of the Kurds. You're just fine with violence in the world, just as long as you can pretend that you have nothing to do with it.
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  5967.  @Tr4cK17  Apologies. I misspoke. Biden did speak against it publicly at the time, though
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  5968.  @Dan0TheMano  Except he didn't.
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  5969. That "one good moment" was in the service of Biden.
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  5970. Then, why force people to choose between their current benefits and his plan?
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  5971. I have seen him as a talking head on cable news. I was definitely surprised by this nonsense that I was watching, because usually the only time he was there was to talk specifically about veterans issues, and he was never there for more than five minutes at a time.
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  5972. Indeed. If you let it go, the line for what is acceptable gets moved just a little bit farther.
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  5973.  @1369Stiles  It's the most watched cable network. I'm pretty sure that CBS still gets a lot more viewers than they do.
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  5974.  @TylerSangster  Is Bill Gates improving the world, on the whole, when he spends so much time and effort fighting attempts to deal with wealth inequality in the United States?
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  5975.  @TheBushdoctor68  If by "nobody," you mean yourself, sure. Lots of us have been pushing and working to build actual grassroots rather than pushing a symbolic vote that will kill our efforts for a generation.
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  5976.  @TheBushdoctor68  A vote that will go absolutely nowhere is the textbook definition of a symbolic vote. The bill has 118 sponsors, so it does not have nearly the votes to get passed. So, let's say that they demand Pelsoi has a vote, and then it fails, then what happens? Then, it is dead on the table, and it will be dead for another decade to come, and Pelosi will say that she gave us what we wanted, but it is an unpopular bill that can't pass, so that is yet another excuse to ignore us. If we are going to demand leverage, it is much better to demand it for something that actually has a chance. Great plan!
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  5977.  @thebillryan  This notorious troll is Aaron Dickson. He has at least nine different accounts, and he got caught switching back and forth when he forgot to switch accounts when replying to someone and used the wrong one. Pretty sad indeed.
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  5978.  @NIMRODWARDA  Did she say that other Democrats loved America? No, she didn't. Less integrity than John McCain is not a good look.
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  5979.  @dmx952  That is rough. I have a feeling that if their family was in the wreckage, some of these people might still insist that it is part of a CIA conspiracy.
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  5980.  @noktilux4052  "I ain't down with that, 'cause silicone toys are made for boys." Sir Mix-A-Lot
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  5981.  @PoochieCollins  The tendency in politics is not to offend. I don't know if you have ever run for office, but I can tell you how strong that trend is. If you aren't even ranking someone, but just saying you like this person, that trend will be magnified. And if you don't think that trend is real, look just how vague the pronouncements were of Obama in 2007 and Bush in 1999, when both were on the rise.
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  5982.  @PoochieCollins  He would not have won the general with ranked choice, because he would have had to have been the second choice of over 3MM more people than Hillary was. And primaries are a very different animal than the general.
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  5983.  @PoochieCollins  If your argument ends with no supporting evidence, and you say, "I still prefer X," that is not a good sign for your argument.
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  5984.  @PoochieCollins  My point was that approval voting leads to milquetoast candidates who say nothing. Quite frankly, the only system where he would have won is the Electoral College. You responded when I gave examples of milquetoast candidates saying nothing and said that would kick into overdrive. If there is no statement of preference, the system will lead to more of that. You will also see a lot of people only voting for one candidate, so there is a lot that it won't solve. I'd rather have the one system that guarantees a majority support and a chance for minor candidates to enter without playing spoiler.
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  5985.  @basedtruthpiller7140  "Jeffrey Epstein is a fun guy. He likes 'em really young." Donald Trump
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  5986.  @basedtruthpiller7140  "If she wasn't my daughter, I'd be dating her." Donald Trump on Ivanka
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  5987.  @basedtruthpiller7140  "She's got her mother's legs, and we'll see about her mother's [cups hands in front of his chest]." Donald Trump describing Tiffany at age one
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  5988.  Vote Blue 2020  Not just Congress, but we need to get people to run for county and state executive committee spots, city council, school board, and state legislature, so we can build the network necessary to get lefties in a position to win.
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  5989.  @Awakin2liberty  Indeed. Our Revolution should feature her in a lot more town halls. She did a very good job in a Medicare for All one in March that was moved online because she was originally going to come to Philadelphia for it.
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  5990. I really have no sympathy for Germany complaining about Versailles given the treaties they forced on others.
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  5991. Except for that whole "obese welfare queens" thing.
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  5992. Sam: This is how Lou Dobbs reacted. [Ad for Coolsculpting]
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  5993. Biden is at the bottom, with Hickenlooper and Delaney getting the silver and bronze, respectively.
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  5994.  @josephyoung6749  I also support Ranked Choice Voting, but we're not getting it in time for this election, so we need to vote based on the system we have now rather than the one we want.
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  5995.  @SelectHawk  If you keep it but change two rules (force people to talk, and change the rule from 3/5 of all Senators to 3/5 of the vote), you greatly weaken the filibuster. From the first cloture rules in 1917 to the rules in place set in 1975, there were only 54 filibusters. A lot of those filibusters (not all, but a lot) ended with bills getting passed. Those changes are a big difference.
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  5996.  @MiltonTheWise  Yeah, it looks line you've forgotten all those endorsements he pulled and others who went down the memory hole when they lost in previous cycles.
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  5997.  @MushVPeets  Agreed, but the problems caused by the climate crisis must be addressed by systemic rather than consumeristic solutions. Using the example at hand: let's just say for the sake of argument that it really would be possible to have all of the rare earth minerals needed to give everyone an electric car instead of one with an internal combustion engine. People still need to charge their cars, but most electricity is currently generated by coal, which has more greenhouse gases than oil. Therefore, the system needs to be solved or the individual choice is meaningless.
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  5998.  @TheNastyTank  Except he didn't "solve" the issue of producing greenhouse gases through transportation. The electric car existed long before he was even a gleam in his father's eye. (Ed Begley Jr. has been driving one since the early 1970s.) The problem would only be solved if you could mass produce the Tesla, but there just aren't enough minerals to do so. He (or more accurately his engineers) would need to figure out how to make a battery that could be produced at a level well beyond what exists now. Using smaller numbers for demonstration purposes and math, 1.2% of all vehicles sold are electric. So, if you assume for demonstration purposes that there are one million cars, then 988,000 are still going to be internal combustion. If we only had the raw materials to make 100,000 cars, then the problem still exists. Not that the Tesla isn't an improvement, but at this point, its main accomplishment is to make people feel better when the problem still exists. That doesn't even go into how durable they are. There isn't enough lithium to fit every car on the road now. Ultimately, the solution may have to be fewer cars, which means that consumerism is taking us backwards. The market can't give us high density affordable housing and work close enough to that high density housing to reduce demand.
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  5999.  @AG-lm5uf  Yeah, it's not like Jimmy Dore never lied about anything. If someone is going to alter a headline and skip over the parts of the article that directly contradict his argument, I'm not going to trust his version of a story about someone else's wardrobe.
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  6000.  @DaPrecursor  You also misspelled Hartmann. I guess one out of three ain't bad.
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  6001.  @DaPrecursor  I got my second dose in May. The only side effect I had was a runny nose, a headache, and being a little tired. Within two days, it was gone. My idiot uncle wasn't "going to be a Guinea pig," only to end up in the hospital.
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  6002.  @anthonygeorge9932  "We didn't know! Well, the only reason why we didn't know is because we didn't want to know." Ernst Janning
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  6003.  @anthonygeorge9932  You are aware that there were Jewish Nazis, right? That Ryan Gosling movie The Believer was based on a real person. If you use your skin color to hide behind when you do awful things, you are just as bad if not worse. And you are saying that unless you hear actual interviews with everyone who this happened to (many of whom don't speak English, and may very well have been under the false impression that they had to do so for medical reasons), then you are no different than people in the 1950s saying that they didn't know. Another quote from Ernst Janning, "We plead innocent because we didn't know about the extermination of the millions, but we only knew about the extermination of the hundreds."
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  6004.  @zwergie256  Ralph Nader repeatedly said that Bush would "increase consciousness" before the 2000 election. Unlike Buchanan, who considered himself "the Bush wing of the Reform Party" and went to safe states because he was legitimately trying to get to 5%, Nader went almost exclusively to swing states. He wanted Bush, but when everyone found out how bad Bush was, Nader kept saying "not my fault!" Be proud of your strategy, Ralph and his supporters! You got exactly what you wanted.
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  6005.  @terrencechouinard9178  Stephen Colbert does it, too.
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  6006. There definitely are some who can do better. Some are doing a good job. When I went to Bernie stuff with DSA on weekends I had my daughter, they always had someone there with her. My union lets parents bring kids to meetings to get dinner, which is good because it always falls on my days with her. Where we can do better (in addition to those who make no allowances for child care) is to give people warning, because some of us have to make arrangements in order to go to things.
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  6007. I honestly never understood the criticism of the "That girl was me" T-shirt. Bernie had "I wrote the damn bill" stickers ready after the second debate. Too often people want to pretend like all of this has to be spontaneous, but it doesn't. I remember a forum for a union office where one candidate prepared a speech and the other said "I speak from the heart" and clearly didn't have a thread. Heart is one thing, but organize your thoughts. There is no shame in that.
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  6008. ​ @kevinclark3591  He's always had his share of good and bad, but it seems like the ratio has shifted lately.
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  6009. Indeed. It seems like any time I watch a video of a libertarian debate, whether Sam Seder or Vaush or David Pakman, I get bombarded with ads for libertarians for weeks. Even when there are lefty grifters or grifter apprentices like Krystal Ball, Jimmy Dore, or Kyle Kulinski, I get bombarded with ads from them. The biggest irony is that the algorithm showed me far more ads for TYT after I unsubscribed than I ever did when I was subscribed.
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  6010.  @peggyivey5828  Oh, my God! How hard is it to tell the difference between lose (the opposite of win) and loose (the opposite of tight)?
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  6011.  @CCR971  Except he's on the side of the people who want that kind of world.
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  6012.  @Khrysalis01  And when you look at Yang's one good idea, the finer points of it are terrible. It's really a push to gut existing programs with origins in the Friedman school of thought.
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  6013. It could be worse. Imagine having to acknowledge that when Bill Kristol finally got something right, it was about Trump.
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  6014. My big problem with the left version of libertarian thought is similar to the same as right libertarian thought (which is why, like Sam, I cringed at "if you could snap your fingers"), and that is that with no state or central arbiter, how are you going to keep the things that you think are bad from happening? For the left libertarian, if there is no state after private property is abolished, what will keep someone from finding ways to amass power and get property? If someone is better at handling money, what will keep that person from amassing enough money to set up new business and capital for him/herself?
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  6015.  @Bolivian654  Didn't have much power before capital? I don't know, the ability to literally own another human seems like a lot of power to me. The answer to the question of how power accumulates in a post-scarcity world is how things are distributed in a post-scarcity world. That's why I used the example of the field trips the farm and asked how it would happen with no government to organize it in a way that all the dirty work gets done and there is a sufficient rotation of time that crops don't wither. If you don't sufficiently organize, it's very easy to see a world where just saying there is enough for everyone becomes "snapping your fingers." Like Sam, I have no use for snapping of fingers. And "people sharing stuff" isn't a sufficient answer, either, because that assumes that somehow human greed is gone. Someone will figure out how to keep more and someone else will lose the amount he/she has, and then you have the system start all over again.
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  6016.  @EmeraldMinnie  You may be right. I didn't mean to come off as defending the coup or anything like that, just making an instinctual response to what seemed like presenting this place as a utopia before the big, bad Yanqui got involved. That's why I was trying to point to the falling price of oil rather than economic model as the cause for dissatisfaction.
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  6017.  The Pessimistic Physicist  My initial response after seeing who we were left with in 2008 was "Thanks a lot, early states!" I tried to remind myself that FDR ran as a centrist before becoming the lion we fondly remember, but the turn never came.
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  6018. That's not even the best shot. There are much better chances in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, as well as North Carolina depending on the candidate recruitment.
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  6019. "Why is it that every time I hear talk about the superiority of the white race, it is from someone who disproves the theory?" John Fugelsang
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  6020.  @reav3rtm  I'm suggesting that anyone who believed this strategy is an idiot, especially given the fact that it was devised by someone who was using it to try to raise money to start a third party and who backed the candidate in 2020 who called Medicare for All "un-American" in an interview with Anderson Cooper.
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  6021.  @MsZeitgeist85  Indeed. There was also no grassroots behind this nonsense. Some Dore Knob was bragging about how this big rally in DC was going to force people to take notice. 50 people showed up. Philly DSA actually did the work and got an average of 75-100 people to knock on doors for Medicare for All every month from July to February before the primary with nearly 300 unique individuals during that time, and this wasn't a national event.
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  6022.  @christiane132  What "mass action"? Fifty people showed up.
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  6023.  @reav3rtm  And as I addressed in another thread, she realized how useless a strategy it was and did little more than make certain people feel good, and seeing Catch and Release in action showed her once and for all the folly of such a strategy. Or, do you know how Catch and Release works in whip counts?
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  6024.  @reav3rtm  Oh, the irony of that statement. So, I will ask again: do you know what Catch and Release is?
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  6025.  @reav3rtm  Yeah, because your hero Jimmy Dore never resorts to name calling.
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  6026.  @reav3rtm  And in all of this deflection, you never demonstrated that you know what the legislative tactic of Catch and Release is.
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  6027.  @reav3rtm  Catch and Release is a strategy perfected by Tom DeLay. It involves letting members appear to not go along fully with his agenda, while making sure that everything gets passed. As Barney Frank put it in 2005, "There are no moderate Republicans in Congress. They say that they only vote with the President 70% of the time, but they vote with him 100% of the time when he needs their votes." So, given that strategy, and the fact that if the sponsor list is remotely accurate, Pelosi could easily allow people in lefty districts to vote for Medicare for All in order to weaken a primary challenger, only to see that member "change his/her mind" and vote No if there was ever a realistic chance if the bill passing. It's why Republicans could vote over and over to repeal the ACA, but it didn't pass when they had unified control of government. Therefore, Force the Vote doesn't "expose" anyone. It protects the worst actors, because they can pretend to support it in a cost-free vote. Yes, Jimmy Dore cares about Medicare for All. So much so that he supported a candidate in 2020 who called it un-American in an interview with Anderson Cooper. My plan is to do the actual grassroots organizing. If your member isn't a sponsor, you knock on doors, sign petitions, and make calls. If that member still won't sign on, you primary him/her. If your member is on the list, go to a neighboring district and help others doing the same thing. Then, once you get to 218 & 50, you put the pressure on every sponsor to make sure that he/she is a Hard Yes by pushing for a discharge petition if the Speaker and Majority Leader won't schedule a vote. What have you actually done to get Medicare for All?
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  6028.  @christiane132  Grassroots organizing. Who is your Representative in Congress? Does he/she support the bill?
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  6029.  @amadexi  5. The honorable gentleman from Vermont.
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  6030. This is evidence of the Republican bubble at work. He thinks it has no effect because it really doesn't for hard-core Republicans.
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  6031.  @sasquatchisnotreal2529  Well, Candace Owen hasn't held national office, so she's not eligible, but Bachmann was crazy.
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  6032.  @idkdk569  Political movements always take time. It took the Goldwater wing 16 years to take over the Republican Party, and they had money on their side. It took the Socialist and Populist movements 40 years to take over the Democratic Party. You know why we don't get anything? Because of so many lazy people who don't want to do the actual work.
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  6033.  @chuletaization  True, Nixon was capable of feeling shame and Trump wasn't, but the point was that the crimes he committed were far less severe. Taking the coward's way out only provides him cover. And it also helped that there were Republicans who a) actually cared about their country, and b) there wasn't an active propaganda news station providing cover. Even if you think that he won't get removed, if you think he committed crimes, you vote Yes. If your moral courage is based on the moral courage of people who have none, then you have none.
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  6034.  @chuletaization  You are aware that Ukraine has relations with NATO, right? So, if they help out our biggest alliance, and we are giving them money to help them stave off a Russian invasion, they are our allies. Thank you once again for demonstrating the difference between isolation and peace.
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  6035.  @chuletaization  Oh, yes. Ukraine are Nazis. They are the ones who are seeking territory and killing dissenters. Russia doesn't do any of that at all.
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  6036.  @aliamjon2550  People had a clue that Biden would surpass the raw vote total. Everyone expected record high turnout, and 51% of the vote with much higher turnout is bound to lead to more votes.
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  6037.  @aliamjon2550  I find it particularly amusing that, while defending Republicans as still somehow believing in civil rights, you insist on calling David Duke "doctor," and you want to defend his record as a legislator and his positions on issues. I'm just hoping you don't realize how badly you owned yourself and delete this reply. Re: Confederate monuments [citation needed]. There have been complaints about them ever since they went up. Read letters to the editor from Union soldiers during the Civil War furious that Lee got a statue at Gettysburg. Lee said that he didn't want a Confederate monument, refused to be buried in his Confederate uniform, and allowed none of his pallbearers to wear theirs, either. It's not "erasing history," it is saying "we are sick and tired of traitors and bigots rewriting our history."
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  6038.  @Zach-ju5vi  Funny how we "can't afford" any of the stuff that I want to do, but we can afford everything that you want to do and cut all manor of taxes. It's like someone shooting his parents and pleading for mercy for being an orphan. I did address it. My point was that it is a thinly veiled attempt to complain about working people getting compensation, but DOD contracts, which have lost literally trillions of dollars, continue unabated.
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  6039.  @Zach-ju5vi  And yet, I don't hear you complaining about those and saying that we can't afford anything until someone else mentions it, which means that you really don't care. There have been plenty of examples of people demonstrating not just that we can afford it, but that we can't not afford it.
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  6040.  QB5  It is quite the dilemma. Do you engage the trolls and risk feeding them, or do you ignore them and risk innocent bystanders not seeing a rebuttal and thinking that there's something to the lies?
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  6041.  HunterBidensCrackPipe  If there are no rules about buildings, you get Haiti.
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  6042. How does it prevent people from "changing their votes"? If anything, a first past the post system means that fewer people want to be a spoiler. I'll give you a personal example. In 2015, when I lived in Philadelphia, I really liked a lot of what Nelson Diaz was saying in his campaign. He was way behind, but I usually try to follow the logic of "vote your heart in the primary and your head in the general." Then, I saw the polling, and with a month or so to go, Anthony Hardy Williams, the voucher/charter king, was leading in the polls. This was a candidate I considered totally unacceptable. So, I started checking the polls to see if he still had the lead or if a Not Williams would emerge and make a competitive race. Jim Kenney ultimately did, with polls a week or so out showing them separated by a few points. Diaz was only polling at about 5%, so I voted for Kenney. On Election Night, Kenney won an outright majority and beat Williams by over 20 points. While I was relieved, I was annoyed that such a move turned out to be unnecessary, although chances are a lot of lefties made the same move I did of voting against Williams. If Ranked Choice Voting was a thing in Philadelphia, I could have voted Diaz as my first choice and maybe he would have had a fighter's chance, and i could have used my second vote to make the strategic decision and vote for Kenney in case he was the most likely to beat Williams.
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  6043. This Christian will be sure to come out and vote... to keep this would-be dictator as far away from the White House as possible.
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  6044. The guy who wanted Trump in 2016 and said that Trump getting three Supreme Court Justices was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan? The guy who is a paid propagandist of the Assad regime? The guy who wants to destroy anyone who actually gets anything done? He is absolutely our enemy.
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  6045. 7:58 Indeed. I worked at a retirement community in seminary for an internship my final year, and I met 100-year-olds who looked 70 and 70-year-olds who looked 100. I pretty much gave up on guessing age after that experience.
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  6046. She looks like someone who thinks she has a winning hand just before someone else reveals a straight flush.
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  6047. She's a right wing kook who knew she had to be a Democrat to get elected in Hawaii.
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  6048.  @davidstevenson5830  Both things are true. White Nationalist Barbie suggested that because 100 years ago, people decided free education should stop at 12th grade, that it should stop there forever, but that itself was an extension. Also, the free college of the past depended on where you lived. Bernie wants to make it free nationwide for a public colleges and universities.
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  6049. Jimmy Carter once had to sell his peanut farm in order to avoid Emoluments Clause violations because Congress was worried him using the power of the Presidency to affect favorable trade deals. (And his own party controlled Congress.) My, how times have changed!
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  6050.  @tipsandtricks6071  [citation needed]
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  6051. How about Coup Plotting Former President Rejected by the People Twice and Impeached Twice?
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  6052. It totally matters, because if there is no evidence for the claim, he is inciting people to reverse the election.
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  6053.  @thepolarphantasm2319  Actually, accordions have keys. Der Orangefuhrer plays an invisible concertina ;-)
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  6054.  @creampuffme  I'm glad that things are improving for you. We are both living proof that there are some things that are beyond individual control.
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  6055.  @saflool  Sugar does not boost your cholesterol. There is no cholesterol in sugar. Cholesterol is a type of fat. I can't help but appreciate the irony that Sam talked about fad diets, and that's where the subject went. Atkins and keto are bogus and dangerous, especially for an endurance athlete.
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  6056.  @saflool  I have no problem with my liver. The problem is that I have low HDL cholesterol relatively speaking, which gets rid of the bad cholesterol. I have known people with freakishly low cholesterol in part because they naturally have an HDL of like 75. My entire point was that some things are out of our control, as a rebuttal to the caller who insisted that people should just exercise and they won't have any health problems. Your intention may well have been good, but it can come off the wrong way given context.
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  6057.  @saflool  Understood in context. I'm just saying that the initial response, with two people pointing out how, both for better or worse, we have counts that would surprise doctors based on exercise profiles, that there is a limit to what can be done, that the intent was easy to miss. My weight fluctuates and that does seem to make a difference at times, but an HDL of mid 30s to low 40s gives you far less room for error. My ex-wife barely worked out at all, and had weight issues worse than mine, but because her HDL was 52, she invariably had lower cholesterol than I did.
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  6058.  @dzrtdwlr7891  Eugene Debs ran for prison in 1920. The Constitution gives a specific list of qualifications, but considering that his game is to run out the clock and people worrying about "appearing political," I wouldn't be surprised if the trial is delayed until after the election.
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  6059.  @dzrtdwlr7891  Indeed. Hopefully, the powers that be realize just what a mistake it was to pardon Nixon. I wish you well, also.
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  6060.  @joshplatanitis1774  If he didn't know they were fake at the time, but he couldn't confirm they were real, either, that is sloppy journalism and it shouldn't have run.
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  6061.  @thomasmendola937  Was your grandfather a veteran?
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  6062.  @barbiquearea  I looked it up, and they were, but Philip and Elizabeth had nothing to do with them because of it. You can't hold against someone who had siblings who did awful things that they opposed. Seeing just how many people thought highly of Hitler in the 1930s is a sad state of affairs.
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  6063.  @yassine8935  Not saying they were perfect. My point was that it is unfair to imply that Elizabeth and Philip were some sort of crypto-Nazis because of family members they disassociated from. If you want to criticize, go after the things that they actually did.
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  6064. Ty Cobb had the ability to hit home runs, but he liked the more mental aspects of the game during the dead ball (and what we now call small ball). Wade Boggs and Ichiro were both more than capable of hitting a lot of home runs, but they didn't do it because they saw their job as getting hits. However, Cobb was no natural. He worked very hard and studied to know how to hit so well.
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  6065.  @sybo59  Do you seriously not pay attention to anything that happens in the real world and just look at The Way Things Ought to Be? I gave an example of experts for the tobacco companies saying cigarettes were harmless decades after they knew better. Someone else pointed out what happened with the credit reporting agencies. All three gave their highest ratings to mortgage-backed securities before they went belly up. If they would be destroyed by the one showing of lack of integrity, why are not only all three still in business, but no serious competitor has arisen since?
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  6066.  @ChrisPBacon9  Indeed. These are people who love hearing themselves talk, but sometimes I get the feeling that they're doing it to try to convince themselves.
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  6067. How do you explain the interview? The words came right out of her own mouth. If you support torture in one case, you support torture.
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  6068. This past fall, I went to the National Apple Harvest Festival with my daughter. She wanted to get something from a certain vendor, but as soon as I saw not only his Trump shirt at the back, but his T-shirt showing vitriol towards Democrats, I told her we weren't getting it. For me, I'm not really going to look for the ideology of the business, but if they show it off, I won't go there. Admittedly, if I lived in a red area, I understand that such decisions would be very difficult (like I don't give people grief in certain areas for doing most of their shopping at Wal-Mart because it's the only game in town), but ultimately it is up to each of us to decide our line and respect the judgment of others as they truthfully examine their consciences about it.
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  6069.  @pinkwolf2537  Do you think that more money than any other candidate has raised, and more than ten times her own total, is a legitimate amount?
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  6070.  @inciteprogress5471  Well, she used an awful lot of first-person singular when talking about torture in that 2014 interview, so quite frankly, it sounded to me like she trusts her own judgment about the ticking time bomb scenario. I was in Iraq, and I was the sergeant in charge of POWs at times while there, and I did the right thing. Anyone who even suggests it in any instance supports torture, and that person insults every single one of us who did the right thing. Even Biden has spoken out against torture.
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  6071.  @pinkwolf2537  Well, it should be based on actual losses. You don't just throw out some random number that, oh by the way, would make you the most funded candidate of all, and then there would be a question of whether or not that would violate campaign finance laws. When I ran for a legislative seat, I was splitting the cost of a venue for a debate with my opponent. He wanted to give me the money to cover his half, but the Secretary of State said that if the money went through my campaign at all, it was considered a contribution. So, I had to pay my half, and he had to pay separately. Admittedly, different sets of rules, but I just don't see how that amount of damage is viable, and she should be using campaign finds to reach out to voters instead of paying legal fees.
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  6072.  @cpvsgvmnt2116  Rich people create jobs? Tell me, what rich person creates jobs if no one is buying what the rich person is selling? I'm guessing you've never seen which side of the ledger workers end up on for a company. Also, why do you think stock prices go up after layoffs. If they are really "job creators," isn't this a failure?
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  6073.  @cpvsgvmnt2116  The rich wouldn't be the rich without the rest of us. There is no such thing as a self-made millionaire or billionaire. Here's a piece of advice: stop fellating the rich. It won't someday make you rich.
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  6074.  @cpvsgvmnt2116  And when everything is for your own aggrandizement and wealth, you have just proven my point, and you clearly want people to kiss your butt.
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  6075.  @cpvsgvmnt2116  There you go, you lead with gratitude, not competence. You might say that you don't want it, but you clearly do.
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  6076.  @cpvsgvmnt2116  You lead with gratitude, and you keep going about gratitude, and you conflate your employees (without whom you would be broke) having gratitude with having a good attitude. You say more than you realize. Probably why you got so triggered at the idea that you alone weren't the master of the universe you have convinced yourself you are by surrounding yourself with people who tell you that because of all of the personality traits, gratitude to you is what mattered most. And to quote Jonathan Moxon (overly dramatic reading and all), I don't want your life. I am perfectly satisfied with the work that I do. When I have issues with treatment or work, I can get them taken care of, and once it comes open, I can get my dream transfer closer to where I live in case I ever have to go back to the office. And I don't have to stroke Management's ego to do it.
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  6077.  @cpvsgvmnt2116  I get great scores on my work evaluations. The difference is that my supervisors don't think that I should primarily be grateful, because they know that it's a two-way street.
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  6078.  @cpvsgvmnt2116  I am well aware that not all businesses hire employees. "Creating jobs" is not the goal of a business. You are making my point for me that the "job creator" label is false, and you don't even know it. Yeah, under no definition that most normal people would understand would 100% job loss be considered "downsizing," especially when you emphasize your great pay after. You clearly intended to leave the impression that there were still employees to continue to hold the title Job Creator.
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  6079. Because the Democratic Party has always been a coalition rather than an ideologically coherent party, and Evil Turtle figured out that saying No to everything makes it pretty much impossible to get much of anything done when there is literally zero margin of error in the Senate and you need to win over 98% of House Democrats.
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  6080. Another big reason why he ran as a Democrat is that his dad and uncle were both elected officials as Democrats, although they always had some weird detente with the Moore family.
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  6081. There's only nine left. Next comes Pi.
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  6082. Reagan also said that Medicare would lead to socialism. How did that work out?
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  6083.  @ComradeCatpurrnicus  Indeed. These people who claim that their opposition to electoralism is a principled stand is no different than any other elitist or apathetic person out there. The most ridiculous are the ones who envision themselves a new Che Guevara leading a revolution and overthrowing the most powerful military around. Maybe do the actual work and vote based on your supposed values. After all, if enough people voted that way, they wouldn't need to go that route.
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  6084. 7:34 No, Kramer was the first to lose the bet when he saw the naked woman across the street.
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  6085.  John michael  Thank you for proving the point about Trump being a cult leader.
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  6086.  @MeetTheSLAYER  How's that wall working out? How about that health plan that would cover everyone for less? Or getting rid of the carried interest deduction?
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  6087. Hopefully, the fascists don't put all their eggs in the Mastriano basket. If anything, he's worse. He led the effort to refuse to certify the vote as a state senator, made a mockery of our legislature by inviting Rudy Giuliani to testify in a committee, and he marched on 1/6, although he insists that he never actually went into the Capitol. Oh, and he wants literally zero exceptions when banning abortions, and we have a somewhat dominant Republican majority in both legislative houses.
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  6088.  @tonyduong3275  Anything about Tulsi's actions until her term is over would be speculation. It's not like she can negotiate her exit while she is in office. What I am basing it on is how she has spent more and more time going to right-wing media as her campaign went nowhere, and how she has repeated their narrative. Given that it can be quite lucrative to be "a reasonable Democrat" on Fox, and her approval shows that she has no political future in Hawaii, that is the only landing place that makes any sense for someone who loves the limelight.
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  6089.  @tonyduong3275  1) Not finding the exact numbers, but her trips to Dave Rubin and Breitbart were definitely new. And one of the other areas where they found agreement? That all of the other Democratic Presidential candidates hate America. 2) The right wing narrative that Democrats hate America, and the right wing narrative that any desire to address immigration that does not result in "send them all back" is open borders. 3) I was mistaken. I thought Kucinich went to Fox last year. I forgot that this was him coming back to Fox after his gubernatorial bid ended. But given the way that the bulk of her support as evidenced by polling in New Hampshire is coming from the right, I think it would be a soft place to land. 4) I would say threatening to boycott two debates and voting Present show someone with a knack for getting attention. Really, everything she says is about benefiting humanity? Does that include voting to make it more difficult for Syrian refugees to enter the United States? Praising Sisi after killing protesters in Egypt? Praising Putin for bombing civilians in Syria while complaining that Obama didn't? How about comparing the Iran nuclear deal to Munich (on Fox, coincidentally)? And, last but not least, how can anyone who claims to support peace have ever invoked 24 to defend torture, even after the interviewer pointed out that studies have shown that torture doesn't work? As a veteran who actually did the right thing when dealing with POWs, this was an insult to me and the thousands of others who didn't commit war crimes.
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  6090.  @mattblack118  DEI isn't a racial quota or set aside. The fact that you have to use such dishonest and loaded rhetoric shows that you know that you are wrong.
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  6091.  @mattblack118  PBS can call just about everything controversial because right wingers reflexively oppose anything done to help anyone else.
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  6092. Are you familiar with the legislative strategy of Catch and Release? Until you are, you have no understanding of Force the Vote as a strategy and its limitations.
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  6093.  @maytalcliff9497  Indeed. That was the main thing he kept beating Jimmy Dore over the head with in 2016. Of course, because too many on the left have waited until the horses got out to close the barn door, we have to start from way behind on this one.
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  6094. These Individual Sovereignty people clearly haven't thought things through. I remember debating someone on FB a few years ago who kept insisting I was trying to "distract" when I asked him whether, in his new system, he would have to get a passport to re-enter the US if he left his property and if he'd have to pay tariffs to import things. If you want to be your own country, these are the things you have to think about. You have the patience of a saint, Sam!
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  6095. Der Orangestraflingfuhrer: Doing to the USA what he did to the USFL
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  6096.  ThisIsMyRealName  "It is better remain silent and have people think that you are a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt." Mark Twain
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  6097. "I am not a member of any organized party. I am a Democrat." Will Rogers, 1935 My, how things have changed!
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  6098.  @drewmorgan878  Value difference has nothing to do with it. Ever since John Wayne at least, people have been pulling the chicken hawk routine in pop culture. It's almost parody that The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance basically has the roles reversed between the real hero and the person who lived off the image of the hero. If you want to play macho hero, there's a recruiter's office near you. I guess you'll have those things when as soon as you change conferences, you forget that defense is a thing. Hiring Holgorsen was a mistake we're still paying for.
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  6099.  @kelbychesshir1606  Cold Feet Crowder agreed to a debate with Sam Seder at Politicon, but he backed out. He had been ducking him for three years. What's he to do? Well, maybe the "change my mind" guy who was saying good things about someone "entering the arena" who Cold Feet knew wasn't primarily a political person should have stayed on camera and gone toe-to-toe, or not spent three years ducking Sam Seder.
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  6100.  @kelbychesshir1606  "I'm just stating that Crowder would kill Sam Seder in a debate" Then, why didn't he prove it?
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  6101. Because people who have six-figure student loans are going to take longer to have kids and buy a house. Financial instability is also the biggest cause of divorce. Letting people start their working lives at zero instead of in the red will be a huge economic boon.
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  6102.  @Rob1066-  Oh, look, the person who doesn't want to have actual accountability for fascism. What a shock!
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  6103.  @Rob1066-  Show me anywhere that protesters for Kavanaugh built a gallows and were chanting to hang anyone. I don't remember Kavanaugh protesters smearing feces on the walls of Congress. You think it was only the people who physically entered the building that day? I don't know if you're really that naive or just being willfully ignorant.
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  6104.  @Rob1066-  The economy is growing, even compared to before the pandemic, with wages finally starting to go up for working people well above the rate of inflation. The problem is that Democrats are so bad at taking credit for the things that work, or the press won't cover it one.
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  6105.  @Rob1066-  Wages have grown 15% this year. Inflation is about 6%, which is far less than it was in the 1970s. You mean the supply chain that dealt with a pandemic and is now dealing with people having money and wanting to spend again? No! In other words, you are demonstrating that you are one of the fascists, because you want us to go easy on the traitors who are trying to kill democracy. Bluster all you want, but we both know the truth. If you were in such a position of strength, you wouldn't need to make it harder for people to vote.
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  6106.  @Rob1066-  Oh, so you support poll taxes. You just keep making yourself better and better. And, here's a hint: if you want to dog whistle, you need to be a bit more subtle. If voters in poor neighborhoods are lazy, maybe we should shut down polling places near you so you have to stand in line for eight hours to exercise the franchise.
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  6107.  @Rob1066-  Yeah, funny that you "don't support D or R," when everything you utter is advocating one side. Then again, if you can't admit it, this is more proof that deep down, you know you're wrong.
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  6108.  @hermenutic  I think that the establishment realizes that it has to throw some bone to the left, so it will be a lot like the Obama years. Getting a few things in, and a lot of disappointment. Obama foreshadowed it when praising Reagan and talking about how we need to "do something to address the impending Social Security crisis." That is when I realized that the two options on my primary ballot would be choosing the lesser of two evils.
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  6109.  @hermenutic  Totally agree. The worst thing about someone like Warren winning is that she would be written off as proof of the weakness of the left if she fails.
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  6110.  @PoggoMcDawggo  Hence, why we need to make sure that we get a replacement for RBG next year if at all possible. This was in response to someone who seemed to imply that she will be around for a while. If a Republican gets to name her successor, any good thing that President AOC or anyone else can get through Congress will be overturned. It wouldn't surprise me if they use Medicare for All as an excuse to get rid of it for seniors and the disabled.
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  6111. Der Orangefuhrer is the living embodiment of the "Fraud at Polls" scene in Citizen Kane.
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  6112.  @littlebitofhope1489  All a republic means is that there is no monarch. "A republic, not a democracy" is the equivalent of saying, "It's not a grape, it's purple!" Here are some examples of each: Democratic Republic: France, Germany Democratic but not a Republic: UK, Sweden Republic but not a Democracy: China Neither a Republic nor a Democracy: Saudi Arabia
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  6113.  @sebastiang7394  Indeed. I definitely go by the adage of "the farthest candidate to the left who can win." Whether people like it or not, that is Joe Manchin in WV.
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  6114.  @alr9926  I don't think that they don't care at all, but they would rather lose with Biden than win with Bernie. The evidence for this is right there for everyone to see.
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  6115.  @redvenomweb  Well, I am not with those people, and given the Corbyn memos, there is plenty of evidence that the establishment will sabotage a left candidate. Also, how many lefties are actually in positions to sabotage the establishment? How many in the establishment are in a position to sabotage the lefties? Not at all the same.
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  6116.  @alr9926  I agree wholeheartedly. If I lived in a safe state, I probably wouldn't vote for Biden, because he either wouldn't need my vote or couldn't use it. Because I live in a swing state, I will vote for Biden. He won't get my weekends (and some weeknights) the way Bernie did, though. Let the establishment do the work. I am well aware that the establishment is like a vending machine, and you probably can't knock it over on the first or second try. That is why I have been telling people to run for committee seats and small, local races so they can start to control the levers in due time.
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  6117. Indeed. Jimmy Dore used this to buy a multimillion dollar house.
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  6118. Do you consider books to be a luxury item? He keeps talking about Amazon.
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  6119.  @jessew7565  They never have an answer.
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  6120. He wasn't talking about Medicare for All in "any blue will do," he was talking about the Voting Rights Act, and I think he is probably right, because if for no other reason, self interest will kick in.
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  6121.  Johnny Guillotine  A Constitutional Amendment requires 2/3 in each House of Congress and ratification by 3/4 of state legislatures. Can you really count on 12 states or less going the xenophobic route?
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  6122. Hopefully, they will in three years.
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  6123.  @alabamaman9476  Biden ran on it, and won a majority of the vote. In January, Manchin started by saying $4T.
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  6124.  @sourabhps  Which do you think is the bigger problem in America? Honestly. This false equivalence is harmful.
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  6125.  @sourabhps  Because when you say "it's a problem either ways [sic]," you are implying that problems with the two are equivalent. They are not.
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  6126.  @sourabhps  No organization is perfect, and I do not pretend that unions are. The difference is that I don't use this fact as both siderism to try to undermine the one group that actually has a consistent history of helping working people in this country. That is also ignoring the fact that corporations as they exist today are inherently designed to hurt anyone possible in the goal of maximizing profit.
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  6127.  @JakobVirgil  Indeed. He has quite a blind spot for authoritarians and people who prop them up with one shining exception (Brazil). Let us not forget that he is the one who proposed up Edward Snowden, who complains about government invasion of privacy but has nothing to say about the stuff that his benefactor Putin does.
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  6128. Well, the only person who went to jail after the 2008 financial crisis was the person who ripped off other rich people (Bernie Madoff), so double-crossing other billionaires will do it.
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  6129. 8:36 Those are the villains obsessed with blood purity, Matt.
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  6130. What about her was left leaning? She was the most right wing candidate not named Michael Bloomberg in the 2020 primary.
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  6131.  @krook5158  Who do you think makes the Ivermectin and monoclonal antibodies that he is pushing as an alternative? This nonsense would be hilarious if it wasn't killing so many people.
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  6132. Or someone else under the direction of Clarence Thomas. The first big case after he got on the bench was Casey, and there were initially the votes to overturn Roe, but Souter and O'Connor found a compromise to get Kennedy on board. Once he had the chance, he knew that he would never give anyone else the chance to convince that fifth vote to go the other way, so once he realized Roberts was working on Kavanaugh, he knew it was time.
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  6133.  @stoptheworldiwannagetoff4780  Yeah, because sending stormtroopers to kidnap people off the streets really eased the tension. Maybe governors and mayors don't like their citizens being kidnapped.
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  6134.  @stoptheworldiwannagetoff4780  What would you call an unnamed force with full battle gear and no identification or insignia of any kind kidnapping people off the streets? Idiot!
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  6135. Given Moscow Donald's power of projection, did anyone else notice the acronym he uses for the wall? Given the way he makes fun of overweight women, does he really want a BBW? ;-)
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  6136. ​ @gorillaau He got 46% in 2016 and 47% in 2020. He only won in 2016 because of the Electoral College, but he wasn't the choice of the American people. He was also the only American President to never reach 50% approval in a single Gallup poll.
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  6137.  @cremelynn6339  You mean innocent like the wrestlers who tried to tell him about being sexually abused?
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  6138.  @waleuska  Far from it. In 1967, George Romney paid an effective rate of 37%. Someone would have to be in nine figures to even he close.
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  6139.  @waleuska  It can be less regressive, but by definition, any tax on consumption is regressive.
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  6140.  @waleuska  But they're not. The effective rate for someone making a million dollars a year is roughly half that of what it was in the 1950s. And ignoring that, while Johnson did drop the top marginal rate to 70% in 1964, he also got rid of a lot of things that before then were treated as capital gains and started treating them like ordinary income. The overall revenue might be similar, but the main reason for that is payroll taxes going up.
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  6141.  @Cameron_Merrill  Donald Trump was already in the lead at this point last time around, so that argument doesn't work. Name a candidate who has risen from less than 2% five months before Iowa (when the standard increases) to win the nomination in either party.
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  6142.  @Cameron_Merrill  If it's only about media coverage, why did Bernie rise so highly the last time around? With the billions of free media Trump got, why did he never lead in the national popular vote poll? The polls broke late, as often happens, and the polls were within the margin of error nationally (Hillary +3.5 vs. +2.1) and in all but two states (PA & WI), the latter of which wasn't polled after September. It is true that there is a bit of a Catch-22 in getting attention, but if a candidate is getting less than the margin of error consistently, and it takes 15% of the vote in a state or Congressional district to get delegates, and failure means that votes go into the ether, the odds of someone doing anything other than not getting delegates, thus wasting everyone's time, is increased. Again, if someone isn't getting 2% now (and that's not even the average, but in four of literally dozens of polls), what makes you think that person will get to 15%? And if you like the rapid fire debates where you can't dig deep, then encourage everyone to stay in by all means, but I would rather actually see substance.
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  6143. Remember when Melania walked right next to Biden with no mask on. These people are vile.
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  6144.  @oljimeagle  Pressuring Amazon and Disney to raise their wages, working with John McCain to improve the VA hospital system, community health clinics, and a host of things that we don't even know about because both Democrats and Republicans admitted that he would rather let them get the credit so things could get done.
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  6145.  @oljimeagle  Almost forgot: as mayor, his city became the first to go to fully renewable energy in America, creating an economic boon to the people of Burlington and providing a model for hundreds in his wake.
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  6146.  Donald Smith  And where did you mention doing the actual hard work required of taking over the party? How many people are actually running for spots on their local executive committee, or running for spots on city council, school board, or state legislature? Our Revolution was encouraging people to do that, but I have seen the sour grapes section of the left insist that they worked hard for this campaign (or even both of Bernie's Presidential campaigns), but since he lost, that "proves" that electoral politics doesn't work, when all it proves is that there wasn't enough infrastructure for it to be a success. It took 16 years for the right to remake American politics after the defeat of Goldwater, and it took 40 years for the Populist movement and Socialists movements to get the New Deal. Any plan that doesn't show that degree of commitment is too lazy to beat the establishment. I, for one, don't want to see it made impossible to change anything because six or seven of the ten most right-wing Supreme Court Justices since 1900 are all there at the same time.
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  6147.  @OwentheKingofDudes  Look up who is affected by the policies. When PA passed a voter ID bill, the then-House Majority Leader (now Speaker) Mike Turzai said, "Voter ID, so Mitt Romney can win our electoral votes. Done." Statewide, 9% of the population did not have photo ID, but 18% didn't in Philadelphia, the biggest Democratic stronghold in the state. It ultimately got overturned because its advocates could not find one example of in-person voter fraud, but demographically and ideologically, they knew who they were targeting. Or, look at NC-9, where all those absentee ballots got tampered with. Yeah, Republicans never did that at all.
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  6148. A local grocery store tried the "quarter cart deposit," but it proved to be so unpopular (and a lot of people were using the baskets instead, which hold far less) so they got rid of it.
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  6149. What is the difference between Mike Braun and manure? Manure is useful.
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  6150. So, you want to use bigotry to put people out to pasture? Universal rules don't work for specific situations.
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  6151.  @danielmikula1375  Actually, all a republic really means is that you don't have a monarchy. "Republic, not a democracy" is the equivalent of saying "it's not a grape, it's purple!" You can have a democracy without a republic (such as the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the Scandinavian countries), a republic without a democracy (China) or a republic and a democracy (France, Germany, the United States). Either way, Aaron is showing his idiocy by fighting on this hill.
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  6152.  @maxsmart9116  Maybe Aaron thinks that sooner or later probability will kick in and he'll get something right ;-)
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  6153.  @johnmartinez4381  Who elects the Electoral College?
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  6154.  @mandatoryhelicopterrides4596  All a republic means is that you don't have a monarch. Democracies but not republics: United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Sweden, etc. Republics but not democracies: China, Iran Democracies and republics: France, Germany, the United States Neither democracies nor republics: Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Brunei
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  6155. The much more relevant pop culture quote to mock Rubin comes from Mac: Science is a liar... sometimes.
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  6156. Don't tell this guy what happened to Jim Fixx.
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  6157.  @kathleenr4047  The one truthful thing he ever said was "I could shoot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue, and I wouldn't lose any votes." If he told me the sky is blue, I'd look outside to make sure it didn't turn red overnight.
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  6158.  Karen Byrd  Or at least a crowd small enough that Biden can't really hide.
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  6159.  @kekwayblaze3176  Agreed. Biden has been slurring his speech an awful lot lately, and he keeps just trailing off. That, and I think that being Obama's friend only gives you so much goodwill, so the question isn't if but when he implodes. I am definitely confident that Bernie will reap the benefits of his volunteer and donor base. Weekend before last, I was part of a group of 75 in Philadelphia organized by DSA to knock on doors in support of Medicare for All and for Bernie. Especially in areas like caucus states, what do you think this organization will look like once it's actually crunch time if you can get that many people to come out 6 1/2 months before the first vote and nearly nine months before we vote?
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  6160.  @kekwayblaze3176  I think the tag team is an interesting strategy, and it seems to have paid off last week. I think Warren is both underestimated and overestimated in her ability to get things done, although I do think she is much better suited for the Senate. I just hope she doesn't break the pledge if she stumbles. Then again, I think only one of them can make it out of New Hampshire, so whoever finishes lower there needs to drop out.
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  6161. And that is why she is unacceptable in the primary. Thank you for pointing out the obvious that so many here turn a blind eye to!
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  6162.  @bru1016  Did she ever apologize for that? She did for her past statements and voting record on reproductive and gay rights. Did she specifically explain why she changed her position? Again, saying you support torture in any case means that you support torture.
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  6163.  @bru1016  I am making an argument that I don't know why she voted that way. Is it because she believes that torture is inherently wrong and unacceptable, or because she doesn't trust the current powers that be to make the call. If it is the latter, that doesn't mean that she opposes torture.
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  6164.  @LinkRocks  Some people in this world would rather complain than get things done... and then they wonder why they get nothing done. Some people need to learn the old expression that you take the half a loaf and fight for the other half.
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  6165.  fa q  The Democratic Party is not an ideological party. It is a coalition, and like it or not, when you have a bare bones majority, and the other party absolutely refusing to work with you, you aren't always going to get everyone in line for everything that you want. Would you rather it be like Obama asking for only about half of what his advisers told him he needed to ask for?
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  6166.  fa q  How many people thought that Democrats would lose seats in the House and that Collins and Ernst would hold on in the Senate? It doesn't take a mathematical genius to figure out what happens when you end up with a 50-50 Senate and one member holding on in a state where Trump won by 39 points.
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  6167.  @OllieMartinGamer  It is clearly pointing out how ridiculous the argument is.
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  6168.  @leothenomad5675  Shade Bleu and Alabama Man are the same. They are all faie accounts of Aaron Dickson.
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  6169.  @HansKeesom  The crime rates between white and minorities is similar, but the prosecution rate is not. And teen pregnancy rates have plummeted, but poverty and wealth and income inequality among black and Hispanic people is largely unchanged: https://www.cdc.gov/teenpregnancy/about/index.html
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  6170. The were given the option of "a carpet full of gold or a carpet of bombs."
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  6171.  @toooldforthisshte1681  I've been to Atlantic City. There are a lot of dilapidated casinos there. His was one of the first, though. What killed the later ones was more places in PA and NY allowed casinos, which killed their business.
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  6172.  @gorillaguerillaDK  And he also wept bitterly at the fall of the Berlin Wall and sees the end of the Soviet Empire as the worst foreign policy decision of the 20th century. And they wonder why someone would point out the difference between anti-imperialism and anti-Americanism!
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  6173. It's not enthusiasm. It is that some of us are adults and realize that, like it or not, barring some medical emergency, one of these two will win the election in November.
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  6174.  @estherc.5559  Why Yang has a terrible version of UBI? Because the poor and disabled had to choose between their current benefits and his plan. Because it was paid for by a regressive tax. Because he wanted to do nothing to address potential problems with UBI such as increased housing costs. Because he admitted that the money would end up back in the pockets of big business anyway, and it was a Trojan horse to get rid of the existing social safety net.
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  6175.  @estherc.5559  He told Dave Rubin that his ultimate goal was to end the existing social safety net, but he saw this as a politically palatable way to do so. Funny how when talking to lefty opponents of Yang, you Yang Gang bangers insist that he never said what he clearly did. And why is "choice a bad thing"? Because everyone else gets both/and. Why does some millionaire get every penny of a deduction for a mortgage on a mansion (which is way more than $12,000/year) while the poor and disabled have to choose? Now, why is this a bad deal to make it either/or? Imagine a single parent making $20,000/year. This parent has two small children who need daycare, or else the parent can't work at all. The average daycare subsidies in this situation far exceed what the Freedom with 125 Strings Attached Dividend has to offer. So, not only does this single parent not get a penny, but he/she now has to pay more for purchases because Yang used a VAT. And did I mention that someone with that income level is probably also getting WIC and SNAP, and possibly housing subsidies? And this response about companies not raising prices is just wishful thinking, which is what is required to make the numbers work. Funny how a guy who liked to wear a MATH pin lied about his math repeatedly.
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  6176.  @estherc.5559  Yeah, he mentioned rent control as something that he opposed in his Presidential campaign. He only supported it in his mayoral campaign because he knew that to take it away would be suicide. You sound like the Yang Gang bangers who insist that he came around on the minimum wage by the time he ran for mayor ignoring the fact that NYC already has a $15/hour minimum wage.
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  6177.  @estherc.5559  And this idea of "I'll just move" ignores that it affects housing nationwide. If there is a glut of people trying to move where housing is cheap, it will surely jump. This also ignores the fact that rent control stops protecting people the instant they move. Still to get back to the first question. If the Freedom with 125 Strings Attached Dividend is a "right of citizenship," but the poor and disabled have to give something up in order to get it, does that mean that the poor and disabled are second-class citizens? And how can you know if it's a good deal if he completely refused to provide a full list of the 125 programs?
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  6178.  @estherc.5559  The disabled would ne worse off, because they wouldn't get any more money, and they would have to pay a VAT. Not only is the charity part a total non-sequitir, but are you seriously suggesting that those who get the UBI give their money to the people who don't? Again, if you have to rely on magical thinking in order to make it feasible, you are in trouble. And 5% of all of the estimated UBI payments ($125B) is a drop in the bucket for the sick and disabled. You ignored my questions. Why is it that the rich get to keep their welfare because UBI is "a right of citizenship," but the poor and disabled don't? Are they second class citizens? And what is stopping landlords from jacking up the rent? Leases expire, and nothing will stop them from increasing it if there is no rent control (which Yang apparently only supports when it is already in place)?
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  6179.  @estherc.5559  The UBI as Yang proposed it makes the gap worse because it is paid for with regressive taxes and the most vulnerable don't get it. What would address it? How about actually dealing with societal issues rather than surrendering to the tech lords and giving people a pittance, and using actual progressive taxation?
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  6180.  Wilbur Whateley  Yes, pardoning Nixon created "divison"... as opposed to the actual division that we got from sending the message that the President is indeed above the law. I don't know where you are getting your Reconstruction argument from other than Lost Cause U. Johnson was impeached in 1868. After Lee surrendered, several generals tried to lead guerilla warfare, and the KKK was founded in 1866. The states that seceded from the Union never stopped fighting the war, only eventually they switched tactics to propaganda, and it looks like it worked on you. Maybe you should learn a little history before you comment on it.
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  6181.  Wilbur Whateley  Oh, so you are now a useful idiot. Bragging about voting for the party that gets funded by Republicans to sew chaos in places like Wisconsin doesn't help your credibility. You literally think that the President should never be held accountable for crimes. Well, last time I checked, we fought a war because we didn't want a monarchy.
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  6182.  @bru1016  No, everyone would not have had it, because she said that it wasn't fair to take away plans from people who want it, echoing the talking points of John Delaney. And show me where it is unconstitutional to get rid of private insurance that isn't supplemental? Show me the specific text in the Constitution that is violated. It's not just that she went on those shows. It is that she went on those shows and went along with the nonsense they were peddling. Marianne Williamson went on The Rubin Report, and when he talked about open borders, she knocked ot down for the nonsense it was. Tulsi said that she was the only Democratic candidate to oppose open borders (after playing both siderism on the wall during the shutdown) and the only Democratic candidate to love her country (even though she actually endorsed one of her opponents three years earlier). Of course, she can't negotiate while she is in Congress, but her statements and her actions are laying the groundwork just as much as people say that it's a matter of time before Dave Rubin says that he is straight now.
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  6183.  Wilbur Whateley  Because everything that you have said is based on the same discredited and un-American notion that we don't have equality before the law in this country. The fact that you keep spreading nonsense blaming the impeachment of Johnson for the Lost Cause even though there is ample evidence that it never stopped discredits you just as badly as the other person spouting the forgive and forget nonsense and how we were too mean to Johnny Reb. The mere fact that you think that bragging about supporting a party that has shown itself to be patently dishonest in its aims by pretending that the Democratic Party isn't pure enough while working hand in hand with Republicans to subvert democracy shows that there isn't an era where you do have a grasp on the facts. As long as you keep making ludicrous statements based on the same false narrative, I don't need to do a point by point rebuttal to show the flaw. I don't need to eat a whole apple to know it went bad.
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  6184.  @bru1016  I would if he called it single payer, because keeping competing private insurance is, by definition, not single payer. Medicare for All is a single payer system that expressly prohibits competing health insurance. Tulsi Gabbard said that was un-American. Play the video. As I said to the other tulcel, I look at the principle involved rather than the person, so you're argument that I am going to jump up and down and support something just because Bernie says it shows that you don't understand the point at all. Is a public option preferable to what we have now? Yes, it is. Is it Medicare for All? No, it is not. "Choice" is the exact word that John Delaney tried to shove down people's throats in his bid to protect his stock value, I mean for President. Tulsi Gabbard embraced that framing when talking about health insurance. Therefore, she abandoned Medicare for All. Either that, or she is incredibly stupid when it comes to politics, and I don't think she is stupid.
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  6185.  @bru1016  Why have a competing plan if they are already on the government plan. If the private plan does nothing, then you are praising companies literally taking money for nothing. As bad as private insurance is now, it technically performs a service.
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  6186.  @red-baitingswine8816  You mean the right-wing group that makes fake videos to try to perpetuate the idea that massive voter fraud is a real thing? And I will be the next NBA Slam Dunk champion, even though I'm a couple inches taller than Muggsy Bogues and I don't have a massive vertical.
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  6187.  @red-baitingswine8816  I'm not sure if they did one with Planned Parenthood, but they became famous for something with ACORN that eventually killed the organization. The reason why it is a smear of Omar to cite Project Veritas is that they had a video that tried to say that Ilhan Omar paid people to rid the vote in her favor. When Tulsi Gabbard cited the video saying that Ilhan Omar cheated in the election, she smeared Ilhan Omar, because that video she cited says she cheated. The bill that Tulsi Gabbard proposed would make it a crime to send more than three absentee ballots for other people. Someone who works at a nursing home and collects ballots cast by residents could go to jail. Her "election integrity" ballot makes it criminal to help people vote. There are already laws on the ballot against vote tampering. How else do you think that the people who actually did it in North Carolina went to jail? Enforce those laws instead of criminalizing helping people vote.
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  6188.  @red-baitingswine8816  And there are laws on the books. Enforce those. We don't need another law that will prohibit examples the above mentioned one I gave.
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  6189.    And there are already laws on the book. You don't need one that will prohibit people from helping someone who is physically unable to go to the mailbox to get someone to send a ballot.
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  6190. Who is this Jim Jordan? I see Gym Jordan in a screenshot.
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  6191. Because it took him two months to put a policy page together. I don't really care if someone puts stuff later if they clearly see it as secondary.
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  6192.  @terrys7666  Oh, look! The both siderism express right on time. Almost everyone Biden appointed was a capable official.
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  6193.  @MyTv-  It would have been closer, but Oz had so many issues that he would have struggled regardless. Trump pulled him over the line by less than a point in the primary, and a lot of the things Fetterman has used against him already came up and did some damage in the primary.
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  6194.  @terryfuldsgaming7995  True, but why settle if you don't have to? If we're stuck with him a year from now, so be it, but why not try to get someone good?
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  6195.  @stingerjohnny9951  That's a good one. I tip my metaphorical hat to you.
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  6196.  @peterstafford4426  Even if you are right (which I am not conceding), this has nothing to do with the topic. The question was about whether or not Obama had a history of giving in to corporate interests when it came to the environment. I gave examples. You are changing the subject because you have nothing to offer. Any idiot can blow the world up.
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  6197.  @Addamo  Those places "declared independence" with Russian tanks in the street. For all your talk about things that were floated but never actually included in deals with the late-era Soviet Union, you ignore the Budapest Agreement that says that, in exchange for giving up its nuclear arsenal, Ukraine's territorial integrity would be insured. They knew what Russia would be like, and that's why they wanted those guarantees.
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  6198.  @Addamo  It does matter that it wasn't codified, because that means that it was withdrawn, and both sides knew it.
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  6199. @Troll Investigation So, international borders should be set when a bigger country wants space, for living if you will, to keep ethnic groups together. Where have I heard this before?
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  6200. @Troll Investigation Self-determination is not about splinter groups seceding, especially when backed my more powerful neighbors. Do you think that the Confederate states were justified in "self-derermination"? I don't, and I don't have to defend arguments that should have died 80 years ago to do it, either.
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  6201.  @Addamo  Then, show me the papers where it's located. I can also show you the interview with people at the time on both sides of the Iron Curtain that said that it wasn't there. Pro tip: you can't complain about imperialism while defending imperial actions. Funny how you're obsessed with what Russia wants, but you completely ignore the agreements in writing that weren't dropped when it comes to Ukraine and what they want. And maybe former Warsaw Pact countries wouldn't want to join NATO if not for the bullying that they receive.
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  6202.  @Addamo  You're a pro at standing for Russian imperialism, as you are literally defending them invading another country to rebuild an empire that they lost 30 years ago.
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  6203.  @Addamo  And if those other countries want to join a defense pact, you won't hear me complaining.
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  6204.  @Addamo  A lot of places where those bases exist are there specifically because other countries have asked... in no small part because of threats from other countries who you are defending.
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  6205.  @Addamo  And if Washington did, I would be critical of any such effort. That's the difference between me and you. My stance is not lazy anti-Americanism, but actually trying my best to look at the situation. I'm the intellectual descendant of neither those who would have insisted that we ignore Germany taking places with some shared ethnic dissent other countries be damned nor those who thought that regime change in Iraq was a great idea. It requires more work, but there's a lot less chance of either defending those whose human rights abuses are the worst around or advocating for war any time someone sneezes.
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  6206.  @Addamo  And you believe in the fairy tale that Vladimir Putin is just a benign actor who doesn't act in any aggressive way it all even while it's staring you in the face.
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  6207.  @Addamo  Okay, then, what is the "complexity" that you see, Mr. Expert? Then again, when you work backwards and try to find an answer, it's easy to devolve into "there must be something that nobody else sees or knows. America Bad, so Russia can't possibly be bad.
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  6208.  @Addamo  "and the defense of wthnic Russians in Ukraine" No Lebensraum there. "During the eight-year civil war..." And who started that civil war, again?
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  6209.  @Addamo  And when was that resolution against the Nazis?
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  6210.  @Addamo  Well, Mr. Russia is Acting Peacefully and in Everyone's Best Interests, now they're shelling Eastern Ukraine. Way to protect those ethnic Russians that he cares so much about! At this point, I just have to wonder if Sunken Cost Theory is what is driving you.
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  6211.  @sybo59  So, her novels are about maintaining integrity, even though she based most of her heroes on a serial killer? https://www.alternet.org/2015/01/how-ayn-rand-became-big-admirer-serial-killer/
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  6212.  @donalddavis9705  So, it's everything except for the guns that are responsible. Yeah, that makes sense. First of all, the Second Amendment was only ever considered by any court to refer to an individual right 14 years ago. Second, and perhaps more importantly, the First Amendment says "no law," but you can't yell "Fire!" in a crowded room where there is no fire. The Second Amendment says "well regulated," so even the Heller case says that it is not an absolute right, and assault weapons and high magazine bans have been upheld as constitutional since.
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  6213.  @donalddavis9705  "militia were the men" Wrong. Article I, Section 8 lists the responsibilities of the federal government. One of those is for the militia to be called up for emergencies and to defeat rebellions. Hardly something "all men" were called to do. Article II. Section 2 lists the duties of the President, and one of them is to serve as commander in chief of "the Militia of the several states, when called into actual Service of the United States." There has never been a time in American history where literally every man has been called to active duty. And George Washington was a colonel in the Virginia Militia... which is now called the National Guard. Funny how the gun nuts claim to defend the Constitution, but they never actually know what it says.
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  6214.  @therealivydawg  Don't even give him that. He's wrong about what the militia is. The document itself makes it clear that was then called the militia is the same as the National Guard today.
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  6215.  @donalddavis9705  Okay. Hearing nothing, I will assume that it is just acting up on my end. So, here is my response. "Their [sic] is no such thing" No such thing as what? "assault weapons ban will be ruled unconstitutional[,] now there are to [sic] many in common use now." That's not what defines whether or not a law is unconstitutional. Plenty of people drank when states had their own prohibition, despite how many people consumed alcohol (my native state did not repeal prohibition at the state level until 1982). "I believe heller [sic] was wrong[.] [T]he founders absolutely meant this as a personal right." The Heller case was the one that did say that it was a personal right, despite no other court at any level doing the same in the first 217 years of the Second Amendment. However, what Heller stated was that it is not an absolute right. There is no such thing as an absolute right. (Cont.)
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  6216. What are his policies that make him an actual populist? Talking about corporations and still favoring the Trump tax cuts does not a populist make.
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  6217. "That's not the question you asked me." Yes, because that is called a follow-up. When your answer raises a new question, a journalist should ask that question.
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  6218.  @MrHaighahatta  Considering the fact that this person keeps changing the subject when someone answers his/her questions, I think that we are dealing with a troll. If two people tag someone and make similar arguments, and that person keeps changing the subject, it's usually someone acting in bad faith. I guess we'll soon find out if there is honest engagement.
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  6219.  Aaron Dickson  Yes, he did say 15 years ago that most of Florida would be underwater... by century's end. Not any day. Given the increase in the rise of sea level thus far this century, it is completely plausible.
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  6220.  @alabamaman9476  "he said it not me." Oh, look. Evidence that you created multiple accounts to agree with yourself. Sad. Well, just to repeat, he said it in 2006, but he said it would happen by century's end. Not the same thing.
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  6221.  @pbeston73  They are dishonestly framing it. Gore did say it in An Inconvenient Truth, but he didn't say it was immediate. He said it would happen by 2100 if we didn't correct course.
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  6222.  @alabamaman9476  I'm not the one who used first person singular to defend something someone else said.
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  6223. This guy used to call Sam Seder a lot. Are you stealing his stalkers, too, David?
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  6224.  @robschroeder8297  That being said, it's still true that none of those are military intelligence.
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  6225.  @rodney7349  When did she get back in? She was out during her last campaign.
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  6226.  @billyconnelly3568  I didn't say that he was a tankie. I said that some of his statements in videos focused on Ukraine where it seems almost like a reflexive America Bad instead of how wrong it was for Russia to invade gets close to that line. Watch the Ukraine videos, and you will see that his takes were bad.
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  6227.  @GermanLeftist  Oh, okay. I didn't know that she switched, only that she was no longer in the HIARNG.
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  6228. No one should have to go through this. I oppose BDS, but I also oppose the bill. There are ways to criticize policy of Israel without going to anti-Semitism, but far too many fail this test.
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  6229. ​ @wilhelmheinzerling5341 My grandpa was a proud antifascist. He may have even killed some. And to see th idiotic Administration prior to this one show a Nazi officer on the DOD website to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge (which he fought in) was an insult to him and everyone else who put their lives on the line.
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  6230.  @TheBigShaun100  14 years ago, at a Young Dems event, I said, "If we don't stop going halfway when Republicans keep pulling the political spectrum farther to the right, before you know it, Newt Gingrich will be considered a liberal." People laughed, and I said, "That might seem funny now, but Barry Goldwater is already considered a moderate." In 2012, Gingrich got in trouble for supporting the Republican alternative to Hillarycare (aka, the framework for the ACA) until 2009, and supporting action on global warming. I wasn't wrong.
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  6231.  @christopherweise438  She won't be a lobbyist. If she has become to Democrats what Ted Cruz is to Republicans, what firm would hire her? You either have to call on expertise or relationships. If anything, she is more likely to try to become a talking head. It's easy and lucrative.
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  6232. Since 1962
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  6233.  @oldsesalt8496  Indeed. And since O'Connor ruled against Gore in 2000 in no small part because she wanted to retire and a Republican to name her successor (and basically said Oopsie during Obama's second term after seeing that her replacement was Alito), and she was a Reagan pick, so that's also a gift that keeps on giving.
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  6234.  @oldsesalt8496  It's too bad we haven't gotten any good ones from them since the creation of the EPA.
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  6235.  @ECisvotersuppression  At the end of the day, if someone earns a majority of pledged delegates, that is the nominee. Hillary had more superdelegates in 2007, and that didn't help her win the nomination in 2008. Dean had more in 2003, and that didn't help him win the nomination in 2004. My "fancy scenarios" are based in fact and precedent. And mine don't encourage keyboard warriors to be lazy because, after all, why help your preferred candidate win if it has already been decided?
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  6236.  @ECisvotersuppression  It depends on what you mean by cheat. They clearly put their thumbs on the scales by burying the debates when no one would watch them and violating neutrality rules, but going from name recognition lower than the margin of error to 44% of the vote was pretty miraculous. If you would have asked most Bernie supporters in the summer of 2015 if they would have taken that result, they absolutely would. (My "optimistic scenario" at the time was that Bernie got 25% in an early state and used that momentum to keep fighting all the way.) However, that does not mean that if the DNC would have been completely neutral that Bernie would have gotten to a majority. His own campaign, and the candidate himself, didn't expect him to win, but wanted to pull Hillary to the left when he started. If you look at his Senate schedule, he clearly didn't think he had a chance to win until it was too late to get the needed infrastructure in place. That being said, if he got a majority of pledged delegates, he would have won the nomination, just like in the other two scenarios that I presented, Obama and Kerry got the majority of superdelegates in the end.
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  6237.  @CyberClu  Superdelegates have been part of the process ever since 1984. It was not something that just came into being specifically to help Hillary win the nomination. The rules were there all along, so it's not like it was sprung on Bernie, but if you notice, Hillary had the majority of pledged delegates. It's not like Bernie had some big lead in votes and the superdelegates overturned it. You could argue that it led to a feeling of inevitability and a lot of people voting for Hillary because of that, but as 2008 showed, once the vote was shifting, Hillary lost her superdelegate lead, too. If Bernie had taken the lead, there is nothing saying that they would have stayed with Hillary. After all, they bailed eight years earlier. And the "smoke filled room" happens if the vote in the primaries is deadlocked. That hasn't happened for either party since 1952. And Republicans do have superdelegates. Just not as many (Democratic superdelegates are about 15% of the total; GOP superdelegates are about 6%) and it's members of the RNC instead if also including elected officials like the DNC does.
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  6238.  @21forevergone  Because people like that are mad about what they are protesting because they don't think that black lives matter.
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  6239.  @seanmacd4274  You keep talking like Kyle Rittenhouse was defending his property. He wasn't defending his property, and he crossed state lines looking for trouble. Once again, if you Rittenhouse stans are on the moral high ground, why do you have to keep glossing over that simple fact? I live in Philadelphia. If there was a store that I shopped at in Cherry Hill that was in the middle of a hot zone, I'm not driving over there to "defend it." Also, he wasn't "defending the property" of anyone. He shot someone on the streets, and there is video before the shooting of him brandishing his weapon at people who were peacefully protesting nowhere near the store. This is not "defending property" and it is not "self defense." This is an example of someone who was looking for trouble, and the fact that you have to lie to justify him shows that you don't think that the lives of the people he killed mattered, which is ironically the whole reason for the protests in the first place.
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  6240.  @seanmacd4274  No one is justified in crossing state lines to "defend property." By your logic, I could just drive anywhere and say that I just believed in private property so much that I could shoot people. If it were Trump supporters doing it to black-owned businesses, in this day and age, if police want to, they can find the people doing it and press charges after the fact, and the business owner will have insurance so will be able to rebuild. It still wouldn't justify killing them. The fact that you went there implies that you think that people who don't support murderers who cross state lines would support them if they were killing Trump supporters. That says more about you than it does about us.
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  6241. What were his funny bits? I have been asking this question for years.
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  6242. Voting rights is something where 50 Democrats claim to support it in the Senate, but two won't vote for procedural votes to make it possible, and this puts the pressure on Republicans to try to defend their opposition to voting rights. Medicare for All wasn't even close to passage (and the guy talking about forcing the vote endorsed the candidate who called Medicare for All "un-American" and considered it a "genius strategy to win"), and would have exposed weakness. There was literally no way that Pelosi wouldn't have ultimately become Speaker, so what was supposed to be gained?
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  6243.  @brentshowers741  You know why Medicare for All didn't have support? During the 2020 primary, Biden said he wouldn't sign it, and his numbers didn't move. When people get elected not supporting something, they won't suddenly change their mind. The problem is that most people who advocate FTV only look at the top line poll, but don't look at the follow ups which show that a lot of people think "Medicare for All" just means "universal coverage." Thank people like Yang and Tulsi for that misinformation, the latter who called it un-American twice to Anderson Cooper. And who did Jimmy Dore endorse again? So, what have you done to actually move the needle on Medicare for All since you think everyone should and symbolic votes guaranteed to fail is the only tactic you seem to think is available?
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  6244.  @aylbdrmadison1051  It sounds like I want a democracy because I trust the people, and you want an aristocracy that knows better. I'm not giving up on democracy for something that can't even happen because it has to get through the Amendment process, and red states won't do it because they'll see it as a dig against Trump.
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  6245. I agree with you, but I seriously doubt that Buzzfeed wants to get sued.
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  6246. It's worse than that, because in the 2016 debate, Sam warned him that McConnell would get rid of the filibuster, which Dore compared to the moon falling into Lake Michigan. As soon as Democrats tried to filibuster Gorsuch, Turtle went nuclear.
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  6247. This graphic is out of date. Elizabeth Warren has abandoned the fight for Medicare for All, instead putting it off two years after getting a public option and immigration reform. One candidate supports Medicare for All, while others pretend to support Medicare for All.
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  6248. ​ @nolongerblocked6210  Indeed. Only one elected sitting President has ever lost his party's nomination for re-election (Pierce in 1856). Tyler and Arthur were denied the nomination, but they were Vice Presidents who succeeded to office.
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  6249.  F J  When the general election comes around, he'll shut up about economic issues to focus on a few social issues. This will give those rare centrists another place to go. People who like Moscow Donald aren't going anywhere, but people who want something else might.
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  6250.  @Baci302  Legislative agenda is not the same as rules that are the prerogative of each House and the President has no veto pen as leverage.
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  6251.  @MarkbyMarkAFosterPhD  Ah, yes, the "revolutionary" who insists that he is just waiting to pick the pieces up and build something better. Capital has built plenty of barriers to protect itself, but oh, it's going to collapse. Lots of things are supposed to collapse by their own weight, but at a certain point, that leads to a certain laziness of thinking. If something is inevitable, why do anything? And why learn the lessons from the past failures where it became a case of "meet the new boss, same as the old boss"?
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  6252.  @MarkbyMarkAFosterPhD  In other words, despite branding yourself a revolutionary, you are, in the words of John Mayer, waiting on the world to change. How inspiring!
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  6253. Indeed. It's half fascist and half fascist enabling.
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  6254. ​ nicholastime1513  It's too high for that.
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  6255. ​ @stayclassysd31  You'll never go to fully plant-based eating.
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  6256.  @justapeacefulprotester4598  I've seen your act where you do this parody of a Bernie supporter while spouting Trump lines. You're not fooling anyone, troll.
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  6257. You mean the thing the Treasury Department proposed years ago has finally happened? No!
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  6258.  @derekmeilinger1519  I fill mine out in less than an hour. Very few people benefit from itemizing.
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  6259. So, basically anything?
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  6260. What makes it even worse is that he briefly was after a lot of pressure from voters, but didn't renew his sponsorship for this Congress when no one was looking.
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  6261.  @RMor66  Snake Oil Salesman Oz refused to debate Fetterman without making sure he could actually hear the words being said.
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  6262. It is up to us to protect democracy.
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  6263. Exactly. While I do believe that Oswald either had support or a second shooter or both, this really isn't much better than Oliver Stone nonsense.
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  6264.  @dmitrizaslavski8480  Yeah, no one is advocating for that. There is a whole spectrum between not working at all and forcing people to work 100 hours a week every week.
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  6265.  @Jimraynor45  How many people actually rise through the hierarchy by grinding their wheels harder? It's really an excuse to extract as much labor as possible for as little as possible with hope of a later payout, like greyhounds chasing that mechanical rabbit.
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  6266.  @Jimraynor45  And you have proven my point. Endless grinding is not going to get people up that ladder. That is the whole point of the video. Hustle culture insists that any minute not given toward advancement on the corporate ladder is wasted. In other words, the thing that makes life worth living.
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  6267.  @jocksharerock7318  Indeed, my friend. Looking at her record, some of us were Cadsandras trying to warn people that this is a case of "enemy of my enemy." Thankfully, her online support never materialized in the real world.
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  6268.  @PDXMILO  You mean like how he stood up to Alex Jones, who admitted in that he plays a character? Oh, wait. He's gone all in with people like that
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  6269.  @grmpEqweer  It's CPAC, and I think it's some sort of forum with Glenn Beck. Before Bernie, this is someone who once courted Sheldon Adelson and did his bidding to get rid of his competition in the form of online gambling, and tried to get a job as Trump's Secretary of State, so this is really seeing her come full circle.
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  6270.  @jamesmarshall6619  They always try to change the subject, not realizing that once in a while, you might get something wrong, and you actually get better once you adapt.
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  6271.  @gaynorgregory2528  That was part of it, too. However, a popular vote was never on the table because the Founding Fathers were suspicious of "too much democracy."
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  6272. @Zir Alert Over half a million died in the US alone from Trump's incompetent response to coronavirus. Add in the fact that several times more died in Maria than Katrina, and people who died from listening to Dear Leader, and I am absolutely confident that Trump has a higher body count. Bush was an F, but Trump was an F-. Don't get caught up in anti-anti-Trump mania.
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  6273.  @sailordaigurren8225  Sadly, the choices weren't between something we actually wanted and the ACA. It was between keeping the status quo on health insurance and the ACA, and it was undoubtedly an improvement. Not enough of an improvement, but an improvement nonetheless.
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  6274.  @sailordaigurren8225  Agreed, but given that the Roberts Court did that, and this was the price for getting his vote, maybe ignoring the fact that Republicans had already spent decades pushing the Court hard to starboard should have woken us up.
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  6275.  @ThaTruFily  Be careful about Kyle. It seems like he's going down that same path.
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  6276.  @audiosane4214  The fact that Biden was able to wrap things up so quickly shows that we don't have the infrastructure yet to mount a successful nomination. Quite frankly, at this point, I worry that some of the establishment would have done to him what the Labour establishment did to Corbyn. People need to run for not just Congress, but city and county Democratic committees, school boards, city council, and state legislature to build that farm system.
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  6277.  @JackgarPrime  I think it still would have happened, but I think there would have been an alert, and planes would have been grounded after the first plane crashed, so it wouldn't have been as bad.
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  6278. In all honesty, I figure that they'd gladly make any other complaint if Biden didn't say he'd pick a black woman, because all they really care about is power, and if they had their way, they'd never appoint a Supreme Court nominee of a Democratic President after they got away with it. It doesn't make the dog whistle any less disgusting, though.
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  6279.  @kirikun5636  Senator from South Dakota. Elected for the first time in 1996. Served three terms. Had a stroke in his second. Retired from office in 2015.
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  6280.  @Old_School_293  "I never supported cutting Social Security." Quack Oz "I support the Republican budget [which sunset Social Security in five years]." Mehmet Oz.
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  6281.  @Old_School_293  "I never made money off commercials." Mehmet Oz last night "Buy this new super pill that will change your life." Mehmet Oz on his show "Weight loss will not come from a pill." Mehmet Oz to Congress
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  6282. Me, too! This time around, my daughter is old enough that I can do volunteer work for the campaign, so I am this time as well.
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  6283. Biden could literally offer the Republican agenda, and they would say No.
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  6284. There is no way that he is that good of an actor and all of these other people are going along with it.
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  6285. Yes, invite someone who constantly lies on the show. That will show everyone what a misunderstood genius he really is!
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  6286. I went to a school board meeting last year where my daughter's school district was weighing relaxing the rules for masks, and the idiots so flooded the room that they had to rotate in and out of the auditorium. They were limited to five minutes, and they went on for over four hours. It was just me and one other person arguing for sanity (I had never met her), and it made me worry for the district. It's actually got good teachers and more blue than red, but it's like all the crazies came out that night. They were probably the idiots sticking for or five Mastriano signs in their yards.
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  6287.  @SILENCE_THE_MEDIA  It's all right, I was just confused.
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  6288.  @roblong9728  Mandatory term limits mean that unelected staffers get the power. We already have term limits. They are called elections. When I lived in West Virginia, I wanted to give Byrd a ninth term (as did 63% of West Virginia voters). When I moved to Pennsylvania, I wanted to deny a sixth to Specter (as did 54% of Pennsylvania Democratic primary voters). Who are you to take that away from me?
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  6289. ​ @computer_janitor  What have you personally done in your life to try to help make Medicare for All a reality? And remember, YouTube comments don't count? What have you done to build support or try to convince your elected officials to do so?
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  6290.  @paulparker1425  Amazon can undercut any retailer due to its sheer size.
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  6291.  @paulparker1425  Amazon ran at a loss for over ten years and Jeff Bezos became a billionaire in that time. No mom and pop store can take those kind of losses for that long and survive. If all of their patents expired tomorrow, and a company tried to undercut Amazon, they could just go back to losing money until the other company bites the dust.
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  6292.  @paulparker1425  Okay, at this point, I have to wonder if you are being willfully ignorant of the point. Have they eliminated literally every other retailer on the face of the planet? No, but if anyone tries to undercut Amazon, they can easily beat that competitor because they have enough capital that they can afford to eat losses for years until the competition is left begging for mercy.
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  6293.  @paulparker1425  Oh, well, because some guy on the Internet doesn't shop at Amazon, that means that they don't have a huge grip on the market. What a relief!
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  6294.  @LouieMcGood-ef6ud  The bank signing off on it doesn't mean that he didn't commit fraud. That is the dumbest argument I've heard in quite some time, and that's saying something seeing the followers of Dear Leader online.
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  6295.  @LouieMcGood-ef6ud  Where did you get "first time in 200 years," your butt?
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  6296. Well, why didn't he say so? He said they were donated from across the country. I'm guessing that they weren't donating with the intention of making a mural.
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  6297. ​ @patguitar01  Indeed. He may be more polite, but he's every bit as crazy and prone to conspiracy theories as the rest of them.
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  6298.  @mamiesweetwine5374  Be sure to donate and volunteer. Put wings on that hope!
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  6299.  Lighter Fluid15  Oh, so "women who are irresponsible with their sexual behavior" should have to carry to term because you think that life begins at conception, but you want a man to have no responsibility for his sexual behavior? Interesting. Also, I guess you've never heard of ectopic pregnancy. Unless you want the woman to die, then it is obvious that there is a difference between a living human being and a fetus. It is a potential life, but it is not alive.
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  6300.  Lighter Fluid15  Financial Abortion is not a thing. You right wingers told women to keep their legs closed, so you need to follow that standard and keep it in your pants.
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  6301. Because they're aching for those corporate tax cuts.
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  6302.  @jeffgojail  So, the one who gets 0% or 1% with black voters "has a chance"? The one who averages less than 6% nationally has a chance? The one who is within the margin of error H2H has a chance? Just admit you hate Bernie and you don't care about facts and just get it over with.
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  6303.  @albertgriffith5801  Hence, why I only bought the bare minimum. I knew that ten bucks worth of dinars wasn't going to make me rich, so I bought it as a souvenir. They're in a Ziploc bag somewhere in my old room in my parents' house. Periodically, I've checked through the years, and I've never seen the value get to twelve dollars.
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  6304. He gets a pretty generous pension after having served in Congress for 20 years, and he could have easily saved and invested some of his original salary, so he doesn't really need to work anywhere.
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  6305.  @retmarkes  Only 6% of Americans are true independents. Study after study has shown that people who call themselves independent really lean one way or the other. And the Boogaloo Boys are not just conservative, they are fascists who want to start a civil war. Pretending to be left to recruit is one of their oet strategies. And if you think that Trump and Democrats are the same, you haven't been paying attention. One accepted democracy, the other tried to pull a coup. One ignored the coronavirus, the other took steps to contain it. One loaded the Supreme Court with the same people who voted for Citizens United, Shelby, and Janus while the other didn't. We want no part of a red/brown coalition, because those never end well for us.
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  6306.  @smithc4007  You might not realize that Trump is an outright fascist who tried to destroy our democracy and loaded the Supreme Court in a way that will make it more difficult for any good thing we can get through Congress to survive. But just keep crying the crocodile tears while defending the man who supported the only Democratic candidate other than Bloomberg to support torture.
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  6307.  @retmarkes  Just about anything. Did you ever take a political science course? Heck, I even have anecdotal evidence because I knew several people in Young Democrats who were registered independents, and when I was doing an internship, the leader said that he had to change his voting registration from independent so he could vote in the primary. If you think that there is such a largely swayable number, why do you think that the electoral picture overall has been so steady for the last 20 years?
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  6308.  @n.e.7647  Jimmy Dore doesn't want genuine dialogue. He literally props up fascists while trying to steer people away from the one group that can actually defeat fascism at the polls.
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  6309.  @lynneanderson4255  If she does, Jefferies probably has the votes right now. Pelosi has built her cards to the point where she can easily name her successor.
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  6310. What is the last one?
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  6311.  @zesty_streams  Yang for Labor? The guy who is opposed to increasing the minimum wage and is weak on the right to organize? You might as well make Biden the secretary of women's issues while you're at it.
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  6312. There are three who I see and immediately change the channel: Reid, Maxwell, and Rocah. That being said, I haven't seen Mimi Rocah on to talk about how Bernie makes her skin crawl in quite some time.
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  6313.  @mobus1603  So true. And she went after Harris to distract from three other candidates criticizing Biden. She was clearly trying to seek favor from Biden. She hops from alliance to alliance like Senor Chang did in the second paintball episode of Community.
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  6314.  @charlesandrews2360  So, exposing his idiocy helped you find decent content. Kinda funny how sometimes the algorithm actually helps us.
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  6315.  @charlesandrews2360  I know what you mean. I watched three or four Majority Report videos of the famous libertarian debates, and all of the sudden I got Rand Paul ads. I guess sometimes you just have to appreciate when it gets it right.
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  6316.  @theciakilledjfk5973  Is your brother involved in any movements to get Medicare for All, or is it a blind rage that doesn't go anywhere?
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  6317.  @theciakilledjfk5973  Are you honestly telling me that you don't understand the difference between a primary and a general election? Like it or not, either Biden or Trump was going to be President once the primary was settled. At most, Iowa was a fight over two delegates. Considering that South Carolina is the state that set up Biden's win, do you honestly think that would have made a difference? The fact that Bernie's support stayed steady in the upper 20s to lower 30s makes it pretty obvious that whoever was coalesced around was going to win.
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  6318.  @MatthewWagnerNOECA  Everyone knows who the staff is. Sam is the host, Emma is the co-host, and Matt Lech is the producer. Sam has made it obvious on more than one occasion that this is his entire staff. Many of his videos do have credits in the description. I never said there aren't other people working on the show. Not everyone is a producer. He could have said staffer or researcher, and no one would have blinked an eye. Instead, he chose to say the position where the only person credited is his wife.
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  6319.  @whyamimrpink78  Bill Gates didn't "earn" the vast majority of his money. He's worth twice as much now as he was whe he "retired to give his money away."
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  6320.  @sherlyn.a  At the time, he was going to "give it all away." And his investment has not beaten the S&P 500, so having a much higher wealth to start with has nothing to do with being a "smart investor." He clearly didn't give away $50B over the last 15 years, so he didn't do what he said he was going to do.
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  6321.  @sherlyn.a  Even if you assume that he would have given away all but $1B (since his ego surely wouldn't let him go to millionaire status), he would still have more than enough to spend in a lifetime.
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  6322.  @sherlyn.a  And the money he's paid in taxes is less than 10% of what he's got, so that's hardly a lot. And if he dies with that massive fortune intact, he can pass it on to his wife and kids tax free. Because the rich engineered the tax code so that they get tons of loopholes and then they sucker people like you by calling it a "death tax."
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  6323.  @sherlyn.a  My dear God! What is with the people who cannot tell the difference between "lose" and "loose"? The former is the opposite of win, and the latter is the opposite of tight. Oh, poor Jeff Bezos lost half of his money because he got divorced. Cry me a river. No one forced him to cheat on his wife. And, no one is going to make a million dollars and spend 80% in cash to buy a house. And Gates wouldn't have to give up shares to the government. He could, but he wouldn't have to. Let's just say that the strictest wealth tax proposal went through, the one that Bernie proposed. He is married, so he would pay 1% on assets over $32MM, 2% on assets over $50MM, 3% over $250MM, 4% over $500MM, 5% over $1B, 6% over $2.5B, 7% over $5B, and 8% over $10B. Since marginal rates only apply to the level above the bracket, this means $180,000 for the first bracket, $4MM for the 2% bracket, $7.5MM for the 3% bracket, $20MM for the 4% bracket, $75MM for the 5% bracket, $150MM for the 6% bracket, $350MM for the 7% bracket, and (assuming a total fortune of $100B even to make the math round for demonstration purposes), $7.2B for the top bracket, for a total tax of a little bit over $7.8B. Here's a secret: this tax wouldn't even get to the average for stock market growth since 1929, so he would still get to keep his obscene fortune that was gained through underpaying workers, stealing ideas from competitors, and using basic government research to get started, not to mention government infrastructure to move his products, a military that insures that we won't be invaded, and a relatively steady economy so that he could build. Anyone who claims to be self-made is someone who thinks he/she is floating through the air without seeing the building he/she is standing on.
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  6324.  @pw6002  It's because channels that allow links have been bombarded over the last couple of months with porn spammers, so a lot of channels don't allow any links at all. That's why I tend to give the name and title.
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  6325. Let Kate McKinnon do it ;-)
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  6326. ​ @tomparlo9510  Gerrymandering has nothing to do with the Presidential election. That is legislative districts.
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  6327. ​ @TheDesertRat31  Well, then, maybe Republicans need to try to win over people. It's like some conversation I had with someone whining about the two-party system and insisting that Ranked Choice Voting doesn't really help them. Well, if the spoiler effect is gone and you're still stuck in single digits, that's on you.
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  6328.  @tomparlo9510  Any time. It does seem like some use it as a general term for election chicanery, but it is a very specific type.
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  6329.  @Vscustomprinting  Both of whom, France and Germany? I was making a general point to counter the nonsense that a republic means that something is not a democracy.
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  6330. "Activists in their house"? When I saw it on TV, it looked like everyone was on the street. When I think of the grief that those of us who saw through her took from all these tulcels...
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  6331.  @tamilly7941  So, we let a would-be fascist dictator kidnap people in Portland and children at the border to make the DNC suffer. That is sociopath territory.
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  6332.  @JonDundas10  I think he was the bully on Arthur.
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  6333.  @0xLoneWolf  Well, then, why not admit that it was a failure in several ways? The job numbers weren't even close, and funding and people signing up have plummeted over the years, even with the attention Venture for America got from his campaign. If he would say, "The problem was too big for a private enterprise" instead of "I create jobs," that is a different, but maybe more compelling story.
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  6334. About as much good faith as Lucy with a football.
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  6335. 11:44 I think you conflated Mr. Lippman (the Pendant boss) and Mr. Pitt.
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  6336.  @killermuffins101  The big thing that hurts Yang is that he really isn't anyone's second choice. When that is the case, you need to win an outright majority or you don't have a prayer.
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  6337.    So, we should listen to someone who is stupid? If your defense of someone is that he isn't crooked, but an idiot, that's not much better.
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  6338.  @Live2swim  Wrong. Someone has been listening to the Assad Kool-Aid. Literally every reputable agency who looked at it said that the only participants in the civil war who had both an air force and Sarin is the one who did it. Listen to a paid Syrian propagandist, believe Syrian propaganda.
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  6339.  @jamessharp6800  So, voting for a group that is guaranteed not only to lose but makes it easier for the party farther away from your stated position to win is "necessary"? Yeah, that makes sense.
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  6340.  @jamessharp6800  What happens when you vote third party in a first past the post system.
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  6341.  @Live2swim  [citation needed]
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  6342.    Except that stopped clock isn't right. The end result if he gets what he wants is that the bill fails, and it gets buried. You don't get a second chance. Period. The far more effective route is to build support for the bill, and then ask for a discharge petition.
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  6343.    It passed the House 50 times, and that was never a serious attempt to pass legislation. The analog comes from two bills: the 1971 bill Nixon proposed, and the 1993-94 Clinton bill. Kennedy killed the former because he thought he could get better, but in 38 years of trying he never did. This was long what he stated was his biggest regret. After the Clinton bill failed, it took 15 years to get the Republican alternative that Bill threatened to veto because it didn't go far enough. A bill that is only being pushed to embarrass people won't come back, and it will cement opposition to Medicare for All. Instead, Pelosi will say that this is proof that the bill can't pass and the people pushing it don't know how to legislate, which will be the story everywhere. You're not going to find an extra 100 votes out of thin air. If you think so, you are just as much of an Underpants Gnome as Jimmy Dore.
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  6344.  @Live2swim  Oh, yes, people you trust. Well, you trust Jimmy Dore, so that doesn't help your credibility. Show the evidence.
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  6345.  @Live2swim  I don't trust anything unless I see the sources. "Google it" is a distraction used by people who know that their argument is weak.
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  6346.    That wasn't an example of it being killed, Einstein. It passed the House all 50 times. If members are actually trying to pass a bill, they don't bring it up unless they are confident that it has the votes. Each of those bills had the 218. Just because you can't understand how the legislative process works and why bills hardly ever fail in a full floor vote, that's on you.
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  6347.  @oltedders  She didn't go to Wisconsin or Michigan, and she spent millions in Chicago and New Orleans trying to prop up her popular vote totals instead of, you know, actually putting them in places like Pittsburgh, Madison, or Detroit. That hubris by definition makes her a terrible candidate, because she let it cloud her judgment. Here in Philadelphia, she constantly ran ads that showed Trump mocking the disabled reporter or some bleeped out remark. People knew about that. There was nothing about the woman in NJ whose Trump tried to take through eminent domain to build a parking lot for limousines at one of his casinos. There was nothing showing his comment that "wages are too high in America." Those could have very easily made the difference in a close state like PA.
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  6348. In 2016, Bill tried to warn the campaign that things were getting tight in the Great Lakes states. Robby Mook insisted that his computer models showed that he was wrong and she had them locked up. He was also a consultant for the app last night. Can we as a people just agree not to let that dummy do anything tech related involving our elections?
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  6349.  @Jin125  Indeed. I think it is a smart move of Sam to take Thursdays off to give the co-hosts a chance to grow and spread their wings.
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  6350.  @imjustmeTBD  Agreed. I was just pointing out how good he is getting at it.
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  6351.  @SRosenberg203 "Rickey kept the check in a frame on the wall."
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  6352.  @Robb403  That's the way I took it, too. I didn't know about his sister, so I just wanted to know more about the story.
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  6353.  @meganandrickys  Well, Yang has already admitted that his answer to rent control is just "people can band together with friends and buy a fixer upper." Do you really think $12,000/year is enough for most people to live on?
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  6354.  @Menace__  Have you been to Alaska? It is expensive. That being said, in Alaska, everyone actually does get it. Yang, on the other hand, makes people choose.
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  6355.  @Menace__  He is not for Medicare for All. He is for a public option. He sure isn't for regulating Silicon Valley. Oh, and he proposes a regressive tax to pay for his fund that not all poor people get, but is a "righ of citizenship" for rich people who get far more welfare than the poor. With friends like him...
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  6356. If his goal were to be a soft place to land when automaton takes away all our jobs, his plan would be far more generous, and it wouldn't exclude people currently receiving other benefits.
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  6357.  @Starcrash6984  If it did those two things, yes. That is what I have been saying. But, it doesn't, so that is like saying, "except for cutting off your head, you're in great health."
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  6358.  @Starcrash6984  How I came up with numbers? Well, I looked at things like cost of living, the fact that there is bound to be some inflation (especially in housing) and tried to come up with the best estimate off the top of my head given the fact that, at current calculation of poverty, most people who study this thing suggest that it really takes somewhere between 150-200% FPL to actually live on.
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  6359.  @Starcrash6984  I literally provided an answer to every question you asked. As far as why I think $1000/month is insufficient? First, children don't qualify, so anyone with kids will be drastically hurt if that is all they have. And the poverty level for just one person is $1012/month. Add kids, who get nothing, and you are really behind the eight ball. And, if you live in a big city, that $1000 will be mostly, if not completely be eaten by rent. Is there anything else that you feel that I haven't addressed?
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  6360.  @Starcrash6984  My number came from the fact that most estimates say that poverty level is too low to accurately assess the cost of living. Have you heard of something called the Sufficiency Index? It actually lists, by county, the actual cost of living expenses, and they argue that it really takes 150-200% FPL to live on, so I split the difference. Where do I get that children get nothing? How about the candidate himself? When he said that people over 18 get $1000/month. Yes, I do understand what universal means, but apparently Yang and his supporters don't, because they make the poor choose between his plan and what they already get.
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  6361.  @Starcrash6984  I specifically said that I would not be critical if it were a) more generous, b) didn't make people choose between his plan and what they get now, and c) he used a progressive tax to pay for it. I answered your question exactly. I don't know how many more times you want me to repeat that those are my three objections to it.
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  6362.  @Starcrash6984  My biggest problem of the three is that it guts existing benefits. Those existing benefits do very important things. Yang has admitted in this very interview that he wants to get rid of existing programs, but is taking a longer view and wanting to do it gradually. That is what Friedman proposed, and there are good (and actually universal) proposals for UBI on the left. One is addition, and one is subtraction. To use an analogy from the past, in 2000, Bush wanted to privatize Social Security, but Gore wanted to keep Social Security and add matching funds for people who contribute to an IRA and have income below a certain level. Social Security Plus was a better proposal than Social Security Minus.
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  6363. @Tanya Rodriguez Worst economic crash since the Great Depression, pumped up a stock bubble to the point where the price to earnings ratio exceeded that of the dot com bubble, insisted on using monetary policy to inflate the bubble to the point that gave his successor no room to operate, continued the assault on workers, just to name a few.
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  6364.  @mushroomsteve  She adds nothing, and her state having a Republican governor means that it will take more wins to get the Senate, because he can name her successor for six months.
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  6365.  @jabrams6759  Then, she'll be headed to Fox to provide "balance."
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  6366.  @mobus1603  And the "peace candidate" even defended Biden on Iraq. She knew she couldn't win, so she was playing wing woman in the hope that he would rescue her career by naming her VP. Even her takedown of Harris, which all the tulcels used to defend her street cred interrupted three other candidates criticizing Biden. She was anti-establishment like Trump is anti-bronzer.
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  6367.  @porsche911sbs  Vulcans take other people into consideration. They just happen to have a utilitarian bent, but they do care about the needs of the many.
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  6368. Judicial appointments already had the filibuster removed. Instead of getting rid of the legislative filibuster, we can stop them from gumming up the works with two simple changes: 1) Make them talk. If you feel so strongly about the bill, make your case to the American people. 2) Current rules require 3/5 of all Senators to end a filibuster, so in theory, one can he sustained with a 59-1 vote. Instead, make them do the work to keep it going and change it to 3/5 of all voting Senators. Make them hang out at or near the Senate so they have to make it to a cloture vote or else they fail.
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  6369.  @muskyoxes  At a certain point, it is also a question of endurance. Have you ever tried standing in place for hours on end? If they want to do it, they have to work for it.
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  6370.  @23lFrench  Fascists may try to appropriate populist language, but they are not populists.
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  6371.  @katrosajin7744  So, you like an either/or version that uses a regressive tax to pay for it? And you consider that "bringing progressive policies to the forefront"? May I ask why?
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  6372.  @walruswasrob  Thom Hartmann ran his regular program and insisted on full editorial control. That is quite different from being a paid contributor.
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  6373.  @Nick-gp9et  Also, you're not actually pushing to support Medicare for All, you're pushing to vote on Medicare for All. When it fails miserably, who controls the calendar? Oh, that's right! The person who you want to force to have a vote to embarrass her. And she will allow another vote why?
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  6374.  @Nick-gp9et  Because you're not trying. Trying is actually doing the work. You're an Underpants Gnome, because you have no second step in mind. Some of us did actual organizing, and the sponsors doubled in the last five years. There aren't 218 and 50, period. What makes you think that a vote that is only designed to alienate members will lead to its passage? Did you ever stop to think that if you have the same strategy toward Medicare for All as Mitch McConnell, maybe you are the one who needs to rethink your "strategy"?
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  6375. There is a list.
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  6376.  @fredthenomad4078  Well, I think that her make or break moment is New Hampshire, and I think the key moment will be the first time she is on a debate stage with Bernie. Once people see that she is offering half measures and just how weak she is on Medicare for All, that will be the beginning of the end for her campaign.
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  6377.  @wonderstag5405  True. As bad as Cuomo is, he won't pardon Trump.
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  6378. What exactly do you think that term limits will accomplish? If you implement term limits, there is nothing that will keep voters from picking someone just like the ones you don't like, and you are forced to get rid of the ones that you do. And who will gain power with term limits? Lobbyists and unelected staffers. We already have germ limits: they are called elections.
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  6379.  @youknow9092  The Second Amendment literally says "well regulated." The First says "no law," but you're not allowed to yell Fire in a crowded room when there is no fire. The Heller case, which for the first time in the 217 years since the Bill of Rights passed argued that the Second Amendment contained an individual right to gun ownership, said that it was not a green light to get rid of all restrictions on gun ownership.
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  6380. Sarcastic David is my favorite David Pakman.
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  6381.  @Trident6037  So, you want "a level playing field," but you want the company to have the right to ignore the one thing that makes the field closer to level for workers? Yeah, that makes sense.
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  6382. That was Chris Matthews. They look and sound nothing alike, and are on different channels. Nice try.
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  6383.  @patatepowa  How did that work in 2000 or 2004? At a certain point, you start to sound like the people who insist that we need just a few more years of sanctions to get rid of the Castro regime.
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  6384.  @asce780  That doesn't change the fact that people are forced to choose between their current benefits and his plan and he keeps saying that everybody gets it. They don't, and if he is right about automation, there aren't going to be enough jobs, so it's not like people are trading in for something better. There are akso the disabled who can't work. Again, there is no reason to make it either/or if you actually care about the poor and disabled.
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  6385.  @spalm3887  He finally admitted it? I thought he was still trying to pretend that he was using the King model.
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  6386. If they're that worried about his safety, he can stay in solitary.
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  6387.  @newsoul8626  The context really doesn't help that much. The Cornel West version of "slay the fascist dragon first" would have served her far better.
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  6388.  @regdwight3115  The campaign was over, but she was definitely being interviewed as a Bernie supporter.
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  6389. If Der Orangestraflingfuhrer says you did good job in an interview or moderating a debate, you know you were too deferential. Hopefully, they learn their lesson like Kaitlin Collins did after the town hall.
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  6390.  @mocki5665  A Grant Cabinet member was impeached in 1876, and he tried to resign in order to avoid impeachment. The trial proceded. There is nothing prohibiting the trial of the fascist in chief.
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  6391.  @BobbyU808  How do you define "debunked"?
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  6392.  @BobbyU808  Here's a hint: maybe don't spam a video about Bernie endorsements if you don't want someone to call out said spamming, especially when it demonstrates an admiration for someone who hurts working people, wants a rich person tunnel in Calfiornia, while so generously letting us peons get the dirt as bricks.
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  6393.  @BobbyU808  Why does everything have to be life and death with us? Well, Medicare for All is a matter of life and death, so a candidate pretending to offer Medicare for All while offering something to the right of Pete Buttigieg is going to bother people who seem to think it is all some sort of game. And, you know what, if I really did think that someone was the second best candidate, I wouldn't hold a grudge against that choice if the candidate who peaked in national polls on October 3rd (his Real Clear Politics national average hit 3.8% that day and was never equaled before or since) ends up fading rapidly and I have to find a new horse to ride.
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  6394.  @BobbyU808  We are not worried about Yang. Yang Gang bangers keep coming here, many using ageism (you are not one that I have noticed) to repeat falsehoods about their hero and tell us to bow before his inevitability. The fact that you think rallies at this point are key shows that you don't understand the deep organization that it takes to win. The fact that the Yang campaign couldn't be bothered with including a sheet with the candidate's name and office sought in Ohio and thus failed to qualify for the ballot (which they think is a confusing bureaucracy) tells me that the campaign is incapable of such deep organizing. And apparently you have never heard of potential outliers. One poll does not a trend make. Just before the Emerson poll, a YouGov poll had Yang at 3%. That is why people pay attention to averages and trends.
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  6395.  @thepolishlatinofromphilly9709  So, you have no problem with the Voting Rights Act being gutted? If you have no problem with the Supreme Court, you're not paying attention.
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  6396. Just when I thought the people who insist everyone not on board with this boondoggle is ignorant was the worst take, I was wrong.
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  6397. Pretty Boy Floyd hated his nickname as well. Babyface Nelson hated his nickname so much that his last words were his full name.
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  6398.  @devonedwards4395  If he voted No, you would have said that he opposed the Violence Against Women Act and the assault weapons ban. Biden brought up the crime bill for years, but was only able to pass it when he lumped it with things that he knew the lefties would feel like they had to support. To pretend that he supported the crime bill part is incredibly dishonest.
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  6399.  @devonedwards4395  Probably because it was cheaper.
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  6400.  @robinlillian9471  In my defense, I did start calling him that last year after the Helsinki Putin love fest.
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  6401. Personally, I think it is a matter of sequence. Once we deal with the societal issues such as affordable housing, workplace democracy, and a Green New Deal, in addition to Medicare for All. Then, we can figure out exactly what the UBI needs to be.
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  6402.  @juresichj  If you ignore the systemic issues, then a UBI would do little more than serve as a Band-Aid. For example, if you don't deal with affordable housing and institute some form of rent control, most of that money will wind up in landlords' pockets.
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  6403.  @MrGolov-te5eb  That, and the fact that you can't tell the difference between lose and loose continues to show your ignorance.
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  6404.  @MrGolov-te5eb  No, that's not what you said. You lied and blamed it on a typo. And you continue to lie and show your stupidity. "You can't fix stupid." Ron White
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  6405. "I feel like I have a better understanding of who killed Kennedy than offside... it was the mob." Ted Lasso
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  6406.  @cassady7169  Indeed. That's why I get so annoyed at the whole "money is something we made up." Yeah, because it wasn't convenient to carry livestock everywhere.
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  6407. Not nearly 99% of the time. What do you expect when someone by definition has to get at least 40% of his support among Trump supporters? The real problem is that people like Collins held their seat to make him the 50th vote.
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  6408.  @Mathguy363  Democrats were hesitant in the beginning if it was just Trump's word. A lot of people said that if Fauci vouched for the vaccine, they would take it, but not Trump. Amazing what being a pathological liar will do when it comes to people trusting you.
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  6409. But he doesn't. By making it a choice, he is setting the stage to cut existing programs. He even talks about reduced assistance as a way to pay for it.
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  6410. "Yes, at first I was happy to be learning how to read. It seemed exciting and magical, but then I read this: Altas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. I read every last word of this garbage, and because of this piece of [bleep], I'm never reading again!" Officer Barbrady
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  6411.  @danielkruger4426  I have watched Fox exactly twice since Trump took office: the 2018 Republican Senate debate from my native state, because I just wanted to see the dumpster fire caused by cartoon villain and stereotype of the evil rich Don Blankenship; and the Bernie town hall.
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  6412. Maybe we should keep up the pressure so he continues to pleasantly surprise us instead of being such fatalists.
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  6413. Fun Fact: the human characters in Scooby Doo are based on Dobie Gillis. Fred is based on Dobie (Dwayne Hickman), Daphne is based on Thalia Menninger, his early love interest (Tuesday Weld), Velma is based on Zelda Gilroy, his later love interest (Sheila Kuehl), and Shaggy is based on Maynard Krebs, a beatnik who is Dobie's best friend (a pre-Gilligan Bob Denver). Sheila Kuehl is a lesbian, but I don't know if that was known by the time Scooby Doo premiered.
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  6414.  @mikebrothers7038  She has some goofy positions, but she is a person of integrity who means well, neither of which I can say about Tulsi Gabbard.
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  6415.  elissa f  *75 years in advance
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  6416. A lot of the shutdowns were lifted last year. Industries like restaurants still suffered because people just didn't want to risk it.
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  6417.  @MrSoonerCal  And since BLS started the unemployment surveys, no Democratic President has seen unemployment go up over the term in office (Carter saw the same on his first and last at 7.5%), and every Republican except Reagan saw unemployment go up (and his comparison benefited from Volcker tanking the economy before he got in office). Even with Saint Ronnie, until last year, he had the highest unemployment since the Great Depression (his peaked at 10.9%, and the Great Recession peaked at 10.0%). Since WWII, 10 of 12 recessions started under Republican Presidents.
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  6418.  @Kep19901  They're meaningless!
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  6419. If he wants to raise issues, he should do so in the Democratic primary, or run for Congress.
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  6420.  @markgamolka1045  Yes, because nobody ever gets coronavirus twice eye roll
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  6421.  @od_bo  Show you math. The cumulative death rate in the United States is roughly 1 in 75.
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  6422. Indeed. If one side takes credit for the slightest thing that they did, and the other spends all its time complaining about what it didn't get, the average person who doesn't pay a lot of attention to politics will think the latter can't get anything done.
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  6423. He said that Biden said that he wanted to cut Social Security and told people to go to YouTube to see it for themselves. He got Biden to stumble about the alleged nine SuperPACs. When Biden said he had a 100% lifetime rating from NARAL, Bernie got him to admit that it was "the last few years." If that isn't calling him a liar, what do you call it?
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  6424. @Fine Girl In dangerous times, the safe choice is often the riskiest choice of all.
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  6425.  @jaqnav2709  Really? So, three Supreme Court Justices and letting a fascist take charge is "good for the left"? Is that what Trump meant when he said that we'd get tired of winning?
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  6426.  @jaqnav2709  If you aren't a psychopath, it matters a great deal who wins. There are always degrees of bad, and you are in essence saying that you want to blow the whole world up because you don't get your way. Unlike you keyboard warriors, I did everything I could to help Bernie win, but if all it took for him to lose was the third and fourth place candidates to drop out, then it was a weak lead in the first place. Hillary got more votes in 2016. Some of us would rather deal with reality than try to make purselv feel better with conspiracy theories.
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  6427.  @jaqnav2709  Did MLK demand a floor vote on civil rights in 1955? The ego of you people! You're Rosa Parks? Well, what have you done to actually build support for Medicare for All? How did the Nixon plan work the second time around? How about Hillarycare?
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  6428.  @jaqnav2709  The plan is to continue to build the support through grassroots organizing, acknowledging that some of the 118 & 13 are a Soft Yes. When it gets to 218 & 50, then we push to make those Soft Yes into a Hard Yes and get them to sign the discharge petition. In the meantime, keep focusing primaries against the people most responsible for killing support with people who will support the bill. Of course, you weren't. At least you weren't when it became obvious that what you were saying doesn't hold up to the slightest scrutiny.
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  6429. If you want to understand Manchin, I actually knew him at one point. I ran for WV House of Delegates in 2006 while he was governor, and even a year after the campaign was over, he recognized me by name and face. With that background, here is what you need to understand: with few exceptions, Manchin will go just as far to the left as he needs to go to defeat any primary challenge, and not an inch farther. There have been exceptions, but something has to stir him in order for that to happen. I can think of two (when he raised the state minimum wage, there was a lot of pressure there, so he got in front of it): after two coal mine explosions in the first two weeks of 2006, Manchin closed every mine in the state until full safety audits were completed and a mine safety bill was passed. It took three days. The other was after Sandy Hook where he pushed the background check bill. He lost his A rating from the NRA with that one, and I am sure that cost him in the general. Either appeal to his emotions or his calculations, but he can be moved.
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  6430.  @lesleyedgley8371  Any time. Like it or not, people need to understand that if we want the majority, we have to work with people like Manchin, and he is not someone like Lieberman working out of spite, so we need to figure out how to do so.
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  6431.  @loomspace  Making sure that we don't go full-on fascist, as well as picking Supreme Court Justices that won't overturn everything we want is also a pretty big get. I think people like the above are right-wing trolls trying to help Trump.
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  6432.  @robinsss  "it's clear we are not going to stop following the Constitution" Well, considering that the Supreme Court ruled that Nixon was right, and that when a President does it, that means it's not illegal, this sure aged well.
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  6433.  @robinsss  Yeah, abandoning the idea of a republic is just "one bad decision," as long as they keep a little bit of a fig leaf. So much for your ideals.
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  6434.  @douglasmennella4525  And the versions that I have seen involve a rotation, either among the federal circuit court as a whole or a much larger court that randomly selects those who hear individual cases. Nowhere in the proposal are they removed. Therefore, it meets Constitutional muster.
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  6435.  @undead9999  Sorry about that. Sometimes, you feel the need to address a common misunderstanding even if it means feeding the troll. It was those competing pressures that got to me ;-)
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  6436.  Puss nBoots  If your fight will end in guaranteed failure, and mean that there will be no attempt to actually do anything even piecemeal for years to come, is that really doing anything? If you know it won't work (and he does, because the whole point is to embarrass people), then the emergency analogy falls completely apart.
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  6437.  Puss nBoots  By work I mean the whole point of legislation is to see it pass to become law. And you really think that forcing a vote to build bad blood is "revolutionary"? You keep using that word, but I do not think that it means what you think it means. Parties can be changed, because the party is people. When Truman demanded a civil rights plank in the Democratic Party platform, you would have insisted that it was an inherently racist party. With defeatist attitudes like yours, of course nothing can change. No wonder we can't have nice things.
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  6438.  Puss nBoots  Oh, I see. You're one of those nihilists who think that you just need to destroy everything and no one is good enough to meet your standards. There is a reason why people like you continue to lose and will always lose: you can't build a coalition through subtraction. Those of us who want to actually win have work to do.
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  6439.  @michaels8620  No, Jimmy Dore "asked questions" the way Trump "just asked questions" about Obama's birth. Jimmy Dore is still monetizing that video four years later.
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  6440.  @michaels8620  Yeah, you believe that Trump was only "raising questions." Defending a charlatan says more about you than anyone else. Do you think that Fox doesn't really mean the questions on their chyron?
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  6441.  Puss nBoots  No, it's a math problem. If you split the vote of one side, you make it easier for the other side to get in so you get absolutely nothing. No, wait. You get worse than nothing because things get worse.
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  6442.  @mobus1603  Although when it's real, living people, sometimes they get madder that you don't fit their demographic expectations. I am a white male who is a veteran, Baptist, and seminary graduate, but I'm about as left as you can be without being a Marxist, so they really don't know how to take that.
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  6443.  @hillside21  Nixon also was the man who signed the legislation to create the EPA, so it really is amazing just how far the pendulum has swung.
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  6444.  Anew Divinhell  Who wasn't who was in national politics in the 1960s?
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  6445.  @MrFrankqu58  Who did David Duke endorse again? And which party elected him to the Louisiana State House and nominated him for governor?
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  6446. The left doesn't accept veterans? As a lefty who is a veteran, that's news to me.
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  6447. 4:25 Three and a half years ago, Krystal Ball made that same argument when she said "I was promised a coup."
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  6448.  @deanjones2525  If that is the plan, they are going about it exactly the wrong way. It takes 15% of the vote in a state or Congressional district to get delegates, depending on the rules in each state. If you have 50% of voters willing to go with the establishment, but they are split ten ways, it will be hard for any of them to get delegates, which works to Bernie's advantage. I say the more the merrier in the establishment wing, because they are just shooting themselves in the foot.
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  6449.  @moestietabarnak  Superdelegates only get a vote if no one gets a majority of the pledged delegates in the first round. My point was that people keep insisting that there are so many candidates in order to screw Bernie over, but that won't work because a lot of the establishment vote would be wasted by candidates who can't get 15% of the vote.
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  6450.  @masercot  Yes, the guy whose campaign slogan is "Not Me, Us" is a raging narcissist. As far as the "not a Democrat" nonsense goes, well, maybe the Democratic caucus shouldn't have given him a leadership role on outreach in the Senate and Democratic candidates shouldn't have asked him to send out pitches for money.
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  6451.  @dukedematteo1995  If Ben Shapiro really cared about states that existed as a partisan power grab, why isn't he complaining that the Dakota Territory got split in two before it was granted statehood? Shouldn't he be demanding that they be combined into one state? Projection isn't just for movie theaters.
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  6452. His version is neither universal nor basic income. By forcing people to choose between their current benefits and his plan, he is going to make poverty worse, because he wants to use a consumption tax to pay for it, which is regressive, instead of taxing the rich.
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  6453. Somewhere, Tommy Wiseau and Sophia Coppola are breathing a sigh relief.
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  6454.  @toastybatch565  Indeed. Democrats can be counted on to rallying around the flag, but Republicans would have insisted that President Hillary was trying to take their Free-dumb.
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  6455.  @dannywindham3295  The person you're replying to is an idiot. The Amish usually don't even bother to vote, and if they did, they don't even have the numbers to take over Lancaster County, let alone the country.
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  6456.  @MrJayb76  He's saying that he has different numbers through a different combination. Both have the same effect and both address the fundamental issue. Same team, man, same team.
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  6457.  @DanA-nl5uo  Or all assets, and the fact that MacCalllum confused the two is the height of ignorance.
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  6458.  @MrJayb76  No, Omar said it used to be in the 90s. Not that it has to be now. He rejected the 70% number because he wants to earmark other things. An analysis by Vox in 2016 had the marginal top rate at 64%. Are you really going to get hung up over increasing the top rate by 80% instead of doubling it?
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  6459.  POOL'S CLOSED DUE TO CRONA AIDS  Well, if enough people see positive results, it won't matter what those people want.
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  6460. Remember how "the fever would break" if Obama won re-election? More and more, I wonder if it was Biden whispering that bad advice in his ear.
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  6461. Members of Congress are expelled by a 2/3 vote of their respective House.
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  6462.  @DrZaius3141  I haven't even been able to bring myself to finish the show. It's not even about the fall of Michael so much as that it seemed like the writers forgot the things that made the show funny. The writing relies heavily on timing, and having to do so much with green screen killed that. The only stories that I thought were really funny in season four were Gob and, to a lesser extent, Tobias, but the remix even took out what it was working towards. Lindsay worked because she tried to be a person she wasn't, but once she became who she really was, the whole thing was gone. Don't even get me started about the Ron Howard/Rebel storyline.
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  6463.  @atlg8or6137  Well, considering that there was an Archie Bunker for President effort, and a lot of people never seemed to understand what Stephen Colbert was doing on The Colbert Report, more people didn't than you'd think.
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  6464. If the Libertarian Party was too lazy and incompetent to qualify for the ballot, have at it. The Green Party had their chance. Then, they were given a chance to rectify the error. Then, they waited two weeks, until a lot of ballots were already printed and just ready to mail, and then they sued to gum up the works. The Green Party leaders are grifters and controlled opposition, and their voters are useful idiots.
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  6465. If you get rid of parties, the rich will just control everything. A party is a way of people with similar views to organize, nothing more. There is a reason why the Founders didn't like parties but it only took them three years to form them.
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  6466.  @nathandrake5544  Indeed. And the people who are in it for the money cash in after they leave office, anyway. What made Hillary Clinton so rare is that she took the speaking gigs before her second run for the White House. Perhaps the most egregious example of the Pennsylvania Avenue to K Street pipeline was Dean Barkley, who was appointed to fill the last two months of Paul Wellstone's term in office who got a big money lobbying job after he left as a "former Senator."
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  6467.  @michaellyczak9337  Oh, okay. I hadn't heard anything about that when it comes to his positions on certain social issues.
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  6468. Facts don't care about your feelings, Benny Boy.
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  6469.  @jparikh1  I call them Dore knobs. I also call the general group anti-anti-Trump, because that is the practical effect of their nonsense.
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  6470. That's not quite true. They just passed the bill to authorize the budget resolution. That is the first step in the House to get the reconciliation bill passed. If the Senate doesn't send the final draft by 9/27, expect to see it blocked on the left.
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  6471. So, did you think America would have been better off if Sarah Palin were VP?
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  6472. @ThatOneGirl I remember last month the most epic unmasking of one of these trolls ever. It seemed odd that he was arguing that a $15/hour minimum wage wouldn't mean much... until he admitted that he worked in finance and his real opposition to TARP was that some of his competitors didn't lose their jobs. But he was supporting Greens because they were super serious about fighting for the issues. Give some of these people enough time, and their masks will slip.
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  6473.  @soulknife20  You might not actually need to do that. There is a lot of latitude in the Constitution for setting up the Supreme Court given to Congress, including the ability to limit what the courts can review. The one rule is that judges are there for life, but there is nothing saying that those judges have to be on a particular court for life.
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  6474.  @mattburns8839  This is the danger, but NM-1 shows that there isn't a lot of Republican excitement. I'm not saying they won't turn it around, but insisting that you lost and the game is rigged against you is no way to turn your voters out. For example, the Republican primary voters who voted by mail in Georgia and didn't vote at all in the general was more than twice Biden's margin of victory. Look at how this played out in Georgia in January. I'm not saying they won't try. I'm saying that there is no guarantee that it will succeed.
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  6475.  @dianebannister4591  Another good, solid candidate is John Fetterman, the lieutenant governor running for Senate in Pennsylvania. Candidates are nominated separately for governor and lieutenant governor here, so he didn't just luck into a plumb position.
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  6476.  @That_BIack_Cat  He clearly got that. Everything in his post after praising Lincoln pointed that out. He's not like these morons who think Lincoln and Reconstruction absolve them from every terrible thing since in perpetuity.
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  6477.  @That_BIack_Cat  Not a problem. I get that it can be hard to catch sarcasm in writing. I myself have missed it at times.
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  6478. I could watch John Bercow rein in Parliament for hours. Don't ever get rid of him as Speaker!
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  6479.  @MrBonners  At least I know the difference between lose and loose and don't spend my time simping a billionaire.
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  6480.  Real Progressives Allowed  The Supreme Court literally said that Fighting Words (i.e., threats) are not protected free speech, and yelling Fire is the textbook example.
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  6481.  @FertilityTV  Well, you just proved yourself wrong right there. You fell down the rabbit hole and now you're trying to drag us down it, too. Not gonna happen, because we're not looking to proven liars for confirmation bias.
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  6482.  @greatness8248  Well, considering that he is literally a fascist telling a white supremacy group to stand by, telling his supporters to come to my city to try to intimidate voters, ordered the kidnapping of children and sterilization of women, and golfed while 200,000 people died, all of that stuff you mentioned is a drop in the bucket compared to the other stuff he's done.
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  6483.  @redwardstone3651  And sometimes, you have to know when to take half a loaf or even a slice and fight the next day.
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  6484.  @tugboat2030  Virginia also refers to itself as a commonwealth.
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  6485.  @pickupsmonthly  Apparently, you can't tell what a hypothetical situation is. When the first Soviet player defected is irrelevant to his point.
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  6486.  @pickupsmonthly  No, it isn't. How does it make his point about someone seeking asylum different if it is in 1982 as opposed to 1989? He was thinking off the cuff and using a hypothetical example.
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  6487.  @pickupsmonthly  You really can't be this stupid. The vast majority of people watching the video were not thinking of a specific individual. The notion was about anyone from the Soviet Union seeking asylum status. The time didn't matter. All that mattered was that it was before 1992.
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  6488. Even if a company treats their employees like royalty, a union gives people due process. At-will employment is always precarious, because the boss doesn't even need a reason.
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  6489. ​ @jtrain9926  Jesus is a real historical figure. What you believe happened after the crucifixion is a question of faith, but to say that Jesus didn't exist is a false statement.
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  6490.  @DDKaraokeOutlaw  I figured as much. That's not even good trolling.
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  6491.  @tyc6268  A) Doesn't change the fact that "record high inflation" is a lie, B) Inflation is a slow moving ship. Would you rather Powell just slam the interest rate to 12% right away, or did you forget the lesson of Paul Volcker and how it led to what was at the time the highest unemployment and worst recession since WWII?
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  6492. @James Gravil The book "Winners Take All" does a great job of describing how some billionaires benefit from an unfair game, and then give some of their money away to get good press. Carnegie gave a lot of things away, but he also exploited a monopoly and paid his workers next to nothing.
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  6493.  @lostmypassword  After when? They started to shift their actual income to things that don't get taxed.
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  6494.  @rajashashankgutta4334  1) So, you want to drop the threshold from it's current $5MM to $550,000? You could easily go down to $1MM for individuals and $2MM for couples and increase the top rate, and most importantly, get rid of the stepped up cost basis. 2) So, you think that you're not Enlightened Centrist because you are open to increasing the top tax rates? Some of the most prominent Enlightened Centrists in or formerly in government (Lieberman, Klobuchar, Buttigieg, McCaskill, etc.) all support increasing taxes at the top. It is first and foremost a style that insists that it is the only reasonable way to go. 3) You avoided my question. What defines my position as "unreasonable" when it is a mainstream position in every other industrialized country?
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  6495.  @michaelparmetersr.9018  True, but why is someone running for President talking about things that he wants to change in the Constitution?
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  6496. "You can't fix stupid." Ron White
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  6497. Scared lefties is the big problem. I am so sick of, "I like this idea, but [insert reason for not actually supporting those who will fight for those ideas]." No wonder we can't win! If you won't fight for anything, you will depress your own vote. As Bill Clinton, of all people, said, "Strong and wrong beats weak and right every day of the week." You know what would really win? Strong and right!
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  6498.  @brasshouse-fireball  Okay, if it is such a no brainier to force the vote, what was your step two? Someone in these very spaces was adamant that there was a big rally coming on January 3rd was going to show the strength of the "movement." What happened? 50 people showed up, they were overshadowed by the fascists trying to overturn the election, and there was pretty much no coverage at all. Is the goal to have a fight, or is the goal to actually get legislation passed?
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  6499.  @brasshouse-fireball  If a majority supports it, and it is a voting issue, why isn't Bernie President? There is a lot more soft support out there than people will admit, and the 21% it got in Colorado on a ballot initiative put the fear of good into nobody.
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  6500.  @brasshouse-fireball  Donald Trump was not an "anti-establishment populist." He wanted just enough people to believe that to ignore that brown people are not the problem. No one who says "wages are too high in America" at a debate is a populist. And I support Medicare for All. The difference is that I actually look past the first line of a poll. For years, I thought we should call it Medicare for All instead of single payer, but too few people seemed to actually know what it was. I am aware of the benefits, but like so many of the Force the Vote crowd, you don't seem to understand that forcing the vote when it is guaranteed to fail (even its advocates admitted that) doesn't give a single person anywhere health care, and if it loses big, it discredits the whole idea.
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  6501.  @brasshouse-fireball  There is no such thing as a right wing populist. He literally said that wages are too high in America in a debate. Anyone who believes that is not a populist. He passed a tax plan that made Bush look like Robin Hood in comparison. Anyone who pretends to be a right wing populist is there to use brown people and some nefarious elite (usually Jewish, often someone educated who made somebody feel bad) in order to distract from the real issue. Those tariffs sure did help those farmers who needed two bailouts while corporate profits and the trade deficit soared!
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  6502.  @brasshouse-fireball  So, you think that you can organize to defeat 104 incumbents in primaries? [In Dr. Evil voice] Riiight.
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  6503.  @brasshouse-fireball  Again, I support Medicare for All. Unlike kamikaze efforts with no step two, I have done the actual work to build support. You can't insist that something is inevitable because of polls when farther down the polls show that a majority think that a bill is something different than what it is (53% think Medicare for All allows competing private insurance). Think that it is inevitable means that you won't do the work.
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  6504.  @brasshouse-fireball  Do the actual work. Coronavirus permitting, knock on doors, make calls, sign petitions, and get others to do the same. If you member does not sponsor Medicare for All, put that pressure on and then if it doesn't work, you look at key districts and find a primary opponent. At this point, it's better to focus on blue areas to stop giving the Blue Dogs cover. Find competitive districts to defeat Republicans, because none of them are ever going to support Medicare for All.
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  6505.  @brasshouse-fireball  Here in Philadelphia, several groups (I did it with DSA and Philly for Bernie, but others such as Health Care 4 All PA and Neighborhood Networks played a role as well) did just that, and we got two members of Congress to sponsor the bill (Dwight Evans and Brendan Boyle). It can be done, because it has been done. And again, forcing a vote in hopes that a primary challenge would defeat them ignores the fact that Biden won the nomination while saying that he wouldn't sign the bill. If your theory of the case was accurate, Biden would have lost. You can hold your breath and have tantrums all you want, but if you are too lazy to do the actual work (which is what Force the Vote is an admission of), you'll never be able to do that much work to defeat 104 incumbents in primaries. And forcing the vote will ruin any goodwill for getting it passed. Your way is like saying, "It takes too long to put the car engine back together, so I want to put it on the road right now."
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  6506. Well, there's no real way for the party to kick someone out, but she officially left. Don't let the door hit you where the Good Lord split you!
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  6507.  @Blackmark52  He actually pushed the idea three times before (1988, 2000, 2012). I can't remember if he actually filed the exploratory committee paperwork, but I remember seeing his campaign website when he attempted to run for the Reform Party nomination in 2000. And, irony of all irony given what happened in 2016, he dropped out because he didn't want to be associated with a party that had hate mongers like Pat Buchanan and David Duke. (Jesse Ventura also left the national Reform Party after the two of them joined it and Buchanan became the front runner for the nomination.) So, depending on how you count it, he ran anywhere from three to five times.
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  6508.  @Blackmark52  Indeed. That's a whole other can of worms.
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  6509.  @avihazuria3285  Mike R. is a troll. All he ever does is say Bernie will lose.
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  6510.  @liftistswoletariat7184  That is why I oppose Yang's version. It is insufficient to actually live on, and people currently receiving benefits have to pick and choose.
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  6511. Sean Hannity realizing that 0-0=0
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  6512. I'm guessing autocorrect changed "libertarian."
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  6513.  @PatrickPierceBateman  Why would Evil Turtle get rid of the filibuster? The only things that he actually wants to do already can't be filibustered.
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  6514.  @tbohn10  The people still voted for who they voted for. Whatever the DNC did doesn't change that fact.
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  6515.  @tbohn10  Does the other side need a reason? Or are you telling me that you're so conceded that you need wooed in order to do your duty to save democracy? I guess when we're all goose stepping to the gulag, you can remind yourself that youb didn't have a good enough reason. As far as "giving people a reason," I kept hearing from the accelerationists that people needed a candidate to "inspire" them, but do you know what message inspired people to actually turn out and vote in the highest percentages since women got the right to vote? "I'm not the guy who botched the response to the pandemic." Funny how your theories get proven wrong over and over again, but you still push the same nonsense of ego stroking rather than looking at what has actually happened in elections this century.
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  6516.  @justr6982  The highest election turnout since before WWI was 2020, a time when one candidate largely eschewed big events in the name of public safety, which pretty much blows that theory out of the water. Yes, candidates have a duty, but so do voters, and they should not be let off the book. If Trump wins, do you blame his voters?
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  6517.  @briancardio6567  Sarcasm doesn't translate well in print.
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  6518.  @briancardio6567  He annoys me. I at least like my trolls clever.
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  6519.  @jgmediting7770  Study your history. A red/brown alliance always ends poorly for the red part. There is no middle ground with fascism.
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  6520.  @dougsteel7414  Yeah, so that's why he turned all of his fire on Democrats for four years unless they came on his show.
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  6521.  @cosmosofinfinity  That's pretty open ended, so it's possible.
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  6522.  @dl2839  The Administration is the executive branch. Are you going to pretend that the very people who were in the room negotiating what the Constitution was going to look like really meant for all executive power to be with the Presidency and then a year and a half later approved a Cabinet? Or is the more likely answer that they meant it in the same sense that they used the word "Congress"?
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  6523. You expel members of Congress, but I fully agree that Boebert, Hawley, and Cruz need to go.
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  6524.  @damejanea.macdonald2371  Definitely funnier than anything I've ever heard from Jimmy Dore.
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  6525. @AJ And when she says it ;-)
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  6526. I see the straw poll was from SEIU. After this, and their posting a video of Bernie spending the day with a worker in Pittsburgh who is trying to unionize UPMC, as a member in 668, I just have one thing to say: endorse this man, already!
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  6527. Somewhere, Liz Truss is having a good laugh.
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  6528. My four year old is smarter and better behaved than he is.
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  6529.  @bobbydylanio  I keep hearing Republicans talk about the "will of the people," but the will of actual people was that he go back to his gaudy tower and leave us alone. You can defend the Electoral College, or you can talk about the will of the people, but you can't do both.
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  6530.  @aarondickson9573  Was Reagan a hero for selling weapons to the Iranians to illegally fund a civil war in Central America?
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  6531. And they were all for states' rights... but they left because they didn't like free states using their states' rights to not return slaves because they didn't like the Fugitive Slave Act.
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  6532. The main problems are the funding and getting rid of the existing social safety net. If the idea was a) a progressive tax that didn't force the poor to choose between their current benefits and his, and b) not a political and budgetary fight that would sap the energy needed for vital societal things like Medicare for All, the Green New Deal with affordable housing, and rebuilding our infrastructure, I would be right there.
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  6533.  @ladydeerheart1  There is no such thing as unbiased reporting. Even if you just give it straight, the things that you see as important to cover reveals bias as well. For example, pretty much every newspaper has a business section, but how many have a labor section?
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  6534.  @mjchakos1  Show me the criminal statute. And tell me why you think the two are equivalent.
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  6535. There were so many better movies that year. I personally would have given it to Good Night and Good Luck that year.
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  6536. Benny Boy finally got to achieve his dream... and then the marketplace of ideas weighed in. Now, that is poetic justice.
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  6537.  @creshiell  Fair enough. I guess I saw reruns repackaged and didn't notice. I wonder if he looked for a Gentile for that very reason.
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  6538. ​ @13juju  Indeed. My mom's former idiot doctor had her freaked out about the vaccine and her medication. Once she went to the cardiologist, the cardiologist told her there was no such risk. Then, when she got to thinking a little bit more, she remembered how the doctor said that the vaccine was "ineffective." Thankfully, that is no longer her doctor.
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  6539.  @margotpreston  Probably mocking the first comment.
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  6540.  @AnArchyRulzz  Actually, it was former Congressman and biggest xenophobe before Moscow Donald, Tom Tancredo, who ran an independent candidacy on the American Independent Party. Do you remember who else used that label for a third-party run? :-/
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  6541. BJG is someone who doesn't want to get anything done as much as she wants to complain, and she is heading down the Dore pathway. It really says something when youanage to alienate yourself from the nicest and most forgiving person in American politics.
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  6542.  @fgsaramago  So, pointing out that he is using a fascist to claim that a fascist is not a fascist to defend said fascist is irrelevant to you?
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  6543.  @krrr.4902  The original came and trolled, and eventually got broken mentally when someone had a username "Aaron Dickson's Dad." That's when the first alter egos started showing up, and he got caught accidentally replying using the wrong name. It's a sad state of affairs.
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  6544. I think that the real issue is employers wanting control. I have a government job, so we have to be open at certain times. However, if your job involves a lot of processing, even dropping to a 30-hour work week (giving people the option of 4×7.5 hour days or 5×6 hour days) give people a lot more flexibility based on their needs, and increase the wages enough to give people the same amount of money and more leisure time on top of it.
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  6545.  @juliewatson2281  Or, here's a thought: why don't we do what we can to make sure that people's opportunities aren't limited by how rich their parents are, and we get back to funding college. Would you have complained about high school becoming free 100 years ago?
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  6546.  @benjaminpark5460  The only way that I would consider Warren would be if Bernie was close in the delegate count but not at a majority, say 1800 delegates (1990 is the magic number in the first round, 2373 if it deadlocks and the superdelegates are added) and Warren has 600, and literally the only way that he can get over the line is if she offers her delegates in exchange for the second spot. However, even then, as soon as he names her, I can see people try to stir stuff up, so unless she offers a full apology, that would make his path in November that much harder.
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  6547.  @MrInternetMan  I like Tammy Baldwin. She is a Senator from Wisconsin and has a great voting record. Nina is doing great and good work at Our Revolution, and we need someone with that organizer spirit there.
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  6548.  @robertkirby8685  The UK Parliament is different. The only people who had a chance to vote for Jeremy Corbyn were in Islington North. Being the party leader in a legislative body is vastly different than a separate office as head of state.
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  6549. Funny that the MATH guy clearly doesn't understand how math works.
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  6550. No one who actually understands online debate is trying to convince the person with whom he/she is debating. The real audience is the neutral who might be passing by.
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  6551. Tulsi is not anti-war, she is an isolationist. Yang is a libertarian wolf in leftist clothing. He is completely dishonest by calling his plan a "universal basic income" even though by his own admission, people who are disabled won't benefit.
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  6552. Voted in Philadelphia on Wednesday. It was a ballot drop off point, and I got there just as a line got finished. There was another forming behind me. They're checking to make sure the envelope is signed and dated, and it is really quick. Hopefully, the count will be quick on election night so the red mirage doesn't come to be.
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  6553.  calo10able  Funding doesn't mean giving every lefty a check. If he gave enough for the protesters to live on, he would have run out of money by April 2017.
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  6554. For 20 years, I was convinced that Republicans would never be so stupid as to overturn Roe because it would motivate an apathetic majority and the Big D would benefit for decades to come. What I hadn't necessarily expected was a lot of people who called themselves "pro-life" would realize that they were pro-choice after all. Then again, I do remember an episode of 30 Days where an abortion activist lived at a pregnancy crisis center for a month, and at one point she was talking to the women who stayed there. One of them said that she didn't want an abortion but it should be up to the woman, and the activist said, "Honey, that's pro-choice." She never realized it at the time, but I guess a lot of people did.
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  6555. Forcing the mentally ill into One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is not giving them better conditions.
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  6556.  @asifalimirza  With all due respect, I am 41 years old, and I have seen plenty of things in my day. If I couldn't either admit that I was wrong or acknowledge the mathematical realities of what our electoral system looks like, I wouldn't brag about what I do know when ignorance is there for all to see.
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  6557.  @devonedwards4395  So, you seek out pages that support other candidates just to stir stuff up and not offer anything constructive? Good to know.
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  6558.  @devonedwards4395  Okay, you talked about how you went to a Harris page and got into a big fight, and now you are saying that you just get it from the Majority Report? At least keep your trolling internally consistent.
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  6559.  @viperswhip  Your post said "original Christians." I can assure you that in the first three centuries of the common era, no one was forced into Christianity. Rodney Stark wrote a very interesting book called "The Rise of Christianity" that shows patterns for religious growth, and based on evidence, Christianity was majority Jewish well into the second century with a substantial Jewish minority until about the fifth (Augustine talks about Jewish converts to Chrsitianity, although to criticize some of their practices, such as a Saturday Sabbath).
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  6560.  @viperswhip  You're welcome. It's a readable book (Stark is a sociologist by training), but I used it for about a dozen research papers in grad school it was that informative.
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  6561.    I did engage. You argued that McGovern lost because he was too far left. I responded that he was not left on the economic issues that have driven every Democratic victory for 100 years. If you really want to say I didn't engage, you are the one who didn't engage, because you collapsed when I offered a counterpoint.
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  6562.    You still had nothing of substance to say to the counterargument about McGovern. The mere fact that you couldn't follow the simple logic of "person makes point A, other person makes objection B, original person either defends point A or responds to counterpoint B" shows the truth about you far more than about me. If you don't want to be called a bit, prove your humanity and respond to the point presented, while learning how to spell a simple name.
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  6563.  @stewartciesla8142  I'm not enough of a psychopath to end up with a billion dollars. You either get there through inheritance, exploiting workers, tax loopholes, or lax antitrust enforcement. It's hardly a sign of virtue or skill.
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  6564. Low taxes, low wages, low education, and no infrastructure spending: this is Republican policy and what third-world countries have.
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  6565.  @felwinter7883  Citation that a) Timothy McVeigh was not motivated by right-wing politics, and b) that there is more left-wing terrorism in America.
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  6566.  @SP-cd3wo  Well, not the ones who are too young or immunocompromised and can't get it, but if you willfully refuse, I have no sympathy because you are endangering my five-year-old daughter.
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  6567.  @SP-cd3wo  Sadly, I've heard the "I'm healthy and selfish" brigade say that the immunocompromised should be the ones to isolate more than once, so that's why I always try to enforce how evil this decision really is.
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  6568.  @lucypreece7581  Again, my point has been that the photoshoot is not a betrayal of feminism. I am just puzzled that she omitted the most important part of feminism in her response.
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  6569. If he's not racist, he should apologize for taking the states rights position on desegregation.
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  6570.  @KingoftheJuice18  If Ted Cruz isn't a fascist, he is clearly playing to fascists to gain power, and is there any real difference at this point?
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  6571.  @SimonTBam  Why would you have to invent it? It's all laid out. You just have to apply your situation to the template.
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  6572.  @KingoftheJuice18  But you're the one arguing that it shouldn't be used, so what would be a better word?
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  6573. Mark my words. Within a year of her term, she will get a job as a Fox talking head. The good people of Hawaii are sick of her, which is why she isn't running for re-election.
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  6574.  @ramam1204  True, but even at the time, it felt like it should have been one of the first ones. Maybe they realize that her PAC to counter the DCCC is for real and are freaking out that this means a locus of power that will put her in good stead to continue Bernie's legacy.
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  6575. Short answer: no.
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  6576.  @dawnuwangue6061  As do I, but pretty much have my hope sustained by the fact that Biden and his retreat strategy is as sure a sign as any that the people don't actually want him, and he and his handlers know it.
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  6577.  @totalvoid6234  That is true about literally every human being who has ever taught or explained anything on the face of the earth.
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  6578. How these idiots never understood the moral of the story is beyond me.
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  6579.  @CarlCaf  Jimmy Carter sold his peanut farm before he became President in order to respect the Constitution. There's a reason why we have the Emoluments Clause, and that's to make sure that officials are focused on the people instead of their own personal enrichment.
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  6580. What is it going to take to see justice to Der Orangefuhrer?
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  6581.  @eddietheunggoyslayer3904  If you weren't trying to defend it, what were you trying to do?
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  6582.  @Graeberwave  Oh, wow! I Googled Virgil Texas, and grooming was the first thing that popped up. It's a messed up story.
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  6583.  @Spacemongerr  She alienated Bernie. He publicly distanced himself from her after the primary.
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  6584. The Soup had a segment called "Greg Kelly: Unlikely Voice of Reason." Is that mantle being passed to the brown-haired man who is not Steve Doocy?
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  6585.  @sciencecompliance235  If this bothers you more than what Sinema is doing to hundreds of millions of people, that says more about you than those who disagree with you.
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  6586.  @2445ace  If it's a right winger who agrees with Aaron, it's a good bet that ot probably is Aaron.
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  6587.  @basedtruthpiller7140  Didn't I tell you that I was done with my liar quota for today, Aaron?
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  6588.  Jaison Borne  You mean like the way that he said that he would increase taxes on the rich?
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  6589.  @manholeeunuchsbane6197  Never underestimate the cognitive dissonance. Behind every great narcissist lies great insecurity, and sometimes it comes to the surface.
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  6590. You can't have healing from cancer if you don't get rid of the tumor.
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  6591. He can't if they use budget reconciliation.
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  6592. ​ @donutsacrifice2588  She won't become a lobbyist. She'll be a talking ahead. Lobbyists have to know a subject and have good relations with elected officials.
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  6593. You are aware that Perot ran in the general election, not the primary, right?
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  6594. Cable isn't subject to those rules to the extent network is.
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  6595. ​ @1m2rich  I thought that was Mississippi.
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  6596.  @kitsunekage12  Well, what do the lines that he drew for Congress or the legislature have anything to do with his winning re-election?
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  6597.  @Juangalt  He's so responsible for the reduction in CO2 that just one launch of SpaceX counteracts any carbon savings from his car company... which uses rare-earth minerals that make it impossible for them to mass produce. But, yes, he's solving the problem.
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  6598.  @kickinitwithmydawg  You think Trump isn't? It is getting harder and harder to tell the difference between people on the left with no sense of strategy and right-wing trolls pretending to be left to discourage the vote against Trump.
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  6599.  @kickinitwithmydawg  Yeah, I've known "independents" like you for quite some time. You're the one praising Trump on Chiii-na. All I have to do is refute that.
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  6600.  @raymonddeflaviis2306  You do understand that there are lots of different countries in the Middle East, right? And that Afghanistan is in Central Asia, not the Middle East? 9/11 isn't an excuse to attack anyone, anywhere, for any reason just so long as you say the magic terror word.
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  6601.  @raymonddeflaviis2306  I have been to Germany, and I don't remember seeing any Hitler statues or Rommelstrasse, despite being in the province which the Nazis originally used as its base of power. That doesn't mean that they forgot their history, it means that they know who to honor and, perhaps more importantly, who not to.
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  6602. There is no such thing as right-wing populism. By definition, you can't be a populist if you want to cut taxes for rich people.
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  6603. RFK Jr: The Living Embodiment of Living Long Enough to Become a Villain
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  6604.  @kede32  John F. Kennedy was in Congress for 14 years. Buttigieg was the mayor of a mid-sized city for eight. Not even remotely similar.
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  6605.  @ericb.4313  Agreed. To think that you can go from less than 10,000 votes to 70MM is the height of arrogance.
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  6606.  @ericb.4313  Agreed. And even then, when you look at his actual record as President, he had very few domestic accomplishments with his biggest successes being in foreign policy. It seems in retrospect like he gets the credit for all of the good things and LBJ gets the blame for all of the bad things of those eight years. (If I hear one more person insist that he would have pulled out of Vietnam even though we had just assassinated the South Vietnamese President, I may literally scream.)
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  6607. I had to like for the accuracy, but shudder at the thought of him in such a strange and disturbing scene.
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  6608. One in five? That works out to 66MM people here illegally. Math is not your friend, Charlie.
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  6609. Mark it on your calendar.
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  6610.  @williamsmith5253  You mean the "nuance" of praising the fascist Tucker Carlson or trying to work with Mike Cernovich to bring world peace? The "subtlety" of pushing stuff like 9/11 Truther, Seth Rich, or Hillary has Parkinson's? The "finer point" about how Mitch McConnell wouldn't use the nuclear option to ram through the Supreme Court Justice that he was holding the seat for? Oh, yeah, he is a real truth teller.
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  6611. And this is why some people who emphasize the insider vs. outsider debate are making a big mistake. I'm especially looking your way, Krystal Ball.
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  6612.  @ReichWingWatch  In all honesty, I liked her a lot more before she decided to be a cheerleader for Tulsi and Yang. She does a lot of great work, but sometimes I wonder how much of her odd takes are based on anger at MSNBC that leads to "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" thinking.
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  6613. Presidents have no formal role in the process of amending the US Constitution. Amendments can be proposed by a 2/3 vote of each House of Congress or a convention called by 3/4 of states (which has never happened), and ratified by either 3/4 of state legislatures or state ratification committees (the latter only done for the Twenty-first Amendment). Johnson tried to veto Reconstruction Acts, but that was overturned.
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  6614.  @EnviousNV_  Bernie tried to force the vote on stimulus checks because the votes were there. We are 100 votes shy in the House and 37 in the Senate. If we show their [corrected it for you] hands, you would see that we are holding a pair of twos.
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  6615.  @coryddp7254  That prediction shows that he doesn't understand anything about how politics works. Do you really think that any reasonable person would think that McConnell was holding the seat open just to allow Democrats to filibuster? Someone with that understanding of how politics works is also telling hos listeners that you can just demand a vote when forcing a vote means (if the sponsor list is remotely accurate) that it will fail by a 3:1 margin.
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  6616.  @afureru444  I will never be an Asterisks fan.
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  6617.  @jordanwirth3738  You seriously think that charities could raise 19% of GDP (what it would cost to actually fund health care)? With thinking like that, no wonder Sam Seder spends so much time mocking libertarian thought. And, in your golden age before evil government spending to help people, 2/3 of all seniors lived in poverty, and health insurance companies charged through the roof for policies, which is why Medicare became a thing. Funny you think that you have better ideas, but they have been tried and failed.
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  6618.  @jordanwirth3738  You are confusing Medicare and Social Security. Medicare is not "giving people money when they retire." Medicare is giving people health insurance when they retire. And, as far as "spending it behind our backs," there is no individual account. It goes into a pool. Any surplus was put in Treasury bonds. Even if nothing is done, future retirees will still get over 70% of expected benefits. Any funding gap comes because the cap on Social Security taxes did not account for just how much income inequality would grow, because the Greenspan Commission expected 90% of all income to be covered, but it is now down to 84%. Simple fix: increase the cap or eliminate it altogether. And it's not about "not trusting people," it's about understanding that interdependence is a higher other than independence that actually makes society possible. There are some things that work better when everyone pools their resources and goes in together. Considering that we pay twice as much per capita as anyone else and still can't cover everyone (and the GM strike proves that there is no such thing as a good employer based plan), I would rather have something that costs less and delivers more. That doesn't mean that government should control everything or even most things, but some things are not beneficial to leave people to their own devices because freedom, and health care is one of them.
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  6619.  @jordanwirth3738  I think I can answer that question (although, if anyone you know had a pre-existing condition and can now get it, or anyone between the ages of 22 and 26 who were able to stay on their parents' plans, or women with gynecological issues, they benefited even if they didn't see it). Basically, there are four ways to get to universal or near universal coverage. Going from left to right, they are nationalization (think the NHS or the VA), single payer (think Canada or Medicare), managed competition/public option (Hillarycare in the 90s and the early drafts of the ACA), and universal mandate (what the ACA became). The full name of what many call Obamacare is The Affordable Care and Patient Protection Act of 2010. Something Sam Seder said that I think was very accurate about it was that it was undersold on the patient protection part and oversold on affordability, which is partly why many people tend to think of the ACA as only the exchanges. However, its ultimate shortcoming is that it was designed with the assumption that people can just be "smart shoppers" when it comes to health care, so market forces really can't do as much to lower prices. After all, nobody will know what emergencies will befall you over the next year. Since you can't really say no to treating a heart attack, market forces of competition don't lower prices. The market incentive for private insurance is to deny care, because that is cutting costs. The market incentive under a single payer or nationalized plan ends up spreading the risk over everyone and gives incentive to ask for lower prices, like a massive bulk discount. That's why it is a more efficient approach than the ACA. Republicans haven't been able to come up with an alternative to the ACA in ten years of yelling "repeal and replace" because a) what became the ACA was imagined as their alternative to Hillarycare, and b) there's nowhere they can go to the right of the ACA and still offer anything remotely near universal coverage. This is why their repeal attempt in 2017 would have resulted in 24-32MM people losing their health insurance according to the CBO.
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  6620.  @HumbleAstronaut  You mean the one whose signature proposal was straight out of Milton Friedman in an effort to gut the existing social safety net, and the one who spent most of her campaign trying to suck up to people like Dave Rubin? There was only one.
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  6621.  @jocksharerock7318  Indeed. And these idiots who insist that they liked Yang and Tulsi more because MSM sources didn't like them are the perfect examples of this Jeff Winger quote: "It's not about the jacket. Take it off to please them, wear it to piss them off. Either way, it's about them, and that's what's weak."
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  6622.  @jocksharerock7318  Indeed. I remember the heat that I got in comment sections two or three years ago for insisting that either one of them wasn't the Second Coming. Funny how they loved to insist that Bernie was past his prime and needed to be put out to pasture and they represented the future, while Bernie is not only the only one of the three that still has a job, but he is actually a Committee chair with real power over legislation.
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  6623.  @JamesJohnson-gz9fn  What specifically is a lie in the Equality Act?
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  6624. How many more chances is he going to get? He is incapable of shutting up, and he will keep violating the order as long as he can get in front of a microphone or get access to a phone.
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  6625.  @jim2498  And if we didn't rely on the government to pay for education, we would have illiteracy rates of over 90%, and we would go backwards as a country. Just because you wasted your education doesn't mean that everyone else does.
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  6626.  @jim2498  If schools were all private, a lot of parents couldn't afford it at all. At the public school my daughter goes to, parents are very involved.
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  6627.  @jim2498  There is more than one way to waste an education. School is more than a vocational program.
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  6628.  @jim2498  And private schools don't outperform public schools as a whole. Yes, the elite private schools do well, but if a school charges more in tuition than most people make in a year, that clearly isn't an option. Private schools are also woefully inadequate for special education.
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  6629.  @jim2498  Democrats didn't worry about what? And the fact that you seem not to understand what special education means only reinforces the point that you don't know what you are talking about.
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  6630.  @jim2498  Oh, but they did, because they put subsidies in place and set caps on how much could be charged. Are you just arguing now because you're hoping that probability will kick in and you'll get something right?
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  6631.  @jim2498  If the ACA cost you $8000, for someone who has work in the field where you studied, it sure does look like your employer screwed you royally. It all depended on the individual. I had a cousin whose bill was about $50/month with the subsidy.
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  6632.  @coryc9040  Where do you get that they will be taxed? You are aware that all of the qualifying loans are direct loans, right? All it involves is ripping up the debt.
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  6633.  @coryc9040  Sarcasm detected. The money has already been given out on student loans. Therefore, the spending is already done. Therefore, forgiving student loans doesn't affect taxes one way or another. At least the others were honest about their position in their trolling.
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  6634.  @coryc9040  And if you want to look at direct spending, Medicare covered everyone over the age of 65, even though people who retired before 1965 didn't pay into it. Is that fair? Is it fair that I as a renter have to subsidize homeowners? Is it fair that people who don't own cars have to subsidize highways for those who do?
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  6635.  @sidhu139  Often, but not always. For example, we are on the Internet right now, which was a government project.
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  6636.  @blesslinks595  Not saying that she will, but one thing that might be different is that she would know that she serves as the pleasure of the President, which would mean she would be expected to follow an overarching agenda.
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  6637. Biden knows Democratic voters would be outraged if he does it.
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  6638.  @victorbergman9169  Sedition, extortion, inciting a riot, tax evasion, bank fraud, witness tampering, obstruction of justice. Maybe more, such as money laundering.
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  6639.  @victorbergman9169  Then, you weren't paying attention to the words and what happened immediately after. When your armed followers tell cameras that you told them to be there, it's pretty obvious that they got the message, and they just play the dog whistle game so people like you can pretend that he didn't mean what he obviously meant.
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  6640. My medal stand of infamy: Beto, gold; Delaney, silver; Klobuchar, bronze.
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  6641. ​ @Tortilla.Reform  His full name is Aaron Dickson. Eventually, he started to have all of these other usernames, and he got caught when.he accidentally responded to someone using the wrong username. He literally has dozens of them.
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  6642.  @rtorres4132  One of my friends from work is Hispanic. Here is exactly what she told me about the vaccine: "I didn't really want it, but my mom is older and vulnerable, and I want to see her, so I got the vaccine." Adults do what is necessary and don't whine.
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  6643.  @rtorres4132  I don't care why they don't get it at this point. I don't care the color or the political ideology of the people who are "hesitating." I don't care about my personal relationship with the people who are "hesitant." I care about the fact that they are hurting other people and allowing the virus to mutate instead of eradicating it. Unless you have a legitimate medical reason, you need to take it. Full stop.
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  6644.  @SpoopySquid  Indeed. Aaron is a very sad individual.
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  6645. @antproofcase She gave the concession speech at 2:30 AM the next day. It was about an hour or so after the deciding state was in. That's hardly a delayed concession.
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  6646. I grew up in a hunting culture. In order to get our hunting license, we had to take a safety course that lasted 12 hours or so. If you didn't have to pass, you had to wait until next year. Our guns were locked up, and we were told not to point at anything unless we intended to shoot it. The problem is that these idiots think they are in an action movie, but even Rambo was attacked first.
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  6647.  @westcoastrenegade8594  So, only one revolution worked, but you insist that is the way to go. Yes, you have e clearly thought things through. Anarchi-communism is extremely unstable, and the fact that you point to something short lived proves that.
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  6648.  myredfestiva  [citation needed] Otherwise, you are just repeating Republican sour grapes about losing.
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  6649.  @powbobs  It was a pretty new field when he chose it. One big clue is looking at their tax releases. George was the first modern Presidential candidate to release his tax returns, and the 12 years that he released showed an effective rate of 37%. Mittens had an effective rate of 11%. The former's main source of income was first as President of AMC, and then as Governor of Michigan. His money was mostly ordinary income and salary.
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  6650.  @garysmokesmeat  Oh, but you do condone violence. You condone using the violence of threats of starvation to keep wages down. You advocate for wealth to flow upward. You defend sweatshop conditions. You condone the violence of pollution. The difference between the two of us is that I am honest, and you're not.
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  6651.  @garysmokesmeat  As I have told you, which means that at this point I wonder if you just have a cognitive issue, is that it depends on the circumstances. Not the least is the ability to pay. If $100 was all you were getting for the year, you should qualify for the EITC and get even more.
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  6652.  @garysmokesmeat  "Taking the fruit of someone's labor. Like, someone used their body to produce something, and then you come and take it." So, like you work at a job, and you produce $1000 worth for the day, and someone says, "I'm taking $500 off the top, because I am the boss, and I want to enrich myself"? And yet you defended that only yesterday in this very thread.
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  6653.  @garysmokesmeat  And ive already answered your question several times. It's not my fault that you don't like the answer, so why do you justify the violence of pollution and knowingly putting fatal products on the market?
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  6654.  @garysmokesmeat  So, you think that poisoning the air that people breathe and the water they drink so they can get more money isn't violence? No wonder you didn't want to answer the question!
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  6655.  @Prometheus4096  That's not what who said? I get that you haven't said anything truthful yet, but it's never too late to start.
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  6656. The important thing is that you now see the light. I fell for her grift in 2016 only knowing her from the Bernie campaign stuff. As soon as I saw her torture endorsement, I did everything I could to warn others (same logic behind taking a couple weeks of looking at Yang stuff to get to the fine print and realize that he was no silver medalist, but a total grifter) to not make the same mistake. It is not enough to see the light, you must try to show others.
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  6657.  @bekpamper7376  What specifically does he speak the truth about?
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  6658.  @howardgray6407  Then, you remember wrong. Sam was consistent that he didn't think that was the best use of leverage. What the Squad ultimately got (loopholes to the pay-go rules and committee assignments) were things that actually helped people rather than a masturbatory exercise that would accomplish nothing.
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  6659.  @thomasbel4193  1) "You're like a child wondering into the middle of a movie..." Walter Sobchak The person who I responded to has talked over and over again about his love for Republicans, and his support for right-wing causes. Therefore, Donny Karavatsos, I was not just basing my statement on his support of Jimmy Dore. 2) So, you're a right winger, mad that I called someone else a right winger? That's just weird. I don't care whether or not individuals say good things about others, but if you always prop up Republicans, you might be a right winger. At least I don't prop up the algorithm for channels I claim to hate while making a fool of myself in the process.
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  6660.  @thomasbel4193  Ah, yes, an Enlightened Centrist putting all of your money on Ron DeSantis. And if you don't like the idea that this is a right wing position, what power structures does it challenge? How does it address the rights of workers or income and wealth inequality? Here's a hint, Tommy boy: if you are just fine with the structures in place that help the rich and the powerful, you're right wing.
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  6661. Just a thought. The term "climate change" was coined by Frank Luntz to make it sound like something that just happens. If you look at the point where global warming skepticism increased, it was around that time. (When it was still called "global warming," Pat Robertson and Newt Gingrich, of all people, cut ads supporting action!) Why do we keep letting the right dictate the terms for everything? Maybe we should start calling it the climate crisis to force people to acknowledge the reality.
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  6662.  @Ianpact  Well, it matters when you have people who still insist that it doesn't matter. You can't fix the problem if you don't know what it is.
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  6663.  @andrewpotts6312  The irony of saying that everyone is uneducated and then saying that the left are fascists.
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  6664.  regulator619  If he thinks Trump has failed, why tell people Four More Years? He's a phony.
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  6665.  @b.d.a.8719  We get that Trump himself isn't competent, and we also get that he probably would have won if either he had a remotely competent response to the coronavirus, and he could have stolen it if the race was closer. You are also missing that the Republican Party as it exists now is a personality cult. He has been priming them for months that if he loses it was stolen. Who is going to take his place in 2024? Someone in the inner circle is boxed out, he already beat establishment-friendly figures the last time before they started sucking up to him, the moderate wing of the party is as good as dead, and ones like Tom Cotton and Josh Hawley are the Diet Coke of Trump: just one calorie, not Trumpy enough. And you know what happens here when bad things happen under Republican Presidents? A lot of Democratic primary voters get awfully nervous and don't dare to dream. That's a big part of why Bernie lost by a bigger margin in 2020 than he did in 2016. That, and in retrospect, it looks like a lot of people cast their ballots against Hillary rather than for Bernie.
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  6666.  @PutinsMommyNeverHuggedHim  1) Ssagar Enjeti supported a full military crackdown on peaceful protesters after the shooting of George Floyd. 2) Enjeti has constantly used the "identity politics" dog whistle for anything ranging from civil rights to women's rights to anti-PC backlash, etc. This "economic populist" used this as an excuse to oppose Bernie Sanders, and got up in arms if he talked about a video that a Bernie supporter made that ever talked about race or gender. Also, listen to what he has to say about immigration. 3) While he does not openly advocate for the abolition of political parties, he has been pretending to be an ally to the left (and fooled enough people that I actually dealt with people calling him "progressive"). As far as economics goes, that is difficult to determine because he rarely if ever describes what he is for on that front, other than limiting immigration. He mostly talks about what he is against. 6) He definitely has an element of "purging it of its decadence" when he talks about societal ills.
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  6667.  @Nunyabusiness40  Still totally right. A very important detail to understand. I'll use a couple of examples to show exactly why. Exhibit A: The average recipient of Social Security Disability receives over $1200/month. Yang would make that person choose the package. Obviously, he/she will not get any more money. So, this person will not only not gain money, but now this person has to pay a VAT, so this is someone who will lose ground. Exhibit B: Someone only receives SNAP. Let's say this person has one kid who is already in school, so there is no need for daycare subsidies. This person was receiving $350/month. He/she will then take the $1000, but will lose $350, so the actual net benefit is only $650. This is why so many on the left have objected to Yang forcing people to choose between their current benefits and his plan.
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  6668.  @xaqbennett  I don't care if he has personal concern. I care about the impact of what he proposes. He said that he ultimately doesn't want anyone to sign up for traditional programs, so unless he cures disability, there will still be a need for those programs, which he wants to wither on the vine.
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  6669.  @xaqbennett  You can say that nobody wants to all you want, but when someone says "the disabled won't benefit from my plan," I take him at his word. When someone says that he wants to ultimately get rid of the existing social safety net by letting it wither on the vine, I believe him. As far as "the perfect being the enemy of the good," never mind that this is often an excuse that I have heard from elected officials who do nothing, the ultimate question is who benefits. If I take your estimate at face value that 70% will benefit, that sounds good at first, but when the 30% that don't are the most vulnerable in society, and those 30% will have to pay a regressive tax to pay for something that won't benefit them, then I think this is a net negative. If it was the 30% who needed help the least who didn't benefit, then that is far different than what you are talking about. As FDR reminded us, society should be judged by how we treat the poorest, not how much the rich get.
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  6670.  @p.chuckmoralesesquire3965  You sound as pathetic as Denis Leary in the Greg Giraldo video.
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  6671. The biggest mistakes we made after the Civil War were not hanging Lee and Davis. Let us not let these traitors off the hook.
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  6672. Terry Bollea made the mistake of thinking that people liking his character means that they like him. Once people saw the man behind the Hulkster, it was all over.
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  6673.  Spok  It was Republicans who were enamored of the Nazionalsozialistarbeitisch Party. They were the ones who tried to tie FDR's hands in dealing with him. And, if they are a creature of the left, why did they sit to the far right in the Reichstag?
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  6674. Well, he did defend the campaign for a long time. It wasn't until after the abortion thing that he turned on Daddy.
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  6675.  @tonyclifton2230  No, she's a grifter because she pretends to support good policies, but she actively works with Republicans to help her personal ambitions and help them win, thus pushing for the exact opposite of what she claims to support.
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  6676. Trying to convince people opposed to Trump to not vote? Get out of here, troll.
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  6677.  @greensquare6235  You know what else we wouldn't have if Hillary was President? Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court. McConnell rapidly filling those circuit court vacancies that he created. Janus v. AFSCME making it harder for workers to organize. Underfunding the federal exchanges and millions losing their health care with millions more having little more than catastrophic care. Oh, yeah, he was so right. Right wing enabling.
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  6678.  @dip.2271  Indeed. One of them thought that it was an example of how great Jimmy's videos are because of the ratio, even though it was over 2:1 like. They don't seem to realize that they're doing Sam a favor.
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  6679.  @TheNextTurn  If we are paid to point out how awful Jimmy Dore is, I wish I knew where the payout line was because I've been doing it for free. Here's a hint, Kasparov: trolls don't usually populate videos of shows they like.
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  6680. Michael said that third parties were useless if you lived in a swing state. The only change on this stance is that Sam can now point out what a grifter Krysal Ball really is.
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  6681.  @pano3607  For me, what ruined the main TYT channel was hearing Cenk make the exact same anti-union arguments any other union buster makes. It was yet another reminder that there is no such thing as an ethical corporation.
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  6682.  @MrMCN1963  Left Reckoning. It's a channel with Dave Griscom formerly of TMBS and Matt.
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  6683. I went to the Mothman Museum with my daughter last summer. A block down is this ice cream place, and their Indrid Cold is very good. It's got a lot of peanut butter themed candy (Reese's cup and pieces) and vanilla ice cream.
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  6684. What did he say was wrong? The Green Party had plenty of chances to fill out the petition correctly, and they could have filed to get their ballot slot timely. Either they are incompetent, or they are grifters. Either way, it is hardly a ringing endorsement.
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  6685.  @thinkhector  No, he went on Tucker Carlson to help Trump win by insisting that there is no difference between the two major parties except that Democrats are somehow worse.
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  6686.  @jarridbarker1128  Literally everything that I mentioned is something that Jimmy Dore told Sam Seder in their debate in 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH_pgiRdm7U So, did you just not know how much your hero embarrased himself, or are you just as dishonest as he is?
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  6687. He's gonna try, but there's only so long that it works. Unfortunately, as Glenn Beck showed us, it doesn't take many rabid followers to keep the grift going.
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  6688. There is a movie called The Second Chance that I think does a much better job of respecting the medium. While the streets aren't completely the gritty stereotype, it does go for realism in telling the story.
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  6689. The irony of all of this looking back is that there was a vacancy, but since McConnell doesn't care about democracy, he didn't get to fill it. That was the moment that I had some dread, because it seemed like the left didn't realize that the stakes basically became Vote Blue No Matter Who in the general.
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  6690. Indeed. That's why, for the long-term health of the country, the worst thing to come out of Watergate wasn't the crime or the cover up, but the pardon. That told the American people that the President of the United States is above the law because it would hurt people's feelings if they ended up voting for a criminal. Everything that followed in terms of Presidential malfeasance is a result of that decision by Gerald Ford.
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  6691.  @krissnow8979  Somebody had to say it. As frustrating as the process is, you have to compare the bill to the status quo, not the ideal of what you want in a perfect world.
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  6692. @Zap Brannigan It is, but the crowd that Ramsey is courting doesn't want to hear that. I remember a conversation I had about 12 years ago with my former pastor's wife. She asked how seminary was going, and I said I liked the classes, but joked that it seemed like there were more things that I realized that I didn't know. Her response: "So, learning too much can be a bad thing, huh?" I tried to gently point out that I was only talking about looking at some of the paradox involved.
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  6693.  @yonghominale8884  Anyone remotely competent would have handled it better. Say what you will about Hillary, but incompetent is not her.
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  6694. How the Northwest corner of Georgia could keep sending someone so awful to Congress is one of life's greatest mysteries.
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  6695. But how do you know that the people who aren't wearing masks are vaccinated?
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  6696. I think a key to understanding Ron Swanson is that, for all his talk about libertarian beliefs, where he ends up on the show, and one remark he makes to Leslie at the end of season five shows that he is a conservationist at heart even above his libertarian ideology. It also helps explain why he took the government job he did, so just maybe he is more disillusioned than anything else and he expressed that by saying that he is a libertarian and doesn't like government at all.
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  6697. The Greens know this, which is why they have served as controlled opposition for 20 years. Nader made it clear that he preferred Bush in 2000, and 10% of his donors in 2000 and 2004 were Republicans. Republicans were behind the Montana Green Party Senate drive, and they were the ones who represented the Greens in their lawsuit after they were too incompetent to fill out the petition drive correctly and too lazy to fill out an affidavit to fix it.
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  6698.  @VMonkies  So true. As a Baptist, we were taught about redemption, but you have to repent in order to be redeemed.
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  6699. Because too many people in this country are anti-left rather than wanting to do anything positive. They see this embarrassment and think, "Yeah, stickin' it to the libs!"
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  6700. Actually, Der Orangefuhrer sent his message on Troth Sential after the motion to vacate failed.
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  6701.  @sprybug  Because a) they're a cult, and b) just like Tulsi, it seems like the supporters of fake lefties can't take it when their chosen candidate gets criticized from the left.
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  6702.  @Brohansifat  So, almost half of Americans were primed for months with the idea that the election was stolen because one of the two major candidates kept insisting that systems that have been in place to a certain extent since at least 1864 were somehow novel and unfair? No! And that when that candidate says that people shouldn't use that system that in several of the key states will count slower that the vast majority of those votes would go against that candidate, giving a false impression that he won? Perish the thought!
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  6703. I don't know, I can't think of any times off the top of my head where Eric has incriminated himself. Would-be Gordon Gekko has done so several times. Tiffany is the smartest of them all because she has avoided the spotlight for the most part. She may be just as horrible as the rest of them, but we don't know.
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  6704.  @Exiled.New.Yorker  It started to become the predominant trend in the 90s as newsrooms saw their budgets slashed, but even Woodward was largely an example of access journalism from the beginning. His most famous investigative act was driven by a contact he made in the FBI at a fancy party.
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  6705.  @Hortatorius  So, what should he have done? Every single time I hear this talk of how Bernie quit after the primary, "he should have fought," but no one with any actual understanding ever has an idea of what he should have actually done.
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  6706.  @Hortatorius  So many words to say nothing. I asked a simple question. What should Bernie have done to fight back after the primary was over? You keep saying that he should have fought, but what did "fighting" look like? If you are going to besmirch someone, you should at least have an idea about what he should have done instead?
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  6707.  @markcastellanet9672  When did she qualify? The list I saw at the end of March didn't have her on it.
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  6708. Did you see the debates and Twitter? Tulsi has given up on the Bernie Band and has jumped on the Biden Bus. She has been quick to defend Uncle Joe, and they were seen talking for about a minute and embracing after the debate.
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  6709.  @kcolonelx6181  This looks like Aaron's sad new strategy.
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  6710.  @Cancellator5000  Indeed. You can't admit that it will fail and then insist that its opponents don't want Medicare for All.
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  6711.  @photoslouis1755  You mean the one where Trump lied every 80 seconds and refused to accept the results of the election? Yes, I did.
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  6712. David was critical of not paying off the highest interest first. Interest costs you money, and paying off high interest debt first saves money.
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  6713.  GazB  Fair enough. Considering that there is an anti-abortion paleocon wing of libertarians, those aren't mutually exclusive.
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  6714. A few years ago, I was a strategist for the opposition to the chief steward in our office who was basically a gay male version of Regina George in terms of personality in the union election. Our office is 70% female, and not understanding that culture at all (only having a younger brother), and I used this movie to help plan our strategy.
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  6715.  @ALIMOHSIN  If anything, they have an extra responsibility for calling Jimmy Dore out because they are the ones who created this monster. The real problem is when people don't know the truth about Jimmy Dore and fall for his lies, which are killing people.
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  6716.  @Zarastro54  Oh, I am not defending his foreign policy takes at all. My only point was that I don't get the "not one of us" impulse solely based on that. He is an honest actor, and he does research to try to back up his positions, even if I don't agree with all of them. Better someone like Pakman than people like Dore.
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  6717. Or, at least force a talking filibuster. They can't keep going forever. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed despite a filibuster.
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  6718.  @AlexSeverinski  That's what I'm wondering. When a recovering crack addict has several 48-hour livestreams, it makes you wonder if he's back on the pipe.
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  6719. So true. I didn't see anything in the demands to force people not to use independent means of funding. At one point, David had a small channel, too.
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  6720. I used to like her until her Never Biden turn and realizing that she spends almost all of her time going after Democrats. It's one thing when you're trying to draw a contrast in a primary, but ignoring Trump is downright dangerous.
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  6721. At first, I thought you were doing a jokey quote attribution to Jesus :-P
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  6722.  @AG-ne3rh  Yes, because deregulation of finance has worked so well.
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  6723. Anybody can "be pure" if you're not even trying to get elected and only want 5% so you can get that sweet, sweet matching funds. If you are trying to win a majority, by definition you have to build a coalition, which means involving people who ideas you don't necessarily like.
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  6724. @icantcomeupwithnames469  And the "pure" candidate is fine with it in Ukraine, so there goes your high horse.
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  6725.  @sw-fast  Because this is a video critical of Stein, and you are defending purity in the face of someone who literally wants to destroy democracy. But, yeah, people will get their chance the next time with the election that either won't happen or will be just for show.
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  6726. ​ @TheMilitantMazdakite  Read "Tulsi Gabbard is Not Your Friend" by Jacobin from 2017. It lays bare a lot of who sje really was the whole time.
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  6727.  @MrCoryde  So, you do go trolling on right-wing channels, too? And as far as your complaints about the two party system, whining about there only being two won't do anything as long as it takes a plurality of votes in a state and a majority of electoral votes to win, where if no one gets over the line, it will go to the House... where it will be decided by Democrats and Republicans.
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  6728.  @T.E.S.S.  Except on days that end with Y ;-)
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  6729.  Illhan Omar's brothers wife  Even if I do, there are always questions of severity.
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  6730.  @maytalcliff9497  Not just anti-M4A, but red baiting that M4A is "un-American" Tulsi.
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  6731.  @sisuguillam5109  Indeed. And that is why Bride of Frankenstein is the far superior movie, and ironically, much closer to the source material.
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  6732.  @twochordcool  The choice between fascism and not fascism is incredibly obvious. As to doing better next time, four years ago you insisted that voting for Trump would wake up the Democratic Party. How did that work out? If you really want to win, you have to do actual work to elect down ballot candidates and people who sit on party committees. Then again, such things actually take time, which involves actual work, which means that a lot of the dum-dums won't ever get what they want.
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  6733.  @dirtbagleftist1688  I'm not the one who used the transitive property to defend her, you are. And Tucker Carlson supported the Iraq War, while Bernie voted against it, so nice try.
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  6734. From rural WV and I agree. Not that I had Klan members down the street, but there was a kid who wore a KKK shirt to school more than once, but now that I live in PA, it seems like people hear my accent and say all kinds of racist things to me (sometimes in hushed tones, sometimes not) because they think I must be cool with it.
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  6735.  @afrodinho  Not all authoritarians are fascist.
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  6736.  @SilverNrGy985  He's a leftist who said that Trump would be preferable for America, and he praises fascists. Anyone who praises him is either an idiot or just as much of a grifter as he is.
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  6737.  @afrodinho  Yeah, and there are a lot of right wingers who want to deny that fascism is theirs, so they manage to get the SEO so the ignorant will fall for it. Fascism has a very specific meaning and very specific characteristics. If you look at the 14 points of fascism as defined by Umberto Eco, Stalin and Castro check anywhere from four to seven depending on how you count. Less than half is not fascist.
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  6738.  @afrodinho  Again, not every authoritarian is a fascist. They have different flavors, and painting them all with the same brush makes it impossible to accurately identify it and how to fight it.
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  6739.  @learntospellpeople  There is no such thing as the Democrat Party. Imagine thinking you owned someone, and you don't even know the difference between a noun and an adjective.
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  6740.  @afrodinho  Yes, Chile is a fascist regime. Again, you are conflating authoritarian regimes with fascism. If you notice, I used the word "authoritarian regimes." And, I know several Iranians, and fascist isn't the word they used. Maybe because they were graduate level and actually understood definitions of word. Again, I posted a link that lists 14 very specific characteristics of fascist regimes. I am not saying that it means right wing authoritarian, because it is once again a subset. If you made a Venn diagram, it would be inside, but it would not occupy the same space. If you meet a few of the criteria, you're probably not a fascist, but a different strain of authoritarian. You probably think that if someone has breast cancer, that person also has prostate cancer. I am from the United States. I learned that you don't insist that the second definition (that also says "colloquial" is not the definition that is accurate when plenty of people keep telling you that it's not) os correct when it is not the formal one. Do you think it's accurate when people use "literally" when they mean "figuratively," even though it is literally the exact opposite? Or is that a bridge too far?
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  6741. ​ @gerricklovenstein8505  Tell me the body count between the two, again.
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  6742. The real reason why the abortion debate will never truly be settled and why there really isn't a middle ground is because the abortion debate really isn't about abortion. It is about when life begins and bodily autonomy. As long as the anti-abortion crowd believes what they do about the fetus, it will always be in dispute.
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  6743.  @taochiapet  Fair enough. That may be the most unsaid thing of all.
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  6744.  @TerrariaGolem  Agreed. I keep hearing people say no to Harris because Kamala is a Cop, but where are the people saying no to Warren because Warren is a Corporate Bankruptcy Lawyer?
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  6745. @Jason MacNeil You're contradicting your own candidate's rationale for his plan. You see it as a middle class welfare program, but he says that it's to help people weather the storm of automation. $12,000/year won't be nearly enough to replace a middle class income. You seem to keep missing the point that I am making. Why not let everyone get the full $1000/month? His is a version of the libertarian UBI that ultimately wants to replace existing programs, and it sounds like that is where you are going. He's not a Presidential candidate, but Robert Reich proposed a far superior version that is actually universal. Taxing workers because you are afraid of not being able to collect from the rich isn't courage and it doesn't address wealth and income inequality other than salving a plutocrat's conscience. Yang opposes increasing the minimum wage, he prefers the public option to Medicare for All, and he is opposed to paying college tuition and proposed a steep repayment for college loans that most people would struggle with. We can do a lot better. A lot better.
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  6746. "I own a business that creates legitimate revenue." Said by no legitimate business person ever
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  6747.  @sandrafrancisco  The instant Russia says that the five Ukrainian territories they claim are nonnegotiable, any negotiations are futile.
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  6748.  @Zora87Peace  Indeed. If I think someone is doing a good job, I should be allowed to keep that person. Saying that Evil Turtle or Lindsey Graham can't run again doesn't stop the people from voting for someone just like them, but it does arbitrarily force people like Bernie to retire or AOC to retire in her early 40s.
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  6749. Stuff like this just makes it easier for people to give up. Maybe try to help him win instead of peddling conspiracy theories.
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  6750.  The Beauty Verdict  Bernie has been talking about these things long before her teaching days.
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  6751.  @yo-nq9wr  What was confirmed? Who was confirmed?
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  6752. He can, because there is no way that Blue and White will pass the immunity bill that Netanyahu is trying to push.
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  6753.  @kevinbailey8827  You Musk fanboys are just sad.
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  6754.  @jmilber  Or, just maybe, they don't want to find a pale imitation and picked the person they thought was best for the job. No one sounded the same with any of the characters Jim Henson did after he died, either.
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  6755. ​ @VarmilMorr  Spandau Ballet is another.
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  6756. Look at the endorsements. The establishment has tried to coalesce around Lamb, but he's not catching on. Something about a candidate trying to say that we shouldn't try to do much has rubbed Pennsylvania voters the wrong way.
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  6757.  @maestrojo  Probably because they know there are more of us than there are of them.
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  6758.  @holya69  Funny how you're not able to refute it.
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  6759. There may be some at the local level where party labels aren't as descriptive because pretty much everyone is in one party, that that's about it.
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  6760. Someone get PV on the case!
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  6761.  @halbouma6720  How was he a spoiler again? How many votes did he take away from Hillary in the general election again? Oh, that's right! He ran in the primary so he wouldn't do that.
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  6762. "No one's ever done this before." Face of Meth poster: exists
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  6763.  @soulknife20  That is funny on so many levels.
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  6764.  @TimezUp23  Funny how you swear up and down that you have done the right thing, but you sure are spending a lot of time defending people who do the wrong thing. The point is not just about the Me, but about the We. I want this disease over and done with. You want to wallow in it because free-dumb.
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  6765. This veteran of the second Gulf War has a question: They don't have absentee voting in your state?
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  6766. I think it all depends. I get that not everyone can do everything, but sometimes people think that just watching or making comments is doing the necessary work. Even if it's just talking to friends and family, that's still doing something.
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  6767.  @TheFamousMockingbird  Indeed. Finally, people are waking up to the fact that there is a difference between someone saying Slow Down who's in a state that is R +39, compared to someone in a state that Biden won with another Democratic Senator who is already on board.
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  6768. What's going on? She is exactly who lots of us tried to warn the tulcels who she really is.
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  6769. The biggest irony is how many people insist that her father, one John Sidney McCain III, got where he did on merit, and the apple fell far from the tree. Well, he was a legacy admission to the Naval Academy (whose father and grandfather were admirals), graduated next to last in his class, and crashed five planes. And he is the one who told his captors that his father was the commander of the Pacific fleet (which is why he got the offer to go home early), far more than name, rank, and serial number. Oh, and he made it to captain. Nothing to sneeze at, but not an admiral. So, it looks like he also got where he was because "John McCain is my father." The only difference is that he was smart enough not to constantly say it, and he at least accomplished things other than being the child of his father.
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  6770. Says the person defending someone who immediately went to an anti-Semitic dog whistle.
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  6771. I once did the math. Adding employer contribution and mine, 31% of my income went to health insurance where I have to pay premiums. And this was before the HMO changed and I had to opt for a more expensive plan to keep my daughter in network (now, it's 32.01%). And I have to pay out of pocket when I go to the doctor. Would I pay 4% in payroll taxes (compared to 4.41% I pay now for my share of insurance premiums) and 7% for my employer (compared to the 27.6% they pay now)? Absolutely! Why, my union might even be able to use that fact to negotiate me a raise.
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  6772.  Arlando Little  I currently pay 4.41% of my income in insurance premiums, and I still have to pay co-pays and deductibles. Under Bernie's plan, that would be 1.58% with no costs at the point of service. Workplace Democracy requires employers to pass on the savings from Medicare for All to the worker. For me, that's $359 every other week. Would I rather pay the tax than the premium? You bet, I would!
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  6773.  @LD-tn6ff  Then, why does the board make six figures and get 50% of the vote? They aren't 50% of the membership.
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  6774.  Viewer Discretion Is a Myth  What is impressive about Buttigieg? He did such a good job in South Bend that his vote plummeted from 2011 to 2015. He is suddenly learning about problems like school segregation on his way out the door. He faked the endorsement of black SC voters. He said when he started his campaign that Medicare for All is the compromise position with NHS being the true left stance, and now he is using Republican talking points on Medicare for All and free public college or trade schools, even though he benefited from the elite system. He is a joke.
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  6775.  Viewer Discretion Is a Myth  If Buttigieg is accomplished, what has he actually accomplished?
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  6776.  Arlando Little  It used to be that manufacturing was considered the unskilled work that paid the least. Now, it is the highest-paid blue collar work around. If you are fine with companies paying starvation wages, and with wages stagnating overall for 40 years, have it, but I am holding out for something better.
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  6777.  Flightof2Owls  At this point, I think that people like Armando are proof of the idea that if someone else makes a little less than they do, they will insist that those even higher somehow deserve it, too. I remember hearing a conservative defend a flat tax with the idea that by working hard and making $30,000/year, he shouldn't be "punished" and pointed to someone on welfare, not realizing that he was in the bottom tax bracket, anyway.
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  6778.  Arlando Little  So, unless people are homeless or don't have heat, they aren't "really poor"? Having an apartment is hardly the lap of luxury.
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  6779. Maybe Newtie believes in charity so much because he was such a deadbeat dad that his first wife had to collect charity when he refused to pay child support.
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  6780. Then why did he completely ignore the question in both languages? It was about what the top marginal tax rate should be.
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  6781. I guess he doesn't have "a lot of caysh" after all.
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  6782. They hate the same people.
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  6783.  @meafrenchie7143  People voted for Biden because accelerationism is a lie. People don't dare to dream when someone truly awful takes over. They just want to get rid of the awful, and they get fed stories that they need a "safe" choice. That being said, when the general election comes, one of only two candidates is going to win the election, and if you insist on purity, you end up getting nothing. See: the 20 year Green/Republican alliance.
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  6784.  @leeblount7046  Look at corporate welfare, and look up the Two Santa Claus Theory. Republicans intentionally run up deficits when they take power and then complain about deficits when Democrats take over. I am 41, and literally the only federal balanced budgets of my lifetime occurred after tax cuts for the rich and scaling back increases in defense spending.
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  6785.  @meafrenchie7143  You mean Iran/Contra? I don't know his exact age, but he's old enough to be a Vietnam veteran. Some people care more about symbols than they do about substance. I still don't understand the need for people to put a flag pin on their lapels.
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  6786. As a Philly resident, this knob does not speak for us. Over 80% of the city did the right thing in the general election.
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  6787.  @Jakkujedi  Uplifting is one thing, but don't look for something that literally ruined thousands of masks that people could have used for uplift. Like the other poster said, why not take those masks to the people? Then, you have a feel good story that actually helps people instead of looking like Marie Antoinette.
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  6788. That was the penalty for not complying with the mandate. That said, I would far rather she actually have some guts like Bernie and say, "Yes, taxes will go up, but you're not paying premiums, deductibles, or co-pays anymore." A part of me is reminded of how Vermont screwed themselves because they weren't upfront about costs.
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  6789.  @Sinleqeunnini  Indeed. He has said that he was wrong, but Steve Schmidt went from saying that he couldn't be a Republican because they abandoned their principles and then did some grift for Howard Schultz. Stevens seems sincere, but I wouldn't trust Schmidt as far as I could throw him.
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  6790.  @shihyuchu6753  Tell them what?
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  6791.  @Gerryjournal  They aren't tax exempt from a church. It is because they are a 501(c)(3). If they violate those rules, they can, and often do, lose their status, either temporarily or permanently.
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  6792.  @ryancroy  Are you really comparing what dozens of people have come up with about one person to one person who does it to just about everyone he has a disagreement with?
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  6793. *Three million
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  6794.  beanie0112  How long is it going to take for that to happen? In 2000, there was actual mathematical evidence that Nader voters made Florida (and the election) close enough to steal. We got Kerry. If we get Biden, we are getting someone even worse than Hillary. If RBG dies before Trump leaves office, that makes Gorsuch the "swing vote," which means that anything good that President AOC or anyone else can get through Congress will be overturned. This strategy has been tried TWICE, so at this point you are sounding like the Underpants Gnomes: Step One: Throw election to Republicans Step Two: ? Step Three: Leftist utopia
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  6795.  @xamislimelight8965  Normally, yes, but they're not doing it in an interesting way. It's basically "Oz is a liberal RINO," "McCormick did business with China." And they run the same three or four ads over and over again, just in case you missed it during the last commercial break.
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  6796.  @COINsimp2024  You mean after four terms as mayor, and one term as lieutenant governor under a governor who is term limited? Oh, yes, those are really itchy feet. It has been pretty obvious that Shapiro was going to run for governor once Wolf's term was over, so Senate was really all that was left.
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  6797.  @dlancer2k  Warren took dark money for her entire Senate career, and she rolled over $10MM that she didn't need for her re-election as seed money, and she has said that she will take it in the general. Bernie has never taken it, and he has said that he never will. His track record makes his promise believable, and sadly so does her promise of being bought.
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  6798.  @krisalis709  You wanna know how you avoid letting them exploit the loophole? Get rid of the loophole. Again, Amazon won't pay the VAT. The customer will.
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  6799.  @bluesrockfan36  He specifically wanted his program to gut the existing social safety net, and he told Dana Bash that he named his health care plan Medicare for All, even when it wasn't even a public option, just because the name was popular.
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  6800.  @bluesrockfan36  If he didn't want to gut the social safety net, why did he tell Dave Rubin that was his goal? If he was really about post-work, why did he tell Ben Shapiro that he specifically designed it to be below the poverty level to force people to work? If the Freedom with 125 Strings Attached Dividend is a right of citizenship, why do the poor and disabled have to give up what they get now while the rich get to keep all of their loopholes, and why pay for it with a regressive tax? Just because you say it's true doesn't mean it is.
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  6801.  @bluesrockfan36  You know why I come back? Because Vanguard, I mean Yang, keeps poking his head up and telling his lies. As long as the lies survive, I and others like me who eventually saw the truth will be doing our part to remind people what the lies are.
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  6802. Well, our resident troll has come aboard, so now is the test for the people swarming to want the Marianne Williamson interview. Do you go with the troll, or do you use a little bit of strategy?
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  6803.  @taragnor  She actually started as a frequent guest on Fox, who came on the air to complain that Obama didn't badmouth Muslims enough.
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  6804.  @andyjones7514  The person you're replying to is either lying or ignorant.
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  6805.  @truebeliever786  I don't remember him going to the Senate to advocate for war against Iraq in 2002 (he was a has-been at that point, and he didn't make his comeback until near the end of the decade), but I do remember him going to the House in 2015 to complain about the Iran nuclear deal, complete with a poster of a cartoon bomb.
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  6806.  @truebeliever786  Thank you for posting that. Except for saying Saddam Hussein, it's amazing just how much it could have fit in his Iran speech.
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  6807.  @White_Oak_  No, a general idea would be "we'll use payroll tax." The entire funding mechanism for the current Medicare system is 1.45% employer employee payroll tax each. Just because he decided not use a Rube Goldberg device to pay for it doesn't mean that it isn't a plan.
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  6808.  @cheyennetapiasmith9056  How big do you have to be to lose 100 pounds and nobody notices?
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  6809.  @vashtanerata1799  Nothing would surprise me. However, I think that a lot of those who act that way are Yang's true base who agree with his philosophy: libertarians. Good luck dealing with those people who believe the same thing on Wednesday that they did on Monday regardless of what happened on Tuesday. In another thread, someone said that he would do the most good running as a Republican to try to pull them in a different direction. Cody Johnston of Some More News made the same argument about Biden, saying that a 1970s Republican is better than this variety.
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  6810.  @donHooligan  Biden would be worse than Trump based on what? Biden would not have ignored the coronavirus, he wouldn't have pulled out of the Paris Climate Accord and the Iran nuclear deal, and he would have appointed people better than Gorsuch and Kavanaugh to the bench.
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  6811.  @coreydw1  Well, we didn't have a Great Depression ten years ago, and we still have an American auto industry. I'd say those things benefited. While the ACA wasn't ideal, it was definitely an improvement.
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  6812.  @blazedones  No, she didn't correct her view, and she didn't apologize. She said that she would oppose torture because the study showed that it didn't work, never mind the fact that there were studies before that showing the exact same thing. I am supporting a candidate who never invoked 24 to justify torture.
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  6813.  @davidm1926  She apologized for her position on gay rights, and it certainly seemed sincere to me, so the only reason that she can't do it on torture is that she doesn't think she said anything wrong.
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  6814.  @blazedones  She never said that it is morally wrong in all situations, it is a war crime, and she was wrong to even suggest that it might ever be acceptable. I saw the interview, and (after Jimmy's flippant response of trying to "get it out of the way" and breathing a sigh of relief after her initial no without explanation, that doesn't show that he was an honest broker on that question and just wanted to hear the magic phrase) she insisted that she was being misrepresented, because who are we going to believe, her or our lying eyes and ears? On Status Coup, she said that she hadn't yet read a 2014 report that said it didn't work. On this issue, there can be no equivocation. Since her statements as to why she now says she opposes it all have to do with its efficacy, that tells me that another report might get her to change her mind yet again on torture, so until she apologizes for the 2014 interview rather than dismissing it, and opposes torture on moral grounds, I will not trust her on torture.
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  6815.  @debi1451  And if you're someone he likes, he will look over every possible slight to crown you as the One True Lefty, even if you are to the right of every candidate not named Michael Bloomberg because you are young and pretty and willing to go on his show.
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  6816.  @alexanderthered5603  Well, then we need to figure out how wrongful death lawsuits against someone acquitted plays into this. According to the law, he is not guilty, but he is liable (or, as Dave Chappelle put it through a white woman singing, "OJ didn't do it... Yeah, he probably did it"), which seems like a mixed message to me. My point as far as the burden of proof is that the vote isn't for guilty or innocence, but whether or not the state is able to prove guilt. The state didn't prove guilt, and the defense didn't prove his innocence, either.
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  6817. It couldn't happen here.
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  6818.  Theshadow Knows  He wouldn't? I guess you missed that whole eye of the needle thing in Matthew 19.
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  6819.  @Zetirix  You mean the thing that Mexico was going to pay for? Try again.
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  6820. Let's face it, while Cenk has made some good hires, when he misses, it is BAD.
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  6821.  @wallstreetwoes431  "common," shall I copy and paste the definition for you?
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  6822. I thought my phone was acting up and giving me old news alerts.
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  6823.  @seanpatrick1243  He already came out... as an M&M fetishist.
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  6824.  @seanpatrick1243  Well, after getting them in an MRE packet in Kuwait, I can assure that "melts in your mouth, not on your hand" is a lie. As hot and bothered as they get Tucker, probably his hands.
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  6825.  @renelink1402  Why would McCarthy blow up his spot like that by risking the wrath of the Trump cult?
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  6826.  john Doe  What is the middle ground on international child kidnapping, just kidnap a few kids? What's the middle ground on people dying for lack of health insurance, letting fewer people die from a lack of health insurance? What is the middle ground on civil rights and voting rights?
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  6827.  @miker.9138  Well, those numbers (which are mostly Obama nostalgia) are starting to drop, and once people start to hear his "No, we can't!" in the debates, the lead will be gone.
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  6828.  john Doe  Defending Nazis is false? Donald Trump himself said there were "fine people on both sides" of a rally organized by neo-Nazis. When I am somewhere I can more easily look up the links of the ways Republicans demonize the poor, I will post plenty to give you more than enough to look over and if you are the least bit honest, you will see a pattern emerging.
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  6829. @Pack -A- Punch Some people don't really want to accomplish anything and are only happy when they're complaining.
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  6830.  @garyhicks9506  Well, that's a regular Catch-22, isn't it? You have to fix that in order to make the rest happen.
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  6831.  @kevinchristensen7510  If you are being sarcastic, how much pushback do you think Bernie would get?
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  6832.  @matthewrobinson7379  Oh, I have known some fundamentalists like that in my day, which reminds me of a joke. Peter was taking someone through the pearly gates of heaven. Soon, they come to a building, and Peter says, "These are the Baptists. Make sure to be quiet as we pass by." Then, he comes to another building, and says, "These are the Methodists. Make sure to be quiet as we pass by." Then, he comes to another building, and says, "These are the Presbyterians. Make sure to be quiet as we pass by." Finally, the guy asks him why he keeps telling him not to say anything, and Peter says, "Because they think they're the only ones here."
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  6833.  @john.premose  Indeed. The one that comes to mind for me is Steve Bannon.
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  6834.  @john.premose  At this rate, I'd be surprised if he has another five years left
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  6835. The Warren proposal is the textbook definition of too clever for your own good.
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  6836. I thought it was pretty good. It also lasts longer. They do take some getting used to, though, because they keep your head higher than regular pillows.
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  6837. Indeed. You have to get... that staccato... to really nail it. The best I've ever heard to this day is Donald Glover talking about Obama not being able to use certain slang.
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  6838.  MidScream1  You're an insensitive jerk who wants the poor to die to reduce the surplus population?
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  6839. That'll really make for an environmental future. /s
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  6840.  @1981lashlarue  Lots of people agree to deals when someone has them over a barrel. It doesn't make the deal any less underhanded.
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  6841.  @whyamimrpink78  Gee, what a shock. You are trying to justify the killing of someone. The point wasn't some ridiculous argument that no one can call Chauvin a killer but that the defense attorney can't lie to make his argument. Chauvin kept his knee in Floyd's neck for three minutes after finding out that there was not pulse. He kept paramedics from responding. You don't do things like that unless you are making sure someone is dead.
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  6842.  @whyamimrpink78  Question: if you shoot someone who turned out to have terminal cancer, does that automatically mean that you are not guilty of murder?
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  6843.  @chazmcgooski83  It depends on what we are talking about. Can individuals build roads? Fund schools?
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  6844.  @chazmcgooski83  So, you can build roads? Schools? Hospitals? Margaret Thatcher was wrong. Society is a thing.
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  6845.  @paulscountry456  Yes. God forbid someone pantomime something several inches away from someone else. What a capital offense!
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  6846. ​ @jocksharerock7318  Yes! Somebody gets it. It's not like Kentucky will suddenly elect the next Bernie Sanders if Evil Turtle was forced to retire. "The fault lies not in our stars, but ourselves."
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  6847.  @zetectic7968  You are aware that US Senate seats are elected statewide and gerrymandering plays no role, right? I swear, the lazy takes! If people don't know what gerrymandering is (favorable drawing of legislative districts), maybe they should learn.
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  6848.  @zetectic7968  Oh, since you have a defender below who insists that I was being unfair in my earlier response to you not understanding that gerrymandering has nothing to do with a statewide election, I thought I'd go back and see if I really was, I thought I'd look at your reply again, and I was wrong. It showed two bits if ignorance rather than one. In my rush to point out that gerrymandering has nothing to do with the US Senate, I missed your statement that incumbents don't lose. How could I have missed the obvious response that Ron Johnson won the seat by defeating an incumbent, so once again, the voters are not off the hook for giving that moron a third term. Apparently, you think that people are automatons who don't have agency and just vote for incumbents, when incumbents can and do lose.
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  6849.  @MZBS639  Then, recruit better people instead of forcing us to arbitrarily get rid of good ones. In states that have legislative term limits, the power shifts to lobbyists and unelected staffers. Is that what you really want?
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  6850.  @KhurtKhave669  So much for removing the stigma of receiving government benefits.
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  6851.  @coreyander286  It is not UBI. Andrew Yang has this annoying habit of using words that don't really mean what he says they do. Universal (adj) Of, affecting, or done by all people or things in the world or in a particular group; applicable to all cases It clearly does not apply to all. If you are already poor or disabled, no more help for you. Also, it is not inherently redistributionist. If it is paid for by a regressive tax (VAT) and not truly universal (i.e., the neediest in society either don't qualify or won't benefit because he refuses to give it to them), it will actually make them worse off than before. There is left UBI and right UBI, except his is even worse than the standard right UBI because he doesn't let everyone have it. Why is receiving SSI or SNAP or any number of programs for the poor disqualifying, but receiving tens of thousands in tax breaks that favors rich people not disqualifying? As far as bringing right wingers along, your tag team partner above isn't helping your argunent that that is a good thing.
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  6852.  @saiyanduckk  If the poor and disabled don't benefit, it is not universal, and you need to be honest and admit that. This is being touted as a way to make it easier for people displaced by automation so they don't have to worry about work. Who can live off of $1000/month unless you are in an economically depressed area where you can rent a decent apartment for under $400/month? If it is for helping those people, it needs to be far more generous. Instead, it looks like a welfare program for the middle class. And it will cause rent to go up, because landlords will say, "You have more money, so I will raise your rent." If not everyone gets it, the poor and disabled will be in a worse position than before.
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  6853.  @jeffgojail  A lifelong supporter with a lifetime D- rating from the NRA. We will never win rural America if you keep treating Bernie like he's Ted Nugent.
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  6854. It was originally supposed to have a different punchline. The questioner changed tactics when he heard about the fundraiser, so they only let it in because of Biden's hubris and inability to understand irony.
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  6855. My graduating class in high school was 129, so that's a little more than half.
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  6856.  @garysmokesmeat  Apparently, you are completely unfamiliar with the failson concept. Even if you grant that every rich person truly is skilled and not just a product of their wealth (btw, if Trump had simply sold his shares in his father's company in 1982, he'd be worth twice as much as his inflated wealth statements today if he just invested in an index fund), the parents do everything they can to perpetuate advantages for their children so they can build those skills. Options that most of us don't have.
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  6857.  @garysmokesmeat  And the most common reason for divorce is financial disputes. Just maybe if we would try to actively help people instead of resort to Social Darwinism, fewer families would end up getting divorced.
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  6858.  @garysmokesmeat  No, you're not. You're against anything that actually helps people, because you have this notion of "force" that somehow only involves making the rich people pay a percentage of the spoils of what they got from society but never includes those same rich people working together to keep wages and benefits down. Your version of "freedom" invariably leads to feudalism.
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  6859.  @garysmokesmeat  You don't want the workers to get what we earn. If you did, you wouldn't be complaining about people getting benefits, you would be demanding the right to organize. Funny how libertarians consider trusts the right to assemble but unions a severe violation of freedom.
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  6860.  @idkdk569  And stomping your feet and saying No to everything is?
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  6861.  @jocksharerock7318  Thank you. I remember a couple years ago coming back from a canvassing event with DSA to help Bernie on the day that AOC made her endorsement official. (I didn't have my daughter with me, but she came to future events where they had people there to watch small children. At the last big one before coronavirus, Krystal Ball came to Philadelphia. I still keep the picture and the autographed book I got as a reminder to dig deeper when looking at people who say they're with us.) Bernie said something that I thought was beautiful: look to your left and your right, and if we are willing to do something to help them that we might not see, then we will get the world we want. It just seems like that went out the window with some. I'm still active, but I focus more of my effort on my union and on local races. A friend from Labor for Bernie is running for State Senate whose primary opponent is the Voucher/Charter King in PA, and my daughter thinks the world of him, so we're both excited to help him out.
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  6862. 9:56 In all honesty, I was surprised it was that low.
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  6863. Well, Bernie did get the most important foreign policy question of this century (war in Iraq) right, so it's not like he was ever a dummy on foreign policy.
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  6864. @Gioachino Rossini That, and there was a point when Republicans were sane, and there is still a lot of brand loyalty.
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  6865. Well, I would argue that the Reagan era ended in 2008. The problem is that Obama couldn't give a new vision to make it happen because he accepted too much of the old. Dealigning elections tend to mean a period of instability, when you look at the ones that we have had in American history: 1840, 1876, 1968, 2008. Until something comes along that can lay a new foundation, bad things are going to keep happening.
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  6866.  @jonsmith9838  That makes her Bernie's most dangerous primary opponent, to be sure, but we have to acknowledge what we are facing.
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  6867.  @adot9259  This is not to say that Bernie will get everything he wants, but Negotiation 101 says that you ask for more than you want, not less. Obama already gave the compromise before he started, because that was "the most he could get." Well, maybe if he had started with Medicare for All, he made have had to settle for a public option, rather than the Republican alternative to Hillarycare that Bill said didn't go far enough. If you want a dollar, you don't ask for a quarter.
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  6868.  @adot9259  It is true that it won't be easy, but Bernie realizes that it will take mobilization to pressure those who need to be persuaded. Warren seems more likely to say that it is impossible and go with a watered-down proposal that will inspire no one.
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  6869. Susan Collins's mouth: It isn't the same thing. What she didn't say: ...because he isn't a Republican, and I know I have to suck up to the right to keep my job.
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  6870. ​ @des-trina  No, he just tells them what they want to hear and then does the bidding of his corporate overlords once he gets power.
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  6871. Darn right! When my daughter was born, I had to use a combination of family sick leave (which is limited to five days a year, and going with my then wife to her prenatal appointments ate up a lot of those) and vacation time, plus the fact that my daughter was born close to a four-day weekend for Thanksgiving, to cobble together two weeks of paid leave. My then wife took nine weeks of unpaid leave, so the pressure was immense. Even if she had just gotten 3/4 pay, that would have made a huge difference.
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  6872.  @whensomethingcriesagain  It would, but it's not very likely to actually happen.
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  6873.  @jackofften  I don't think that he ever thought he'd win in 2016. He just wanted to start Trump TV to rake in the bucks.
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  6874.  @dontreply8346  I'm not sure, but that would make a lot of sense. I have tangled with the Yang Gang bangers many times, and they seem incapable of understanding lefty objections to his proposal. Eventually, some of them will show their right wing biases if you get them off their talking points.
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  6875.  @brainkiller7503  What person?
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  6876. Wages have gone up as well. Things aren't as good as they should be, but they're much better than they were for the rest of us.
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  6877.  @baconsoup8346  "Val Demmings was running a winnable election, too." Based on what? She lost by nearly 20 points. A ground game can't make up that. Ryan lost by 7, Beasley lost by 4, and Barnes lost by 1. Those are winnable races that should have been first priority.
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  6878. It does, but I take comfort in the fact that he gets to push the agenda where he is just fine. Considering the sabotage Biden got from the Blue Dogs, couldn't you imagine what Bernie would have gotten? We're talking Corbyn levels of getting screwed over.
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  6879. Gold is not an investment. It is just a bet against the government. The fact that people call precious metals an investment shows they don't understand what an investment is. You invest because something will grow. If you buy stock in 10% of a company, and that company grows, that is an investment. An ounce of gold is an ounce of gold is an ounce of gold. What you are doing is price speculation. And anyone with eyes could see a bubble, but not for the reasons your beloved Schiff suggested. When the price to earnings ratio is already higher than during the peak of the dotcom period, and you do things to inflate without addressing fundamentals, of course there is a bubble.
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  6880.  @jaelynn7575  You mean the way he covered her support of human rights violators in India, Egypt, and Syria? Or when he said that he didn't care what happened in India?
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  6881.  @ModernSocialist  So true. I am not usually a fan of Vaush (it's not that he makes awful points, but I'm not a fan of the format of the long-form improvisation that he is so fond of), but if I see that he has a new video taking down this scam, I will click every time.
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  6882. This is why I get so mad when people insist that the primary was stolen from Bernie. If you buy into these conspiracy theories, you don't have to get better.
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  6883.  @shuheihisagi6689  But it's not just emphasizing different things. It's saying contradictory things. Either a UBI is supposed to make a post-work economy possible (when I pointed out how low it was, Yang Gang bangers would insist that it would get bigger to make it so) or it's purposely stingy in order to force people to keep working. It can't be both. Therefore, he was clearly lying to one group. How is Biden better? 1) He's not a libertarian wolf in leftist clothing who wants to destroy the existing social safety net. 2) He has increased taxes on the rich and voted to raise the minimum wage, both things Yang opposes. 3) He hasn't tried to normalize regressive taxes as a lefty thing. 4) He has actually said things supportive of unions. Therefore, Yang is worse than Biden.
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  6884.  @effortist  and that is why we keep losing a state that from 1932-96 voted Democratic more than any other. To the extent that education is a problem, it doesn't help that the only decent job for most people doesn't require am education. Maybe if you invest in education and infrastructure, you'll find out that you are confusing opportunity with capability.
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  6885. I'd like to know where the healthcare went for all those campaign workers who he promised to insure through 2020 win or lose. #YouCanAffordItMike
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  6886.  @Zach-ju5vi  I've read Millionaire Next Door, and you are confusing frugal with cheap. If I buy a $50 pair of shoes that wears out in three months, I am in a worse condition than if I buy $100 shoes that last a year. As wealth inequality has grown, the rungs have gotten farther apart, which makes a lot of what it describes obsolete.
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  6887.  @FletchforFreedom  "the 'stagnation" myth having been endlessly debunked" [citation needed]
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  6888.  @FletchforFreedom  When people ask, I always give the exact title because, depending on how sensitive the search engine, stuff might not show up.
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  6889.  @anti-socialprogramming2203  Repeating a slogan doesn't explain how it works.
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  6890.  @bioactivevirus  No extra money and having to pay a 10% sales tax for something they won't get sounds to me like something that will hurt them.
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  6891.  @brothersandsistersofvalhalla  Some people are meant to show the way, and others are meant to help people get through the door. Besides, a lot of Bernie's accomplishments have been much quieter, because he cares far more about helping people than getting the glory. Why else do you think that he was known as the Amendment King, and several people in both parties admitted that he let them take the credit for amendments?
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  6892. McConnell only real cares about three things: tax cuts, judicial nominees, and holding power. He is content to let the world burn as long as he gets those three things. It's easier to block everything than it is to actually get something constructive done. That is McConnell's secret. Did you ever notice how little legislation actually got passed when he was Majority Leader?
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  6893. 9:26 All "right-wing populists" are fake populists.
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  6894.  @thomasgrabkowski8283  By 1982, there were only 13 billionaires in this country. There weren't any to leave. And if they do? Let them go Galt. They need us more than we need them.
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  6895.  Lynette Agueda  Darn right! My uncle got polio and couldn't walk until he was five. I am so sick if these flat earthers who will let others die rather than admit that Dear Leader was wrong.
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  6896.  @davidbeaulieu4815  Yes! And this is why rights are better than choice.
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  6897.  @homeostasisrestored4385  Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote an interesting book about that subject. You should check out "The Cost of Discipleship" someday. It is an amazing read from someone who took the red letters seriously.
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  6898.  @superchunk100macmufie7  Yeah, millions have died from something "not as bad as told." I've had the flu (the last time was 15 years ago), and I didn't have issues where I couldn't climb stairs six months after I was "recovered" or still had trouble breathing. Just because you got lucky doesn't mean that others will, too.
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  6899.  @superchunk100macmufie7  I would say to keep telling yourself that, but your stupidity is killing other people.
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  6900.  markmac  To use an analogy, there is a reason why Barney never became the sheriff. Being a good number two is a good skill to have, but it doesn't necessarily translate.
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  6901.  @RevYars  He can't pardon himself for state charges, and Letita James and Cy Vance have some coming down the pike.
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  6902.  @lauraly2712  No other country allows it? [Citation needed]
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  6903.  @lauraly2712  Well, maybe if the Republicans in the Legislature would have worked with Wolf to allow mail-in votes to be counted once they are received, we wouldn't have been in this situation in the first place. And the reason for allowing the three days is because of the increased mail volume and the Postmaster General slowing down delivery. And the "preventing outside poll watchers" is simply false. There are rules for who gets to be a poll watcher and a certification process. This is just trying to work the ref to try to get a favorable result that the voters rejected.
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  6904.  @lauraly2712  And your statement about the integrity of elections is especially rich since you are running interference for someone who wants to stop counting in places where he is ahead and keep counting where he is behind. I want to count every vote. I'm not trying to say that Arizona or Nevada needs to stop, because I actually support democracy.
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  6905.  @lauraly2712  Yeah, considering how much lack of knowledge you are displaying about elections here, I am calling BS on your credentials.
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  6906.  @lauraly2712  Well, now I know you're lying. There are groups sent in, and they don't just pick people randomly. I am saying that you were never an international poll monitor because you have proven yourself to he uninformed about ballot laws. When we ask for evidence, you just repeat something from the right wing echo chamber about poll watchers that is verifiably false. The only thing that has been at question is how close poll watchers have to be. Any statement otherwise is false, and either you are lying, or you are speaking from a place of ignorance.
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  6907.  @lauraly2712  [citation needed]
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  6908.  @lauraly2712  "You can believe anything on the Internet." Abraham Lincoln This sounds like someone who knows how ridiculous it is and don't want to expose it to the light of day.
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  6909.  @lauraly2712  R/whoosh "What's the matter, can't you tell sarcasm when you see it?" A Charlie Brown Christmas Joke fake Abraham Lincoln comments have been going around the Internet for at least 15 years. Would it have worked better if I found the video of the State Farm commercial where the woman says that you can believe whatever you read on the Internet and shows off her "French model" boyfriend who then says "uh... bonjour" to make my point?
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  6910.  @lauraly2712  The irony of your post is astounding. You call other people parrots, but the only evidence you have ever given besides lying about being an international election observer is to say "it's on the Internet." Well, actual thinking people look at the evidence and aren't ashamed of what it actually says. If you were really confident in your analysis, you would show your data.
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  6911. Fossil fuels are hundreds of millions of years old, so that line works on multiple levels.
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  6912.  @thehappyclam3942  Who controls the House calendar? Do you realize that if anyone could submit a bill at any time, and it had to be debated immediately, nothing would ever get done, because obstructionists would just write a new bill? This is your brain on Dore.
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  6913. And, even if you are content for them to die, they'll kill other people in the process, so that's a hard pass.
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  6914. Does anyone know what they are chanting?
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  6915. Thank you! It is incredibly frustrating when so many people don't seem to understand that those of us who object to his version insist that there is a left UBI, and a right UBI, and while they may look similar in some details, it is their impact on the rest of the existing social safety net that determines which one is which.
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  6916.  @meekinheritor2171  And it got repealed by an amendment.
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  6917. ​ @annediaz152  And he wrote it.
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  6918.  @VitruvianEngineer  His fanboys think that he actually does things, when all he does is yell and distract.
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  6919.  @russhall1414  What have you personally done to move the needle on Medicare for All?
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  6920.  @russhall1414  You are aware that there is a list of cosponsors, right? You can start there. Let's just follow your logic. Let's say that this vote gets held and 60 Democrats vote for Medicare for All. Where do we have the resources and the network to primary 160 incumbents in a way that needs to be done? There is a reason why you make strategic choices. Anyone who thinks that you can get them all in one fell swoop is an idiot. Try to keep up.
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  6921.  @russhall1414  Of Jimmy Dore has great ideas on getting things done, why doesn't he ever get things done?
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  6922.  @loulfw2513  It shows a picture of Vilsack, and news has already come out that her hearing was postponed. Not misleading at all, especially considering that Manchin is already on record opposing Tanden.
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  6923. Right to work for less
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  6924.  @imogendedo8296  Learn to use periods correctly. I have to read your post two or three times just to try to figure out what you are saying.
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  6925.  @imogendedo8296  So, the anti-establishment fallacy. To paraphrase Jeff Winger, go along with them to please them, or do the exact opposite to annoy them, but it's still about them, and that's what's weak.
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  6926. What is the middle ground with people who want to destroy you?
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  6927.  @DerekShaffers  If she was such a lefty, why did she spend all of her time courting Republicans?
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  6928.  @Wilterweight  And considering that this champion of freedom who he made a household name went to China and Russia, it seems to me like he was a dupe helping out a spy because both hate the government.
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  6929.  @danasutton6769  So, a guy who literally only gave his first name and gave no credentials or reference to his prediction has put them out for scrutiny? [In Dr. Evil voice] Riiiight.
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  6930. She was born October 13, 1989. You need to be 35 by Inauguration Day (example: Biden was elected to the Senate 13 days before his 30th birthday, but was eligible because he turned 30 by the time his term began), so she is eligible with three months and seven days to spare.
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  6931. Inauguration. Biden got elected to the Senate for the first time before his 30th birthday.
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  6932.  @carlosb5523  And I didn't say automation wouldn't cause problems, I said that there are examples of how automation of part of the process led to more people getting hired. I could find articles about automation getting rid of all the jobs that are 100 years old. But, following your logic, why would construction be safe? If robots could figure out how to do just about anything, why would construction not be one of those things they could figure out? And, quite frankly, UBI that is neither universal nor basic income is a lack of imagination. It is not "everyone benefiting from automation," it is still letting the companies get all of the benefit. There are plenty of ways that actual workers or ordinary people could benefit, but the I Give Up candidate isn't going to do that because he doesn't want to make his tech buddies suffer.
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  6933.  @carlosb5523  What has Yang done for the past decade? Well, after making his fortune on test-prep software and trying his hand at making lightning strike twice, Yang started a non-profit organization in 2011 that he said would lead to 100,000 jobs by 2025. All the while, he went on the TED talk circle and was feted about how much of a difference maker he really was, but in reality, after an initial splash, the number of applicants plummeted, there are fewer than 400 jobs more than halfway to the deadline, and half left the communities he sent them to for greener pastures: https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/6/13/18637853/andrew-yang-venture-for-america-jobs-record No, thanks. One businessman who became President vastly overstates his accomplishments is more than enough for a lifetime.
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  6934.  @Zach-ju5vi  Yes, because someone making $20,000/year can buy a house in a decent neighborhood, have a nice car, and go on two-week family vacations every year. Get outta here with that nonsense!
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  6935.  @Zach-ju5vi  So, wanting to enjoy some of the fruits of your labor is "entitlement"? Your vision gets darker and darker the more you write.
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  6936.  @EazyE11  Indeed. I remember someone from seminary a few years ago who had like three of four FB posts between Good Friday and Easter one year talking about gay people. (The reference to faith I made was finding it amusing that people buy Easter candy during Lent.) If he were to ever come out, I'd be less surprised than when Ricky Martin did.
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  6937.  @genericamerican7574  Surely, the quotation marks around the word choice should have made it obvious that I was mocking the idea of choice. It was far better when we got one at work that cost less and had a better network. Better still would be paying taxes and having a network consisting of every doctor in America.
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  6938.  @willdasilva4459  And if you try to point out the Supreme Court with these Never Biden morons, they will insist that Biden would name another Scalia, ignoring that he voted against elevating Rehnquist to Chief Justice, worked with Edward Kennedy to keep Bork off, and voted against Thomas, Roberts, and Alito. At this point, I honestly can't tell the difference between useful idiots on the left and right-wing trolls pretending to be left to depress turnout.
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  6939.  @LabGoats  No, because they used it to modify the paygo rules. Without that, you wouldn't have seen the coronavirus bill or the infrastructure bill.
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  6940.  @TheZeroAssassin  Even that one good idea isn't very good at all when you look at the details.
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  6941.  @Eyoballin  Apparently, you never saw the debate with Sam about the consequences of pretending there was no difference between the major party candidates, and literally everything Sam said turned out to be right, and literally everything Jimmy said was proven to be wrong.
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  6942. These videos get me through bad days at work. They never cease to be entertaining.
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  6943.  Jody Owen  Literally no one else is backing up your argument on how it works. Good riddance.
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  6944.  @bugviddump7397  Going back almost ten years.
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  6945. ​ @Starr6669  Since the 70s, when he and Fred had to pay a fine for housing discrimination. Probably before then as far as being a disgusting person.
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  6946.  @carlosconrado696  Because the problem is that the new rules are basically on the honor system, and given what I have seen over the last year and change, I don't trust a significant portion of the population to tell the truth about getting vaccinated.
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  6947.  @squatch545  And he's an idiot who never noticed any wins because he just wants to complain.
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  6948.  @squatch545  House passed the $15/hour minimum wage, we avoided another Great Depression a decade ago, and we succeeded in keeping Republicans from kicking 32MM people off their health insurance, among others.
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  6949.  @squatch545  And now, $15/hour is the official Democratic Party position, with the President-elect on board. If we get those two seats in Georgia, it has a real chance of becoming law. And nobody anywhere proposes immediately doubling the minimum wage. It has always been phased in over time. Pelosi passed a stimulus bill in May. I get it now. You're just working backwards and going after people you don't like. I guess you agree with the hot take of Krystal "39% of My PAC Money Went to Me and Less Than 5% Went to Candidates" Ball that she should take the deal from McConnell and leave workers out to dry by making the bosses immune from accountability for refusing to make safe working conditions.
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  6950. @Fundamentally Unorthodox Well, they are the gifts that keep on giving.
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  6951.  @HenryPaulThe3rd  I hope one day that you don't have a situation where you need someone else to do it for you, sociopath.
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  6952.  @papaofthejohns5882  Fair enough. I remember being on a date one time, and I had to borrow a car, I flipped the dial on the radio, and a date didn't know who Bon Jovi was. Even if you're not a fan, they did stuff pretty recently at the time (2007). How do you not know? I just realized how far afield this has gotten ;-)
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  6953.  @trappenweisseguy27  Ossoff has a strong future? What is so radical about what Bernie and AOC are propising?
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  6954. 11:14 Watching the Boebert-bot malfunction was quite amusing.
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  6955.  @strongbone9471  That guy literally doesn't know a single thing about American politics, and his story about how Canada got single payer is just wrong, so he doesn't know much about his own, either.
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  6956.  @KennethJLave  And your point being? The whole point if a discussion is if A therefore/but/then B, which then leads to something that either supports A or responds to B. I am not in the mood to follow non-sequiturs tonight. If you have something useful to say, I'll respond.
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  6957.  @Deltelly  It's not that there is no place for that, but it has led to collapse or the verge of it many times. California passed a voter initiative requiring a 2/3 majority to raise taxes and balance the budget. Pretty much made the state ungovernable for a decade until they were able to get rid of it. Colorado had a TABOR law that nearly killed the public university system until it was modified in 2005. Besides that, it would require a Constitutional amendment. How likely do you think that is?
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  6958.  @KennethJLave  And what does what Marx taught have to do with either your original point about wanting direct democracy or my point that it would take a Constitutional amendment for that to happen?
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  6959.  @thedondeluxe6941  Here in the US, the fake populists are on the right. Pointing out the problems with how the wealthy are treating the poor, and a lot of what it proposed became the New Deal.
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  6960.  @simbamartens7192  If it's right wing, it's not populism.
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  6961. The Supreme Court
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  6962. No love for Jamie Farr?
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  6963.  @jonh8488  He didn't mention them by name, but they are called sore loser laws, which prohibit someone from running on the ballot under a different party after being on the primary ballot of another party. All but three states have some version of them. Therefore, it is impossible for Bernie to run as a third party or independent candidate.
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  6964.  @nevermorebouquet3681  This feels like an incomplete sentence.
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  6965.  @kevinstrother8712  "That moment is so beautiful, I want to marry it." Dr. Cox, Scrubs
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  6966.  @raptorreddelta3986  Almost like she was acting in bad faith.
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  6967.  @captkiprogue  I think that person is clearly a troll, because all of those comments on multiple threads have disappeared.
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  6968.  @ohms497  Some people are a good fit for the second spot but not as good in the first one. Joe Biden is one of those people.
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  6969. And if you have the bad luck of falling for a Kelly and you want stability, I offer my condolences. (Red flag: anyone who opens a profile by saying he/she "is sick of all the drama" is probably a drama queen him/herself.)
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  6970. It was easy to fall for their grift when they were focused on the primary. A lot of us did.
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  6971. Because he gave her campaign money.
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  6972. If we don't deal with how electricity is produced, the war will be over a different fossil fuel, because we're starting to run out of coal (which is still the primary source of electricity in the United States). If the coal is dealing with the climate crisis, coal actually burns far more CO2 than oil, so clean renewables have to keep pace.
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  6973.  @shinske3564  You know who really doesn't care? The fascists whom you are trying to trivialize by pretending that everyone is equally bad.
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  6974.  @wesleygordon1645  He sees Putin as so much of a threat that he constantly praises him. Show me literally any time ever where Trump said something critical of Putin.
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  6975.  @danieldeontanon9726  Well, then, why did he say it? Why does he force people to choose between their current benefits and his plan?
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  6976. You can't replace them until 2024. Like it or not, you aren't getting someone better than Manchin. In all honesty, I think that seat is going red. This is why there needs to be actual organizing.
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  6977.  BobbyG  If she voted it down, the things that people like her and Bernie got, such as increased unemployment benefits, would have easily been scrubbed. And she would have been hammered for voting against unemployment. There wasn't enough good stuff in the next bill, so she voted No.
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  6978. If that is what you want, I think you would rather she be AG than VP.
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  6979.  Mark Collins  Then, why go take Medicare once she was proven wrong about cigarettes and cancer by getting lung cancer? There were others who were considered thought leaders in the libertarian movement, and they refused government benefits, even if it meant dying a pauper. And she said that anyone who takes from others parasites. How is that supporting Medicare?
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  6980.  @brwi1  Even if your argument is correct, she only paid in for five years. Even if she maxed out, she would have paid a couple thousand dollars. Cancer treatment for 11 years seems like it would more than cancel out wjat she paid in.
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  6981.  @artemisnite  In all fairness, it does seem like it is Never Trumpers talking about this. Then again, I feel like the whole thing is another grift like the Lincoln Project.
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  6982.    Read the Politico article. Several of Trump's advisers insisted that he do nothing to prevent the spread of coronavirus because they thought that herd immunity was the best treatment. Every "don't wear a mask" and "LIBERATE [insert blue state here]" was an effort to infect millions. Playing defense for Trump shows that either you are a right-wing troll or someone who hasn't been paying attention in order to keep up your lazy both siderism takes.
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  6983.  @credman  In the last 20 years, it hasn't. It has left people more scared and not willing to take a chance. Did you not pay attention the last four years? Trump was supposed to scare people into electing a real lefty, and we got Biden. Even your example doesn't work, because FDR ran on balanced budgets. It was only because he realized that the problem was much worse than he thought that he abandoned that position.
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  6984.  @credman  No, being a psychopath is actively causing harm with no conscience. That is what you are advocating. Therefore, you are a psychopath.
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  6985.  @ninij9692  Fair enough, but sometimes it's hard to tell on the internet given that some people really do believe such stupid stuff.
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  6986.  @greenith  He never made the argument that immigration was good to Republican audiences. If it ever came up to them, he dog whistled and reminded them that only citizens could get it, which they heard loud and clear as a way of discouraging immigration. And what lefty policies was he selling? His UBI was a version of a Milton Friedman proposal with a regressive tax as the cherry on top.
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  6987.  @greenith  Apparently, you don't know the definition of a regressive tax. If the poor pay a higher percentage of their income than the rich do, it is a regressive tax. Consumption taxes are literally the textbook example of a regressive tax. Again, Yang says different things to different groups depending on who he thinks is listening. For example, he told lefty audiences that he wanted to use the Freedom with 125 Strings Attached Dividend to reduce poverty and to deal with automation taking jobs. However, he emphasized to Ben Shapiro that (this thing that he told Dave Rubin was a politically feasible way to eliminate the existing social safety net) was below the poverty level (and described it as "magical") because it would force people to work. Give it enough time, and you can find him arguing three sides to every issue.
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  6988.  @greenith  English translation: It is too hard to make rich people pay taxes, so let's make poor people pay it instead.
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  6989.  @greenith  The rich aren't paying the VAT. I don't care what the theory is, I care about the facts. The closest to a VAT in America are sales taxes (which just involve fewer steps). My adopted home state exempts staple goods, and the poorest 20% still pay nearly ten times what the richest 1% do as a percentage of income. The rate is 6% statewide with an extra 1% in Pittsburgh and an extra 2% in Philadelphia. The richest 1% pay less than 1% of income, so how in the world would this be "a wealth transfer from the rich"?
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  6990.  @thediamondfighterusa5453  46% with no institutional support and starting out with no name recognition. Oh, yeah, he got destroyed though. As far as the transitive property of politics, I think the match-up one (i.e., boxing) is more apt. Was George Foreman a better all-time heavyweight than Joe Frazier, or was Smokin' Joe's fighting style ill suited to Big George? I, for one, think Bernie is very well suited to beat Trump because of his strength in rural areas.
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  6991.  @cornoc  Eye surgeon
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  6992.  @cornoc  I'm sorry. I don't understand the question.
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  6993.  @workingman4918  "out long live you" Found the bot! You need to get your software updated.
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  6994. It's not about a different perspective. I don't see people dunking on Abby Huntsman (who at least knows nepotism got her there) or Ana Navarro.
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  6995.  @inquisitive.lurker  If centrism in America is currently defined the way it is, it is indeed inherently bad.
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  6996. What made her the best? Unless there is something from Bloomberg out there, she was the only candidate to ever support torture. She went on Dave Rubin to agree that she was the only candidate who loved America and opposed open borders. She praised Trump leaving the Kurds to slaughter. She is to Modi as Trump is to Putin. Also, there is a difference between supporting the nominee after the race is over and endorsing the one who is supposed to be anathema to your views while the race is ongoing.
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  6997.  @marioalosangeles  You are aware that other people will see this video, right? If you have the courage of your convictions, surely you could provide evidence. Also, why post anything at all if you are going to retreat into that position when someone asks a follow up? If people ask me questions, I defend my position.
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  6998.  @marcoszavala8435  What specific thing do you think will immediately and dramatically reduce crime?
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  6999. Even worse. It's $7.25.
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  7000.  @zerocool5395  When do Republicans actually push policies that help working people? It's not Democrats who keep talking up privatizing Social Security and Medicare, oppose increasing the minimum wage, or cutting taxes for the rich.
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  7001.  @justthinking526  Which proves that we can pressure elected officials to do the right thing.
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  7002. When I first heard the name, I was surprised that the very funny comedian was running for public office.
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  7003. The crossover I didn't know I needed until you said that.
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  7004.  @derekwheeler4299  Well, governments used all three against South Africa and Rhodesia. If used properly, sanctions can be effective in stoppingbad actors.
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  7005. @Justin Time You said they were different, and you still can't explain how they are different in this context. I gave some examples to argue why they are similar enough for this example to work. If you can't provide evidence, maybe you just don't have any.
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  7006. @Justin Time That isn't an example. I'm talking about specific policies where the left and right are vastly different in those two countries. You could also point to that for Europe, but at least people actually give an example of differences between the two.
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  7007. @Justin Time Where is the policy example? They have different geography isn't an example, it is an explanation with no evidence as to how it affects their politics.
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  7008. @Justin Time Well, left parties were an option until 2001. The option for most of that time, and the only one for the first 30 years or so when Israel was arguably in greater danger. That still doesn't justify a race baiter who appeals to the worst in society. And, yes, I get that this means hoping for a center right government, but at least that group is not trying to antagonize racial minorities and immigrants.
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  7009.  @dia9491  As someone with a heavy Appalachain accent, I sympathize with the frustration of others making us look bad.
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  7010.  @davidgarland2533  So much for the notion of principles. If "Democrats were mean to me, so I'm going to suck up to Republicans" makes any sense to you at all, then you clearly see politics as little more than a game for the red team and the blue team.
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  7011. The hot lights of the TV studio and the envelopes jostling together would mess that up.
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  7012.  @cheri7054  As soon as Nate brought up Ted's son, it was obvious that he didn't want to have a conversation. He wanted to put his daddy issues onto someone else.
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  7013.  Alabama Man 2.0  Hmmm, the "Alabama man" using the foreign spelling of "organisation." Very interesting. I used to think that you were a troll, but maybe you're a bot.
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  7014.  @dainty_af  The M4A summit was in Pennsylvania. He went to an MSNBC town hall in West Virginia that was about opioids.
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  7015.  @TowelReady  No, Dems need to do the grassroots work. Our problem is laziness. You can't just show up in election years and expect people to support you. Stephen N. Smith has the right idea of an actual grassroots movement. His is called WV Can't Wait. Support that.
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  7016.  @TowelReady  Well, I gave an example. And what do you mean by "support"? Just running some lefty, especially one who lets ego get in the way when a group that supports her sees the writing on the wall and puts its emphasis on a candidate who has an actual chance of winning at the end (the documentary that includes Swearingen and AOC, among others, expected to end with losses for all, so AOC winning changed its entire narrative), then it's not going to work. The fact that people keep mentioning Ojeda tells me that those people don't know WV politics. The 70-80 years of taking power for granted followed by inaction once that power was lost is not something that can be fixed in one cycle. It will take time. I ran for office in WV in 2006 (House of Delegates, but I moved out of state and still have family and friends there), and I remember hearing long-term elected officials worried that they had to run on issues when they never had before, so they weren't sure how to do that. WV Can't Wait will take time to work, but something like it is the only chance in the end.
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  7017.  @kpb1337  Because Republicans and conservative Democrats were scared of another FDR helping people and exposing them for the parasites they were.
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  7018. Have you read the Claremont essay saying outright that they "need" fascism because too many "un-American" (i.e., people who disagree with them) people are voting?
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  7019. The important thing is that you realized your mistake and are now wiser when dealing with some of these people. For me, it was seeing her 2014 interview where she defended torture, although I was primed for thinking maybe something was wrong after her Trump interview after the election (which later was revealed to be because Bannon thought that she'd be a great Secretary of State) and her Syria trip. I keep my autographed copy of Krystal Ball's book as a reminder to vet people before following them.
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  7020.  @anonymouszebra1239  You are so right. I think that another thing that hurts us is that too many people have given up on labor and class issues after the ascendancy of Bill Clinton. People tend to forget this, but from 1932-96, no state voted Democratic in Presidential elections more often than WV (14-3 [1956, 1972, 1984 being the exceptions]: Massachusetts and Minnesota tied for second with 13-4). If people want to blame racism, note that this is both before and after the Southern shift in the 1960s and '70s. However, I think that some talk of white privilege is alienating, because if you tell a poor person in Appalachia that he/she is inherently advantaged, that person will say, "If this is privilege, what is hardship?" I am not saying who has it harder, but when you talk privilege to people who are suffering, that only leads to resentment. And, because of the focus on cultural issues, some want to give up on rural voters altogether. I was at an election night party at the union hall in November, and someone asked me why I thought we started losing in places like WV, and how to get them back. I laid out my theory of full-throttled left-wing (or real) populism, and someone was offended, insisting that these were racists who were irredeemable. Well, white conservatives talk down to black liberals and wonder why they won't vote Republican, so why would rural white people. That's also why I never, ever give thumbs up to anyone who talks about inbreeding when badmouthing Trump voters. When we figure out who the real enemy is, and we help rural America understand who we are fighting, they will come running back.
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  7021. Indeed. If Trump hadn't have bragged about the call, we would have probably never known about it in the first place.
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  7022. ​ @oldsesalt8496  So, you don't like that Ketanji Brown Jackson is on the Supreme Court?
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  7023.  @richardyoung5293  If he had just put Daddy's money in a no-load index fund, he would have three or four times the (inflated) Forbes estimate of his net worth. Real financial genius beats the market.
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  7024.  @emjay2045  You mean Bart O'Kavanaugh? He likes beer.
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  7025. This analogy is ridiculous on its face, because the evil government often uses its socialist buses to help people get to shelters.
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  7026.  @kdnick8584  If they didn't vote for the CARES Act, it would have passed regardless and Bernie's $600/week unemployment supplement wouldn't have been in the bill. Would you have preferred that?
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  7027.  @haraldjensen1839  He sounds like those people who would rather complain than get anything done, or doesn't understand how counting works.
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  7028.  Mr. McGringus  We are talking qualifications, not someone's personal failings.
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  7029.  @thedissidentleftist6997  People love converts, and they love hearing the other side say how much their side sucks. Why do you think so many Never Trumpers show up on MSNBC and CNN?
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  7030. The same polls find that a majority think that they can keep private insurance with Medicare for All, and depending on how you ask it, support is as low as 40%. Sadly, the American people want everything to get better and nothing to change when it comes to health care.
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  7031. Why would Roberts be the leak? He was trying to find a middle ground to weaken rather than kill Roe. This has been his position for 40 years.
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  7032. ​​ @unwavery  Indeed. One actually has a chance of winning seats, and the other is a collection of grifters and mark who don't understand basic rules.
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  7033. He made it in through polls. There were 18 different polling firms, and you had to make it in any three polls from Jan. 1st to June 12th.
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  7034.  @angelikaopland7880  Small R, yes. They want Der Orangefuhrer as a king.
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  7035.  @ShadowProject01  It's all right. It happens to the best of us ;-)
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  7036.  @JuanPeron007  His version of the shoe that's too small joke is "way more funny"? All he did was repeat it over and over again and then walk around the stage. Demetri Martin nailed with the deadpan way that he said "sure, just cut off my toes," especially because it's so out of left field. Dane Cook took a tight 30 second joke and drew it out to two minutes just to mug and kill the rhythm.
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  7037.  @TheBanshee90  And when XYZ band plays ZYX's song, do they tale credit for writing it, or do they acknowledge the original writer?
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  7038. I would only argue with one word. There is nothing covert about his narcissism at all. It's right out in the open.
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  7039. Press secretaries usually only stick around for a year or two.
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  7040. My imagination is still reeling from that one.
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  7041. It's called triage. If they're taking spots from people who need the bed, sucks to be you.
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  7042.  @Julia-um4rv  17 is the age of consent in New York.
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  7043. I agree that Bernie didn't want to run in 2016, but I think he has that hunger now. When you get close and know it could be you, that changes everything. In 2015, his name recognition was around the margin of error, but now he's the most popular politician in America. Very different situation now.
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  7044.  Dennis Young  Oh, I get that, but I'm saying that maybe they still believe that because by this point, their subconscious just won't let them admit they have been wrong for so long.
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  7045.  @pietersteenkamp5241  I didn't say things were fine, but I think that history has shown that the best economy is a mixed economy. Some things work better with the government controlling the means of production (usually things like utilities and basic services including health care), and some don't. My point (along with Michael) is that too many people sugar coat things when they agree with the stated philosophies involved. I have heard people try to tell me that Cuba is a worker's paradise. Venezuela is used as a "do you want America to turn into this?" warning sign, and pretending that there were no problems at all if not for the Yanqui will hurt your ability to make converts. Michael is right to both point out problems and point out that we have not helped.
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  7046.  King Jon Targaryen I  Well, experience has shown that regardless of people developing class consciousness, there always seems to be someone who takes the bulk of things. As I asked in a video where someone noted that Jamie seemed to be just as utopian as the libertarian guest (I think it was Adam Kokesh), if we abolish private property and government, what will stop someone from taking property again and starting things all over?
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  7047.  @VB-dp1vs  What's even sadder? You can't actually provide a shred of evidence. If you only listen to the "real story," you'll fall for anything. Exhibit A.
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  7048.  @FelixDaleth  Calling for a third party from the left makes it easier for Republicans to win. Therefore, it is a grift and a pander to the right. Why else do you think that 10% of Nader donors in 2000 and 2004 were Republicans, and Republicans represented the Green Party in 2020 to try to get them on the ballot after messing up their petition drive in Wisconsin?
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  7049. And isn't the first rule of medicine to do no harm? If a doctor or nurse doesn't want to get a vaccine, that person probably shouldn't be a doctor or nurse.
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  7050. Because Jimmy is destructive to everything he supposedly cares about, and with his Clinton obsession, he's become an apologist for the administration that got the SCOTUS pick that was the deciding vote to destroy labor in this country. Oh, and the below-the-fold on Janus is even worse than the headline, because they based their opinion on a 1910 Supreme Court decision to overturn child labor laws and a minimum wage. But, thanks to people like Jimmy who live in comfort, workers like me have to beg people to stay in the union and not let it dissolve, while our state legislature has been emboldened by the decision to force workers to reaffirm their union membership every paycheck. At least people like McConnell are honest about wanting to screw us.
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  7051.  Oct agon  He said date. It was on The View.
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  7052.  @fionamclaren8506  Child rapist, not child molester, but you are spot on about Polanski. I am still appalled 19 years later that he got a standing ovation when he won the Oscar for Best Director.
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  7053.  @lavenderbee3611  You are aware that people get sent back to jail all the time in relation to probation, right? And psychiatric evaluation was not the end-all, be-all of the sentence. A lot depends on what they actually find during the evaluation.
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  7054.  @ChristiaanHartNibbrig  Everything I've heard about Lujan is that his recovery is going well. The right will complain, but the right will always complain. If Biden found the cure for cancer tomorrow, they'd complain about how he put all of the oncologists out of work.
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  7055.  @ChristiaanHartNibbrig  Objectively speaking, as nad as they are, the Republicans are worse.
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  7056.  @TiagoMorbusSa  Sema Hernandez is better, and she got a sizable portion of the vote in 2018 despite being outraised by a 100:1 ratio by Beto.
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  7057. There aren't any. Besides, they know such a vote will guarantee a primary defeat, so they don't take it the next logical step and switch parties.
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  7058. A version of this debate using sports as a parallel. Sam: Say we have one team that says that the ball was over the line and should be counted as a goal, and we have another team that says that the ball didn't cross the line. Who is correct? Daryl: Each time can get its own referee. Sam: What if each team's referee says two different things? Whose referee do we listen to? Daryl: DON'T TELL ME HOW FREEDOM WORKS! YOU CAN'T CENTRALLY PLAN LIBERTY! YOU HATE FREEDOM!
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  7059. May the best i-DEE-uhs win.
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  7060.  @sspbrazil  Lou Reed's most celebrated song only has two chords. (My personal favorite on that record has three.) Rock has always been about emotion rather than technical prowess.
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  7061.  @sspbrazil  I didn't say talent. Of course, Cale is the more talented player of the two. Lou Reed's greatest talent was as a songwriter.
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  7062.  @arcanondrum6543  Bernie formed the Progressive Caucus in 1991.
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  7063.  @jasonjordan8149  So, how much should people have to pay in order to not die because of a lack of health insurance? The reason why companies don't want universal health care (single payer or otherwise) even though it costs money is simple: control. For example: what was the first thing GM did to try to break the UAW strike three years ago?
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  7064.  @jasonjordan8149  No, you don't get it. No one should have to pay out of pocket for health care, period. It should all be tax funded.
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  7065.  @jasonjordan8149  "but not better quality than the working person" Again, that means that yours should be better, not making his worse. If everyone is in a program that is paid for by taxes, no one would ever have to pay out of pocket. Nobody should ever have to pay out of pocket for health care at the point of service. It should be a right for everyone. And you didn't answer my question about control even though Medicare for All would cost less. If health care is no longer tied to work, it can no longer be used to keep people at certain jobs. More people would be inclined to start their own businesses. People might pursue things that are more satisfying if they aren't staying at a job that has a great plan (that they'll take away at a moment's notice if things don't go their way). People staying in jobs just to keep health insurance drains the economy. You know what would fix that? Making sure that everyone gets great health care free at the point of service, and for most people, the taxes would also be less than the premiums.
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  7066.  @jasonjordan8149  So, by your logic, if someone posts nonsense that is completely incomprehensible, and someone replies by pointing out that it is incomprehensible nonsense, that means that the person who wrote the incomprehensible nonsense automatically wins? Yeah, that makes sense.
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  7067.  @jasonjordan8149  No, you retreated to your same point. You are so blinded by your anger at someone who doesn't work getting something that you completely miss the point that you should get it, too.
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  7068.  @jasonjordan8149  "retreat more with your fantasy world stuff" You are aware that literally every other industrialized country operates that way for health insurance, right?
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  7069.  @jasonjordan8149  Hate to break it to you, but there's nothing stopping us from demanding more... although some people missing the entire point and refusing to see a possibility of anything better because of bitterness toward others who they deem inferior surely doesn't help. You remind me of someone I dealt with one time who said that he opposed increasing the minimum wage because he was making about $14-15/hour at the time and "liked the idea of making twice as much as someone else" (his words). In the words of Sinead O'Connor, fight the real enemy.
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  7070. Darn right! When I had back and neck injuries from getting T-boned, I went to a physical therapist, and didn't have to get my back or neck cracked once.
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  7071.  @vinniemcclung693  To brag about? This isn't a game.
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  7072.  @sergeikhripun  Award winning? [Citation needed]
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  7073. @Defund The Tone Police Even if I get crumbs in this analogy, that is still more than making me vomit the bread that I already had.
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  7074.  @lloydb4469  I support Medicare for All. Unlike Jimmy Dore, I actually tried to help the one candidate who tried to make it a reality in the primary. I have done the actual work and was part of an effort in Philadelphia that got two members of Congress to sign up. If you can't understand the difference between blocking something that has majority support and pointing out that it would lose in a landslide, no wonder why you think Jimmy Dore is an astute commentator.
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  7075.  @sprybug  It requires an absolute majority. The main concern is that abstaining from any vote means that the threshold is lowered, and McCarthy may be able to sneak in. The fact that any Dore supporter thinks that someone who supported the fascist coup attempt is better or no different than the person who passed a Voting Rights bill and a $15/hour minimum wage proves that they are nihilists who just want to complain.
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  7076. @Defund The Tone Police Since you apparently don't understand any analogies, I will make it as simple as I possibly can. 1) House Democrats passed a $15/hour minimum wage and a voting rights bill. McConnell let them languish on his desk. Schumer supports them, and Biden will sign them. Those things are not nothing. 2) Even if you really think that those things are meaningless, Republicans will do their best to undo any positive things we have ever won, and they are focused like a laser on the Supreme Court in order to lock in the rules of the game to not only undo those good things, but to make it more difficult to get anything in the future. Therefore, crumbs are preferable to the alternative. The mere fact that your big argument is that we only get crumbs ignore that Republicans take away as much as they can, so in this analogy, that is forcing us to vomit the bread we have already eaten.
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  7077. @Defund The Tone Police If it has solid support from the people, why does the support fall in half depending on how it is worded? Soft support doesn't make the threat that is implicit in Force the Vote have any teeth, especially after the candidate who supported Medicare for All lost to the candidate who refused to say he would sign it.
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  7078. @Defund The Tone Police Oh, we're the lazy ones? What have you personally done to build support for Medicare for All?
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  7079. @Defund The Tone Police And when they failed, every time we ended up with a smaller bill than what was proposed. You are just too stupid to realize that you are killing it.
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  7080.  @michaels8620  I said Jimmy Dore helped. In a close election, someone telling people who would be otherwise more likely to vote for Hillary not to vote for her helped Trump. He also argued that Trump would be better for the left. He did everything he could to help Trump win. He didn't do it all by himself, but he helped.
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  7081.  @michaels8620  Jimmy wasn't trying to get her elected. He wanted her to lose. He said so many times and even debated Sam Seder about it where literally every argument he made was proven false.
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  7082.  @michaels8620  Support is anywhere from 37-73% depending on how it is worded, and a majority of people think that it allows for competing private insurance, in part because of grifters like Tulsi Gabbard who insisted that they supported Medicare for All while calling that portion of it "un-American," which Jimmy Dore thought was smart politics at the time. Harry and Louise can easily come back and torpedo support just by hitting the buttons that polls clearly show will depress support. The way to get Medicare for All is not through some nonsense to force a vote that is doomed to failure. You're not going to get 100 & 37 just by demanding a vote. You need to push to get sponsors, which will only be done by educating the public and grassroots organizing. In my city, we actually did that work and got two members of Congress on board. If the sponsor list is at all accurate (and either the Soft Yes stay in place or opponents with a primary threat don't vote Yes knowing it will fail), then the bill will fail by a nearly 3:1 margin. If you can't be bothered to do the work to organize actual support, how in the world do you think that you will organize the effort necessary to defeat 104 incumbents. Jimmy Dore brought this up because he knows it will fail and only to try to further his argument that nothing will ever pass, even when other things can. There is a reason why Mitch McConnell and Jimmy Dore have the same strategy on Medicare for All.
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  7083.  @michaels8620  What has demanding a vote gotten us? There have actually been times where this bill that is supposed to be popular to the point where it could defeat primary voters, but it hasn't happened. However, Colorado, a state that Bernie won twice and went blue by double digit margins had a situation where it went on the vote. People thought that it would bring it to a state once and for all. I was one of those people watching and thinking it would happen, especially after Bernie's big win. What happened? It got 21%. How is your step two going to work? What reason do any of the Colorado delegation have to feel pressure after a vote like that?
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  7084. @Defund The Tone Police Context, please, Apologist for Useful Idiot.
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  7085. @Defund The Tone Police Also, where is your example of getting an equal or stronger health care bill through Congress after the bill failed? #
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  7086. @Defund The Tone Police And since you never did have an answer to what you actually did to build support for Medicare for All, I assume you mean nothing?
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  7087.  @Catch21Manila  Mueller wasn't allowed to indict, so what are you talking about that he "didn't get anything"? He said there were ten potential obstruction of justice incidents.
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  7088.  @Catch21Manila  You mean the laptop that he just randomly left behind in Delaware despite living in California, the security camera just happened to go out when he came into the store, and the blind owner could definitely identify Hunter Biden? You mean the story that Fox wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole?
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  7089. I remember the show from its Air America days, and it has definitely come a long way since then. I came back when I saw the libertarian debates and never left.
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  7090.  @marshallsweatherhiking1820  Well, not always, but since at least Reagan.
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  7091.  @Palafico3  I prefer to also use it for bowel movements, i.e., I ate too much, and now I have to take a huge trump.
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  7092.  @mumfordmunsley2002  Balanced? In no way does that word apply to that grifter. The mere fact that he is trying to convince people of the same strategy as Mitch McConnell should give anyone who actually wants Medicare for All pause as to whether or not it is a good idea.
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  7093. I tried to watch the debate, I really did, but I got so sick and tired of hearing the host of Bad Faith living up to the title of her podcast and repeatedly misrepresent Sam's position, and those of us who (accurately) pointed out that step two was either non-existent or based on a total fallacy, so after 45 minutes, I turned it off.
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  7094.  @georgewbiden2821  She said that Sam changed his mind for personal reasons. Sam never said that he wanted Force the Vote. He said to use something for leverage, but he seemed to be leaning toward committees.
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  7095.  @Dan0TheMano  Impeachment is literally following their oath. How many people were at that big rally on the 3rd that was supposed to change everything?
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  7096.  @Dan0TheMano  I think it's an indictment of the arrogance that thinking that a protest that no one outside the internet knew about was going to work. If this was more than an internet echo chamber, why not give an estimate?
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  7097.  @Dan0TheMano  50 people? I was told this was going to be a big earth shattering thing that the MSM would have to pay attention to. I am not belittling the effort, just pointing out that this is what happens when people confuse online activism with actual organizing. If you're not talking to people close by you with a specific call to action, you aren't organizing. If you're not organizing, you're not going to get anything.
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  7098.  @Dan0TheMano  Those of us who opposed force the vote did so because we knew that it would absolutely not pass even if you got your demand of a vote. The semi-honest people in this group admitted it. I would much rather devote my efforts to building actual support for the bill rather than posturing. Feelings about the people pushing this was not my motivation.
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  7099. Katie Porter is the George Harrison of the freshman class to AOC and Omar being John and Paul. Not the flashiest, but quietly getting things done.
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  7100.  @deadbutworking  Write letters, make calls, sign petitions. Oh, but that involves actual work.
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  7101. @scirpus 123 YouTube didn't exist until 2005. If winning the Internet meant you would be President, why didn't we see President Dean, President Paul, or President Bernie? Why did Yang and Tulsi go precisely nowhere and get exactly one delegate between them?
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  7102. @scirpus 123 The point was about political movements. In the United States, the Internet is little more than an echo chamber and an ATM. Someone was telling me ahead of time on these fora about this big protest that was supposed to move the needle on Force the Vote. End result? 50 people showed up. (DSA got more people to show up to knock on doors to get people to do actual action for M4A monthly from July to February.) If anything, the internet is counterproductive because it fools people into thinking they are doing something instead of actually doing it.
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  7103. @scirpus 123 As far as question two, it was only good as a communication tool. If people didn't actually do the work, then it would have gone as far as the campaigns that I mentioned. Re: Belarus, people still organized without the internet, so that defeats your whole argument.
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  7104. @scirpus 123 If the Internet didn't prove mostly to be a distraction, how do you explain that so few people pushing Force the Vote actually did direct action and pretty much nobody did actual organizing? A turnout of 50 for something that is supposed to be a nationwide protest is embarrassing.
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  7105.  @calvinware7957  Indeed. It is like watching someone with Battered Spouse Syndrome.
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  7106.  @GormTheElder  Actual grassroots efforts and organizing makes you an activist.
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  7107.  @sondre4212  You mean that she learned that certain tactics were stupid and decided to abandon them? Perish the thought!
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  7108.  @sondre4212  What leverage? You want a vote that you know will fail. And that will give Medicare for All how? And they got an amendment to the paygo rules that meant that the coronavirus bill and the infrastructure bill became possible. But, yeah, she should have held out for a vote that she knew would fail.
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  7109.  @GormTheElder  So, I guess that you don't understand how Catch and Release works. The vote is nowhere near passage, and the leadership clearly doesn't want another Eliot Engel, so knowing that it will fail, members in lefty districts will vote Yes to fend off a primary challenge (See: Gabbard, Tusli), and they will pull that support away if there is any chance of passage. So, you have an Underpants Gnomes strategy that hinges on not understanding the basics of legislative strategy. Not surprising given its architect and its defenders.
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  7110.  @GormTheElder  Okay, so you have descended into non-sequiturs to the point where you have lost the thread. Maybe instead of a willy measuring contest or virtue signaling, do the actual grassroots organizing needed to build support for Medicare for All. Bernie didn't become the Amendment King by thumping his chest. He did it by knowing how to work with people and learning when to build coalitions, not tear everything down and alienate people you have to work with.
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  7111.  @GormTheElder  What is your evidence that a majority supports Medicare for All? Do not say polls, because even if people agree with you on an issue, it doesn't mean a thing if it doesn't affect how people vote. In 2016, Colorado had a ballot initiative for Medicare for All. It got 21%. In 2020, Biden said that he wouldn't sigh Medicare for All during the beginning of the pandemic (since the Force the Vote people love to use that as a talking point) and his polling numbers in the primary didn't move, so it doesn't sound like a vote over a year out is going to have the desired effect if the sponsor list more or less is accurate and defeat over 100 incumbents. The poll that the Force the Vote people love to point out to insist that all they need is the vote to garner public support shows some much more discouraging things below the headline question. A majority think that Medicare for All will allow people to keep their private insurance (and a higher percentage of supporters think that), and support drops below 50% when asked if they support a single payer system. I have done the actual organizing work, and I have heard similar responses several times. So, you have to do the actual work to make sure that support is not really for a public option and that it will actually move people at the ballot box. No, this is not a video game, but that applies in ways that help my argument rather than yours, because it requires that people to get off their butts and do the actual work. And given that all of the talk is about going after members of the party where a majority in the House have sponsored the bill and none of it is targeting the party where literally zero members support it, that tells me that there is no strategic thought at all to this plan. Organizing isn't about instant gratification or a willy waving contest. It is about going to your neighbors and making your representation know what you want.
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  7112.  @karmicsmite9920  True, but she's at least smart enough to try.
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  7113.  @semi-consciousamerican-joe2481  Literally every other state made that symbolic gesture even after it was ratified.
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  7114.  @LifeWithCrispyy  I think the thing will hurt Beto is that people want a winner, and they'll look at him and say, "You couldn't even beat Ted Cruz. What makes you think that you can beat the guy who beat him in 2016?"
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  7115.  @LifeWithCrispyy  That's where the question of how early comes in. If he does get less than 15% in Iowa, it will be moot, because he won't have any to give.
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  7116.  @haroldwhite5761  Sometimes, you can't get people for most of what they did. Wayne Williams was only convicted of murder of two victims. Al Capone got convicted for tax evasion. Alger Hiss got convicted of perjury instead of espionage. And "weak evidence"? We have the transcripts, and we have the confession. How much more do you need? Do I wish they pushed more articles? Yes, I do. However, this complaint from Tulsi would be the equivalent of a member of the grand jury saying, "We know Al Capone is a murderer," so I just won't vote on these tax evasion charges."
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  7117. Ladies and gentlemen, the broken clock theory at work.
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  7118. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the difference between isolationism and supporting peace at work.
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  7119.  @boggisthecat  Well, ballast serves as balance. Maybe he's like a dulled version of the thousands of dollars of crome that some people put on their bike.
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  7120. But she wouldn't have won an Olympic gold medal in the decathlon, so we would be able to go through life never knowing she existed, which simply cannot be.
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  7121.  @gogob2008  Saying that the Mueller Report exonerated Trump.
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  7122. The point at 9:34 is exactly where I am landing. I live in a swing state, so I will not give Trump a second term. If I still lived in WV, I probably wouldn't vote for Biden, because he couldn't use my vote. In PA, he needs it, but he does not get my weekends like Bernie did. Let the Biden Bunch do the hard work.
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  7123.  @Mark-oi9rf  You're the one who came to this thread to defend Der Orangefuhrer. I don't go to right wing channels to defend Biden.
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  7124.  @Mark-oi9rf  It doesn't matter how many "alternate perspectives" you "seek out" if your mind is already made up.
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  7125. Yes, context matters. If someone who endorses a Nazzty party in Germany does something that looks like a Sieg Heil, it's a good bet that it's a Seig Heil.
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  7126.  @populistparty2010  The state legislatures are all done now. It's now to Congress to be counted on January 6th. The Electoral Count Act of 1887 says that if there are competing electors, and Congress splits on who gets them, the tiebreaker is which slate is certified by the governor. They can drag this kabuki theater out all they want, but it is done.
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  7127.  @Mehki227  If you have Netflix, you've gotta watch it. It's hilarious. In some ways, it is a send up on musicals and romantic comedies, so it may not work for everyone, but it is very good.
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  7128. I think there is something to be said for having a more deliberative democracy, but it should not be weighted toward rural communities. It should be one person, one vote.
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  7129. I listened online. For maybe a few months, I was able to find a radio station when driving.
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  7130. The most powerful Democratic message in history has always been some version of "the people over the powerful." You act as though politics began in 1992, just because you can't tell the difference between real (left) and fake (right) populism.
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  7131.  @brettjohnson2233  What particular thing did Sam Seder say that was false?
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  7132.  @markg6860  If someone literally talks about putting you out of work, and that person's opponent talks about saving their jobs, who would you vote for? Just maybe if we show them that we actually don't want to see them poisoned and poor, we might actually win them over.
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  7133. Rudy: I don't wear a mask, and I haven't gotten COVID-19 [cough, cough] Yeah, sure, Rudy.
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  7134.  @estebanarmantrouto7961  You can't work with people who refuse to support common solutions. Bernie worked with Mike Lee on the War Powers Act because they agree. The right doesn't want Medicare for All. They won't even support their alternative to Hillarycare.
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  7135.  @niklaus9678  Some say stocky, and others say thin.
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  7136.  @niklaus9678  Because the true desire was menace. Much like (on a much, much lighter note) the Dread Pirate Roberts knew that the name was what instilled the fear.
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  7137. That was the PBS debate.
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  7138. I thought those right wing snowflakes gave up on the NFL due to protests during the national anthem.
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  7139. A lot of people also forget that the headline number is year-over-year, so by definition, it's going to take a while to show up when you do it that way. I remember some winger insisting that the Inflation Reduction Act was a failure because "inflation is still 7%," or some such high number, when it was pretty obvious that it was increasing at half the rate as before.
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  7140.  @SacredGrovesCorner  Which party did Strom Thurmond belong to in 1964? That is the key turning point: from 1964 on, Republicans nominated candidates nine times who were on the record on the Voting Rights Act, and Democrats did four. All four (LBJ, HHH, McGovern, and Mondale) publicly supported it. Five times (Goldwater, Reagan twice, Bush twice) Republicans nominated opponents of the Civil Rights Act, and nominated supporters four times (Nixon twice, Ford, and Dole). Not even a winning record.
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  7141.  @Atzy  Which part? Nothing has shown that the cult will change, almost to the point where I'd expect them to go the Weekend at Bernie's route.
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  7142.  @terriengen5278  Never underestimate the power a cult leader has on followers.
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  7143. Except Ron Swanson cares about honesty and integrity.
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  7144. Dear Leader said there would be a million. There were 6200, or less than 1%.
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  7145.  @ephre  Inhofe still believes the world is round?
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  7146.  @hurin1932  Reagan was willing to increase taxes. So was Poppy. Obama set the record for deportations. Voting rights used to be a bipartisan effort. Your accusation is your confession. Since 1995, the median Democratic voter has stayed the same ideologically in Congress, while the median Republican went right.
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  7147. She makes some good points sometimes, but I get this district feeling like there is some interpersonal dynamic where Sam gets annoyed by her takes, so he is rarely in a mood to hear them, which leads to her jumping in with her takes at any time. The worst example of this was when Sam broke the news to everyone on the show that Kennedy had just announced his retirement, and she kept trying to plug her other show.
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  7148.  @tyler-iy4jk  Bernie does not propose free four-year colleges only. He also proposes funding for trade schools and community college.
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  7149.  @tyler-iy4jk  No, he doesn't. Yang says "people can use their extra thousand bucks a month to pay for it." That is also his solution for student loan debt, and he also told Joe Rogan that people could pay 10% of their income in ten years, with no deductions. He sure does stretch that $1000 that is neither universal nor basic income awfully thin.
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  7150.  @mikeytopaz4601  "I see a lot of those on your list who have been apologists for political inaction and pageantry." The irony of saying that in defense of Force the Vote is palpable.
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  7151.  @monotech20.14  So does he in response to which thing?
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  7152.  @supernaturalcrimeguru5070  Indeed it was.
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  7153. Liking and replying for the same thing
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  7154.  @gregfeasel5874  I was fine with lower standards early on to give people a chance to catch on, but with 20 candidates still in, we have to draw a line somewhere.
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  7155.  @gregfeasel5874  I just don't get these people at all. They claimed to be purists, but they support a candidate with a past more checkered than a gingham dress. They claim to support peace, but they like someone who is an isolationist who opposed the Iran nuclear deal. And they say the rules are unfair, but they often resort to listing a standard where she doesn't qualify. Either that, or thinking that just about any poll will do. At least the people who like Biden because he is a centrist are honest with themselves.
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  7156.  @LumbriLady  Lobbyists have to either demonstrate expertise or have a good relationship with members of Congress. She has neither. My dollar says that she wants to be a talking head. It's lucrative and easy.
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  7157. A new libertarian video. So much for getting a decent amount of sleep tonight ;-)
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  7158.  @jamescooke7243  "He just hires people." English translation: he uses his blood emerald money to get other people to do the work and take all the credit and the money.
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  7159.  @peterstafford4426  Again, see my above comment. Some people run to bring attention to an issue or cause. Pretty much everyone involved in Bernie's 2016 campaign said that nobody really thought that he had a chance until November 2015, a full seven months after he got in the race. She didn't run to win. She ran to bring attention to an issue that was being ignored.
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  7160. This should never happen to anyone! We the people should have made the right thing happen by now. Your legacy is one of service and strength, and we are all praying for you and fighting to make Medicare for All a reality.
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  7161. Howard Schultz, you have been dethroned as the progenitor of the most ridiculous statement by an enlightened centrist.
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  7162. Cut 99% of the defense budget? Call me Patton, but does he really think that we could make do with a military budget of $7B? Payroll alone would be several times that.
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  7163.  @debbieknight8901  Darn right! Funny how these people see no problem with not being allowed to yell "Fire!" in a crowded room where there is no fire despite the First Amendment saying "no law," but "well regulated" means to let everyone own any weapon under the sun.
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  7164.  @ffotograffydd  The Lib Dems specifically started out as a centrist alternative to Labour and the Tories. They may have been to the left of New Labour, but that's not saying much.
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  7165.  @turbochargedsports6327  Thank you. I have heard some formulation before, but it is rarely as true as it is watching her speak.
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  7166. Jacob Chansley: I'm not the QAnon Shaman! Also Jacob Chansley: Yes, I believe in QAnon and consider myself a shaman.
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  7167. Their lives do depend on it.
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  7168.  @johnorona99  She repeatedly said that Sam supported Force the Vote only to abandon it once he realized that Jimmy Dore supported it. That was literally her entire argument for the first 45 minutes, except for the gratuitous cheap shot that Michael would have preferred it. Sam Seder always said that they should use their leverage for something, but he wasn't sure if that was the best thing. He even specifically mentioned committee seats as preferable. He kept trying to tell her that, but she kept going back to her imagined version of what he said like that CNN debate moderator when Warren tried to pull the sexism card to save her failing campaign.
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  7169.  @markmoses4646  Women's suffrage supporters waited until they had a majority in Congress to hold a vote. Very different than voting when you have around a quarter of the vote in the House and an eighth in the Senate and the candidate who just said that he wouldn't sign the bill became President. Force the Vote was an argument for lazy people who don't want to do the actual work to get it done.
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  7170. 6:23 Here is the specificity to the evangelical opposition to Christian nationalism. Some people willfully confuse fundamentalism and evangelicalism. The former like to use this confusion and thrive on it in order to whitewash their own reputation that they have sullied by being awful. Evangelicals more accurately refers to anyone who believes in the Resurrection and that this good news (euangelion transliterated from Koine Greek, or gospel) should be preached. As far as separation of church and state goes, a lot of denominations are in favor of it. Anabaptists, such as Mennonites, Amish, and Church of the Brethren believe strongly in it based on their history of persecution where pretty much everyone on all sides of the battles in Europe during the Protestant Reformation were united in their hatred of Anabaptists. The second Baptist ever, Thomas Helwys, wrote the first English-language defense of the separation of church and state in 1610, a year after the denomination was founded. (Southern Baptists are a different story, but the rest of us tend to agree with this doctrine.) Don't think that the voices that get the loudest megaphones speak for everyone in the group.
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  7171.  @jopestv1063  Don't you mean Hoover? Wilson was dead by 1924.
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  7172.  @SilenceSays416  Some people are ladder pullers. They think they are giants, but they don't realize that they stood on someone else's shoulders.
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  7173.  @robinsss  You clearly just rephrased exactly what I said. Instead of examining the question of racial discrimination, you admitted that you assumed that there was no racist action, so you assumed that there must be some non-race based reason, so you made up a reason, which you are spamming as though it is the gospel truth. If you have no evidence that this is what happened, and are willing to overlook the chicanery involving racist cops forcing out a black police chief who was exposing misconduct, and how that affected the way people were treated disproportionately for drug crimes, you are clearly acting as an apologist for racism. So, I will need evidence that black people are more likely to deal drugs outdoors than white people.
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  7174.  @ETAlnes  I was having fun with the fact that he used it like a proper noun and confused it for martial law ;-)
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  7175.  @lisakukla459  It's not about the age of the leadership. What a lot of stuff like this boils down to is, "I don't like the people that others vote in, so I want to try to make it impossible to vote for that person by finding one trait and banning everyone who meets it." Take term limits, for example: do you really think that Kentucky will vote for someone fundamentally different from McConnell or that South Carolina will vote for someone fundamentally different from Graham if they were ineligible?
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  7176.  @donHooligan  No, 15% would have gotten them on the debate stage. 5% was for matching funds. The high water mark for the Greens for President was 2.74%.
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  7177.  @donHooligan  Your point does not still stand, because no Green Party candidate has ever been remotely close to those standards. If you don't like the two-party system, instead of mocking people who understand how math works, you should first be advocating for Instant Runoff/Ranked Choice Voting, because the rules as they are (not ballot access, but basic math and needing an absolute majority of the Electoral College as gained through pluralities in states not named Maine) lead to two options.
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  7178.  @donHooligan  It does not still stand, because Thom voted based on the two candidates who had an actual chance of winning. I have a sore back from time to time because I was sent to a war made possible in part by people who thought there were no real differences between the two major parties, when one of the two opposed that war. Lots of people made that same decision because of living in the real world. Thom supported Bernie while that was an option. Therefore, your point does NOT stand.
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  7179.  @donHooligan  Enjoy that feeling of self-righteous superiority that you never got your hands dirty with trying to decide who will actually govern. That 1% really, really makes a positive impact in the world. Oh, wait! No, it doesn't, because people like Bernie actually get things done and know how to work within the system, get what they can, and come back to fight another day.
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  7180.  @davidclawson4733  You are so right, David! I voted Bernie, and I wasn't happy that Hillary was the nominee, but I live in a swing state, so there was no doubt in my mind who was the less bad candidate, and thus who I would vote for. I have voted third-party on down ballot questions before. Strategic example: Philadelphia has seven at-large city councillors, but you can only vote for five. Knowing the Democrats run way, way ahead of Republicans, I used one of my five votes for the Green candidate. In 2004, I lived in WV, and I voted for Jesse Johnson, the Mountain Party candidate. Manchin won in a landslide, but if the race was close (the final margin ended up being 63-34-3), would I have voted for Manchin to keep a literal slumlord out of the governor's office? You bet I would!
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  7181.  @donHooligan  Absolutely! I did three years ago, and I'll do it next year. I was one of the 225,000 strong who propelled him to his nearly $6MM haul with $20.20.
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  7182.  @davidclawson4733  I've always been more of a "push the Democratic Party to the left" kind of guy, and Bernie has definitely accomplished that! He came to City Hall in May, and there were about 2500 people there. I decided to stay at the side, because I figured it would be easier to see him on his way out. For all of the talk of how he can't win over minorities, it was quite a diverse crowd based on race, gender, and age.
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  7183. Barack Obama was the most conservative Democratic President since Grover Cleveland (which will probably no longer be the case soon), and he got labeled a socialist. His signature domestic legislation was the Republican alternative to Hillarycare that Bill threatened to veto because it didn't go far enough, and it was labeled as socialist. Maybe we should stop worrying what Republicans will call what we do, because we already know what it will call it.
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  7184. If you let social issues override your economic issues, there's not really a lot that can be done. Even if the Democrat doesn't want to talk about social issues, that (and opposition to fighting for the environment) is all the Republican will talk about, and if you don't go along, you're doomed.
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  7185. I could believe that nobody asked a lot of the questions that he asks, but not for the reason he thinks.
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  7186. "When you are used to advantage, equality feels like oppression."
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  7187. And these idiots also missed the fact that Article I, Section 8 defines the militia (the thing that the Second Amendment actually talks about, and as someone who was in an actual well-regulated militia for six years, I am sick of these LARPers trying to take that name) as having purpose that include preventing an armed rebellion.
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  7188.  @TheKrossRoads  Rebellions are different than invasions.
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  7189. Animal consumption does not inherently contribute to the climate crisis. It can be done in an ethical way, so using that argument is throwing out the baby with the bathwater. I could also point to how nut milks are making it harder to fight the fires in California, but that doesn't mean that people should stop eating nuts.
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  7190.  @twoshedsjohnson8540  No, I don't mean forced. No one forced anyone to accept Medicare. In order to prove a political point about evil government Medicare, Mitt Romney turned it down in 2012. I think Dick Armey did the same thing. I am aware that it was started in 1965, but taxes for thr program did not begin until 1966, and she took it in 1971. Hence, the five years part.
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  7191.  @twoshedsjohnson8540  She could have invested $1000 spread out over five years and grew it 10- or 20-fold to pay for her medical needs for 11 years? The lengths people will go to defend a sociopath who turned out to be a hypocrite! Even if all that were true, other leading figures in the libertarian movement refused Social Security and Medicare, even if it meant going into poverty rather than being what Rand called a parasite when referring to others.
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  7192.  @twoshedsjohnson8540  Show me what part of the Constitution FICA violates.
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  7193. Ironically, the people who tried to do that became known as the radicals. It seemed like the Union just got tired of it after about ten years.
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  7194. ​ @tristanmaxwell8403  So, only those in the military or those who have a full-time job? The average enlistment for active duty is 3-4 years, so what about someone who joins at 18 and gets discharged before the age of 25? What about those in reserve components? And you don't have to work full time to pay taxes.
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  7195. ​ @tristanmaxwell8403  You need sources showing that he is a fascist? Read Umberto Eco''a 14 Characteristics of Ur-Fascism and tell me which ones don't apply to Trump, if any. As far as not seeing his fascism, I'd call sending his supporters to the Capitol to try to violently overturn the results of a democratic election is pretty fascist, wouldn't you?
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  7196.  @suides4810  Oh, I hear you. I just take comfort in the fact that at least he's closer to the end than the beginning.
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  7197.  @allygrint-potter6550  Fair enough. In some ways, they are far more dangerous, but Yang Gang bangers are the most annoying, and they will keep going repeating the same things over and over again no matter how many times you provide actual evidence from actual sources. I think a lot of that might just be that libertarian strain of Yang. Perhaps his supporters are bearing the sins of legions before them, but that is why I have that opinion of them.
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  7198.  @ubuu7  So, you want a VAT to redistribute wealth, but the rich pay a lower effective tax rate, and the poorest are forced to choose between their current benefits and his plan? If Yang was really interested in the redistribution of wealth, he would support progressive taxes instead of something that screws over the poor and is the equivalent of hitting the gas and the brakes at the same time for most of the population. And let's just say for the sake of argument that Yang is right about automation. And that, instead of giving workers actual power or requiring businesses to act in the interest of the stakeholder rather than the shareholder, the only way to do that is through the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend and a regressive tax. It turns out that he also told Ben Shapiro that "the magic of a thousand bucks a month is that it is below the poverty level for one person, so it forces people to work if they want any life of meaning." So, he is opposed to increasing it and wants to keep it as a program that is universal nor basic income. And if there aren't any jobs left in the future, we will end up with a few trillionaires and everyone else scraping by on less than the poverty level for one person. Great plan! Oh, and there are different levels of annoyance. Yours rises to the level of leaving out the asterisk. The worst are the ones who literally don't understand basic terms no matter how many times they are presented.
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  7199. Peter O'Toole got hosed in 2006. At that point, everyone pretty much knew that would have been his last chance, and he was better than Forrest Whitaker that year. A travesty!
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  7200.  @nihilistnick5094  Let's talk about that "message she is spreading to the right wing." When she first came to Congress, she made a name for herself by going to Fox and Bill Maher to attack Obama from the right. She went along with Greta van Susteren in comparing the Iran nuclear deal to Munich. She praised Tucker Carlson on policy. She went to Sean Hannity to defend Trump on impeachment. She went on Dave Rubin and agreed with the idea that she is the only Democratic Presidential candidate who loves her country. Is that really winning over right wingers, or is that agreeing with them?
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  7201. "We have more weapons than our debtors"? People who you owe money to are creditors, Dave. You're all about money, so I surely thought that you'd know that.
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  7202.  @Rick_Riff  At this point, I have to wonder if you want Trump and are pretending to like Bernie. First, the superdelegates thing. If a candidate gets a majority of pledged delegates superdelegates don't come into play at all. Most of these candidates are background noise, because if you don't get 15% of the vote in a state or Congressional district, those votes disappear. Second, it takes 270 electoral votes to win. Not the most, 270. If no one gets 270, the vote goes to the House... where it will be decided by Democrats and Republicans. Do you really think that they will vote for Bernie if he runs as a third-party candidate? And he will be a pariah in the Senate and not get anything done.
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  7203.  @Rick_Riff  Pretty much every poll has only shown three candidates getting above 15%. If Bernie or Warren win Iowa, they are almost certain to win New Hampshire as well. Bernie has consistently led or within the margin of error in Nevada. No candidate who has ever won Iowa and New Hampshire has lost the nomination. If Biden isn't viable in Iowa, where people have to stay there for two hours and actively support their candidate, then he isn't winning South Carolina.
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  7204.  @Rick_Riff  If the people vote for Bernie, there is nothing they can do. It's easy to sit back and complain, but the harder and better thing is to actually do something about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjfRv4y1CBs
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  7205.  @happytomakeyousick4172  Plenty of Montgomery County schools still have mask mandates.
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  7206. Are we playing "say the opposite of the truth" today? Okay, I'll play along. Dear Leader doesn't look ridiculous with his combover and bronzer, and I miss his rants on Twitter every day.
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  7207.  @frivolousquan7085  Allowing unions is different from actually allowing unions to negotiate. Quite frankly, in a lot of states, teacher's unions have been reduced to little more than a benevolence society.
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  7208. And not everyone gets the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend.
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  7209.  @chriscurlett4548  TANF is over $1000 in New Hampshire. TANF and SNAP combined are over that Alaska, New York, and California. Daycare for two children in PA is over $1500/month. Housing subsidies are easily worth more than that in high rent areas. And these are just from the six programs that we know about. He has a list of 125 programs that people have to forfeit if they take his money, but he has only mentioned six.
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  7210.  @thewreckedup  I did read the original, and it doesn't change the fact that he uses a regressive tax to pay for it, and the poor either don't get it at all, or they don't get the full thousand. At best, it is hitting the gas and the brakes at the same time. At worst, it screws over the poor.
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  7211.  @keirenle  Yang keeps saying that we need the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend because there won't be any jobs. However, when Ben Shapiro asked him why he could be certain that his program wouldn't be $3000/month, he gave this answer at 23:52 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DHuRTvzMFw I'm sorry, but I am going to follow the Maya Angelou rule. He showed me who he is when he said that his version is either/or, he showed me when he picked a consumption tax rather than taxing the rich, he showed me when he told Dave Rubin that he ultimately wants to get rid of the existing social safety net (Grover Norquist called it "shrinking government to the size where it can be drowned in the bathtub"), and he showed me when he told Ben Shapiro that the magic of a thousand bucks a month is that it is below the poverty level for one person. He is a libertarian wolf in leftist clothing, and if he is right, his solution will result in a world with a few trillionaires and everyone else scraping by on less than the poverty level for one person. That is why I am so critical of Andrew Yang.
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  7212.  @keirenle  The VAT "works" because the poor can't fight back. We used to have an income tax that was much higher in this country, and the effective rate for the richest 400 families was twice what it is now. Corporate taxes used to be 32% of all federal taxes. Now, it's 9%. Don't give me that nonsense that he has no choice but to use a regressive tax to pay for it. It can be done if only we have the will.
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  7213.  @keirenle  You know what the beauty of a progressive income tax is? Unlike a tax on consumption, it is possible to make a system of, in the words of the lead sponsor of the Sixteenth Amendment Cordell Hull, "no tax on the amount needed to live, with a graduated tax above that level." My state exempts groceries, clothing, medicine, and diapers, and has some excise taxes, including luxury items. This is who actually pays: https://itep.org/whopays/pennsylvania If you are fine with a system where the poorest 20% pay nearly ten times what the richest 1% do as a percentage of income, that is your right, but don't pretend that it is anything other than a ridiculously regressive system that hurts the poor.
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  7214.  @keirenle  That may be your goal, but your policy positions make those things worse. Supporting a regressive tax makes inequality worse. Supporting a UBI that is neither universal nor basic income (and the people who get left out are the poor) makes inequality worse. I just point out facts.
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  7215.  @keirenle  You keep saying that the VAT is fair because "everyone participates." What do you consider fair about a system of taxation where the poorest 20% pay nearly ten times what the richest 1% do as a percentage of income? You avoided that subject completely.
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  7216. The problem is that the rest of us got screwed.
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  7217.  @williamsmith5253  The only way to get change is from the bottom up. Even if Bernie won, there weren't enough votes to enact his agenda. The squad is now becoming a platoon. The House passed a $15/hour minimum wage. Trying it your way gave four (probably soon to be five) Supreme Court Justices put there by someone who lost the popular vote but snuck in because his opponent wasn't pure enough for you. Meanwhile, the party that is supposed to be even worse has been funding the "pure" Green Party the whole time. If Bernie had won and couldn't get stuff through Congress, you'd probably be calling him a sellout. The reason we lose is because people like you don't understand how politics works.
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  7218. Sending postcards to PA voters tonight.
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  7219.  @singed8853  "The problem is that he knows exactly what he is doing." Marco Rubio-bot, 2016 debate
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  7220. 7:44 See: "climate change," a phrase popularized by Frank Luntz to get people to see it is something natural that just happens.
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  7221. In your fanboy ways, you missed the entire point. It wasn't how well Tesla is run, but the problem of going after public transportation and increasing the number of cars on the road which is supposed to be "making a difference."
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  7222.  @shermanballz  Great analogy! Mine is someone who wants to keep clean hands while ignoring a shooting.
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  7223.  @nickstein3129  Gerrymandering plays no role in a Senate race. Those are statewide.
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  7224.  @MP-db9sw  Indeed. Vote your heart in the primary, and vote your head in the general if the candidate you want is gone.
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  7225. I ran for the WV House of Delegates in 2006. When I got to the Republican strongholds, I kept hearing about regulations, so I finally started to ask for examples. A couple days before the election, I finally got one: someone talking about the red tape to put up a billboard. It seemed excessive, and I agreed that he had a case, but most people just got vague at the point I asked.
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  7226. @Tommy Vaughn In fairness to Pakman, his argument is that democratic socialism is closer to Allende, and what Bernie really wants is social democracy. Personally, I don't care what he calls it, just as long as he does great things for the people and makes the government work for the people instead of the rich.
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  7227.  @geekylove3603  Because Tracy understands that elections have consequences?
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  7228.  @geekylove3603  Tell me you know nothing about politics without saying that you know nothing about politics. I have a list above of some of the things that happened thanks to people like you who insist that there is no difference between the two.
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  7229. Then, the 118th Congress would literally do nothing. Well, except for things that the Senate alone can do.
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  7230. I have a union health insurance policy. Please, take away my Aetna! Maybe that way, instead of the vast majority of time spent negotiating trying to run to stand still on our plan, we can actually use that money for more pay and benefits, or maybe even a 30/hour work week. Give people leisure time, and watch morale soar.
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  7231. Sinema didn't understand that McCain only very rarely screwed over Republicans. She wants to do the screwing on pretty much everything that Democrats care about.
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  7232. If by shift, you mean "stop ignoring," absolutely. Smaller races often serve as a type of farm system to get more qualified candidates, and they help people learn the basics of how to legislate. If you mean "give up on national politics," absolutely not.
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  7233.  @psychobenji2345  Symptoms are lesser and fatalities are nearly nonexistent for the vaccinated who contract coronavirus. If it wasn't for shortsighted people like you, this would be over and done with by now.
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  7234.  @J.CashDro  Because people recover all the time. Worst case scenario is that he can't do it and Josh Shapiro will name his successor. With Oz, I'm getting stuck with six years of someone who will enable fascists and make life easier for scam artists like himself. I'd rather have the hope of something better with Fetterman than the guarantee of something worse with Oz.
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  7235.  @kevintse2870  You mean people who actually read the details and didn't get blinded by his offers of checks?
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  7236. I think Mississippi was six. I don't think that it will be turning blue in the near future, but if Republicans have to sweat races in Mississippi, that is less money to shore up candidates in places like Ohio.
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  7237. ​ @RedXlV  Indeed. The last period of major deflation we had in this country was the Great Depression. We also briefly had deflation in 2009.
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  7238. He needs to Google Jim Fixx.
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  7239.  @TheMaxKids  Actually, it was her grandfather.
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  7240.  @Ron_DeForest  What does her sexual preference have to do with her stances on economic issues? It's not like she was running as the Bernie of the Southwest. That's what Bernie meant when he was taking questions, and someone basically said, "I'm Latina, so how do I get people to vote for me?" and he said that it wasn't enough to talk about identity, but to talk about what you will do for the people, and the fake woke types implied that this was him being sexist and racist.
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  7241.  @AshS85  She might not fear losing moderate voters, but she certainly fears losing that sweet, sweet corporate cash. She started off her political life as a Green and has moved further and further to the right. In her mind, she was rewarded for this. Why change now?
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  7242.  @MsNickie1001  They aren't really very effective.
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  7243.  @sheilaboston7051  Indeed. The goal isn't an ideological purge. The goal is to get the candidate "farthest to the left who can win." Some people don't seem to understand that in West Virginia, that is Joe Manchin. Arizona can do better, so primary her with all your might. For Manchin, the only real goal is to pull him to the left a little.
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  7244.  @sheilaboston7051  My dollar says Jim Justice is his most likely successor. If they think Joe Manchin is bad, wait until they see him.
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  7245.  @respectedlocalgentleman7108  I don't think discrimination so much as Sugar Ray was the golden boy, and pretty much everyone knew that Hagler was on his way out after the fight if he won.
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  7246.  @davelanger  I'd argue he fell out down the rabbit hole after 2016.
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  7247.  @Alex__Blocker  Because he traffics in a lot of this nonsense.
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  7248.  @TheClayCoKid  A couple months ago, I went back through every one of Krystal's Radars in chronological order. It took me nine of her being critical of Biden and Democrats before finding one of her critical of Trump and Republicans. Saagar didn't have nearly that ratio.
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  7249.  @TheClayCoKid  I voted for Bernie, and I actually did the work. However, Bernie did not get the most votes. Coalescing around one candidate is something that people do to win elections. It's called being smart. If Elizabeth Warren wasn't controlled opposition, she would have dropped out after New Hampshire and endorsed Bernie. If he had a showing as poor as hers in New Hampshire, he would have done so, because he is an honest person. Maybe if lefties would have coalesced around a candidate in MA-4, we wouldn't be stuck with such a horrible candidate. If you think that is the equivalent of kidnapping children, forced sterilization, stormtroopers kidnapping peaceful protesters, and ignoring the effects of coronavirus, you clearly have your priorities all wrong, and are just fine with people suffering because you didn't get your way. Maybe you don't understand me because I'm not a psychopath.
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  7250. Does he have a YouTube channel?
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  7251. I would call Jimmy Dore's mind crap, but manure is useful. His is toxic waste. And sucking up to Tom Cruise? He's not going to put you in his movies.
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  7252. 12:43 A lot of fruit gets imported, especially in the winter.
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  7253.  @y3ee3e  And a majority (51% of opponents, 55% of supporters) literally think they can have private insurance with Medicare for All. We have a lot more education to do.
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  7254.  @ckpalmeiras1318  That's not how it works in Canada, and that's not how it works in Bernie and Jayapal's bill, which is the one that these concern trolls are saying we need to push a vote on. It bans private insurance for things that Medicare for All pays for. Thank you for proving my point that we need to have an education campaign before we push for a vote so there isn't any backlash for people who feel like they were duped or were just expressing vague support for universal healthcare but balk at the details.
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  7255.  @ckpalmeiras1318  No, it's not. Perhaps you may not have understood my original post, but Medicare for All is not a generic term for universal healthcare. It is a specific bill that is being sponsored in Congress with Bernie as the lead sponsor in the Senate, and Pramila Jayapal as the lead sponsor in the House. That bill specifically bans competing private insurance. What your particular system looks like is completely irrelevant to that question. If a majority of people think it doesn't, or that it is a generic term for universal healthcare, then any attempt to push that particular bill will fail.
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  7256. If you live in a safe state, have at it. If you don't, you are literally saying that you are fine with a fascist dictatorship that will include a Supreme Court that overturns any good thing we can ever get through Congress, all because you didn't get what you want. The squad is in the process of becoming a platoon, but you're too blind to see it. Considering that Greens and Republicans often work hand in hand on things like ballot access, and Green Presidential candidates tend to hang out in swing states instead of running their numbers up in places like California and New York should tell you that the Green Party as it exists now is nothing more than a Republican stalking horse.
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  7257.  @robertknoll9641  He is the appendix. He serves no purpose, but he can kill you.
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  7258. The wide shot for C-SPAN exists because Gingrich went to the floor in the middle of the night and said "the other side remains silent" in the face of some accusation. When Tip O'Neill found out the next day, he was so mad that he immediately ordered the camera operator to do a wide shot to show people that Newtie was talking to an empty room.
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  7259. How are they "not going to allow it"? If enough people vote for a lefty, they will have no choice. Don't you get that all this conspiracy mongering does is make people more hopeless and less likely to work to actually get the candidate they want and gets us nowhere? Either there are a lot of people on the far left who have no tactical understanding (which is a big part of why the right keeps winning even though the American people disagree with them on almost everything) or there are a lot of right-wing trolls pretending to be lefties to discourage people from actually getting the policies they want.
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  7260.  @nickmeistersa123456  Again, I ask how. This conspiratorial thinking is how centrists get nominated, and right-wingers get elected. If you don't like that Biden is leading in the polls, I have a simple solution: get out there and volunteer for the candidate you want so he won't be in the lead. Be an adult and, as the person above me said, show some agency.
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  7261.  @arobertpetersen  Superdelegates are members of the DNC, who get elected at the state level, and elected officials. And are you aware that, if a candidate gets a majority of pledged delegates, their vote doesn't count at all? Are you also aware that they would total about 15% of the total delegates if it does go into the second round, and pledged delegates would be bound through the first two ballots? So, once again, how are they going to pick their candidate? How are they going to proceed in a way that says that the votes won't count at all? I repeat, if you want someone to win the nomination, go out and actually work to help that candidate instead of talking about how hopeless it is.
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  7262. I got into arguments with plenty of people insisting that they a) weren't the aggressors, and b) even if they did invade, it's just Blood and Soil and Lebensraum, so what's the big deal?
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  7263. ... with a job on Fox.
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  7264.  @Caseylawton  If you take at-will employment, it is not a mutual agreement. You can be released for any reason or no reason. If you work for a union, any firing must be for cause. So, you care more about the boss being upset because someone points out the obvious and negotiates for fair treatment? "Thank you, sir! May I have another?"
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  7265.  @5PctJuice  Also, I would like someone who has won a higher office than state senator. Congressional district or higher is a minimum in my opinion.
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  7266.  @5PctJuice  My preference is Tammy Baldwin. She has a solid record and will help shore up Wisconsin and maybe Michigan and Iowa. I am fine with governors as well. I went with the description I did because statewide is a larger electorate than all but seven Congressional districts.
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  7267.    Bernie goes on Fox to correct their lies and give people the truth. Tulsi goes on to suck up to hosts and repeat their talking points. YOUge difference.
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  7268. I felt sorry for his wife when she had to tell him that Cardi B is describing a medical condition to spare his feelings.
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  7269.  @zo62  Darn right! I get that he owes Clyburn, and Clyburn was mad that his SCOTUS pick got overridden for the best nominee since at least RBG, if not Marshall, but have a little bit of sense. I remember reading somewhere that, when Ed Rendell was mayor, Philadelphia was competing with somewhere in North Dakota for an FBI or USPS headquarters for a sub-department, and Rendell pointed out the percentage Clinton won in North Dakota and compared it to the 81% he got in Philadelphia (and the unspoken point that a Democrat can't win Pennsylvania without huge margins in Philadelphia), and the office went to Philadelphia. I get that Biden owes him for the South Carolina primary, but isn't moving it first in the primary schedule and surely sabotaging your chances at New Hampshire in order to appease people in a state you can't win enough of a reward?
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  7270.  @adventuresofnategabeandzoe  Show me someone who builds something worth a billion dollars alone. Until you can show me otherwise, you are talking about someone who either exploited tax loopholes, created a monopoly, exploited poverty wage, inherited it from someone else who did, or some combination of all of the above.
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  7271. Remember the days when the Cheney family represented the worst of the GOP?
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  7272.  @Nagpadawala  You mean a bill based on a phony scandal that criminalizes things that make it easier for elderly and people in rural areas to vote? You tulcels always insist that your hero is comically misunderstood, when it is her critics who actually take her at her word, and that is why we are critical.
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  7273.  @barbiquearea  They show intent. If someone posts a video talking about wanting to shoot someone, and then a week later does just that, it's totally relevant. You probably would have been one of these people insisting that it wasn't fair for Marcia Clark to bring up domestic violence.
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  7274.  @williamkelley1971  If that helps you sleep at night. You probably think there's no difference between enhancement and enlargement on photographs.
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  7275. During the post-WWII/Great Society era, the budget was balanced a total of four times in 36 years. The national debt went from 120% GDP to 33% GDP. From the Reagan era on, same number of times in 40 years, and it has gone up. There is a difference between investing in the future and padding the pockets of those who already have more than enough.
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  7276.  @joaodias2487  Because he even said in the interview that he hopes No one will "get into the trap," even though he admitted in his CNN town hall that the disabled will not benefit from his proposal. It is absolutely despicable to present something as helping everyone, while not helping (and maybe even actively hurting with his method of taxation) the weakest in society. Yes, society should value other kinds of work. I have no disagreement with that, but he is denying the full "right of citizenship" to the poor and disabled.
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  7277. Okay, if you think that Darryl actually had a point, some questions: 1) If people get to call their land their own country, do they have to pay tariffs to buy goods from the United States? 2) If people form their own country, and they wish to re-enter the United States, will they have to get a passport? 3) How can we determine that anyone's claim to land, and thus the claim for statehood, is legitimate? 4) Since all property in the United States was stolen at one point or another, and buying stolen property is illegitimate, why is the purchase of land any different?
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  7278.  @populisttrope9385  It is called "the fun half of the show" for a reason. In this crazy world, sometimes you just need to laugh.
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  7279.  @eddietheberniebro5503  For someone who claims to be a Bernie supporter, I find it ironic that you are defending a show that props up a candidate who he has said is a danger to our country.
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  7280.  @Aaackermann  It seems more like sarcasm, but it should have been obvious what you meant.
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  7281.  @ng38477  Heck, yes! Warren is my third choice after Bernie and Inslee, in no small part because she backed away from Medicare for All (as Michael and Sam have noted at length in other videos, but the cult doesn't care to watch those), but I have never heard her invoke a scenario from a TV show to justify a war crime, among other problems. Anti-intervention is not pro-peace.
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  7282. Ron Paul: No one can spout dumber conspiracy theories than me. Rand Paul: I'll show you, Dad! And instead of sounding shocked all the time, I'll sound smug.
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  7283.  @dudeguy7347  Okay, let's say that you're right that he "laid it out in the open a year before it happened." If that is the case, why did the thing that you said is the key section turn out to be wrong?
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  7284. That doesn't make any sense. If there was a DNC plot to deadlock and push it to the convention, this would be the absolute worst way to do it. A candidate has to get 15% statewide or in a Congressional district to get delegates. If you have ten centrists getting 3-5% each and Bernie wins with 50%, he would get all the delegates. The optimal number for such a thing to work would be three or four establishment candidates.
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  7285.  @Hairbrain  And where is this evidence that a majority supports Force the Vote?
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  7286.  @Hairbrain  I did read the polls. They also said that a majority thought that they could keep their private insurance. People like Tulsi Gabbard pretending that their bill was Medicare for All certainly helped with that confusion. And depending on how you word it, support drops as low as 37%. That tells me that a lot of support for the bill is soft. Re: primaries, if the Force the Vote crowd is too lazy to organize to build support for the bill, how are you going to defeat 104 incumbents in a primary? And why would that he successful? The candidate who threatened to veto Medicare for All won. And the UK and the US are not remotely comparable because there is far more party discipline there and the PM is part of Parliament. Show me a health care bill on nearly the scope of Medicare for All that got a second chance in Congress, let alone passed on it.
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  7287.  @Hairbrain  If Medicare for All wasn't enough to get Bernie the nomination, what makes you think that it will be enough to defeat 104 incumbents in primaries? And here's a hint, coalescing around one candidate is not a conspiracy theory, it's smart. If we had done so, things may be different (see: MA-4 for another example).
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  7288.  @Hairbrain  Are you incapable of reading comprehension, or are you just willfully ignoring anything that doesn't fit your narrative? Depending on how it is worded, support can drop as low as 37%. A majority think that private competing plans will be allowed. That is soft support at best. If you push without solid support (i.e., not half of people dropping their support depending on the wording), you are guaranteeing failure in a way that will destroy all the hard work that has been done to get the level of support that we have now.
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  7289.  @Hairbrain  "Do you support Medicare for All if it means higher taxes?" 37% support. "Do you support a single payer health insurance system?" 49% support. "Do you get to keep private insurance?" 51% yes for opponents, 55% yes for supporters. That is what we call soft support. To ignore that fact is an act of extreme political malpractice. If you try to launch a rocket before it is ready, it will explode on the launch pad.
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  7290. As did I, but I also did it for Wayne Messam, because he is the only candidate who is proposing complete and total student loan forgiveness, and I wanted that voice on stage.
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  7291. If it is universal, everybody gets it. If it is opt in, everybody doesn't. Therefore, it is not universal. Therefore, it is not universal basic income.
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  7292.  @sharonsmith1360  He's affiliated with whoever he thinks will facilitate his ambitions.
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  7293.  @doctorlemon243  You keep using that word. I do not think that it means what you think it means.
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  7294.  @doctorlemon243  Yeah, because a rich person is going to make a bunch of comments on YouTube. I get it now! You think that if you suck up enough, you'll make it in the club.
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  7295.  @doctorlemon243  So, Lincoln had it backwards? And workers can't be trusted to enjoy the fruit of their labor even though plenty of companies (including one of the largest in Spain) do so and perform just fine?
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  7296.  @doctorlemon243  What policies are dangerous?
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  7297.  @mandatoryhelicopterrides4596  Lots of people with hearing problems use technology to conduct a basic conversation, Aaron. Are you saying that they're all stupid?
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  7298. This is what the fake lefties like Yang never understood. It's not "forcing people to use the fourth best social network," it's that Facebook doesn't need Instagram or WhatsApp, Google doesn't need YouTube, and Amazon doesn't need Marketplace.
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  7299. I and quite a few friends of mine who went to grad school owe way more than $50,000. What about us? As one put it, "Your student loan is like a mortgage, except it's on your future."
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  7300.  @woodwood9411  His is not unconditional. There is a big condition: you cannot take any other government assistance. Rich people receive theirs through tax breaks, and that doesn't count against them, but poor people getting a check does count against them. At least describe what his plan actually is.
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  7301.  Trey Yula  So, the response is kidnapping children?
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  7302. So, that's why I've been seeing him so much more often.
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  7303. There are two candidates who stand a chance of winning the election. Only one is declaring his own defeat to be illegitimate. You can either vote to save democracy, or you are fine with fascism. These are the choices.
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  7304.  @truegrit2060  Doesn't matter how early you send it in if the ballot gets lost.
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  7305.  @penguinuprighter6231  And several background changes while staying in the same place in the shot.
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  7306.  @penguinuprighter6231  And Bill Murray
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  7307.  @MoebiusUK  "Yes, because low turnout wins get us concerned!" Said no elected official, ever.
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  7308. "God Bless the USA" is the name of the song. "Proud to be an American" is the hook.
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  7309.  @prodesu8607  He kept having Kyle Kulinski on because he is a shameless suck-up, and Saagar went on to repeat an anti-Semitic dog whistle while Krystal just nodded along. He knows which audience he wants to cultivate.
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  7310.  @cooprdog3793  Well, if Bevin loses, that bolsters my argument that someone can win on health care and running away from it cost that candidate. If Amy "Vote for Me Because Mitch McConnell Isn't Helping Trump Enough" McGrath is the nominee and loses (she lost a House race in one of the most Democratic districts in Kentucky despite outspending her opponent), are you still going to blame the electorate?
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  7311.  @blackbox3340  No, just 46% who decided to blow everything up.
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  7312. He once said that he wouldn't interview someone endorsed by Justice Democrats, and he has been railing about how the Democratic Party is irredeemable. That would totally backfire.
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  7313.  @jocksharerock7318  I think these people are just spreading misinformation at this point. Either that, or they are having a tantrum. I get being upset about Bernie losing. Unlike a lot of these people, I did everything I could to help him when, but these people do nothing and then get mad that the world doesn't bend to their will. John Lydon said it best: they are demanding to be ignored.
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  7314. That is so unfair! They were funny, and they constantly stuck it to rich people.
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  7315.  @TheTechnocrat78  I remember an odd thing about the polls in 2016. It seemed like when Moscow Donald did something really, really stupid (more than usual), Hillary's numbers would jump for a few days and then come back down. At the time, I wondered if that was because of complacency, saying, "Why do I need to vote for Hillary? She's up eight." In that sense, if the numbers closed a week earlier, I can't help but wonder if people would have realized that they needed to vote for her to keep that dummy out of office.
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  7316.  @jessizthebess4590  And Jesus was a socialist, so what's your point?
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  7317.  @ferret495  Americans did no such thing. The Electoral College did, ironically because the Founders thought that this was the way to prevent a demagogue from taking office. I guess their lack of trust in the American people proved false after all.
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  7318. @julian blake It always seemed odd to me that her voice dropped half an octave from 2016 to 2020.
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  7319.  @TheHesseJames  If you want to see who she really is as a "peace candidate," look up the interview where she is asked about torture on Indian TV.
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  7320.  @jenniferhunter4074  Well, technically, Senators are expelled (impeaching is what Congress does to other branches), but you are so right that it would have been easy to avoid knowing about this nonsense "plan."
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  7321.  @jenniferhunter4074  Here is the US Senate page that talks about where expulsion is listed in the Constitution. I was surprised at how long it had been for a Senator to be expelled (although some resigned before they could get expelled): https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/expulsion.html Here are the lists of members of each House who have been expelled: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_expelled_or_censured https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_representatives_expelled,_censured,_or_reprimanded
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  7322.  @darkdan3379  Labor has basically experienced a slow, painful death after the 2000 peace talks imploded. It is basically a battle between hard right and center to center right.
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  7323.  Blue Star  How does this contradict anything that I said? I just pointed out the beginning of its demise.
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  7324.  @Bmanritchie  So true. I remember when I was in seminary, and someone asked me what it was like. I think she thought it was mostly reciting Bible verses or something, but I remarked that I truly knew less than when I started because of all of the paradox involved. The response? "I guess too much education can be a bad thing."
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  7325.  @thebigpicture2032  His polling numbers were already fading. He initially dropped out because he realized that he would most likely get enough electoral votes to send the election to the House. Remember, you don't have to get the most, you have to get an absolute majority.
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  7326. ​ @Youngblood457  If you look at the map of the Republic of Texas, they already did split.
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  7327.  @marcrow9114  I know he was a Green Party candidate in Oxford in 2015 and 2017 (the British Green Party aren't Tory stooges like their American counterparts). I'm not sure if he is still active, because he is the older brother, but he at least was as of a few years ago.
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  7328.  @jackhammer3423  Lots of things might sound good, but there are a lot of times when if you dig a little deeper, the problems become apparent. For another example, look at how TABOR nearly killed Colorado's public university system until its repeal in 2005.
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  7329.  @Armed-Forever  Lots of things aren't explicitly defined in the Constitution. The people who wrote it were well aware of the fact that they couldn't imagine every possible scenario. Hence, the Necessary and Proper and Supremacy Clauses.
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  7330.  @Armed-Forever  As far as you insisting that the life of the woman should always be a factor, apparently, you aren't familiar with ectopic pregnancy. There is literally zero chance of survival, but if you try to carry, it has a high fatality rate. However, if life of the woman and not health of the woman is the standard, you would then force her to wait until it becomes life threatening, and that is just cruel.
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  7331.  @newbieprepper8451  And rioter isn't? I guess you believe in innocent until proven guilty unless it is a black person killed by a white person.
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  7332.  @rurdy2rk380  The real question is whether or not Biden will get the word out that "we did this" to get the credit for it.
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  7333.  @ltgsebg  Just out of curiosity, let's say that it's 1942. Hitler has announced his Final Solution. What do you think that the United States should have done? It's 1861. Several southern states declare secession in order to defend the practice of slavery, calling it the cornerstone of their movement. What should the Union do?
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  7334.  @marshallsweatherhiking1820  No, the people choose. Either you can organize, or you can whine.
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  7335.  @StephanieM772  What did David say about Tulsi that was untrue or unfair? He looked at her record, and based his criticism on that.
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  7336. Susan Atkins bragged about it to an inmate. Less of a story.
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  7337.  @TheCapn23  If they released the breakdown between board and membership, they would end all controversy.
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  7338. The Constitution is an important framework, but it was never designed to answer every single question about governance, and to pretend otherwise is a dangerous insult to our intelligence.
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  7339. Sometimes, I can't tell if Dave Rubin is a grifter who knows how ridiculous he is, or if he is really that stupid.
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  7340. When I moved to an apartment that had electric heat instead of gas heat, my Seasonal Affective Disorder wasn't nearly as bad.
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  7341.  @ericb.4313  If we could, we'd solve the climate crisis in a week.
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  7342.  @sharper68  Indeed. You cannot wait for fascism to die of its own accord.
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  7343.  @whynotstayhonest4706  Agreed, but only with those who want to come together. The ones who want to do wrong shouldn't be rewarded.
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  7344.  @user-os8sq3uh4n  McCain was a captain. A navy captain is the equivalent to an army colonel. A colonel outranks a major, and McCain held a combat position whereas Tulsi Gabbard is a medic. Not even close! What difference does rank have to do with anything? Is my opinion on military matters better than Gore's because I was a sergeant and he was a specialist? Is it less than any officer or former officer? She is isolationist, not anti-war. There is a difference. No one who praised Putin for bombing civilians in Syria (who he pretended were ISIS to help Assad) can ever be called anti-war. No one who defended torture using the scenario from 24 can ever be considered a "peace candidate." And where was her leadership when it came to invoking the War Powers Act to stop our efforts in Yemen? Oh, that's right. She just gets on TV, talks about being a veteran every few seconds as though that should insulate her from criticism, instead of doing what Bernie is doing and learning how to use the power that he has for good.
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  7345. Fetterman's fundraising totals actually went up, so people know what this is about. I'd rather have someone who occasionally struggles to find the right word with ridiculous time constraints who wants to make things better than a silver-tongued orator (which Snake Oil Salesman Oz is not) who is only out for person gain every day of the week.
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  7346.  Orphan Annie  The Nina talk seems to me to be borne of tribalism because she is Bernie's most vocal defender. That being said, it is perfectly natural to speculate who people think should be the pick.
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  7347.  @joshuaantony1975  Yes, everything would work out if she just left, because no one is ever going to exploit vulnerable athletes. Have you ever seen Foxcatcher? The reason something like that is possible is because of how poorly so many sports pay, and people just get sick of starving. The shoe companies are the ones who pay right now, and they are going to compete with Nike in a race to the bottom.
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  7348.  @nsdfancy  You're insisting that Nike bears no responsibility for a project that they spent millions of dollars on and used it to promote its awful shoes. If they are going to get money exploiting these athletes, then they are responsible for the dark side of it. You don't get to pretend you're innocent when you're the one writing the checks and vouching for the coach who did all of these horrible things even after he got suspended.
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  7349.  @joshuaantony1975  If they're not runners, they aren't relevant to the conversation. Different sports have different business models. Who are you going to point to next to prove your point, Carson Wentz? And do you really think those other shoe companies treat their athletes much better? Watch the video about the runner who competed while pregnant. She switched to Asics, but their policies were almost as bad as Nike's. Something else that you're forgetting: Mary Cain was 17 when she signed for Nike. So, not only are you defending exploiting athletes, you are also defending child abusers. Great look!
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  7350.  @joshuaantony1975  Oh, my God! You sound like a cultist. Literally, "You are free to leave whenever you want" as though blackballing and exclusive contracts aren't a thing, and you further prove your ignorance by responding to the question about which runners don't have shoe deals and aren't starving by pointing to athletes who have multimillion dollar contracts. It takes a certain degree of ignorance to say the things that you have been saying, and a certain degree of stupidity not to understand that Julio Jones is not in the same boat as someone in a field where 90% of all elites receive less than $15,000/year in prize money. Why do you think there are so few elite runners in developed countries? Maybe if you understand a little bit about how the economic model works and how noncompete clauses work, then you can try to not sound like a total moron when kissing Phil Knight's butt to defend such unconscionable practices.
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  7351. No, but voting to deregulate Wall Street is.
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  7352. Well, if Fox keeps telling them that, of course they're going to eventually start to believe it. After all, the Dear Leader told them that they have to believe him and not what they see or hear.
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  7353.  @IRuinEvrything  Are those people also going to lose existing benefits?
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  7354. A minority that has cast the plurality of the vote in six of the last seven Presidential elections.
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  7355.  @MCLogikILL  You mean the guy who got money from a war criminal to spread propaganda and deny that he committed war crimes? Great application of principles!
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  7356. @notetakerx430  Any time
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  7357. Glenn Greenwald has a lot more bad takes than people realize because of his huge libertarian streak. After all, this is the guy who lionized someone who gave Russia something to get to stay there in good standing for several years who supposedly cares about privacy.
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  7358. Perhaps, but he made the bubble bigger, which makes the crash that much harder. People should have seen it coming two years ago when the price to earnings ratio of the S&P 500 exceeded the P/E ratio during the peak of the dotcom bubble. Once the Fed started cutting interest rates again when the market went into bear territory, that was a sign of danger.
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  7359.  @TTownTim  It's basically their operating theory. They screw things up so we get our wings clipped. Then, because people have way too short memories, people give them a chance again >:-0
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  7360. Thank you, Cenk! Right populism is fake.
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  7361.  @grahamhancock4904  He might have more money, but at least I can sleep at night with a clean conscience.
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  7362.  @grahamhancock4904  He literally calls himself a liberal while trashing anyone to the left of Barry Goldwater and carries water for Trump. He also claims to be pro-choice while cheering the end of Roe v Wade.
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  7363.  @theinvisiblewoman5709  SNAP benefits are decided at the federal level and administered at the state level. I'm a caseworker, so that is how I know about the program where the federal government is guaranteeing the maximum amount.
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  7364.  @zotaninoron3548  You beat me to it.
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  7365.  @nateandrews2116  If you've ever seen the Manhunt on Ted Kaczynski, the investigator who brings him in tells him that the moment he realized he had a point about the power of technology was stopping at a red light with no one around him. It was an interesting series, but surely they could have found some better example.
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  7366.  @twonumber22  If they did, they wouldn't be Dore Knobs.
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  7367. Jimmy Dore is seen as a bad actor not because of a disagreement, but because he has years of evidence of proving that he is a bad faith actor.
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  7368.  @trombonecoach  So, working with NBC for distribution makes you a neoliberal and regularly going on Fox to attack lefties and praising the Boogaloo Boys makes you a working-class hero?
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  7369.  @rickyl7358  The crisis was caused by Moscow Donald and his evil horde separating families and locking people up in inhumane conditions. Oh, and everyone who makes an excuse for them.
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  7370.  @brandocalrissian3972  Apparently, you can't follow the logic of a simple paragraph, so I will break it into simpler parts: Your definitions of both democracy and republic are wrong. The opposite of a democracy is a dictatorship. The opposite of a republic is a monarchy. One has to do with who gets to make decisions, and the other has to do with inherited rule. The Soviet Union did not have inherited rule. Therefore, it was a republic. It did not give the people sovereignty. Therefore, it was a dictatorship. There is no contradiction, because they both refer to different questions.
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  7371.  @brandocalrissian3972  Yeah, and the definition that the dictionary you claimed to cite used the ones that I listed. Funny how mine have links and yours don't.
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  7372. @Kevin Leavey Well, there were people (creator of this channel included) who strangely thought that it would be a great idea. It should have been a no-brainer that someone who lets people talk and goes along with what people say is a terrible pick. That said, I think the real reason that Trump wanted him was that he wants more debates because he knows he's behind.
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  7373.  @Peppinr  We still have a democracy. Instead of being discouraged, organize and fight back at the ballot box. If enough people want it, and will fight to actually make it happen, nothing can stop it.
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  7374.  Illhan Omars brother's wife is Illhan Omar  The point was that Bari Weiss whined about how coronavirus was supposed to be over after preventative measures were taken. People refused to take the preventative measures. Therefore, the virus continued to spread and mutate. Therefore, her point was wrong. Yes, the fact that people pretended like there was nothing wrong and did nothing to prevent the spread are responsible for the virus still being a thing. Go cry about it.
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  7375.  Illhan Omars brother's wife is Illhan Omar  Yes, so that's why every time I see a look at the trend, the cases are on the rise in the red states where "it's been over for ages." Cleopatra isn't the only Queen of Denial.
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  7376.  @Deepstatedebate  Keep telling yourself that.
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  7377. Kroger, Food Lion and Foodland (depending on the town) the southern WV, and Kroger and Giant Eagle in the north.
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  7378.  @johnhand46  And your evidence was that "the DNC" funded her ten times what her opponent got. Someone like Omar gets a lot of grassroots funding. If the establishment loves her so much, then what is your evidence? You kept saying "the DNC," and then when I followed up, you said that, well, you didn't really know how much was DNC money. How can I know what your example is if the example keeps shifting?
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  7379.  @johnhand46  I didn't say that there was a conspiracy against Omar to get rid of her. I said that she is not the establishment darling that the anti-anti-Trump crowd is making her out to be. "Democratic sources" could mean anything. AOC proved to be the most prolific fundraiser in the House at a time when leadership was undercutting her at every turn. Raising money clearly does not make you an establishment darling. You're the one using that as evidence that she is.
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  7380. It looks like a lot of people in the comments completely missed the point of the video. Either that, or they know deep down that there is fundamentalism of all stripes, and while some of us who grew up in fundamentalism kept the faith and ditched the fundamentalism, they ditched the faith and kept the fundamentalism.
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  7381.  @juanasenjo8515  Also that Workplace Democracy will require employer savings from Medicare for All to be passed on to the worker. For most people, that is thousands of dollars a year.
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  7382.  @unitedfools3493  We'll see about that if we as a society live to see "The Tweets of January" get published.
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  7383. Did anyone else get a Bloomberg ad during the commercial break, or was that just Philadelphia?
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  7384.  @jorgecarrejo  Actually, the first to lose the popular vote three times was Henry Clay (1824, 1832, 1844), followed by William Jennings Bryan (1896, 1900, 1908). He would be the first to lose it three times in a row, though.
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  7385.  @gnova7  Trump gave him a tax cut. Why would him being rich lead him to help Biden?
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  7386.  @gnova7  Rogan actually said that, given the choice between Biden and Trump, he prefers Trump, so that theory is also harmed there.
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  7387.  @CK-jd7wo-test  "It is far easier to fool a man than to convince a man that he has been fooled." Mark Twain I have known people who got taken in by a con artist, and they would defend that con artist even as they gave more and more money and it was obvious that the con was in place.
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  7388.  @Dnxs23  What core principle of the Gospel are the Democrats against? I think you need to read the Rich Young Ruler, the sheep and the goats, the Good Samaritan, and the woman caught in adultery again. In terms of verses, the only thing in the Old Testament that is talked about more than the poor is idolatry, and if memory serves me right, 1 ik 14 verses in the New Testament talk about care for the poor.
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  7389. "Supporting gun control never cost anyone a penny." As someone who once ran for the WV House of Delegates with an F rating from the NRA, I beg to differ.
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  7390.  Inside Voice  Nobody said it overrides everything he did. That being said, if you don't give Biden credit for doing the right thing, he will see no incentive to give something to the left. Take what you can get and then fight another day. Taking nothing and letting things get worse screws you over. It's not a coincidence that Edward Kennedy said for the rest of his life that his biggest regret was not taking Nixon's offer on healthcare because he thought he could get something better when he never did in 38 years of trying.
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  7391.  @rbach2  Indeed. Give credit for the good and positive reinforcement, and we might get more things. If you are unpersuadable, why should he even try?
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  7392. I think that Workplace Democracy is probably a good place to start. I am honestly not sure where the line is between social democracy and market socialism, but I am somewhere in that realm. The would-be revolutionaries are a turn off to me, because if you support democracy, you should try to win over the people through democratic means. The people who get mad about the idea of market socialism as "not really socialism" are enough to make a lot of people say, "Fine. I guess I'm not a socialist, full stop." Look at the comments on the Jacobin video about a 21st century practical socialism, and I was liking the guest's points, but the people saying that it isn't the real thing makes me wonder if I really should want to be on the other side of social democracy.
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  7393.  @Roneck888  I know of a much higher number and percentage of unvaccinated who are hospitalized. Apparently, you're one of these dummies who don't understand that, on an individual basis, it was never stated to be 100%. You probably think that the chickenpox vaccine doesn't work because it's 90% effective.
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  7394.  @cher3093  In fairness to the people making the initial promises, they didn't count on sizable portions of the population being stupid and refusing to get immunized, thus allowing variant strains to develop, and dooming our chances at eradication.
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  7395.  @3ld919  Context clearly shows that either a) this is someone different, or b) the one you're thinking of converted.
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  7396. The Hughwaymen were Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, and Kris Kristofferson.
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  7397.  @copp214  Indeed. People don't really like rebranding. I vaguely remember when Charlie Sheen wanted to be known as Charles, Joey Lawrence wanted to be known as Joe, and Ricky Schroeder wanted to be Rick. None of them took.
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  7398.  @billbo747  Doesn't change the fact that it is far different with FPTP and a Presidential system. Even if we were to switch to a Parliamentary system, the Republicans would never split, so they'd still win large majorities.
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  7399.  @billbo747  Agreed, but a third party is a dead end in this country. The one possible avenue for success is to take over one of the major parties, and if you look at their records over the last century and the last few years, there is only one answer to which one we can take over.
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  7400.  @billbo747  What is this "we" talk? You didn't do squat. If you think a dozen or so people out of over 200 can complete a "hostile takeover," you don't understand how math works.
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  7401.  @billbo747  It takes 218 votes. I can say with absolute certainty that a dozen < 218.
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  7402.  @billbo747  I can say with absolutely certainty that she didn't guarantee Medicare for All, and her effort has been finding more sympathetic votes in the House, unlike someone who thinks that a couple dozen people holding their breath will accomplish anything. Funny how so many people who actually got things handed to them don't understand the work involved. Does it make Bernie a liar that he has been talking about Medicare for All for the last 30 years in Congress?
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  7403.  @billbo747  Bernie never said that he would do it alone, and Bernie is actually pushing to get things done instead of people line you who brag about what was handed to you as though you had anything to do with it. AOC eventually realized that forcing the vote was a stupid tactic, and good for you. Should people be forced to keep every bad idea they ever had, or should they learn and grow?
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  7404.  @Plethorality  After winning for over a decade. His mistake was the mistake everyone makes of underestimating the Russian winter.
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  7405. Yang has been running for two years, and he is not viable in any poll. You can mention Trump all you want, but he was already in the lead. Candidates don't go from 3% to a winning majority this late in the game.
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  7406. If you are fine with a fascist dictatorship (or not upset enough with it to actually do anything to stop it), you've already said everything that needs to be said.
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  7407.  @bellyhead67  You don't think that the man who said that Trump would be better than Hillary, talked up the Green Party, called AOC a sellout before she ever took office, called Cori Bush a sellout without pointing to anything other than that she got elected with a D behind her name, started talking up forming a new third party, and started this with the goal of "exposing Democrats as frauds" isn't trying to destroy the Democratic Party? How much more evidence do you need? And do not compare MLK to this fraudster. It is an insult to his memory and his legacy. MLK had actual goals and actually organized people so they could realize those goals. Did he call LBJ a sellout because he didn't put voting in the Civil Rights Act of 1964? Did he trivialize the Supreme Court? Oh, yes, Rosa Parks wrote a tweet that just galvanized everyone, and that's what caused the whole movement. I forgot.
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  7408.  @bellyhead67  English translation: I made a bogus comparison, lots of people on my side have made that same bogus comparison, and I don't like that someone pointed out that I made such a ridiculous comparison. MLK also didn't try to force a civil rights vote after the Montgomery Bus Boycott. And literally everything that I said Jimmy Dore did is true. If he isn't trying to destroy the Democratic Party, what do you call it?
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  7409.  @whoismsv8066  Indeed. Which means an awful lot of suffering before the supposed true lefties take over. Then again, he sees how much money the Green Party takes from its mark, so he wants his own sweet cash to pay for his $2MM house.
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  7410.  @mattjohnson1775  I guess you've never heard of Mondragon.
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  7411. Actually, members of Congress get ten nominations per seat. Very few people who apply to service academies don't get at least one nomination. (I tried to get into West Point, but I couldn't do eight pull ups.) Nomination is the easiest hurdle of them all to clear.
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  7412. It's almost like only appealing to your base alienates everyone else. Shocker!
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  7413.  @rileyfuckingrifle  Indeed. The people who insist that it is useless then get mad that they can't get anything done in Congress. Well, what do they expect if you don't try to get anyone sympathetic to your cause to actually have a vote?
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  7414. The problem with blanket approaches like mandatory retirement age and term limits is that it ignores the situation. Think an incumbent has been there too long? Vote 'em out! We did to Specter eight years ago. I've seen active and vibrant centenarians, and I've seen 50 year olds who act like they're already dead. It has to be a case-by-case basis.
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  7415. Sadly yes. Ever since that ladder puller Reagan busted the air traffic controller strike in 1981, we have been facing a hard battle. Republican Presidents just refusing to appoint anyone to the NRLB to avoid a quorum so they can't do anything to enforce the laws on the book doesn't help, either.
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  7416.  @timn5008  The Democratic Party has been our vehicle. Just because too many were asleep at the switch after the corporate takeover doesn't mean that people aren't on our side for the actual issues. We have a historical place, and people like Kasich don't.
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  7417.  @XHALE303  It can be, and there are times when it did. There are more of us than there are of them, so we can make it so again.
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  7418. Early in 2019, Howard Schultz was threatening to run if Bernie or Warren got the nomination in order to save his tax cuts. By June, Third Way said that she was acceptable. Coincidence? I think not.
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  7419.  @calixkinggaming7275  When I was a student teacher, the grad students were unionized. Despite the loopholes for the school that seriously weakened the union, in the very first contract, salary went up nearly 40% and the contribution to the health insurance plummeted. I'd say that was a pretty good exchange for 1.67%. And even if the union doesn't win pay increases, it does a) get rid of at-will employment, and b) ensure a redress of grievances, because the company has to negotiate with the union. If a union wasn't so effective at getting things for workers, employers wouldn't be fighting them tooth and nail.
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  7420.  @calixkinggaming7275  I'm pointing to an example of what even relatively weak unions accomplish. Funny how other than saying "it's not true" and "you're not listening to me," you're not actually saying anything about the situation. For all I know, you're a company stooge being paid to try to counter the organizing effort.
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  7421.  @calixkinggaming7275  And literally one of the first things that happens after a union is certified is the end of at-will employment.
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  7422.  @calixkinggaming7275  You're not actually saying anything. You just keep saying Union Bad and I Like It Here.
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  7423.  @Cindy99765  I don't trust her for her opposition to the Iran nuclear deal, her use of 24 to justify torture, her praise of Putin for bombing civilians in Syria while complained that Obama didn't, her love of Sisi for massacring protesters, and courting Sheldon Adelson and doing his bidding to try to get rid of his competition in the form of online gambling. And that's just before her campaign. Since then, she played both siderism on the shutdown and defended Biden on busing. Gillibrand has been more consistent since her conversion which was far earlier than Tulsi's, and people don't trust her, so why should we trust Tulsi (and based on her actual policies, not transitive property stuff)?
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  7424. He had the chance to be the next FDR, but he ended up being Nixon without the corruption.
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  7425.  @johnredding7728  It wouldn't be so badly needed if companies didn't want to weasel out of paying their pensions.
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  7426.  @bernhardriemann2700  And how many people are actually paying attention? The second choice of Biden voters is Bernie and vice versa. Until Harris cratered, the second choice of her voters was Warren.
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  7427.  Karen Byrd  Bernie has been a Democrat in all but name since 1991. He is a part of Senate Democratic leadership. Warren was still thinking that Republicans were the best party for markets back then. Now, she believes the Democratic Party is the best party for markets. He can call himself a flying poop monster for all I care if his policies are better.
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  7428. *slander to journalists
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  7429. Indeed. The highest murder rate per capita.
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  7430. ​ @paytondettmer7315  Indeed. The main difference between Trump and Jim Jones is that Trump would charge for the Kool-Aid.
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  7431.  @DANGJOS  He got it from a lie that Hill Shills spread. My proof? He said that Hillary Clinton had 40 years of government and policy experience. She was a Senator for eight years and Secretary of State for four. Yes, you could if you really wanted to stretch, argue that she was an adviser to Bill, but that doesn't make everyone else who advised Bill professionally qualified to be President. And he didn't say that she was unqualified, he questioned her judgment based on things like Iraq.
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  7432.  @TheGoodChap  So, the Republicans didn't get rid of the filibuster? Democrats got the Senate back in 2018? There really was nothing there with Russia? Yeah, he has a great track record.
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  7433. Well, Kevin McCarthy is too old to enlist now (42 is the limit), but true that nothing stopped the chickenhawks from enlisting when they had the chance.
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  7434.  @whyamimrpink78  You can minimize your risks. Lots of other places have done so.
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  7435. Hey, brother!
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  7436.  777killad  So funny, the people who support this kamikaze strategy suddenly think that 100 votes are just going to fall out of the sky because they demand a vote.
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  7437.  @kensuke0  It is about making it harder for others to do a boycott. Not remotely the same thing. I am not a fan of BDS, but I am an even bigger opponent of throwing the weight of the government against those who go that route.
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  7438.  @jimspy1001  He's running third party, so he's content to he irrelevant, except as a spoiler.
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  7439. I've been to several peaceful protests. Never once did I go to one where there was a gallows, people chanting to hang spmeone, or marching through halls with zip ties. I also haven't been to one where people flung poop on walls.
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  7440. PR: People should stop punching down. Also PR: AOC should ignore when Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama blame her for the loss.
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  7441. I went to Lancaster County with my daughter a couple weeks ago, and there was a Trump loving family with Trump masks on. I'd rather they share their Trump love than potentially share disease.
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  7442.  @Ginric99  Both can be true.
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  7443.  @craigcrawford6595  3/4 Of states have to go along with this lunacy.
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  7444. We already know about Maria Butina infiltrating the NRA.
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  7445.  @hourwagontoupeeferret6107  Only the musical. I've seen Mara Wilson in a few other things, and I've read several of her blogs and articles.
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  7446. Jimmy Dore trying to use the Fat Tony defense for fascists? What a shock!
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  7447. Sometimes, it's about putting down a marker so you can get reinforcements the next time around.
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  7448.  @tommccarthy3052  I saw somewhere that (run-off or general, I'm not sure) Walker only got 3% of black voters. For comparison, the modern low for a general election for a Presidential campaign is 6% (Goldwater in 1964).
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  7449.  @tommccarthy3052  It reminds me of the saddest and most shameful political statistic I have ever heard: even though he lost the run-off in a landslide, if it was solely up to white voters, David Duke would have been elected governor of Louisiana in 1991. At the time, most of the Republican establishment condemned him, and Poppy Bush even endorsed the Democrat, but despite all that, a majority of white voters in Louisiana were fine with the unrepentant former head of the KKK to lead their state. Speaking of Goldwater, since his landslide loss, the high water mark for Democrats among white voters was 45% by Carter in 1976 and Obama in 2008. And I actually heard people say that it's a mark against Democrats for not getting a majority of white voters in decades. Well, maybe if more white voters were ready to look at the honest truth instead of pandering and scapegoating, that wouldn't be the case. Republicans are scared because this is the only group they've got, and they don't even try to win over a majority of voters anymore.
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  7450.  @tommccarthy3052  And Republicans insist on people forgetting that in order to win over white voters who aren't so comfortable with such obvious racism (see: the infamous Lee Atwater interview where he talks about what you can say in 1954 that you can't by 1968). I remember Knowing Better did a great video about that. In order to get to the deeper truth when Republicans brag (accurately, but misleadingly) about having higher percentages as a party voting for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, he broke it down by party and by region (basically, did your state try to leave the Union a century earlier), and in both chambers, Southern Democrats voted for the bill in a higher percentage than Southern Republicans (it was either 0 or 1 total voting for it for the latter, although I'm pretty sure it was the former), and the Northern Democrats voted for the bill in a higher percentage than the Northern Republicans. It's just that the Solid Democratic South was still largely a thing, and that distorts the national picture. You can also look to the fact that, of the nine times Republicans nominated someone for President who voted or took a public position on the CRA, five were opponents (Goldwater, Reagan twice, Bush twice); whereas of the five people Democrats nominated with a vote or public statement on the bill, all supported it (LBJ, HHH, McGovern, Mondale, Dukakis). Ignorance and cherry picking are needed in order to get away with the switch.
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  7451.  @justthinking526  Either Biden or Trump will be President. If you really care about getting Medicare for All, vote down ballot for people who want it who are members of a party that can actually win, and keep doing it and helping other candidates who will do the same until that becomes the position of the leadership. The right decided to take over a major party and they get everything they want. Too many on the left listen to you, and we get nothing.
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  7452. The problem comes from the sheer numbers that are necessary: 2/3 in each House, and ratification by 3/4 of state legislatures. Because Republicans were the only side that really cared about the Supreme Court for decades, there is no way that they'll vote to get rid of the power structure that they benefited from.
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  7453.  @deanromanado5850  King was shot one time by a fan of George Wallace who followed him for months waiting for the right opportunity to shoot. What is so far fetched about that?
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  7454.  @jeremygregorio7472  The corporatists want to get the smaller bill, because it has a lot of things that they want. Manchin and Sinema have refused to reveal their hand. You don't negotiate with yourself.
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  7455.  @fredsanford1437  And yet Jimmy "Donald Trump is better than his opponents" Dore uses that anger to try to help Republicans.
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  7456.  @fredsanford1437  Refusing to vote for the lesser evil gives you the greater evil. In 1933, you would have been against the SPD and DKP working together. As far as the Presidency goes, since that is where third parties put the vast majority of their effort, there is literally zero chance of a third party candidate winning. Assuming they can either draw evenly from both candidates or build a new electoral base, the best they can hope for is to block a majority in the Electoral College. If no one gets an absolute majority, the election goes to the House... where it gets decided by Democrats and Republicans. But as much of a joke as the Green Party is, given that it is a coalition of grifters and useful idiots, at least they actually put candidates on the ballot. How many got on the ballot anywhere representing the MPP? Here's a hint: it's a nice, round number.
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  7457.  @fredsanford1437  Funny that you never answered how many candidates the party your hero Jimmy Dore started was able to get onto the ballot.
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  7458. ​ @cyberhermit1222  a) It was part of the Ukraine package: b) Support for the Likud government does not equate to whether or not one hates the Jewish people.
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  7459. I remember when she was a mezzo in 2016. Then, when she ran for President, she dropped her voice to contralto for some strange reason.
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  7460. The way Clyburn was pushing so hard for Childs, I thought she was a lock, so I was ecstatic when I heard that he went the way he did.
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  7461. So, the man who thinks that government is too much in Big Business's affairs is the one who is going to put corporate power in check.
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  7462. I wonder how he only ended up with broken ribs.
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  7463.  @03stmlax  Choice is not, and never has been, the highest value claim. Both are questions of competing claims. The right of a pregnant woman to determine whether or she carries to term > the rights of the fetus. The right of people not to get killed by idiots who refuse to take a vaccine > the right to be an idiot and make other people sick and die.
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  7464.  @SJSnowdon  You mean after spending $100,000 on an experimental treatment? But since you're talking anecdotes, the worst thing that happened to me after the vaccine was being sleepy and with a runny nose and headaches on and off for two days. What a nightmare!
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  7465.  @03stmlax  [citation needed]
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  7466.  @moonlightfishin4113  As opposed to Republicans, who find ways to funnel it to the rich.
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  7467.  @moonlightfishin4113  Define socialism
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  7468. He also points out that there are other things that need to happen before a universal basic income that is neither universal nor basic income: Medicare for All (real Medicare for All, not just using the name), the Green New Deal, free tuition to college or trade schools, building infrastructure, and a $15/hour minimum wage. And Bernie won't force poor people to give up their current benefits and use a regressive tax to pay for it.
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  7469.  @GTA5Player1  And Tulsi has some very, very questionable positions (such as her support for Hindu fascists in India) that will really hurt on closer scrutiny.
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  7470.  Gion Carlo Rossi  Umm... she was exonerated of any wrong doing, and he is still the least rich US Senator. If someone makes a six-figure salary for a quarter of a century, of course that person will have some money. That's not a crime.
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  7471. The rural-urban divide has broken our democracy.
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  7472.  @stephanieann6622  Are you resorting to tone? Yes, you eventually said that you vote, only after going on and on about what a waste it is.
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  7473.  @KEVINLOPEZ-np4kj  Then, why did Yang tell Dave Rubin and Ben Shapiro that he ultimately wants to get rid of the existing social safety net? Bernie is well aware that there will always be people who can't work and frictional unemployment. And Yang makes his program either/or, so as far as the nonsense that his version isn't regressive, someone who gets more under the current system gets no benefits and has to pay a VAT because Yang refuses to fight tax avoidance and evasion, so they will end up worse off because now they have to pay a new tax. And Yang told Dave Rubin that he wants fewer and fewer people to sign up, so the existing social safety net will wither on the vine. Or, as Grover Norquist put it, to shrink it to the size that you can drown it in the bathtub.
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  7474.  @KEVINLOPEZ-np4kj  Because they hate America and other Americans who don't look like them.
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  7475.  @KEVINLOPEZ-np4kj  Well, Yang told right-wing audiences that he does, which means that he isn't trustworthy.
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  7476.  @KEVINLOPEZ-np4kj  So? The KKK and the Nation of Islam have long had a relationship over what they see as common goals. The instant that Yang saw a synagogue shooting and started tweeting about how horrible it would be for whites to be a minority, he became the favorite of white supremacists... at least until Tulsi Gabbard entered the race and became the favorite of David Duke by playing both siderism on the shutdown and the wall, and failing to connect the dots with such rhetoric and child kidnapping.
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  7477. "I always want corruption!" The first time since the Fifth Avenue remark that Der Orangefuhrer told the truth.
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  7478. What diploma will give this guy a PhD?
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  7479. What specific spending do you consider "ridiculous"?
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  7480. The cruel irony is that the reason why he is still there is because there were rules put in place to make USPS less tied to the Presidency for fear that a hostile administration would fill it with people wanting to kill it. Kind of like how Massachusetts changed its laws about Senate vacancies for fear that Romney would appoint a Republican to succeed Kerry, but ended up resulting in Scott Brown getting a Senate seat.
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  7481.  @Plasmon19  Maybe people don't like the idea of living close to something that has plenty of problems with waste disposal and has a risk of meltdown that renders an area uninhabitable for centuries.
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  7482.  @Wildcat221  I was 2000-06 and in Iraq from 2003-04.
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  7483.  @Wucc2caz  So, the way to beat a right-wing fascist is with a libertarian wolf in leftist clothing?
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  7484. Rebuttal to people like Tim Pool insiting that money equals true worth: Mr. Bernstein: That man was a fool! Mr. Thompson: But he made a lot of money. Mr. Bernstein: Anybody can make a lot of money... if all you care about is making a lot of money. Citizen Kane (1941)
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  7485. I just noticed that the Gremlins replaced Gremlins 2 with a nudie movie. Amazing they got away with it.
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  7486. How many people did Tyler Hamilton harass or sue in the name of protecting his lie? Even if you grant that they are all equally guilty of doping, they are not all equally guilty in the cover-up.
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  7487.  @cypressbutane4575  What in particular do you think the punishment should be? Since apparently, we live in a Parliamentary system now, what should be done?
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  7488.  Christopher Nichols  McCain voted against the King holiday in 1983. Is that really the hill to die on for "judging someone by today's standards"?
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  7489. Not if we beat these fascists.
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  7490.  @jimmithyjr273  So, pushing a symbolic vote that you know will fail helps us how?
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  7491.  @jimmithyjr273  No, I don't listen to paid propagandists of the Assad government and RT who have proven that they don't actually want lefties to win, but serve as literal useful idiots.
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  7492.  @antonyhanson4479  The "so what" is that people will continue to suffer; Pelosi will say that she gave is what we wanted and we are unreasonable, so she doesn't have to give us anything else; no bill will come up on Medicare for All for years to come (it was 15 years after Hillarycare died that Congress took up a comprehensive bill on health care); and any good will for things where we might have common ground is now gone. You cannot build a coalition by subtraction. Instead of inquisitors, we need missionaries.
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  7493.  @ericthomas917  How is that "fighting for your beliefs"? What have you actually done to build support for Medicare for All?
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  7494.  @ericthomas917  I don't propose doing nothing or symbolic efforts to set the cause back. I propose doing the actual work, and when you get to 218 sponsors, you urge them to sign a discharge petition.
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  7495.  @antonyhanson4479  So, we are 100 votes short. How is that doing anything again? And, if you haven't noticed, you are following the idiot who thought that McConnell was holding the seat open for the Supreme Court just to let Schumer filibuster.
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  7496.  @antonyhanson4479  Funny that I keep asking the people who support this position what they have done to actually build support for Medicare for All, and over and over I get evidence that they haven't done anything before asking for a vote that anyone who is paying attention knows will fail. I have actually done the work, and I and others in Philadelphia got two members on board through our efforts. If you really want Medicare for All and not just to feel like you are doing something when you're not, look up the list of sponsors. If your member of Congress isn't on board, call, write, sign a petition, and talked to your friends, family, and neighbors as much as the pandemic allows to get them to do the same.
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  7497. ​ @teeminator30  New polling average is up. You might want to check before you gloat.
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  7498. We subsidize oil and gasoline, and we pay for roads, so his truck wouldn't do him much good without them.
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  7499.  @criticlyminded  Indeed. All it would do is give incumbents in lefty districts cover to neutralize their opposition. Apparently, none of them have ever heard of the legislative strategy of Catch and Release, or understood what Barney Frank meant in 2005 when he said, "There is no such thing as a moderate Republican in Congress. They may claim to only support the President 70% of the time, but they vote with him 100% of the time when he needs their vote."
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  7500.  @MrMarket1987  Sadly, sometimes that's the only thing that works. When there are established interests that don't want great change, it takes a generational (or multi-generational) effort to get it done. It took 20 years to get the income tax, over 30 years to lower the voting age to 18, over 50 years for women's suffrage, and over 90 years to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment. As Bernie himself said in 2019, sometimes we have to be willing to fight for change that we may not see in order to get a better society.
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  7501.  @MrMarket1987  True about the concern. What makes it even more frustrating is that five of the six Justices in the right-wing bloc (and four who voted to overturn Roe) are there because they were appointed by Presidents who lost the popular vote but snuck into office in no small part because of people who thought they were too good for the system and insisted there were no real differences between the two major parties, even though the second time, one of those parties was literally holding a seat hostage by refusing to even have a hearing on any Obama pick when the vacancy came up.
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  7502. "I didn't say he was smart, I said he was a cheater." Peggy Hill
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  7503.  Richard Dixon  *you're
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  7504. Well, nobody said he's a good lawyer anymore.
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  7505. Remember that this was the man who got in a controversy over whether or not he really attacked someone with a hammer. Maybe he's sedated in public appearances, and that is why he always sounds like he's half asleep.
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  7506.  @sawtooth808  Do you really like Mike Tyson, or are you just having trouble understanding the basic point? Or is it some combination of the two?
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  7507.  @oparei8725  Trump didn't get his agenda. He got McConnell's agenda. All he really got was the tax cut and judges, which is all Evil Turtle really cares about.
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  7508. Benny Boy got high off his own supply. Losing the Kansas abortion referendum despite the fact that they put it in Augudt where the only competitive races were among Republicans should have warned them what was happening. If that didn't, losing the NY-19 special election should have. Yet, they were convinced that they would still see the red wave. If it wasn't for the NY State Supreme Court voiding the lines drawn by the legislature (so much for the independent legislature theory), Democrats would be favored to win the House by three seats instead of the projection being to lose by two. You got what you wanted, but the American people didn't want you
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  7509.  @davidvoss7376  Clips of her interview with Dave Rubin already made their way to a PragerU video.
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  7510.  @mihmo2663  Recounts rarely move things very much. The only recounts I can think of that changed the results were the WA gubernatorial race in 2004 and the MN Senate race in 2008. Those were a change of about 400-500 votes out of millions.
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  7511. And the irony is that Hillary didn't call Tulsi a Russian agent. She said that Republicans were grooming her for a third-party run and Jill Stein is a Russian agent. RT and Sputnik do love Tulsi, but I think that she is more of a useful idiot.
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  7512.  tutenkharnage  In two or three years, they will try to throw him down the memory hole and pretend that he was never one of them just like they did with Bush. The difference is that Bush gave them everything they wanted while they gave Trump everything he wanted.
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  7513. Fortunately, enough people seem to have caught on, given that the polls have Lieberman at 4%, which means that Warnock has a good shot of making the runoff.
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  7514. I think this is the guy who called a few months ago to defend the policy of detaining kids at the border, so this time, he was content to give him enough rope.
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  7515.  @benzell4  Term limits wouldn't be a law. It would require a Constitutional amendment. You're looking at a 2/3 majority in each House, with approval by 3/4 of state legislatures.
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  7516.  @54tisfaction  There is no such thing as truly "by merit." Just saying it without acknowledging the myth of meritocracy doesn't address the fact. It might make people feel better that it isn't political, but it is impossible for it to be otherwise. I'm not saying that our system is perfect (far from it), but part of the problems of our system come from the myth that the courts aren't political actors.
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  7517.  @Anon123anon  Jimmy Dore isn't "our own." He saw which way his audience leans, and that is what he caters to. He pulls the same scam is Krysal Ball, but with the added bonus of bad comedy and a nasally accent so heavy that it borders on parody.
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  7518.  @deafforever3534  Any time
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  7519.  @jenwendy7  Their existing power structure.
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  7520. Bush and Trump did similar levels of damage in terms of their worst policies (Iraq vs. COVID-19), but Trump brought fascism out into the open, and that beast will be difficult to get back in the cage, so he gets the nod.
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  7521.  @kylejones8289  Indeed. I remember that the Bush Administration tried to use some sort of EC or something in Iraq to elect their leaders in 2003, but the people were having none of it.
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  7522.  Magnus Marz  The people who believed in that idea were ones who were never going to vote for Hillary in the first place. As far as whether or not it worked, it got Hillary to accept the idea of free tuition for people making less than $125K, and the platform was much bolder on the climate crisis. As others have pointed out, more Hillary voters in 2008 went for McCain than Bernie voters in 2016 who went for Trump. As far as keeping it a secret, I got plenty of e-mails from Bernie and various supporters encouraging a vote for Hillary.
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  7523. Gallego 2024!
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  7524. Legislative branch has usurped power? 1) There's a reason why Congress comes first in the Constitution; 2) Congress can remove the President, not the other way around; 3) Except for the Watergate era, Presidents hafe routinely taken more and more power from Congress.
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  7525. Remember in the early days of the Obama Administration when Van Jones was considered too radical to lead a committee on green jobs? My, how things have changed!
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  7526. Rarely, but the key areas are in the suburbs. Culture issues tend to help Democrats there.
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  7527. [In Dave Chapelle voice]: Oh, Number Two killed that woman.
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  7528.  @001101011010  I hope you get the money from your accident soon and that will help you out. My car got T-boned in Dec. 2019, and while I was able to get the money to replace my car after about a month, the person who hit my car did a disappearing act and the police won't give me or my lawyer the reports from the accident. As of right now, I'm looking at least 3-4 more months for that. Make sure you have your paperwork in order, because that's how they get you.
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  7529. When did Sam host with Maron? I remember he hosted with Janeane Garofalo with The Majority Report, but Marc Maron was the cohost of Morning Sedition.
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  7530. I heard Uncle Jimbo from South Park.
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  7531. So, you think that the police should do everything that they do now? Do you think that they should be arresting teenagers for not turning in their homework? Do you think that we should still be paying more for for-profit prisons? You can argue about its value as a slogan, but it simply means redirecting money to better places.
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  7532.  @jeffphakenewz8556  Agreed. We are just really bad at messaging. Why can't we have an honest version of Frank Luntz who could tell people that this phrasing is a bad idea. Speaking of global warming, I can't believe how quickly people on the left switched to the Luntz term of "climate change." At one point, Al Gore made that mistake, but now he calls it the climate crisis, as it should be known. I think we should definitely demilitarize the police, but why not call "defund the police" "smart policing" instead? This is just off the top of my head, and it's better than defund.
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  7533.  @Baci302  So, he's offended by Biden family nepotism, but not offended by Ivanka getting dozens of trademarks in Chiii-na? He has long had a libertarian streak, and the virus has taken over the host.
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  7534. "I mean, I'm evil, but come on!" Jason Sudeikis as Satan, "Saturday Night Live"
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  7535.  @Toad2943  I have been saying this for quite some time, and I will keep repeating it until people understand the rules. Splitting votes by having a dozen candidates would backfire spectacularly if the goal is to keep Bernie from getting a majority of pledged delegates. Here is why. A candidate has to get 15% statewide or in a Congressional district, depending on the rules in each state. If you have, say, eight establishment candidates still in the race who do not meet that threshold who get 30% of the vote, that vote goes into the ether. If Bernie wins a state with 40% of the vote, but only 60% of the vote goes to viable candidates, Bernie will get 2/3 of the delegates. A lot of establishment candidates makes it easier for Bernie to win, not harder, because the longer it takes them to coalesce around one or two candidates, the longer they will be defeating themselves.
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  7536. Early voting in PA isn't as big as it is in other places, because no excuse early voting just became a thing in 2020 and it has to be mailed in or dropped off at a few locations.
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  7537.  @j.israelsson  Increase their leverage for what? If Trump wins, there is no second chance. This is not a game.
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  7538.  @j.israelsson  Yeah, that's a pretty big asterisk that you didn't include in the first post. Even granting that, there were a lot of people in Michigan and Wisconsin who thought their state surely would hold in 2016 (probably PA, too, but the numbers were always fairly close). There were also people in Georgia who didn't think they had a shot in 2020. Surprises and realignments happen all the time. The bluest state from 1932-1996? West Virginia. The reddest state in American history before 1992? Vermont. But, let's assume that you're right and nobody inadvertently makes it easier for Trump to win. You've played it smart, and voted for a candidate who isn't actually doing any organizing (I'm on her e-mail list because I gave her a dollar to get on stage in 2019, and she pretty much disappeared for three years, whereas Bernie focused on his job, kept people going about issues, and endorsed down ballot candidates) and she gets maybe 5% of the delegates if she's really lucky, and West doesn't play spoiler, and he even gets the Green Party matching funds, what exactly does that accomplish? Maybe you missed the part of the video where the last third party to get matching funds fell from 8.5% in 1996 to 0.43% in 2000, and was basically dead by the next election cycle. In American history, only Perot ever got 5% in consecutive elections, and he fell from 19% without matching funds to 8.5% with them.
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  7539.  @j.israelsson  There is, but third-party Presidential campaigns ain't it. Any movement worth anything starts from the ground up, but it takes time, and it takes work, and any time I ask the people who say they gave up after Bernie didn't become President what they did, with one exception, I either get silence or excuses. It took the right 16 years after Goldwater lost to take charge, and they had money on their side. If people are truly committed to their ideals and making things better, they need to stop being so lazy. I did everything I could to help Bernie win in 2020, and in 2022, I came back to help a friend try to win a state senate seat and this year tried to help a mayoral candidate. This fall, I might be helping a township council candidate.
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  7540.  @armondtanz  You mean the guy who says "facts don't care about your feelings" and then has a temper tantrum when asked follow up questions by a famously Tory journalist, calling him a liberal, bragging about hiw popular he is, and storming out of the studio? That guy doesn't use "feelings"?
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  7541.  @armondtanz  And the guy who is saying that society is out of control and going down the road to ruin if we don't listen to him isn't guilty of it? "So [you're] making the point that he is a human with feelings and not an AI Sentient?" The point is that he's the one whose brand is "facts don't care about your feelings," and yet everything he does is based on emotional appeal, but he pretends that he is being logical. If you think that pointing out the documented harms of policies that he and others like his is nothing more than an emotional appeal, then it seems like you just want your conscience salved. Anyone can make a lot of money trying to convince greedy people that their greed is justified.
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  7542.  @yelnatsch517  Where did you read or hear that Jordan Peterson "is one of the most cited psychologists in the world"? And what criteria are using, comment sections or peer-reviewed studies?
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  7543. Considering that most of the Mothman tourist attractions came to be after the 2002 movie, I think it's a safe assumption that they didn't make it up in 1966 for tourism, have no sightings after the 1967 Silver Bridge collapse, and sit on it for 35 years.
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  7544.  @whovianhistorybuff  His state was not one that tried to secede. That being said, how many more secession movements would there have been if this one had succeeded, not to mention the fact that the literal reason for being for the Confederacy was the right to own people of a different skin color.
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  7545.  @marquisdelafayette1929  CNN, but the signs of Yang selling out were there from the beginning. From calling his joke of a health care proposal Medicare for All because the name was popular to using a regressive tax to pay for his signature proposal to praising Biden to saying one thing to left-wing audiences and another to right-wing ones, it was obvious all along that he was a con artist. Some of us just saw it sooner than others.
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  7546. @valkyrie321  Indeed. Otherwise, it's pretty obvious that it's MAGA-speak for "programs I don't like."
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  7547. Really, Mitch? You're the one who held things up because you wanted businesses to force workers to come back with no accountability if they get sick. Hopefully, the American people are not stupid enough to fall for your lies.
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  7548. What's next, are you going to say that Chuck Lorre produces great comedies? A lot of people watched nonsense like Two and a Half Men and The Big Bang Theory for a long time. Doesn't make them any better.
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  7549.  @markusmiekk-oja3717  Or it could be a case of using fundamentalist Christians to achieve his aims. If he lived in Israel, he would drop the "Christian" part in a heartbeat. If someone wanted to give a charitable interpretation of what he said, you could point out that Hammurabi had different rules for people based on class whereas the Torah has the same level of punishment for free people, so it was a move toward equality under the law. And a lot of rules for the Levites and Cohenites were because they were supposed to take care of the Temple. Civil law does apply to everyone in the Torah, though. I think that accepting Yeshua as the Messiah would just be a step too far for him. As bad as his takes may be, he does seem to believe them.
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  7550.  @jonathonschultz5490  The moment that I realized that there was a lot about my native state (which actually went blue more often than any state in the union from 1932-96) was when Rahall lost re-election in 2014. I think that Manchin has won because a) he is literally the best retail politician I have ever seen in terms of working a room (people who are older say that Byrd was better, but the time I first saw him in 1999, the room came to him and he didn't have to work it), and b) he seems adept at doing just enough to hold off primary challengers while holding enough crossover voters to win. Did these people want to primary Doug Jones or Ben Nelson, or did they realize that was probably the best they could get?
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  7551.  Andrea MENDENHALL  You have the internet because of Defense researchers. Private companies don't make infrastructure because there is no benefit for them to handle the load while others benefit. Of course, you think it's correct. Still doesn't mean that it's based any less on ignorance than it is.
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  7552.  @Nine-Signs  Jimmy Dore has such a great take on foreign policy that, when defending Tulsi Gabbard, said "who cares, it's just India" in response to her latest apologia for the Modi government. He also spoke highly of Bolsonaro. This is really the guy who has his finger on the international pulse? As far as the domestic one, starting a new party just doesn't work as a model for change. We have a two party system because of our electoral rules. The only thing that has ever worked short of one party absolutely collapsing is doing actual work to take over one of the major parties. If Jimmy Dore really believes in building a new party to change things rather than being a useful idiot, where are the interviews with people who are trying to build a third party? Where is the acknowledgment that one of the major parties keeps using one of the third parties (that he voted for in 2016, no less) as a prop to help them win elections?
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  7553. My favorite Elon Musk dud was his bragging that he had bulletproof glass, and it shattered after he lobbed a softball at it. Then, he threw it again, with the same result.
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  7554.  @michellesvintagelibrary  Agreed with the problems with austerity measures. That being said, if we get it done in a way that indexes it to inflation will mean nothing but good because we don't have to keep having this fight.
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  7555. FDR won election complaining about the budget deficits in 1932, and his 1937 budget proved that was where his heart was, but he got pulled. It is our job to do the pulling.
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  7556. The tendency to self-sabotage is unbelievably frustrating.
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  7557. No, he's in the pocket of King Coal.
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  7558.  @sergeikhripun  That means that only the coronavirus Itself would be covered by Medicare. Are you just continuing on because you are hoping that probability kicks in sooner or later and you get something right? It only took Bill Kristol about 20 years.
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  7559. It only takes a few.
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  7560. @Lisa Vivera You do realize that the bill cuts childhood poverty in half, right? Should we just ignore that?
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  7561. You forgot that it is Jeb! You always add the exclamation point at the end.
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  7562.  @luke5058  And it's not about whether or not one of the other is worse. It's about knowingly spreading a potentially fatal disease.
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  7563.  @luke5058  I gave other examples of "surrendering bodily autonomy." Vaccine mandates in America are as old as the Revolutionary War, not counting going back to some communities that required variolation early in the 18th century, which requires far more risk than vaccines. We literally wouldn't have a country if not for vaccine mandates.
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  7564.  @luke5058  Washington required smallpox vaccines for all soldiers in 1777. And the difference between the "natural immunity" for smallpox and coronavirus is that you can only get smallpox once. Lots of people have gotten coronavirus more than that.
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  7565.  @luke5058  Who said anything about citizens abroad? And, yes, vaccinated people get it, too, but at lower rates and less severe as a whole than unvaccinated people, and if people would have gotten vaccinated in the first place, we wouldn't have to worry about people learning the Greek alphabet to figure out which variant is next, and it would be over now, but the My Free-dumb crowd wants to kill themselves to own the libs... which would be fine if they only endangered themselves, but that is not the case.
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  7566.  @luke5058  No, there is no evidence that you like. All viruses mutate the more hosts they encounter. If you don't understand that, you need to change your username to Donny, because you are out of your element.
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  7567.  @luke5058  Didn't say 100%, but the original required 70%, and the more transmissible variants require 90%. If nearly half the population are going to ignore the evidence because they are the embodiment of Sunken Cost Fallacy, that is problematic. There is a reason why the places with the lowest vaccine rates are getting hit the hardest.
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  7568.  @luke5058  If I were a drinker, and every time the same people who don't believe in bodily autonomy for pregnant women tossed that word around, I'd have to go to the hospital to get my stomach pumped.
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  7569. She's always been right wing. The Bernie endorsement was the mask.
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  7570. Der Orangestraflingfuhrer thinking libertarians care about the real-world consequences of their beliefs or actions? Priceless.
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  7571.  @aceclop  What valid points are today's Republican Party making? How is the far left in America (and the fact that Bernie, a New Deal advocate by another name) like the Tea Party and the Trump people?
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  7572.  @freddistenbrain8287  Ojeda was a Trump supporter in 2016 when he won his stste senate seat. He still lost handily, and he ruined his reputation by resigning for thinking that he could be President. He got all of 33% in the Senate primary.
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  7573.  @jprec5174  That's the logic Fox used to claim it was fair and balanced. Is that really the hill you want to die on?
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  7574.  @Apollo-p1l  These nut jobs are living in their own world.
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  7575.  @NoWay1969  My problem with Democracy Dollars is that it rewards better known candidates in high-profile races. How much of that would go to state and local races, where it is even easier to buy a politician? The Clean Campagin model (allow a small amount of seed money, set a threshold of $5 donations within the state or county for local races, or nationally for Presidential races), and give a candidate a sufficient amount needed to run a viable campaign. If a candidate accepts the Clean Campaign funds, he/she cannot take any outside money, and if a privately-funded candidate raises more, you get matching funds.
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  7576.  Ash Win  First of all, not everyone gets the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend. For those people, any tax on consumption at all will negatively affect them. Second of all, progressive and regressive taxes are not defined by absolute dollars, but as a percentage of income. Here is a short primer on regressive taxes: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/regressivetax.asp Here is a broader look on those systems in general: https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/042415/what-are-differences-between-regressive-proportional-and-progressive-taxes.asp Taxing consumption is inherently regressive because the rich have the luxury of not spending all of their money. The best you can do is try to make it less regressive. An example: my state exempts groceries, clothing, medicine, and diapers. It has other excise taxes, some of which are on luxury items. The end result? The poorest 20% pay 6.6% of income in those taxes while the richest 1% pay 0.7%: https://itep.org/whopays/pennsylvania Considering that we now have a situation where the richest 400 families paid a lower effective tax rate than the poorest half of Americans tells me that this is not the time to make that disparity even worse: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/americas-richest-400-families-pay-a-lower-tax-rate-than-the-middle-class/
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  7577.  @lisakida2485  I like Yang, and I'm glad that he qualified for the debates, but he is lacking on several issues that aren't UBI. For example: his counter to Bernie's public school tuition plan is a repayment of loans at 10% of income for ten years, with no talk of deductions for things like the poverty level (even saying that people could use UBI to pay them off) and he said Bernie should include trade schools and vocational training. Here's the thing: Bernie's plan does include trade schools and vocational training.
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  7578.  @TwiztedDezign  There are fascists who are trying to destroy them. I'm not opposed to converts, but this is not the time to put aside the 99 to try to win over the one.
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  7579. Remember when people were praising Tucker Carlson for taking the coronavirus seriously? I guess that came to an end once he saw his stock portfolio for the quarter.
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  7580.  @2727rogers  "Catholic" means universal. There are Catholic churches that are not Roman Catholic, but they tend to be Eastern (I have seen a couple Armenian Catholic churches in the Philadelphia area).
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  7581. The Take: Keeping your past a secret is bad. Also The take: Speaking of keeping secrets, check out our sponsor!
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  7582. Or maybe instead of reflexively take a position, do your best to look at the evidence. It was one thing to be skeptical when Biden first started warning people, but once Russian tanks started camping out at the border, it should have been obvious to anyone looking what Putin was about to do.
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  7583.  @Killjoy.Z  Oh, yes, a placebo. That must be why my idiot uncle insisted that he "wouldn't be a Guinea Pig" and a month or two later he got coronavirus and was begging for the monoclonal antibodies, another idiot uncle said that coronavirus wasn't real until he got it, and my idiot brother said it no good and got it twice, giving coronavirus to my niece, while my ex-wife had a breakthrough case and my six-year-old daughter who was around her didn't get the coronavirus at all. It must be why the unvaccinated are the ones clogging the emergency rooms while the vaccinated have much milder symptoms.
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  7584.  @Manguin21  I saw her at a DSA event where she had the audience eating out of her hand. Just because she's better at hiding the grift doesn't mean it isn't there.
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  7585. I remember someone coming to a union meeting two or three years ago trying to advertise for a work field trip to a farm in Cuba because "they show a different system exists." Yeah, it's different, but not necessarily better.
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  7586. We also need to resurface that old clip of him on a debate stage saying "wages are too high in America." Instead of him mocking the disabled reporter, that should have been the bumper to every Hillary ad going after Trump.
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  7587.  @deathstriker9076  Also, Tulsi is not anti-war. She is an isolationist. Not remotely the same. No one anti-war supports torture or ever has. We were critical of Tulsi because she was a fake. Her platform was to the right of every candidate not named Michael Bloomberg, and she appealed to the farthest right wing crowd in the primary. The way her cult treated her also had a role to play, which is also part of why there was a lot of criticism about Yang and pointing out that his UBI is right wing. Yes, AOC talked about forcing a vote before she got elected, but eventually she realized it was a stupid idea. Do you want her to have to stick to a stupid strategy for life?
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  7588.  @deathstriker9076  If you are going to demand leverage, something that is guaranteed to fail is stupid. Use it for something you can get. Paygo was got.
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  7589.  @deathstriker9076  We already have a list. We know it will fail. So, in exchange for getting something that is meaningless, given that you will get people giving a lot of fake Yes (which leads to demagogues like Tulsi Gabbard fooling people even as she is raising money for PragerU), you are destroying the goodwill of people you need to actually get things done. We are not the Freedom Caucus. We want things done. You just want to stop everything so you can pretend to be pure.
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  7590. If Biden is the better candidate, why did he never make it out of Iowa the first two times that he ran for President? His poll numbers are a lot of nostalgia, but once he starts putting his foot in his mouth again, people will remember why he got 1% in Iowa in the first place. Running for the second spot is far different than the center seat.
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  7591. "It's terrible because they will take votes that get there a week after the election." Has this dummy never heard of a postmark?
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  7592.  @Maqboub1  Based on what? He already tailors his message toward his MAGA base.
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  7593.  @willromerocomedy  Grifters gotta grift. Just because he thinks his current one will work better doesn't mean that the inevitable "why I left the left" video isn't coming.
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  7594. By definition, if you care more about the result, you are at a disadvantage in every single negotiation. Would you rather no one care so you never get anything, but you never lose anything, either?
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  7595.  Hanna Alemayahu  I don't call them left at all. I call them anti-anti-Trump.
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  7596. If Warnock had lost, I honestly think she would have caucused with Republicans, which makes such a decision that much stranger. If you're going to twist the knife, it seems like you do so much closer to the primary.
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  7597. The top 1% starts higher than that.
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  7598.  @thisrichbastard.809  What are you talking about? Who is Jon Jones? If you've never heard of steroids in passing or other performance enhancing drugs, you haven't been paying attention. It wasn't just on the sports page when Ben Johnson got his gold medal stripped in 1988 or Russia as a whole was banned from international competition in 2016.
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  7599.  @le7mule21  And you are also missing the point that people can change for the better. Obviously, Santos and Luna haven't, but many have. John Wilkes Booth killed Abraham Lincoln, but his brother saved Robert Todd Lincoln's life years later. Should Edwin Booth be condemned for what his brother did or praised for what he did.
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  7600.  @jilliancopeland6825  [citation needed] And James Eastland was the segregationist in Congress at the time. Biden literally used the states rights argument to defend his position on busing in the debate. He could have said that he was wrong and learned from his mistakes, but he chose not to do so. And Tulsi Gabbard chose to defend those actions.
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  7601.  @hexum7  What is the correct context? The plural of "thesis" is "theses," and the caller didn't seem to know that.
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  7602.  @DireAvenger001  Or, just maybe, try to figure out a coherent argument instead of trying to change the subject every single time someone asks a question.
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  7603.  @notacaulkhead  Not yet, but he is good friends with quite a few grifters, and he defends them an awful lot. It's just a matter of time before he goes full grifter.
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  7604. Ask Kathy Griffin
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  7605.  @Zach-ju5vi  Well, then, make it so someone has to make it into the top two in order to make the final.
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  7606.  @Zach-ju5vi  Why would that defeat the purpose? It has been done multiple ways. Alaska's version is a hybrid, with a jungle primary selecting the top four, and then Ranked Choice Voting in the general with the bottom candidate removed each round. I remember reading about an election in Burlington when people were mad that a candidate in third place became mayor, but probably the version that I liked the least was NYC limiting voters to five choices even though there were more than five candidates.
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  7607.  @Zach-ju5vi  So, if you only have one candidate you like, don't vote for a second choice. If your candidate gets eliminated, that's the end of it.
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  7608. They also used to allow for exceptions for rape, incest, or health of the woman. Basically, what these monsters would allow by saying "only life of the mother" is that, if a woman developed an ectopic pregnancy, which has literally zero chances of making it to term, she would have to keep the fetus until either being forced to push out a miscarriage or until it became life threatening to her. This is vile. EDIT: I missed your mention of ectopic pregnancy, but kept the point about the end result of their position.
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  7609. Saying that Two and a Half Men died with Charlie implies that it was ever a good show to start with. It is a travesty that this show started at the same time as Arrested Development and 12 seasons to three for Arrested Development.
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  7610. And never even made it past Iowa, let alone New Hampshire.
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  7611. Criticizing Israel is not inherently anti-Semitic, but there is some overlap. When I hear someone talking about visiting the region to protest and refusing to drink water that came from an Israeli tap. That is at least in the ballpark. Same as talking about Jewish people in general.
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  7612.  E H  You support someone who has lied over 15,000 times. Try again.
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  7613.  @danielhood4062  Why do people like you continue to lie? If you thought that Trump had "mainstream policies," you clearly hadn't been paying attention for those 40 years that you were supposedly true blue. And, here's a hint: if you want to pretend that you used to be a Democrat, Democrat is a noun and Democratic is an adjective. When you never use the latter, that says it all.
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  7614.  @Bethynaee  I don't watch nearly as much of their Supernatural as much as I do the True Crime. I'm eagerly waiting to see how Ryan will scratch that itch.
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  7615.  @allieelectra23  That's ridiculous make up. If you notice, his hands are never tan like he wears gloves at the beach or something else as ridiculous.
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  7616. That's because Sam actually understands that you can't compare a bill to some imagined ideal. You have to look at the status quo and determine whether or not the bill is an improvement.
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  7617.  @terised  Yang had a list of 125 programs in mind that were either/or, but he only ever bothered to list seven that he didn't ultimately take back (TANF, SNAP, WIC, LIHEAP, SSI, daycare subsidies, and housing subsidies). Combine those, and plenty of people who are among the most vulnerable in society are left out, but they still have to pay a VAT for it.
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  7618.  @cgates2  So, the guy who lied about his intentions, lied about who would pay his preferred tax, lied about Medicare for All, and lied about his Venture for America failure should suddenly believed? And why is that? He specifically told Dave Rubin that the whole point of making it either/or was to get rid of the existing social safety net, and he told Ben Shapiro that he wanted to keep it below the poverty level for one person was so that people had to work (his emphasis, not mine) suddenly had a conversion moment to rival Saul on the road to Damascus? Maybe if he admits that he lied about so many things I'll believe him this time.
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  7619.  @ashesmandalay1762  Oh, he was worse than Buttigieg. Buttigieg at least changed the name of his plan. Yang called it "Medicare for All" up until the bitter end. More dishonest than Buttigieg is not a good look.
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  7620.  @schumanhuman  If you are getting $800 in SSI, you are probably also getting SNAP and LIHEAP, and possibly getting housing subsidies. There are many programs that are contingent upon someone receiving SSI. Bad example.
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  7621.  @SG-qg2pg  I think that the things that you proposed would definitely make any UBI proposal much better. In answer to your question, for one person, the poverty level in the United States is $1074/month. That's why I think that any UBI proposal would be better after we address those societal issues. It will also help determine how much people really need. The problem is that it is being presented now as the answer to all of these problems, but as my canvassing partner said to someone who asked about $1000/month in relationship to Medicare for All, what good is it if you get a big emergency room bill? (Sadly, that is definitely a thing here.)
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  7622.  @schumanhuman  Yes, Yang made it either/or, but his long-term goal was the elimination of the current social safety net. And this is incredibly problematic. Take a single parent with two young kids. That parent makes $20,000/year. Daycare for two costs over $1500/month, so this subsidy is worth over $1000/month, so you are looking at telling that single parent that either he/she can give up the subsidy and have to give up the job in order to get the $1000/month, or turn it down and see costs increase. Re: land tax, so you want to punish the rural poor? It's no wonder this idea came from an urban dweller who didn't understand how that would effect people in rural areas. For example, my brother bought a tract of land that is 29 acres because he wanted the trailer on the land, but you can't develop the land, because most of it is nowhere near a road, and it had an old cemetery on it. A lot of people in rural area own plots of lands that can't be developed or would completely kill the whole point of living in a rural area in the first place. Re: rent control, if it distorts the market and inflates housing costs, why did Toronto see its homelessness quintuple within five years of Ontario abolishing it? Not the theory, the actual effects of the policies.
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  7623.  @emileconstance5851  Thank you for your appreciation. You and others in your situation are why I do the work I do. Yes, I would appreciate a more generous system. The last four years, our church has had a program where we agree to reduce our food spending during Lent to the SNAP limit and donating the difference between that and our regular spending to an anti-hunger charity (we have picked Heifer International each year). This year, there was a 15% increase in SNAP benefits, and the difference was night and day. I get that it doesn't fully capture the experience because I know that it ends on Easter, but the previous amounts were ridiculously low, and then you have the people wisecracking about how expensive it is, but they wouldn't last a week, let alone a month and a half or permanently. After a while, I came to realize that the real Yang came out to right wing audiences, because there was no benefit in pandering to people who couldn't vote for him.
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  7624.  Xeccelerator  That is also possible. Dave Rubin got where he did because his husband was the brains of the operation, to the point where TYT offered to double his salary if he stayed with them. Is Jimmy Dore's wife a strategic mastermind and we just don't know it? I freely admit this is conjecture, but I don't think he is so stupid that he doesn't know what his subscriber base looks like.
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  7625.  @chadsimmons4496  What was Carter's violation?
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  7626.  @josefkrenshaw179  What is still nuts to me is that 11MM looked at that Big Orange Dummy and said, "You know, I like what I see. I'll vote for him this time."
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  7627. @@Madie839 No crises? His neglect led to the single largest cause of American deaths in American history. He is the only President since Hoover to see a net loss of jobs, and he set a lot of the time bombs that went off in the last couple years. (Afghanistan was the exit that he agreed to, for example.)
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  7628. @@Madie839 Coronavirus. If the news in the UK says that, it must have ignored the last year of his Presidency where we also had the highest level of unemployment (14%) since the end of WWII (the previous high in that period was 10.9% in 1983).
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  7629. It's six in one hand, half a dozen in the other. The only real difference is when coalitions form. In a multiparty system, parties do it after the election, so you run the risk of the things like the traffic light coalition in Germany now that probably won't get much of anything done, or deadlocks like you saw in Israel where they had to have three elections and very nearly needed a fourth a couple years ago because no coalition could get a majority of seats. In a two-party system, the voters form coalitions before the election. The rules here encourage two major parties, but having multiple parties wouldn't solve anything even if the rules did change.
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  7630.  @plumbbobconstructionpants5599  Even if the candidates get on the debate stage, and even if they run a competitive race, the Twelfth Amendment makes it virtually impossible for a third-party candidate to win, especially given the strategy of most third parties to put almost all of their emphasis on the Presidential race. Even if you more or less draw equally from both parties (like Perot in his campaigns), and don't play a spoiler to throw it to one candidate or the other, you have to win an absolute majority of electoral votes, or the race goes to the House... where it gets decided by Democrats and Republicans.
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  7631.  @studiohq  Regardless of Russian interference, it should never have been that close. No one forced Hillary not to campaign in Wisconsin and Michigan or dump a bunch of money into Chicago and New Orleans instead of Detroit, Madison, Milwaukee, and Pittsburgh.
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  7632.  @JanglesPrime999  How much value is there if there won't be any debates (to my knowledge, no incumbent President of either party has debated a primary opponent in the modern era, and I'd argue that Edward Kennedy had a much stronger case to get onstage) and she doesn't get any delegates? If you get diminishing returns, it makes the movement weaker, not stronger. If she wants to run, have at it, but I just don't see the upside.
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  7633.  @SolidAir54321  What has Williamson done to actually organize? It's been 3 years since the last campaign. Was she meeting with grassroots movements, labor, etc.? The occasional media appearance won't cut it. I'm on her mailing list from 2020,.and it was radio silence until she decided to run again.
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  7634. Sinema will definitely lose. That is a gain, because we can replace her with someone better. Manchin probably will lose (in all honesty, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if he decides to retire), but if he does, he will be replaced by someone who is far worse. Our goal should be to find the candidate farthest to the left who can win. Like it or not, someone who only votes with you half the time the best you can do in a state that voted for Trump by 42 and 39 points. Sinema is in a state Biden won and has another Democratic Senator to her left. She has no such excuse.
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  7635.  @MackeyDeeez  He won the overall election. That is the equivalent of saying that he lost in the general election because he lost certain states.
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  7636.  @josephheston9238  Either Joe Biden or Donald Trump will be elected. The winner of that election will get to name the successor to RBG and define the limits of what we can do legislatively for a generation. That's good enough reason for me.
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  7637.  @Puzian  Well, you have just shown your ignorance if you think that it can't happen here. And, guess what. If you had a vote, it would fail. How did the Nixon plan work out the second time around? How about Hillarycare?
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  7638.  @Puzian  No. I'm saying that it takes actual grassroots organizing to build support. Here in Philadelphia, several organizations (I did so with DSA and Philly for Bernie, but others such as Health Care 4 All PA and Neighborhood Networks played a part) knocked on thousands of doors, and we got two members of Congress (Dwight Evans and Brendan Boyle) on board. Thinking that money is the only thing that you can do is why you lose.
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  7639.  @KitchenerLeslie2  As someone who stopped making incest jokes after leaving my native state because I realized that people actually believed them, I have never understood the popularity of incest porn.
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  7640.  @KitchenerLeslie2  Oh, they're not all "step." And I am aware that chances are almost 100% that it really isn't a Greg and Marcia Brady situation, or a situation with actual siblings or cousins, but I'm just pointing out that given that I come from a place where people tend to believe those jokes about my state to the point where a Vice President can make a joke about incest and the state where I spent 24 of my first 28 years and nobody thinks twice about it that the popularity of this genre is baffling to me.
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  7641.  @beetlebob4675  Aaron got caught when he signed into the wrong account and replied to a different one.
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  7642. I don't care about age. I care about health and energy. I am a little over half Bernie's age, and I don't think I could keep his schedule.
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  7643.  @emeraldkat2167  Taking advice from Monty Python, I would prefer to think that having someone not stupid enough to say such things out loud gives less legitimacy to it.
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  7644.  @apathy7899  How do you define athletic? One of the top high jumpers in the world right now is Chinese. You could also look at the question of whether or not athletic ability (or any other ability) is nurtured and encouraged in a society. Do you think that there is a gene that makes Russians the best chess players in the world? Does the fact that they aren't as dominant as they used to be mean that their genes are diluted, that others have caught up, or that players just don't get the same support they used to?
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  7645.  @apathy7899  Living their lives. I'm not saying it was paradise or problem free or a peaceful utopia, but basically living their lives. If you want to argue that they were still relatively poor before then, I would point you to Guns, Germs, and Steel, because a lot of the reason industrialization happened where it did is because of the fact that animals that were suited (both in size and temperament) to be beasts of burden happened to be elsewhere. So, you can't say that Europeans are smarter because they tamed the cow and Africans didn't tame the wildebeest.
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  7646.  @FXDLS-ot1wq  All a republic means is that there is no monarch. That's the equivalent of saying, "It's not a grape, it's purple!"
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  7647.  @ilovecatvideos1851  Agreed. We had to join forces with Stalin to beat Hitler, so we can acknowledge that Cheney and Kinzinger are on the right side of the most important question of our time. That's why I compare them to Stephen Douglas: wrong on just about everything, but they both got the key question right and deserve credit for that.
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  7648. I used to like her until it started to become more and more obvious that she is either a useful idiot or a grifter, and I don't think that she is stupid.
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  7649.  @chadnad4370  And just how far back do you want to go when talking about genocide in that region? There are a lot of groups, including Israelis and Palestinians, who have been both the victims and perpetrators of genocide in the region.
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  7650.  @chadnad4370  So, you want to pretend that the Jewish people weren't expelled from the land in 135 CE after the Second Jewish War?
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  7651.  @adria89  Writing in a hurry and not paying attention to typos or using a run on sentence is far lesser an offense than not using a word in a way that implies that you don't know the basic definition of the word.
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  7652.  @jmb3608  Calling every problem with elections "gerrymandering" makes it easier to ignore actual problems that are not gerrymandering. Every Congressional and legislative district could be decided by a completely fair and neutral board designed to make elections as fair and competitive as possible (given the ideological sort that has gone on this country, it won't be perfect), that doesn't change the fact that the Electoral College makes it possible for the candidate with fewer votes to win the Presidency, and blaming it all on "gerrymandering" makes it more difficult to address. Re: fake electors, that is more because of idiots who interpret Article II to mean that legislatures get to decide with no one else making the call.
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  7653. @The Central Scrutinizer It didn't happen. Whoever said that is making it up. All these people who say they like Bernie sure do like to make things up about him.
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  7654. "If he farted, would you smell it?" And you're making that as an argument against masks?
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  7655.  @DumbAssSpeakingWithMansVoice  For someone who claims "not to he shedding a tear for Chauvin," you sure are spending a lot of time singing out of his hymnal. The point that I made, that you keep ignoring, is that none of the things that you mentioned are capital offenses, so even if they are true, that still justifies nothing, and the response of "well, he shouldn't have resisted arrest" is worse than meaningless. It is insulting. We all saw the video. No one forced Chauvin to keep his knee in George Floyd's neck with his hands in his pockets and an "I dare you to stop me" smirk. Do you blame rape victims who wear skimpy outfits, too?
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  7656.  @uncletom356  If Trump were to die from this, I want it to come after the election. I want him going out the door knowing that he was rejected in a manner no incumbent President has been rejected since 1932 or 1980.
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  7657. ​ @robtay1963  In fairness, he was six weeks past the bar and it was his first trial.
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  7658. They want the freedom to be enslaved.
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  7659.  @mattw7057  If you think Harris is just as pretty as Tulsi, more power to you.
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  7660.  @indymarrow8050  You can't eat fast food with food stamps. If you are going to demean people who use them, at least get it right what they can use them for.
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  7661.  @mattroberts86  Indeed. These militant vegans really don't understand how much they alienate people.
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  7662.  @mattroberts86  My cult? Because I am a lefty who thinks that militant vegans do more harm than good because of their self righteous ways? My point was that the OP should stop being a caricature.
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  7663.  @MrMusic238  If you use a regressive tax to pay for it and want to get rid of the existing social safety net, it is. BTW, Milton Friedman supported a version that even kept a progressive tax to pay for it. To the right of Friedman is not a good look.
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  7664. I live in an area that likes Warren's brand of left. I have seen two bumper stickers for her. I have seen one Biden yard sign. I see an awful lot for Bernie.
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  7665. I have a mask that I can easily pull on and off in case someone is close by.
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  7666. He has said how it would be funded, and how it would be implemented.
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  7667. If Boris Johnson wants to use his free speech for that, I'll use mine to say how awful he is.
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  7668.  @glich86  I saw some bad ones with him against Pakman and Burgis as well. Separately, of course. In the Burgis debate, he insisted that it is immoral to tell Bezos that he can't have hundreds of billions to build a space colony, but then insisted that it was a voluntary agreement when Burgis pointed out the freedom of his employees to pursue their dreams is thwarted by Bezos keeping most of the money for himself.
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  7669. ​ @theultimatetempest1918  He's right? Right as in correct, not wing.
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  7670. Shapiro has been saying this stuff since he was a teenager, so he probably believes it. The others are in it for the money.
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  7671.  @KPuddin  The result has been certified by the counties in Michigan. The final result will be confirmed for certification on Monday. And, as far as threatening those who were trying to destroy democracy with their dog whistle by initially saying that they would be willing to certify everywhere bit Detroit, and they were threatened, I'm going to have to say [citation needed].
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  7672. If you picked today in the pool, you win.
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  7673.  @xhawkeye8717  All term limits do is give power to unelected staffers who actually understand procedure. The Founders believed that parties were bad, and it took them all of three years to start founding them. Without parties, only the richest of the rich could run and it would become even more of a personality contest. Did you bother to think through this stuff in the slightest, or did you just go for the thing that sounds good and settle on that?
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  7674.  @pkway9394  It's easier for McConnell and the centrists to use leverage because they don't really want to do anything. Any idiot can just block everything, but it is a much more delicate art to figure out when to take the half loaf. The coronavirus bill was definitely the time to take it because of the emergency. While infrastructure is as important, strictly speaking, it's not as urgent, which makes it easier to push back.
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  7675.  @dashx1103  Would you have voted against the first coronavirus bill and denied people $600/week in supplemental unemployment because it didn't have UBI? Would you have voted against the most recent one that cut child poverty in half because the stimulus checks were $1400 instead of $2000? Anyone whose goal isn't to blow everything up always has to make a decision whether it is better to delay or to take what you can get and battle for the rest another day.
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  7676.  @pkway9394  What particular leverage do you think they should have used on recent legislation?
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  7677. Did anyone else get an ad for Ben Shapiro for this video pointing out his stupidity?
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  7678.  @pitpat2928  Well, I have heard conversion stories of people having an experience and then becoming believers.
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  7679.  @ceeIoc  Yes, like scrapping the thing that gives him citizenship and makes him eligible to run for President, pushing a pump and dump to get rich, and trying to bring back the literacy test. What a brilliant guy who just loves democracy and actually thought through his ideas!
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  7680.  @AiletaEyail  I think you mean Matthew 5 of you are talking Beatitudes, and Matthew 25 if you are talking the parable of the sheep and the goats.
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  7681. There's a difference between bringing someone on to expose ignorance or evil, and bringing someone on to say how great that person is and how you just want to share i-DEE-uhs.
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  7682.  @MrSaltthegrave  65,000, and least 200 donors in 20 states
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  7683. I am a big time union guy, and I help out when I can, but until my union stops using a board to endorse that supposedly knew best (when someone told me that line, I pointed to Hillary and McGinty is proof that they don't), I won't give a penny to COPE. I have no problem with my candidate losing a vote and the union endorsing, because that's democracy, but not some board that supposedly knows best. That's the kind of thinking that got us a situation where pretty much every board-endorsing union went for Hillary, and almost every member-endorsing union went for Bernie. That disconnect between rank and file and leadership is concerning.He
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  7684.  @rowanlees9779  First of all, when someone complains that someone else isn't holding someone accountable, don't join in the feeding frenzy. Second, and more important is to understand that 1) building the grassroots movement necessary to complete a realignment takes a long time (the last one took 16 years and had big money on its side), and 2) always be building. Once there is a concrete need, call your elected officials, write letters, sign petitions, and encourage others do the same. And keep doing that to hold the people who win to the fire whether you voted for them or not. Don't be a jerk about it, but be firm and polite in calls and letters. Sooner or later, the people who answer those calls will know who you are. That is the only way that shoe leather can beat wallet leather.
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  7685.  @G27pat  My apologies. You caught me at the end of a bad day at work with that response.
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  7686.  @G27pat  Thank you. I wish the same for you as well.
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  7687.  @crazyoldworld7946  Like it or not, Joe Biden or Donald Trump will win the election in November. There is a zero chance of anyone else unless one of those two becomes incapacitated. So, who gets to name the successor to RBG? If it's Trump, nothing good will survive the Supreme Court. So, yes, staying home is irresponsible.
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  7688.  @davidvenegas6401  And I, for one, care about the millions of workers who won't be able to organize, the women who will be forced to carry their ectopic pregnancies to term and most likely die because some people make a fetish out of the fetus, the immigrants being kidnapped, and everyone fighting to make things better. Because all of these things are going to be at stake based on the very likely chance that RBG will not be able to survive the next Presidential term. If Trump gets to name her successor, all of these things will get worse. And an entire generation will fight in vain to make any of these things better, because a 6-3 or 7-2 right-wing majority means that every good thing that we can somehow get through Congress and signed into law will get struck down.
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  7689.  @nates9029  It's like these people are forgetting that there is a Supreme Court. It could be very possible that a 6-3 or 7-2 hard right Court decides not only to get rid of the ACA, but declare all regulations on the insurance industry unconstitutional.
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  7690.  @nates9029  Let's go!
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  7691.  @nates9029  And it took over 20 years of Supreme Court picks to make Brown v. Board even possible. Somewhere along the way, people on the left just ceded the courts and forgot about the long-term consequences of that decision. Either that, or neglecting labor, is the worst strategic blunder in modern political history.
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  7692. Tip the court? Every pick from Ginsburg to Kagan was a like for like switch.
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  7693.  @cdvideodump  "What does it profit a man to gain the whole world but lose his soul?"
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  7694. My big fear is that these idiots make this a self-fulfilling prophecy. I'd rather have someone who loses on style and isn't a fascist and pathological liar any day of the week.
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  7695.  @whyamimrpink78  This was a state government shutdown because he was in a fight with the Legislature. His actions caused it, and he used the weekend to go to the beach all by himself. Then again, you make your name defending the worst people, so I'm not surprised that you defend Chris Christie.
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  7696.  @noel7777noel  The problem is that most of the rich don't get paid in ordinary income. Do you think that Steve Jobs worked for a dollar a year at Apple or that Warren Buffett only gets $100,000/year? A lot of what they get is stock options, and unrealized capital gains don't get taxed, which is why the wealth tax was seen as a way to tax what isn't taxed at all for those with high net worths ($16MM for individuals and $32MM for couples in Bernie's proposal, and $50MM in Warren's).
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  7697.  @lenanoro5427  Even if that does happen, it still shows that there is a price to pay, and history will always remember him as the Criminal President. Besides, there are plenty of state crimes that he can be charged for, and Pence can't do a thing to save him there.
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  7698.  Frederic Bastiat  Deductions for stock options for CEOs, no-nid contracts, weapons systems DOD doesn't want, for starters.
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  7699.  Frederic Bastiat  The point is that stock options were a way around a rule that limited deductibility for executive pay, stating that "performance" was allowed with no limit. If someone cashes out a.$100MM option when the limit was supposed to be $1MM, that's a $33MM or so government subsidy right there (probably closer to $20MM after the tax cuts). Who's the moron? Nowhere did I say "unrealized stock options."
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  7700.  Frederic Bastiat  I'm discussing no such thing. I'm discussing limiting the tax deduction for CEO pay. If a corporation decides that the CEO is really worth $100MM, they shouldn't get to use $20MM of taxpayer subsidies to do it.
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  7701. 22:15 What appearance by Jackson Hinkle is complete without that dog whistle?
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  7702. Never forget that this is the same guy who spent 20 minutes refusing to tell Rachel Maddow whether or not he supposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964... in 2010.
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  7703. If you think that someone with a little more education than you is the problem rather than someone who gets more money in a day that you'll get in a lifetime, you're doing it wrong.
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  7704. ​ @jeanbuss2273  Even if he didn't, do we never, ever seek converts and only look for heretics? That's hardly a winning strategy.
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  7705. The candidates polling under the margin of error need to understand that the reason why there was room for a Kucinich in 2004 or an O'Malley in 2016 on the stage is that the field was much smaller. At a certain point, if candidates refuse to jump, they are going to need a nudge. So, as long as 15 candidates are running, and there have been several debates to give them a chance to catch fire, and they are still deluding themselves that they have a shot even after not qualifying for the debates, then I have no sympathy.
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  7706. Tell the story of the Rich Young Ruler in Matthew 19 and watch them squirm. You will hear the most ridiculous nonsense about what the eye of a needle really is, even though Jesus literally says "with man, this is impossible" in the next verse.
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  7707.  Joe Sinkovic  The defeat of fascism.
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  7708.  Joe Sinkovic  If you want to mock someone's intelligence, make sure you know how to spell the word "sentence."
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  7709.  @dinezthompson9832  It was the first sketch from the first episode of Portlandia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4hShMEk1Ew
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  7710.  @MTGWMV1  He interrupted him because he never shut up. The only time Sam got a word in without him interrupting was when he needed to stop to breathe.
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  7711. 1) Having the bully pulpit makes a big difference. 2) Budget reconciliation means that it would only take 50. 3) Obama had 60 Senators and couldn't get a public option, so what makes you think Biden or Buttigieg can succeed where Obama failed?
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  7712.  @RSW552  Well, was there a majority for the Republican alternative to Hillarycare that Bill said didn't go far enough in either House in 2007? You may think that I am making yours, but you are missing mine completely. The President can be quite effective in setting an agenda, especially when one knows how the machinery of Congress works, and I would argue that a 30-year veteran known as the amendment king knows it better than a first-term Senator who spent half his time in national office running for higher office. At the very least, Bernie has a strategy that the establishment and centrist candidates have never tried, and he is going to see how they respond to people pressure. Manchin can talk a big game now, but he only won re-election by three points, and his primary opponent got 30% despite being outspent by 100:1. When you have thousands of constituents who are saying they want this and they will vote you out if you don't deliver, they will be ignoring the people at their own peril.
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  7713.  @RSW552  And making a weak proposal and hoping that Republicans will go along is a recipe for failure. Again, Obama had 60 Senators, and we have seen that the Republican Party has zero desire to work with Democratic Presidents, so what makes you think that Biden or Buttigieg can succeed where Obama failed? Or Klobuchar, or Warren, or Yang, or anyone else for that matter?
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  7714.  @RSW552  Yeah, how did playing it safe work the last time? Again, how will Biden et al succeed where Obama failed when they'll have far fewer Senators? Obama succeeded in getting elected because of his personal charisma. When he took office, there were a majority of Democrats in both Houses of Congress, a majority of governors, and a majority of state legislatures. All of that went away in less than eight years. Maybe I'll start taking advice from someone who actually had some coattails next time.
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  7715.  @RSW552  When did Bernie have the chance to pass Medicare for All in Vermont? He was a mayor for eight years and in Congress since 1991. He never held a state office. What he did do was pass an amendment where states could use ACA money for a single payer system if they so desired, and the governor pulled a Yang/Harris/Warren, and called a public option "single payer." Answer my question. You said that a public option is the only way forward. How will Biden succeed where Obama failed when he won't have nearly as many Senators? If it is the best way, surely you have some notion of how that's actually going to happen.
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  7716.  @RSW552  So, a mealy-mouthed candidate who is talking about how we can't get anything done is the way to beat Trump? Again, how did that work out the last time?
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  7717.  @RSW552  You mean the battleground states where Bernie is ahead or the only Democratic candidate leading (such as Iowa and Texas)? At a certain point, the safe choice is the most dangerous one. Voters have had enough of the Neoliberal consensus, and giving voters more of that will guarantee defeat.
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  7718.  @RSW552  So believing that the one candidate who actually wants to mobilize people in grassroots democratic action is undemocratic? [In Dr. Evil voice]: Riiight.
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  7719.  @RSW552  Still can't answer how he is going to get a public option, though. And several candidates lead in the polls right now against Trump. That doesn't mean that he will still have a lead when more people start to pay attention and realize that he is incapable of maintaining a coherent thought.
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  7720.  @RSW552  The time to accept the less bad option is next fall, not now. And when people mention those polls that say Medicare for All support drops, they forget to include the fact that polling skyrockets when coupled with the idea that you no longer have to pay premiums, co-pays, or deductibles, it goes up. And how many people are going to be excited about the public option? It will get the Harry and Louise treatment with little grassroots pushback. You still haven't answered how you think Biden will succeed where Obama failed. Thinking it is more likely to pass than something else doesn't mean anything. You could think they'll both fail or both pass. So, what is your theory for the case on how a public option will be passed?
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  7721.  @RSW552  So much type space for not being able to answer a question. I didn't say why you think a public option will be an easier sell. I asked why you think that Biden will succeed where Obama failed.
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  7722.  @RSW552  You have only said why you think Medicare for All will fail. You have never said how you think a public option will get enough votes.
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  7723.  @RSW552  So, that is your answer? Well, gun control is far more popular, and where did that get it? And before you say NRA, the health insurance lobby is far bigger. It's pretty obvious that you have no answer other than pretending like an embodiment of the establishment is going to somehow magically make everything better when 2016 proved once and for all that people are sick of the establishment.
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  7724.  @barbiquearea  And if you notice, there's one that is clearly the opposite.
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  7725.  Mo Elm  It's because AOC made it clear she won't let him get with her.
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  7726. Matt Lewis is a right winger. Of course, he's going to love Sinema sucking up to the right.
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  7727. Yeah, he weighs 215! Which cheek? As anyone who has gained weight in their last knows, if you stand up with your suit unbuttoned, it's probably because you can't button it.
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  7728.  @jeffroussell  Network TV doesn't need cable subscribers, so that high horsed notion doesn't affect anything.
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  7729.  @jeffroussell  True, they do get ads from that, but my point was that you don't pay directly for network TV.
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  7730. I'll take "globalists" for 100, Alex.
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  7731.  @Damacles9  Few victories are permanent, but with a defeatist attitude like that, of course it's game over.
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  7732. Thank you! "Defund the police" is a terrible slogan, because the average person not attuned to political issues is going to think you are talking about abolition.
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  7733. What is she thinking? "My political career is over, but a lot of people on the right like me, so I will make millions providing 'balance' as a Fox contributor."
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  7734. @Sandra Stone It was because he thought enough people would take it for herd immunity to kick in. On an individual level, the polio vaccine is 61% effective, but because just about everyone gets the vaccine, polio doesn't have enough potential hosts to spread.
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  7735. So, the man who tells Dave Rubin that his ultimate goal is to get rid of the existing social safety net, and the woman who defended torture are "progressive" to you?
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  7736.  @docan5248  There won't be a viable third party until we get rid of the Electoral College. Any conversation about third parties that doesn't begin with that is just cloud talk. The main thing that we need Biden for is to make sure that Trump doesn't appoint the successor to RBG and get his fascist dictatorship. We all know Biden isn't running in 2024, so let's get our farm system in order and take the party over.
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  7737.  Malic Bk  On health care, there was Bernie, and there was Not Bernie. The fact that she tried to pretend that she supported Bernie's position shows what a liar she was on the issue, and she wouldn't have been trustworthy to act.
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  7738. There is nothing to be gained from Twitter.
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  7739. Stan: What's a "but for"? The Mole: For pooping, silly. "South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut"
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  7740. Occasionally, I still see a gas station with free air.
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  7741. When you get caught napping on the first question, and you are below the margin of error, you haven't helped yourself.
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  7742. Right wingers love to hear supposed lefties crap on Democrats.
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  7743. He is literally using the "because science is a liar... sometimes" argument to defend right-wing conspiracy theorists. Just because someone is more polite doesn't mean that person still isn't selling the same old snake oil. For example, until further clarification, he himself would not qualify as a natural born citizen if his definition for citizenship at birth (which is totally unconstitutional regardless) was used.
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  7744.  @CybeargPlays  That is what frustrates me so much. The laziness of our voters is why we keep losing when our views are popular.
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  7745.  @petyrbaelish1216  So, you just ignore the young and thus cause a vicious cycle of less participation?
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  7746.  @petyrbaelish1216  And you have clearly shown that you don't understand how vicious cycles work.
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  7747.  @anemonaloco  A third party does nothing if you haven't changed the rules that pretty much mathematically guarantee a gravitation to two major parties.
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  7748.  @alveolate  Of the ones on stage last night, Beto, Tulsi, Castro, and Klobuchar.
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  7749.  @Arbaaltheundefeated  Perhaps it is the context, but when people are literally talking about trying to use every dirty trick in the book to get Trump over the line, my natural reaction to "so, you say there's a chance" is to point out that it's not remotely realistic. Deal with enough fascists who are advocating for the overthrow of democracy and you get a hair trigger defense mechanism.
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  7750.  @Machiarta258  You mean the same Sydney Powell who got so thoroughly debunked that the Trump campaign fired her? Or a different Sydney Powell?
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  7751.  @u.s.navy_pete4111  Define "great."
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  7752.  @u.s.navy_pete4111  And what about his tenure as Transportation Secretary meets that standard?
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  7753. I have given, too, and I am a caseworker who spends most of my day at work dealing with applications for the ACA. I am still willing to get something better.
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  7754. [Citation needed]
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  7755.  @BarnabyWild13  Defending torture automatically disqualifies someone from that label forever.
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  7756.  Thomas Paine  As opposed to the horse you backed who can't even read off a Teleprompter.
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  7757. Did that really happen?
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  7758. He apparently doesn't know about medical complications, either. If a woman has an ectopic pregnancy, should she be forced to wait until the body ejects what could never have survived? That might kill her.
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  7759. Saying to act with a strategy rather than despair is far different than saying "What, me worry?"
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  7760.  @JD.007  Warren has the whitest support of anyone not named Pete Buttigieg, and the most voters making over $100K and $200K.
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  7761.  @lordchaa1598  I first heard them a couple years ago, but I could be wrong.
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  7762. Actually, having too many candidates makes it easier for an establishment candidate to hide his/her awfulness. Out of the 24 candidates running, how many do you honestly think are not establishment or centrist? I would say the most generous estimate is about 1/4 of them.
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  7763. "The right smashes parts of our society until they start to crack" And therein lies the rub. You just want to blow everything up. The squad aren't nihilists.
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  7764. He's 68. The mandatory retirement age for enlisted is 60. Should those who are above a certain age be banned from talking about justice?
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  7765.  @alwayslernin4400  You expel members, and it takes a 2/3 vote. If Marjorie Taylor Greene hasn't gotten a 2/3 vote, we are stuck with her. Even if, hypothetically speaking, she were removed, a Republican gets to name her successor, and Evil Turtle gets the gavel. Be careful what you wish for.
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  7766.  @alwayslernin4400  What does that have to do with the question at hand? You can't recall federal elected officials, and we are talking about Arizona, not California.
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  7767. Because it has two syllables?
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  7768.  @maxlu9573  I'd like to see some evidence that 91% of black people opposed it.
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  7769.  @stevenbaggley1257  Or about to eat ;-)
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  7770.  @dhickson79  Surely, you have friends who you can make phone calls for with such races.
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  7771. ​ @Typical.Anomaly  1988. Poppy also won Illinois.
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  7772.  @Valerielopez2002  By any definition, looking at actual economic indicators, the economy is. GDP is up, and inflation and unemployment are down. And if you respond with "prices are still up," then that tells me that you don't understand how inflation works. Either that, or that you are wishing for deflation, which any reading of the 1930s can tell you is bad. It's no coincidence that the last time we had deflation in America was 2009. If you watch his interviews or livestreams, he has explained that one foreign policy key leans blue and another leans red. Re: social unrest, what you are defining as massive social unrest on par with Vietnam or even the BLM protests?
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  7773. @user-mx9th2fx8r Yep, you're still basing on hoping that he's wrong. The worst lies we tell are the ones we tell ourselves.
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  7774. @user-mx9th2fx8r Oh, and nice dog whistle with the "fake color" nonsense. Tell me you're in the cult without saying you're in the cult.
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  7775.  @THEBATMAN28AHH  And if it wasn't for chicanery with recounts (look up the Brooks Brothers Riot in Miami), he would have won the Presidency. Subsequent analysis shows that Gore would have won the Electoral College had all the votes been counted in Florida.
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  7776.  @WilliamJohnson-ss6cv  So, you're arguing your religious beliefs should be imposed on society and implying that you are committing adultery? Smart move.
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  7777. Kudos to Michael for pointing out that McGovern was never nowhere as near as radical on domestic policy as people believed. He won the nomination by cutting the legs from labor, and his last major political effort was opposing card check pretending that it was anti-democratic because there had to be elections, never mind that a clear majority would have to want to join, but bosses want elections to slow walk the recognition, punish the organizers, and subject workers to propaganda to get them to vote No. The bill allowed organizers the choice of elections at 30% saturation (the status quo) or automatic certification with an absolute majority.
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  7778.  @lydialutz  What specific actions are they taking?
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  7779.  @lydialutz  And what evidence is there that it is actually getting any of those things? I hear the same thing literally every single election cycle. "Tens of thousands of supporters" is meaningless.
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  7780.  Gavoreet  Let's assume that you are right. Are you such a child that you think that allowing a literal fascist to win instead who got picks that get to damage the Court for decades to come is the better response? EDIT: That post was actually insulting to children. I have a child, and no tantrum that she throws is ever as damaging as the one you're still celebrating six years later.
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  7781.  broccolli god  Then, how did her boss know to list her on a list of minority faculty members? What do you call checking Native American on her bar application? She clearly told somebody not just that she had Native American ancestry (I guarantee you that there are more of us who fall into this category than you'd think) but that she herself was a Native American.
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  7782. Nobody gave Ben Nelson crap for how often he helped the Republicans because Bush won his state by 25 points. Trump won West Virginia by 39 points. Getting someone to vote with you half the time with that kind of partisan bent is miraculous.
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  7783.  @Red1Green2Blue3  He votes with the party about half the time. If he was a Republican, McConnell would get the gavel.
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  7784. Except Mussolini wasn't a physical coward the way Trump is.
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  7785.  @nestorisaac  I Googled it, and you're right! The resemblance is uncanny.
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  7786. So, they should just knowingly present a false defense?
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  7787.  @mgm8822  There are times when the facts are legitimately in doubt, so that response makes no sense.
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  7788.  @The_Other_Ghost  Do you criticize their behavior, or do you publicly vouch for the bad things that they do and say that you don't want to criticize them because you are clout chasing?
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  7789.  @djVOME  If he encourages his audience to not vote to defeat Trump, there is literally no practical difference.
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  7790.  @TheHuxleyAgnostic  Indeed. If they were a bit more strategic and worked together in places where they knew the other was stronger, it would actually make things so much better.
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  7791.  @djVOME  Except Kyle Kulinski didn't vote at all in 2020. Not just for the top of the ticket, but he didn't even vote. The reasons he gave Joe Rogan were petty and superficial and show that politics is nothing more than a game to him.
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  7792.  @ForgorenWolf  It's not open, but it's against the most popular Republican in WV, who goes back and forth with Manchin for most popular politician in the state. Jim Justice, on the other hand, does not have that popularity, and given his experience in the Legislature, I think that he would be better suited to fighting for the people in Charleston.
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  7793.  @armenianpatriot52  And this has what to do with teachers not being allowed to have a picture of their spouses on their desks, again?
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  7794.  @armenianpatriot52  Of course, you didn't say it. No right winger is ever honest about what they really do. Hence, the Orwellian names of bills and the hive mind that churns out random nonsequiturs that a photo of a same-sex married couple is somehow the equivalent of grooming children for sexual trysts. Speaking of which, why the silence on the bill in Tennessee literally abolishing the age of consent for marriage in the state?
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  7795.  @zinaj9437  Okay. If suggesting that the field is more or less settled at 24, which is more than will be allowed into the first debate, thus effectively ending at least four campaigns (I think either 18 or 19 have already met one or both of the two thresholds), thus dooming those campaigns, who else might get into the field to sweep someone like AOC off her feet, remembering that the deadline to qualify is only 28 days away?
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  7796.  @Thezuule1  Your investment? Other than a willy-waving contest, what does it do to see a nonliquid asset increase in value if you're not going to sell it? I get that things like HEL and HELOCs exist, but the purpose of a house is living.
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  7797. I think there were eight candidates with a polling average of 2 or higher, so it just worked out funny that Warren happened to be on stage with 6, 7 & 8. That said, I agree that it is better for Bernie to be on stage with Biden. The last thing we want is for Biden to get a free pass on his awfulness.
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  7798.  Jody Owen  How would we benefit from following the right or the "center right"? We have, to varying degrees, gone with the right for economics since Reagan, and by almost every metric, things have gotten worse since when we followed the Roosevelt model. GDP growth was faster and more people benefited.
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  7799. He has so much stamina that he rides a golf cart onto the green so he can putt.
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  7800.  @t.a.ackerman4098  Oh, they can be a part of it if they want to, but to use the choir analogy, they don't get the pulpit or the choir. Other than the occasional Amen, they can sit in the back and just shut up.
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  7801.  @DubhghlasMacDubhghlas  Look at the Twelfth Amendment. The structure encourages a two-party system. You win electoral votes with a plurality in the states, but it takes a majority in the Electoral College or th election gets thrown into the House. While it does not explicitly say that there should be two parties, there is clear incentive to have two.
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  7802. The main difference between a two party system and a multi-party system (not to mention that the latter is much easier to build in a Parliamentary system than a Presidential system) is when the coalition takes place. In the former, it takes place before the election. In the latter, it takes place after. It is really six in one hand and half a dozen in the other. You can also end up with a situation like Israel where it keeps deadlocking, and you have to have multiple elections in order to finally get a government formed.
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  7803.  @moraigna66  Ironically, the third parties that do best in parliamentary systems with first past the post are regional parties. That's why the SNP is the third party in the UK despite getting far fewer votes than the Lib Dems in most elections.
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  7804.  @DubhghlasMacDubhghlas  He was a de facto Federalist, but he ran when there was a veneer of being above it all. In 1789, there were no parties. In 1792, he was a Federalist. What became the Democratic Party was founded in 1790. How hard is it to admit that even if the Constitution doesn't explicitly say that there are two parties, that this is what it encourages. A third party won't be part of a coalition, because our system encourages people to join a coalition before the election rather than parties to join a coalition after? And the last Senator not to get backing of one of the major parties was Jim Buckley in 1970. Ironically, he lost as a Republican in 1976. In the House, not counting Bernie (where Democrats ran a sacrificial lamb in 1990 after he narrowly lost in 1988), you have to go back to a special election in 1948 or the Farmer-Labor Party in 1936 (which eventually merged with the Democratic Party in Minnesota). We have two parties for a reason.
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  7805.  @DubhghlasMacDubhghlas  And that is yet another reason why the US Constitution pretty much guarantees two parties.
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  7806. Let's not give these people the dignity of naming them with Bernie. Have you seen the grief they gave Bernie when he did the thing he said he was going to do? That, and when you dig down deeper, a lot of them are right wingers pretending to be left to depress turnout.
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  7807. Personally, I think that Manchin's idea that utility bills and other such things will be acceptable forms of voter ID is a decent compromise.
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  7808.  @brucec5950  It did. He said that the President shouldn't have time to play golf... when Obama was President. That campaign promise went out in weeks.
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  7809.  @jlblost  So, the job of the President ends on a weekend?
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  7810.  @anthbills307  Indeed. That is actually what happens at the state level with legislative term limits. That, and more power gets put in the hands of people who actually know how legislation works, so you get unelected staffers running things.
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  7811. Judicial term limits, fine, since they are unelected and the least accountable to the people, but legislative term limits do not work. I'm not going to give up Bernie, who has no real equivalent, in the hopes of getting rid of Evil Turtle and Graham when they'll easily be replaced by someone just as bad. What you're really saying is that you have a problem with who people vote for.
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  7812.  @oasis71  Cadogan: In my day, it was country first, God second. Sutherland: Yes, and the war to end all wars bitterly proved that point.
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  7813. Of the patriarchs, only Isaac was monogamous. Abraham also married Hagar, his wife's servant, and after Sarah did, he remarried close to death. Jacob was four wives: Rachel (the oldest story of a marriage from romantic love in Western literature), Leah (Rachel's sister who their father forced onto her), and one of each of their servants.
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  7814.  @quillo2747  Yes, because people who work at luxury hotels stay there all the time. [Eye roll]
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  7815. ​ @LKMNOP  He got in the fall. The vaccine wasn't available until December.
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  7816. "We've got to nip it in the bud. We've got to nip it!" Bernard P. Fife
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  7817.  @avenuePad  Actually, forcing the vote when they know it would fail would have given members in lefty districts a way to neutralize primary challengers like Jimmy's good friend Tulsi did when she endorsed Bernie.
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  7818.  @inspectortanzi  The BJG debate was as follows: BJG: Why did you take this position on FTV? SLS: I didn't take that position. This was my position. BLG: Why did you take the position that you just said you didn't take? And friend of teenage girls Virgil occasionally popping into the shot for 3 1/2 hours.
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  7819.  @illinnyan4053  And who were those votes on voting rights meant to embarrass again? Who is the target of FTV? And have you not heard of the legiatve strategy of catch and release? (Look up Tom DeLay catch and release, and you'll know why such a move is a fool's errand.)
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  7820.  @garrgravarr  What's even worse is that Aaron has to be in double digits with accounts by now, and he got caught replying with the wrong username.
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  7821.  @zenbear9952  I'm talking about 2016 when her endorsement of Bernie convinced a lot of people that she was one of us.
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  7822. I think it's all about knowing which tool in the box to use. Al Franken just did a panel with someone who kept lying about not allowing Garland a hearing, and he immediately called out the lie. The more slick kind who are good at presenting as reasonable or doing the filibuster shouldn't be given a lot of time.
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  7823.  @ianmcshea913  Well, then, you haven't paid attention. The Populists ended up becoming the dominant force within the Democratic Party within a decade. The Liberty Party gave us the Mexican War and the expansion of slavery. The Free Soil Party gave us the Compromise of 1850. The Green Party gave us the Iraq War and the "clear skies and healthy forests" initiatives. Now, let's look at the strategy I'm arguing for. The squad is becoming a platoon, the House passed a $15/hour minimum wage (which Biden now supports and mentions in his ads), and if Democrats win the Senate, Bernie will chair the Senate Budget Committee and the Senate Subcommittee on Health, becoming the number two member of the HELP Committee, meaning that he is range of holding the gavel once held by the lion himself, Edward Kennedy.
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  7824.  @deulavremotsuk3563  If none of them did, no one would have gotten their $600/week in supplemental unemployment. The bill was going to pass with or without them. Would you rather no one have gotten that? Is your desire to burn everything down because you didn't get everything you wanted that strong?
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  7825.  @DizzleMCSTANG88  Ever hear of cars? His fat body was also too lazy to walk to the Arc d'Triomphe.
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  7826.  @katherinemorelle7115  She lost the primary by 40 points, and she lost the general election in 2020 by 43 points. If she were to "get a little bit closer each time," she'd win the seat in about 30 years. Maybe she should run for a Congressional seat o a legislative seat and gain some more credibility. There are other offices where someone can make a difference besides US Senator.
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  7827. @Sonic Phil He also led he effort to try to close the gun show loophole in 2013. The NRA dropped him from an A to an A- for that in a state that loves its guns.
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  7828.  @TheLunoLion1  The other thing that these people don't understand is that Manchin does respond to pressure. People gave Doug Jones slack, and Trump carried his state by 14 points less than he did WV. You have to give leeway in situations like that. People need to go for the farthest left candidate who can win. Right now, in the Mountain State, that is Joe Manchin. If these people don't like it, they should be supporting what Stephen N. Smith is doing and try to build grassroots support for lefty candidates.
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  7829. Sam isn't ducking anybody, so what should he do in your opinion?
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  7830.  @ReplicatorFifth  That is certainly implied by saying that they are getting lazy on the throne.
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  7831.  @ReplicatorFifth  Because "lazy" implies that it is because, to use a boxing analogy, someone is fighting chumps to pad his/her record.
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  7832.  @Flexible_photon  I think that Alan Colmes is definitely the precursor. He was talented in his own right, but he ended up going into a medium that just wasn't right for him. His radio show was entertaining, and his two books were pretty good. Too bad that there was no room for lefty talk radio and he had to land on the shores of Hannity and LTBD.
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  7833.  Connor Lonergan  She is clearly a part-time officer. That doesn't pay much.
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  7834.  @GLORYNEVADASMITH  So, they are part of the conspiracy, too? The theory has been quite obvious for a while: peak at the right time. Harris made her move at the first debate, and look at where she is. Any candidate who made their move early is already crumbling, and even the MSM has begun to realize that he is peaking at the right time. So, let me get this straight, you have no ability to do anything like talking to other people in order to try to help a once in a lifetime candidate win, but you have all of this energy and ability to organize a flash mob if he doesn't? [In Dr. Evil voice]: Riiight. Well, since you want to talk about skills, here is mine: I am very good at finding the logical inconsistencies and contradictions in just about every argument. So, f you want to come at me with excuses, make sure that they are at least something where the most basic debater or lawyer wouldn't be able to do a flow sheet and see the obvious problems.
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  7835.  @marci.abraham  If this were a one-on-one occasion, I would agree with you. A public forum where people are spreading the notion that Bernie can't win anyway so we should go with a strategy based on that is completely different. By letting stuff like that go on Bernie's website, other people might see it and become discouraged from doing the actual work needed to win (the same reason why I try to discourage conspiracies that say that Bernie can't win), and THAT is why I pointed out the problem with that thinking.
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  7836.  @marci.abraham  Well, I would suggest that seeing what it is based on and the actual evidence is vital. When Bernie supporters insist that the field is so big not because a) a lot of people who probably should have run the last time who were afraid of the Clinton machine and b) people who thought, "if Trump could win, so can I," it greatly affects our credibility. Running 15 candidates mist likely means over 20% of the vote goes into the ether, thus making it easier for viable candidates to get delegates. Saying "it is impossible for Bernie to win the nomination on the first ballot, so go protest" dampens enthusiasm, which is why it so angers me when I hear "the DNC won't let Bernie win." If they deny him the nomination no matter what, why are we giving up our weeknights and Saturdays to go do the work to get him to 1990? If people want to help Bernie, then they should help. If they think that this conspiracy is real, then provide better evidence than something that disregards the threshold for winning pledged delegates. If others see that such despair is counterproductive, even if the person I am talking to doesn't, then I would argue that it was beneficial to draw out the hypothesis and test it.
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  7837. And look at Israel where they had three elections in a year because they couldn't get a governing coalition. Switching to a Parliamentary system doesn't mean that people like Mitch McConnell would never find a way to exploit that for the perpetuation of their personal power.
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  7838.  @fliiguy247  Well, my personal opinion is that a lot of this stems from his earlier demotion of the black police chief who was trying to catch racist cops on tape to try to clean up the force. Add to the lynching where the body was cremated before an autopsy could be performed, and he has a serious problem with the thin blue line. When a cop with a history of racist remarks, I don't give the benefit of the doubt when the body camera was turned off.
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  7839.  @RomaTomatoe  Most of the rest of the Warsaw Pact is already in NATO. Maybe if Putin really didn't want Ukraine to join NATO, he'd stop making it so attractive by threatening them. This is someone who famously wept at the fall of the Berlin Wall because it meant the end of the empire. The invasion is why Sweden and Finland (the latter of which was a part of the tsarist empire) have started the application process.
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  7840.  @tethergobrrr  Definitely. And I didn't even go looking for them. Aot of them came to videos about Bernie. And they always cited the exact same Medium article no matter how many times you would point out the flaw in the reasoning.
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  7841.  @monotronfan1  There is a world of difference between social democracy and neoliberalism. That being said, these people have no real commitment to those ideas. It's all lip service for them. If you want to abandon any remotely lefty policy because you realize that brown people will also benefit, you're not a lefty, and those issues aren't very important to you.
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  7842. The biggest, yes, but public financing of campaigns is the reform that makes all other reforms possible.
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  7843.  @jamalsampson9389  The Keith Hernandez bit, "what took you so long?" and the interrogation are all homages to movies Wayne Knight was in.
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  7844.  @TheGoodHumanBrand  Because I'm not a cult member. If someone is asked a simple question such as "who won the 2020 Presidential election?" it shouldn't take two minutes of talking, with the actual answer of Yes or No never actually coming out of his mouth.
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  7845.  @er3ichuff335  Which specific policies and why?
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  7846.  @er3ichuff335  Considering that you're defending someone who caused a massive real estate and Wall Street bubble (the P/E ratio was bigger than during the dotcom bubble) which laid the groundwork for inflation and oversaw conditions that led to the deaths of a million people due to his inaction, I'll take that with a grain of salt.
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  7847.  @er3ichuff335  What specific taxes on poor people? This isn't Fox or OAN. You have to have some idea of what you are talking about.
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  7848. If you look up the Green Party and their work with Republicans, it is a coalition of grifters and useful idiots. I guess she removed all doubt which one she is.
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  7849.  @Zach-ju5vi  What percentage of our debt do you think is owned by foreign countries? The much better way of handling debt isn't pretending to be fiscally responsible by threatening to hold the economy hostage after you've already borrowed the money. It is to do the things that steadily grow the economy. From 1945-80, the federal budget was only balanced five times (three under Truman, once each under Eisenhower and Johnson), but the debt to GDP ratio fell from 120% to 33%. The difference is that instead of cutting taxes for rich people and then playing pauper, we actually invested in our country. While the household analogy is flawed in many ways, there's a difference between going into debt to buy a house and going into debt to pay a sportscar.
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  7850. @JV Riley Disability isn't paid for by Defense spending. It is paid for by Veterans Affairs and Social Security.
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  7851.  @maskedthecreator1508  Dispatchers usually are police.
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  7852.  @PolaOpposite  His position on race was all talk, no action. It was Johnson who actually got things done.
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  7853.  @PolaOpposite  I guess we'll have to disagree to disagree on how much JFK really moved the needle. I guess the fact that LBJ gets virtually no credit despite doing the lion's share of the work has me on a bit of a hair trigger to acknowledge how much he really did. Happy New Year to you as well!
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  7854.  @nealtauss1715  People ending a war don't usually okay assassinating heads of state on their way out the door. So, either you are full of crap, or you envision an isolationist version of "ending the war" and leaving chaos in its wake. Four consecutive Presidents escalated the war, and JFK was no exception.
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  7855.  @hexum7  The 1976 Committee on Assassinations disagrees with the Warren Commission. I'm not saying that I know all of the answers, but the thing with the police scanners was introduced in that hearing. If there are more than three shots, Oswald didn't act alone. If memory serves me right, they looked at several high-profile assassinations of the 1960s, and this one was the only one where they came to a position counter to the original conclusion.
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  7856.  @hexum7  I'm not sure if it was a scanner or something else, but a motorcycle cop had his radio jammed in the On position that day, so that is where they got the recording.
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  7857.  @sps000111  Was there an airborne global pandemic throughout the history of the human race? Funny how places like New Zealand and South Korea listened to theirs and were able to get back to normal with fewer deaths than we were, and even though Japan botched the vaccine rollout, because of earlier precautions they took, they still have a death rate in the population of one per 10,000 Japanese while we have a rate of one per 542 Americans. This is for the total population for both.
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  7858.  @sps000111  I will make it as simple as possible. Here are the numbers for South Korea, Japan, and the United States. South Korea: deaths, 1959; population, 51.71MM (1 per 26,396 people) Japan: deaths, 12,926; population, 126.3MM (1 per 9771 people) United States: deaths, 609,767; population, 331MM (1 per 543 people) Even their worst is better than our best, because we clearly mishandled this "benign virus" in the beginning and they didn't. Both countries have much greater population density, and they still did much better overall. I can point to plenty examples of countries that did it right and didn't see nearly as many deaths.
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  7859.  @sps000111  The federal executive didn't create any mask mandates. They were all done at the state level. The CDC offered guidelines, but states were free to go along with it or not as they wished. For all of your states rights talk, the states did the thing that you are whining about. And for someone who claims to care about civil liberties, I don't see you working on repealing the USA PATRIOT Act. Considering that you don't even know what human rights means based on your above statement, I'll just leave it at that.
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  7860.  @sps000111  I'm also guessing that you haven't read each of the 50 state constitutions and statutes regarding executive powers and emergency declarations.
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  7861.  @sps000111  When your side starts to care about a coup attempt, then you can start lecturing me about the Constitution.
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  7862.  @sps000111  Well, Republicans did it, too, and we are talking about the coup attempt at the federal level. Then again, you have already exposed your talk of concern about the Constitution for what it really is. It's a meaningless fetish like it is for just about every conservative.
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  7863. Missing is a great movie.
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  7864. There is no producer. He did it. That being said, it's not like this version is covering himself in glory.
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  7865.  @timi3020  Obama didn't prosecute any Wall Street figures who wrecked the economy. Even Reagan sent hundreds to jail after the savings and loan scandal.
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  7866. "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and render unto God the things that are God's." "My kingdom is not of this world." I think we can confirm Jesus' views on theocracy.
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  7867. Michael: You're on trial for treason! George Sr: First offense... Michael: I've never heard of a second.
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  7868.  @beny2656  Don't you libertarians keep complaining about how Europe is socialist?
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  7869. Impeachment is a political decision, not a legal one.
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  7870.  @peterboyd7149  Part of the issue is that there are two main definitions of liberalism. One is the overarching question of whether or not you support democracy and individual rights. The other is a policy point of view that ranges from center left (Canada) to right (Australia) depending on the country. Republicans hate both versions.
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  7871.  @robertgowdey  All a republic means is that there is no monarch. Democracies can be republics, as can dictatorships.
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  7872.  @zUJ7EjVD  If someone is completely ignorant, there is no having a breakthrough, and anyone who has ever done a debate will tell you that you have to have a mutual agreement on what is being debated.
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  7873. If she ever had principles in the first place.
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  7874.  @alanjackson4028  Lieberman has been out of the Senate since 2013. What are you talking about?
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  7875.  @Depressednotredamefan3736  There are two different questions: 1) Whether or not you could claim self-defense for shooting someone running away; 2) Whether or not the Castle Doctrine applies to someone else's house. 1) The whole point of self-defense is that you had no other choice but to kill someone. If that person is running away, by definition, you didn't have to shoot that person in order to survive. Therefore, it is not justified to shoot that person. 2) The Castle Doctrine applies to your property. Therefore, luring a burglar into someone else's house that you have booby trapped does not apply. Therefore, that wasn't legal, either.
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  7876.  @dannybobjr3686  So, why should anyone get their information from a self-proclaimed moron?
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  7877.  ppm120667  Yeah, this really aged well. Your arrogance and people like you means that, if you get your way, Trump gets to name the next Supreme Court Justice. #usefulidiot
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  7878.  @Invadershock761  In the pre-Citizens United era, eight states had some version of clean campaign laws. In all honesty, I think that it needs to happen at the state level first. As people see how popular it is, and some of the beneficiaries of it start running for federal office, that will create a lot of momentum.
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  7879. "I can't believe a church would kick me out of their parking lot for shilling for a man who constantly talks horribly about their city and it's people!" Ben Carson is a less likable version of The Todd on Scrubs.
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  7880.  @hks2377  Alex Wagner is eventually going to take over. Why he doesn't get a regular weeknight hosting gig, I'll never understand.
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  7881.  @manholeeunuchsbane6197  I kinda wonder if that's because they assume that people aren't watching all day. It seems like all of the 24-hour news channels have that same problem.
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  7882.  @AmericanRepublic1783  Syria, like North Korea, is a republic in name only. If you have an inherited head of state (the constitution literally changed the minimum age to hold the office to 34 when his father died so he could take power), it is a monarchy in all but name.
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  7883.  @AmericanRepublic1783  Well, Saddam Hussein did get 100% of the vote in the last election. My statement was not a value judgment. It was a description of the type of government. Personally, I think that it is, to use the analogy Mitch Williams once used to describe beating two of his particularly hated teammates in a poll of favorite 1993 Phillies, like a choice between diarrhea or vomit. I wish you a good day as well.
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  7884.  @chopchopchop5585  And with 125 programs in the either/or category, there are a lot of people who will be surprised that they wouldn't get a penny. These neoliberal types keep saying choice uber alles. Well, even if you believed that, how can it be an informed choice if he refuses to provide a full list of the programs that people have to forfeit if they take his money?
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  7885.  @Mike2digital  What is so much better about private insurance? Is it cheaper? No. Does it have less overhead? No. Does it cause fewer bankruptcies? No. Other than middlemen getting rich, what does private insurance do better than Medicare for All.
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  7886.  @g0d182  1) If you don't want Medicare for All, don't call your proposal Medicare for All. 2) What does "striving toward Medicare for All" look like? 3) What, are you that shocked that someone is actually getting pushed from the left for a change on economic issues?
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  7887.  @Mike2digital  The way it is structured will hurt tens of millions of people. The most vulnerable in society. Therefore, it is a bad idea.
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  7888. You know what's worse than tyranny of the majority? Tyranny of the minority.
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  7889. He even had a gun, which makes it even worse.
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  7890. 5:14 I must admit that in 2013 and '14, I was convinced that Scott Walker was a mortal lock, because I thought there was a certain ideological rigidity that was ruling the day. Boy, was I wrong on that one!
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  7891. Well, except for the episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
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  7892.  @rumblefish3034  In a strictest sense, no, but it seems like people who claim to hate it find quite a few excuses to put dresses on.
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  7893.  @rumblefish3034  Wesley Snipes didn't write it, did he?
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  7894.  @richardowens9061  That's not how it works. The whole point of a filibuster is that you don't actually have a vote on the bill. A filibuster is a refusal to allow a motion to vote.
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  7895.  @skyywriting  The problem comes when the boss like a frog in boiling water demands a little bit more at a time, and before you know it, you're cooked.
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  7896.  @kellya9050  The line was literally drawn in 1845.
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  7897.  @dicezart9667  Apparently, I'm the only one who does around here. Gerrymandering is drawing district lines to create a political advantage. Statewide offices are not a result of political district lines. Therefore, you cannot gerrymander a US Senate seat.
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  7898.  @BurmaJo  Tell me you don't know how the US Senate works without saying how the US Senate works. "The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each state, [clause that was overridden by the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913] for six years." Article I, Section 3. "The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each state, elected by the people thereof for six years." Seventeenth Amendment to the US Constitution No districts, states.
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  7899.  @davidkeeton215  Finally, someone else gets it!
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  7900. That's because he is a libertarian.
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  7901.  @alexanderfreeman  Indeed. I thought they'd never fully repeal it. I thought Mississippi would win the case, but that Roe would theoretically remain the law of the land.
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  7902. If you read Outsider in the House, his personal preference is for socialism (you can also look at his platforms when he ran in the 1970s before trimming his sails), so I think he always saw it as a step to where he wanted to go.
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  7903.  @DARWINZOO  I think some of these fundamentalists think that the red letters mean "warning: do not read."
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  7904. And in 2000
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  7905.  @tinamoul  Shouldn't you expect more from the people who get elected? I would agree that it also applies to Trump voters, though.
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  7906.  @mroctober3583  The Green Party gets funded by Republicans to split their opposition. Why else do you think they picked up the tab to try to get Greens on the ballot in Wisconisn after they botched their petition drive and waited until after the deadline to print ballots to sue?
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  7907.  @mroctober3583  So, the guy who supported the candidate who called Medicare for All "un-American" is the one who really cares about passing it?
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  7908.  @mroctober3583  I believe that there are rules. If you can't even be bothered to write down your Vice Presidential nominee's address right on a petition drive or fill out the form to fix it when given the chance, you don't deserve to be on the ballot. I have seen plenty of candidates in primaries get their names stricken because they didn't have sufficient signatures. And does the Democratic Party fund the Libertarian Party or use the Libertarian Party line to run spoiler candidates? Not at all the same thing. If you can't understand that, you are a useful idiot.
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  7909.  @eleanoraquitaine2966  Manchin tends to go just left enough to avoid a successful primary challenge and not an inch farther. Thinking a lefty challenger will either beat him or win in November is a fantasy, but his constituents do need to keep that pressure up.
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  7910.  @antonioscendrategattico2302  Quite frankly, he destroyed his political career when he resigned his state senate seat (which is literally a part time job in WV) in order to run for President only to drop out a few weeks later. There are a lot of people who know who he is, but that is something that will alienate potential supporters. You can't be seen as someone just running for office as a stepping stone in WV. That, and the fact that he went from Trump supporter to this flaming lefty in two years is going to make a lot of people suspicious. Taking the TYT job also didn't help the idea that he wants to be a celebrity.
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  7911.  @50jakecs  You'd be surprised. I ran for House of Delegates in 2006, and I got more questions about guns and abortion than I did actual issues that affect people's everyday lives. The one exception was that there was a brief period when people asked about a potential strike, but wedge issues get a lot more play.
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  7912. Donations to a political campaign aren't tax deductible, either. I hope you're not trying to deduct them.
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  7913.  @YoYo_Ma  While David never quite apologized to Sam Seder for calling into his show to defend Jimmy Dore, it's pretty obvious that he now agrees that Sam was right.
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  7914.  ppm120667  False, because unlike Modi, that is not the core of Biden's argument for why he should be elected. Modi ran on a platform of Islamic bigotry and doing something to "neutralize" the growing Muslim population. Even your beloved Tulsi said that Biden should be forgiven for his vote in Iraq. Being one vote in 100 is different than being the one carrying out the order.
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  7915. He did to the USA what he did to the USFL.
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  7916. Did anyone else miss a letter and think this was referring to the cookies? :-P
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  7917.  @Koyasi78  The comment is clearly talking about this ethos as the primary governing method. The fact that it was interrupted after that shows that this is clearly a different strain.
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  7918.  @jocksharerock7318  They're like the Germans in the movie Judgment at Nuremberg. "Oh, don't you know? Nobody around here knew anything about what happened."
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  7919.  @jocksharerock7318  Thank you. I have always appreciated that you are someone who digs down deep. Actually, I am from WV and got my BA from my native state's flagship university, but I moved to PA for grad school in 2007 and realized that I had more roots than I realized after I was done. My native state has been quite a mess lately. It seems like you get more weird side effects from electing the richest man in the state as your governor by the day. (My parents said they would never vote for him regardless of party because there was a big blackout in 2012, and he bribed the electric company to fix his first. With his kind of money, he could build a generator.) Apparently, he is also a high school basketball coach on the side, and he has basically been trying to keep schools open in a way that coincides with his team's schedule. He is a piece of work. The state also reneged on its promises to the teachers from the last strike, so there may be another.
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  7920. "These people who say not to vote think they're being clever, but it's quite stupid to surrender your voice." John Lydon, 2014
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  7921.  @Airola  Did you watch the ten or so episodes after the Laura Palmer arc was closed. It was terrible in no small part because the people who took over the show after that point forgot that David Lynch is not weird for no reason, but has a very specific reason for the weird things he does. The weird for its own sake stuff just got bad.
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  7922.  @Airola  I freely concede that ratings were dropping, but in all honesty, David Lynch never really had mainstream sensibilities, anyway, except for maybe The Elephant Man. It amazes me that the same network that had the TGIF line-up also took a chance on Twin Peaks, and at least for a little while, it was huge. Even if you didn't watch it (I was 10-11 during it's original run, so I was too young for it), you at least heard something about it, and when they were about to reveal the killer, it was in the voice over to pretty much every show credits. Then again, maybe it was never built to last. My point was that I don't fault Lynch for thinking that more could have been done had they let the mystery stay alive. He may have been right, he may have been wrong, but I don't blame the man for having a vision.
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  7923.  @dienekes4364  We have more dying for lack of health care now than we would otherwise. Even if you are right about Yemen, you are wrong about nuclear proliferation in Iran. And there are always those who would rather make everyone suffer because they are too lazy to understand that there is a difference. There is always a lesser evil, and wanting the greater evil just makes for more evil than there would otherwise be. Then again, it's easy to sit on your high horse and say everyone sucks. It is also incredibly lazy.
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  7924.  @dienekes4364  It was not about her calling them being deplorables as a good tactic. This was in response to my pointing out that there were differences, so it was clearly someone holding that out to show how she was just as bad as Trump. Mentioning that three times shows that is really what set that person off. And if you think that calling racists deplorable caused more division than "there were fine people on both sides" when "both sides" were neo-Nazis and those protesting neo-Nazis, you are once again proving my point about both siderism. Even if it was a politically bad move, sometimes you have to do the right thing. While Hillary Clinton is not a Profile in Courage, especially given what has followed the last three years, I will not fault her for calling racists deplorable.
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  7925.  @scoobertmcruppert2915  I forgot about the mining operation. He really is an unfunny Mr. Burns ;-)
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  7926. @ghost mall In fairness, the American people never picked him, the Electiral College did.
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  7927. An evergreen comment about Ted Cruz: "I like Ted Cruz more than most people in the Senate, and I hate Ted Cruz." Al Franken
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  7928. I'm pretty sure that hair product goes against nature, too.
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  7929. I remember signing up for some random seminar about 12 years ago that turned out to be people selling shares in a fund that bought repossessed houses at tax auctions. One of the people from the company called a bit later asking if I was interested. He was stunned when I told him that while I could understand the basic idea behind tax liens (basically, you pay the delinquent property taxes and the person has anywhere from 6-30 months to pay it, and you get the interest), that I just couldn't live with myself if I profited off forcing someone out of his/her house. I got the feeling like he had never heard that objection before, because he pivoted to the idea that interest is only a few percent, but a tax sale gives you several times your initial investment. I told him I understood, but I just found it morally objectionable. He never called me back.
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  7930.  @bellyhead67  Praising grifters is for the lazy. Kim Iversen praised David Duke and hates democracy. Is that the "hard hitting figure" you want?
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  7931.  @bellyhead67  Watch her videos about the Electoral College. Her argument is literally that it is good because it protects us from "too much democracy." When Stephen Colbert asked Tulsi Gabbard in 2019 why she thought David Duke endorsed her, Kim Iversen responded that it was because he supports peace. And the difference between me and you is that if I say that something "is demonstrably false," I demonstrate it.
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  7932.  @bellyhead67  I would say that "supporting peace" is a positive thing to say about someone. She could have left it at "some people endorse candidates for their own reasons," but to get angry at the question that has reasonably been asked of every single person who he has endorsed ("What is it about your policies that this person thought worthy of endorsed?") and then respond that he supports peace is not saying some version of "he's awful, and I don't want that endorsement," but to double down that there is something good about the endorsement. Even Pat Buchanan managed that level of decency, and Kim Iversen couldn't?
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  7933.  @bellyhead67  Because if your arguments to defend the Electoral College are rooted in opposition to democracy, you hate democracy. Forget the "it lets small states have a say" nonsense, she just jumped straight to "it is a bad idea to let the people decide."
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  7934.  @bellyhead67  Because her argument was literally "people shouldn't have a say." If someone says "democracy is bad," do I have to read that person's mind in order to know that person hates democracy? The mere notion that people shouldn't get to choose because they'll do it wrong is inherently anti-democratic.
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  7935.  @bellyhead67  Why even reach to say that's why David Duke did it? If someone is widely known for this awful thing that makes most sane and decent people want to run away from that person, why suppose a positive reason in the first place? And I have said for years that the mission in Afghanistan had long become muddled and mission creep had made it to the point where, in the words of Simon and Garfunkel, generals order their soldiers to kill and to fight for a cause they'd long ago forgotten. I don't generally assume that if Donald Trump endorses someone it's because he is suddenly a peaceful person who believes in peace.
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  7936. What would the specific charge be against them? And in what world are they going to get 67 votes to convict?
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  7937.  @andromidius  *Mayo Cheat Fixed the correction.
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  7938. That historian is my hero.
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  7939.  @soulknife20  By writing with a headache and on my lunch break, my proofreading was not up to its normal standards.
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  7940.  @crazymulgogi  V. I. Lenin. Vladimir Ilych Ulyanov!
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  7941.  @DemonDante1000  In my adopted home state of Pennsylvania, _every_; candidate has to get petition signatures to get on the ballot. And if they do anything like Greens did in Wisconsin in 2020 and fill it out wrong, they don't get to run. But if the Green Party actually cared about building rather than grifting, they'ddo what actual successful third parties did, and put a lot more effort into local elections and building party infrastructure, but instead they obsess over that sweet, sweet matching fund cash.
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  7942. Speaking of not realizing that thumbs go down, Moscow Donald kept saying that McCain "gave the infamous thumbs up." If he gave thumbs up, Pence would have cast the tiebreaking vote. Maybe he didn't know thumbs down was a thing. Great catch, Seth!
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  7943. Greenwald has always had that libertarian streak. I guess it finally won.
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  7944. @Wesley Buirkle As opposed to unaccountable corporations?
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  7945.  @letsgobrandon9867  Says the person who tries to make dozens of videos about your hang-ups on the transgendered.
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  7946. Warren showed that she won't fight when she folded on Medicare for All. Maybe she could be the next Fed chair. If Bernie is not on the ballot when it gets to PA, I will vote Warren, but if she won't fight on the issue I care about the most, the only finger I am lifting to help her is in the ballot box.
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  7947.  @axetune  Her lies that we are funding Ukrainian biological weapons labs.
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  7948. "Your problem is that you think that you're floating in the air, but you don't realize that you're standing on a building." Sam Seder
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  7949.  @ViralmediaAi  Let's be honest, people don't vote for policies (except for those like us who are wonky, but that is a tiny fraction of the electorate as a whole). Biden won because people were absolutely terrified of four more years of Trump and felt like Bernie was too big of a risk. We lose because too many on our side are lazy, and because rather than actually learning from mistakes and getting better, far too many want to lean on conspiracy theories. They might make you feel better, but they won't make you be better at campaigning and organizing. All of this self-congratulatory talk does is make it harder to win in the future, because it blackpills some and makes others complacent.
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  7950.  @brentnoury7626  You are defending Jimmy Dore and his strategy. He is the one pushing MPP. And why are Republicans more effective at getting things done than Democrats? Well, because they are and have been since at least the 1910s, a much more ideologically consistent party than the Democrats. Like it or not, the people who elected Joe Manchin want different things than the people who elected AOC, so there are always limits. That, and since all Republicans really want are tax cuts for the rich and judicial appointments, they are just fine gumming up the works. People point to FDR and LBJ, but what they forget is that they both had much larger majorities when they got stuff done (which meant they had a margin for error), and they didn't have to face a silent filibuster that one party has taken to mean that everything requires a supermajority to pass the Senate, either. It's not enough to say that you want things, it takes a strategy, and anyone who is advocating a third party strategy rather than taking over the Democratic Party has a strategy that is doomed to fail.
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  7951.  @darrinpowers5726  You can't give gifts to persuade voters. That's not what this is. It is having compassion and decency for those stuck in line who may have even run out of water they are there for so long. And I want to see the evidence of the "record polling places." Where I lived, there were fewer, but there was early voting for the first time in our state's history after it was passed unanimously by the legislature. And I remember the Republicans complaining loudly about it being too easy for people to vote.
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  7952.  @darrinpowers5726  It is if it's only the black neighborhoods with lines that long. And how is citizenship not being proven now? Where are the non-citizens who are voting other than your head?
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  7953. I have compared her to George Harrison to AOC and Omar's John and Paul.
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  7954. Forcing other poor people to choose between their current benefits and his plan? All while using a regressive tax to pay for it? I don't think so.
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  7955.  @jali4000  Careful that you don't bruise from patting yourself on the back. Yes, the left is more disorganized as a whole, but [Homer Simpson whisper] that's a bad thing. It makes it more difficult to win.
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  7956.  @absolutfreak5012  Yes! Somebody gets it! Some people would rather dominate their bubble than actually get things done.
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  7957.  @nickthompson1812  If she is a union busterand corporate stooge, then that person is a ladder puller, regardless of race or gender.
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  7958.  @phillipbernhardt-house6907  True. As a former member of Americans United for Separation of Church and State (I let my membership lapse during the salad days of seminary), I am quite familiar with the expression First Freedom First. It's actually embarrassing that I didn't actually pick up on the Separation Clause until college. Far too often, people forget about that one, because you can't really have free exercise without it. And as a Baptist (whose denomination helped lead the fight for it), no less!
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  7959.  @brandonsmith9098  Except it's being used in swing states. In my adopted home state, the Republican gubernatorial nominee was in a fairly close race against Josh Shapiro in June, and only recently started to break. If it's already a fairly left-leaning area, such a strategy is unnecessary.
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  7960.  @jackeagleeye3453  Except it's only really worked in 2012. With Republicans gutting voting rights, is that really a chance you are comfortable with?
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  7961. Me, too!
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  7962.  @Aeroneus1  Republicans forfeited the right to get credit for the good things they do when they condoned an attempted coup and are trying to find other ways to destroy democracy. I don't have to give Mussolini credit for running the trains on time, either.
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  7963.  @Aeroneus1  Where are the Republicans who are denouncing Trump? The ones who do get excommunicated. Tell me about the good Republicans when they get to show that goodness and remain in good standing. Both siderism is the most lazy take there is. "It's just as bad to criticize racism as it is to perpetuate it." "It's just as bad to hate fascism as it is to be a fascist."
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  7964.  @Aeroneus1  No. You're the one using a vote for Bernie as a shield to insist that you're really not playing Enlightened Centrist or a right winger. Other than saying that you voted for Bernie, what reason have you given us to think anything else?
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  7965.  @Aeroneus1  Either you looked it up and it hirt your fee-fees that it matches you so well, or you read "it's not a compliment" and got your fee-fees hurt all while exhibiting traits of the Enlightened Centrist. At least I'm honest about who I am. I don't pretend to be one thing and then get outraged when someone points out that voting for Bernie doesn't automatically make someone a lefty and then a few comments later admitted that wasn't the case. Well, I guess this happens sometimes when something hits too close to home.
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  7966.  @Aeroneus1  What is the middle ground between having a democracy and a fascist dictatorship? What is the middle ground on voting rights? Who gets to get disenfranchised? Finding a middle ground for its own sake can be counterproductive when there is no good one to be found.
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  7967.  @Aeroneus1  I said that you said "everyone here." Way to distort it ever so slightly to misrepresent what was being said. There aren't too many Enlightened Centrists around here.
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  7968. How is this getting Medicare for All? You are aware that if every sponsor votes for it, you are still 100 votes short, right? Why not do the actual work? Oh, that's right! Because you are lazy and think you are doing it. Jimmy Dore has succeeded!
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  7969.  @imavileone7360  I've come to realize that he is a libertarian wolf in leftist clothing. Hopefully, people ask him follow up questions in the first debate, considering that libertarians already put their money down and he's qualified.
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  7970.  @sailor583  Indeed. He's not a brilliant strategist or even someone with a particular set of principles. All he really wants are tax cuts for the rich and power. Any idiot can just block everything.
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  7971.    I think that some of these people are incredibly stupid and lazy and just say everyone sucks rather than looking at degrees, and others are right-wing trolls pretending to be left to depress turnout to help their hero Trump.
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  7972.  @mobiusflammel9372  Indeed. I'd be fine with such a test and the results being publicly available.
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  7973. Neoconservatives are usually defined by foreign policy, and Kyle did not name one foreign policy position to defend the New Atheists.
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  7974. 15:58 Sure, Tim. It's the filter.
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  7975. He just got impeached yesterday, so what are you talking about?
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  7976.  @barttarts6234  The Senate doesn't impeach. What part of "The House shall have sole power of impeachment" don't you understand?
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  7977. As a teetotaler, I definitely appreciate George's proposal.
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  7978. You could articulate an alternative in a way that doesn't lead people to think that right wing grifters like Tulsi Gabbard are "one of us." I was at a debate watch party last year with a Labor for Bernie group, and people were surprised at the actual reason why unilaterally leaving Syria (because it would lead to Kurdish genocide) was a bad thing.
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  7979.  @treyebillups8602  And some of those bases are there because of the request of the people in those countries. Your "alternative" still leaves the Kurds to slaughter. Isolationism is not peace. It's actually right wing.
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  7980.  @treyebillups8602  Again, I am not saying that all military action and spending is positive. I am saying that reflexively saying Military Bad is not only a political loser, but dangerous. All isolationism does is ensure that even worse actors assume control. Would you rather have Putin as the dominant force?
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  7981.  @philipwipernickle4780  I couldn't agree with you more. She has had some terrible policies before and after her supposed conversion. Anyone who has supported torture will never, ever get my vote in a primary. Her excuse that she hadn't read a report about its efficacy is a terrible excuse. It was proven to be ineffective, the Army Field Manual prohibits it and has for decades, and it's a war crime. I still think her endorsement in 2016 was nothing more than trying to find a lane for her future ambitions.
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  7982. Even worse than the DNC. In 2016, superdelegates were about 16% of the vote. Working Families superdelegates got half.
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  7983.  @bertthompson4748  Some people like to be edgy and pretend like Liberal means the same thing it does in Australia.
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  7984.  @bertthompson4748  Indeed. The people who are genuinely Marxists like to dump on Liberal as insufficient. A lot of people who do it remind me of the people who dumped the L word a generation ago and adopted Progressive, seemingly oblivious to the fact that for most of its history, it referred to moderate, good government movements, and that the DLC think tank called itself the Center for American Progress. Also, I've heard Hillary call herself Progressive many times, but I have never once heard her describe herself as a Liberal.
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  7985.  @OfficerDva444  Except the party labels are based much more on economic issues than social ones. The Democratic Party (except for the South) cared far more about equality, and outside of some during Reconstruction, Republicans never did. The main shift for the Democratic Party was that, beginning with Bryan, the belief switched from laissez-faire (more because they had only ever seen government act to help the rich) to an activist position.
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  7986.  @ramonserna8089  Or 30 years ago thinking, "Dan Quayle is the one who saved us all from a fascist coup."
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  7987.  @dhoff1794  Then, why not push back?
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  7988. Can we stop with the nonsense that polls said Hillary would "win by a landslide"? The polling average was +3.5. She won the national popular vote by 2.1. That is well within the margin of error.
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  7989.  @falsificationism  It is a textbook example of whataboutism, trying to distract people from the awful things Trump has done and wants to do. Your username is more accurate than you intend it to be.
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  7990.  @5675492  The candidate with the most money doesn't always win. As someone who has actually run for office, I would argue that anything over and above getting your name out, mobilizing voters, and talking about issues is wasted. (In my race, I ended up raising $3400 for a seat in the WV House of Delegates, but looking back, it probably would have taken $8000-$9000 to run a solid campaign to get the word out.) Yes, getting money out of politics is the reform that makes all other reforms possible, but people can still decide that they don't want what people are selling. Sadly, I think that what 2020 showed is that probably a third of Bernie's vote in 2016 was from people who were more against Hillary than for him. While we can complain about the tactics used to clear the field, voters still let it happen.
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  7991.  @5675492  Before he went all MAGA and just wrote about how crazy the workplace is, I remember reading something by Scott Adams that I thought did an excellent job of explaining corruption in politics. He said that it could either be that politics attracted corrupt people (which he didn't see as likely), honest people enter politics and get corrupted (which he didn't think was very likely, but I can see how it is possible when you get in that bubble), or that people were corrupt, and we just notice it more often in politicians. He thought it was the last of the three. I have been around long enough to have personally known some pretty cynical people in politics personally or somewhat superficially behind closed doors, but probably no more than the population as a whole. That being said, I think that money in politics is what makes the corruption worse. There has to be a way of fighting the government to K Street pipeline. It often comes up in these conversations, but I don't like term limits because I think that people should vote people out or keep them in. When I still lived in WV, I wanted to give Byrd a ninth term. After I moved to PA, I wanted to deny a sixth to Specter. Both should have been my right.
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  7992.  @mouzziewouzzie2305  There were literal Jewish Nazis. Look at the work of Saagar Enjeti. He pretended to like Bernie before the primary voting actually started, but the instant that he said something about discrimination, he hammered him.
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  7993.  @awbrakeley  Indeed. There was a movement called Clean Campaigns, where candidates opted in to public funding, and candidates who opted out were free to do so, but any dollar above the threshold they raised, the Clean Campaign candidates got matching funds so that no one could get outspent. This is far superior to Democracy Dollars, because it doesn't solve the problem of rich candidates outspending poorer ones.
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  7994.  @gendomonk7655  By no objective standard is the recovery rate 99.8%. You wanna complain about the effects of closing things down? Well, maybe if we had done what South Korea, Japan, and New Zealand did (not to mention several African countries), we wouldn't still be in this situation, and we wouldn't have to worry about it, but right wingers who confuse irresponsibility with freedom wouldn't have that.
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  7995.  @crashoutsignal  Yes, so Hunter Biden 1) traveled 2500 miles to drop off a laptop 2) that had a folder that was the equivalent of Not Secret Illegal Stuff 3) to a repair shop that he never intended to collect 4) and the owner of the shop can confirm it's him even thiugh the security camera was switching tapes and 5) he is legally blind. Did you know that gullible isn't in the dictionary?
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  7996.  @lawfirmandshoerepair  Socual conservatism can unify the workers? You mean the people who rail against civil rights and women's rights can rally workers of all colors? You have just laid bare that what you really want is to rally white male workers.
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  7997. I don't know, Barron's pretty tall. Eric is definitely a Rubin fan, though.
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  7998.  @sapienssapiens35  I'm starting to think that he is lying with his username. Then again, there are a lot of people who sound a lot like right-wing trolls pretending to be left to depress turnout these days.
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  7999.  @Morning404  He's had a lot of bad takes on Ukraine.
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  8000.  @seanhovan7426  Are lines in New York eight hours long? Answer the question.
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  8001.  @seanhovan7426  I am well aware of electioneering. (I have taken off more than one button in my day before going inside the building.) There is nothing that says that someone not actively campaigning for someone else is allowed to give away water to elderly people who have been standing in line for hours in those states. Funny how none of the examples you listed are water.
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  8002. Do you like Ketanji Brown Jackson? If he became a Republican, she would have never gotten a hearing. Coming from a state that red, it is far better to get the half a loaf that he offers than nothing at all.
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  8003.  @thedissidentleftist6997  Well, if you know that you'll get a Democrat, that makes your job easier. Right now, the big thing I'm doing is working on a state senate primary challenge in PA for a friend of mine from the Bernie campaign (he lives in Philadelphia, and I live in the suburbs) to try to defeat the man alternatively known as the voucher king and the charter king who has opened two charter schools and run them both into the ground. If Fetterman wins the US Senate primary, I'll probably be doing a lot of volunteering for his campaign in the fall. If there's no close districts nearby, consider taking weekends to go to Wisconsin to help out in the Senate race there. It should be a prime pickup opportunity.
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  8004. Plenty of people who aren't white can be every bit as part of the cover up. I once had a black co-worker whose brother was a cop. She automatically and instinctually defended every bad thing every cop ever did. Yes, racism is a lot of the problem, but buy in is not limited to one demographic.
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  8005. ​ @MABfan11 And I'm on the e-mail lists of two of the "sponsors" of that march in Philadelphia. Neither said a word, which makes me think that they never really did.
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  8006.  @pagandragon830  From what I've heard, at least with contractors, he gives a little of what he owes and then threatens to drag it out in court, and for most people, the legal costs are way more than the money he stiffs them, so they back down. The smartest lawyer he ever had was the one who insisted on getting paid upfront and then backed away when he saw what a hot mess of a client he is.
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  8007. Sinema is the far more likely of the two. Manchin is in a state where Trump won by 42 and 39 points, and the other Senator is a Republican who won by 43 points in her last election. They'll never forgive that he voted to remove Der Orangefuhrer twice. Like it or not, Joe Manchin is the best we can get from the Mountain State. (The main problem is that he is the deciding vote, whereas before the fact that he voted our way about half the time didn't derail the process the other half.) Sinema, on the other hand, is in a state that Biden won with a Democratic Senator to her left who is more popular. She has no excuse.
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  8008.  @carvedwood1953  Biden did run when he was younger. Bernie didn't even want to run in 2016. He wanted Warren to, but she wouldn't do it, and the world passed her by. He was an obscure Senator before he ran, and he didn't even get to the Senate until he was 65. Other than your age discrimination, who should be running instead of Biden, since you "want someone better"?
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  8009.  @taranullius9221  Indeed. You've got to at least do a little due diligence.
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  8010.  @Elementfire0666  He was there since the beginning. He knew. So, which kind of bad judgment are you saying that he committed?
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  8011.  @henryannis8752  Define "illegal [sic] run government." If you're talking about "I don't like it, so I want to get my gun," you are advocating the end of democracy.
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  8012.  @henryannis8752  And as a veteran of a real well regulated militia and not these LARPers playing in the woods, I am sick and tired of these nuts thinking they are militia.
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  8013.  @henryannis8752  So, a party that wants to have a majority rule is "[setting] up a dictatorship"? And a party that refuses to hold a hearing when it's "too close to the election" when the other side controls the White House and one of their Justices dies more than eight months before the election but it is perfectly fine when the other side's Justice dies less than two months out? It sounds like your definition is "I don't like their policy, so I am going to get my gun." Hasn't that side done enough on 1/6 when trying to kill Pence and Pelosi because they can't handle losing?
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  8014.  @henryannis8752  The Supreme Court has a limited capacity to hear cases. They are not going to waste their time on cases that have no merit to make people who will never be convinced feel better. You say that you are against armed rebellion, but yet you are defending the fascists who tried to overthrow democracy. You can't have it both ways. There is no "Yes, but..." there is "It was inexcusable, full stop." Anything else is supporting armed rebellion because people were primed for months that they couldn't lose "except for fraud," and the allegations kept getting more and more bizarre. So, are you with democracy, or do you support the fascists trying to end it?
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  8015.  @eljoel89  If you primary Manchin, and it is successful, the Democratic nominee will lose. Ben Nelson was to the right of where Joe Manchin is now (unlike Nelson, Manchin was never to the right of any Senate Republican), even though Nebraska was not as far to the right as West Virginia is now. We can replace Sinema with someone better, but the Republican who would win would be worse than Manchin. And considering that the candidate who was his primary challenger in 2018 won the nomination in 2020 and lost by 43 points, that's what nominating someone else will give you.
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  8016.  @mjchakos1  Well, it looks like Sinema is now the most hated statewide elected official in Arizona, and Mark Kelly is doing much better. It's almost like the people of Arizona want someone to her left :-0
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  8017. Re: single payer, looking at the proposal by Bernie, I would have actually paid lower taxes than my premiums and had no out of pocket costs. Not to mention how much more I would have gotten from employer payroll savings. I'd much rather pay just under 2% in taxes and not have to worry about it anymore than deal with Aetna.
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  8018.  @Starcrash6984  That, and trucks actually do have to pay more in tolls. Not by weight, but by the number of axles.
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  8019. That's exactly why I used to debate wingers on FB... until bad faith actors and trolls left me annoyed the entire time. Now, I do that here, where at least more people actually try to legitimately engage, except for some who I am convinced are bots or are thinking with a hive mind.
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  8020.  @nodnarbeht9505  Show me where a party in the United States has kicked someone out. Re: what we're getting now, Biden got 40 federal judges in 2021. Do you think that Manchin is signing off on those judges or McConnell is giving them a hearing if he is the majority leader? Do you think that we would have gotten the coronavirus bill last year? I at least know what I speak of when I talk about my frustrations with Manchin. In 2020, the margin Swearingen lost by beat what she got by 16 points. Splitting the vote with another Republican wouldn't make a difference.
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  8021.  @AstroMortuum  Every bill mentions the year. What are you talking about?
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  8022.  @SR-lh4rm  No, he doesn't. Medicare for All (the real version that is proposed in the Senate) will take four years to fully phase in. Yang wants to maybe, someday see private insurance wither on the vine.
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  8023. 1. Bernie 2. Yang 3. Warren
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  8024.  @lf3541  Why Buttigieg? What has he accomplished?
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  8025.  @freontolstoy4993  Yes!
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  8026. The hush money case is the only one that isn't affected by this ruling (because it was for things before he was President), so we need Alvin Bragg to bring it home now more than ever.
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  8027.  @JavierFernandez01  What is a funny bit that Jimmy Dore has? And Sam Seder will be the first to tell you he is not and never was a comedian.
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  8028. Sinema is worse. Manchin is much more predictable, because he is in an incredibly red state, and he does respond to pressure. Sinema seems to thrive on people's hatred, and she doesn't really have a core, so how can you work with someone like that? I will donate to any halfway decent primary challenger who arises.
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  8029.  @marmalaterjones4526  Apparently, you can't understand the construction of the comment. Quotation marks mean that you are quoting someone else. In this case, I am quoting Sam Seder in the video. Jimmy Dore is unfunny, but he thinks he is. Therefore, comedians hate Jimmy Dore. It's not that complicated. If you think he is funny, why don't you give an example of some of his best bits? My favorite living comedians are Gary Gulman and Lewis Black, and I could name several from each of them.
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  8030.  @seaofgreens  Are you serious? Do you really not understand the construction of what I was saying? No wonder you like Jimmy Dore. Okay. I will make it as simple as possible. Sam said that the people who comedians hate the most are people who think they are funny when they are not. Jimmy Dore is not funny, but he thinks he is. Therefore, he is the kind of person comedians hate the most. It was clearly not based on a poll of actual comedians, but the implications of that statement. So, if you think that Jimmy Dore is funny, what are some of the things that he has said that are funny?
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  8031.  @keely_cn8924  Never forget how unfunny Dave Rubin is. I was watching The Serfs watching that panel he did with Adam Corolla and a couple of other people (speaking of which, I have come to realize one simple truth about one of his biggest shows: he really meant the stupid stuff on The Man Show, while Jimmy Kimmel clearly got the joke) and he was talking about people laughing at some edgy joke he made, which I knew was a lie, because no one laughs at him when he tries to be funny.
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  8032.  @seaofgreens  Okay, it's obvious now that you clearly don't understand the construction of my original comment. I apologize for mocking the feeble minded.
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  8033.  @seaofgreens  You still don't get it. Others said "I think he's funny," but quite frankly, you saying his digs at Hillary is the closest I have actually heard of someone giving an actual example of something funny he said. I especially find it amusing that you talk about a circle jerk while defending Jimmy Dore. Yet, you keep getting hung up on the construction not realizing no matter how many times I have explained it that it was about Jimmy Dore not being funny rather than in reference to specific comedians. I am sorry if your grasp on the English language is insufficient to understand those words, and that your grasp of the "If A and B then C" argument that I was making, but when someone explains it to you and you keep going back to the same thing showing your lack I'd understanding, that is a you problem.
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  8034.  @nathansmith622  What is your example of something funny that he has said? You sound like a typical cultist that only the initiated can understand. Or, you are like the title character in "The Emperor's New Clothes" thinking that laughing at that hack proves that you are smart.
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  8035. Well, she was trying to angle for Secretary of State when Trump won in 2016, so it's coming full circle.
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  8036.  @marcoszavala8435  No, she criticized the fact that we did leave. Never mind the fact that these were the terms Trump neogitated. She has been very inconsistent about the application of her principles, and that isn't even getting into her defense of torture that came straight out of an episode of 24.
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  8037. There were others in the 19th century, but he was the only one to try to thwart the transition to his successor.
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  8038. Probably because she had a big canvassing event ten days before her primary instead of going to his performance art.
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  8039.  @patriotforhumanity7174  So, it's scientific data that is telling you that the British Crown is behind all of this?
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  8040. 7:45 We tried to warn you that it was. Now, are you ready to believe us?
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  8041.  @freetrailer4poor I apologize for the delay. I lost track of the thread. Deflation is terrible, because wages usually fall with deflation. The last year CPI went down? 2009. Was that a good time for the American people economically speaking? As far as the question of land speculation, if you get government out of the way, how are you going to control land and property speculation? Land speculation and wealth concentration were at their peak in the 50 years following the Civil War because government let them do whatever they wanted and they took capital's side over labor every time without fail.
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  8042.  @freetrailer4poor  Wages have been stagnant for 40 years. Did Reagan suddenly go pinko and we never noticed? Wages actually kept up with productivity and the poor benefited the most when union participation was at its highest level in American history.
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  8043.  @freetrailer4poor  You honestly believe that teachers are the wealthy elite in this country? The average tenure track professor makes about $80K a year. A CEO of a Fortune 500 company makes more than that in one day.
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  8044.  @freetrailer4poor  Now, I know that you are either trolling or you are working backward to justify your ideological position regardless of reality. You talk about how low wage, low cost places are better for the people? I have lived in those for most of my life, and there are a lot of poor people and a handful of very, very rich people. Then again, you think that the Gilded Age was the ideal society, so in a way, that makes perfect sense, although you never did answer how the land speculation can be stopped without government getting in the way of it.
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  8045.  @ofdrumsandchords  Already won? Russia is dealing with its worst economic crisis since the 1980s, and they were supposed to be able to overwhelm Ukraine within days. If that's winning, I'd hate to see losing.
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  8046.  @ofdrumsandchords  Did you back away from your comment that showed up in my notifications, or did it get dropped?
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  8047.  @ofdrumsandchords  I'll respond as best I can with quoting you so anyone who stumbles upon the thread won't be lost. "Putin probably underestimated the task, but anyway, that won't stop him." Plenty of stronger powers have lost the war because they eventually tired of conquest. Given how poor the air force is faring, they might have an equipment problem as well. Victory is not assured. When an American general told a Vietnamese general that "we won every battle," the Vietnamese general responded, "true, but that does not matter." The successful elements for an underdog, outgunned victory are all there for Ukraine.
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  8048.  @ofdrumsandchords  Literally everything about targeting civilians has happened to several armies that were defending their homeland that won. It is sufficient to not lose, because eventually the invading country will lose its will. Look at Leningrad. The people defending what is theirs are far more likely to hold off the invaders in that circumstance. History is not on Putin's side. The more he targets civilians, the more he alienates the world. Switzerland has decided to impose sanctions, and they are famous for their absolute neutrality and refusing to join any international movement. Russia snapped them out of it for the first time in centuries. Russia isn't like North Korea where all people know is suffering and have no basis for comparison. Everything about this situation shows someone clinging to power and getting desperate. That isn't the action of someone who "has already won."
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  8049.  @ofdrumsandchords  The channels justifying Russian aggression or minimizing it have been proven wrong every step of the way.
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  8050. ​ @MaliceInCandyland  I think George hates himself way too much to think of himself as successful.
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  8051.  @Martinroadsguy  Indeed. Several car companies have admitted that each car has more money for health insurance than it does for steel in the production.
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  8052. No one's stopping you. Don't let the door hit you where the Good Lord split you.
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  8053. 17:00 You are correct about this being a battle between good and evil, but you've chosen the side of evil.
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  8054.  @johngleason1776  Indeed. You have to be pretty bad in order to alienate the nicest and most forgiving person in American politics.
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  8055. Dark Brandon is the best Biden.
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  8056. Ed McMahon was Johnny Carson's sidekick on The Tonight Show.
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  8057. It has been said that the true sign of maturity is the ability to hold two true and seemingly contradictory ideas at the same time. Omar did use anti-Semitic tropes in her post, but the Republicans criticizing her (especially from those who went down the Soros conspiracy route) are not acting in good faith.
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  8058. The Democratic switch on civil rights actually started in 194i8, with Truman integrating the army and insisting on a civil rights plank in the party platform. This so infuriated Southern Democrats that they formed the Dixiecrats and ran Strom Thurmond in several states.
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  8059. @Nikesh1102 So, we ignore the injustice they discuss because other injustices take place?
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  8060.  @oldmanhopes7769  So, you're fine with other discrimination taking place, as long as it is evenly distributed among other minorities, and if other minorities get exactly as much attention. All lives matter literally began as a rebuttal to the idea that black lives matter. How many other groups are systematically being killed with impunity by the police?
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  8061.  @jcraigie  That is one of the many aliases of Aaron Dickson, the most notorious troll on this channel. He repeatedly does this, and he got caught with his multiple aliases agreeing with himself when he forgot the username he was logged in with. Sad.
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  8062.  @redrick8900  No, the definition of exploitation is getting rich of the labor of others who you pay far less. Nice try.
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  8063.  @redrick8900  ... says the person who thinks that exploitation is "getting something out of the system" (yet not thinking that a billionaire qualifies). The Dunning-Kruger is strong with this one.
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  8064.  @mrbadguysan  I think that they like having the same number of Senators as a state over 70 times its size in population. And if they really want functioning government, why did they send Dick Cheney's daughter to Congress?
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  8065. Defend, yes, but you can't just say anything. There are rules.
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  8066.  @hawkeye5955  Gerrymandering will only affect the House and legislative races. They can't gerrymander the Presidency.
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  8067.  First Last  Not unless she wants to give up her commission.
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  8068.  @dennisbryan7522  If you live in a county where Trump won 60% of the vote in 2020, you are nearly three times as likely to die than if you live in a county where Biden won 60% of the vote. Being a Republican is literally killing people.
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  8069.  @dennisbryan7522  That something is called reality. Just because you want to pretend otherwise doesn't make it so. People who ignore coronavirus and pretend that it is either over or never happened end up taking fewer precautions. Who would have thought!
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  8070. Sanders/Baldwin
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  8071.  @pbj9270  Her record was so "firmly on the left" that she got primaried from the left in every election cycle. Her record was so "firmly on the left" that she endorsed torture. Her record was so "firmly on the left" that she was one of only 16 Democrats to vote with Republicans to make it more difficult for Syrian refugees to enter the United States. And for someone who "wants to end the wars," it's funny how she reacted when Biden literally ended a war.
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  8072. Debt-free can be taken too far. For example, if you only focus on debt, and you have debt with a lower interest rate than the typical ROI on stocks (9%), you are coming out behind.
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  8073. Confession: I had a hammer and was going to use it on Nancy Pelosi for "lying about the 2020 election." Right-wing nut jobs: We don't know why he did it
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  8074. In a previous generation, Newhart ended with a twist that was widely praised. Then again, it went for the silly and was a parody of a poorly received twist with St. Elsewhere, so maybe that's why it worked better.
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  8075.  @robtheoutsider  Well, those pthers came out of nowhere as well. My point was that having a twist ending doesn't automatically mean that a finale will be bad, but it can't be done in a way that is a betrayal to the show.
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  8076.  @japickell  Well, if they aren't going to get paid overtime, what do you expect them to do? Then again, your bad-mouthing of working people tells everyone who you really are.
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  8077.  @razoredge6130  If you really believe that life begins at conception, start doing things that actually support the woman and the fetus. But we both know deep down inside that you don't really believe that. If you did, you'd support contraception, making child support applicable at conception, and make better pre- and postnatal care available to all to make sure that the "life of the mother" situation that you love to insist is so rare much rarer. Infant mortality is a policy choice. But none of that gives you the chance to get your jollies like saying that everyone who disagrees with you supports "killing babies."
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  8078.  @razoredge6130  So, you support "a higher education standard" and "better economic policies," yet the states that do far better on the former are the states that agree with me, and the latter when we've done it your way has led to wage stagnation and greater wealth inequality? [In my best judge from My Cousin Vinny voice] I don't think you do.
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  8079.  @razoredge6130  No. Personhood begins at birth.
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  8080.  @razoredge6130  "there are plenty poor nations that have abortions" And your point being? Considering that you don't even seem to begin to understand mine about how refusing to invest in things like healthcare proves that you don't care about the "child" and you don't care about the woman, either. By your logic, do you even believe that contraception should be legal?
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  8081.  @razoredge6130  Yep. Just as I suspected. You don't want women to terminate a pregnancy or prevent one. Women literally don't factor into this at all to you.
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  8082.  @razoredge6130  No, you don't. You don't care about women, or you wouldn't be anti-contraception and opposed to extending child support to conception and indifferent to the issue of prenatal care. The worst lies are the ones we tell ourselves.
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  8083. When word leaked that Bernie wanted to be Secretary of Labor after the 2020 election, the whole thing seemed bizarre to me, because he would get the gavel in key committees. Seeing Bernie's people get jobs at DOL makes much more sense and has done a lot of good.
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  8084.  @colettithekid  Because when he speaks to that broad audience, it is to take a crap on anyone actually getting things done and to make lefties look stupid like a political minstrel show. To say that Jimmy Dore is toxic is an insult to poison.
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  8085.  @savenetneutralityanti-repu7029  Very few conservatives will be swayed by stuff like this. The real audience is people who are on the fence.
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  8086. ​ @jcanfieldschatz  Actually, there was a County clerk in Arizona or New Mexico who was stripped of office, and a state legislator in West Virginia who resigned before he could be removed from office.
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  8087. So, you don't care about torture, killing protesters in Egypt, praising Putin for bombing civilians in Syria while complaining that Obama didn't, supporting Modi, voting to make it more difficult for Syrian refugees to enter the United States, courting Sheldon Adelson and doing his bidding to try to get rid of his competition in the form of online gambling, or torture?
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  8088.  @AnalyticalHeart  Any time. You were quite respectful as well and deserve the fullest of praise.
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  8089. Teleprompter Trump doesn't count, because we all know that he doesn't mean it.
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  8090.  @alexjwebabou  Indeed. A lot of nepo babies lack awareness of the breaks they had, and I honestly wonder how much of it is a protective mechanism. Even the talented ones so often lack awareness. Probably the most shocking example in the video was Dan Levy, whose breakthrough was literally the show that he created with his famous father, insisting that family connections didn't get hin in the door.
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  8091. This may just be the most accurate description of Wilson in existence.
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  8092. Funny how these errors never seem to work out for the workers.
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  8093. Indeed. He spent the turn of the millennium trying to rebuild his image on NBC, but the fact that Brokaw refused to let him do a y segments on the Nightly News seemed to let him to say forget it and go to Fox. His legacy will be a complicated one to say the least.
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  8094.  @joxysurge9631  *Everyone v. Everyone
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  8095. I've dealt with gun nuts. If you want the slightest regulation on gun ownership, they are convinced that you are part of a secret plot to take all of the guns. You can't get those people on board.
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  8096. 1:30 They're pretty good. I usually try to get it when I am on my way to visiting my parents in WV. Their cheese curds are amazing.
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  8097. You obviously aren't familiar with Catch and Release. What would stop a Medicare for All opponent in a lefty district from voting for it in order to fend off a primary challenge, only to vote No if it ever has a shot? Do you want a strategy to pass it, or do you want to feel good?
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  8098.  @Hindukushsailing  Bernie wrote two books that sold over a million copies and has a job that pays six figures. If he hadn't accumulated at least a million dollars by the age of 80, you'd be saying that he's bad with money. You're not fooling anyone.
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  8099.  @janeenharris3074  Some people just want to blow the world up, I guess.
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  8100.  Kenji Azurai  I got so much grief for calling her put for who she was. Like Ana Kasparian, I too will run some victory laps.
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  8101. Given the Dore Knobs who slip through to defend their hero, pretty much. That being said, there aren't nearly as many of them as there used to be.
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  8102.  @IcarusLime  If we don't defeat Republicans first, we don't get a chance later. It takes time to take over a party. With big dollars behind it, it took 16 years for the Goldwater wing to take over the GOP. We have been working at taking over the Democratic Party for five, and we have already had successes. If you don't like it, maybe run for school board, city council, state legislature, or party committees to build an actual bench.
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  8103.  @arentube8123  Interesting. Red baiting and Russian propaganda all in one paragraph. Or, maybe, here's a thought: maybe they want the antidote because a neighboring country that invaded them eight years earlier and repeatedly expressed imperial ambitions has them and they want to treat people.
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  8104.  @ZenobiaofPalmyra  Fair enough. I will say that his ongoing base is one of the two categories, because the third category isn't one that you can use to build steady income.
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  8105.  @marvinthiessen3454  JFK didn't do much of anything to improve the lives of ordinary people. Civil rights? That was Johnson. Fighting poverty? That was Johnson. Medicare? That was Johnson, too. RFK didn't start to move left until a few months before he was killed, and he was killed because of his support of Israel.
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  8106.  @TDR85  Indeed. In 2012, there was a heat wave in West Virginia that was so bad that it caused blackouts nearly statewide. This jerk lived in the middle of nowhere, and he paid Appalachain Electric to come to his house first instead of getting to main areas. He is not just rich, but he is incredibly callous.
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  8107. He is also term limited, but my fear is that he runs for Senate in 2024. Two sitting governors in the last 40 years (Rockefeller in 1984 and Manchin in 2010) got elected to the Senate. If people complain about Manchin, imagine dealing with Justice.
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  8108.  @ollelarsson-xn2jh  A Jimmy Dore fan who doesn't understand a joke? What a shock!
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  8109.  @HannibalBarca247BCE  Indeed. The President is powerful enough in our system. I don't want a dictator period, even if he/she would be "my dictator."
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  8110.  @paddleduck5328  Thank you. A good weekend to you as well.
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  8111.  @luz8010  Kyle doesn't want to blow up his spot.
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  8112.  @edward0383  Not yet, but he's on his way. It's a short distance from "Jimmy Dore is all right" to "I've got to jump on that train!"
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  8113. I think she asked him if Trump would use sexism against her, and when he said he would, given her tendency to exaggerate (Exhibit A: she had said several times that she was the only one who beat an incumbent Republican in the last 25 years, which was true but highly suspicious as a cut-off, only to get caught when she changed it to 30 Tuesday night), let it metamorphose into him saying that a woman can't win.
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  8114.  @A86  Indeed. I dealt with one of the above who got mad when I pointed out that what he was describing was agnosticism rather than atheism, because once you think you have an answer, by definition you aren't "just asking for proof" any longer. The irony is that my brother abandoned the faith of his youth, but not the fundamentalism, while I abandoned the fundamentalism but not the faith. I have heard from many a people that I am not taking the Bible seriously and lying about having faith because I take the position of inspired rather than inerrant, whereas the latter is only a 200-year-old position. My denomination is 400 years old, so a majority have clearly disagreed with it in our history.
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  8115.  @A86  Indeed. It is incredibly frustrating dealing with people who bid a hasty retreat the instant someone says, "Well, you believe that something comes from nothing." If someone takes that position, that is their right. I've also dealt with the ones who (not realizing their own fundamentalism) insist that they want freedom but don't want anyone else to have it. I'm not talking about separation of church and state (which I fully support), but those who want to eradicate religious beliefs and not realizing that would lead to a "Go God Go" situation. The absolute most annoying that I heard was Dawkins insisting on The Colbert Report that you can't make an argument for a higher being outside of time. Pretty much every theistic faith that acknowledges a beginning argues that there is something out of time. That would be like a fundamentalist saying "You can't use the Big Bang Theory in your argument." Or, you can annoy all the fundamentalists, theistic and atheistic alike by telling them that you think "Let there be light" and the Big Bang Theory are the same thing ;-) If people come at with an honest perspective (even if it means willing to admit weaknesses in an argument) and a healthy respect for the other person, it really doesn't have to be a powder keg at all.
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  8116. When you have angered Lawrence O'Donnell, arguably the most establishment-friendly host on MSNBC, you know you have stepped in it.
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  8117.  @默-c1r  What does it mean?
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  8118. "Country was safe" Except for the pandemic that killed a million people. "Country was prosperous" Except for the fact that he was the first since Hoover to oversee a net job loss as President, and in two of four years in office, wage growth was lower than inflation.
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  8119.  @nameisamine  If "electability" is cramming someone like Tony Blair down everyone's throat when the share for New Labour went down every time he ran as PM, then it is just an excuse to avoid someone who didn't buy into the Thatcher dogma.
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  8120.  @materialdialectics  May I ask why, other than the fact that Putin wouldn't like it, that you think Ukraine shouldn't be admitted into NATO?
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  8121. ​ @bonnie43uk  The doctor was the real monster ;-)
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  8122.  @ikexbankai  Agreed about West Virginia, but Biden won Arizona. Kelly is to the left of Sinema, and he is far more popular in Arizona, as is Biden. She has a net approval of -46 among Arizona Democrats, so the only chance she really has is if her opposition is stupid and doesn't unite behind one person. Sadly, too many on the left don't have an ounce of political strategic sense, which makes our job that much harder.
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  8123.  @vrknyght8207  Are you serious? With thinking like yours, no matter why we can't win! "Let's not give the American people anything, and they'll blame all on McConnell, even though on a forum where people should know better, people still think that the President is all-powerful." At a certain point, I wonder how many lefties online are trolls trying to help Republicans.
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  8124.  @vrknyght8207  Speaking of Bernie, what did you do to try to get him elected?
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  8125.  @DunesBGaming  There is a difference between noticing a body and making a lewd comment.
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  8126.  @MelkorTolkien  She sent a private message, and he is the one who made it public. Nice try.
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  8127.  @Cussy69_420  It's all right. I saw it when I first woke up, so I just wasn't quite sure whose logic you referred to. I personally think that, given how much of the story he's lied about, that she almost certainly wasn't wearing a microskirt and thong to work, but even if she was, there is a far more appropriate way to bring it to her attention.
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  8128.  @hizzlemobizzle  Hillary has Parkinson's, the DNC killed Seth Rich, and 9/11 was an inside job.
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  8129.  @quietstrm11  Gowdy made the TV call, and Scully made the radio call.
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  8130.  @quietstrm11  Any time
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  8131.  @phantommensa  Hethinksthatifhetalksfast itmakeshimsound smart, buthealways hastheseawkward pauses thatmakesitbackfire becauseitisobvious thatthisisall partofhisact.
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  8132. A week is too long between these.
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  8133.  @Rob_Cary  Tulsi didn't have that Gray patch in 2016, and she was better at getting pictures of her good side. That being said, even her "good ideas at the beginning" were terrible beneath the surface. Her "peace" was really isolationism. And don't give me this "non-interventionalist" nonsense, because that was a Ron Paul rebrand, and plenty of people bought that nonsense to insist that he really wasn't that far right. She started her run playing both siderism on the wall, she kept playing wing woman to Biden, and she ended by voting Present rather than Yes on impeachment when she said that she believed the charges were true. She endorsed Bernie in 2016 in order to fend off a challenge to her left. That, and hatred of Hillary. Jacobin put it best in 2017: Tulsi Gabbard is not your friend.
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  8134. That's why we need to index the minimum wage so they can't hold working people hostage.
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  8135.  @nicholasmaude6906  Say what you will about Nixon, at least he knew what he was doing was wrong, and he didn't destroy the tapes. He was bad, but he had some standards.
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  8136. Or maybe we, I don't know, do everything we can within the law and bounds of democracy to make sure that the fascists lose.
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  8137. Funny how people like to say that they were "taken out of context" while never actually bothering to explain the context that supposedly exonerates them.
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  8138.  @NoCultsPlease  I don't know, maybe I just see the evil.
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  8139. "I love the poorly educated!" Donald Trump, 2016 "President Obama wants everyone to go to college. What a snob!" Rick Santorum, 2012
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  8140. Actually, real wages went down in 2019 and 2020. Trump benefits because it's like people have some sort of amnesia for 2020, like it was so traumatic that people have a mental block.
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  8141. Brenda: You should pay respect to the President always because he is the President of everyone. Also Brenda: Barack Obama is evil.
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  8142.  @johnmatthews3427  A sales tax is the worst kind of tax, because it is the literal textbook example of a regressive tax. Despite examples in their midst like Trump and Bezos, the richest 1% do pay a higher percentage of income in taxes. The problem is that taxes aren't progressive enough.
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  8143.  @Xianfaquanli  He says he will get money from Amazon through his VAT. That will clearly get passed on to the consumer, but do you consider books to be a luxury item?
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  8144.  @angelicacharm5383  He does? How many more lies is he going to tell? Except for pretending to be the friend of workers, at least Biden is honest about not being a lefty.
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  8145.  @FreckleFoxShow  Yes, thank you. That is exactly the point.
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  8146.  @FreckleFoxShow  I get what you're saying. My greater point is that it shouldn't be either/or. If you want to go with UBI, it should be both/and.
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  8147.  @jimgraham6722  But he's not. He wants to give the illusion that he is doing that, but a car company that can't be mass produced because there aren't enough rare earth minerals to make his model of car is hardly "saving the world." Neither is horrible treatment of workers and trying to build underground tunnels so rich people don't have to deal with us commoners and taking the wealth of society to do something that NASA should be doing is hardly something to celebrate.
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  8148.  @harshamahtani5554  My last straw was after Hillary won the nomination saying that America would be better off under Trump. Well, I heard the same thing from the "purists" in 2000 about Bush. Well, my stiff back from armor plating that didn't fit begs to differ.
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  8149. Yes, "The Gods Must Be Crazy" is a hilarious and thought provoking movie. It was released in 1980 and is still the highest-grossing African movie of all time.
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  8150.  @Addamo  When he spent months insisting that Trump would be better than Hillary, the Supreme Court didn't matter, and Mitch McConnell getting rid of the judicial filibuster was akin to the moon falling into Lake Michigan.
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  8151.  @Addamo  Wrong. In the 2016 debate, he explicitly said that Trump would be better and mentioned Syria and TPP to justify this.
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  8152. I never tire of clips of Jessica Tarlov putting these idiots in their place.
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  8153.  @Ronniezim  You don't know which side her bread is buttered on? Let's see. Her boss is a close Trump associate, and she almost never makes stand-alone points against Republicans. And the whole point of the alt-right pipeline? What else what you call telling lefties that we should work with people like Tucker Carlson? Or that the left and right agree, and she is always telling people not to support Democrats and her cohost is telling people to support Republicans? What is the net impact of that?
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  8154.  @rexfordmorgan7552  Except it's worse than Hannity & Colmes, because Alan Colmes wrote his own books defending his position instead of saying "work with Sean Hannity on the major issues" (I read them both, and they were pretty good, but her book with Enjeti was a grift to sell transcripts of select radars for $20). He was clearly who the producers wanted you to root against, but Krystal Ball makes him look like a lion in comparison in terms of actual effect.
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  8155.  @frontierbrainrobby5449  If Krystal Ball isn't a grifter, why did she establish a PAC that paid 39% of all contributions to herself and less than 5% to the candidates she said she was helping?
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  8156.  @Kamfrenchie  Funny that the examples that you used are someone who bragged about not voting and told everyone to blame him if Trump wins, and a largely libertarian reporter who quit the spent the months before the election going on Tucker Carlson to complain about Democrats and quit his media outlet because they didn't want to run a story so poorly sourced that even Fox wouldn't touch it? Why not mention Jimmy Dore while you're at it to try to prove your point?
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  8157.  @Ronniezim  But they don't go on those shows to "advance politics for working people." They do it to talk about how bad the one party that could beat Trump is. There is a reason why people like Nomiki Konst who go on Fox regularly won't touch Tucker Carlson with a ten foot pole. If you're really "results oriented," you should look at something that makes it more difficult for the candidate who is advocating a $15/hour minimum wage running against the one who said wages are too high in America as a negative.
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  8158.  @Ronniezim  I don't pretend to know it all, either, but when I see someone platforming fake populists and saying that they're all trying to help actual working people, spending her time insisting not to vote for the party that actually wants to increase the minimum wage and keep some business regulations on the books, and sets up a PAC where more than eight times the money that goes to candidates goes to herself, I would say how much more evidence do you need?
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  8159.  @Ronniezim  You keep hanging on to one example I gave. People who act in good faith don't usually set things up that are known as "scam PACs." She set up a PAC after she left MSNBC. By the time she started working at The Hill, 39% of all money raised went to herself in salary at her only job at the time. Less than 5% went to candidates. The biggest donor? The founder of LinkedIn. How populist! When Clay Aiken (an early donor and prominent endorser) found out the business model, he was so infuriated that he demanded a full refund. While Tim Ryan didn't ask for a refund, he did denounce the PAC. Isn't that something that people should know when she criticizes his campaign? If anyone else did what she did, you would rightly call it a con job.
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  8160.  @Ronniezim  She paid herself $174,000. She gave candidates $22,000. When she criticized the campaign of Tim Ryan, she didn't say a word about how he was critical of her PAC. Read the McClatchy article instead of Wikipedia, because if the latter is saying $100,000, it is lying.
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  8161. @AmateurThespian So, how do you think that Trump would have responded to 9/11? How about SARS? His response to Katrina would have been much worse, as evidenced by how he handled Maria. And you think Trump hasn't killed people? Have you not noticed what is happening in Yemen? Trump treated the Kurds far worse than W did, and even worse than Poppy did. Bush was awful, but Trump is worse. Also, when did any other President talk about being President for Life?
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  8162.  @theme34xcp  So, you just expect to win by having fewer votes? No wonder we keep losing. Too many lefties don't understand math or the concept "someone who agrees with me 80% of the time is not my enemy."
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  8163.  @BeezerGutlr  I remember the story with the power struggle. That was incredibly messed up. I live in Pennsylvania, and I have seen some wacky stuff once I get outside of the Philadelphia metro area. I saw one that said that Moses built the ark and Trump built the wall and kept coronavirus out. I guess the person putting that up didn't take into consideration the over 700K dead. This summer, I went to a theme park with my daughter, my parents, and my niece. If I had known how few were taking coronavirus seriously, we would have gone to one in New Jersey instead. One old woman was giving my mom grief for wearing a mask.
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  8164. Yes. You can argue that Israel is being imperial, but it is not the same thing as what happened in South Africa. Trevor Noah literally couldn't play outside because he was born to parents of different races for fear of his family being arrested or worse.
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  8165. ​ @The_Dudester  *Himself
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  8166.  @Colddirector  That's why he still can't accept that Hillary beat him in the popular vote.
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  8167.  @RAS0850  The objection comes from refusing to actually stand for everything. And, what do you do when there really isn't a consensus, common sense or no? And, no, more time wouldn't have meant that Yang would give a straight answer. I haven't seen such robotic repetition of a talking point ("the common sense of consensus" in this case) since "the problem is that President Obama knows what he is doing." In both cases, even when the talking point was called out, they couldn't help but repeat it. Yang has proven to be slippery as an eel for years.
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  8168.  @RAS0850  Yang is such a "sincere seeker of solutions" that he repeatedly lied about his signature proposal. He repeatedly insisted that "everyone get a thousand bucks no strings attached," but he had a list of 125 strings that he kept to himself except for six or seven. He kept saying that the poor and disabled "could choose which is better," but problematic as that is, told Dave Rubin that he structured it that way to slowly kill support for existing programs (or, as Grover Norquist put it, to shrink to the size that it can be dragged in the bathroom and drowned in the bathtub). He repeatedly used racial dog whistles and has waffled on whether or not he seeks the support of white supremacists. If he is honest, who is lying?
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  8169.  @lydialutz  Because, like it or not, party matters a great deal, and the party's positions on issues tells me the kind of people they will appoint.
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  8170.  @ericmicke4130  Actually, given the history of proposed centrist third parties that make a big splash in the media basically talking about the same thing the Forward Party is proposing, and how none of them ever got a candidate, let alone a ballot line, I think it's a perfectly reasonable question.
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  8171.  @lydialutz  You've never heard of the Cabinet or the judiciary system? Those people are appointed.
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  8172.  @lydialutz  Do you get paid to keep listing the same three things in every single post?
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  8173.  @lydialutz  And what is the most determinative factor for who an elected official will appoint to those positions? So close, yet so far.
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  8174.  @lydialutz  Literally every party in the United States allows some leeway on local issues. Still doesn't change the fact that there is a philosophical underpinning to those parties even within those variations. To use an example, Joe Manchin is literally to the left of every Republican in the Senate. Lisa Murkowski is to the right of every Democrat in the Senate. Refusing to take stands on issues is a party that is not serious about anything other than collecting that sweet, sweet cash.
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  8175.  @lydialutz  So, you literally reply the same thing to the same people in every reply because you think that this makes it easier. Hint: for those of us who spend a lot of time here, it makes you look like a paid troll or a bot, so maybe try mixing it up a little, or make it germane to the conversation.
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  8176.  @emp9413  Because his purpose is not to sneak some left wing point in. It is to get the viewers to say, "Even this leftist agrees that Democrats suck!"
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  8177.  @oldsrocket8841  People who aren't rich do the research to help the rich people have the stories. People who aren't rich operate the cameras and the control rooms. People who aren't rich press the disks and do the recording. Oh, and the DJs who play them so people know about the music aren't rich either. People who aren't rich lay the bricks and set the mortar, use wood to build the foundation, run the cash register, cook the food, and keep the building clean and sanitary. I keep hearing this idea that the rich should "go Galt." Well, to paraphrase William Jennings Bryan, get rid of the rich and keep the workers, and wealth will grow as if by magic; get rid of the worker and keep the rich, and wealth will surely dry up.
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  8178.  @geofthompson3844  I don't get why people get plastic surgery. All he did was make himself look like Bob Barker.
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  8179. You had any left before this?
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  8180.  @IMSiegfried  Most "independents" always go one way or the other. They just "don't like labels."
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  8181. Republicans: people who spend four years out of office insisting that government doesn't work, and then spending four years in government trying to prove the theory.
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  8182. "I have friends/ I definitely have friends/ Friends, friends, friendly friends/ I have all the friends." Rebecca Bunch
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  8183.  @aliamjon2550  So, you want one in five to get no health care at all in the name of "shorter lines"? Despicable.
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  8184.  @aliamjon2550  What does homogeneous have anything to do with it?
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  8185.  @TasTheWatcher  What's the Democrat Party?
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  8186. If you honestly think cutting defense spending will get us there without raising taxes, you are delusional. Bernie is not afraid to tell the truth. Warren's Rube Goldberg device just won't cut it.
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  8187.  @talimn  Because a lot of the press is still obsessed with the idea that both sides are good faith actors. People like Manchin let them continue with this fiction.
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  8188.  @madcow1998  Are any of those things protected Constitutional rights, or are those things that are voluntary purchases? Why not just finish the out of touch bingo and mention airplane tickets while you're at it? If you are poor, elderly, or live in a major metropolitan area, you are less likely to drive, and less likely to have a photo ID. When my adopted home state of Pennsylvania tried it nine years ago (before it was struck down by a court), about 9% of adults statewide didn't have an ID that was acceptable under the law, but 18% didn't in Philadelphia. Texas had a voter ID law that allowed gun licenses to count, but not college ID. Requiring an ID for absentee ballots (a la Georgia) and not allowing others to drop off the ballot for you (Florida) also make it more difficult. Then again, one side knows that it can't win in a democracy, so rather than adapting (which every political party did), they are trying to kill democracy.
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  8189.  @dr.g3860  He was 13 when it originally aired, and the show has never been off the air. I think he remembered the idea of the fake charity, but not the details.
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  8190.  @robinsss  But how effective is it if it is a tiny percentage and drowned out by other voices?
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  8191.  @robinsss  But that's not exactly like a group of anti-fundamentalist Christians or Muslims who are the actual majority and try to make their voices heard, but rarely get press, is it? If you feel that it's unfair to get painted with this brush, why not call into the show? Sam clearly enjoys it, and the clips are very popular, so you could get your message out there.
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  8192.  @robinsss  "How it benefited the black community has never been the issue on the table when libertarians brought it up or a host did" The latter never stopped libertarians from talking about what they wanted to before. As far as the former, that doesn't really help your argument that libertarian thought isn't based on callousness. "How is the comparison wrong?" So, you insisted that it is an unfair brush to paint libertarians with, and you don't understand why comparing people to guns, and seeming to imply that the latter is at least as valuable, and you don't understand why people might think that a group is callous and doesn't really care about the implications of its beliefs? You're really not helping your argument at all.
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  8193.  @robinsss  And you're doing it again, because you care at least as much about the gun as the person. Maybe the reason why you don't see the callousness at the core of libertarian thought is because you are like the fish asking what water is. As a matter of fact, come to think of it, on literally almost every subject, when someone wants to talk about the practical effects of something, the libertarian wants to talk about some vague (and highly limited) notion of freedom as to why we should go along with what the libertarian wants. If you actually do care about people and the effects of your beliefs, all of you that I've ever encountered have a funny way of showing it.
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  8194.  @robinsss  No, a store owner does not have a right to discriminate against black people.
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  8195.  @robinsss  If you open your restaurant to the public, that is far different from a private club.
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  8196.  @robinsss  There is still a distinction in law between businesses open to the public and clubs that are restricted. For example, the local Shriners have several events open to the public throughout the year, but meetings are not. I'm not a Mason or a Shriner, and I've been to several of their events, but never a meeting.
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  8197.  @robinsss  Wrong. There are businesses designed for public use, and businesses designed for private use. Since libertarians have this tendency to make everything one-dimensional, I'd hate to break it to you, but a 2×2 matrix better explains it.
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  8198.  @robinsss  It took you a month to come up with that? No, I can't prove what's in your heart, but when you keep defending the right of people to discriminate or to let someone die, that doesn't do a very good job of disproving the notion that libertarians are callous people who don't care about the consequences of their beliefs, does it? And your supposed compassion is slipping when you, rather than acknowledge that there is a difference between businesses open to the public and private clubs, you sarcastically reply that I want government run gas stations and grocery stores all because I don't believe that businesses that serve the public should be able to discriminate. Funny that you have no problem with discrimination with the grocery store examples where you can't even bring yourself to find some hair-brained idea to show that you aren't as callous as the rest.
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  8199. He has Mike Love Syndrome where he thinks a head covering will convince everyone that he isn't bald.
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  8200.  @katibarrett8779  Baby Boomers were born from 1946-64, Generation X were born from 1965-80. Seth was born in 1973.
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  8201.  @katibarrett8779  Get out of here with your "mansplaining." Generations have nothing to do with gender, so I guess you're just someone who uses buzzwords rather than thinking before you type.
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  8202. Poor people don't live as long. Lack of security on health care, and diseases of despair like opioid addiction don't help either.
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  8203.  @babygorilla4233  A lot of people thought that they were special and they could avoid a dictatorship. If one party controls the executive and the judiciary, that party can pull it off. If you are really willing to chance it after seeing Trump's stormtroopers in Portland, you are the most dangerous of all.
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  8204. ​ @CuttyKitty1  And how exactly would voting for the person who made it possible for Alabama to ban IVF outright help her with infertility?
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  8205.  @FatLava  Jimmy Dore is the worst, but they all swim in the same pool.
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  8206.  @benmidnightflame  His version isn't socialist. His version is trying to get rid of the existing social safety net, which is exactly what Milton Friedman and Charles Murray wanted. His is libertarian UBI.
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  8207. ​ @demiurgentcare  Then, why use a fake name? Laura Ingalls Wilder's daughter refused to take it, and at one point she was so opposed to taxes that she adopted voluntary simplicity so she wouldn't have to pay income taxes.
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  8208.  @benjamintrevino325  I was so furious when I heard that big orange dummy saying that he always wanted a Purple Heart. Believe me, no one in the desert wanted a Purple Heart, because we knew what it meant.
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  8209.  @lerm2866  Hans Moleman is my favorite background character in the show ;-)
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  8210.  @johns3318  So, you think that letting the whole world burn is "anti-war"? I don't know if you're trolling at this point, but being fine with other people suffering as long as you're okay is pretty sad.
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  8211.  @user-tf4ho2uo1e  If it is part of a treaty with willing partners in a defensive position, then yes. The fact that you went to a blanket statement rather than actually looking at which ones might not fit those categories is very telling.
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  8212.  @SungieF  She said that she only meant her own health insurance.
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  8213.  @chillybilly1452  And government dollars should not be used to prop up statues to honor traitors in the United States.
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  8214.  @iarocks44  Carter didn't.
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  8215.  @fan8706  So, a program that is funded through a regressive tax, and one that even the candidate himself admitted most likely won't benefit the disabled because he excludes welfare for the poor, but people who get welfare for the rich can still double dip?
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  8216. I remember getting a massage one time, and the therapist asked me if I was left handed. I was surprised and asked her how she guessed, and she said that the muscles in my arm gave it away.
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  8217. Maybe she's so nonsensical because she's just hungry :-P
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  8218. @Dorothy Bellion Ruy Texiera of all people had the best explanation of this I have ever seen. He said that left-wing (or, as I call it, "real") populism pits rich against the poor. Right-wing (or fake) populism enlists a third subgroup to act as a scapegoat who is the real problem. A friend who had at the time been a relatively new convert to the left, and he was surprised when I said that there is no such thing as conservative populism, because no real populist will ever be pushing for tax cuts for rich people.
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  8219.  @therealcirclea762  Funny that you say that I used weasel words, but you omitted a key word. Someone asked if I thought that Sam Seder was a saint, and I said he was who he said he was. Considering the way that Jimmy Dore recently got caught for omitting words to distort articles, this is especially delicious.
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  8220. Oh, no. He thinks we're stupid, and hearing some of the people who voted for the Face Eating Leopard Party after their face got eaten, he has reason to feel confident in that.
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  8221.  @AshGreen359  The Electoral College exists in order to placate slaveholders and give them disproportionately say in who gets to be President, and today it makes the vote irrelevant in 80% of the states, because everyone knows ahead of time how they would vote. You can point out Hillary's flaws all you want, but you don't have to defend an anti-democratic system to do so.
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  8222.  @AshGreen359  And how many people actually live in those parts of the state that "are pretty red"? You sound like the person who once complained to me that "Philadelphia controls Pennsylvania because no Democrat can ever win without it." So, the people who represent over 1/8 of the population shouldn't matter at all?
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  8223.  @turanamo  He didn't have personal relationships with her that I know of. It took him a year and a half after the debate to completely turn on Jimmy Dore. He was starting to turn on Rising, but he kept saying over and over how Krystal and Saagar were friends while Matt would point out the grift when they analyzed the Robinson-Greenwald debate about the show.
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  8224. And how many of their descendants later became Republicans? As far as "only those who defend the Constitution are true Republicans?" who was it who gutted the Voting Rights Act (Congress finally enforcing the Fifteenth Amendment)? Who is it that is pushing to make people pay to get a paper that will allow them to vote, in violation of the Twenty-fourth Amendment?
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  8225.  @vincesmith2499  As far as your comments about rent control, once again you don't exist in reality, but in the world of The Way Things Ought to Be. Ontario eliminated rent control in the late 1990s, believing that it artificially distorted the Almighty Market. The end result was that homelessness quintupled in less than five years. Funny how when you get what you want, things get so much worse for everyone except a small few.
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  8226.  @vincesmith2499  Other ways that we don't want the same things: you think that "discrimination is freedom" (your words) and I find it appalling. You believe in self-centeredness and I believe in community.
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  8227.  @vincesmith2499  When you had your way about the minimum wage, poverty was much higher. And, yes, if you are a business owner, and you insist that every penny earned is yours, you tend to give workers as little as you possibly can. Once you work with other businesses to keep wages low (since you don't believe in antitrust laws or doing anything to help anyone who isn't already rich and/or propertied), poverty goes up, interfering with my freedom to not starve. Personally, I don't think that an existence that is cold, nasty, brutish, and short is very free at all.
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  8228.  @vincesmith2499  So, forcing people to sign a contract is illegal, but threatening people to take poverty wages or just starve to death right away isn't duress?
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  8229.  @vincesmith2499  "I don't agree with discrimination" means nothing when you say that "discrimination is freedom" and you care more about the freedom of the bigot than the freedom of the victim. You might not personally like it, but your belief system emboldens it.
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  8230.  @vincesmith2499  You think that I care about what economists say about every single issue. They can say Rent Control Bad all they want, but no rent control is worse.
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  8231.  @vincesmith2499  "More than your labor is worth" Businesses literally pay every worker less than they produce. It's called profit. If a business has to pay a somewhat smaller fraction of that profit to itself to pay workers more, it won't harm people. Re: unemployment, that just isn't backed by the real world. Then again, you don't care about the real world, you only care about your theories. In counties that have a higher minimum wage that border counties that use the federal minimum wage, both unemployment and prices are statistically similar. There is no correlation between minimum wage increases and higher unemployment or inflation.
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  8232.  @vincesmith2499  You're threatening me when you work with other employers to keep wages low. In 1900, one of the lowest-paying jobs around was manufacturing. Now, it's one of the highest blue-collar jobs around. Did that happen because of the Almighty Market? No, it happened because of unions, and the companies did just fine when unions grew. And don't give me this, "but they needed a bailout!" because unions didn't insist that the Big Three continue to put more money into gas guzzlers when the customer begged for fuel efficient cars.
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  8233.  @vincesmith2499  A comment that you didn't like? Are you sick, or did it just take a few times of getting called out? You can check the syntaxes of the posts. I don't need to create accounts to agree with myself.
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  8234. ​​ @vincesmith2499  No, you implied that you were racist when you said that "discrimination is freedom." Either that, or you just happen to want racists to get their way.
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  8235. ​ @vincesmith2499  And yet you don't like it when unions are recognized legally.
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  8236. ​ @vincesmith2499  And they also said that more net jobs would be created overall. Funny that you missed the next line. If you can't afford to pay a living wage, you're pretty bad at business and probably shouldn't be doing it.
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  8237.  @vincesmith2499  No, there is a distinction between businesses open to the public and private organizations. To use another example from another thread, the local Masons and Shriners regularly have events open to the public. They can't discriminate when it comes to those, but they can have whatever rules they want about who can become a member.
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  8238.  @kernalbert4939  Thank you. It is so frustrating hearing the conspiracy theories. They don't help us win, because they keep people from reflecting about how to do better the next time or fall into a fatalism that breeds laziness.
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  8239. @C Q He's not wrong. I knocked on doors in several places in Philadelphia for Philly DSA and Bernie, and when we knocked on doors talking about Medicare for All, a lot of people who said they liked it were adamant about not wanting to give up private insurance.
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  8240.  @soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342  Ali Velshi is also pretty good, and Maddow has her moments. I know I have fallen for people's acts sometimes as well. I actually ket Krystal Ball when she came to Philadelphia to speak to the DSA chapter last year. I have a picture on my phone with her and my (then) four-year-old daughter, and a signed copy of her book. I must admit that I was annoyed when reading it and realizing that I had paid $20 for something that, other than a brief introduction, was nothing more than a collection of things they put on their show on YouTube that I could have for free after hearing both of them talk about how exciting it was "to write a book." I keep them as a reminder to try to be more careful about who I trust, having seen the light after she so brutally went after the main she praised that day just six weeks later.
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  8241.  @zenegg99  Taibbi is a great journalist, but he is a terrible pundit.
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  8242.  @zenegg99  I mean that he has bad takes. He is one of those "plague of both their houses" people with very poor analysis.
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  8243. He did that years ago.
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  8244. Anyone who has worked at a union job knows that bonuses aren't nearly as good as a pay raise, because the latter is a baseline forever.
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  8245.  @onepartyroule  The people who run these events hire the people they do for a reason. Just like you don't hire Lynyrd Skynyrd if you don't want to hear "Free Bird," you don't hire comedians if you don't want a roast. The Academy goes over this stuff with a fine tooth comb and knows exactly what is coming. Chris Rock has hosted multiple awards shows and presented at several others. Compared to the jokes Ricky Gervais does at these things, this was incredibly tame.
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  8246.  @onepartyroule  Yeah, so you didn't see what was clearly reading off a teleprompter? Of course, they have to backtrack after allowing an assault to take place during their event. Re: the worse thing to do, last I checked, assault and battery was a crime. Telling jokes about hair loss isn't. Even if he knew that she had alopecia, this was not an appropriate response. How many bald jokes has Will Smith made over the years, but as a character and as himself? Not an episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air went by without a bald and/or weight joke about Uncle Phil, and most included short jokes about Carlton. Well, James Avery really was bald and stocky, and Alfonso Ribiero really is short, so those are about the person, not the character.
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  8247.  @cosmicgiraffe4071  Gore specifically said in 2002 that the Iraq War made no sense. Had he been President, the Afghanistan War could have also been much, much shorter. It's not enough to "harness discontent." You have to also have the credibility to mobilize and get votes. Not only did Nader directly make a difference in Florida and possibly New Hampshire, but his campaign gained a lot more traction in Washington, Oregon, and Wisconsin, which forced Gore to put more effort there to shore up his support. Nader is not the only example. In 2016, Johnson and Stein both got more support from Clinton than Trump. (Exit polling which combines Johnson and Stein shows a huge preference for Clinton, and Johnson got three times the support Stein did, so it's obvious he also drew support from Clinton.) It was definitely enough to make the difference in Michigan and Wisconsin, and possibly enough to make the difference in Pennsylvania. Again, it's not just about states that spoilers directly affect, it is also about the shifting of resource that harms efforts in other close states. Trump undercut any effort to get coronavirus under control and pushed quack "cures." He deserves zero credit for his response to coronavirus.
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  8248.  @cosmicgiraffe4071  I am right on the exit polling. There were multiple exit polls that asked Nader voters if they would vote for Gore, Bush, another third party candidate, or not vote. The closest was 37-21 with 42% voting third party or not voting, and the farthest was 43-17 with 40% voting third party or not voting. If David Cobb was the Green Party nominee in 2000, he would have gotten a fraction of Nader's total, and Gore would have won Florida. The thing with his wife is a fact. Links don't work here, but multiple sources have demonstrated that she gave $1000 to Gallego's opponent. She is his producer. It's pretty obvious that she wouldn't have done so without his knowledge or agreement.
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  8249.  @cosmicgiraffe4071  I support ranked choice voting. However, I also acknowledge the reality of the system we are in for electoral strategy. For example, I loathe and despise the Electoral College, but I would he furious if a candidate of my choosing decided to campaign in California the week before the general election. Michael Moore also later said that Nader lied to his supporters before his 2000 campaign, saying that he would only go to safe states, but he ultimately only went to swing states. If what he really wanted was 5%, going to Austin where everyone knew that Bush was going to win would have been far more effective than going to Madison. If you live in a swing state, it is irresponsible to vote third party. Period. A vote is not a statement of my ego. It is a statement of governance, and protests votes have no place when all that really leads to is the party that wants nothing I support gaining power.
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  8250.  @cosmicgiraffe4071  The place to focus on Ranked Choice Voting is either a legislative push or a ballot initiative. I am all for those. However, when it comes to electoral strategies within our current system, voting third party does nothing except for a protest vote, which is a luxury that people don't always have. We have seen that the Republicans will show up for their candidate no matter what, so any effort to splinter the left only helps them out. Given the long history of the Green Party getting support from Republicans (multiple Congressional races have even had Republicans running as Greens for no other reason than to split the anti-Republican vote, and Republicans form between 10-25% of the Green Party donor and volunteer base), it should be pretty obvious that the people higher up in the Green Party know exactly their effect, and this is what they want. Therefore, they deserve to be called out and called out vigorously.
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  8251. If you actually watch the documentary, it shows evidence that McDonald's argued in legal documents that people could eat it for every meal with no health problems.
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  8252.  @DavidRichardson153  In addition to the issues that Susi raised, some people get more than $1000/month now. Given that Yang never gave a full list of the 125 programs that would be either/or, based on the few that he did specify (TANF, SNAP, WIC, SSI, LIHEAP, daycare subsidies, housing subsidies), here are some examples: 1) SSI is $841, and SNAP for one person is $250. People who get the former almost always get the latter. 2) New Hampshire has TANF of over $1000, with Alaska, New York, and California over $700. You have to have a kid to get TANF, and SNAP for two people is $459. 3) Daycare for two children is over $1500/month. 4) Housing subsidies can easily he worth $1000 in high rent areas, and people who qualify for that usually qualify for other things as well. Not only do those people not get more money, but now they have to pay a regressive VAT, which means that they have to stretch that money even farther.
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  8253.  @yellowbrand  In the sense of "capitalism," very few actually have capital, because it is, as Tina Fey put it in 30 Rock, "That thing rich people do where they make money into more money." If you don't have enough to invest, you don't have capital in that sense. The strict definition of socialism is public control of the means of production, and the Marxists like Jamie hope that eventually it will melt away. Personally, I am not a socialist, so maybe someone else can argue that I am oversimplifying, but that is the one-sentence answer.
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  8254.  @Caperhere  Any time. It's a bit of a maze.
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  8255.  @rs5570  It's a small world! I grew up in Richwood, got my BA at WVU, went to Palmer (starting at the extension in Ripley before going to the main campus) before getting an MA from Temple (I went for a PhD, but I couldn't pass the German written exam).
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  8256. Tim Pool calling someone a grifter? What's next, is he going to make fun of Dave Rubin for bad predictions?
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  8257.  @BarnabyWild13  And she didn't do anything about it because she is a coward.
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  8258.  @rahbeeuh  Well, they do say unattainable, so that does buffer them on the irony.
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  8259.  @pkway9394  Well, Bloomberg would have been worse, but I get what you're saying. I live in a swing state, and I think if not for coronavirus, I probably couldn't have brought myself to vote for him.
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  8260. From what I've seen, Kaitlin Collins tried to correct some of his nonsense, but there is only so much someone can do, which is why this should never have gone live and never had a studio audience.
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  8261.  @joshuajohnson979  Even if he's convicted, he can still run. The chance to prevent that was his impeachment trial.
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  8262.  @Kate-zx3ig  Harold Stassen did that, but people ignored him after the first two.
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  8263.  @Chuck26814  That wasn't the subject at hand. I am not defending Obama's record on Libya, because it deserves no defense. You were insisting that Obama started child kidnapping, which is a falsehood. Or are you changing the subject to gish gallop because you know that your original point was wrong and can't bring yourself to admit it?
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  8264.  @Chuck26814  I never heard of a President ordering the kidnapping of thousands of children, either.
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  8265. Maybe the problem isn't so much incompetence from the Biden campaign, but that people who are more ideologically aligned with Biden don't talk up his positions on those issues, whereas Der Orangefuhrer has a whe infrastructure amplifying his denials.
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  8266. I'm 43. I've been paying into Social Security since a month after my 16th birthday. The Greenspan Commission cut my dad's Social Security by 8% per year when he was 35 by changing his retirement age from 65 to 66. This is an example of how Republicans think that people are stupid.
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  8267.  @uchennakpaduwa9592  Okay, if we can do both, what specifically have you done to build support for Medicare for All? And if this vote fails by a 3:1 margin (a strategy that McConnell talked about employing in the Senate), what makes you think that Pelosi will reserve more time on the calendar for something that is specifically being bandied about by its supporters as a tool not to pass legislation, but to weaponize against half the caucus? Fruit of the poison tree.
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  8268.  @uchennakpaduwa9592  What "power"? There aren't 218 votes for it. If there were, those sponsors could file a discharge petition to force a vote. Demanding a vote that is guaranteed to fail is doing nothing more than showing that you are not serious about accomplishing anything. Does your member sponsor the bill? If not, then you need to do the actual work to affect that. The fact that you think that grassroots organizing is a "weird distraction" does not help the case that you have a step two.
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  8269.  @Coryalan2  So, it's "centrist" to want the military to break up peaceful protests?
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  8270.  @JRMCNEA  How many of the Obama or Clinton appointees voted to weaken campaign finance or voting rights laws again?
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  8271. The other candidates are New Coke. They tried to convince us that was better, and we all know how that went.
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  8272.  @utterlyviolet  There was a lot to go around. Katie Porter shamed Dimon, too.
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  8273.  @wayneshilcock3027  What good things did Trump do? What specifically did he do that was positive and helped the American people?
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  8274.  @wayneshilcock3027  Are you serious? You are aware that Nancy Pelosi used "drain the swamp" ten years earlier, right?
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  8275.  @wayneshilcock3027  You're saying that he did something good by saying drain the swamp. He didn't even coin that phrase. So, you still haven't provided an example.
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  8276.  @alarkalbass6726  You may have a point. The previous bots that I dealt with didn't understand figures of speech and their grammar was worse, so that's the main reason why I thought Dore sycophant rather than bot.
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  8277.  @krackerr  Okay, which one of those mentioned aren't anti-anti-Trump?
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  8278.  @karankapoor2701  And he doesn't know how a vagina works, so hardly a champion of knowledge of the sexes.
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  8279. I agree with the video they shared: I just don't know what Labour could have done on Brexit. It was pretty much the only party that had a major divide on the fundamental question. If Corbyn fully embraced Remain, the result wouldn't have been any different. If he argued fully for a lefty Brexit, he probably would have lost a few of the seats that Labour picked up and had some more damage in London. Given the results in Scotland and Northern Ireland, I think one thing that I can say with certainty is RIP United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1707-2019
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  8280.  @emearsful  Darn right!
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  8281.  @ModerateMiddle  He's not running for governor. His opinion is irrelevant on the issue. If he was truly a "Tenth Amendment absolutist," that's what he would say.
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  8282.  @ModerateMiddle  You are aware that Jim Justice had never run for office before 2016, right? His claim to fame at the time was being the only billionaire in West Virginia. There are plenty of people who are known for one thing or another (and The Rock had previously dangled the idea of running for President), and various political insiders think that person might have a shot at winning office. Why do you find such things strange or conspiratorial? People recruit for jobs all the time. Or did you just not understand the basic nuts and bolts of how political parties work?
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  8283.  @ModerateMiddle  It always comes to the age of consent with a certain crowd in American politics. In regards to your question, unless a candidate is advocating a nationwide age of consent, his/her opinions on the issue are irrelevant. Nikki Haley didn't go into the minutiae because she argues that it will be resolved at the state level. Tim Scott did bring it up because he supported a nationwide 15-week ban. In answer to your other query, I did support Roe, and when I ran, I was clear that it was the settled law of the land (at least it was in 2006 when I ran), so any notion of banning abortion was a waste of time and taxpayer dollars.
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  8284.  @ModerateMiddle  I'm saying that there is a certain group, often on the libertarian right, that feels a need to bring up age of consent laws. Usernames notwithstanding, given that you are defending a candidate who has positioned himself on that portion of the right, I wasn't too terribly surprised that that's the example you've gone to. But since you keep wanting to hang your hat on that as the big example, when is the last time you saw a Presidential candidate (or a Congressional candidate, for that matter, of either House) discuss age of consent laws?
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  8285.  @ModerateMiddle  "I am pro-choice, but I also understand why it [was] overturned to allow the issue to go back to the states." Then, you're not pro-choice, unless you use the logic of hiding behind states' rights to take away individual rights, but I've seen this movie before, and it never ends well. If you really do support reproductive rights, why are you fine with the Supreme Court taking them away for tens of millions of women?
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  8286.  @ModerateMiddle  If you don't want someone to wonder about your intent, don't obviously twist someone's words to mean the opposite of what that person said. I'll go through this as simply as possible, you at one point defended Vivek on abortion by saying that he is "a Tenth Amendment absolutist" on the issue. I responded that if this is really the case, he shouldn't be focusing on an issue where he believes that he has no role in influencing policy. You countered with age of consent. Then, I asked when the last time was you saw a national candidate weigh in on that issue. Now, you're saying that I am somehow saying the opposite, but my argument has been consistent: a candidate's position on an issue that is different from the level than he/she is seeking. Therefore, if no federal candidate discusses a state issue, that reinforces my argument.
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  8287.  @ModerateMiddle  But it is up to him. He could say that it's a state issue, but the only way that he really is "a Tenth Amendment absolutist" on the issue is if he wouldn't sign a national ban if it came to his desk. If he is willing to sign it, then he isn't taking a firm states' rights position after all. Therefore, it sounds like he almost certainly isn't advocating the position you are implying that he has. If he said that he wouldn't sign it because it's a state issue, the hard right would almost certainly get mad because they want a national ban.
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  8288. Why? Yang is a libertarian who doesn't want to regulate tech. He is their dream. Oh, you didn't really think that they would pay the VAT, did you?
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  8289.  @platitudeypus  I take it you have never seen the debate between three years ago Where literally everything Sam said was proven correct and everything Jimmy Dore said was proven wrong. He also said at the time that he would return the favor and let Sam come on his show. Not only did that never happen, but he edited out the name Sam Seder from an interview. Then again, your support of Jimmy Dore proves that you wouldn't vote for Bernie regardless.
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  8290.  @tropicalstormrain5893  Well, now you know that stereotype is false. If by free stuff, you mean "a set of basic guarantees for a livable life," then that is on you, but I would argue that subsides to people who already have more money than they could possibly spend in 100 lifetimes is far more egregious than making sure people won't die because they can't afford healthcare, people not coming out of college with five or six figure debts, and making sure people have wages they can afford to live on.
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  8291.  @uncletom356  I guess the question is how you start or how you finish. I'm not denying that he did some great work (especially his takedown of Kissinger), but to me, I tend to believe that how people finish is a better indication of that person's work, because it is where they end up based on a lifetime of experience. Obviously, there are exceptions for things like dementia, but I saw nothing to indicate that he realized the mistake of the turn of his final decade.
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  8292.  @et34t34fdf  You mean when Democrats have razor-thin majorities in each House and isn't nearly as ideologically monolithic as the Republicans? I'm guessing you don't know what the majorities were when FDR and LBJ got their greatest legislative victories. FDR: 73rd Congress (1933-34) House: 313-122; Senate: 59-37 74th Congress (1935-36) House: 322-213; Senate: 69-27 75th Congress (1937-38) House: 333-102; Senate: 75-21 LBJ: 88th Congress (1963-64) House: 262-175; Senate: 67-33 89th Congress (1965-66) House: 295-140; Senate: 68-32 Biden: 117th Congress (2021-22) House: 222-213; Senate: 50-50 See the difference?
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  8293.  @BlazingOwnager  Did Hillary make her compare the Iran nuclear deal to Munich? Did Hillary force her to vote to make it harder for Muslims to enter the United States? Did Hillary force her to court Sheldon Adelson and do his bidding to get rid of his competition by trying to ban online gambling? Did Hillary force her to serve as a mouthpiece for Syrian propaganda? Did Hillary force her to praise Sisi for killing protesters in Egypt? Did Hillary force her to have a relationship to Modi like Trump has to Putin? Then again, for trolls like you who think this is all a game, no surprise that there's no talk about what she actually did and tried to do.
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  8294.  @LiaMari  So true. To this day, only one person has ever been elected to the US Senate as a Democrat (Leahy) from Vermont. It was one of only two states to vote for Landon.
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  8295. Mind blown on the pizza example.
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  8296.  @ZarZar57  Indeed. Maybe if people would stop conflating what he said about paper disposable masks with actual cloth masks, or the fact that there was a shortage of N95 masks, this wouldn't have been an issue.
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  8297. There are only two candidates. The odds of an exact tie are quite remote.
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  8298. It won't replace it if we don't let it. We can have a leftward response.
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  8299.  @michaelmccoy1794 War is a rich man's game played with poor men's sons. As a veteran of the Iraq War, we should always separate the reasons we went from those we sent.
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  8300.  @mr.e5595  Still, he's turning a blind eye to what Russia has done and insists that it's all a scam even though there are several felony convictions and pleas. Even if you grant that he is sincere (I don't, but we'll just say he is for the sake of argument), if he were an agent for Trump, would he be doing anything differently than he is now? For all of his talk of how the Supreme Court doesn't matter, it has done a lot of things to hurt the American people over the last two years, and they're just getting warmed up. Even if he is "sincere," he is actively harming people and ill-informed.
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  8301.  @dmogle  So, you would rather rush a poorly sourced story that even the usual right wing echo chamber won't touch days before the election?
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  8302. First of all, based on the projeprojections, White is not on pace to be a minority, but a plurality in 2045. Second, the term "white" has expanded significantly in our history. My Greek great-grandfather wouldn't have been considered white in the 1910s. Irish weren't considered white for a long time. This whole thing is just fearmongering by racists idiots. As a white person, I really couldn't care less whether I am part of the majority, plurality, or minority.
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  8303. But he still freaked the cast out so much that "we'll bring Tierney back" was always used as an inside joke when someone would complain too much.
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  8304.  @sebsignat8286  I don't remember seeing him in any leading role after Hercules. Kull the Conqueror pretty much killed his career.
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  8305.  @rust44  Sam actually has quite a few producer credits, and he at least has fun at his acting forays. In all honesty, when I first saw Bob's Burgers, I recognized him from Air America, and was surprised at how many IMDB lines he has.
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  8306.  @cupiduspacis4209  I care what his opinions about those things are, because it shows his world view. He also insists that there was nothing to the Russia story (what a shock that he now gets that sweet, sweet Russia Today cash) even though there have already been several convictions, and there is ample evidence that they worked to affect our election process, and there is actual legislation to try to prevent it. He is spending a lot of time insisting that there is nothing going on like a nasally Officer Barbrady, though.
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  8307. Bernie does it. If she is so worried about that formulation, she could say, "The taxes will be lower than what premiums are now."
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  8308.  @andyrihn1  1) And you're an idiot if you don't know that that particular 5.56mm is designed to travel much faster with bullets designed to bounce around inside the body. It is not uncommon for exit wounds on a gun like that to be in very different places than where the shot went in (i.e., shots to the chest with exit wounds in the leg). 2) I'm not speaking for anyone else. You are claiming that everyone takes the same position and has no understanding of firearms. I haven't shot one in 16 years (my last annual certification), but I know my way around them. 3) The point is that the Second Amendment absolutists say that there should be no restrictions on weapons at all. That is what I am responding to. There are clearly things that have no legitimate civilian purpose. And these dummies who think that they are John Rambo and can take out the government with their AR-15 don't know that Article I, Section 8 says that the well-regulated militia serves the purpose of, among other things, stopping a rebellion.
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  8309. This is why, if you want to do a debate on a call-in show, if you aren't too experienced with it, write down the one main idea that you want to talk about so you can try to at least be a little bit coherent.
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  8310.  @sneakinynja  So, they decided this months ago because they knew which ones she would do so well in? Oh, the simultaneous level of competence and incompetence required by the conspiracy theorist!
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  8311. Well, she supported that war, and she even defended Biden in July on his Iraq War vote. Her true colors were always there for anyone to see. Look up the story "Tulsi Gabbard is Not Your Friend" in Jacobin. This is just the tip of the iceberg.
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  8312.  @applecatnyango  Look for the Reich Wing Watch video. It didn't make a lick of sense, but it was right there.
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  8313. "I don't have o-pin-i-ons, Jon. My job is to spend 50% of my time saying what one side says, and 50% of my time saying what the other side says. It's called objectivity." Rob Corddry, The Daily Show, 2004
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  8314.  @nocturnalrecluse1216  If that helps you sleep at night, troll.
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  8315.  @natalierose1072  You would think that she wouldn't have to keep reminding people of her military status like she's Walter Sobchack.
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  8316.  @natalierose1072  I know. There was an old saying that one's who talked the most usually saw the least. When I was activated, I had a largely uneventful tour of duty. At one point, her sister even tried to blame the silver streak in her hair on Iraq. [In Dr. Evil voice]: Riiight... It sure didn't look like it was there when she gave her 2012 DNC speech or in her Congressional photo.
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  8317.  @natalierose1072  You can't make this stuff up, and now she is saying it, too. There is no shame in going gray (I am a year and a half older than her and have patches of gray in my beard), but don't try to make it sound like a hero's journey did it.
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  8318.  @ODC88888  So, because Democratic voters don't want to nominate a dishonest candidate who is trying to appeal to Republicans instead of her own party, Trump is assured victory? I would rather support the candidate with the most donors, the most racially diverse voters, who dominates in Obama-Trump counties, has over a million donors, over 1.1 million volunteers, and has already knocked on over a million doors in Iowa alone. THAT is how you win.
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  8319.  @ODC88888  It's all right. It seems like those like me who want a candidate to the left in the primary who then understand that there are real differences between the two in the general and would rather be disappointed and get a few things than be devastated as everything I fought for gets attacked. Yes, keeping the fingers crossed and doing the work. Hopefully, this is the time where shoe leather defeats wallet leather.
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  8320.  @mrdozo23  I could be wrong, but I read the OP as mocking the press for either going "free stuff" or "you're raising taxes."
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  8321. That happened to me before insurance kicked in at work and my state's governor finally accepted the expansion later in 2014.
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  8322.  @ballz4kidz  I do a lot more than voting. What do you actually do? Funny how the people who say that voting does nothing sot back and wonder why things don't ever change towards the way they want them to happen? Here's a hint: the people on the other side vote every time. Therefore, they get there way. People like you who think that you are revolutionaries turn out to be reactionaries after all.
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  8323.  @akumakorgar  If you're not lazy, then what are you actually doing? Commenting on YouTube doesn't count, and "being angry enough to strangle people" isn't action.
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  8324.  @akumakorgar  Oooh, tough man. And this is where the term keyboard warrior reveals itself.
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  8325.  @fireandblood2919  Well, what are you doing to make it something other than a do-nothing party? If you think that the Democratic Party should do more, do something about it. Protest votes or whining about it online does nothing.
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  8326.  @akumakorgar  Well, what do you do? I asked you first. I have dealt with far too many people who insist that they aren't lazy and are really doing something, but almost every single time, it falls apart under the slightest scrutiny. So, what do you do?
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  8327.  @AudieHolland  This episode
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  8328.  @konstantinkoch6114  His website never says that it is a substitute. I don't know if he has given contradictory answers, or if it was in reference to something else. If it was replacing TANF (The check given to the very, very poor) they would actually come out ahead compared to what it pays now, because you'd have to have a massive family to get over $1000 in monthly benefits.
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  8329.  @redwildrider  Well, Senators don't get gerrymandered, but you are spot on that most members of Congress have majority approval. The perplexing one is McConnell, who never gets above 40% at any poll that isn't a voting booth. He literally doesn't win so much as his opponents lose, because he drags them down with him.
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  8330. He'd be very good.
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  8331. Martin Sheen was in Part Deux.
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  8332.  @staceybartlett1404  It happens to the best of us.
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  8333. "That was surprisingly supportive."
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  8334. Well, he repeatedly says "125 programs," but he never mentions more than a few, and if he has it on his website, he has it buried in a place where no reasonable person would find it looking for that answer.
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  8335.  @pressureGM  Because he is the one who proposes it, it is his responsibility to say which programs he thinks should be either/or. I can count on my fingers the times that he has explicitly said will fall into that category. He should be more forthcoming, or just maybe, he doesn't want people to know which plans he is covering to see just how many poor and disabled he is forcing choose.
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  8336.  @Hoopla10  Indeed. As someone from West Virginia who lived there for 24 of my first 28 years, you can't replicate Manchin even if it was someone who took the same positions as he does. In all honesty, I have never seen a better retail politician in my life (although older people who saw a younger Byrd said that he was the best they ever saw, but I the time I first met Byrd, he was 81 and the crowds came to him), and in a small state like WV, that makes a difference. We are much better off working to gain seats so that Manchin and Sinema are not the 49th and 50th Democratic Senators. Overcoming the tilt of the state is nothing short of miraculous, and people keep forgetting that he ran against someone who wanted to abolish Social Security, Medicare, and the minimum wage. Would we be better off had John Raese been in the Senate?
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  8337.  @sullen2420  No, it's not. They are not the Tea Party wanting to blow government up. The mere fact that you think it is shows that you are either a right wing troll pretending to be left, or you are someone whose views are on the left, but your philosophy of governance is toxic.
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  8338.  @sullen2420  So, they should have voted against cutting child poverty in half because the bill didn't eliminate it completely? No, the problem is people like you who think you're lefties but you just want to be "pure" rather than make things better. If they do nothing but whine and gum up the works, they'll lose primaries and deservedly so.
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  8339.  @TheCynicsCynic  It came up in a Libertarian candidate debate. Sam Seder covered it. You can find it in his page under the Sam vs. Libertarians playlist.
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  8340.  Hans Otto Kroeger Kaethler  Which country shut down its internet, again?
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  8341.  Hans Otto Kroeger Kaethler  I'm on the internet now, tankie.
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  8342. My ex-wife got breakthrough coronavirus twice. My daughter splits.time evenly between us, and neither of us has ever tested positive. My idjot brother refuses to get the vaccine because he convinced himself that it doesn't work, and he wouldn't let my niece take it. He got it three times (bad all three times).and gave it to my niece twice. But, I'm sure that's just a coincidence.
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  8343. ​ @foolseekingwisdom  There's only upside to legitimizing "right-wing populists" who continue to contort to whatever Dear Leader proclaims?
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  8344.  @AdultThirdCultureKid1971  Well, the important thing is that once you see the truth about someone that you adjust accordingly.
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  8345. Well, in 1975, Biden said that the "real racism" was saying that "a black, curly haired kid can only learn if he is sitting next to my blonde haired, blue eyed son," so it seems like he still hasn't learned that that doesn't sound good at all.
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  8346.  @beanabovethefrank1499  The ones I mentioned are the gubernatorial candidates in New Jersey. Any time. When I see people refuse to concede when it is obvious they have lost, it angers me to no end because it is the height or irresponsibility. Democracy relies every bit as much on the defeated admitting it as on those who win.
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  8347.  @jimgsewell  They have been for quite some time.
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  8348.  @alwayz247  Either you are mistaken, or you are lying. At the time, I heard people say that they equally go after both sides, so I looked at their radars for samples, and every single time, I had to wade through several going after Biden and Democrats to find one going after Trump and Republicans. The dynamic was as follows: KB: Democrats are bad, so don't vote for then. SE: Democrats are bad, so vote for Republicans. And don't go to how great Krystal Ball is, because as stated in their book, their goal is to work together to find a new political coalition. You have to look at their entire body of work, and red/brown alliances never work out for the left.
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  8349.  @wrathofgrothendieck  They have been playing that game for quite some time. Looking back, especially seeing their old boss, the primary looked like an excuse to bring the left in, and once Bernie lost, the mask came off to pull them right.
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  8350. In American history, there is exactly one incident of a third-party candidate or third party getting at least 5% of the national popular vote in consecutive elections: Ross Perot in 1992 and 1996. He got 19% without federal matching funds and 8.5% with it. If a third party only focuses on matching funds and not building the party at the grassroots, it is being run by grifters. If you think that the Green Party is legitimate, ask yourself why Republicans repeatedly fund the Green Party (and in some states have taken over the Greens) and often work with Greens totry to defeat Greens (see also: botched Wisconsin petition drive).
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  8351.  @DawryMike  They've always been about mental gymnastics. Even though the poor have to give up their existing benefits, they insist that there are no strings attached to the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend.
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  8352.  @argenys  People who already get other benefits (there are 125 programs, but Yang has only bothered to mention six: TANF, SNAP, WIC, LIHEAP, housing subsidies, and daycare subsidies, and there was an NPR interview just today where he refused to state whether or not disability services count _in an interview where he talked about his son's autism_) who either get nothing or have to give up what they currently get. Therefore, not everyone gets it.
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  8353.  @Hoobyj  Well, Obama started with a public option and ended up with the Republican alternative to Hillarycare that Bill said didn't go far enough. He had 60 Senators. Best case scenario for the 117th Congress is 53. So, why do you think Yang would succeed (asking for less than a public option) where Obama failed?
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  8354.  @argenys  Itherwise, congratulations, you have made the argument that Milton Friedman made in the 1960s as a way to dismantle the social safety net.
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  8355.  @oshontheexperience6440  Well, I used to think he supported it, but realizing that he listed a public option almost from the beginning while still calling it Medicare for All is highly suspect.
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  8356.  @oshontheexperience6440  Agreed. As bad as I thought it was last spring after realizing for the first time what his proposal really looked like, and a few weeks later seeing The Humanist Report interview, it has just gotten to be an embarrassment lately. After the early states, he needs to get out and save what dignity he has left.
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  8357.  @oshontheexperience6440  It does seem like we lefties who keep looking after "free money" always find our breaking point with Yang ;-) Mine was realizing that he wanted to force the poor and disabled to choose. When I heard just how many programs he was really talking about, I realized that a lot of middle class people are going to be surprised at having to choose as well, because there just aren't 125 welfare programs strictly for the poor.
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  8358.  Jack Dorseys Mom  If you think SNAP benefits are too generous, try to live off $234/month for yourself with no trips to a restaurant or to the deli in the store. Then, tell me how extravagant the spending is. Gwyneth Paltrow tried the food stamp challenge for a week eating only healthy foods, and she ran out of money for the budget after five days.
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  8359. At 16:40, Sam points out that he knows that it has been in reruns, but the original run ended before he was born.
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  8360. And pointed out that he had actually held the job before and for the most part people thought he did a good job.
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  8361. My favorite part about the Buttigieg/Klobuchar feud is that she insisted that he drop out before she did. My first thought seeing them on the debate stage was "He'd better be thankful there's no stapler on that stage."
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  8362.  @onepunch9203  I don't mind the chants in the context of a sporting event, because everyone has one. What definitely bugs me is the "greatest nation in the history of the world" stuff. We have done some things well, but at this point, it is clearly resting on our laurels. I'm reminded of the Lewis Black bit where he blames it on ignorance and says, "Some countries just give stuff away. Canada is one of those countries. You know what they give away? Health insurance!"
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  8363.  @FortitudineVincimus  And over 99% of hospitalizations.
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  8364. If he were a Russian agent, would he be acting any differently?
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  8365. So, the guy who hates government secrets goes to a country run by the former head of the KGB where dissidents happen to fall out of windows a lot, and he's been fine for well over a decade? No, he didn't provide Putin with something useful!
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  8366. Because we have a substantial portion of the population primed to believe such nonsense.
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  8367.  @moonlightfishin4113  Show me where it says in the Fourteenth Amendment that someone has to be convicted of insurrection. Hint: it only says that you "engaged" in insurrection or rebellion.
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  8368. Started with his campaign, really. Or, you could go as far back as Republicans insisting that liberals didn't care about the interests of America while Reagan was funneling money to the very Iranians who kept Americans hostage to illegally find a war.
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  8369. Didn't her husband go to jail a few years ago for waving his willy at some teenage girls at a bowling alley?
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  8370. Based on what, her support of Modi? Her support of Sisi? Her parroting of Assad's talking points after Syrian fascists bankrolled a "fact finding" trip that didn't involve visiting a single rebel area? Her opposition to the Iran deal? Her siding with Republicans making it harder for Syrian refugees to enter the United States? Her support of torture? Yeah, she's a real Eugene Debs on foreign policy.
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  8371.  @highneedforcognition9660  The only thing that I ever heard her say as to why her stance changed was that she "saw a CIA report that said torture was ineffective." That is not, "torture is wrong and I am sorry to have ever supported it." Interesting that you have absolutely nothing to say about the other examples that I gave. Your bias is showing.
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  8372.  @highneedforcognition9660  Pointing out her support for autocratic and genocidal leaders does not mean that I want to go to war with those countries. I did not say that I supported bombing Syria. When there was red line talk in 2013, I said that this would lead to mission creep, which is why I opposed our actions in Libya. That being said, Tulsi's support of Sisi is of someone who is in office because of US intervention. I am not a pacifist (and I won't be until someone tells me how the Holocaust could have been stopped without WWII, and if Tulsi were a pacifist, she wouldn't be in the military, because that's one of the first things that they ask you), but I am firm on torture. Why is she the "most progressive on foreign policy" when a lot of other candidates are in the race who have never defended torture?
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  8373.  @highneedforcognition9660  She clearly did not, because she then gave the ticking time bomb scenario, and said that any leader "will do whatever it takes to protect the people," and "some analysts said it was effective." If she was "thinking on her feet," then she was clearly willing to allow that there was a circumstance where it would be acceptable if it worked. Never mind that studies had repeatedly shown that it didn't work before that, she was willing to have it overturned. Or, just maybe, this is yet another example of her trying to play both sides and sounding like a triangulator straight out of the 90s, which is not what I'd expect from the "most progressive on foreign policy." So, if my interpretation is correct, she needs to apologize for the prior position. If yours is correct, then she needs to apologize for being willing to abandon her opposition, but the fact that she said in the Status Coup interview that "a study said that torture doesn't work" as the reason she didn't support torture rather than the moral and legal questions tells me that if another one said it did, she would accept it in a heartbeat.
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  8374.  @highneedforcognition9660  Bernie, for one. Anyone who supported the Iran nuclear deal, which I think is pretty much everyone who went on the record on the question. Anyone who didn't cheer on Russia attacking civilians in Syria in order to prop up Assad, which I think is everyone else running not named Donald Trump. As far as her taking her time and coming to a decision, the evidence was there that the torture program was counterproductive as early as 2005, which means there was no reason for her to be on the fence nine years later. I could also point to the fact that the Army Field Manual opposes torture and has for decades, and considering that she uses her military service as a justification for everything like a real-life Walter Sobchack, she should have known. But this is the big thing that I, and others concerned by that interview, have been trying to say: torture is not a question of whether or not it works like the movies, but whether or not it is ever morally justifiable. If the answer to that question is not an emphatic no, you lose your lefty foreign policy card.
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  8375.  @highneedforcognition9660  First, she's an officer, not enlisted. (I was a sergeant, and believe you me, there is a huge difference to anyone in the military between the two.) Besides that, the Obama Administration discontinued the policy, so she wouldn't run afoul of such laws. And if she was so worried about that, why did she keep going on Fox to complain about Obama not saying "radical Islamic terror"? And why, three years later, did she condemn the bombing of Syria? That argument is pretty weak sauce. Second, the question was clearly about torture, not about "making suspects uncomfortable." The Army Field Manual does a pretty thorough job of defining torture, and to conflate putting someone in handcuffs with sticking a rag over their head and pouring water over their face to make them think they will drown is shocking.
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  8376.  @highneedforcognition9660  Yes, she opposed getting out, but she also opposed getting in, so she is on the right side now as opposed to Bernie and Warren and Biden, among others, who were on the right side the whole time. The question was whether or not she is the most lefty candidate on foreign policy. Being to the right of Joe Biden doesn't help that argument.
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  8377.  @highneedforcognition9660  You know who else said that it wouldn't be effective? Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu, Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, Tom Cotton, John Boehner, at al. Pretty left leaning group. Then again, I am not working backward to try to justify something like, "it's okay to put someone in handcuffs, so how do you know what torture even is?"
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  8378.  @highneedforcognition9660  That is not how the torture debate works. It's all softened language and euphemisms (i.e., enhanced interrogation techniques) to cover up what it actually is. That's because, by any definition, it violates international law and war crimes, so no one not named Donald Trump in high office is going to be stupid enough to actually come out and say, "I like torture!" The Army Field Manual clearly defines what it is. The Geneva Conventions clearly define what it is. The CIA report was not the first time that the United States realized and reported that torture was ineffective. If the bar is that she actually has to mention by name the horrible thing, then by that definition, Donald Rumsfeld doesn't support torture.
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  8379.  @highneedforcognition9660  This is true that those people still wanted to cancel it later, but Chuck Schumer both opposed the deal and opposed withdrawal, so that doesn't prove that her opposition was from a leftist place. I get that you like Tulsi. In all honesty, I did, too, until I started digging and found too many things that I found disturbing. My main frustration is the mental gymnastics that people go through to paint her as a lefty hero when even Kirsten Gillibrand converted on many issues long before Tulsi did.
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  8380.  @highneedforcognition9660  First of all, do you think that "enhanced interrogation techniques" are torture? Second, that is disqualifying for them in a primary ballot as well. Getting those things out of the way, as I pointed out, torture is spoken of in euphemism. "Whatever it takes" when you are asked about torture is code for "I support torture." Therefore, in that interview, she supported torture. If you can find one case where you find torture acceptable, you support torture. End of sentence. That is not to say that people can't realize that they are wrong. However, if I am to believe that that person sees it that way, "a CIA report had come out that said that torture doesn't work, so I now oppose it in all circumstances" is not the same as, "I was wrong. Torture is never acceptable. Even if it might work, it is immoral and illegal." I would rather support someone who got it right the first time. Yes, someone who eventually got it right but for the wrong reasons would be preferable to someone who still doesn't get it right, but it's not the same thing as someone who did get it right. I have said before that I think that her statement on gay rights is enough for me that I don't rake her over the coals for her past statements and voting record. Given her tendency to play both siderism (i.e., the wall), she has to show me that she has changed on that issue, but even if she did, there are still more things, but to me, opposing torture for moral reasons is my threshold.
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  8381.  @highneedforcognition9660  It is entirely possible that I am reading too much into it, but the torture debate has always relied on euphemism and coded language, so when I hear the phrase "if we're in a situation where our family, our community, our state, or our country is in a place where, let's say, in an hour a nuclear bomb or attack will go off unless this information were found, I believe that, if I were President of the United States, that I would do everything in my power to keep people, the American people safe" when asked about the acceptability of torture, where she then follows up and says "there are those who are in the position of carrying on these interrogations, some of them say it does work" I would say that I have just heard as plain an endorsement of torture as I will ever hear. If Tulsi Gabbard didn't know what that loaded phrase meant in that formulation, then she needs to say so, but she didn't. She could have apologized and said that she didn't express herself well, but she just blamed it on waiting for the results of a study, as if it would be okay if it worked, and the only difference between the two is that now she says it doesn't. Because that's what she does so many times: she gives plausible deniability so that she can literally be whatever anyone wants to hear. It bugged me when Obama did it, it bugs me when Beto does it, and it bugs me when Tulsi does it. And until she says that her cursory statements about suffering versus her detailed statements about the imminent danger were wrong, I will not give her a pass. As far as the other foreign policy issues, I listed them above.
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  8382.  @paddleduck5328  I appreciate your kind words. I remember a few years ago thinking that she would be Bernie's successor, but I was floored when I found all this out, so I try to let as many people know as I can when it comes up.
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  8383.  @highneedforcognition9660  As promised, here are some of the points about Tulsi and other foreign policy issues that I brought up earlier and didn't see your response or get the chance to provide evidence. As far as Tulsi supporting bombing in Syria, that opens this post about her problematic issues there: https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2019/01/tulsi-gabbards-syria-record-worse-think So, this is her supporting Assad's biggest supporter bombing what turned out to be rebel strongholds regardless of whether they were ISIS hotbeds or just places where Assad faced strong opposition. She was on the wrong end of a 392-3 vote that condemned "unlawful violence against civilian populations in Syria." This article goes into great detail about her lengthy history of supporting dictators, often under the guise of fighting terrorism: https://www.thenation.com/article/tulsi-gabbard-president-foreign-islam/ Excerpt: "Yet it would be a mistake to place Gabbard in the lineage of internationalist, anti-war American leftism that seeks, among other things, to help emancipate and defend the oppressed. In fact, Gabbard's public record points in a much different direction, toward an 'America first' Trumpism of the left that would restore the Middle East's dictators club as long as it benefits the United States. On closer analysis, hers is a foreign policy that favors authoritarianism cloaked as counter-terrorism, nationalism cloaked as anti-interventionalism, and Islamophoboa barely cloaked at all." For her taking a trip to Syria supported by fascists: https://www.thedailybeast.com/tulsi-gabbards-fascist-escorts-to-syria
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  8384.  @highneedforcognition9660  She apologized for those things. She didn't apologize for the thing that I am talking about. Playing the "taking it out of context" game or trying to imagine when it is acceptable to use torture without apologizing does not show me that she thinks that she did anything wrong.
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  8385.  @highneedforcognition9660  If that is how you feel about torture, then there is no other way to say it, but you find torture acceptable under certain circumstances. If Tulsi thinks that she said nothing wrong (and there's a reason why I don't want public officials thinking out loud about when it is acceptable to commit a war crime), then my objections still stand, and she is unacceptable in my opinion as Secretary of Defense or even in Congress. Given her tendency to play both sides, she is as untrustworthy as Gillibrand, Harris, and Booker.
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  8386.  @jojosmith1097  Warren Buffett also takes advantage of monopolies, with a lot of his money (not the bulk, but not an insubstantial amount, either) in private utility companies, and he refuses to invest in companies with union workers. Not to mention that he got his first billion by charging fees that would make today's hedge fund managers blush (25% of everything over 6% gain). Bill and Melinda Gates exploited a monopoly, as evidenced by the fact that Microsoft lost an antitrust case in 1999, only to have the Bush Administration not carry through on a penalty. Tom Steyer was a hedge fund manager, so unless he only invested in companies in a way that would qualify him as socially conscious, that doesn't count, either, and given how much of his money was made from fossil fuels, he is another example of what Anand Giaradaras (sp?) described in his excellent book "Winners Take All" where he described how so much of the billionaire class actually caused the problems that they are now claiming to solve. Maybe their consciences wouldn't need to be salved if they wouldn't have fought so hard for the system that makes their ten figure net worths possible. In 1980, there were only about a dozen billionaires, and our economic system and innovation worked out just fine.
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  8387.  @brunopbch  Well, therein lies the problem. The people who stole from Native Americans or enslaved people from Africa are no longer alive, but a lot of people still benefit, but not believing in the concept of communities as many libertarians don't really makes it hard to see the full effects of injustice.
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  8388. And when he was asked about why he changed his mind about Trump in 2017: I saw my numbers and didn't want to lose the 2020 primary.
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  8389.  @jeffreysanders7334  Charlie Kirk is not a child psychologist or psychiatrist. Anybody can say anything that they want, but if there is no basis whatsoever for the claims of expertise, pointing out that there is no basis in reality for his advice is perfectly fair. If some random person came in from a desert island making a proposal about child care, should we give that person due respect, or should we ask that person what those theories are based on in either study or practice. I wouldn't go to some random person at a church and ask what something says in Biblical Hebrew, I would ask someone who has studied the language.
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  8390.  Alabama Man Special Edition  Based on what, Troll Man?
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  8391.  @jeffreysanders7334  Except nobody's talking about race but you. We are talking about the question that I would hope anyone asks: why does this person claim to have knowledge on the field that he/she is speaking on? Does this person have training or practical knowledge? Otherwise, you're elevating speculation to the level of research, and isn't that the worse form of bigotry?
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  8392.  @jeffreysanders7334  It's a dummy account set up for no other reason to troll. (Give it a month and there will be a similar username lurking in the comments.) You're acting like someone who just learned a Latin phrase and wants to keep invoking it. Troll Man started off from a bad faith place, and you're defending him because he's backing up your argument. I get that it must be frustrating that no one else is agreeing with your argument, but those of us who aren't are looking at the merits of the argument.
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  8393. He does that to disarm his opponents and seem like "a regular guy." Don't fall for it.
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  8394.  @DestoRest  You mean the less than a million last year? Out of a market of nearly 67 million? And, his company has severely limited capacity because of the type of rare earth minerals that he uses for his battery.
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  8395. ​ @mjjoe76 He's probably a Republican because his dad was a Republican Congressman in the 1970s (also a moderate and sane Republican).
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  8396.  @OscarLangleySoryu  I'm not sure if Medicaid covers people in prison, but if someone has something that a doctor determines is necessary and the patient agrees, other than hate, there's no reason it shouldn't happen. Not that hate is a valid reason, but I don't understand any other reason for such a refusal.
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  8397.  @jocksharerock7318  If that is his real name.
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  8398.  @jocksharerock7318  Indeed. At this point, I think that it would be quicker to point out the times that he told the truth. I remember joking at one point with "if that's his real name" only to find out that he used other names.
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  8399. Indeed. I used to see some people be polite and say that he is still funny, but no one can ever give an example of a great bit of his. On a Sam Seder video, I quoted Sam saying that the most hated person for a comedian is someone who thinks he/she is funny and isn't, so that means that comedians hate Jimmy Dore, and about three or four Dore Knobs wanted names. Apparently, they must think he's funny because they can't even understand basic joke construction similar to when Bill Maher demanded proof that Trump wasn't the child of an orangutan.
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  8400.  Meta Code  Don't know what the nonsense about some fringe conspiracy theory is about, but anyone who is not in the Tulsi cult can look at the record. Sheldon Adelson and online gambling https://time.com/3695948/sheldon-adelson-online-gambling Steve Bannon and David Duke showing some love: https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-conservative-media-and-the-far-right-love-tulsi-gabbard-for-president I will admit that the articles that I found of her defending Flynn were from December 2016, and not after the full extent of his treachery was known, but certainly some of it was known when she made this defense: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/something-disturbing-about-tulsi-gabbard
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  8401. "Shutting down is how to destroy a country!" Australia and New Zealand locked down stricter than we did, and they seem just fine to me.
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  8402.  Chris V  Bluebelle is a Green Party diehard, which says about as much about his/her intelligence as it sounds. This is someone who thought it was "smart" that they used Republican money in Wisconsin and Montana this year.
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  8403.  @lanechaplin7648  Note that I didn't say he was good, just that on the issue of allowing unions to organize, he has been the best or least bad in that time, depending on how you want to frame it.
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  8404. There aren't enough votes to get rid of the filibuster. Under the talking filibuster, the average was one per Congress. If you don't see that as a big change, you aren't paying attention.
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  8405. Voted today in PA. I was the 436th voter in my fairly blue precinct a little after 10, beating the morning rush.
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  8406. Crypto is a speculative bubble, and anything that becomes a speculative bubble is a road to ruin.
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  8407.  @ReneSalasDesign  You don't understand what a speculative bubble is.
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  8408.  @oreagle4186  By definition, it is speculative. These people think that they'll get onto the next big thing, but something that people are trying to treat as an investment by definition cannot be a stable currency, and the greedy try to convince the gullible to sign up so they can build and build their own fortunes on their backs.
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  8409.  @matthewstone1362  Relative means that it is more likely based on circumstances. Absolute means a total likelihood. In other words, it is more likely to get struck by lightning than to win the lottery, but the actual odds of winning the lottery are one in hundreds of millions.
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  8410.  @keff5984  I remember reading somewhere that William F. Buckley had the philosophy of "I support the most conservative candidate who can win." Sometimes, I think that people forget that when looking at the mirror image of that idea. In Utah, Democrats realized their candidate was a sacrificial lamb, so they decided to support McMullin. It's why, as frustrating as Joe Manchin is, look at where he is from and just how much Trump won by both times (42 in 2016 and 39 in 2020) and realize that the solution to Manchin isn't pushing him out, but getting more sympathetic people in office so we don't need his vote for everything and the half of the time we get it is helpful.
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  8411.  @Bauks  So, "we're all on the same side," but the guy who took the big bucks and changed his position just happened to do it honestly. It looks like Rubin found his mark.
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  8412.  @ProfDCoy  Indeed. The talking filibuster is very difficult to pull off, and the biggest problem with this version is that those who want to delay things don't have to suffer to do so. All it could take in theory based on it being all Senators is for one person to object to cloture and a 59-1 vote can sustain the filibuster. Make them talk and change it to 3/5 of votes instead of Senators. The only two talking filibusters this century (Bernie against extending the Bush tax cuts, Rand Paul against drones) were really more performative than anything.
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  8413.  @JiveDadson  Compare gas prices in June to when crude oil cost the same in 2007-08. YouTube doesn't let you put links anymore.
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  8414.  @ArticBlueFox96  If it is a both/and UBI, absolutely. Also, if it uses progressive taxation rather than taxing consumption which is by definition regressive and hurts the poor. There is a lefty version and a libertarian version, and the latter is horrible.
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  8415. @Do You Read Sutter Cane? And Bernie didn't say "there are fine people on both sides, and there are bad people on both sides." He condemned the shooter and all political violence.
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  8416. There is quite a bit of downside. Polling for Medicare for All has dropped in support over the last year, and AOC simply being seen as a show horse who only supports messaging bills rather than actually legislate means that she won't be taken seriously. A vote will set back the cause for Medicare for All because people on the fence will lose hope if less than 50 people vote for it.
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  8417.  @kyleleehufnagel  I wouldn't say nothing, because a lot of passive viewers take their queues from elected officials. Don't confuse the average person with a political junkie/activist.
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  8418. Steve Bannon complaining about nobody doing anything on the deficit while supporting the only person to see the deficit go up every year as President? Self-awareness clearly isn't a strong point on the right.
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  8419.  Illhan Omars brother's wife is Illhan Omar  If they are doing so, list the specific sanctions that Biden canceled. Several people have asked, but you can't do it.
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  8420.  @dylanbutts1628  The person you're replying to isn't a good faith actor. He is a troll.
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  8421. It could be less. Remember, it is 2/3 of all present Senators. Until Ossoff's win is certified, there are only 99 Senators.
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  8422.  @matsal3211  Except it's raising taxes on less than 5% of the population. When you refer to it as "raising taxes," that implies that most people will pay more. I wouldn't pay another penny if the cap is increased or eliminated. That's not the same "tough choice" as forcing retirees to take a 20% pay cut because rich people concentrated wealth at a greater rate than the Greenspan Commission anticipated in 1983.
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  8423.  @luckyclick100mviews7  She realized that forcing the vote was a stupid tactic, so instead of wasting her leverage on that, she instead used it to weaken paygo rules, which made the coronavirus bill and the infrastructure bill possible. It looks like she is actually learning how to use her power.
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  8424.  @kwabenatree  He did that over a decade before the Iraq War. All of his chemical and biological weapons were destroyed by 2002. It did you forget that none were ever found? Surely, Dubya doing that bit of "no weapons here" looking around his office didn't go into your memory hole.
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  8425. We want to keep Ketanji Brown Jackson.
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  8426. Well, the Green Party has been controlled opposition for at least 20 years spending all of their time going after Democrats rather than going after their Republican sugar daddies.
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  8427. She's a grifter. I actually met her a few months ago and took a picture with her and my daughter at a Philly DSA meeting. However, I have since realized that I was fooled by her take on the primaries. This is someone who formed a PAC to supposedly help lefty candidates get elected, and she spent 39% of its money on herself, which is more than eight times what she spent on candidates. The end of the primary is what took off her mask for me. She was ridiculous in her trashing of Bernie for dropping out of the race in a way that seemed totally incongruous with the person I heard speak six weeks earlier. Then again, we should have known the truth. She admitted what happened on MSNBC when she asked Hillary not to run. Do we really think that a Trump friend wouldn't let it be known that she is there to attack the Democratic establishment to prop up Trump? We need to admit that the Krystal Ball of the primary season was a mirage.
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  8428. ​​ @janezimmerman7987  Ketanji Brown Jackson says hello.
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  8429.  @janezimmerman7987  Tell me you know nothing about politics without saying you nothing about politics. For all of Poppy Bush's reputation is a moderate, the most impactful thing he did was put Clarence Thomas on the bench. Rehnquist stated out his career making dissent after dissent, but by the end, he was Chief Justice and usually in the majority. If something happens to one of the right-wing Justices while a Democrat controls the White House and the Senate, having her on the bench matters even more.
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  8430.  @rickkeeton9246  And how does that dispute my point that Manchin voted to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson? You are aware that he was a state senator when Thomas got appointed, right?
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  8431.  @bruceleeroy8302  Indeed. We need to get a lot smarter on the left about electoral politics. William F. Buckley described his criteria for candidates to support as "the most conservative candidate who can win." We need to do the inverse and support the most lefty candidate who can win, and like it or not, Joe Manchin was the best we could do in West Virginia, although I think that he knew that he didn't have a prayer if he ran again.
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  8432.  @maxx_thedragondominator  They are also covered by insurance, because they are actually based in fact.
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  8433. A Qanon salute looks suspiciously like a Nazi salute? I'm sure that's a total coincidence. /s
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  8434. I can't help but appreciate the irony that a lot of shows have bad endings because they go on for too long, and this is a channel that perhaps should have ended when Jared left.
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  8435.  @WilliamStephanusArriel  He does not want to regulate and break up social media. When Warren talked about antitrust legislation, he responded "You can't force people to use the fourth best search engine or the fifth most popular social media network" in the debates. He is just fine with corporate monopolies taking all of the money.
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  8436. I couldn't agree with you more. I have been saying for months that she will be the last establishment candidate standing, and I think this is the strongest evidence yet.
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  8437.  @davidbright6790  True, but I think that we can agree that one can figure out intricate football plays and still be an idiot.
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  8438.  @grmpEqweer  Oh, they were pretty bad by the 1920s. They had already embraced their hard right economic theories by then, and they were just less bad than Democrats on civil rights by then. The GOP's plaudits on civil rights pretty much stopped after 1877, and they completely went to the dark side in 1964.
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  8439.  @Chuck26814  If this were 80 years ago, you would have been complaining of the tyranny of air raid sirens and ration cards.
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  8440. I think the other reason why Michael Scott became a different character from David Brent is that there were just completely different skillsets with the actors. Having Steve Carell do a Ricky Gervais imitation would have been a mistake.
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  8441. Well, Jake, no one ever said that the Republican Party had to be one of the two major parties or that the Democratic Party had to be the party of the left. (I know, I know. A lot of Democrats aren't really on the left, but relatively speaking.)
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  8442.  @jocksharerock7318  Which one was Cassandra Fairbanks again? That name rings a bell, but very vaguely. You are so right about the Hillary haters. I will never call them Bernie or Bust, because they don't deserve to use his name. I saw the vile things that they said about him when he did exactly what he said he'd do all along and supported the eventual nominee. If Chafee would have been the top challenger to Hillary, they would have been Lincoln or Leave. If it was Webb, they would have been Webb or Walk. If it was O'Malley, they would have been Martin or Move On. Never Hillary is a much more accurate description.
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  8443.  @Antonius17  Trump complained about the filibuster, and what actually happened? All the Congressional Republicans really cared about were tax cuts for the rich and judicial appointments, and that's all Trump got during unified control. At least try to base your arguments in what actually happened.
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  8444. @D2 E2 If by betters, you mean the grifter who supported the most right-wing candidate not named Michael Bloomberg as the One True Lefty, who appeals to Republicans as his base of support, and got paid by the Syrian government right around the time he spouted their conspiracy theories, you and I have very different ideas on what makes better. Then again, you are content to repeat lies and get mad when someone calls out your lie, so I can't say I'm shocked.
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  8445. I'd like for coronavirus to be over, too. The difference is that I am actually taking cautionary measures to help end it.
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  8446.  @meoff7602  It doesn't have to be that way. Two years ago, my parents niece came to Philadelphia to visit me and my daughter. Among other things, while they were here, we went on two factory tours (Herr's Snack Factory Tour in Nottingham, and the Martin Guitar Factory Tour and Museum in Nazareth). Each one found that human hands caused a bottleneck in production (finding rotten potatoes at the former, lacquering at the latter), and having machines do those things increased the number of employees, and at the Martin factory, everyone in the Lacquer Department was retrained so that no one lost any jobs. If we had Workplace Democracy in place, automation could lead to more leisure. That being said, if Yang gets his way about how to deal with automation, and he is right that all of the jobs will be gone, he will leave us a world where we have a few trillionaires and everyone else scraping by on less than the poverty level. No thanks.
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  8447.  @MrSkeltal268  Indeed, which is why we shouldn't just surrender to them when it comes to what automation will look like.
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  8448.  @kellidinit3725  No third party has drawn more from the Republican than the Democrat since 1912 (Perot took evenly from both parties, and George Wallace and Strom Thurmond mainly served to puncture the Solid South). Is that really a risk you want to take?
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  8449. Well, she also gave a word salad answer when they came to her. I would say her giving an interview where she uses the 24 scenario to justify a war crime meant that her lefty card was revoked as well.
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  8450.  @FXDLS-ot1wq  Show me where a simple majority can change the Constitution. Giving the minority power despite their lack of desire to build support is what leads to dysfunction in the first place.
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  8451. Maybe he is under contract, like someone else under the TYT umbrella who shall not be named.
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  8452. Jimmy Dore is too stupid for many things, but any would-be entertainer knows his/her audience, and he is clearly playing to them.
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  8453.  @cycleforwardtime  How is she an ally when she was spending the last few months taking a dump on Bernie and the squad as sellouts like she's reading a Jimmy Dore transcript and trying to convince people that four more years of Trump will be better? Why would she go back to running for office when she is raking in the dough now, like she did with her PAC that was supposed to help lefty candidates but she gave herself over eight times what she gave candidates? She is only an ally to her pocketbook and making a fascist appear palatable.
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  8454.  @cycleforwardtime  A lot of us were wrong about Krystal Ball at one point. There's no shame in admitting it.
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  8455. That's why I think it should be No SuperPAC. I ran for a legislative seat in 2006, and I got two endorsements: United Mine Workers and the Sierra Club. I didn't get a lot from them $200 and $50, respectively, which should give you an idea of what people among the powers that be thought of my chances). Did that make me corrupt? My brother gave me more than the Sierra Club.
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  8456. He has only changed it for the retirement portion. He still seems just fine with those who are disabled having to choose, because he explicitly talks about age when allowing people to get both. Still no word on SSI.
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  8457. She is the worst of all of the announced candidates IMO.
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  8458.  @ValleyoftheRogue  Why do you trust her? She was literally caught on Medicare for All and private insurance within minutes of her town hall.
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  8459. Famous without being rich would be the worst. I remember reading a history of punk rock where the drummer for The Damned talked about how their manager asked if they'd rather be famous or rich. He said, "We thought, 'Well, if you're famous, you must be rich...'" and then they promptly got screwed. A couple years ago, I was visiting my parents and my dad was watching a treasure hunt show, and there he was. He could have at least retired with dignity if he got paid what he deserved.
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  8460. I hope he does. If he goes, I want him going out knowing that he lost by one of the biggest margins ever.
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  8461.  @demonhoopa  This was relatively early in her show. To have a take that bad told me that she was trying to set a record for going down the grifter trail.
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  8462. Sinema is far worse. Manchin does what he does because he has to win over a substantial portion of Trump voters to have a chance. Sinema represents a state Biden won that has another Democratic Senator.
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  8463. Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan
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  8464. 7:56 Brian Setzer
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  8465. Ron is almost as dumb as he is.
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  8466.  @alexburke1899  Pete Rose bet on the Reds. That's why the ban was for life.
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  8467.  @benallen6888  What happened in South Carolina is irrelevant. The debate was well after that, and Biden saying what he did didn't move the needle at all. As far as "well, they voted for it, so even if it fails, we still win," how did Hillarycare do the second time around? And did that stop Tulsi Gabbard from telling Anderson Cooper that it was "un-American" in a post-debate interview? Twice.
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  8468.  @exiledfrommyself  It was worse. She was a staffer.
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  8469.  Bodhisattva Bodhisattva  Indeed. Saying "we're a republic, not a democracy" is the equivalent of saying "that's not a grape, that's purple."
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  8470.  @TheHunterGracchus  My theory is that Jimmy Kimmel knew The Man Show was a joke and treated it as satire, but Adam Carolla actually believed it was real.
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  8471.  @francoisschneegans8881  Which countries are "going bankrupt"?
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  8472.  @francoisschneegans8881  Oh, I get it. You don't understand what "going bankrupt" actually means.
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  8473. Definitely. Neither my then-wife or I had any desire to terminate her pregnancy, and I would never trade my six-year-old daughter for anything, but it was our choice. Roe was a thing, and she came along just fine.
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  8474.  @chuletaization  So, one good thing three years ago absolves her of 17 years of awful?
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  8475.  @Gregorypeckory  You only replied to me. And it's not my fault that you can't look at the context of what is being said and figure it out rather than play the semantics game.
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  8476. Sinbad: This is Rob Thomas! Dennis Reynolds: Ugh
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  8477. Well, at her age, she can surely reinvent herself again, so at a certain point, you need to contain the awful and make sure that she doesn't move up to the Senate or get any steam for any future runs.
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  8478.  @EdertheJust  Well, they can love her all they want, but it's not going to do her any good. In fact, it might just make it that much easier for her inevitable challenger from the left when she goes back to her district.
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  8479. Oh, yeah. Older voters were the base for Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
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  8480.  @buddygrimfield7954  Vote your heart in the primary, and vote your head in the general election. What things have you been doing to try to make "the lesser evil" "not evil"?
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  8481.  @buddygrimfield7954  So, your contribution is to develop a false sense of superiority to rival Michael Bluth and fiddle while the world burns? Got it.
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  8482.  discorperted  The American people did not elect Donald Trump. The Electoral College did. 66 > 63. Saying that democracy has run its course is a sure sign of someone who knows his ideology can't win.
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  8483.  @MyBrainVent  Then, how come he doesn't say what the 125 programs are that he will consider disqualifying? I have only ever heard or read him say a few: TANF, SNAP, WIC, LIHEAP, SSI, VA Disability, and housing subsidies. How can anyone make an informed decision about whether or not his plan is beneficial if they don't know whether or not they are in the opt-in boat?
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  8484. So, Bernie is cool with Modi? He praised Sisi after killing protesters in Egypt? He refuses to call Assad a war criminal? He courted Sheldon Adelson and did his bidding to try to get rid of his competition in the form online gambling? And Tulsi has said that she won't drop out no matter what. At this point, she is just there to siphon off votes from Bernie as part of her effort to play wing woman to Biden in hopes of the VP slot.
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  8485.  @ericaugust1501  Well, Bernie doesn't repeat Assad talking points, either, so there is also that.
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  8486.  @vibefrequencyable  So, Tulsi always tells the truth? Was she telling the truth when she stuck to the story that Putin bombed civilians in Syria even after it was proven that he went after civilians? Was she telling the truth when she insisted that she always supported the Iran nuclear deal? Was she telling the truth when she insisted that she never, ever supported torture?
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  8487. George Santos seems a lot happier in his drag queen persona. He (and everyone else) would have been much better off if he just lived his best life as Kitara and didn't hurt anyone.
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  8488.  @superdupeninja8149  He used that idea to trash Nina Turner for not going to one of the M4AM4A rallies outside of her district ten days before the election. Force the Vote was just another way to dump on people who don't agree with his ridiculous strategy.
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  8489. I literally remember a headline that had the number one spot blank.
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  8490.  @timreed402  Where is the corroboration?
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  8491.  @dcaseng  "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?" John Maynard Keynes
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  8492.  @2727rogers  Context is obviously key here. "Social issue" refers to non-economic issues. Are you hoping that probability will eventually kick in? Don't worry. It only took 14 years for it to happen for Bill Kristol.
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  8493.  @2727rogers  Why aren't more voters for universal health care? -Because the health insurance industry has deep pockets and isn't afraid to use it for misinformation. -Because scare tactics and the way the current system works has conflated in the minds of many the insurance company and doctor. -Because some people are scared about their taxes going up, even if the taxes are cheaper than the costs that they are currently paying. -Because American exceptionalism has convinced some that anything that a foreign country does can't be a lesson for us. -Because a lot of people want everything to get better and nothing to change. Oh, and some people just don't want able-bodied adults who don't have a job to get covered. And some people are so enamored with the idea of "choice" and "private enterprise" that they don't want to get rid of private insurance. These are the objections that I have encountered while doing the actual work instead of following some bad idea that is guaranteed to end in failure. I have noticed that almost to a person, when I have asked Force the Vote advocates what they personally have done to build support for Medicare for All, they have either made internet comments (which is not activism) or attended one or two rallies. Those of us who have done the actual work know how difficult this is and what we are facing. This is why we know that forcing a vote won't do a thing.
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  8494.  @notjustklownin9506  Someone never watched the sexual harassment video at work.
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  8495.  @notjustklownin9506  If she really did what he said she did, then he should have either pulled her aside and said something or went to HR to make a complaint. If he was in the right, he wouldn't have apologized. If he was sincere in his apology, he wouldn't have spent years bragging about it.
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  8496. It is the reform that makes all other reforms possible.
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  8497. @Collective Sigh Other people seem addicted to insisting that because they didn't get everything that they wanted that they got nothing.
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  8498.  @Dan0TheMano  He was close, but not quite. Instead of "vote for someone else," he said "I'm not looking for your vote." He could have easily said, "I am here to try to bring people together. This isn't a political stunt for me."
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  8499. You're right in a way, but I would describe it as this from left to right: Bernie Warren, Buttigieg/Biden
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  8500.  @theunholinesswithin70  Oh, they are terrified of follow ups. That is usually the point where they start to fade away.
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  8501. Except, unlike Elon Musk, Bernie isn't working with the goal of making himself richer and richer at the expense of the workers.
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  8502. He wasn't funny even when he was popular.
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  8503. Darn right! They want to make things as bad as possible to discourage people, because too many on our side have to be wooed instead of getting out there and doing what needs to be done.
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  8504. I had that nightmare about forgetting registering for a class when I was an undergrad over a decade after getting my bachelor's.
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  8505. Tankies: How dare NATO expand! Putin should be able to invade. Neutral border countries: I think that we will join NATO now so Russia doesn't invade us. Funny how the invasion literally made NATO more attractive to more countries who don't want invaded.
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  8506. Jean Girard wasn't a villain. He just wanted the same thing Ricky Bobby did.
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  8507.  @MunchinOnDew  Oh, we loved watching Marianne Williamson on his show. I watched the entire thing.
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  8508.  @b0tch02  Indeed. If your stupidity hurts others, it is not an "oh, well, let them kill themselves" situation.
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  8509. He did the same to his opponents as well. How many people got within inches of his face either in the course of play or when he hugged people after the games?
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  8510. I think she hurt herself in the first debate by going off on odd tangents, but she gave a solid performance once she got used to the format. I gave her a dollar to help her get on stage, and it was money well spent.
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  8511. The deadline is June 15. If more than 20 candidates qualify through one or both standards, then polling is the tiebreaker.
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  8512. Ford pardoned Nixon before he got any charges. That being said, Trump's bigger problem right now is state charges, because a pardon by Pence won't do him a bit of good.
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  8513.  @odintheterridorable8097  In the hierarchy of things to do to deal with extremists, it goes Exposing them for the awful they are > Not giving them a megaphone > Sucking up to them and pretending they are good. If you can't do the first, you need to do the second.
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  8514.  @justicematters5447  Ideally, yes, but we don't know what the job market is in that area, and we don't want to echo Republicans who respond to everything with "if you hate your job so much, just get a new one."
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  8515. True, but in all honesty, would he have accepted the loss if it was less than 32 points?
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  8516. Pence could only exercise the Twenty-fifth Amendment with a majority of the Cabinet backing him up. It would have never happened.
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  8517.  @roadtomanitoba9753  First of all, she is not a combat veteran. She is a medic. Second of all, many of us who dealt with POWs did the right thing. I treated everyone under my care humanely. I never used stress positions, I made sure that people were fed, and I always made sure they had enough blankets. Anyone who uses the "she's a veteran argument" to defend torture spits in the face of every one of us who did the right thing.
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  8518. @Brent P I actually dealt with POWs, and I never tortured anyone. She was a medic. If she is a war criminal, that is yet another reason to oppose her.
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  8519.  @redvenomweb  Agreed. Her voting record is to the right of Beto O'Rourke. He was trying to win statewide in Texas someday. What is her excuse?
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  8520.  @valentinigarageworks  I take people at their word until their words and actions prove their word is not credible. She has a bad habit of invoking her veterans status whenever someone asks her about something questionable, so that is why I don't trust her invocations. If she said it when talking about VA funding, more power to her. Saying it when jumping back and forth between praising and condemning leaving the Kurds to die is another story. I do thank you for the statement of respect.
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  8521.  @valentinigarageworks  Also, I just wanted to clarify that she can speak as much as she wants. However, others can use our freedom of speech to say that she is wrong and exploitative.
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  8522.  @valentinigarageworks  It was nice chatting with you as well. I agree that we shouldn't just censor someone. Seeing horrible things like lying about a silver streak that supposedly started because of time in theater when there are pictures of that person having jet black hair several years later, then you know who that person really is. I have a gray patch in my beard, but I don't blame it on Iraq. It was good chatting with you as well. Merry Christmas to you and yours as well.
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  8523.  @intuitionz1198  A whole life? You're the one who talked about a fatalistic approach and just giving up, consequences be damned. I am talking about the defeatist attitude in your original comment. Enjoy your voyage on the martyr train.
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  8524. Plastic surgery never works unless it is reconstructive. I don't know why they feel the need to do that.
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  8525. Centrism has nothing to do with ideological issues. It is a philosophical approach that is basically a parody of the Golden Mean. To the extent that there is a thread through positions they take, it boils down to "we should take that idea and do a little bit less."
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  8526. @Solstice of Snow "Massive tax cuts"? The top rate went from 91% to 70%, and the category for capital gains treatment was tightened up, so that doesn't prove your point, either. There was a lot more growth in terms of GDP in the 1940s and 50s when it was over 90%, or do you think that the real voodoo in voodoo economics comes when you lower the rate regardless of what you lower it to?
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  8527. @Solstice of Snow The war ended in 1945. Even before Korea, we still had unemployment far lower than what we have even in good years now. And Korea reached a cease fire in 1953, so that doesn't work, either.
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  8528. @Solstice of Snow You are aware that Poppy Bush coined the term for Reagan in 1980, right?
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  8529. @Solstice of Snow I am saying that economic growth was better because of what the taxes were used for: education, building roads, scientific research. Quite frankly, a lot of the workable infrastructure we have still relies from that time. Reagan's refusal to fund it (because of the desire for tax cuts and weapons systems) meant that the unglamorous nuts and bolts (the kind of things that Stephen Covey called Important but Not Urgent that are the key to long-term growth) got ignored. If taxes were used to fund corporate welfare giveaways in hopes of luring jobs, not so much.
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  8530. The Amazon exec sounded like a cross between Jeff Bezos and Stephen Miller in his condescension.
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  8531.  @archologyzero  That doesn't make a lick of sense.
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  8532.  @randomlobster5566  No, your long game is to allow fascists to take over in order to punish the one group that can actually defeat them at the ballot box. Yours is a politics that is self-centered and psychopathic.
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  8533.  @randomlobster5566  And apparently, you also haven't noticed the long term consequences of your actions so far. Since you are so far-sighted and thinking about the long run, maybe you haven't noticed that a majority of Supreme Court Justices were appointed by people who lost the popular vote who snuck in through the Electoral College because people like you think that they are too good to allow their pure sensibilities to be polluted by actually using your head. This is being a useful idiot in action. Oh, yeah, you're showing them! Gore was followed by Kerry, and Hillary was followed by Biden. It's no coincidence that Bernie went from 44% of the vote with a disappointing Democratic President to 32% with a literal fascist in the White House.
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  8534.  @randomlobster5566  And if you think that whining and ignoring what actually happens is suddenly going to abolish the Electoral College and get rid of first past the post, then you are a useful idiot.
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  8535.  @URProductions  Fair enough. I give you credit for not just having a knee jerk response and seeing the risks therein.
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  8536.  @excession30  Sadly, I worry what their takes would have been 85 years ago.
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  8537. If the Democratic Party nominates a billionaire to run against Trump, I am going from something akin to Populism straight to Marxism in terms of economic thought.
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  8538.  @quicksite  It's all right. I guess thinking of the last year got my brain to Binder.
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  8539. Yes, because Donald "I Moved the Embassy to Jerusalem" Trump is going to advocate for the Palestinian cause. I swear, part of the reason why we lose is because so many people who claim to support the same things we do are total idiots when it comes to political calculations.
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  8540. He had no major opponent, so people only cared that he played football and was Der Orangefuhrer's friend.
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  8541.  @TheMouseAvenger  Then, why take their money? I take it you didn't see her efforts to kill the medical device tax because her state made some of those devices.
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  8542.  @Aeroldoth3  The Tinman already had emotions, but he still wanted a physical heart. In the movie, the Wizard has one in his bag, but in the book, he performs a surgery to give him one (not an actual animal heart, though). The point of the joke was that Mehmet Oz is a much bigger humbug than the Wizard of Oz.
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  8543.  @dmitchel0820  Well, then maybe, just maybe, the problem is that he tells completely contradictory answers to different audiences. Considering hos fundamental dishonesty about "everyone getting an extra thousand bucks a month," it wouldn't surprise me. Since he is so dishonest about the most elemental part of his plan (I didn't hear him admit to Colbert that he forces people to choose between their current benefits and his plan), how can he be trusted to do the things that will soften the blow, when he explicitly told another interviewer that he ultimately wants to get rid of existing programs by letting them wither on the vine?
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  8544.  @lucaswilliams8572  How are disabled people who can't work going to get off those plans?
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  8545.  @lucaswilliams8572  He specifically said that people getting SSI (which pays less than SSD) will have to choose. In other interviews, he said those with VA Disability will have to choose. Maybe if he would actually give a full list of the 125 programs that will force people to choose, we could have a more full conversation, but he won't do that, because (like the fact that he literally makes a false statement at the beginning of every interview), he just isn't honest.
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  8546.  @lucaswilliams8572  Well, he needs to list the 125 programs where he forces people to choose. I looked all over, and I never found a list. Or, and here is a thought: maybe, just maybe, he shouldn't force people to choose between their current benefits and his plan, so as not to hurt those who do qualify, he should tax the rich to pay for it instead of taxing consumption, and he should do things to actually benefit workers like increase the minimum wage and make it easier for workers to organize.
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  8547.  @gregwilde1119  If you don't think he's devious, why do think that he opens literally every interview with a false statement. He is not giving everybody an extra thousand bucks a month, so why does he keep saying that, and why does he only correct it when the interviewer asks about it? If he's not some right winger playing a lefty, why does he use a regressive tax to pay for his plan? Lefties like progressive taxation. Why does he oppose increasing the minimum wage? Why will be do nothing to help people organize? Why did he tell Dave Rubin that his ultimate goal is to get rid of existing programs by letting them wither on the vine? And don't counter with social positions, because going left on social issues and right on economic ones is how centrists operate.
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  8548.  @lucaswilliams8572  Okay, I have tried to explain the objection, but you keep responding with "nuh uh!" and just repeating the same thing over and over again without even bothering to address the issue that I and others have had with his proposal. I will lay it out one more time. I will make it as simple as I possibly can. If you still don't understand what I am saying after this, you are either a bot, someone who cannot internalize any objection to this proposal because you are brainwashed, or you have reading comprehension problems. Here is why people on current disability programs that he does not allow to stack are harmed by his proposal: 1) People who are disabled already get more than $1000/month in most cases. 2) Those people will not get any more money. 3) Even those who do get more money will not get the full $1000, because they will have to give up their existing benefits. 4) Those people will still have to pay taxes to fund this program that they don't get. Therefore, they will have to stretch their dollars farther. So, they have a net loss in after-tax dollars. 5) Even if that loss is mitigated, that still doesn't help people whose rent will go up when Yang said "use your UBI to absorb the blow, because rent control is a local issue." 6) As "Inequality for All" demonstrated, if the absolute dollars are the same, but the rings above you get farther apart, it is more difficult to climb the economic ladder. So, if you just go back to your talking points without substantively addressing those issues, I am done, because there is nothing left to say.
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  8549.  @kenrickkahn  The real Pocahontas was 12 at the time.
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  8550. They're both going down the road to Jimmy Dore.
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  8551.  @tradeprosper5002  You don't even get it. The issue at hand isn't the possibility that Trump would have succeeded, it's that he tried to do it, and next to nobody in his party tried to stop him. If Trump tried it, imagine what someone else who is openly hostile to democracy and just a little bit more competent with a party willing to go to bat for him/her will accomplish.
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  8552.  @tradeprosper5002  How many Senate Republicans have publicly said that Trump lost fair and square? The only reason why those states didn't send alternate slates of electors is because either a) they have Democratic governors whose slate gets priority (MI, PA, WI), b) the margin was too big to steal (AZ and GA) or some combination of the two. Republicans allowed the narrative to fester so Biden would be seen as illegitimate. Just because they didn't go all the way doesn't mean that they won't try again the next time. One major party openly rejecting democracy is a source of concern.
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  8553.  @JenniferDaniels909  A bunch of candidates have already released theirs. I wouldn't be surprised if more haven't than have, unless a lot of people around the 1-2% mark haven't that I am unaware of.
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  8554.  @belasgirl6  If you're worried about getting laid off or the warehouse getting closed, it weighs heavily on you.
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  8555. I'm not a gay fish! I just like fish sticks.
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  8556. In the 1990s, she said she "is still a proud Goldwater Girl."
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  8557.  @alexmini123  There is a Demetri Martin joke where he talks about wanting a size 10 shoe but all that was available was a 9, so he suggested cutting off his toes. Dane Cook told the same joke almost verbatim, changing size 10 to size 12 and doing the thing where he walks around and repeats himself a lot. I did think that the atheist becoming a tree joke was pretty funny, though.
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  8558.  @SutapaBhattacharyaKolkata  I didn't say it would, I said she is the most likely. And with everyone pretending that they are basically the same, she just needs to fool enough people on the left. That is why we need to work harder. Everyone here knows Bernie is great, but there are events coming up to help Bernie. Are you signed up?
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  8559. "In politics, a month is a lifetime, but for now, it's time for me to gloat. Ha-ha! Ho-ho! Wheeeeee!" Al Franken, introduction to paperback edition of Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations
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  8560. "Why do blue areas take more time? I mean, blue counties are bigger..." I think you just answered your own question, Laura.
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  8561.  @lauranna9942  I felt sorry for his wife after that one.
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  8562. ​ @darrylbradley  Define socialism.
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  8563.  Theshadow Knows  So, you admit to being like a vulture? Interesting.
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  8564.  @kennypowers8114  [citation needed]
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  8565.  monokhem  We weren't talking about her horrible conditions, we are talking about how much respect Moscow Donald has for his third wife, or at least how much he displays. It doesn't seem to me like he shows much at all.
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  8566. I don't think that it's just acknowledging that a black President pushed their idea. I think that a lot of it is that they never really wanted to do it in the first place, and their bluff got called. I remember a friend of mine who was a Republican posted on FB complaining about how "unconstitutional" the individual mandate was, and I pointed out that it was literally the Republican alternative to Hillarycare, and he said that he hadn't really looked into it that much at the time. And he was one of the smarter Republicans I knew, so that was especially terrifying.
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  8567. Yes
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  8568. If you picked August 2022 in the pool, you win.
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  8569. I can't remember who said it, but I remember reading someone saying that the key to understanding Andy is when his name was changed from Walter Jr. because he "didn't live up to the name" when he was six. That ruined his sense of identity, and he changed so dramatically because he was trying to find something that fit. Seeing him through that experience explains the neediness as well.
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  8570. Personally, while I don't think that it's good in any situation, I think that a lot has to do with the framing of the individual. For Biden, Republicans don't want to go after it because they want to paint this notion that he's asleep at the switch. For Williamson, her public image goes against the idea of someone prone to fits of rage. If it was Dennis Kucinich (whose idea for the Department of Peace that she borrowed), he'd probably get the same backlash.
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  8571.  @adotjon78  So, you are saying that Trump is better. It doesn't take long to see that it gets difficult to tell the difference between the pro-Trump right and those who claim to be on the left who are anti-anti-Trump.
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  8572. How could you not include Citizen Kane at least as an honorable mention? Greatest movie ever made and lost money at the box office.
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  8573. The difference is that Bernie only needs one vote, but Warren wants two. Three, if you count immigration reform.
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  8574.  @mysticmarble94  Oh, I get that they have been lying for a long time. However, this particular strain of Republican dishonesty is far worse than their lies about who really benefits when we cut taxes on the rich. As much as that lie hurts people, it doesn't completely destroy the country if they are successful in getting enough people to believe it. Conservatives are awful, but fascists are worse.
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  8575.  @jasonsaenz8959  So, you consider a tax that exempts what would be 113% of the poverty level for a HH of four and would get rid of a lot of out of pocket expenses "taxing the working class," but not a consumption tax that starts on dollar one? Nice try. It usually at least takes a while to expose Yang Gang bangers as righties, but that didn't take long.
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  8576. Disagree in which way?
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  8577.  @kino_punkt44  If this doesn't speak for the Republican Party, why don't any of them stand up to it?
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  8578.  @beatlessteve1010  "Remember, it's not a lie if you believe it." George Costanza
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  8579. Same reason Giuliani had the lead through most of fall 2007 on the Republican side in national polls.
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  8580. There are more atheists in foxholes than there are libertarians facing a crisis.
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  8581.  @benevolentautore4463  I support Bernie with a passion, but I will say when I disagree with him. The only cults in the race are Tulsi and Yang.
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  8582. I had to look for the commentary, because I couldn't take any more smug bloviating from Son of Ron.
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  8583.  @tinoyb9294  It "worked" for the far right because all they want is destruction. These Force the Vote grifters were the same people saying that Democrats should have taken the deal that Der Orangefuhrer gave on the stimulus package despite how it screwed over worker safety (so much for "populism"). If the squad blocked the vote, a) they would have also delayed $1400 to every American, b) the bill would have failed anyway, and c) how did Hillarycare do the second time around?
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  8584.  @Chazreal  Before this session, Manchin's tendency was to whine about something being too much, and then going along with some watered-down bill. That's why, quite frankly, a lot of people were shocked that he torpedoed BBB. Quite frankly, at that point I figured that he must have decided to retire. Before last year, he was very good at finding that place where he could go just far enough left to avoid a revolt and voters who stayed home, but not an inch farther.
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  8585. SSI already is means tested. Are you referring to RSDI?
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  8586. Well, the brain doesn't regrow, so that's permanent.
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  8587.  @Saktoth  And Biden got elected before his 30th birthday to the Senate. As long as her birthday is on or before 1/20/90 (and it is), she is eligible.
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  8588.  @IcarusLime  So, it needs to be a former state senator? When's the last time that jump worked?
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  8589. Every one is true.
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  8590.  bob douglas  Now, we fight to hold Biden to the promises he made us.
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  8591.  @HalfDemonInuyasha  That would be nice, but I don't think he's going anywhere. If he does, and Moscow Donald is out before a replacement for Pence can be seated, Pelosi will become POTUS, and there is no way 20 GOP Senators will sign off on that.
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  8592. ​ @giolacca  Don't tell that to the stoners. They seem convinced that it cures any illness and that it is impossible to ever take too much.
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  8593.  @benstromback5809  You're "intellectually curious," but I have only seen you take right-wing positions. Why do so many of you play that game? I am on the left, and I am honest about it. Wouldn't you feel better if you didn't have to live this lie?
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  8594.  @priscillaroberts7945  Indeed. My uncle got polio and couldn't walk until he was five. I got chickenpox when I was nine, and I wouldn't wish that on anyone. As soon as my daughter was eligible, she got her vaccine so she might not have to go through what my generation did.
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  8595.  @theinvisiblewoman5709  Term limits do nothing to solve this issue.
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  8596.  @stephanieparker7543  We have been. What's your point?
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  8597. "I don't know. And don't edit this out of context so it looks like I said... "I killed Earl Milford!" "A stunning confession."
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  8598.  @jessestreet2549  I'm not saying you didn't. Just that they aren't showing up. It happens quite a bit. But mountains take millions of years to fall. We don't have that long.
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  8599.  @jessestreet2549  Never assume a conspiracy when incompetence perfectly explains something.
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  8600. Too many want to salve their conscience for their inactivity or stupidity that helped put Bush and Trump in office.
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  8601.  @DarkZide8  Oh, that was dumb, but Rubin's stupidity is the kind where he seems to have literally never heard or imagined possible most of the things he's being told.
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  8602.  @cqtaylor  And that's why, to me, the only two logical conclusions are that she is either stupid or insincere. I don't think she is stupid. She knows exactly what she is doing. She still harbors a grudge for getting fired by MSNBC, and that fuels everything she does.
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  8603.  @robertsmith5744  Let us not forget no John Roberts and Samuel Alito gutting voting rights and campaign finance laws.
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  8604. I despise the anti-vaccine crowd. My uncle got polio because he was born in 1947 and couldn't walk until he was five. I got measles when I was 12 because there was a booster that I missed because (irony alert) I was home from school sick when they were giving it out. I wouldn't wish it o anyone, and the doctor said that it would have been much worse had I not gotten the original dose when I was younger, so I would hate to imagine the suffering these kids have because of their idiot parents listening to idiots like Jenny McCarthy.
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  8605.  @AdultThirdCultureKid1971  I've got you beat. My idiot brother and his idiot girlfriend both insisted that the vaccine "didn't do any good" and they wouldn't let my niece get it, even though she really wanted it. He got coronavirus three times and gave it to them at least twice, and two of his were very severe. I still haven't gotten the coronavirus and neither his my daughter, and we are both fully vaccinated. Yet, he keeps insisting that "it doesn't work." Oh, and my parents are vaccinated and they didn't get it, either.
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  8606. Buttigieg had more delegates, so he had more leverage. She was probably given the stick.
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  8607.  @discipleofsakura  Good point
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  8608. Maybe if Dear Leader didn't say he was going to fire the FBI director and replace him with someone who said he'd throw Hunter Biden in jail for the rest of his life, there would be no pardon.
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  8609. ​ @LisaForTruth  Darn right! We can abhor him and say that it's not good to shoot politicians.
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  8610. Hopefully, some of them move from performative complaining to actually doing something against Dear Leader.
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  8611.  @candacewoodburn5400  You forgot the word "rich." There are a lot of poor, straight, white men who don't get everything on a silver platter. Everything else is on point.
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  8612.  @johnnemesh5459  So true. Even his signature proposal is the right-wing version.
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  8613.  @Jkon1993  I didn't say that he supports it. I said that he accepts the world of Citizens United. Is his proposal to do something to overturn Citizens United? No, his proposal is to try to "overwhelm the dollars from Citizens United," as if corporations won't just keep going in the arms race. There is a big difference between not liking something and trying to do something to get rid of it.
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  8614. I don't think Bernie said a woman couldn't win at all. Given Warren's propensity for lying and exaggeration, here is what I think really happened. Warren: Do you think a woman can beat Trump? Bernie: I do. I do think that Trump will try to use gender against a woman. He'll use my age and Jewish heritage against me. He will use whatever he thinks will work. 13 months later: Warren: Bernie said that a woman can't win. If she is the nominee, I will vote for her, because I live in a swing state (Pennsylvania), but she will get none of my weekends, and I will not defend her when people bring her up. A Presidential campaign doesn't build character, it reveals it, and Warren just showed that she let the One True Ring taint her. She will never get my active support for anything ever. I don't want her as VP unless it is literally the only way to get the nomination (say, Bernie were to get 1800 delegates and she has 600, and she only releases them to Bernie in exchange for the number two spot), I don't want her in a Bernie Cabinet, and I don't want her to be Senate Majority Leader. She has proven herself once and for all to be a complete fraud.
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  8615. Yeah, how is four or five Supreme Court Justices trying to roll back the country to before the New Deal working for you?
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  8616. ​ @stormwatcher59  Mastriano was legitimately frightening. I was confident that Shapiro could beat him, but I was worried that he wouldn't concede, and seeing just how extreme his base was, I worried there would be a fight. He list by double digits, but the more baffling thing is that it took him five days to realize it.
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  8617. His "only good idea" was really bad once you read past the elevator pitch.
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  8618. The only leftward switch that I can think of (I am 40, so like the guest, the first SCOTUS appointee in my lifetime was O'Connor) is Breyer for White. Souter for Sotomayor seems to me to be a like-for-like switch.
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  8619.  @cul8terworld  No, it should not. The history of this country has gone toward opening up democracy, and you want to go backwards. Not on my watch.
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  8620.  @titaniumismagical8643  Republic is a different type of categorization. All it means is that there isn't a monarch. It can be representative/democratic (United States, Ireland, Germany, France, etc.), or it can be authoritarian (China, Cuba, the old Soviet Union). I don't consider North Korea or Syria to be true republics because rule is clearly hereditary (the latter changed its constitution after the death of Assad's father to move the minimum age to serve as president from 40 to 34, his age at the time). They are two different categories completely. It would be like saying, "It's not a ball! It's round."
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  8621.  @titaniumismagical8643  The United Kingdom has all that, and it's not a republic. My point was that they are different categories. You can be an authoritarian republic (China) or a democracy with a monarch (UK, Spain, Norway, Sweden, etc.), because they ask different questions. Republic asks if there is a monarch, and democracy asks if the people get a say, either directly (Athens) or through representation (pretty much every modern democracy with more than a few thousand people). I agree that the problem is that we have minority rule. We should also abolish the Electoral College while we're at it. Another example of the "republic, not a democracy" to show how ridiculous it is would be, "It's not paint, it's white."
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  8622.  @mynameisreallycool1  The actor was Generation X, but he is a temp going to business school when the show starts, so the character was probably born around 1982-83.
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  8623.  @DNomadRichG  So, we should just blindly accept crony capitalism? There is literally no other economic model that we can adopt?
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  8624.  @DNomadRichG  And, yes, making government smaller will prevent the rich from taking everything eye roll What's next, are you going to say that voluntary regulations work?
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  8625. Pretty much. The Constitution requires a 2/3 vote in each House and ratification from 3/4 of states, except for one thing: the US Senate. Abolishing the Senate takes approval of every state, and there is no way any small state would go along with it. The only other way would be a Constitutional Convention, where everything is up for grabs. This is a nice theoretical argument, but does anyone really trust Republicans to allow freedom of religion, the press, equal protection, etc.? I don't.
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  8626. Hello!
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  8627. I wonder how many fastballs he has taken to the head over the years.
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  8628. Hillary has Parkinson's. There you go. Found one. End of discussion.
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  8629.  @chrisweber759  I'm on my phone right now. I'll look it up tonight after I put my kid to bed and give you the link.
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  8630.  @chrisweber759  Check my comment from 36 minutes ago. I have posted the link three times. Either you're deleting it, or YouTube is deleting it. I clicked the link after I hit Send, and it worked. I have no idea why you're not seeing it... unless you're deleting it. I see it when I'm logged in, so I know I sent it.
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  8631.  @Zach-ju5vi  You don't even get that someone is pointing out that you just undermined your whole argument as to how bad union jobs are. I make several times minimum wage, and if I work until I'm 65, I get a pension of 60% of my salary at retirement. I also get paid vacation time so I can have family time with my daughter. But, you're "free" all right.
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  8632.  @Zach-ju5vi  If that helps you sleep at night. Imagining yourself a master of the universe and such a benevolent master that you willingly accept poverty wages. The saddest lies are the ones we tell ourselves.
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  8633.  jakiyaful  What's your point? I am arguing that no one should "put a race on a pedestal." I don't need to empower myself by saying that I'm better than people who aren't white.
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  8634.  @pariah_carey  Have you not heard how the KKK and Nation of Islam actually worked together because they saw themselves as having both a common enemy (Jewish people) and a common goal (sending black people to Africa)?
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  8635. ​ @RobZelinka  We can blame the Colts for this. Ever since they moved from Baltimore to Indianapolis, every team knows they can threaten the taxpayers "foot the bill or leave." If you look at Europe, the stadiums are all financed by the club, and they last much longer, cost a lot less, and they are a lot more loyal to the fans.
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  8636.  @RobZelinka  Definitely. Then again, I get the feeling that a lot of these owners only really care about the money rather than the fans or the winning. I remember at one point when both the Pirates and Royals had a lower payroll than their luxury tax receipts. There is zero excuse for that.
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  8637.  @RobZelinka  Indeed. It's all a blackmail scheme. I think that the reason why the A's decided to become the first North American franchise to be in four cities is because it seems like the Giants get all the love in the Bay Area, in part because that's where the money is.
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  8638. Biden went with the Green New Deal, so what are you talking about?
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  8639.  @LD86  No, natural selection won't. There is no barrier between the stupid and the rest of us.
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  8640.  @gwillis01  Them, yes, but the problem is that they are infecting the young and those who can't take it.
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  8641. You don't mess with Dark Brandon!
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  8642.  @Fatimaiqbal2006  Indeed. The whole reason why LA got awarded the 2028 Olympics early is because they and Paris were the only two cities left in the bidding for 2024, so LA agreed to drop their 2024 bid if the IOC would grant them 2028.
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  8643. He's been going sniffing at that rabbit hole for a while. It was just a matter of time before he fell in.
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  8644. Bernie understands that the election is only the beginning. That is why he can break the hold of the Reagan coalition in the way that Obama couldn't. That, and he doesn't accept their fundamental premises.
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  8645.  @Willow4526  It wouldn't surprise me if they go all the way to not allowing those who aren't property owners to vote. After all, the Constitution doesn't explicitly guarantee the non landed the right to vote.
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  8646.  @TheRavensOmen  Oh, yes, because saying McNair instead of McNear completely undermines the point of a preppy with four last names. And, no, you clearly didn't get the joke, given your previous comments.
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  8647.  @TheRavensOmen  Yeah, because why would it be wrong to think that there is something wrong with being a Putin apologist and a whitewasher of insurrection?
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  8648. @DrumWild And George W. Bush.
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  8649. This is why you don't finance with junk bonds. Everyone knew that he was a joke (I think it was the loan for the Plaza where Fred forgot to sign something, and the bank rep literally ordered the limo driver to stop and get his signature because he knew that Dumb Donald couldn't get things done), so they made sure they got theirs before he got his.
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  8650. I don't know if they actually believe it so much as they are ultimate "ends justify the means" people. After all, George Costanza reminded us "it's not a lie if you believe it," but they can't keep their lies straight for more than an hour.
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  8651. A thought that I have had recently: I keep hearing from these Blue Lives Matter people that cops are under fire almost like being in a combat zone every day. If this is really the case, just maybe we should hire more police in certain high crime areas so police officers can be rotated to low stress jobs like desk jobs. In the army, no one is constantly in a combat zone, because that causes serious problems. If they are right about this situation, this idea will reduce stress and police malpractice, and it will mean more dues paying members of the union, so everyone wins.
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  8652. I'm with you, but sadly the right gets strategy better than we do and vote third party in much smaller numbers. I remember reading in 2000 that Gore was initially unconcerned with Nader because he thought Nader and Buchanan would cancel each other out.
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  8653. What has Nancy Pelosi gotten done after she got the gavel back, Paul? Everything that you mentioned was her first tenure as Speaker. Those of us who are more honest will admit that she accomplished things the first time around, but she hasn't accomplished much of anything when she won the gavel back.
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  8654. If we have no political parties, only people who can afford to cut a billion dollar check will be able to run for office. Is that what you want?
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  8655. The only reason why she ran as a Democrat is because of how blue Hawaii is (no pun intended). She first made a name for herself nationally by going on Fox and Bill Maher complaining that Obama didn't say enough mean things about Muslims. She regularly got primary opposition to her left. The only reason for her "conversion" and supporting Bernie was to try to fend off that opposition by supporting a popular candidate in her district (he won by over 40 points).
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  8656.  @DavidHeffron78  And how is that going to convince 50 Senators to vote a certain way? The President does not have absolute power.
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  8657. Sometimes, it takes someone who has been on the dark side turning things around in order to defeat evil.
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  8658.  @JamesBond-st4qu  What work have you specifically done for M4A?
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  8659.  @sihotech  What specific criticism do either Tulsi Gabbard or Tim Pool make from the left, keeping in mind that isolationism and peace are not the same thing (See: Buchanqn, Pat; Lindbergh, Charles; Paul, Rand; Paul, Ron)?
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  8660. He won't call out people who he is sucking up to for clout. His refusal to vote should have shown who he really is.
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  8661.  @depressedgaysassyitalianre5748  But how did they get wealthy? I'm not talking about people who worked hard, built something, and didn't step on their employees to get a few million dollars, but the people who have so much money that they can live off it for a thousand lifetimes and then have enough that their children can do the same. Read "Winners Take All," and it will show you the truth about their "generosity."
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  8662. Sometimes, I wonder if those of us on the left have a problem of beggars can't be choosers as far as why so many people pull the same grift.
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  8663.  Spok  The way I figure it, you sound like these people who go on and on about how much they love the Bible, but can't name any actual parts of it.
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  8664.  @johnnino2755  Greg talked about going through a divorce close to his death. I don't think that they reconciled, but it just wasn't finished.
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  8665.  @charlesandrews2360  My old boss went to Penn. He admitted that he never read an entire book in his four years there. It seems like it is much, much more difficult to get into Ivy League schools than it is to pass classes in them.
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  8666.  @stevendrumm4957  Please cite the criticism of Trump.
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  8667. ​ @icemanvamp7433  Well, then, why not just say what you actually mean instead of saying, "duh, you took me literally" when someone points out that you are wrong?
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  8668.  @missgemini6973  The point of a dog whistle is that the general population doesn't get it, but it's loud and clear to those in the know. Listen to the Lee Atwater interview where he explains why you can't use the N word anymore so you get more abstract.
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  8669.  @BrySmi  Really? All I could find was stuff about prostate cancer.
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  8670.  @occamsaturn  If Bernie voted against it, his amendment for expanding unemployment would have been taken out of the bill.
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  8671. Polls this time are far more steady than they were the last time.
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  8672. @Fonky Munk The red mirage is my fear as well.
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  8673. ​ @rsr789  Indeed. One of the best lines in Frost/Nixon was "60% of the time, he was right, and the 30% of the time when he was wrong, he thought he was right." Of course, that did lead to the retort of "what about the 10% of the time when he was wrong and knew he was wrong?" Der Orangefuhrer does not have anywhere near that favorable a ratio.
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  8674.  @lakshmicostello900  Fox did something like that where they were supposed to build a society from scratch. It didn't end well. It was called Utopia.
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  8675. On economics, I consider myself a Populist in the original sense, but stuff like this will start pushing people a lot farther to the left, and the greedy class really won't like that.
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  8676.  @ButcherPeete  There are always going to be janitors. If you don't see that and don't want to pay them enough, you are part of the problem.
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  8677.  @ButcherPeete  At least $15/hour. That's what I think is true for everyone. Some will obviously get more. Yes, doctors have to specialize and should make more because it is a specific skill, but they wouldn't be able to perform their job if the hospitals aren't clean and sanitary.
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  8678.  @CSGraves  Oh, my! I hadn't seen it since I was 11. That is definitely surprising.
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  8679.  @CSGraves  I'll bet someone wasn't happy after seeing that slip through ;-)
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  8680. @Blaire Sovereign Ever since Nixon, really. In terms of setting up a working government, Ford's pardon was the worst thing to happen since the Civil War.
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  8681. I don't like the format (I would prefer something a little more structured and focusing on the main point), but when he is focused, he has a lot of good stuff.
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  8682.  @reneeschnarr6260  I had one aunt who had mostly girls, and when they'd come to visit, sometimes we'd play with their Barbies, and sometimes we'd play with our GI Joes. I never understood the idea that certain toys were off limits.
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  8683.  @getschwifty7413  Apparently, you completely missed the point. The point, as you read down the comment section, is that plenty of girls like toys that are marketed towards boys and vice versa. Just because they are marketed that way doesn't mean that there is anything inherently gendered in the toys themselves.
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  8684.  @brandonsblock  It's a construction-themed amusement park. One of the most popular rides has a digger set in place with sand, and you get to move the controls to see how it works.
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  8685. I would argue that Bobby also had quite a bit of character development in The Return. It seemed like a lot of the more prominent members of the Horne family also had some development, and I'm not talking about that goofy Civil War arc, which to me was the worst of the original run.
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  8686.  @majorlazor5058  Because it's a Ponzi scheme.
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  8687.  @EarlHayward  And what has happened to wages for the average person in the meantime? Adjusted for inflation, they have risen by 11% since 1980. Not per year, over the course of 40+ years. And you are also overlooking just how much rental has gone up in the meantime. After my wife left, I needed to move into a smaller place. The idea was to find a place for me and my daughter that was lower cost until I could pay off debt and then move to a place with a better school district when she got closer to kindergarten. I moved in late 2017 and paid $725/month. The property manager told me later that the renter before me was under rent control and laid $40/month since 1967. (I had to delay my move in while they finished repairs and some of the renovations.) According to the handy-dandy inflation calculator, $40 in 1967 is worth $354.70, so if the rent had just gone up consistent with inflation over that time, my rent would have been less than half what it was when I moved in. Jacking up rent way past inflation overall keeps people from saving up to be able to get into the market to buy.
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  8688.  @EarlHayward  What is the source, so we can all see the calculations that they used? And regulations didn't cause rent to get jacked up to the level that they have been. It's not like there was a huge surge in housing regulations at the same time regulations were decreased everywhere else in the ecomomy. No, what drives the increase in the economy is greed, because most of the new jobs in this country are in a few metropolitan areas. I have seen areas boom and see rent go up accordingly, and not because of property taxes, but because speculators are buying up most of the houses, which reduces supply, which forces more people into apartments, which increases demand. Riddle me this, Batman. If it's regulation rather than greed causing rent to go up, why do so many places increase their rent by the maximum allowable by law?
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  8689.  @EarlHayward  Property taxes are directly tied to the cost of property. Considering that Proposition 13 is a thing in California, meaning that they can't increase property taxes by more than 1.25% per year regardless of the purchase price (Warren Buffett said in 2003 that he paid less in property taxes for a house he bought in San Francisco than his house in Omaha, despite the former being valued so much higher), what do you think causes their rental increase? I would argue that the evidence bears out much more that the rent is based much more on supply and demand. Here in Pennsylvania, sometimes I randomly check rent and home purchase prices in a few different counties, and the Philadelphia metro area sees rent go up far more than the rest of the state. Re: rent control driving up costs, I've heard people say that, but the evidence suggests otherwise. In 2002, I went to Toronto for a spring break mission trip. We did some volunteer work in soup kitchens, a food reclamation center, and low-income schools. A few years before, the Tories had won control of the Ontario Parliament. One of the first things they did was abolish rent control. In the next five years, the average rent skyrocketed, and homelessness quintupled. The reason my rent in the Philadelphia apartment was so much higher than the previous tenant was because rent control was changed to say that, barring a major renovation, rent could be increased by up to 5%. Without fail, once a building fills up, they get that 5%. Here in Montgomery County, good luck finding a 2 BR apartment for less than $1000/month. I looked out of curiosity a few months ago in Lancaster County, and there were several 3 BR apartments under that rate.
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  8690.  @fryke  Cabinet post, yes; Secretary of State, no.
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  8691. In 1991, when David Duke made it to the gubernatorial runoff, many prominent Republicans, including then-President George H. W. Bush, endorsed his Democratic opponent. They knew that some things were more important than partisan gains, even given the questions about Edwin Edwards, to the point where a famous bumper sticker from the time said, "Vote for the Crook, It's Important." The sad thing? If it were only up to white voters in Louisiana, David Duke would have won.
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  8692.  @ortegazs  Would you accept that she is less bad than Biden?
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  8693.  @ortegazs  I don't think we disagree with strategy, I think we disagree with tactics. I'm only saying that the best time to criticize her isn't when her criticism of Biden is the main thing that people are hearing, because I worry that it muddies the message about Biden's horrible record. I have seen a lot of Biden supporters bring up her record to try to distract from his bad record. If she starts to rise, or she starts to turn her fire toward someone with a good record, I will be right there with you. But for now, I want to focus on Biden's awful record first and foremost.
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  8694.  @ImbriumDream  I would argue that he is dumb, but within normal means. A median implies that half are below it.
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  8695. @Badatallthis Stuff What is the group that spent millions of dollars to defeat suffrage? Funny that you don't have an answer. And here is why: because there was no vote for any of those the second time around. Every failure ended up killing health care for a generation with each generation proposing something weaker than the last. The ACA was the Republican alternative to Hillarycare that Bill threatened to veto because it didn't go far enough. And let's look at the recent voting history. Medicare for All was on a ballot initiative in Colorado and got 21% of the vote. In 2020, the candidate who refused to sign Medicare for All saw no drop in support. And you never answered my question. What have you personally done to build support for Medicare for All?
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  8696.  @Jasondirt  First of all, that's not the "lesser evils" argument. Second, and more importantly, when you abandon electoralism, as you are proposing, means that you are always doing a rearguard action and never actually controlling any power yourself.
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  8697. @Badatallthis Stuff Section 1881A is irrelevant because Biden won't do it. What I propose is actual grassroots organizing. Since you keep ducking the question, what have you done to actually build support for Medicare for All? Comments on YouTube or other social media don't count.
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  8698. @Badatallthis Stuff Well, your username is an accurate one. The Democratic Party is not an ideological monolith and never has been. If you seriously care about "holding people accountable," then you don't go after the people closest to the position that you claim to support. There are 117 cosponsors. This is to make yourself feel good. It's not to give anyone health care.
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  8699. @Badatallthis Stuff You mean not voting for them like giving Republicans five members of the Supreme Court when majorities of the people rejected them and now you have to worry about whether or not they'd strike down Medicare for All (if not Medicare as we now know it) even if it did pass or you got your magic wand solution? The right has control disproportionate to their numbers because they always vote.
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  8700. @Badatallthis Stuff And you didn't answer my questions about why the three things that I mentioned happen if there is majority support.
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  8701.  @dalekrenegade2596  Not sure about right now. The pandemic has really limited the ability to knock on doors. I do know that there may be something on the horizon for some DSA members in primaries, so keep an eye out for that.
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  8702.  @Jasondirt  If you don't see the difference between literal fascists who are trying to take away the vote, then you don't actually care about democracy. So, let's follow your logic. Let's assume that there is a third party candidate that doesn't just split the vote of one side and draws more or less evenly or actually draws enough new voters to not make it easier for the candidate opposite of what you claim to want to actually win. If you look at the Twelfth Amendment, you will see that the best that candidate could realistically do is block a majority in the Electoral College, so a plurality just means that the election goes to the House... where it will be decided by Democrats and Republicans. So, your strategy for everything that you have argued shows that you don't understand the rules or you really want accelerationism, which has worked so well over the last 20 years. Why do you think the Republican Party has worked so hard to help Green Party candidates ever since Nader?
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  8703. @Badatallthis Stuff You're not arguing for Medicare for All. You are arguing against doing the actual work and wanting a deus ex machina solution that you think won't be overturned by the Supreme Court in a way that won't throw out the entire Medicare law. 6-3 is different than 5-4, because you have to convince two not to jump off a cliff.
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  8704. @Badatallthis Stuff You are living in a fantasy land where a body where a supermajority of nearly 3/4 in the House and 7/8 in the Senate have said that they don't support Medicare for All will suddenly pass it. You further live in a fantasy land where voting in a way that has no impact at best and makes it easier for the party unanimously opposed to Medicare for All will win more seats at worst, and that will somehow change this math. You even further still live in a fantasy land where once this happens, private insurance companies won't sue and go to a Supreme Court that is 6-3 to the right and won't not only reject Medicare for All, but then see the Supreme Court overthrow the entire Medicare law. I prefer to put pressure and support targeted challenges in both primary and general elections rather than give up, as you clearly have, even if you are lying to yourself and thinking that you are edgy and the true believer among us all.
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  8705. @Badatallthis Stuff I didn't say it is impossible. I said that your deus ex machina proposal is impossible. You haven't countered that at all.
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  8706. @Badatallthis Stuff Your argument revolves around ignoring electoralism and just wishing. As soon as you do that, you have abandoned reality. You may have canvassed and went to protests, but you seem to have never learned how things actually pass. As Huxley pointed out, the struggle for suffrage took over 50 years, and the first vire wasn't held until there was majority support. You think you have found a shortcut, but none exists, so you have taken yourself off the field of effort to actually attain Medicare for All. Again, you really are bad at all this stuff.
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  8707.  @Darke_Exelbirth  In 2020, what happened when Biden said he wouldn't sign the bill during the primaries? Did it sink his candidacy? What makes you think that a vote a year and a half out that is doomed to fail is going to lead to over 100 primary defeats? Also, can you explain how Forcing the Vote would "put the focus back on Medicare for All" when the people most likely to face primary challenges due to their opposition to Medicare for All can just vote Yes knowing that it will fail, thus cutting the legs out from their primary opponent only so those members can then vote No when the votes are actually needed.
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  8708.  @Darke_Exelbirth  No, the federal government didn't. The patriarchy is far different than a specific group that benefits economically from the way things are and willing to do everything possible to ensure that they still exist. And, as Huxley pointed out, the suffrage movement waited until it actually had grassroots support. The one who is bad at all this and people like Jimmy Dore are selling you snake oil to pretend that this is easy, only to see people fall away when they realize that they were wrong.
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  8709. @Badatallthis Stuff 1881A is a law because it hasn't been challenged. Proving that you really do live up to your name, it hasn't been challenged because no one has had standing to do so.
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  8710. @Badatallthis Stuff And you have given up on the work because you think that it is done. You think that there is going to be a vote that is going to go in your favor because MAGIC when supermajorities are opposed. Well, I don't know if you're familiar with the phrase "wish in one hand," but this proposal is its living embodiment.
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  8711.  @Darke_Exelbirth  Unlike you, I've actually done the work and the actions me and others like me actually got a member to sign on to the bill (Brendan Boyle). Your way is to defeat the one party that has members that actually support the bill, and pretending that people who don't agree with your dumb strategy don't support the bill.
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  8712.  @Darke_Exelbirth  You're not fighting for Medicare for All. You're fighting for a dumb tactic that is guaranteed to fail to make yourself feel better that you have done something.
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  8713. @Badatallthis Stuff I never fought against Medicare for All, dummy. I just pointed out math. Apparently, Dore knobs don't know that 117 < 218 and 13 < 50, and have given up on trying to increase those numbers.
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  8714.  @Darke_Exelbirth  Biden saying he wouldn't sign it got plenty of attention, and he repeatedly said so in the debates. If you didn't hear it, it's because you weren't paying attention. There is a lot of evidence that Medicare for All support is more shallow than it seems. In a ballot initiative in Colorado, only 21% supported it. A majority think that it allows people to keep private competing insurance. (Saboteurs like Tulsi Gabbard who insisted that she supported Medicare for All while insisting that the non-compete clause was un-American certainly didn't help.) Bigger majorities think that who support Medicare for All. I have actually done the work and dealt with dozens who insisted that something shouldn't "take away people's insurance." Unlike Force the Vote advocates, Organize strategists know what obstacles we face. When you pretend that they don't exist, you scare people away from the actual work.
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  8715.  @Jasondirt  So funny that you think that Parliamentary systems and Presidential systems are the same thing. And also amusing that you have somehow managed to miss the practical effects of decades of your strategy. Every case the Roberts Court uses to gut voting rights is on you and everyone like you. You use your heart in the primary, and your head in the general election.
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  8716. @Badatallthis Stuff Demanding a vote that you know will fail is an abdication of the work.
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  8717. @Badatallthis Stuff And you haven't answered who or how this will happen, or whether or not the Supreme Court will allow it. If a 5-4 SCOTUS can find an excuse to gut the Voting Rights Act, do you honestly think that a 6-3 SCOTUS won't? I don't want a vote to make me feel good. I want 218 & 50, and I have done work towards that. Since my efforts in 2019-20, I have moved, and my new representative does not, so I am going to get to work to push her to sign on.
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  8718. @Badatallthis Stuff Because you are the only force the vote advocate who has fought in the past, and now you have given up and resorted to deus ex machina tactics.
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  8719.  @TheHuxleyAgnostic  Don't forget that his wife donated to a Republican in Arizona running against a Democratic incumbent who sponsors Medicare for All.
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  8720. @Badatallthis Stuff We have not had 67 Senators in over 50 years. Why do you keep lying and putting that number up? And, yes, it is a lie, because there is a big difference between 2/3 and 3/5 in terms of what Congress can do.
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  8721.  @Darke_Exelbirth  You are literally defending the biggest anti-anti-Trump grifter of them all. You are so turned around, you don't even know which way you're facing. And Republicans repeatedly said that Biden supported Medicare for All, and he said that he didn't, including on the biggest stage of all. If you didn't see it, it's because you weren't paying attention.
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  8722.  @Darke_Exelbirth  Oh, we're fascists? Yet more proof that you don't know anything. Waaaaa! People pointed out math. Waaaa! People pointed out actual reasons why ego gratification doesn't work.
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  8723. @Badatallthis Stuff And, no, the vast majority of people following this dead end strategy haven't done the work. I know this because I ask pretty much everyone I see what they have done outside of YouTube comments. There was supposed to be a big nationwide rally ok the day of the Speaker vote to change things, and it got 50 people. Philly DSA got 75-100 every month for eight months with nearly 300 unique individuals to actually do grassroots organizing for Medicare for All. I won over a Trump supporter and a Yang supporter in January. I am on the mailing list of two or three of the sponsors of the M4M4A rallies, and I only heard about the morning of when someone on YouTube used it as an excuse to trash Nina Turner. While a Democrat belongs to no organized party and a Baptist belongs to no organized religion, this wasn't even an attempt at organizing.
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  8724.  @MahkyVmedia1  There's at least one who didn't even graduate high school.
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  8725. If your dad was taking you to John Birch Society meetings, he was either fooled or family loyalty is blinding you to how much he went along with it with open eyes.
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  8726. One. I remember actual Tulcels using that to whine about the fact that Biden picked Harris. Well, when Biden ran in 2008, he dropped out after getting 1% in Iowa, so it's not like it never happened before.
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  8727.  @brothermine2292  Yes. A debt that can never be repaid. Why don't we make you pay back the government for how many goods get shipped to you and building infrastructure. Sure, you'll never be able to pay it off, but it will be low, low payments! I did think about it, and your explanation is just as stupid as your initial proposal.
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  8728.  @brothermine2292  I don't care if it is a fraction of a percent. This is not the same thing as taxes. This is telling someone that if he/she ever takes government assistance that you deem unworthy, you want that person to be in debt for life because of it. Just keep digging that hole deeper.
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  8729. If i were a drinker, and I took a shot every time Phil started robotically repeating the same thing in response to a question, I'd pass out before the video was over.
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  8730.  @patriciabyrd825  You can't vote it into law. It will take a Constitutional amendment. The best hope is to restructure the court. I remember that Bernie had an idea of rotating who sits on the Supreme Court, I think among circuit judges.
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  8731. ​ @52flyingbicycles  So, you're now defending Trump's relationship with Putin by insisting that it is exaggerated? Telling.
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  8732.  @nickthompson1812  [citation needed]
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  8733. What this dummy doesn't seem to realize is that either Der Orangefuhrer lied to the banks to get more and better loans, or he lied to the government to pay less in taxes. He couldn't have told the truth to both, and therein lies the fraud.
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  8734.  @Vanderearden  So, you only care about action, but you don't do anything. Well, I guess at least you can admire Tulsi for being pretty. Well, if you knew how grassroots organizing worked, you would know that a pandemic is not the ideal time to knock on doors, and online organizing =/= organizing. Thank you for letting me know that, by your own standards, you aren't a serious person and just want to complain. That saves me some time.
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  8735. The lowest turnout in a presidential year in my lifetime was 1996, and I don't remember seeing people on the street after that. And his "I don't want to be responsible" shows just how immature he really is.
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  8736. Ultimately, there are going to be contradicting claims of freedom. These people will always side with the rich and powerful when they conflict, which is how you end up with people like Ron Paul slamming unions as "harming freedom" when they try to better the lives of their workers, but having no problems with business entering into agreements to maximize their profits.
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  8737. One thing that shocked me watching the debate was how many times people clapped for Kirk. Did they fill the crowd with his sycophants so he wouldn't look so bad?
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  8738.  @RizenLink  If you look at who took votes from whom among Stein and Johnson voters, I'm not sure if that was enough to make a difference (Nader 2000 definitely was, and Perot drew evenly from both parties). I was one who was highly critical of HRC, but she was the least bad option of the four on my ballot, and living in PA, I knew that I only had two to vote between, and one of those was absolutely abhorrent and should never show his face in public again. That said, too many were obsessed with this idea of Hillary winning the Electoral College and losing the popular vote, so they pumped a lot of money into Chicago and New Orleans. Do you know where else they could have put that money? Detroit! Madison! Milwaukee! Ann Arbor! Pittsburgh! Philadelphia! Who cares if you lose the popular vote and still get to be President? It didn't stop Bush and Trump.
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  8739. Defending war criminals is an insult to those of us who actually served. This is what happens when you have a wannabe tough guy in the White House.
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  8740. I have seen some people talk about their stories both deciding for or against abortion when something went wrong with a pregnancy. The best I can think of is this: nobody is arguing for mandatory abortions. If your mother decided to carry to term, that is her right, and we need to make sure that she has the necessary resources and care both during and after her pregnancy. However, if we ban abortion, the government is taking that choice from her, which destroys all meaning in her act of love.
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  8741.  @Odinsday  Really? I hadn't noticed that.
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  8742.  @MarkStafford9  Well, that's the paradox. Anyone who wants to be a dictator usually isn't benevolent by definition.
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  8743. Merrick Garland: when bending over backwards to "not appear political" becomes the most political decision of all.
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  8744. That guy is a Republican, so he couldn't primary him. Ojeda needs to run against Justice, the man who called teachers "dumb bunnies" and once bribed an electric company to come to his house in the middle of nowhere to put his electricity on first during a blackout caused by a heat wave. Oh, and like his buddy Moscow Donald, he likes to stiff contractors.
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  8745.  @Perurikun  So true. Justice is a joke. I'd rather see Ojeda run for governor than US Senate.
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  8746. Agreed. I have done the math, and my insurance costs 32.01% of income [27.6% employer, 4.41% employee], but with Bernie's plan, that drops to 8.58% [7% employer, 1.58% employee], so my pay would immediately go up nearly 3%, and coupled with Bernie's workplace democracy plan, that 20.6% would either go to higher wages or more benefits. And I would no longer have to pay out of pocket. Would I rather pay the tax than the premium? You bet, I would!
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  8747. By two or three years. Sam was born in 1966, and Tucker Carlson said he was 35 when Jon Stewart came to Crossfire in 2004, which would mean that he was born in 1968 or 1969, depending on when his birthday falls in the year.
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  8748. It's not like George Lucas owns the phrase! You're just arguing semantics if you aren't fine with that!
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  8749.  @treedillinger5801  I totally forgot about that possibility. You're right, they probably would have said that it was brilliant performance art showing how full of it Hillary was.
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  8750.  @NJ-wb1cz  She uses anti-democracy arguments to defend the Electoral College, and when Tulsi Gabbard was asked about David Duke supporting her, she responded by defending Duke. A year or so later, PV showed her straight-up defending white supremacist talking points.
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  8751. I called Fetterman's office on my morning break. When I pushed the button for a legislative issue, it rang once and disconnected. Trying an end around, I called back after it happened twice and pushed the button to speak to a staff member. I was on hold for 15 minutes and had to get back to work. Not sure if the lines are swamped or they are proverbially taking the phone off the hook. 20 years ago, when the lines were flooded for the Iraq War vote and I lived in WV, at least I got a message saying that the mailbox was full.
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  8752.  @macgobhann8712  Oh, you'd be surprised. The reason why I think that it's a real, pathetic person is because bots usually slip up with their grammar, whereas Aaron seems to have the logic as his breaking point.
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  8753.  @amgoodridge  Unless you would have voted for Biden or Buttigieg otherwise. By all means, go ahead and vote for Bloomberg ;-) Of course, this is only if you end up being less than 15% of the vote.
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  8754. Angry Constitutionalist Caller: Answer my question. Michael: Well Angry Constitutionalist Callet: Answer the question! You won't answer it!
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  8755.  @brettlarch8050  Sadly, it is in politics. You have to tell people what you have done for them. Most aren't going to realize it otherwise.
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  8756.  @ngotemna8875  He's a real heart surgeon, but nobody knows him for his heart surgery. He's known for peddling quack cures on TV.
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  8757. ​ @justinrodriguez9137  Indeed. Carrey should have won for The Truman Show instead.
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  8758.  @nomercy4521  No, it's not. I hope that is just being unaware instead of being dishonest. Medicare for All means that everyone gets it, and there is no need for private insurance for things that Medicare covers. A public option means that people buy a Medicare plan, in addition to paying existing taxes, and it competes with existing insurance. Not remotely the same thing. Therefore, his statement of supporting Medicare for All is every bit as dishonest as saying that "everyone" gets an extra thousand bucks a month.
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  8759.  @nomercy4521  Then, that is not Medicare for All. Just like his signature proposal calling itself universal basic income even though everyone doesn't get it, Yang is incredibly dishonest.
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  8760.  @nomercy4521  Where do you see that there is no purchase requirement? Also, let me try to make it as simple as I possibly can. Medicare for All means everyone gets it. His proposal is like Buttigeg: Medicare for All Who Want It. I don't know how much clearer I can make it.
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  8761. "When I was thinking about joining the military, women couldn't serve in combat." As a veteran, what stopped you, Michael? I had flat feet and got a waiver to get in, so what's your excuse, a hawkish manly man like yourself?
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  8762. The best was Richard Pryor.
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  8763. That is so unfair! Eeyore was just sad, he wasn't evil.
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  8764.  @fattonyd232  And who is this mysterious producer who made the mistake and got fired?
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  8765.  @arditlika9388  It was at one point, but the right has abused the word. I always point out that populism of the left is real and the right is fake, because real populism doesn't want tax cuts for rich people. Ruy Texiera pointed out that left populism targets the rich, and right populism looks for an enemy to punch down on.
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  8766. "We used to be energy independent, and now we're importing oil." [In Joe Biden whisper] We've always imported oil. It's a global market. All "energy independent" means is that you produce as much or more than you import.
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  8767. Darn right! I always call it what it really is instead of their Orwellian term.
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  8768.  @alphaandomega1275  Agreed. She is just this side of Walter Sobchack in invoking her veteran status. I am a veteran, and I don't think it gives me automatic authority on everything or an instant justification for anything bad I do. I can't wait until her term is over and she can go to Fox so I can ignore her forever.
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  8769.  @laurenwalker1048  Indeed. My ex-wife's friend was one of these people complaining about freeloaders. He had parents who could afford to buy him a bunch of electronics to noodle around with to learn. Because he was deaf, he got free public school tuition for a year or two, and even when he transferred to Rice, his rich parents could afford to cover his tuition. Then, after he graduated, his dad made the down payment for a house in Austin. Some people are born on third and think they hit a triple. When my brother wanted to take apart electronic toys to see how they worked, the toys were destroyed with no chance of getting a new one.
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  8770. You know what is worse than taxing the middle class? A regressive tax!
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  8771. Isn't the American Dream that you get to leave your kids a better life than you had? I'm paying much more in rent so my daughter can go to a good school and maybe get a scholarship so she doesn't need to worry about student loans. The fact that I won't have my student loan nightmare end until I'm 46 only strengthens the desire that she doesn't have the same problem I did.
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  8772.  @RMor66  So, what's his excuse, then?
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  8773. And the irony is that, when you actually look at their records and policies, neither are lefties at all.
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  8774.  @DbD285  You're so cute for playing the lazy both siderism game to deflect your love for a fascist. Here's a hint: the last major income tax cuts were 2001 and 2017. The last income tax increases were 1993 and 2013. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out the answer to that question.
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  8775. 11:23 That is so unfair! He also downplayed a pandemic and led to the death of over a million Americans.
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  8776.  @poorpauly1308  Which party elected David Duke to office again? Which party preferred him for governor? And who did he endorse for President in 2016 and '20?
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  8777. When I hear people complaining about the poor, I reply "If you look at your situation and then think the person who makes a little less than you do is the problem instead of someone who gets more in a day than you do in a year, you're doing it wrong "
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  8778.  @tcorangemen  Or the orange man really is bad and the anti-anti-Trump crowd doesn't want to admit it.
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  8779.  @lbriley7426  He once argued that Social Security shouldn't exist. That doesn't sound like a flaming lefty to me.
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  8780.  @lbriley7426  By your logic, Jimmy Dore is a flaming lefty, too.
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  8781.  @lbriley7426  No, he only does everything possible to boost right wingers and right-wing talking points, but he's a solid lefty.
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  8782.  @JamesSerapio  Not quite. Walter has eyebrows.
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  8783.  @justinfrazier3610  He's been running for two years. How much more of a chance does he need? If Art Garfunkel can put a list of every book he has read since 1968 on his website, Andrew Yang can provide a full list of the programs that people have to forfeit if they take his money. It is only 125. Mike Figueredo of The Humanist Report pointed out his contradiction on Medicare for All, and it took him several minutes to admit it. He has been on several long-form interviews, he has done town halls and speeches, so he has had plenty of time to "explain."
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  8784.  @justinfrazier3610  $1000/month is below the poverty level now. His idea for "solving housing" is to move in with a bunch of friends and hope that friendship can last the length of a mortgage. Why not legalize flophouses while you're at it?
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  8785.  @tessalister1226  [citation needed]
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  8786.  C Cato  Fun fact: the two major parties switched on questions of civil rights in the 1960s, with Strom Thurmond being the first major southern figure to switch to the GOP over outrage that Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act and glee that Republicans nominated Barry Goldwater, who voted against it. The third-party candidacy of Wallace turned out to be the gateway drug of sorts for southern voters, and Reagan (who also opposed the Civil Rights Act) made his first stop as the GOP nominee at the site of the Freedom Summer Murders and proclaimed his support for states rights, while later calling Confederate war dead "patriots," which is something I've never heard an Democratic President say in my 39 years.
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  8787.  @drewjohnson9498  The person I'm responding to is. On another thread, he insisted that the 1917 Revolution was "the greatest event in human history." Tankies also tend to be just fine with authoritarianism and with imperialism as long as the imperialism isn't being perpetuated by the United States.
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  8788.  @drewjohnson9498  If someone laments the passing of the gold old days of the Soviet Union, that person is definitely a tankie. You sound like a defensive right winger trying to dismiss the word fascist.
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  8789.  Alabama Man Special Edition  Notice how Orange Man gave Putin everything he wanted?
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  8790.  @robm6645  No, the right move was not to make a reflexive anti-American stance. Russia has been the one that has been doing the sabre rattling. Your logic is the same logic that Chamberlain used. Sometimes, the threat is real. Ignoring it because you enjoy your bubble is not the right decision.
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  8791.  @Mixima101  It pained me to realize that there was a vocal contingent of people who lazily and reflexively hate America, and that this empowers the right. I don't think that the Majority Report is guilty of it, but Secular Talk certainly is, for example.
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  8792.  @robm6645  Again, not a knee-jerk hawk. Apparently, you don't seem to understand what "there is a whole spectrum between appeasement and total war" means. Even if there are limits to the response that you can make to try to prevent things like this doesn't mean that you sit back and ignore it because America Bad, which is what you openly advocated... even after it became obvious that this time was for real. Even if it's impossible to stop, you still make it painful for people to do such things. By your logic, why have gun laws or even laws against murder?
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  8793.  @robm6645  Except you weren't doing the right thing with the information available at the time. You were playing right into the hands of Russia by pretending that nothing was wrong.
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  8794.  @robm6645  Again, I didn't give "Carte blanche for war." What part of "there is a whole spectrum of actions between appeasement and total war" don't you understand? Help me to help you, Rob. Help me to help you.
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  8795.  @robm6645  And you are literally not informed. You admitted that you just take a blind position every time in your first reply on this thread.
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  8796.  @marcperez2598  It takes 15% to be viable. If there are too many candidates, it would be far harder for one to break through, anyway. At least three candidates that I can think of (Yang, Gabbard, Williamson) got to the donor threshold before they got to the polling threshold. Given how early most candidates got to 65K, how many of them (who didn't just get a lot of dollar donations to get on stage) do you think will have trouble getting there by the end of August?
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  8797. If you go to the desert, you find out that melts in your mouth and not in your hand is a cruel lie.
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  8798.  @wemadeitpodcast  Could be. I remember right after Russia did invade that someone was actually defending the skepticism that an invasion would take place (I'll admit that I was skeptical weeks and months out, but once they started amassing tanks on the border, that should have changed everything for people) that someone defended a reflexive "American intelligence is lying" position because "90% of the time, that steers you in the right direction." Even if that is true, what about the other 10%?
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  8799.  @zippydodahquirk9039  Except you don't. You think you do, but you don't.
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  8800.  @baph0met  Okay. First, which version of libertarianism do you subscribe to? My specific critiques vary depending on the answer I get to that question.
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  8801.  @baph0met  So, basically, property and business regulations are your big issues? Re: property, what makes one theory of property the accepted version of property? How are we supposed to determine who owns what? Re: business regulations, plenty of businesses find it in their best economic interest to cut corners and not do the right thing. How will less regulations make businesses go on their best behavior?
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  8802.  @jAZZCRU22  First, there is no such thing as the Democrat Party. There is the Democratic Party, but that is just something that McCarthy started using to needle Democrats. Second of all, Tulsi spent the vast majority of her campaign trashing Democrats and trying to become a right-wing media darling. See how surprised I am :-|
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  8803.  @emblemedfate4270  You are defending Project Veritas and you insist that I am the one "support extreme right wing racists"? At this point, you are looking more like a troll than someone legitimately trying to make a coherent argument.
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  8804.  @victorcoster1011  Darn right! Let us not forget that Breyer is also getting up there, too, so we must also fight to make sure it doesn't go 7-2.
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  8805.  @Chazreal  There you go, bragging about being stupid.
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  8806. Bosses everywhere of every stripe. A slightly more diverse crowd screwing us over isn't really progress.
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  8807.  @rxaxlxpxh  Any time
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  8808. Bernie isn't insanely rich and given his opposition to Putin, he wouldn't have been nearly as friendly to Stalin.
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  8809. I'm confused. Did they win the vote, or did they receive sufficient signatures to have a vote? If the latter, they must remain vigilant.
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  8810.  @xq8152  The weird thing is that this is not her natural voice. She's doing an Elizabeth Holmes where she drops her voice to try to sound more authoritative. Listen to clips of her from 2016 or earlier. The unusual inflections were always there, but she is a natural mezzo, not a contralto. That is why it sounds so off.
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  8811.  @Diseaseisreversible  If you honestly don't understand why it is bad for the President of the United States to use his power in an attempt to enrich himself (RNC types keep hosting events at his hotels, the Vice President stayed at a hotel that was two hours away from a meeting in Ireland for "convenience," he goes to his personal properties pretty much every weekend and makes Secret Service pay for their rooms when they are required to watch over him) or why it is wrong to hold up foreign aid in an effort to dig up dirt on a political opponent (which is extortion, and a crime) or why it's bad to fire people for personal pettiness when they do their job, with the only lesson he has learned from impeachment is to hide his crimes, I honestly don't know what you are waiting for.
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  8812.  @Diseaseisreversible  If you are here because you are "genuinely trying to learn" because you are "new to politics," how have you picked a side already? If you are genuinely ignorant and trying to learn, great, but when you say things that indicate that you are a Trump supporter playing dumb, you cannot get upset when someone points that out.
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  8813.  Robert Hunt  You mean after he shot first and then they tried to stop him from shooting again? Oh, the lengths that people will go to defend people who kill people they don't like.
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  8814.  @MichaelOnines  If you don't want the word "victim" to be used in the trial, you shouldn't allow words such as rioters, looters, and arsonists.
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  8815. I have said for years, after seeing the way they treated Bernie for endorsing the eventual winner of the primary as he always said he would, I realized that they were really Never Hillary types who just backed Bernie because he was the top challenger.
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  8816.  @JT-wc3hr  What does ethnic diversity or a lack thereof have to do with happiness or the ability to do big things?
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  8817.  @2727rogers  I did check. You finally got one thing factually correct [slow clap]. Still doesn't change your horrible analysis or how that has nothing to do with the original point at hand, though.
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  8818. As a white man from Appalachia, when I go to my visit my family, once I cross over Cumberland, there are a lot more double negatives in my speech.
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  8819.  @KS-cl8br  I wish it would be shorter, too, but my ceiling is four years. Anything more is going to make sabotage far too easy.
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  8820.  Ernestine  It depends on what you mean by secularism. I'm a Christian, and I'm not going to be offended if I go to the deli and they have Chanukah decorations up. I'm not going to get mad if I see decorations for Chinese New Year. I just don't want government taking sides. If a community wants to take a no preference route for decorations, I have no problem with that, but if someone wouldn't want a Diwali decoration in their town square and they insist on a nativity scene, that is clearly a preference.
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  8821. ​ @GabiGhita The difference between the Squad and the TP is that the former actually wants to do things for the American people while the TP just wanted to block things. Any idiot can block things.
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  8822.  @GabiGhita  Yes, but it was to block something. At the time, they knew that a delay would have delayed the coronavirus relief bill, which they were able to get in part by getting Pelosi to relax paygo rules. They used their leverage to pass something, and they did. For that matter, if not for that, the Inflation Reduction Act and the infrastructure bill would have required spending cuts or tax increases elsewhere. By not wasting their efforts on a doomed bill, they got those $1400 checks out earlier.
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  8823. ​ @mjvajda  You know, that flaw can be changed, right?
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  8824. Actually, Bill Clinton first ran in 1974, barely losing a Congressional election. He won a race for AG in 1976, and the gubernatorial race in 1978. It was definitely a time when the positions hadn't solidified in the parties on abortion.
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  8825. ​​ @btrts6431  Nobody pressured Ukraine to join. Stop spreading lies and misinformation.
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  8826.  @lawencelawson5089  I hope this is a joke. Article 5 says that an attack on a NATO member is an attack to all. Hence, why stopping Putin before he gets to a NATO member is so vital to stopping WWIII.
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  8827.  @lawencelawson5089  There have been states that have bordered Russia that have been NATO members for decades.
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  8828.  @john.premose  I just noticed that I used "your" instead of "you're," so it happens to the best of us.
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  8829.  @john.premose  I didn't even notice. Oh, my kingdom for when I can get a new computer so I can type on a keyboard instead of using my thumbs ;-)
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  8830. Mitt Romney put it best: an investigation is pointless, because nothing anyone says to them will ever prove that Trump lost because Der Orangefuhrer insists that it was rigged.
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  8831.  @JoyfulJasperJamesCalmClaire  His advice isn't really that much different than others when you look at getting rid of debt. I'd much rather listen to someone without the baggage. John Cummuta has the Transforming Debt to Wealth program that is as straightforward as you can get.
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  8832.  @sk-sm9sh  Where are you getting a McDonald's hamburger for under two dollars? Last time I went to a McDonald's, it was more than that. And those quality surveys also include cheaper chains such as Wendy's and Burger King. If Ray Kroc wanted to found something, he shouldn't have taken an already existing business. He should have started Kroc's, but he didn't, because McDonald's originally stood for quality, and had he not have had their goodwill to work with, he'd never have made it. And by saying that it should rely on the law, you are clearly fine with meat packers grinding up humans as long as it's not illegal.
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  8833.  @sk-sm9sh  Here, McDonald's is the worst, and if you like vegan options, the Impossible Whopper was the first to market. McDonald's sells a lot of food because it is everywhere, but most people over the age of 12 will admit that they don't really like it but get it because it is convenient.
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  8834.  @sk-sm9sh  The franchise model worked just fine for them. What Kroc later called "McDonald's #1" was actually the eighth McDonald's. The only reason why the actual original McDonald's closed was because they weren't allowed to use the McDonald's name, and Ray Kroc was such a greedy scumbag that he opened up a McDonald's right across the street and enough people didn't know which was which that it destroyed the business of what became The Big M. They didn't "fail at expansion," they just chose to do it slower, because they cared about quality.
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  8835.  @jeremysnead9233  How much he got when it was bought out has nothing to do with his intellectual contribution to the company, but Musk himself said he got $180MM, not $1B. But his larger strategy has always been to find a startup that's farther along than his, buy into it, and say that he founded the company. I don't care if they use his code or not, because PayPal's other credited founders were much farther along the road than he was when they came together.
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  8836.  @sk-sm9sh  You avoided this question before, so I will ask again: if nobody thought that the McDonald brothers were anything, why did Colonel Sanders come out all the way from Kentucky to learn how they operated? Why did Ray Kroc come all the way from Illinois? If they were nobodies, why did people travel far and wide to learn at their feet? And, again, you're just making stuff up. They had multiple successful stores. Anyone can expand if quality is of no concern.
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  8837.  @DisenchantedWithSociety  Oh, he would come clean if people asked or bothered to give him money, but calling his first restaurant McDonald's #1 (when it was the eighth such location) and naming himself the founder of a corporation that shared the name of the restaurant instead of calling the company something else shows that he wanted people to believe that it was him. You're right that Musk was far worse about it, though.
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  8838.  @trajan74  Be fair. Eye doctors have verified results that can be proven in studies. Then again, this knob made up his own board for certification because LIBERTY.
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  8839. How are they hypocritical?
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  8840. Did Bernie ever envision a scenario straight out of 24 to say that torture is acceptable? (And don't give me "it's rare," because that was the Bush justification. Either you oppose torture or you don't, end of sentence.)
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  8841.  @garysalmon4783  This is what a cult of personality looks like. Quite frankly, there are a lot more things Ana could have mentioned about Tulsi and foreign policy and she didn't do so.
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  8842.  @bru1016  Was the interview real or not? Did she explicitly apologize for envisioning a scenario where torture is acceptable? If not, she supports torture, because she thinks that she does have the discernment that others don't to make the ticking time bomb decision.
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  8843.  @bru1016  She apologized for the horrible things she said about gay people, and she apologized for the horrible things that she said about gay people while supporting gay rights. Why not do the same thing for torture if she really did change her mind?
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  8844. By saving her, you mean falsely telling people that she was mentally disabled for years and abusing her? Yes, the relationship between Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn is creepy, but it was not (and is not) a crime.
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  8845.  @falconquest2068  The idea is to put pressure on him now, and then elect Democrats in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin so Manchin is no longer the 50th vote for everything.
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  8846. @J K I think that he knows that his only (admittedly very remote) chance is to help bring Biden down. If he does that, I never thought I would say this, but his campaign will have done some good.
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  8847. 38:59 Sure, you wouldn't sell a car with serious problems with the engine or transmission eye roll
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  8848.  @silenceyouidiot  His signature proposal is right wing. He is a libertarian.
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  8849.  @Db8nIsStupid  The VAT was the "regressive tax" I mentioned above in the first comment. You clearly understood the regressive benefit criticism. As far as UBI goes, I am not opposed to the idea if it is done the right way in terms of distribution (i.e., not an excuse to gut the existing social safety net) and is not being used an excuse to ignore the systemic issues that we need to address. UBI by itself is only a Band-Aid, and things like Medicare for All, paid college tuition, and affordable housing are more important.
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  8850.  @d.e.b.b5788  Garry Wills wrote about it in his book A Necessary Evil, talking about the history of government skepticism at the founding of America. Using wills (which were so detailed that they literally included things like broken cups), only 14% included bequeathing a firearm.
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  8851.  @NotSure-e8z  The question was Republicans, not conservatives. Maybe the last conservative to have integrity that I can think of was Goldwater. His policies were dangerous and I'm glad he lost, but he was principled and delivered the message to Nixon that his time was up.
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  8852.  @NotSure-e8z  True. I was born four years later, so there is none in my living memory (hence my original reply), but it's said we have to go back that far with one of the two major political parties.
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  8853.  @FuddlyDud  He is inflating another bubble that will be worse than 2008, because his insistence on low interest rates (and Powell caving) means that one major tool to fight a recession will be gone. Most of the increases in stocks came from buybacks, not investors seeing value in companies. The economy has grown since 2009, and that can't last forever.
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  8854. Does anyone else find it ironic that his real name sounds more made up than his alias?
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  8855. Well, hopefully a solid primary candidate jumps in early enough in 2023 for her to realize that her time is up and get her to fly right until she can get voted out.
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  8856.  @frankthespank  I don't know how you could make what they actually did any more over the top than what really happened.
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  8857. @Dusty Bottoms What does the presence of addicts have to do with a poll tax, I mean voter ID law?
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  8858. @Dusty Bottoms Voter ID laws are often poll taxes by another name. Given the Roberts Court's disregard for voting rights, nice try.
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  8859. @Dusty Bottoms Someone has clearly run out of material.
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  8860. @Dusty Bottoms And yet you support Trump. Interesting.
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  8861. ​ @strider_hiryu850  Except we're also going to have a shutdown if they don't pass appropriations bills or a CR by 11/17.
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  8862.  @DDKaraokeOutlaw  I'm wondering if it's a bot. The most obvious tell-tale is not understanding slang, but I haven't noticed that yet.
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  8863. Really? I remember seeing that the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens got into a lot of hot water for initially defending the fatwa.
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  8864.  Mitt Romney stands with BLM  I guess you think Milton Friedman was and Charles Murray is left wing. The usual indicator of the difference between left and right UBI is whether or not it is intended to replace the existing social safety net. Using a regressive tax on top of it just drags it farther starboard.
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  8865.  Bernie Family  So, there is no difference between Martin Luther King or Robert Reich wanting UBI to add to people's income and Milton Friedman wanting to use it to replace income for the poor or Andrew Yang wanting to force the poor and disabled to choose between their current benefits and his plan? You sound like someone who just wants a check and hasn't thought through the consequences.
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  8866. Close? What polls have you been looking at? If the polls are accurate, Biden will get 357 electoral votes. Even if Trump wins every state within the margin of error, Biden still wins.
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  8867.  @aaronyoutsey776  Yang has fallen from an average of 3.8% to 2.3 in two months. That is 40%. Now that people are seeing who he really is, he gets no real support outside the internet.
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  8868.  @rjkmusicmedia  The Dixie Chicks, The Golden Compass, attempted to do so with Married with Children, just to name a few. The right constantly calls for boycotts.
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  8869.  @rjkmusicmedia  You: I believe in free speech. Also You: I will sue you for libel for replying with similar language to what I used to describe you because I don't like that you pointed out the contradictions in my stated political beliefs.
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  8870.  @rjkmusicmedia  What is the forced procedure is the transvaginal ultrasound. You literally said, "Well, other things get put up there during an abortion" in order to write it off. The transvaginal ultrasound is not something that is inherent to the abortion process, but something that state governments literally require women to do in many places before getting an abortion. Now, if you want to say that is wrong, I will gladly recant, retract, and edit my previous comments to remove any reference to your defense of rape, but if you don't, my point stands.
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  8871.  @Commander_ZiN  Either that, or the only political commentator they regularly follow is Jimmy Dore, so when he says right-wing stuff pretending to be a lefty, they get all confused ;-) Speaking of which, did you see the saga? I think we officially found the biggest snowflake of all.
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  8872.  @Commander_ZiN  The person you responded to didn't like when I pointed out the logical conclusion of the policies he was defending. Scroll up a few, and you'll see a classic meltdown.
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  8873.  @Commander_ZiN  The worst is when those two titans combine forces for a cacophony of awful.
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  8874.  @SmoothCriminal12  Could be
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  8875. ​ @2445ace Unfortunately, Rubin managed to get DRC removed on copyright strikes.
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  8876. If he called him that, he is wrong. No one is perfect, and political strategy has never been his strong suit.
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  8877.  @TysonHook-22-  No, that's not step two. You know why? Because when a universal or near-universal health care bill fails, it doesn't come back, and each successive bill is weaker than the last. You do the grassroots organizing before the vote. Speaking of which, what have you personally done to try to build support for Medicare for All?
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  8878.  @TysonHook-22-  And apparently, you aren't familiar with the legislative strategy of Catch and Release. As far as legislators are concerned, the final vote total doesn't matter at all. In fact, Tom DeLay was the one to figure out that you can get more of what you want and you can provide cover for frontline members if pretty much every bill barely passes. Ever notice that Murkowski and Collins almost never opposed the same judicial nominees in the Trump years? That is not a coincidence. What honestly makes you think that someone from a lefty district won't vote Yes just to neutralize a primary challenge knowing that it will never pass? It's no coincidence that the very people pushing Force the Vote suddenly turned on a candidate who was a major advocate for Medicare for All against a corporate opponent in a special election months after the whole FTV nonsense. And speaking of the grassroots power of FTV, an advocate was going on and on about how there was going to be this big march in Washington to demand that the vote be forced. I never saw anything about it on TV, so I asked this person a month or two after the fact how many showed up. The answer? Fifty. For a "national march." Philly DSA got more than that every single month for eight months leading up to the primaries for actual grassroots organizing. And someone else made this big deal out of the M4M4A, and all of the grassroots support it had. I was actually on the e-mail lists of two of the organizations that were "sponsors," so it tells me that either a) the organizers were lying, or b) they just asked them to sign off on the march and never did any actual follow up.
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  8879.  @op3129  Who is TFG?
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  8880. Why limit it to straight, white, cis men? I have no sympathy for anyone who voted for the Face-Eating Leopard Party when they find out the leopards were going to eat their faces, too.
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  8881. ​ @jocksharerock7318  Indeed. As long as no one is pushing for Kanna as President, and he has a solid voting record, that should be enough.
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  8882. Oh, look, the both siderism right on time.
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  8883.  NNA S  The day after the primaries were over. Maybe you need to do research. Endorsing the winner the day after the primaries is not "endorsing Hillary over Bernie." By that point, he had already started negotiations on his endorsement.
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  8884.  @TS-bj8my  There's not. The last Democrat not named Joe Manchin III who held statewide office was John Perdue. Despite being popular for using the power of the State Treasurer's office to get millions of dollars to individual citizens, he lost the 2020 election by 13 points. In 2016, he hang on by a thread. The candidate who got 30% against Manchin in the 2018 primary lost the general election for the Senate against Capito by 43 points. For comparison, Biden lost by 39 and Hillary lost by 42. So, who is going to win on the Democratic side if Manchin loses the primary? Who is actually to his left? There are no other Democrats in Congress, and the state legislature is 76-24 in the House and 23-11 in the Senate for the Republicans. Quite frankly, given that Manchin only won by three against the sitting AG who was a charisma vacuum whose wife was a lobbyist for the company that caused the opioid crisis, I think that the seat will go to Jim Justice if he wants it, which is a truly depressing thought indeed.
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  8885.  @VMonkies  It looks like you found the bot.
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  8886. Unfortunately, not enough of you are embarrassed by him, or else he would have been a has-been in 2018.
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  8887.  @BillyBagOdonuts  Cruz is a Senator. He was elected statewide. There is no gerrymandering for that.
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  8888.  @buzzhawk  Indeed. Russia usually seems to be the litmus test where you can tell the difference between an honest actor on the left and an anti-anti-Trump grifter. The not even voting down ballot was the last straw for me in realizing that he was following Jimmy Dore and Krystal Ball down the grifter path.
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  8889.  @mp5249  He is addressing the vaccine and taking coronavirus seriously. He is not a fascist encouraging an armed coup. To pretend those are nothing shows a level of dishonesty that makes me wonder if the biggest lie you are telling is to yourself.
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  8890.  @rabidfollower  In happiness studies, they have been pretty consistent that happiness generally increases until a person has an income of $75,000/year, and then levels off or drops after that point. It's not a coincidence that fights over money tend to be the leading cause of divorce.
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  8891.  @johnmartin4641  They've never been to Europe? Oh, the vapors! You're just digging the hole deeper. And while, yes, college is ridiculously expensive, few people go to college that costs $50,000/year, and even fewer pay the sticker price. "It's just a banana, Michael. How much could it cost, ten dollars?"
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  8892. Netflix isn't mainstream by now?
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  8893.  @pinkypony2598  Well, if the union was so evil, you should have filed a Taft-Hartley complaint. Otherwise, you are probably confusing the fair use fee with mandatory union membership.
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  8894.  @pinkypony2598  And a fair use fee exists because the law requires unions to represent anyone the contract covers, and getting rid of that rule causes a free rider problem, because why should anyone join if they get all of the advantages for free?
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  8895.  @3ld919  Oh, I don't disagree that a second Trump term would be a horrible blow to our country, and I will vote for Warren if she is the nominee, but "pragmatism" has really screwed us. What it has really led to is labor getting shortchanged, and the Democraitc Party relying on a charismatic leader in the White House (Clinton and Obama) while hemorrhaging down ballot so there is no one left to help along the agenda. Yes, Warren has a reputation as someone fighting Wall Street, but why do you think that Wall Street has suddenly softened their views of her? Unless there's something I'm missing, they must be confident that she won't actually do anything against them in office, any more than Obama did to help unions after sponsoring card check as a Senator and promising to walk the picket lines. Instead, Wall Street bonuses were "sacred contracts" and UAW members "had to make sacrifices." Last time I checked, union workers at auto assembly plants aren't the ones who put us on the brink of another Great Depression.
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  8896.  James Harris  A lot of our judicial system looks like it does because of who John Adams appointed on his way out the door in 1801.
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  8897. *Fawlty
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  8898.  @jonathansmith4968  Because, if the only things that a government can really do are enforce property rights or contracts, that ignores the balance of power inherent in such documents. If that is the only thing government can do, you end up with situations like the Pullman Strike. You can say that corporations are reined in all you want, but who is actually doing it? Re: how can McDonald's dominate without government intervention? Among other things, they can set up contracts to make it next to impossible for competitors to stay in business because costs will be prohibitively high, or they could just outright demand exclusive contracts to freeze out the competition. I guess you've never heard of company towns and the power they wielded. They were your libertarian paradise.
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  8899. What major bills has Warren gotten through in the last seven years to give you this confidence?
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  8900.  @meafrenchie7143  Well, I was renting at the time, but still, that wasn't theirs to do.
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  8901.  @meafrenchie7143  True. I was just pointing that out so that other renters didn't think they had to put up with it.
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  8902. Everyone can talk about Medicare for All. Quite frankly, even calls theirs something like that, but when asked at length by The Humanist Report, Yang said that he supports a public option.
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  8903.  @georgefurman4371  If you don't want people to assume they are your words, put quotes are talk about people who say that. As long as people make the "republic, not a democracy" argument, it is necessary to know how false that is.
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  8904.  @WitchDoctor87  Have you not noticed that a lot of people tend to get scared of asking for more when there is someone really bad in office? This is why accelerationism is not only psychopathic (because they want people to suffer), but stupid.
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  8905.  @WitchDoctor87  The highest office Nina Turner ever won was state senate, and it wasn't for lack of trying. Why does that qualify her for the Presidency? At least mention people like Tammy Baldwin or AOC who have won at the top levels.
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  8906.  @WitchDoctor87  She will be 35 in 2024, so she is eligible. If Nina Turner "has enough fight to win," why didn't she win a Congressional seat or Ohio Secretary of State when she tried? Fight isn't enough.
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  8907.  @jonjon1217  It happens to the best of us ;-) Original comment removed. Speaking of obscene wealth, Bill Gates is now more than twice as rich as he was when he started "giving his money away" in 2005.
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  8908.  @randomaxe662  That'd be a pretty long con. She'd been a public figure for 15 years prior to her Senate election.
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  8909.  @likkerland  Hence, why I put it in quotation marks. I think she sees herself that way, but even McCain rarely was.
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  8910.  @ryankibler7973  A lot of those who play that type are fakes. Kim wears heels, too, although he doesn't wear bronzer.
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  8911.  @grinch30  In turns out that was someone else with the same name. Classmates said he was very conservative. Swing and a miss.
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  8912.  @bigbopper6434  Nope. That has been debunked. That donation was from a 69 yo in Pittsburgh with the same name.
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  8913.  @lizakabe8116  False. This has been debunked. Nice try, though!
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  8914.  @albertcovington9942  You mean back in February? You are aware that members of Congress don't get the same information as a President does, right? And Fauci never said not to wear a mask. He was talking about surgical masks that were in short supply.
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  8915.  @albertcovington9942  I'm not the one trying to defend the horrible response that made Trump a one term President. If he had just made a remotely decent effort, you would have been the one celebrating this weekend.
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  8916.  @whyamimrpink78  [citation needed]
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  8917.  Wade Haden  Yeah, all that Golden Rule, love they neighbor, and don't diddle kids stuff, not to mention the idea that we are judged by how we treat the poor (where the predominant belief at the time was that wealth was a sign of divine favor and charity would risk the wrath of the gods) are just so terrible.
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  8918. @Jack Tharp So, was it the government spending of the New Deal, or the really big government spending of WWII? And if government spending had no effect, why did the 1937 recession correlate so well to his one attempt at austerity?
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  8919. @Jack Tharp Example of a government that meets those standards? Well, it seems like you think that government inherently becomes "oppressive," but I'll be your huckleberry: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland. Depending on how you define #3, you could also include Canada, and maybe even Australia and New Zealand.
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  8920. And she plays footsie with the anti-vaccine people. That alone is disqualifying for me.
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  8921.  @rustincohle2135  Indeed. Kane got nine nominations, and Welles got four, winning Best Original Screenplay.
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  8922.  @rustincohle2135  I liked the Godfather movies, but I couldn't get into Breaking Bad (although my favorite show on TV right now is BoJack Horseman). A true anti-hero is someone you want to see win despite yourself. Zuckerberg just isn't to me. Then again, maybe the problem is that he actively made the world a worse place that it might make it hard for me to root for him in just about any circumstances, but at least I am honest about it.
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  8923.  @rustincohle2135  Wouldn't that be a villain? Point taken. My point was about preference, not about degree.
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  8924. They think that things have to get worse before they get better. Well, some things don't correct themselves so easily, so they advocate a whole lot of suffering on the way to their utopia.
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  8925.  @Ap3xpredat0r2  Yes, because apparently things are true just because you want them to be.
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  8926.  @Ap3xpredat0r2  Says the person who made no argument. Even Milton Friedman agreed that natural monopoly is a thing.
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  8927.  @Ap3xpredat0r2  You're the one saying it's false.
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  8928. And he is a big, strapping man of 6'4. Why didn't he join the military. I'm 5'5, and I went.
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  8929.  @jerrybeck7749  Probably because he took the place of Joe DiMaggio. The hatred definitely wasn't universal, but the love certainly was when Maris came along and people picked sides.
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  8930. ​ @johnedwards1968  Indeed. The person Ron Paul agrees with most in this country is Pat Buchanan, and nobody accuses him of being a libertarian. Ron Paul just likes to say "freedom" a lot.
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  8931. And, quite frankly, if a right winger opposes a war, it tends to be because of isolationism rather than an actual desire for peace (see also: Gabbard, Tulsi).
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  8932. Except he's funny. If he was real, we'd hate him.
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  8933. This is the mistake of any group that ultimately believes in a utopia with no government. I remember the Kokesh debate where some were angry that someone pointed out that Jamie and her argument for a Marxist anarchy fell into the same trap.
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  8934. @TerrariumFusilage1 $300 billion is less than 2% of total economy. That's not a lot. There is a massive difference between percentage and total amount. By your logic, if someone makes $10MM and donates 1%, that person is doing more good than someone who makes $50,000 and donates 10%. Not many poor kids go to those schools, especially at the K-12 level.
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  8935. @TerrariumFusilage1 Indiana tried that. Try driving through there sometime so you can see how it works, or go to Chicago and see what happens when private companies take over parking meters. Here's a hint: it doesn't work for the people.
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  8936. @TerrariumFusilage1 Possibly not. If that person is doing something with those other $9.9MM that actively harms society, it does little more than assuage guilt.
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  8937. What was even more maddening was that, given the tendency for do-over Oscars, it should have been obvious that Venus was his last chance, and his performance was far and away the superior one that year.
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  8938. The instant you make money as a political commentator, you can't say "I'm just a comedian." If you're not a journalist or commentator, get off the Internet.
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  8939.  @sajfen  Do you live in a rural area?
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  8940.  @sajfen  If you were, the fact that you have electricity would, because the Great and Powerful Market decided that rural electricity wasn't cost effective. I could also ask if you drive a car or have food poisoning.
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  8941. "Lucky!" Napoleon Dynamite
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  8942.  @Wizznilliam  Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and RBG got cancer again. How did that prediction work out for you? Or, to be more accurate, for America.
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  8943. I had something similar when handing out John Kerry stickers before the 2004 election. Some frat guy yelled, "John Kerry's a faggot. He can suck my dick!" I responded, "So you want a guy to suck your dick?" "No!"
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  8944.  @whyamimrpink78  The US Constitution is the biggest power grab by the federal government in American history. It came to be because the Articles of Confederation were failing because the government was too weak. That's not to say there aren't restrictions placed on the government, but that on the whole it increased the power of the federal government.
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  8945. You mean people pooling resources together because they realized that they would be better protected together than alone? How scandalous!
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  8946. Asteriskstrong is a psychopath who destroyed everyone who got in the way of his lies and his ambitions. He got lucky that he was able to settle for pennies on the dollar when he was sued for fraud against the US government.
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  8947. Fan of their magic, but not their politics, and when their Showtime show went from going after con artists to settling ideological scores, that is when it suffered a serious decline.
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  8948.  @Centurion-ph7gk  No one ever said that it couldn't. The question was whether they would implement it. As Sam Sylvia says in Glow, "Everybody has ideas!"
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  8949.  @Centurion-ph7gk  I think you replied to the wrong person.
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  8950. ​ @xiam5941  I know of people who practice voluntary simplicity in order to keep their income below a taxable level. They have farmland and keep costs down, so why can't Darryl do that?
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  8951.  @kg356  They tried for a while, but they gave up on Reconstruction too soon.
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  8952. They would be well served reading either testament to read about how to treat the poor.
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  8953.  @robertjordan3155  And the left wing anarchists fail to explain how someone won't just start taking things if we abolish both government and private property. Both are utopians who don't understand human greed. The only difference is that one thinks property is good, and the other thinks that it is bad.
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  8954.  @kentallard8852  And the irony of it all is that they keep talking about "going Galt" as if we wouldn't know what to do without them, and then we'll be sorry. Well, to quote the lead character in "Matewan," "There are two kinds of people in this world: them that work, and them that don't. We work. They don't." They would wilt like a flower if they didn't have not-rich people around to do the actual work.
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  8955.  FIFA 2007  How much money do you think movies make for studios?
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  8956. I think you're thinking of Nebraska and Maine, but it's not proportional, it's based on Congressional districts. The statewide winner gets two electoral votes, and candidates get one for each district they win.
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  8957. Maybe the fact that he is so awful makes it easy for him to spot one of his own.
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  8958.  @kathygoodwin9343  Was the poll random, or did you volunteer for it?
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  8959.  @kathykelly5930  Who funded the election of those who supported the slave trade? Who left the United States for fear that slavery would eventually be abolished, as evidenced by their declarations of secession? That's right. The monied interests.
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  8960.  @apollo-eu4fk  She supported Medicare for All so much that she called it "un-American" to Anderson Cooper and made her own alternative proposal called Medicare Choice. Nobody thinks that Pete "Medicare for All Who Want It" Buttigieg supports Medicare for All, either. She "is against wars" so much that in 2015, she praised Putin for bombing civilians in Syria while complaining that Obama didn't. She "is against wars" so much that she compared the Iran nuclear deal to Munich. She "is against wars" so much that she invoked a scenario straight out of 24 to endorse torture even after yet another report showed that this war crime isn't even effective at getting information. She "is against wars" so much that she literally said on multiple occasions, "When it comes to the war on terror, I'm a hawk. When it comes to regime change wars, I'm a dove." And before you think that I'm digging into her greatest hits, she "is against wars" so much that last year she loudly complained when Biden finally ended a war that lasted for 20 years and should have ended at least a decade sooner. The difference between my statement and yours? I looked at the follow up.
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  8961.  @s4njuro462  And we all have to suffer for his stupidity.
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  8962. ​ @realzachfluke1  Thank you. When dealing with an incoherent notion such as libertarianism, it's just a matter of time before they walk into a trap of their own making ;-)
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  8963.  Z'Q  Agreed. Also, you can't be "solid on Wall Street" if your only complaint after banks crashed is that there were too many regulations.
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  8964. Agreed. If that woman isn't working at all, we are talking about an extra $100 or so in TANF and $150 in SNAP. Anyone who can raise a kid on that, give me some advice on how you pull it off!
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  8965. You forgot the plastic surgery. I was flipping through the channels when Bristol Palin was on Dancing with the Stars, and I couldn't even recognize her.
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  8966.  @modelmajorpita  Because history began at the point where they received their advantage. Everything else is the Before Time. I had a similar thing with one of these propertarians (that is the right that they always favor above all others, so maybe that is the more accurate term) who kept insisting that he paid for his land, so it should be his. When others pointed out that his land was stolen from Native Americans, well, that sucks for them.
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  8967.  @calebclunie4001  The Federal Reserve wasn't a thing in the imagination in 1900.
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  8968.  @uknownada  Or the land of Oz being real.
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  8969.  @whenthemusicsover6028  14. I remember it lost for Actress (Helen Hunt beat Kate Winslet) and Supporting Actress (Kim Basinger beat Gloria Stewart), but I can't remember the other one that lost.
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  8970.  @derekchauvinistrockwellthe4917  "Part of being an adult is understanding that two contradictory ideas can be true at the same. As a voice actor, I get paid a ridiculous amount of money. However, I am also getting screwed!" Harry Shearer There is quite a bit of truth in this, because the job isn't that difficult, but the people over actors make a whole lot more money. (Similarly, sports union negotiators are often millionaire players against billionaire owners, who get their stadiums for free.)
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  8971. ​ @Kromblite2  Indeed. I am convinced that most invocations of "common sense" are just done by stupid people when they feel cornered. "There is no such thing as common sense. If it was really common, wouldn't everyone have it?"
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  8972.  @RubenEsq  That is so unfair! At least Lenny Bruce was funny at one point before he went down the spiral.
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  8973.  @Patrick-sg7cm  How are people going to know that they get sick and die from bad meat?
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  8974.  @akamuzz84  To me, freedom is having much greater confidence that I am not unknowingly eating poison.
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  8975.  @Patrick-sg7cm  Nobody is stopping you from going off the grid and living to your heart's content.
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  8976.  @l.w.paradis2108  Almost, but didn't. How hard is it to just admit that you were wrong and your predictive powers work as well as Jimmy Dore in this video?
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  8977. ​ @Cussy69_420  "If you don't pay your taxes, you should be penalized, and if you still refuse, you should ultimately go to jail."
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  8978. ​ @CausalityLoop  The aqueducts?
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  8979.  @davidstewart8906  I made that argument. When these Never Hillary people (considering the way they trashed Bernie, they don't deserve to be associated with him in any way) kept saying to me "name one area where Hillary would be better," my first argument was always that she would fill the next Supreme Court seat with someone to the left of Scalia.
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  8980.  @ThePrillmeister  Robin Williams won the year before.
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  8981. If you don't vote, you can't complain. Look at the video where Russell Brand started his don't vote nonsense (fortunately, he has since wised up) when John Lydon tears him a new one, saying that what he's talking about "isn't very smart."
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  8982.  @alebeau4106  Do you see the Koch Brothers or the Libertarian Party try to repeal corporate personhood?
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  8983. It must feel good to never, ever have to take any responsibility for the direction of the country. "Don't blame me! I live in a swing state and voted for a candidate with 1% support because making decisions is hard."
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  8984. How's that feeling two SCOTUS justices later?
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  8985.  @REALASUNDER  Corporations are people, my friend.
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  8986.  @kennyvii  Because I think it's ridiculous that someone makes his/her own board for certification?
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  8987.  @cheezyfilmsproductions1842  Well, like it or not, only the Republican nominee or the Democratic nominee will win the Presidential election. (I'll bet you a million dollars that no one else will.) Those of us who live in swing states don't have the luxury of such pronouncements.
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  8988.  @cheezyfilmsproductions1842  Well, if you live in a swing state like I do, enjoy what the Republicans will end up doing if they get to name the successor to RBG. I, for one, choose to fight. If the right fought for as long as they did to take over the Republican Party in ways that hurt people, I will not surrender the chance to help people, and a Court where Gorsuch becomes the swing Justice makes that virtually impossible.
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  8989.  @CreepahKillahRSA  And you literally just defined the "pro-birth" position while being angered at being called that.
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  8990.  @CreepahKillahRSA  Every death starts out as a possible homicide investigation. You can say that you care about the fetus, and that the fetus is the same as a baby, but I don't remember there being a funeral when my mom had a miscarriage. She also said later that there was no death certificate. My driver's license mentions date of birth. The state enter the date of conception, and I was age zero at birth.
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  8991. I think at this point that Tiffany has established herself as the smartest of the Trump children, because she has the good sense to just keep quiet and not show whatever evil her dad passed to her.
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  8992.  @naturalistmind  47
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  8993.  @triggered8556  Would child kidnapper be better if that doesn't rise to torture?
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  8994. ​ @yourleftisttesticle  Prosecution can't appeal. Because of the double jeopardy protections in the Fifth Amendment, as soon as the jury says Not Guilty, that is the answer now and forevermore. He was later found Liable in the wrongful death lawsuit, but that wasn't a criminal trial, but a civil trial.
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  8995.  @angeliaperkins7990  What specifically is Biden doing to try to take the country backwards? Bernie is a year older than Biden. What specifically is he doing to try to take the country backwards?
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  8996.  @boki1693  Well, I think that you're wrong. You don't get rid of competent people just because of a calendar. There are plenty of 30 year olds who want to take the country backwards and plenty of 80 year olds who want things to be better. There should be very few one-size-fits-all rules of eligibility.
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  8997.  @Tazrael  I'm making a play on words. The Triumph of the Will is the name of perhaps the most notorious propaganda film ever made.
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  8998. @Blaire Sovereign No, I am not talking about right wingers and SJWs. I am talking about anti-anti-Trump types, third party advocates, the above mentioned Force the Vote crowd, etc. Another example of wanting to complain rather than win was when just as $15/hour minimum wage passed in the House, you had people complaining that actually it needed to be $20 immediately. You can argue the merits all you want, but saying "no thanks" to something when it still needed to get through the Senate is not smart. I have asked plenty of people who take a similar tact if they would oppose an $11/hour minimum wage if it had the votes. Yes, it's still too low, but it's still higher than what we have now.
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  8999.  @ljtk1490  How can it be based on the UK/Australia model if even you yourself admit that the UK bans duplicative care. Saying that you don't want to take away the existing plan is the centrist and corporate rebuttal to Medicare for All. She is not talking about supplemental care; she is talking about letting private insurance companies do what they have been doing, and Australia is far more regulated than insurance companies here. Let private insurance compete, and they will allow junk plans with low sticker price that the young and healthy will gravitate to, which will cause a death spiral for the public plan.
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  9000.  @ljtk1490  But you keep adding the UK to it. If she said that, she is clearly lying.
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  9001. Speaking of the grift, wasn't her gray streak (that she once tried to say was something she got from Iraq despite pictures of her years later with jet black hair) on the other side?
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  9002. Because too much of our government runs on the honor system. I understand why you have a supermajority requirement to remove someone from office, but that relies on the party of the people in power (or at least enough of them) to do the right thing. The only time that would have ever happened was 1974.
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  9003. Some of these are examples of someone who literally has more money than he/she knows what to do with.
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  9004.  @jalite1991  Yes, Obama was right to say that he would have met with Kim Jong-il. I don't know about the "No preconditions" part, but I get the idea that you sometimes have to meet with your enemy. That being said, Tulsi did say "it's possible" on one show (after insisting for nearly two years) that he didn't, and two weeks later that "there is no doubt." She put herself in that situation by taking funding from groups loyal to Assad (that she didn't disclose, similar to the point of the video) and then taking 20 months to back away from his talking points on the attacks. The burden of proof is on her to show that she has had an honest change rather than made a political calculation.
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  9005.  @jalite1991  The Nation article mentions the funding for the trip and its ties to Assad. I'm at work right now, so my ability to do deep research is limited. I can either pull up the quote or find a link on my lunch break. That being said, I don't care how annoyed someone is at an interview, you still answer the questions. Unless I missed it, "it's possible" was actually a move forward from "we don't know if it was Assad or rebels." If you are in negotiations with a hostile foreign power and they know that you are susceptible to things like that, they will be able to roll you in negotiations. When Bernie gets agitated, he still talks about what he thinks is important and why he thinks the question is trivial. Tulsi Gabbard positioned herself as the foreign policy candidate, so it's only fair that people scrutinize her foreign policy and statements. She has a long and varied history of chasing money and hiding those associations, so until she is more transparent, it is her responsibility to prove those accusations false. While I am no fan of Joe Scarborough (I will watch from time to time just to know what the establishment is thinking so I don't get caught unawares), but he didn't force her to take that funding, he didn't force her to meet Assad and not the rebels, and he didn't force her to take his word initially on the question of chemical attacks.
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  9006. How does she get "I wish I could have done something" (when he had the gavel) is apologizing?
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  9007.  @ralphmarx7554  They voted on the outline. The final bill still needs to be voted on. There will probably be something to make it look like it is "moderated," but the vast majority will go through. This is what happens when the deciding vote is someone who, by definition, has to have a voting coalition of at least 40% Trump voters.
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  9008. I remember a little over a decade ago having a big argument on Facebook over a math problem because people didn't do the correct order of operations. A few years earlier, I was applying for a job and had to take a test. One of the questions was something like "Please add the following: 100+4+.86," ahd someone else in the room loudly exclaimed, "I didn't know there was going to be math on this test!" It was even arranged vertically, so how in the world could that be too hard?
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  9009. What does he actually communicate? I've known plenty of candidates who can be incredibly flowery, but after the fact, you realize that they didn't actually say anything.
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  9010.  @kdLsmarckee  Hoe ironic that you speak of "cultists" while sounding exactly like the Yang Gang bangers did four years ago. I've seen plenty of his "ideas" and "plans," like pretending that the Foruteenth Amendment isn't a thing while using racist dog whistles that, if applied to him, would render him ineligible for the Presidency.
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  9011.  @stlguy1976  Ah, yes. The Pontius Pilate approach. You can tell what the truth is by objective research. David showed exactly why the poll a) was extremely flawed, and b) did not say what Vivek said it did.
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  9012.  @tento3555  Can you provide the link and the time stamp? I found an interview from last week, but I got sick of watching after about three minutes of Jimmy ranting about some conspiracy.
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  9013.  @kevonslims7269  She gave an interview where she gave an example of when it is acceptable to use torture. If you support it for one occasion, you support torture.
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  9014.  @EvesRevenge  Saying that you can think of acceptable uses of torture and saying "I will do whatever it takes to protect the American people" in that context does mean that she's for war crimes. Hello?
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  9015.  @tento3555  The link isn't working on my phone. I'll check it on my computer when I get home. Thanks again.
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  9016.  @tento3555  On my phone, it's not giving me a link at all. I'll just wait until then, because you know how it is trying to get too involved with things at work. I did listen to her Status Coup interview (which another thread said was her refuting her torture position), but that wasn't even close. In that one, she tried to excuse it by saying that she hadn't yet read a 2014 report that torture is ineffective, even though plenty of reports existed long before then. I will listen, but it has to be stronger than that.
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  9017.  @tento3555  You mean in the Dore video?
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  9018.  @tento3555  She said she doesn't support it now, but she didn't apologize for saying it then. She also didn't go into why or if she changed her mind. A step in the right direction, but anything short of the level of her repentance on gay rights is wholly insufficient for me.
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  9019.  @tento3555  I say that this is insufficient because there are a lot of things that she has changed her mind about and had to explain herself over. I have no problem with people converting to the right side of an issue or a philosophy, but when you do, you have to go out of your way to demonstrate that the conversion is sincere. After all, Paul didn't get to preach right away after Damascus.
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  9020.  @tento3555  For not supporting a recent convert who I don't trust because she won't say that torture is immoral? You told me that the video would show it. She didn't even apologize in that video or admit that her opinion changed. In the Status Coup interview, she blamed it on not knowing that torture was ineffective. If that is sufficient for you on the biggest moral foreign policy question of this century (and foreign policy is the hill that she's dying on), then you go right ahead proving the point that David and Ana and others have been making.
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  9021.  @Atmost11  It was pretty obvious that Bernie had to get to 1990 or else he would have lost the nomination in the second round. A Presidential campaign is a good way to light the spark, but it takes some time and hard work after in order to make sure it catches fire. All the people whining about the Democratic Party not being what it is supposed to be should be running for school board, city council, and state and local party committees and precinct and ward positions. If someone lives in a big city where the state legislative districts are smaller, run for those.
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  9022.  @chucki5047  His position was always to call a public option "Medicare for All." Like a lot of libertarians, he is a grifter.
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  9023. 4:02 I think he accidentally told on himself and why dictators love him so.
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  9024. So, the "freedom dividend" (I can't believe that when I first heard its title that I didn't see his libertarianism coming) is a "right of citizenship," but poor people have to choose between his proposal and what they get now? Some right!
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  9025.  @sybo59  Not an argument so much as getting a little bit of amusement at that awful movie that stole an hour and a half of my life and didn't even have the decency to be so bad it's good. My more serious responses lie elsewhere.
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  9026.  @sybo59  I will have to check when I get settled in tonight.
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  9027. I would like to see Jayapal holding the gavel.
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  9028. @Get Real Politics So true. Even the thing that is her supposed lefty calling card, foreign policy, is much closer to Ron Paul than anything.
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  9029.  @Luigi64real  Did Warren ever court Sheldon Adelson and do his bidding to try to get rid of his competition in the form of online gambling?
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  9030.  @brandonpurdy7658  Yeah, because David Duke, a man who wants to forcibly remove over 100MM people from the United States because they aren't white (I'm 1/8 Native American, so would I he allowed to stay in this white ethnostate? Would my daughter, who is 3/32 Native American?) who admires Hitler is someone who is all about peace.
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  9031.  @erikjarandson5458  Too bad we couldn't have added "was a professional caliber painter" to that list, because we could have averted so much more.
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  9032.  @IndependantMind168  The moment I knew he was a fraud was hearing him say that Trump would be a better President than Hillary. His debate with Sam removed all doubt.
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  9033. 3:24 Pun intended?
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  9034.  @TheEpic22  You're totally on the money. The actual total is about 60%, but it's never happened when he was the deciding vote. If you like the fact that tens of millions of people didn't get thrown off health care... well, he voted against repeal, and John Raese (his opponent in 2010 and '12) and Patrick Morrisey each would have voted to repeal.
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  9035. Uncommitted only "overperformed" in Michigan because its organizers set the bar ridiculously low. The last comparable race was in 2012. His race had little controversy and no organization for such a vote. It got 10.6%. The organizers said they were hoping for 10,000 votes, which would have been less than 1% given the turnout. Even with such organization, and high-profile endorsement, Uncommitted got 13.3% of the vote. Hardly a massive performance.
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  9036. @Hattie Lankford When the obsession becomes "my truth," people ignore the truth. Some things are objective reality.
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  9037.  @nicosteffen364  "Faith is not a fact! I'm going to trial because you don't understand a blooper real?" George Bluth Sr.
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  9038. They never take laws away? Has he ever heard of the Twenty-first Amendment? Loving v. Virginia?
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  9039.  @sandrafrancisco  Johnson started negotiating after dropping out of the 1968 election. It was after a battle the United States technically won, but he knew that the best he could ever hope for was a stalemate, and Nixon sabotaged those efforts to win election just to basically end up making the same deal that was on the table before just so more people could get killed, but he could hold power.
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  9040. You forgot that Seventh Heaven also suffers from the discovery that Stephen Collins is a pedophile.
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  9041. The little bit of good advice that he gives is stuff that's so basic that anyone can give it, but they don't have all the nonsense that goes along with them the way he does.
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  9042.  @kygrowdagenhart6748  I've seen these on almost every video.
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  9043.  @dahlizz99  Oh, poor babies, can't do what they want and own other people.
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  9044.  @dahlizz99  So, you can't call it the "land of the free" because they have so many slaves even though one half is trying to get rid of slavery, and you consider it unjust for them to do so? This is what happens when you start to use Lost Cause framework: you either defend the indefensible, or you twist yourself in knots in an effort to avoid defending the indefensible.
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  9045.  @mjchakos1  You want to take half a loaf when the state is D +0.3. Mine is the mirror of William F. Buckley's statement of "as far right as you can go and win." You can't go left of Manchin and win. You can go left of Sinema and win, and as Mark Kelly proves, you can go left of Sinema and do better.
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  9046.  @Andie1951  It was your standard claptrap about "polling integrity."
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  9047. That book James Lewis wrote has If I Did It vibes written all over it.
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  9048. Good catch. When I first heard it, I didn't put the two together.
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  9049. THIS is why any talk of a liberal-tarian alliance is ridiculous.
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  9050.  Alex Arviso  Someone doesn't understand how math works and how that electoral systems look the way they do because of the rules.
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  9051. ​ @uninstaller2860  Third party in a Presidential race is advocated by a combination of saboteurs and people who don't understand how the rules work.
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  9052. ​​ @aaronmcconkey1062  Things take time. As far as "we tried, so I give up," what did you personally do to try to get Bernie elected or help get some people down ballot elected considering that Congress actually has to pass laws?
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  9053. ​ @Cindy99765  Other countries don't have an Electoral College that requires a plurality to win electoral votes but a majority of electoral votes to win, or else the election gets decided in the House... where it will be decided by Democrats and Republicans.
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  9054. What would running with that group of grifters (look up how much support they get from Republicans and how many state Green parties have been taken over by Republicans) and dupes going to be any different than running on the backs of this group of grifters and dupes?
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  9055.  @kingdingaling413  Korea
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  9056. If Boris Johnson is the best we can hope for from the Republican Party, then the Republican Party needs to go the way of the Whigs.
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  9057. He's not. He's up in 2020.
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  9058. Sorry about that. I didn't notice the second half of your comment. I guess that, for me, to borrow a phrase, the most important priority is to deny the Senator a seventh term.
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  9059.  @dreindenver798  I disagree. We already have term limits; they're called elections. I'm originally from WV, and I thought Senator Byrd was still doing a good job, so I voted to give him a ninth term. I moved to PA in '07, and I thought Senator Specter didn't deserve a sixth term. Bring in term limits, and not only do you throw out the good with the bad, but the only people who have any institutional knowledge to get things done are staffers... who are completely unaccountable to the voters. In states that adopted term limits, staff got more and more power. The problem isn't long-serving senators, the problem is bad senators.
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  9060. Or go on national TV and say that if she wasn't yiur daughter, you'd date her. Real Hapsburg energy going on.
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  9061. If the media were truly liberal, Joe Scarborough would have suffered the same fate as Gary Condit.
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  9062.  @coclo27  You are correct, sir or madam! At the time, it was about half and half between idealists and staffers, but even though it passed unanimously out of committee, the staffers poisoned it, probably knowing that it would ruin their gravy train of we got it, and it got 42% on the floor. While I trimmed the sails a little on the gun control one (this was WV after all), it passed unanimously.
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  9063. Isn't Al Bernstein a boxing commentator?
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  9064.  @sisuguillam5109  I don't understand the question. I never used the word "bound," so I don't know what you are referring to. If you want to ask about German Parliament, while they do have two members of Nein Wolstanding Nude (it's a different term, because...), when is the last time the chancellor came from a party other than the CDU or the SDP?
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  9065.  @sisuguillam5109  It's an Arrrested Development reference. When Tobias refers to his Never Nude psychological condition, he says that there happen to be two members of German Parliament.
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  9066.  @sisuguillam5109  And who leads the coalition? Germany almost always has a coalition, but everyone knows ahead of time which two parties are actually competing for the top position. Israel has coalitions, too, and they can't keep a stable government at all. They had three elections in 2019 and then the government almost immediately broke down because the only thing they could agree on was that they didn't like Netanyahu. And the only real difference between a coalition in a multi-party system and a two-party system is that in the latter, the coalitions form after the election by politicians whereas in the latter, coalitions are formed before the election by voters. Imagine being an FDP voter in 2006 expecting to be in coalition with the CDU before the election if they win only to find out that there is a deadlock since Die Linke won seats and everyone refused to partner with them, so you end up out in the old because the CDU forms a government with the SPD. Such an improvement! I'm not saying that the world has to have a two-party system, but that the two systems aren't nearly as different as you would like to believe.
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  9067.  @FrankHeuvelman  Do you live in a country with a divided government? I do.
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  9068.  @FrankHeuvelman  Different parties control different branches of government. In a Presidential system, the executive and legislative are separate, whereas they aren't in a Parliamentary system, so by definition, yours is guaranteed to be much closer to "one side gets total control for a few years followed by the other for a few years" than mine. In this century, Republicans had total control from 2003-07 and 2017-19 and Democrats had total control from 2009-11 and 2021-23. Hardly how you described it.
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  9069.  @shinystarmiestudios4179  Labor and Liberal still get a lock on the PM slot, don't they? Even your counterexample proves my point, because the only real difference between a two-party and multi-party system is when the coalitions form. In the former, the voters form it before the vote; in the latter, the politicians do it after the election.
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  9070.  @alexthefae  If you really want a multi-party system, you have to get rid of the Electoral College first.
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  9071.  @FrankHeuvelman  At least I don't make boasts about my country and resort to condescension only to have my ognorance unveiled.
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  9072.  @FrankHeuvelman  Are you seriously comparing America to Nazis? Your country has its fair share of fascists who get a seat at the table. I was willing to give the benefit of the doubt that maybe that last sentence in your previous reply was just something lost in translation, but if you want to lecture us, then actually learn how our system works first instead of speaking from ignorance and arrogance. And how many of your countrymen cooperated with those neighbors when they tried to take over the world and wipe an entire group of people from the face of the earth?
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  9073.  @Quill-Cat  Indeed. It's the smug condescension from people who had absolutely nothing to do with establishing the good things in their country who think they know how to get them that is especially annoying. I remember this Canadian guy who kept coming onto the comments in TMR and TDPS insisting that he knew how to get universal health care, but his answers proved that he didn't even understand how his own country got it.
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  9074.  @FrankHeuvelman  And this paradise that you brag about in the Netherlands wouldn't have been possible without my country doing what you couldn't and defeating the Nazis, and then doing what you didn't want to do and provide the protection necessary and build the alliance that made it possible for Europe to not have to worry about invasions of its territory for decades in order to enable you to thrive. You think you are floating, but you're standing on a building.
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  9075. ​ @Segkee  If it enables Trump to win and set up a fascist dictatorship, then yes, it destroys his entire legacy.
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  9076. ​ @mickiemallorie  If they really cared about building a voice, running a race where they get maybe 1% and make it easier for people farthest away from what they claim to want accomplishes nothing. No, wait: it accomplishes less than nothing, because it actively makes things worse. And you know who knows this? Cornel West, because in 2020, he said that "we have to slay the dragon of neo-fascism before we can slay the dragon of neoliberalism."
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  9077. Melania walked right past him without her mask.
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  9078. "That's just mean, man!" Justin Fairfax (played by James Coburn), Payback
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  9079.  @Austib_  Trump can run again if he loses. There is nothing anyone can do to prevent it. Whether or not he could go anywhere is a different story. Only one defeated Republican nominee has ever won the nomination again (Dewey in 1948).
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  9080.  tutenkharnage  Eugene Debs did.
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  9081.  @Jake-Truth-Snake  I don't know, they do look an awful lot like him.
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  9082. I thought my speaker was damaged.
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  9083. Today's American right is far more anti-left than actually having any beliefs of their own.
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  9084.  @stanvans3214  Then, what is your point? You have offered nothing of substance at all.
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  9085.  @avidanrev  And who controls power in a private corporation?
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  9086.  @avidanrev  I didn't say that I want government to control all business, just that basic utilities that can be manipulated for profit in a way that literally kills people (as has happened during this blackout) shouldn't be in the hands of unaccountable private corporations.
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  9087.  @avidanrev  Are you familiar with the concept of a natural monopoly? No, government is not always good, but it is accountable. The fact that some corrupt still get away with it is because people keep voting for them.
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  9088.  @avidanrev  If you are against monopolies and corporations, what do you want to actually do about it? And in regards to my prior point about natural monopolies, that is something that occurs when there is a system that, by its very nature, there can really only be one owner. An example of that is a local power grid. At that point, there are three things that can happen: 1) it can do whatever it wants, 2) it gets heavily regulated, 3) it becomes publicly-owner. Based on your statements, we can agree that the first one is bad, and the second one clearly isn't working, so public ownership is the only option left.
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  9089.  @avidanrev  I do care. That is why I keep asking. You made a statement, I stated where I disagreed with it, and then you have other answers that spawned new questions and responses. We have stayed on topic, and responded directly to the points mentioned. That's how conversation works. I personally think that you are wrong and you think that I am wrong, but I am engaging with the goal of understanding and acting in good faith. Now, what kind of regulations do you want to see, and how would those real regulations be enforced? What kind of standards do you want for privately-owned utilities?
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  9090.  @joethethunder4906  So, things are different now because The Internet? Yes, things are different now. Keyboard warriors can delude themselves into thinking that theirs is real activism. For example, the Gullible People's Party's big coming out was forcing the vote. One of the proponents at the time insisted to me that there was going to be a big rally in DC on 1/3 that would change everything, and he was so delusional that he kept inviting me to it no matter how many times I told him it was a dead end and counterproductive. Well, three months later, I saw him in the comments section again, and I asked him about the turnout. Fifty people showed up. For a national event. Philly DSA got 75-100 to show up monthly to do actual grassroots organizing for a period of eight months, with a total of 300 unique individuals. For a local event. And you think that you are going to start over from scratch with the idea that you want to throw the election to Republicans and not be a total dead end? That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works.
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  9091.  @bertthompson4748  Aaron Dickson is a total troll.
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  9092.  @bertthompson4748  Fair enough. Some people who are relatively new think that he's an honest actor.
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  9093.  @joethethunder4906  But you're not proposing uniting. You are proposing dividing even further. The only way to get change is not forming a party guaranteed to lose, but to do actual work and take over one of the two major parties.
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  9094. Jimmy Dore was using it to try to say that people should give up on doing anything within the Democratic Party, and going along with every ridiculous thing Tucker Carlson said. Not the same thing.
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  9095.  @y3ee3e  What is this Democrat Party that you speak of? There is a Democratic Party. "Democrat Party" is something used by Republicans to emphasize the word "rat."
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  9096.  @y3ee3e  Other than repeating that Democrat is a noun and Democratic is an adjective, who are these people who voted for Trump? He got the same percentage of the popular vote as McCain did (46%), and a lower percentage than Romney (47%). If that is Jimmy's analysis, then it shows a basic misunderstanding of basic facts, which taints his entire analysis.
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  9097. Has he been hiding hair loss that long?
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  9098. So, you're fine with it if that person still thinks it's the right thing to do and hasn't learned from it? I am all for forgiveness, but Biden doesn't want it.
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  9099.  @gordon-1  Also, Rubio wasn't on the ballot in 2020. What election are you referring to?
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  9100.  @SteveGellerMusic  Her goal is to form a red/brown alliance, and she spends all of her time criticizing Democrats while letting Republicans off the hook.
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  9101. Well, Buttigieg isn't, but point taken about Biden running on his being so wonderful.
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  9102. It takes approval from every state to abolish the Senate. It's not going to happen.
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  9103.  @archologyzero  And there it is. You have proven that the anti-anti-Trump ploy was a mask for your right wing self to try to sew discord. It's usually just a matter of time.
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  9104.  @archologyzero  Who is a Jill Stein voter? I have never and will never vote Green in a Presidential election. The only times I ever voted Green were a) a protest vote in a sheriffs race with no Republican candidates to inadvertently help, and b) as one at-large city council where you could pick five and the minority party was guaranteed two seats and I didn't want them both to go red.
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  9105. He voted against the tax bill. It was a straight party line vote.
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  9106.  @romeocastillo316  Some were
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  9107.  @roshansreedhar4727  Oh, no. I'm not going to ignore that revision. Yes, he loved to say that when people started calling him out for saying that, but there were problems with this version of the understanding at the time. First and foremost, he said this knowing that McConnell was keeping a Supreme Court seat open, and if Hillary got to fill just that one, the Court would be 5-4 to the left. Second, he would always point to a whataboutism to say that Trump would be better on policy. When Sam Seder pointed to the fact that Trump could easily get to appoint three Supreme Court Justices who would be there for decades, Jimmy Dore a) compared that to the moon falling into Lake Michigan and b) said that Hillary would drop a nuclear bomb in Syria. He insisted that Trump would be better on surveillance and less likely to start a war. This was never just about Trump sabotaging the Republican Party.
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  9108.  @woodysdrums8083  One of these things is not like the other. Hint: she's known by her initials.
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  9109.  @waltonsmith7210  Those aren't mutually exclusive.
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  9110.  @Shtoops  Oh, that is the one time I actually believed him. He doesn't have to lose the cult, he really just has to lose the weak Republicans who just went along. That will be enough.
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  9111. Ramps are disgusting, horribly smelling things that stink up my native town the last Saturday in April.
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  9112. He's not that good of an actor. Did you see him struggling to breathe? Besides, he wouldn't voluntarily give up his in-person adulation fix. Zoom meetings are his methadone.
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  9113. ​ @irishlady30  It seems like your reply was cut off.
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  9114. ​ @robinsss So, based on your logic, the urban legend version of the Phil Collins song where the guy lets the other drown but doesn't actually push him into the water doesn't lead to his death?
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  9115. The main difference is social issues and some fights in the margins about taxes.
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  9116. Resonates with the American people? That must be why she is struggling to get to 2%!
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  9117. I keep hearing people in this area (Philadelphia), when they realize that I am from WV, give me grief over my state electing Robert C. Byrd to the Senate nine times (and me voting for him the last two). Well, Byrd apologized and tried to actually make his past right. Is Biden getting away with his casual racism (that he has never apologized for, and pretends to have been standing for civil rights all along) because he doesn't speak with a Southern accent?
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  9118.  @michaelm2998  His husband is the brains behind the operation. I feel sorry for his future kids.
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  9119.  @trentrubenacker9718  That guy's a troll who literally never offers a substantive point. It's better for your sanity to not feed that troll.
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  9120.  @darkdan3379  There is no "perhaps." It's not 100% who voted against their interests. Same thing with these idiots who ignored coronavirus. They made other people sick, too.
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  9121.  @darkdan3379  So, you want to punish the ones who didn't vote that way because they're in the minority?
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  9122.  @mike1134  And that is not enough to win elections. People aren't voting based on who is going to support Ranked Choice Voting if you won't even take substantive opinions on anything else.
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  9123.  @mike1134  You are aware that even in multi-party systems, it always boils down to two parties or coalitions in the end, right? In Canada, it's Liberal or Conservative. In the UK, it's Labour or Conservative. In Germany, it's the SPD and the CDU. In Israel, it's Likud and whatever coalition serves as the opposition. In Australia, it's Labor and Liberal. It's always two. A multi-party system vs. a two-party system is six in one hand, and half a dozen in the other.
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  9124.  @mike1134  Except for Israel where the left collapsed 20 years ago, when is the last time anyone other than the two parties I mentioned ended up PM? My point is that a multi-party system is not "more choices." Every democracy coalesces into two coalitions. The only difference is that a two-party system does it before the election, and a multi-party system does it after. How do you think voters of the FDP felt in 2006 when they campaigned with the CDU, only to get cut out of the governing coalition after the fact?
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  9125.  @mike1134  I support Ranked Choice Voting. However, I am realistic enough to acknowledge that you will still have two dominant parties no matter how you run elections. "Almost 2/3 of USA want a different option than Republican or Democrat." Then, how come no third party has ever gotten more than 27% of the vote, and no third party has gotten more than 5% of the vote since 1996? It's something people say because they think they are supposed to say it.
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  9126.  @mike1134  "have seen support for non major party candidates in prime minister elections" I looked it up. Excluding two periods of 22 and 39 days, Australia hasn't had a PM outside of the Liberal Party or the Labor Party since 1929. Except for En Marche, the Fifth Republic of France has always had a conservative PM, or a socialist PM, even if the party's names have changed. Yes, there are more than two parties in those countries. That is because they have Parliamentary systems instead of a Presidential system. And even then, they end up either on the sidelines or supporting one of the two major parties. Functionally, there isn't a whole lot of difference. The main advantage of Ranked Choice Voting is that it gets rid of the spoiler effect. And, riddle me this, Batman. If "the duopoly refuses to allow Ranked Choice Voting," why did Maine, Alaska, and NYC approve it?
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  9127.  @mike1134  How specifically do the major parties "choke the funding for third parties"? Everyone has to follow the same rules, and the threshold for federal matching funds is identical. This is getting awfully close to conspiracy theory territory.
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  9128.  @mike1134  Trump would have been a Republican regardless, because that's where the money is. He tried his hand at the Reform Party in 2000 (with a very different platform), but there is no money in a third party. By definition, there won't be when you consider 5% a victory.
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  9129.  @mike1134  Let's be honest and actually engage with the point listed. You specifically said that the two parties keep the money from third parties. The Republican Party is one of the biggest funders of the Green Party since at least Nader 2000.
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  9130.  @mike1134  I personally disagree with the 15% rule and would prefer 5%, but ultimately the line has to be drawn somewhere, because as 2016 and 2020 have shown, if you have too many people on stage, it's really impossible to actually learn much of anything from the debate. So, what criteria would you consider to be fair?
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  9131.  @mike1134  Let's use our honesty for a moment. I specifically asked about money, given that you said that the major parties are keeping them from getting money. Now, it looks like you are making the argument that it is because of that sweet, sweet Presidential Matching Fund. Never mind that it has such strict limits that nobody actually accepts it anymore, it is only for Presidential candidates, which really should be the last step for any third party that is serious about running instead of just wanting money. The standard is 5% in the previous Presidential election. If you think that this is some evil conspiracy what do you think that a fair standard should be? And given the fact that the Republican Party has been one of the largest benefactors of the Green Party since at least Nader 2000, it's not like they are would get more if they actually qualified for the matching funds.
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  9132.  @mike1134  As far as debates go, there is a balance between access and making sure that candidates get enough time so that the audience can actually learn something. The last two Presidential cycles demonstrated the problem of too many on stage. So, again, what do you think is a fair standard?
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  9133.  @mike1134  "Maybe you're just ignorant to the campaign finance laws the two parties have written." Other than your whining that 5% is too onerous a standard (and, really, if you can't even get 5% of the vote, you are not a serious or viable candidate), you haven't actually named anything in campaign finance law that hinders third parties from raising money. And I've actually run for office, so I'm pretty sure that I know more about campaign finance law than you do.
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  9134.  @mike1134  Re: ballot access, sometimes third parties are far more lazy than they are willing to admit (then again, maybe the whole trying to get money rather than actually win elections and build a movement plays a role). In my native state, any party that gets 1% in a gubernatorial election gets an automatic ballot line for the next four years. In 2016, both the Mountain Party (started as a state party, but now affiliated with the Green Party) and the Libertarian Party meet that threshold. Of the 117 seats up in the state legislature (all 100 in the House of Delegates and half of the 34 in the State Senate), the Mountain and Libertarian Party each had five House candidates, and the Libertarian Party had two State Senate candidates to one for the Mountain Party. Once again, these are automatic ballot lines. In 2018, the Mountain Party didn't even bother to run a single candidate for State Senate. Yeah, it's those evil major parties keeping them from running those races.
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  9135.  @mike1134  Speaking of someone accusing someone else of ignorance of campaign law, the last Presidential election with a $1000 limit was 2000. McCain/Feingold doubled it and indexed it to inflation. In 2020, the limit was $2800. For 2022, it is $2900. And I must say that I find it interesting that you see this as a way of screwing third parties. Less than 1% of campaign contributors max out. Are you saying that you'd rather have no limits, and do you seriously think that the major parties wouldn't be the major beneficiaries? It's not like there are multi-million dollar Super PACs to benefit third party candidates even though nothing in the law prevents it.
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  9136.  @mike1134  Ross Perot polled as high as 37% in 1992. If the 15% rule was in place before 1992, he'd still have qualified. So, what do you think that the standard should be?
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  9137.  @mike1134  And what criteria should the debate committees use? Say what you will about the 15% threshold, but that is something that you know ahead of time so there is no dispute rather than something random. Oh, and I checked Gallup, and they didn't have Perot included in the polls leading up to the debates. He got back in so abruptly and was allowed on the debate stage with an announcement that he had qualified for the ballot in all 50 states in rapid succession that they almost certainly looked at polls before he dropped out to say that he was viable.
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  9138.  @mike1134  Actually, the Trump vs. Biden debates did inform us of something very important if you knew what to listen for. You literally had a sitting President giving marching orders to a white supremacist group. If you didn't see this as a warning that he would literally make himself as a dictator of he had the chance and 2020 would be the last election if he won, you clearly missed the signs.
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  9139. I wouldn't call Adam Sandler hated. It's like Krusty said, "You're just finished, that's all."
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  9140. Speaking of getting work done, those cheekbones seem a lot more prominent than they were 10-15 years ago.
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  9141. I have friends named Karen, so I can't bring myself to use that word as a putdown.
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  9142. "You can get a whole lot of votes, but if you don't get enough second- or third-choice votes [...] Says the person who was second in each round of counting.
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  9143.  @robertl.fallin7062  I don't know. A plague killed a third of Europe in the 14th century. A lot of cults just keep their kooky to themselves. The problem is that sometimes, it seems hard to tell which ones are the dangerous ones until it is too late. For example, most people who have studied People's Temple said that it was probably a legitimate church in Indiana, but it became a cult in San Francisco. However, in most of the time there, it was known for helping the poor and organizing the community. It wasn't until just before Jim Jones moved to Guyana that people realized what was happening.
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  9144.  @robertl.fallin7062  What did the report say? Registering for Selective Service is real, but for decades, it has come on gone without incident for tens of millions.
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  9145.  MidScream1  White? I thought you wingers just loved Clarence Thomas.
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  9146.  MidScream1  Yes, but he is not white. You said you wanted white male conservative.
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  9147.  @ededdneddy4ever34  Manchin won't do it. He'd never win a Republican primary. His opponent in 2010 and 2012 wanted to abolish Social Security, Medicare, and the minimum wage. Manchin proposed and signed a bill to increase the minimum wage as governor, and he voted to save the ACA. He is literally to the left of every Republican in the Senate. It is better to have half a loaf than not only no loaf, but being forced to vomit up what little bread you already ate.
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  9148.  @passyourielts  Bernie probably figured that Biden would name someone worse.
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  9149.  @passyourielts  Not remotely the same. You just want someone to be Regina George. Bernie keeps his eye on the ball, which is why he focused on her actions to kill a higher minimum wage. I'm guessing that you have never played chess, or at least not played enough to learn how to see a few moves ahead. Let the right do it, so you can then pressure Biden to pick someone to her left.
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  9150.  @ededdneddy4ever34  Well, you want Manchin to give control of the Senate to Republicans in the name of purity, so that shows your political acumen.
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  9151.  @passyourielts  You care about settling personal scores. Bernie cares about results. I guess that's why you don't understand him.
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  9152. The Big Orange Dummy doesn't seem to realize that he is being accused of understating the value of his properties to tax assessors and overstating the value of his properties to banks. At best, he can only beat one of the twoz but he can't win on both. When you have two sets of numbers that are wildly different, you defrauded someone: the state, the banks, or both.
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  9153.  @paddleduck5328  Here is more about her: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammy_Baldwin
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  9154.  @BD-bv3no  There is a Democratic governor who would get to name her successor. That is another major difference between the two.
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  9155.  @paddleduck5328  Any time
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  9156. Any Halfway Decent Primary Opponent 2024!
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  9157.  @stevezelaznik5872  True. I'm just pointing out the risk that you can get someone like that if the strategy backfires, and that's never good.
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  9158.  @jimohara  Cult leaders can buy their own hype, and they can also be, in the words of Creed Bratton, both a leader and a follower.
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  9159.  @dinosaws  Sometimes, I can't tell the difference between a useful idiot on the left or a right-wing troll pretending to be left in order to depress turnout. You make that a lot easier. Your whataboutism, ignoring fascism, ignoring what Trump did to the Kurds and the people of Yemen, and trying to tell people that Trump would be better makes it that much easier to see through your game.
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  9160.  @dinosaws  [citation needed]
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  9161.  @sharifsalem  Again, to use the example of someone who looks like a woman externally, but has testicles instead of ovaries, how should they be treated? And intersex does not mean "biological male." Now, I don't think that just saying "I'm a woman" should be sufficient. (For example, the Boston Marathon took people at their word, but given how unscrupulous that some people can be, and that women of the same age get an extra 30 minutes to qualify compared to men, and they will bump you if you are marginally qualified but others have applied who are farther under the cutoff than you.) However, to insist that everyone born a man shouldn't be allowed to compete goes too far the other way. For example, I was reading a book that was a collection of essays from Runners World. One of them included a MTF athlete. As John, he tended to have an age-graded performance of around 75% (a score of 100% would be equivalent to the world record based on your age and gender, and 50% would be twice as long as the world record based on age), but after fully transitioning, Jane also got age-graded performance scores of around 75%. Thus, she slowed down roughly the same as the difference between men and women her age.
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  9162. If you saw what happened after, he probably wouldn't have had the anonymity. He was the most famous person in the world. Sadly, it would have been a fleeting triumph.
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  9163.  @MrDavidBFoster  You think the context saves her? The I have a Jewish boss defense? There is nothing that she says that refutes the actual argument. She said that his problem was trying to export what he did. Looking at what Hitler tried to do even before Lebensraum doesn't make her argument any better. Complaining about being misrepresented doesn't exactly provide the context that was allegedly there and exonerating.
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  9164.  @MrDavidBFoster  That's why I asked. A lot of people keep posting that as though there's some big truth bomb that makes what she said in the recording somehow not look like she said that what Hitler tried to do would have been fine as long as he stuck to Germany instead of going for Lebensraum.
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  9165.  @MrDavidBFoster  Then what did she say? She said the problem was that he was a "globalist." She said that the problem wasn't his "trying to make Germany great again, but trying to force everyone else to be German everywhere." If your argument is that she was taken out of context, then it is your responsibility to show a context where she didn't say that. Showing her getting angry at the audio being played is not the same thing as showing something in the original audio that would have said that the interpretation of Congressman Lieu, David, myself, and the others who have the interpretation that she seemed fine with what Hitler did as long as he kept it to Germany.
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  9166. 15% is too low? Poppy vetoed a bill capping interest at 14%.
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  9167.  @luxorbis20  Where in the rules does it say that candidates can't coalesce around who they think can win? That is just smart. If all it took was Buttigieg and Klobuchar dropping out, Bernie wasn't in a good place. Maybe if we were smarter, we might actually win. Instead, we end up with debacles like MA-4.
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  9168.  @boreddude3898  This was the highest voter turnout in decades. What makes you think that there were literally 20 million more votes to be had? If they were there, Bernie would have won the nomination. We don't help ourselves by sulking and using conspiracy theories as a coping mechanism. We need to be smarter and continue to build strength by winning some of the party mechanism.
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  9169. I just don't think that he really believes in anything other than what his sponsors tell him to believe.
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  9170. He's gotten that bad? I gave up on him after he bragged to Joe Rogan about not voting with some weird takes about how "dirty" and "boring" it seemed to stand in line.
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  9171.  @bryonmyers1058  Joe Rogan has no particular ideology, except that Dave Rubin and Candace Owens are stupid.
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  9172.  @SouthCom1917  and i-DEE-as
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  9173.  @naejin  So true. I think what we should get rid of are the silent filibusters. You don't like a bill and want to slow it down? Talk and talk to your heart's content.
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  9174. Demand was artificially lowered last year. It was bound to increase this year. And wages are increasing at a faster level than prices, so while inflation is a little high, it's not the worst of problems, and with interest rates near zero, there is still plenty of room to maneuver on the monetary front.
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  9175. I say change it to make it a talking filibuster and change the rules from 3/5 of all Senators to 3/5 of present Senators to defeat it. Schumer is smart to keep it in his quiver so he can threaten McConnell to get rid of it if he does what he did during the Obama years.
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  9176. I bought paper towels today with bamboo fibers. Does that mean that I'm in on it, too?
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  9177.  @JPH1138  Our democracy is crashing into an iceberg, and you're talking about rearranging chairs. The privilege in this statement is astonishing. I have been hearing this argument for 20 years, and how has it worked out?
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  9178.  @JPH1138  You're the one repeating the nonsensical line about how Republicans winning might somehow start some revolution.
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  9179.  Noiseless Sounds  Well, I have no trust for people who write paragraphs about how much Biden sucks and then slip it in several comments later to say that he is preferable. Not as many people read that far down in the thread. They are just trying to have plausible deniability. So, either people like that have no basic understanding of politics or know exactly what they are doing to help their orange master.
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  9180.  Noiseless Sounds  They might, but the frustrating thing is that their actions discourage others from doing so. In the last ten days, I have seen three of these "edgy lefties" take the mask off and show that they are really right wingers. Admittedly, that (and seeing the Green Party being exposed yet again as being stooges of the Republican Party) has me on alert given the stakes of this election.
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  9181.  @JPH1138  I'd hope you think that your argument is a good one.
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  9182.  @JPH1138  When you mention the DNC, it's obvious who you're talking about. It wasn't until your third post when you said that Biden was preferable. Maybe if you don't like getting called it, understand that a lot of people who think they're too cool for school blame both sides or they follow the Krystal Ball model of being incapable of criticizing Trump without getting in a barb at Democrats. If your point is that Trump needs to go, get to the point to start.
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  9183.  @JPH1138  Because burying the good parts or the reason to vote for someone makes it far more difficult to see it, or it modifies it to seem like an add on that you are saying out of obligation.
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  9184.  @JPH1138  As opposed to BOTH SIDES BOTH SIDES BOTH SIDES oh, vote Biden, BOTH SIDES BOTH SIDES BOTH SIDES BOTH SIDES!
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  9185.  @pwp8737  It would be an through conviction in the Senate. That's why the impeachment article is worded the way it is, which takes 2/3 of all present.
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  9186.  @squatch545  What about Bryan Adams? While the Canadian government has apologized many times, do you?
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  9187.  @rf-uj5sc  So, you think that there is doubt about whether or not someone existed when he was mentioned in the writings of Josephus; his brother, half-brother, or step-brother (depending on one's beliefs about the sexual status of his mother) was a well-known and respected figure in Jewish religious circles, and all of these people claimed to have followed him for years? Jesus was a real person. That is not up for debate by any serious person who has looked at the evidence. The only real question that is a matter of debate is what happened after he died.
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  9188.  @rf-uj5sc  Well, anyone can debate anything. We still have people who insist that the earth is flat and Australia isn't real. Do we say Australia's existence is "dubious" or "up for debate"? Among serious and honest people, neither the existence of Jesus nor Muhammad are up for debate. Those who pretend that it is are just people who hate the religion that they or their followers founded and seek to discredit its adherents.
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  9189. Public financing of campaigns is the reform that makes all other reforms possible. Think of all of the things that people kill for fear of offending donors. If those donors can know longer threaten them, that's a huge step. I remember seeing Dennis Kucinich in 2004, and he summed it up perfectly: we can have publicly-funded elections in the public interest, or privately-funded elections in the private interest.
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  9190. So, Google singled out Tulsi for complaining about their business practices, but never did the same thing to Bernie or Warren, the latter who has said that they should be broken up. [In Dr. Evil voice] Riiiiigggghhttt....
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  9191.  @tasha4856  I hear the Coffee Talk lady.
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  9192. They burned my friend!
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  9193.  @djohnson5675  I used to watch the show, until I realized what it actually was. While Saagar likes to say that he hates corporatism, the only policies that he really has that corporations don't like are immigration and trade. Not everyone who has a xenophobic streak is a fascist, but people who are xenophobic who support right wing authoritarian crackdowns usually are. He doesn't argue that corporations should be taxed or antitrust legislation enforced or anything that will actually affect the elites he claims to hate. Right wing populism is not real.
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  9194. It's just a matter of time. He sees who his audience is.
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  9195.  @johnrogers9481  Christ is the Greek translation of Messiah (or Mashiach), which literally means "the anointed one." In Jewish theology, the messiah sets up a kingdom that creates paradise on earth. For Christians, Jesus was the messiah, but the kingdom was not of this world, although some eschatological beliefs say that Jesus will come back and set up the kingdom then. That's why no one else is Christ, but you can have more than one Buddha. Buddha means "enlightened one," so it's based on a level of attainment rather than a role to play.
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  9196.  @moneymike5549  That gets a rim shot ;-)
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  9197.  @Ironraven001  Aaron Dickson, aka Alabama Man and dozens of others, is a right wing troll. He doesn't want Medicare for All.
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  9198. Companies have screwed us for the last 20 years? More like 40+ years. It's been happening since Reagan.
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  9199.  @paleo704  Very few went willingly. The vast majority were injected, and there were armed guards making sure that people drank. Less than 10% did so willingly. If you listen to the death tape, while only one person argues against him, he is begging people to go ahead and do it.
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  9200. Weren't you here trolling everything with Bernie talking about how Warren was ahead of Bernie? Have you still never actually made a substantive point other than "scoreboard" or failing to understand that these so-called Bernie or Bust people not only hated his guts, but more PUMAs voted for McCain in 2008 than BOBs voted for Trump in 2016? Then again, maybe it's because you just don't have anything substantive to say.
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  9201. @Chuck Kistler And what percentage of Bernie voters went for Trump compared to Hillary supporters that went for McCain? How many events did Bernie make for Hillary and how many did she do for Obama? Maybe she should have thanked him for spending so much time in Wisconsin and Michigan after she thought that her money was better spent padding her national vote totals in Chicago and New Orleans instead of Detroit, Madison, Milwaukee, and Pittsburgh.
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  9202. @Yaw F Indeed. I even tried to have substantive conversations, but all he ever wanted to do is yell scoreboard.
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  9203. If you don't count the video footage as the prelude (not sure which will count), "My name is Lester Burnham. In less than a year, I'll be dead... but in many ways, I'm dead already" is a good one.
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  9204.  @RJ-mh3ox  And he's gotten banned several times. By my count, this is at least his fourth account.
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  9205.  @alexanderewasiuk8342  And Trump is leading us to war in Iran, so your argument doesn't hold up. Considering that four of the five Justices on the right-wing bloc were nominated by someone who won in part by losing the popular vote and getting bumped by third-party candidates, Citizens United, the Shelby case, the Janus case, etc., wouldn't be possible without people who actively wanted things to get worse before they get better.
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  9206.  @jazznjive  Indeed. Bernie wouldn't have gotten a fraction of what Biden did through with this Congress. Not because Bernie is a bad negotiator, but the centrists would have sabotaged him from day one.
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  9207.  @miscaccount9438  Actually, when refusing to vote for the lesser evil when there is literally a non-zero chance of anyone but the two major parties winning means that you allow the greater evil in order to pat yourself on the back.
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  9208.  @miscaccount9438  If you think that the Democratic Party meets the test for actual fascism, you are either lying to yourself or you are lying to us in order to play the useful idiot.
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  9209.  @miscaccount9438  "this is why you organize" And organizing takes years, even decades. What have you actually done to organize?
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  9210.  @miscaccount9438  What have you actually done? Give some examples. Commenting on videos online doesn't count.
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  9211.  @miscaccount9438  You're trying to change the argument because you know that if you point out the big, fat nothing you've done, you'll be embarrassed. If organizing is the end goal, you should be able to give examples of what you've done. I can.
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  9212.  @miscaccount9438  Not supporting a fool's errand of supporting a third party isn't "advocating against organizing."
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  9213. Carol Griffiths is not the hero we deserve, but she is the hero we need. PS Lancaster County has a lot of weird town names (Intercourse and Blue Ball come to mind), so maybe that's where she is from.
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  9214.  @jonfklein  Yeah, and that won't happen as long as the rules are what they are. If you really want to have a chance at breaking up the two-party system, you don't start with protest votes. You start with abolishing the Electoral College and implementing Ranked Choice Voting. Anything that doesn't acknowledge that having two nakpr parties is a rational choice based on the way our rules are set up is doomed to failure.
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  9215.  @ExterminatorElite  Excellent explanation of what these people are really doing and its fatal flaw!
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  9216.  @SSky06  Clarence Thomas is only 71, with no known health problems. He's not going anywhere any time soon now that more of his clones are on the bench. And, there is a difference between 5-4 and 6-3. With a 5-4 bench, you can get one to swing fairly easily. If it is 6-3, it is much more difficult a lift to get two to switch. Roberts was willing to allow the ACA to stand if the liberal Justices agreed not to use the Commerce Clause to do it. Knowing that his vote would still put it in the minority, do you honestly believe that he would allow Medicare for All to stand? Heck, it wouldn't surprise me if he'd go along with the other five to get rid of Medicare entirely if he got that case.
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  9217.  @SSky06  If Republicans are so smart about retiring early, why didn't Scalia retire in 2006?
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  9218.  @jonfklein  That is a typo. It was supposed to be "major." So, rating candidates on a scale of 1-5 is totally going to be less complicated and less susceptible to corruption than ranking candidates? Thank you. I needed the laugh. Seriously, though, it sounds like you don't like the idea because you know who will likely be in the top two and want instead a byzantine system that will force voters to rate every single candidate in the hopes that some obscure candidate will sneak through with a handful of five-star votes and a lit of apathy. You also don't seem to understand how political parties work. The people are the party. If enough people vote for it and demand it, it will happen. Just because you want to give up and make a lot of people suffer doesn't mean that your way has demonstrated actually working. My argument of taking over the party actually has.
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  9219.  @jonfklein  The fact that you don't seem to get that people actually get to vote, and don't have to go along with what the elites want, shows that, for someone who talks about using magical thinking to overthrow the two-party system as though it will lead to some grand utopia (ask Israel how their multi-party system is working) shows that you don't understand the real power that you have. Well, maybe not you personally, because you would rather chase a fantasy than actually use it (or work with others to make it come to pass and not give up after one or two bites at the apple). And THAT is why the third-party movement will continue to fail. I mean, the best that a third party can really hope for is to get its ideas co-opted by one or both of the major parties (See: People's Party, 1892-96; Perot, Ross). And I am no Biden volunteer. Other than demonstrating the bankruptcy of politics as underpants gnomes, I am making no effort. I know that I won't convince you, but I am showing anyone who reads it what is down the rabbit hole.
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  9220.  @jonfklein  And this idea of "ranked choice voting is inferior because it takes longer" is ridiculous. The reason why it took longer in ME-2 is because there was no majority. ME-1 was a clear majority, and it didn't take long at all. It also didn't help that the Republican kept filing all these injunctions to try to stop the count. But we have a two-month gap between elections and the term beginning for a reason. It is to give the process time to count the votes. The world won't end if people have to wait an extra couple of days. And you know what is worse than strategic voting when there will be a run-off (and there are several ways to do it, with some just putting the top two in the run-off then and there)? A candidate who, instead of actually having a clear mandate from the electorate, is some "Okay, this person got 2.9 stars out of five, so I guess he/she will do." For better or worse, elected officials need the stamp of the people.
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  9221.  @jonfklein  If you honestly think that protest votes will get rid of two party dominance without doing anything about money in politics, you clearly haven't been paying attention. In 2000, Nader clearly wanted to play spoiler, although he now denies it. Because of that, he went to swing states instead of going to places like California to run up the score. He got 2.74% of the vote. In 2004, he got less than 0.5%. There is no election in American history where a third party got more than 5% (which hasn't happened since 1996) where that party or candidate didn't see a dramatic drop the second time, assuming it still existed. My dollar says that the third-party vote will he far smaller than the 5-6% it was last year with all the votes combined. Why do you think this time will be any different? It would have been much lower the last time if more people realized that Trump actually had a chance. And when I said that people can vote for whoever they want, that was in the context of the primary and local party officials. People usually don't even bother to challenge the establishment for those races. If they did, a lot of establishment candidates would lose.
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  9222.  @jonfklein  Score voting will not reflect the stamp of approval, because it will result in longer voting times, because it takes far longer to rate every single candidate. A system that discourages turnout is not a sweeping mandate.
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  9223.  @jonfklein  Yeah, and that means ignoring the effects of a vote as merely collateral damage. On the days I wake up with a sore back for being sent to a war that the other major party candidate opposed because just enough people in Florida insisted that there really were no differences between the parties, I am reminded of why voting third party like an underpants gnome is bad. So, what do you expect to actually change by your third-party vote without action on the Electoral College and public financing of campaigns? And how do you expect to bring it about? Talking about changing the system while ignoring the rules reminds me of watching someone play chess by trying to jump pieces instead of capture them.
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  9224.  @jonfklein  So, your argument is to go with magical thinking. My argument is to look at what actually has worked in the past and take over one of the major parties. I heard that a vote for Nader would shake up the system in 2000, and that didn't happen. I heard the same about Stein and Johnson in 2016, and now we watch hopelessly as hundreds of thousands will die due to incompetence. And you wonder why people rightfully point out the privilege in the argument of just so much collateral damage all because you didn't get your way.
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  9225.  @jonfklein  It is part of the bigger picture. Having party loyalty to change the amount of damage, and then fighting to get the local seats that develop the infrastructure to take over the party.
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  9226.  @rebirthoflegend4797  Or a spouse. Given that Thomas was on the Court 30 years ago when he thought he had Roe overturned, he and/or his wife decided "Never again."
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  9227.  I'm racist  You didn't "eviscerate him." You said that he was better in long form, and said that we should watch that to get to know the real Yang. When he was alive, I thought Alan Colmes was better on radio and books than TV. It didn't mean that I tore him a new one.
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  9228.  I'm racist  The troll whining for getting got singing off the hymnal? Classic. Again, how does saying that he's bad at interviews contradict my point?
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  9229.  @yao052  What ideas of his specifically were fresh and new?
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  9230.  @jocksharerock7318  The moment that I realized that Kim Iversen was a grifter was when she defended David Duke to defend Tulsi.
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  9231.  @celieboo  Hers was the fastest in history. Pretty much from the beginning, she used anti-democracy arguments to defend the Electoral College.
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  9232.  @bigbrocook2119  UBI is neither left nor right. Everything depends on how it is structured, and he made it as right wing as possible, both by excluding the poor and disabled, and by using a regressive tax to pay for it. And, yes, he talked about automation, but he also wanted to do nothing about it other than give people what he described to Ben Shapiro as "the magic of a thousand bucks a month because it is below the poverty level for one person, which means that people will have to work in order to live any life of meaning." But, if there's no job in the future, how can that happen? He was a grifter all along, and any examination of what he said on right-wing shows was the real Andrew Yang.
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  9233.  @devorahacts  Tulsi wasn't for "stopping the wars." She defended Biden on his 2002 Iraq position in 2019, she supported torture, she opposed the Iran nuclear deal, and she defended Modi sending troops into Kashmir. She was never a dove. When you paid attention to her rhetoric, "regime change wars" really just meant "wars I don't like." Oh, and after Biden left Afghanistan, she complained that he did and wanted more drone strikes in the region. With friends like her, who needs enemies?
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  9234.  @kingloufassa  Except it wasn't "on big tech," any more than a sales tax is a tax on retail stores.
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  9235. Well, that state never got counted, either. There were about 180,000 votes that never got counted because Scalia said that would throw in doubt the legitimacy of Bush's claims to victory.
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  9236. Did Der Orangefuhrer just say "money and lives, in that order"? Way to have solid priorities, Donald.
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  9237.  @Boredasfuck29  That doesn't prevent him from going to bed with Hitler's speeches next to his bed.
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  9238.  @TheJohnnyonthespot1  Oh, Yang loves his dog whistles. After the Tree of Life shooting, he used the occasion to talk about how dangerous it would be for America to become majority minority and how his Freedom with 125 Strings Attached Dividend would somehow make people less angry about that. Truly despicable.
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  9239.  @pragmaticpolitics1413  So, you love hearing him defend using regressive taxes to pay for something that the poor and disabled don't benefit from but have to pay into?
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  9240.  @pragmaticpolitics1413  You said that you didn't like his UBI, but you liked his funding idea. If anything, that's the worst part of his proposal that he actually mentioned. Only six states in this country have overall progressive taxation. Do you really want the federal government to go down that road, too? And I'm not the one singing the praises of the worst possible method of taxation around. I engaged your position directly.
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  9241.  @pragmaticpolitics1413  If the goal of a UBI is to deal with poverty, a consumption tax is a terrible way to fund it, Projection Man.
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  9242.  @kalaba360  So, a person getting $200,000/year has to get it or it isn't really UBI, but people getting any one of 125 programs, seven of which he only bothered to specify (TANF, SNAP, WIC, LIHEAP, SSI, daycare subsidies, housing subsidies) not getting it without giving up those benefits for life is just fine? [In Dr. Evil voice] Riiight.
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  9243.  @pragmaticpolitics1413  You said you liked his funding mechanism. It makes no sense to support trillions of dollars in taxation if you don't support the policy behind it.
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  9244.  @pragmaticpolitics1413  Neither are good. What is the aim of a UBI? A regressive tax doesn't turns any possible advantages into the equivalent of hitting the gas and the brakes at the same time.
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  9245.  @kalaba360  Why do the poor and disabled have to choose while the better off don't? You're using buzzwords to conceal the truth. 1) The solution to the current social safety net is not to destroy it. There are people with acute issues and there will continue to be. Frictional unemployment and disability will still be a thing even if Yang gets his way. 2) I never said someone making that much isn't paying into the system. I said that people making more get to keep their welfare for the rich, but the poor and disabled don't. 3) The people who need that extra help will now be paying a VAT, which reduces their purchasing power. Those people will also fall behind relatively speaking, even ignoring the inevitable effects on things like rent since Yang opposed rent control. And this idea that people who get those benefits are unproductive leeches shows the ignorance behind the typical right-wing responses to the existing social safety net. The vast majority of people getting just the seven benefits that he listed work. The other 118 that he kept a big secret were probably going to hit a lot more middle-class people than realize it.
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  9246.  @kalaba360  Where did it come from? It came from Dave Rubin asking him why he doesn't just destroy the existing social safety net, and Yang told him that as more people sign up for the Freedom with 125 Strings Attached Dividend, it will be more politically palatable to do so. Nobody made him say that.
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  9247.  @kalaba360  Yeah, your statement shows that you still don't understand how progressive and regressive taxation works. It is based off the percentage of income. Someone making 100K does not need to spend as high a percentage of income as the poor in order to survive. Saving is a luxury. If you save, you aren't paying the tax. In my adopted home state of Pennsylvania, we exempt staple goods from our sales tax such as groceries, clothing, medicine, and diapers. End result? The poorest 20% pay nearly ten times what the richest 1% do as a percentage of income. Therefore, it is a regressive tax, and the single parent with two small children making $20,000/year and almost certainly also getting SNAP, WIC, and LIHEAP has to pay the tax and gets nothing. The person making $100K pays the tax and gets something for it.
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  9248.  @kalaba360  Do you consider books to be a luxury item? A tax on luxury goods is an excise tax, and it is not sufficient to raise that kind of money at the percentages he is talking about. You aren't getting 12% of GDP by taxing yachts and Rolexes alone.
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  9249.  @kalaba360  You want an example of welfare for the rich? Imagine a multimillionaire who pays a house worth $8MM with a 3% interest rate on the mortgage. At the current tax rates, this person just got a tax break of $88,800, which Yang is fine with, but a poor working person getting a combined $750/month in SNAP and WIC is a problem that has to be avoided. It's not just corporate subsidies. Rich people get all kinds of deductions. For example, look at where most of the money goes when someone claims the charitable deduction. It's not things for the poor. When rich people do it, it tends to be for things that benefit them.
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  9250.  @kalaba360  If you really tried to poke holes it, then you would have seen the obvious ones, unless you are just fine with the right-wing version paid for by a regressive tax. You clearly stopped at "I get free money" and worked backwards to justify that conclusion. When I first heard him, I thought it was a needed conversation. As soon as I heard just some of the details, I was off that train and swore to do whatever I could to point out the fine print and deal with the lies used to justify the fine print. (I am not calling you a liar, but Yang.)
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  9251.  @kalaba360  Well, then you did very poor research because "stacked" means both/and in this context, and 125 of the existing programs are either/or, and Yang only ever bothered to mention seven by name that he didn't later backtrack: TANF, SNAP, SSI, WIC, LIHEAP, housing subsidies, and daycare subsidies. However, we know it was 125 because Yang said 126 before he changed his mind about RSDI and then said 125 after. The mere fact that you are defending the idea that it isn't both/and shows the cognitive dissonance by those who support this while trying to make arguments for the left: the things that you say that "make it work" are the exact opposite of what Yang wanted to do, yet you actually defend his proposal.
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  9252.  @kalaba360  So, you think that something that is balanced on the backs of the poor and disabled "works better for most people"? And Yang's proposal was horrible because it ignored the larger issues that caused the problems in the first place, many of which it made worse.
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  9253.  @kalaba360  It ends homelessness? Yes, because the government bureaucracy that you Yang Gang bangers hate is going to be able to find every single homeless person, many of whom have no bank account, and get them their money. [In Dr. Evil voice] Riiight. Not to mention that if they have no bank account (which is hard to get without an ID or physical address), you are essentially making them carry a lot of cash around until they can get enough money for their security deposit and first and last month's rent, and hope that landlords actually want to rent to them, given that one of the things that they look at is your history of paying rent. This is just an invitation for robbery as designed since Yang and his Gang think that they don't actually need to do anything else to deal with homelessness. And guess what? I'm a caseworker, and I get plenty of applications from homeless people, so you're giving with one hand and taking away with another.
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  9254.  @kalaba360  Telling people "here is a list of 125 programs that you can't take for the rest of your life if you take this money" isn't a string?
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  9255.  @kalaba360  The criticism is that it is a regressive benefit with a regressive tax to pay for it, and the person advocating it wants to ultimately get rid of the existing social safety net, which means that if people's circumstances change, it will lead to a lot of devastation. Because he refuses to give the full list of the 125 programs, people have no way of knowing ahead of time whether or not they are affected by the either/or nature of the plan. If it was both/and, paid for by a progressive tax, and societal issues were addressed, that would be another story, but it isn't, so those are three strikes, and three strikes means you are out.
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  9256.  @kalaba360  But the person making $2000/month with the two small children in daycare gets nothing. And even if nothing else applies and that person is just getting the 1000 straight up, and then loses his/her job, now that person can't apply for unemployment or any other government benefits, has to deal with a regressive tax, and oh I hope the house is paid off, because if the mortgage was obtained based on income including the Freedom with 125 Strings Attached Dividend, now the person making $2000/month has to live off of a third that. Oh, no. I do pay attention to both sides of the ledger, and that's why I know this is a horrible proposal advocated by libertarians who want to destroy the existing social safety net and people who only see the money and didn't read the fine print.
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  9257.  @kalaba360  Did people have to give up their existing benefits in order to get the stimulus checks? Absolutely not. And your argument for VAT+ Yang Bucks is hitting the gas and the brakes at the same time at best, which ignores the people who won't get a penny but still have to pay the tax.
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  9258.  @kalaba360  So, you don't care what the millionaire does with the tax deduction and should get it as he/she sees fit, but you support a program where a working parent who gets daycare subsidies is clearly a problem so great that he/she can't get both? Congratulations. The mask is finally off. You have exposed yourself as not caring about the poor and working people at all and shown yourself to be a right winger trying to convince lefties that this is good for us.
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  9259.  @kalaba360  In my example, the working parent makes $20,000/year. The daycare subsidies are already about $1500/month, and the SNAP for three people at that level is close to $700/month, and WIC is probably another $100-150/month. So, that person clearly would be better off with what we have now. Because of that, this person suddenly has to pay a VAT so some millionaire can get a little bit of extra money. Either people who support this approach know exactly what they are doing and are purposely trying to hurt the poor and disabled, or they don't know and would unwittingly do so, and Yang specifically mentioned daycare subsidies as one of the 125. Since you "did the research," you should know this, so why are you lying?
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  9260.  @kalaba360  The difference is that unemployment pays 60% of income from work. Therefore, anyone making more than $19,200/year would end up worse off with the Yang proposal, and that's ignoring that there are other programs that person would be eligible for under the existing system such as SNAP (and LIHEAP if that job loss occurs in the fall or winter).
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  9261.  @kalaba360  What you got from my example was a point about low interest rates? It was a point about the mortgage interest deduction. That's why I listed the interest rate in the hypothetical.
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  9262.  @kalaba360  Yang doesn't want rent control. Again, stop trying to defend what you are putting on Yang. Defend his actual arguments. Easier to check and less bureaucracy? Who do you think is going to check to make sure there is no double dipping? It's almost an unfair fight because I actually know how things currently work and what Yang advocates and you don't.
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  9263. I wasn't thinking game show. I was thinking 90s talk show host. Speaking of which, I read a book where I finally found out why people agreed to go on The Jerry Springer Show. The producers give a list of 20 or so things that they could be invited to the show for. One of them was always something positive like "surprise proposal." How did it take 26 years for them to run out of guests? Are people that optimistic?
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  9264. When it comes to economics, Destiny is pretty right wing. Not that he isn't doing important things, but I'm not surprised Faraday thought he was a right winger.
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  9265. The fancy kind, maybe. Here in PA, it's about 3, 3.50.
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  9266.  @Jennifer-jt9cb  The cheapest here is a store brand that's a little less than two. Sometimes, though, people are as inaccurate with prices as Lucille Bluth is with a banana.
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  9267.  Lanzy Fabian  If it were up to American voters, Moscow Donald would be peddling conspiracy theories on Trump TV. Only 46% voted for him. Too high, to be sure, but less than his opponent, and a lower percentage than Romney four years earlier.
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  9268. Apparently, Brooke doesn't understand that it is possible to push back against awful people. Williamson did that to Rubin. Bernie did that to Ainsley Earhart. I don't think it should be a primary place to go, but it's worth a shot to try to pop the bubble, unlike those who go on and agree with the awful cough Yang cough
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  9269. Andrew Yang
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  9270.  @65minimom  Poppy and Biden did.
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  9271. A lot of us here do, too. Unfortunately, not quite enough to keep that dummy out of office.
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  9272. I remember a website that had a list of stories by abortion probiders about anti-abortion avtvists getting abortions. It was pretty lengthy. I also remember going to a debate between the head of Weat Virginians for Life and WV Free as an undergrad. The former had not one, but two abortions. I can almost understand being so traumatized by something that you fight hard against it, but to do it twice?
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  9273.  @h..8083  So, the whole core and mantle are nothing? Not the defense you think it is.
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  9274.  @johngalt84nyc  Not sure, but I was being sarcastic about this conspiracy nut job digging his hole deeper.
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  9275.  @johngalt84nyc  So, you go from that to "the center of the earth might just be empty"? If you were alive in the 15th century, you would have insisted that the sun revolves around the earth.
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  9276.  @TayTayMakesBeats  That dummy's been copying and pasting the same thing all over this video.
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  9277.  @johngalt84nyc  If that makes you sleep at night. See, Galileo actually had evidence, not speculation.
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  9278. I almost beat Ted Cruz, so I can beat Donald Trump!
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  9279. I remember that he said that he wanted a woman significantly younger with a similar worldview. I think Tammy Baldwin might be a great pick based on those criteria, and she also comes from Wisconsin, which is vital to any electoral strategy.
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  9280.  @Cbass2311  He had a sidekick, too, Steven's Dad.
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  9281.  @Cbass2311  So, that's why he has a history of storming the stage to perform his "comedy"?
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  9282.  @elijahjames8837  Then why was it impossible with man in the next paragraph?
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  9283.  @laurenhilbert7805  Have you seen "The Good Place"? They have a very interesting discussion of this very issue. In the show, rather than questions of religious faith, it is one of philosophies regarding good and evil. At one point, it is revealed that, because of the ripple effects, things cause harm when we think we are doing good. I personally think that such things need to be solved systematically or all the individual goodwill in the world won't do a bit of good.
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  9284. Objection! Not Riverside, West Covina. It's right in the season one them song, "West Covina, California. That's where Josh is, but that's not why I'm heeeere."
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  9285. It's not a libertarian caller until the Free-dumb Phone Line has a bad connection.
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  9286.  @turboaram1970  Oh, and Amazon still wouldn't pay taxes. Did you not notice during the tariff debate how taxes on goods actually works? If he really wants Amazon to pay taxes, he can get rid of loopholes. He's a New Yorker, so why wasn't he fighting the $3B in corporate welfare they were going to get for their new headquarters?
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  9287. ​ @taranullius9221  It is important to have a strategic mindset,.but it seems like lately he's had a lot of misses.
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  9288.  @GaryHighFruit  Behind every narcissist lies great insecurity.
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  9289.  @treeslikeflowers  So, you hope Trump wins all because you didn't get catered to? What did you actually do to try to help Bernie win? Or did you just sit and complain and then get mad that reality didn't hand to your will? If you don't like getting called out for ignoring the consequences of doing nothing to stop fascism, too bad. You can whine on all the comment sections you want, but all of your my-me-mine only proves the point.
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  9290.  @Nackdad  You can't recall federal officials. Why do people keep suggesting things that are literally impossible?
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  9291.  @givepeaceachance940  Sinema won her state by two and Manchin won by three. How is that secure? Manchin is different in the sense that the party knows that there really is no alternative in his state because of how red it is, but Sinema is in a state where Biden won and a Democratic Senator to her left is doing much better in Arizona. Just the other day, I saw Ruben Gallego being pushed as a challenger.
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  9292.  @mattgaetzcongressman2290  So, you came here expecting us to praise an act of war? You made a wrong turn somewhere.
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  9293. At a certain point, impeachment is about accountability. If Nancy Pelosi keeps blocking it, she will send the message that any President can do anything with impunity.
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  9294.  @2nd-place  Then, who did you vote for?
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  9295.  @tjw1861  The gap in American politics won't be filled by grifters who refuse to take a position and work to split the opposition to fascism.
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  9296.  @razzan532  Indeed. He took the idea of Milton Friedman and managed to make it even worse by adding a regressive tax to it.
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  9297.  @user-roninwolf1981  Indeed. He was a silver medalist for me, but I spent a lot of time warning people about him once I realized who he really was.
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  9298.  @SeanStrife  Except, as anyone who has knocked on doors will tell you, while the name is popular, a lot of people are actually talking about a public option.
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  9299. Most of the people on the ballot aren't actually running to be President. Most of them are running to try to become Trump's running mate. Hence, why only Christie (and to a lesser extent Hutchinson and Pence) has actually criticized him.
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  9300. Chris Christie seems to be running for spite against Trump, and I'm here for it.
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  9301.  @myaudiobookschannel3625  I have heard the Smart Advisers Defense for 20 years. It gave us Bush and Trump. How did that work out?
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  9302. It takes a plurality of votes in a state, but a majority of electoral votes to win. If no one gets a majority, it goes to the House... where it will be decided by Democrats and Republicans. Maybe understand that instead of some evil conspiracy, our two-party system is the natural result of our electoral system. And if you go other way, do you really want the multi-party system of Israel where they can't even form a government?
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  9303. "I don't have o-pin-i-ons, Jon. My job is to spend 50% of my time reporting what Democrats say, and 50% of my time reporting what Republicans say. It's called 'objectivity.'" Rob Corddry, The Daily Show, 2004
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  9304.  Sparky McCloud  I'm not saying that is my goal. What I am saying is that if I see a potential convert, in a world where you have to win a majority, I'm not going to push someone back to Trump who wants out. Please learn how math works.
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  9305.  @crispinfornoff206  Do they sanitize the microphone after every speaker? It may be "acceptable," but maybe he just has more care about his colleagues. Yeah, we wouldn't want to have false narratives, like saying that Trump has been on top of things and taking the threat seriously.
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  9306.  @crispinfornoff206  Are you saying that you think Trump has done a bad job in responding to coronavirus?
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  9307.  @crispinfornoff206  Well, you said that I was wrong to "make assumptions, so why not answer the question of whether or not you think Trump has done a good job. In the meantime, there has been yet more evidence on this front.
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  9308.  @f_youtubecensorshipf_nazis  Darn right! Speaking of which, has anyone else noticed how no President has had a good second term since the Twenty-second Amendment?
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  9309.  @yossarrian  We already have term limits. They are called elections.
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  9310.  @antondevonlh  McConnell is a Senator. You can't gerrymander a Senate seat.
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  9311.  @yossarrian  If people wanted someone different, they would vote for someone different. Even if you were to somehow get rid of Evil Turtle, nobody better is taking his place. The problem isn't that he sucks (and he does), but that the people of Kentucky keep voting him into office. You make it sound like people are forcing them to cast their votes for him.
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  9312.  Toyman Blood  I think it was a random swing state like Colorado or something.
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  9313.  @JessMan508  And if you do follow the money, a lot of it went in the pockets of Jill Stein and her campaign staff. I doubt they used 10% for the stated purpose of that money. It was a pure con job.
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  9314.  @JessMan508  The polls where they are include, they get 1% or less.
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  9315.  @JessMan508  Trump refused to appoint enough people for the FEC to have a quorum, so you can't do that. Yet another example of Greens and Republicans working together to keep the grift going.
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  9316.  @RisingRecluse  Well, if her support didn't look like an incel chat room, people wouldn't wonder such things. Especially considering the way that it seems like no evidence will dissuade them from their chosen one. I have literally seen people watch a video of her give a scenario straight from Hollywood where torture is acceptable and insist that is not what she said. Ditto the letter where she praised Sisi after killing protesters in Egypt.
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  9317.  @bcw1313  Tulsi does not support peace. She is an isolationist. There is a massive difference.
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  9318.  @robt400  Agreed
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  9319.  @bcw1313  The discussion was not about Bernie. I don't go on videos not related to Bernie to talk him up, because that would be rude and distract from the candidate at hand. However, since you asked for reasons, Bernie has consistently opposed kidnapping children at the border. He supports comprehensive immigration reform that does not use "guest worker" designation to screw over both immigrant and native born. He voted against making it more difficult for Syrian refugees to enter the United States. He has never courted Sheldon Adelson and did his bidding to try to get rid of his competition in the form of online gambling. He is the only candidate who has never taken dark money. He was right on Iraq. He was right on the Iran nuclear deal and never compared it to Munich. He has consistently opposed torture. Just a few reasons why I support Bernie.
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  9320.  @bcw1313  Literally every single one of the things that I mentioned are the exact opposite of Tulsi Gabbard. Every one. If those core values sound good, maybe that says something about the candidate who you support.
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  9321.  @bcw1313  Do you deny that she has a substantial portion of alt right support? I don't think all of her supporters are alt right, but at a certain point, if David Duke likes your candidate, maybe it's a good idea to ask why.
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  9322.  @bcw1313  You'll take a Paul under any circumstances? They oppose civil rights, the only bailout the elder Paul thinks was a good idea was for slaveholders, they want to do nothing about climate, and they accept the supply side theory. Oh, and they have no problem with people dying for a lack of health insurance. Oh, yeah, they aren't bad at all. Those who call themselves alt right are white nationalists who relabeled themselves once people caught on to their racist views, who of course are just relabeled white supremacists. When Stormfront and David Duke love you, you are clearly the darling of the alt right.
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  9323.  @bcw1313  No, it doesn't, but when Duke loves her for her policy, that is far different.
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  9324.  @bcw1313  For someone who talks a big game about peace, when someone actually points out the difference between isolation and peace, you think, "Well, maybe I am wrong about peace." That sounds like concern trolling to me. Maybe if Tulsi supporters were honest actors and not obsessed with personality over principle, then maybe supporters of other candidates wouldn't call them and their candidate out so much. We point out how she doesn't live up to the ideals that she claims to believe, and you respond by saying that maybe those ideals were wrong.
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  9325.  @420JackG  Since she can't be President or Vice President, why not Speaker? Nothing prohibits her from that.
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  9326. ​ @AccidentalBertha  So, you go with both siderism and respond by pointing out something Republicans are doing? Both siderism helps Republicans by convincing people it is hopeless.
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  9327.  Dj Luminol  Indeed. That's why I ask the proponents of this nonsense what they have done to build support.
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  9328.  @dalekrenegade2596  Thank you. I will look into it. It is so frustrating when people who haven't done the actual work to get the support for the bill act like they are the only ones doing anything, and they don't understand that beating 104 primary opponents takes far more work than the work they blew off to instead "force the issue."
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  9329.  @josephsiragusa  That's a good one. You could also say that it's like a rocket where you need the O-ring, but it's not ready yet, and they just want to see the lift off, but when you say, "the O-ring isn't working," they say, "You don't care about space travel!"
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  9330. @Rick Vis That's just it, you want to force a vote. Nothing says that vote will be Yes. Unlike you, I was part of an effort in Philadelphia (through DSA and Philly for Bernie, but other organizations such as Health Care 4 All PA and Neighborhood Networks played a role), and through our efforts, we got two members (Dwight Evans and Brendan Boyle) to sign on to the bill. Your accusation is your confession, because I have actually done the work.
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  9331. @Rick Vis What did they accomplish? I guess that $600/week supplemental unemployment meant nothing to anyone. And for one simple reason why the base is able to push the Republican Party to the right: in most elections, the Republican Party only needs the base, while the base is insufficient for Democrats. This is because the anti-democratic parts of the Constitution have gone into high gear. In this election, Biden got 7MM more votes than Trump, but a swing of less than 44,000 votes in the right states would have thrown it into the House where Republicans control enough state delegations to give the election to Trump. In the last election, Hillary beat Trump by over 3MM, but lost the election. Democrats routinely get more votes for House and Senate and end up in the minority. It takes time to build an actual governing majority.
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  9332. @Rick Vis No, because it is part of a larger strategy to then get to 218, and when you get there, then you put the pressure on to get a discharge petition. Demanding a vote when it is doomed to fail is not the same thing. And I guarantee that it doesn't say that you force your hand when it is a losing hand. So, what have you actually done to build support?
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  9333. @Rick Vis Who put the amendment in there in the first place? It was an amendment by Bernie. Do you really think that it would have been added otherwise? The bill would have passed regardless, so the question is whether it gets passed with something that helps people.
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  9334. So, Bernie needs to go? People age in different ways and at different rates.
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  9335.  @seanking1775  Boomer? I'm Generation X. How many Green Party candidates are in Congress? How many have ever been there in 50 years of trying? Funny the people who complained that Biden didn't do anything about evictions seemed to completely miss that the Supreme Court struck it down. But, yes, there was no difference between Bush and Gore or Trump and Clinton. And considering the Green Party's history of working with Republicans to sabotage Democrats since Nader, it shouldn't be a shock that the answer to the question I posed is a nice round number, so Sinema didn't flip. She came full circle.
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  9336.  @dirkdiggler7277  So, you have no problem with a party that reserves the right to overturn an election and take the decision away from the election boards? Yeah, that's not going to have a problem. It all depends on how the question is worded. My adopted home state tried to enact a poll tax, I mean voter ID law, in 2012. The then-House Majority Leader admitted that it was done to try to throw the election to Romney, and the state was unable to find any examples of impersonation voter fraud. A Supreme Court that was majority Republican at the time threw it out. And why do I not want to move because of this alleged potential for fraud? Well, the mere fact that it would have left 1 in 11 voters without the necessary documentation to vote, with disproportionate numbers of poor, elderly, and urban voters, it's not hard to see the real intent of these laws.
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  9337.  @dirkdiggler7277  Where is your evidence that it's such a tiny fraction?
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  9338. Interest free would knock the mortgage payment down, but it still doesn't change the fact that there are a lot of people who can't afford to pay six figures for a house, and some places where you can't get a house about the size of an average apartment without paying... [zoom in] one million dollars.
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  9339.  @evasartorius9528  But a cap on a mortgage isn't a cap on actual housing prices. There isn't really anything here that will actually force prices downward. If you put the cap at $250K, that is just going to price people out of certain areas and keep the speculators in place. A lot of them can afford to pay cash outright.
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  9340.  @evasartorius9528  But if the person in the scenario listed doesn't make a payment because of the need for life-saving treatment, what will actually keep the person in the house, especially given your emphasis in the OP that if you default on the loan this is your one and only chance to own a house and "you blew it and won't get another one."
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  9341.  @evasartorius9528  Even if you don't have to worry about medical costs, people still get divorced, and that effectively dooms people to a lifetime of renting. Re: mortgage insurance, I have never heard of such a thing
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  9342.  @evasartorius9528  Your system doesn't mean no one can get a mortgage. If someone has the money for jacked up price, that market and incentive remain. It also does nothing to change the fact that people will want to live in places like that, so they'll be willing to pay a lot of rent for things like better education.
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  9343.  @evasartorius9528  I get the motivation. I'm not saying that it's a bad motivation or intent. My point is that such a thing won't really solve the issue that is the problem. There isn't really anything that would actually reduce the cost of housing, which is the main reason why most renters rent. "They could build it and use it as an rental house" Isn't the whole point that you don't want people renting and being at the mercy of a landlord? Doesn't this defeat the purpose?
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  9344.  @evasartorius9528  If you are really thinking of working people, then why a proposal that keeps the poor people renting in so many desirable areas? Don't tell me what your intention is, show me how it would actually work. And, I don't know if you've ever been married, but having the house in only one spouse's name is a recipe for disaster. And even if you get all of your medical bills paid for, if you can't work, you won't make enough to protect you from the decrease of income if you get hurt on the job and can't work. Even if we solved that one problem, that doesn't make your solution any better or more feasible.
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  9345.  @Shtoops  Michael was a great man, but we cannot deny that he had his blind spots when it came to people who he saw as friends.
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  9346. Donald Trump calling someone else a fascist is like Emmanuel Lewis calling someone short.
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  9347.  @schumanhuman  How would a land value tax work on rural property? My brother owns a lot of land that he got dirt cheap, but you can't really develop on it.
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  9348.  @schumanhuman  Wouldn't it be better if the incentives were to hold stocks? I think they should be taxed at the same rate as income, but I think that we have to be careful about having even greater incentive to engage in so much price speculation rather than actually finding a good company to invest in. (In the interest of disclosure, I would say that my economic philosophy is more grounded in Keynes and the original Populist movement rather than a socialist/Marxist bent, but I am a YOUge Bernie supporter.)
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  9349.  @PFBM86  True, but do you really want to count on that? I doubt Manchin beats Mooney, either. He barely won in 2018, and he's made no effort the last two years to keep the left on his side. In all honesty, that's why I don't think he'll ultimately go through with a No Labels run: he doesn't want to go out a loser getting single digits. As Al Franken once said, being an undeclared Presidential candidate is both easy and lucrative.
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  9350.  @JohnnyDelco  That's not what that means.
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  9351.  @TheJesselopez1981  But her nomination made Trump possible.
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  9352.  @issaciams  If a majority of Americans want a Democratic President, that's what we should get. If a majority of Americans want a Republican President, that's what we should get. Fill in the blank for any other party.
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  9353.  @user-rh1iv7yp2c  Tell me you've never done any actual grassroots organizing on Medicare for All without saying you've never done any actual grassroots organizing on Medicare for All.
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  9354.  @user-rh1iv7yp2c  And what would "exposing people" to the fact that corporate Democrats are a thing accomplish? You probably don't even understand the difference between a presidential and parliamentary system, and how the Electoral College guarantees a two-party system. So, you want to help the party who does even less? And, yes, I got one to sign on, in one area, Jenny Joyce, but others are doing the same work in other places.
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  9355.  @user-rh1iv7yp2c  "it did not only have to be about healthcare, you could have forced a vote about anything, and gained concessions." Ah, but concessions were gained, Jenny Joyce. The changes to the Paygo rules that were enacted made it easier to pass bills that put real money in people's pockets and finay addressed the crumbling infrastructure in this country. You're just an outrage merchant who doesn't pay attention and thinks you know the score.
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  9356.  @user-rh1iv7yp2c  And you're some one who never accomplished anything and think you're so high and mighty. Since you think that the Electoral College doesn't guarantee two parties in a Presidential system, let's look at how it works. If you don't get an absolute majority of electoral votes, the election goes to the House... where it will be decided by Democrats and Republicans. The high water mark for any third party was 27%, and the end result was votes that got split and Wilson's 43% became a 435-88-8 Electoral College landslide. If it was up to you to get anything you brag about, you'd have gotten nothing.
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  9357.  @jillfeatherman5523  The Inflation Reduction Act wasn't a coronavirus package, and it and the infrastructure bill were both made possible because of changes in the Paygo rule.
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  9358. In many ways, Obama was the most disappointing. The Reagan Coalition was completely spent in 2008, and he had a huge chance to be our FDR, but he instead decided to waste most of his time obsessing with whether or not Congressional Republicans liked him no matter how often they proved they didn't. He very nearly gave away the farm on Social Security in 2011. Fortunately, because Republicans hated him so much, they refused to take Yes for an answer.
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  9359. Plastic Spokesperson: Trump and Musk aren't getting rich. [Checks notes] Trump insists on going to his own properties for vacation and charges full prices for a security detail to stay there on taxpayer dollars, getting more in a month than his salary in a year. Musk has been using his phony department to try to eliminate competitors and investigators. But, yeah, they're not getting anything out of this.
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  9360. That chance probably disappears on 12/14. The elections will be certified, and the Electoral College will have cast their votes by then. Republicans can protest the count on 1/6, but it will require a majority vote in both Houses to overturn it. If it comes to that and Republicans refuse to acknowledge democracy, the election will deadlock, which means Pelosi will become President. They'll never let that happen.
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  9361. I'm still mad that this snowflake who claims to be a free speech warrior put a copyright claim on Dave Rubin Clips and killed the channel.
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  9362.  @shrisiva4016  Yes, because a circumcised male who has a lower risk of STDs is exactly the same as a circumcised woman who can no longer have an orgasm.
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  9363.  @levillarrea  That he started the race with name recognition lower than the margin of error and didn't spend 25 years building a presidential campaign network.
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  9364.  @joshuaknepshield4687  August is after July.
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  9365. ​ @Echo81Rumple83  I can't remember what the acronym stands for, but it's a brain injury forst found when performing autopsies of football players.
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  9366. 5:40 You cut before the best line in the scene: "You'll all have chins!"
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  9367. @@tobi19612 Well, a bunch have already said that they won't for Gym Jordan on the floor, so maybe not.
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  9368. "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and render unto God the things that are God's." Jesus "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." First Amendment to the US Constitution It looks like both sides of the equation don't like such intermingling.
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  9369.  @66Sixxy  Indeed. It sounds like he thinks that saying that there are financial problems is some sort of personal insult. If he wasn't such a jerk, I'd feel sorry for him.
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  9370.  @Linge88  And what did Lib Dems get during the Cameron years? The only thing I can see is requiring a supermajority to call a snap election. Was that worth austerity?
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  9371. I worked on Shaprio's campaign in 2011 for Montgomery County Commission. He didn't sound like Obama at the time. His vocal range hadn't changed, but he was more baby faced at the time, so the voice definitely didn't match the face.
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  9372. As a person of faith who takes the command to care for the least among us seriously, when I am doing political work, I don't ask people's religious beliefs when doing that work.
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  9373. If he gets the gavel, he probably won't switch branches. After all, that move hasn't been made since Polk in 1844. That being said, not sure where, but I see great things in his future.
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  9374. OBJECTION! Barry is very good.
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  9375. Crazy MAGA Lady: It's good to have a civil conversation and listen to each other. Also Crazy MAGA Lady: Interrupting constantly the second Adam says something that shatters her worldview.
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  9376. Biden definitely benefited from disappearing. The problem is that if he is the nominee, he will not have that luxury.
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  9377.  @Junebug89  Indeed. This should have been the point where people should have seen the heel turn coming. Even if you didn't know that he was a libertarian, this was clearly anti-anti-Trump territory.
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  9378. ​ @crescendyr8438  Are you familiar with the legislative strategy of Catch and Release?
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  9379. ​ @troythedeconstructionist1382  I've read it, so what exactly was so brilliant in it that needs debunked?
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  9380.  @troythedeconstructionist1382  The fact that it doesn't just argue against technological society, but against all society. He mentions traffic laws as an erosion of freedom, but even when there was horse and buggy, there were traffic laws.
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  9381. Another thing that makes no sense in his discussion is that Obama got two Supreme Court Justices, and both were like-for-like swaps. Garland would have been a switch, maybe, but the only one of Trump's picks who changed the ideological make up of the court was Ginsburg for Barrett.
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  9382.  @ThreaT650  I think the real concern is if she has national ambitions. I don't want to point out how awful she is to strengthen her with Republicans, and I limit praise to this one vital thing that she is doing well.
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  9383. Well, it looks like Bernie taught him a lesson that he took to heart.
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  9384.  @Daniea3  I get what you're saying, but I prefer to give him time to see if he has improved. If he has, more power to him. We need to start hunting for converts instead of heretics.
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  9385. He was talking about corporate lawyers for the bench. There are plenty other lawyers than that.
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  9386.  @incipidsigninsetup  They can still get disbarred for what they do at an impeachment.
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  9387.  @steverickenbacher7110  Well, that's different, because kids have no way of knowing any different.
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  9388.  @marcjacobs5988  And the cult manifests itself.
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  9389.  @steverickenbacher7110  By that logic, the word cult loses all meaning, because education would also be a cult, and I am fairly certain that you don't want people to never learn.
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  9390.  @steverickenbacher7110  Any type of learning you do has some things that simply have to be accepted as true. For example, in order for math to be true, the 21 axioms have to be true. Words have to be spelled and pronounced a certain way. The periodic table has to be accurate. I'm not saying that critical thinking isn't important, because it clearly is. My only point is that some things do have to he accepted as fact.
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  9391.  @steverickenbacher7110  My point was that some things do have to be accepted as fact in order to have any learning. The defining characteristic of a cult is not accepting things uncritically. The defining characteristics are manipulation, an infallible leader, and what happens when you try to leave. I don't know if you have kids, but "Don't touch that hot stove!" is a far better way for a child to learn than getting second degree burns.
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  9392.  @steverickenbacher7110  But the brainwashing is the manipulation. If all families are cults, then you cheapen the definition of cults, just like how fundamentalists who say some culture war nonsense is religious persecution cheapens the fact that there is actual religious persecution going on all over the world.
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  9393. Benny Boy saying that he read it on a Saturday afternoon. I'm not exactly an expert, but since he is a fundamentalist, should he be doing that on the Sabbath?
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  9394. So right. The correct response is to focus on Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and North Carolina to make him and Sinema the 51st and 52nd Democratic Senators instead of 49&50.
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  9395.  @koalasquare2145  Nazbol means trying to get a red/brown alliance, but that someone is a hardcore lefty.
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  9396. "I like Ted Cruz more than most people in the Senate, and I hate Ted Cruz." Al Franken
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  9397.  @marcevan1141  Why do you think that the cop who has a history of racist remarks had his body cam turned off? You're going to give that guy the benefit of the doubt? Why does Buttigeg insist of keeping the tapes secret? Because he "wants to preserve the confidence in convictions"? Shouldn't the bigger priority be to determine that justice was done rather than a conviction rate?
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  9398.  @jacobscott9732  If you ignore the alt-right and they only talk to each other, the algorithm will recommend similar content (thus reinforcing their message), so Sam goes after them so that hopefully people can see something sane to help people out of the rabbit hole.
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  9399. ​ @MarcillaSmith  What you are saying is that the Constitution doesn't apply to Trump. If you care about "balls and strikes," he has said that he was a dictator. If you care about original intent, the Senate debate in 1866 confirmed that the President was covered by Section 3.
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  9400. ​@archaicsage4803 Republicans in 2021: Trump is no longer in office, so it is up to the courts to decide. Republicans in 2023-24: Well, he wasn't convicted in the Senate, so to remove him would be double jeopardy. Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds, I guess.
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  9401. I think that he is someone who focuses too much on the idea of getting rid of debt. Sometimes, debt can be a tool. Sometimes, emergencies happen, and with stagnating wages, more and more are living in financial insecurity that frugality alone won't solve.
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  9402.  @bleuwater9629  I think that her point was to look at the total price of a car. I bought a car 7 1/2 years ago for about $2500. Got a warranty and everything. Ended up having to pay over $2000 to get a new transmission because the warranty had a clause that it wouldn't cover the repair because of the timing of it. Would I have been better off getting a $4000-5000 car and making payments? Probably. It certainly would have been much lower interest than I ended up having to pay on the repair.
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  9403. As a union worker, every time we have a contract negotiation, the vast majority of the time on the negotiating is spent on the health insurance package. Even if you don't count the provision in the Medicare for All bill that required employers to pass savings along to the workers, if they spent less time negotiating health insurance, that frees them up to spend more time negotiating things like increasing wages to go to a 30-hour work week, restoring pensions, etc.
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  9404. Silly fascists! Immunity is for Dear Leader.
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  9405. States' rights was the argument used against abolition, against civil rights, against voting rights, and against school desegregation. Is that really the hill you want to die on?
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  9406.  @agentofchaos7456  The exit polling. It went across the screen as one of the questions asked in Michigan while waiting for the returns.
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  9407. You might want to pee on a stick, because I think there's something else going on here.
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  9408.  @dububro  Great boxer: Sugar Ray Robinson; greatest heavyweight: Joe Louis. Robinson won his first title in the 1940s, and lost his last in 1960. Louis was heavyweight champion for 11 1/2 years. Greatest basketball player is either Wilt Chamberlain or Bill Russell. They were both at the top of their field for over a decade. "Chess is a young man's game" And Kasparov held the title for 15 years. Karpov held it for a decade before that, and he was the top challenger for several years after.
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  9409.  @dububro  I don't know you if you don't understand how this works, or if you're just playing dumb to prove a point. Of course, no one holds it forever, but tell me this, how many times did Bobby Fischer defend his title? How many games did he win as World Champion? Compare that to the ones that I listed, and then tell me if you see a difference.
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  9410. Murray: I can't believe we voted for the same guy! Mary: How could you vote for him? Murray: He was a Moe. Mary: A Moe? Murray: You know, "Eenie, meenie, miny, moe." Mary: Murray! Murray: Oh, I don't do that for things like President or Senator, but for things like City Council, I'm a straight Moe ticket. When Murray met the idiot City Councilman who was a good friend of Ted Baxter. An attitude that has to come to an end.
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  9411.  @dogsenseforu301  You mean voting for funding in response to a specific and credible threat that actually played out? No!
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  9412.  @hitoshijohnson  There is a lot more overlap on that Venn Diagram that Dore fanboys want to admit.
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  9413.  @Mistyfire  Nothing to Russiagate? I suppose all those people who admitted to crimes related to it were part of the conspiracy to make Trump look bad, too. And I guess these quotes were either made up or taken out of context: "If it's what you say it is, I love it! Especially in the fall." "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you find the e-mails." "You're about to hear something very interesting about the e-mails." [Days before the Podesta e-mails drop.]
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  9414.  @Mistyfire  What happened in the investigation? Mueller said that he could not answer directly Trump's role in criminal activity because he wasn't allowed to do so, but he clearly answered things that Trump were innocent of and refused to answer with several others, and he gave ten examples of possible obstruction. And several people involved either pleaded guilty or were convicted of crimes. So, yes, I do trust our system.
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  9415. @Unintended Consequences The GA elections, too. My only concern is that with all of the vacancies Moscow Donald left to sabotage the government, does the FEC even have a quorum to govern?
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  9416.  @InterestsMayVary2234  Oh, I don't doubt it, but he did win six years ago, and I saw a lot of polls that had a small but steady lead, so that's why that one caught me off guard.
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  9417.  @justanaveragemiddleagedmom  I didn't say I didn't want more. My point was that we got some big wins and need to accept that and regroup for the next time.
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  9418.  @justanaveragemiddleagedmom  I think some could have been bigger, but the Senate was always going to be uphill (in order to win control, Democrats had to beat Republicans 28-7, with realistically about a dozen in states Moscow Donald won, which was a tall order by any stretch of the imagination), and GA and FL you had to deal with shenanigans. My point was the old adage that sometimes you have to take the half a loaf and come back for the rest later.
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  9419. And while we're at it, I have a union negotiated health insurance policy. Please take away my Aetna so we can have Medicare for All!
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  9420.  @intuitionz1198  What in the world are you talking about? It looks like either you didn't read my post or you didn't understand it. Remember how some of the complaints about Medicare for All was that it supposedly undid all of the work that unions did in negotiating health insurance policies? I am equating that nonsense to the argument that student loans shouldn't be forgiven because some people paid theirs in full. My point was to stop trying to divide the not well off and the worse off.
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  9421.  @stvinney  And maybe even be able to do a 30-hour workweek to work full time and get more leisure time.
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  9422.  @BigRedR-o7h  Yes, we hate humanity and living so much that we are encouraging people to take life-saving medicine, and we don't want tens of thousands dying every year because they don't have health insurance. Oh, wait. That's you guys.
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  9423. Too bad that the "Justices" wanted to focus on wordplay rather than delve deeper into the obvious questions of whether it was insurrection and the role of Der Orangefuhrer in it.
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  9424.  @trumanbadra8003  Tim Buckley died that way. He snorted what he thought was cocaine and OD'd.
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  9425.  @trippsmclovin  So, the answer to that is to force the poor and disabled to choose between their current benefits and his plan? And do you honestly think that Amazon will pay those taxes? Their profit margin isn't big enough to eat 10% of costs, so it will get passed onto the consumers. If he really cared about taxing corporations, he would get rid of the loopholes that he says that he is powerless to do anything about.
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  9426.  @MyBrainVent  Oh, yes, it is a conspiracy to keep Yang down. A C-O-N...spiracy. Someone is paying me to point out that there are negative effects in a regressive tax and forcing poor and disabled people to choose between their current benefits and a universal basic income that is neither universal nor basic income. All to keep someone getting 1% at the polls from opening all of eyes. Yang could get rid of all of the criticism on the left very easily: apologize for telling Dave Rubin that his ultimate goal is to get rid of the existing social safety net, say that he will increase taxes on the wealthy (repeal Trump tax cuts, a new millionaire bracket, a wealth tax, increasing the estate tax, taxing capital gains at the same rate as ordinary income, you name it), and literally everyone gets it. No exceptions or opting in. If he makes his plan a good one, people like me will stop pointing out how bad it is because it is the watered-down version of Friedman's proposal, not King's.
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  9427.  @creshiell  Because he is a libertarian wolf in leftist clothing. That's the only thing that makes sense when you look at the totality of his signature proposal and his ideas about taxes, wages, and workers' rights.
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  9428. The Republican Party is like the dog that caught the tire. They suddenly realized that the apathetic majority has had their apathy taken away.
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  9429.  @flashpeter625  Do you think it is acceptable to ask a foreign country to dig up dirt on a political opponent? And to threaten to withhold aid until they do? Where is the "nuance"? I guess that's what the cowards are calling cowardice now.
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  9430. Regardless of your feelings about hiring Jen Psaki, Psaki and Romney are clearly a false equivalence.
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  9431. World Series Defense, please.
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  9432.  @mikeb2586  "You've got to stand for something or you'll fall for anything." Aaron Tippin "Strong and wrong beats weak and right any day of the week." Bill Clinton This is just an attempt to funnel cash back to himself.
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  9433.  @mikeb2586  "Need I remind you that Trump won?" Need I remind you that more people voted for his opponent both times? "Yang appears to have found a way to stick to a left leaning agenda without ever actually saying anything about it" His UBI that was neither universal nor basic income was a right wing plan (because it was designed to get rid of the existing social safety net) paid for by a regressive tax. He opposed increasing the minimum wage. He opposed increasing taxes on the rich. He opposed enforcing antitrust laws. His idea for housing was to move in with your bros. His policy on global warming was to use the Freedom with 125 Strings Attached Dividend to move to higher ground (never mind that a lot of those people would be walking away from a mortgage). His "Medicare for All" wasn't even a public option. And as far as keeping people liking him, the more people got to know him in NYC when he ran for mayor, the less they liked him. He led early polls and finished a distant fourth. In the Presidential primary, he got 5% of the vote (but only 1% of the delegates) in Iowa, and 3% in New Hampshire. Even Tulsi Gabbard got one more delegate than he did (1-0). Who actually liked this grifter outside of the internet?
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  9434.  @mikeb2586  And how did Trump's Presidency work out? I wouldn't use that as an argument for ya boi.
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  9435.  @mikeb2586  I have dealt with Yang Gang bangers online for over three years now, so I'm well versed in the arguments. Even if somehow someone wins on a not-a-platform, that person will eventually have to govern, and that is a recipe for disaster.
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  9436.  @mikeb2586  I didn't say you were a Yang Gang banger. I said I've dealt with a lot of them. Yes, Italy make me defensive at times, but I never made anything personal. My only point was that I know all of the arguments because I've dealt with them many times.
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  9437. Not only did Der Orangefuhrer attack his wife, he also accused his dad of being in on the JFK assassination.
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  9438. 43:05 When I lived in Philadelphia, the 2015 mayoral primary included a nepo baby who was the biggest advocate for school vouchers and charter schools in the state senate. There was a candidate I really liked, but he was way behind in the polls, and the Charter King led some early polls. I ended up voting for Jim Kenney instead, the candidate who I thought could beat him. Apparently, a lot of other people did the same thing and he won handily (which in Philadelphia is tantamount to winning the election), but maybe the candidate I liked (Nelson Diaz) could have made a little more headway with RCV.
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  9439. There is no mechanism for a recall election at the federal level, and even if there was, Republicans control all those levers of power.
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  9440.  @3Maverick2  I'm a veteran, and I realize that she is full of it, especially after her lies defending Trump leaving the Kurds to die.
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  9441.  @3Maverick2  First hand experience matters more? Tulsi was a medic. What did that teach her about military strategy?
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  9442.  @vibefrequencyable  She was only against the way he did it after the thing that everyone warned was inevitable happened. When he did it, she lamented "regime change wars" when this was clearly to protect allies against terrorists, which she claims to support. Again, I want someone with the judgment to get it right the first time, because sometimes the price for getting it wrong is far too steep.
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  9443.  @vibefrequencyable  Two days can be a long time in terms of foreign policy. Her reflexive answer was to denounce American involvement in "regime change wars."
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  9444. True, but the way it's supposed to work is that the party picks a nominee, and then everyone votes for that nominee in the Speaker vote. The breakdown this time comes because there is such a narrow majority, and the hardliners have spent the last decade or so blocking everything they could and convincing themselves that was legislative prowess. When they got rid of McCarthy and basically forced Scalise out of the running, they thought they could impose their will, but the pragmatists fought back and said Jordan was a bridge too far, thus demonstrating that it is far easier to tear down than to build up.
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  9445.  Tylon Holmes  If that's all it took, it was clearly a weak lead to start with. What did you actually do to get Bernie elected?
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  9446. "She must have gone to Brown wanting to be a gym teacher, because she majored in physical education." What does he think a lot of professional coaches major in?
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  9447.  @zeusmasterson4117  He is, but he is explicitly running on a strategy the party doesn't want. Once people realize that, he is doomed. There's a reason why he has never made it past Iowa in his previous two attempts.
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  9448.  @kevin6293  You know there are some of those, right?
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  9449.  @kevin6293  Alan Simpson. Barry Golwater was, too.
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  9450.  @kevin6293  Hence the "was." The point being that there has been a socially moderate if not libertarian strain for quite some time, especially in the Mountain West. Not that it is dominant, and the main things that unite Republicans are tax cuts and judges, not social issues. Oh, and while not pro-choice, Ted Olson also worked as one of the lead attorneys in the case that ultimately overturned same-sex marriage bans.
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  9451.  @Ookashay  He later said "Biden allegedly won" and couldn't bring himself to say "Joe Biden won the election" without burying it in qualifiers and continuing to sew seeds of doubt as though dick pics would have saved Trump's candidacy.
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  9452.  @Brawnald  I use "liberal." My feeling is that it was good enough for FDR, it's good enough for me. That, and until this iteration, three of the last four "progressive movements" were centrist (TR, LaFollette, the 90s, Wallace in '48 being the exception). After all, I've heard Hillary call herself a progressive lots of times, but I've never heard her call herself a liberal.
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  9453.  @ransom182  Encourage others to do it, but go out and do it even if no one else publicly commits here. There are more than a million volunteers, so let that be your motivation.
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  9454.  @BlazingOwnager  In other words, you are praising someone for being a grifter.
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  9455. Because there is a messed up loophole in statutory rape laws: if the parents give consent, the age is lower. Ted Nugent and another rock star of the 70s (I'm leaning Steven Tyler, but I can't remember for sure) adopted teenagers to have sex with them.
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  9456. ​ @VitalVampyr  Indeed. All those likes are an example of people not asking follow-up questions.
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  9457. I'm convinced that they think he's talking about someone else. I remember a few years ago that someone pointed out an increase in people who previously identified as Hispanic or Latino on the Census only identifying as white on the most recent one.
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  9458.  @NJ-wb1cz  So, you're really going in for the long haul rather than admitting that just maybe you were wrong?
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  9459.  @NJ-wb1cz  I'm saying that if you are going to cast aspersions for someone, saying that he is taking that long of a game (especially after turning down the big bucks before) is a statement that strains credulity. You don't like Pakman. We get it. At least when those of us who said that it was a matter of time before Jimmy Dore pulled the "why I left the left" pivot, we offered reasons, and we didn't tell people to come back in 10-20 years. Someone with questionable foreign policy takes who takes a lefty view on domestic policies isn't someone looking to go on a Koch bender. And the "sensible convert" lane isn't really for people going from left to center right. It is for people going hard right to center right (See: Scarborough, Joe; Schmidt, Steve; Wallace, Nicolle).
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  9460.  @NJ-wb1cz  Opinions should be based on facts, though. Going to precrime levels because of personal dislike of someone is a completely different story.
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  9461.  @NJ-wb1cz  It is totally based on fact. It is a fact that you started this thread by saying that you expected David Pakman to go down the Rubin route. It is a fact that when challenged, you emphasized your personal dislike and then gave a deadline of 10-20 years. It is also a fact that the enlightened centrist grift (which you retreated to after the Rubin grift was proven to be something that he turned down) is done by people going right to left, not the other way around. I gave examples. And Pete Buttigieg is not doing the enlightened centrist grift, but the nonideological meritocracy grift, so those are different things. It is also a fact that you offered no example of why he would other than "I get that feeling about him." The 10-20 year timeframe is just a step above the people who always predict a recession and brag that they were right when one hits, as though there isn't always one coming down the line.
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  9462.  @NJ-wb1cz  You are aware of figurative language, right?
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  9463.  @NJ-wb1cz  And, in all honesty, I find the odds if the Republican Party as we know it ever moving past Trump to be virtually nil. A lot of people would have to die off or get collective amnesia, and these people are this century's Lost Cause types.
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  9464.  @NJ-wb1cz  Still, let's say for the sake of argument that Republicans do memory hole Trump in 10-20 years and look to rebuild their image. Why would they go center? And, this is a fact, the Republican Party has not moved to the left since Dewey and Eisenhower. They went from Goldwater to Reagan to Gingrich to Bush to the Tea Party to Trump. What in the last 60 years gives you the confidence that they will turn port instead of starboard?
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  9465.  @NJ-wb1cz  My opinions are based in fact and responding to your argument. It's not my fault that you can't understand that basic concept.
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  9466. 10:42 The whole "real men wear diapers" is much more pathetic, as ridiculous as that hat is.
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  9467. "Liable" means that it is more likely than not that he raped her. Does she say that OJ was found liable but not guilty?
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  9468. 13:00 And anyone who read the book knows that Dr. Frankenstein was the real villain all along.
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  9469. Who in the world started this "mentee" nonsense. The word is protégé. I remember seeing Jack Donaghy say it on 30 Rock, but it was clearly a joke.
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  9470.  @bunzeebear2973  Oh, what a world!
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  9471. How could you not include "Carol of the Bells" with each person's catchphrase in #8?
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  9472.  @Achrononmaster  I am not talking about the economic impact. That is a different discussion completely. The point is that they want to complain about deficits, but they do things to increase the deficits.
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  9473.  Michael Shlomo  There is a lot of room between taxing the rich at the rates they are being taxed at now and 95%. The top bracket could easily be in the 50-70% range and still have a positive economic impact because it is paying for needed investments in the country.
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  9474.  @W1LdnKai  So, we should focus our taxes on the rural poor?
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  9475.  Michael Shlomo  Why 44.9%? The top marginal tax rate between WWII and Reagan never dipped below 70%, and the economy grew faster and more people benefited than at any time in American history. Nobody is proposing that rates above 50% kick in at half a million. Income would be pretty high for the top rate to kick in. I've seen anywhere from $10MM-$1B for the highest rate.
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  9476.  @W1LdnKai  Yeah, I've heard that argument, and literally every explanation of how it will work once details are filled in shows that it will shift the burden to people in rural areas. Anything that is not a tax on income or wealth is inherently a regressive tax.
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  9477.  @W1LdnKai  The reason why such a tax is inherently regressive is that it always gets passed onto the renter, and taxes on income are much more difficult to pass onto the consumer. The taxation is theft crowd are dishonest right wingers. We are talking about arguments about what is something the left should be doing.
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  9478. ​ @jimbrown4640  Inflation is down, the reason interest rates haven't dropped is because Powell is trying to sabotage economic growth, and it was your boy Trump who killed a border bill that was only enforcement that a lot of the left hated because he wanted the political issue. Nice try.
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  9479.  @rifledepot6067  Define socialism, and let us all know how Harris plans to seize the means of production.
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  9480. Because there are too many Rockefeller Republicans and scared liberals in the party.
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  9481.  @ceroew4239  In all honesty, I think that they are the ones who did it. It seems odd that they got into a much more expensive house and, like the Lutz family before them, got in over their heads.
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  9482. Cenk: Biden is corrupt. Also Cenk: Busts unions. Biden: First sitting President to walk a picket line.
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  9483.  @randallj25  Smug alert
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  9484. That's kinda like bragging about being taller than Warwick Davis, though.
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  9485. Not until 2022
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  9486.  @zgjfinance2796  Both are making money saying and doing awful things. I really don't care about their respective careers in comedy when it comes to evaluating their political takes. Bill Maher is a comedian, but to his credit, I've never heard him retreat into "I'm just a comedian" when confronted about his political opinions.
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  9487.  @kevinbell3700  The conspiracy addled brain can be amusing, but instead of actually being onto something, it makes a closed system to justify its paranoia.
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  9488.  @rjkmusicmedia  Scooter Libby got convicted.
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  9489.  @rjkmusicmedia  You're the one who brought him up, and you ask who? You're funny.
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  9490.  @rjkmusicmedia  Well, you're not very good at it.
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  9491.  @rjkmusicmedia  Well, your points were wrong, and any idiot can be a troll, so....
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  9492.  @Rick_Riff  Is it Jimmy's responsibility to cheer on a Republican winning? Anyone who said the Supreme Court doesn't matter, especially on a platform as big as his, is aiding and abetting.
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  9493.  @Rick_Riff  And the fact that he believes that means that he is stupid and pushing an Underpants Gnomes theory. So is anyone who agrees with him.
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  9494.  @Rick_Riff  I'll bet you a million dollars that either Joe Biden or Donald Trump wins the election.
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  9495.  @Rick_Riff  "Yes, the choices are bad, but it's better than nothing. There are always degrees of bad. It's like demanding to be ignored." John Lydon
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  9496.  @Rick_Riff  Well, Nothing isn't an option. I might want to be able to dunk a basketball, but my lack of height and vertical jump pretty much guarantee that's not gonna happen.
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  9497.  @clarkeokah1154  Well, Hillary did get more votes, but the delegate system has a similar role. And, like it or not, less than half of the Bernie voters went for Trump compared to Hillary voters who went for McCain. My guess is that a lot of those people are still registered Democrats only because the real race for local elections is in the primary (here in Philadelphia, I've heard my fair share of right wingers who do so because nothing below the state level is close and Republicans don't even bother with a lot of races). The Never Hillary people do have their share of the blame, but that was a sliver of the Bernie vote.
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  9498.  @clarkeokah1154  Those who voted third party rather than vote for Hillary in those three states absolutely deserve their share of blame. My only disagreement was that a lot of those 12% were really right wingers who cast a protest vote, as evidenced by the fact that Bernie easily won WV with all 55 counties and narrowly lost KY which had a None of the Above option.
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  9499.  @Rick_Riff  Children were not kidnapped and women were not sterilized. Not the same thing at all.
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  9500.  @Rick_Riff  They "don't even count"? Well, I guess you have exposed yourself. If you don't think that's a dry run, you are deluded. If you are just fine with it, you're an awful person. Considering that you are just flat-out lying about child kidnapping tells me the latter.
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  9501.  @clarkeokah1154  Well, considering that the false equivalent poster is fine with child kidnapping and forced sterilization as long as they're not American citizens, we now know that this is a right-wing troll pretending to be left to try to depress turnout.
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  9502.  @Rick_Riff  The law doesn't say citizens. The law says persons in many cases. Considering that there is a group of people that wants to strip millions of Americans of citizenship, your fascism apologia as long as it isn't happening to you is a very slippery slope. First they came...
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  9503.  @Rick_Riff  I get that you're upset that your cover was blown, and your Rechtswing was exposed, but seriously, you are only digging the hole deeper at this point.
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  9504.  @Rick_Riff  You were pretending to be a lefty who didn't like Biden because he wasn't far left enough. The instant you started giving fascist apologia, you proved that wasn't true.
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  9505.  @Rick_Riff  Anyone who is in a district is a constituent. So, you're not just a fascist apologist, you're a misinformed fascist apologist.
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  9506.  @Rick_Riff  People can believe whatever nonsense they want. Then again, I don't share the fragile right wing understanding of "free speech" that it means free from criticism, either, so that might be a bit confusing to you.
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  9507.  @Rick_Riff  I am sorry that happened to your brother, and I am sorry that his killer was not brought to justice. That doesn't mean that every adult who immigrated to these shores is a murderer. A black man wasn't taking care of his dog, and it bit me in the chest when I was running. I don't hold it against all black men or dogs. My great-grandather would have been considered an illegal immigrant since he stowed away on a ship in order to escape the horrors of WWI. Different people have different motivations for things, and everyone shouldn't be cast aside because of a few awful people.
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  9508.  @Rick_Riff  We have a President who literally meets 13 of the 14 standards of what a fascist regime looks like, and with the 1776 Commission, he's trying to meet the last one. Horrible and obscene things are being done to a group they are portraying as undesirables. There is only one chance to stop him. I make no apologies for pointing out the effects of not stopping it. If you think me pointing out that someone is enabling horrible people is "unhealthy," imagine what will happen if even a fraction of what he is threatening (which includes, among other things, just shutting down vote counts to stay in power and never leaving office) comes to fruition. You'll wish the worst thing you had to deal with was someone calling you an enabler of awful things or pointing out your casual indifference to people you consider to be undesirable online is the worst of it.
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  9509.  @Rick_Riff  Is Biden talking about never leaving office? Is Biden talking about kidnapping children, secret police, forced sterilization, or accusing people who disagree with him are guilty of treason? Is Biden openly talking about ignoring the election results? Are Biden surrogates trying to convince state legislators to ignore the results in their state to send their own slate of electors, all while trying to rush through a Supreme Court Justice to ratify this attempt at election theft? Yours are the excuses of the complacent and the privileged.
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  9510.  @Rick_Riff  You are very welcome. I don't know what it would be like to go through something like that, and I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. If you want to argue "take care of the people already here," I agree with that. However, there is a difference between that and turning a blind eye to crimes against humanity. We lose our way as a people the instant that we ignore the humanity of other people. Even if you want to argue for a quick deportation, that doesn't mean that you kidnap children or sterilize women in the process. "Family separation" is too mild a term for what is happening, and that is why I don't use it.
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  9511. Bernie is to my left (the turn of the 20th century figure I admire the most is Bryan rather than Debs), but I would rather the negotiation start to the left so that we actually get things we want.
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  9512. @Salmon Yes, giving people the right to vote for Senate, women the right to vote, convincing people that the government cpuld do more than obey the interests of the rich, and advocating for those left behind by industrialization. He was terrible! Not to say that he was perfect, and it is true that his career didn't end well, but the good more than outweighed the bad.
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  9513. @Salmon There was a long debate within the Populist movement whether or not they should go all in with Bryan in 1896. The ones who felt that free silver was the most important thing backed Bryan, and those who didn't insisted on a separate candidate. The silver people won. Yes, looking at Bryan, he was a complex figure. In some ways ahead of his time, and in other ways trapped by it. It's not that there isn't a lot to like in Debs and LaFollette, but when I hear or read the Cross of Gold speech, it moves me in a way that few other speeches do.
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  9514.  @leevy6753  Well, what did you mean when you wrote the part about "a guy that will be out of the spotlight in 4 years rather than the policies that will last well into the next generation"?
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  9515.  @leevy6753  If you don't care outside of sports, then why do you have a problem with governing bodies determining when someone who is MTF no longer has a biological advantage? And if you're not bigoted, why do you use the terminology that the bigots do? And if you want to talk about the Lady Ballers scenario, Ben Shapiro even admitted that they couldn't find a women's sports league that allowed anyone to say "I'm a woman," so they made a fictional movie.
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  9516.  @leevy6753  Okay, let's talk about policies that will last for generations vs. "one guy for years." Roe v. Wade was overturned thanks to the Justices he appointed while President who ruled after he left office. Someone saying he wants to become a dictator undoes centuries of democracy. An entire party refusing to accept election results if their side wins (especially after trying to violently reverse the election the last time) affects more than just four years. If Biden wins, he's out of office and we get to elect someone else in 2028. If Trump wins, we can't say that. Democracy overrides policy, period.
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  9517.  @leevy6753  You said that immigrants flood our country to depress wages. That sounds like demonization to me.
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  9518.  @leevy6753  Yes, you did, when you said that they flooded our country to depress wages.
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  9519.  @RocketmanRockyMatrix  Still would be fun to see.
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  9520.  @Sloimer  Saying you're going to pull the money for reasons good or bad is problematic. It is about the point of the problem of an unelected person basically exerting a veto over democracy.
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  9521.  @bafflezbiz  Am I saying it was big bucks? No, I'm saying that prospective applicants probably thought the job paid minimum wage, so that's why nobody applied at first.
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  9522.  @TheRedStateBlue  You are aware that there are official and unofficial standards, right? If enough people refuse to vote for candidates who refuse to.make such disclosures, it doesn't really matter what the statute says, does it? After all, there's nowhere that it says you have to have a college degree to be President, and you have to go way back to find one that didn't.
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  9523. When was she wounded? She went to Iraq as a nurse. Don't let her Walter Sobchack act fool you.
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  9524. ​ @1987BillyBob  Biden was a college graduate by the time of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. Very different than someone who got a doctor to write a note with a phony illness.
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  9525. ​ @scottw.7441  I'm on the left, and I'm a veteran. Funny how two of the three major-party nominees who were Vietnam veterans were Democrats and had their service besmirched by Republicans, who now worship at the altar of the main who mocked the service of the Republican nominee who was a Vietnam veteran and repeatedly mocks veterans and Gold Star Families.
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  9526. She is one of the best arguments for the estate tax. I used to say that we should call it the Paris Hilton Tax, but I wonder if we should call it the Meghan McCain Tax instead.
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  9527.  @luperamos7307  I get the impulse, but I just don't know if it would be an ideal venue. It almost certainly wouldn't get recorded, given the way a lot of comedy clubs ban phones these days.
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  9528.  @luperamos7307  Krystal Ball is every bit the grifter Jimmy Dore is. The main difference is that she is pretty and doesn't scream. If you ever find the book she co-wrote with Saagar Enjeti (actually, it's more accurately a collection of radar transcripts, which is why I got so annoyed that she and Saagar kept talking about "the writing process," because the only thing new was a brief introduction) advocating a red/brown alliance. On Rising, she never criticized a Republican without also finding a way to turn it to a Democrat. I must admit that I fell for it early on, because I thought she was focusing on centrist Democrats because of the primary dynamic. Her weird "anti-establishment" praise of Tulsi and Yang was always off-putting. Eventually, I realized that that is who she hates the most, because she blames them for losing her sweet, sweet MSNBC gig. At this point, I think that anyone who is still there is either not online at all, or they are in for the grift, too. It was painful seeing the Graham Elwood debate, because you could see in real time someone who realized that he didn't know one of his best friends after all. It would be amusing if Sam were able to call in with something to distort his voice, but sadly, Jimmy Dore doesn't take calls.
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  9529.  @luperamos7307  I don't think that the country as a whole did. After all, Trump is the first President since Hoover to lose both Houses of Congress and the White House in four years. The Republican Party has definitely gone very hard right in that time, but some things such as the resurgence of labor give me some cause for hope.
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  9530.  @luperamos7307  But it's right wing places that are doing this. If you want to make the argument that the right is going farther right, we are in agreement. Even in a non-border landlocked state, I remember a lot of xenophobia 15-20 years ago. Never any stunts like DeSantis pulled, true, but even 12 years ago, McCain was saying "Build the danged fence!" and he was seen as a moderate on the issue. The mere fact that a third of young people now identify as socialists (a statistical tie with those who identify as capitalist), and things like student loan forgiveness have now entered the zeitgeist, I think it's more accurate that left and right are getting farther apart.
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  9531.  @luperamos7307  I know what you mean. I live in a swing state that went for Biden and currently live in a county where Der Orangefuhrer lost by 26 points, but if I go just a few miles in the right direction, all of the sudden, I see a lot more Trump signs, and it is quite shocking. The most ridiculous was a sign that wanted us to thank that big, orange dummy for his response to coronavirus that only killed a million Americans.
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  9532.  @deep-pond  First of all, it's hearsay. Second of all, and perhaps most importantly, I am not terminally online that Iisten to everything everyone has to say. A lot of the stuff I've heard out of his mouth is the same old anti-anti-Trump nonsense.
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  9533.  @deep-pond  So, basically, you're bragging about listening to every anti-anti-Trump pro-Putin, pro-Assad shill who spends all of their time going after the left. I used to watch Dore from time to time, but the instant he said that Trump would be better than Hillary, I knew he was bad news. When Sam gave him such a spanking in 2016 that he reneged on his promise for a return debate on his show, anyone who still listened after that didn't know anything about anything.
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  9534.  @deep-pond  "Jimmy is trying to unite people along class lines, by our common interests." You forgot a word. Let me fix that for you: Jimmy is trying to unite white people along class lines. There is nothing in common with bigots who want to start a civil war and blame black people for violence like the Boogaloo Boys. Someone who denigrates unions like Jimmy Dore did the teachers union isn't a friend of working people.
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  9535.  @deep-pond  Are you in a union? Are you active in a union? I don't need a lecture from Dore Knobs about how unions work.
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  9536.  @deep-pond  I never said Jimmy Dore was a racist. I only pointed out when he sang the praises of a white supremacist group, which does not automatically mean that he hates people of color. It does mean that he is willing to throw them under the bus, though. Funny that you used the right wing tactic of expressing outrage at the idea of white racism, though.
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  9537. That's actually standard for these debates. They tend to put the leaders in the center.
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  9538.  @brazilfootball  I'll make it as simple as possible, since your response makes it clear that you didn't understand a word I said. You seemed to be complaining about Warren's positioning and the order of closing statements. However, I pointed out that it was not a pro-Warren bias, but pretty much standard procedure. Then, you went on a bizarre tangent about winners winning. I didn't even say that Warren won the debate. I would put her performance as average.
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  9539.  @brazilfootball  I didn't say there wasn't, I'm just saying that wasn't an example of it. It's like when Hillary tried to be hip by invoking an SNL sketch about Obama getting a pillow when she got the first question... even though anyone who has ever done a debate knows that speaking first is an advantage. My point that your example of bias wasn't a very good example would have been obvious to just about anyone reading this exchange.
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  9540.  @timharbert7145  I have a government job, and the state and the union finalized an agreement that allows us to stay home permanently. Ever since they let us go home temporarily, this has probably been the thing I've wanted most from the union (our contract isn't up until next year, so pay and benefits are already baked in).
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  9541.  Antoine Wilson  I'm closing in on two years in April. I know no one in my office who worked from home who wants to go back. I even know people who didn't interview for promotions because they knew they'd have to start going in.
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  9542. Well, for them it's more about that R behind the name that is their Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval.
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  9543. If Bernie doesn't get his free tuition plan through, I will be hinting to my daughter about the tuition-free schools in our fine land.
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  9544.  @bgoodfella7413  He learned that the money is in appealing to the right.
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  9545.  @Odinsday  Obama was never on the left. Even in the primary, he was talking about being like Reagan instead of Roosevelt, talking about "doing something about the Social Security deficit," a climate plan that still had a place for coal, advocating for charter schools, and denigrating the USPS. If it weren't for a speech in 2002 as a state senator to give him anti-Iraq War street cred, he wouldn't have mobilized the left at all.
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  9546. When did she get that plastic surgery? Her face is unrecognizable.
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  9547. Let's just say for the sake of argument that some people will use some of their paid leave to go hunting. Do you know what people do with what they kill when they hunt? They eat it! Bag a deer, and you have enough food for at least a week. Way to show that common touch.
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  9548. Something else that comes from having more IRS agents: it won't take people several months to get their refunds and someone might be able to actually answer a phone call with questions. I still haven't gotten my refund.
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  9549.  @somebloke757  Well, he's not too far away even with his lackluster work effort.
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  9550.  @MyBrainVent  Apparently, you don't get the irony of posting this when you whined in another thread about having to hear opponents of the "freedom dividend" point out how the way he structures it hurts poor people.
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  9551.  @MyBrainVent  So much smarter that you keep hollering that "everyone gets it" even though Yang himself calls it opt in. Either your estimation of yourself is way off, or you are only focusing on the aspects of the "freedom dividend" that you like and ignoring the rest, which makes you very sloppy.
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  9552.  @MyBrainVent  Sorry about that. I didn't pick up on the sarcasm ;-) I'll have to check. I know that I do my level best to reply to everyone who directly comments, and I replied to every one where I got an alert. Send a link, and I can look it over. As I have said, I am not opposed to the idea of UBI, I am opposed to the way Yang wants to implement it.
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  9553.  @evasartorius9528  Ultimately, as long as we have primaries voted on by the people, it is the fault of the voter for nominating them. And you think Oz is bad? Wait until you see the gubernatorial nominee! He is a literal fascist who says that he wants to be governor so he can "decommission any voting machine" he wants and get to appoint the Secretaty of State to certify votes.
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  9554. I would be shocked if Obama does something so direct. If he loses (and it is a personal loss if he puts his reputation on the line to defeat Bernie), it will ruin his potential image as kingmaker and it will make him look small and petty. His brand is being above it all. He'll keep sending minions out there.
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  9555. Here's an analogy you can understand, Chris: it's like trying to lose weight without looking at eating or exercise patterns.
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  9556.  @bookashkin  Well, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz know that they can never leave the country, so at least that's something.
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  9557.  @vincentlp115  Really? I thought that he was worried about leaving the country. Maybe he is just worried about going to Europe. I know that there are several former dignitaries who can only go so many places for fear of war crimes arrests, a tradition probably started among American politicians by Henry Kissinger.
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  9558.  @bookashkin  As would I, but sometimes you have to accept that this is all you can get.
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  9559. Sweet, naive Emma. If it is a right winger who leaked it, give it a little bit of time for another scandal to show up, and it will be seen as a smart move to keep Kavanaugh on the plantation, so that person will be rewarded. Republicans have no principles except for tax cuts and the acquisition of power.
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  9560. People said that the party would move to the left and cater to them if they threw the election to Republicans in 2000 and 2016. How did that work out?
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  9561.  @DDARKmodp  I voted for Bernie in the primary and Hillary in the general, too. The point that I am making is that people keep saying that a pefty should draw votes away from the Democratic nominee to scare them into courting votes on the left. Its effect was questionable in 2016, but undeniable in 2000. Did Kucinich win in 2004? Did Bernie win this time? So, why would 2024 be any different, except now you would have a Supreme Court that would strike down anything good that President AOC or anyone else can get through Congress.
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  9562. If someone demonstrates that they really mean it, they can come aboard, but I will definitely be wary of that person's judgment to fall down such a rabbit hole in the first place.
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  9563. Fox Alert: AOC Owns More Than One Pair of Shoes, So She Clearly Lives Her Cushy Lifestyle by Exploiting Third World Children.
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  9564.  @KingJT80  I did what I could to help Bernie win, but like it or not, he didn't have the votes. He may well be the Moses leading the way to the Promised Land but never able to enter, but I don't think it's a coincidence that he did better when there was a Democratic incumbent.
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  9565.  @tod1way  We can either talk about what is possible or we can propose something that would result in a genocide. I don't become the people I hate.
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  9566.  @tod1way  I never said you did. I said that phrases like "annihilation" and "cockroaches" tend to accompany advocacy of genocide.
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  9567.  @tod1way  So, you want to kill over 90% of the population and don't think there is a problem with that or that it won't lead to either a backlash or martyrs? Congratulations. You have officially become everything that you claim to hate.
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  9568. As the late, great Molly Ivins said, "One candidate is always worse. We've turned who-is-the-lesser-evil-ism into an art form."
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  9569. Me, too!
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  9570. Indeed. Manchin is getting more heat, but Sinema supports a filibuster for everything even though Biden won her seat and Mark Kelly won by a bigger margin that she did against the same opponent.
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  9571. A friend from work who is black said that she was "hesitant" about taking the vaccine. A couple weeks later, she got coronavirus. She ended up taking the vaccine as soon as she was able to take it when she recovered. These liars don't care about POC.
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  9572.  @bluesrockfan36 Making the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend either/or. Using a regressive tax to pay for it. Allowing tech companies to do whatever they want. Telling people that he will give them a thousand bucks a month to move to higher ground when discussing the climate crisis. Indifference to unions. These things actively hurt people.
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  9573.  @bluesrockfan36  Name one? I'll do better than that. I'll name six: TANF, SNAP, WIC, LIHEAP, daycare subsidies, housing subsidies. You mean a UBI that not everyone gets? And any consumption tax is regressive by definition. Saying it isn't doesn't make it so.
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  9574.  @bluesrockfan36  Yang won't regulate them, and we won't enforce antitrust regulation. Facebook will do just fine without Instagram and WhatsApp. Google will do just fine without YouTube. Amazon will do just fine without Marketplace. You do realize that labor has a very low opinion of Andy Stern, right? When he was the head of SEIU, he repeatedly laid down his sword when trying to organize workers, and since he left SEIU, he has been working for charter schools and sitting on corporate boards. That's like bringing out Howard Dean to talk about why Medicare for All sucks without acknowledging that he is now a health insurance lobbyist: https://splinternews.com/the-union-world-is-not-happy-with-andy-stern-1836850109
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  9575.  @bluesrockfan36  Oh, no, you're not a libertarian at all. "Wage slavery to the government"? And his opposition to Medicare for All means that management still gets to use insurance as a bargaining chip. It is always the biggest fight, and they take it away when there is a strike. As the UAW strike proved, there is no gold-plated private insurance plan. Yang opposes higher wages, he opposes repealing Taft-Hartley, he is silent on card check, and what he had to say about teachers unions in his advocacy of charter schools is proof: https://crooksandliars.com/2019/09/andrew-yangs-real-platform-school
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  9576.  @bluesrockfan36  The minimum wage is racist? Interesting that you insist that you "have been a progressive all [your] adult life, but yet you are engaging in a famous libertarian tactic in your argument: https://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/lying-to-liberals/
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  9577.  @bluesrockfan36  TANF in New Hampshire is over $1000. TANF and SNAP combined is over $1000 in Alaska, New York, and California (and people who get TANF in Alaska still get the Petroleum Reserve Fund): https://fas.org/sgp/misc/RL32760.pdf And it is a precondition, because you have to give those up. Yang has a list of 125 programs that people have to forfeit if they take his money, but he refuses to list more than six. Since he says "cash or cash-equivalent," maybe it includes a lot of other things that are worth a lot of money. Maybe the EITC. Or Pell Grants. Or the Federal Student Loan Forgiveness Program. We don't know because he won't tell us.
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  9578.  @bluesrockfan36  Bernie adds to Medicare. Yang subtracts from existing programs. The 94% figure is false. It assumes that everyone gets the full thousand. And unless Yang has flip-flopped AGAIN, he has specifically said that housing and daycare subsidies are either/or. You don't get to $600B in cost savings unless you are going after pretty much every needs-based program out there. How is it regressive, aside from the fact that not everyone gets it? (And before you repeat the nonsense of how much better it is, the amount is already lower than the poverty level to the point that Yang has to pretend that the extended family is back or that living with your buddies is an attractive option for anyone other than poor college students.) Well, he says "every Amazon purchase." This means that he isn't talking about luxury items, but perhaps exempting some staples, although Amazon does sell groceries, so even that is iffy. My state exempts groceries, clothing, medicine, and diapers from the sales tax, and the poorest 20% pay nearly ten times what the richest 1% do as a percentage of income: https://itep.org/whopays/pennsylvania AT BEST, it is putting your feet on the gas and the brakes at the same time, and you don't know what will happen then.
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  9579.  @bluesrockfan36  Okay, now I know that you are either a dishonest actor or just don't know basic things. "Government ran monopolies" are actually the norm in the rest of the developed world. Canada does at that way, and the UK goes even farther. The countries that do have private insurance are very heavily regulated. No, what makes you a libertarian is supporting right-wing positions while trying to cloak them in left-sounding talking points. The tactic is something they call political cross dressing. The reason why the minimum wage exists is because overtime laws were put in place in order to encourage more hires. TANF is one of the few things that Yang will actually admit does not stack. States determine the level, but it is clearly something people will have to give up, and you sure did change your tune once I actually pointed out how much it pays out in some states that disproved your talking point that nobody gets more. At this point, I don't know whether you are a dishonest actor or just don't know basic things.
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  9580.  @bluesrockfan36  So, "Wage slavery for the government" is forcing people to rely on government to stay alive, but a world where there aren't many jobs at all and the government only gives $1000/month isn't? Things like these are what happen when you work backward. And unless he has flip-flopped again, Yang is opposed to increasing the minimum wage. He has explicitly said that he thinks the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend is better.
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  9581.  @bluesrockfan36  I have looked up his policies, and I have found nowhere that he gives a full list of the programs that people have to forfeit if they take his money. He has said the list is 125, but he has only named a few, so no one knows how many people get affected.
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  9582.  @bluesrockfan36  So, the poverty level for one person is higher, Yang doesn't want people to get any more benefits, it is much higher than that for single parents, and he will not give any more for children, and he was insistent to Ben Shapiro that he won't expand the benefit, and it will eliminate poverty completely? Yeah, sure. And there have actually been studies about different versions of UBI. Ones that are below the poverty level (the study defined it as €1100 for every man, woman, and child, so about $1200) and eliminates other anti-poverty programs. The end result? Poverty and wealth and income inequality get worse: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/01/universal-basic-income-switzerland-finland-milton-friedman-kathi-weeks/ For someone who went to the research place that every Yang Gang banger eventually goes, the irony is that I am actually documenting more of my research.
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  9583.  @bluesrockfan36  Wrong. Bernie adds. If you get Medicare now, if you aren't still working and getting more than $29,000 in earned income, you pay no more in taxes. In terms of coverage, you no longer have Medicare Part B deductibles, and now vision, hearing aids, dental, and mental health are covered with no payment at the point of service. Therefore, you get more. Maybe saying that I need to do my research is projection on your part.
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  9584.  @bluesrockfan36  I used to be on SNAP and LIHEAP, and I am a caseworker now. I actually know where the money comes from, so I don't say things that are false to try to pump up my candidate of choice. You are doing those people a disservice if you think they get both TANF and the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend.
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  9585. Corporations don't pay a VAT. It is like a sales tax that gets passed on to the consumer.
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  9586. In all honesty, Woodward has always been about trying to woo the powerful for access. I don't think it's a coincidence that Deep Throat was J. Edgar Hoover's number two. The main difference is what he uses that access for.
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  9587.  TheTRUTHmatters!  With attitudes like that, of course he couldn't. Besides, there are still more of us than there are of them.
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  9588.  Amerikan Idiot  What did you do to help Bernie win?
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  9589.  @roxannemoser  Well, I think they are more greedy than foolish.
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  9590.  @juniorgod321  Even if it "runs out of money," money is always coming in, so the worst-case scenario is that you will get 70% of the benefits. Besides, it is something that would be easily fixed by increasing or eliminating the cap on income for payroll taxes.
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  9591.  @rexfordmorgan7552  Indeed. I mean, it was bad enough last year complaining about "not asking for peace [in our time] in Ukraine," as though Russia wouldn't invade again in a few years, and whatever part of him there is that has a little tankie surely didn't love that Sam has now come around to the idea that NATO has not outlived his usefulness, but on FP videos, I don't watch if it's explicitly titled in a way that makes it clear that's what it is and it's released on a Thursday, because there are just so many awful takes. I just wish he'd stick to his wheelhouse of economics and labor.
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  9592. "I'm not good at this, either." What are you good at, Alina?
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  9593.  @avarice5071  Well, then, Georgia should be pushing for Ranked Choice Voting. There was only one race on the ballot. And if Georgia Republicans wouldn't have taken away precincts in heavily Democratic areas, the lines wouldn't have been nearly as long.
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  9594. Indeed. Todd never really struck me as fitting that stereotype. While he did have the slacker and failing upward thing, the series also makes clear that he is the most selfless person alive and he ends up doing a job that doesn't pay much but is fulfilling.
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  9595. ​ @twelvestitches984  Yeah, because the world's richest man can't possibly do bad things with other people's information and access to data to muck up payments. /s
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  9596.  @dianem6951  If you believe in the Constitution, then why are you fine with an elected official using his office for personal gain? The Emoluments Clause is very clear about that. If you care about due process so much, why are you fine with kidnapping children at the border?
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  9597.  @CloneDaddy  I truly feel for you. Sometimes, I watch James O'Brien clips, and the thing that is so exasperating is that people say that Brexit needs to happen no matter what "to respect the vote," but when he asks them what Brexit means to point out that there is no consensus on what Brexit means, and no one seems to know (the most ridiculous was that fish and chips will start being wrapped in real newspaper again) what it means, so how can you enact that? Then, when Corbyn actually has a strategy to acknowledge that (have a negotiation, and then say either approve this or we are going to cancel Brexit), he is treated as indecisive. Well, here's hoping that Labour can either get to 326 or build a governing coalition. Speaking of which, I have been trying to figure this out for some time now. Why does Sinn Fein run for Parliament if they refuse to sit when they win?
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  9598.  @ricardocabeza6006  You really think that you'll get better people with term limits? For every Lindsey Graham forced out, you force out a Bernie. And do you honestly believe that the people of South Carolina will suddenly vote for a lefty hero when he retires?
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  9599.  @Laz3rCat95  Term limits move the power from elected officials to unelected staffers who actually understand how the legislative process works. You get less accountability, and people more likely to sell out to big business, because they'll want a soft place to land.
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  9600.  @Laz3rCat95  So, why push something that will exacerbate the problem?
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  9601.  @synnbol  It's what happens in states that have legislative term limits. And it's not just about specific bills. A lot is about the legislative process. Any job takes time to learn some of the intricacies. Your argument is based on what sounds good, because it is contradicted by fact. Look at states where it happened and the end result.
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  9602.  @Laz3rCat95  The kind of change you are suggesting is Constitutional. You aren't getting 2/3 of Congress to get rid of its landing spot.
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  9603.  @synnbol  So, the evidence is out there, people who have operated under these strict rules for term limits and described their process, and we have seen what being a Lane duck does to people at the federal level, and you are claiming that it's impossible to know? Or maybe it's Sunken Cost Theory by now and you just don't want to admit that the idea sounded good at the time, but you didn't look ahead to the possible consequences.
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  9604.  @synnbol  The one reform that makes all other reforms possible is public financing. As far as the candidates who get elected, like it or not, a democracy is only as good as its people. If nutjobs in NW GA want to elect Marjorie Taylor Greene or people like her, there's not really anything we can do about it. You could try to have more civics education, but there is no guarantee that it will take.
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  9605.  @synnbol  Either term limits or public financing would require a Constitutional amendment given the Citizen's United case for the latter. So, if we are going to talk about the heavy lifting, why not do so for something that is an unmitigated good? How is it "a waste of their investment" if there is higher turnaround? If anything, in the short term, incumbents would be even more protected, because if you passed and ratified it as the Twenty-eighth Amendment tomorrow, given rules about ex post facto laws, incumbents would have to be exempt from those term limits. It is why Truman was eligible to run in 1952, and why Jerry Brown was able to run for governor of California in 2010. When Lindsey Graham decided to run for the Senate in 2002, he remarked "this seat only opens once every half century." He's 65, so he can stick around for a long time. And it's also not a "wasted investment" because the face doesn't matter to the corporate interests. It is all about having someone in their corner. Sadly, I think a lot of us never imagined either the despths of the crazy or how many people were willing to embrace it.
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  9606.  @DireAvenger001  And if you think they have nothing to do with one another, you are lying to yourself. Why do you think that Kennedy decided to step down while there was a Republican President and Senate? Why did O'Connor say "that's just terrible" when Florida was initially called for Gore because she wanted to retire but wanted a Republican to name her successor? Pretending that your side hasn't spent decades focused on stacking the courts is total dishonesty.
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  9607. He also called notorious gangster Al Capone "great."
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  9608.  @andywellsglobaldomination  "The NASCAR crowd" does not define populism. Populism is not about cultural signifiers, it is about policies that actually help the majority of people. By definition, if you support tax cuts for the rich, you are not a populist. The fake right-wing version is not about rich vs. poor, but about cultural bigotry used to distract people from the real enemy.
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  9609.  @andywellsglobaldomination  My master's portfolio was on William Jennings Bryan and the Cross of Gold speech. I think that I know what I speak of in terms of the history of populism. Just because Hofstadter thought that the populists were gross and preferred the more upper class contemporary progressive movement doesn't change that fact.
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  9610.  @andywellsglobaldomination  If policy doesn't matter in terms of populism, the term is meaningless. Then again, with hot takes like that, no wonder you say that right wingers are the real populists. The Populists wanted a progressive income tax, a minimum wage, a 40-hour work week, compulsory education, and monetary policy designed to help ordinary people, hence the name.
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  9611.  @andywellsglobaldomination  English translation: "My lies have been called out, and I'm trying to save face." Yes, why would anyone study one of the most important speeches of all time and perhaps the only time that a major political party changed its entire course in less than ten minutes?
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  9612.  @andywellsglobaldomination  Non-American? "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to talk and remove all doubt." Bryan was born in Illinois, lived in Nebraska, served two terms in Congress and as Secretary of State, and was a three-time Presidential nominee. Just because you don't know anything doesn't mean that such knowledge isn't valuable.
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  9613.  @andywellsglobaldomination  And if you know anything about academia at all, you would know that graduate research is incredibly narrow and specialized. How else do you think people make original contributions to the field?
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  9614. ​ @JadeS-ww7sr  Who will have to raise a billion dollars in less than four months, have no name recognition, and who all poll worse than Biden. It's not a good look to say that we're the ones who support democracy while wanting to dump the candidate who is the duly elected nominee.
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  9615. He bravely ran away, away/ Brave Sir Donald ran away.
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  9616.  @FuddlyDud  Never forget. I apologize for the delay. I got hit with a couple of major projects at work and didn't have the mental energy to give your reply that I felt it deserved. Here goes. Some agreement! How do you think education funding should be restructured? I want to see your starting point to see how much the common ground extends to solutions on this one. What does the Bill of Rights have to do with why health care is so expensive and doesn't cover everyone? Unless your arguing that the Second Amendment as understood in the Heller case is contributing to the costs. Standard of living refers to the mean, not the median. If you look at a distribution chart since 1980, you will see just how deceptive mean can be. Also, you keep talking about cost of living going down. Which is it? You didn't "disprove inflation." If you look up an inflation calendar, it will tell you that something that cost a dollar in 1980 will cost $3.06 today. You also said the pie is getting bigger and everyone benefits. That is completely contradictory both to external facts and your previously stated logic. The economy grew at a much faster rate from 1945-1980 than it has since 1981, and more people shared in the increases back then. Also, which is it, everyone gets more, or don't worry that you're not getting more, because everything is cheaper, anyway. Your remark about $1000 phones clearly contradicts the notion of things getting cheaper (btw, my phone cost $150, so I'm not exactly chasing the expensive trends). You talk about the Tenth Commandment, but what about the Eighth? Or Matthew 19 or 25, for that matter? You said private solutions are better than every public solution I have advocated. The main two I have argued here are education and health care. Studies have repeatedly shown that, as a whole, private schools do not outperform public schools, and we pay more and cover less than any country that lets the government fund and either insure or provide health care. If you want these things to be state run, how will that solve education disparities between rich states and poor states? As far as converting, I have discussed these issues with people for decades, and Solomon is right. I honestly don't come into these things trying to convert anyone. If they do, great, but to me it's about exchanging ideas and being willing to listen and understand. There might be things where I think, "That is a good point," (example: I was running for state legislature in my native state 12 years ago, and some people kept complaining about too much regulation. The one concrete example someone gave, too much red tape for billboard approval, made a lot of sense, but generic complaints didn't persuade me of anything on regulations. Some are good, and some are bad.) but my basic worldview is informed from 39 years of observation, discussion, and trying to learn. Looking forward to the follow up! Hopefully, you'll be less pressed for time than I was ;-)
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  9617.  @FuddlyDud  Sorry it took so long. I usually responded before during down periods at work, but I haven't really had those. Here are some responses to points above. Public vs. Private Education: My point when I said "on the whole" wasn't that their was no outstanding private schools or bad public schools. There are good and bad of both. I could point out that in academic competitions in my county growing up, the public school students regularly beat the students from the biggest private school (it was still relative, because there were 129 in my graduating class, and I'm pretty sure that was close either way to their size for K-12), and most people who went to both told me they preferred the public schools. That being said, most private schools are not Andover Prep. Private schools can also skew their results by not admitting students with special needs, whereas public schools take everyone. Funding: I haven't seen the specifics, but there is an idea Republicans have been floating in PA and I definitely like the basic idea of it. They are proposing eliminating the education portion of property taxes and shifting to income taxes to allow for a more equitable distribution of funds. As long as it is adequately funded, I can definitely get behind this. Innovation: One thing that studies have shown does make a difference in performance is the presence of public magnet schools. This is more difficult to have in smaller or rural areas, because the commute time would be too great, but having schools with different emphases (including for high academic performers) has worked very well, and I think they should be implemented wherever it is feasible. Money Trap: I don't think it's about simply throwing more money at education (although I could point to just how much the elite schools really spend), but there are some things that studies have shown time and time again make a huge difference that do require more money. One is class size. Studies have shown that class size is one of the biggest determining factors in quality education, and that means that you simply must pay out enough money to have enough teachers to keep class sizes to a desirable level. The second is related: teacher quality. As the last few decades have shown, if you don't pay enough, quality people will go where the money is, which disproportionately affects poor districts and results in higher turnover. The low tax ideology plays out in fights over bond levies. The year I ran, down ballot, there was a school bond levy to fund repairs and reconstruction of several schools for the cost of $15.5MM. The low tax crowd complained about taxes, and only 26% voted for it. When I went to school, WV was middle of the pack. Now, they're 48th in performance (only MS and AL fare worse), so it clearly takes enough money. Accountability: I couldn't agree with you more that we should change how we determine academic success. I'm not sure what ways we can change that, other than less of an emphasis on standardized tests. No one knows like someone who has told college freshman that they have to do a 6-10 page research paper the flaws of that emphasis when it comes to developing critical thinking skills. I think we should emphasize more writing in junior high and high school, but other than that, I'd like to hear what ideas you have.
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  9618.  @mbd6054  Actually, most of the people marching for civil rights and activists in the movement were part of the Silent Generation, not Baby Boomers.
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  9619.  @mbd6054  The labels are there for sociological reasons because there is a legitimate generation gap culturally. I don't hate Baby Boomers. What I do hate is the mentality among far too many that seems to assume that those of us in subsequent generations (I am Generation X) had the same advantages they did, and that a lot if that age cohort voted in the group that undid most of the advantages that their parents gave them. I think OK Boomer is stupid, but I will criticize certain attitudes when I see them regardless of age, such as when people don't do the actual work and then whine that it didn't happen. I knocked on hundreds, if not thousands, of doors for Bernie, made calls, participated in a fundraiser for a local Bernie group, attended meetings, and served as captain for a petition drive. All of this as a single parent. Then, I hear people insist that giving Bernie a few bucks was enough.
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  9620.  @mbd6054  Thank you. It is incredibly frustrating to me when people say that they tried, but when you ask a follow up, they didn't do much at all. If a parent to a small child can make it happen, so can they. (She was an infant during the 2016 campaign, so I admit that is a little different, but if the child is potty trained, there is usually someone who can offer childcare.) In some ways, I think that is the double edged sword of social media. You can reach out to people half a world away or be exposed to more information, but what feels like "doing something" is really just staying in an echo chamber and doing nothing. At the campaign stuff I went to, there will people of just about all ages. Yes, support for Bernie tended to tail off for people born before 1975, but I think some of that might have to do with Cold War scare tactics. Still, I was able to win over a Trump voter in North Philly, so it is possible. Even if Bernie turned out to be the Moses rather than the Joshua, giving up now would be a slap in the face to everything he fought for in both of his Presidential campaigns. The fact that he got as far as he did was impressive given everything he had working against him.
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  9621.  @brandong298  Biden isn't a Baby Boomer. He was born in 1942.
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  9622.  Lakers fan  I have her as third behind Bernie and Inslee. My only concern is that she isn't much of a fighter, as evidenced by how quickly she backpedaled on Medicare for All.
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  9623.  @FakingANerve  Was he articulate and we'll reasoned when he switched to right win talking points on Mediccare for All after saying for months that it was the real compromise, because it is settling for less than an NHS-style system.
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  9624.  @Jabbawocki1  He once threatened to disown Don Jr. if he enlisted in the military.
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  9625.  @hanli5416  And that is why cryptocurrency won't replace government currency. By definition, something cannot be both an investment vehicle and a currency. Yes, there is forex trading, but that is straight up gambling. Gold never really fit the definition of investment, either. At its core, an ounce of gold will always be an ounce of gold. A company can grow, and there are fundamentals that tell you what will make it happen.
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  9626.  @agisler87  There has never been direct corporate contributions before Citizens United. Political Action Committees are bound by strict rules and limits that SuperPACs are not. So, you wonder why people should be allowed to know who is trying to influence an election so they can make an informed decision about who they want to elect?
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  9627.  @youtubesucks1499  Then, let the people within the corporation make the contribution, and hold them to the same contribution limits as the rest of us.
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  9628.  @timg185  So, Jeff Bezos should get to give $200B to his kids tax free? Never mind how ridiculous the "double taxation argument" is, a lot of that money is in the form of unrealized capital gains, which was never taxed in the first place.
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  9629.  @cvsWebDesigns  Convention of states means that literally the entire Constitution is up to be changed. Do you really trust the fascists not to use a new Constitution to kill democracy and find ways to increase power even more in their favor?
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  9630.  @youtubesucks1499  "Close the loopholes and watch how fast production is cut." First of all, the economy grew much faster when the rich were taxed more, in no small part because higher corporate taxes encourage investment rather than hoarding profits. Second, how have workers actually benefitted from the increase in productivity? Since 1980, productivity has doubled while wages have been largely stagnant. Please forgive me if I don't shed a tear that some rich person doesn't get an extra ivory backscratcher this month.
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  9631.  @youtubesucks1499  "The 1980s began with two recessions in three years" And the second and worst was a year after Reagan got his tax cut. Oh, and he responded to shortfalls with the largest peacetime tax increase in history. "Then posted the longest peace-time expansion on record." Seven years is not the longest peace time expansion on record. The expansion started under JFK lasted nine years. There was a 10 year expansion after the Bush recession, and the Obama expansion lasted 11 years.
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  9632.  @youtubesucks1499  And what does NAFTA have to do with anything? If you look at the overall rates of economic growth, GDP increased an average of half a point higher from 1945-1980 compared to 1981-present, and the three worst economic downturns (Reagan, Bush, and Trump) all occurred in the latter.
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  9633.  @youtubesucks1499  "If life was so great during the 1980s" You're the one talking about how Reagan brought in this great prosperity by cutting taxes on rich people. I'm the one who's been saying that it wasn't great at all, so thank you for proving my point for me. "Trump tried to get companies to stay in the United States." Trump tried to get a few individual companies to stay in the United States, but a one-sided tariff is hardly an economic strategy, because nothing prevents the other side from enacting a retaliatory tariff. "They wouldn't. It wasn't cost effective." Germany still pays high wages, and they have an overall trade surplus. "Cost effective" isn't the issue. The real problem is greedy rich people who understand the cost of everything and the value of nothing and have kept all of the spoils from work performed by actual workers for over 40 years, whereas before Saint Ronnie, wages used to rise more or less in conjunction with productivity.
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  9634.  @youtubesucks1499  NAFTA was ratified in 1993. "Technology" You are aware that computers were a thing long before 1980, right? "Went off gold standard" Which major industrialized country still uses precious metals as the basis for its currency? The gold standard artificially limits economic production because it artificially limits supply. [Xenophobia quote] The main difference between immigration for work in the time before 1980 and now is that ot was much more seasonal... because xenophobia didn't win the day and it was common for workers to come north in the spring, get some money, and go back home. "China wasn't the manufacturing hub of the world." You mean that there was a time where workers got enough money that they actually could afford quality products and bought them rather than cheap stuff? You don't say! You are literally describing things that are encouraged by the economic philosophy that you advocate. "AI" Which wasn't a thing 40 years ago and doesn't explain the downward pressure on wages for that long.
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  9635.  @youtubesucks1499  "You are looking at the numbers without looking at the cause" And most of the things that you mentioned were advocated by the right.
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  9636.  @youtubesucks1499  So, I take it that you can't think of an example of an industrialized country that still uses precious metals as a standard?
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  9637.  @youtubesucks1499  I'm not the one who thinks that precious metals works better. I am well aware of how the late 19th century saw most people financially crippled by 25 years of a gold standard with not enough gold to keep up with the population... which was a fraction of what it is now.
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  9638.  @youtubesucks1499  You apparently can't make up your mind what you are. First, you're a titan of industry, and now you're a gentleman farmer?
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  9639. 4:04 You dirty liar! Working from home is still work.
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  9640. My uncle (born in 1947) had polio as a kid and couldn't walk until he was five. My brother got the mumps when he was two. I got the measles when I was 12, ironically because I was sick from school when the booster was being given, and it was horrible. Whoever wrote "Melanie's Marvelous Measles" is a sadist. I take no joy in these stories, but a lot of anger, because these kids suffer needlessly due to their stupidity.
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  9641. I get that he can't fire DeJoy directly, but he's had enough appointments that DeJoy should be gone. Ask every potential nominee, "Will you vote out DeJoy?" and if the answer is no, they need to find another job.
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  9642. ​ @ringo8410  And giving the White House to the party that insists that Biden was too hard on Netanyahu prevents genocide how?
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  9643.  @ringo8410  Voting to make it easier for the person who wants Netanyahu to "finish the job," uses Palestinian as a slur, and wants Israel to start a regional war by attacking Iran to win the election means you have no moral high ground. At all.
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  9644.  @roger_combatevolved  "Earn votes" English translation: I am a child who needs to be wooed in order to prevent a would-be dictator from taking office.
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  9645.  @ringo8410  So, you vote for the one who defends the genocide in Ukraine? Funny how the people who have such bloated self-righteousness have a record every bit as bad as those they claim to be better than.
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  9646.  Mycel  Both are deluded utopians, but the main difference is what they want to see after government. Libertarians believe that just getting rid of government will lead to paradise, but anarchists tend to believe that private property should also be abolished.
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  9647.  @Sp1n1985  What does?
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  9648.  @Sp1n1985  Worse than it is now.
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  9649. The ones who were the most fristrating were the people in groups Trump was clearly targeting who said they voted for him because "he's a straight shooter" who were then asked about being in one of those groups who suddenly didn't believe him on that one.
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  9650. Jonathan Turkey argued for the impeachment of each of the three immediate predecessors of Der Orangefuhrer, but this one is a step too far?
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  9651.  @Junebug89  True, but he didn't rescind or change his endorsement once the facts came in.
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  9652. That was when he was President.
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  9653. "Corporations spend $5B." Yes, and corporations won't just spend more. Democracy Dollars is an incredibly flawed model, because it puts all the attention on the glamor races, whereas smaller races are far easier to buy and corrupt.
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  9654. Either abolish the filibuster or reform it in such a way that we don't need a supermajority to get everything through the Senate. (My preference is for the latter, forcing talking filibusters and changing the rule from 3/5 of all Senators to 3/5 voting in order to defeat a filibuster.)
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  9655.    He was booed at an establishment forum that happened to include black women. They don't know color or gender, just whether or not you're on their team.
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  9656. As far as the EITC goes, it is definitely a thing that leads to internal conflict as far as whether or not it is a good idea. In many ways, it acts as a subsidy for employers who pay low wages, but on the other hand, I have no desire whatsoever to see anyone suffer and have it taken away. Like a lot of things, if I was building from scratch, I'd go for higher wages, but I don't want to get rid of it, either.
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  9657. Drugs are bad.
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  9658.  @tmsphere  The religious right does not and never did define Christianity.
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  9659. When I've called into other shows, it disconnects when the host is done, so I was surprised the screener kept the call on after Prager was done talking.
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  9660. I can buy as much toilet paper as I want, I live in a better neighborhood, I only have five payments left on my student loans (because Biden reduced the number of necessary payments for th Student Loan Forgiveness Plan), and I have a work from home agreement. I am much better off than I was four years ago.
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  9661.  @thefringe8217  He has over a million donors and 1.2MM volunteers. No one else can boast numbers even close to that. Once Harris gets scrutiny, her numbers will come back down to earth, and once people realize that Warren is selling the Diet Coke version of Bernie, so will she. If you look at the polling average, Bernie still leads both.
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  9662. Sometimes, you have to do the right thing. The impeachment process and trial will expose Trump and his defenders. Even though the public was never on the side of impeachment, going after Clinton hurt Gore deeply in 2000.
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  9663. You can say that your daughter is pretty. You can't say that you would date her if she wasn't your daughter.
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  9664. Pete Davidson, why did you have to make a bad joke about this guy that gave him a platform instead of letting him rot in obscurity?!?
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  9665.  @LibertarianRants  Yes, libertarians complain about corporate welfare (although when they get elected to Congress, a lot of that criticism doesn't match the voting record), but you oppose the things that lead to all of the power being concentrated in a few hands in the first place.
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  9666.  @Shozb0t  Well, the question is clearly coming from a standpoint of wanting a utopian ideal state. I don't seek that. I think Rand and Marx both made the exact same mistake even if its application ends up going in different places. That being said, my ideal economic state is one where poverty is a distant memory, where no one goes homeless while some billionaire buys his fifth or sixth manor, everyone who wants to can work a meaningful job, people have the freedom to change that job because health care is a human right, and people have enough leisure time to spend with their family or get involved in the community.
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  9667. ​ @RodneyYone  Not sure who Martin is, but Ornstein is Norm Ornstein, who used to be at AEI.
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  9668.  @alwayz247  But the problem is that there is a left-wing UBI and a right-wing UBI. If someone runs as a Democrat using the right-wing version, that sets the parameters of the debate. Trying to convince people that it is far outside the mainstream to tax the rich or rein in corporate power is a Trojan horse. If they were so problematic, why keep propping them up just because "the establishment hates them"? Again, the establishment hated Trump, too, and the book, sue literally insinuates that this proves that he was onto something. The enemy of my enemy is not always my friend, and the MSM is hardly the biggest threat there is. The end result of this empowers the worst actors. She cannot be viewed apart from Saagar Enjeti because he is who she wants to form a coalition with, and red/brown alliances never work out well for the red half of them.
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  9669.  @alwayz247  He is Saagar.
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  9670. ​ @Motorboatinsongun  "He's a fun guy. He likes 'em very young." Dear Leader on Jeffrey Epstein
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  9671. Once I realized that Trump won, the first thought that came to mind was that he'd try to change the rules to say the Twenty-second Amendment only refers to consecutive terms. Since the Supreme Court has made it obvious that the Constitution is whatever they want to change it to so Deat Leader gets what he wants, this is no idle threat.
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  9672.  @elsanti4753  Agreed. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is great, but Bojack is just a little bit greater.
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  9673. Let me just make sure I get this straight: Der Orangefuhrer says that Biden is coasting off the fumes of his economy, but he keeps insisting that we shouldn't count the massive job losses of his last year against him? Make up your mind, Dumb Donald.
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  9674. The vote was guaranteed to fail. Everybody knew that. Literally no one who is uninsured would get covered by this vote. So, what does a cancer patient dying with debt have to do with this other than a ridiculously sloppy bit of emotional manipulation?
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  9675.  @treeslikeflowers  What specific action could the Democrats have done to get Merrick Garland on the Supreme Court? What specific action could the Democrats have done to stop Neil Gorsuch? Keep in mind that Mitch McConnell was the one who controlled the Senate calendar before you give your answer.
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  9676.  EpicCoder Skits and Reactions  They care enough to actually want the working people in this country to get some of the fruits of their labor.
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  9677.  @kyledrums  Well said! It's one thing if you try and realize that the votes just aren't there, but you don't negotiate with yourself before you start.
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  9678.  @jeremyleewang  The only time that he ever told the truth was when he said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose any votes.
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  9679. And he did go to a lot of WNBA games.
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  9680. Manchin wouldn't lose a primary challenge, but the pressure of a serious challenge will pull him to the left.
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  9681.  @haydenwaugh6139  Everyone didn't get it until they did. Dear Leader thought he wouldn't get it, too.
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  9682.  @sharper68  Except for me the difference between pure Broken Clock than this is that the instant that he explains why he's upset, it's accidentally getting the right answer. When I usually think Broken Clock, I think an awful person being insightful out of nowhere.
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  9683.  @sharper68  That, too. If he would have just stopped at "what have we done?" I would have definitely gone with that analogy.
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  9684. How is that even possible? Does that mean that people are paying to get oil off their hands?
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  9685.  @Closeoutracer  And how has letting them do whatever they want for the last 40 years worked out? 2008 was only the culmination of various bailouts and saving firms that were too big to fail. Maybe this wouldn't keep happening if they were held accountable.
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  9686.  @strumbum946  Yes, they do provide capital, and I have no problem with them getting gain for using it in a productive way. My issue is when they take all of the gains and use their money to game the system so that they continue to get all of the gains.
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  9687. Manchin never changed parties, so what are you talking about?
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  9688.  @That85Scorpio  Justice was pretty MAGA in 2016 as well. He switched to the Democratic Party specifically to run for governor, and not much changed in his agenda. As much as I hate Justice, it wasn't like that woman in NC who changed everything about herself and her platform.
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  9689. At a certain point, I don't really care what these judges can do to hold him accountable. All I really care about is that he not get his 101st final warning and actually gets a punishment with teeth.
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  9690. They were less than 50 feet from Pence at one point. What do you think would have happened had they gotten him or Pelosi? What do you call a failed coup attempt that isn't punished? Practice.
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  9691.  @Dreikoo  Complacency is exactly what the fascists want.
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  9692. Never underestimate the power of confirmation bias.
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  9693.  @killy7778  Experience as an elected official or working in government.
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  9694.  @CouragePope  So, was he right the first time and cowardly the second time, or did he answer poorly the first time and clarify the second time? Maybe if he didn't have a lengthy history of racial dog whistles, he wouldn't have people asking this question in the first place.
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  9695. I watch so I know what we're up against.
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  9696.  @geezzyy_8162  Yeah, sure you were. Even if that's true, it doesn't change that you're lying about the numbers.
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  9697.  @geezzyy_8162  Funny that you use the wrong preposition, bot. No, you wanted people to believe the nonsense your programmers gave you, but you're caught, so now you're trying to play it off like Dear Leader saying he was joking when everyone knows he has no sense of humor.
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  9698. I love my dead, gay son!
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  9699. This is clearly a case of being right for the wrong reasons, but I'll take it. Great job, Meghan!
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  9700. A lot of poor white people got swept up in poll tax and literacy tests, too. Didn't make those laws any less racist.
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  9701. I remember a few years ago needing a form for my tax return. I tried to call the IRS to no avail. I finally had to call my Congresswoman and I finally got my refund in December. The next year, the increased funding for the IRS kicked in, and I got it in March. I've also heard the night and day difference in how long it took to get an answer or get their checks.
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  9702. Third party in first past the post is guaranteed to fail and give more power to Mitch McConnell. Great strategy!
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  9703.  @vell0cet517  It took conservatives 16 years to take over the Republican Party, and they had money on their side. We've only been at it for six. You mean to tell me that you want to give up faster than people who wanted to make the country worse?
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  9704.  @ngotemna8875  So true. At this point, it is getting harder to tell the difference between online lefties who don't understand strategy or history and right wing trolls pretending to be lefties to sabotage us.
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  9705.  @vell0cet517  What specifically does more harm than good in the combined package?
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  9706.  @vell0cet517  If we are talking about the infrastructure bill alone, yes, but the BBB also includes universal pre-K, Medicare negotiating prescription drug prices, and record funding for renewable energy. You didn't say the infrastructure bill, so was this conflation, or was this just not being honest?
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  9707.  @vell0cet517  You mean Kyle "I didn't vote because it was gross, and I'll never say anything to counter Jimmy Dore" Kulinski? Or do you mean Kyle "Give Trump what he wants in a coronavirus bill, but hold out on Biden" Kulinski?
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  9708.  @vell0cet517  And scroll up where I said "combined package."
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  9709.  @vell0cet517  Says the accelerationist who thinks that giving Republicans power (because that is what happens when you go third party from the left) will lead to things actually getting better instead of the "just make the awful people go away" that leads to lowered expectations in what to ask for.
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  9710.  @vell0cet517  And you don't know what has actually been agreed to.
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  9711.  @ngotemna8875  Indeed. How many grifters can you hang out with and defend before people finally admit that, just maybe, that is who you are?
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  9712. So, you envision a world where there will be no more janitors? Daycare workers?
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  9713.  @DetroitAlan01  $10-12/hour is still below $15. There are plenty of places where people who work as janitors do make minimum wage, and daycare workers don't make that much higher. And the idea of minimum wage jobs being intended for the young? Well, that might be the case in your imagining, but the majority are age 25-54. Maybe instead of looking down on people making low wages, we accept that there are always going to be vital jobs that are undervalued.
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  9714. ​ @jamespohl-md2eq  He was before they were famous.
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  9715.  @jamespohl-md2eq  Based on what logic? That would be like saying Pete Best was never the drummer for The Beatles because it wasn't the same band without Ringo.
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  9716.  @jamespohl-md2eq  Based on what? He performed at early shows, and they were calling themselves Steely Dan at the time.
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  9717.  @pooliette  She wants a job at Fox.
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  9718. ​ @GaryRine  Even in multi-party systems, there are always two major parties that are going to control government. I'm not saying being in the government, but controlling the PM. The difference between a two-party and a multi-party system is that in the former, the coalition is formed by voters before the election, whereas in the latter the coalition is formed by parties after the election.
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  9719. ​ @oscarguzman3017  They're about 80% of the way there, and they're currently pushing to enact it in Michigan. If you live there or have friends that do, make sure that you're contacting your legislators about it.
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  9720. John Roberts has more than overtaken Roger Taney as the worst Chief Justice in American history. We never thought we'd see the man behind the Dred Scott decision passed, but congratulations, you have done it. Your actions are actively thwarting the very idea of a republic, and you are far and away the most corrupt.
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  9721. I literally got an Airbnb ad for this video. The algorithm clearly missed the point.
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  9722. A week or two ago, people got mad that Bernie wasn't taking the lead in torpedoing the nomination, especially after Manchin came out against it. I kept insisting that it would never come to a vote since it was already dead, and that such a course of action was win-win: Biden got to pretend to be helping the Clinton people (who he despises), Manchin got to insist to voters at home that he is his own man, and Bernie got to focus on her troublesome positions on issues and keep his powder dry. Maybe people will start to understand that Bernie isn't obsessed with virtue signaling and personal spite, but has a little more strategy than some of the people who claim to be his supporters. Now, I'm going to dance like the twins in A Charlie Brown Christmas.
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  9723. Yeah, he's so cool with his compensatory headwear, hidden compound with exposed weapons, and skate park. Why can't the ladies see that Dim is such a cool guy and have some sushi with him?
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  9724.  @sevensages5279  Indeed
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  9725.  @christophermarang.3569  How so?
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  9726. He makes a good pillow, but I have no desire to buy that book.
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  9727. Okay, I have checked multiple updates, and the edit keeps changing back and forth. In the immortal words of Richard Belding, "Hey-hey, hey, hey! What is going on here?"
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  9728. Like she confirmed that her kids went to public school, or that she wasn't a corporate stooge as a lawyer, or that she got fired as a teacher for being visibly pregnant? Is that whose word that you're taking?
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  9729.  @1369Stiles  No, I'm agreeing with you and talking about the people who insist that there was no difference between the two major parties. The fact that I led with talking about trolls trying to reduce turnout on the left (I've personally exposed five of them) should have made that obvious.
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  9730.  Jewels Star  He seems genuinely nice? Was he genuinely nice when he bulldozed the houses of hundreds of houses in poor black and Hispanic neighborhoods? Was he genuinely nice when discussing it and he said, "no policy is perfect" as a way to discuss the legitimate harm it caused or brushing it off by saying that "people who lived there said they're only complaint was 'why didn't you do it sooner"? Was he genuinely nice when he covered up for racist cops? Was he genuinely nice when he called students protesting for higher pay for janitors "social justice warriors"? He isn't making policy or promises. You get people on your side by standing for something. If Bernie gets in, people will know that he won by advocating Medicare for All, $15/hour minimum wage, and higher taxes. What will we get if we elect "I'll tell you what I'll do after the election"? I don't care if he is the nicest and most interesting person in private, I care about what he wants to do, and I am sick of ciphers.
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  9731. You should watch the trailer for Psycho. It's about five or six minutes long.
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  9732.  @mrskynet8800  I am aware of the origin of the term. I am referring to the way the right uses it.
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  9733.  @Mr.Smith101  So, we should abandon everything we stand for because of a petty grudge?
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  9734.  @dixonyamowthe1297  Which is why I was stunned at Jamie saying "Maybe it would help Bernie."
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  9735. One thing that I am curious about is which states have sore loser laws. Among swing states, I know Ohio does, so if Bloomberg doesn't get on the primary ballot, that should remove all doubt from all but the most willfully blind that he is just running because he wants to throw it to Trump because he is worried his taxes will go up.
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  9736. Is it just me, or do the ghosts kinda sound like Ryan and Shane?
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  9737. As much as I think that Biden is a disaster who can't win, I live in one of the states that decided 2016, and I couldn't live with myself if I said it didn't matter and we got stuck with Trump naming the successor to RBG. If he gets to do that, any good thing that President AOC or anyone else gets through Congress will be overturned. That being said, if Bernie gets that nomination, he gets my Saturdays. If Biden is the nominee, the only finger I lift for him will be in the ballot box.
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  9738. David Feldman
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  9739.  @dalmarahmed8499  What did Republicans do in the previous four years to help the American people? It never ceases to amaze me how many right wingers won't admit their leanings.
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  9740. And who was the cause of inspiration for the coup?
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  9741.  @dalmarahmed8499  Yeah, and having a gallows and zip ties while chanting Hang Mike Pence and being 20 feet away from their target is just a tourist trip. Well, you have exposed yourself as a fascist who hates democracy. Good to know. And look up how many coups failed the first time and succeeded the second.
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  9742.  @Strongflower1  Here in Philadelphia, the Green Party actually figured out a rule so that they could try to gain power. We have seven at-large city council seats, but each party is only allowed to nominate five candidates and voters can only pick five, guaranteeing two seats for the minority party. They finally realized, "Nothing says that has to be a Republican" in 2015, and tried to run one candidate. The cut off to win a seat was nearly 40,000 votes and the Green Party candidate got 11,000. They didn't bother to publicize this strategy until a week or two before the general election. In 2019, they didn't even get a candidate qualified for the ballot (it only takes 250 signatures, and groups like A Better Philadelphia and Term Limits Philadelphia met this hurdle), and the Working Families Party got one of the two seats. Even when the rules help, the Green Party is too lazy or incompetent to get the job done.
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  9743. They can't believe the difference, but they didn't say it was a positive difference.
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  9744. 7:01 I believe the phrase you are looking for is "victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan."
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  9745. A man once most famous for pretending to be a goat on SNL can't bring the funny? See my shocked face :-|
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  9746. Republicans win voters making over $100,000. Democrats win voters making under $50,000. Don't believe the hype.
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  9747.  @LydiaSings  So, why are you blaming the poor? It's far more likely to be people in your income group to cause it to happen.
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  9748.  @AndiDuck  In other words, because the Fifth Congress decided that it can't be done, period.
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  9749.  @Tailionis  My idiot uncle thought that, too.
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  9750.  @konstantinkoch6114  Because impeachment is a political process, not a legal process. If Donald Trump literally shot someone on Fifth Avenue live on TV, if there aren't 218 votes, it doesn't matter in terms of impeachment. That being said, I don't know if this is a strategy on her part or just realizing that she couldn't stem the tide any longer and had to get in front of it a la Lee Iococca and air bags. However, I am inclined to believe the latter.
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  9751. Oh, it's not an adoption. It's a surrogacy, which they really hate.
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  9752. Yes, because Neil Gorsuch is soooooo much better.
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  9753. He didn't even win the one state that he really focused on (Utah).
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  9754. There's a funny episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia where The Gang does just that.
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  9755. A discharge petition requires 218 signatures. There aren't 218 sponsors, so does anyone really think that will happen?
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  9756. When I saw the thumbnail, I thought "'one officer' for what?" :-P That comma is very important ;-)
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  9757.  @Tr4cK17  When did he vote for tax cuts skewed heavily toward the rich? He is not my preferred candidate, but I give credit where credit is due.
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  9758. "I had the right to remain silent. I had the right, but not the ability." Ron White
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  9759. What recourse could they possibly have achieved once the Supreme Court stopped the count? It's one thing to question the results, but it's another to show a workable way to get the results.
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  9760.  @nevermorebouquet3681  In other words, you wanted a civil war? So, you would have been fine with what Trump did if you agreed with him politically. Good to know.
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  9761.  @nevermorebouquet3681  "The Democrats won't enact the structural change necessary" You are aware that it takes a 2/3 vote in each House of Congress and ratification by state legislatures in 3/4 of the states to get such structural changes, right? And the first Civil War was defensive. The Confederacy started it in every conceivable way, and the Union finished it. So, unless you're asking if I agree with the Confederacy, not the same thing. In general, I would argue that attempts at violent insurrection against the most powerful military on the planet isn't a good idea. If you want to fashion yourself another Che Guevara, see just how far you get.
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  9762.  @nevermorebouquet3681  Not exactly what most people would call "systematic issues" when it comes to elections. So, tell me how that gets rid of the Electoral College, dark money in politics, or conflicts of interest with elected officials. Maybe try to answer the actual question at hand, and then we'll look at what you said to see if it makes any sense either in context or in general.
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  9763.  Tin Forge  Such as?
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  9764.  Tin Forge  As I pointed out above, there is not nearly the partisan advantage to pass an amendment. And how exactly is this "just defy it" going to work? You can pretend otherwise, but there was no way that Al Gore could have become President after the Supreme Court decision.
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  9765. Purussia maybe?
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  9766. So, a candidate who wanted to get rid of birthright citizenship was surprised to find out that a substantial portion of those who believe the same refused to vote for him because his parents are immigrants? Self-awareness really is not a strength of the American right.
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  9767.  @Jon-br8co  Which part? Surprise at what Yang is actually proposing, or that some states have especially draconian laws about benefit overpayments?
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  9768. He's right that it's a battle between good and evil, and he is firmly on the side of evil.
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  9769.  @lenblack1462  I saw them say it.
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  9770.  @fatimasaleh9402  Texas had independence in 1836. They signed a treaty to join. The Mexican War led to the annexation of California, Arizona, and New Mexico.
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  9771. ​ @Clark420  What specifically did Biden do that Trump is accused of doing? When did he call elected officials to hound them to change the results for him or sent violent supporters to the Capitol to overturn the results?
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  9772.  @peterstafford4426  And it seems like a lot of the anti-anti-Trump crowd uses "this person is anti-establishment" to justify getting into bed with a lot of awful people.
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  9773.  @mjchakos1  They are, but they are the ones who pretend to be lefties. They'll say they hate Trump, but they really hate his opponents.
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  9774.  @turboaram1970  Well, then it is clearly a method of eliminating the current social safety net. While some want to do it faster, he admitted to Dave Rubin that his ultimate goal is to let it wither on the vine. Okay, so someone getting current benefits that help the poor have to choose, but someone could get an $8MM loan at 3% interest on a $10MM house. The mortgage interest deduction has no cap, so that is $240,000 in interest. With a top marginal rate of 37%, that means a deduction of $88,800. So, that is just fine for collecting an extra $1000/month, but someone who is disabled and getting $1200/month not only can't, but now has to pay an extra 10%? Yeah, that's fair. And your preferred candidate talks of it as a "right of citizenship" when he insists that the rich should still get, but the poor don't. Does that mean that Andrew Yang sees the poor and disabled as somehow less than?
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  9775.  @Devinchi_Art  Because people who currently receive 125 benefits, seven or eight of which are all that Yang has specified (TANF, SNAP, WIC, LIHEAP, housing subsidies, SSI, VA Disability) so we don't know exactly what falls under this, will have to give up their current benefits in order to get his plan. If that isn't "forced to choose," what would you call it?
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  9776.  @Devinchi_Art  Who is teaching the financial education? I'm not opposed to the basic idea, but it seems like a lot of it is being done by financial companies rather than neutrals who aren't trying to sell something.
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  9777.  @Devinchi_Art  At a certain point, I have to wonder if I am speaking a different language. Let me just use a hypothetical situation that will spell it out. Imagine someone who gets $1200/month when all benefits are calculated. If this were truly a humane thing trying to actually lift people out of poverty, Yang woukd say, "Okay. You get an extra thousand, so your new grand total is $2200." That way, they would get an increase, because it would actually be about helping people rather than a stealth attempt at gutting the existing social safety net. However, because it is a stealth attempt at gutting the existing social safety net, people can only get one, but not both. By forcing people to choose, he will also screw over people who cannot see the future. If someone is making a middle class income, let's say $39,000/year for the sake of math. That works out to a biweekly pay of $1500. That person gets laid off. Unemployment pays 60% of income, or $900 biweekly. But, this is someone who took the "freedom dividend." Oh, no! No unemployment for you. Let's just hope that you paid off your house before you lost your job, because your rent or mortgage will eat up most of the "freedom dividend." Some freedom!
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  9778.  @Devinchi_Art  If money is to take care of needs, then why is Jeff Bezos eligible? Oh, that's right! Righties only see welfare when it's the poor and disabled who get it. They don't see things like the mortgage interest deduction, which has no cap.
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  9779. I didn't delete my account, but for all intents and purposes, I stopped using it in March 2017. (I have only gone back to thank people for birthday wishes, to help out the union in a contest, pictures of my niece, or to send a message to someone who I knew checked that more than e-mail to send a message.) At first, I wanted to respond to something I saw in the news, but I can't say that I miss it. Eventually, I realized that I came off it angry or annoyed, so I just knew that it wasn't doing me any good.)
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  9780.  @user-ff4tw8uf4b  Are you a believer in individual sovereignty? If so, what is your answer to the passport and tariff question? Lots of people who have taken that position get upset over the slightest follow up. Darryl Perry got mad at Sam Seder for asking how he could prove that property was his. Plenty of other examples exist.
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  9781.  @jimohara  So, we just say that it's acceptable to make death threats to coworkers or make bigoted remarks that would get you fired or reprimanded at just about every other job?
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  9782.  @mjchakos1  What is this "we"? I have heard whining about Roe v. Wade and the case about teacher-led prayer in school my whole life from the right.
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  9783.  @aarondickson9573  So, you respect Roe v. Wade and Griswold v. Connecticut now?
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  9784. Bernie can't run third party. All but three states have sore loser laws.
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  9785.  @mrbadguysan  5-4 means that one Justice can be flipped. If it goes 6-3 or 7-2, it will be next to impossible to get anything. You really don't understand how politics works at all. Dunning-Kruger at work, I suppose.
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  9786. To see another example of how ridiculous the current rules are, with all of the members not voting, 54/89 is over 60% of the vote. This is obscene! At the very least, we need to 1) go to a talking filibuster, and 2) change the rules from 3/5 of all Senators to a 3/5 vote, so they have to stick around the floor in order to sustain a filibuster.
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  9787. "He seems to be burdened by the weight of whitehood." Pun intended, Sam?
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  9788. And in rural areas, not putting out food that you brought to a dinner is a perfectly good justification for taking it home.
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  9789. As soon as I see what started it all, I know that he's going to fall face first once Sam points out that life expectancy at birth is misleading because of the reduction in infant mortality.
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  9790. 10:58 these were the same people who cheered in 2009 when Chicago lost the bid to host the 2016 Olympics. They clearly only love part of the country.
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  9791.  @dmx952  And listen to her word salad when asked about invading Kashmir.
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  9792.  @Cancellator5000  It's the latter. It isn't her inner pander bear. Her foreign policy is Ron Paul and the America First Committee.
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  9793.  @dmx952  Oh, I have dealt with the Assad apologists. There is no hope for them.
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  9794.  @Btouhy1  And yet she defends Modi invading Kashmir. Some peacenik!
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  9795.  @Cancellator5000  Well, it was also because she was getting a primary opponent to her left and she decided to support someone popular in her state to neutralize that zeitgeist. Now, she is reverting to type.
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  9796.  @PoochieCollins  Did either get to a majority? I love Bernie, but he doesn't prove your point.
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  9797. Oh, I get the argument for why it should be universal, but why is he not making it universal at the bottom?
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  9798.  @TheBushdoctor68  Exactly. His proposal is not universal.
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  9799.  Vote Blue 2020  Thank you. I hope you stay safe as well.
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  9800. It's been a while, but I've had that.
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  9801.  @Raakiszh  True. I think that shows that he really meant it when he said "attack systems, not people." Sometimes, you just never knew what it would take for him to finally see it. The mere fact that he let Matt and Griscom do a segment on it where they did a lot of the talking did give me some hope that he was slowly seeing the grift, but we can't say for sure that he would have seen it by now.
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  9802.  @drizzo4669  Did you get polio or smallpox?
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  9803.  @Meatcity-sf8fm  Pun intended?
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  9804. Never forget that Republicans in Tennessee tried to completely eliminate the age of consent.
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  9805. Assuming she even makes it to Iowa. She hasn't even qualified for the first debate yet. Even Andrew Yang has met that threshold, so it's not difficult.
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  9806.  @registame2878  That troll isn't right. You can't just name some random person an elector because you're a sore loser who can't take that you lost. In theory, the legislature could decide to strip the vote for President and do it directly, but once they give it to the people, they can't just claim a whoopise-do and undo democracy.
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  9807.  @beastmasterx7091  Yeah, and 70% say they eat all their vegetables every day. If there really was a deep demand for a third party in practice, you would have more than one able to qualify for the ballot in all 50 states.
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  9808.  @beastmasterx7091  Revolution in the street is lazy talk for people who envision themselves another Che Guevara, but refuse to do the actual work.
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  9809.  @beastmasterx7091  "Not voting is demanding to be ignored." John Lydon
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  9810.  @beastmasterx7091  Yeah, because getting rid of religion didn't cause any problems in the Soviet Union or China at all. Did you come straight out of a freshman philosophy seminar?
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  9811. Petition to whoever edits the videos: we should call people by the correct name. I don't know who this Jim Jordan is, but I do see Gym Jordan on the screen. Please use the correct spelling.
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  9812.  @sloanekuria3249  There have been too many Bob changing the Sam to rules to remedy that situation for them to switch now.
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  9813.  @elihan9  They only had 60 votes for seven months (it took forever to resolve the Minnesota election, and Massachusetts went red in a special election), and they got the ACA done. And the 60th vote in 2009? Joe Lieberman, who endorsed McCain in 2008 and ran as an independent out of spite after losing the 2006 Democratic primary.
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  9814.  @smandin1  Totally agree. At one point, they occasionally let Alan Colmes get a word in. Eventually, they double crossed him and never gave him the weekend panel slot carrot they gave him to quit Hannity. That was a man whose talents were wasted on that channel. I would listen to his radio show while doing homework in college, and I read his first book, which was very good. He was truly a class act.
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  9815. And no in-person early voting means that late momentum can have a huge impact in PA.
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  9816.  @MiltonTheWise  Ah, yes, the memory hole defense.
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  9817. ​ @nsbd90now  What did his wife do? I'm not familiar with her.
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  9818. I personally would prefer a shorter day than fewer days, but as long as the worker gets the flexibility and it doesn't get imposed, this will work to benefit everyone.
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  9819.  @AlvinSeville1  All that would do is split the anti-Trump vote.
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  9820. In the future, yes, but this is now and we don't have those rules in place.
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  9821.  @MrWhitman  They had far more than that. "At five cents a bottle/ And five cents a can/ We're pulling in five hundred dollars a man."
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  9822. I, for one, am sick of the notion that teacher-led prayer in school is the end all, be all of prayer. I guarantee you that there is prayer in school before every calculus test.
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  9823. I just saw the numbers of people who have already voted in the key three Great Lakes states. Democrats have turned our votes in early in PA by a margin of 3:1, and by about 4:3 in Wisconsin and Michigan. The early numbers are encouraging.
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  9824.  @AG-lm5uf  Oh, look! Another Dore Knob who doesn't understand what blackmail means. Blackmail means you do X, or I'll reveal Y. Ana never asked to do X, and she only mentioned it after Jimmy Dore alluded to it on his show four times. If I felt bad about something, I wouldn't keep bragging about it.
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  9825.  ThePunisher129  If you ever see the old video of Ceaucescu's final speech, it's kind of like that. It's only a matter of degree.
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  9826. That is so unfair! Manure is useful.
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  9827.  @DaPrecursor  If you hang on quacks who tell you that the vaccine is worthless, I feel for you. Well, not really. I won't be excited when you get your just rewards after insisting that we're all gonna die and the smart ones like you will survive, but I won't be sad, either.
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  9828.  @tilleryinnovations592  Cite one.
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  9829.  @tilleryinnovations592  Sure, he won't. Why not just give the title of the study, then?
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  9830.  @DaPrecursor  No, I'm listening to the actual scientists doing the work. You're projecting more than a drive-in movie.
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  9831. 306-232 is hardly an Electoral College landslide. Since the Electoral College was 538 votes total in 1964, the winning candidate beat 306 in 1964 (486), 1972 (521), 1980 (489), 1984 (525), 1988 (426), 1992 (370), 1996 (379), 2008 (365), and 2012 (332). Tenth out of 14 is hardly a rare feat.
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  9832. The evidence for Obama's betrayal was there all along. He picked Joe Lieberman as his mentor for the Senate. He had a 100% League of Conservation Voters record as a state senator before learning to love coal as a US Senator and thinking he needed to so he could woo Silukies. He was talking about the need to do something about Social Security using Republican talking points. He praised Reagan. Those of us who paid attention were sadly prepared for the disappointment that was his time as President.
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  9833. My favorite story about Moscow Donald and his financial ineptitude was when someone who loaned him money for a casino literally stopped his limo to insist that they not leave until Fred Trump signed the contract, because they knew fils wasn't good for it.
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  9834.  @Blackmark52  Indeed. Elon Musk is the inevitable end result of always being told that you are a genius and never get told that you are wrong.
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  9835.  @Delimon007  Which leftists violated their rules and got to stay, and which conservatives got banned despite following the rules?
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  9836.  @anthonygeorge9932  One of the women who got sterilized has interviews out there. Pretending otherwise means that you are either a fascist, or you are willing to look the other way when fascists act in reprehensible ways. Which one are you?
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  9837.  @anthonygeorge9932  She was on Chris Hayes.
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  9838.  @anthonygeorge9932  Well, you need to watch Judgment at Nuremberg while you're at it to understand the dangers of equivocating in the face of evil. Once you have one doctor doing it, you are allowing others to go through that door, which is what you do when you trivialize it.
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  9839. This is why people who know better never admit such things.
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  9840.  @zwergie256  Ever hear of Dixiecrats?
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  9841.  @zwergie256  A Dixiecrat (in today's parlance) is a Republican who never changed party registration, in no small part because local government is still (or was at the time) controlled by Democrats. (Remember the county clerk in KY who went to jail rather than sign a gay marriage license? Registered Democrat until 2015.) So, I'll take that as a no, you have no idea why your talking point is a total red herring.
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  9842.  @AWildBard  Ralph Nader wanted Bush to win in 2000 (Google Ralph the Leninist). Of course, once his donors found out how bad Bush was, he now has to lie and pretend that he had nothing to do with it. He campaigned aggressively in Florida in 2000, and polls showed that a net of 16% (37-21) of Florida Nader voters would have voted for Gore if Nader was not on the ballot. 16% of 97,000 means that he made it close enough for Republicans to steal. If Nader really cared about getting 5% for the Green Party, he would have focused most of his attention on California, New York, and Texas. He got what he wanted, so he should show the courage of convictions and tell the people exactly why America was better off going to Iraq and installing John Roberts and Samuel Alito on the Supreme Court.
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  9843.  @AWildBard  If you think I said that he controls 16% of voters, then either you didn't pay attention, you have reading comprehension problems, or you are a troll. The 16% I referred to was the percentage of Nader's vote that would have gone to Gore by the strictest estimation of exit polls, and some show the difference to be even larger. I was going by one that said 37% of Nader voters would have voted for Gore if Nader wasn't running, 21% would have voted for Bush, and the rest would have either stayed home or voted for a different third-party candidate. The donors that I was talking about in the comment are the ones who were to the left who wanted nothing to do with him after he played the spoiler. The ones you're talking about are the ones who wanted him on the ballot to force Gore and Kerry to play defense in states that they would have normally won easily (such as WA & OR) and took money away from the key states (FL & OH). The articles I referred to were on Slate and Huffington Post, and they are well linked and documented. Nice try.
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  9844. It doesn't even take insider reports. I saw Bernie say several times on "The Ed Show" that if no one would run who would fight Wall Street greed, he would. It was pretty obvious who that "someone" was at the time.
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  9845. "I'd rather be pretty than smart, because you can fake being smart." Apparently not, Alina.
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  9846.  @atharvoleur8358  Too many people in the left focus on the bad things that our leaders have done, instead of learning from the great things that they did. I remember a few months ago saying to someone at a union meeting, "we have clearly seen that the New Deal-Great Society era works the best for the most people, so why can't we learn from that?" Of course, someone had to point out the 30% that it didn't work for, which led me to point out that the exclusion of the smaller percentage wasn't the essential element of that period, and we can build on that knowledge, while making things work for more people. No wonder it's so hard to win even though majorities agree with us.
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  9847.  @AZOffRoadster  I totally agree. Our problem is that too many focus on the negative in our heroes instead of looking at what worked well, and build on that.
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  9848. He's completely right about people who are in the military who do what they have to do regardless of personal politics. When I was in Iraq, probably a third of the people in my unit thought that we were in a pointless exercise and should go home, but we stayed, and we did our duty. We did it to the best of our ability and followed international law, but short of that, you do it. And when I see some people smugly look down their noses at military personnel, you are part of why we lose. So knock it off!
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  9849.  @Jcewazhere  There is literally a zero chance that he will win. If you live in a swing state, ignoring that fact is an abdication of responsibility just to feel superior.
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  9850. One advantage Rubio had was that Florida doesn't have its Senate primary until September, but Texas does it in March. Given the lead-in time, he probably realistically has until November to get out and run for Senate. I think he should get out now, but his ego won't let him.
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  9851. I thought the Think Small stuff at the end was more compelling. Not sure how that would work for government in a nation of 330MM people, though.
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  9852. My favorite part of the Festivus storyline is how that K-uger, who is not bothered by anything that happens in his office, is quite angry at the idea of getting a phony Christmas gift.
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  9853.  @Earthium  Pushing issues that you believe in =/= personality cult
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  9854. ​ @alabamaman5994  Why do you support the man who made the Lebensraum argument, Aaron? Are you a Russian bot, or just a right winger who hates America?
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  9855.  @CaptFoster5  Never mind the question of whether or not Tulsi would be a good candidate or even a good President, for her to win in 2024 and 2028 implies Trump wins a second term, which is a nightmare scenario.
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  9856.  @myklfan9738  As Aaliyah once said, "Age ain't nothing but a number." I worked at a retirement community for an internship in seminary, and I saw 100-year-olds who looked 70 and vice versa. Watch a master's track meet sometime, and see how people twice my age (and maybe twice yours, who knows?) can get going. Bernie at 77 is more vibrant than people decades younger.
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  9857.  @CaptFoster5  No President who would have fell under the Twenty-second Amendment has failed to run after a single four-year term since 1884. Are you saying that you expect Bernie's health to decline?
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  9858.  @CaptFoster5  If he is still healthy, why wouldn't he run again?
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  9859.  @Bolivian654  Thank you for your response. People amassed power before they amassed capital. There was always some arbiter of wealth. There will be some sort of exchange of goods and services, so how do you ensure that someone isn't able to acquire them again without some larger power making sure that they don't? There are also questions of distribution. For me, the most Underpants Gnomes part of The Conquest of Bread was the idea that given that there would be no more private property, and thus no private farms, that in order to ensure that people had enough food that with no organizing force, people would take field trips to farm land for two days out of the year, that you wouldn't have a fight for the glamor jobs, that you'd have no problem finding someone to muck the stables, and that there would be a sufficient rotation for everything to get done. So, with no organizing force, with no taxation, with no money (and thus no bonuses for the people who do the dirty work that nobody else wants to do), other than hoping there are enough Hufflepuffs willing to do the job, how do people get fed?
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  9860.  @EmeraldMinnie  All those things are true. That being said, perhaps this is because I am not nearly as far to the left as Jamie (my inspirational political figure from the turn of the 20th century is Bryan, not Debs), but I do think that there is some tendency to be too reflexive in defending admittedly bad regimes. We can both say they are doing bad things and that we have caused harm to those countries as well. A friend of mine was very reluctant to criticize Chavez for maneuvering to make himself President for Life. It was wrong to take him out, but it was wrong for him to maneuver to stay past his time. Another time, I was at a union meeting where someone was talking about some trip to work the fields in Cuba for a couple of weeks. He talked about how great it was there because there were no millionaires and billionaires. Perhaps, but there is also violent suppression of dissent. Lots of people have that problem on all sides, but I think that is one we as a whole on the left need to work on.
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  9861. Indeed. I remember there was a quote from JP Morgan after he became a billionaire. A reporter asked him how much money he thought was enough, and he said, "Just a little bit more."
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  9862.  @blucu001  Exactly. The idea that someone makes a viral ad of smoking pot and suddenly he's going to win a Senate seat in a deep red state? I don't understand the potheads at all.
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  9863.  @DeepBlack-j5q  Says the person who thinks that a man who busted a business where the house always wins was a victim of the big, bad government and all those evil banks that kept bailing him out instead of seizing his assets.
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  9864. Exit polls beg to differ. In 2000, Nader voters were asked who they'd vote for if Nader wasn't on the ballot. Gore had a net of 16% (37-21) to 26% (44-18) over Bush, with the rest saying other third party or they wouldn't vote at all. If you add 16% of Nader's total to Gore, he has a lead of 15,000 votes, meaning that he made it possible for the Supreme Court to steal it. So, if he wasn't on the ballot, there would be no Iraq War, no Citizens United, no gutting of the Voting Rights Act or the right of public workers to organize. Of course, he admitted that this was his goal at the time, so we shouldn't be surprised.
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  9865. Your joke reminds me of a real thing. One time, I was playing Would You Rather, which involved tiny pieces of paper for ballots. Someone was so worried about the pollution from what would have equaled one or two pieces of notebook paper that he drove it to the recycling center... in his SUV. You can't make this stuff up.
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  9866. The only time I heard him tell the truth in the last eight years was when he said, "I could shoot someone, right in the middle of Fifth Avenue, and I wouldn't lose any votes."
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  9867. Having recently saw the 30 for 30 on Christian Laettner, this is my response to the story about Buttigeg and his response to janitorial pay: This is why Pete sucks. This is why Pete sucks.
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  9868. This is the exact nonsense that Obama peddled when he let Wall Street off the hook 12 years ago. Jim Clyburn is exposing how awful he is more and more by the day.
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  9869. The irony of using that Bible verse is that in context, "the day that the LORD has made" was a military victory, not a generic "it's a good day to be alive."
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  9870.  @zeusmasterson4117  Yes and no. The KKK had largely been defeated by Grant in the 1870s, and it was largely dormant by 1915. Birth of a Nation did help bring it back, though.
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  9871.  @Zach-ju5vi  That doesn't make any sense at all. The whole point of a stock buyback is to increase the value of a stock. There are often outstanding shares of publicly traded companies. A buyback reduces that number and inflates the value of a stock. By definition, it is a manipulation of the stock market and not "stabilizing the economy."
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  9872.  QB5  Solidarity forever!
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  9873.  @Zach-ju5vi  Manipulating stock prices in that manner keeps wages low, so it definitely hurts people. And your "we can't afford it" is a other example, because if they paid out dividends, those would be taxed.
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  9874.  HunterBidensCrackPipe  If the private sector can do such a great job on affordable housing, why hasn't it ever done so, before or after any government intervention?
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  9875.  QB5  For me, I guess that if they're trying to make a coherent argument, I respond to debunk it. If they just spout non-sequiturs, I don't waste my time.
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  9876.  HunterBidensCrackPipe  And some troll with a troll screen name is the arbiter of that magic point where we get too many?
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  9877.  ronaldreagan-ik6hz  Get money out of government, and it suddenly costs a whole lot more money to ship goods from one place to another, and fuel is far less efficient. Get rid of the money to make sure that food doesn't kill people, and we get a situation where people unwittingly become cannibals when someone falls into the equipment and it becomes too costly to remove their remains or shut down production. We've tried it your way, and it didn't work. That's why we abandoned it.
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  9878.  ronaldreagan-ik6hz  How much more assets could workers own if paid better? And what percentage of workers actually get company stock?
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  9879.  ronaldreagan-ik6hz  Yes, because there is absolutely nothing designed to funnel all of the income and wealth upward. Re: merit, if merit really does explain it, how do you explain the fact that productivity has nearly doubled since 1980 while wages have gone up less than 20% in that same time when adjusted for inflation? It used to be that wages and productivity actually had a relationship with one another.
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  9880.  ronaldreagan-ik6hz  You are aware that the amount that students could borrow didn't change when Obama made that rule in 2010, right? And that absolutely nothing changed about the guarantee of student loans by that decision? The only thing that really changed from that was that the federal government stopped paying banks the interest on Subsidized Stafford Loans while the borrower was in college. Oh, and the price of tuition skyrocketing was nothing new in 2010. I saw plenty of stories about it in the 1990s when I was in junior high and high school.
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  9881.  ronaldreagan-ik6hz  Producivity is across the entire economy, not just a few specific trades. And what do you think would happen if everyone learned coding? The market would be flooded, just like what has happened over the last few decades with lawyers, to the point where the median income for a lawyer is five figures. Wages across the board used to go up, based on productivity-- merit. Now, they don't-- people at the top stealing all of the gains.
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  9882.  ronaldreagan-ik6hz  And not surprising the degree of economic illiteracy for someone who chose a username based on the popularizer of voodoo economics, but you might want to look up the Anyone Can So Everyone Can Fallacy. Unless you are saying that you want a permanent underclass of people to be your servants to live a comfortable life (unless you're one of the people getting screwed who doesn't even realize it).
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  9883.  ronaldreagan-ik6hz  [citation needed] And even if that is true, that still ignores the fact that everyone can't. You're trying to use exceptions to ignore the whole.
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  9884.  ronaldreagan-ik6hz  No, apparently you don't understand what as a whole means. I'm talking about averages, both median and mean. You're trying to find exceptions to insist that it isn't happening. Basically, you are saying that 80-90% of the population is just SOL, because a few people can break through.
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  9885.  ronaldreagan-ik6hz  Exactly. You have convinced yourself that the fact that, for the majority of people, even though productivity has nearly doubled and wages have remained stagnant that it is no problem at all because some people make it out. However, considering the fact that the United States has the lowest social mobility of any industrialized country clearly disproves that. Re: "wise choices," there are always going to be people who need to do the jobs that you say that people are suckers for doing. We saw which jobs were essential during the pandemic and how much a lot of those people got paid. If your answer to the people who literally makes society is "sucks to be you, you made stupid choices," that's the wrong answer.
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  9886.  @Zeuts85  Watch his interviews with Dave Rubin or Ben Shapiro. Read between the lines for his policies. His signature proposal was to take a right wing plan (Milton Friedman trying to use a UBI to gut the existing social safety net) and adding a regressive tax. He was indifferent at best to unions. He opposed increasing the minimum wage and raising taxes on the rich. He opposed antitrust laws. He was a libertarian wolf in leftist clothing. Now, he's showing whoue really is.
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  9887. While Romney did kiss the ring, one thing that I will give him credit for is that he looked at the evidence in both impeachment trials, and he voted his conscience rather than his party. He was the only one who could say that both times, unlike such ridiculous figures as as Susan "He's Learned His Lesson" Collins.
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  9888.  @terrystevens3998  Possibly. There are two kinds of crazy in today's Republican Party: the cynical kind, and the kind that believes the nonsense. I honestly think that she may be the latter.
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  9889. I was hopeful for a good night for Bernie, and he delivered. After it was all done, I would give the silver to Warren and the bronze to Williamson. Last night was why I gave her a dollar back in April to get her on that stage. Delaney was far and away the worst, with Hickenlooper and Bullock fairly even for the second worst. Ryan was good on manufacturing and bad on pretty much everything else (I wouldn't mind him as commerce Secretary), and the other three were fairly insignificant on the night.
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  9890. The party officials know they can't win a general election with Der Orangestraflingfuhrer, but they can't win a primary without him. They could have stood up to him many times along the way in order to kill his candidacy in the crib, but they wouldn't do it. Their cowardice is their legacy.
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  9891.  @mickeye6428  So, when people get discriminated against for centuries, we should then be neutral and ignore the lingering effects of discrinination?
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  9892. @_Historia_Magistra_Vitae  The communist dictatorships didn't rely on a mythic past or misogyny in their aims. Several are about dictatorships in general, but many are about right-wing dictatorships in particular.
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  9893. I knew it was an allusion to the Yellow Dogs, but I didn't know why they went with blue. Thanks for the note!
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  9894. My five year old knows to put a mask on when in public.
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  9895. No, his point was that Bernie would not have won. Quite frankly, the fact that he went from name recognition lower than the margin of error to 44% of the vote in 14 months against the most powerful active machine in Democratic politics without one of his own was miraculous.
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  9896.  @Derek_The_Magnificent_Bastard  I think even Sam has agreed that there were shenanigans, but he feels that "rigged" is a step too far.
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  9897. This is what a President looks like, instead of joking about assassination attempts.
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  9898.  @DannyWilliamH  New Hampshire had a 2008 level turnout yesterday. Maybe even beat it.
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  9899.  @trumpjr3940  Well, why don't we just end it all and make Kim Kardashian the President, then?
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  9900.  @jameshumphrey9939  Well, Gandhi's way took almost 30 years. We don't have that long.
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  9901. And this is yet another argument against term limits. You don't want to get rid of the once in a lifetime people just because you don't like who some states keep sending to Washington.
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  9902. After watching The Mighty Macs about the early days of women's college basketball, I told my six-year-old daughter that I would take her to see a game since Immaculata is about 20 minutes away. She was so excited that she said she wanted to go there someday. I told her that she has to study hard to get a scholarship, because it wasn't cheap. I looked it up, and tuition alone was $26,900/year. Then, I started wondering about state schools, and Penn State is $19,000/year. The system is broken. I remember as an undergrad that a lot of people from PA, NY, and NJ came to WVU because out-of-state tuition there was cheaper than in-state tuition in their native states. I was shocking to see this in action. (When I graduated, in-state tuition at WVU was $3600/year.)
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  9903. It's possible, but the real problem with the third party movement isn't institutional, but what motivates it. Many are focused almost exclusively on Presidential races to try to get that sweet, sweet matching fund, but a party has to build from the ground up and win local races. The Libertarian Party and Green Party have each been around for over 50 years and neither have won a Congressional election. The current third parties seem way too obsessed with purity and grifting to ever become a serious force.
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  9904. Lindsey's Meemaw won't be too please with this interview.
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  9905.  @Atmost11  And if he had taken coronavirus seriously at the beginning, the pandemic would have been over nearly two years ago and none would have died after he left office. The deaths since are still on his hands.
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  9906.  @bonbon1956sh  15% is the threshold to win delegates. 25% is the threshold to be able to force a minority report. Since the party wants to show a display of unity, that is something they desperately want to avoid, which gives leverage for serious concessions.
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  9907. Where is "Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes"? A pretty interesting examination of the relationship between Big Box retailers and the people who shop there or try desperately to avoid them.
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  9908. More like talking head. Which Senator is going to take her calls when she comes calling for Big Business?
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  9909. Members of Congress get expelled with a 2/3 vote from their own House.
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  9910. Alberto Salazar has been poison to distance running. He got off light that he only got suspended instead of banned for life.
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  9911.  @ozjohn8657  You mean learning the secrets of micro dosing in order to skirt PED rules? You probably believe that Rupp and Farah are true champions who aren't tainted.
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  9912.  @ozjohn8657  Rupp and Farah were only the two biggest in the stable. The mere fact that you now praise PED tells me all I need to know about you and your toxic ideas about sports. You probably still praise Asteriskstrong.
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  9913.  @ozjohn8657  And it ruins the sport. The instant people like you talk about "doing what it takes" in the context if PEDs, you start to legitimize it. And Salazar also had tens of millions of Nike dollars at his disposal to fight off the charges. Then again, people knew he was a crook for decades to the point where Mary Decker Slaney hid her involvement with him... before she tested positive, too.
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  9914.  @RichO1701e  Churchill clearly wasn't. Chamberlain wasn't so much pro-Hitler as much as he thought that giving him some of what he wanted would prevent WWII.
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  9915. Are you dismissing Biden? Or Gillibrand? Or Harris? Or Booker? How about Klobuchar? Do you dismiss Hickenlooper?
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  9916.  @kekwayblaze3176  You also have a parliamentary system as opposed to a presidential system. Even if you get rid of the Electoral College, that does not guarantee a multi-party system, and multi-party systems have their own problems (see: Israel, Germany when coalitions can't build a majority).
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  9917. So true. Let us not forget that he specifically said that Trump did not commit conspiracy.
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  9918.  @discipleofsakura  You're right. My original point was meant to convey that he said so when there wasn't enough evidence.
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  9919.  @komlat253  Well, that's why I said that he didn't commit conspiracy. Then again, mob bosses always stay one step removed from the crime. That's why it took so long to get Gotti.
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  9920. ​ @bevtaylor5466  If they were serious about building something instead of chasing matching funds, that's exactly what they'd do.
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  9921.  @15jamorris  How much effort do they really do in comparison to what they do for President and matching funds? They have been at it for over 50 years and never once won a Congressional or statewide election. I hear the Green Party over and over talk about the importance of the matching funds (fun fact: Perot did better without them than with them), and while there is lip service to building at the grassroots level, I never actually see it. The highest-elected Green is, depending on how you look at it, a state legislator or a mayor of a mid-sized city. Running for President should be the last thing that a third party does if its goal is to build for the long term. An example of Greens dropping the ball: in Philadelphia, the minority party is guaranteed two at-large city council seats because there are seven total and each party can only nominate (and voters cab only pick) five candidates. In 2015, a Green Party candidate actually had the good idea of "nothing says that the minority party has to be a Republican, and the lowest Democrat more than doubles the top Republican, so use one of your five for me." It didn't work, but other third-party candidates got the idea in 2019. The Green Party was nowhere to be seen, and the Working Families Party got one of the two seats in 2019, and both in 2023. Even when the rules benefit the Green Party, they frequently drop the ball.
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  9922.  @weneedcriticalthinking  She's so antiwar that she kisses the ring of Putin.
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  9923.  @15jamorris  What "other comment"? I saw one from someone named Bev, and that's who I responded to. Yours isn't showing up.
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  9924.  @15jamorris  What "sources"? I don't know what is so difficult to understand about "your post isn't showing up," but this is the second time that you have referred to something that is not on the thread.
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  9925.  @15jamorris  "Stein's 2012 VP pick went on to start the Poor People's Campaign. So[,] yes [,] the matching funds are important." 1) Last I checked, Bill Barbour wasn't jer running mate in 2012. 2) The Green Party never qualified for matching funds. The closest they came was just over halfway when Nader got 2.74%, well short of 5. 3) What does one have to do with the other? But I have no desire to work for third party movements, because for the most part they care more about purity than governing. And the worst-case scenario, they actively serve as stalking horses to help Republicans win like Nader explicitly did in 2000, breaking his vow to only campaign in swing states and openly state that he was going to target people like Paul Wellstone for not meeting his definition of purity. However, when WFP was running in 2019, I passed out fliers while volunteering for Bernie with DSA.
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  9926.  @weneedcriticalthinking  So, by that logic, if someone was invited to a dinner to celebrate Kim Jong-un and that person came and spouted the party line, that would be a good thing? Seriously, look up the definition of useful idiot.
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  9927.  @15jamorris  As far as broke goes, whatever happened to the millions of dollars that Stein raised for a recount in 2016?
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  9928.  @15jamorris  Sorry it took so long to reply. There were several points and I wanted to look at it on a computer screen rather than a phone so I wouldn't have to make a separate reply to every point. 1) Cheri Honkala wasn't the person who started the revived Poor People's Campaign, Bill Barber was. It's bad enough to work behind the scenes to help people whose stated goals are pretty much the opposite of yours, but to take credit from the people who actually started it is pretty low. 2) Nader was and remains the high-water mark for Green Party Presidential campaigns, so it is perfectly fair to point to him as an exemplar of Green Party thinking. I remember after the 2004 election that a lot of GP people were furious that David Cobb kept his word (unlike Nader) and focused on safe states rather than swing states in an effort to not be a spoiler. But let's just say for the sake of argument that it's really not fair to point to Nader and his plans to sabotage Democratic candidates because it was too long ago. Okay, then, let's look at your most recent party standard bearer. The campaign for Howie Hawkins was so incompetent that it filled out the paperwork wrong and didn't qualify for the Wisconsin ballot, even with the Wisconsin Secretary of State giving them notice to correct the issue. So, what did the Hawkins campaign do? They waited until two weeks after the decision to work with a Republican law firm to sue for ballot access all while claiming that their exclusion was an affront to democracy. Because of their lawsuit, several large counties such as Dane had to pause printing their ballots and nearly missed the deadline to mail overseas absentee ballots, which the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled must be returned by Election Day no ifs, ands, or buts. If they had won their challenge and those ballots would have had to have been scrapped (not very environmentally friendly for a party that labels itself Green), and tens of thousands would have had no time to get their ballots in for the election. Does that sound like a good faith actor or does that sound like a willing stooge for the Republican Party? 3) I have run for office, and I have worked in the field for literally dozens of campaigns (both paid and volunteer, and both electoral and issue) over the space of 20+ years. You might think that condescension is the correct response, but I've probably done way more in grassroots organizing than you have. "ended up helping a third party campaign in the long run" So, you've just admitted that it was a scam. You also contradicted yourself that there weren't any complaints from donors. If the recount was a legitimate effort, and not an excuse to raise money for the Green Party, it should have been in a separate account for those express purposes. Just because something is legal doesn't mean that it is ethical. You think Bad Faith offers a good strategic perspective? BJG is a grifter who refuses to take yes for an answer. She's the one who led the chorus in 2020 making the Sanders campaign insisting that Bernie could win the primary with 30-35% of the vote because the field would never coalesce around an alternative. Anyone who thinks that in a field where you have to get 50% Plus One of pledged delegates to win (because it was very obvious that the superdelegates weren't going to give it to Bernie if he won a plurality but not a majority) doesn't have the first clue about winning. Her goal is to make money by always saying that nothing is ever good enough, not to actually win.
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  9929.  @15jamorris  Sorry for my delay. So I don't lose track of the thread, I'm just going to use a reply for each point so I can stay with it while typing: 1) The instant that I mentioned Bill Barber and the Poor People's Campaign, it should have been obvious what was happening. It wasn't until multiple times mentioning it when I finally pointed out that Bill Barber founded the Poor People's Campaign that you finally issued the correction. Considering that the PPC was clearly an allusion to people working to continue the legacy of Martin Luther King, and you kept saying "Poor People's Campaign," it seemed very intentional rather than an honest mistake.
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  9930.  @15jamorris  2) Funny how you seem to have all these excuses that keep absolving the party from all these bad actors. Never mind the fact that Republicans literally control the Green Party in several states, or that national campaigns clearly and repeatedly act in an effort to help the Republican Party win and often act in coordination with the Republican Party. Maybe, just maybe, at a certain point, the vast majority of the Green Party is a collection of grifters and marks.
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  9931.  @15jamorris  So, bragging that several million dollars of the money that was supposed to be used for a recount effort got used to build a party instead "isn't evidence of a scam"? I don't know if you've ever worked or volunteered for organizations in a way where you are accountable for the money that is involved, but saying that you're using money for one thing when you try to raise it and then use it for another is fraud. Therefore, if the $7MM that the Stein campaign and the Green Party said was going toward the recount didn't all go toward the recount, that is the scam. The fact that you think that it is brilliant tells me that you are fine with fraud in the name of what you perceive as the greater good.
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  9932.  @15jamorris  "No such thing as spoilers" Okay, let's look at the rules for how a President is elected. In order to win the Presidency, a candidate has to win an absolute majority in the Electoral College. If no candidate does so, the election goes to the House... where it is decided by Democrats and Republicans. Therefore, there is literally zero chance of a third-party candidate winning (Ross Perot initially dropped out in 1992 because he knew he couldn't win if the election was thrown into the House, which was almost certainly the best-case scenario for him). The Green Party not only knows that there is no chance of winning, but they don't even really try to win. Their goal is to get to 5% of the national popular vote and get their hands on that sweet, sweet matching fund cash. Therefore, if they have no chance of winning, the only role that they actually have in the campaign is to make it harder for one of the two candidates who actually do have a chance to win to do so. At the top level, they know this very well, which is why they repeatedly and regularly ally themselves with Republicans for things like petition drives and ballot access lawsuits. The Republican Party gets what they want out of the deal (more power), but the Green Party gets the exact opposite of what it claims to desire in terms of policy. State and local elections are a different story, because the rules are different, but if you live in a close state, any vote for a third party candidate is (and always will be as long as we have the rules that we do) voting for the spoiler effect.
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  9933.  @15jamorris  No, but I can read English, and when someone keeps using the same term, that seems less and less likely to be an honest mistake. (Not sure why my other responses aren't showing up, though.)
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  9934.  @Duffman2000  Or that something they have in common is sex.
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  9935.  @spiritoftruthcoaching1720  So, you think that unions were excited about a company that is hostile to organized labor?
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  9936. We welcome anyone aboard the democracy train. We can argue about policy later. If Der Orangestraflingfuhrer wins, we won't get such a chance.
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  9937. Who would have thought that the man who paid a record fine for defrauding Medicare would "lose" millions of dollars?
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  9938.  @mudmudmudmudmud7605  Quite frankly, it seems like Cenk is easily swayed by flattery. He has had some great finds, but he has had some of the worst, too.
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  9939. Dore was always awful if you hear the women who worked at TYT mention his misogyny. (At one point, he even bragged about sexually harassing Ana Kasparian.) He made it as long as he did there because he was a total suck up to Cenk.
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  9940. Jill Stein got nearly seven million dollars convincing people that she wanted a 2016 recount. There's plenty of money in that grift.
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  9941.  @BradsBasementPodCast  You sound like the people insisting that the housing market will never go down in 2006.
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  9942. I can't help but appreciate the irony that he is the one who coined Noun Verb 9/11 to describe Giuliani in the first place.
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  9943. And think about how the idiots who insisted on withholding votes would also have denied Bernie that gavel with their tantrum. "It's called having a sense of strategy." McLovin
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  9944.  @vu7419  Actually, I did. Check the link in my previous comment and go to the timestamp mentioned.
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  9945.  @darrenfaber2334  If Yang made shoes, and said that he was selling Nike, but they were a different thing, most people would call that a lie. You can be internally consistent and still be lying. His lie is using the name of something else that is already established. If I were running for President and expanded the existing social safety net, and called it the Freedom Dividend, you would call that dishonest because it already means something else.
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  9946.  @darrenfaber2334  So, you're using useful idiot Jimmy Dore as a shield? And Mike from The Humanist Report called it troubling. The only thing that is different is that Yang finally admitted that he decided to go with the name was because it was popular. And when did Bernie make the idea of Medicare for All popular and use that name? Well, there was his 2016 campaign and the bill that he wrote in Congress. And Medicare is specifically a government-funded single payer system for seniors, so it is obvious by definition that Medicare for All is just that. Yang has always called it Medicare for All, but The Humanist Report interview specifically said to Yang that Medicare for All is different from a public option, and Yang kept trying to say that he supported Medicare for All. It was only when Mike Figueredo refused to let him slither away that Yang conceded that he doesn't support Medicare for All. The real gaslighting comes from people who insist that Medicare for All and a public option are the same thing. The real gaslighting comes from saying "everybody gets it no strings attached" while people getting 125 programs that Yang refuses to list have to forfeit if they take his money. That is the gaslighting. Once again, you don't get to say words mean what you want them to mean.
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  9947.  @darrenfaber2334  There are 125 programs that people have to forfeit if they take his money. However, Yang only ever bothers to specifically list a few (TANF, SNAP, WIC, LIHEAP, housing subsidies, daycare subsidies). And, yes, people have to give something up. Yang has made it very clear that you can't get both. And "a full-time job"? Here in PA, daycare for multiple children is over $1500/month. Do you really think that applying for that is "practically a full-time job"? At a certain point, you Yang Gang bangers keep resorting to try to using words in a different way in order to try to make it sound better than it is. Because we don't know what the programs are that are either/or In the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend, there are a lot of people who might end up worse or surprised to find out that they have to choose at all. And there is also the question of how long taking the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend disqualifies someone from other benefits. You might think that you're in a place where you are better off taking the thousand, but, boom, you are expecting twins or triplets. Now, the funding model changes dramatically. Or, you might find out that the EITC is no longer available. Or maybe you went to grad school in a field that doesn't pay very well, but is vital, and you have to choose between the Student Loan Forgiveness Program and this money. And if you keep your current benefits, how long does that mean that you can't take the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend?
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  9948.  @ethologos2580  They were all single payer bills. If it's not single payer, it's not Medicare for All.
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  9949. A few years ago, I wrote a paper where Inargued that Bryan was the beginning of the turn to modern liberalism in the Democratic Party, because he wanted an active government. One argued that I was wrong because Bryan was a populist, therefore couldn't be left. The sad thing is that these were political science PhD students. What are people being taught?
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  9950.  @cpvsgvmnt2116  Wrong again. If the workers don't make quality stuff, people won't buy it. To paraphrase William Jennings Bryan, if you get rid of all of the wealth and keep the workers, wealth will spring up as if by magic; if you get rid of all of the workers and keep the wealth, the wealth will dry up. Of course, businesses haven't seen it that way the last 40 years, which is why they kept all of the growth for themselves. There will be a tipping point, but they are too greedy to realize it and want the whole pie even if it's smaller. The economy grew faster and more people benefited when economic gains were more widely shared, and CEOs were still part of the community.
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  9951.  @cpvsgvmnt2116  Now, you're caught in a lie. You said you downsized. You didn't say you got rid of all your employees. It wouldn't surprise me if you're lying about your bank, too. And if you are asking people's political ideology when you hire, you're guaranteed not to get the best of the best. So, which is it, are you a "job creator" who pays well, or someone who doesn't need anyone?
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  9952.  @cpvsgvmnt2116  Okay... one more time. Any jobs that a business has are of secondary importance at best. The mere fact that you are now talking about the sword of Damocles makes it pretty obvious that this gratitude is not the two-way street that you pay lip service to. You just want to lord it over people who have to be "grateful" for this job that you will yank away at a moment's notice. Yeah, your people love you. If you couldn't tell, I was being sarcastic, and any "gratitude" is acting.
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  9953.  @ezniyazov7970  I think you replied to the wrong person. I was the one pointing out that the consumers and the workers are the ones who made the rich people rich. Maybe you need to look at the guy who bragged about being a Job Creator when he then bragged in the next sentence about how he could and would get rid of people who didn't satisfy him whenever he wanted, because he clearly wanted people to suck up to him first and foremost.
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  9954.  @ezniyazov7970  If you were running things for just a few days and you got rid of someone that quickly, that says more about your hiring practices than anything, with a close second being not figuring out how to work with people to see them reach their potential.
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  9955.  @ezniyazov7970  Then, as an employer, you failed in your search, because you should have found it before.
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  9956.  @willburbur3793  Hurricanes have 21 names and then they go to the Greek alphabet when they run out.
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  9957. We shouldn't vote for Bernie because he will be 79? Warren will be 71. Do those eight years really make that much of a difference?
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  9958. Happy Heinz flavors birthday, Sam!
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  9959. He also said, "You like her, Lara, right?" That's Eric's wife. #FatherOfTheYear
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  9960. He definitely used to be much more volatile in his first stint on the show. He has been very well served by focusing and getting less angry at things.
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  9961. The other day, I responded to a survey question about Twitter by saying that nothing good would come from Musk buying it. Some right-wing troll asked why I thought so, and I used a term for Nazis borrowed from a Three Stooges short, and the idiot thought that I was calling all conservatives Nazis. Talk about "how to admit that you're a Nazi without saying you're a Nazi."
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  9962.  @alabamaman5994  By "we," you mean the dozens of aliases that you use, Aaron? You might want to go see a doctor. Multiple Personality Disorder is a very serious illness.
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  9963. Judging from the comments, I think a lot of other people missed the point, too.
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  9964. So,you think that not having a Congress, delaying benefits from the coronavirus package, and having no one in Congress get security briefings all to demand a vote that was doomed to fail is vindicated by this idiocy? You don't want progress, you just want destruction.
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  9965. It would make absolutely no sense. The Republicans would never give him credit for it, and Democrats will abandon him if he does.
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  9966.  @H_A_L_7  Well, those clearly are our only options.
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  9967. Thank you, David! I have been trying to explain the delegate rules so that this theory doesn't make sense every time I see this theory crop up. Yes, the establishment clearly wants Bernie to lose, but that doesn't mean that they would run 20 candidates even though that would mean most of their votes would be wasted.
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  9968. Oh, look, the anti-anti-Trump crowd who can't admit what havoc they have unleashed, so they have to stick their head in the sand and pretend that an investigation that turned up several convictions and laid out the case for ten instances of obstruction of justice by Der Orangefuhrer was "nothing." What a shock!
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  9969.  Jamis Billson  Thank you
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  9970. Different denominations rarely form because of a difference in values. Many times, it is a question of doctrine or worship practices. That would be as silly as saying that there are food wars because not everyone wants the same thing for dinner every night.
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  9971. She is burning way too many bridges to be a lobbyist, so will she land at Fox, Newsmax, or OAN?
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  9972. Trump doesn't just need to be impeached and removed. He needs to be tried for treason and sedition.
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  9973.  @ToniHunterOne  I wasn't insulting her. I was only clarifying.
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  9974.  @bidmcms3  Okay, let's go credential for credential. Show me yours and I'll show you mine.
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  9975.  @annkristoff4303  Okay, if all of them have been, an example for each one 1-44. Put up or shut up.
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  9976. And notice that T-shirt guy immediately forgetting what he was told. Never underestimate the power of willful ignorance.
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  9977.  Gavoreet  What is this cheating you mention? Parties having a preference is as old as parties. What votes for were stolen?
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  9978.  Alabama Man 2.0  You don't need a Republican, Troll Man 5000. Unless you're being ghoulish and saying that Lujan won't recover from his stroke to vote.
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  9979. She was always a grifter and an opportunist. When she endorsed Bernie, it had the effect of neutralizing a primary challenge to her left. After the 2016 election, she interviewed to be the Secretary of State for Der Orangefuhrer. Her infamous trip to Syria in 2017 was paid for by fascists close to Assad. When she ran for President, she started by playing both siderism on the shutdown and the wall. She spent that summer defending Biden and playing wing woman (her famous debate interaction with Kamala Harris was interrupting an attack on Biden by three other candidates). By the end of the year, she was only trying to be the takedown queen in debates, and she refused to impeach Der Orangefuhrer for something she said he was guilty of. Make no mistake, not only was the Jacobin article "Tulsi Gabbard is Not Your Friend" an accurate title, but she has never been your friend.
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  9980. You're half right. She isn't angling for a job in the Trump Administration. She is angling for a job at Fox.
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  9981.  @5APPH_13  What a shock. The only alleged racism that a conservative opposes is perceived racism against white people. I've heard the dog whistles the right has used for decades to imply that Affirmative Action is about giving a job or admission to an unworthy black person. We still remember the Hands ad.
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  9982.  @mattblack118  University and hiring admissions quotas have been illegal since the Bakke case in 1978. A winger arguing against something that hasn't been a thing for decades as though it's current? It must be a day ending in Y.
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  9983.  @mattblack118  Define "so many people." You mean your friends, or the people who can never define CRT other than they're convinced that it's bad? You think that Dave Rubin, Sam Harris, Eric Weinstein, Bill Maher, and Jimmy Dore are lefties? You're adorable! Dave Rubin isn't even pretending to be a "classical liberal" anymore, Eric Weinstein "left the left" a long time ago, Bill Maher was always a libertarian, and Jimmy Dore repeatedly said that he'd gladly sell out if the price was right, and multimillion dollar houses don't buy themselves.
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  9984. ​ @kr4382 Or we completely go with it. He has poisoned the word forever, so let his name be associated with feces forever. If you have a bowel movement, "I'm taking a Trump." "It smells like Trump in there!"
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  9985.  @TheEvolver311  I'd say the least unreasonable is probably Adam Kokesh, but that's a pretty low bar.
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  9986. No, you said, "He said it." Not the same thing.
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  9987. Members of Congress are expelled by their House.
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  9988. This was always my suspicion. What would a lefty have to gain from leaking it? It always made far more sense that it was someone who wanted to keep everyone locked in.
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  9989. If a union did nothing, businesses wouldn't try so hard to fight them.
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  9990. And how, exactly, is refusing to vote helping to solve the problems that you are trying to solve with your activism?
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  9991.  @shadebleu  You mean after singing the praises of Steve Scalise for Speaker? Your trolling has to get better than that.
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  9992.  @shadebleu  But a few months ago, you were saying you wanted Scalise as Speaker. Your gaslighting won't work on me.
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  9993.  @christophergreen6595  It's a perfectly fair question. When someone discusses activism, and they then discuss things that seem contradictory to that goal, it is a perfectly fair question to ask? Or did you fall for the right-wing trolling?
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  9994.  @christophergreen6595  Well, if it hurts your fee-fees, ask yourself what not voting accomplishes. We live in a time of all hands on deck in order to defeat fascism, so I will not just sit back and applaud when someone refuses to help.
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  9995.  @christophergreen6595  The average person won't vote for something bigger when there is a real threat of fascism. A lot of people are afraid to dream at that point. The accelerationists were convinced that Bush becoming President would wake up the Dems to nominate a flaming lefty, but Kerry won the nomination. Even with Citizens United and the Shelby decision gutting the Voting Rights Act, and an open Supreme Court seat being held up by Evil Turtle, the accelerationists still insisted that Trump wouldn't be too bad and it would wake up the Dems. Bernie went from 44% in 2016 to 32% in 2020. And in the meantime, we got Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett. If you want to argue it's not a long-term solution, we are in agreement, but it is necessary to defeat the enemy at hand. Even Cornel West said in 2020 that we have to slay the dragon of neo fascism before slaying the dragon of neoliberalism.
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  9996.  @jeremypmerrill  Wrong. Unions opposed a particular provision in the ACA that charged a tax on top tier health insurance policies that they negotiated. If unions are so bad, it should be easy to criticize something without making stuff up.
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  9997.  @lowspeeddata  Even if you have a good employer, having a union is better, because it ensures due process. If you are in a state with at-will employment, the instant your boss sours on you, there's nothing you can do about it.
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  9998. Never forget that Der Orangefuhrer insisted that nobody make jokes about his bankruptcies or suggesting that he was less rich that he said he was as a term for doing the Comedy Central Roast in 2011.
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  9999. Before 9/11, you didn't need a ticket to wait with someone at the airport. Now, you can't, even though everyone who hijacked a plane that day had a ticket.
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  10000.  @kelbychesshir1606  Sam Seder is actually able to get acting jobs to this day. Steven Crowder saw his acting career peak with Arthur cartoons.
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  10001.  @kelbychesshir1606  I have no problem with Arthur, but if your career peaked before your voice changed, you clearly don't have the chops.
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  10002.  @kelbychesshir1606  Well, I never heard of Steven Crowder before Sam talked about Cold Feet not wanting to debate him. I can find his acting reel on YouTube, both live action and animated. Funny that I can't do that for CFC.
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  10003.  @kelbychesshir1606  And talking about cowards while singing the praises of Cold Feet Crowder is funnier than anything he's ever done, so congratulations, I guess.
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  10004.  @andrespueblos  With which comment? I made a few.
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  10005.  @kelbychesshir1606  And you're a fan of Cold Feet Crowder who tries to justify his cold feet while still being a manly man, so that tells me all I need to know about you.
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  10006. "I love the poorly educated!" Der Orangefuhrer
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  10007. On a Yahoo article, I responded to a columnist stating that people wanted to "cut spending," and someone responded with the shrimp study as "somewhere to start." I replied that if the only example he could come up with was a story from 2011 that isn't even a drop in the deficit bucket, it must not be nearly as bad as he claimed.
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  10008. Honestly, what is the surprise with number one? Could anyone help me out. And "no one paid attention to Michael Cera before"? I know I have seen videos about Arrested Development on this channel.
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  10009. ​ @Philbert-s2c  The original version of libertarianism is still pollyannaish. It thinks that if we get rid of government and property that no one would ever manage to attain property again and that everyone will just work together. If you want to see some Underpants Gnomes thinking, read The Conquest of Bread.
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  10010. That's an evergreen video title.
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  10011. So, militant vegans give us grief for consuming honey because it's cruel to bees, but they have no problem with torturing bees to sustain their food of choice as an alternative? Interesting.
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  10012.  @davidgiovanni3924  So, Hillary had Parkinson's and had someone kill Seth Rich?
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  10013. ​ @TheDuke07  He's probably one of these dummies who legally changed his name, similar to convicted murderer and former candidate Byron (Low Tax) Looper.
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  10014. ​ @SocialAnarchism  I've read The Conquest of Bread, and I couldn't help but think, "This is a serious philosophy?" With no one organizing these field trips to the farm to make sure that everyone gets enough food, how is that going to work? Even assuming you can get the dates evenly distributed and get people to their farmlands, what will you do when no one wants to clean the muck? It's total Underpants Gnomes territory.
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  10015.  @ron-paulsartre  The problem with term limits is that they force good elected officials out. How would America have fared if FDR was term-limited and couldn't run in 1940? Yes, there is potential for corruption when someone stays in for too long, but China had term limits until Xi, so it's not like it stopped them from having a dictatorship.
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  10016.  @pefo1674  Germany, the UK, and several others don't. It sounds like your real beef is with a presidential system.
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  10017.  @pefo1674  Or, maybe you could try to write coherent sentences so I can figure out what you're trying to say with your response. You're the one saying that democracies have executive term limits, and I pointed to examples that don't. Someone else listed Australia as well. A lot of democracies are parliamentary systems, and they tend not to have term limits. Merkel was Chancellor for about 15 years.
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  10018.  @littlebitofhope1489  "A representative republic," as one where people vote... which is a democracy. They are two separate categores.
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  10019.  @orbitsun  Not every word. This guy has literally been yelling at almost every point.
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  10020. First of all, not double. Second, they go by an average that stretches back in some cases for quite some time, so perhaps the lower numbers aren't yet enough to move the average, because most polls I have seen of late show him in the mid to upper 20s.
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  10021.  @redvenomweb  If you delve into a lot of those people, they aren't left so much as they are anti-center. They mean nothing. There were twice as many PUMAs in 2008 as there were BOBs in 2016, and if you see what they had to say about the man who the claimed to be "or bust" for, he was clearly nothing more than a placeholder for them.
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  10022.  @redvenomweb  And I am not saying that the anti-center people are good. I have been very critical of this argument, and I have been very clear that I am voting for the nominee. However, if you can't see the difference between the actual effects of a small rump with no power vs. a group that has a lot of power, you are being dishonest with yourself.
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  10023.  @redvenomweb  1) We can look at everything that they did to stop him from getting the nomination, and how they said they couldn't win, to the point that several Dixiecrats said that they wouldn't endorse him if he won the nomination. 2) Don't confuse volume with size. Again, half the Bernie voters in 2016 voted for Trump of Hillary voters in 2008 who voted for McCain. Even if you include every category of "didn't vote for Hillary," it is still lower than the percentage of Hillary voters who outright voted for the Republican.
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  10024.  @redvenomweb  1) No, but saying "I won't vote for the nominee and just might vote for the Republican" is. Totally different than saying "I would prefer another candidate." You are complaining about a small fraction of Bernie voters saying they might vote third party, but an actual US Senator threatened to vote for Trump if Bernie won the nomination. Not the same at all. 2) That argument doesn't work the way you think it does. That means that 4.4MM Hillary voters went for McCain, as opposed to 1.57MM Bernie voters going for Trump. You want to maybe concede that the point about which side was more willing to stick with the party is not in your favor? Or, is your pride in the way now? If you were making a mistake, we all do, but I guess time will tell if you were just being dishonest.
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  10025.  @redvenomweb  The only reason there was any impact is because it was close. It wasn't Bernie's fault that it was close against the most unpopular nominee in the history of polling. Maybe if Hillary had bothered to listen to the people begging her to go to the Great Lakes instead of pumping $5MM into Chicago and New Orleans to boost the popular vote total, we wouldn't be having this discussion. Bernie did all he could for Hillary. Sue sabotaged herself.
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  10026.  @redvenomweb  Oh, and as to your other question, you are assuming that party insiders, many of whom endorsed Theresa May over Jeremy Corbyn and what Labour insiders did to Corbyn tells me that a lot of the establishment would have gladly done it to Bernie. And Bernie explicitly disavowed any such actions.
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  10027.  @redvenomweb  And when the supporters of Hillary in 2016 point to the much smaller percentage of actual defectors than she encouraged with her hiring, then I will point to the far larger number who she hired in 2008, especially as fundraisers, who did the exact same thing. You objected to my term sabotage, but the exact same thing happened in 2016 with supposedly neutral people putting their thumb on the scales as they did this time. Biden and Perez have blood on their hands for their efforts for the ultimate knockout blow to the Bernie campaign by insisting on holding a campaign primaries in four states knowing how severe the health risk had become.
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  10028.  @redvenomweb  Look up Christi Adkins and Mike Donovan. I remember a lot of the people on the Hillary campaign as fundraisers in Philadelphia (one whose son was briefly involved with the Montgomery County Young Democrats before leaving to support McCain) who went the PUMA route. And considering just how high the percentage was who voted for McCain, it is obvious that Bernie supporters were more willing to suck it up in 2016. Add to that the fact that a recent poll still shows more Bernie supporters going for Biden this time around, and it is obvious that the so-called BOBs are a tiny fragment, especially compared to the PUMAs in 2008.
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  10029.  @redvenomweb  And you're ignoring the fact that a higher percentage of Hillary voters voted for McCain in 2008 than Bernie voters in 2016 who voted for Trump, voted third party, and didn't vote combined.
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  10030.  @redvenomweb  We are talking about percentages, not raw numbers. If you think that raw numbers automatically assume greater percentages, then you are clearly wedded to your narrative rather than looking at evidence.
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  10031.  @redvenomweb  I am talking about the voters, because that's who keeps getting maligned. Was there a Bernie or Bust PAC running ads in 2016?
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  10032.  @redvenomweb  Those are different questions. Sabotage is about doing everything possible to defeat someone when you are supposed to be either neutral or an active supporter.
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  10033.  @redvenomweb  Bernie didn't hire from the establishment. And, look at how obvious they made it in 2016. DWS scheduled very few debates (before being forced to do more), instituted the policy of black balling candidates who did debates on an alternative platform (the DNC sponsored very few debates in 2004 and 2008, but candidates went to dozens), scheduled them during times that she knew would get a low audience and didn't announce times very far in advance, and filled the DNC with people determined to make it a coronation. And, she didn't have to use PUMAs, because she had her pick of the litter. People attracted to the anti-establishment candidate (as evidenced by the number who were warned that they'd never get a job in Washington again if they worked for Bernie) are a very different pool indeed.
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  10034.  @hegelbot  Then, why force the poor and disabled to choose between their current benefits and his plan? He reverse means tests it, and his tax to pay for it will force every American to pay for it, even those who don't get it, instead of increasing taxes at the top of the socioeconomic ladder.
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  10035.  @saraza4977  Except his program is neither universal nor basic income. He doesn't give the whole benefit to the poor and disabled.
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  10036.  @yurinakamura3814  If it's a citizens dividend, and the rich get to keep their loopholes (because Yang thinks that they are impossible to get rid of), why don't the poor and disabled get the whole $1000?
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  10037.  @MyBrainVent  But the sick, injured, disabled, etc., don't get the whole thousand under his proposal. Therefore, as he told Dave Rubin, it is a Trojan horse to eliminate the existing social safety net, even though for some people (for example, nursing homes have bills that are hundreds of dollars a day), that social safety net is literally a matter of life and death, and such things cannot be foreseen or planned for.
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  10038.  @hegelbot  Okay, I see where you are coming from. We are not in disagreement. My feeling is that if it's not universal, it should be the richest who don't get it, not the most needy. I'm fine with the concept of UBI as long as it is not a Trojan horse to eliminate the existing social safety net.
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  10039. ​ @Junebug89  Yes, but people didn't have a record to compare to. We literally had the highest participation rate in American history (I don't count anything prior to 1920 since half the country couldn't vote) mostly to vote against Trump. And the economic numbers are looking up, so things might look very different in a few months.
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  10040.  @oncroussaint9103  It isn't oh-for.
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  10041. This is why I have been saying for years that public financing of campaigns is the reform that makes all other reforms possible.
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  10042.  @nickyg4788  It's a grift. It was harder to see in the primary because people (myself included) could argue at the time that people exaggerate differences in the primaries, but the mask was off once she trashed Bernie.
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  10043.  @daniell6954  He was talking about a very specific issue. On that issue, there is no reason why they won't. They have been dealing with voting issues in the House, so do you really think that it is just a fake because they secretly want Republicans to kill a bill that makes it easier for their voters to vote?
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  10044.  @daniell6954  Okay, of the two major parties, which one supports reinstating Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, and which one opposes it? That is the question at hand.
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  10045.  @daniell6954  Oh, okay. I get it now. You're one of those people who hate those who will give you a little bit of what you want more than people who will send you screaming in the opposite direction. Well, the whole thing started when this hatred couldn't let you see what Sam was talking about, so you'll never see the basic point that something that has unanimous support within the party (and doesn't have several competing versions) can easily pass given a united government that hasn't existed since the Shelby case.
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  10046. You're not "pro-life" if your policies make children starve and die from lack of healthcare.
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  10047. This is how dictatorships start.
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  10048. Even more than Peter the Great?
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  10049. @pacivalmuller9333 1) He's clearly not a liberator, 2) Ask the people of Ukraine that he purposely starved what they think of his "liberation."
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  10050. Babe Ruth pointed to center field. Then again, Michael was doing his Trump imitation, so it would make sense that he got it wrong ;-)
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  10051.  @aaronandelise  So, Hannity and Ingraham, among others, aren't right wing? I don't know if you're lying more to us or to yourself.
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  10052.  @KARKAT420  Indeed. People need to understand the math.
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  10053.  @auntiepha8343  Well, therein lies the paradox. Even if he were a hardcore lefty, he would be destroyed, so we really have to ask ourselves if we want someone who will vote with us half the time, or someone who will never vote with us.
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  10054.  @hernandayolearyallda  That governor they elected ran in 2016, endorsed Trump, ran as West Virginia's Trump, switched back to Republican a few months after taking office, and won re-election as a Republican by 34 points. Manchin is that Senator who got elected, by three points, and Capito got re-elected by 43. Any political scientist will tell you that party registration is the last thing to go during a political realignment.
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  10055. Where is Andy Summers? One of the greatest rhythm guitarists to ever live, and he can't even get an honorable mention? Not every guitar hero needs solos to get the job done.
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  10056.  @grannysvids  She would divorce him if he lost his money.
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  10057. We don't have anything in common with libertarians on economics at all. If anything, they are worse than the current dominant right wing view. People who believe in the rights of working people can't work with people who think that unions are an unlawful power grab.
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  10058.  @nohbuddy1  Sure, he isn't. He has had asylum there for years and Putin has nothing to do with it.
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  10059.  @nohbuddy1  I read somewhere that Snowden was seeking asylum.
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  10060.  @assiduous2011  Still helped laid the foundation for the anti-tax position that Cuomo pushed that made the problems possible.
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  10061.  @assiduous2011  Or, you could, just maybe, stop running ads in other states begging businesses to move to New York, where the first 25 years are tax free. No, because Cuomo wants to suck up to the rich instead of making them pay their fair share.
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  10062.  @assiduous2011  No business taxes for 25 years is "not a bad economic policy"? How many businesses do you think will actually last 25 years? And defending $2B in corporate welfare for a company owned by the richest man in the world that already knew that it wanted to come to NYC anyway, but just wanted to push poor people out of their neighborhood? It looks like Amazon didn't need that office with the helicopter pad after all. Corporate welfare is what made Cuomo's initial handling of the coronavirus so bad that NYC is the disease epicenter of the world. And don't give me big population, because Mexico City and Sao Paolo have much bigger populations, and they didn't get it nearly as bad. South Korea has Seoul, a big metropolitan area, and they did a much better job. And, in the middle of this, he wants to cut Medicaid, which you are defending. It's obvious that you want a New York of, by, and for the rich, so I have to ask, is it because you are rich yourself, or is it because you hope to be rich one day and don't want Albany or Washington to take your money but don't realize that such a philosophy means that you'll never get rich?
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  10063. I had to take an oath to defend the Constitution when I enlisted in the National Guard, and this dummy is pretending that his path, which literally says that he will preserve, protext, and defend the Constitution of the United States doesn't count? Now, I've heard it all.
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  10064. 3:08 I saw that interview. They are part of a Black Philadelphia Republicans group. Looking at local election results, they represent less than 5% of black people in the biggest city in the biggest swing state.
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  10065.  lost in translation  Oh, so you're a coward. Good to know.
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  10066.  lost in translation  So, the True Patriots let other people do their fighting for them?
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  10067. I just noticed the way Dumb Donald has a squeak in his voice on the word "we" when he said, "We can't impeach on this"?
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  10068. "It is better to remain silent and have people think that you are a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt." Mark Twain
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  10069. I think at this point, we can all agree that Marla Maples was the best mother of the three, because she had the sense to keep her daughter away from "She got her mother's legs, and hopefully she got her [holding hands at his chest]."
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  10070.  @AK._-  He is "such a hardcore leftist" that he is indifferent to hostile to unions, he opposes increasing the minimum wage, and he forced the poor and disabled to choose between their current benefits and his plan (that he paid for by a regressive tax). Oh, and he opposes doing anything to address wealth inequality or raising taxes on the rich. With friends like these...
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  10071. Perfect answer. The people for whom it is their factor already know, so you don't need to bring it up. I remember in 2016 that some Hill Shills accused me of sexism for supporting Bernie in the primary. Never mind that I voted for Hillary in the 2008 primary and the 2016 general election, but would electing Sarah Palin VP have made things better for women? Maybe, just maybe, what they'll do in office matters more.
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  10072.  @waleuska  No one would have had to pay 90%. It was 90% on income what is, in today's dollars, over $3MM. Maybe try understanding the difference between marginal and effective rates when you want to pass yourself off as knowledgeable on taxes.
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  10073.  @waleuska  I don't know why this edit keeps disappearing, but you didn't actually say anything of substance about the VAT.
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  10074. Is the corporate payroll tax on individual incomes over $2MM, or total payroll over $2MM. The Kucinich-Conyers version from the last decade was 7.7% employer payroll in order to make the cost?
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  10075. What Sam is proposing is bad strategy if you are really trying to gum up the works. This means that the process will go even faster, and we need to try to drag it out as long as possible. Why do the dum-dums think that a lack of strategy is "backbone"?
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  10076. 15:42 "You were going to say straws suck, weren't you?" "I was in trouble three words into that sentence."
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  10077. @Steven Which candidate defended the assassination of a journalist in Saudi Arabia? Which candidate tried to stop American doing the budding of Saudi Arabia in Yemen, and which one vetoed that bill?
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  10078.  @darishennen898  She has said a lot of things. Usually, people who whine about conspiracies against them seem to feel like they are not bound to those pledges.
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  10079.  Donald Smith  And other people don't understand that making things worse causes a lot more suffering, and as evidence has shown, makes people desperate to pick anyone who can throw the bums out, and due to what seems like a society-wide version of Battered Child Syndrome, think that they can never get it by asking for what people want. That is why every Democratic President after Truman ended up proposing a smaller health care plan until we ended up with the Republican alternative to Hillarycare that Bill said that he would veto because it didn't go far enough. Please provide actual examples of your plan actually working on the left.
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  10080.  Donald Smith  Biden losing doesn't mean that Democrats will lose elections. It does mean that Trump gets to name the successor to RBG and possibly Breyer. If that happens, you are looking at Gorsuch or even Kavanaugh becoming the swing Justice. Do you really think that a Court with that fulcrum would allow Medicare for All to stand? Or a wealth tax?
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  10081.  Donald Smith  No, my strategy is "do X to take over the infrastructure, while voting Y at the statewide and national level until critical mass is reached and we become unstoppable." That is literally the only thing that has ever worked in order to manage a political realignment in this country.
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  10082.  Donald Smith  How many times did the ACA go to Court? Yes, the Court is conservative now, but a 6-3 majority is far different than a 5-4 majority. With a 5-4 majority, all that has to be done is convince Roberts to use stare decisis. However, even the decisions that he did go along with (such as upholding the ACA), he often gets a huge pound of flesh. For example, the ACA was upheld only as a tax under the explicit insistence that the Commerce Clause get weakened in the process. You can say that Medicare for All has an ironclad case, but if you get a 6-3 conservative majority, or a 7-2 majority, then it doesn't do any good to convince Roberts, because you are still one short. And if the business community once it, the majority as it is now doesn't care about how solid the decision is. They used the Lochner case to gut workers rights, which is the equivalent of using Plessy v. Ferguson to decide a civil rights case. Do you honestly expect Sox Federalist Society Justices not to find a justification? Heck, I wouldn't put it past them to even get rid of Medicare period whole they're at it.
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  10083.  Donald Smith  There is already an argument for the wealth tax: that the Sixteenth Amendment applies to income rather than assets. We have the Sixteenth Amendment nearly 20 years after the Supreme Court said that the income tax was unconstitutional in the first place. If anything, the wealth tax argument from the right would be FAR stronger than the Medicare for All argument.
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  10084.  Donald Smith  How did Obama "allow himself to be blocked" with Garland again? You are aware that the President is not a dictator who can do whatever he/she wants, right? The Senate has to approve it, and there was no way that McConnell was going to let the Court move in a way that would make either Sotomayor or Garland the swing Justice. As long as McConnell controlled the calendar, there was nothing that could have been done.
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  10085.  Donald Smith  X, as clearly stated in the prior paragraph, was run or support candidates for local offices to take over the party machinery. Y is the lefty candidate who is unstoppable because the people are in place to make sure that the establishment can't sabotage things. The last political alignment in this country came in 1980 after 16 years of work on the right. They didn't say "Screw Nixon" or "Screw Ford." Presidential races before the infrastructure is in place are really primarily about getting the message out. The third party and stay home route are dead ends.
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  10086.  TheEsotericZebra  People also need to realize that if they don't like the establishment, a lot of that establishment is voted on at the ballot. Pretty much every state and local Democratic Committee is elected either at the primary ballot box, or at a convention that is open to the public to anyone who is a registered Democrat. Get more people in those slots, and we don't have to worry about establishment chicanery any longer.
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  10087.  Donald Smith  Okay. It is now obvious that you don't understand how any of this works. Show me in the Constitution where it says that the President can force the Senate to approve his/her Supreme Court nominee. Also, Turtle didn't filibuster, he refused to allow a hearing. Two different things. Given your lack of basic understanding on such a simple thing, no wonder why you have such a poor concept of political strategy. Did you come here from a Jimmy Dore video?
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  10088.  Donald Smith  Why did the Republicans invoke the nuclear option in 2017, but Democrats didn't do it in 2016? They were in the minority. They wouldn't have enough votes to invoke the nuclear option, which again wouldn't have done anything because McConnell didn't filibuster.
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  10089.  Donald Smith  And, once again, Ford didn't win. He lost in 1976, but several Reagan acolytes have said that his narrow loss in 1976 is what made it possible, because no Republican would have won that year in the shadow of Watergate, so realignment was only possible in 1980. Political change for good or ill almost never happens all at once. And, if you look, probably the biggest sign of things to come was Proposition 13 in 1978, which had a lot of grassroots energy. And who is Candidate X? Candidate X has to be legion by definition. Why, it might even have to be you. Or, you would need to get involved with some group that actually is trying to make such changes at the local level, and organize for that candidate. And how does a vote for Biden play into this strategy? I think pretty much everyone can agree that the winner of the election will get to name the successor to RBG, and it is starting to look like the Senate has a good chance of going blue. If that happens, we get Garland or better on the Supreme Court. If Trump wins, he almost certainly gets the Senate, too, which means that he can pick whoever he wants, and the strategy of picking off one Justice is gone, so we can forget good things happening. So, voting for Biden is also part of that long-term strategy, because you need the Supreme Court, too. Other places where it will matter? Roberts seems content to nibble around the edges of Roe, but another Justice means that it will be overturned and go to the states at best or ruled in a way that makes every single miscarriage in this country a criminal investigation at worst.
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  10090.  Donald Smith  Yeah, you said that before, but it didn't stop the Roberts Court from the Citizens United ruling, insisting that we don't need the Voting Rights Act that was passed unanimously in the Senate and nearly so in the House eight years earlier because racism is dead, and invoking an overruled decision that banned child labor laws in order to force right to work for less on public workers. If you really think that they need a good argument to overrule Medicare for All and cut out the insurance middlemen, you are delusional. Absolutely and utterly delusional. Then again, maybe those are just the stories you tell yourself in order to justify your actions when someone points out the logical conclusion.
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  10091.  Donald Smith  I didn't say a mild reform would fare better in the courts. You clearly didn't read my argument. It was that, with a 6-3 majority, it doesn't matter what justification they use. They will strike down Medicare for All if there are six Justices, because two won't cross over to uphold ANYTHING. And, do you really not see what is happening with today's right? It has no positive beliefs about anything, and they will swallow any fertilizer a right winger will give them to own the libs and swear up and down that they're eating chocolate pudding. They don't need the senior vote, because they are already going to go along with it. Oh, sure, they may complain, but the "Keep Your Government Hands off My Medicare" crowd won't care until it's too late. Look at how many of them keep voting in Republican governors who refuse to take free money for Medicaid expansion.
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  10092.  Donald Smith  You don't get the point of 1976 at all. The point was that the right wasn't ready to flex its muscles yet. And had Reagan have said Never Ford or Never Nixon, he wouldn't have been the one to lead the movement. My point was that timing matters. Since your timing includes wishful thinking that a 6-3 or 7-2 Court as far as the eye can see won't overturn things we want, it also misses that there are some elections that just can't be won by the other party. Had Reagan won the nomination and lost to Carter by 8-12 points, someone like Poppy would have won the 1980 nomination. And if you look at what Ford was doing as President, he was laying the groundwork for that hard right turn, so if anything, he may be the one Republicans worship had he won an election on his own terms.
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  10093.  Donald Smith  I have explained to you several times bow a vote for Biden helps reform the party. Because it makes it possible to get other things through the Supreme Court under a much better President in the future. As much as people want to pretend that Kennedy was a moderate, a 2015 study put him as the 10th most conservative Justice since 1900. The two who have come onto the Court since are to his right. And Biden would pick Garland or better because that is the network among potential Democratic picks for the Supreme Court. Biden isn't picking someone on the Federalist Society. Trump will. And I literally said, "It might have to be you" for those offices. If you are so much better, have the guts to run for yourself instead of sniping from a keyboard. Even if you lose, you could at least say you tried. Since you have proven to either not understand the rules (unless you are willing to retract your stupid argument that Obama could have forced McConnell to allow a vote on Garland) or to actually read what I have written several times, I am going to finish. If you actually show that you are understanding basic arguments, then I will respond.
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  10094.  Donald Smith  No, my argument is that the big tent pole cases that take most of the effort of a legislative session will go to the Supreme Court, and having a Court that will overturn that legislation will discourage voters, who will say, "Why bother? The Supreme Court will just kill it, anyway." Or, they will be like you and think incorrectly that it is simply a matter of Presidential will in order to get things passed instead of realizing that there are some things that need other people. Speaking of which, are you now ing to admit that this was a ridiculous take? And the reason why staying within the party matters is there are a lot of people who care about party loyalty. There were a lot of people who will hold that against them. While a lot of people were being disingenuous with the Bernie isn't a real Democrat stuff, it actually does resonate with some people. Example: when I was running for the House of Delegates in 2006, there was a Congressional candidate who switched from a Republican the year before. His policy positions didn't really change, but the first question that the party elders asked every time was "Why did you change parties?" If the left flank is seen as disloyal, it will be that much more difficult to take things over. Using the example that I gave before about a political realignment that worked, voting for Nixon and Ford made it possible because it made it easier for people to win the down ballot and party committee races needed to do the things that they wanted to do.
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  10095.  Donald Smith  What makes you think that the Court acts the way it does to make things politically popular? The most influential member of the Federalist Party to hold public office wasn't Washington, Adams, or Hamilton, it was John Marshall. And what is so significant about that? John Marshall got his position after the Federalist Party was thoroughly defeated at the national level. Marshall ended up putting a Federalist stamp on quite a bit of stuff in his 30+ years. And do you honestly think that Republicans won't try to kill Medicare for All? Their wunderkind of ten years became that for the very simple reason that he was trying to kill Medicare. And you have said that it would be more likely that there would be a dissenting vote for Medicare for All. Well, since you clearly think that a 6-3 majority is no different than a 5-4 majority, you are forgetting that, if Trump gets a second term, it will take two or three dissenting votes to get a majority. I have very little doubt that you could get Roberts to uphold Medicare for All if his vote will do it, but he won't walk that plank if he knows that there are still five Justices who are going to kill it. The best you can hope for in that situation is that he can twist himself into enough of a pretzel to allow Medicare for seniors to remain on the books. And, what honestly makes you think that a case like that would die in circuit court? The groups that want to kill Medicare for All have very deep pockets, and they are good at finding courts to give contrary opinions. And you are forgetting that it only takes four Justices to agree to hear a case. If the ACA has gotten to the Supreme Court twice, you can bet that Medicare for All will get there at least once. Since Roberts has already demonstrated that he won't use the Commerce Clause for medical issues, he may very well approve it with some sort of ticking time bomb that Republicans can detonate later on so that he can say, "Well, this doesn't qualify," or he could approve Medicare for All, but get rid of the provision that bans competing plans. If that happens, it's a totally different ball game.
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  10096.  Donald Smith  Your take that I am referring to was that you insisted that Obama could have gotten Garland on the bench if he really wanted to, and that he should have gone nuclear, even though: a) McConnell did not filibuster Garland, b) the Senate Majority Leader is the one who uses the nuclear option rather than the President (and the Majority Leader in 2016 was McConnell), and c) it was the majority blocking Garland, so even if McConnell had the hearing, it probably would have failed anyway. Since you were basing that argument on a totally false premise (none of the three things I mentioned above were opinion; they were all fact), this is a test of your honesty. I don't waste my time with liars, so are you a liar, or are you honest?
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  10097.  Donald Smith  Yes, Obama lost a lot of seats. Some of it was due to the party focusing too much on the top, and part of it was the increasing rural/urban divide. However, can you honestly name a situation where a President of either party didn't see a ton of seats lost over the course of two terms? I'm not saying that Obama is blameless, but it keeps happening so much that I wonder just how much was him and how much was the natural decline in support over eight years.
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  10098.  Donald Smith  There is no evidence that voters will get discouraged if they see nothing happening? What do you think happened during the period of total obstruction? Republicans show up no matter what, but voters on the left tend to get discouraged when they don't see results and there is a Democratic President. Don't believe me? Look at how low turnout was from 2009-16. You only saw high turnout in the face of inaction because people were angry at Trump.
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  10099.  Donald Smith  I don't care what the majority of voters are for the purposes of people in the parties. And, it is not a majority. It is a plurality in many places, though. Even those who register as independent, when you dig down deep into their voting patterns, are part of a party in all but name. Why doesn't that matter for these purposes? Riddle me this, Batman: how many of those independents are actually running for office? And how many of those independents actually donate to and volunteer for campaigns? The reason a lot of the gatekeepers are there at the local level is simple. They showed up.
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  10100.  Donald Smith  Allowong Medicare for All also ends the power of a key part of the Republican donor base. And given the effort that Republicans have made to undo the franchise, andnthat their voters show up no matter what, you really think that they care about what voters think? How adorable!
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  10101.  Donald Smith  My point about the Supreme Court and Medicare for All is simple to all but those who have made up their mind that a Court that ended most campaign finance laws despite over a century of precedent, gutted the Voting Rights Act eight years after its renewal, and cares more about business than anything else, will not hesitate to overturn Medicare for All. Given the idea of stare decisis, that will make it very hard to do anything to help the sick. You can whine about the place we're in now all you want, but that doesn't change the fact that this is where we are. Changing a party by fighting in the primaries and building on gains has worked. Taking your ball and going home never has. Your way has never worked, and never will. Then again, your way isn't about results at all. It's about a feeling of moral superiority.
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  10102.  Donald Smith  I do it this way because I am trying to give each issue the attention that it deserves. Also, you will note that I didn't say "who lost more," I asked for a two-term President in recent history "who didn't lose a ton of seats." Bush lost both Houses of Congress during his term. So did Clinton. Reagan never had the House and lost the Senate. The last President to serve more than six years and not lose Congress was FDR. My point was that it is fair to argue about what causes the extent of losses, but to pretend that losing a lot of seats during the Obama years is a unique phenomenon is ignoring the facts.
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  10103.  Donald Smith  Okay, at this point, I think that you are being willfully dishonest. When confronted with the most blatant things, you will walk them back, but you are now trying to wall right up to the edge to see how dishonest you can be without getting called on it. The point was never about Congress, but it was about the Supreme Court. Because you want to ignore the impact of your actions, you have convinced yourself that the Roberts Court, when given another right-wing Justice (and, btw, your original comment was "a dissenting Republican," as evidenced by the sloppy syntax when you tried to change it when I pointed out that one is not enough) will not hesitate to do whatever it wants for ideological reasons. We are not talking about the legislative process at all. At this point, I think the saddest lies are the ones you tell yourself to assuage your conscience.
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  10104. @Rafael Herschel A little from Column A, and a little from Column B.
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  10105. Which is it, Todd, would those witnesses have helped your case (in which case they should have been called), or would they help the prosecution (which undermines your argument)?
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  10106. That wouldn't even work. If they get less than 15%, they get nothing in terms of delegates. If establishment candidates are splitting their votes and not getting delegates, they are actually helping Bernie.
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  10107. Tulsi Gabbard isn't bought? After she courted Sheldon Adelson and did his bidding to try to get rid of his competition? And Andrew Yang told Dave Rubin that his ultimate goal is to get rid of the existing social safety net, so he's a hard pass. My top three are Bernie, Inslee, and Warren in that order.
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  10108. The mere fact that they complain about it possibly going to some blue states sums up the American right in a nutshell: they will gladly stick it to themselves in order to screw over people they don't like.
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  10109. FDR and LBJ each had supermajorities and a talking filibuster. Like it or not, if you don't have a good hand, there are limits to how much you can strong arm someone.
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  10110. Krystal Ball is smart, and she knows exactly what she is doing.
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  10111. Absolutely not. Blanket restrictions throw out the good and the bad. If people don't want someone of a certain age, vote that person out. If you don't want someone to keep going back to Congress, vote that person out. We did in PA when we denied Specter a sixth term. Voters in Indiana denied Lugar a seventh term.
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  10112. Because you can have evil people like Der Orangefuhrer using that to arrest political enemies. The price of democracy is vigilance.
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  10113. California has it, and it gave us Proposition 13. In Colorado (which was simply where it hit the fan first), a "taxpayer's bill of rights" that limited the ability of the government to increase spending nearly caused its public university system to collapse until it was repealed in 2005. It is no guarantee.
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  10114.  @alloomis1635  Yes, it is up to the people to act wisely. My point is that ballot initiatives often have the problem of sounding good or being contradictory. Direct democracy can work better at a smaller level, but there is too much to do in order to make it happen on a national level. A much better solution is a politically engaged electorate that fights for what it wants, but the prerequisite for any positive change in this country is public financing of campaigns. That is the reform that makes all other reforms possible.
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  10115.  @sparkymcplug3765  Of course, we need to get money out of politics. (I have referred to that more than once as the reform that makes all other reforms possible.) That being said, how are we going to get money out of politics if we don't do the needed work to keep the Senate and White House to potentially replace more of the pro-Big Money members of the Court?
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  10116.  @kekwayblaze3176  Pelosi seems to have walked back her talk of retirement. You also forget that it takes a 2/3 vote in the caucus to be nominated. The Progressive Caucus is big enough to block Jefferies, and people thought Crowley was a shoo-in, too, and look how that turned out. Ditto Eric Cantor on the other side. As the CPC gets bigger and stronger, they can at the very least make sure that someone acceptable to them gets the gavel even if they don't have the power to attain it for one of their own yet.
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  10117.  @kekwayblaze3176  Of course, he has their backing, but so did Crowley and Engel. Quite frankly, a lot depends on what his district will look like.
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  10118.  @Dubb-ee8gr  Wasn't invited? You are aware that the host of the show invited him on, right? What's next, are you going to pretend that Change My Mind is really just about the Socratic method?
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  10119.  @Dubb-ee8gr  He was invited by the host of the show. The host has far more control than the guest. Haven't you ever seen Jerry Springer? You really are special!
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  10120. Der Orangestraflingfuhrer already said he won't release the Epstein files. Try to keep up, Jimmy.
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  10121. Stop trying to ruin cookies, jerk!
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  10122.  @stevewozniak223  It's all about strategy. It makes more sense at this point to let others take Biden down. Bernie was content to see Harris take him down in that debate, and her numbers proved to be a sugar rush.
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  10123.  @stevewozniak223  I think that Bernie wanted to save his fire until the crowd was smaller. He mostly counterpunched last week, and it was quite effective. If he is on the same stage, and Biden goes after him or his plans, the gloves will be off. Timing is everything.
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  10124. Not sure how active it is, but a horrible charity is Livestrong. Even ignoring how distasteful its founder is, literally none of the money goes to cancer research, and at one point, over 90% of their money went to things like swag at high-profile celebrity events. The charity is just as bad as he is.
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  10125. I think he waited until he was over the total and is pretending that's day one.
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  10126.  @maxkelter3561  Where was this Trump infrastructure bill? I honestly lost track of how many times his people proclaimed Infrastructure Week. I guess it worked on you, kinda like the guy on the bus a few years ago who was disappointed that Trump "declared a national opioid emergency" only to find out later that Trump actually cut funding for treating addiction.
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  10127. Which is it, did he take no precautions because he wanted to get the virus, or did he take hyroxychloroquine for a year and a half to try not to get it?
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  10128. I woke up early to make sure I caught all six of Corbyn's questions live on C-SPAN2. He was nailing it!
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  10129.  @Tachouz  She was already not running for re-election, so what is their to be gained from endorsing Biden before the primary is over?
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  10130.  @Tachouz  Regarding impeachment, she took an oath to the Constitution. If she thought Trump was guilty (as she said in her statement), then it was her duty to vote Yes. She didn't do it. Therefore, her word is meaningless.
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  10131.  fa q  Do you see me defending Sinema? My point is that control doesn't mean that you get everything that you want. It means that you get to organize the Senate. Then again, maybe if you'd spend a little more time learning and a little less time liking your own comments, you might understand.
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  10132.  @GazaWest  Increased child tax credits, $130B for schools, funds to state and local governments (which helps avoid disruption of services), the $1400 is still something that people wouldn't have had otherwise. Those are off the top of my head. Did you not watch the video?
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  10133.  fa q  Every time the President and the House are controlled by the same party, it loses seats in the midterms with one exception (2002) in the last century. There will also be more gerrymandering. However, Republicans have to play defense in the Senate far more than the Democrats, and the fact that five Republicans have retired and no Democrats have should tell you everything you need to know about what will happen in that chamber.
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  10134.  fa q  No, it means that they aren't going to run at all. At a certain point, if you want to sound informed, you should actually know the basics. Yes, it is true that it doesn't mean that Republicans will lose every seat. However, it does make it more difficult for Republicans to hold those seats. Of the five, the most likely for pickups are Pennsylvania and North Carolina. Missouri is the least likely unless the former governor who was forced out for sexual harassment wins the primary. However, it does give an indication of how Senate Republicans feel about their chances to regain control of the Senate. And if Democrats gain seats, the votes of Manchin and Sinema are not necessary. So, you don't understand what it means to control the Senate, and you don't understand what it means when all of the retirements are on one side, so what else don't you know that misinforms you?
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  10135.  fa q  Your accusation is your confession.
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  10136. And the irony is that these right wingers are so bigoted that they can't see if they would just be a little more open, the current demographic trends could actually benefit them politically.
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  10137. We're putting cover sheets on all the TPS reports from now on.
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  10138. Let's keep the pleasant surprises coming.
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  10139.  @selahanany5645  It is far more difficult when it only takes a plurality to win seats, and an absolute majority of electoral votes to win the Presidency.
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  10140.  @grmpEqweer  Oh, Aaron's stock in trade is lies and ridiculous nonsequiturs. Or pathetically agreeing with himself. He disappeared for about a month after bragging about the red wave that never was.
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  10141.  @shadebleu  My apologies. Given that you sound exactly like the most notorious troll on this channel, that is where my thoughts went.
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  10142.  @shadebleu  Longer than you. I'm not the one throwing random word salad to try to explain my ideology.
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  10143.  NS I  And your point being?
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  10144.  @steverguy  Bill Gates became a billionaire because he built a monopoly and had a rich dad funding his early enterprise. Elon Musk made his money off of government subsidies. Jeff Bezos made his by skirting sales tax law.
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  10145.  @claudeabraham2347  Yes, it is bad. It is bad that wages have stagnated (before 1980, wages were very closely tied to productivity increases, but despite productivity nearly doubling since then, wages have only gone up 11%) because that means that people have less money for other things, while more things have been added to the expense sheet. For example, women started entering the marketplace en masse not in the liberated 1970s, but in the 1980s when one income stopped being sufficient to pay for a family's needs. (I am not saying that the wife should stay at home, but that one income, and I don't care which spouse, should be enough.) Now, that means that you have to worry about childcare. Since now it's practically a crime to leave children unattended, that means that parents have to now pay for daycare. Oh, and instead of having free (or mostly free that could be paid for with Pell Grants) college tuition, now more and more students start behind the eight ball in terms of net worth. Let's not forget the rising cost of health insurance (double that of overall inflation), and add those up, and you now have a generation for whom home ownership is mostly an illusion. But, hey, at least their boss's salaries exploded and they can buy cheap toys that break easily. Most of those in nations that are supposed to be our peers also don't have to pay out of pocket for nearly as many things as we do. Funny that you want to compare to Third World Countries. Is that what group you want to be a part of?
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  10146.  @bradchristy8429  "They created something, using the exact same resources as the test of us have at our disposal" So, we all have rich daddies willing to fund our business or investors willing to fork over hundreds of billions of dollars while our businesses continue to hemorrhage money for years and years until it finally becomes profitable? Worshipping the rich won't make you any richer yourself.
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  10147.  @bradchristy8429  Fun fact: millionaires and billionaires are a totally different animal entirely. Another fun fact: in the time since Bill Gates a) stopped working and b) insisted that he was going to start giving most of his money away, his wealth has more than doubled. I do find it interesting the sleight of hand between millionaires, a level that would be within reach of most people who are upper-middle class, and billionaires, which is a magnitude that very few can aspire to.
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  10148.  @bradchristy8429  "If you build something, no matter how large or small, you own it." Show one person anywhere who built a company all by him/herself.
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  10149.  @herbertbrown119  That's what the rich and their apologists want you to think. Tell me why you think it is just that worker productivity has doubled since 1980 and wages have remained stagnant.
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  10150.  @herbertbrown119  Yeah, that makes sense for why workers should get.paid more, not why they aren't.
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  10151.  @herbertbrown119  If "employers are crying for people," that should drive wages up. Maybe if employers weren't so greedy, some of that money would circulate back to them. Besides, if you can only make money with poverty wages or stealing all of the profits, you are very bad at business and maybe should think of some other line of work.
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  10152.  @herbertbrown119  "After paying increasing taxes and supply costs" Taxes have gone down since 1980. From the end of WWII to the Carter Administration, the top income tax rate was 70%, corporate taxes were nearly a third of total federal revenue, and wages still kept up with productivity. Literally everything you've mentioned, if supply-side economics is correct, should mean a widely shared prosperity, but nearly 45 years later, it has never trickled down, and we keep ending up with speculative bubbles that end up hurting the workers when they pop instead of the rich who inflated them.
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  10153.  @tyrant-den884  It is if you have a six-figure debt that can't be discharged in bankruptcy.
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  10154.  @brandonvanscoycloud6469  You must be thinking plasma. It is illegal to get money for whole blood donation.
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  10155.  @shelbypowell9919  Because company unions tend to be toothless and screw over the workers, who by the time they make their intentions known, are far beyond the point where people would fall for a company union. Look at Harlan County USA and the conditions under the Southern Miners of America and compare it to what they got under a UMWA contract and tell me why anyone would want to pay into that. Also, companies cannot offer an alternate union after the workers approve of a real union. There are plenty of reasons why this tactic is so uncommon these days.
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  10156. Except it's not universal. It's only for people who aren't getting other benefits (a full list of which Yang refuses to provide, although he has said it is 125 and actually mentioned six [TANF, SNAP, WIC, LIHEAP, housing subsidies, and daycare subsidies] which suggests that a lot of people who are looking for money will suddenly find that they don't get it). It's also not basic income, because it's lower than the poverty level for one person. Just like Medicare for All and his business success, it is one big lie.
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  10157.  @michaelfranco6244  If by "opt in," you mean "give up other benefits," then yes. Otherwise, if you really didn't know this, it is yet more proof of the dishonesty of Yang.
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  10158.  @michaelfranco6244  Why would they "have" to? There is no reason other than ideology to put people in that position. And, since Yang hasn't provided that full list, given the number of people who get other benefits who say that they get no assistance, you may be wrong. And we also don't know how long the decision lasts. What if the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend means that a recent college graduate has to choose between the Student Loan Forgiveness Program and the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend? Does that person forfeit it on an annual basis? Monthly? Or is it that the instant you take it you are forever giving up other benefits? If you end up with twins or triplets, daycare will cost a lot more than $1000/month, and the way Yang described it as "keeping people out of the inefficient current system," it sure does sound like it is a one-time decision, and if your circumstances change, it sucks to be you. I, for one, will oppose any such program.
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  10159. He'll be on a side stage.
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  10160.  @ambidexterity1  Actually, her recent tendencies coupled with her earlier record shows that her real fake self was the one who pretended to be a lefty in 2016 only to right back to starboard. If she grew up anywhere else, she'd be a Republican.
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  10161.  @mayavox  No, but she does have an obligation to be honest about what she supports. You're a dishonest person because you say that she supports the very thing that she called un-American, even when you see the video. Your dishonesty will live in infamy.
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  10162.  @taranullius9221  I think that the more accurate is that centrists are realizing that they have to acknowledge the left, and that you are starting to see actual leftists gain power, but I see your point about Biden.
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  10163. ​ @vell0cet517  Well, therein lies the rub. The Presidency is not some place for ideological willy waving or having a tantrum and wanting to cut off your nose to spite your face. Even if you win, you still have to actually do the job. You have to have a movement behind you to help get legislation done, and have enough legislators willing to go along with you rather than sabotaging you like New Labour did to Corbyn.
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  10164. They keep talking about being divisive, but you know what's really divisive? An attempted fascist coup.
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  10165.  @thisjoose6764  Adblock screws over the content creators. I'll deal with a few seconds of right wingers wasting their money if that's what it takes to get quality content.
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  10166. Anybody else have an involuntary reaction when hearing about the Greek method of wiping?
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  10167. To say that his campaign was weird was an understatement. In the debates, he yelled a lot, and his ad was him staring at the camera, in silence with no background music, with him throwing a rock into a pond at the end. After he dropped out, he ran for the Libertarian Party nomination, losing out to Bob Barr.
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  10168. ​ @ianmonam  Not a good appointment, but Rubio is someone who at least technically speaking is probably qualified for Secretary of State.
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  10169.  @Avrysatos  The only answer that I can give is that he is convinced that there would be backlash. Whether or not he is right, I don't know, but West Virginia is over 90% white, so I really doubt that. The only thing that I can think is that he is waiting for some cosmetic change to say that he "moderated the bill" in that worst of centrist traditions.
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  10170. I get the feeling, but I don't think he really needed to, because his point that education costs far more than a free school lunch, and $10,000 is worth less to a rich person than a dollar is to him was quite apt.
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  10171.  @joeleek9976  Considering that pretty much everyone else who responded to you interpreted what you said in the exact way, maybe the problem is how you communicated your point.
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  10172.  @joeleek9976  If I mean to say X, and pretty much everyone else thinks that I said Y, maybe it is time to examine how the message got lost. If the message is getting lost, maybe it has something to do with the communication.
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  10173.  chris younts  Indeed. I can't remember who said it, but I remember a YouTube video that said that the fundamental difference between left and right is the belief in equality vs. hierarchy. That's why Ben Shapiro gets the vapors about "equality of outcome."
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  10174.  @peterstafford4426  People can be wrong on many things, but still be right on others. I remember in 2004, when State Senator Barack Obama of Hyde Park got a 100% rating from the League of Conservation Voters as a US Senate candidate. In 2008, Senator Obama had Silukies in coal country in his state, and was singing the praises of coal to gasoline, which has twice the CO2 of standard gasoline, and an LCV score in the 70s. Just because they are flawed messengers doesn't mean that the verifiable evidence they reported is wrong.
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  10175.  @Addamo  The saddest lies we tell are the lies we tell ourselves. PS When was that resolution vote condemning Nazis? You didn't answer the first time I asked.
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  10176.  @Addamo  When in 2021?
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  10177.  @rajashashankgutta4334  The First Amendment literally says "no law," but there are plenty of laws abridging free speech. Most famously, you're not allowed to yell FIRE in a building where there is no fire. If you think that the Second Amendment allows for absolutely no regulations on gun ownership, you clearly haven't been paying attention.
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  10178. "He wore straight-leg Levi's while the kids in Aberdeen preferred flared bottoms and checkered Vans. 'Three years later, everyone was wearing straight leg pants, and i suffered for nothing!'" Michael Azzarad describing Krist Novoselic, Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana
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  10179.  @donalddavis9705  Oh, please, O smart one, tell us why all of the crazy people have access to the means to make their actions far more destructive only here.
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  10180.  @donalddavis9705  I see your reply, but it doesn't show up in the thread. Did you mean to withdraw it, or is it acting goofy? I want to make sure before I respond.
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  10181.  @donalddavis9705  Learn punctuation. Seriously. It makes it so much easier for people to figure out the point that you are trying to make. Carrying on. "If you read any of their writings[,] you see this[,] and the purpose [?] they included this natural right in the Constitution." Except every draft of what ultimately became the Second Amendment always led with the part about militias. Which, despite your protestation to the contrary, are now known as the National Guard. "No[,] I don't believe they would have banned any weapons[.] [Y]ou can't secure a free state unless you have the best weapons available." Plenty of free states exist without private citizens having "the best weapons available." And the Founders did have rules about guns. Scalia himself noted when writing the Heller decision that there were regulations on gun ownership all throughout American history. Gun control laws especially proliferated once cheap guns did and people proved not to be able to use them. Despite this notion of America being a frontier nation at its beginning with everyone packing, a study of wills in the 18th century show that only about 14% of Americans owned any firearms at all. (Cont.)
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  10182.  @donalddavis9705  The rest is just based on the fact that you don't even know what the Heller case is, so I think that I have already sufficiently answered that bit of GIGO.
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  10183.  @donalddavis9705  The Heller decision explicitly states that regulations, as well as the banning of certain kinds of weapons are allowed (no one has overturned the ban on machine guns in the last 14 years). Jefferson said a lot of things, but considering that he had zero military service at all, I'd take what he had to say about it with a grain of salt. Re: what the Founders said, you mean the same people who wrote "Congress shall make no law [...] abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press," but within a decade passed the Alien and Sedition Act? Show me any absolute right in American law. What you want is what Hobbes called the war of all against all. Spoiler alert: he didn't like it.
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  10184. Trump insisted that 50MM vaccines was too many and refused to buy that many... in a country with a population of over 300MM. He also did nothing to help states set up the vaccination system to distribute that quickly. He deserves zero credit for the vaccines.
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  10185. ​ @CynicalNarcissist  The only time I've ever heard him talk about "mental health" was lamenting gender identity. He opposes any effort to expand health care from what I've heard. Vivek-bots are every bit as dishonest as their hero.
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  10186.  @morgansmith1687  Three years, but agreed. There is a reason why Johnson pushed Medicare the first year after he was elected in his own right, and Clinton and Obama both introduced their bills in their first year. This is trying to eat your cake and have it to.
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  10187.  @jw4267  Yeah, being to the right of Biden on health care is not a good look for everyone not blinded by the thought of free money.
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  10188.  lcyw20  Every plan has a transition. Bernie's is four years (gradually reducing the eligibility age) and the House version is two. The problem with Warren's proposal is the second bill. You only get one bite at the apple.
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  10189.  @t.h.8475  That was Poppy Bush she described that way. I got to meet her in 2004. She was quite the character.
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  10190.  @kevin6293  You voted for someone who was endorsed by the head of the Klan. Nice try, but you failed miserably.
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  10191. Actually, Hillary's ridiculous debate line was "why pay tuition for Donald Trump's kids?" which many pointed out was ridiculous because a) all of his kids went to private colleges, and b) if they pay more in taxes than the tuition is worth, why not let them get in.
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  10192. The staging was awful. Cuomo looked like he was at a news desk trying to audition for his brother's job, and can we please stop with the green screen?
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  10193. If Trump were in office, he'd be doing exactly what he's doing now: praise Putin and do nothing to support Ukraine.
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  10194. ​ @tbone8839  Ask President Mondale, President Dole, President Dean, President Kerry, President Romney, or two-term President Poppy Bush how much polls a year out mean.
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  10195. If our tears are half as tasty as theirs, I am starting to understand why so many on the right want our tears.
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  10196.  @blackyoshi4484  That's part of the reason why Ridgway was able to kill so many.
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  10197. I'm sorry, too.
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  10198. Why are you not a libertarian? Probably the same reason why most people over the age of 14 aren't libertarians: you asked follow up questions.
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  10199. Another argument against the Electoral College is that it encourages lower turnout. Because the number of electoral votes is fixed, it actually happens that there are more votes cast in high turnout states that get fewer electoral votes. Examples in 2016: Maine (4) vs. West Virginia (5), Iowa (6) vs. Oklahoma (7), and Minnesota and Wisconsin (10) vs. Tennessee (11). This is the definition of anti-democratic.
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  10200. So, some guy was attacking some woman, he had a pistol, then had time to get a rifle and call the cops again? Yes, and at 5'5 with very little vertical, I will be the next starting center for the Knicks.
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  10201.  @nealtauss1715  If you sign off on a coup, you are responsible for the assassination.
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  10202.  @mikeivey7167  Oh, look. Someone who watched JFK and didn't realize that it was a work of fiction.
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  10203.  @kevinbell3700  Yeah, so apparently all those islands disappearing under water and Amsterdam needing to increase the power of the dikes is just something that everyone is making up. [Eye roll]
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  10204.  @patricktuorto  I have been critical of the Electoral College for over 25 years. If you like the Electoral College, either it's because you think it helps you, or you don't like democracy. Don't give me this line about "every state being heard," because no one goes to places like Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, Hawaii, etc. Heck, in 2012, the election was fought over a whopping nine states. Yeah, that really makes sure everyone gets a voice!
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  10205.  @patricktuorto  You know what another term for Republic is? Representative democracy. I get that some people like to throw that out to hide their disdain for democracy instead of actually trying to win people over, but any dictionary will give you that definition. As far as "win instead of complaining about the rules," would you have said that to those who lived under Jim Crow? Were those who amended the Constitution to allow direct election of US Senators, and extended the franchise to those who black people or women? Should the voting age remain 21? Were those who were still around among the Founders wrong for changing the Electoral College so that the President and Vice President get picked separately instead of each elector voting for two people? After all, people should try to "win the game instead of change the rules," even though the general trend in America has been towards a more democratic republic.
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  10206. Tim Black put it best: Ellen is no longer LGBTQ, she is rich.
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  10207.  @shawnshurtz9147  SEIU 668
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  10208.  @ahopefiend1867  Based on what? Hillary in 2016 was the low water mark for Democratic performance among union households, and she got 57%. And unions are the ones leading the fight to raise wages for everyone, not just thinking, "I've got mine, screw you."
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  10209.  @seandoyle296  So, Christians and Muslims are the ones with the most bloodlust? And who killed the most people in the 20th century? I'll give you a hint. Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and their ilk weren't going to the church or mosque to justify their actions.
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  10210.  @seandoyle296  They did so in part in the name of eradicating religion, and are you really using that nonsensical distinction that Dawkins tried to use to wave away the worst mass murderers of his time?
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  10211.  @seandoyle296  Not all religions are theistic. Many forms of Buddhism are indifferent to the question of gods or outright atheistic. If you think that doesn't count as what causes the most violence in the world, you are letting your bias show.
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  10212.  @seandoyle296  Religion is defined by beliefs, not practices.
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  10213.  @seandoyle296  Some hard core vegans are animists or pantheists, so it's not impossible. That being said, it wouldn't fall into "any fanatical belief system" because religion attempts to answer questions about origins of life and the supernatural. Just because you don't want to admit that you engaged in a logical fallacy by trying to call three billion people genocidal maniacs doesn't make it any less false because you can't see how easy it is to become that which you hate.
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  10214.  @seandoyle296  Negative explanations are also explanations, so atheism (especially the kind of atheism you see with the New Atheist movement) has an awful lot more in common with evangelicals than they care to admit. I wasn't saying that communism is a religion, but atheism.
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  10215.  @seandoyle296  And how many people did atheists kill in the name of eradicating religion? As one example, more Christians were killed in the 20th century because of their religion than in the previous 19 centuries combined. You are using the same logical fallacy of Dawkins that somehow any time an atheist kills in the name of getting rid of a religion, it doesn't count.
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  10216. Tulsi wasn't military intelligence, she was a nurse, and she left the military in 2019. Matt often misses a beat on foreign policy because he comes very close to tankie territory at times.
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  10217. I would have seen Bernie as the Oscar in that odd couple.
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  10218.  @elgee8872  A coup? When did the MyPillow Guy become head of state?
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  10219. I live in Philadelphia, and I remember being bombarded with Trump ads for months. I haven't seen one in a week or two. Considering that he is pulling out from a) one of the three states that decided the election the last time, and b) he is still running ads in rear guard states, his campaign is in dire straits. While I take nothing for granted, I am enjoying not hearing him on my TV during commercials.
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  10220. That other guy looks more like Severus Snape after washing his hair.
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  10221.  @donalny  Indeed. They may think that he is an arrogant jerk who steps in it constantly, but they actually know what he believes about most things. Worse than Ted Cruz is a pretty bad place to be.
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  10222. Kyrsten Sinema has pretty much become the Democratic version of Ted Cruz. It would take a miracle to rival Lazarus for her to have a shot in 2024.
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  10223.  @yarweiss  Thank you.
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  10224.  @oldsesalt8496  He was a Poppy pick.
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  10225.  @TCt83067695  Any time. It just gets so frustrating to see theories that have no basis in fact or understanding, instead of seeing the obvious that a lot of candidates sat out 2016, or they see a vulnerable incumbent, instead making everything out to be one big conspiracy.
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  10226.  @ECisvotersuppression  So, are you peddling Obama is Muslim conspiracies? And, no, "a lot of people not knowing" someone doesn't mean that over 90% have no idea who someone is. Obama was polling second all throughout 2006, before the campaign started.
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  10227. I guess you didn't get to the part where he showed Dore insisting that Trump getting three on the Supreme Court was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan.
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  10228.  @seanmacd4274  I saw his debate with The Serfs. For someone who claims to hate libertarians, he kept playing their game of equating property with life.
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  10229.  @seanmacd4274  So, a quick question: if you Rittenhouse stans think that you are on such a moral high ground, why do you keep using examples like it's his property when it wasn't his property? I think it says more about you than those of us who see that this is an obvious case of murder and vigilantism.
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  10230.  @seanmacd4274  So, law enforcement "failed"? By what metric? Was Kenosha a full-blown war zone? It seems like you want to justify a killing because you don't think the lives of the people who died mattered.
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  10231.  @seanmacd4274  You're "well on board with the disgusting systemic racism in the US"? I think that strikes as a bit Freudian considering the lengths that you will go to in order to justify the killing of people who were protesting. At the very least, you think that it is justified for someone to see the property of a stranger (which can be rebuilt with insurance money) as more important than the lives he killed (which can't be brought back).
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  10232.  @emilyhofland8219  That video was after the shooting. I get that you are desperate to justify these killings, but there are videos before this of Kyle Rittenhouse threatening people with his (illegally purchased) assault rifle.
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  10233.  @seanmacd4274  The Philadelphia vs. Cherry Hill drive that I mentioned is closer. That was why I gave that example. Still doesn't change the fact that there is insurance to get money back for property. There is no such thing to bring a life back after it is destroyed. That is what I am trying to get acknowledged.
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  10234.  @seanmacd4274  Philadelphia is in the southeastern corner of Pennsylvania, with the Delaware River serving as the border between PA and New Jersey. (It's the one Washington crossed in the famous painting.) Cherry Hill is two towns over. It is not uncommon for people to cross both ways to do their shopping. So, a loss of life is "regrettable but," but the loss of property leads to paragraph after paragraph? That is a pretty big difference. Property is not of a greater value. If there is a house on fire, and there are people in the house, I would hope that the first response would be to get people out of the burning building.
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  10235.  @seanmacd4274  I am misrepresenting nothing. The debate between Destiny and The Serfs which you said was such a poor performance by the latter hinged on the question of whether defending property (especially when that property wasn't your own) and caring about life. You go on and on about an unqualified defense of property, but when it comes to defending life, it always boils down to "killing is sad but..." and then a paragraph lamenting the destruction of property. And this was after several posts of me and others pointing to which was the higher order. Just because you don't like when someone points out the logical extension of your cursory statements about killing versus your impassioned defense of property doesn't make it any less true that you did it.
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  10236.  @seanmacd4274  And that video was after he shot someone. You don't get to claim self defense after threatening people with a gun and then using it. Self defense is gone at that point.
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  10237.  @bentendo9474  Yes, let's look. Supporting labor used to be the price of admission into the Democratic Party. Now, not so much. Clinton raised taxes on the rich, while Obama continued most of the Bush tax cuts. On economic issues, where left and right actually matters, the right has gone farther, and the centrists have tried to chase them.
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  10238. One of my friends from work was "hesitant." She got coronavirus, and the worst I got was a runny nose for two days, and headaches and being tired for one.
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  10239. Imagine how much better off we'd all be if Pete Davidson never made fun of this jerk's eye and we would have never heard of him.
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  10240. Because the requirements are written into the Constitution, so it would take an amendment to change it. Also, given the history of things like literacy tests, it is entirely possible that results could be faked to disenfranchise people. It's up to the people to make that judgment.
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  10241. "A 100 watt light bulb doesn't hurt anyone." Well, let's just say that there are 250MM home lights in America. I'm guessing it's more, but let's just use a modest estimate. Replacing each of them with a 9w LED equals 22.75B watts every hour. If someone is home eight hours a day, this is nearly 200B watts a day. Kinda adds up once you realize, in the immortal words of George Costanza, we are living in a society.
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  10242. ​ @derfgerps4016  Even more than Der Orangefuhrer leaving office?
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  10243.  @Carolina-4JC  The Confederate sympathizers already succeeded with that, and so did the Reagan sycophants. You're seeing the attempt to rehabilitate George W. Bush as we speak. Sadly, too many people stop reminding people how awful such figures really were.
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  10244. Anti-war is not pro-peace. She supports Modi. She supports Sisi. She opposed the Iran deal. She parrots the Assad line in Syria. She is not pro-peace.
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  10245. Jesus existed. What happened after death is a matter of faith, but Jesus was a real person.
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  10246. There used to be a voluminous website full of anecdotes of anti-abortion activists having an abortion. As far as this idiot trying to ban it for everyone, people like him got where they were because in the Roe days, a lot of people who were personally uncomfortable with abortion didn't realize they were pro-choice after all.
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  10247. You should be wearing orange in order to warn hunters. I remember having to wear my uniform on a cross country run because it had the requisite blaze orange and it was during hunting season.
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  10248. If he did, it would be the first sane thing he's done in office. If you picked 27 1/2 months, you win the bet!
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  10249. ​ @mnomadvfx  You can't do retroactive term limits. That's why Jerry Brown was allowed to run for governor again 30 years after California enacted term limits. As far as 'eventually," what you really mean is "the instant Republicans get control of the White House and Congress."
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  10250.  @Oglokoog  Apparently not, judging by the comment section and trolls trying to convince people otherwise
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  10251. She got there under especially weaselly tactics. Kyl was originally appointed, but after McSally lost in 2018, he resigned so she could hold the seat for two years. That should be illegal.
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  10252. After listening to the whole thing, Tim Pool wishes he could sound like Nickelback.
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  10253.  @jeremyjackson8680  Because the AG is a toady who is there to protect his boss rather than do his job, and DOJ letters have said you can't. Because the Special Counsel is bound by that policy, he decided not to indict but to give the evidence to Congress and tell them, "You deal with this criminal."
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  10254.  @jeremyjackson8680  Mueller specifically said that DOJ policy prevented indictment of a sitting President, and that it was the role of Congress to determine whether or not the evidence warrants impeachment. Then again, bots gotta bot, so nice try, but us humans have actually seen that statement in the report.
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  10255.  @jeremyjackson8680  If we had confidence that the President clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so." Robert Mueller Your comment did not age well at all.
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  10256.  @jeremyjackson8680  You're the one who said Mueller didn't find anything or else he would have indicted him. Do you think OJ killed two people?
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  10257.  @jeremyjackson8680  Clearly not. Mueller said that he would have cleared Trump if he could, but he can't indict due to DOJ policy. He did just that on the conspiracy question. Because he is not allowed to indict a sitting President, he provided the evidence, but it happened in plain sight. Pretending otherwise requires either a willful blindness or a fealty that I do not possess.
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  10258. Funny that you can't point out anything false.
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  10259. If the voters didn't go along with it, it wouldn't matter what happened. Maybe we need to stop acting like victims and fatalists.
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  10260.  @idmhead0160  "Bernie should run as an independent." English translation: "I don't understand how math works, and I want to throw the election to Trump and kill the democratic experiment out of spite."
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  10261. Indeed. I felt sorry for that girl watching this, because she was clearly a nervous wreck. I'd hate to see what is going on behind closed doors.
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  10262. "The enemy is strong and weak at the same time." Umberto Eco, 14 Traits of Ur-Fascism
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  10263.  @MarkbyMarkAFosterPhD  How did revolutionary communism work in the Soviet Union? Bernie is farther to the left than he pushes politically (as evidenced by his book from the 1990s), but he knows that, in a democracy, you can only go as far as the people are willing to go. If you don't want the support of the people, how can you help them?
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  10264.  @MarkbyMarkAFosterPhD  You still think that armed force rather than persuasion will lead to what you want, so my point still stands.
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  10265.  @MarkbyMarkAFosterPhD  Well, if persuasion doesn't work, and electoralism doesn't work, that doesn't leave a whole lot of other options, does it?
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  10266.  @b.d.a.8719  Apparently, you live in a fantasy world where one party has not completely abandoned governance, and when you dig down deeper in the polls, it is obvious that too many want everything to get better and nothing to change when it comes to healthcare. Even if 99% of Americans want something, it doesn't matter if too many keep voting for people determined to do nothing except cut taxes for the rich and ram court appointments through.
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  10267.  @MarkbyMarkAFosterPhD  For someone with a doctorate, you sure are missing the most basic point of a simple construct. The key word is waiting. And if you don't think that a collapse is change, then I have to wonder if you got your degree from a legitimate institution or a diploma mill
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  10268.  @b.d.a.8719  Canada also has a Parliamentary system rather than a Presidential system with an Electoral College. So, using your logic, which state is going to be the fertile ground for a leftist party to take over to get Medicare for All through?
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  10269.  @b.d.a.8719  The difference between the two in terms of power is the effect of winning seats. Yes, Bernie has served from Vermont, but when was he elected governor, again?
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  10270.  @b.d.a.8719  The last two elections have shown that third parties can win? You are aware that Bernie ran as a Democrat both times, right? And you are aware that third party share shrunk to a third of its 2016 total?
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  10271.  @MarkbyMarkAFosterPhD  You still miss the point. At this point, either you just lack basic comprehension skills, or you are just bound and determined not to admit that you made a mistake. Again, the key part is "waiting," and just because you think that second part is a question of degree misses the point completely. That being said, the arrogance of thinking that people would just come to after the world collapses is just incredibly amusing. I don't know what you're passing around in your ivory tower, but it's not helping at all.
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  10272.  @b.d.a.8719  I didn't say that he can't win. The point was that you cannot win a Presidential election as a third-party candidate. And Bernie winning a seat in Congress is not remotely the same as a third party taking over a state. That is what Tommy Douglas did. And after Bernie won his first Congressional election in 1990, he almost never had Democratic opposition in the general election, which made him the de facto Democratic candidate. You're talking out of both sides of your mouth. The idea was that a third party is ripe to take things over in Vermont. Well, looking at their legislature, 28/30 state senate seats (93%) and 138/150 state house seats (92%) are held by the two major parties. Yeah, it's a hotbed of third party activities. And those third party legislators? Every single one caucuses with the Democratic Party. And had Bernie ran as an independent for President, he would have destroyed a lot of goodwill in his own state, and he might not hold that position any longer. Finishing second as a Democrat does not mean that people suddenly are going to throw over the two-party system.
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  10273.  @MarkbyMarkAFosterPhD  And you're doing nothing to bring about your revolution, which isn't going to happen.
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  10274.  @MarkbyMarkAFosterPhD  And if you're not actually winning people over, but just telling people who already believe in your cause (not just you, but anyone in particular), that is little more than a circle jerk. I am not a big fan of Jamie Peck (my main beef when she was on the show is that she seemed to exist largely in her own little world and interrupted the flow of the show with tangents that would stop a conversation dead in its tracks), at least she is actually going out and trying to do actual work and organizing. The people who sit idly by don't take things over in a country, let alone the world.
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  10275.  @MarkbyMarkAFosterPhD  And your views are that everything is going to collapse, and the people will realize that you were right all along and create the world you want. That isn't how it works. That's not how any of it works.
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  10276.  @MarkbyMarkAFosterPhD  That isn't how getting what you want works. You're a "revolutionary" who thinks that the world will just collapse and give you everything you want. And then object to the notion that you're waiting. Oh, but you're "building awareness," but you're not here to proselytize. At this point, I don't think that you even know what you want.
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  10277.  @eddietheberniebro5503  Someone spends an awful lot of time defending Saagar Enjeti who is a supposed Bernie Bro.
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  10278.  @madisynissaquah243  I loathe Der Orangefuhrer, but Oprah is still the one who unleased Drs. Phil and Oz as well as The Secret on the world and gave Jenny McCarthy the platform to reinvigorate the anti-vaccine movement.
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  10279.  @stephenlurie821  And when humans got better at hunting, our brains got bigger, and we evolved into what we are today. 80/20 plant-based still involves meat, so you defeated your own argument. And how long did the average hunter/gatherer live again? If we weren't designed to eat meat, why do we have teeth built to cut it and why do we have the enzymes needed to digest meat-based proteins?
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  10280.  @stephenlurie821  Oh, look, someone on the internet gets caught contradicting himself and says, "do some research." It must be a day ending in Y. You're the one who said that 20% of the food consumed by hunter/gatherers was meat, not me. I mean, unless you created some ridiculous Jordan Peterson straw man of everyone who doesn't agree with you to try to justify a position that even you admit that the research doesn't back up.
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  10281.  @stephenlurie821  Ah, the desperation continues. Is that hard to admit that a diet of an 80/20 plant to meat ratio is not the vegan diet you made it out to be?
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  10282.  @stephenlurie821  Yeah, because an all-plant diet for all of humanity is. This is what was implied from the comment that humans will stop eating meat. 80/20 probably isn't that far off from what most people get from meat now in terms of calories, so how exactly is that supposed to prove anything, especially the point that I was making.
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  10283.  @stayclassysd31  And what does that have to do with the idea that humanity as a whole (especially developing countries) is going to abandon meat?
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  10284.  @stephenlurie821  I never said individuals can't. I said all of humanity won't. Maybe you aren't getting enough iron and are getting light headed.
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  10285.  @stephenlurie821  You didn't, but my original reply was to someone who did. You're the one who responded by insisting that people "ate a plant diet" and insisted that we evolved to eat plants (ignoring other parts of evolution) all while not knowing that 80/20 is a similar ratio to most omnivores now, not me. If someone doesn't want to eat meat, it's none of my business. If someone wants to say stupid stuff like humans weren't built to eat it, that's a different story.
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  10286. Is that Michael Dice Clay?
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  10287. The problem isn't with it being an undergrad. As long as they weren't his students, and it wasn't being hidden, there is no issue.
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  10288. Anyone who thinks Trump is faking needs to watch this video. He clearly has it. If anything, he's trying to downplay its After all, he likes to downplay.
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  10289. Which side are you on? Which side are you on?
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  10290. How are rich people going to put us to work building their yachts and private planes?
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  10291. "I like Ted Cruz more than most people in the Senate, and I hate Ted Cruz." Al Franken
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  10292.  @klangkrieg  Not when she is being Biden's wing woman.
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  10293.  @barbarac9805  Thank you.
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  10294. He's been around that long? I never heard of him until 2010. Then again, I'd never heard of Suze Orman until seeing the Kristen Wiig sketches on SNL.
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  10295. I saw a rabbit until you said it was a duck.
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  10296.  @doctorferdinand1003  Well, isolationism tends to be a right-wing perspective. Anti-war can be left or right, but the real question is motivation. Isolationists are content to let the world burn as long as it isn't happening here, but people who genuinely support peace tend to support international cooperation.
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  10297. So, let me get this straight: the black community having a song that some have nicknamed "the black national anthem" is hatred of America, but having literal traitors speaking over the actual national anthem is just fine? Yeah, that makes sense.
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  10298. Yes, Elizabeth Warren was ill served by her advisers, but no one forced her to hire them. Personally, I would listen to Hillary Clinton if she offered me advice so I would know what not to do.
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  10299. Der Orangefuhrer talking about how great things were reminds me of Bush people bragging about his national security record... except for that one big one.
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  10300.  @squeallymaniac  Okay. Then, I'll call the party that gets funded by the Republican Party to gum up the works, especially in close races the Green Slime Party. Or, just forget Green in the label and call it what it really is: the Grifters on Top and Useful Idiots on the Bottom Party.
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  10301.  @charelsgunn9024  They are extremely fragile and don't seem to understand that being useful idiots to help a would-be fascist dictator means that we're not going to kiss their butts.
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  10302.  @squeallymaniac  You think that we're trying to convince you? I'm just exposing your stupidity so that others on the fence know your bad faith arguments for what they really are.
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  10303.  @fuzzymeep  Yes, because narrow majorities with conservative Democrats putting it over the top and the so-called moderate Republicans refusing to lift a finger to be the deciding vote (meaning tjat 98% of House Democrats and 100% of Senate Democrats need to be on board) is evidence about what the majority think. /s
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  10304.  @RMor66  Clearly not, but apparently you don't see the irony of how it clearly distorts the intent of what you're trying to say, which is especially relevant when you think that the occasional missed word is "confusion." Plenty of cognitively normal people miss a word here and there, and every other reporter who interviewed him said that he was clearly following the conversation.
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  10305.  @RMor66  At least I'm honest about my position, and have been around people who have actually had strokes, so I have some idea of what cognitive abilities look like.
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  10306. So true. I had tonsillitis two weeks ago, and I had to take two sick days. If I had coronavirus, I would have gotten two weeks paid sick time that didn't count against the 11 I get for the entire year.
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  10307.  @MultiSmartass1  Thank you
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  10308.  @jessea5044  So, you think that being in the bottom 5% is something to brag about?
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  10309.  @jessea5044  There are 160 countries with a population on the face of the earth with a population of over one million. The United States has been either in the bottom 5% or hovering just above it. USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
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  10310.  @jessea5044  John Lewis didn't die of coronavirus. And at the super spreader event that killed Herman Cain, you are forgetting "your mask protects me, my mask protects you." But still, let's look at what you are bragging about. You are bragging about being ninth worst out of 160 countries. That is one spot above the bottom 5% of all countries on earth. Therefore, that is nothing to brag about. Speaking of nothing to brag about, you are talking about a 7.6% fatality rate like it's wonderful. Okay, let's think this through. Trump wants herd immunity. Never mind that people have gotten it a second time, but let's say that it would take an 80% infection rate to achieve that. You are talking about 250MM infections and 18MM deaths. Is that really something to celebrate?
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  10311.  @jessea5044  We are talking about willful indifference leading to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. That is far different than dying of cancer. It's amazing how you wingers seem to think just about everything is justified to "own the libs." Talking about it as an improvement is one thing. Ignoring that infection rates are hitting an all time low just to put on a happy face is completely different.
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  10312.  @jessea5044  You don't know what that means? Coca-cola, IBM, and Ford (among others) had friendly business relationships with Nazi Germany before and during the war (Fanta was invented due to a sugar cane embargo). Before WWII started, several prominent business leaders, including but not limited to Rockefeller and Koch, tried to install a fascist dictatorship led by Smedley Butler, but luckily for us, they picked the wrong general and he exposed the plot. Yes, FDR wrote that letter, and he did what he could at all times against the Nazi government, but there was enormous pressure against the war until Pearl Harbor. Right wingers have even spread the nonsensical lie that he let his guard down in order to justify entering the war. Projection is a powerful thing for some.
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  10313.  @jessea5044  I'm saying that both things can be true at the same time. FDR had policies that he preferred, but political realities made it difficult to carry them out.
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  10314.  @jessea5044  It's funny how many people don't want to admit being on the right then they sure sound that way. I'm not the one who when talking about a pandemic talked about someone who died from something completely different and then talked about someone "being triggered" when that was pointed out. No one is saying that the virus could have been completely eliminated. What we are saying is that, had some basic things such as masks, contact tracing, and making sure that people had the resources to be able to stay in, and maybe we would have had results closer to what places like South Korea, Japan, and New Zealand accomplished.
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  10315.  @jessea5044  Business relationship was good, political relationships were mixed before the the war, but the Roosevelt Administration was opposed.
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  10316.  @jessea5044  Japan has 126MM people and South Korea has 51MM. I would hardly call those "small countries." If anything, their extremely high population density relative to ours would make them far more vulnerable. Contact tracing in the United States has been a joke. It was totally piecemeal and done mostly at the state level. As far as masks go, with the initial mask scarcity and Kushner demanding a bidding war for PPE that depleted resources for states, it made much more difficult to do a lot of other things as well. The response has been absolutely awful, and we are near the bottom instead of near the top for a reason.
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  10317.  @jessea5044  You can use whatever phrases you want, but anyone who knows anything about language knows that people tend to use the phrases they do for a reason. If you think that is "because [you] want the truth spread more than anything," that sounds like saying that you think the right is telling the truth.
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  10318.  @jessea5044  I would agree that he could have done so.
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  10319.  @jessea5044  If you think that there is nothing else that could have been done, how do you explain why Japan, South Korea, and New Zealand had such a different result? They did things much differently. When the Arizona governor finally relented and signed an order for a statewide mask mandate, the infection rate plummeted. If you have national leadership insisting that this is something that will just go away, and refusing to provide the PPE (and making it more difficult for states to do so), it is going to make the situation worse. You can't think of anything? Well, then, that is a failure of your imagination.
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  10320.  @jessea5044  Whst they did, they shared widely in addition to the above: 1) contact tracing 2) aggressive early testing 3) aggressive closures 4) government reimbursements to cover salaries so there wouldn't be as much economy pressure to reopen 5) everyone who entered those countries from overseas got tested and had to remain in quarantine for 14 days For someone "interested in the truth," it was right there for anyone to see.
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  10321. I think that the big difference between boycotting a speech in Congress and asking questions at a fact-finding misson is that the former is saying that you don't want to honor someone and the latter is about determining information. It is akin to the debate about statues vs. reminders of slavery and secession at a museum.
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  10322. This guy reminds me of the crazy guy who sits next to you on the bus who has this big overarching theory.
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  10323.  @presence5426  His half is closing the barn door after the cows got out.
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  10324.  @lovestodesign  Then, you're voting against democracy, against women, against health care, and for the person whose incompetence killed a million Americans and led to record unemployment. Great plan!
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  10325.  @PDXMILO  And yet he continues to prop him up and say what a great truth teller he is.
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  10326.  @kurteisner67  It never ceases to amaze me how many people keep saying that Snowden is really this great defender of freedom while he's been able to operate for nearly a decade within Russia with no problem, and the first place he went was China. The man is clearly a spy.
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  10327. Because the people who wrote the Constitution didn't think that someone so unlawful would take office (they actually thought Congress would be the dominant branch, which is why we have two Houses), so they didn't think to restrict it.
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  10328. @Miguel Brecia Most people who have studied the People's Temple say that it really didnt become a cult until after they moved to San Francisco.
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  10329.  @sheskates6551  I would argue that people who have actually studied it, know the distinction, and did peer-reviewed work are more knowledgeable about when it turned. More than one said that if Jim Jones died in a car crash on his way to California that he'd be remembered as a heroic footnote in the story of the Civil Rights Era.
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  10330. It's too bad Jayapal was born outside the US, because she would be a GREAT running mate.
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  10331. It would take ten Republicans not voting or voting Present to throw the election to Jeffries.
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  10332.  @paisley38  What's not?
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  10333. I promise to personally spit in every 50th burger.
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  10334. You mean right after prices bottomed out? That would be like looking at the Dow in 1936.
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  10335.  @DiscordBeing  You believe that she's going to cut Defense spending after voting to give Trump more than he asked for?
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  10336.  @ryandeats806  She wasn't a hat stall. She took four minutes, not quite five. The only true hat stalls in the main books were McGonagall (Gryffindor and Ravenclaw) and Peter Pettigrew (because he didn't really seem to fit anywhere).
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  10337.  Kelly T  Sam still gets acting gigs for something that he sees as a hobby. And what "auditoriums" is Jimmy filling?
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  10338.  Kelly T  So, you have no idea how you got what you got, and you think that makes you superior? You should join 2727.
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  10339. Already lost. The only question is how much money Der Orangefuhrer will be out.
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  10340. Where is Ron Howard to narrate that they are lying?
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  10341. Because bich is Latin for "generosity."
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  10342.  Ilansini Shoresh  Biden already has sufficient pledged delegates to win the nomination. Even if Biden were to have a stroke tomorrow, his delegates become free agents, and I guarantee that they are not people willing to go for Bernie.
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  10343.  @maxsmart645  Sadly, if Biden drops out, those delegates become unpledged. I just don't see how we can convince half of them to vote for Bernie to put him over the top.
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  10344.  @maxsmart645  Biden voters, yes, but not Biden delegates. I saw the lists when I got my primary ballot. Every Biden delegate running was a total establishment creature. I'm guessing that isn't an anomaly based on what I have long observed in party politics.
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  10345.  Ilansini Shoresh  Any political party can only do what its members allow. Far too many have been complacent. Perhaps it was Bernie's role to be a Moses and show people the way. Now, we need to get the reinforcements ready so our Joshua can win.
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  10346.  @spuriustadius5034  Ignore an attempt to destroy democracy at your own peril. Coup attempts rarely succeed on their first try, but the second is much more likely to succeed (Germany, Cuba, Chile, etc.).
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  10347. As Cnris Hayes said, you can make an argument for tariffs, that hugher prices are worth it if it means more American manufacturing, for example. However, you cannot say that it lowers costs.
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  10348.  steven Kombolis  Here's a hint: if you want to sound informed, at least try to get the name right.
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  10349.  steven Kombolis  It's still wrong. There is no U in Saddam.
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  10350.  steven Kombolis  Bernie was not for it. That resolution that you conveniently got rid of so no one can see what you are talking about so they can see your ignorance pointed out Saddam Hussein's acts of criminality. It never advocated using military force to remove him. It advocated bringing him to justice. You are an isolationist who doesn't care if the world burns around you. That is not peace.
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  10351.  steven Kombolis  "Regime change" does not automatically equal an invading force. As long as you don't understand that, your point is based in ignorance. The mere fact that you removed your link shows that you know that it doesn't stand up to scrutiny. I only figured out what lie you were spreading through contextual clues, because this is the same nonsense the Hillary campaign tried four years ago.
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  10352.  @mowglihassan3739  What is the "extreme leftism" of En Marche? It is New Labour or triangulation with a French accent.
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  10353. My vote in 2020 was at least 99% a vote against Trump because I live in a swing state (the 1% was the Supreme Court and that he would possibly increase the minimum wage). When we put Biden over the top, my immediate response was "the Trump Presidency was born in Pennsylvania, and the Trump Presidency will die in Pennsylvania." I must say that I have been pleasantly surprised. I was expecting a D, but I saw a solid B so far.
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  10354. Indeed. Pence only did the right thing after trying to find every possible way to justify doing the wrong thing. Even after January 6th, he refused to testify to the Committee and only finally told the truth when he got subpoenaed by the Special Counsel.
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  10355. Well, Donny, it turns out that Bush and Cheney had a big split because Cheney wanted to pardon Libby and Bush was only willing to commute his sentence. Well, it's not like he ever let facts get in the way of a story.
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  10356.  @Old_School_293  "Comphrensible" when he is lying his butt off.
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  10357.  @kirikun5636  Tim Johnson about 15-20 years ago, too.
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  10358. They need Der Orangefuhrer to win in the primary, but except for the gerrymandered Congressional districts, he is the kiss of death. They had their chance to break his spell on 1/6, but they care more about winning a primary than doing their job and actually leading.
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  10359. Watching her take down Dave Rubin made my donation to get her on the debate stage was a dollar well spent.
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  10360.  @carjaune6793  What does Yang lie about? 1) That his proposal is "no strings attached," when people who get any of 125 programs (that he refuses to list) have to give up what they currently get in order to get his money. That seems like a pretty big string to me. Somewhat related, he keeps saying "everybody gets it," when everybody doesn't, and his estimate for who suffers and who benefits depends on everybody getting it. 2) That Medicare for All and a public option are the same thing. 3) That companies actually pay the VAT rather than pass on the costs to consumers. 4) That he supports unions, despite the fact that he won't do anything to actually make it easier for workers to organize. 5) That he can't do anything about rent control. 6) That unions love his signature proposal because it came from Andy Stern, even though he is pretty hated in the labor movement for trying to undercut us at every turn and for his work after he left SEIU. 7) That Martin Luther king Jr. advocated what he does even though MLK never proposed an either/or version, which Milton Friedman was proposing at the time. 8) That nothing can be done about the climate. Those are the biggest ones.
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  10361.  @chenzomutumbo9140  You mean the funding part? The more I learn about Yang's proposal, the worse it gets. He may talk King, but he's pushing Friedman.
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  10362.  @LucianLusilver  It depends on how you define "luxury goods." Amazon doesn't sell luxury goods, they sell books. If that is a "luxury item," then it will clearly fail in being a progressive tax.
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  10363.  @LucianLusilver  True, but they don't sell yachts. Given his fundamental dishonesty that he literally opens every interview with a lie ("everyone gets $1000," when they clearly don't), he gets no pass on not defining luxury items given that he clearly implied that books from Amazon would get the VAT.
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  10364.  @atrociousconsequences4432  Before he got into the White House, he said he wouldn't prosecute the big banks. Reagan and Bush sent hundreds of bankers to jail over the savings and loan scandal. While it is true that he had a lot of opposition just for its own sake, he set his own trap by saying that he wanted to pass bills that could get 70-80 votes. He was like George Costanza in the Seinfeld episode where Jerry's girlfriend didn't like him, and he tried to win her over so hard that eventually he started to like her.
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  10365.  @jm-ny3pn  Usually, nominations get withdrawn before getting to a floor vote if it is obvious that the vote will fail.
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  10366. No videos of someone who had an affair with a crossdresser who didn't realize that something extra was there? Blasphemy!
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  10367. This kid is invoking the Terminator movies in his handle. Maybe he should pay more attention to Tropic Thunder and the advice Robert Downey Jr. gave to Ben Stiller.
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  10368. Well, he had parity after outside spending is factored in, but Jon Osoff's defeat two years ago should have proven that once and for all.
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  10369.  @johnvining-n9x  The dictators are celebrating, you mean.
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  10370.  @johnvining-n9x  Your side never stopped whining for four years, so you have no room to talk with that nonsense.
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  10371. And we had a President who didn't learn how to read until he was at adult. That tells you how dumb Der Orangestraflingfuhrer is.
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  10372. Bush was the one who started posing before walls of flags, so I blame him for starting that particular nonsense.
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  10373.  @dinosaws  Turning the squad into the platoon, not giving her votes for corporate giveaways, etc.
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  10374.  @SILENCE_THE_MEDIA  What are you talking about?
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  10375.  @Anthony-dy5cq  Indeed. The problem is that people don't like who wins elections, but what difference does it make if all you'd really get in, say Kentucky, is a like-for-like switch?
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  10376. In the past 4.5 years, the only things I've bought from Amazon were a part for a blender and a Casio running watch I couldn't find last year elsewhere. So, I guess you can't call it a blackout, but I'll continue to not shop there and encourage all others to take time away from making Jeff Bezos even more insanely rich.
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  10377. 2:18 Thanks for this. I'll use it when calling McCormick because not enough good people in my adopted home state voted for Bob Casey last fall.
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  10378.  @VMonkies  Tell you what. I'll bet you my biggest debt (my student loan) against your biggest debt that the winner of this Presidential election will either be the Republican nominee or the Democratic nominee. Barring a medical emergency and one or both get dropped from the ballot, we are talking about Biden or Trump. I live in a swing state, and I am not about to throw it to the latter. If Trump wins, that means that he gets to name the successor to RBG and possibly Breyer, and anything good that President AOC or anyone else can get through Congress will be overturned by the Supreme Court. If we get four more years (assuming that we only get four more years), then we will get the same non-response to the coronavirus, and millions will die. For all this talk from the accelerationist camp, I heard the same thing in 2000, and I heard it in 2016. How did that work out? What your theory ignores is that Democratic voters tend to get scared and will take anyone who they think will get rid of the current occupant of the White House. At least we can get some things under Biden, and not have to worry about the clock being stopped for the next 30 years.
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  10379.  @VMonkies  Accelerationists are the ones who make the argument that electing centrists means that we will get the alt right. I am not happy about the options, either, but Trump and Biden are the ones. Arguing that Biden shouldn't win means that Trump should.
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  10380.  @VMonkies  Fair enough. Perhaps I misunderstood where you were going. My apologies. At this point, I honestly believe that Biden is the vessel. If the coronavirus numbers in October make the summer numbers look like February, and unemployment gets worse, I think that any sentient human being will win. The real question is what we can do after. The most encouraging things from the task force were tax policy (if he were able to get the rule about unrealized capital gains for estate taxes, that would be a real game changer) and environmental policy, but for me, my disappointment on health care is secondary to my desire to get rid of the actual fascist who doesn't want to leave, because not leaving when you lose is how democracy falls.
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  10381.  @VMonkies  In all honesty, I think that the reptile brain kicks in and people are just afraid of making waves. It seems like we would actually need to get a third term to get rid of that fear, but sadly, centrists and scared liberals are big enough to get the nomination. We just have to keep plugging on those down ballot races to take the levers of power.
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  10382. "Once again, things that you could have figured out YESTERDAY!" Paraphrasing the line in The Wedding Singer for idiots who didn't bother to learn basic facts.
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  10383.  @paulparker1425  There was sales growth because he sold at a loss. And it is not as cheap as it used to be. Once Bezos weakened the competition, he was able to increase the prices. Because there was less competition, he was able to drop the hammer. Any company operating under normal means will have to make a profit, but his company was propped up by stocks in a way that no competitor can. Again, they have enough reserves that they can destroy the competition at the drop of a hat, because they don't even need to make a profit. Their market cap alone keeps them afloat.
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  10384. At this point, I think that Delaney and Hickenlooper went into their speeches knowing that they would be booed, and they did it trying to use the crowd as a foil. Oh, I eagerly await when they're gone because they can't get to 2% in the polls.
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  10385.  @LouieMcGood-ef6ud  Of course they can't both be true. So, which is the real one, is he worth less than he says he is in public or did he cheat on his taxes? Or is the real number somewhere in between and he did both? Considering that we know that his Trump Tower condo is 11,000 square feet and he told the bank it was 30,000 square feet, that ain't a rounding error.
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  10386. ​ @MikeLimaFoxtrot-es7ph  Who won the 2020 Presidential election?
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  10387.  @MikeLimaFoxtrot-es7ph  If you could answer that Biden won, then why are you defending someone who not only couldn't bring himself to say that, but said that Biden "allegedly won"?
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  10388.  @MikeLimaFoxtrot-es7ph  And how were they specifically manipulated? As far as the 2020 results being different otherwise, citing some poll that mentions regret when an official is unpopular does not prove that he really would have lost if only people could have seen Little Hunter.
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  10389.  @240bear8  The Republican Presidential candidates, given that most of them dare not admit the truth about the Big Lie, and any who do (Pence, Christie, Hutchinson, Hurd) are an afterthought.
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  10390. 9:28 Obama is pretty bad about that sort of thing, Sam.
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  10391.  @AK36677  Funny how many Not A Republicans sing off the Republican hymnal. I grew up in West Virginia, and Darrell McGraw was elected AG five times and the state supreme court once. He never debated anyone. Kari Lake disqualified herself, and if Katie Hobbs decided that she didn't want to give her the platform to spread lies, it was up to the people of Arizona to decide what to do with that. Re: recusal, what specific abuses of power are you accusing her of? Not just "being Secretary of State," but what specific abuses is she guilty of in your eyes?
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  10392.  MidScream1  Yes, you do.
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  10393. We can make it a campaign law, but trying to make it a requirement to run would require a Constitutional amendment.
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  10394. "The people who are here legally don't want to do the hard work." *The people who are here legally don't want to work for the poverty wages I'm offering. There, I've fixed it for you.
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  10395. The only other times a primary had only two candidates in New Hampshire were Democrats in 2000 (Gore vs. Bradley, where no one else ran) and 2016 (O'Malley was the third candidate, and he dropped out after Iowa). This is the first time for Republicans without a sitting President.
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  10396. "Stupid people getting elected by even stupider people." Christopher Titus on Congressional Republicans, also applies to Der Orangefuhrer (well, except for hopefully the elected part)
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  10397. 7:41 Actually, I think that there is a worse chance if he loses the nomination because Der Orangefuhrer will run third party and sabotage DeSantis. 1912 would be a nice election to replay.
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  10398. 43:34 will remove any doubt about how vile libertarian thought really is.
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  10399.  @jeffgojail  In one thread, you said that you wanted people to have "a choice," and now you are saying that single payer is the ultimate goal? You sound just as confused as Buttigieg.
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  10400.  @jeffgojail  His polling average hasn't moved for months. Ironically, once people actually saw the policies that he avoided releasing until he "vindicated the values that animate [his] policies," he didn't go anywhere. You just work backward based on your hatred, and that is why you have nothing to say other than things that are either false or appeals to bigotry.
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  10401. "Frankly, I hope they all kill each other." Bob Kelso, Scrubs
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  10402.  @al1665  When I left Iraq in 2004, they were selling dinars. The exchange rate was 1250:1. Some people bought upwards of $1000 worth. I only bought $10 worth, more as a souvenir than anything. However, just checking now, if I were to cash in, it would be worth $8.56. Forex is much more gambling than the stock market.
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  10403. I want it to stop... by Russia withdrawing from all Ukrainian territory, including Crimea.
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  10404. Falling poll numbers and no conviction after his supposed best friend died.
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  10405. Indeed. When realizing that it no longer has ideas that appeal to the majority of Americans, a party can either adapt its views (like Democrats did in the 1990s) or shrink the electorate (like Republicans have been doing in earnest since the Shelby decision). It is truly repulsive.
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  10406.  @retmarkes  Other sites criticize them in a way that doesn't act as a gateway drug to fascism and the far right.
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  10407.  @jgmediting7770  I'm not sure if they're necessarily the same, but there is a lot of overlap. I think there may be some ordinary people who can be drawn in based on the style who are just sick of the status quo, and I wouldn't necessarily call them fascist, but other than maybe Rand Paul, I can't really think of anyone in American politics who gets labeled a right-wing populist who isn't either a fascist or fascist adjacent.
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  10408.  @retmarkes  I majored in Religious Studies (and was the Outstanding Senior) with minors in American Politics and Policy and English. And I can tell that you didn't major in English, because I never said 6% "can choose who they vote for." That was the percentage who don't lean one way or the other. Maybe understand what I actually said before you try to rebut it. Since you majored in political anthropology, this shouldn't be too heavy of a lift.
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  10409.  @retmarkes  Let's see, a right wing, would be authoritarian dictator who wants to fuse corporate and government power. And, riddle me this, Batman, how many of the 14 identifiers of Ur-Fascism listed by Umberto Eco do you think that Trump fits?
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  10410.  @retmarkes  The two-party system is fascist? And you think that I have no political education? Like any true Jimmy Dore fan, it doesn't take too long to expose your ignorance. Like it or not, a two-party system is inevitable in a First Past the Post system at the state level where a majority is required in the Electoral College. Just because you don't understand math doesn't make it any less true.
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  10411.  @MistahJigglah  Every system ultimately boils down to two coalitions, even when there is proportional representation. The only difference is that in ours the coalitions are built before the voting starts instead of after. I would much prefer stricter campaign finance laws, but unfortunately, as long as people keep pretending that the two major parties are the same, they will continue to ignore the effects of their actions. Ever notice how a Jimmy Dore fan either completely ignores when people point out what happens with the Supreme Court, or they further show their ignorance when they are completely unaware of the vote breakdown on the major controversies? Part of the reason why we have unlimited campaign contributions is because Ralph Nader convinced enough people in Florida that there were no differences between the two major parties so that it was close enough for Bush to steal the election.
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  10412.  @MistahJigglah  What did they get? Two Supreme Court Justices. Once again, funny how you completely gloss over the Supreme Court and the fact that, thanks to pretending that there is no difference between the two, we will have a hard right majority backing the campaign finance laws that you decry for decades. And before you say, "Well, they could expand the Court," the instant Republicans get unified control, they can expand it even farther, leading to a never-ending judicial arms race. Ralph Nader ran in 2000 with the explicit goal of throwing the election to Bush. Well, given that exit polls show that he took anywhere from 16-26% more votes from Gore than Bush, 16% of Nader's total is 15,587, and if you add that to the certified count, Gore wins by 15,050 votes despite the shenanigans of Jeb! and Harris, and we don't get an Iraq War. And Nader responded to people putting the obvious dots together (multiple members of his 2000 exploratory committee said that he promised that he wouldn't go to swing states) by denying it once his support dried up, but he relied almost entirely on Republicans to collect signatures for his 2004 campaign, and he has since been trying to convince people that it will take Michael Bloomberg or Rand Paul to save us all. Smart hill to die on.
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  10413.  @retmarkes  Jimmy Dore doesn't want left wing policies. If he did, he would have supported the one candidate who supported those things in the general election instead of a right wing grifter like Tulsi Gabbard, even after she called Medicare for All un-American. He has mocked the idea of negotiating for prescription drug prices and lowering the Medicare age. And for all of his bluster about not taking the deal on a coronavirus package with Biden because it didn't include a $15/hour minimum wage, he wanted Democrats to take a deal with McConnell last year that would result in workers being forced to go back to work in unsafe and unsanitary conditions and have no right to sue if they got sick from coronavirus. Some champion of working people! Your accusation is your confession. I don't spend most of my effort going after Dore. My comment history shows this to be the case. However, Dore spends all of his time going after the people giving him some of the things he claims to want while not only ignoring the threat of fascism, but wanting to actively align with the fascists.
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  10414.  @retmarkes  First of all, not a neoliberal. Second of all, I have been advocating for its abolition since I was a teenager. However, I acknowledge the reality that it is the system in place and not liking it doesn't make it go away, so we have to work within its bounds until we can get it repealed or the Interstate Compact has enough support to go into effect.
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  10415.  @retmarkes  So, Tulsi, supporter of torture, opponent of voting rights, woman who considers Medicare for All un-American, and current defender of white vigilantes, is the One True Lefty? Yeah, that makes sense. Funny how you actually dodged the substance of actual stances that both took other than YoU'rE bEiNg MeAn To PeOpLe I lIkE.
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  10416.  @retmarkes  "We don't call anyone who voted practically once a fascist." Says the person defending someone who calls people who vote practically one time sellouts, as well as those who think his tactic du jour is stupid. So, which is it, am I a rigid ideologue or someone with no principles at all? See, the difference is that I actually start from principles instead of personality.
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  10417.  @retmarkes  Okay. You think that Jimmy Dore supporting a bill that allowed employers to force workers back into the office without adequate protections in place and prohibiting them from suing if they got coronavirus is "taken out of context"? Then, show what you consider to be the full context that justifies this. I can also point to another reason he gave to opposing the 2021 bill being that included a one-time payment while the McConnell bill did, too. Amazing the pretzels when you don't realize who the real enemy is.
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  10418.  @n.e.7647  I do push for more lefty Dems. I am a believer of the adages "vote for the candidate farthest left who can win" and "use your heart in the primary, and your head in the general election." I didn't want Biden to win the nomination and did everything I could to help Bernie win (canvassing, calls, captain for a petition drive to get his delegates on the ballot in PA, and doing a reading at a fundraiser), but I live in the state whose call was the one that got Trump out of office, so I don't hesitate for second in knowing that my vote for Biden in the general election was the right call.
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  10419.  @sailingthevic3966  Yeah, and that's what he says, but what is the end result of constantly telling people who are ostensibly left to never vote for Democrats (although metrics show that his audience is pretty hard right), all while praising Tucker Carlson and the Boogaloo Boys?
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  10420.  @sailingthevic3966  And he's either lying or stupid. What percentage of Republicans voted to increase the minimum wage? What percentage of Democrats did? What percentage of Republicans voted for the 2021 coronavirus bill that cut child poverty in half compared to Democrats? What percentage of Republicans voted to confirm each of Trump's three Supreme Court nominees compared to how many Democrats? How many Justices appointed by Republicans in the Supreme Court voted for Citizens United, Shelby, and Janus compared to Justices appointed by Democrats?
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  10421.  @sailingthevic3966  And the MPP is a fundraising grab. How many candidates for office have they recruited? Since he's "all about the grassroots," how many state and local party chairs do they have? After all, this is something that he started from scratch, so he has been able to build it in his image.
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  10422.  @sailingthevic3966  I don't pretend that the Democratic Party is perfect. I operate from the simple premise that legislation should be judged based on whether or not it improves people's lives based on the status quo compared to our ideal version of the bill. For example, Jimmy Dore wanted members to vote against the 2021 coronavirus bill because it didn't have a $15/hour minimum wage, while ignoring the fact that the child tax credit increase and making it monthly cut child poverty in half. (However, in September and October of 2020, Jimmy "anyone who compromises is a sellout" Dore wanted Democrats to vote for a smaller bill McConnell pushed that would have forced workers to go back to work in unsafe and unsanitary conditions and have no right to sue if they got sick.) Anyone who looks at the partisan makeup knows that the real problem is that the Senate is 50-50, and with Republicans absolutely refusing to play ball, you have to get everyone from Bernie to Manchin on board anything. When LBJ got the Great Society through, he had over 2/3 Democratic Senators. The Senate also had a talking filibuster that could just delay things rather than stop them. There was always going to be some degree of disappointment. Jimmy Dore didn't start the Green Party, either, so does that really absolve him pushing the MPP when it has nothing to do with grassroots organizing?
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  10423. Boehner also got people used to orange elected officials. No wonder he was so opposed to the tanning bed tax in the ACA!
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  10424. Yeah, and who is going to take her place? It takes a 2/3 vote in the caucus to make it happen. Timing is everything.
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  10425. @Jonathan Banner Our replies must have gone out at roughly the same time, because I didn't see yours at first. I was replying to the OP.
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  10426.  @kil2250  Her most likely successor, Jeffries, is far worse than she is.
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  10427. @Jonathan Banner Again, you have to have someone better lined up who can win. I don't like her, either, but if it's the choice between her or some Blue Dog diehard, Two More Years.
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  10428. This is what they always do. I remember 20 years ago getting "You lost, get over it" from a lot of Bush voters when pointing out problems with his policies.
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  10429. In this polarized time, it seems like, honestly, the real swing voters seem to be the Pox on Both Your Houses voters. I remember reading that Trump overwhelmingly won the voters who didn't like him or Hillary in 2016. In 2018, those numbers started breaking to Democrats. As long as Republicans keep doing awful things, expect to see those numbers stay high.
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  10430.  @charlesandrews2360  Who knows? I didn't find him until a month or two earlier. I discovered him when he went after Rising in the wake of all that nonsense pretending that right wing populism is a thing when Nathan Robinson called it out.
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  10431. I know that I had Seasonal Affective Disorder for several years, and things got a lot pressure when I would eat red meat once or twice every other week. Iron definitely helps with that. I don't get it like I did once I moved to an apartment that has electric instead of gas heat, but I still make sure I get it from late October to March and it still helps.
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  10432.  @sherlyn.a  "Microsoft didn't grow because they stole money from people" Well, maybe they didn't "steal money from people," but Bill Gates stole the idea of Windows from Steve Jobs, so that doesn't exactly work for your billionaire hagiography. Bill Gates also benefited from the work of the Defense Department and many computer programmers. He also participated in illegal predatory activities to get his wealth so high that it got the Justice Department to bring antitrust charges, and they were convicted in 1999. The only reason they didn't get broken up is because there was a big fight over what the punishment would look like that dragged out until the Bush Administration decided not to pursue the issue any further. If Microsoft is a natural monopoly and a utility, then let us treat it as such. Regulate the way it can operate, and the prices it can set.
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  10433.  @scotthullinger4684  Except they didn't make the claim you said they did. You said that the OP said that Russians funded French banks. The claim was that Russian banks funded far-right French political parties. Those are not the same thing. Just admit that you made a mistake. The more you deny it, the worse it looks.
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  10434.  @Capitalismrules  Well, we need her in the sense that her state is so red that whoever wins the primary is sure to win the election, but that's it. People mourning Kinzinger being the one to get the short straw when Illinois lost a Congressional seat miss the fact that overall, he's still pretty bad, although there were plenty of Republicans in Illinois who are even worse who I'd prefer to target.
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  10435. ​ @billyconnelly3568  Can't get rid of the Senate. The Constitution specifies that changing the Senate representation rules would require ratification by every state. As far as the Electoral College goes, because every time it has screwed over Democrats and all but the first favored Republicans, it won't get the votes for outright repeal, but there is a way to effectively neuter it. There is a movement called the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. The way it works is, if enough member states join to equal the majority of the Electoral College, member states will award their electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote instead of the state popular vote. Article II gives states a lot of leeway in how they decide to award the winner (in theory, they could all decide to just award their votes based on any other standard as long as they do so ahead of the election), and at this time, states totaling 215 electoral votes have joined, so we're getting close. While it's not perfect (you can't deal with the spoiler effect), it will be a massive improvement over the election being irrelevant in over 49 states.
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  10436.  @joca6282  You're the one who literally said that only dictatorships call themselves republics, not me. Democracy and republic are two completely different categories. The "republic not a democracy" crowd are a bunch of idiots who gave up on democracy because they know they can't win.
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  10437.  @benjamintrevino325  Such a move would be unilateral disarmament, so nobody would do it, because in each state, you're basically only fighting for one electoral vote at that point. The far better option is to convince states to give it to the winner of the national popular vote, and states totaling 215 electoral votes, or 79% of the needed total, have already agreed to do so as soon as the magic number is reached.
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  10438.  @grumpyoldman6503  Indeed, gerrymandering laws must be done at the federal level. If only blue states agree to it, that is basically unilateral disarmament and giving the House to the Republican Party. My other hope is that, rather than getting rid of the filibuster completely, that we bring back the talking filibuster, because turning it into a supermajority requirement in the Senate with no effort involved has clearly broken the system. If someone feels strongly enough about it to make the case to the American people that they are willing to talk and stay on the floor (including changing cloture to a 3/5 vote rather than 3/5 of all Senators) will make it much more rare like it used to be (maybe once every other year) so things can get done.
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  10439.  @odinson6348  Yes, but this has nothing to do with a Presidential election or electing US Senators.
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  10440.  @odinson6348  Your above comment is about faithless electors. That has nothing to do with gerrymandering. If anything, that is a function of the parties not doing a better job of vetting their people.
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  10441. Sean Theema: I am against people dying. That is so unfair! Also Sean Theema: I don't think that we should do anything about all of these people dying.
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  10442. ​ @theywouldnthavetocensormei9231  I'm a Caseworker, and a very small percentage actually ends up being fraudulent, because unlike tax cheats that can more easily hide assets, plenty of information pops up to let us know when things aren't what they seem, and a lot of the would-be scammers get rejected before they get a penny. But why let the truth get in the way of a good story? It's the conservative way.
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  10443.  @Forestien  So, taking away health care from 32MM people isn't nearly as bad as what Biden said? I don't know if you are dishonest or lying.
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  10444.  @tjmul3381  The Lawrence O'Donnell quote is ridiculous and ahistorical. The only way people believe it is if they forget 2000 and 2016. Ralph Nader ran expressly to throw the election to Bush. The right doesn't dominate the GOP because they threaten not to vote, they dominate because they vote every time, and they do the hard work of running for the down ballot races where real party power resides. It took them 16 years after Goldwater to take over the party by running for party committees, school board, city council, and state legislature, until they were unstoppable. If you aren't proposing anything like that or either running for those positions or helping someone who is, you are engaging in a fruitless complaint.
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  10445.  @colinmurphy3478  So true. Also, if he really believed it, why doesn't he advocate for third party candidates on his show?
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  10446.  @tjmul3381  Here is a article written a week before the election talking about Nader's intentions, his statements, and his actions (if his real goal was to get to 5%, he would have actually gone to safe states like California, New York, and Texas, instead of camping out in close states like Florida, Washington, Oregon, and Wisconsin): https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2000/11/ralph-the-leninist So, let's look at the argument: if voters on the left stay home and a race narrowly goes the other way, the Democratic Party will come to their senses and vote a hardcore lefty in. There are two case studies, 2000 and 2016. Instead of Gore, we got Kerry. Instead of Hillary, we go Biden. Sitting elections out doesn't "scare the party," it angers the party, and it marginalizes the people who make it. And what has Nader done since? Tried to shove billionaires and Rand Paul down our throats. If that is your true blue believer, then you don't understand politics.
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  10447.  @tjmul3381  And, by the right, I am talking about hard core conservative voters. Yes, the Freedom Caucus just says no to everything, but guess what. There voters show up to the polls every single time. If you honestly think that their strategy in the halls of Congress conflates with doing their best to make sure that they never get to Congress at all, then you really, really don't understand anything about politics, which makes your statement about "learning something" that much more laughable.
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  10448.  @tjmul3381  And I think that you miss the point of "hard work." Do you honestly think that all of the lobbyists would get everything done if not for people voting for those interests? Did those people running down ballot and getting things like Proposition 13 on the ballot didn't work hard? With people like you, we'll never win, because you are too lazy and your argument is seriously in Underpants Gnomes territory.
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  10449.  @michaelal20  What are you doing to actually get people on board?
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  10450.  @smileynoreally  How long did it take after Hillarycare failed to get the ACA again?
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  10451.  @checkeredcheese  Oh, okay. I knew he did some VO on the show. I couldn't remember which character.
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  10452. Watching Biden these days is like watching Muhammad Ali fighting Larry Holmes. It is ugly and it will end badly.
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  10453. ​ @ericcardenas702  Nothing happened? Yeah, except for mishandling a pandemic that has killed over 1.1 million Americans, overseeing a net loss of jobs, intentionally creating a stock market bubble, and trying to commit a coup to overthrow democracy, it was such a tranquil time.
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  10454. And we have literally had an illiterate President.
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  10455. I don't think it was intentional. I think that it was mainly because he is a self-centered person who really didn't care how the party did as long as he ended up okay.
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  10456.  @bakingrrl  See, when I make an argument, and people ask for supporting evidence, I provide it, because I know it exists.
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  10457.  @Emper0rH0rde  Speak for yourself. I'm 42, and I'm guessing that a fair number (if not a majority) my age and older think of Lisa Loring.
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  10458.  @1MarkKeller  Could the world withstand that much amazing?
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  10459. I'm not surprised they fell for it since they fell for a libertarian pretending to be hard left and anti-establishment.
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  10460. Yang did not "endorse" Bernie. He said in an interview after the fact that he voted for Bernie. He was too busy getting his butt kissed on the TED Talk circuit to publicly support Bernie.
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  10461.  @carjaune6793  And why would his head have suddenly gotten big enough in 2017 to go straight for the top when no one had heard of him then?
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  10462.  @carjaune6793  Did he say that in a debate or a town hall? No, he said, "I created jobs." He is making the argument that Venture for America is what qualifies him to be President. I'm not talking about the occasional introspective interview that only devotees will read, I am talking about when he has the biggest audience, he talks like his life was one big success story. The only setback he ever mentions in those is not liking being a lawyer.
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  10463.  @carjaune6793  When did Bernie take the risks of Yang? Oh, maybe when he put his life, safety, and freedom on the line fighting housing segregation in Chicago.
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  10464. Matt Taibbi is a great reporter, but he has always been terrible at commentary. I guess he's decided which one pays the bills.
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  10465. 1:06 That didn't age well.
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  10466. @Don Burgundy Your point?
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  10467.  @sweetnova3084  And? Do you think that the racists were that precise?
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  10468. For me, the moment that I knew she was not who we thought she was had to be two years ago when I saw footage from a 2014 interview where she invoked 24 to justify a war crime.
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  10469.  @vergaghulio3993  Repeating yourself in all caps doesn't make it any less false the second time.
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  10470. This was the last war where we were unquestionably on the right side of history, and you have these people desecrate the memories of the people who fought and the sacrifices everyone at home made so the job could be done. Truly appalling.
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  10471. @Feanor Before 1980, you could either count the billionaires in America on your fingers or come very close to it. The top tax bracket was never under 70% from 1936-1980 and never under 50% from 1932-1986. The economy grew faster then and more people benefited than what we have now. The rich person is not the golden goose. "Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and it deserves the much higher consideration." Abraham Lincoln
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  10472.  @sybo59  Yes, because contracts are truly voluntary when one side figuratively holds a gun to the other's head. If the choice is accept scraps or starve, more people will accept them.
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  10473.    I never said it can't, I said it won't. And you are pointing to bills that kept passing to try to prove your point that bills that fail keep coming up over and over again. Or do you just not understand your own argument?
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  10474. Remember how, before the primary, Kari Lake insisted any count more than one day was bogus, and she didn't raise a peep after trailing for nearly a week? Pepperidge Farms remembers.
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  10475. This reminds me of something about underground cultural movements. The hippies grew their hair long to rebel against the crew cuts of the 1950s, punks cut their hair short to rebel against the hippies, and grunge tended to have people with longer hair to rebel against the yuppies.
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  10476. We need to call the "detention" what it really is: kidnapping. Those kids are being separated from their families and we are not keeping track of where they go. A shame on us all.
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  10477.  @peaceoutpeaceout4267  Projection. I am seeing what she actually said. You are the one controting like Simone Biles to say she didn't say what she clearly did.
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  10478. While my economic beliefs are probably closer to Bryan than Debs, I think we have definitely gotten to the point where capitalism is harmful to far too many people.
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  10479. "My views haven't changed, so where is the pivot?" Jimmy Dore, 2017 Cenk Uygur, 2025 The grift never starts with changing positions. The grift always starts with emphasis. The both siderism is a huge part of it, and the followers who agree with the original position will say, "Well, we know Trump is corrupt, so we need to hear it about Democrats." Then, over time, suddenly the left is "worse" on some issue no matter how obvious it is not the case (for Dore, it was pretending that Dear Leader was the anti-war candidate).Then, your guests become more and more right wing. Eventually, they are indistinguishable from the right whether they admit they're on the right or not.
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  10480. My favorite is the one where he sighs when he loses "Saudi Arabia."
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  10481.  @perryjohnson6461  Did they make that money themselves, or did they get it by underpaying workers and taking advantage of loopholes? Elon Musk made a lot of his money from government subsidies. Jeff Bezos ran a company that lost money for over ten years, only because he had angel investors propping him up.
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  10482. ​ @Billy-ck4ws  You might want to check into what happened in places that actually tried that.
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  10483.  @Billy-ck4ws  So, you want to go the authoritarian route? How did that end up working out where it was tried?
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  10484. If they're worried about putting him in the general population, give Der Orangefuhrer the Magneto treatment.
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  10485. That can't be right about NYC, even if you ignore the pioneers like Alexander Cartwright.
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  10486. It says a lot about someone's acting where his most critically acclaimed roles are as a robot ("Iron Giant") and a tree that can only say three words.
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  10487.  @Starcrash6984  Oh, wait. He would also have to change the method of taxation as well.
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  10488.  @Starcrash6984  How generous? Say, $1800/month for adults and $1000/month for children, indexed to inflation.
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  10489.  @dangelo1369  What does "white men" have to do with it? I don't think Sanders wants the VP slot, but Warren is the one who publicly lied and called him a sexist several times once she realized that she couldn't get to his left, so reduced her campaign to "I have a vagina, vote for me." Even if personal stuff had nothing to do with it, Warren is a terrible pick who brings nothing to the table. She has alienated the left and got nothing in return.
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  10490. Never let people forget that Der Orangefuhrer said in a 2015 debate that wages are too high in America. Why Hillary didn't choose that as the bumper for all of her ads instead of making fun of tje disabled reporter, I'll never know.
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  10491.  @thedissidentright9490  Gee, Alabama Helicopter Man, did you forget to change your profile back? How sad someone's life must be to make imaginary friends to agree with you online.
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  10492. Hillary started that nonsense about not wanting to pay for Donald Trump to send his kids to college, even though literally all of them thus far have gone to private schools.
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  10493.  @parkeradelson  Sestak didn't waste nearly as much money, and Messam was at least the first to propose Student Loan Forgiveness. By the end, she was only trying to tear down everyone else.
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  10494.  @ChickenLeg0423  Did a majority support it? Or was it a vocal minority?
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  10495. I thought Yang was a good candidate for the silver in 2019... for about a week, until I found out that his version of UBI was a Trojan horse to destroy the existing social safety net, and he was using a regressive tax to pay for it. Everything since has proven that he is a libertarian wolf in leftist clothing, except he has long since taken it off.
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  10496. In the middle of his sucking up, Vivel said that Der Orangefuhrer was."the best President of the 21st century." Interesting that he didn't say "greatest." It's almost his subconscious is admitted that America was not made great agqin.
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  10497.  @katrosajin7744  The maximum TANF payment in CA is over $700/month. Throw in SNAP, and any single parent is already over $1000, so he/she is not only not getting any more money from Yang's proposal, but now that person has to pay that regressive tax. So, his program will hurt the poor and disabled. That is not my definition of "progressive" at all.
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  10498.  @johnnyblaze2620  Those people were not Christians. They are worshipers of Supply Side Jesus. If you listen to them talk, they hardly ever mention anything in the red letters.
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  10499. To those who keep saying that Yang is now willing to stack Social Security and the Freedom Dividend, there are two major funds: RSDI (Retired, Spousal, Disability Insurance) and SSI (Supplemental Security Income). He is only talking about part of the former (the retirement portion). He has publicly admitted that people who get SSD or veterans disability will not be better off with his plan.
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  10500. For me, he always seemed more like a contrarian who was just F Everyone rather than having an actual point of view. It doesn't take long for a contrarian to go where the money is. See also: Maher, Bill (although Taibbi is worse, because at least Maher was always right about Trump and the danger he posed)
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  10501.  @Nick-gp9et  No, I am saying that we need to do actual organizing to build support for Medicare for All in the House, and that your notion that we can just keep demanding a vote over and over again is wrong and dangerous. It is dangerous because usually there is no second vote when something fails. And don't give me the nonsense about all the House floor vote to repeal the ACA, because all of those passed. Did you not notice that after the vote failed in the Senate that Republicans mostly gave up on Congress and started trying to get the courts to do their dirty work for them?
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  10502.  @Nick-gp9et  So, you want to use the same strategy as people who didn't really want to pass something, and you think that is going to work? Interesting.
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  10503.  @Nick-gp9et  So, you did the organizing, but you didn't answer the question. See, when people ask me the question, I have a ready answer because I have done the work, and as a result of the efforts of thousands like me, we get two members in Philadelphia to sign on to the bill. What is my step two? We keep doing the work until we get to 218. If someone is an obvious ideologue in the way (and that is not a given, because Evans had a primary challenge in 2018 over his advocacy of vouchers and charter schools, and Boyle is a moderate who represents the suburbs and the least Democratic part of Philadelphia) or in a key position to do the most damage, we concentrate our efforts on that person in the primary. Then, we fight hard to win every vacant seat and gain Republican seats. And, then, once we get to 218, if the Speaker refuses to allow a vote, we file a discharge petition. Which means that there is actually enough support for it to pass. You want to throw away any possible goodwill on anything for something that is guaranteed to fail and think that you will get the same person who didn't want to do it in the first place (who controls the calendar, btw) to just keep letting you have votes that will fail. My prediction? Doing that will alienate members, and that will mean fewer sponsors, which means that we are farther away from passage. Thank you very much.
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  10504.  @Nick-gp9et  I know that 118 < 218, and I know that bad faith actors who are trying to use the same strategy as someone trying to defeat a bill usually aren't trying to help pass it, especially if they make it obvious that the real goal is to embarrass people. You can't add by subtraction.
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  10505.  @Nick-gp9et  Oh, yes, because everyone advocating this and saying that what they have "done" involves YouTube comments or insisting that it is the job of elected officials to do anything and they are absolved of responsibility. If someone cannot do the work to build support, that person clearly cannot do the work to succeed in defeating over 100 incumbent members. The difference is that mine is targeted rather than spreading ourselves too thin and thinking that we can defeat everyone who isn't on board. And regarding goodwill, do you think that the goal is 218 ideologically committed members, or the goal is to get 218 votes? If it is the latter (which by definition it has to be if you think it will pass in the 117th Congress), then that means that you cannot present yourself as someone whose only goal is to make noise rather than get results, then those members who aren't ideologically committed and start to get pressure to drop their name from the list of sponsors by the leadership will be very vulnerable to those appeals, and you have thus made it harder to get Medicare for All. There is a reason why people who actually want legislation to pass don't keep bringing it up over and over to failure. Even on those rare occasions when they bring it up and it falls short, they then try to change the bill to make it more palatable so it will pass.
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  10506.  @Nick-gp9et  And the Kaiser poll says that depending on how you ask the question, the support changes dramatically. That indicates soft support. Not the kind that will convince Congress to act.
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  10507.  @Nick-gp9et  When it literally gets cut in half depending on how you ask it, that means that those who don't want to act can very easily point to the polls that say that only 37% support it. They can also point to the polls that say that a majority think that competing private insurance will exist (in part because of saboteurs like Tulsi Gabbard, whose argument Jimmy Dore swallowed whole) and say, "Why should I stick my neck out and vote for something that the majority of the public doesn't even know what is in the bill?"
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  10508.  @Nick-gp9et  What's really hilarious is that you can't understand the difference between inside and outside pressure. Getting the sponsors on board is our job. Demanding a vote when there is zero chances of winning guarantees hostility to the people who have to be worked with if you are a member.
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  10509.  @Nick-gp9et  I think you officially don't understand the argument at this point. Then again, considering that apparently you think that Pelosi will allow a second vote on something that everyone knows will fail says that there is a lot that you don't understand.
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  10510.  @ProfessorSarcastic  Well, the ACA was also framed as universal coverage, and it wasn't. How a public option is built makes all the difference in the world on whether or not it is going to be universal, key among them being how the program is funded and how those who opt in will pay.
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  10511.  @thesoundofmerk  They are Underpants Gnomes. Step one: Demand a vote for Medicare for All that is guaranteed to fail. Step two: ? Step three: Leftist utopia
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  10512.  @Nick-gp9et  I would love for it to be that simple, but history proves this just isn't the case. Look at the greatest legislative tacticians of all time. LBJ didn't waste his time with stuff like this. People who are good at counting votes see this as a disaster, and if it is 100 votes short, it will cause gravity to shift toward a public option. I would love to be wrong that it was all so simple, but I do not think I am. I wish you a happy, healthy, safe holiday as well.
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  10513.  @thesoundofmerk  Sometimes, it is about exposing the flaws in the argument for other people who may be watching and who might not realize why that is worse than doing nothing and why what we are proposing is actually doing something. I think some of the slightly more sophisticated ones are catching on and trying to give lip service to organizing to try to sound reasonable. Well, listening to a bad faith actor is by definition unreasonable.
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  10514.  @thesoundofmerk  The thing that I've found that works best is to provide a little bit less wiggle room as time goes on.
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  10515. Bad habit? Blasphemy!
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  10516. It's not a coincidence that Der Orangefuhrer named his foreign policy after the movement of Nazzty appeasers in the 1930s.
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  10517. Tulsi's fan base is too man groups: 90% who want to do her, and 10% so-called Bernie or Bust people, who were really Never Hillary, as evidenced by their vile attacks when he did exactly what he said he'd do and endorse the eventual nominee.
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  10518. To quote a main character on a show where Adam was a recurring guest, what is this, a crossover episode?
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  10519. No "Pregnant Pause"?
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  10520.  @fredthenomad4078  Hillary would have never proposed endorsing Warren in 2020, because that would imply losing. As far as the primary, she didn't endorse until after they were over.
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  10521.  @fredthenomad4078  In all honesty, I don't think it would do much good. I think that she was probably aiming for a Cabinet position, but there were a lot of people who didn't want to run until Moscow Donald won, and she is one of them, which is part of why I worry about her having the fire.
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  10522.  @fredthenomad4078  Oh, I was as Draft Warren as they come in 2014 and early 2015, but now that I have heard Bernie, her ideas just feel empty.
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  10523. Republicans: Democrats and the left look down on working people. Also Republicans: How dare Democrats elect a former bartender to political office! Also Republicans: When Warren Buffett says that he pays a lower tax rate than his secretary, it's because his secretary makes a lot of money. How dare he!
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  10524.  @sopheakko697  At least Bernie doesn't open literally every interview with a lie. Yang does NOT propose giving everyone $1000/month. He is a libertarian wolf in leftist clothing.
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  10525. Do you really have to have Dr. Drew show up on here? For someone who called "fame addiction" a thing, it seems like he sure does spend a lot of time in front of them as a talking head. If his track record from Celebrity Rehab is any indication, he must not be very good at what he ostensibly does for a living.
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  10526.  @deathmagneto-soy  Maybe a few years ago. She's starting to look like that Dorian Gray picture she had in her attic.
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  10527. Krystal Ball: I strongly condemned the January 6th events. Also Krystal Ball: I thought we were going to see a coup. Well, Krystal, the first coup attempt usually fails. The second attempt is usually a different story.
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  10528. The religious right only cares about enforcing rules on genitals. Der Orangefuhrer got Roe overturned, so that's good enough for them.
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  10529.  @keirfarnum6811  Definitely. I remember reading about all of the times that the automobile industry bought public streetcars when cities were strapped for cash, and they immediately ripped up the rails to cut the competition.
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  10530. "Jeff Bezos would have stopped in 1998!" "When the capital gains rate was much higher, I never once made a decision to sell or hold based on that rate." Warren Buffett And if Jeff Bezos had retired in 1998, his successor would have still seen plenty of growth given that the building blocks for the monopoly were already there.
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  10531. In 2015, they gave the board half the vote so someone like Bernie wouldn't get endorsed again. The DNC said superdelegates only count if the primary vote is deadlocked, and the superdelegates that we complained about so rightly were 1/3 of what Working Families allotted.
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  10532. Our first political priority must be to deny Senator McConnell a seventh term.
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  10533. And with the extra thousand bucks a month, they can move to higher ground.
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  10534.  @seanmaddex4104  Thank you
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  10535.  @DaphneO.  Indeed. It seemed like there came a point where he cared more about power than about people, probably when he moved to San Francisco.
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  10536.  @jefforta4717  What's sane about killing people on the streets without a trial?
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  10537.  @STIR-FRIED-SUBWAY-RAT  The best way to keep it from happening in the future is to run for a local Democratic Party committee, school board, city council, or state legislature. If enough people do that, we will control the machinery.
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  10538.  @lencortigiano1450  How has that worked? I have heard that argument for 20 years. What it has given us is the Iraq War, Citizens United, and gutting the Voting Rights Act. Great plan!
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  10539. ​ @emiiii  What do you base this notion that "he means well" on? I keep hearing it, but the evidence shows the exact opposite. He never criticizes his friends, but he chooses to befriend grifters and clout chase. He refused to vote at all in 202p because "the polling place looked dirty" and then insisted that it didn't matter if he voted because he lived in a swing state, even though there were key legislative races, and this is someone who supposedly cared about down ballot candidates. And let us not forget that he chooses to complain about people like AOC trying to do actual legislative work and not become a pariah, all while he works with the worst of the worst. What evidence at all is there that Kyle Kulinski is not a grifter?
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  10540. ​ @Strype13 Still have that opinion after seeing what the Supreme Court has done?
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  10541. "I want to take that moment, get married, and have babies with it." Dr. Perry Cox
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  10542. Was that before or after Celebrity Rehab?
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  10543. 8:32 Why presume it was about the judge? When my dog jumped in my lap while I was using the laptop and peed on my lap, I called him an SOB.
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  10544. In these days of massive conglomerates, how do you shop ethically without accidentally shopping somewhere whose parent company is the bad actor?
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  10545. It is impossible to imagine how stupid Hannity can be.
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  10546. Greenwald isn't nearly as good as his reputation suggests.
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  10547.  @MuscleboundKage  So, you think there are enough scabs out there willing to take low pay and hazardous conditions? If not now, when? When this is all over, they'll say that they don't need it.
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  10548.  @TheSkeletonSkier  First of all, not everyone is treated equally in North Korea. Second, do you honestly think that Jeff Bezos would be able to survive on his billions if there was no one to work? Where would his food come from? All of the things that he uses?
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  10549.  @manorothpitlordextraordina4041  A lot of the left withheld votes in 200p and 2016. How did that work out?
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  10550. Indeed. His proposal was neither universal nor basic income.
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  10551.  @zvxcvxcz  And there are a lot of new jobs that tend to get created when work gets done in other ways. There is a reason why 90% of the population doesn't work on farms anymore. As farming got.more efficient, it freed people up for other things. Not to say that it will be as much of an equivalent this time, but to quote Edina Monsoon, "Cheer up, it might not happen."
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  10552.  @spalm3887  It seems like this sort of thing seems to happen quite a bit when he goes to right-wing audiences. He told both Dave Rubin and Ben Shapiro that he ultimately wants to get rid of the existing social safety net, and he told Ben Shapiro that he won't index the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend to inflation. If he isn't a stealth libertarian, he is the worst at pandering to the right not named Tulsi Gabbard.
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  10553. Tell what, JD, if Republicans stop supporting a candidate who says that he wants to be a dictator, I'll gladly stop saying that Republicans nominated a candidate who is a threat to democracy.
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  10554.  @KhalidAbdullahMaroonSand  There is a difference between isolation and peace. Her support of Modi, her opposition to the Iran nuclear deal, and her initital support of the Syrian withdrawal (until what everyone else said was going to happen did, and she insisted that Trump "did it the wrong way") tells me that she supports the former.
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  10555.  @KhalidAbdullahMaroonSand  If Tulsi voters would otherwise go to Bernie, her insistence on staying in hurts Bernie, because votes to non-viable candidates disappear into the ether. Not every state operates like Iowa to minimize non-viable votes.
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  10556.  @KhalidAbdullahMaroonSand  Oh, I think that pretty much everyone who doesn't make the next debate should drop out. That being said, if people like Booker or Bloomberg aren't going to get out and will keep taking votes from Biden, I won't complain as much. I keep hearing Tulsi and Yang supporters insist that their candidate is really helping Bernie, so to those people, I will point out that the best way their candidates can support Bernie is by dropping , endorsing Bernie, and campaigning for him.
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  10557.  @Killinemkid  When you say her pro-peace record, does that include praising Putin for bombing civilians in Syria while complaining that Obama didn't? Does it include comparing the Iran nuclear deal to Munich? Does that include defending Modi's actions in Kashmir and as provincial governor? Does that include initially praising the withdrawal from Kurdish areas in Syria that everyone warned would result in attack and genocide? Does that include invoking 24 to justify a war crime? In the words of Flavor Flav, don't believe the hype.
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  10558.  @Killinemkid  She uas specifically said that she will go until the convention. The people in her district have turned on her (she made her announcement after impressive fundraising numbers from her primary opponent and a poll with horrible fundamentals in her district), so what incentive is there for her to get out? And the only reason why she endorsed him was to fend off a challenger to her left in the primary by supporting a popular candidate in her state. If she wants to spend all of her time defending Joe Biden, why should Bernie defend someone who is clearly taking votes away so they will go into the ether? But, because Bernie is so much better of a person, he actually did defend her in her fight with Hillary Clinton. I didn't see her new BFF Biden do that.
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  10559. I remember a few years ago dealing with some right winger who tried to pull the "affirmative action is the real racism" tactic. I asked if he would support a compromise: ensure fully funded schools nationwide so that there is less of an achievement gap by high school in exchange for affirmative action. His response: But, but local control of schools. It's pretty obvious when you hear talk like this that it is a dog whistle to pretend that the real racism is against white people.
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  10560. Michael Bloomberg: Am I nothing to you?
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  10561. Force the Vote wasn't about organizing. It was about lazy people who didn't do the organizing thinking they could get it right now. The year before, Biden didn't lose any votes after saying that he wouldn't sign Medicare for All. And every time someone pointed out the math of why such a strategy wouldn't work, we got bombarded with Dore Knobs saying that we must not want Medicare for All, when some of us have actually done some of the necessary work to get closer to 218 & 50. It was the blind leading the blind, and given the coup attempt two days later, it was especially dangerous.
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  10562.  @Banana_Split_Cream_Buns  And tell me what is the next step after the inevitable failure of the forced vote? Even its organizers admitted that it would fail because the votes weren't there. Force the Vote substitutes feeling like you did something for actual action. No wonder it was an idea hatched online and advocated by those who live mostly online.
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  10563. In all honesty, I would have explained Der Orangestraflingfuhrer to go to Geno's, because the late owner was a huge racist with an English only sign at the restaurant and a Confederate flag tattoo... despite living in a Union state. Nothing I've heard about Joey Vento's son suggests otherwise.
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  10564. I just noticed that she pronounced it "he-jab" instead of "hih-job." Also, she actually said "colon" instead of verse. That is a pretty common thing in religious texts cough The Bible. We've just had the sequel to "Two Corinthians."
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  10565.  @newsoul8626  I saw someone who was a liberal Republican mayor who switched parties get hammered by primary voters for the fact that he used to be a Republican, even though he was the biggest lefty in the primary race. Like it or not, party loyalty matters to a lot of primary voters. Sure, the lefty commentators loved that analogy, but a lot of primary voters didn't.
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  10566.  @mjchakos1  Richie Robb. He was elected mayor of South Charleston, WV, for eight terms. In his last term, he switched parties and ran for Congress as a Democrat.
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  10567. ​ @mindped  What specific thing should Obama have done when McConnell refused to have a hearing that would have gotten Merrick Garland on the bench? Keep in mind that we have separate branches, and one isn't the boss of the other (Robert C. Byrd always said he served "with 12 Presidents, not for 12 Presidents").
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  10568. ​ @luisf7105  Schumer literally tried to filibuster Gorsuch, and Evil Turtle got rid of the filibuster. The rule was 100 hours of debate, and Evil Turtle literally changed it first to 30 and then to two on the full Senate floor in order to get them through will all Republican votes because a simple majority was sufficient. Facts don't care about your false narrative.
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  10569. ​ @jared_r  McConnell invoked the nuclear option when Schumer tried to filibuster Gorsuch... just as Sam Seder predicted.
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  10570. ​ @shadebleu  Jimmy doesn't get paid fron it, does he?
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  10571.  @shadebleu  That's not how it works. Fair Use means that you don't have to pay the parent source. Therefore, Jimmy Dore does not get paid from videos that show him being stupid.
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  10572.  @BobbyU808  First, it is lose (the opposite of win), not loose (the opposite of tight). Sorry, but that is my grammar pet peeve. Second, if I supported something for 25 years, I wouldn't support the candidate who is doing the least to make it a reality. Third, Dave Chappelle was a huge get, but if you want to compare endorsements, Donald Glover isn't anywhere near the best Glover endorsement. That would be Danny, who has a long record of fighting for the people, and Bernie has him. And, quite frankly, if Elon Musk endorsed my chosen candidate, I wouldn't brag, I would be embarrassed.
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  10573.  @quentinjaxon7309  Danny DeVito is one of the most beloved figures today who has been around for decades. Just because you like a candidate or a celebrity better is no reason to dump on such a talented actor and great person. And if he's not "culturally relevant," why does he get such huge applause every time he goes on the talk show circuit or in front of love audiences?
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  10574.  @BobbyU808  No, it won't increase the purchasing power for 94% of Americans, because Yang forces the poor and the disabled to choose between their current benefits and his plan. He has a lost of 125 programs that people have to forfeit if they take his money, but he has only mentioned seven, so a lot of people will find out that, not only aren't they getting anything, but now they have to pay a VAT. Example: daycare subsidies is either/or, and daycare for two children is over $1500/month, so you are now telling a single parent making $20,000/year that he/she now has to pay a VAT and get no benefits. And how is the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend "tax free"? Everyone has to buy things, so everyone will pay taxes. If it was structured with the slightest hint of concerned with ability to pay, then it would be incredibly easy to structure a UBI that is actually tax free. So, a UBI that is neither universal nor basic income is better than Medicare for All? The biggest cause for bankruptcy isn't purchasing power, it is medical expenses. And there are so many things that need to be done that are societal rather than individual: health care, housing, dealing with the climate crisis in a bigger way than just giving people a little bit of money to move to higher ground, funding education, and repairing our crumbling infrastructure. Then, we can start looking at individual, especially considering the problem that. as many have noticed, at this time you cannot make a UBI that is both universal (such as taking other benefits away) or basic income (enough to be above the poverty level). Yang does neither.
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  10575.  @BobbyU808  The Iowa caucuses are more about organizing than personal appeal. Yang couldn't get on the Ohio ballot because his campaign didn't bother to include a sheet for their petition drive saying who it is for and what office is being sought, so this is not a good reflection on their ability to organize. It wasn't about signatures, because you only need 50 per Congressional district. The Yang campaign insisted that it was a violation of the First Amendment and poorly written, even though every other campaign could figure out the rules. And as someone else pointed out when talking about other candidates, the greatest organization in the world cannot overcome fundamentals. And, as is fairly common, candidates who are not viable tend to lose about 2/3 of their support by the time the night is over. If Yang ends up at 1-2% in Iowa, his support will crater. Yeah, sure, he will have the money to go to Super Tuesday, but barring this being the most inaccurate poll in American history, he won't be able to build on anything and he will be just running out the money.
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  10576.  @BobbyU808  An example of that deep organizing: Bernie has over 44,000 volunteers and captains in every precinct. Even people who don't like Bernie admit that he has the best ground game far and away.
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  10577.  @BobbyU808  Well, I talked to a few Yang Gang bangers out and about who said, "Is Bernie going to give me free money?" and as soon as I or the person I was with said, "What will you do with that thousand dollars if you have a medical emergency?" That was the end of the support for Yang. And if you know all these things as to why you can't put too much stock in either thing, why bring them up at all? The time for rallies was months ago. And after Joe Rogan endorsed Bernie, that will almost certainly help among a type of voter that is very hard to get. Two weeks ago, he said that all but two candidates could eat something not disgusting, Yang was not one of the two. And the path for hoping for Iowa to shoot you to relevance is a lonely one indeed. In 2008, Richardson was hoping for his big breakthrough in Iowa, and was in the high single to low double digits in the polls (he peaked at 12). Long story short, 7% of voters walked in supporting Richardson, he ended the night with 2%, and his campaign was dead a week later after only getting 4% in New Hampshire.
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  10578.  @BobbyU808  And Yang has the money to keep going for a long time, because libertarians have deep pockets. However, based on what I have seen, I would be shocked if he gets any delegates at all. Even Kucinich got 68 pledged delegates.
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  10579.  @BobbyU808  Believe it all you want, or not. When others found out how he pays for it, that turned others off, too. And did I say the age of the person? It sounds like you are staying in your bubble with your activism while I am actually going out and meeting a very diverse group of people in mine.
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  10580.  @BobbyU808  You assumed that it was a young person. And you say that Bernie's ideas are outdated, but I would call not pushing to have the United States join the rest of the world in not having tens of millions uninsured or underinsured, half a million medical bankruptcies, and tens of thousands dying every year from a lack of health insurance an idea whose time has come. I didn't give up on the idea a few years ago (despite claiming to support it for 25 years, you either clearly gave up on it or it just isn't a priority), because you can say #HumanityFirst all you want, but if that isn't a priority, there is a human-shaped whole in your #HumanityFirst. And you can say that young people don't care about health care, but talk to a young person who is sick, or someone who has lost coverage because his/her boss decided to go for a sham no-frills plan. They will care deeply about health care. Tell someone whose landlord raises the rent on a fairly regular basis that rent control isn't necessary to avoid eating up a sizable amount of the thousand. Tell the single parent scraping by at the poverty level that, because Mr. Humanity First doesn't want him/her to get both the thousand and the daycare subsidies that now everything at the store costs 10% extra that this will improve that family's lives. And if you want to let a few big companies get to control what automation looks like, they will get to keep all of the power. People aren't stupid. When they hear that someone both says that we need his plan because there won't be any jobs left in the future, and that he is keeping it too low to actually live on and wants to keep it that way to force people to work, that is a bleak idea. "So, what do I say to that? [Pause] I say that I'm holding out for something better." Matt Damon, "Good Will Hunting"
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  10581.  @BobbyU808  Perhaps I should have been more up front about my personal story. My family did not get health insurance until I was 16. When I was in fifth grade and my brother was in third, he broke his arm. We got harrassed by creditors every night right at dinner time for months because they felt that my dad wasn't paying fast enough even though state law said that hospitals and doctors had to take any payment as a good faith effort. Three weeks later, my mom found out that she needed her gallbladder removed. However, because of the bill for my brother's arm and the fact that they didn't deem it an emergency, no one would give her the surgery without a down payment. Eight months later, my dad was finally able to get a loan for the deposit. In that time, the gallbladder became gangrenous. There but for the grace of God was she not one of the statistics. No one should ever have to go through that, ever. And it is a totally logical conclusion to think that someone who talks about a long held desire for something only to dismiss it as a "simplistic argument" when someone points to meeting people whose minds were changed about the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend when someone asked the question about a medical emergency (and the person who was quickest to express shock at that follow through and back away from Hang was an Independent contractor in his 40s, but no one said that it wasn't an important issue) doesn't see it as a high priority
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  10582. When I was in high school, I was in a state with no elections in odd-numbered years. In even-numbered years, the county clerk came to our high school to give every senior (or anyone else turning 18 before the general election) the chance to register to vote. In odd-numbered years, every senior was given the chance. This kid knew.
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  10583. It takes a majority of votes to impeach. Present is No for cowards.
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  10584.  @izzaduck8896  For all this talk about what a genius strategist Kyle Kulinski is, by encouraging people not to vote, he is making the Justice Democrats endorsement toxic. And if Trump gets to name the successor to RBG, nothing good will become law. We already have a Supreme Court that was willing to cite a 1910 case that was overruled to ban child labor laws. Some people don't realize the battle we are fighting. If Kyle wanted to say, "I live in a safe state, so I am not voting for Biden," I would be fine with that. Encouraging people not to vote is going into Jimmy Dore territory. No, wait. It's worse than Jimmy Dore, because he didn't say anything about screwing over down ballot candidates in 2016.
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  10585.    Quite frankly, this election has proven to me why Republicans win. Too many on the left are lazy. Of course, someone will read this and say that I am "shaming" people. Well, they can like it or not, but after Goldwater got hammered in 1964, the right didn't whine about how they would stay home to spite Nixon, they worked hard and won party committee seats, precinct and ward jobs, school boards, city council and state legislative seats, so that by 1980 they were unstoppable. Quite frankly, from a political standpoint, they deserved to win, and if we aren't willing to do the work and go vote, they deserve to lose. Kyle Kulinski encouraging people not to vote is the equivalent of saying, "I tried for four years, and now I'm giving up." I think you're right that it makes more sense if Jimmy Dore is a Republican plant. Sadly, I am starting to worry that Krystal Ball is also going down that road, because she seems to be going far harder against establishment Dems than Trump, who is objectively worse. I am 40 with a four-year-old daughter, and I will NOT see her future destroyed over some tantrum.
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  10586.  @thepolishlatinofromphilly9709  That's not what is lazy. What is lazy is sitting and complaining, and not voting for Bernie when people had the chance. What is lazy is giving up on electoral politics after four years. What did you do to try to help Bernie win the nomination? What specifically. Commenting on YouTube videos does not count. I know from personal experience that there were a lot of chances for activism in Philadelphia. Did you take advantage of them? And where are the people running down ballot? I see some, but I see a lot of people throwing in the towel after four years. My example was the effort by the right to take over the Republican Party and the country that took 16 years. We have done nothing comparable on the left.
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  10587.  @thepolishlatinofromphilly9709  Garland or better > Gorsuch or worse And for all if your complaints about the court appointees, how did Sotomayor and Kagan vote on the Shelby case again? Did they vote to gut the Voting Rights Act?
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  10588.  Liza Tanzawa  It was started before the 1984 primary to make sure Jimmy Carter would never get nominated again.
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  10589. Like we did in the 40s and the 20s in the 2020s? Yeah, I could see the 40s, but in the 20s, a gigantic bubble developed and the powers that be wanted to just celebrate endlessly as wealth inequality grew to what was a record in 1928. Whoever is writing his scripts isn't doing him any favors.
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  10590. Musk isn't a lefty at all. He's a libertarian. Look at the way he treats his staff and fights unions. Look at his efforts to wall off the wealthy from society (i.e., hos commuter tunnel pitch). He is not our friend.
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  10591.  @devonedwards4395  Well, you're just a troll, so duly noted and put in the circular file where the rest of your nonsense goes.
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  10592.  @degenerati  This guy is a troll who admits that he does it to every non-Biden campaign.
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  10593.  Danziiiig  How is any different than Tokyo Rose? That wasn't alliterative, and that worked.
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  10594.  @zeeone4492  Interviewer: A study was released about the effectiveness of torture. What do you think about its use? Gabbard: I am conflicted, but I would ultimately do whatever it takes to defend the American people. Interviewer: But studies have shown that torture is ineffective. Gabbard: But some people interviewed said that it works. Yes, it does speak for itself. As does Biden's when the Abu Ghraib photos were released.
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  10595. ​ @karmehed  So, it's not the voter's job to determine how the rules work or to understand what is at stake? Especially when a Supreme Court seat is being held hostage.
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  10596. ​ @mananimal3644  So, you live in a swing state, and you're voting in a way to help the person who says that Netanyahu isn't being aggressive enough? Well, I hope your smug sense of superiority is worth it.
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  10597. ​ @ikustoo  Anyone who thinks voting third party does anything other than make it easier for the major party with views farthest from their own win.
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  10598.  @karmehed  One party or the other will take office. If someone is too stupid to understand that or so egotistical as to think that they need to be wooed like they're on The Bachelor, it is their fault. And some of those people have proven that nothing will ever satisfy them, so why bother?
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  10599.  @josephbmama5408  Wrong. It is not a 500,000:1 chance of her surviving. There are also long-term consequences for as many as a third of all who get it. How about being an actual adult instead of a selfish jerk?
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  10600.  @scoop2448  [citation needed]
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  10601.  @josephbmama5408  [citation needed]
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  10602.  @josephbmama5408  It means to provide the evidence.
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  10603. "I'm an idiot and nobody should pay attention to me." Joe Rogan Too bad that idiots flocked to Spotify to listen to their fellow idiot.
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  10604. And with a 15% threshold to get any delegates at all, people with no hope of viability in any states are just wasting everyone's time.
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  10605. "10% better than garbage" is officially the quote of the year for 2019. The contest is over.
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  10606.  @MrGolov-te5eb  Not entirely, but they made it possible. Considering that Ralph Nader promised his 2000 exploratory committee that he would only go to safe states because his goal was to get 5%, and he ended up focusing all of his energy on swing states, it is pretty obvious what he was trying to do. It's probably why, of the 50 people he asked about a run in 2004 who were key endorsements in 2000, all advised him not to run.
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  10607.  @jewsco  Who blamed someone else? I was commending the OP for turning away from Jimmy Dore.
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  10608.  @jewsco  Then, what does that have to do with my comment. Of course, he blamed someone else for what he did.
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  10609.  @MrGolov-te5eb  Nader ran with the explicit purpose of throwing the 2000 election to Bush. If he really wanted to get 5% (his stated goal), he would have gone to California (the source of nearly 1/5 of his 1996 vote), New York, and Texas. He didn't. Given that his vote in Florida was 180 times the official margin for Bush, and exit polls showed him taking a net of 16-26% more votes from Gore than Bush, had he not run, Gore would have had a net gain of over 15,000 votes in Florida and won the election. Given his opposition to the Iraq War, and the fact that he wouldn't have put Roberts on the Court (so no Citizens United, Shelby, or Janus rulings), Nader did a lot of harm in running in 2000. And he knew it, which is why he has spent the last 20 years denying what he did, despite having nearly all of his petition drive in 2004 coming from Republican operatives, and spending the time since his repeated runs for President trying to convince people that Michael Bloomberg or Rand Paul will save us all.
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  10610.  @MrGolov-te5eb  It is impossible for Bush to become President if Nader isn't on the ballot, and that is what Nader wanted.
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  10611.  @MrGolov-te5eb  I just gave you examples. Al Gore opposed the Iraq War, and George W. Bush started it. That alone is enough. Also, Rehnquist died in office, so Gore would have named his successor instead of Bush, so we would still have a robust Voting Rights Act, public employees wouldn't all be switched to right to work for less laws, and there would be no Citizens United. Stevens would have almost certainly retired in Gore's second term, and Souter would have also retired during a Democratic Presidency, so these two would be unchanged. If Trump isn't President, RBG is not succeeded by Barrett, so you don't have the Texas abortion bounty law allowed to stand for any amount of time. The so-called Partial Birth Abortion law gets overturned, and any number of horrible decisions never happen. And if some other lefty down the road can get Medicare for All through Congress, it will actually stand a chance of survival. So, at this point (never mind the fact that the first few examples were me repeating myself), either you don't know who your real enemies are, or you really think that all of those things that the Bush and Trump Presidencies wrought are actually good.
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  10612.  @MrGolov-te5eb  Oh, so you think that a third party candidate will win instead of throwing the election to a Republican. Talk about a useful idiot. No wonder Republicans give so much money to the Green Party and represent them in ballot access cases.
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  10613.  @desperatelyseekingrealnews  Okay, your vaccine comment makes no sense at all. Are you a bot? If so, fix your programming.
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  10614.  @MrGolov-te5eb  It's not a typo if you do it every single time. And being a useful idiot who helps fascists doesn't win you any Real Man points.
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  10615.  @desperatelyseekingrealnews  Okay, here is the simple truth, since you anti-vaccine nutjobs don't seem to understand it. On an individual basis, no vaccine is perfect. (Even the measles vaccine is about 95% effective individually.) However, if enough people get the vaccine, its effectiveness increases and doesn't allow a host. Your "gotcha" also forgets the fact that there are still people who aren't able to get the vaccine due to things such as age or allergy. It also forgets the fact that, while breakthrough cases do exist, those who get it are far less likely to be hospitalized or die from it.
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  10616.  @MrGolov-te5eb  Your diagnosis is "not understanding the rules or that the people you support are actively helping fascists get elected." Then again, your unironic use of "cuck" suggests that you probably really want that, and like most Jimmy Dore fans, are a hardcore right winger pretending to be left on other sites to sew chaos.
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  10617.  @MrGolov-te5eb  FDR did nothing to improve the lives of people who voted for him? Oh, you mean Biden! Well, I'd say signing a bill that cut child poverty in half did quite a lot to improve the lives of people who voted for him. Actually treating the pandemic seriously is also a good thing. Also, unlike your hero Jimmy Dore, Buden didn't settle for a bill that McConnell wanted that would have forced workers back to the job at the discretion of the employer and have no right to sue for any harm that caused.
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  10618.  @MrGolov-te5eb  "people would rather see a corrupt billionaire clown in office" You might rather see that, but Hillary Clinton got more votes. Funny how you keep revealing the truth about yourself. It doesn't take long for the anti-anti-Trump crowd to do so.
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  10619.  @MrGolov-te5eb  Okay, now I know that you are just a liar, and I don't waste my time with liars online. Biden didn't downplay coronavirus and tell people that it would magically go away, he didn't hide getting the vaccine, he didn't play up anti-vaccine sentiment, he didn't support armed protesters complaining about coronavirus restrictions, and he didn't politicize the CDC. Enjoy your anti-anti-Trump bubble, but I will indulge you no longer.
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  10620.  @MrGolov-te5eb  Yes, Trump got elected, but if it were strictly up to the people, he got fewer votes.
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  10621.  @paulrockatansky77  One of the things that I have noticed in this century is a rebranding by the people who now call themselves "evangelical." They are doing this to blur the lines, because evangelical is a theological term that basically includes any Protestant who believes in the Resurrection. The more accurate theological term for this group is fundamentalist. However, by rebranding themselves, they are trying to avoid the taint from their old term from basically losing the war about ruling the country. And by using a mire general range, they are trying to get some others to fall for it by the branding.
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  10622.  @elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633  She's always been a right winger. Her real grift was pretending to be a lefty.
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  10623. It's pronounced LIT-its. Hope that helps.
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  10624. Yeah, because that's hard to do. Tulsi is retreating to sycophantic interviewers like Jimmy "the Supreme Court doesn't matter" Dore, Niko "Tulsi has to be above 1%, because look at the full crowds in her campaign videos" House, and Kim "Maybe David Duke likes her because they're both anti-war" Iversen. Yeah, that's going to get her on the debate stage in June.
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  10625.  @brennam954  Pretty much
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  10626. Yes, we did grow up being told that the law applied equally. Gerald Ford killed that with his pardon of Nixon because "it would be too painful to the country to see a former President face a criminal trial." This led to Iran-Contra, among others. Even with the kid gloves he got (a year and a half of ignoring a subpoena would get anyone else thrown in jail). You know what they say: when you are used to privilege, equality feels like oppression.
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  10627. "Nicki Haley is a loser, and I don't want her followers stinking up the place [...] Vote for me, Haley supporters!"
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  10628.  @aliamjon2550  He literally bragged about his accomplishments at the UN General Assembly and everyone laughed.
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  10629. We literally had that for most of human history. There will always be a system of measuring assets, and someone will always end up ahead.
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  10630. Is there a rule that women in Der Orangestraflingfuhrer have to get plastic surgery to please him?
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  10631. Question for the libertarian/anarchist socialists out there: if you get to your ideal society, and the state withers away, what will stop someone from amassing private property all over again and leading back to feudalism?
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  10632.  @aquatictrotsky1067  Thank you for replying. If there is evidence that at one point we had a more or less tribal and communal system, clearly somewhere along the way, we went a different path. There may be some basic needs that can be shared, but as long as someone has the idea of "mine," I just don't know how to avoid it. In agricultural societies, it was the ability to produce a surplus. In others, it was livestock. Given the way communal farms failed in places like Russia and China, I'm just not sure what would be different if private property was abolished. Yes, it is true that Native Americans largely didn't have a concept of private property, but a lot of times, those places have been overrun. I am not saying one is better, but I just don't know how to deal with what we know about human nature to make it work. Ultimately, someone will say, "I worked for this, and this is mine," and I don't see what will restart the cycle.
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  10633.  @aquatictrotsky1067  I get that there is some theory involved, and to a certain extent, there always will be because there isn't really an example of this on a large scale today (and intentional communities and communes aren't the same thing, because it is totally voluntary membership, which is quite different than everyone being in a system). However, I just don't see how Pandora's Box can be closed again and greed will be eliminated. As long as someone wants to, there is always a way to hoard wealth, and if someone does, regardless of what wealth will look like, it just seems to easy for me to see a world where left-wing libertarianism has a similar problem that right-wing libertarianism does. If there is something I am missing, I would be glad to hear it.
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  10634.  @saniwada  Difference is that he supported the war.
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  10635.  @naptownrandb  Nice conspiracy mongering to try to convince lefties not to vote. I guess that means that young people don't get driver's licenses or get jobs. Oh, wait...
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  10636. Well, libertarians are Republicans who want to do drugs, so not really surprising.
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  10637.  @fishinghuntingfool  Agreed. Since Bernie's Workplace Democracy requires employers to pass along their savings for Medicare for All to the workers, I would get an extra $359 every other week. And my employee payroll tax would be less than 2%, as opposed to the 4.41%, and I would no longer have to pay at the point of service. Sometimes, the mouthpieces get too close to Management.
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  10638. Actually, Amen comes from the Aramaic for "let it be."
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  10639.  @antifazisbonifaz6964  There are hypotheses for a bunch of things. The real question is what other evidence you have to back it up. When you look in the Bible, the word Amen doesn't appear in the Torah, where one would expect exposure. There's plenty after the Babylonian captivity, though, where the writers would have come into contact with Aramaic.
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  10640.  @do9138  Thank you. Feel free to use it.
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  10641.  @MrFreeride1113  If he is "pro-vaccine," I'd hate to see anti-vaccine. Then again, no one actually admits to being anti-vaccine these days, not even Jenny McCarthy.
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  10642.  @MrFreeride1113  Oh, look. The person who contributes no thought at all is posting blind links. You have given us all so much reason to trust your blind alleys.
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  10643.  @royronson3275  Yeah, when he said that, it sure did sound like it was for breaking up the protests. He thinks that lefty protests are inherently violent.
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  10644.  @royronson3275  Unless I misheard, it sounded like he was saying they all were, and over 95% were not. Once you get to that place, you are implying that all lefty protests are violent or have that potential and should be broken up.
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  10645. The Second Amendment clearly mentions militias. Article I, Section 8 says that one of the major roles of a militia is to pit down a rebellion. Therefore, the Founding Fathers never meant for there to be armed revolution. Even ignoring the question of whether or not random people with guns could literally defeat tanks and bombs, this is an argument that the Constitution defeats.
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  10646. Rick James: Yeah, I stomped on his couch! Interviewer: Why did you do that? Rick James: Because he could afford a new one. [Next scene] Rick James: I didn't stomp on his couch. I've got more sense that that! I guess we know where that goofball learned it.
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  10647. ​ @newperve  Well, it's not like they get to see a lot of naked women.
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  10648.  @Ciph3rzer0  Well, that comment didn't age well, considering that Yang admitted that he just uses the name Medicare for All while supporting a public option.
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  10649.  @tacotikki251  He says "every Amazon purchase." Never mind that Amazon sells groceries, do you consider books to be a luxury item?
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  10650.  @tacotikki251  I do hate sales taxes, and I wpuld love to phase them out for higher income tax brackets at the top.
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  10651. Presidents can't do much to fix the price of eggs, but they can do plenty of things they can do to make it worse... like refusing to track the driver of high prices, in this case bird flu.
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  10652. My thought at the time of the Tanden nomination was that this was the sacrificial lamb. Every Administration since at least Poppy loses one (Poppy: Tower for Defense; Clinton: Baird and Wood for AG; W: Chavez for Labor; Obama: Richardson for Commerce and Daschle for HHS; Trump: Puzder for Labor). Biden knows that the left hates Tanden, and it seems like pretty much everyone else not named Clinton does, too, so this was a way to make it look like throwing a bone to the Clinton camp while getting revenge for them taking the sails out of Biden 2016. At first, I was mad about this one, but the more I thought about it, the more it serves a purpose.
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  10653.  @alabamaman9476  No, but it doesn't make it any less true, either.
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  10654.  @alabamaman9476  You're one to talk.
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  10655.  @aquelpibe  Candidates have run from jail before, but in order to have an effective campaign, you can't really do that from a jail cell or in between breaks from a trial.
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  10656.  @aquelpibe  The Constitution lays out the specific rules for who can be President: natural born citizen, at least 35 at the time of inauguration, and a United States resident for the last 14 years. States are allowed to have their own rules for state offices, but not federal. Arkansas tried to enact term limits for Congress, and it was overturned by the Supreme Court. In 2012, an incarcerated felon got 41% of the vote against Obama in the West Virginia primary. Felons can't run for office in the state, but because the US Constitution doesn't prohibit it, he had to be allowed on the ballot.
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  10657.  @aquelpibe  It depends on the state. Two states (Vermont and I think Maine, but it might be New Hampshire) allow the incarcerated to vote. Very few states ban felons from voting for life, while most either let felons vote once their sentence is served or once their parole is over.
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  10658.  @aquelpibe  Eugene Debs, the Socialist candidate who was imprisoned for making an antiwar speech and later pardoned, ran from prison, and a lot of his campaign literature and buttons included his inmate number as a protest for his imprisonment in 1920. He got 3.4% of the vote, impressive given his imprisonment and the environment of the first Red Scare and Palmers Raids.
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  10659. She started doing that the minute she decided to start defending Biden on segregation. Her takedown of Kamala Harris? It interrupted three candidates pointing out Biden's awful record.
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  10660.  @Jeyakumar-hs9zr  Who is? Modi's bestie? The Assad apologist? The woman who compared the Iran nuclear deal to Munich? Or the one who defended torture? Is that the one?
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  10661.  @Jeyakumar-hs9zr  Found the fascist! I'll bet you think his role in a massacre as provincial governor was just magnificent.
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  10662. On another note, I haven't seen clips from here lately, but she is getting much more flattering hair and makeup, so has she learned to finally start being nice to people around her?
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  10663. Some people clearly don't pay attention to the lyrics. I was surprised to hear "Save Tonight," a song about leaving in the morning, at a wedding once.
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  10664. There is one legitimate reason not to take it: if you have immune or allergy issues that mean that you can't take the vaccine due to actual complications. Any other adult who refuses is harming people due to stupidity.
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  10665. Ducking people until they are over the hill also made a difference. There is a fine line between smarts and cowardice.
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  10666. Tulsi endorsed Hillary after the primaries.
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  10667.  @BenedictMHolland  48 voted to get rid of it for voting rights, so two more Democrats and it either can be done or can be restored to an actual talking filibuster that will make it much, much harder to do. (People forget that as soon as Strom Thurmond sat down after talking for over 24 hours, the Civil Rights Act of 1957 was passed.)
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  10668. I was on a jury once. It was a heroin dealer. He insisted that he didn't sell it, but he was buying because that brand was the best. It took less than an hour to convict, only because we didn't know just how big 18 dimebags were.
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  10669. Another thing that makes it closer than people might think is that Staten Island is the right-wing hub in NYC.
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  10670.  @roberthuman8091  Money definitely changes your perspective. Greedy or not, if you buy into the Self Made myth, once you do make it, and forget the difference between anyone can and everyone can, you start to think less of people who don't make it. You're probably also hanging out with different people and you lose perspective. Those are examples of not necessarily greed or malice, but just not seeing the same thing.
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  10671.  @roberthuman8091  I didn't say everyone was. I said that a lot of times this is what happens when you focus too much on chasing wealth.
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  10672.  @roberthuman8091  Please read my initial comment. I said "can change you," not will. I'm sure there are well-adjusted millionaires out there (see: Sanders, Bernie), but for some, the chase is what changes them.
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  10673.  @roberthuman8091  How do I know what? Are you trolling at this point by playing the semantics game?
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  10674.  @roberthuman8091  Because for many there comes a point where it is necessary to sacrifice principles in order to attain that money.
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  10675.  @roberthuman8091  Not if, for example, it was someone who was very poor and just got to a point of desperation. That happens with people whether or not they ever get the brass ring.
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  10676.  @od_bo  Oh, look. Someone using the wrong denominator in order to try to make it look less severe than it is. Now, I don't know if this is because you don't understand how statistics work for things like that, or if it is a willful distortion, but you go by the number of cases. The number of cases is 66.5 million. Given that deaths are a lagging indicator and a million people a day are getting infected, expect that number of deaths to go way up. That shows a fatality rate of 1.27%, or 1 in 78 (when I did the math last three weeks ago, it was 1.34%, but that was before the latest spike in cases). Still, the number that you think is not a big deal is an incredibly big deal. 1 in 400 Americans dying from a virus in two years is off the charts. And with the denialists like you clogging the hospitals, it also indirectly killing people who have heart attacks or strokes or car accidents who can't be treated because the people who don't trust medical science go begging for help when they find out that they are wrong.
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  10677.  @od_bo  Except it's not an honest mistake. If you are really holding onto that, it looks like you don't understand how fatality rates work. It is deaths divided by cases. You are doing things to try to make it look smaller than it is. Lung cancer has a mortality rate of 83.3%. That doesn't mean that 250 million Americans are dying of lung cancer every two years. So, is it that you don't understand basic terms like mortality rates work, or do you just want to hold onto that to make what you are doing feel that little bit less dangerous?
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  10678.  @od_bo  And those people who can't get treated for cancer are being denied treatment because of people like you who allowed the virus to spread and mutate rather than defeat it once and for all. The same people who insist that the virus is inconsequential or not real and that the vaccine should be avoided at all costs are the same people who clog the hospitals. Of course, when someone says that they shouldn't be treated or should slide down the priority list, it's people like you who insist that the people who say that are inhuman monsters who don't care about their suffering.
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  10679.  @TheHigherVoltage  The person you are replying to came up with an opinion and is working backwards to try to justify it.
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  10680.  @scoop2448  There are also people who die from coronavirus and didn't even know they had it, so your argument doesn't work, either. It's so amusing when people with no basic understanding of math and statistics try to justify themselves when proven wrong.
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  10681.  @od_bo  Wrong. If you are less likely to catch it, you are less likely to spread it. If your symptoms are less severe, you won't have it as long, meaning that aren't contagious as long, either. As far as "natural immunity" goes, this isn't the chickenpox. You don't only get it once.
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  10682.  @od_bo  And again, your numbers are numbers that you are just completely making up. 99% of people who catch it don't "recover at home." Two weeks ago, over 100,000 people were in the hospital due to coronavirus, which means that it isn't just 1% who get hospitalized, and as of October, half of all who get coronavirus have long-term symptoms for least six months. Funny how every time you throw a number out, it turns out to be wrong.
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  10683.  @od_bo  Who makes money from the alternative treatments like monoclonal antibodies? And guess what? You have to pay nothing for the coronavirus vaccine. That isn't the case with the monoclonal antibodies, and the lower vaccinated states like Texas have been running out of monoclonal antibodies. The more you speak, the more you prove that you don't know anything about what is going on, and I don't know where you get "four times a year," either. The second dose is three weeks after the first, and the booster is six months after that. If there are further boosters, they aren't going to be every three months. Then again, numbers aren't your friend, either.
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  10684.  @Junebug89  "mediocre vaccination rate" And, short of forcibly injecting the Trump crowd that would literally rather die to own the libs, what exactly should Biden have done to get more people vaccinated?
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  10685. I wonder what Trump Tower will be renamed.
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  10686.  @jaqnav2709  He's not fighting for healthcare. He's fighting for a symbolic vote that he knows will fail.
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  10687.  @jaqnav2709  He said in 2016 that Trump winning would be good for the left.
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  10688.  @jaqnav2709  You are aware that there is a list, right? If you have a vote, you will find that there were either Soft Yes votes on the sponsor list who are now Hard No, or a lot of people will vote Yes to avoid a primary challenge but won't do it when there is an actual chance of passage.
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  10689.  @jaqnav2709  If this isn't about a floor vote, then you are clearly someone who likes to hear yourself talk. The whole point was that a floor vote doesn't have the support, and you tend not to get a second chance with bills that fail 3:1 in the House.
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  10690. The Green Party has long been funded by Republicans to defeat their perceived common enemy: Democrats. She didn't change, she just went full circle. Now that she is in the majority party, her plan is complete.
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  10691. It's too bad she wasn't born in the United States, because she would be a great VP for Bernie.
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  10692.  @Thelooneylink  Eventually. I prefer a bigger resume all things being equal.
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  10693. ​ @frontenac5083  He was limited in many ways by the negotiations of his predecessor. I suppose you wanted to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely?
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  10694.  @victorhyman9715  If you get rid of the rule now, you require people to opt in to get the free lunch. Studies have shown that it is often more cost effective to make it a universal program.
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  10695.  @JustFollowingOrders12  Pointing out who would enjoy that sort of poverty cosplay and who wouldn't.
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  10696. Didn't something similar to #4 succeed against tobacco advertising?
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  10697.  @walexander8378  Indeed. Any listen to the Revolutions podcast will show that revolutions have a terrible track record for actually making things better for people. More often than not, it's a case of "meet the old boss, same as the old boss."
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  10698.  @robinsss  When the Supreme Court literally declared the President to be above the law. All any would-be dictator or monarch would have to do is cloak such attempts as "an official act," and there is no punishment, since the presumption is that anything is official, and POTUS would make sure to do it all with willing advisers. So, the fact that you aren't shouting from the rooftops about how dangerous that decision is tells me that, like so many libertarians, you don't really believe in freedom after all when push comes to shove.
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  10699.  @robinsss  And let us not forget that one "Justice" is the husband of a plotter, and another has a habit of putting up insurrectionist flags. If you can't see the danger to the republic, that is willfull blindness.
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  10700.  @robinsss  Sure, they won't. And legal scholars also said there was no way they'd make up Presidential immunity out of whole cloth... until they did.
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  10701. I'll see your Six Feet Under and raise you The Good Place.
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  10702. Except for supporting the team on the other side of London, I agree wholeheartedly #coyb
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  10703. "There is a class war, and my class is winning." Warren Buffett
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  10704.  @exiledhebrew1994  Any "peace agreement" where a country that says that another isn't real and just a part of itself where they say they only want some land is phony and will not be kept.
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  10705. Is Elizabeth Warren constantly incapable of pulling the trigger on anything? Shove it back in hos face! Tell him that, yes, people want strings when they give that money. Mark Zuckerberg didn't feed Buttigieg a list of people for Cabinet positions out of the goodness of his heart. These half-hearted attacks are exercises in futility. If you look up two steps forward and one step back in the dictionary, you will see her picture.
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  10706. He promised that the last time, too, and didn't keep up his end of the bargain, but if he wants to give me more motivation to vote against him here in PA, I'll gladly take it.
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  10707. ​ @heatherholden3774  They want tax cuts and think he's good for ratings.
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  10708. Kilmeade is right, but for the wrong reasons.
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  10709. Do I think he should? Absolutely. Do I think he will? I'm not holding my breath... unless Fulton County brings charges first, because he's too weak to be the leader.
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  10710.  @chastityrenee4682  To what end? If his lead collapsed so easily, it wasn't there. His only chance was keeping several candidates in the field who didn't get delegates.
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  10711. That's because that's what he is. He doesn't really believe in anything, as evidenced by people who knew him before and after his political "conversion."
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  10712.  @r.daillee1034  Well, in fairness to his parents, that John Kennedy was a Democrat and lost in 2004 trying to succeed Breaux, so they weren't totally wrong in doing so.
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  10713. It's been a long-standing thing that Republicans think that Kennedy would have been one of them. The best I can figure out is because he supported a tax cut and was a hawk, ignoring that everyone was a hawk in order to get national office (but, unlike so many of them, JFK actually served), and that he wanted to cut the tax rate from 91% to 70%, and only 6% of the cut went to the richest 1%.
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  10714.  @kogdanetdeneg  Indeed. And she rarely seemed to know when to get into a conversation, so she'd usually just kill it dead. Her nadir was definitely interrupting Sam announcing that Anthony Kennedy was stepping down from the Supreme Court to plug an interview on her podcast.
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  10715. That big orange dummy used them all to keep the bubble going.
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  10716.  @happyfacefries  The legal distinction is that one is considered acting. Not really sure how that applies when there is no attempt to tell a story, but that's what the courts have said.
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  10717. Some idiots voted for that big orange dummy three times.
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  10718. It is a combination of egomaniacs who think that elections are a reflection of their personal opinion rather than an exercise in governance and idiots who don't understand how basic rules work.
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  10719.  @kevinlove4356  Only because nations agreed that was sufficient. Look at the countries that still use it and which ones don't, and tell me which group you want to belong to.
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  10720.  @kevinlove4356  Gold standard
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  10721. Darn right! The right to a speefy trial works both ways.
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  10722. People didn't keep reading past "I want to give you money."
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  10723.  @celestialbuffalo  It would be if people actually kept reading instead of acting like the Bluth family and saw the serious drawbacks to it.
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  10724.  @awesomeant9509  So, Milton Friedman was a fake libertarian? Also, Andrew Yang is opposed to increasing the minimum wage. Libertarians also oppose breaking up monopolies, and tend to support regressive taxes if they have to pay for anything at all. He fits.
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  10725.  @awesomeant9509  Ah, the problem in trying to say anything if substance about libertarian thought. Everyone you talk to says that the rest are pretenders and they are the true libertarians.
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  10726.  @awesomeant9509  Well, hardly anyone is anything "in the extreme sense," but that doesn't mean that there aren't degrees. And that doesn't mean that people don't fit in a group. Considering that there is a strain of libertarian thought that supports UBI as a way of getting rid of the existing social safety net, that fits. However, if someone has to go full anarcho-capitalist in order to talk about libertarian thought, then it is just as utopian and ridiculous as some Marxist thought that still believes that everyone will share and greed will be eliminated forever if we can only abolish private property. Except it is worse, because at least they seem to have more insight about the imbalance in power structures that the extreme right libertarians don't.
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  10727.  @fardycakes1606  You can't gerrymander a Senate seat.
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  10728. This definitely played out the last time. In 2015, people were shocked that Bernie went to Liberty to speak. However, it bore fruit in his surprise win in Michigan, because he wiped the floor with Hillary in Grand Rapids, a key location to both the religious right (Zondervan Publishing, as well as Radio Bible Class, makers of the Our Daily Bread devotionals) and left (Rob Bell and Mars Hill Church). You could also see it in his strength in Colorado Springs (the home of Focus on the Family). Not all wingers are irredeemable.
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  10729. Gee, it's like Republicans forgot that as long as there is unified control of the White House and Senate, there is nothing the majority party can do to block appointments. Your boy Evil Turtle cut the time for debate, so you reap what you sew.
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  10730.  @masercot  [Al Gore sigh] Do you think Senate Democrats are using him any less when they put him in a leadership position to do outreach? Are they using him any less when they ask him to put his name on fundraising efforts? And what did my point have to do with Nazis calling themselves national socialists?
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  10731.  @masercot  He interrupts people at his rallies when they chant his name when discussing the political revolution. That doesn't seem like a narcissist to me. As to the second point, even if I grant that Bernie is "using" the Democratic Party, how is that any different than the party using him for things like outreach and fundraising? Or, just maybe, just like any party, there is some reciprocity between the party and those who are in it.
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  10732.  @masercot  Bernie was so happy to help Trump win the election that he made dozens of trips to campaign for Hillary... including in the Great Lakes states that she took for granted that ultimately decided the election. Fewer than half of Bernie supporters voted for Trump in 2016 than Hillary supporters who voted for McCain in 2008 (25% v. 12%). Lots of people warned her that her numbers were slipping in those regions, and what does she tell the DNC do with the extra $5MM they have at the end for a big GOTV push? Put it in Chicago and New Orleans to pad her popular vote totals for fear that she would lose the popular vote and win the Electoral College. You know where else they could have put that money to help her turnout? Pittsburgh. Detroit. Madison. Milwaukee. Bernie did everything he could to help her, and her surrogates had the nerve to slam him for riding on a private plane... to help her campaign! You are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts.
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  10733.  @iamdanyboy1  Thank you for pointing that out. It was a bit clumsy because I was trying to provide the actual evidence in detail for anyone who actually cared about evidence.
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  10734.  @masercot  It was 12%. 12 is less than half of 25 (the percentage of Hillary voters who voted for McCain in 2008). And for someone who claims to be a Warren supporter, I find your red baiting amusing.
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  10735.  @masercot  They were Never Hillary, not for Bernie. He just happened to be the last opponent standing. You should have seen them in message boards and social media when Bernie made his endorsement. Yes, it was stupid, but it was not representative.
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  10736.  @masercot  And that is why I don't defend those people and point out that they are not representative of actual Bernie supporters.
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  10737.  @masercot  Well, sometimes volume isn't representative of size. If it were, Andrew Yang would be the front runner by a mile.
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  10738. You've never heard of Diggerland? It's pretty fun, but they really jacked up the prices the last few years.
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  10739. Re: cheaper gas stoves, a couple years ago, I moved from an apartment that had a gas stove and heat to all-electric. Despite being in a much bigger apartment, my electricity bill now is lower than my combined electric and gas bill was before. Not to mentuon the fact that I got really bad SAD for several years, and it has gotten much better since getting electric heat.
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  10740.  @beepboopbeep5456  Like who? Which crazy ones have been rebuked? The fascist who attempted a coup is the leading candidate for President. Said coup leader's biggest co-conspirator in Congress just got nominated by the party to be Speaker. Greene, Boebert, and Santos are still in good standing. In 1991, Poppy Bush endorsed the Democratic nominee for governor in Louisiana to help defeat David Duke (speaking of which, the previous nominee for Speaker once called himself "David Duke without the Baggage"), but in 2016, Trump pretended not to know who David Duke was when he endorsed him for President (but he left the Reform Party in 2000 because he didn't want to be associated with David Duke). So, being against democracy doesn't get you shunned, being a hate monger doesn't, looking the other way at sexual assault doesn't, so what does? The only thing I can think of is working with Democrats to avoid a government shutdown.
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  10741. No one from the bench is going to come in, build the necessary name recognition, the campaign infrastructure, and the war chest to win. One of the things that doomed Humphrey was that he only had seven months... in a time when there was much less early voting. If you want to win, sitck with Biden. If you want to lose, keep up the handwringing.
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  10742.  @rockstarburne  Has only won the majority or plurality in one national election in the last eight but somehow managed to hold three terms sounds pretty unpopular to me.
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  10743.  @dukedematteo1995  I want every territory to get either statehood or independence, no matter how the chips may fall. Unlike the right, I actually support democracy.
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  10744.  @dukedematteo1995  So, that's why they are also pushing for Puerto Rican statehood, which is a fairly conservative place?
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  10745.  @dukedematteo1995  Justice is justice. And they didn't become states in the 1870s. If he really cared about partisan power grabs, he would have demanded that Garland get a vote, Barrett not get one because people had already started voting, and he would oppose efforts to make it harder to vote in ways where Democrats are less likely to have the requested documents. Just because you oppose something that benefits Democrats for partisan reasons (instead of, I don't know, trying to actually win over the people of Columbia) doesn't mean that others only support it for partisan reasons.
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  10746.  @dukedematteo1995  When it comes to local elections, they tend to vote for the conservative party. Maybe if the right would get out of its own way instead of antagonizing people who might otherwise support them, you wouldn't have this problem.
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  10747.  @dickdrapper5491  Look it up. The Democratic and Republican parties are not even figures in local elections. The leading party is the party of the right.
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  10748. Oh, if you read Insider in the White House, Bernie is a democratic socialist. However, he knows that the American people aren't there, so Workplace Democracy is the closest he's proposed in federal office.
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  10749. I thought de Blasio did the best with Inslee getting the silver, but they were all far behind the winners of night one.
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  10750. @Michael Sweeney And that's the problem with access journalism.
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  10751. The rally thing is pure projection, because when he first started, he paid extras to attend several events in 2015. Every accusation is a confession with this guy.
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  10752. I think he might be trying to appeal to religious voters, but he sounds like the Antichrist.
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  10753.  @MrJayb76  That is an income tax, not a wealth tax. The wealth tax on the table was Elizabeth Warren proposing 2% on assets over $50MM, and 3% on assets over [zoom in close with pinky sticking up] one billion dollars. That's a far cry from 70%.
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  10754.  @MrJayb76  Using your logic, I could ask why AOC hasn't announced her support for Bernie increasing the inheritance tax to 77%. Different people have different proposals, but as long as they are talking about significantly increasing taxes on the wealthy (and both of them are) then the debate is in the how and that doesn't make people your enemy. Don't sound like a Tulsi or Yang supporter.
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  10755. 10:43 Yes, because Russia is so well known for its great treatment of whistle blowers and love of transparency. Something's fishy here.
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  10756. Roger Taney, rest assured, you are officially no longer the worst Chief Justice in American history. John Roberts, it's all yours!
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  10757. At 5:25, you are so right, Thom! That is why I call the Harris plan Medicare Advantage for All.
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  10758. I think that treating it as an equal argument between Ford and Scott seriously understates the weight of the people involved who saw Deckard as a human. The screenwriters and the novelist explicitly intended Deckard to be a human, the dialogue they put in earlier drafts that imply that Deckard is a replicant are awful, and Rutger Hauer talking about banging a washer and dryer shows that he believed it, too. Yes, film is traditionally seen as a director's medium, but it is ultimately collaborative, and at a certain point, the story works far better if the other people involved turn out to be right.
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  10759.  @Rampratdelta  Nobody ever complained about it when George Romney or John McCain ran. Gee, I wonder what made Cruz different from the others. He is awful, but that is no excuse to repeat dog whistles.
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  10760.  @death299  Cruz moved to the US at age five... one year younger than when Romney did. Again, I am not defending Ted Cruz. He is absolutely horrible. No one should ever vote for him. That being said, I don't think that it's a coincidence that Cruz and Obama are the two in this century who had people insisting that they weren't really Americans. George Romney was born in Mexico in 1905. His parents moved to Mexico to flee polygamy laws, and they moved back during the Mexican Revolution. He was the father of Mittens. He was the governor of Michigan and he ran for President in in 1968.
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  10761.  @death299  What do you think the inherent statement is behind birtherism? And, as legal scholars at the time said, even if Obama really was born in Kenya, it wouldn't matter because his mom was an American citizen. Being born to one parent is sufficient. All "natural born citizen" means is that you were automatically a citizen at birth. If your misinformation really was true about him not stepping on American soil until college, he still meets that standard.
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  10762. Maybe if the DSCC hadn't wasted $50MM on Val Demings to lose by 19 points, maybe there would have been more money to go to Barnes, and he would have won. Maybe even Beasley, too.
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  10763.  @luna-p  Well, Scaramucci has already jumped off that sinking ship.
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  10764. To paraphrase Gob Bluth, it's like going from prime rib to... weird fake lefty of prime rib.
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  10765. ​ @TrollzH8Lamar  We know exactly how: propaganda and hatred.
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  10766. I believe it is Jeb! Show some respect.
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  10767.  @Cruizinelli12  Indeed. They're obsessed with property rights but completely oblivious to the fact that, if you go far back enough, they’re living on stolen land.
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  10768. ​ @joc.1353  Yes, everyone does. No one is able island, which is why libertarianism is a scam.
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  10769.  @j85grim4  Indeed. There is a reason why the system is called capitalism and not laborism.
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  10770. She got the health care bill through the House when Obama was ready to give up after Scott Brown's election. I think she's lost a step, but it's not like she's never done anything. Now, she's akin to Willie Mays with the Mets.
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  10771.  @chrisbarnett5303  [awkward wink]
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  10772. Not for long, she isn't.
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  10773.  @kvaka009  True, but ours seems more based on it than most.
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  10774. As a proud Bernie supporter, I have to say that getting rid of the stepped up basis is a MASSIVE step forward. I would have preferred that unrealized capital gains be straight up taxed as part of the estate tax, but it is definitely better than the possibility that Bill Gates can pass shares of Microsoft to his kids tax free.
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  10775. Fox: Russia is just pushing the Lebensraum argument. What's the big deal? Also Fox: If the Democrats weren't such pussies, we wouldn't have to worry about Russia invading.
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  10776.  @chosen_ones777  Do try to keep up. My comment was mocking the idea that George Soros is giving a bunch of money to people who showed up to protests.
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  10777. I can't hear that music without thinking of you taking down the stupid young man who wanted to talk about The Bell Curve. It makes me laugh every single time I see it.
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  10778.  D2 E2  I'm guessing that the show took the formulation and applied it to libertarians. I thought the original quote was specifically about George W. Bush.
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  10779.  @xunqianbaidu6917  Not if Democrats gain at least two seats. Nothing is going to pass between now and November, anyway.
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  10780.  @JacobWilson777  So, you are fine with a fascist dictatorship? Got it.
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  10781. The instant you play both siderism on the shutdown and the wall, and refuse to take a side on impeachment, you are a centrist. Anti-establishment doesn't necessarily mean good.
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  10782.  @Chasing_Jamie  I assure you that I have been told no many times in many parts of life.
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  10783. Thick eyelashes don't make a dark line around your eyelids. I have thick eyelashes, and my eyes don't look like that.
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  10784.  @chiphill4856  He doesn't condemn it, either, and that is the problem. There is no neutrality when it comes to hate. When Pakman brings those people on, it's to point out how bad they are.
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  10785.  @chiphill4856  You can't coexist with people who want to destroy others. We are currently seeing something straight from Mengele, and last week I dealt with someone praising it. People like that are destructive to society, and we can't be neutral toward them. Being "neutral" toward a white supremacist is abominable.
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  10786.  @chiphill4856  No one is? You clearly haven't been paying attention. I am not talking about getting rid of people. I am talking about making those who peddle hatred so toxic that they become irrelevant.
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  10787.  @chiphill4856  It's so subtle that it often strengthens those people.
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  10788. He offered you $11,000? He only offered Sam Seder $5000.
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  10789.  @nathandrake5544  And you'll end up with elections like Texas School Board where people like to vote for candidates baled Roy Rogers or some goofy name without an examination of policy. A lot of the "we really should do this" crowd seem to be people who haven't thought things through. Like when people talk about term limits without realizing that such a move gives the power to unelected staffers.
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  10790. From what I have seen, the tech industry is all about pushing people as hard as they can be pushed until they break down and need to be replaced by someone younger who will take less money. It's a scam. Yes, my goal is to write a book that will let me eventually quit my day job, but I'm not going to work 100 hours a week and have no life to do it.
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  10791.  @michaellyczak9337  True, but never underestimate the power of denial.
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  10792.  @michaellyczak9337  Indeed. It seems like they're there just to prove the right's argument about the group in question.
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  10793. @T. Meyer When I use it, I mean someone who insists that questions of identity are the end all, be all of politics. I saw the former NY State Democratic Party chair saying that the nominee shouldn't be a man, full stop. That is what I think of when I use that phrase.
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  10794. @T. Meyer As to mentioning it, from an efficacy standpoint, I think it's better to let things like that speak for themselves, except if mentioning how a different background can bring a new perspective and what that looks like. Think of how Obama was very oblique when mentioning it. Usually, if that is a primary emphasis, it will backfire. Case in point: the top three candidates in the 2004 WV Secretary of State Democratic primary were Ken Hechler (held the office from 1984-2000 and was the only sitting member of Congress to march in Selma in 1965), Natalie Tennant (a morning TV personality) and Mike Oliverio (a state senator who finished third in the 2000 primary). Hechler was born in 1914. Tennant (born in 1968) always spoke highly of Hechler, but argued that it was "time for a new generation of leadership." Oliverio paid for a sticker on the biggest newspaper in the state saying, "Mike Oliverio, candidate for Secretary of State. I'm not 89 years old." Guess which candidate finished third. Unfortunately, all that dummy did was pave the way for his Republican opponent to run ads about the "tired, old West Virginia politics" where she hit those two words so hard that it was impossible to miss what she was saying.
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  10795.  @MattTomAndy  How many times are you going to say that? Well, at least you finally started using the abridged version. As far as "war monger" goes, who is the candidate who defends and apologizes for a war criminal and denies the atrocities he has committed? Who continues to speak favorably about a prime minister who has been part of a group that assassinated Gandhi decades earlier because they thought that he was too accommodating to Muslims, and who brutalized Muslims as a provincial head? Anti-intervention does not necessarily mean pro-peace.
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  10796. @T. Meyer Who's crying? You asked the question in a general way, and I answered, pointing out that there are some who use it as a dog whistle, and others who use it describing a shallow politics. As anyone who supports Bernie because of his ideas will note, someone who screws working people who isn't a white man isn't a step up for working people.
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  10797. Because she realized it was stupid and decided to try to actually build support instead. Where was Jimmy Dore when Nina Turner ran? Oh, right! He was advocating for her defeat while his wife was funding Republicans in Arizona.
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  10798.  @cmack17  She has gotten more sponsors. She realized that it was a dumb strategy the same reason why so many others have over the years: either a) you get a defeat so bad that it goes away for a generation or b) people fake support knowing that it won't pass in order to fend off a primary opponent. If you understand the legislative strategy of Catch and Release at all, you will know exactly why Force the Vote is a stupid strategy.
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  10799.  @cmack17  1) She is a cosponsor of HR 1829. 2) Bowman, Bush, and Jones, among others 3) There is literally no way to know until you get enough support, because someone can easily vote Yes when he/she knows that it will fail (See also: the 50+ attempts to repeal the ACA). 4) When are you going to stop being lazy and do the actual work to build support? As someone else noted in another forum, FTV is like demanding that someone drive a car before putting the engine in. I don't care about doomed votes. I want to see the bill pass, and the grassroots efforts that I and others did in Philadelphia got Brendan Boyle to sign onto the bill.
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  10800.  @cmack17  1) My apologies. It was HR 1829 in a previous Congress. It's HR 1976 now. 2) But they weren't in Congress before, were they? You need to get to 218 & 50, and getting them in Congress gets you closer. 3) And what will your vote accomplish? 4) You contacted your member of Congress. I guess that's better than the absolute nothing I usually get when I ask that question of FTV people. Did you follow up in any way? Did you try to organize anyone else to do the same, or did you just think, "My job here is done"? 5) Just saying it's a bad analogy doesn't make it so. Why do you think that it's a bad analogy? 6) First of all, you've accomplished nothing. Second of all, Catch and Release is a legislative strategy first used by Tom DeLay. It was originally done to allow supposed moderates to keep their veneer while voting for a right wing agenda. It is a way of allowing people to cast votes that ensures the desired result. This is why Force the Vote is useless. 7-8) "We will get the society we want when we are willing to plant trees whose shade we'll never be able to sit under." There is no timeline. It's done when we do the actual work, get 218 & 50 Yeses, and then we apply the pressure to make them Hard Yeses. Riddle me this, Batman, how is a vote that is guaranteed to fail going to move the ball down the field at all?
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  10801.  @cmack17  1) Oh, okay. So, you're a jerk who wants to nitpick and then get mad when someone acknowledges making an error. Got it. 2) Once again, none of those people were in office. She helped them get into office. If you can't understand this basic concept, no wonder why you think Force the Vote will get results. 3) Then, why did you ask basically the inverse of it to me? 4) If your representative "claims to support M4A," what about your Senators? What about friends or family who live in states/districts of those who don't support the bill? Re: "no need to 'follow up,'" I'd hate to see you if you were in a movement that literally took years or decades to come to fruition. 5) So, it's terrible because you say it's terrible? Got it. 6) What a shock. You don't understand the basic reason why your proposed strategy won't work. I can give an example of someone your boy Jimmy Dore saw as a hero to the point that she won his endorsement in 2020. Tulsi Gabbard claimed to support Medicare for All and supported Bernie Sanders in 2016. Both conveniently cut off the oxygen from primary challenges to her left. However, once she started running for President and had to answer questions about specifics, not only did she not support it, but she called one of its key provisions "un-American" in an interview with Anderson Cooper. Twice. Jimmy Dore saw this as "a smart strategy" at the time. 7-8) When all you've done to try to move the needle for Medicare for All is make one phone call to your representatives, you have no room to talk about inaction. The abolition of slavery in the UK took over 50 years. So did women's suffrage, and one of its most important supporters, Susan B. Anthony, died 14 years before it was won. Would you have said these people were wasting their time?
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  10802.  @abrahamlincoln7912  No, Replacement Theory argues that the shifting demographics that make America less white is a sinister plot to diminish the power of conservatives and "real Americans." Acknowledging math that America is becoming less white does not alone equal that theory.
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  10803. @Margaret Ann Casey There is a libertarian troll with the username whyamimrpink78, so I think that is a parody account mocking the stupid libertarian arguments above.
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  10804.  bongo155  And the irony is that McCain was born in Panama, and no one had a problem with George Romney running in 1968... even though he was born in Mexico and lived there until he was five.
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  10805.  @katrinareminiec6838  Mitt's father George ran in the GOP primary, but he faded fast after saying he was brainwashed by generals in Vietnam. My facts are straight as an arrow.
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  10806. 11:54 I'm with you, Matt! We not to stop with the fatalistic nonsense, because that will only convince people that they shouldn't vote. We need to win big.
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  10807.  @mikecourt13  Lobbyists actually have to do work, which she doesn't seem to like to do. They also have one of two qualifications: knowledge of an issue or good working relationships with Congress. She has neither. If anything, she wants to be a talking head. It's easy and lucrative.
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  10808.  @sandrakicklighter2735  Then, you apparently don't think anything of cutting child poverty in half and taking coronavirus seriously. Oh, yeah, no difference at all. Don't get too close to those edges!
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  10809.  @dianebannister4591  Indeed. If they're the 51st and 52nd votes, they don't get a veto over everything.
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  10810.  @sandrakicklighter2735  Actually, it was a proposal from Rosa DeLauro. Still, if Sinema became a Republican, that provision doesn't make it into the bill, and there probably isn't a bill at all. By all means, primary her. Biden won the state, and Kelly won by a bigger margin than she did. However, we are lying to ourselves if we pretend that there is no difference. The Democratic party is a coalition. It is not an ideological group or cult of personality like the other side. As long as those differences exist, we put the pressure on those holding up the process, but we don't cut off our nose to spite our face.
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  10811.  @mrsobrian6032  It takes time to put a bill together, especially if you are using reconciliation. It is now being marked up in the House committees and will be up for a vote soon.
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  10812. They finally learned the lesson they should have from 2009 that Republicans don't want to work with them and are just acting in bad faith.
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  10813.  King Conan  Donny Deustch said it at length before Joe Scarborough said, "But you won't really vote for Trump, will you?"
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  10814. Looking at cults, People's Temple survivors hate Jim Jones, but Branch Davidians are still loyal to David Koresh. Hopefully, once Trump's reign ends, his followers disperse like the former instead if hang on like the latter.
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  10815.  @NoHaBi02  Are you saying that he faked the e-mail from the booker?
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  10816.  @NoHaBi02  Desperation is a stinky cologne. Sam Seder was clear that he would only do Politicon that year if he could debate Crowder. It was confirmed, but Coward Crowder backed out. He literally scheduled the H3 interview to avoid Sam Seder because he suspected that he would he tag-teamed. This is a guy who says that he will debate anyone, but admitting from the start that you are debating someone who you think is a weak move is pathetic. I don't race against four-year-olds, and his attitude is the equivalent of Kramer bragging about dominating his dojo which is entirely children.
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  10817.  @NoHaBi02  He admitted it, because he remarked that Sam Seder ended his show early last week. The algorithm thanks you for bringing more eyes to the Majority Report, and the Crowder money is coming in for all of your replies. It's a win/win situation.
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  10818.  @NoHaBi02  So, it's okay for Crowder to debate randos on the street who are coming along unprepared, but he's not ready to debate someone who is prepared? Your defenses make your boy look weaker and weaker.
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  10819.  @NoHaBi02  And as far as being prepared, Crowder backed out last week when he realized it was a possibility, so he had a week to prepare, and Sam even said that he would debate any subject Crowder chose. Seder was going in blind. Other than expecting something might happen, the parameters would have been chosen by Crowder. He says he doesn't debate smaller shows, but he has debated minnows or people with no channel at all. He did not cover himself in glory, especially with his talk of what a layup he expected and respect for "entering the arena" yet leaving it a minute later. Crowder is a bully, plain and simple. He only wants to punch down.
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  10820.  @NoHaBi02  Debaters trash talk all the time? I'm guessing you were never on the debate team. Even though my alma mater did not have a good relationship with Liberty, we were always cordial in the lead up to debates and, quite frankly, more concerned with last minute research. Crowder mocked Sam's eyes and kept calling him a woman. Yes, it is difficult to say with certainty what someone's internal monologue is, but at a certain point, you start to see a pattern, and every single reason that Crowder has given for not wanting to debate Seder is disproven by his other actions and statements. He didn't debate because he knew he would lose.
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  10821. JFK wanting to pull out of Vietnam was a fiction peddled by Oliver Stone to make money and Camelot mythmakers. He went along with everything that happened in his Administration that escalated the war, and considering that 11 days before his death, the South Vietnamese President was assassinated, this is not someone who wanted to get out of Vietnam. (The most ridiculous defense was that he merely wanted Diem shipped out of the country, as though that wasn't putting his hand on things.) The Kennedy who actually got things done was their baby brother, and he lived 30+ years longer than each of his older brothers.
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  10822. Dark Brandon strikes again!
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  10823.  @anthonylinares8329  Who knows? It happens to everyone.
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  10824. Sean Penn was method in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. He insisted that people refer to him as Spicoli, changed the name on his dressing room to Spicoli, and probably got into Jeff Spicoli's mental state, too.
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  10825.  @richardmadden8742  If all you can do is insist that the other side wouldn't be any better (not even that they are worse), that's a pretty weak place to be.
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  10826. I call them the Asterisks. They have been caught cheating so many times that every win is suspect. They even got caught spying on practices again. Against the Bengals. If we haven't heard of them cheating, it's because they just haven't been caught yet.
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  10827.  @FertilityTV  This isn't 2000 where you have someone trying to hold back a few hundred votes in one state. We are talking about thousands or tens of thousands of votes in at least four states, and the votes have already been counted. If the Supreme Court gives this election to Trump, democracy is over.
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  10828.  @NatuerlicheFruchtbarkeit  English translation: Mail-in votes hurt my chosen candidate, so they can't possibly be fair.
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  10829.  @FertilityTV  A million dollars says you're wrong. I'll take installments. And you keep Bernie's name out of your mouth. Your divide and conquer isn't working here.
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  10830.  @FertilityTV  This didn't age well :-P
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  10831.  @MalevolentMonkeyGod  "The result shows that"? Biden actually improved among white men, so that pretty much disproves that theory. And I've never heard "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" leading workers to favor the boss who keeps screwing them over and refusing to pay for their work.
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  10832.  @RationalAUS  Nowhere near the United States? When did aborigines start getting included in the census, again? There are a lot of countries that have far more racism than they are prepared to admit. Seeing how Trump actually improved with black and Hispanic men tells me that misogyny also plays a role.
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  10833.  @MalevolentMonkeyGod  You could say that the first time, but over and over when you see the stories of people who soured on Trump, the basic structure of the conversion was "I thought he was going to stick it to the people I didn't like, and then he stuck it to me." Let the anti-immigrant crowd talk long enough and it becomes obvious that "economic anxiety" is not the reason for their xenophobia.
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  10834.  @MalevolentMonkeyGod  I agree with both counterfactuals. However, the exit polling clearly shows that economic anxiety was not the main cause for voting for Trump in 2016.
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  10835.  @MalevolentMonkeyGod  I didn't say it is. My point was that a key portion of that group was motivated by that.
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  10836. As someone who is a fan of 30 Rock, I find "Problem Solvers Caucus" a more fitting name than they realize but not why they think.
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  10837. This reminded me of a time when my college roommate had to give a presentation the day after going out drinking. He was still pretty smashed, kept holding onto the podium for dear life, and when he would lose his train of thought, would lift a finger and say, "Gun turrets were veeeery important."
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  10838.  @richardvinsen2385  It did, but 21 years later, that's the only thing that I can remember ;-)
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  10839. He'll go down the memory hole just like right wingers pretended that Bush was never one of them after his collapse.
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  10840.  @redwardstone3651  She didn't spend all of her time playing purer than thou, which apparently makes some people feel better than actually getting things done.
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  10841.  @redwardstone3651  Either that, or they don't really want things to change and just want to complain. Apparently, they don't realize the implications of supporting a man known as the Amendment King. The people who got the unemployment benefits that Bernie pushed certainly proves the efficacy of this approach compared to just complaining.
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  10842.  @MrAnonymousteenagers  I've never heard a judge telling a defendant to take his/her time when pretending to have a breakdown on the stand. Even if he bought a performance that wouldn't get someone a part in a school play, you are supposed to be impartial and not say such things like "it'll be all right" and "take your time" to a witness.
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  10843.  @ebalicious1775  Well, which is it, totally up to the judge to do whatever he/she sees fit, or is it something that would be up to the prosecution to prove?
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  10844.  @ebalicious1775  Okay, I'm going to make this super simple. Language like "rioters," "looters," and "arsonists" is highly prejudicial, and allowing the defense to use it will bias the jury. If you really believe in the concept of innocent until proven guilty, then the defense should not be allowed to assign guilt to people who are dead who cannot defend themselves. If one is prejudicial, so is the other.
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  10845.  @ebalicious1775  If the judge wants to be neutral, he can allow both or neither.
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  10846.  @MrAnonymousteenagers  You bought it? When people break down and cry for real, they don't pause completely while looking at their intended audience to see if it had an effect.
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  10847.  @ebalicious1775  Are you serious now? I swear, your accusation is your confession. The entire defense argument is that the people he shot were rioters who were out to get him. Maybe the reason why there aren't such articles and peer reviewed studies is because there is such a small sample size of a judge actually allowing such language. In the Aaron Hernandez trial, the victim wasn't referred to as a gang banger or criminal, which had far more evidence than the contention of this defense.
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  10848. Would you rather keep the sham rules with under the table payments?
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  10849. 8:32 I have flat feet, and I still served in Iraq. Jimmy Carter does, and he served in active duty longer than any 20th century President not named Eisenhower.
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  10850. Not a good analogy. The question isn't whether Jesus existed, or was crucified, but what you believe happened after. I am all against people being jerks, and I usually respond in kind when I get holiday greetings. If someone says Happy Chanukah to me, I won't get offended, but the people who say Merry Christmas like a jerk make the rest of us look bad.
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  10851. He resigned from the government, not from Parliament.
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  10852. I really wish I had the money to short DJT. I'd make a fortune.
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  10853.  @jtrain9926  According to whom? Bart Ehrman is just someone who gets money with sloppy research, dishonesty about his standards for verification, and telling skeptics what they want to hear.
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  10854.  @jeffreylehman1159  You can say that about a lot of historical figures. Ehrman may be consistent about his "findings," but he also shows quite a bit of circular logic in his textual criticism. For example, he insists that Paul couldn't have possibly written certain epistles because they include household rules, which Paul was unconcerned about... even though I Corinthians has a list of household rules, and nobody disputes its authorship. His methods are closer to that of Thomas Jefferson whose version of the Bible is basically cutting out all of the stuff that he doesn't like.
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  10855.  @jeffreylehman1159  I've read the scholarly ones, and they leave a lot to be desired. The popular books ask for less evidence, so of course it's easier not to show the faulty logic underneath.
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  10856.  @jeffreylehman1159  If the scholarly work isn't well sourced, and it shows incredible logical leaps, how can you trust what he says in his popular works, when pretty much every academic source dumbs down popular works?
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  10857.  @jeffreylehman1159  Re: the source of disagreement vs. how mainstream he is, if you don't know his scholarly work, and clearly haven't engaged with his criticism, how do you know? You don't.
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  10858.  @jeffreylehman1159  I am talking about his scholarly work, and I have pointed out how circular his logic is using his textual criticism as an example. There are far better skeptical writers than Ehrman, but because he tells a group of people exactly what they want to hear, that's why you think it's pretty good. Funny how you want to make the accusation while failing to see the fact that you do the exact same thing you criticized. If someone's scholarly work is unsound, and that is the most rigorous work that they do, by definition anything else is a house built on sand.
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  10859.  @jeffreylehman1159  I pointed out the problems with his textual analysis, and I pointed out that the more rigorous work is always what one presents for scholars and in textbooks. You just think he's right because he's confirming your bias, so you project. If someone gives faulty analysis for their best and you just repeat "I think he's right," you are admitting that you are doing the very thing that you are saying I did. Go back and read my example of his faulty analysis. He does the same thing with other things he disagrees with.
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  10860.  @jeffreylehman1159  I believe in inspired, not inerrancy.
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  10861.  @jeffreylehman1159  No, it's not one minor thing. It shows that his is a thought process that works backwards toward a conclusion. And "it makes sense to [you]" because it reinforces your idea that anyone with theistic beliefs is a dumb-dumb. Even better if that person is a Christian, what better way of denigrating them than by saying that Jesus wasn't only not the Messiah, but wasn't real?
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  10862.  @jeffreylehman1159  In other words, you agree because you do like his conclusions. You project more than a drive-in movie.
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  10863.  @jeffreylehman1159  And your little quip about "thought" proves me right that you just like what Ehrman says because it reinforces your prejudice that any theist is a dumb-dumb.
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  10864.  @jeffreylehman1159  You clearly don't as much as you say you do, because you keep saying "I think he's right" while demanding me to say why I think that he is wrong, when you've never actually bothered to look at the stuff that is judged by a more rigorous standard. When I asked you how you know that his research is solid, you make the same "it just makes sense to me" argument that I hear from fundamentalists.
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  10865.  @jeffreylehman1159  "If you share starting from a place that a book is inspired by a being who can't be shown to exist, then you are placing huge constraints on your analysis of textual criticism of that book." In other words, anyone who does not have the same religious beliefs as you do cannot possibly have anything of value to say. It doesn't take about apologist to see that someone who says "someone couldn't have possibly wrote this because he never cared about such things" when that person clearly wrote about such things in books that nobody disputes is operating from a bias of a desire to discredit the writing. He shows a lot of circular thinking when writing about miracles and messianic claims as well, but being so blinded by your biases that you clearly can't see them when you dismiss out of hand the vast majority of scholars all across the theological spectrum, so I focused on the most obvious one that all but the most ardent atheist fundamentalist would look and say, "Yeah, that's some pretty faulty logic."
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  10866.  @jeffreylehman1159  There are fundamentalists of all stripes. And I'm not the one who said that I reject the view of those who disagree with me. You did. Oh, you might say that you've done your research, but if you've never actually looked at the basic work but the watered down stuff and said "it makes sense to me," it's obvious what you're doing. That's why I'm the only one of us who gave supporting evidence. Next time you make assertions, you just might find that others have done the actual homework and not the Cliffs Notes version.
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  10867.  @jeffreylehman1159  But it's obvious that you were looking for a way out considering that the "ardent atheist fundamentalist" was in reference to the argument that Paul couldn't have written Ephesians because Paul didn't write about household rules when he clearly did in I Corinthians. If you felt that referred to you, maybe that is your guilty conscience speaking, because you originally pled ignorance on the question at hand.
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  10868. "The corporations win either way; the consumers lose either way." Indeed. Quite the evergreen statement.
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  10869. Define "record high." Inflation was double digits in the 1970s, and so bad in the 1790s that the country almost went under. Inflation peaked at 8.8%, and the level now is getting pretty close to the historical average of 3%.
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  10870.  @tyc6268  I literally commented to the OP who used that exact phrase, and I pointed out why it was false. The fact that you defended the OP by saying, "Well, it's still bad" misses the point that the OP lied. Record high and runaway inflation require very different actions than a spike that is already starting to drop, and given how slow moving the economy is when it comes to such indicators, do you know what is worse than inflation in the high 4s? Trying to slam the brakes on the economy in a misguided attempt to "get things under control."
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  10871.  @tyc6268  And again, something even worse than inflation is deflation, and slamming on the brakes of the economy to try to tame inflation has worse results. If you want to argue that it isn't great, fair enough, but you handle "higher than usual but coming down" inflation in a much different way than "record high inflation." And you didn't answer my question after multiple attempts: do you think that Powell should in short order raise interest rates to double digits in order to deal with it?
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  10872.  @tyc6268  You're not asking "why" anything. You are only clinging to the idea that there was a defense of the lie about record inflation. To use the Check Engine light analogy, you bring it in for a check up instead of saying that the sky is falling. If you want to use a car analogy, a better one might be that you don't throw a car driving down the highway into reverse, because you'll kill the car.
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  10873.  @tyc6268  Yeah, we should have just seen 5MM people killed instead of 1. And if you hadn't noticed [in Homer Simpson style whisper] Trump was President during the shutdowns. And the fact that you use the phrase "printing money" shows that, no, you don't know the cause.
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  10874.  @lucas.soorholtz  When the options are stagnation and further decline, stagnation is the preferable option.
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  10875.  @lucas.soorholtz  I'm not thrilled, either, but I live in a swing state, so I am not going to be in any way an enabler of Trump getting a second term, because his naming the successor to RBG means that we get everything good overturned. I'm not volunteering for Biden, but I will vote for him.
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  10876.  @lucas.soorholtz  There is no disagreement. There are two models that have worked for political reform, one on the left and the other on the right (I didn't say good or bad). That's why I've been telling people that their efforts are best served by taking that frustration and running for committee spots, or for school board, city council, or maybe even state legislators. (Here in Philadelphia, the city council districts are bigger than a seat for the state house, so that might actually be a better option for them.) I guess that I have my antennae up for these Never Biden people who, upon the slightest examination, haven't really thought about the consequences of that position.
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  10877. ​ @bobbyd5167  Oh, look, a Vivek-bot using the preferred line of tulcels when their candidate was criticized. Dear Leader got caught in lies, too, but nobody showed the video in real time of him knowing exactly who David Duke was in 2000 when dropping out of the Reform Party primary and disavowing him compared to 2016 when he got the poisoned endorsement from Duke.
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  10878.  @brednbudder  Oh, okay. I remembered the above explanation in a Latin course, and didn't remember seeing barbarian in Greek. Thanks for confirming that it went back a little bit farther, but still has obvious dog whistle connotations.
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  10879.  @lostmypassword  And that is what we are trying to address.
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  10880.  @lostmypassword  Then, when should it be taxed? If they are masking it as Not Income, it won't be taxed until it is sold, and part of the argument is that it should be taxed at the same level as ordinary income when it is sold. If they die and leave shares to their children, it will never be taxed because of perhaps the most obscene loophole of all.
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  10881.  @lostmypassword  And one that a lot came up with is the wealth tax. Pretty much all evidence says that all it really does is slow the accumulation of extreme wealth. (One study said that if it was implemented In 1982, when Bill Gates had enough net worth to be subject to it, he would have had a net worth of $13 billion in 2019.) If they don't accept the idea of being taxed enough that they'll never become trillionaires, they might have to face something that makes Share Our Wealth look like supply-side economics.
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  10882.  @aussiehardwood6196  [citation needed]
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  10883.  @rajashashankgutta4334  They paid 90% of income over a certain amount. Adjusted for inflation, it was in the realm of $4MM. That doesn't mean that all income is at that level.
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  10884.  @grobble8954  1) You are talking about now, which ignores that most people pay more in payroll taxes than income taxes. 2) Maybe if wages wouldn't have stagnated for the last 40 years, more people could afford to pay income taxes. You can't get blood from a stone. 3) Plenty of people made it to the top bracket. Reagan's entire origin story was about being outraged that he made it to the top marginal rate as an actor.
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  10885.  @rajashashankgutta4334  Based on what? I'm not even saying it necessarily needs to be 90% again, but I am saying that 37% is way too low, and the economy grew far faster and benefited more people when the top marginal rate was 70% or higher than when it has been 50% or lower.
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  10886.  @rajashashankgutta4334  1) Keep telling yourself that. At a certain point, it takes a level of honesty to admit that fairy tales about cutting taxes for the rich makes everyone else prosper, but it doesn't work. It has had 40 years to prove itself, and it has proven disastrous. 2) If the rich never made it to the top bracket, why did Reagan complain that he did and insist that other actors would only do so many movies because of it? 3) The economy isn't built by the rich taking everything, but through people actually being able to buy the things that they make.
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  10887.  @rajashashankgutta4334  1) Saying that it isn't good for the economy because the rich won't have an incentive to get even richer is defending trickle down theory. 2) That was never the effective rate because there were plenty of lower rates along the way where they paid. A simple example with round numbers to demonstrate how this works: say someone has $50,000 of taxable income and is subject to a bracket of 10% for the first $10,000 and 20% for everything above that, the total taxes are not $10,000, but $18,000, because each dollar is taxed at the rate for that bracket. And, yes, people did hit that top bracket. Reagan loudly complained for years about having to pay it and said that he became a conservative because of it. He insisted that there were other actors who limited their work because they hit the top marginal rate. So, again, if nobody paid it, why did the conservative patron saint say that he did? You keep ignoring that question. 3) And when rich people get all of the money, the economy stagnates. When they have less incentive to keep it all, the money goes where it circulates. Like water, a river is healthier than a pond when it comes to money. People still innovated when the average CEO made less in a year than what his/her average employee made in a week, as opposed to today where many make more in a day than the average employee does in a year.
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  10888.  @rajashashankgutta4334  1) Because they would still have plenty of money before those tax rates kicked in. Do you honestly think that more billionaires is helpful to society? Do you honestly not see the connection between the concentration of wealth and stagnant wages? 2) So, nobody paid those rates because there were plenty of loopholes that prevented it, but having tax rates that high prevented people from getting rich in the first place? Do you honestly not see the inherent contradictions in your argument? 3) So, you're not arguing for trickle down theory, but you are defending supply side? You are aware those are exactly the same thing, right? Yes, I am perfectly aware of the dangers of focusing only on demand. However, after decades of focusing on supply to the detriment of demand, demand is the primary issue that needs to be addressed. 4) If you know about it, why keep repeating the falsehood that nobody paid a 90% tax. No one is saying that the rich paid a 90% tax. The argument is that they paid it on income above a certain level. All of the evidence shows that people did pay at that level, but because you believe in an economic theory that ignores reality, you keep pretending that they didn't.
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  10889.  @rajashashankgutta4334  Some of your responses had multiple points, so I'll break each up into its own response so it doesn't get unwieldy. 1) This shows the problem of working backwards when it comes to questions about taxation. You have decided from the beginning that certain rates are inherently unfair and immoral, so you try to work backwards to find ways to prove that it is ineffective and completely irrelevant to the question of wealth and income inequality. Like a fundamentalist trying to find the text in your holy book that proves your doctrine correct. I am not saying that we need a top tax rate of 90%. I do believe that it should be significantly higher than 37%, though. Even Art Laffer, who drew the curve on a cocktail napkin that birthed the theory that you espouse, admitted in the paper where he explained the curve that he didn't put numbers on his curve because the optimal level can vary greatly. He went on to say that the top rate of 94% during WWII was justified. And no one is saying that there should be a limit to how much people make. If I was saying that, I would be arguing for a full Share Our Wealth program with a maximum net worth and a 100% marginal rate above a certain amount. What I am arguing is that it should be much higher than at above a certain rate. As far as whether or not I would be outraged if I had to pay that much in taxes, I'll go back to something Larry King said in a conversation with Bill Press. He opened by saying that he paid over five million in taxes the year before. Rather than complaining about how much the government charged, he said, "This means I had a really good year. I hope I have an even better year so they take more next year." Look at the great fortunes of the 20th century. Most were created in years where there was a much higher tax rate. When Buffett started, the capital gains rate was twice what it is now. When Gates started, the top tax bracket was 70%. George Romney became the first Presidential candidate to release his taxes in 1967, and he released 12 years of taxes to show that it wasn't a fluke. His effective rate was higher than the top marginal rate now. As far as things being legal, you are also ignoring that those with great fortunes lobby the government to make their unsavory practices legal. And you mention all of these other factors that you say were the bigger drivers of stagnant wages, but it was Reagan busting the air traffic controllers union that put those things into place. The reason why higher taxes are part of the puzzle for wealth and income inequality is that the rich will be less likely to give themselves as high of a salary, and when corporate taxes are higher, that gives more incentive to invest in the company and in higher wages so that can be deducted from their income, which stimulates the economy.
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  10890.  @rajashashankgutta4334  2) Oh, no. I got your point, but your point came from your own butt (or someone else's butt whom you are repeating) without any evidence. Again, George Romney released 12 years of taxes in 1967. That means that he released them for the years 1955-66, only the last three of which were after Johnson cut the top rate to 70% in exchange for cutting loopholes, including strengthening the requirements for something to be eligible for long term capital gains, which got cut in the decades since. (The Johnson bill required assets be owned for two years to be treated as long term capital, now it is only one.) So, I have actual evidence to back up my argument that people paid it, and you don't. But, because you are in fundamentalist land, you don't understand that saying that no one ever actually got to the top bracket completely defeats your argument that having a top bracket that high is inherently unfair.
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  10891.  @rajashashankgutta4334  3) And yet you are arguing for the hardcore supply side position. Your platitudes don't hide your ideology.
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  10892.  @rajashashankgutta4334  4) And what you ignore is that plenty of rich people actually did pay that rate. It was also much more difficult to get away with illegal deductions when we had a well funded IRS whose agents weren't instructed to focus most of their attention on people asking for credits that only the poor and middle-class get and they put their energy into going after millionaire filers to catch them in the act.
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  10893.  @rajashashankgutta4334  1) Because Reagan is the most influential and damaging supply sider of all. And by what basis for you consider a top marginal rate of over 50% "immoral"? And you can't even get the Laffer Curve right. As terrible as it has become since he always seems to think that we are on the right side of the curve these days, it does not argue that taxes affect economic growth negatively. It argues that there is a level of taxation that leads to optimal revenue. My point is that we are clearly on the left of that curve now, and the optimal level is significantly higher. I've seen some studies that argue that it could be as high as 71% in the United States.
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  10894.  @rajashashankgutta4334  2) You're the one who repeatedly said that nobody paid it, no matter how many times I pointed to examples of people complaining about paying it or providing documentation that proved that they did. Is this your concession that you were wrong? And why do you keep bringing up your parents? Do you not work?
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  10895.  @rajashashankgutta4334  This is the first time you have actually said that it should go up. Saying anything over 50% is immoral is not the same thing as saying that you think it should be 50%, and you keep using the exact logic of the supply siders.
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  10896.  @rajashashankgutta4334  1) That doesn't answer the basis of what makes it immoral. That says why you don't like it, but it doesn't underlie any moral principle, i.e., questions about social obligation and whether or not it is moral to make billions off the backs of poverty. A) No, you can't perform exact experiments in economics, but you do have 75 years of data in the post-WWII period to go by in order to use to determine conclusions, and B) the indisputable truth is that the economy grew faster and saw more people benefit in the 35 years where the top marginal rate never dropped lower than 70% than in the 40 years since when it was never higher than 50%. Speaking of the morality of taxes, there are far more and bigger speculative bubbles when taxes are lower because that encourages the rich to pay themselves more, which then leads to a lot of money to burn chasing paper wealth, which makes everyone suffer. If anything, I would argue that the greater moral hazard comes when taxes on the richest among us are too low.
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  10897.  @rajashashankgutta4334  2) "The few tax loopholes that we have"? The Internal Revenue Code is thousands of pages long. Admittedly, a lot of it is explanations, but again, you are arguing from a position of what you want things to be compared to what things really are like. There are plenty of loopholes, and the biggest one is that more rich people are paid in stock options these days than they were when they got a salary. Does anyone honestly think that Steve Jobs came back to Apple from the good of his heart for a dollar a year? That is a loophole that wasn't available back then. And a big reason why you see more people testing the boundaries and getting less political pressure is because one of the two major parties convinced people that taxes are for suckers and that avoidance makes you smart. Still, does this mean that you are finally conceding the point that lots of rich people paid the top tax bracket when it was over 90%?
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  10898.  @rajashashankgutta4334  And if we are too far on the side of supply, then moving toward demand is necessary and vital in order to keep our economy going.
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  10899.  @rajashashankgutta4334  Just saying that it's immoral doesn't make it so. You need to actually lay out the moral foundation and principle that you are using that such a thing violates. Most other countries that did have their infrastructure affected by WWII had dug out of their hole long by the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the United States still managed to keep economic dominance. Not only that, but a lot of the other countries climbing out of their holes had similar high taxes at the time, so if it was so economically harmful, they wouldn't have been able to grow. Also, what were the big battles that destroyed the infrastructure of Canada? And therein lies the rub. The very people who actually want to regulate finance in a way to prevent those bubbles are the same people who want to raise taxes way up on the rich.
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  10900.  @rajashashankgutta4334  The reasons why people are avoiding the top marginal rate now are because a) funding from the IRS has been gutted along with auditors being instructed to spend more time going after EITC filers, thus making evasion more difficult to detect, and b) a lot of the income of the rich is now under capital gains rather than ordinary income. Those things are much easier to fix. The most egregious loophole of all is the cost basis loophole for estate taxes. For example, Jeff Bezos could die tomorrow, and the cost of Amazon stock that he never sold would go tax free to his heirs in perpetuity. So, his kids could cash out a 12-figure net worth and never pay a penny. We also need to look at what really counts as a charitable donation, because most charitable donations by the rich end up supporting things that they use.
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  10901.  @rajashashankgutta4334  1) No, that's an assertion, not a moral foundation. A Marxist (I am not one, but I am just pointing out a competing argument) would point out that renters and employees don't really have much control at all over the fruits of labor, so by that logic, they would say that this should lead you instead to supporting workers' rights and allow either the abolition of private property or to allow everyone to have his/her own parcel of land. Heck, over the last 3 1/2 years, I've paid over $31,000 in rent, and because I want my daughter to go to a decent school (and I picked a relatively cheap place to live before that to try to deal with debt largely built up by my ex-wife), that rate is going to go up even further. 2) Don't Scandinavian countries have top tax rates of over 50%? You just defeated your own argument. 3) Okay, then. Name one person who consistently argues for lower taxes in American politics who wants to increase regulation on business. Those are almost always a package deal.
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  10902.  @rajashashankgutta4334  What specific tax loopholes in the 1950s existed that were eliminated by Johnson in 1964, Reagan in 1986, or any other time that were so much more egregious than the ones that exist today? It's a nice story that the tax code was more riddled with loopholes back then, but considering that you initially thought that "nobody paid the top rate," even though I provided evidence of people who did, I want actual evidence. Why would it have been less beneficial then, when the richest 400 families paid an effective rate nearly twice that as today? Let us count the ways: 1) more income came in the form of salary than stock options, thus subjecting it to the income tax; 2) publicly-traded companies paid a lot more dividends back then (read The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffett's mentor, and you will see that it wasn't uncommon for companies to have dividends of as much as 1/3 of company profits), which was treated as income; 3) interest rates were much higher then, which again was treated as ordinary income; and last, but not least 4) the IRS was far better funded, and virtually every form with income over a certain level was pored over with a fine tooth comb, so it was much easier to find improper deductions at that time, this making the likelihood of getting caught much higher, thus making it far less worthwhile to pursue policies that skirted the line between legal avoidance and illegal evasion.
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  10903.  @rajashashankgutta4334  1) You have it backwards. Renters pay rent. And the mere fact that you include inherited property pretty much destroys your argument that it is the fruit of the landlord's labor. Inheritance is the exact opposite of "the fruits of your labor." It is what Buffett calls the Lucky Sperm Club. 2) What by your definition makes "in and around 50%" (funny that rhetorical sleight of hand when I find the example of the hole in your argument that more than half is immoral) acceptable but not 70-90%? "I think it's too high" is not a moral principle. 3) The defining characteristic of economic conservatism is a desire to give the rich more unrestricted use of their riches. Sometimes, it manifests itself in arguments about taxation, and other times it manifests itself in arguments about the regulation of business, but the reason for the overlap is that they are both coming from the same place philosophically.
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  10904.  @rajashashankgutta4334  1) I suggest a sufficient inheritance tax that we don't end up with an aristocracy. We can have a democracy or an aristocracy, but we can't have both. Theodore Roosevelt thought that it should be much higher than the top rate of 40% we had today. 2) So, what makes 55% legitimate and 70% confiscatory? What is the moral principle? "I think it's too high" is not a moral argument. 3) You're saying you're an enlightened centrist, but your rhetoric is that of a libertarian or a supply sider. I am not talking about policy specifics, but your justification for said political positions.
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  10905.  @rajashashankgutta4334  1) Again with the Enlightened Centrism leading to libertarianism. And what do you define as "low to moderate"? 2) No, morality is not a simple matter of like and dislike. Morality is an argument about good and evil that strongly implies that your mind is set in stone and if someone disagrees with you on this issue, that is a statement about the core beliefs of that person. My point is that there is nothing immoral about high taxes. 3) Have you never heard of Enlightened Centrism?
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  10906.  @rajashashankgutta4334  So, you're not an Enlightened Centrist, but you argue like one, and you want to not only make massive tax cuts for the richest of estates (the top bracket is currently 40%), but you want to take a tax that only effects the richest 0.3% of estates and apply it to far more people? Or maybe you make the Enlightened Centrist/libertarian move of spending your time focusing on The Way Things Ought to Be. And, just a hint: arguing from the right to start a conversation only to then insist that the right don't really like your positions is a classic move of the Enlightened Centrist. Pretending that positions that are well within the mainstream of most industrialized countries is "too extreme" is a classic move of the Enlightened Centrist. You might not think you are one, but your rhetoric sounds like one. And where is this evidence that taxes above 55% mean that people won't be productive? Bill Gates started his company when the top rate was 70%. Ross Perot started his when the top rate was 91%. Warren Buffett started his when the capital gains rate was twice what it is now. Plenty of great American companies were formed when corporate income taxes were 32% of all federal government revenues. I know you think that, but in the world of The Way Things Really Are, it just doesn't work the way you say it does. Saying that something is immoral doesn't make it so. Saying what you think the effects are doesn't, either. Even if your argument was correct, that still isn't a question of morality, but using heavy handed rhetoric to try to jump steps in your argument.
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  10907.  @rajashashankgutta4334  What makes it unreasonable? I get that you think that you get to dictate what is morality, but what is unreasonable about something that many other places have tried and it works wonders? It used to be the way things were done in the United States, too, and more people saw benefits.
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  10908.  @rajashashankgutta4334  No, you are being dishonest. When you say that something is immoral, you are making a weighted claim. Just because you can't back it up under scrutiny doesn't mean that isn't what you were trying to do. Just like you say that my position is "extreme," but you can't back it up when there is a follow up.
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  10909.  @anthonyguitron6741  Or the 14th (Equal Protection), which most legal scholars argue is the most important one.
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  10910. As Mitt Romney put it, nothing anyone does will ever convince these people regardless of how strong the evidence is, so it is just a waste of time.
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  10911. So, because some idiots refused to extend the child tax credit, you think that means that it didn't cut poverrt while it was in place?
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  10912. Biden already has enough delegates to win the nomination.
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  10913. Better than Obama? Probably not. Better than Moscow Donald? Absolutely.
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  10914.  @michaelparmetersr.9018  As far as Trump goes, if Vivek says that he is "the greatest President of the 20th century," then he clearly sees Trump as a model. If he says that he will pardon Trump, that leads to questions about the rule of law and whether certain people really are above the law. Until the Republican Party figures out how to deal with Trump, he is completely unavoidable as an interview topic with those running against him.
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  10915.  @URFTBOUND4LIFE  I felt so sorry for her when Ben Shapiro said that she had to tell him that WAP was a medical condition.
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  10916. We are just awful when it comes to slogans. "Believe all women" leads to the notion that people have to prove their innocence, so maybe the slogan should be "listen to all women" instead.
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  10917.  @raghailligh1080  Also, Manchin is in a very red state. He is literally the best we can do for statewide offices in WV. Hawaii is a very blue state, and we can do a lot better than her.
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  10918.  @Blackmark52  I think it's fair to count 2000 as a run for President. I'm sure the person you originally replied to was probably including those. I personally don't count 1988 and 2012, because he clearly walked away before he ran for office, but he was clearly running in 2000. He had a website, a campaign book, and switched his party registration from Republican to Reform.
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  10919.  @Blackmark52  True, but I guess I was referring to the idea that one could parlay reality TV fame to a political career. A Senate candidate needs to win the popular vote, and those lines can't be gerrymandered.
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  10920.  @Blackmark52  When I said originally replied to, I was talking about the person who said he ran for office four times.
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  10921.  @Blackmark52  True that he does think that celebrity is all you need. I looked it up, and he did form an exploratory committee in 2000, so I think that pretty much means you are running.
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  10922.  @Blackmark52  I've said that I agree that Trump believes that it is sufficient. I don't think that star power alone explains his power over Republicans. I think a lot comes from the fact that there has always been an authoritarian strain, and they loved it when he let that freak flag fly. Some people also love the bully. It's the same reason why Chris Christie was the star before he was.
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  10923. 2:22 Even if RFK had lived, he almost certainly would have lost the nomination. He only won two primaries, and primaries weren't really a big thing in 1968. Humphrey still would have won the nomination.
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  10924. I think Lori Loughlin's husband isn't mentioned as much just because most people don't know who he is, but most people, especially those born in or after the late 1970s, knows who Aunt Becky is.
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  10925.  @jonq8714  Perhaps, but to use another example, imagine how much better things would have gone had the DKP and the SPD had worked together to stop fascism. I saw a Rational National video that was from the archives with Hitchens noting that Trotsky argued that there is no coming back from fascism while Stalin argued that it would collapse after a few months. Good intentions are one thing, but you have to understand the situation you are in.
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  10926. No.
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  10927. Because people are stupid and egotistical and would rather keep their "purity" than develop a sense of strategy.
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  10928. So, do you like her previous statement on torture? Or her vote to make it more difficult for Syrian refugees to enter the United States? How about her praise of Putin for bombing civilians in Syria while complaining that Obama didn't? Maybe her praise of Sisi after killing protesters in Egypt? Or her continued defense and advocacy of Modi? She is the spiritual descendant of Ron Paul and the America First Committee on foreign policy.
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  10929.  @Lightningkuriboh  That guy literally never has anything to say about policy. In another thread, he admitted to being butt hurt about half the BOBs going to Trump compared to PUMAs going to McCain. He'll disappear when he is proven wrong.
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  10930. The funny thing about the shark digression is that it bolsters the case that Stormy Daniels was telling the truth, because she mentioned his phobia of sharks long before anyone else knew about it.
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  10931.  @anjum3847  Snape was a double agent. How effective do you think he would have been if he was as kindly to Harry as Flitwick or Sprout?
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  10932.  @anjum3847  I'm not forgetting that at all. And there is a huge difference between having a personal dislike for someone and harm being your first priority. Snape put himself into harm's way repeatedly to protect Harry and the students in general. And if a test of true character is what you do when you think no one is watching, when leading unconscious people out of the Shrieking Shack, including the living person he hated the most (Sirius), he got them out carefully and gently, while Sirius repeatedly and intentionally hit Snape's head against the walls while he was unconscious.
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  10933. Even if Moscow Donald is acquitted in the Senate, it is vital to get them all on the record. For those who say that it will help Trump, look at what happened in 2000: it forced Gore to run away from Clinton, and it gave Bush his "restore honor and dignity to the White House line." I saw an exit poll in WV that Gore lost 13 points among religious right voters compared to Clinton in 1996. Probably not enough to make up six points overall, but if you have similar results elsewhere, say maybe Tennessee, and it isn't close enough to steal in Florida.
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  10934.  @DiscordBeing  It's in the bill. If you watch the video, he lists a specific (namely, that the first $29,000 in employee income is exempt). Here is his funding: Existing mechanisms. Employer payroll tax of 7%. Employee payroll tax of 4% above that level. Coupled with Workplace Democracy, employers will be required to pass along the savings to the worker in higher pay or benefits.
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  10935. 2:13 Exit polls in Florida showed that Nader voters preferred Gore to Bush by 26 (43-17 with the rest not voting) or 16 (37-21 with the rest not voting). Even if you use the smaller amount and add 16% of Nader voters to Gore's Florida totals, even with all of the sabotage, he still wins the state hy 15,050 votes. If Nader was really serious about his stated goal of getting 5% to qualify the Greens for federal funding, he would have concentrated on large safe states like California, New York, and Texas instead of swing states like Florida, Wisconsin, and Oregon. Several of his supporters like Michael Moore and Ani DiFranco eventually realized what he was doing and told people that if they lived in swing states and worried about throwing the election to Bush to vote for Gore. Needless to say, Nader didn't like that. And if you look at who he has supported after he stopped running for President (Bloomberg and Rand Paul), that should tell you how fake he is, and why Public Citizen removed his name from their masthead.
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  10936. Now, do you finally understand why si many of us were saying that the Supreme Court matters and that we can't give that big, orange dummy a free pick back in 2016?
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  10937. Hillary was running during that testimony. It was September 2015.
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  10938.  @cannapurp2833  Nobody ever said that the Russia investigation was about proving that Trump would have otherwise lost. It was about whether or not his campaign sought and took illegal campaign assistance from Russia. It did, and Trump committed at least ten acts of obstruction of justice to hide it. As far as criminal investigations go, Mueller was not going to go past the realm of his charge, and he knew that the Justice Department wouldn't indict a sitting President, so saying that it didn't prove that Russian interference was the deciding factor and Trump didn't get indicted is saying that gravity is ridiculous because it doesn't prove that the solar system is in the Wilky Way.
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  10939.  @esqueejy  Evil Turtle had his chance to get rid of the filibuster. Der Orangefuhrer demanded it many times. He didn't kill it completely not because he is an institutionalist who loves the Senate, but because he can already do everything he wants to do with the filibuster rules as they are now, and he cares far more about stopping Democrats than he does building a positive legislative agenda of his own.
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  10940. The "I'm in pain" sounds like a girl.
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  10941.  @justr6982  Still doesn't change the fact that third-party voters thought that there wasn't enough difference between the two, and I repeatedly heard those idiots in 2016 with an open Supreme Court seat that Evil Turtle was holding open tell me that the Supreme Court didn't matter. If our coalition is too stupid to understand that the other side always shows up and you can never take a break because some things you can't get back (such as the lives from Bush's war of choice in Iraq or the million-plus dead from coronavirus), that is a huge part of why we can't have nice things.
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  10942.  @justr6982  Most of what Biden was offering was "I'm not the one who botched the pandemic," so that's hardly "giving people want they want." Bernie tried to do that, and he got a lower percentage in 2020 than in 2016. I did everything I could to try to help him win the nomination, but it doesn't change the fact that voters made another choice. But the problem is that you have one group that for all of their many faults actually does show up to vote every time, to the point that they keep winning even though the people disagree with them on almost everything. On the other side, you have people who insist that they need to be wooed, and almost because they have this weird amnesia and forget how bad Republicans are at governing, periodically they think they can ignore their duty and that things don't matter. However, because of how finely tuned one side has been in weaponizing the judiciary, there is no time where such a move is safe. We suffer every time this happens, and I refuse to pander to egomaniacs who insist that they're above it all like Homer Simpson bragging that he voted for Kodos.
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  10943.  myredfestiva  So, you want a fascist dictatorship because you didn't get what you want. Congratulations, you are a psychopath.
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  10944. Who needs to stop? TYT is helping us by pointing out why Biden is so awful.
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  10945. He is last on mine, but I would have to agree.
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  10946.  Beach Sand  Oh, they know. They just don't care.
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  10947.  @bartjargengarblbargeler1980  Says the anti-anti-Trumper.
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  10948. Moscow Donald is not 6'3. Jeb! is 6'3, and when you saw them on the debate stage, he is clearly taller. I'm not a tall man by any standard (5'5), at least I don't lie about it.
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  10949. Yes, Republicans. Feel free to boycott the run-off!
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  10950. It's his name on the court, which I think explains part of the reason why occasionally he tries to rein things in.
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  10951. ​ @kassygendron3022  There is a bill called the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact that will solve the problem. Once a sufficient number of states to equal a majority of the Electoral College sign on, the member states agree to allocate electors by the winner of the national popular vote rather than the state popular vote. Maine and Michigan are currently deliberating it in their legislatures. If they pass, that brings the total to 224, meaning only 46 more to pass. If your state hasn't joined, contact your legislator.
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  10952. I never tire of watching the responses to Ivanka's other lover getting asked this question.
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  10953.  @dl2839  The administrative state is there to enforce the laws that are already in place. Are you trying to say that you'd rather go back to the spoils system, or did you forget why we got rid of it in the first place?
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  10954.  @MylesKillis  It's a lot harder to check someone who has just been declared immune, genius.
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  10955.  @MylesKillis  And you clearly missed the allusion to why we got rid of it in the first place. James Garfield was assassinated by a man upset that he didn't get a postmaster job. Do you want to go back to that? I don't.
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  10956. Kneeling is a symbol of mourning.
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  10957.  @TyonKree  Well, I don't know what happened to my link, but Google "kneeling mourning," and the very first article from Scientific American lays it out.
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  10958.  Mister Physics  I don't know. I've seen some pretty pale people in my day. One who literally seemed to glow in the dark.
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  10959. Because he sold his soul for that gavel and he is stupid enough to think that he can wait out people who just want to watch the world burn.
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  10960.  @aheroictaxidriver3180  It was 203. Usually, in a stalemate like this, you want to see your numbers go up, not down.
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  10961.  @aheroictaxidriver3180  It starts as a trickle, and then it becomes a flood. The third vote was a mistake.
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  10962.  @aheroictaxidriver3180  Show me when losing a vote is ever a good sign for a person who nobody really seems to like, anyway. Are they all just about ready to crack?
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  10963.  @meoff7602  It's a poison chalice, indeed. So fun watching them sabotage themselves.
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  10964.  @damejanea.macdonald2371  Admittedly, that is a pretty low bar ;-)
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  10965. There are a lot of things James Comer doesn't understand. I honestly don't understand why he isn't right up there with Boebert, Greene, and Tuberville when talking about the dumbest members of Congress.
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  10966.  @kpax45  If it wasn't such a disaster, a part of me would appreciate the irony of the fact that the Founding Fathers did not trust people to directly elect the President and decided that wise men would better pick the President, but the people wanted someone who was actually qualified, and electors gave us that big orange dummy.
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  10967.  Harry Callahan  [citation needed]
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  10968.  Harry Callahan  That is not evidence that every single person in the United States illegally voted for Hillary. So, [citation needed].
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  10969.  Harry Callahan  If Trump is removed, Pence becomes President, so how is that reversing the results of the election. Then again, I remember some of your ideological brethren who pushed that birther nonsense kept insisting that this meant McCain would become President instead of Biden. For people who claim to love the Constitution, you sure don't actually know what it says.
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  10970. Maybe the solution for people who want to keep a constitutional monarchy should be to have more of a bicycle monarch like several other European countries who basically live a normal life and don't cost nearly as much.
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  10971. There were two actual impeachment. Nixon resigned after the House Judiciary Committee voted to impeach bit before the full House could.
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  10972. Well, Donnie, if you would have stopped trying to delay and run out the clock, the trial would be over.
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  10973. To paraphrase LBJ, give someone to look down on and they'll give you their money.
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  10974.  @banehelsing7541  I don't think the Washington Post ever claimed to be a lefty paper. That being said, I do agree that it's better to put your cards on the table about your biases than to pretend they don't exist.
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  10975. Well, I'm sure he read it when hos yes-men found a positive article about him.
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  10976.  thesparitan  Well, Yang is the one who posted the tweet, and he should have known that saying that it would be a "dangerous time of social unrest" didn't do himself any favors. As far as "thinking for yourself," considering the way that the Yang Gang kept reciting the same talking point over and over again in response to my critique of the way he is proposing UBI, I'd say "thinking for yourself" isn't the strong suit of at least that group on Yang supporters. If he were worried about declining fertility in general, there would be no need to single out declining white fertility.
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  10977.  thesparitan  I put that part in quotation marks because those were his words. If you think that it is "obvious" that minority majority status is dangerous, then you aren't helping your argument. When he said that no one is talking about the white trucker or factory worker being displaced or feeling their pain, I was totally on board. Saying that he was making a point about how "even the most advantaged are suffering" is not what he said, because he pointed out that other people ignore the suffering of poor white people, thus suggesting that the advantage for poor white people is overstated.
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  10978.  thesparitan  As far as "ignoring their pain," I am pointing out that he is a Trojan horse. There is a candidate who is talking about the plight of working people of all races, his name is Bernie Sanders, and I support him wholeheartedly.
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  10979.  thesparitan  Tell me where Bernie said white people becoming less tha 50% of the United States population is bad. I can show you where Yang said it. That is the difference. You take it as inherent that this is a bad thing (assuming that Hispanics won't go the way of Italians, Jewish people, and Irish, and start counting as white, but that's a question for another day). Speaking of motivated reasoning, I said that it was good that Yang said what he did about white working people, but just because I didn't get his phrasing exactly right, you're saying that is what I criticized, when it is not. I will say it again: I am critical that Yang said that it would be a dangerous time when white people are less than half of the US population. Yang said it, Bernie didn't. I don't know how much clearer I can make it, but the fact that you're not arguing against my critique doesn't help your case.
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  10980.  thesparitan  That is in the above link. That is the "socially dangerous" that I cited above. If you want to have an honest discussion, great, but if you want to have an argument based on semantics and pretending that people said what they didn't say, I have no time for such nonsense. You seemed to imply that what he was saying is obvious in an earlier post. Well, if it's so obvious, defend it, but don't pretend that he didn't say it.
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  10981.  thesparitan  You are projecting more than a movie theater, you dishonest liar! I even said that it was good that Yang talked about the suffering of poor white people. I said it above. But because you can't understand the difference between "white people are suffering, too" (a legitimate and valid point that Yang made) and lamenting the social danger of America being less than 50% white, you have to keep saying that I criticized Yang for the former when I did no such thing. This wouldn't be as bad if it was one isolated person who was misrepresenting criticism of Yang, but it's not. If you can't tell me why it's dangerous for America to be minority majority, or if you won't tell me because you know it sounds bad, you have only proven my point about the difference between saying "white people are suffering" and "it will be dangerous for white people to become a minority."
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  10982.  thesparitan  Are you really that stupid, or are you playing stupid? "Majority minority" means less than 50% white. "Socially dangerous" is bad. I don't expect an honest answer, and I will waste no more of my time.
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  10983.  thesparitan  The context was declining white birth rates. Show me another Democratic Presidential candidate who has lamented minority majority status. The context doesn't help your argument. Talking about that at the same time you talk about declining white birth rates isn't "hate crime is on the rise, and it will only get worse when whites are less than half of the population," which still isn't a good place to be, because at that point, you are just legitimizing terrorist demands.
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  10984.  thesparitan  And, being the one issue candidate he is, he tried to turn it back to his woefully inadequate libertarian version of UBI that will, instead of helping everybody, put the poor in a position of choosing the benefits they have now. Here's a thought: maybe if someone doesn't like the way nuance is ignored (even when the nuance doesn't help), maybe try not to go off on such tangents in a medium that only allows 280 characters.
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  10985.  thesparitan  Okay, you want honesty? You want context? Yang wrote about minority majority status on the same day that he wrote about the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting. I did not see the time stamp, only the date stamp, so if he came back hours later, I will apologize, but the thread (and you can't tell where one ends and the other begins because he does no 1/, 2/, etc.) starts with two tweets expressing sorrow for the shooting, then minority majority status, then two or three tweets about UBI. All of those were from the same day. Even if your interpretation is correct, and I am reading too much into his statement about it being "socially dangerous," do you honestly and truly believe that the time to say it is right after people are killed in a synagogue, before making a segue into a pitch for UBI? Worst case scenario, he's playing a dangerous game of dog whistle politics. Best case scenario, he is extremely insensitive to the suffering of others, using a tragedy as a jumping off point for saying that it will get even worse in 27 years, but not if people adopt his one proposal. On an absolute scale of 10, that's going from a -10 to a -9.
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  10986.  thesparitan  That is the one. I linked earlier, and I kept saying to refer to that. Are you telling me that you flew blind this many times without reading it but reflexively defended Yang?
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  10987.  thesparitan  There are lots of things that racists will use as an excuse to do racist things. White people being less than 50% of the US population (ignoring the fact that lots of people who are considered white now weren't in our past, that there are already light-skinned Hispanics who are identifying as white, that even according to the US Census Hispanic is not a race but an ethnicity), and since White is a social construct anyway, that there is a real possibility that by that point Hispanic people may very well be considered white, so there is no need to get the vapors about such possibility. I see it as not positive or negative, but something that may very well be. As to his second point, there are some who exploit economic anxiety, but the instigators and the leaders of extremist groups are rarely poor. So, I would say that the answer to the second question is mixed. As far as the context question, let's just say that, for the sake of argument, that he didn't know that anxiety over minority majority status is a common dog whistle among white supremacists (i.e., "Jews will not replace us" chants in Charlottesville), and it really was an innocent comment, do you really think that mentioning it as a follow up to expression of sympathy after a hate crime is really the best time? To me, the most charitable explanation is that he's as tone deaf as Yoko Ono. As far as "I could have resolved this sooner," if you hadn't seen the link or it didn't work for you, you could have simply told me that you couldn't see the link. Defending someone on semantics when you don't know the quote is the height of intellectual dishonesty. I don't go into discussions trying to defend or attack people, I go in trying to get answers, and while you might not have agreed with my interpretation, at least I was honest enough to examine the evidence rather than blindly defend someone.
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  10988.  thesparitan  I never said one way or another whether he was a racist. I simply pointed out that he was repeating a dog whistle. If you notice, the original comment that I replied to was about why there is some overlap with Trump supporters for both Bernie and Yang.
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  10989.  thesparitan  There is no evidence that minority majority status is used as a dog whistle? That said, I think it's interesting that you said that it was after a white person shot "brown people." They were Jewish. Usually, someone of Jewish descent is considered white in America. I guess that might bolster your point that people acting with racial motives won't start to consider Hispanic people to be white but a) we're talking about a quarter of a century from now, so who knows what people will accept, and b) if most people start to consider Hispanics white (the way they did Irish, and Italians, and Jewish people), the Census won't release a report that minority majority status is here. That was my point. I blindly defended nothing. I saw the context, and the context didn't seem to help in my opinion. You, however, defended Yang's statement while not having read it. What's next, are you going to say that I'm the one who defended the libertarian version of UBI?
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  10990.  @alexanderingraham8255  Ultimately, I think the ultimate limit of libertarian "freedom" is that any time there is a conflict between competing claims of freedom between the rich or business and the poor, they ALWAYS support the rich. For example, I have heard plenty of libertarians say that they support getting rid of antitrust laws because they interfere with the free market, but when it comes to unions and free association, those inhibit freedom.
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  10991. You can see the punch land, and if you hit someone in just the right place, it doesn't have to be hard. It just has to be good.
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  10992.  Thomas Schmidt  Maybe he can be like Porky from the movie? ;-)
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  10993. People like Ramsey like to say that they take the Bible as serious and you should judge people by every word, but it's funny how when you mention the Rich Young Ruler, the parable of the sheep and the goats, and "the love of money is the root of all evil" aren't what Jesus or Paul really meant.
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  10994. I got a cut this year, largely based on the increased child tax credit (I don't itemize, and SALT would have been below the cap), but I would much rather that money go to a good school being available for my daughter in 2 1/2 years.
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  10995. How long has Oregon been all mail voting?
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  10996. If Roy Moore wins the nomination, and Doug Jones holds the seat, that changes everything. We can have a better than not chance in Colorado and Maine, and a good chance in Arizona and Iowa, and there is the majority.
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  10997. It's not going to shame Lindsey Graham, but it might show enough voters in South Carolina what a despicable weasel he really is.
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  10998.  @paperpersona1243  True, but Harrison is even in the polls, so he is definitely in the race of his life. There's a lot of military people in the Palmetto State, and he seems to have angered just about everyone the last three years, but for different reasons.
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  10999. And tbe Biden polls are distorted because they've been getting primed for that answer for weeks.
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  11000. "Childless cat ladies" will appear in the first paragraph of JD Vance's obituary. It's truly the gift that keeps on giving.
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  11001.  @l.w.paradis2108  The Supreme Court made abortion legal nationwide. They can rule in a way that not only overturned Roe, but they could write it in such a way as to criminalize it.
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  11002.  @davidcunningham9282  Considering that people have gotten it twice, even here immunity isn't going to work.
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  11003. Never forget that Republicans as a whole and from traitor states in particular know that they have to say this stuff because their base wants to justify traitors who loved America so much that they wanted to leave it in order to own other human beings.
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  11004. Read his old stuff. This is his true self.
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  11005.  @dildonius  And considering that his shining moment that gave him credibility in lefty circles was the Edward Snowden story, and Snowden has now applied for Russian citizenship (and before he left the United States, he was a big Ron Paul supporter), it is starting to seem more and more like rather than being a hero, Snowden turned out to be a spy, and this story falling in Greenwald's lap helped that spy out.
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  11006.  @presterjohn1697  McConnell just gave a green light. If Trump is convicted, he loses his pension and budget and he is ineligible for public office ever again. Perhaps now that they wrung every bit of what they could from him, they are tossing him aside.
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  11007.  VictorNieves-u9y  You are clearly missing the point. Science was used to justify eugenics. There are always evil people who will use anything they can to justify the perpetration of their evil.
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  11008.  VictorNieves-u9y  So, you want to pretend that eugenics wasn't a thing? That Social Darwinism wasn't?
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  11009. Legally bankrupt? Did the US say that it can't make its payments and ask to restructure debt? Well, Moscow Donald floated the idea during the campaign. Fortunately, he dropped that idea pretty quickly when someone whispered in his ear what he was doing.
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  11010.  @PRiMETECHAU  That guy's a troll. His username should make that obvious.
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  11011. "Believe all women" and "believe all women except the ones who accuse candidates we support" both stem from the same problem: tribalism. If Samantha Miscelli thinks that her story isn't credible, she should at least have the decency to say why.
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  11012.  @jamescooke7243  The right doesn't vote to fund wars. Which side complained about Biden literally ending a war?
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  11013. How could you not make a reference to the character Subway on Community?
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  11014.  @auntypha5958  Actually, that's where right wing came from. Tories predated the French Revolution.
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  11015.  @nappel6496  I guess you missed that whole "well regulated" part at the beginning of the Second Amendment.
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  11016.  @MrNb22  Indeed. There is no such thing as right-wing populism. Anyone who says otherwise is a grifter or a fascist apologist.
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  11017.  @nappel6496  Shall not be infringed does not mean that no gun control is allowed. Even Antonin Scalia argued that wasn't the case in the Heller ruling. For the first 117 years of the Second Amendment, it was never understood to be an individual right, let alone an absolute one.
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  11018. Even after they got rid of Shep Smith.
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  11019.  @Virjunior01  I have known people who really have no permanent opinions or ideas where everything is just one big long presence. Everything is the best, the worst, etc. It can be quite grueling as a spectator.
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  11020.  @Virjunior01  I am relating the frustration that you experienced with losing track of the ever-changing definition of who is in the good graces of Dear Leader with personal experiences of dealing with someone whose life is just one big now.
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  11021. Christie was the one who was far more damaging, because he called out Rubio-bot right as he seemed to be getting a little bit of momentum.
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  11022.  @FreedomFighter-cr5xg  All this is true. That was the joke. I was pointing out that the difference between the two wasn't policy, but physical cowardice of Moscow Donald.
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  11023. He has drivers, so he doesn't have to find his way home.
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  11024. Higher wages? Does that mean that you have joined the Fight for 15, Ted?
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  11025. Even Lawrence O'Donnell devoted several minutes last night to making that point.
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  11026. No, Donald, you are the one gambling with WWIII. If you get your way, ahd Putin gets Ukraine, he'll reload and go somewhere else that people aren't willing to accept, such as a NATO member, and that will start World War III.
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  11027.  @ajmooretap  That was part of the "opt in." Someone asked him about it on the CNN town hall, and he said that people with disabilities will probably get more under the current system than the "freedom dividend."
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  11028.  @stopplayingthegame  It's not even close to a question of mere semantics. Anti-war means making conditions ripe for a more peaceful world. Isolationism is not caring of the world burns just as long as your people aren't getting crispy. Do you think the America First Committee was for peace?
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  11029.  @ajmooretap  Yes, there is hypocrisy. He constantly compares his plan to the oil dividend in Alaska, but every single Alaskan gets it. It is not "opt in," and getting government assistance isn't a disqualifier. His is an attempt to gut the existing safety net, not to build on it.
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  11030.  @ajmooretap  All that being said, if his proposal is really about helping people displaced by automation, why is getting welfare for the poor disqualifying, but welfare for the rich isn't?
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  11031.  @stopplayingthegame  I am aware that anti-war doesn't mean that, which is why I don't think.sje qualifies as a peace candidate. As far as whether or not you think Bernie would have stopped any of these, who was the one who actually built a bipartisan coalition to invoke the restrictions of the War Powers Act for the first time ever?
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  11032.  @stopplayingthegame  So, you agree with Trump on the Iran nuclear deal? Something that literally every agency verified that they kept and has made it far more difficult for them to ever rebuild their nuclear program ever again? Once again, there is a difference between isolationism and peace.
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  11033.  @ajmooretap  They don't? How much did Amazon pay in taxes again? GE? Is there a cap on the mortgage interest deduction that I am unaware of (even though there is a cap on the student loan interest deduction)? Look up the book Get the Rich Off Welfare. As far as your statements about welfare and disability, I am a caseworker, so I think I have a good idea of how benefits work. The problem with the difference between the two is that he uses that example to suggest that everyone gets it, but it's only when he is questioned or that someone digs deeper that it becomes obvious that everyone doesn't. I was floored to find out that it didn't. I had been telling everyone nice things about him until I realized that I had been had, so now I tell people the truth that his is a libertarian plan masquerading as a leftist one, and there are an awful lot of people who will be hurt by it. If he wanted to make it universal, he could apply it to everyone instead of excluding the poor and making it opt in. If he didn't want criticism for the method of taxation, he wouldn't have used a consumption tax to pay for it. If he didn't want to be seen as someone who is using his universal-but-not-really basic income in a way that doesn't challenge the ones who are causing the wealth inequality, he wouldn't be against college tuition and lying about the proposal of the candidate who wants all public education to be free. If he didn't want to be seen as not caring about working people and just giving up, he wouldn't oppose increasing the minimum wage. These are not "tiny details," these are things that make something that can be a good idea into a terrible idea.
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  11034.  @ajmooretap  The problem with him bringing up Alaska is that everyone gets it without having to jump through the hoops of applying for it to get it, and neither of those are true for his.
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  11035.  @ajmooretap  It's really not for a lot of people. The other big question is how he defines "government assistance." If you are disabled, a lot of times you come out over $1000. Example: single parent receiving SSI & SNAP with two kids gets about $1300/month. Are daycare subsidies also disqualifying? A lot of people get those. My larger point was that, even if you get more under his proposal, you still have to give up what you already get, so in that sense, someone who gets $500/month and takes the dividend instead only gets a gain of $500. If the poor didn't have to choose, and everyone got it, and it was taxed by upper income or wealth or just about anything else, I would be all for the idea, but those are three very key details.
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  11036.  @stopplayingthegame  But Bernie led on the issue and Tulsi didn't. Where has she actually shown leadership in anything she says she cares about? Oh, sure, she gets on TV a lot (even before her run for President), but she hasn't been the one to actually knuckle down and get the coalitions together to make these things happen. Also, of the establishment won't let President Bernie do these things, why would they let President Tulsi? If anything, his far longer track record will make him a lot harder to push around.
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  11037.  @stopplayingthegame  I am always willing to have a civil dialogue with anyone who is an honest answer. As far as long term, I think that it actually makes things much worse. Much, much worse. They were clearly complying with the terms of the agreement. By backing out unilaterally, Trump makes it harder for any Administration to make any deal for any disarmament in the future, because who will trust some future President to act in good faith and keep any deal ever? It also makes the Iranians look like the aggrieved party on the world stage, a claim they really haven't had since 1953, and the reason for that moral high ground clearly means that the government at the time couldn't enjoy it. There is nothing at all to be gained by it, and crippling their economy for no good reason will inflame anti-American sentiment. The Levi's offensive, for lack of a better phrase, actually seemed to be working. It only strengthens the Supreme Leader's hand.
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  11038.  @stopplayingthegame  The establishment has who they want, but things are different than in 2016. Bernie had a name ID lower than the margin of error when he started. To get from there to 44% was miraculous. This time, the others have to at least pay lip service to his ideas, but people didn't like New Coke, and they won't like Wannabe Bernie. As far as Tulsi in Congress, it has been said that there are two kinds of members, show horses and work horses. She is the latter. Give me a work horse any day of the week. As for her ideas. Look at what she had to say about torture, and her justifications for that statement today. They will make your blood run cold. As a veteran who was put in charge of a few POWs while they were waiting to be transported (not by myself, but my unit was, and I took a few shifts as the sergeant in charge), anyone who ever says that it is justified is a non-starter for me. I didn't have to treat people cruelly, and if she thinks anyone does or thought that it could work, that is not someone I want making policy.
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  11039. "It's only a banana, Michael. How much does it cost, ten dollars?"
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  11040. She wasn't this bad when she was running. Either that, or Nicolle Wallace did a really good job of hiding her insanity to the point where we just thought she was stupid.
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  11041.  calo10able  If you are talking about 100,000 people, and you pay them each $50,000 year, you are talking $5B. He has a net worth of $8.6B, so that isn't enough to last for two years even with such a low number of Soros hires based on your logic. This wasn't even complicated math.
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  11042.  calo10able  That's what the conspiracy is, that he is hiring them to work full time. I am mocking that theory by pointing out that basic math proves it false. "Always having money coming in" does not mean an infinite source of money that won't run out if he spends it faster than it comes in. If you can't understand that basic fact, I don't know how you can expect to speak knowledgeably about anything involving simple math or remotely complex finance or accounting.
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  11043.  calo10able  I'm telling you that his cashflow is not infinite, and it would not be able to match giving away 60% of his net worth in one year. What part don't you understand? The reason Bloomberg was able to spent a billion dollars and not miss it is because it was 2% of his net worth. Even one billion would be a stretch for Soros because it is nearly 12% of his net worth.
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  11044. Does anyone else find his whispering on Social Security and Medicare to he quite creepy?
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  11045. I definitely get the notion that there are good bad movies and awful movies. A few years ago, I saw Atlas Shrugged Volume I at the library. I wasn't expecting much, but after about the sixth or seventh time of hearing, "Who is John Galt?" I started screaming at the screen, "Nobody cares! Just end this monstrosity now." The most ridiculous bit of actual dialogue, though, was the guy who owned the process for steel, and when he insisted that this was the one thing that he wanted to keep (because in this world, the evil dystopia is that conglomerates aren't allowed and no one can own more than one business, which I guess means no stock market), he responded, "Because it's MINE." Now, I understand why so many teenage boys love that nonsense.
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  11046. So, that's why Rudy decided not to testify after all.
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  11047.  @coimbralaw  Johnson, yes, but if you look at the actual accomplishments of that era, it seems like people want to give Kennedy the credit for the good things that Johnson did, and give Johnson the blame for the bad things that were a continuation of what Kennedy did. LBJ is probably the most underrated President in American history.
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  11048.  @viperswhip  And Jewish
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  11049. Engoron literally let Der Orangefuhrer give some of the closing argument even though he wasn't representing himself. Apparently, that dummy and his lawyers think "heard" means "got our way."
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  11050. Indeed. You don't respond to extreme gerrymandering with unilateral disarmament.
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  11051. He has a history of this sort of thing. He says whatever he thinks will appeal to the audience he is facing at any given time, and given that he often used dog whistles to do it, he can't get mad if people are going to wonder if that is the line in the sand.
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  11052.  @rachelmadison7771  So, the candidate who was caught lying about her ancestry, her parents being forced to elope, her father being a janitor, being fired for being pregnant, never trying to use said exaggerated heritage in hiring, sending her children to public schools, and fighting for the poor as a lawyer is telling the truth? May I ask why?
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  11053.    George McGovern was hostile to labor, and his campaign was littered with people who ended up in the vanguard of the New Democratic movement (Hart, Clinton, Clinton, etc.) and his last public act was opposing card check. And just a week and a half ago, I talked to a former Trump voter who was won over to Bernie by emphasizing economic issues. He loved Medicare for All and Workplace Democracy. Half measures won't inspire anyone. After all, how did it work the last time?
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  11054.  @Raidersfan-gn7zo  Darn right!
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  11055.  @vijayiyer8518  Any time
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  11056. @Alex Pokrandt Indeed. In all honesty, I wonder if part of the reason why Tester has been able to hold on so long is because he had the good fortune to run in one of the strongest Democratic wave years since LBJ.
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  11057.  @J.B.1.3  We actually have the lowest taxes of any country in the industrialized world, gas prices were artificially depressed in 2020 because nobody was driving, we have the lowest inflation of any G7 country (unless you think those leftist stalwarts Johnson and Merkel caused it), and of course you went to race baiting as if to say "better not to educate our own for fear of educating someone else," and I see plenty of those projects being built. Better an infrastructure law than the Infrastructure Week we kept seeing every few months for four years with not even a bill or an outline of one.
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  11058.  @J.B.1.3  You think that Americans living paycheck to paycheck is a recent phenomenon? Wage stagnation started under Reagan, and 2023 was the first time in a long time real wages increased.
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  11059.  @J.B.1.3  It's not my fault that you don't like the results. I'm not the one who made it happen that since WWII, the three worst recessions started under Republican Presidents (Reagan in 1981-82 [with unemployment peaking in 1983], Bush in 2007-09, and Trump in 2020), I just happened to notice the pattern. And if you want to get your insult right, Nostradamus predicted the future. I'm just observing what's right in front of me and not too lazy to notice that the US has inflation of 3.2% and the UK has inflation of 4%, and that Germany had inflation of 5.8% in 2023.
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  11060. Well, the last three mayors of NYC ended up running for President, so it's important for him to end up in the dustbin of history sp he can't keep spreading his nonsense.
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  11061.  @stevefernandez6431  Precious metals are always a countercyclical play. At 1300 and change, gold is down 25% from its peak in 2010. The real question is the timeframe. If you have a lot of time to recover, you're probably better off staying where you are. It took four or five years after the market bottomed out to get back to the pre-crash levels of 2007. So, if you are in something that matches overall performance, a crash is usually a good time for bargain shopping, because even if Coca-Cola stock drops 25%, for example, it won't just become worthless and can recover. Someone who is closer to retirement age might be better off selling, though.
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  11062. She has that annoying way of smirking like she has made a good point when she hasn't. Where do conservatives learn this?
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  11063. She was a medic, she didn't fight. I was in a combat unit, but didn't actually see combat. At least I don't pretend I did or stand just this side of Walter Sobchack in trying to find an excuse to bring it up.
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  11064.  @KingoftheJuice18  And that's what Trump is doing. Were the people who were "just following orders" or who "stayed in order to keep worse atrocities from happening" any better? In some ways, they are worse because they knew better.
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  11065.  @Armed-Forever  Show me examples of it happening, then. You yourself admitted that 15 weeks is an arbitrary number. At least numbers in the 20s have to do with fetal development to where the fetus would stand a chance of survival. When abortions of unwanted pregnancies happen in the second trimester, it's because the woman didn't know she was pregnant in the first.
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  11066.  @foxweazel798  Jesus was a real person who preached and was crucified. What you believe happened after that is a matter of faith, but Jesus was a real person. To pretend otherwise is settling theological scores.
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  11067.  @foxweazel798  You are aware that religion is found in the non-fiction section, right?
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  11068.  @foxweazel798  There's no evidence of no god, either. The best anyone can do as far as proof is arguments for theism or atheism. Even then, it is a question of belief one way or the other.
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  11069. Mike Pence: Doing the right thing after every possible attemot to do the wrong thing since 2021.
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  11070. @Solstice of Snow We already went over this. You can't give any evidence, and you clearly didn't watch the video that showed that the tax cuts went to stock buybacks. Not R&D, not increasing worker salaries. Enriching the already rich. Do you get paid to post this, or do you just love the taste of shoe polish?
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  11071.  @Zach-ju5vi  Stock buybacks are just there to enrich the shareholders and inflate the stock price. Paying the workers who make the success of the company possible is much better for the economy.
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  11072.  @Zach-ju5vi  No, that's the spin. I have read dozens of books about Warren Buffett in my day and how he picked stocks (about ten years ago, I finished in the top 6% in a Million Dollar Portfolio contest from CNBC), and there is one reason to buy back stocks: to increase the share price. It doesn't repair machinery, it doesn't innovate, and it doesn't lead to higher worker pay. It was illegal until the 1980s for a reason.
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  11073.  @Zach-ju5vi  Yeah, so the fact that people like Buffett wanted the practice legalized because it would increase the price has nothing at all to do with it, and an economy is more stable with a permanent underclass and a few people getting all of the benefits. That usually isn't a very good recipe for anything, even if you are one of the people benefiting short term.
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  11074.  @Zach-ju5vi  Says the guy who thinks that stock buybacks and stagnant wages are better for the economy than actually paying the people who made the profits possible.
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  11075. I've read enough Heinlein (you'd be surprised the kind of things you read with not much to do in the desert) to know that anyone who quotes him shouldn't be taken seriously.
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  11076.  @dawnuwangue6061  The establishment might want Biden, but his numbers keep dropping as people are starting to remember why he got 1% in Iowa in the first place. Given the role expectations play, and the fact that he isn't really doing a lot to gin up support in Iowa, he risks not making it to viability, and that will doom him.
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  11077. I don't think Rachel Campos-Duffy has been living in The Real World for quite some time.
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  11078. ​ @joekopsick1540  Voting third party won't make a lick of difference, especially given the obsession with the Presidency. Let's say that a third party comes around and somehow doesn't take votes disproportionately from one of the two major-party nominees to hand it to the other side on a platter. And then, let's say that candidate builds broad support. If that candidate does not get an absolute majority in the Electoral College, it goes to the House... where it is decided by Democrats and Republicans. Even still, let's assume that somehow, all the third party people can get united enough to win the Presidency. Then, they have to try to pass their legislative agenda... in a body comprised of Democrats and Republicans. But, wait! You say, let's actually build a grassroots movement and build from the ground up. Well, once you get to Congress, you want a committee seat so you can actually do things for your district... which means you have to work with Democrats or Republicans. So, please tell me exactly how this "break up the duopoly" is supposed to change the fundamental rules that gave us two parties in the first place.
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  11079.  @GDino34  I remember hearing him say that instead of fighting the Civil War, we should have just bought freedom for every slave (never mind that such an offer was made, and it wasn't nearly enough) on Bill Maher's show in 2007.
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  11080.  @GDino34  What does voting third party for President accomplish with the rules that we have in place, other than hand the election to a fascist on a platter and end democracy as we know it? Please look through the abovr scenarios of what actually happens if you do and tell me how voting third party for President with the rules being what they are change anything.
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  11081. Man, did, "I'm not a racist" get a lot of laughter.
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  11082.  @totalvoid6234  What supposed nuance was missing from this video?
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  11083.  @totalvoid6234  What is a way other than the four that he mentioned?
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  11084. ​ @CarlCaf  If the markets love Dear Leader so much, why did it crash while he was actually in office? Any movement is a sugar high that will quickly wear off when these tariffs kick in.
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  11085. @CarlCaf  You mean "doing the best for the country" when he charged the government millions of dollars to stay at his hotels, even when they were far away from events? Or when he lied about the pandemic? He cares about his own personal enrichment and nothing more. "I only care about your vote." Dear Leader
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  11086. @CarlCaf  And what do you base him changing on if it doesn't work? His tariff war with China clearly backfired and the trade deficit increased. He responded instead by declaring victory and doubling down on it.
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  11087.  @CarlCaf  So, people care about "protecting children" and they voted for the person who traveled with Epstein to his private island at least seven times, and who bragged about barging in on undressed underage girls at a beauty pageant? Yeah, that makes sense.
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  11088. The two worst Biden appointees: Garland, because he has the completely wrong temperament for AG, and it was just a goofy way if trying to stick it to Republicans for 2016 (if Doug Jones was AG, Der Orangefuhrer would be in jail already); and Buttigieg, who is woefully unqualified for the job.
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  11089. Who said the majority is going anywhere? The House majority is in danger, but the Senate majority is much healthier at this point given the candidates fielded. When Evil Turtle has to spend $30MM to prop up a candidate in a state where Der Orangefuhrer won by eight, that should tell you everything.
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  11090. Do you seriously think that McConnell wouldn't have just done it anyway in 2017 with the Supreme Court? Imagine how many more vacancies there would have been in 2017 if Harry Reid didn't get to fill vacancies in 2013-14.
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  11091.  @eddietheunggoyslayer3904  Well, if we don't have money, we'll go back to the barter system. Money is like Winston Churchill's thoughts on democracy. Crypto is just nonsense.
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  11092.  @narutodssunny  Hopefully, enough people realize that in time that we don't make the same mistake again.
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  11093. ​ @johnbriggs3916  Someone who actually cares about her can write the letter and she can sign it. Problem solved.
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  11094.  @sciencecompliance235  Okay, so since you want to go with the respectability politics argument, what is your recommendation since she literally does everything in her power to refuse to meet with constituents? If you make access impossible, don't complain when decorum disappears, too? And what specific thing in this video violated anyone's privacy? Did you see in the stalls? Did you hear bodily functions? I don't even remember seeing feet popping out.
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  11095.  @sciencecompliance235  So, I see that you have no answer to the question about what people actually saw or heard that was the actual violation. If they barged in and filmed her with her pants around her ankles, I'd say you have a case, but they were very careful not to film in any way to violate anyone's privacy.
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  11096.  @zelbinian  Having to deal with an idiot brother who insisted that the coronavirus vaccine didn't do any good even after he got it three times and gave it to my niece while I still have my coronavirus V-card and so does my daughter (despite her mom getting three breakthrough cases) definitely trained me in the notion of not taking it out on kids for the stupidity of the parents.
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  11097.  @peoples2296  Like what? Most legislation that Democrats have proposed has been supported by the majority of the population according to the polls.
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  11098.  @peoples2296  What are you talking about? If it wasn't for Democrats, there would have been no stimulus payments, which proved to be quite popular. Or, are you one of these people who pretend that over a million deaths is trivial? Quite ironic from the self-styled "pro-life" crowd.
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  11099. Definitely another housing bubble. A friend of my daughter is moving to Wisconsin. She said that they were asking for $300K, but someone literally offered 340 in cash. This is not sustainable.
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  11100.  @thedebatemechannel4746  The only one to go against the left? Yes, because the major media sources just loved Bernie Sanders, and the signature show of The Hill doesn't have a host "on the left" who spends the vast majority of her time criticizing the left and a host on the right who spends most of his time defending the right or criticizing the left. That same "left" co-host who talked about how her previous employer wanted her to toe the line and made it clear, but her new employer who is a friend of the President isn't doing so? I don't know what you are basing your "analysis" on, but it sounds like the talking point Fox kept using when they pretended to be fair and balanced. A more neutral media outlet than The Hill? Without even thinking, C-SPAN.
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  11101.  @moetones2024  Oh, yes. Watching Krystal Ball go after the left while Saagar Enjeti props up the right is something that we should all support. I know a scam when I see one.
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  11102.  @thedebatemechannel4746  Rational National went hard after Biden even after he won the nomination. If you want to present yourself as an authoritative source, making such rookie mistakes doesn't help your credibility.
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  11103.  @thedebatemechannel4746  I'm not the one claiming to be an expert in media bias while saying that media sources "never" attack someone who is on "their side." I didn't say Rational National wasn't left, you used your "expertise" and missed the whole point.
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  11104.  @thedebatemechannel4746  I took your challenge, and I looked at the last ten videos on The Hill. Unless vague references to "elites" count as going after Republicans, the last ten don't have any that go after Republicans. I also looked on Tim Pool's channel, at the last ten videos, and all of them either praise Trump and Republicans or criticize Biden, Democrats, and the left. Every single one. If this is the type of solid analysis you offer, you aren't doing yourself any favors. Finally, when you come on a thread and say that you "are a media bias analyst," you are putting yourself out as an expert. Don't get mad if people put that back to you when you put it out there in the first place.
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  11105.  @thedebatemechannel4746  Nine of the last ten were Rising. I don't count when they stream something else, because that isn't their work and there is no analysis. I am talking about the material that they produce.
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  11106. Plenty of people voted for the National Socialists thinking they were the good ones, and the Communists refused to organize with Social Democrats because they thought the Naztys wouldn't last long. How did that work out for them?
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  11107. Good on you for telling people about the wonder that is Tudor's Biscuit World! If you are coming through, stop in. Also good is Gino's Pizza, which is usually connected to Tudor's where they make it pizza-riffic.
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  11108.  @rockstar9ism  You mean the other countries that spend a fraction of what we do?
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  11109.  @djervalevy9784  Indeed. I met someone famous a few years ago (he had a big hit in the 1980s, and to my surprise, ten Grammys) and told a few friends, family, and coworkers. One of them said that if it was him, he would have taken a picture and put it on Facebook. He seemed pretty down to earth and clearly wasn't seeking the limelight, so why would I do that to somebody who just wanted to live his life?
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  11110.  The Ghey Mantis  Sedition, tax evasion, bank fraud, and obstruction of justice for starters.
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  11111. I had the off-brand Teddy Ruxpin. It was called Jabbee the Storyteller. I was seven at the time, so I thought it was unique instead of sad. This is life when you grow up in a town where the rich kids had to pay full price for school lunch.
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  11112.  @buttcheese1064  It's the same dummy. This person is so pathetic that he/she uses several usernames in order to agree with him/herself.
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  11113. If this is surprising, you clearly haven't been paying attention. It was obvious since the moment she defended Biden and his opposition to integration.
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  11114.  Nikki B  True, but we have an Eighth Amendment for a reason.
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  11115.  @lemon93  You're not wrong, but I just don't want to be someone celebrating something like that. Admittedly, I probably already went through the poetic justice when I first heard about the diagnosis, though.
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  11116. In my office, even when people went from a double monitor to a single monitor, numbers went up, so being distracted by stupid stuff at work (and the old adage that a happy worker is a busy worker) meant that working at the office was often counterproductive.
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  11117.  @JC-er7je  Because they care about control and see that as more important. It's the same reason why GM pays more for health insurance and refuses to push for Medicare for All, and the first thing they do when workers go on strike is suspend their health insurance.
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  11118.  @JC-er7je  Not sure what word you meant when you said "revealing back to the office," but arguing from popularity is not an argument for efficiency. Is Avatar the greatest movie ever made? And here's a dirty little secret: there are ways of telling when the work suffers. Lots of places have also noticed that a 100/80/100 work schedule is more productive (expect 100% of the productivity while workers are on the clock 80% of the time with wages raised high enough to give people 100% of their income), but companies don't do that either. Does that mean the Almighty Company knows all, or that they have something they prize more? And just like health insurance, typing audits for those who work from home, and the love of micromanaging, when an employer refuses to do the most efficient thing, a desire for more control is almost always the reason. Either that, or they're too pigheaded to see the error of their ways and improve.
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  11119.  @JC-er7je  News flash, self-imagined titan of industry: productivity has more than doubled since 1980 while wages have remained relatively flat. The problem isn't greedy workers or people working at home (which for some jobs actually cuts overhead for employers, because they can lease cheaper buildings and don't need to run the air conditioner as hard with fewer people in the building and/or smaller buildings to boot), so it's not a lazy worker problem, and never has been. "Thank you, sir! May I have another?"
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  11120. @JC-er7je  So, move from one firm that exploits you and pretends that it is an act generosity to even keep you on the payroll to another? Great plan!
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  11121.  @theciakilledjfk5973  Holy crap! That's the county I grew up in. "It's a small world after all..."
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  11122.  @theciakilledjfk5973  I had to look it up. It was the opposite end of the county, and since we were the poor end and they got the lion's share of (what was admittedly a very small) the plate, we didn't really go over much specific to the area. The study that we did in regards to that area was a field trip to Carnifex Ferry. It happens. I know that I've both hit reply to the wrong person and been replied to instead of someone else ;-)
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  11123. I don't think it's about the third kid, i think it's about the first kid, because she's saying that she got stuck with that weenie-waving loser to start with.
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  11124. Did anyone else notice that he has an Obama-esque cadence in this speech? On a more serious note, I worked for his county commission race in 2011 and got to meet him when he came to the campaign office one Saturday morning, and he has always been a rising star. A lot of people in the race saw big things for him in the future.
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  11125.  @chunktruffleshuffle1606  Hopefully, Fetterman is a stylistic fit to the Alabama in between to the point that it has numbers in the Alaska range instead.
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  11126. Article I, Section 8 clearly says that a militia is there to put down an insurrection. This stuff gets more and more ridiculous by the day.
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  11127. Kids get to go to college without being indentured servants and owe tens of thousands of dollars (if they are lucky). The horror!
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  11128. An Article V convention could throw the whole thing out. Do you really think the First Amendment or anything like it could survive under those circumstances?
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  11129.  @ericvulgate  Greenwald insists that Trump didn't have anything to do with Russian election interference despite the fact that he publicly asked them to do, several e-mails talk about it, his campaign accurately predicted when stuff would drop, and several people on his campaign were convicted on related charges. His defense for why he focused on Trump was to pretend that he's not grifting, but to say "people already know Trump is a crook."
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  11130. So, "names got destroyed" and people got their vote shifted from PA to GA, but Biden won both, and there was record voter turnout in each state. [In Dr. Evil voice] Riiight.
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  11131. Warren is worried about the "taxes bad" crowd. Those are people who will say that she is being evasive, and she will lose the left for thinking that she won't deliver on the bill. Either you look evasive and get no one, or you tell the truth and get respect from all and support from your side.
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  11132. ​ @LibbyRal  Florida became a magnet for the crazy people in DeSantis's reign. Maybe the Democratic Party needs to stop using good money to chase after bad money in states like Florida. Instead of spending $50MM against Rubio, use some of that money in Wisconsin, North Carolina, and maybe Ohio, and suddenly Manchin and Sinema have a lot less power because you're looking at 53 or 54 seats instead of 51.
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  11133. ​ @kitsunekage12  Gerrymandering has absolutely nothing to do with statewide races. Why do people keep using that term for things that it has nothing to do with? If you want to argue about why he gets so much support in the legislature, have at it, but the line that elected him was drawn over 200 years ago.
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  11134.  @LibbyRal  It is a simple matter of triage. There is not an infinite amount of resources. When I lived in West Virginia, I understood why we stopped getting national attention. Maybe get to within single digits again before any sort of investment like that again. Would you rather have tens of millions in your state, or two or three more Democrats in the Senate right now?
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  11135.  @kitsunekage12  Fair enough. I guess I have a hair trigger on that term being used inaccurately because I have seen so many occasions of people attributing the victories of statewide officials to gerrymandering that I just want to, in the words of Sinead O'Connor, fight the real enemy.
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  11136. I didn't find out until a year later when someone mentioned his absence at a Comedy Central roast.
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  11137. ​@MadReese69 Well, GWB is a month younger than Trump, and in better shape, so it may very well be a case of Bush being the worst living President after Der Orangefuhrer dies.
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  11138. 1:08 Which is why a part of me wished that Kerry would have won the election and lost the popular vote to get bipartisan support for its repeal. Our best chance does look to be the National Popular Vote Compact, which would mean that states who adopted it agree to award their electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote, but it only kicks in once states totaling an Electoral College majority agree to it.
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  11139. You are so right about how angering this is. I did the right thing, but I have to worry about my mom who can't take it due to medical issues, and my daughter and niece who are too young to take it. I am convinced that the legendary Thom Hartmann is right on the money that Republicans are doing this because they want people to die and for the economy to crash to try to regain power. The Republican Party must be defeated.
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  11140.  @felipebachamonteleone7748  We all know about your crooked wang.
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  11141. Apparently, you haven't been watching this channel much. Sam has been quite critical of the Woke Police.
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  11142. If they don't want us to call them fascists who want to destroy democracy, they need to stop acting like fascists who want to destroy democracy.
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  11143.  @zoobrizz  Where? Mine's only up ten cents or so from where it was before Russia invaded Ukraine.
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  11144.  @moonlightfishin4113  $3.80 per gallon is less than before the pandemic. You Trump worshippers get mad when we include 2020 jobs numbers in Dear Leader's totals (as though he did nothing to make the pandemic worse and longer), so we can point out that the pandemic caused an artificial drop in gas prices.
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  11145.  @PoolPartyToaster  She never was that far left on foreign policy. No one who can ever find torture acceptable is. She also opposed the Iran nuclear deal. Now, she is showing who she really is.
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  11146.  @jlsperling1  Indeed. That was also a large point of contention in the Virginia State Legislature, because the counties that include what is now known as West Virginia had hardly any slaves at all, especially compared to Virginia. If memory serves me right, the compromise there was one house included all for apportionment while the other only included those who were free.
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  11147.  @Jornandreja  Which is why the cruel and terrible irony is that counting them at all made life worse for them.
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  11148.  @Jornandreja  If they were free, by definition, there could not be a question of slaves being counted as part of a person or being cynically used for their own oppression.
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  11149.  @Jornandreja  Indeed. And while the Fifteenth Amendment guaranteed that people couldn't be discriminated against to vote by race, it took another 95 years for that to get teeth, and 48 years after that, the Roberts Court started to take those away by pretending the problem was solved. I swear, sometimes it's like his deeper instincts would make him surpass Roger Taney as the worst Chief Justice ever, but then his desire not to be that guy kicks in and he occasionally does something sane.
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  11150. If they did, they wouldn't be libertarians. I remember dealing with one of the "individual sovereignty" crowd who got mad when I asked him if he would need to have a passport to re-enter the United States if he made his property an Independent country, or tariffs to ship anything to it.
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  11151.  @raymonddeflaviis2306  Did you just acknowledge your own age? Again, Taliban were not the Middle East. And I must say that I appreciate the irony that people like you can't seem to understand the difference between a monument to traitors and terrorists and buildings that people no longer wanted to be funded and maintained by the general public and buildings that were thousands of years old whose destruction was condemned internationally, including the American Left, while the Bush Administration was originally trying to get the Taliban to work with it. As someone who went to a war that was based on what turned out to be false claims of weapons of mass destruction and connections to 9/11, I for one resent the ridiculous claims that one had anything to do with the other. Oh, just one more thing. Here are what actual American heroes who kept this country together had to say about the Robert E. Lee statue at Gettysburg, as well as the traitor himself: https://npsgnmp.wordpress.com/2013/12/19/the-lee-controversy-of-1903/ https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/robert-e-lee-opposed-confederate-monuments
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  11152.  @raymonddeflaviis2306  Probably because, unlike say, Jefferson Davis, Lee recanted his treason. If you don't think that Confederates are traitors, then the word has no meaning.
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  11153.  @raymonddeflaviis2306  For someone who claims to understand history, you are the one defending the Confederates. What's next, are you going to say that they didn't really fight for slavery, even though their Vice President referred to slavery as the "cornerstone" of the Confederacy, and every state document of secession either mentioned slavery in the first paragraph if not the first sentence: https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/cornerstone-speech https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_scarsec.asp https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/caa_missec.asp https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_geosec.asp https://www.civildiscourse-historyblog.com/blog/2018/7/1/secession-documents-Texas And I am not a millennial, I am Generation X.
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  11154.  @raymonddeflaviis2306  Ethnoc History. Interesting way to peddle what you are selling in defending those whose stated goal was to destroy a country that you claim to love. I, for one, am proud of the fact that my great-great-grandfather fought in the side of America rather than slavery and oppression. And if you notice, I haven't used the word progressive, because it has been used to represent so many vastly different things as to have historical meaning. Quite frankly, I care a lot more about what you are actually proposing. The only time that progressive can serve as a truly accurate descriptor is when describing economic impact of things like taxes.
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  11155.  @raymonddeflaviis2306  Every soldier ever says things like that. It wasn't rank and file soldiers who decided to secede, and those people who did make the decision clearly did so because they wanted to defend the peculiar institution. To pretend otherwise is to ignore the history that you claim to defend. The KKK was founded by disgruntled Confederates, and Confederate imagery has been used time and time again during resistance to civil rights. Maybe I'll get off my high horse when you stop defending the opposition force that killed more Americans than any other.
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  11156.  @raymonddeflaviis2306  Keep talking. You make your side look worse and worse with every post. Now, you are defending the Klan.
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  11157.  @tormentorox1  That's what the elites want you to think.
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  11158. The argument was ridiculous when Rudy Boschwitz used it against Paul Wellstone re: Medicare in 1990, it was ridiculous when Chelsea Clinton used it against Bernie re: ACA in 2016, and it is ridiculous when Moscow Donald does it re: private insurance today. Don't repeat Moscow Donald's stupidity, Ed O'Keefe.
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  11159. James Comer goes on TV to get spanked so often that it makes you wonder if he has a fetish.
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  11160.  @slimy6316  No one is innocent with that kind of money. Chelsea was not the first club owned by a billionaire.
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  11161.  @davidlafleche1142  No, but people who misuse the Bible often are. "Not everyone who says to me 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in Heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?' and then I will declare unto them, 'Depart from Me, I never knew you!'" (Matt. 7:21-23) So, you might want to look deep down and see who you are really worshipping.
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  11162. Even if you blame it on bird flu, who suspended testing, and whose press secretary was lamenting killing birds... to try to contain bird flu, instead of selling it.
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  11163. If someone is in an area that is so heavily Republican that you have no choice but to register as a Republican to have any say in local elections, I can understand that. However, as a Republican in good standing who votes that way? Not at all.
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  11164.  @joaovmlsilva3509  There were times where debates actually gave candidates time to answer. Fifteen seconds just isn't enough time to give a decent answer on policy. I think the beginning of the end were the rapid fire questions when the Presidential fields kept getting bigger. For those who want a whole lot of third party candidates, this is what those will look like if you have eight or ten candidates on stage.
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  11165.  @chriswalkey2050  So, you are saying that he is just the beneficiary of cheating? So much better.
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  11166.  @JamesKlemm87  They've been caught multiple times and punished for it multiple times.
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  11167.  @xaevius5319  What is the motive? The NFL loves propping up its appointed heroes.
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  11168.  @ofrhythm  The Constitution also has no experience requirements. Hopefully, the last three years have shown us the danger of letting an inexperienced person hold the highest office in the land. Only one person has won the nomination of a major party at a younger age (Bryan was 36 when he won the nomination for the first time in 1896), and he was a former Congressman who had spent two years rallying people in an effort to fight major economic depression. And, if you look at political cartoons from the time, he was routinely mocked for his age, too.
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  11169.  @ofrhythm  Mayor of a mid-sized city is not the basis for governing a country of over 300MM. He couldn't even keep up with the issues in a city 0.03% of the United States if his comments about not knowing about school segregation in South Bend are any indication.
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  11170.  @ofrhythm  If that helps you sleep at night.
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  11171.  @ofrhythm  So, you think that mid-sized city mayor is more applicable than sitting on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee? And if you ask people in South Bend about this incredible experience, they will tell you that he spent most of his time as mayor trying to angle for another position to take him out of South Bend rather than actually doing his job. At least de Blasio could say that his city, if it were by itself, would be the 12th biggest state in the country.
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  11172.  @ofrhythm  I didn't say it was. However, it was experience in dealing with issues that simply don't come up for mayors of mid-sized cities.
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  11173.  @ofrhythm  So, which conspiracy theory do you buy about his assassination? Using a Castro sympathizer (when Castro kicked out the mob) was an especially nice touch.
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  11174.  @ofrhythm  Because my point was that actually dealing with the issues that a POTUS has to address is far more important than being a mayor with a foot constantly out the door.
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  11175. Oh, no. You are giving him to much credit. The man literally called his health care proposal Medicare for All because the name was popular when it wasn't even a public option. He kept saying that "everyone gets a thousand bucks a month" when he knew that not to be true. He repeatedly lied about his true intentions. He does not mean well.
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  11176.  @devonloganreiss8999  He knows where his subscriber base comes from.
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  11177. So, do you think that Tucker Carlson is also a truth teller?
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  11178.  @williamsmith5253  Even when Tucker Carlson "tells the truth" about corporations, it's not to limit corporate power, but to scapegoat immigrants. Therefore, he is not telling the truth.
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  11179. And the numbers were within the margin nationally, and in all but two states (PA & WI), the latter of which hadn't been polled since September. The day of the election, he had a 35% chance, and the polls in PA & MI both show double-digit margins this time. That's not to say that the race won't narrow, but as of right now, that is the picture.
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  11180.  @thharrimw  The national polls had Hillary winning the national popular vote by an average of 3.5%. She won by 2.1%. Well within the margin of error. Several states had narrowed the weekend before the election. MI had the margin at 4, so losing by >1 is perfectly within the margin of error. NC & FL both had Hillary at 1 or 2, and she lost both states by less than two. But keep telling yourself that to justify your continued faith that the polls that show double-digit or high single-digit deficits in the must win states of PA, MI & WI mean nothing.
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  11181.  @thharrimw  Five Thirty-eight gave Trump a 35% chance, and had the state-by-state polls showing that things moved late. It also happened in 1980, so it's not like there is no precedent for polls to move late.
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  11182. One is legal, and the other is not. From a meritocracy point of view, is there really a moral difference?
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  11183.  @lotsatrix  Note my qualifier about meritocracy. I am not saying that there is no difference, I am pointing out that rich people find ways both legal and illegal to make sure that their kids get in. I don't know what Dr. Dre's daughter's grades were, but people were comparing the notion that she got in on her own merit, not the criminal nature. When the right argues against affirmative action, they like to point to some hypothetical white student who they think was close to the line who didn't get in. Do you think that the school didn't see her dad's $70MM contribution as worth, say, 50 SAT points and 0.25 on her GPA? I could also point to Charlie Kushner's $2.5MM contribution to Harvard just as Jared got in. I'm not saying that others don't benefit from their largesse, but I was asking whether or not each was part of a continuum of rich people putting their thumbs on the scales.
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  11184. So, not wanting grandkids make you weak, Tim? Don't you need kids first for that? As far as "not wanting grandkids," there are ways. Dave Rubin did an episode explaining this. Dumber than Dave Rubin is never a good look.
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  11185.  @ongoinglife  In a post-debate interview, she called prohibiting competing private plans un-American. That sounds like abandoning Medicare for All to me, but the tulcels insist that playing the same trick as Elizabeth Warren somehow doesn't count because the younger, prettier woman says it.
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  11186.  @justicewalking  She literally called Medicare for All un-American. Nobody made her defend torture in the 2014 interview for Indian TV.
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  11187.  @HansLennros-ry5iz  I guess your Tulsi love also keeps you from seeing what is before your eyes. When asked about torture, she said she was "conflicted," but repeatedly said that she would do "whatever it takes" and insisted that "some studies show that torture does work." There is none so blind as one who refuses to see.
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  11188.  @HansLennros-ry5iz  I'm not even sure of that. She knows where her bread is buttered. After leaving MSNBC, she talked about how she was subtly made aware if what she could and could not talk about. She probably would have just changed it to saying that sellout Dems would never pass his agenda, anyway.
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  11189.  @EnviousNV_  You mean the woman who managed to burn bridges with arguably the nicest and most forgiving person in Congress? I don't think it's a coincidence that she calls her show Bad Faith.
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  11190. Thinking she had Native American ancestry is one thing; lying and saying that her parents had to elope because of said heritage is another.
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  11191.  stealthballer  So, the elopement is a part of their family folk lore, but all of the actual pictures of their wedding didn't make her wonder if that part was true? And a lot of people with no cultural affiliation with tribes that have Native American ancestry don't claim it on applications. My mom and grandpa have and had respectively enough blood quantum to claim Native American status, but neither of them ever listed it on an application or a job.
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  11192. Did Giuliani dye his remaining hair? I think he was fooling more people with his comb over.
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  11193. @Sean Embry I don't think that is necessarily the case. I remember when the jury made the announcement in the Depp/Heard case, the judge immediately reduced the $5MM portion of the damages to $350,000 because of the cap that was in place.
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  11194.  @pallmall5014  My only point was that he wasn't the only Senator to vote against it, because he wasn't in the Senate yet. He did vote against it, as I pointed out.
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  11195.  @lurklingX  You'd be surprised. Most people don't follow this stuff closely, so name recognition probably helps her get as high as she does. Once it gets closer to time, it would drop, and with the exception of Ross Perot, every third-party candidate who isn't the de facto candidate for one of the major parties gets lower numbers in the election than the polls (examples: Anderson polled as high as 12% and got 6, Nader polled at 4-6% in 2000 and got 2.74).
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  11196.  @jamescivet9767  It doesn't take a lot in order to be a spoiler. Mark Kelly won his seat by about 2.5 in 2020 and won re-election by five this year. The poll shows that with Sinema in, Gallego loses by one, but in a two-way race, he wins by one. That does show that she is taking a little more support from Gallego than Lake, but that might change as the year goes on.
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  11197.  @lurklingX  Except you are treating it as though the vast majority vote blindly. Actually, I would say the majority pay attention for about a month or two before the election, but not really that closely. Of that group, Sinema could very easily lose support.
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  11198.  @pattirockgarden4423  Bernie didn't have the votes. I did everything I could to try to help him win, but we don't want to sound like Trump dead enders.
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  11199.  @b.c8437  "No, you're something worse than a criminal. You're a tax cheat." Saul Goodman
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  11200. 5:36 I live in PA. Our state passed a voter ID law, but it was overturned by the State Supreme Court after the then-House Majority Leader said it would throw the state to Romney and their lawyers admitted that they couldn't find a single example of impersonation voter fraud. In the state, 9% of all voters statewide didn't have an ID that met the standards, but it was 18% in Philadelphia. Why? When you use public transportation, you are far less likely to have a driver's license. Philadelphia is 44% black and 36% white. Pennsylvania as a whole is 12.7% black and 75% white. There's your example, Trump supporter
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  11201. Ben Shapiro DESTROYS himself.
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  11202. 26:50 is pretty much the dilemma for a lot of things. You get more money, but you lose your place in the consciousness. In many ways, boxing suffered from the same fate in the sports world because people couldn't see big fights called by Howard Cossell anymore. It was one thing going to HBO, but then going to PPV made it shrink dramatically.
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  11203.  @davidowens2067  When Krasner was asked in a debate which prosecution he was proudest of, he couldn't think of anything, and started talking about his unit that works to exonerate people. Eventually, he came up with a case against cops, but the man definitely doesn't want to prosecute crime.
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  11204.  @davidowens2067  What is some actual data about his prosecution that proves that he isn't soft on crime?
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  11205. Darn right! Just because Krasner sucks doesn't mean that Oz would be a good Senator.
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  11206. What about Grijalva? Isn't he actually a lefty?
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  11207.  @aheroictaxidriver3180  Indeed. He was either the first or second member of Congress to endorse Bernie (I know he and Ellison were the first two, but I don't remember the order, and they weren't grifting like Tulsi). I am a big believer in the idea of nominating people as far to the left as possible who can win. I can at least understand the occasional frustration with people like Manchin and Tester, but they have double-digit headwinds. Sinema has no such excuse.
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  11208.  @jim2498  Milton Friedman and Richard Nixon supported a UBI to the left of what Yang proposed in the 1970s because a) if anyone was left out, it was the rich, and b) it was paid for by a progressive tax. Charles Murray also supported a UBI at the turn of the century. What makes it left or right is what it wants to do to people in existing programs. If it is a way to gut existing programs (as Yang's is, because it's either/or), it is right wing. Yang's was made even farther right wing by being paid for with a regressive consumption tax. And how much did Yang get in the primaries? In Iowa, he got 5.1% of the initial vote, and 1.0% of delegates to the county conventions (i.e., once nonviable candidates in precincts were eliminated) and 3.27% in New Hampshire, dropping out that night. You were right that Forward would get more Democrats, but for the wrong reason.
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  11209.  @AmyLSacks  Like it or not, there is literally zero chance of anyone other than a Democrat or a Republican getting elected President. If you get more votes from people who would otherwise support one of the major parties, you are helping the other side win.
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  11210.  @AmyLSacks  We are talking in this context about a Presidential campaign. I am well aware that Greens run for other things. And what is the highest-ranking elected Green Party official? They have never once in their history elected a member to either House of Congress, and to my knowledge they've never elected anyone to statewide office of any kind in 50 years of trying. When looking up "highest ranking Green Party official," I found a state legislator or a mayor of medium-sized city. Then again, the Green Party is not there to win. It is a collection of grifters trying to help Republicans and useful idiots who don't know the score. Think I'm being unfair? The 20-plus years of Republican benefactors, multiple states where Greens have angrily realized that Republicans have taken over the party, and funders of lawsuits when their incompetence at a petition drive and laziness in correcting it kept them off the ballot line say otherwise.
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  11211.  Illhan Omars brother's wife is Illhan Omar  Still has nothing to do with the question of whether or not a government is a democracy.
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  11212.  Illhan Omars brother's wife is Illhan Omar  Which would be a democracy.
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  11213.  Illhan Omars brother's wife is Illhan Omar  And what kind of democracy do you think that is, one where people shouldn't have to wait in line for hours and hours to vote without food or water?
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  11214. ​ @davidbowers1797  Because the Supreme Court ignored the plain text of the Constitution to make a political decision contradictory to the letter and spirit of the law.
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  11215. ​ @GeorgeVaaeth-kc9wc  Indeed. The first worry I had on election night is that their first chipping away will be saying that it means consecutive, before finding some window dressing to insist that it doesn't really count.
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  11216.  @wienerlips4240  The case for Maddow was a specific example of her using hyperbole. The case for Tucker Carlson argued that literally nothing he says deserves to be taken seriously.
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  11217. Bernie almost certainly told them to wait until just the right moment. After a strong performance despite people wanting to leave him for dead is excellent timing.
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  11218.  @veelynn1200  You mean the party that has has been heavily funded by Republicans since at least 2000 and have regularly worked with them to unite against Democrats and make it even easier for Republicans to continue their minority rule? https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/republican-election-sabotage-scheme-using-wisconsin-green-party-fails/
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  11219. I think Arthur Leigh Allen was the original Zodiac, but there were others who later took on the name like the Dread Pirate Roberts.
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  11220.  @jim2498  Re: the idiotic "skin in the game" argument, as a taxpayer, I have my skin in the game for everyone's education. Because you don't want public education to be a thing, you have admitted that you care about the education of far less people than I do. I swear, you right wingers project more than a drive-in movie.
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  11221.  @coryc9040  Okay, let's compare it to something else (ignoring the fact that if you want a half-decent income in this country, you almost certainly need a college degree). Was Social Security unfair to people who retired before 1935?
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  11222.  @coryc9040  Why is it that the left has to pay for everything? The right runs up deficits until the cows come home for tax cuts for rich people and boondoggles for Defense contractors, and nobody bats an eyelash, but when the left wants to actually help people, suddenly it's too expensive (even if it costs less) or we are screwing someone else who doesn't directly benefit. As far as taxes go, given how home ownership rates will go up if college graduates don't have a five- or six-figure debt around their neck, that will stimulate the economy and lead to more education funding in the long run. The estimate is that one dollar in education spending saves seven on other programs in the long run, so it still fails your test.
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  11223.  @jim2498  No, you want to pretend that we don't live in a society. Margaret Thatcher was wrong.
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  11224.  @jim2498  What study? All you did was mention one state's illiteracy rate, which is still lower than places where they either rely on private schools or charge tuition, btw.
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  11225.  @jim2498  No, because Republicans don't want a better public education system. That goes counter to the idea of the common good, which no major Republican since Nixon accepted.
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  11226.  @baltzarbonbeck3559  Oh, there are so many more things that he can be attacked for. Pointing out the irony of not knowing that the theory of relativity was written by a government employee working with a government-funded university is just one of them.
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  11227.  @victorbergman9169  Saying to "show strength" after your lawyer tells people that you want "trial by force" is pretty obvious. Mob bosses never directly say the thing. You don't tell people openly carrying guns to "show strength" if you mean peacefully and call them very special people while they are trying to assassinate the Vice President and Speaker of the House. The Mueller Report gave ten examples, and that was before he started dangling pardons to keep people from cooperating.
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  11228.  @victorbergman9169  And the Henry II didn't mean for people to kill Thomas Becket when he said "Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?"
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  11229. That can't happen from a vaccine. It might happen from sitting on a tractor in your bathing suit, though.
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  11230.  @AlanFisher  More like Henry Clay. No one else was a favorite to win a nomination (1848) and election (1844) only to win neither.
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  11231. Especially when he himself hates women who don't service him.
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  11232. If I'm being charitable, maybe he was talking about how a baby feels relief at first, but then has to deal with sitting in pee.
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  11233.  @FatLava  In all honesty, Larry Krasner is giving a lot of the reform wing a bad name. I agree that you need to make sure that prosecutors don't abuse their position, but it seems like the only people who he actually wants to prosecute are cops. The main reason why he survived a primary challenge last year is because a lot of people Democratic primary voters hate backed Carlos Vega, so it became a proxy war. He's a walking caricature of the right-wing "soft on crime" narrative.
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  11234.  @ChadOfAllChads  Yes, but whether that is enough is the question. Even one of the three who got the job from him seems to think this argument goes way too far. The real goal is to stall the case until after election so that the election fraud case that is mislabeled as the porn star hush money case is the only one that gets heard.
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  11235.  @TechExploresNYC  I don't know. His was all about one exchange. The other three were consistently embarrassing the whole night.
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  11236.  @TechExploresNYC  I'm not saying that he didn't have a bad exchange. My only point was that the three I mentioned dug a hole all night. He dug a hole over two minutes.
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  11237. I agree about Warren, but I thought the ones who did the best were Inslee, de Blasio, and Ryan in that order. Whether or not they can take advantage and qualify for the third debate when the standard increases remains to be seen. Delaney just needs to go away.
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  11238. Totally. And I for one am sick of people saying how genuine Yang seems. He lies more than any candidate not named Donald Trump. How many more times does he have to lie before people understand that he is not honest?
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  11239.  @rbda87  How did that strategy work for legislation?
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  11240.  @rbda87  Okay, let's look. We have clearly seen that the Neoliberal consensus collapsed electorally in 2008. Unfortunately, Obama accepted it, and he tried to maintain that framework. Bernie, on the other hand (unlike Yang, and apparently you based on your red baiting), never accepted it in the first place. And he understands that activism is how you get pressure on reluctant officials, based on his efforts as part of the movement to integrate housing in Chicago. So, Manchin can talk a good game, but he only got 70% in the primary against someone who he outspent 100:1, and he only won re-election by three points after alienating the left by voting for Kavanaugh. If he supports a primary opponent, and will make sure that candidate gets support, Manchin will think twice before voting No. And, if Bernie wins, it is because of high turnout and excitement, so Democrats will get the net gain of three or more in the Senate, meaning that he can push Medicare for All using budget reconciliation, needing 50 votes instead of 60, and there is nothing the Minority Leader can do about it.
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  11241.  @rbda87  So, how is Yang going to get things done if McConnell is still there either as majority or minority leader?
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  11242. ​ @TheInstructor66  I thought they believed that Australia doesn't exist ;-)
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  11243. Both
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  11244. If you want healing, you have to cure the sickness. You can't work with fascists who haven't renounced fascism.
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  11245. Sleepy Don strikes again!
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  11246. ​ @alabamaman5994  Your stupidity never ceases to amaze me, Aaron. If someone asks the source for a book, do you say Penguin Books?
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  11247. And what does it accomplish to kill both bills and "hold them accountable"? That literally means giving Republicans power. That makes about as much sense as the centrists who give Republicans power in order to "force both sides to work together."
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  11248. ​ @Chipskater-cy7wb  Because there is a difference between isolation and peace. What would your response to the Holocaust been if you were alive when Hitler began implementing the Final Solution?
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  11249.  @ingridschmid1709  It's nothing inherent about religion. That is my point. Crazy people will use anything to justify being crazy.
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  11250.  @rtorres4132  It's not going to be eradicated because of people like you.
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  11251.  @rtorres4132  I never cared why. They can be Trump lovers, they can be immature libertarians (which is redundant, I know), or whatever reason. It does not matter to me. At all. And by your goofy logic, there is no such thing as a combination vaccine. I guess measles, mumps, and rubella are the same disease. Surprising since my brother got the mumps when he was two, and I got the measles because ironically I was home sick from school when a booster was given when there was a realization that the dose we were given that year was weaker than usual. Weird how my brother got a swollen face and I got spots everywhere.
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  11252.  @michaelk.jensen1611  No, Bernie had that many donors, Beto had that many donations. Consdering Beto's bundling, my dollar says that Beto's people made dozens of donations to get to the max to inflate support. We'll see how many of his contributors maxed out when the report comes out next week.
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  11253.  @champ7150  I'm going to have to see some actual evidence rather than some random number. A poll came out in Wisconsin showing that Bernie beats Trump by 6, and another in Iowa by 2.
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  11254.  @PiperWheelz  Well, he also confused her for his second wife in a picture of the two of them even though they "never met." But, of course, being a Trump defender, you can't let facts get in the way of the story.
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  11255. The apple didn't fall far from the tree. The main difference is that Ron sounds shocked all the time and Son of Ron sounds smug all the time.
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  11256. Why?
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  11257. Watching Warren on the tax question reminded me of the Marco Rubio moment last time. Even when she was called out for not straight out saying it, she kept robotically repeating her rehearsed answer. If you won't just admit it, even if you say that premiums cost more than taxes, Republicans will keep hitting you. It is far better to be upfront and make the argument about why it is better to pay the tax than the premium, and oh by the way, the tax is lower for most people and employers have to pass on the savings.
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  11258. "Trying to save your country"? What is this goober talking about? Dear Leader is trying to get him to surrender part of the country, and let Putin reload so he can take the rest of it.
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  11259.  @westcoastrenegade8594  Therein lies the rub. Any of these anarchist experiments either end in conquest or internal collapse after a very short period of time. When I read The Conquest of Bread, I kept asking myself, "But how is that going to actually work?" "If there is no governing agent, how are you going to arrange the field trips to the farms to make sure there is enough vote with someone volunteering to clean up after the cows and pigs?" "How will you decide who gets to live where?" "How do you keep wealth from concentrating?" Something that is as stable as plutonium is not the best option.
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  11260.  @westcoastrenegade8594  Any time. I really did try to read that book with an open mind.
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  11261.  myredfestiva  You mean people who have heard Republicans whining about it for 60 years believe it was stolen? No! Even if true, that is not evidence that it actually was stolen.
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  11262.  myredfestiva  [citation needed]
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  11263.  myredfestiva  You said it happened. I asked for evidence, and the only thing that you offered were polls. That's not evidence. It is 60 years of Republican sour grapes because they couldn't come to terms with losing. My, how things have changed!
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  11264.  myredfestiva  What? You referenced the 1960 election, so my question was about the 1960 election, and what evidence that you had that it was stolen other than 60 years of Republican sour grapes.
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  11265.  myredfestiva  You're living proof. Other evidence? In Barry Goldwater's memoirs, he literally said that Kennedy stole Illinois and Texas due to crooked dealings, and those two states would have put Nixon over the top. It is brought up almost every time people talk about contested elections, even though it was merely a close election. At least I have evidence for mine.
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  11266.  myredfestiva  So, because you're mad that he won a close election, you're glad he got shot? Yeah, that says a lot more about you than the people who acknowledge the simple truth that Kennedy won the election.
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  11267.  myredfestiva  If you want to argue that "it worked out," provide the evidence of the cheating.
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  11268.  myredfestiva  No, idiot. I'm saying "don't be a psychopath and wish that someone gets killed because you don't like the fact that he won." Bush did steal the election in 2000, and I told anyone who wished for his death that I didn't want to hear it. Then again, I'm not a psychopath.
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  11269.  myredfestiva  Great comeback. It took you that long to come up with that?
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  11270. I'm a state employee, but here's a little secret, Marge: public employees also pay taxes. [In Napoleon Dynamite voice] Idiot!
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  11271.  @oakinwol  That sounds like a condo where you have to buy the condo and pay a "maintenance fee" that is about the same as rent.
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  11272.  @powbobs  Vulture capitalist has a very specific meaning. George Romney was the head of a company that built stuff, not a company that bought companies to bankrupt them and profit from the hull.
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  11273.  @garysmokesmeat  "The government doesn't have any right to regulate any private business anyway." Based on what? The fact that you don't like it? And speaking of cold, nasty, brutish, and short, when medical companies ignore the effects of their medicine because it's more profitable to do so, or a car company decides to ignore safety issues because it's cheaper to pay lawsuit settlements than to fix it, you are literally making life worse for people. And before you say "well, people won't buy the bad medicine or cars," who's getting the word out about them? Your ideas literally make life worse for people because you want to suck up to the rich.
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  11274.  @robinsss  Oh, look. Someone who doesn't think that the social contract is a thing. And using the logic of libertarians for work contract, no one is forced to pay taxes. I went to seminary with someone who at the time was in the Church of the Brethren, and he knew people who insisted on living a subsistence lifestyle and made enough to stay below the income tax level because they don't want to fund the DOD. Ted Kaczynski didn't pay taxes for a long time. If someone really doesn't want to pay taxes and wants to not pay legally, voluntary simplicity is always an option.
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  11275.  @garysmokesmeat  Another example of evil regulations. In 1906, San Francisco had a major earthquake. Lots of buildings collapsed, and 3000 people died. So, the evil government made a regulation that buildings in San Francisco had to be built to better withstand the force of an earthquake. The next major earthquake in San Francisco came in 1989, and 63 people died. Oh, the horror! Those survivors were slaves to regulation. Haiti has no such regulations. 220,000 people died. Once again, your utopia is a world that is cold, nasty, brutish, and short. (In case you were wondering, I'm quoting Hobbes, who is especially relevant in any discussion with a libertarian given how many, when you dig deeper under the surface, really want the war of all against all.)
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  11276.  @garysmokesmeat  If every job is exploitative, then that is really the choice between diarrhea and vomit. Funny that you immediately go to saying that the only alternative is "a government check." Assuming you mean welfare (plenty of people work for government at all levels), it's funny that you glossed over another option of making it easier for workers to build wealth. Based on the stagnant wages since 1980, literally every job takes more than the government does in taxes for the average worker. Had wages kept up with productivity, the median annual income would be close to $100K. Since it is now $56,000, this means that employers are taking at least 40%, something no one is proposing for over 99% of the population.
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  11277.  @garysmokesmeat  We have no economic relationship if you don't offer me a job.
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  11278.  @garysmokesmeat  "capitalists would let that worker keep ALL of that money" Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha Hold on a minute. Let me catch my breath. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha First of all, you are literally praising the idea of someone giving you crumbs. Second of all, and perhaps more importantly, the capitalist has plenty of ways to separate you from that money, and you defend them all. Third, I answered your question. Just because you don't like the fact that there is no blanket answer to the question (and, no, there is not a blanket answer for how much of GDP the government should spend, either), that's a you problem. The algorithm thanks you for not understanding that, though, and drawing more people to see the video where yet another libertarian gets flummoxed, and the defenders in the comments section live in Fantasyland.
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  11279.  @garysmokesmeat  It depends on what the job offer is. If it involves you taking the lion's share of my production, and threatening me with starvation or bad reviews to make it more difficult to find another job (which are all standard tools in the arsenal), then, yes.
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  11280.  @garysmokesmeat  Define "stealing." And at what level are you defining "working class"? Again, I don't know your finances, and even if I did, I don't know the needs of your community.
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  11281.  @garysmokesmeat  As far as the question of the community, we live in a democracy. The beauty of democracy (compared to the dictatorship of employment) is that I get a say in these things. With an employer, I am only getting to choose which person gets to do the stealing. Heck, if you want to subscribe to a life of voluntary simplicity and not pay any taxes, nobody's stopping you from going out in the woods and doing so, except for maybe property owners. And if someone does so in a way that I see fit, I can vote that person out.
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  11282.  @garysmokesmeat  Are you stupid? I guess so. Even Art Laffer, in the article where he laid out his infamous parabola, argued that the optimal rate varied. Yes, once he got his tax cuts, he has seemed to have acted like we are perpetually on the right side of that curve, but he originally even defended top rates of over 90% during WWII. The question is not the same for every single person. Marginal rates are a thing, as they should be. I personally think that there should be a lot more that start lower and end higher than the current status quo, and that the EITC should phase out much more gradually. I don't know where exactly you're pulling this 22% number from. What is the input that is guiding the output?
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  11283.  @garysmokesmeat  So, for someone who goes on and on about how something is "theft," you then say that "it's a fair trade" when it comes to the boss who takes more? That's where being a libertarian is really not about "freedom" as much as it is justifying corporate greed and screwing over workers. I'm not saying that the boss shouldn't get anything, but I am saying that the relationship between how much the boss gets and how much the worker gets has gone out of whack over the last 40-45 years. When productivity is going up and wages are remaining stagnant, that is a much bigger theft than paying taxes to build the infrastructure that makes business possible. As far you making the choice, if bosses are allowed to conspire to keep wages down (and you oppose "any regulations on business," so that means that you don't like antitrust laws or you love to speak in platitudes), it doesn't really matter which employer you pick, does it?
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  11284.  @garysmokesmeat  And you never did answer why, if you "oppose violence," you support the violence of pollution that damages our air and water. And you never answered for why you are fine with the violence of knowingly selling products that kill people because it's cheaper to settle a lawsuit than fix the glitch.
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  11285.  @garysmokesmeat  Sorry I missed this one until I scrolled down (the alerts are very finicky), but the entrepreneur aided and abetted the threat of starvation by taking the resources that one can use to survive without commerce getting involved. That part isn't just nature.
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  11286.  @garysmokesmeat  You don't get to control things. You came here trying to insist that yours is the moral position and it works better for people. You have clearly given up on the latter, and you are incapable of understanding that when you only base your position on the former that you are making a religious argument, and you are as much of a fundamentalist as Pat Robertson or Ayatollah Khomeini.
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  11287.  @garysmokesmeat  I'm not the one insisting that I'm the only person making a moral stance. And give that you are opposed to "any regulation on business," that means that you are just fine with businesses selling defective products that they know will kill people.
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  11288.  @garysmokesmeat  [In Homer Simpson whisper] When you believe in progressive taxation, there is no single answer.
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  11289.  @garysmokesmeat  I think the first $40-50K or so should be taxed at a lower rate, and that somewhere around $100-200K, it should be higher, so you might come ahead if I got to control policy.
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  11290.  @danporter1176  The interest is also killer. I'd love to see Student Loan Forgiveness coupled with free public tuition so we don't get in this mess again, but the program we got was better than nothing.
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  11291.  @garysmokesmeat  Are we talking federal alone?
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  11292.  @garysmokesmeat  And just so I can get an apples to apples comparison, what is your tax filer status, and how many dependents (going by the pre-2017 rules of a dependent is a child under the age of 19 or a college student under the age of 24)? If we're including payroll taxes (which is the tax that is the majority of taxes for a majority of Americans), how much roughly do you pay for health care (including premiums and point of service) and what is the employer contribution to your plan (because that factors in to your me, me, me version of "money I get to keep")?
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  11293.  @garysmokesmeat  And if you would have framed it as what I think tax policy should be instead of a "what do I get to keep" as though it is immoral to say anything less than 100% even though you are fine with the employer getting way more of the fruits of your labor and that question ignores the fact that, when it all comes down to it, nobody keeps all of it under any system, and I can't control for consumption to figure out how much you really get to keep at the end of the day, you would have gotten an answer much sooner.
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  11294.  @garysmokesmeat  So, you're that worried to find out that you might be ahead under a more progressive tax system? And for someone whose industry is so heavily subsidized by the rest of us, you really have no business pulling the "I want the fruit of my labor," because the tree of your labor is watered by my gasoline taxes and highway tolls.
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  11295.  @garysmokesmeat  Well, depending on the degree of evasion, maybe a fine with back taxes, interests, and penalties. But, if you want to go to the Darryl Perry route, Leona Helmsley should have gone to jail.
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  11296.  @garysmokesmeat  I just told you. I'm sorry you have a reading comprehension problem. And you also damage the roads a lot more than I do.
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  11297.  @garysmokesmeat  Then again, the difference between a libertarian and an adult is that we know that we are part of a society. We're not people, in Sam's immortal phrase, who think we float while standing on a building.
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  11298.  @garysmokesmeat  Police will find them.
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  11299.  @garysmokesmeat  Use as much force as necessary, but not an ounce more, to bring that person into custody.
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  11300.  @garysmokesmeat  That's up to the person who doesn't want to pay. But then at that point, it's obvious that it's no longer just about tax evasion, so you have officially defeated your own argument.
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  11301.  @garysmokesmeat  Yeah, that makes sense. Non-sequiturs are not your friend.
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  11302.  @garysmokesmeat  Do you get paid to lie? You're the one who said that this tax cheat would "resist with whatever force necessary," not me.
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  11303.  @garysmokesmeat  Arrest. You're the one who came up with this scenario to try to prove something as though your Johnny Yuma going out in a blaze of glory is somehow proof of something. Quite frankly, if this person is working class, tax evasion is just stupid, because he/she would probably get a refund, anyway.
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  11304.  @garysmokesmeat  Tax evasion. And your point?
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  11305.  @garysmokesmeat  The Homer Simpson whisper is for things that are so obvious that an incredibly loud and unsubtle whisper is the only way to express it. R/whoosh
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  11306.  @garysmokesmeat  Because the instant it becomes about violent resistance, the level of response has nothing to do with the tax evasion and everything to do with the violence that you claim to oppose.
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  11307.  @garysmokesmeat  I never said anything about eating meat. That's your issue, not mine.
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  11308.  @garysmokesmeat  And don't forget that you specifically said that you don't want businesses to be regulated in any way, and you never said that an exception should be made for knowingly selling defective products that kill because it is cheaper, which can, does, and has happened.
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  11309.  @garysmokesmeat  Workers can take a job offer, but as long as any job offer is based in such an inherently unfair power dynamic with stagnant wages, it's never really about choosing a good offer, but a less bad offer. It's not my fault that you can't understand the basic argument, and that you somehow think that it is some weird triumph to say that people violently opposing paying taxes shouldn't he allowed to do that.
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  11310.  @garysmokesmeat  Asks the person who can't make or follow a coherent argument other than "Rrrrr, I hate taxes! Let business do whatever they want!"
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  11311.  @garysmokesmeat  I never said they couldn't. What does that have to do with the coercive nature of employment and the false equal relationship painted by libertarians?
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  11312.  @garysmokesmeat  Says the person who never gave the answer when right at the door of the answer to you bUt I hAtE tAxEs question, and who never directly answered why you didn't see willfully poisoning people as violence that you claim to hate.
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  11313.  @garysmokesmeat  And who never answered the question about whether or not companies should be allowed to knowingly sell defective products that will kill or maim customers.
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  11314.  @garysmokesmeat  I never saw that, but that is not the same as saying that preventative measures should be taken to make sure they don't kill your kid. Kinda hard to take back killing someone.
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  11315.  @garysmokesmeat  And who is going to be the avenging force if everyone in your family is killed by this defective product that was purposefully defective? And with no oversight, how do you know that it is done on purpose? The company can just as easily claim that it didn't know that the product was defective, or that user error caused the tragedy. Heck, tobacco companies knew about their product since long before the Surgeon General's warning, and they didn't admit that it was harmful until the turn of the century... when they were forced to do so as part of a settlement with the 50 state attorneys general. Oil companies knew that global warming was a thing since the 1960s, but Exxon still ran the infamous "some people call it pollution, we call it life" ad in 2006. Coal companies knew about black lung but did nothing about it until they were forced to, and even then still did nothing to deal with miner concerns that the masks made it impossible to see.
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  11316.  @garysmokesmeat  Well, you don't want the FDA to exist, so how do you make it happen?
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  11317.  @garysmokesmeat  "I don't know how every single problem would be solved." And this is where pretty much every single discussion with a libertarian leads. Some insist that such issues are "a distraction," but they are literally life and death. "There would literally be hundreds of thousands of different ways to solve those problems." And, yet, you give up and can't even name one. And, yes, many of those problems did occur despite government oversight, but do you know what happened before government oversight? Literally nothing was thrown out from a meat processing plant. If someone should lose a hand, an arm, or even fall into the machinery, pack it up and send it out. You know the meat is rotten? Put some extra seasoning on it and send it out. If the private sector could do such a good job of preventing such things, why didn't it do such things? Personally, I appreciate not inadvertently becoming a cannibal.
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  11318.  @garysmokesmeat  "But with government you get things like the war in Iraq. A little bit worse." And without government, you get warlords in Somalia. Or, at best, you get feudalism, and what Hobbes called "the war of all against all." Private police? Yes, because private police will be true arbiters of justice and not mercenaries who are beholden to the people who pay them. And they'll never have competing bands of private police. It never ceases to amaze me how every single discussion of what things look like without government ends up with something more bloated and convoluted. For someone talking about "violence," yout solutions end up leading to a much more violent world than the one we currently live in.
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  11319.  @garysmokesmeat  You are aware that the biggest companies are transnational, right? With no government, what would stop Amazon from becoming its own conquering army?
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  11320.  @garysmokesmeat  What keeps Germany from doing so? The things that you want to get rid of keeping them in check.
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  11321.  @garysmokesmeat  All what data? What is your evidence?
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  11322.  @garysmokesmeat  But, yeah, a 30-plus year civil war is so much better.
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  11323.  @garysmokesmeat  Well, considering that your literal answer to the idea of someone purposely selling you a defective product is that you are fully justified in using violence, what makes you think that person's family won't see it that way? And the cycle continues. Eventually, it starts bringing more and more people into itself, and then you end up with the war of all against all. An ironic fate for someone to start this claiming to be against violence, but such is life when one decides to be judge, jury, and executioner.
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  11324.  @garysmokesmeat  You think that I think that it would be someone in the warehouse? No. I think that without selected governments, but with businesses being able to do whatever they want with the only countervailing force being personal revenge that Bezos will then be able to hire his own mercenary army. His company already has the economic size of some small countries. In a world where money is king, the person with the most is emperor. And before you think that means that Elon Musk will come and save you all, his net worth is based on the most ridiculously inflated stock since tulips. A tiny car company having more value than every other auto manufacturer on the planet combined several times over?
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  11325.  @garysmokesmeat  "maybe we would need a mutually agreed upon judge" You mean by, I don't know, an election? That's one way to make sure that everyone agrees upon the judge.
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  11326.  @garysmokesmeat  Do you honestly think that it is a coincidence that a nuclear weapon was never fired against a country that also has a nuclear weapon? As far as the idea of "just members of the community with reputations for being fair and upstanding," that's the whole point of elections in the first place. It never fails that a libertarian or AnCap will end up with something that is much more convoluted than what we actually have in order to get out of paying taxes. Then again, I'm not the one defending sweatshops and tribal warlords, either.
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  11327.  @garysmokesmeat  Libertarians: Bureaucracy is bad. Also Libertarians: Let's replace the bureaucracy with way more layers where people can never get anything resolved.
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  11328.  @garysmokesmeat  So, "initiating violence is bad," but a few comments ago, you literally argued for the right to kill a CEO who wronged you. You have a funny way of solving for "initiating violence is bad."
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  11329.  @garysmokesmeat  Let's follow your logic. So, before you realized that you stepped in it, you wanted the right to kill a CEO for knowingly selling a fatal product. Then, what will stop the family from killing you, and so on and so forth? Everyone in this cycle thinks he/she is justified because of some previous action. There are literally tribes that followed your logic and got decimated, because such things led to wars because everyone kept retaliating. We have an entity outside of the direct conflict resolving it for a reason.
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  11330.  @annedonnellan6876  "Private enterprise imp focuses more on cost benefit." Then, why does Medicare have overhead so much lower than private insurance?
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  11331. I've lost 62 pounds this year and eaten plenty of pasta, pizza, and burgers. (Not all, but I've had my fair share.) Sam is right, portion size makes a big difference.
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  11332.  @cameronostrander7140  I don't know about smart. I'm reminded of a scene from Citizen Kane: Bernstein: That man [Mr. Thatcher] was the biggest darn fool I ever met. Thompson: Well, he made a lot of money. Bernstein: Well, that's no trick... If all you care about is making a lot of money.
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  11333. This is the legitimate version in politics. When people use it to refer to tokenism or ignoring what someone is doing because of what that person looks like is part of the problem. For example, I just saw an article in Slate talking about whether or not Buttigeg "counts" as anything other than a white man because he is gay, and insisted that Bernie had the skids greased, as if a Jewish socialist in the 1950s who lived in public housing got all the breaks.
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  11334. "It's not that I'm lazy, it's just that I don't care. I can move some extra product, and I won't make another dime, all so Lumbergh's stock options can go up another quarter of a point." Peter Gibbons, Office Space
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  11335. 2:22 Indeed. There is no true populism that wants to cut taxes for rich people, and all right-wing populism is fake.
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  11336.  @Noodles1771  And did the Black Panthers talk about how much they agreed with the KKK? Your analogy falls apart under the slightest scrutiny. No red/brown alliance. If they want to join, they need to give up the brown.
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  11337.  @Noodles1771  And the racist communists saw their racism as secondary. People who literally join a group to start a civil war see their racism as primary. And what exactly did the Panther/Klan outreach accomplish? How did the red/brown alliance work in Germany? The only group of black people that the KKK actually wanted to work with was the Nation of Islam... because both wanted black people to go to Africa. Oh, yes. I must be a troll because I follow the TOS and don't worship at the altar of Jimmy Dore.
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  11338.  @jenm2251  Definitely. If someone is talking and mentions something that happened in the theater of operations that wasn't related to my service (I bought a necklace and was that had Arabic writing and I was trying to find someone who could interpret it, and they interrupted to say it), let that person finish his/her thought. (Eventually, the Muslim Student Association had a booth on campus and someone there could interpret it. He was very nice when I explained that I bought it in Kuwait and didn't know what it said, and he explained it was a verse from the Qur'an.) For a funny example, there is a Curb Your Enthusiasm clip where in all honesty, I would have appreciated Larry's response the best ;-)
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  11339.  @gorillaguerillaDK  If you look at where Hitchens ended, it wasn't exactly a great place. Defending the Iraq War years after it was obvious to everyone that the reasons why we went were false and it didn't work out for anyone involved, and he basically went neocon with regards to foreign policy, after his great work exposing Kissinger.
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  11340.  @howardgray6407  You mean doctoring documents and pretending to make a statement based on evidence? Yeah, that makes sense.
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  11341.  @gorillaguerillaDK  It was because, like Dawkins, he saw it as a chance to go after Muslims. As bad as Saddam Hussein was, he was successfully contained since 1991. He didn't have the capacity to attack others, and he didn't have claimed WMDs. It's one thing to be had, it's another to insist that you wrre right all along when history proved otherwise.
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  11342.  @zoobrizz  Gee, a right winger who likes Jimmy Dore. What a shock!
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  11343.  @gorillaguerillaDK  Considering what happened after he was removed, maybe the people who said that Poppy was right to refuse to do a regime change were right all along. Given the sectarian loyalties in the region, it would have led to chaos, and it did.
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  11344.  @thomasbel4193  No, but supporting Republicans, funding the campaigns of people opposed to sponsors of the Medicare for All bill you claim to support, and never having anything good to say about any actual lefties do.
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  11345.  @gorillaguerillaDK  I was there for the second war in Iraq. I agree that there are times when you must fight a war, but that doesn't mean becoming Team America: World Police, either. You can't really force a democracy on other people, because it is a contradiction in terms. In all honesty, I think that there should have been a more federalistic approach to Iraq, with the provinces getting a little bit more power in their government. Treating it as more or less a unitary system was never going to be sustainable. And as soon as you say "majority rule," the group that actually is a majority knows that all they have to do is stick together. This is part of why there were efforts to make a 2/3 majority necessary for any government functions. For me, one of the key questions about whether or not to get involved is if the group in question is contained. Yes, Putin is awful, but if he kept his awful confined to Russia, it's the place of the Russian people to address it.
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  11346.  @thomasbel4193  Yeah, I "know nothing about you." Well, nothing you've said has refuted the argument. I've seen plenty on this page who insist that they aren't right wingers all the while singing from their hymnal. But, you're special.
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  11347.  @gorillaguerillaDK  Personally, I think that the problem with using human rights violations as the standard is, honestly, where does it end? There would always be either a war or some covert action trying to take some foreign government out. I am willing to throw the "leave confined evil confined" away if there is a genocide going on, but just human rights abuses is easily 80% of the world's population.
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  11348.  @thomasbel4193  "If you ever took off the partisan blinders, you'd know that many right wingers have issues with the systems in place that keep the wealthy rich and the poor poor." Oh, sure, they say they have "issues with the system," but what do they actually do or want to do about it? If someone hurting your fee-fees is enough to get you to vote for the people who actively want to make the wealth and income inequality worse, then they weren't really strongly held opinions about a desire for a more equitable society, were they? Or, are you saying that they are all just well meaning dupes?
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  11349.  @thomasbel4193  "In fact I changed my mind" Yeah, sure, you "changed your mind." And DeSantis won't get the nomination as long as Der Orangefuhrer wants it. They don't want a pale imitation, they want the pure, uncut thing. Although I'm sure that they do love the cruelty and fascism of someone like DeSantis as a substitute if they can't have what they truly want.
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  11350.  @thomasbel4193  A legend in your own mind. So legendary that you don't seem to realize that you are helping the person you claim to hate. If someone votes for a fascist, either that person is a fascist, or that person is comfortable with fascists. I don't really care which is which.
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  11351.  @jd0604  Yeah, and let's look at some of Jimmy Dore's predictions: 1) Der Orangefuhrer would never get two or three Supreme Court picks (the exact phrase was that it was as likely as "the moon falling into Lake Michigan") 2) and if he did, it wouldn't really change anything, 3) that Democrats could filibuster the Supreme Court seat Mitch McConnell stole and that he wouldn't get rid of the filibuster for the Supreme Court, 4) and that such a cause would lead to Democrats taking over the Senate, 5) and then we'd get someone good "like Elizabeth Warren" as the Democratic nominee in 2020, 6) and the Republican Party would implode. Literally nothing he said that day happened. He also tried to convince people that Tulsi Gabbard was the One True Lefty and that her Medicare Choice was "smart politics," and then a year later saying that forcing a vote would magically give us health care. Then, there's the anti-vaccine stuff and bashing teachers unions and the coronavirus denialism. But yeah, he's "been right about everything." Right wing, maybe, but not correct.
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  11352.  @thomasbel4193  If that helps you sleep at night, troll. The mere fact that you can only resort to angry "rrrrr, they're not right wing or fascists" proves that you have nothing. The algorithm thanks you for bringing more people to the show, and the audience thanks you for proving to everyone how stupid right wing trolls are and how pathetically obvious they are all along. At this rate, I wonder if you're even old enough to vote.
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  11353.  @thomasbel4193  Yes, the man who said that Mitch McConnell would never get rid of the judicial filibuster and that Trump wouldn't get three Supreme Court Justices was right about everything. If you've followed Jimmy Dore all along, then like the Larouche cult before you, you woke up on the right and didn't even realize it.
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  11354.  @thomasbel4193  Yeah, Jimmy Dore doesn't mention Sam Seder because he can't stand his defeat. In fact, he is so owned that if someone says anything nice about Sam, he deletes his name. The clunkiest was when he interviewed a former alt-right person talking about how he got out. That's your hero Jimmy, lying, not understanding how things wrong, and convincing his fanbase to vote the exact opposite of everything they claim to support. Funny how much the anti-anti-Trump crowd and the pro-Trump people sound so much alike.
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  11355.  @thomasbel4193  You know why no one goes to Jimmy's channel from the MR audience goes to Dore videos? Because we understand how the algorithm works and don't want to boost his channel. We would much rather watch the dunking where it won't help him. Not surprised that Dore fans don't know the rules of the game while Seder fans do
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  11356.  @thomasbel4193  If you're done, then don't reply and don't put some lengthy thing on it. Nobody died and made you boss of the internet.
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  11357. How can someone defend a document he has never read?
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  11358.  @andrewpotts6312  "anti intellectualism of the left [...] Just pick your fascist/totalitarian disingenuousness intellectual poison of your choice." All fascists are totalitarian, but not all totalitarians are fascist.
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  11359.  @andrewpotts6312  Horsehoe Theory is not a thing. The "hard left" who tend to want to work with the hard right tend to not be very far left at all.
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  11360.  @andrewpotts6312  True
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  11361. Indeed. We can't let them keep playing Lucy with the football. Don't give them what they want until we get what we want. Even if we don't get everything we want, we can still get a lot of what we want if we insist that we actually get a deal first.
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  11362. I always call it "right to work for less." I didn't know Thom called it that first, but my thought was that you need to be close enough to the original title to subconsciously get the truth. Another example: the national sales tax proposal at the turn of the century was called FairTax. I always, always, always called it the UnfairTax in response.
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  11363.  @danzeljohnson3341  You mean someone who pushed the anti-anti-Trump angle and mocked anyone who pointed out the anger Trump posted to democracy, even after his failed coup attempt? Hint: coups tend to work on the second attempt (see: Germany, Cuba, Chile, et al).
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  11364. Let's wait and see how much Biden gave that is general election funds or from contributors who maxed out. My guess is that his quarterly report will show a lot of smoke and mirrors.
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  11365. I am sick and tired of the slander against Al Gore on this one. Al Gore took cases to court, and once the Supreme Court rules against a recount, he conceded. When he presided over the Electoral College count, he refused to allow a challenge to proceed, and he didn't say a word to publicly criticize Bush after he took office until he started the push for the Iraq War. Der Orangefuhrer had every right to try to challenge the election results, and nobody is saying he didn't. What we are saying is that once those challenges were over, it was time to put his big boy pants on and admit that he was voted out, not send his followers to the Capitol to try to overturn the results.
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  11366. ​​ @corujariousa n 1974, it took knowing that the tape existed forced.the dam to break. We've heard an actual Trunp confession on tape, and they still rally behind him. Not to mention the fact that they stood behind him when he sent goons to kill them.
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  11367. Too bad Yang doesn't do that. He taxes consumption. He is actually against raising income taxes on the wealthy (using the Republican excuse that tax avoidance is inevitable), wealth taxes, inheritance taxes, or treating capital gains as ordinary income.
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  11368.  @markfeland2285  That stems from taxing unearned income at a lower rate than earned income.
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  11369.  @anthonyrose2232  What's wrong with that is that vouchers and charter schools starve public schools and make them even worse. You know why New Jersey finishes first in education lately? They actually pay for it (which conservatives whine about when they want taxes lowered).
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  11370.  @dreamdiscounts  No, I want them to get the full thousand, and I don't want a consumption tax to pay for it. And it only stacks on to the retirement portion, not the disability portion. Then again, you know what would make it universal and avoid these problems? Stop forcing the poor to choose!
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  11371.  @quinndawsonosgood5261  It was Twain, but it was "a fool" rather than "stupid."
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  11372.  @mckenzie.latham91  Small price to pay for treason.
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  11373. The only way I'd ever believe something like that would be if a Republican tried to get her to bow out because they know with her on the ballot, Gallego is a sure thing.
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  11374. Is it just me, or does Hader with the Arnold face kinda look like Mulaney?
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  11375.  @WalkTuahthePolls  Indeed. Bill Clinton wanted Say and Serve and ran on it in the 1992 election. Don't Ask Don't Tell was the compromise position.
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  11376.  Rakly3  Gold has not kept pace with inflation over the last 400 years. People talk about investing in it, but gold is not really an investment. An ounce of gold will be an ounce of gold. An investment hopes that, say, 1% of Coca-Cola will be bigger as the company grows.
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  11377.  @MrSuperbeast92  The price of gold eight years ago was $1889 an ounce. Today, it's $1256. That's a bigger devaluation than the dollar has had over that same period of time. Fiat currency became the dominant mode for the simple reason that metal currency puts limits on the ability of economies to grow, and there isn't enough gold in the world to pay for money now. Adopting a gold standard would mean economic chaos.
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  11378.  @MrSuperbeast92  So, you want a standard that is only worth more about 10% of the time, and proved to be so disastrous 85 years ago during a depression that we started to abandon it?
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  11379.  @MrSuperbeast92  That is straight up price, not real dollars. The price of gold has fallen 33.5% since 2010. Inflation in that time has only been 13.5%. According to that handy-dandy inflation calculator, $1889 in 2010 would cost $2183, so in constant dollars, it has fallen 42.5%. Some investment!
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  11380.  Rakly3  Gold has lost over a third of its trading value over the last eight years. Not in real dollars, but actual sticker price. The only way that it will do you any good is if the world economy totally collapses in a way that makes 1929 look like a hiccup. You can hold onto whatever you want, but unless someone in future world agrees that gold is the thing of value, you're out of luck.
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  11381.  Rakly3  Well, it's just obvious that the paranoia is strong. You think the world economy will totally collapse in two years? Not a recession, but a total collapse? I'm 39, and I've been hearing these predictions most of my life. I hope you have your special apocalypse MREs in your bunker.
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  11382.  Rakly3  I looked at the link, and it said that a gold "bull market" comes when the ratio is over 4.8. Never mind that the last gold bubble came when the ratio was much lower than 4.8, but the ratio has been falling, and inflation has still been around the 2% range. Hardly the 1970s. Make sure the evidence you provide says what you say it does, because we can check.
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  11383.  Rakly3  I hadn't saw those. I was referring to your prediction that we are two years away from a global collapse. Yes, I have been predicting a bear market for a year and a half (the P/E ratios were way too high), but there is a difference between saying fundamentals don't look great and something along the order that we haven't seen in 150 years is coming.
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  11384.  Rakly3  I have been replying during downtime at work. I'll have to do the deeper dive if it is remotely lengthy at all later tonight. I don't want you to think that I am avoiding what you are presenting.
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  11385.  Justin Sawyer  [citation needed]
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  11386.  Justin Sawyer  Well, I see your question is gone, so I don't know whether that was by design or the YouTube monster eating it, but the citation needed is your evidence that "we invest almost as much in education as we do the military."
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  11387.  Justin Sawyer  [citation needed]
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  11388.  @truthhurtswilky7785  At this point, I'm starting to wonder if Trump is the Antichrist.
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  11389.  @christophercollins3632  "A switch in time to save the nine." It wouldn't be the first time.
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  11390. Let's go!
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  11391. Even if this debate didn't move the needle, that is good for Biden since he's ahead.
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  11392. I remember 2006. Obama came to WV as the keynote speaker at the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner. I had gone to three others with elected officials (John Edwards, Barbara Mikulski, and Mark Warner) as keynote speaker. He was brought in to try to help push Robert C. Byrd over the line for a record ninth term, because people worried that his age might make him vulnerable. Obama had time for everyone who gave the maximum $1000 donation to the party, but he couldn't get out of that room fast enough when it came to the volunteers or the people who paid a regular ticket price, even though I got to meet each of the other three I mentioned. That told me who he really was when he started talking about monied interests. A friend of mine who supported Obama in the primary was still angry when I visited two weeks later because, while Hillary had went to so many stops in the Mountain State you could be forgiven for thinking she was running for governor instead of President, and Obama made one appearance in the state, and it was a rally in the Civic Center. No wonder he lost the primary by 41 points. He is all distant charisma, no personal touch.
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  11393.  @bioboost12  Why do so many of you right wingers sing off the Republican hymnal and then pretend not to care about the Republican Party?
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  11394. "It's only a banana, Michael. How much could it cost, ten dollars?" Lucille Bluth
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  11395. ​​ @tonyclifton2230  Their real goal is to get to 5% so they can qualify for matching funds and they repeatedly work with Republicans, where several state parties have been taken over by them. It's a grift.
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  11396.  @dr.brocoli  No, the point is to get that sweet, sweet cash. And it is accurate to say that the Green Party often works with Republicans. Take the 2020 lawsuit because the Greens botched the petition drive in Wisconsin. Or the fact that several state Green parties have been taken over by Republicans. The Green Party has been at "destroying the two-party system" for over 50 years. How far have they gotten? Spending the bulk of your effort on the Presidency, which the rules of the Twelfth Amendment literally guarantee they have zero chance of winning, shows that they aren't serious. Either that, or they are incompetent and don't understand how rules work.
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  11397.  @xXRickTrolledXx  There is an inherent inconsistency in American conservatism. They are really little more than Social Darwinists who hate the same people. I actually heard one of them insist that eliminating the minimum wage will "raise wages because it allows people to negotiate."
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  11398.  @Chuckakhan  Indeed. A judge by nature is way too cautious to be a prosecutor. He definitely overleanred the lessons from Comey.
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  11399. Considering the red/green alliance since at least 2000, the only real surprise is that she said it out loud.
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  11400. "It's just one banana, Michael. How much could it cost, ten dollars?" Lucille Bluth "I found a $20 bill in an old coat. A twenty! It changed my weekend. Bill Gates can never know the excitement of finding a $20 bill in an old coat." Gary Gulman
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  11401.  @Big1nz  Well, my aunt got a nasty breakthrough case, and her doctor told her that if she hadn't been vaccinated, she almost certainly would have died. If I am around family who I know are vaccined, I will take it off, but if I'm in public, I only take it off to eat or if I am running and no one is around. If something is 70-80% effective on the individual level, there is no harm in being extra cautious.
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  11402. ​ @whiskeymonk4085  Taxes were a lot higher in the 1950s and people "gave money to one entity" back then, too. The problem is that the incentive for everyone except for renters and those trying to buy a house is to make housing as expensive as possible. If you are in a nice area to live in, it is very common to see For Sale signs replaced a couple months later with For Rent signs that jack up the rental market making it impossible for people to save up. And then if you do somehow manage to save up, some private equity fund will outbid you. In the words of the late, great Sinead O'Connor, fight the real enemy.
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  11403.  @sndspderbytes  The Founding Fathers also thought that political parties were bad, but do you know how long it took for them to start political parties after the Constitution was written? Three years. "Do you have a dictionary? I want you to go home, take out a black marker, and draw a big, thick line through the word 'objectivity.' People voted for you for your experiences, your philosophy, your subjectivity." Gary Oldman, "The Contender"
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  11404. Either that or they saw some polls that show this is hurting them for the midterms.
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  11405.  @thecoolannishatk.  Re: voting for judges, which ones? Are you talking about back in the day where judicial nominees were nearly unanimous? Or you talking about circuit court judges who are bound by precedent in a way Supreme Court Justices aren't? And looking at Biden as an example, he voted against elevating Rehnquist to Chief, he worked with Kennedy to defeat Bork, and he voted against Thomas, Roberts, and Alito. This argument is completely weak sauce.
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  11406.  @thecoolannishatk.  Mike Cernovich is a fascist. Jimmy Dore wants to work with him. Saagar Enjeti is a fascist (if you don't believe me, look at his takes on BLM protests and what the police should do) and Krystal Ball keeps trying to tell everyone that he and people like him are good people. Your definition of who counts as a fascist is far too narrow.
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  11407.  @thecoolannishatk.  What has he ever specifically advocated to rein in corporate power and the concentration of wealth? I don't care how much he complains about it is a problem because [Homer Simpson whisper] Most fascists complain about corporate power to try to build their ranks as a misdirect. Xenophobia plus right-wing authoritarianism almost always leads to fascism. Ask his theory of the case as to why corporate power is what it is. The xenophobia means that he thinks the undesirables cause it. So do fascists.
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  11408. People have united on that issue.
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  11409. Nancy Pelosi was a lefty, but she has since become a centrist. This is someone who pushed through a minimum wage increase in her first week as Speaker. Now, she seems afraid of her own shadow when it comes to fighting back.
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  11410. I believe that her conversion was sincere. My sticking point was her advocacy of torture. That is a taint that never comes off.
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  11411. @Romantic Warrior1 Well, I don't think they have any intention of killing themselves, but they are willing to do so in order to own the libs, as seen by the coronavirus. Peoples Temple didn't start off talking about suicide. It wasn't until they went to Guyana, so that comparison is more apt than you meant.
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  11412.  @SteveGellerMusic  1952 was the last time a candidate didn't win on the first ballot (Eisenhower won on the third) for President, and 1956 was the last time a Vice Presidential nominee wasn't decided on the first ballot (Kefauver won on the second ballot). Kennedy didn't win until the last state in 1960, but it's always been decided on the first ballot since. Superdelegates were a thing in the 1984 election for the first time. Mondale needed 40 superdelegates in that election. Only three first-time candidates won enough pledged delegates to not need any superdelegates to get over the top: Clinton in 1992, Gore in 2000, and Kerry in 2004. It took about 58% of the pledged delegates to win without any superdelegates, and Obama got 52% and Hillary got 55%.
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  11413.  @SteveGellerMusic  In the first round, you only need a majority of pledged delegates. I gave the other examples to point that even when people needed superdelegates, there has not been a deadlock since the modern era initiated by the McGovern Commission. It takes 15% in a Congressional District to qualify for delegates, so I think the fact that there are so many establishment candidates jumping in will help someone like Bernie, because there are so many splitting the establishment vote (and since they are taking Super PAC money, they have less incentive to get out) that they might just cancel each other out by staying under 15%.
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  11414.  @SteveGellerMusic  They might not make it past Super Tuesday, but with California moving up so early in the process, that could be enough to make it too late for the establishment to rally around one candidate, and if Bernie gets several early victories, that would give him a lot of momentum. That's why Hillary put so much effort into Iowa last time: she knew she didn't have a prayer in NH, so she knew that she had to win one of the first two states to avoid collapse. If Bernie won the double, he would have probably also won Nevada, which would have given him a YOUge boost going forward.
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  11415.  @andrewkeen3129  Who among that list is great?
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  11416. At this point, if you still support Der Orangefuhrer, you fall into one of two categories: people who actively cheer on human suffering and the death of democracy, or people who look the other way at those things. Both are bad. I get that some people either stayed on the sidelines or just wanted something different, but there is no excuse to still be on the Trump Train.
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  11417. Other than "I can shoot somebody in the middle of 5th Avenue and not lose any votes," the only honest thing that Big Orange Dummy said on the campaign trail.
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  11418. You mean the trial that wouldn't have happened at all if there wasn't video evidence of the murder disproves the idea that racism exists? Yeah, that makes sense.
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  11419.  @oller7113  They knew who did it. The point is that they didn't want to arrest them.
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  11420.  @oller7113  They were convicted and you're still holding on to the idea that it was justified? That says more about you than it does about me.
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  11421.  @oller7113  So, you believe that "every case should be investigated thoroughly," but you defend the police and DA when they originally refused to do so and tried to bury the case? Yeah, right.
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  11422.  @SadisticSenpai61  The Greens were never on the ballot, because the election committee said that they didn't qualify. The Greens are the ones who didn't follow the rules. Anyone has the right to challenge, and it is the responsibility of the Greens to do it right. I remember the Greens saying that it was unfair that Democrats challenged their petitions in PA in 2004. Well, last time I checked, there aren't a dozen people named Mickey Mouse who are registered voters in the Keystone State. And there is evidence that Johnson didn't take more votes from Trump than Clinton. Hillary's lead grew in two-way polls vs. four-way polls, and a poll of combined Johnson and Stein voters in 2016 shows that a majority will vote for Biden in 2020. This wouldn't be possible if the group that was over 75% of the sample were votes Trump would have gotten.
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  11423.  @SadisticSenpai61  I am talking about Wisconsin, the state that this whole thing is about. What state are you talking about? You apparently also missed that Hillary's lead increased in the two-way polling compared to four-way polling. If the group that includes 75-80% of people "more inclined to vote GOP," how do you explain the fact that her lead went up? If that were the case in 2016, it would have gone down.
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  11424.  @SadisticSenpai61  There was plenty of incompetence and grift in each of those states. In Montana, thousands who signed the petition described the fraudulent means by which it was attained, and it was removed. In Pennsylvania, lots of people have been removed after the fact, because here they allow people on provisionally before challenges to ballot access. I have never walked into a primary ballot without at least one candidate blacked out. In In Wisconsin, the state in question, they were never on the ballot in the first place.
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  11425.  @jarridbarker1128  The other side is an ideological party rather than a coalition, so their base has more power by definition. The effect of Jimmy Dore going on Tucker Carlson is to help Republicans. Tucker knows it, Jimmy knows it, but his audience doesn't get it.
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  11426.  @jarridbarker1128  There is far more divergence in thought among the Democratic Party than the Republican Party. Therefore, the former is a coalition and the latter is pure ideology. Where is the example of people as far apart in the Republican Party ideologically as AOC and Biden?
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  11427.  @jarridbarker1128  The exact phrasing for the filibuster being gone was "as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan."
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  11428.  @jarridbarker1128  Yeah, there is no real ideological difference at all. It is performative theater. Romney was fine with the tax cuts and judges, he just didn't like how Trump acted. Ditto Cheney. McConnell gave Trump everything he ever wanted.
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  11429.  @jarridbarker1128  No, that's people who didn't appease a personality cult. The fact that you can't tell the difference between a personality cult and ideological differences is very revealing.
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  11430.  @jarridbarker1128  True, there is a difference, but an honest person would have said, "I really messed this one up, so I need to better understand how things actually work." Instead, he is pushing more things that prove he didn't learn, and insist that people who hadn't even started their term yet had sold out. Then again, I don't take my advice from a "jagged comedian" who uses that as an excuse for his ignorance.
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  11431.  @jarridbarker1128  They were talking about the judicial filibuster (proving that you are dishonest as he is). They got plenty done and constant gridlock was not the final result. Dems did not get the Senate back in 2018. In fact, it was a net loss of seats in 2018. So, was this rebuttal one of ignorance or was it one of dishonesty?
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  11432.  @jarridbarker1128  If you don't course correct after being wrong, then it becomes being untruthful. Jimmy Dore hasn't.
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  11433.  @jarridbarker1128  Not for the Supreme Court, which is what they were talking about. Before the Kavanaugh hearing, McConnell dropped the time for floor debate on the all judicial nominees from 30 hours to two.
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  11434.  @jarridbarker1128  Anybody who played the slightest bit of attention would have been able to foresee that McConnell wasn't keeping that seat open just to let Democrats block it. Therefore, only people who either weren't paying attention or had no analytical skill wouldn't have seen that one coming. The Senate map was going to be incredibly difficult for 2018. Everyone with very few pickup opportunities.
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  11435.  @jarridbarker1128  It was so obvious what McConnell was doing that a lot of people accurately predicted it. If you don't have foresight (not super predictive powers, but basic foresight to understand that if A then B), then your solutions will be worthless. Telling people that they can just force a vote to get Medicare for All even though there were not enough votes for it to pass or even close to it (and I have had dozens of Dore fanboys insist that if you oppose this failed strategy, you oppose Medicare for All, so don't say that he didn't) shows that he didn't learn his lesson. Having a side livestream of the "virtual rally" where people had to pay to get in shows that it was a dishonest act rather than a mistaken one. Because he clearly hasn't learned from 2016, he has now devolved from being wrong to being willfully ignorant, which is a form of dishonesty.
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  11436.  @jarridbarker1128  A non-sequitir by a liar following a liar. Democrats tried to filibuster Gorsuch, and every Democrat voted against the nuclear option. I couldn't tell if you were ignorant or dishonest, and I don't waste my time with the latter. I will respond to the other question you asked, but unless you are going to show some honesty, I will not engage anymore after that.
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  11437.  @jarridbarker1128  You mean his insistence that it would "expose" people who are against it when we already have a list? And the idea that you can win 104 primary challenges when the person who said he wouldn't sign Medicare for All won nationwide by a wide margin in the primaries against the lead sponsor, and the one state that tried to put it to the people got 21% support? Yeah, I saw why he did it, and it showed the same dishonesty and ignorance that I have come to expect from Jimmy Dore.
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  11438. I am conflicted by this. Yes, Cheney is right about Trump, but the lack of self-awareness is shocking. If Trump's election was close enough to steal like yours was, would he have been justified?
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  11439.  @LinkRocks  They were the good guys 160 years ago, and they'll never let you forget it. The last principled national Republican leader was either Goldwater or Eisenhower.
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  11440. She will be the youngest woman. James Buchanan was 25.
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  11441.  @dvhughesdesign  I mean once, maybe, but it just seems like the embarrassment factor would lead enough of them to say, "Surely, we can get someone else to vote the way we want."
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  11442. In all honesty, I don't know what else the Biden Administration can do if just about every media source keeps hammering how bad things are and how Biden doesn't do anything. It also doesn't help that too many on the left will get 90% of what we want and spend all of their time whining about the 10% we didn't get.
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  11443. It's Mike Love Syndrome: cover your head at all times, and convince yourself that no one will realize that you are bald underneath.
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  11444. What makes you think that is going to make 100 votes fall from the sky? What makes you think that Pelosi will then have another vote? Exposing your weakness increases your weakness.
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  11445.  @chrlpolk  Then, just as expected, this isn't a good faith effort to pass legislation, but an effort to embarrass people. Bad faith efforts aren't going to get rewarded, they are going to get punished.
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  11446.  @chrlpolk  Who said, "earn my vote" is a "core movement principle"? How about noticing that a lot of people won on specific promises to support something else, and that just "demanding" things doesn't do anything? Or how about understanding who actually controls the calendar? Or maybe looking at the fact that Mitch McConnell is the other one pushing for a floor vote on this, so maybe use your head and ask yourself why that is, and when he has ever wanted to do something that is good for the left.
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  11447.  @chrlpolk  And did they say not to vote for Biden? Therefore, you are taking the telephone version of it.
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  11448.  @knightofthe_1sunbro627  Do you think that the bill will pass? Did you see what happened the second time for the Nixon plan or Hillarycare? Oh, that's right! You don't get a second chance when it comes to healthcare. I have laid out a strategy for actually building support. You don't add by subtraction. Like the Underpants Gnomes, there is no step two to your proposal.
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  11449.  @chrlpolk  At the time, they all said that Biden was preferable. They "abandoned" nothing.
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  11450.  @knightofthe_1sunbro627  So, you're Rosa Parks now? My God, the egos of you lazy people! I was part of an effort that actually got two sponsors in Philadelphia. And let's just think it through. Did LBJ force a vote on something on the scope of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 right after the Montgomery Bus Boycott? The 1957 bill was much smaller, because he knew that there wasn't support for something that big. Even the examples you use to pump up your ego prove my point.
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  11451.  @TahtahmesDiary  Acting now will make trying something in a year or two less likely to pass. Now, the very people who you need to vote for it are going to have dug in their heels. Great strategy!
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  11452. Unemployment rate by President for each one where we have BLS surveys for the entire term: Eisenhower (R) (Jan. 1953) 2.9% (Dec. 1960) 6.6% Kennedy (D) (Jan. 1961) 6.6% (Oct. 1963) 5.5% Johnson (D) (Nov. 1963) 5.7% (Dec. 1968) 3.4% Nixon (R) (Jan. 1969) 3.4% (July 1974) 5.5% Ford (R) (Aug. 1974) 5.5% (Dec. 1976) 7.8% Carter (D) (Jan. 1977) 7.5% (Dec. 1980) 7.2% Reagan (R) (Jan. 1981) 7.5% (Dec. 1988) 5.3% George H. W. Bush (R) (Jan. 1989) 5.4% (Dec. 1992) 7.4% Clinton (D) (Jan. 1993) 7.3% (Dec. 2000) 3.9% George W. Bush (R) (Jan. 2001) 4.2% (Dec. 2008) 7.3% Obama (D) (Jan. 2009) 7.8% (Dec. 2016) 4.7% Trump (R) (Jan. 2017) 4.7% (Dec. 2020) 6.7% Biden (D) (Jan. 2021) 6.4% (Dec. 2024) 4.1% Anyone notice a trend?
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  11453. "If you make $100 and need $99, you'll be happy. If you make $1000 and need $1001, you'll be miserable." I can't remember who said it, but Der Orangefuhrer is the living embodiment of that saying.
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  11454.  mako zero  Who said anything about reaching out? We are saying that he has to prove himself to us if he really wants forgiveness.
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  11455. What percentage of Congressional Democrats voted to increase the minimum wage again?
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  11456. ​ @jennyanydots2389  He said it several years ago way before deepfake technology was remotely prepared for that.
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  11457.  @f58534  She got $7MM for a recount that never happened and an all-expenses paid trip to Moscow for the last one. She's getting more than you think to be a useful idiot who helps Republicans get elected.
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  11458. Do I trust President Warren or Harris to get Medicare for All? No. However, at this stage, it is better that they say the right thing so President Bernie can hold them to it.
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  11459.  lopezb  Does that mean that putting her on the lacrosse team will help properly channel her aggression? ;-)
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  11460. ​ @LauraPerez-g3p  I'm not surprised. This is someone who once bragged about not taking any medicine because "that stuff is poison. I get my drugs from the ground."
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  11461. SEIU 668 in Philadelphia for Bernie. Which side are you on? I'm on the side of the people.
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  11462. Mittens deserves credit for voting to remove Der Orangefuhrer twice, and he will forever go into the history books for being the first Senator to vote to remove a President of his own party, but it's not that he get better so much as those around him became a lot worse over the last decade.
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  11463. It looks like an American President finally took George Aiken's advice at 6:36.
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  11464. I get that they can't do a show called Unsolved on Watcher, but I am really excited to see what True Crime stuff they'll do there.
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  11465. Politico rana story yesterday where several Democratic Senators including centrists expressed their confidence that Bernie could win a national election and get results. I think that you are going to start to see a ripple effect of people wanting to get on board because they see how things are going. I'm not worried about them blowing things up and going third party or not showing up out of spite.
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  11466. Something that would have been interesting in this one would have been adding a reference to The Baxter, a movie told from the perspective of the guy who gets dumped in other movies. It's played up by having the title character played by Michael Showalter while the man of destiny is played by Justin Theroux, whose character I hated so very, very much. It is a quite amusing way of turning the genre on its head.
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  11467. I remember seeing Goodbye Lenin a few years ago. How accurate was it in portraying the sentiments of people in the DDR?
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  11468. So, you wanted fertility treatments, so you voted for the candidate who bragged about putting the people on the Supreme Court who made the way possible for Alabama to ban IVF outright? [In Dr. Evil voice] Riiiight. Let's hope she's learned her lesson and doesn't keep screwing the rest of us.
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  11469.  @anthonyryan825  You only have to get one or the other. She hadn't yet made the polling threshold. I hadn't heard that she made the fundraising threshold, which is why I was curious as to when.
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  11470.  @interdimensionalsteve8172  I keep hearing this idea that Tulsi is somehow working to help Bernie with her votes in the primary. Here are the scenarios: 1) Tulsi does not get to viability, and most of her voters see Bernie as a second choice. If a candidate doesn't get to 15% (and considering that so far she is having trouble getting to 1%, but let's just say that she gets to 5% by Iowa and New Hampshire) npn-viable votes in a primary go into the ether, thus meaning less delegates that Bernie would get. 2) Tulsi gets delegates. Those delegates are bound in the first round, when superdelegates play no role. The DNC could very easily rule that Tulsi delegates have to vote for Tulsi, thus making it more likely that there is a second round, where the threshold to win the nomination goes up by over 400 delegates. Given those scenarios, how does Tulsi staying in once voting starts help Bernie?
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  11471.  @interdimensionalsteve8172  There is one glaring hole in your argument. The DNC has the power to vote at convention to forbid releasing delegates. If no one gets an absolute majority, they are some of the superdelegates. They already tried to thwart a Bernie candidacy with the "You have to be a Democrat" resolution, but the Vermont Democratic Party stopped them. You have specifically stated that Tulsi will help Bernie. If Bernie gets a majority on his own, he doesn't need her delegates, so this implies that Bernie is a little short of 50% Plus One, so in this example, let's say that Bernie gets 48% of the delegates, and Tulsi gets 3%. What do you think will stop the DNC from forcing her delegates to vote Tulsi to deny Bernie the nomination on the first ballot and give themselves a vote on the floor?
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  11472.  @interdimensionalsteve8172  Also, when you look down below the first line question, there is no poll that shows Tusli getting huge numbers among the under 50 set. And the right wingers who like her on foreign policy won't really come into play until you get to states with a lot of Dixiecrats. Those still exist in large numbers in WV, but they don't vote until May 12, so that won't help. KY votes a week later, but they have None of the Above as an option, which most analysts think is the only thing that saved Hillary from getting swept in May the last time.
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  11473.  @interdimensionalsteve8172  Yes, the establishment candidates would have to keep their delegates, and no that would not make it easier for Bernie to get an absolute majority. That doesn't make any sense at all. 2026 is the threshold. It is not getting the most delegates. You need more than half. The other establishment candidates would support that idea, because deep down they would think that they could win a brokered convention, and keeping the process open as long as possible would only help them. As far as DNC thinking, they know that if Bernie loses the nomination, he will go back to the Senate, and if he helps Trump win, his influence will be gone. Given the Trump hatred, they don't think people will go anywhere. The only way for Bernie to be assured no funny business is earning 2026 pledged delegates himself.
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  11474.  @interdimensionalsteve8172  Except the difference is that they know that a con artist like Trump won't get in the way of their grift. Bernie says he wants money out of politics and they know that he means it. I am not saying that they will take it from him regardless by cheating. What I am saying is that they will use the rules to stop him if he can't get a majority. The other major difference between the two is that Trump got a majority of delegates. In this scenario, Bernie doesn't and needs the delegates of people like Warren or Tulsi to get him over the top. Do you honestly think that if Trump had gotten to 49.9% that the RNC wouldn't have killed his campaign then and there? I am giving as supporting evidence the fact that they already tried to keep him from running. What evidence is there that they won't work within the rules to stop him if he doesn't get to the magic number?
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  11475. I think the Republicans who know it's wrong are worse. It's one thing if someone is just stupid and doesn't know any better, but to go along means that, to quote Betsy and Arlene in "Dick," if you stay, you're just as bad as he is.
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  11476. That's going to happen when you go onto a show called Bad Faith.
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  11477. Well, he is right that we never heard of supply changes, or the oranges of our problems.
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  11478. At this point, I wonder if these Republicans just think we're stupid, or they all have collective amnesia in order to be able to say falsehoods with a straight face.
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  11479. I get the feeling that some Republicans see the red letters and think it means STOP.
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  11480. Young Treat Williams
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  11481. I'm with you, David. I have a five-year-old daughter who unfortunately is at the mercy of idiots like this. As as my mom (who has allergies to some of the ingredients) and my nine-year-old niece. If your stupidity just hurts you, that's one thing, but if hurts innocent people, that is a whole other ball game.
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  11482. Wait until you see who will take his place and then come back to us. Unless you think it was a bad thing that Biden got 150 judges onto the federal bench.
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  11483. ​ @justasplanned8023  *they think it won't ever happen to them. Mass graves are full of people who have thought that over the years.
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  11484. Probably the oldest surviving piece of literature is the Epic of Gilgamesh, which is at least 4000 years old.
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  11485. The same thing happens when the IRS is actually given the needed funds to investigate fraud.
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  11486.  @Shalyn-ln9tu  If he didn't treat students the way he did, do you honestly think that Voldemort would have believed that he was still a Death Eater? Everything he did was in service of keeping up his cover as a double agent.
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  11487. Well, not exactly "always a good guy," but at least for the last 17 years of his life.
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  11488. Tools! These are my tools! I like to bind... I like to be bound!
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  11489.  @bellyhead67  So, because you're anti-anti-Trump and Sam Seder doesn't do the show that you like, it's not serious? Here's a thought: if you are so informed, and you know exactly what the editorial decision should be for an ideal show instead of the one that you are actually watching, why don't you show everyone how to do it better?
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  11490.  @kennethsnodgrass2607  Apparently, by your logic, no one can ever do something light and fun ever. Why don't you host your own show?
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  11491.  @bellyhead67  The Majority Report criticizes the establishment lots of times. Well, considering that you like Jimmy Dore, no surprise that honesty or awareness is not your strong suit.
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  11492. Because the poor and disabled don't get it, and they will have to pay a VAT.
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  11493.  @wpease7  So, the response is to take it away from those who do?
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  11494.  @ngatibroffessor1840  The candidate with disapproval at least twice as high as her approval among Democrats is the only logical choice? Can you explain your logic to me?
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  11495. The American right has been doing this ever since the midnight appointments of 1801 when Adams lost to Jefferson.
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  11496. Not misleading at all. His response literally included the phrase, "They need to get to school," so that's what it sounds like to me.
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  11497. We're getting Blimpie's!
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  11498. Forget Howard Dean, that sounded like he was trying to channel Little Richard.
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  11499. He extended the Bush tax cuts. He asked for half the stimulus that his advisers told him was necessary and then made a third of it tax cuts. He ended up giving us the Republican alternative to Hillarycare that Bill said didn't go far enough. He refused to prosecute Wall Street after destroying the economy. When it came to Wall Street bonuses, contracts were sacred, but when it came to UAW salary and benefits, "everyone has to make sacrifices" (and people wonder why the Great Lakes turned so red in 2010, and why it doomed Hillary in 2016). Anything else?
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  11500.  @shesemerald2011  He did some good things, but he never fought when he really had a chance. 2009 called for boldness, but he decided to be timid. And he made the decision even before he took office that he didn't want to prosecute Wall Street. You can't blame obstruction for that.
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  11501. Did anyone else hear red wave and think menstrual cycle?
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  11502.  @olecrowey  Probably the fact that he called the idea that he could "un-American" and mentioned Der Orangefuhrer by name that took it up a notch.
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  11503.  @stephenrowe1921  Well, maybe not People's Temple, because it actually started out feeding the poor before it became destructive (more than one commentator said that if Jim Jones had died in a crash during the move from Indiana to California that he would have been remembered in a positive way as a minor civil rights figure who was the first to preach in an integrated church in Indiana). Point taken about the desire to be in a cult, though.
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  11504.  @pvmvertigo7095  I guess that just depends on how your brain processes things. I had some debts where the disparity between the two just meant that I paid off some low-dollar accounts first just from the minimum payment, but I used the snowball to add to the higher interest ones, and seeing the interest drop significantly helped me a lot more than the number of places I sent it to.
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  11505. Howard > Rogan
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  11506.  @kvaka009  True, but even the lefty version is based on a fantasy version where everyone cooperates, and it always seems to crash on the rocks of, "If you eliminate private property and a mechanism for enforcing the elimination of private property, how are you going to keep someone in the future from building up private property again and starting the cycle anew?"
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  11507. Gym Jordan not understanding basic concepts? Must be a day that ended in Y.
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  11508. I was nine when they showed the alien one. I had some pretty bad nightmares after that one.
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  11509. I'd love that moment so much I married it. And I would cheat on that moment with the inevitable breakdown at Sam pointing out their basic flaws.
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  11510.  @chris135x  There are a few basic strains of libertarian thought, but once you are familiar with them, they're all exactly the same within the type. I listen for amusement. They've yet to provide enlightenment.
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  11511.  @chris135x  The mere fact that you are on the Internet and saying that the federal government does nothing good is the height of irony. And you literally said nothing other than your opinion that the federal government is authoritarian.
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  11512.  @chris135x  You: I've yet to see how a big government helps the people. Also You: I never said "the federal government doesn't do anything." And yet I didn't say you said "doesn't do anything," I said you said "does nothing good." I could also point to the fact that you haven't died of food poisoning (assuming you don't grow your own food) or gotten sick from contaminated water (federal standards for water purity), or that the products you buy get where you can buy them (federal highway system) or come directly to your door (US Postal Service). Maybe if you didn't take such an obviously impossible position to defend, this wouldn't happen, would it?
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  11513. I think Bernie is far less likely to get the number two slot, because you're not going to see a 79 yo running mate to a 71 yo Presidential nominee.
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  11514.  @JiggityJack  Wasn't he offered something like triple what he makes now? I can't remember exactly, but I remember it being multiple times what he makes now. Ironic how many people hate him for not lining up with them completely when he has proven himself to be a straight shooter.
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  11515.  @doc7000  It seems like what has happened in some ways. As some Republicans realized that they weren't comfortable with fascism, they switched parties, pulling the average Democratic voter to the right by definition.
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  11516. So, a push when you know that there simply aren't the votes. And then what happens when we lose?
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  11517.  @Catalyst94  Yes, because in 1993, Bill Clinton knew that she would hang on too long. It's a conspiracy, I tell you!
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  11518.  @BryanScrilla  I am actually doing the work to make sure lefties take over. I did everything in my power to get Bernie elected in 2020, and I have been at this for far longer than most of those who insist that they are doing the work.
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  11519.  @credman  Wrong. Accelerationism in 1936 would have been calling FDR a sellout and saying Norman Thomas or throw the election to the Republicans.
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  11520.  @credman  You mean the guy who ran on balanced budgets and complaining about government spending in 1932? FDR ended great, but the Presidential candidate was not an ode to accelerationism. Accelerationism would have given the nod to Huey Long.
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  11521. In all honesty, I think that things worked out for the best. Considering how much pushback Biden got, Bernie would have gotten sabotage that made what happened to Corbyn pale in comparison. Now, he gets to chair this committee and really do some good.
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  11522.  @ClaraDobluis  And what exactly would that have accomplished? Have you ever considered that the Electoral College guarantees that there will be two parties. If a third party candidate gets the most electoral votes, but not a majority, the election goes to the House... where it will be decided by Democrats and Republicans.
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  11523.  @deepabn  The social liberals are just as untrustworthy as the right. If the Democratic Party emphasized issues benefiting working people more, the dead weight would leave.
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  11524.  @jenhadar5079  Obama didn't do nothing, but he could have demonstrated the differences with himself and Republicans instead of begging them to work with him over and over even after it became obvious that they wouldn't. Then again, maybe Biden was whispering bad advice in his ear about the fever breaking.
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  11525. Fran gets it!
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  11526.  Leon Anthony  Well, with attitudes like that, it doesn't matter.
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  11527.  @brianpeterson7028  If Congress allocated the money, it was supposed to get spent for that purpose. Have you noticed the stories about Moscow Donald moving around money to try to get his wall? The more apt comparison that shows Obama's political folly is letting Wall Street keep their bonuses because it was in a contract, but the UAW had to give up what was in their contract.
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  11528. 4:09 Maybe because Phoebe Cates opened the door.
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  11529. Moscow Donald is supposed to have a bunch of money. Would it kill that big orange dummy to buy some Poli-Dent?
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  11530. ​ @TheMilitantMazdakite  You mean the woman who said, "In the war against terrorists, I'm a hawk"? The woman who voted for every NDAA when she was in Congress? The one who compared the Iran nuclear deal to Munich? Who defended torture? Who auditioned to be Trump's Secretary of State? This is the real Tulsi Gabbard. The one you are thinking of was the fake who was trying to fend off a primary opponent to her left, and ince she realized that she couldn't do that anymore, she took the mask off.
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  11531. ​​ @tokilladaemon  Closer to Bernie? Even Bloomberg didn't call Medicare for All "un-American" in a post-debate interview with Anderson Cooper. Twice. She started that race playing both siderism on the wall and playing wing woman to Joe Biden, defending his awful position on busing in the 1970s. You are only remembering what you want to remember about her campaign.
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  11532.  @timspangler2154  Best evidence for what?
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  11533.  @timspangler2154  What book? It's an article. As far as the torture and Munich comments, you can find them easily on YouTube. The torture comments came from a 2014 interview in India, and the Munich comments were in an interview with Greta Van Susteren. Even though they happened after the article was published in 2017, you can find the CNN post-debate interview with Anderson Cooper where she twice calls Medicare for All "un-American." And to say that about a socialist is especially low.
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  11534.  @timspangler2154  A tulcel who doesn't want to look at the actual evidence? What a shock! That's just as bad as the ones who I dealt with who insisted that she never supported torture (trying to hide behind coded language, because you don't want to so obviously advocate a war crime with cameras pointed in your face), who ended up saying, "but there actually are times where torture is necessary."
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  11535. Yes! If the people who have stood by this channel for years are appalled and the tankies agree with you, it's time to rethink your position. Isolationism =/= Peace
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  11536. It's not just that Dear Leader is doing nothing to make it better, but by blocking tracking of bird flu, he's making it worse. When I went to the grocery store the other day, there were entire rows of eggs that were "Temporarily Out of Stock." Doing nothing to address supply won't change prices.
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  11537. I remember a few years ago when someone was complaining in the comment section of the Inquirer about public sector workers getting a pension. The problem isn't that we get one; the problem is that you don't.
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  11538. ​ @charlie-obrien  The more obvious it is that he has nothing, the more likely it is that Aaron will go to one of his hobby horses.
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  11539.  @Char1998-f8j  That's what Tulsi Gabbard did for years. It's like these dummies have never heard of catch and release.
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  11540.  @noktilux4052  So, you feel empowered by virtue signaling and bad strategy?
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  11541.  @noktilux4052  Because forcing the vote isn't going to get anyone health care, nor is it designed to. It is only there "to put people on the record," even though there is already a list of supporters.
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  11542.  @MrCoryde  No, you're not a Republican at all.
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  11543.  @MrCoryde  Well, unless you go on right-wing channels to complain about them, you are clearly doing the bidding of the Republicans.
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  11544. Kennedy making a solid point? I just saw a snowball coming from the ground.
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  11545.  @Darke_Exelbirth  A lot of the survivors of People's Temple saw the truth about Jim Jones after his mass murder and suicide.
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  11546.  @likeablecloud2454  Ignoring the weird syntax, Jones is clearly worth more, and he has shell corporations to try to hide his money. This is why he wasn't allowed to file bankruptcy.
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  11547. ​ @jasonrollins8217  I honestly didn't expect them to be so blatant as the golden statue. Since they obviously never read the Bible, I guess they never saw The Ten Commandments, either.
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  11548.  @Ghost-eu1rg  And that's the beauty of living in a democracy. Sometimes, we have to do the actual work, but that means that it will be much more difficult to undo the work we've built. "I am not a leader, and I don't want to be a leader. If some Moses came along to lead you to the Promised Land, another could just as easily lead you away." Eugene Debs
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  11549.  @yuxnux  The country is only run by them to the extent that people let them. Maybe try to stop looking for excuses for laziness and start doing something.
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  11550.  DivineHeresy  No, he said that taxes should go up and they should stop lobbying for loopholes. He still supports raising taxes at the top, so he is honest about it.
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  11551.  @aprisia  What's even worse is that it wasn't even the first study that showed it didn't work. She still hasn't addressed the moral issue of advocating a war crime.
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  11552.  @Shayzek  So, the 2007 report that said the same thing wasn't enough? Or the fact that torture is a war crime? Yeah, that's perfectly acceptable.
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  11553.  @dirtbagleftist1688  So, nothing substantive at all, just the transitive property? Well, David Duke supports her. Does that make him okay?
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  11554.  @Shayzek  Not a lot of people were speaking up against torture? In the immortal words of John McEnroe, "You CANNOT be SERIOUS!" People had been since at least Abu Ghraib, and Obama even tried to close Gitmo for that very reason, only to be blocked by Congress. As far as the style points, yes, she said that she would do whatever it takes. You know who else said that? George W. Bush. I heard a lot of other people invoke the ticking time bomb scenario to justify torture. Just because she's young and pretty and talks in a faux concerned tone doesn't make the substance any better than those who took the Snidely Whiplash approach.
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  11555.  @dirtbagleftist1688  So Peter Welch, Raul Grijalva, Keith Ellison, and Jeff Markley (just off the top of my head) aren't Democrats? You're digging your hole deeper.
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  11556.  @dirtbagleftist1688  Again, you are using the transitive property to defend her and not defending her on substance. I am not a cultist, so Bernie personally liking someone doesn't automatically make me say that person is good. If she stays in at all once voting starts, the only thing she will accomplish is drawing votes away from Bernie and make it harder for him to get to 50% Plus One and get the nomination on the first ballot. Only those who get above 15% get delegates, and they get them proportionality. If Booker and Klobuchar get 2-5% each that Harris or Buttigeg would have otherwise received, that makes it easier for Bernie, but her staying in doesn't help unless she runs some sort of interference in a debate, assuming she even qualifies.
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  11557.  @dirtbagleftist1688  You're the one talking about what great friends they are and how she will be his running mate. That being said, their positions are not in line. Bernie doesn't defend Assad. Bernie didn't sponsor a gambling bill advocated by Sheldon Adelson. Bernie doesn't have close ties to Modi. Bernie didn't praise Sisi. Bernie didn't invoke 24 when talking about torture. I agree that it's not a coronation, but my point was that her running isn't really deep down doing Bernie a favor. If you want to compare 2016 to 2020, let's go for it. Within three months of announcing, Bernie was already in double digits nationally and had taken the lead in New Hampshire. Tulsi, on the other hand, can't even get to 1%, and she is retreating to friendly audiences.
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  11558. ​ @atlaskinzel6560  She can't get elected above the state senate level. Do we want to win, or do we want to live in an echo chamber?
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  11559.  @Juicebrainjoe  If you are going to argue that the side in the conflict that has no airplanes dropped bombs, it's your responsibility to prove otherwise.
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  11560.  @WNT2BLV  He is a useful idiot, controlled opposition, or some combination of the two. No one who speaks glowingly of fascists is a lefty.
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  11561.  @pietersteenkamp5241  Yes, because Pelosi is the equivalent to a fascist hate group trying to start a civil war. And like it or not, she got a lot of stuff passed in her first tenure as Speaker, and she has proven to be an adept vote counter in the second. To deny that is idiocy.
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  11562.  @afrodinho  Name a couple what? Non-fascist authoritarians? Stalin and Castro. By definition, fascists are always anti-left and wanting to lead to a mythical past. By definition, authoritarian communists are not trying to do that.
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  11563.  @pietersteenkamp5241  Who are these "multiple sources"? At this point, I don't know if you are a willing propagandist for a brutal dictatorship or an unwitting dupe.
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  11564.  @learntospellpeople  I guess you didn't read the article that showed the organization on Jimmy Dore's tax returns. You've discredited yourself.
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  11565.  @afrodinho  I will admit no such thing. Literally everything you showed had a secondary definition of authoritarian. All fascists are authoritarian, but not all authoritarians are fascist, and one even made it pretty obvious that was a colloquialism. I will take the word of someone who actually lived through a fascist dictatorship as to what fascism looks like: https://kottke.org/16/11/the-14-features-of-fascism So, tell me how many of those are met by these supposed red fascists.
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  11566.  @blobbo4645  Yes, there is a difference, and saying that the Boogaloo Boys seem like good people is defending fascism.
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  11567.  @learntospellpeople  No, I posted the article that showed that he took money from an Assad front group. You can deny it all you want, but I prefer not to prop up dictators.
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  11568.  @learntospellpeople  You've offered nothing of substance to deflect from. You only denied that he took the Assad money even though it is there for all to see.
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  11569.  @afrodinho  It is about both. Again, not all authoritarians are fascist. Repeating that they are and showing examples of their authoritarianism doesn't make them fascist. And those definitions clearly made it obvious that your conflation is colloquial, and not accurate. I gave you the link of characteristics of fascism in both deed and actions. You still haven't done so. And since you say that your parents did, now I have no way of knowing of it was a fascist regime or a different kind of authoritarian regime. Iran is another example: authoritarian, but not motivated by the same things as fascists. Therefore, not fascist.
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  11570.  @learntospellpeople  Oh, I get it. You are one of those people for whom "mainstream media" means "doesn't agree with the conspiracy theories that I espouse." Got it.
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  11571.  @pietersteenkamp5241  Yes, because the group that had no air force and no sarin dropped it on themselves. And Trump criticized literally everyone except for Putin and the daughter he wanted to bang for no reason whatsoever.
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  11572.  @shadowalkerwho  Then, what is the third option if Jimmy Dore isn't a useful idiot or controlled opposition based on the fact that he is literally propping up fascists?
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  11573.  @shadowalkerwho  The Boogaloo Boys literally want to start a second civil war. They are not your friends. You seriously need to look up "hiding your power level." I don't know whether you or a sympathizer, or someone so in love with the idea of being "open minded" that you have no concrete beliefs of your own, but in your long diatribe you only managed to say that maybe the Boogaloo Boys want to work with you. They don't.
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  11574.  @shadowalkerwho  Well, if you don't like the fact that literally hiding the worst if their views in order to make them more palatable, that's on you. Hitler built roads. If we were in Germany 90 years ago, should we have cheered along with his talk of building roads? Should we have cheered Mussolini for making the trains run on time? These are very real questions, because the KDP believed that it would be easier to eliminate Nazis, so they refused to work with the SPD, whereas if the two had combined forces, they could have had a governing majority. You cannot work with people who want your demise.
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  11575.  @shadowalkerwho  I don't need to talk to every single member of the KKK to know what they stand for. I don't need to talk to every member of a group that went to BLM rallies to start violence in order to discredit the movement to start a civil war in order to know what they are all about. You can't say you are anti-war if you want a sequel to the war that killed more Americans than any other.
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  11576.  @pietersteenkamp5241  If your goal is to start a civil war, you are not peaceful. If your goal is to discredit black protesters, you do not support racial equality. Thank you for demonstrating how much of a bad faith actor you are.
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  11577.  @pietersteenkamp5241  Funny that the pro-Assad and pro-Putin crowd insist that they have the evidence, but when I ask, literally the only place that someone found as a reputable source was a Syrian propaganda site. I guess the typical sites that repeat this nonsense are too obvious in their tin foil production style.
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  11578.  @pietersteenkamp5241  Many Boogaloo Boys went to Minneapolis to pretend to be part of the BLM protests to try to make it look like a violent group and feed into the negative image the right is trying to give it. You can gaslight yourself all you want, but it won't work here.
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  11579.  @pietersteenkamp5241  So, your "proof" that Syria didn't gas its own people was an article where the main point is that it was a Russian member of the agency (Assad's closest allies) who argued against the result while the agency and the vast majority of its members voted for it? Did you really think that I would just take your word for it and not read on to see what it actually said? No wonder you like Jimmy Dore so much.
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  11580.  @pietersteenkamp5241  Giving a platform to someone who is trying to start a second civil war and saying how great that person is is not remotely the same thing as "having a conversation." And the larger article defends the original position. Therefore, you are being dishonest about what the article says all because of your own preconceived notions, just like you are being dishonest about what is happening here. Then again, follow a liar and you start believing lies, so I shouldn't be surprised.
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  11581.  @pietersteenkamp5241  You think I lie awake at night wondering about what some rando conspiracy theorist half a world away thinks? The ego!
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  11582.  @pietersteenkamp5241  To paraphrase Mauricio in Shallow Hal, what was that? That took a month. It's called a quip, not a sloooope.
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  11583.  @pietersteenkamp5241  Gee, it only took you minutes before, and it took you all of 11 minutes to respond this time.
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  11584.  @pietersteenkamp5241  You're the one insisting that the rebels did it to themselves. You can't even keep your lies straight. Good bye.
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  11585. I thought his joke about hoping the smug atheist who wanted to come back as a tree would be turned into a Bible was pretty funny, but mostly it seemed like he sold attitude rather than actually saying funny things.
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  11586.  @leothenomad5675  Don't forget Alabama Man 5000.
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  11587.  @patty1247  Indeed. Does anything good come from Twitter?
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  11588.  @philgallagher1  Here's what I've never understood: it took a 65% vote to get in in the first place (not what it got, but what it required), so why was a simple majority sufficient to start Article 50?
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  11589.  A Vote for Trump Is a Vote for Treason  I'm not saying it's just fine. I think it's an untenable position. My only point was that when the argument isn't really about the thing being discussed, there will never be a resolution with the other side. It wasn't to justify what they are doing, it was to point out why there is no middle ground. Did you miss that I also said it was about body autonomy?
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  11590. There was one district in the Northeast where Republicans always win, so the council has been 14-3 for quite some time. Now, it is 14-2-1.
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  11591.  @TerrariaGolem  Nicolas O'Rourke supports Bernie, so of course, she would he petty like that. Heck, Helen Gym, one of the Democratic at-large councillors, endorsed both. Then again, before his entry into politics, one of the at-large Democrats was known as the Condo King of Philadelphia, so she gets what time it is.
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  11592.  @TerrariaGolem  And considering how close it was, that endorsement very well could have turned Republicans into a third party in Philadelphia. The WFP literature I got made it very clear that Warren only endorsed one.
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  11593.  @KhurtKhave669  What do you see as the purpose of UBI?
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  11594. His dad is Ron Paul.
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  11595.  charles allan  Who was a crackpot who complained about government spending while being particularly adept at getting earmarks for his district, who opposed bailouts but thought that slaveowners should have gotten one, and thought that government couldn't deal with civil rights because that would be intrusive but had no problem with a policy on pregnancy that, followed to its logical conclusion, would make every miscarriage a cause for criminal investigation. America dodged a bullet that he never won a single statewide election (US Senate, presidential primaries, no states in a presidential election in his life). Now, he can go back to profiting off his newsletters and trying to convince people that buying an ounce of something that will continue to be that ounce decades down the road is an investment.
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  11596.  Vox Populi  Obama as a disappointment was there for All to see. He used right wing framing, praised Reagan rather than FDR when talking about political change, he talked about "all options are on the table" for Social Security, and he confused optional and mandatory programs in debates to justify opposing a mandate. This all in the primary.
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  11597.  @Bruintjebeer6  Because we have very different systems. Ignoring ballot access questions, a first past the post system at the state level that requires an absolute majority or the election gets thrown to the House means two consequences for a third party: 1) throwing the election to someone even worse (i.e., Nader throwing the 2000 election to Bush), 2) sending the election to the House... where it is decided by Democrats and Republicans.
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  11598.  @65minimom  And what positive impact did Ralph Nader have after 1980 when he lambasted Joan Claybrook for taking a job in the Carter Administration? Yes, "Unsafe at Any Speed" was vital, but given his arguments for Rand Paul or some random billionaire, he is not the person he was when he was a young man fighting for the consumer.
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  11599.  @Bruintjebeer6  You are correct, sir or madam. The rules determine the system, and ours guarantees two large parties. That is why I have been saying for years that public financing of campaigns is the reform that makes all other reforms possible.
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  11600. I think that white privilege is something that leaves itself open to poor marketing, because in all honesty, in this country, if you're not rich, it's just a matter of being less screwed than others. Maybe someone more savvy at this thing than me can figure out a phrase to frame it to drive home the point that the vast majority of us get screwed over.
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  11601.  @sandrafrancisco  WWI was, deep down, a ceasefire where one side refused to accept the results. How did that turn out?
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  11602.  @sandrafrancisco  How many major wars are the direct result of a previous major war? Yes, there were different sides, but WWI didn't need the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. There were plenty of things that could have started it, which is why it ended up so tangled once it did start. And this war began because of Russian fascism. Either can you try to appease it, or you have to acknowledge that there are some enemies who cannot be appeased and must be defeated. The Ukrainian people are resolute, and Russia is resorting to drafting 300,000 people, many of whom had no idea that was what was happening. This is not what a winning army does. It also doesn't do a phony vote to pretend that several provinces want to be part of its country to try to either save face or escalate.
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  11603.  @sandrafrancisco  And look at what ended up happening. Any negotiation that doesn't end with "we're leaving all of Ukraine" is going nowhere.
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  11604. "It means I can change my mind whenever I want to." Sounds like my ex-wife :-P
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  11605. They have been lied to one too many times. If the holdouts are refusing to act in good faith, don't give them anything.
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  11606.  @TheEyeball37  It's a thing. This is not an excuse en masse, it is the reason why herd immunity is so important.
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  11607.  @stephenbailey9969  And when Congress actually tried to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment with the Voting Rights Act, the Roberts Court decided that racism was over, and unless something explicitly made it more difficult to vote based on race, it passed Constitutional muster, never mind that the biggest weapons against allowing black people to vote (the poll tax, the literacy test, and the Grandfather Clause [in this case, allowing people to vote if their grandfathers were on the voting rolls]) did not explicitly mention race, and the first two affected a lot of poor white people, too, but the powers of the day were fine with that as long as black people also couldn't vote. The Fourteenth Amendment guarantees equal protection, and a lot of the social issues that you are saying should be left to the states are questions of discrimination. You can pretty it up all you want, but your argument is the descendant of John C. Calhoun.
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  11608.  @michaelburke4048  If you look at the economy, before 1980, wages went up roughly in step with productivity, but they have been relatively flat ever since. If the median annual income had kept up with productivity since then, it would be over $90,000. It's a little over 50. And income grew for the bottom half faster than the top 1% when they paid their fair share and knew they were more likely to get audited. Oh, and before I forget, the average CEO made 20 times what the average worker did. Today, it is over 380. Do you honestly believe that the average CEO works more in a day than the average worker does in a year? It's the marginal utility of income at work. If you increase taxes on the rich, society invests that money into better infrastructure. If you cut it, they horde it, and we're paying them in the form of interest on the debt. The former is a virtuous cycle and the latter is a vicious cycle.
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  11609.  @shanethomas6368  Assassinations and assassination attempts do happen, but they don't always happen, and they are not always successful. FDR made it over 12 years. There was an attempt at a coup, but it failed. Why try anything if the good people will always get assassinated?
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  11610.  @arthurzhao8476  You mean so Phil Scott could pick his replacement and give Mitch McConnell the majority, and everything would he completely DOA? Ask Robert Reich how being Secretary of Labor worked out for him.
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  11611.  @kruger2035  If you get rid of parties, only the rich will be able to afford to organize.
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  11612. If you actually watch the video where Ana is critical of Tulsi, she literally says at the end that she looks forward to talking to her "next week" to receive clarification. Tulsi was coming on TYT the next week, so it sounds like she clearly thought that she would get the chance to interview her.
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  11613. @The Truth Perhaps they wanted to give Tulsi a chance to respond to the criticism. Or, and this is more obvious, Tulsi should have asked for her to be a part of the interview so she could clarify on the questions Ana had, and if she did a good job, that would have strengthened her.
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  11614. @The Truth My guess: she has followers who are often cruel to anyone who makes the slightest criticism of Tulsi Gabbard. Ana posted a video where she examined her record for 18 minutes and found it wanting, so maybe they wanted to give her a chance to defend herself.
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  11615.  The Beauty Verdict  It is true that he wanted her to run in 2016, and given her starting point as the third most popular politician in America at the time, she probably would have won, but sometimes fortune favors the brave. Now that I have seen her proposals compared to his, they just feel lacking.
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  11616.  The Beauty Verdict  Who has actually gotten things done? Was Warren ever the amendment queen? Did she ever pass unprecedented legislation?
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  11617. ​ @paulkeith5000  And that's an evergreen title.
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  11618. I've been saying for quite some time that there's a big bubble. Even before the stock buybacks earlier this year, I saw an article that the S&P 500 P/E ratio is higher than during the tech bubble, and we all know how that ended. The tax cuts will only make the fall steeper and worse.
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  11619. You can't. The majority can keep the Senate going around the clock, and they can call a vote any time they don't think the minority can get 2/5 plus one to sustain the filibuster. Once it is defeated, the bill has to come to a vote in 30 hours.
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  11620.  @aliamjon2550  Nothing is getting accomplished because your boy McConnell realized that forcing a supermajority for things that he doesn't care about means that nothing gets done.
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  11621.  Blue Star  Well, a lot of parties only come together for a short time. One of the things proportional representation advocates don't really get around to telling people.
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  11622. ​ @saphireblue3563  Okay, what do you think would have happened if the people with zip ties and a gallows outside would have done if they got Pence or Pelosi?
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  11623.  @saphireblue3563  How do you define "open borders"? Or is it just a phrase that you like to use because Fox knows who to get your reptile brain going? You don't chant "Hang Mike Pence," build a gallows, and run around with zip ties unless your planning to use all of it for exactly what they said they wanted to do. Knowing that they were doing that, Trump tweeted that Pence didn't have the courage to give him the election. He is guilty, and he knows it. That's why he wants to drag things out.
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  11624. What does the right actually try to do? All they accomplished in the Trump years was packing the courts and cutting taxes for rich people.
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  11625.  @nvm7438  Bill Cosby had that same joke years before either. Not that he didn't steal jokes, but he didn't steal that particular one from Louis.
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  11626.  @rickysnow400  Look up Dane Cook Demetri Martin shoe size.
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  11627. There are two major flaws to his argument as he tries to pump up the price of his stocks: 1) production will always be limited with their type of electric cars because of how rare the materials are that they use for the battery, 2) a lot of that profitability comes from other car companies having to pay Tesla. Once they do figure out a way to mass produce (and Tesla does not mass produce), Elon Musk will be seen as little other a more annoying version of Preston Tucker 75 years from now.
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  11628.  @kevinbailey8827  My point was not about production numbers, but about in terms of overpromising.
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  11629.  @kevinbailey8827  No, I'm saying that both presented themselves as the future of the automotive industry. They both also presented as inventors going against the Big Three, while Tucker really did face opposition from the major automakers and did actually invent things, whereas Musk is heavily subsidized by them and his only real invention was a plugin jack that only works for his cars, thus trying to monopolize the industry. Hence, the "more annoying." Also, Tucker is not a well-known figure 70 years later. Musk, too, will he largely forgotten, except Tucker had more redeeming qualities.
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  11630.  @kevinbailey8827  If he'll be remembered in the same way as Hughes, it will be for losing his mind.
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  11631. We already have term limits. They're called elections. Term limits are one thing for unelected judges (although I'd prefer a rotation instead), but it's not like voters won't pick spmeone just like the person who termed out.
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  11632.  @bru1016  Well, Bernie sure seems eager to do so. The point was for things Medicare covers. If someone wants something supplementary for elective or cosmetic procedures, have at it. Tulsi is also the only candidate with the possible exception of Biden to support torture.
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  11633.  @bru1016  I guess you didn't see that interview where she invoked the 24 scenario to justify torture.
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  11634.  @bru1016  And she later said, when talking about torture, that she "would do whatever it takes to protect the American people." There is no room for being "conflicted" on torture. Period. If you find one instance where you think it's okay, you support torture, period, and torture is a war crime.
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  11635.  @bru1016  You mean the report that said torture doesn't work? Where was the conflict? If you oppose torture in any and all circumstances, there is nothing to be conflicted about, because you were vindicated. Of course, very few people directly say that they support torture because it is a war crime. If you don't understand the dog whistle of someone saying he/she will do "whatever it takes to protect the American people" after invoking the ticking time bomb scenario, you are either blind or willfully ignorant.
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  11636.  @bru1016  What don't you understand that she used the first person singular when referring to torture? She clearly thinks that she knows when it would be acceptable. When asked later, she said that she now opposes it in all circumstances because the report said it didn't work, never mind that this is not the first report that said it didn't work, never mind the moral objection, it is a WAR CRIME. If you cannot unequivocally condemn a war crime, then all things being equal, I will choose someone who has consistently been a clear and moral voice against torture. Tulsi Gabbard failed that basic test of not entertaining a scenario where a war crime is acceptable. You can defend someone who is weak on that issue all you want, but that is what you are doing.
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  11637.  @bru1016  Okay. I will repeat, because it bears repeating. She is literally the only Democratic Presidential candidate (If Biden did, I will amend my comment, but I can't find anything) who explicitly provided a scenario where torture is acceptable. She talked not about a vote, but about the use of executive power in the interview, meaning that she clearly thought President Tulsi would know the right time to torture. Even when she backed away from that interview, she tried to make it an argument about the efficacy of torture. I don't care how "conflicted" you are, if you advocate using torture one time, you have advocated a war crime, and that stink does not come off so easily.
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  11638.  @bru1016  Well, then, you support torture. How is that any different from what Bush & Co said after 9/11? And I don't care if 99% of Americans would support it, it will still be wrong, and so would they. You can call me a moralizer all you want, but when I was in Iraq, there were some POWs who came to our base. I, and the other sergeants in our unit, all made sure that they were treated humanely, given food and exercise, time to pray if they so desired, etc. There were no war crimes committed on my watch. Period. After we were done, someone told me that I treated them too well, for doing things like giving them extra blankets and giving them a few extra minutes to sleep. Well, none of them ever told me no at any time. I am proud of honoring the rule of law, and most of us did not commit war crimes. Anyone who did, or anyone who advocates it, tarnishes the vast majority of us who didn't.
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  11639.  @bru1016  Torture is always proposed as an emergency situation. Not even Dick Cheney proposed it to be used regularly. You keep saying that you can find situations where torture is acceptable, so you clearly support it. As for me, I would rather not commit a war crime, especially when it doesn't even do what people who support it say it will do.
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  11640.  @Frankie9553  You mean when Powell was doing everything in his power to sabotage the economy?
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  11641.  @X2LR8  Bakersfield has the highest murder rate per capita. Who did they send to Congress again? And which party runs its government?
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  11642.  @liraloo  I respond for random people who may be watching, but not the completely ridiculous and incendiary stuff. There is bound to be someone watching because David came up in a random search.
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  11643.  @Lordperson3  Yeah, because we picked Reagan, Trump, and Schwarzenegger for public office.
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  11644.  @jeromeh7985  It was pretty obvious that the Lib Dems leader preferred Johnson to Corbyn.
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  11645.  @kfdaddy  The thing with the knives is fairly common. The usual practice is that if you're using a fork, you cut with the opposite hand so you don't have to switch, but with the preferred hand when using it alone. I will cut meat on my dinner plate with my right hand, but I spread things with my left. My daughter is right handed, and I noticed that she cuts meat with her left hand.
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  11646. ​ @colico14  They also booed him for supporting the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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  11647.  @mikeadams3931  Who is?
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  11648.  @emblemedfate4270  And what did they win?
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  11649.  @emblemedfate4270  You are aware that it was the governor who made the decision to take over the city of Flint, right? Apparently, you didn't notice that there were plenty of us who were critical of the actions in Libya. I'm not the one who looks at a possible fascist dictatorship and a pandemic treated with indifference and saying "nothing has changed."
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  11650.  @emblemedfate4270  Because you know what happens if there are only two candidates who can win and refuse to vote for the lesser evil? You get the greater evil.
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  11651.  @emblemedfate4270  You mean the same Chris Hedges who plays along with the conspiracies of Jimmy Dore? Yeah, he's credible. You still didn't provide citation, and apparently you haven't noticed the effort to starve Yemen or leave the Kurds to slaughter.
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  11652.  @emblemedfate4270  No, you didn't. And your Underpants Gnomes theory has never, ever, ever worked. Refusing to vote is demanding to he ignored. How has that worked?
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  11653.  @l.w.paradis2108  I have heard her do exactly that. Admittedly it is far more difficult sifting through ten minutes videos to find the exact quote, but she has.
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  11654.  @l.w.paradis2108  She was saying that the overall condition hadn't changed in the last four years and he wasn't the bogeyman people said he was. For someone with her assets, things really haven't changed. For the children who got kidnapped, the hundreds of thousands of deaths due to his negligence because coronavirus just happened to hit "blue areas" first and he thought he could blame it on governors, and the millions who continue to suffer through his negligence, not to mention the threat to democracy itself, I'd say quite a bit has changed for the worse.
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  11655.  @l.w.paradis2108  Well, a lot of people who "follow her regularly" seem to miss some of her worse stuff, so I'm not surprised. Considering that she is now trying to convince her followers to ignore an attempted coup, it seems like she has no limit.
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  11656.  @Millipede666  Absolutely. He is a libertarian wolf in leftist clothing. It especially frustrates me that he literally lies in the first sentence of every interview. He isn't giving everyone $1000/month.
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  11657.  @cerealfamine1  He said that Amazon will get taxed that way. Never mind the fact that costs will be passed onto the consumer, most people would say books aren't a luxury item.
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  11658.  @cerealfamine1  You're just as dishonest as the candidate you support! Amazon doesn't pay the VAT, its customers would. Maybe Yang should he fighting to get rid of tax loopholes. Oh, no, wait! He thinks that is too hard, because he doesn't want to offend his tech buddies.
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  11659.  @cerealfamine1  Do you not understand how retail works? The margin on books is far less than 10%. You can't just eat that kind of cost and keep your business going. That is why no one will undercut them.
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  11660.  @dreamdiscounts  That's not how it works. That's not how any of this works. Regressive taxes vs. progressive taxes are based on how much people pay as a percentage of their income. The payroll is a flat tax, because it is 4% on all income. Any consumption tax is by definition regressive, because the rich don't spend all of their money. That is why it is states like Oregon that tax income and states like Texas that tax sales.
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  11661.  @dreamdiscounts  And, as I and others have pointed out many, many times, everyone doesn't get it. That is what those of us on the left are complaining about! He is forcing the poor and disabled to choose between their current benefits and his plan.
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  11662.  @dreamdiscounts  That is the point! The rich will always spend less as a ratio. That is why any consumption tax is by definition regressive. That is why we as a country decided to tax income instead, because you can actually make that a progressive tax. And that is why the actual lefty candidates have proposed taxing upper income and massive inheritance (Bernie) or assets over a certain level (Warren).
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  11663.  @dreamdiscounts  Work requirements are only in place for TANF and SNAP, the latter only for able-bodied adults who live with no children, and even that has a boatload of waivers. There is a very illustrative example from 2000 that serves as a precedent. Al Gore wanted to use matching funds to help people invest in an IRA or 401k. He called it Social Security Plus. George W. Bush proposed using some of Social Security taxes to force people to invest some of it, or Social Security Minus. Yang is clearly proposing the Minus, which is why so many on the left have been critical of it. There is no reason other than an ideological desire to take away from the poor in making people choose between this and other programs. And making a regressive tax to pay for something that the poor won't get the full benefit for is absolutely despicable.
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  11664. Speaking of Der Orangestraflingfuhrer projecting with every accusation, he actually did pay people to go to his early events.
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  11665.  @xray5984  Atheists trying to get rid of religion in the 20th century killed more people than in the religious wars of the previous 2000 years combined. Anything can be a tool. Do you really want to kick Martin Luther King Jr. and Jimmy Carter out of your coalition? Bernie has talked about how his Jewish faith has preserved him and given him the inspiration to fight for the needy. Atheism can also be used to advocate for Social Darwinism and beating up the weak. Anyone who would rather have Rand than King needs to look on the inside.
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  11666. If those people want to communicate, have at it, but that doesn't mean that technology companies should profit off their hatred and sedition.
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  11667.  @lawndeeds74  I apologize for the delay in my reply. Well, there are actual definitions of fascism, so let's look at the 14 criteria for finding a fascist as identified by Umberto Eco (and remember that this doesn't mean that a fascist will automatically be able to succeed in setting up a fascist regime) and see how many Trump fit compared to Bernie. https://kottke.org/16/11/the-14-feautres-of-eternal-fascism 1) The cult of tradition. Trump: Yes; Bernie: No 2) The rejection of modernism. Trump: Yes; Bernie: No 3) The cult of action for action's sake. Trump: Yes; Bernie: No 4) Disagreement is treason. Trump: Yes; Bernie: No 5) Fear of difference. Trump: Yes; Bernie: No 6) Appeal to social frustration. Trump: Yes; Bernie: Yes 7) The obsession with a plot. Trump: Yes; Bernie: No 8) Enemies that are too strong and too weak. Trump: Yes; Bernie: No 9) Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. Trump: Yes; Bernie: No 10) Contempt for the weak. Trump: Yes; Bernie: No 11) Everybody is educated to become a hero. Trump: Yes; Bernie: No 12) Machismo and weaponry. Trump: Yes; Bernie: No 13) Selective populism. Trump: Yes; Bernie: No 14) Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. Trump: Yes; Bernie: No TOTAL: Trump: 14; Bernie: 1 We have a winner!
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  11668.  @lawndeeds74  You weren't making a comparison? "If anything Sanders if [sic] more of a fascist." You Do you Trump trolls just not remember what you said, or are you just like Dear Leader and the truth is whatever suits you the most in any given time?
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  11669.  @lawndeeds74  For starters, Make America Great Again is the literal manifestation of the first two points. If you don't know how many times that Trump has accused people of treason, you clearly haven't been paying attention. Either that, or you put it down the memory hole. If you want to tell me why I am mistaken, I'd be glad to hear it. Once you do that, then I'll go into the list in even greater detail.
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  11670. At the time, I thought that American Beauty deserved all the praise that it got, creepy plotlines and all. However, knowing what we know now about Kevin Spacey, I just can't watch it again.
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  11671. So, is the Internet the opiate of the masses?
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  11672. I saw Biden on Labor Day giving a speech at the AFL-CIO parade. He took the stairs, and I was at an angle where I could see his teleprompter. He was riffing with some lines added to augment the prepared remarks. Der Orangefuhrer insists on inclines. And Joe Biden is trim and in shape. Trump's shape is round. I know which one I'd bet is more likely to live to see January 2029.
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  11673.  @applepear7006  These days, it seems like the only thing that makes something country is the accent of the singer.
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  11674. I've said it before, and I'll say it again. The original sin was Gerald Ford pardoning Nixon, because that made it official that the President was above the law. Now, we need to say that is not going to fly.
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  11675.  @pitchforksdragon1252  Want has plenty to do with it, because it tends to inform the policies that you try to push to address it. If your thought is for humanity rather than some sick Darwinism, you want to use both a carrot and stick to maximize who does get it. Part of the problem from the beginning was going by the honor system for who had the vaccine in order to use mask guidelines. Maybe something like, "If you want to work around sick people or in a nursing home, you need to provide evidence that you are protecting yourself and your charges."
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  11676.  @pitchforksdragon1252  I don't know if you realized this: NOT ALL ANTI-VACCINE NUTS ARE LOUD ABOUT THEIR NONSENSE. Of course, people die, but the point is to minimize the amount of death and long-term effects.
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  11677.  @frankdevo5715  Well, you are one of the lucky ones. As far as working for friends, my ex-wife would work for friends and then those friends would use that as an excuse to walk all over her. It wasn't until I told her, "When you're working for someone, that relationship is different while you're on the clock" that she actually stood up for herself a little and made sure that she at least got minimum wage.
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  11678.  @Zathrian451  So, what do you want to see happen to the Kurds?
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  11679. ​ @mfoco1  Yes, because Trump will be soooo much better.
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  11680.  @austinking3962  The First Amendment is what guarantees that the media exists. Yes, they want to cut their own head off!
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  11681. I think there is a difference between PAC money and SuperPAC money. One has limits and is transparent. The other is not. I ran for the WV House of Delegates in 2006. I took PAC money: Sierra Club and United Mine Workers. They weren't allowed to donate more than $1000, and everyone knew who was funding. Is that fair? I think it is.
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  11682. "Smokin's bad, m'kay." Mr. Mackey
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  11683.  @ryanisbelle6107  Not voting for the lesser evils gives us greater evil. How are those five Bush and Trump SCOTUS Justices working out?
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  11684. I expect either a "he'll be back" narrative or a "he completed his purpose" thing a la L. Ron Hubbard.
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  11685.  @alphanerd7221  That think what?
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  11686.  @alphanerd7221  Agreed about that part, but I talked about multiple things, and years of dealing with people on the internet have taught me to never assume anything without specifics.
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  11687. ​ @intelligenceofacertainkind  And yet they fell for mainstream spin that the economy is terrible.
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  11688. ​ @jonbaker5990  And what do you think will happen when Trump pressures Zelenskyy to surrender the eastern provinces, Putin waits a few more years to reload, eventually takes all of Ukraine, and invades a NATO member?
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  11689.  @ElroyMcDuff  That's definitely it. They started complaining loudly the instant Candy Crowley corrected Romney in real time in 2012.
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  11690. Actually, the Taliban was in charge. That's why Der Orangefuhrer gave them the farm when negotiating with them and left his successor to deal with the mess.
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  11691. ScarJo was great, but for me, no political impression on SNL beats Bill Hader as James Carville.
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  11692. One way too many on the left is screwing it up: "climate change" is the term invented by Frank Luntz to mute the issue. It is not coincidental that people stopped accepting its reality the instant that more environmental activists accepted his term. Learn from Al Gore and call it "the climate crisis."
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  11693.  @mandatoryhelicopterrides4596  Speaking of Clarence Thomas. Remember when you were insisting that Democrats were the ones behind the leak, Aaron? Did that go down your memory hole?
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  11694.  @mandatoryhelicopterrides4596  Yes, because that's why they are refusing to divulge the source. [Eye roll] It makes no sense for Democrats to do it because it locks people's positions in. Thomas was around when Souter and O'Connor convinced Kennedy to flip on the Casey decision, and he knew Roberts was attempting to flip O'Kavanaugh, so a Republican leaking it kills that. Yes, you're so smart that you hide behind a dozen user names and got caught when you replied to the wrong one, and you spend all this time accomplishing nothing and persuading no one. Well, unless you're getting paid by the post, and then the joke is on us.
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  11695.  @mandatoryhelicopterrides4596  This person should be in jail. Not sure where you're getting the gender identity stuff, because I saw nothing to implicate that. Fortunately, it never rose to the level of an assassination attempt, but it was far enough down the line that it had to be stopped. Now, Aaron, what about all of the hundreds of people who attempted to overthrow democracy on 1/6, who defaced the halls of Congress and whose actions both directly and indirectly led to the deaths of Capitol Police, since you love to back the blue? Do you think the sentences have been too lenient for people who built a gallows and chased the Speaker of the House and the Vice President? And before you say that the people sentenced didn't do that directly, in the eyes of the law, everyone who crossed that threshold is responsible for the crime.
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  11696.  @mandatoryhelicopterrides4596  My point was that he was arrested before he attempted the stabbing. The article said that he turned him in, and the charge was "attempted or threatened to kill," not attempted murder. Even when you have some grain of truth, you just can't help yourself, can you?
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  11697. In Pennsylvania, people love their guns so much that they won't let Philadelphia enact gun control. Look at our homicide rate and tell me how that has worked out.
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  11698. Slight amendment: if America was a healthy country, Steve King would have never been elected to Congress in the first place.
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  11699. Nothing much has changed since the Checkers speech gave the template.
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  11700. My dollar says that they'll say he has to be convicted to weasel out of enforcing it.
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  11701.  @LD-tn6ff  Maybe they don't have half of their votes going to superdelegates the way WFP did to make sure someone like Bernie wouldn't get their endorsement, just like the DNC pushed them after 1980 to make sure someone like Jimmy Carter wouldn't (since they convinced themselves that Kennedy's late surge meant that he was the stronger candidate).
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  11702.  @LD-tn6ff  Oh, and they added taking half of the vote in 2017 after the election. No one complained when there were actual democratic elections and someone else won fair and square. When I hear that Warren got 61% and the board got half, that tells me that 22% of members and 100% of the board voted for her. If it were otherwise, they would have released the breakdown.
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  11703.  Flightof2Owls  Well, if it is taxes for the sake of the deficit, of course. If it is a tax increase that leads to actual services and saving money overall, that is far different. The top tax bracket was never below 70% from 1936-1981, and Democrats were dominant for most of that time.
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  11704.  @slayedtorest  One side is literally trying to destroy democracy. The other side wants to make sure people have health care. Totally the same. The "center" wasn't working for most people.
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  11705. Except it seriously reduces the chances of getting the virus, which reduces the chances of spreading it. Vanna will show you your parting gifts.
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  11706. Shapiro has left each of his three elected offices in the middle of his term to search for greener pastures. At a certain point, you just look like a climber.
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  11707.  @AdultThirdCultureKid1971  Ilhan Omar is a Muslim. Tulsi Gabbard is a religious bigot who hates Muslims. That's really all it took.
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  11708.  @Kmakmizzle  Well, one of his sons was in Iraq, but that is definitely the exception rather than the rule.
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  11709. "How much can you do with a shovel? [Picture of a digger] Shovels have gotten bigger." Al Gore, "An Inconvenient Truth"
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  11710.  @notcherbidness501  Who considers Bernie difficult to work with? He is the Amendment King. The real problem is that their aren't enough people in Congress who want to go along with him on major legislation. He was let down by strategists who never had a Plan B on case opposition coalesced around one candidate (which is part of why you hear people complaining that it was somehow unfair when Buttigieg and Klobuchar dropped out before Super Tuesday) and thought he could win the nomination with 30%, 2) too many of his voters didn't show up. I did everything I could to help Bernie win, but we need to understand why he lost.
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  11711.  @notcherbidness501  I wouldn't call it "awesome and diverse." Haaland is really about the only pick that is cause for excitement. Maybe Fudge, too, although other positions would have been a better fit. It's an improvement over what we have been getting the last four years, but when Biden won, my mean feeling was relief that Trump lost.
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  11712.  @RocketmanRockyMatrix  Okay, what kind of reforms do you think should be done?
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  11713.  @AW-nb5dt  So, how does this "force" workers to unionize? Even states that are not right to work for less don't require workers to join unions, and Taft-Hartley prohibits closed shops.
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  11714.  @RocketmanRockyMatrix  Oh, come on. Surely, you have the answer on what your reforms should look like. Or is just easier to dump on everything and you find yourself unable to provide an answer for your own proposal when asked?
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  11715.  @RocketmanRockyMatrix  I asked you first. You insist that welfare "needs to be reformed." I have asked you twice before, so what kind of reforms do you think should be put in place?
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  11716.  @AW-nb5dt  So, you just cite anti-worker propaganda? Again, allowing workers to organize does not force everyone into a union. Your scaremongering fools no one. And as far as the phrase right to work for less goes, we have had decades of competitive evidence, and the results are real. Using nonpartisan sources, it turns out that non-union workers make 19% than those in unions, with only Asian men making more in non-union jobs: https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2020/nonunion-workers-had-weekly-earnings-81-percent-of-union-members-in-2019.htm So, yes, taking away the right to organize means the right to work for less. It also means at-will employment where you can get fired because your boss just feels like it. How terrible that some people are trying to ensure better pay and job security!
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  11717.  @RocketmanRockyMatrix  You are aware that TANF is already temporary, right? And that program has insanely low thresholds to qualify for. SNAP is also gradual. So is LIHEAP. About the only thing that is really dramatic is Medicaid, but you can't really have people sort of covered, can you? Why is it that when people talk about "reforming welfare," they want things that are already policy? And is the middle of a recession really the time to do that?
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  11718.  @RocketmanRockyMatrix  And that is why countercyclical spending is needed. That is also why there are temporary waivers to work requirements in periods of high unemployment.
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  11719.  @RocketmanRockyMatrix  So, that is why your big idea is to propose something that already exists? Okay, then. My bold idea is that there is a fund that people pay into that serves as social insurance, it is paid for by a tax on payroll, and once people reach a certain age, are disabled, or become widowed or orphaned, they get to withdraw from that fund. We'll call it Social Security. You sound like Dave Rubin accidentally inventing the ACA or the Republicans I dealt with in 2013-14 who, when I asked them to say what they thought health care reform should look like, it was the ACA minus the individual mandate.
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  11720.  @RocketmanRockyMatrix  Unemployment benefits are paid for by an employer payroll tax. At this point, I have to wonder if you are just hoping for probability to kick in and eventually you'll get something right.
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  11721.  @RocketmanRockyMatrix  Foreign aid is less than 1% of the federal budget. You could get rid of all of it tomorrow and still not balance the budget.
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  11722.  @RocketmanRockyMatrix  The problem with the ACA is a problem of too much private sector, not too much. Also, the ACA is not just the exchanges. The exchanges are for people who aren't covered by their employers. That is why it costs what it does. Private insurance is expensive, especially if your employer isn't picking up most of the tab.
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  11723.  @AW-nb5dt  The US Chamber of Commerce is a right wing lobbying group. You remind me of the joke where two fish are swimming along, and one says to the other that it's really wet in this water, and the other asked "what's water?"
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  11724.  @AW-nb5dt  I fixed the link above. Again, no one is "forced to join." Unions are forced by law to represent everyone at the shop whether they join or not, but no one is required to join. Paying an agency fee that is determined to be the costs of representation is not joining. If you don't like that, then maybe you should be complaining about the freeloaders who love their extra pay and worker protections, but don't want to pay for it. Just in case you don't want to go looking for the link again, here it is: https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2020/nonunion-workers-had-weekly-earnings-81-percent-of-union-members-in-2019.htm
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  11725.  @AW-nb5dt  An op-ed from a right wing news site is not research. If you don't show the actual research, then you are either lying to me or you are lying to yourself. I cited an organization that has no skin in the game and only tabulated the data. You are citing people with an agenda.
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  11726.  @AW-nb5dt  I didn't cite a union source. I cited Bureau of Labor Statistics information. I found other labor sources, but I didn't use those. And I didn't say that unions were neutral. Try to keep up.
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  11727.  @AW-nb5dt  What specific section of the Constitution does it violate? If you want to play that card, you need to actually use the word correctly. Or is that just like your "research" that was an op-ed column at a right-wing website? Didn't the whole "Opinion" at the very top clue you in? Riddle me this, Batman: what other private organization is required by law to represent non-members? Do you know the difference between membership dues and agency fees? If you're going to troll against workers, you have to at least try better than that.
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  11728.  @AW-nb5dt  The BLS statistics answer the question of whether or not people who have union jobs make more. That was the question on the table. It was pointing out that my term for laws that make it harder for workers to organize is accurate. If non-union workers make 19% less on the whole, calling it right to work for less is accurate. It doesn't answer the toothless laws that allow intimidation and infinite delay to avoid certification. For example, there was an effort to unionize the student teachers at Temple. It took four years to get the certification finalized because the administration kept delaying to the point where most of the people who were involved in the fight had already graduated. End result? A 40% increase in pay with cost of living adjustments and health insurance. Part of the delay was that even after the vote to allow the union was approved, the school made endless delays in recognizing it. It is hardly a situation of "no one wants to join."
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  11729.  @AW-nb5dt  Again, not forced to join. Apparently, your lack if knowledge knows no bounds. And Taft-Hartley is not the Constitution, therefore, it can't be used to argue that something is unconstitutional. When it comes to questions of business, the Interstate Commerce Clause almost always beats the Tenth Amendment. If the Chamber or the Business Roundtable or ALEC or any other union busters are paying you, they should arm you with material that is fresher than a two-year old gallon of milk. Oh, and another hint, if you want to cite something that contradicts the idea that union workers get paid more, GDP is irrelevant to average income. For that matter, since the union busters started getting their way and unionization started to plummet in the 1980s, productivity isn't, either.
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  11730.  @AW-nb5dt  You know, your point about the union executive was a good point... until I thought of all times that I have seen CEOs rob their companies blind, or crash the economy like they did in 2008.
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  11731.  @AW-nb5dt  Answer my question: what other private organization is legally required to represent non-members? Apparently, you missed that in throwing out your red herrings. And I don't work in a right to work for less state, and I intend to keep it that way.
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  11732.  @AW-nb5dt  It does not "remove the voting process." It says that if an absolute majority say that they want to be in a union, that constitutes a Yes vote and the union is recognized if the members so desire.
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  11733.  @AW-nb5dt  And if the union "outlived its usefulness" and wasn't targeted for extinction by management, why do you explain polls saying that a majority would join a union if they could, and why wages have stagnated over the last 40 years? You can't, because you would much rather be a company stooge.
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  11734.  @AW-nb5dt  And as far as teachers unions "ruining education," itself funny that the people who have done actual studies beg to differ: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2523492?seq=1
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  11735.  @AW-nb5dt  You're right, we can go back and forth. The difference is that I don't pull things out of my butt and say that my sources aren't what they really are and I don't avoid questions.
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  11736.  @AW-nb5dt  If you know Taft-Hartley is not in the Constitution, why use it as an example of something that it would violate in the Constitution? And if you really want to invoke Taft-Hartley, it also prohibited closed shops, which some states allowed, so their goes your Tenth Amendment argument, too. I guess you just used that phrase to mean "I don't like it and I want to try to dishonestly use a trump card rather than defend my arguments on the merit."
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  11737.  @casey4602  And that evil turtle even held up the funding for black lung patients. I think he may be the most purely evil force in America. Trump is bad, but McConnell is bad and good at getting what he wants.
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  11738.  @AW-nb5dt  Oh, yes, because the government forced a bunch of rich people to make bets on the housing market that totaled more than the entire world GDP and nobody really knew what was in those bets. Funny that the party of "personal responsibility" never wants to say that rich people have any when their actions harm us all.
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  11739.  @AW-nb5dt  I am, and I have seen the difference in union work and non-union work. Sorry, but saying that "you sound like you don't live in a state controlled by this law" doesn't sound like a question, nor is relevant to the question at hand. You still haven't had a response to the fact that on average non-union workers make 19% less, and once the federal government stopped enforcing rules about employer interference, that productivity stopped being linked to pay.
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  11740.  @AW-nb5dt  The rule doesn't take it away, because it does not force a card check only model. The difference is that is up to workers rather than employers who fire the organizers and make all kinds of threats to any shop that votes to organize. If a majority say that they want it and they don't want to wait, then a ballot is little more than a stalling tactic.
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  11741.  @AW-nb5dt  Ah, just as I suspected. You only have anecdotes. The 19% figure was the average among all workers in the United States. Well, I can look at what happened in the coal industry in my native state. Probably the biggest example of this was what Don Blankenship did when he took over Massey Energy and they bought another company. Blankenship would bring his plane in and give the same old anti-union spiel, insisting that things would work so much better for the workers if they abandoned the union and they wouldn't have to pay dues anymore. The first thing that happened after they decertified was that their shift increased from 8 hours to 12, and safety checks plummeted. It ended in multiple explosions in mines due to unsafe conditions culminating with an explosion in Upper Big Branch that killed 29 people. Everyone I knew who worked in the mines said that no union shop would have ever allowed such unsafe conditions to continue. So, look at the evidence and then show either what is faulty or provide counter evidence, because random incidents (even if they are true) are not what we base policies on.
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  11742.  @AW-nb5dt  An anecdote is a story told without evidence. You have provided none. I was pointing out that I can provide anecdotes, too, but that still doesn't change the fact that I am the only one who actually provided evidence as to whether or not union workers make more or have better performance (as I did with education). And you still haven't answered the question for why you think that suddenly when unions diminished that wages were no longer connected to productivity.
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  11743.  @AW-nb5dt  Provide evidence. Don't tell me stories. You have proven yourself to be an unreliable witness since several things that you said were evidence turned out not to be what you said they were. So, you said that non-union transportation workers make more than their union counterparts? Funny that the good people at the BLS also broke it down by sector, and as of 2011, union transportation workers made more in every subcategory. Civilian union transportation workers overall made 51% more, private industry union transportation workers made 51% more, and government union transportation workers made 42% more. https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2013/04/art2full.pdf What a shock! Your facts turned out to be alternative again. Anecdotal evidence (n) Evidence in the form of stories that tell people about what has happened to them. Example: His conclusions are not supported by data; they are based only on anecdotal evidence. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anecdotal%20evidence At this point, I have to ask if you are continuing on in hopes that probability will kick in and sooner or later you'll get something right.
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  11744.  @AW-nb5dt  And you never answered my question since you think agency fees are so evil: name one other private organization anywhere that is required by law to represent non-members.
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  11745.  @AW-nb5dt  Answer my question. Name another private organization required by law to represent non-members. Those freeloaders can whine about paying fees, but they sure do go running to the union when it comes time to get the representation that the union is legally obligated to provide if it represents the shop.
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  11746.  @AW-nb5dt  You mean a decision that invoked a 1910 decision that outlawed minimum wage and child labor laws that got overturned in 1937? Is that really the hill you want to die on. Oh, so businesses should just be allowed to do whatever they want? Yeah, that always works so well.
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  11747.  @AW-nb5dt  Funny that you just dropped the idea that you were an expert on the transportation industry and how much better non-union workers get paid. I guess you didn't have an answer when actual evidence proved your anecdotal evidence (probably something your boss told you in a brainwashing session) wrong.
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  11748. Interesting look! I think the term of copyright should be reduced, but I do think that any abolition would require a fair compensation for the artist.
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  11749. @Kevin Michael Yang has admitted that is what he wants to Dave Rubin and Ben Shapiro.
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  11750. ​ @les2287  He is using the "because science is a liar... sometimes" arguments to avoid offending those people he needs to court for votes. You don't want toto address the core issue if you give dog whistles to those pushing the nonsense.
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  11751.  @Im__Andy-f6x  People's World had quite the compilation of some of their greatest hits after the Green Party used Republican lawyers to try to get on the ballot in Wisconsin after spending weeks ignoring paperwork from the Wisconsin Secretary of State to correct their ballot petition to get on the ballot. It goes back to at least when Nader was running.
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  11752.  @Kitajima2  Nader is the one who started it. In 2000, at least 10% of his donors and 25% of his petition drive volunteers were Republicans, and he broke promises to his supporters to only campaign in safe states and only campaigned in swing states, and running for an environmental party, tried to convince the world that the author of Earth in the Balance and a former oil company executive were one in the same. And after he stopped running for President, he tried to convince people that Michael Bloomberg or Rand Paul would save us all.
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  11753.  Frederic Bastiat  Funny that you have this big problem with "government plundering," but there doesn't seem to be any outrage about corporate welfare or the plunder upwards where productivity more than doubles over 40 years and wages for the average worker remain flat while income at the top quadruples.
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  11754.  Frederic Bastiat  If there were no workers (i.e., muscles), who would build the product, genius? Your party's first President knew the answer to that one.
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  11755.  Frederic Bastiat  * Granny, but a tax reduction [...] Helpful hint: if you want to call others stupid, and you don't know basic grammar or care to be bothered by it, maybe get one of those apps that checks your grammar for you
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  11756.  Frederic Bastiat  "Labor is prior to, and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves the much higher consideration." Abraham Lincoln
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  11757.  @Jakkujedi  That is a Biden quote.
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  11758.  @ktmac7610  I'm not the one who made up the rule. I'm just telling you how it gets interpreted.
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  11759.  @shihyuchu6753  All Souls Church list theirs for a year. If there's some church that you feel violates the rule, turn them in. Or, since so many people love to project, are you only looking for lefty churches to harass?
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  11760. My employer contribution is currently 27.6% for health insurance. So, that means that I could get a 20.6% pay increase. Thank you, Bernie!
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  11761.  @nobodyspecial690  Really? I'm in Conshy.
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  11762.  @thenoseknows9391  It matters if you don't want to see Oz on TV for the next six months ;-)
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  11763.  @ricardobarahona3939  Agreed
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  11764.  @marksaggese6405  I think he definitely can. Going all across the state to try to reduce the margins the Republican will get in the rest of the state. If he can get the numbers in the Southeast that Democrats have been getting lately, and keep it closer in the rest of the state, this race is his to lose.
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  11765. Actually, Bernie leads in New Hampshire. Given that he overperformed the polls by six points in Iowa, if you add that to his numbers, he is winning Iowa.
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  11766.  @jameshumphrey9939  So, the guy who is against Medicare for All, indifferent to labor, and opposed to free public college or trade school tuition has the "most comprehensive polices"?
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  11767. What makes her the best candidate?
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  11768.  @dlancer2k  But showing why someone can't be trusted is important. Her dodge on the defense budget probably convinced more people that she can't be trusted on the issue than repeating her talking point. The follow up makes the mask slip, and sometimes it can be enough to convince people what is behind it.
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  11769.  @dlancer2k  I didn't say you did, but there is a version of the question that can be asked, and that is what can be done. Something like, "If corruption is one of the biggest issues in politics, and big donors use their money to corrupt the system, wouldn't the best approach be to refuse their money?"
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  11770. I gave Marianne Williamson a dollar so she could get on the debate stage. Watching her on The Rubin Report (the only full episode I watched in full) meant that was a dollar well spent.
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  11771.  @Hygoro  But the corporation still has that much more profit that isn't getting taxed.
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  11772.  @krisalis709  The IRS knows how much you make, because you have to submit your SSN or taxpayer ID, and that gets reported.
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  11773. @UC9pgw7T1F0LvorJkAG_aXaw Do you know what the profit margin is on retail? It's less than 10%. Do you honestly think that won't be passed on to the consumer?
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  11774.  @krisalis709  Oh, and since we are talking about looking at the totality of the plan, let us also consider that people currently receiving benefits either give up their current benefits or they get nothing... which makes it even more regressive.
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  11775.  @nomercy4521  Well, he won't put out a list of the 125 programs that are mutually exclusive to his "freedom dividend," so don't hold your breath.
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  11776.  @gregmattson2238  English translation: I give up, so let's tax consumers instead!
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  11777.  @gibblesbits8303  You think that Google, Amazon, et al, actually offer free stuff to people who use it? Nothing is free online. The costs just get hidden.
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  11778.  @1986jon19  Nice try, but they also have an income tax that is much higher than ours and a much more generous social safety net. Yang wants to do nothing about the former, and he told Dave Rubin that he ultimately wants to get rid of the latter.
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  11779.  @1986jon19  I didn't say they don't. However, because they have higher taxes, and other societal pressure, there is far less incentive for C-level executives to pay themselves more in a day than their employees get in a year. Still doesn't make consumption taxes any less regressive.
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  11780.  @ChonchoLibre  Well, considering the fact that Yang won't tell us how he defines staples, I don't trust him. You are also forgetting that people currently getting benefits don't get the full thousand dollars, if they get anything at all. This makes it even more regressive than taxing consumption. If Yang were an actual lefty, he would tax wealth, and he would make it universal for everyone without a big asterisk of forcing people to choose between their current benefits and his plan. He is a completely dishonest actor on his signature issue, and that is why he gets so much pushback from the left. He keeps talking about how people on the right love it. Why wouldn't they? It's their plan!
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  11781.  @gregmattson2238  That is not a VAT. A VAT is a tax on consumer goods, not investments.
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  11782.  @gregmattson2238  He says that Amazon will be covered. Do you consider books to be a luxury item?
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  11783.  @JosePineda-cy6om  My problem with George's idea is that it will punish people in rural areas. For example, my brother bought a trailer years ago that also came with 29 acres of land. Given how hilly and rocky it is, it is not conducive to building, so he would pay out the nose, and his scenario is not that uncommon in rural areas.
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  11784.  @gregmattson2238  Public option is not Medicare for All. He has no end date, but he just hopes that private insurance will wither on the vine. Not the same thing at all.
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  11785.  @JosePineda-cy6om  Oh. I just missed something about the use of the term "idle." There is wildlife and plenty of other things. Do you want the rest of America to have the same battles over water and other natural resources of California? Do you want every heavy rain to result in flooding? Because that is what happens when there is more concrete and less soil to absorb water.
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  11786.  @JosePineda-cy6om  Again, I'm not talking low-desnity suburban areas. I am talking about rural areas. These are poor people, and how do we know how the government will set the rates?
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  11787.  @JosePineda-cy6om  By definition, urban land is more developed than rural land. They also have more money. Since the tax charges at a higher rate for people who don't develop, this is inherently taxing the rural more than the urban.
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  11788.  @JosePineda-cy6om  Oh, I read, and you're not getting what I am saying. I had this same discussion 15 years ago. Ultimately, rural land will not be as developed, and you said that Henry George says that it is terrible for land to be undeveloped. Therefore, regardless of the rate, rural people are more likely to pay the penalty compared to urban landowners. If you think that constantly forcing people to sell their land to the government is a great idea, you and I have a different understanding.
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  11789.  @gregmattson2238  Gee, what a shock! A Yang Gang banger who says that a critic from the left has to think harder, and that said critic will come around in time because of the unmitigated brilliance of Yang and his gang. So, the public option will be better because it will allow for more innovation? Yes, because apparently England, France, and Canada have no medical innovations whatsoever. Is that the kind of deep thinking that is supposed to win me over to keeping a parasitic middleman that makes its money by denying care? As far as rich threatening to pass on the consumer, and Amazon supposedly being investigated for fraud, did I say that they would jack up their prices 50%? Even if they did, there is nothing that Yang or anyone really could do. However, the profit margin of retail, especially high-volume retail, is far lower than the 10% that Yang is proposing for a VAT. And brick and mortar competitors have a higher margin per item, but it is still lower than 10%. So, is this the kind of deep thinking that will convince me that using a regressive tax is better than simply getting rid of corporate tax loopholes?
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  11790.  @gregmattson2238  I think you for that expression. As far as autocomplete, my larger point was that there have been so many times where the conversation devolves into, rather than what a normal conversation would be where people disagree of A makes point, B provides objection, and A responds to specific points in the discussion and brings new points to bolster the argument, and so on and so forth until either one realizes that his/her argument is wrong or they come to a deadlock but with a greater understanding of each point of view, but too many times it gets stuck at A repeats the points. As far as your point, I honestly saw that as a secondary argument. I personally do not consider novelty to be a great argument. I would prefer to go with something that, in literally every place that it has been tried, is more cost effective and covers every single person. There is not one study that I have seen that says that everyone will get covered by a public option, which is why it is unacceptable to me. An improvement, yes, but not the best path. When your mom almost died when you were 11 because she had a gangrenous gallbladder because it took eight months to get the surgery because your brother broke his arm three weeks earlier and doctors dragged their feet with the gallbladder surgery, you don't ever want that to happen to anyone. Ever.
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  11791.  @moe433  Says the person defending someone who tells people that voting third party will actually get them results.
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  11792.  @moe433  That's not how it works. That's not how any of this works. The right has so much control of the Republican Party because they always show up. When you don't show up, you get ignored. Enough people followed the strategy of you and "great guy" Jimmy Dore to get five Justices on the Supreme Court. That majority has gutted voting rights and workers' rights. Now, they seem on the verge to do the same to reproductive rights. Great plan! What's next, give boards in red states the right to overturn election results? Oh, wait! That's already in place in Georgia and Texas. So, thanks a lot. Your 20-plus year tantrum has done such a great job for the American people.
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  11793.  Janet Baker  Are you saying that we only use great people to fight fascism? 90 years ago, you would have been complaining about working with the SPD.
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  11794. It still seems to me like both make the same mistake. The left anarchist wants no power structure at all and hopes that getting rid of imbalances (i.e., Marxists and abolishing private property) will mean they don't return. The question that I have asked many times only to never see a satisfactory answer was how they will keep someone from accumulating property if there is no state.
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  11795.  @lochnessamonster1912  How do they define the difference between a legitimate home and an illegitimate commercial property? Does this also prohibit subletting?
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  11796.  @lochnessamonster1912  I get the utopian aspect of it. I guess that is what I find so frustrating about the whole thing. A lot of times, it devolves to pretending like something doesn't exist or is completely different from what history actually suggests. That's why when I hear "no property," I immediately think, "How is that going to happen?" When I hear that it is stateless and thus not having a mechanism of enforcement, then I tend to get skeptical of any answer.
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  11797.  @lochnessamonster1912  I think that, even if resources were somehow distributed equally (and let's face it, Leninists did not end up distributing resources equally when they gained power), you would still see some inequality given people's differing savvy in managing those resources. I am all for giving people more fruit of their labor, but I don't want a totalitarian system to do it. Had it not been sabotaged, the one that I think showed the most promise was Chile.
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  11798.  @lochnessamonster1912  Lenin died shortly after the First World War. If Chile was not socialist, or trying for socialism, under Allende, why not? He was attempting to nationalize industry and change the distribution of wealth. And, ideally, socialism leads to a lack of concentration of wealth, but as pretty much every experiment in state socialism (not mixed economies, but those that at least nominally desired to follow Marxism) tended to have an elite that lived in splendor. As long as money is a thing, some people will just be better at handling it. I'm not saying that we should avoid making a more equitable distribution of wealth and income, but I just don't see how one could maintain a stasis for absolute equality for very long.
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  11799.  @lochnessamonster1912  Well, a look at the rationing of WWII shows that this was hardly an ideal system, because rations for civilians were hardly generous, except for maybe nursing mothers. Civilians were also encouraged to use cheaper organ meat to save the good stuff for the soldiers.
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  11800. ​ @melaniezenor-kelleher6932 Based on what metric? The Trump citer is more likely to make $100K, and Biden and Hillary easily won among voters with income less than $50K. Don't believe the hype about the revolt of working people.
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  11801. Well, the John Birch Society called him a commie, but no sane people.
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  11802. 12:53 Maybe not Hister, but look at Mussolini. That is the much more accurate prototype for Trump.
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  11803. Tucker Carlson has the most disturbing laugh I have ever heard.
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  11804. If he actually tried at his job, the AHCA might actually be law now. That is the one positive thing about his laziness.
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  11805.  @derekkraje3985  No, she has always been this person. Look up "Tulsi Gabbard is not Your Friend" on Jacobin. It's from 2017, and it chronicles a long list of her right-wing views. The real grift was supporting Bernie in 2016, which she saw as a) a way to fend off a primary challenger to her left, and b) enemy of my enemy stuff.
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  11806.  @tfde1  What specific job are you talking about? Some anti-union toady to his boss tried to say that he made more in a non-union job, but as soon as he mentioned his sector, it plainly said that non-union workers got an average of 13% less.
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  11807.  @robertprice9052  You mean people didn't join a union because their benevolent leader threatened to shut down the plant if he didn't? No!
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  11808.  @robertprice9052  Yeah, compare sector-by-sector where there are unions and non-union workers. Either you are lying, or you have bought a bill of good that you're trying to peddle to us.
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  11809.  @robertprice9052  Wal-Mart did that exact thing in Canada. The butchers organized, so they closed the entire store. Amazon has plenty of other sweatshops, I mean warehouses, and plenty of cities willing to sell out in hopes of getting jobs there in a race to the bottom.
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  11810.  @tfde1  I looked it up, and according to Zip Recruiter, the going rate nationally for non-union janitors is lower than for union janitors. Not as much as in other sectors, but given the differences in benefits, that also makes a huge difference.
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  11811.  @robertprice9052  That's "about all unions have to offer"? Actually, the first thing that unions have to offer is the end of at-will employment, so you are no longer at the total mercy at the whims of your employer. Unions also enforce those worker safety rules. (Everyone I know who is or was a coal miner said that the Big Branch explosion that killed 29 people would have never happened in a union shop.) There is also more paid vacation, and union workers are far more likely to get a pension than non-union workers.
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  11812.  @robertprice9052  Actually, I conflated two stories of Wal-Mart retaliating for successful votes to unionize. In 2000, the butchers in one Wal-Mart store voted to unionize, and rather than negotiate with the union, Wal-Mart closed all butcher shops within its stores and outsourced meat cutting: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/walmarts-meat-wars-with-u_b_91757 It was a store at a Wal-Mart in Quebec that closed in 2005 when its workers voted to organize: https://thewalrus.ca/walmart-has-everything-except-unions/ Not to mention the hours and hours of anti-union propaganda that workers are required to sit through in many businesses and the frequent delays forced by management, and no wonder some vote No out of fear. And look at what has happened after union saturation started to decline: stagnant wages, and less secure employment. When unions were stronger, employers offered competitive pay and working conditions in order to keep their businesses from going union. Now, it's Thunderdome.
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  11813.  @robertprice9052  Yes, because even though wages have stagnated for 40 years despite productivity doubling, workers "have no need" to join a union. How much do you get paid to post this stuff? Seriously, just about every video that has anything good to say about unions has people bombarding it to say the exact same anti-union lies and propaganda.
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  11814.  @robertprice9052  So, no one wants to fire employees, but I just showed you evidence if the exact same thing? Based on your comments, it's obvious that you don't care about your workers as much as you care about control. And as far as a general strategy, many businesses in the retail sector rely on high turnover because it keeps wages low.
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  11815.  @robertprice9052  And you are proving my point yet again. You don't want to give workers any credit for the increase in productivity, and I would argue that in a period where productivity nearly doubled over 40 years, real wages have gone up 11%, and pay at the top has tripled, it's obvious who is served by that lie. One of the anti-union stooges insisted that he didn't need any union because his pay went up 92% over the course of 25 years. Looking it up, adjusted for inflation, it was 6%. In my first five years at my union job, adjusted for inflation, my wages went up 11%. But, yeah, no one needs to unionize because of benevolent bosses like you who get forced by the government to have some minimum standards that wouldn't be there if it wasn't for the unions demanding it at that time.
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  11816.  @robertprice9052  No, they know it wouldn't have happened, because no union would have ever allowed its miners to go into the mines under those conditions. When Blankenship took over mines, he wined and dined the workers, and insisted that if they decertified the union, nothing would change, and they would get to keep all of their money. The first thing he did once the workers bought his lies was to increase the shifts from eight to 12 hours, and eliminate the mandatory safety days. You can talk about it being illegal all you want, but the NRLB has been knee capped for years. He's going to pay a $1000 fine? His salary was $33 million. That's nothing to him.
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  11817.  @tfde1  If union jobs are so terrible, why don't you go get one of those wonderful non-union jobs?
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  11818.  @robertprice9052  For a year, several years after that. And that wasn't his first big explosion, either. If they were union mines, those 29 people wouldn't have died in 2010, and the two wouldn't have died in 2006.
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  11819. "For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die." Edward M. Kennedy
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  11820. They did the same thing four years ago, and enough people were stupid enough to believe it. This time, we are far more mobilized, and the commitment pledges in Iowa should have every other candidate freaking out.
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  11821.  @White_Oak_  Actually, the bill that he wrote lays out the funding mechanism: a 7% employer payroll tax and a 4% employee payroll tax that exempts the first $29,000 of income.
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  11822.  @prometheus3498  Is that really what it is about? Or at a certain point does ot become quibbling that someone got the essence right even if the exact words were wrong?
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  11823.  @X2LR8  You mean like the red wave that was coming in 2018, 2020, and 2022 that didn't happen?
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  11824. Indeed. To paraphrase Dark Helmet from Spaceballs, this is why the right triumphs over the left, because the left is dumb. NOTE: I am not saying our policies are, but there are way too many people who listen to the anti-anti-Trump grifters.
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  11825. The last Democrat to win statewide in Texas was Bob Bullock, who was elected lieutenant governor (In one of those strange twists, because Texas has a weak governor, Bob did the real work while W's job was much more symbolic. I think Ivins said it was the fifth-most powerful job in Texas government.) in 1994.
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  11826.  @johnedwards1968  I think it's both.
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  11827.  MD JG  Indeed. It's like these people want to go with their feels rather than their thinking. At a certain point, you just want to scream, "Don't be a stereotype!" Someone else was talking about how Manchin should just become a Republican, which even this person admitted would give the gavel to Republicans.
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  11828.  @matthewschwartz6607  There hasn't been a vote, just a hearing, and Bernie pressed her hard. If he voted No, it would just make Tanden a martyr because of the idea that it was personal revenge. Bernie doesn't deal in petty personal revenge, so let Manchin kill it.
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  11829.  @MattWhalen87  No. We should ne taxing the living daylights out of corporations, end the stock option loophole, enforce antitrust laws, and use that money to pay for infrastructure to help people.
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  11830. Because they can always get voted out, and if you get term limits, no one will understand the mechanics of legislation, which will put undue influence in the hands of unelected staffers. Also, because of ex post facto laws, term limits can't be applied to sitting members, which in the short term gives people like Turtle more ammo in terms of staying in power. It's something that sounds good, but doesn't work.
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  11831. His name is Grant Stinkfield? This should be a lesson to all the kiddies out there that picking on kids for such trivial things can have serious negative consequences for the future.
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  11832. Biden can't do a thing about the filibuster outside of pressure. It is a Senate rule, so only the Senate can change it. I swear, POTUS has to be the most overstated position as far as power goes. It is definitely powerful, but it is not a dictatorship.
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  11833.  @vashtanerata1799  I don't understand when people say it, either. If his heart were truly in the right place, he wouldn't keep lying about what he wants to do.
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  11834.  @donHooligan  Biden fought AMWR drilling, too. If you really fought it for 20 years, it should be obvious who is worse.
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  11835.  @donHooligan  Because the person who championed the Paris Accords and th Iran nuclear deal wouldn't pull out of them. Because Biden was one of the leaders defeating Bork, and he also voted against the elevation of Rehnquist and putting Thomas, Roberts, and Alito on the bench. Because a Democratic President won't use Federalist Society members to fill the bench. Because all it takes is a mere degree of competence to have a better response to coronavirus than what we had. Seeing the person who is trying to model behavior to limit the spread compared to the one who encourages people to take off masks and gets mad when they don't is a no-brainer. And if you really think getting annoyed at someone who disagrees with you rises to the level of using stormtroopers to kidnap protesters off the street, I have to ask if you are ignorant or you are lying.
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  11836.  @donHooligan  You might not "disagree" that Trump is trash, but there's only one that you are actively trying to convince people not to vote for.
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  11837. That's why he was so opposed to the tanning bed tax in the ACA.
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  11838.  @noh-1386  Examples? What laws?
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  11839.  @chipsalom  The Old West is too socialist for them. You weren't allowed to carry guns in town.
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  11840.  @mosslinden5058  Counterargument: anyone who thinks that a bill that is doomed to defeat should be forced to alienate the Soft Yes members and who has done none of the grassroots organizing to build support for the bill are the people who don't understand politics.
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  11841.  blue  How do you define "reasonable"? The bill is doomed to defeat. He is only pushing it as part of his war on anyone with a D behind his/her name.
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  11842.  @ScoopMeisterGeneral  You don't. The anti-anti-Trump crowd want Republicans to win because they are happier complaining than getting any results.
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  11843. Why does having the sign ready for weeks contradict the idea that he planned to walk out in a huff all along? They probably had the sign ready because they have expected the tantrum for that long and were just waiting for the right time to use it.
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  11844. Proof that not guilty doesn't mean innocent.
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  11845.  @seth5143  Go the extra mile and turn the other cheek were subtly subversive. The Romans could force people to carry their equipment for one mile, but only one mile. Turn the other cheek was saying that you must treat me with dignity, because it was a way of saying that you couldn't hit someone with the back of your hand.
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  11846.  @seth5143  That's where King got those ideas. That and seeing the Gandhi succeed using nonviolence in India. You're correct that video made it easier for such techniques to work, but never underestimate the value of someone perceived as your inferior having one over you in a heavy honor/shame culture.
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  11847. "He's a very fun guy. He likes 'em young." Der Orangestraflingfuhrer on Jeffrey Epstein
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  11848. So, let me get this straight: international global forces (which are amoral and only care about making money) are pulling money out of American stocks because they are jealous of our success? [In Dr. Evil voice] Riiiight.
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  11849.  @Daimando  True, people need to vote no matter what, but if all people hear is that Republicans are a mortal lock, they may get discouraged and not show up at all.
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  11850.  @miradine341  Where is that? I know the person I'm replying to is full of it, but it's fun to ask specifics sometimes to see if they try to answer.
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  11851.  @miradine341  That's pretty rough. Depending on where I go, it's high 2s or low 3s per gallon.
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  11852. @miradine341  True. I voted for Bernie twice and did everything I could the second time to help him win (it's not so easy to be active when there's an infant at home), but the real problem seems to be that people want everything to get better and nothing to change.
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  11853.  @PatrickPierceBateman  As long as the Senate is 50-50 and Republicans absolutely refuse to play ball, what other choice do you have?
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  11854. Anyone who's shocked raise your hand. Anyone at all? Didn't think so.
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  11855. "What is wrong with you? Why are you so ANGRY?" George Bluth Sr.
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  11856. 6:21 Zoinks was Shaggy's catchphrase. Velma's was "jinkies."
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  11857.  @CybeargPlays  That might explain why people like him. It doesn't explain why he gets taken seriously, though. David defends and praises Rogan a lot, but yet he admits that he is "a bit of an idiot." It doesn't make sense.
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  11858.  @ripsumrall8018  I honestly thought she changed it to that when I first heard her name.
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  11859. ​ @GeneralSamov  Because of the dishonesty of the right pretending that "small business" is the target.
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  11860.  @tripp8833  Well, I think Bannon is a true believer. Carlson is a total grifter, considering that he started his career leaning hard into being a preppie.
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  11861.  @abdulhanan8935  Considering that worker productivity has doubled in the last 40 years and wages have stagnated, I think it's pretty obvious who is getting the benefits from all of that hard work.
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  11862.  @abdulhanan8935  There's a reason education exists. If you used your education, you would know that increased productivity is about providing more value for your work. Own Goal: Hanan Abdul.
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  11863.  @abdulhanan8935  Maybe not everyone wants to be an independent contractor. The world of all against all does not appeal to me. Interdependence > Independence
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  11864.  @abdulhanan8935  So, your answer is to just dive deep into the gig economy? I'll take collective action every day of the week.
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  11865. ​ @gingernightmare9152  The problem was that time limit. If they didn't put that in there, the 38th state would have ratified it.
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  11866.  john Doe  Also, where did the "Democrats will be mean while making them pick oranges" come from? Are you on drugs?
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  11867. If Axel Foley is the funniest cop ever, why did Inspector Cluseau and Frank Drebin rank higher?
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  11868.  @joebrandon8750  It had nothing to do with skin color. They gave specifics based on her record. Then again, we're not the ones who keep bringing up skin color when talking about qualifications. So, if you were old enough, how did you feel in 1980 when Reagan said that he'd nominate a woman for the first vacancy that arose on the Supreme Court? You didn't answer the question. How did you feel when Trump did it a year and a half ago?
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  11869.  @joebrandon8750  I'm President? It's obvious what you're missing. There are lots of qualified people out there, so Biden decided to go to a group of people who hadn't been represented. Now, if he had picked some woefully unqualified nominee (as Der Orangefuhrer did multiple times for the federal circuit and appeals court), that would be one thing, but he picked one of the most qualified candidates ever for the Supreme Court. So, since you are so appalled when a President or a Presidential candidate makes a pledge based on race or gender, were you appalled when Saint Ronnie said in 1980 that he would pick a woman for the bench at his first chance? Were you appalled when Poppy Bush said in 1991 that he would pick a black candidate? How about in 2020 when Trump said that he'd pick a woman? Why is it so hard for you to answer those very simple questions?
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  11870.  @joebrandon8750  You consider gently noting that "attacking" you? My God, right wingers are the biggest snowflakes of all.
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  11871.  @joebrandon8750  No, you are being contradictory. You like those Justices because you like what they did. However, you have this complaint that you love to make that if the person doing the nomination ahead of time says that the nominee will be part of a group, that therefore makes them invalid. Well, Reagan said in 1980 and Trump said in 2020 that they would pick women and Bush said he'd pick a black candidate before they made the pick. Therefore, by your logic, they were "picked because they were part of a group, not because of their qualifications." Nobody on the left complained that those Presidents (or in Reagan's case, nominees, because he wasn't elected yet) would do so. While O'Connor was relatively smooth sailing, the case against Thomas and Barrett had nothing to do with the fact that they were going to be part of a group. However, you keep complaining that Ketanji Brown Jackson is part of a group that Biden said that he'd select from. Therefore, your argument about an affirmative action pick is hypocritical. If you want to argue the merits, argue the merits, but all you've done is complained that Biden said ahead of time that he'd pick a black woman.
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  11872.  @joebrandon8750  Wrong. George H. W. Bush explicitly said in 1991 that he would nominate a black candidate to replace Thurgood Marshall. Thanks for playing. Vanna has some lovely party gifts.
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  11873.  @joebrandon8750  Oh, wait! I get it now. As long as you can get a right winger, you can override your misogyny for a white woman and your racism for a black man, but a black woman who is a left winger means war to you. It was just a matter of time.
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  11874.  @joebrandon8750  That's what he said publicly, but "Bush Administration officials said that he looked almost exclusively for minority or women candidates." In other words, he wanted to give plausible deniability for people like you to insist that a 43-year-old with a history of controversy and a thin judicial record really wasn't the type of hire they hate.
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  11875.  @joebrandon8750  You're the one who said that you were fine with someone announcing wanting to pick a woman, but not with someone announcing that he wanted to pick a black woman, not me.
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  11876.  @joebrandon8750  Let's look at your framework. You: totally fine with looking for someone who is a woman (since you said that you had no problem with Reagan and Trump doing so). Also you: setting aside a seat for a black woman is an outrage. What's the difference between the two? Unless you just want to admit that you don't really care who gets picked at all, you only care about who does the picking and decided to work backwards, then the only other difference is race. But to say that she is unqualified and Thomas was is an insult to the intelligence of everyone who might read this. Let's just look at their qualifications: Thomas (age 43) AB Holy Cross JD Yale Assistant AG of Missouri: two years Corporate lawyer: two years Legislative aide: two years Assistant Cabinet secretary: one year Chair, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission: eight years Federal judge: one year Ketanji Brown Jackson (age 51) BA, JD Harvard District court clerk: one year Circuit court clerk: one year Supreme Court clerk: one year Private practice: four years Public defender: two years Sentencing commission: four years Federal judge: nine years Oh, yeah. She did so much less before she got the nomination. /s
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  11877.  @joebrandon8750  Then, that's not a question of qualification. For example, no Democrats that I know of in 1987 said that Robert Bork was unqualified for the Supreme Court. They were honest that they found his views on civil rights as dangerous. Stop pretending that it is a matter of being outraged about Biden saying ahead of time that he would pick a black woman. Once you do that, you're the one who brings race into the discussion, and as we know, in right wing world, accusing someone who says racist things is far worse than actual racism.
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  11878.  @joebrandon8750  "His track record for nominations sucks." English translation: I don't like the fact that he isn't picking hard right wingers for the courts.
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  11879.  @joebrandon8750  People had no problem with it when it was only white people for the first 177 years of the Court. Looking for voices that have been overlooked is a good thing.
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  11880.  @joebrandon8750  No, you want to have your cake and eat it, too. Your side had no problem ramming through someone to fill a vacancy that opened up six weeks before the election when people already started voting in the general election after refusing to fill a vacancy that occurred nine months before a general election because "that's too close." Your boy Turtle even said he'd do it in a lame duck if Trump lost, for that matter. Just admit that all you care about is power, and there is no deeper principle behind it.
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  11881.  @joebrandon8750  Funny how you admit that you have no trouble with a President saying that he'll pick a woman, but saying that he'll pick a black woman is too far.
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  11882.  @joebrandon8750  So, it's racist to say that you'll pick a black candidate, but it's not sexist to say that you'll pick a woman? Yeah, that makes sense.
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  11883.  @joebrandon8750  You: I'm cool with a woman, and this may be shocking to you but a minority... I'm not cool with giving any preference based on skin color period. So, either you completely ignored the question, or you gave a non-answer to the question I asked. I asked if you were fine with Reagan and Trump promising a spot on the Supreme Court to a woman before the pick was made. When you said what you weren't fine with, you only mentioned race. You didn't say the same about sex. Or, are you such a partisan shill of a troll that you just couldn't bear to criticize Saint Ronnie or Dear Leader directly?
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  11884.  @joebrandon8750  My original point was that you only care when a Democratic President does. The fact that I had to ask so many times for you to finally give a direct answer tells me that it's probably still true. You're the one who kept emphasizing the evils of racial hiring quotas. Re: why not just pretend that you didn't do so like Poppy did, I don't really care one way or the other. There are plenty of qualified people who meet the preferences of the person making the nominee, so the idea that this is screwing over some qualified white candidate is nothing more than a dog whistle that hasn't really changed much since the Jesse Helms "Hands" ad in 1990. I'm not the one who used the word "unqualified" in response to a nominee that I didn't like who clearly is qualified. (And, yes, Bork was qualified, but his record was awful. The argument was never that he was unqualified, but that he was unfit.) Pretending that someone who agree with who is objectively more qualified than any of her would-be peers are is unqualified and immediately bringing up a pledge for diversity is itself a dog whistle. That is why you got accused. If you would have just owned up to your partisan shillery and focused on that, no one would have accused you of racism.
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  11885.  @joebrandon8750  It's never a waste of time to expose the moral bankruptcy and hypocrisy of the American right.
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  11886.  @joebrandon8750  Not sure of you deleted this or if YouTube is acting goofy, because I only see it in my notifications and not in the thread, but a lot of the things that you mentioned such as ignoring mask mandates were criticized by the left. As far as [defunding] the police, it is a clunky term, but it means reallocating some funds so that things such as mental health checks are handled by social workers instead of police and that the full-on militarization of the police continues unabated. It is not abolition of the police. You only display your ignorance by listing that one.
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  11887.  @joebrandon8750  It's defunding, not defending. It's one thing to make a mistake once, but you keep doing it. The irony is that your error makes it sound like the people saying this love everything cops do.
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  11888.  @joebrandon8750  "You're a radical." Says the person who has blindly followed the Republican Party to the point where Reagan would be seen as a RINO today and even though the three previous Democratic Presidents could each lay claim to the title of Most Conservative Democratic President Since Grover Cleveland, you think that they are radicals. Re: allowing trans women to compete, it depends on the sport, and it depends on how far along they've gone in that identity physically. Multiple athletes who have fully transitioned have demonstrated that there is no competitive advantage. It depends on the sport. I think most people can agree that letting someone in the boxing ring who has taken no hormone therapy or blockers should be prohibited.
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  11889.  @joebrandon8750  Re: social workers, it depends on the scenario. There is this thing called reinforcements, and trained professionals know when it is needed. You don't escalate if it isn't necessary to do so, and in many cases not only is it unnecessary, but people would be alive today if it wasn't escalated. I can also point to the fact that school fights are often dealt with by police, giving children a permanent record. That should not be the case.
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  11890.  @aaronhumphrey3514  Are you cynical enough to refuse to believe it?
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  11891.  @mpls1982  You're talking to an example.
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  11892.  @kevinchristensen7510  I did everything I could to help Bernie get elected, but in all honesty, I wonder if he's better off where he is writing the bills and letting the narrative be "don't sabotage the Biden agenda."
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  11893.  @JRead0691  The problem is that it should be up to the people rather than the states.
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  11894.  @Hartley_Hare  Indeed. Pretending it was a major focus of the Holocaust is ridiculous, but so is pretending that it didn't happen at all.
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  11895. "And Jedi is the most insulting installment! We see Darth Vader, spiritual brother down with the force. And then his beautiful black visage is sullied when he takes off his mask and reveals a crusty, old white man, as though deep down, we all want to be white!" Hooper X, Chasing Amy
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  11896.  @zoephin6205  You trust Zuckerberg with your information? It is in his interests to sell your information to as many people as possible, and then to play dumb with his half-hearted apology. I'd much rather trust someone I can vote out if I had to choose.
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  11897.  @zoephin6205  So, having multiple user accounts us worse than one company literally controlling information on almost every human being alive?
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  11898. Biden is less bad than Bush, and living in a swing state, I will not act in a way that will allow a greater evil to hold power, but you are so right about people reaching ridiculous conclusions over saying that you will vote for the Democratic nominee because that is literally the only person who can beat Trump.
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  11899. As much as libertarians talk about how evil taxation is, and if they think that everything should be voluntary, how come they don't ever seem willing to embrace voluntary simplicity? They wouldn't have to pay a penny for things they don't like.
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  11900.  @susannes.8215  Indeed. See: Firoina, Carly.
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  11901.  @sandpiperr  English translation: "I am lazy, and I would rather have Republicans control the Senate."
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  11902.  @robt8869  Would you like a less sarcastic version? Okay, here goes. That is a stupid idea that will make things much worse. If everyone has to ride automated taxis instead of making mass transit viable, they leads to a greater production of steel, which leads to greater greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, it is literally the exact opposite of what you want to do regardless of the fuel source. The goal should be less cars, not more.
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  11903.  @robt8869  Not in a world where a lot of people are going the same way. Take another moment to dwell on it.
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  11904.  @robt8869  Yes, I have. Public transportation is still more viable and more desirable than what you propose. It is also the much better environmental option.
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  11905.  @robt8869  If that's what you want to tell yourself.
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  11906.  @robt8869  So, you want to say that we should do that because it will be easier for people in wheelchairs to get into their pod in the snow? Well, then, how are they going to get from their house to the pod station in the snow? At least with public transportation, someone is there to help them on and off.
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  11907.  @robt8869  Still have to get to where it will let you in. Whether you want to call it a pod or a station or whatever is irrelevant.
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  11908.  @robt8869  Taxis don't go right to the front door.
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  11909.  @robt8869  You're the one saying that substantially increasing the number of cars on the road in centrally located areas is going to solve transportation problems.
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  11910.  @robt8869  Doesn't matter who owns them. What matters is that it still does not reduce the demand for transportation, and having more cars on the road only helps people like Musk.
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  11911.  @robt8869  So, instead of "cars," you have "automatic taxis," and more of the latter than the former, which requires materials to produce, which causes greenhouse gases. This is what being flustered because your proposal doesn't withstand the slightest scrutiny looks like. Bye.
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  11912. Man, this one really brought peddlers out of the woodwork!
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  11913. ​ @AdamsBrew78  So, we just let some rich person screw everyone out everything so they can win a willy-waving contest and then create a "charitable foundation" where they still get a lot of the money and the press for being so generous (for example: Bill Gates is more than twice as rich now as he was when he decided to "give it all away" in 2005)? What a great idea!
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  11914. ​ @1981lashlarue  I'd say that it's getting shafted when the person who did the shifting ended up with $600MM.
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  11915.  @1981lashlarue  "If Kroc lost money on the deal, would you be saying the same thing?" Is this a joke? I'm seriously asking. Let's follow the logic. Me: Someone can still get ripped off and get a lot of money, especially if the person ripping that person off makes a lot more. You: What if Kroc lost money on the deal? At the very least, Kroc reneged on the deal to give them royalties in perpetuity. That ripped them off to the tune of tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions of dollars. So, yes, you can make someone a millionaire and still rip them off. And if someone loses money, that person clearly wasn't being underhanded to grab every penny not nailed down.
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  11916.  @Wary_Of_Extremes  Except they did franchise, just not as fast, because their primary goal was quality. Unlike Kroc, it was their name on the sign, so they wanted it to stand for quality, and it did when they were in charge. Now, putting "Mc" in front of something is an insult to the thing that you are describing.
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  11917.  @luigimonroe2364  Plenty of prosecutors and judges have gone to jail for such behavior.
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  11918.  @whyamimrpink78  Not you as in the specific poster, but the general you. In other words, does shooting someone who had terminal cancer automatically exempt someone from criminal charges?
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  11919.  @whyamimrpink78  Keeping your hands in your pockets and looking at the crowd while having a knee on someone's neck does not imply a serious risk. And the reason why I asked the question is because if you commit a violent act, any preexisting conditions do not affect your culpability. A reasonable person would say that continuing to choke someone three minutes after that person passed out and lost a pulse is not someone dealing with a threat. If every bullet has to be justified in a police shooting, every second of a choking does, too.
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  11920.  @whyamimrpink78  The one trying to justify police killing people with impunity calling someone else a racist is especially rich. Let's just take everything that you say at face value for the sake of argument. Let's just say that George Floyd was a junkie who was about to die, anyway. If you don't have a pulse, you are physically incapable of moving your muscles in a way that makes you a threat to anyone. Therefore, if you keep someone in that chokehold after you know that person is incapacitated, and you refuse to allow someone else to intervene, you are ensuring that he cannot be resuscitated. Therefore, you are killing him. So, even if what you supposed is the reason that he died was because of the drugs is true, the fact that Chauvin made sure that Floyd was dead means that he is responsible for the death. If you want to argue to which degree, have at it, but Chauvin is guilty. I get that when you hate other people and want to justify their death that it is frustrating to be called a racist, but that doesn't make it any less true, or the reverse automatically true. I am against any abuse of power to kill people. Funny that the so-called libertarian isn't.
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  11921.  @whyamimrpink78  So, people who disagree with you are "animals"? Says the Not A Racist.
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  11922.  @whyamimrpink78  Well, Chauvin's supervisor blew up your theory today, Mr. Not A Racist and Mr. No Government Oppression.
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  11923.  michael dowson  Well, he is a virus, so that's a bit redundant ;-)
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  11924.  @davidleomorley889  He has some, but his signature idea takes Milton Friedman and Charles Murray and manages to make their plan worse by using a regressive tax to pay for it.
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  11925.  @chazmcgooski83  The marginal rate matters a great deal. Supply side theory has long stated that the top marginal rates affect job growth and the economy. The marginal rate now is 37% (with the effective rate being 23%). I think once you add everything up, Bernie is proposing a top marginal rate of 64%, which is still lower than any time between 1936 and 1980. Yes, some people seem to confuse marginal and effective, but a top marginal tax rate of 64% would probably lead to an effective rate of about 40%. That is certainly better than what we see now, where the effective rate for the richest 400 families is lower than the bottom 50%.
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  11926. I'm 44. I can only think of two good SOTU responses I've ever seen: JC Watts in 1997 and Jim Webb in 2007. The latter is far and away the best. Beshear was okay in 2017.
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  11927. Marge, you're a government worker. When are you going to resign?
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  11928. Barring a medical emergency, there is zero chance that anyone other than Trump or Biden will be elected President in November. If you aren't bothered enough by the real possibility of a fascist dictatorship, you're either a fascist yourself or just playing games with people's lives.
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  11929.  @Jbisme13  When Dave Chappelle talks about "a brittle spirit," this is what he had in mind. You can vote for whoever you want, but if you are such a child that you can't take it when people point out the consequences of your actions, that says more about you than it does me.
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  11930. ​ @YourLocalZombie  One did. Look up Libertarian Caller Realizes He is Part of a Cult.
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  11931. Too much of mainstream media is about access journalism instead of investigative journalism.
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  11932. Whose fault is it that Ron Johnson is still in the Senate? If the voters would have gotten rid of him, he'd be gone. When I see people say they support term limits, it seems like the unsaid part is "I don't like who other people elect."
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  11933.  @Ryuujinv01  Indeed. If people don't like who gets elected, maybe they should work to elect better people.
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  11934.  @zetectic7968  What do all those other elected officials have to do with either the OP or my response? Both were specifically about Ron Johnson and why he is still in the US Senate. Never underestimate the inability of some people to admit they made a mistake. Everybody does it, and you give your arguments much greater credibility when it isn't tied to the defense if your own ego.
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  11935.  @awake3607  Assuming that you are not the person making the original reply, let's look through the thread of conversation, shall we? OP: Ron Johnson ran for a third term, so we should have term limits. My reply: It's not the term limits, because voters in Wisconsin elected Ron Johnson to a third term. Reply to me: It's unfair to blame voters in Wisconsin for Ron Johnson, because the state is the most gerrymandered in America. My reply: Gerrymandering has nothing to do with the US Senate. Reply to me: But Wisconsin is very gerrymandered. And, yes, voters in Wisconsin currently have one Democrat and one Republican in the US Senate. They also re-elected Tony Evers as governor at the same time they re-elected Ron Johnson. None of that changes the fact that if more voters had voted for Mandela Barnes, Ron Johnson would be out or the Senate, and gerrymandering doesn't let them off the hook, because the entire state voted for US Senate. The context clue comes from the reply saying that it is unfair to blame voters for Ron Johnson because the state is so gerrymandered. Since you are so determined to try to save yourself or the person who replied to me (many times on this channel, people have used multiple usernames to agree with themselves, so I can't rule it out), tell me exactly how being the most gerrymandered state in America when it comes to legislative districts absolves people in a statewide election who voted for an awful Senator.
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  11936.  @saiyanduckk  He didn't say luxury VAT (he did say that he would trt to exclude certain things, but someone pointed out that he said "fresh food," and I responded to that by pointing out that poor people don't eat as much fresh food because it is more expensive), and 10% wouldn't be enough if it were only on luxury items. Unless he has updated his page, luxury is nowhere near VAT, and he even said that books from Amazon would get the VAT. Is that your idea of luxury? Stop lying. I think you miss my point when I talked about the stigma. Your tag team partner was talking about it being a good thing that Yang is talking about it in a way that is palatable to the right (never mind that it is palatable because it is the version of the right) because that makes it easier to pass. As I have pointed out numerous times, there is a left UBI and a right UBI (never mind that his isn't even universal), and given the remarks above, I was making the argument that getting the right on board and leading it from that perspective will only make it more punitive, not less.
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  11937. She mentioned it on other shows. I think she talked about it on The Damage Report if memory serves me right.
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  11938. Republicans think that the only real racism is calling out their racism or trying to remedy racism.
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  11939.  Nana Adutwum  Rashida Tlaib isn't an immigrant. She was born in the United States. Other than that, you are so spot on at how the people Trump tried to marginalize are the ones who made his defeat possible.
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  11940.  Nana Adutwum  This is true, but we have to be cautious given the way that others have tried to treat them like The Other. She is of Arab descent, and she did a great job I turning out other voters of similar ancestry, and she deserves our praise for that.
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  11941.  Nana Adutwum  I agree that there is nothing wrong with being an immigrant or being proud of your heritage (which are two different things, and only one applies to Rashida Tlaib). If she ends up running for President someday, falsely calling her an immigrant will surely harm that effort. When people are saying "Go back to where you came from," she can and does proudly say that she is from here.
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  11942.  Nana Adutwum  As far as no one faulting others, did you not see how Peter King was treated for his IRA advocacy in the 1980s? It came up after every xenophobic remark he made in committee for decades.
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  11943. "Ideas" and a faster pace are the giveaways.
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  11944.  @Regenmacher175  The guy you are responding to literally knows nothing, and he will just keep repeating his ignorance.
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  11945.  @morenitomoreno1282  Yes, Kyle Kulinski criticizes figures on the right, but as long as he defends Jimmy Dore, it is fair to paint him with that brush.
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  11946.  @kurtzFPV  You are aware that there are sponsor lists, right? And since you think forcing a vote "puts everyone on the record," please explain why you think that it won't be a catch and release tactic of letting some people in lefty districts vote Yes to avoid primary challenges when they would never vote Yes if it had a chance of passing. Congratulations, you have just let people like Eliot Engel off the hook.
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  11947.  @kurtzFPV  Are you serious now? Do you think about your argument before you type, or are you just thinking Jimmy Dore Good and working backwards like some other guy who did the same thing last month? You keep saying "both candidates support," when one is so obviously faking it to weaken a primary opponent a la Tulsi Gabbard for both her sponsorship of Medicare for All (which she told Anderson Cooper is un-American) and supporting Bernie in 2016. I would much rather go with the sponsor list to start rather than waste everyone's time knowing that it will fail and giving someone an excuse to pretend to support it only to pull it away like Lucy and the football when it has an actual chance. And how did the Truman plan for health care work the second time around? Or the Nixon plan? Or Hillarycare?
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  11948.  @kurtzFPV  You ignored my other questions. How did the vote in the Truman proposal work the second time around? Or the Nixon plan? Or Hillarycare? And if it's so hard, how many Republicans got punished for changing their mind on ACA repeal once Trump became President and it was a realistic possibility? Also, and I ask this with every force the vote advocate, what have you done personally to build support for Medicare for All?
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  11949.  @Sphaatikhaa  Jimmy Dore is the Internet version of Lyndon Larouche, and his followers will wake up on the right and have no idea that it happened.
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  11950.  @kurtzFPV  Okay, the mere fact that you don't even understand the simple sentence construction about Larouche followers says all you need to know.
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  11951.  @kurtzFPV  "Repeated votes were more common in those days"? There was no second vote on any of them. When you lose on health care, it goes away for a generation, and what follows is invariably weaker than what preceded it. The Nixon plan was weaker than the Truman plan (which would have been akin to the NHS), and Edward Kennedy killed the Nixon plan because he was holding out for something better, even though that ended up being the best one he got in his lengthy career, Hillarycare was weaker than Nixon's, and the ACA was the Republican alternative to Hillarycare that Bill threatened to veto because it didn't go far enough. Norquist is able to make his pledge work because it is attached to campaign money. Medicare for All is fighting against money. Therefore, Norquist is completely irrelevant to the question at hand, just as the Tea Party is irrelevant to a lefty legislative agenda because they don't want to actually accomplish anything.
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  11952.  @kurtzFPV  What have I done? Canvassing in Philadelphia that was part of an effort that led to a member of Congress (Brendan Boyle) signing on to the bill, being a captain to a petition drive for the one candidate who wholeheartedly supported Medicare for All, reading an original short story at a fundraiser to benefit that candidate, petition drives, and a candidate for the WV House of Delegates in 2006 with a platform of single payer health care. Oh, and I don't support those who try to torpedo elected officials who actually support it or ignore the Supreme Court, which can kill Medicare for All in its cradle and possibly kill it for seniors or force everyone into Medicare Advantage.
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  11953.  @kurtzFPV  For the first decade of this century, HR 676 (the predecessor to the current bill written by Bernie in the Senate and Jayapal in the House which was written by Dennis Kucinich and John Conyers) never had more than 70 or 80 sponsors. The current version has 117. Failed votes aren't going to change that fact, except either to make it worse because the Soft Yes will be alienated. Colorado tried to get it statewide through a ballot initiative because of the polls that showed that it was popular. It got 21%. Polls show that a majority of people who talk about Medicare for All are really talking about a public option. I dealt with several people in petition drives who were obsessed with the idea of "not taking away people's health care" or "denying choice" (which is part of the reason why I think "support reproductive rights" is a better slogan than "pro-choice"). You don't see the votes come about a second time because health care legislation is by definition a lengthy process, and failing is going to lead a lot of time lost, and that is why it doesn't come back. It's not as simple as having a vote. Yes, Bernie showed that he could raise a lot of money, but the level of spending for a general election is completely different than a primary. Bernie raised hundreds of millions, but the general cost billions. I am all for putting more attention on state and local raises (as someone who raised all of $3400 in my campaign compared to my opponent's $20,000). However, that is clearly a long-term strategy to get things passed, and Force the Vote is a short-term strategy. A long term solution is what we need, because ignoring the mountain that we face is just going to leave people discouraged and reluctant to try again when it does fail.
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  11954.  @marciamakesmusic  And not voting for the lesser of two evils equals when they are the only two who can win equals greater equal. Funny how the people who use your statement seem to forget that part.
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  11955.  @Dustin_Bins  If Trump gets four more years, he gets to name the successor to RBG and possibly Breyer. If that happens, any good thing President AOC or anyone else can get through Congress will be overturned. If you really want Medicare for All, use Biden, do the actual work to elect people down ballot to control the machinery, and get things done with the next President.
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  11956.  @Dustin_Bins  Also, what did you personally do to help Bernie get elected. Not just voting, writing a check, or writing comments. What did you actually do to help Bernie get elected?
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  11957. "Remember, Jerry, it's not a lie if you believe it." George Costanza I wonder if Dear Leader was flipping through the channels one day and didn't realize that was supposed to be a joke.
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  11958. The agaisnt the problem. The problem is that she just doesn't have it anymore.
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  11959.  @film79  What were some of the funny things that Jimmy said in that podcast?
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  11960. Weren't Krystal and Saagar pushing a red/brown alliance enough to do that?
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  11961. Trump briefly ran for the Reform Party nomination in 2000 but got out when David Duke endorsed Buchanan and said he was considering joining. 2016 was actually the fourth time he speculated about running (1988, 2000, 2012, and 2016) but 2000 was the closest before that.
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  11962.  @torbjornlekberg7756  Krystal Ball was there to put a lefty veneer on. She is obsessed with some notion of "anti-establishment," so she praised Tulsi and Yang. She and her cohost talked about "writing a book," but what they really did was charged $20 for a collection of transcripts and wrote a header advocating for a red/brown alliance. Oh, and between MSNBC and The Hill, she set up a PAC where more than eight times the money that went into candidates' funds went into her own pockets. There is a term for that: a sham PAC. She is nothing but a grifter.
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  11963. Donny has an ironclad prenup from what I've heard. If she will, expect it to be around the time those hundreds of millions of dollars in loans come due.
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  11964.  @skwrttj  Oh, I don't doubt that he'll retreat to Twitter, but hopefully his press conferences won't be covered any more.
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  11965.  @futurestoryteller  Considering that he pretty much checked out by the end of season one, that's honestly hard to tell. That being said, The Return wasn't different in the sense of a bigger budget defining things (he literally discovered the antagonist for the entire show because of an errant mirror), but because it was on a channel that wasn't as restricted by FCC standards.
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  11966.  @futurestoryteller  Your statement was that it was all about the budget. The budget has nothing to do with being allowed to show nudity or say the F word.
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  11967.  @futurestoryteller  You led off with higher budgets as an ingredient for "actually being able to tell a story for once." My point was that good writers don't need a big budget, and that it was still plausible to write a great story even from the beginning. Take Serling.
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  11968. @mrbork7218  True, but there are differences between how the two operate, which means that they must be defeated in different, but similar, ways.
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  11969. You mean the people funded by the Koch brothers and propped up by Fox? There is no allegiance with them.
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  11970.  @czarekp3552  Right-wing populism is fake. Yes, the outrage is real, but it's not directed in a way that any self-respecting populist would use it.
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  11971.  @drizzo4669  If everyone gets it, then there won't be enough of a host for it to survive. Through your nonsense, you are allowing it to mutate. And, yes, some people still get breakthrough cases. No one ever said that the vaccine was 100% effective. However, those who get the vaccines are less likely to get it, and if you don't get it, you can't spread it.
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  11972.  @crotchy7667  So, candidates who support torture are just fine to you?
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  11973. Because, if you have a publicly-traded company, rules require that it has to be majority American ownership in order to get onto any stock exchange. Rupert Murdoch attained US citizenship to buy 20th Century Fox. Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Warren Buffett will not give up the goose that laid the golden egg.
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  11974.  @robsouth7813  Bernie already took on Amazon and got them to increase wages.
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  11975.  @robsouth7813  Oh, and I missed another point. There is a difference between effective and marginal rates. And there is also the fact that not every country has the rule about ownership. Ireland doesn't have the market the US does, and it never will. If you think Bezos will cash out instead of going to go for being the first trillionaire, you are crazy.
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  11976.  @jonsmith9838  In terms of governing, it will. In terms of mobilizing people due to "fool me once," it will. Obama's charisma doesn't translate to others who try his approach.
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  11977.  @jonsmith9838  Obama would surely insist that the ACA was the biggest lefty gain since Medicare. Yes, a lot of people have been fooled, but if it is an audience of people who mostly see Obama as a disappointment, it is an effective argument.
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  11978.  @RB_rules  How is she so far from Obama? Both have reputations far more left than their records indicate. Both had the establishment warm up to them. Both decided that small, incremental steps are the best way forward. Both consider not taking corporate money to be "unilateral disarmament."
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  11979.  @RB_rules  Meeting with Obama isn't the same thing as having the same strategy or approach to politics. THAT is what is the biggest similarity between the two.
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  11980.  @RB_rules  Explain the difference if there is one. Stop employing the Pee-wee Herman defense if there really is this big difference between the two. There is one major candidate who hasn't held private Wall Street fundraisers, and has eschewed dark money. If it is so obvious that Warren is miles apart from Obama, give one example.
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  11981.  @RB_rules  If she "wants to go after them," why are so many bankers and Wall Street executives going to her fundraisers? You are proving my first point of reputation compared to reality.
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  11982.  @RB_rules  Are they funding his campaign? Did they spend the first part of the year saying that he is unacceptable, but now he is for some unspecified reason?
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  11983.  @des-trina  Actually, that's pretty much the stereotype of what people don't like about politicians.
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  11984.  @des-trina  Unless you mean that regular politicians make people feel stupid.
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  11985. It's not. There is no provision for a federal recall election.
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  11986. [In Dr. Evil voice]: She's the Diet Coke of Bernie. Just one calorie. Not Bernie enough.
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  11987.  @whensomethingcriesagain  He would pick somebody bad, but impeachment isn't very likely. Mueller all but directly said, "Impeach Trump," and with a Democratic House, it's not happening.
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  11988. Maybe Der Orangestraflingfuhrer doesn't know that the ACA and Obamacare are the same thing ;-)
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  11989.  @brainkiller7503  If you are talking about Karhy Lutz, yes, I am.
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  11990. Presidential candidates trying to win don't go to a bunch of safe states late. People who are confident they will win don't whine about how everything is rigged against them.
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  11991.  @jillianc7485  "They're coming right for us!" Jimbo, South Park Considering all of the times we have seen falsified reports at the time (including the Tyre Nichols case where the audio is the cops telling him to put his hands down when he is already restrained), how many times did they just fake it before cameras were a thing?
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  11992.  @davidma8386  You don't even know how old his dad was.
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  11993. I don't want an awful candidate because we didn't challenge these people and pick the best one. I will vote for the nominee, but I am not giving up my Saturdays and weeknights to try to get Biden elected.
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  11994. So, Tim thinks that it's ridiculous that women hunted, but he just wants the food to magically be there? Does he think that people hunted for male bonding?
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  11995. I call it right to work for less.
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  11996. She embraced her true, right-wing self.
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  11997.  @berniegotscrewed7105  There aren't that many big donors. There is no rule on how big the dollars have to be to get to 130K. And if you really do want Bernie as your handle states, you wouldn't want over 20 people to be on the primary ballot unless you think they will mostly take votes from Biden.
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  11998. So true. I watched Dr. Death a couple weeks ago, and it was shocking how the system failed, but imagine how many there would be like Christopher Duntch if there was no regulation.
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  11999.  @xq8152  Is that the one Ben Burgis was doing?
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  12000.  @MK-oz2lf  She debunked nothing. She was a bad faith actor (along with Useful Idiots, the most accurate name for a grifter podcast) who repeatedly said the thing that he said was not the case. And forcing the vote would have accomplished nothing. During the primary, Biden refused to say that he would sign a Medicare for All bill. It didn't move the needle one bit. So, you think that you'll get the work done to defeat over 100 incumbents? Or, have you never heard of the legislative strategy of Catch and Release? Plenty of people in lefty districts would vote Yes to fend off primary challenges knowing it would never pass, and knowing they'd never vote Yes if the bill ever actually had a chance. Great plan!
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  12001.  @azzz7279  Who never has anything nice to say about Democrats and always sucks up to Republicans.
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  12002.  @user-wp8yx  [citation needed] There is literally no combination of brackets to make "over 50% taxes for under the median" mathematically possible.
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  12003.  @nathalie_desrosiers  Yes, the Iraq War was started by Bush. We were talking about a hypothetical Gore Presidency where someone said that if he got to serve, there likely wouldn't have been an Obama Presidency (and I tend to agree that a Republican probably would have won in 2008 after four terms if a Democratic President). I was saying that if we had no Iraq War (i.e., Gore as President), I would take Obama in the Senate (i.e., one of the consequences of a Gore Presidency).
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  12004. It is one thing to say that you won't vote for someone and quietly slip away. However, if you adied and abetted the rise of Donald Trump, it is your responsibility to to actively contribute to his defeat.
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  12005. The "Social Security was past the life expectancy" talking point is ridiculous on its face. These numbers were skewed downward by a) higher infant and child mortality, b) a world war, and c) a massive pandemic. If you made it to adulthood, your life expectancy was only a couple years less than it is today.
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  12006. At this rate, he'll be gone in a year.
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  12007.  @Wizardofgosz  Wages have gone up double digits this year. I don't care about "internet charts" if there is no data to back them up. I'll stick with the official numbers.
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  12008.  @Wizardofgosz  I put mine, and it got deleted. I even went back and put the titles, and they got deleted.
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  12009.  @davidfaustino4476  Well, Bud Bundy, inflation is not that high. It has literally never been that high in this country since at least the creation of the FED. The current annual inflation rate is 6.8%.
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  12010.  @DMAN590  The person I was replying to said it was several times that, so I was saying that it wasn't as high as he claimed it was. The normal range of inflation is 2-4%, so this is hardly the runaway inflation of the 1970s. With demand lowered last year due to the pandemic, there was bound to be higher inflation this year. If you factor that in, it is not at a crisis point. If you want to control inflation, you need to control the pandemic to keep it safe for people to go back to work and, you know, build supply.
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  12011.  @DMAN590  I must say that it is quite revealing that you went to a number that high in a savings account to demonstrate your point. Speaking of savings accounts, with interest rates near zero, there is plenty of room to maneuver on monetary policy to bring inflation under control. We don't need to see rates in double digits.
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  12012.  @DMAN590  No, the fact that you started with $100,000 in a savings account, considering that the vast majority of Americans have cash assets fsr lower than that. Not sure what you're "6.8% is 6.8%" is supposed to mean. Again, the historical rate of inflation is 2-4%. The most common way to deal with inflation is to increase interest rates. Unlike when Paul Volcker more or less intentionally put the United States into a recession to deal with inflation in the late 1970s and early 1980s, interest rates are near zero, so they can go up a few points and people still won't suffer like they did 40 years ago to deal with inflation.
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  12013. They believed the fool's gold that Florida was possible. North Carolina and Wisconsin were both winnable and underserved. It's one thing to spend a lot of money on a xlose state, but this was a landslide loss that made three potential wins impossible.
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  12014.  @baconsoup8346  I like the deeper idea behind a 50-state strategy, but when it is late and you're running low on money, you have to triage. Too much was sent to Florida, and not enough to Ohio, North Carolina, and Wisconsin.
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  12015.  @baconsoup8346  Of all the commentators, I think Joy Reid had the best explanation for why the polls said Florida would be much closer than it was: the state has gotten more and more red, in no small part because the people who want to be in a coronavirus petrie dish have settled there. Unsaid for why the expected red wave never came is that pollsters tend to fight the last war so to speak when it comes to figuring out how to formulate their polls. In some places, more Republicans died because they were less likely to get vaccinated or take coronavirus seriously. Personally, I think that more effort needs to be made in strengthening the party down ballot, but the national fundraising needs to focus on more winnable races. I still remember all of this focus on races like Kentucky and South Carolina from the money people, and the former didn't move the needle at all, because Booker outperformed McGrath despite spending $6MM to her $93MM. One thing Bitecofer was right about is how much more important the fundamentals of a race are these days. The fact that Doug Jones barely beat someone credibly accused of pedophilia and lost re-election by 20 points to a total moron should tell us not to spend a lot of money there unless something really had emerges about a candidate.
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  12016.  @luked3996  Yet. As the Republican Party gets whiter, this is definitely a possibility.
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  12017.  @TheLowBrassDude  True. Anyone who has a nonzero chance who wants to raise taxes is scary to someone like Maher. It was easy to support Bernie when you don't think he can win.
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  12018. The only problem is that it screws the rest of us who do vote.
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  12019. "Republicans look for converts, while Democrats look for heretics." Chris Matthews
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  12020.  @eileenconway2966  Weinstein is in jail. This is just baffling.
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  12021. Stephen Moore: We want people to have jobs. Also Stephen Moore: We don't want those jobs to pay more than poverty level while cutting the social safety net.
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  12022.  @katieoconnor123  If they're "losing money because of the house," that means that they were in over their head. That doesn't contradict the idea that they came up with an idea to make money because they had finally bitten off more than they could chew.
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  12023.  @thomasangerole8766  Yes, he did.
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  12024.  @Boethius411  You mean the one where he refused to actually say that he lost the election, and he's still saying that he won? Is that for plausible deniability for the marks, or do you just try to look for the most benign interpretation of his most malignant acts? He's already threatening to do another one if he loses this time.
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  12025.  @Boethius411  On what grounds will his appeal be decided in his favor, O mighty legal scholar?
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  12026. @El loco holandes errante Even Henry Wallace, an actual supporter of the Soviet Union, didn't have as many nice things to say about Stalin as Trump does about Putin. I don't ever remember a head of state saying that he/she believed a foreign head of state (especially one who was a former top spy) over his/her own intelligence. So, are you the spiritual descendant of the anti-anti-communists who couldn't see that bad things were happening, or someone defending a person despite all of the obviously awful things he has done?
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  12027. Harris is very good at punching when she is focused and ready, but she doesn't know how to defend herself or make a response off the cuff. I, too, was blown away by her Judiciary Committee performances and the first debate (even though I knew her record sucked), but she hasn't matched it since.
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  12028. I doubt he's illiterate in the fullest sense, but his readong level is far below that required for the job he's taken on.
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  12029. "I've been in many cults. You make more money as a leader, but you have more fun as a follower." Creed Bratton
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  12030. DeSantis may not have come to Der Orangefuhrer with tears in his eyes, but he ran that gross ad where he was reading some Trump book to his children, ao I'm sure that he asked.
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  12031.  @LarryKach  Warren has terrible political instincts. She didn't run at a time when she could have easily won the nomination and probably the election because she was actually a more popular figure at the time rather than someone who had been eclipsed. Then, instead of using them as a cautionary tale of what not to do, she followed the advice of the people who lost the last time. Then, when her campaign was sinking, she made up a ridiculous story that the person who begged her to run in 2016 told her that a woman couldn't win. Then, her tendency to exaggerate or lie reared its ugly head when she changed being the only candidate to beat an incumbent in 25 years to 30, and when that "loser" accurately noted that he had done just that within the last 30 years, the candidate who was supposed to be about plans and having a solid head for math and economics suddenly tried in an embarrassing way to do 2020-30=1990 in her head on live TV. That's not to start going into her attempts to go just this side of Rachel Dolezal to make up ridiculous stories about her Native American ancestry and her father's profession to the point where her brothers angrily defended their father and people found evidence of her trying to use her exaggerated heritage to advance her legal career or lying about getting fired for being pregnant (she didn't have credentials and was given a temporary job and never finished getting her qualifications in order for a permanent job), she had a veil of phoniness that would have doomed her. And, yes, a lot of people will talk about how we have some Native ancestry, but most of us know better than to check a box claiming a race that we have no cultural ties to and take a DNA test to prove it (unaware of just how sensitive the topic of blood quantum is among the actual people, and thus never enough to prove her ancestry to the people who questioned it), plagiarize a recipe from The New York Times for a book called Pow-wow Chow, or let our boss call us the first person of color hired in order to help that department avoid making a diversity hire. She would have never survived the gauntlet because she didn't have the mettle.
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  12032.  John Wang  That is at birth. At that age, the life expectancy is probably another 10-15 years.
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  12033.  @greenith  "Not forced on people" and "everybody gets it no strings attached" is a logical contradiction. The same logical contradiction behind "not everyone gets Medicare for All." Yang Gang bangers don't get to make words mean what they want them to mean.
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  12034.  @greenith  Yang doesn't want insurance to only provide supplementary care. Yang wants it to compete. Bernie is the one who wants to do that. You are proving the point of how dishonest it is to call something Medicare for All that isn't.
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  12035.  @greenith  You are talking about supplementary insurance. This is exactly what I'm talking about with the problem of using the exact same name for something completely different.
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  12036.  @agabrielrose  Read the first comment again.
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  12037.  @keirfarnum6811  Well, in fairness, Ruth Bader Ginsburg got the nickname The Notorious RBG in 2013. Still, it definitely is odd how it seems like the trend has accelerated since AOC.
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  12038.  @shuheihisagi6689  Yeah, I read his ideas. Calling a weak sauce healthcare proposal Medicare for All because the name was popular. Opposing higher taxes on the wealthy or enforcing antitrust laws. Talking about giving (some) people an extra $1000/month and doing nothing to deal with the obvious incentive to jack up rent other than telling people to buy a house with their bros. Telling people to give up on the coastal areas and just use that $1000/month to move to higher ground. Yeah, he was a great visionary. Oh, but the Yang Gang bangers are convinced that if someone doesn't like Yang, it's because we "haven't done research." The more research I've done about Yang, the worse he is. And that was just on policy. I didn't even get into the massive failure that wa Venture for America or his tendency to lie and say one thing to one audience audience (such as telling David Pakman that the whole point of the Freedom with 125 Strings Attached Dividend is because there wouldn't be enough jobs) and contradictory things to others (telling Ben Shapiro that "the magic of a thousand bucks a month is that it is below the poverty level for one person, so it will force people to work in order to have any life of meaning," [emphasis his]).
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  12039. Gary Johnson 2016: Proof that you probably shouldn't be on drugs while arguing to legalize drugs.
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  12040. There is no convincing RFK Jr. He has changed the rationale for nearly 20 years, but he always ends up at Vaccines Bad. Except most sane people know how stupid that position is, so he would never change his mind. It's a total waste of time.
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  12041.  @Zach-ju5vi  Germany has high wages and regulations, and they don't have that problem. Gee, it's like the right got fed an ideology to justify their greed and called it chocolate. Right color, wrong substance.
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  12042.  @FletchforFreedom  I'm well aware of this tendency. How about a title?
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  12043. I'm a man! Don't slap my hand. Shake it like a man.
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  12044.  @bioactivevirus  Well, let's hope that you're not already poor or disabled, because he's not helping you if that's the case.
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  12045.  @bioactivevirus  That's what he wants you to believe, but it's not true. I live in a city with a 1.5 cent per ounce tax on sugary drinks. It is supposed to be paid by the bottlers, but it ends up on the price tag at the store. Yang keeps saying that "Amazon will have to pay taxes," but the profit margin on retail is far less than 10%, so it will be paid by the consumer.
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  12046.  @bioactivevirus  What?
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  12047.  @Misstucci  "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little." Franklin D. Roosevelt
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  12048. Gob: I had to fire them to teach a lesson to the others. Michael: There are no others. You fired them all.
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  12049. And Dave Rubin and Michael Tracey. Cenk has hired some great people, but he's also hired some horrible people. I remember one time he basically let it slip if you read between the lines that he is a sucker for flattery.
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  12050. More like since Hoover. Eisenhower didn't have a lot of domestic issues, but he planted the seeds for what became the Vietnam War during his era.
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  12051.  @zigwil153  Hence, the part about living in a swing state now. I currently live in PA, which is undeniably a swing state. If I still lived in WV, I probably wouldn't vote for Biden. I really do hope that there is something to what Stephen Smith is trying to do in the state of my birth where I spent the 24 of my first 28 years.
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  12052. I usually don't like Tim Heidecker (I tend to like the right wing parody better when there's a punchline), but I've gotta say that I found his version of Club Random to be quite amusing.
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  12053. She is just this side of Walter Sobchak. The only difference is that we knew that he was actually a capable foot solider when it came down to it.
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  12054.  @AOK3x3  Indeed. She seems to literally manage to put "as a veteran" into just about every answer, which is what eventually made me think of Walter. As someone who didn't torture people when the sergeant in charge of POWs and made sure that they had humane treatment, I was especially infuriated when she mentioned her veteran's status to defend a war crime.
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  12055.  @ryanhubbard1885  And it is gauche. Not to mention especially ironic considering that she was pretending to be the antiwar candidate. Seeing how many people think that she was actually in combat rather than a medic, she is clearly not forthright about what she actually did. I was in a combat MOS but never saw combat, and I would correct people when they said that I fought in Iraq. Has she done the same?
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  12056.  @ryanhubbard1885  There are plenty of people in the National Guard who go to war and have combat experience. If she was in the regular Army and had the same MOS, she still wouldn't have been a combat veteran. About a third of the people who served in Iraq and Afghanistan were Reserve and National Guard. Talking about how your experiences affect your worldview is one thing, but when you do it for every single answer, that is trying to use your veteran's status as a shield, and that is why it bothers so many people. I am not interested in how she is compared to other people. I bring this up because it bothers me when people hide behind their military status when, in the immortal words of Bojack Horseman, giving a jerk a gun doesn't make that person no longer a jerk, just a jerk with a gun. Not that she is a jerk, but just the notion that someone tries to use their status as a shield is troubling, especially when that is being used for things like advocating a war crime.
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  12057.  @brothersandsistersofvalhalla  Well, what have you accomplished, since you think that he's done so little?
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  12058. Not sure if this means that they are suddenly critical of capitalism. After all, these are the same people who wrote "Something Wal-Mart This Way Comes" which says that there will inevitably be one company that takes over everything. SPOILER ALERT: However, the episode isn't ready to give up on capitalism. Eventually, they build up a local pharmacy and the cycle repeats itself, and the message is that it is inevitable rather than necessarily bad. These are also people who inked a nine-figure deal to make a few specials for Paramount Plus, so I seriously doubt that they are any less libertarian.
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  12059.  @imperialmotoring3789  "Trump donated his Presidential salary" And he literally forced the Secret Service to always stay at his properties and never comped it, so "donating his salary" was a PR move to dupe people into looking at tens of thousands while he picketed millions. Also, literally within days of winning election, he doubled the annual dues for Mar-a-Lago, meaning that just 16 members would cover his entire term in one year from the increase in dues.
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  12060.  @imperialmotoring3789  "Letting illegals in [sic]" is not government spending. If you want to make the argument about tax money, study after study has shown that those with undocumented status are a net gain in government revenue. And you want to know a dirty little secret? For much of our history, we had open borders. "Read a book." Are you a bot, or just an idiot? Your "point" has nothing to do with reading a book.
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  12061.  @imperialmotoring3789  Funny how the people who advocate for the Almighty Market throw all that out the window once brown people are involved. And if you think that America hasn't benefited from immigration, you haven't paid attention. After all, you're using a platform that became as big as it did because it was bought by a company that was cofounded by a Russian immigrant. Have a cell phone? The satellites that make cell phones possible? That technology was largely the result of a German immigrant. And I hope you don't have taco Tuesday, because that was immigrants, too.
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  12062.  @bertthompson4748  Ruthless Minion is a right-wing troll who just loves to annoy people. A lot of people think that it's Aaron Dickson rebranded, because as one disappeared, the other surfaced.
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  12063. 4:21 Don't let Management see that. Lately, mine has just refused to hire enough people, so they force people to do the work of two or three workers in order to say that they are getting the maximum out of every worker and then some. It's like Lucy in the chocolate factory!
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  12064.  @vanbeet5105  It was the equivalent of something like $3.5MM in today's dollars.
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  12065.  @gabrielalvespereira36  You mean a publicly-traded company that, based on SEC law, has to have majority American ownership in order to trade here? And before you say they can up and leave, the corporation is chartered here, so they would have to dissolve it and pay out shareholders. My dollar says they stay. That is why Rupert Murdoch attained US citizenship to buy 20th Century Fox. I am reminded of this: "Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior if capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." Abraham Lincoln
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  12066.  @gabrielalvespereira36  If they dissolve it, the company ceases exist, it won't make any more money, and they want to make the most money possible, so your argument is still wrong.
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  12067.  @guyfromnewark  The Confessing Church, Martin Luther king Jr., Mother Teresa, at al, would beg to differ.
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  12068.  @guyfromnewark  If it lacks discipline, then how did they display it?
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  12069.  @Psalm34rws  First of all, He crossed the border at the age of two, so it's not like He had much of a say in it. Second, you can't make the refugee argument when a lot of the people who come to the border who are being detained are seeking refugee status, especially when the United States is trying to make it harder to get that status, because US and international law both clearly state that someone seeking asylum has to leave the country where his/her life is in danger, and there is no requirement for doing so at a port of call. Neither argument holds water.
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  12070. I hadn't seen that one, but I keep seeing an ad that implies that negotiating for prescription drug prices will suddenly make it unaffordable.
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  12071.  @lauraly2712  "STOP THE COUNT!" Donald Trump, 11/5/20 "They are trying to take the election away." Donald Trump, 11/4/20
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  12072.  @lauraly2712  No, you have shown yourself to be dishonest. There are organizations that observe internationally. Here in the United States, there are rules about who gets to be a poll watcher. In Pennsylvania more specifically, those poll watchers get certified and they have to follow certain rules. The "army" Don Jr. wanted is illegal. My church serves as a polling place, and they have people who come in for each party. They have been the same people who have done it for years. The only court decision that any of the people complaining about "not being allowed to watch" that was successful said that instead of requiring a distance of ten feet, they could get to six feet. Oh, yes, those four feet were undermining democracy!
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  12073.  @lauraly2712  There are official poll watchers, and they are in the room. They were told they had to stay ten feet away initially, and now they are six feet away. Facts don't care about your feelings.
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  12074. They say it to anyone they don't like who isn't white.
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  12075. He looks so different with longer hair and a full beard!
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  12076. I remember that ad! Pretty much everyone named that as the worst ad of the year.
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  12077.  @Deathkill06  But in the anarcho-communism variety, who is going to fund and provide the education, and who is determining the standard?
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  12078. Chalk dirty to me.
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  12079.  @aaronstorey9712  Well, it is the Libertarian Party, and lots of elected officials and candidates with libertarian streaks opposed civil rights legislation. Just because it is inconvenient doesn't mean that it is any less true. They are the ones who say that you can't use government to legislate morality and that it violates the right of assembly. I haven't seen any evidence of your position.
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  12080.  @aaronstorey9712  Therein lies the rub. A lot of times, there are competing claims of liberty. I have never once seen any libertarian ever defend the rights of anyone over the rights of the rich and propertied interests. And to quote Sam Seder when someone tries to pretend that one of the many people he debates isn't "a true libertarian," I have heard enough people tell me about libertarianism and almost all of them insist that no one else is a true libertarian, so at this point, I don't care about true libertarian.
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  12081.  @aaronstorey9712  What does that have to do with anything? It has nothing whatsoever to do with the argument over whether or not it is a standard libertarian position to oppose civil rights legislation. Nor does it have anything to do with the question of whether or not libertarians have ever defended the rights of the poor or workers over rich and propertied interests.
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  12082.  @bkstandard882  I said "it is the Libertarian Party and elected officials with a libertarian streak." You are aware that is is present tense, right? And would you deny that Barry Goldwater made libertarian arguments against the Civil Rights Act, or that Ron Paul opposed extending the Voting Rights Act as Congressman? Maybe you just don't like that I am telling the truth.
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  12083.  @Ceatus.Henderson  Well, Maine and Nebraska can, but that's it.
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  12084. Well, Stephen Stills is an old dad rocker, and he didn't know that the song was Buffalo Springfield instead of Crosby, Stills & Nash, so he even missed that, too ;-)
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  12085.  @charleskulvet4911  Why do people think that somehow justifies what he proposes? I have seen dozens, if not hundreds, of comments that think that this answers our problem with his proposal. It doesn't. Our issue is forcing the poor and disabled choose for something that is supposed to be a "right of citizenship," as though they are somehow less than full citizens. Such a proposal will lead to serious inflation, and if they don't get the extra thousand, and they suddenly have to pay an extra 10% to fund a program that they can't fully benefit from, or rent goes way up, they are screwed.
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  12086. Something else that Eric doesn't understand: a lot of people who cast a vote for Biden did so largely as a vote agaidnt Trump. For me, it was at least 90% against Trump. Now, based on what he's done in office, it's more of a vote for Biden this time, but that doesn't mean that I'm paying for a sign or a bumper sticker.
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  12087.  @volauron  Then, why didn't she meet with any rebels in Syria? Why does she quote his party line on chemical weapons?
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  12088. I have a cousin who pronounces it with a long A and a hard S.
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  12089. How DARE you call his mother a dog, Seth!
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  12090.  @russhall1414  So, if a grifter, an aspiring grifter, and an accelerationist say it, it must be so.
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  12091.  @russhall1414  How does getting defeated in a landslide "show power"? We aren't the Freedom Caucus. We aren't nihilists content to get nothing done. If it loses by over 100 votes, it kills Medicare for All for a generation, and it burns any goodwill on things like student loan debt. No wonder you praise Jimmy Dore.
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  12092.  @russhall1414  Jimmy Dore doesn't want to create a network for primarying. He wants to start another third party that will get nowhere and make it easier for Republicans to win. So, I ask again, what have you personally done to try to move the needle on Medicare for All?
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  12093.  @cartermclaughlin2908  Jimmy Dore doesn't "mobilize" people for anything except pretending that Trump was better than the Democrats and they should vote third party. Telling people to demand a message vote doesn't do anything except make people like him feel better about themselves and make it harder for people like AOC to move the needle on things that debt forgiveness and a living wage where there is actually a chance of getting things done. Jimmy Dore is all about making people feel on the left feel better about doing nothing because they can't do everything.
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  12094.  @russhall1414  I asked you first. What have I done? I have written and called my representatives in the House and Senate, I have signed petitions by any aligned group on the issue that I encounter at the federal and state level, and I have gone door to door to talk to people about bills by Bernie and by Jayapal to actually create more support. Spreading a YouTube video doesn't count as "doing anything," and he isn't arguing to try to actually pass anything, so that doesn't count, either. The efforts for specific bills actually are trying to get Medicare for All. So, once again, you're not actually doing anything for Medicare for All. You are trying to push a message vote that you know will fail, so you fail at actually doing anything to try to move the needle on Medicare for All. The things I did were to actually try to build support for the bill.
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  12095.  @russhall1414  I don't need praise for my effort. I am pointing out that there is difference between building public support for a bill (and my Congressman since signed on to HR 1829, so I was part of a successful effort) and trying to get something that won't accomplish anything but will make you feel better. Now, as long as Evans is in Congress, we can actually hold him accountable.
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  12096.  @russhall1414  Who is "we"? Not anyone who understands simple math.
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  12097.  @russhall1414  Oh, yes, because the only thing that makes a difference is "fighting." No wonder you think Jimmy Dore and Kyle Kulinski are strategic geniuses. The simple fact is that people were far more concerned with "electability" than ideology in 2020, and as the last 20 years have shown, Democratic primary voters as a whole are far less likely to dare to dream with a Republican President, thus proving accelerationism wrong. As long as people thought that Biden had a better chance against Trump, that was all he needed.
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  12098.  @russhall1414  Let's see. Which is better? Knowing to vote against Evans in the primary and getting nothing, or getting a $15/hour minimum wage and movement on Student Loan Forgiveness and waiting to fight another day when the issue is within reach?
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  12099.  @russhall1414  What "decades"? The only thing that has been tried for decades is accelerationists pretending like there is no difference between the two major parties and helping the one they agree with the least. And third party is a question of math, because if it gets any traction at all, it only increases the ability for Republicans to govern with minority support. The effort to take over the party has really only lasted for five years.
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  12100.  @cartermclaughlin2908  He spent months saying it in the lead up to the 2016 election, and he debated Sam Seder about it. Now, we have a third of the Supreme Court put there by Trump, and once it became obvious that the best we could do was a 50-50 Senate, unable to do anything about it. Why would it weaken AOC? Because there are only so many aggressive pushes that you can make, and doing it with the sole purpose of embarrassing other Democrats means that they will be far less likely to give her anything. Also, you seriously need to look down the questions on Medicare for All. It does not translate into automatic support for single payer eliminating competing private insurance. I would love for that to be the case, but it is not. As long as a substantial portion of the population have that Pavlovian response to taxation (the polls show plurality support when the polls ask if taxes go up even if overall health care costs go down), you aren't going to get to 218 and 50. Putting up legislation with the sole aim to put a target on people's backs would backfire.
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  12101.  @cartermclaughlin2908  Jimmy Dore has repeatedly said that Democrats who win are sellouts and won't do anything. Did you not pay attention to the last successful political realignment in this country? After the Goldwater defeat in 1964, did they keep pushing symbolic votes? No, they did actual organizing and built their strength. It took 16 years, and they had money on their side. We've only been at it for five. The squad is becoming a platoon. You don't call when you have a pair of twos. You build, and then you call when you have a royal flush. Showing your weakness only reinforces your weakness.
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  12102.  @cartermclaughlin2908  "I wasn't alive during the French Revolution, but I know what happened." Paul Begala I was only a year old when Reagan won the Presidency, and the Goldwater election was before my time, but I actually read and study so I can learn. My point wasn't that the left will suddenly get money. My point was that grassroots organizing involves actual work and takes time. The nearest analog on the left was seeing the Populist and Socialist movements getting their ideas adopted by the Democratic Party, and that took 40 years. You're talking about giving up after five. And what happens after the bill's inevitable failure if you get your vote? Then, the establishment will say that they gave into our demands and wasted the time and money of taxpayers, and it will not come up again for quite some time. After the Clinton bill failed in 1994, it took 15 years to get something of similar scope debated, with a much smaller bill (CHIP) in the meantime. So, what are you doing to move the needle on Medicare for All?
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  12103.  @cartermclaughlin2908  You think YouTube comments are organizing? They most certainly are not. That being said, what have your postcards said? If you are making Jimmy Dore's ask, you're not asking anyone to support Medicare for All, you are asking for a floor vote. That doesn't say Yes. And even if you did that, organizing isn't sending in a petition, it is getting other people to do the same. And there are differences between the fake activism Dore advocates and the real thing. He isn't trying to win anybody over. He just wants to embarrass people who won't bend to his desire. Here in Philadelphia, our efforts actually got two members to sign on (one who is a moderate with a lot of suburban voters and the least blue section of Philadelphia, and the other who got primaried in 2018 for his support of vouchers and charter schools). We did real organization, and Jimmy Dore wants to put people to sleep with fake activism.
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  12104.  @cartermclaughlin2908  It doesn't take a master's degree in political history to know this. It just takes reading book. Insisting that you are absolved from knowledge because it was before your time is narcissistic. We have more knowledge than ever at our fingertips, and you are squandering it. YouTube doesn't help activism. It leads to echo chambers and people thinking they are making a difference. If you want to get things done, you have to actually meet with people where they are (obviously, there are limits while dealing with a pandemic, but you get the idea).
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  12105.  @cartermclaughlin2908  I also have a job and a kid, and being a single parent complicates my activism to the point where the first thing I have to ask if it is a weekend with my daughter is if there is any sort of childcare available. (Philly DSA had a canvass in January, and you can see my daughter on the website in the picture because they always take pictures of everyone at grassroots events so that people will be inspired to come out the next time.) That being said, you're asking the right questions. This is a good thing. Any attempt at activism needs to go out to the people, because the real organizing is making sure that other people show up. If you want to go more into detail without giving too much away, what kind of area do you live in? I ask because it is a lot easier to organize in metropolitan areas. When I ran for the WV House of Delegates in 2006, even wearing a suit and a sticker with my name on it and holding a clipboard and pamphlets, someone called the cops on me. (It's practically a rite of passage in the world of door-to-door canvassing.) Still, that was the one precinct where I was able to find every single door, and it was the home of my best performance in the district. I say this not to scare you off, but just to let you know that as long as you're not selling anything, you are perfectly entitled to do so, and most cops will let you be on your way. The next step is to find the cause that most interests you. A lot of my Medicare for All volunteer work was inspired by Bernie, and I just happened to meet some Philly DSA people in my neighborhood and they told me about what they were doing. If you are in a union, that is another good way to get some activism going, but there may be some pushback from the people who like to play small ball. If there isn't an active group that is already doing the work in your area, there is probably a national group doing something in that vein, and many would love to have someone in your area. In college, I started a group affiliated with Americans United for Separation of Church and State on campus, and they literally mailed me a bunch of booklets, pamphlets, etc., to give away. Once we got recognized by the university, I got a booth at the MountianLair once a month and got to it. If you have any other questions about how to get started in grassroots organizing, let me know or feel free to ask anyone who mentions experience with it, and we will be glad for more hands to lighten the load.
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  12106. If Benny Boy is admitting the truth, you know Republicans have done gone and screwed up.
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  12107.  @loulfw2513  There was never a floor vote for either. The nomination was pulled. As it was for every other failed Caninet pick since.
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  12108.  @loulfw2513  Of course, he could nominate somebody worse, but at this point, I think that strains the goodwill on the left, and while he seems to have learned the lesson of not trying too hard to win over people you can't win from the Obama years, it remains to be seen if he will remember the lesson of not alienating the left, although I think that in policy he has been just about as good as can be expected.
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  12109.  @loulfw2513  Last Supreme Court Justice to lose a floor vote was Bork in 1987. Douglas Ginsberg and Harriet Miers withdrew. Merrick Garland never had a hearing.
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  12110.  @loulfw2513  There were three men in the thumbnail. Two of them were Bernie and Biden. Manchin already stated his opposition to Tanden, therefore not making Bernie the first on that train. The news already said that her hearing was postponed. Don't let the fact that your wishful thinking led to Gestalt lead to incorrectly and unfairly accusing someone of dishonesty.
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  12111.  @loulfw2513  I saw it on the news yesterday morning as I was getting ready for work. It was out there.
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  12112. Because the rich want it all. They don't care the absolute amount, as long as they get it all.
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  12113. Yeah, she said that at the time, but that isn't what her proposal does now.
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  12114.  @noahreisner5199  Well, he led the birther movement, and he had to settle with the government for violating housing discrimination laws, so I would say that he probably is a white supremacist.
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  12115.  @anthonydelfino6171  What are you talking about? The average salary isn't triple. Rank and file members of each House receive the same pay of $174,000/year.
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  12116.  @imogendedo8296  The ones that people are using in the videos are the version for horses. Are you really that stupid? Besides, that doesn't negate the point that this is not a treatment for coronavirus. You're like these people at a debate tournament who think they found one minor point that counteracts the entire mountain of evidence against their case.
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  12117.  @imogendedo8296  Dore is an idiot who pushes a lot of conspiracy theories, and he did it in the clip shown where he insisted that hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved if this medicine were available. Just like you can't use an antibiotic to treat a virus, you can't use a medicine intended for removing parasites.
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  12118.  @imogendedo8296  You're really bad at this.
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  12119.  @imogendedo8296  Your point is irrelevant to the issue at hand.
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  12120.  @imogendedo8296  He claimed that the drug saves lives in the context of the pandemic. It does not. Therefore, he lied. Or is this a case where you are using periods in a place where it has no place in a way that totally changes your meaning? It would be one thing if you used a period instead of a comma, but you use it randomly.
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  12121.  @imogendedo8296  Why would Fauci mention Ivermectin in the same context that he should mention Medicare for All in literally the same list? Fauci is an epidemiologist. What does Ivermectin have to do with an epidemic?
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  12122.  @imogendedo8296  Cite the studies. The FDA has explicitly said that it was anti-parasite only. You're the one moving the goalposts. Typical Dore knob not realizing that you are doing the very thing that you accuse others of. Last year, you were probably mad that he didn't tell people to use hydroxychloroquine.
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  12123.  @imogendedo8296  The context doesn't help you. He is saying that the federal government is doing things that are killing people. He listed Ivermectin in the same breath as Medicare for All. I enjoy watching you flail, because it really shows how bad you're argument really is Mr. Dunning. Or are you Mr. Kruger?
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  12124.  @imogendedo8296  Well, stubby fingers, the FDA did talk about Ivermectin... to warn people not to take it.
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  12125.  @imogendedo8296  The topic is that you are trying to distract people from the fact that Jimmy Dore is doing what a lot of conspiracy theorists do: put out a ludicrous idea and then insist that they are just "asking questions" or "just want to know more." He was mad that Fauci "wasn't talking about Ivermectin," and then in the next breath talked about Medicare for All. Therefore, it was in the context of "saving lives." The version people are taking is for horses, which is a larger and possibly fatal dose in humans. Arguing over whether or not there is a version for humans is like looking at "The Last Supper" and saying that you don't know what color clothes they were wearing. I've been in debates both where I had the weak hand and the strong hand and know well when I see it when someone is arguing a minute point to try to distract from the overall weak message, and that is clearly what you are doing, so I don't know if you honestly don't understand that, or if you are just that dishonest.
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  12126.  @imogendedo8296  There's a difference between asking because you honestly don't know and want to find an answer, and "asking questions" for plausible deniability when you push something stupid.
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  12127.  @darrenfaber2334  If you don't have a timeline, you don't have a plan. You have a vague goal.
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  12128. ​ @CT_Taylor  Ted Cruz was born a US Citizen because of his mother. Cenk became naturalized, so he is not natural born.
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  12129.  @DerekShaffers  You mean the fake lefty who spent most of the campaign playing wing woman to Biden (her Harris takedown that you point to so much literally interrupted other candidates pointing to Biden's record) and trying to get Republican support? Great plan!
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  12130.  @DerekShaffers  And show me a lefty who supported torture. Ever.
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  12131. The context doesn't make it sound any better, Ben.
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  12132.  @carlosb5523  Well, his version is the spiritual heir of Milton Friedman, except it is worse because Freidman didn't use a regressive tax to pay for his. That being said, if he felt like a phony for taking those awards, why does he keep bragging about what he did? That doesn't sound to me like someone who realized that his approach was all wrong; it sounds to me like someone who lives for the applause.
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  12133.  @carlosb5523  Oh, he's not on the same level as Trump, but given his pandering and his refusal to ever tell people which programs they will have to give up in order to take his money, and the fact that his origin story as a failure that he spins as success, he isn't the straight shooter his supporters make him out to be, either.
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  12134.  @carlosb5523  It's not his own money. He set up a foundation with donors. For someone who wants to "stop the misinformation," you keep spreading a lot. And you never responded to not one, but two examples of Yang saying something that you said he never did.
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  12135.  @carlosb5523  So, you bring up his first company as a failure when the original context was about Venture for America. [In Dr. Evil voice]: Riiiight.
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  12136. @αlιуαн Oh, that has come out in many ways. Some higher up in the NY Democratic Party said just that a while ago.
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  12137. I saw it as maybe a subtle hint for Klobuchar. Stop trying to make Klobuchar happen. She's never going to happen.
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  12138.  @Zach-ju5vi  You don't know what your argument is as far as cost of living goes. If wages continued to match productivity in the way it did for the first 200 years of this country for the last 40, the median individual salary would be $90,000.
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  12139.  @Zach-ju5vi  No, dummy. The fruit of your labor is the amount that is earned from the amount of work that you do. Funny how you started this whole thing by bragging about how much you get because you aren't union, but then once it became obvious how true that wasn't, you then started to complain about greed, completely oblivious to the inherent contradiction in your argument.
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  12140.  @Wingo537  There were key legislative races all across the state.
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  12141.  @gamerfortitude5916  My I ask why you still like him (even after his refusal to vote and his eagerness to line up with grifters)? And it doesn't matter how many pro-vaccine videos he makes if he still refuses to criticize his good buddy Joe Rogan for pushing this nonsense in hopes of gaining clout.
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  12142.  @Wingo537  I don't know his exact district, but people who know state politics there far better than I said that there were. Letting Kyle Kulinski slide is the same thing he does to Jimmy Dore, Krystal Ball, and Joe Rogan. Just because you like someone doesn't mean that you should defend the awful things they do.
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  12143.  @gamerfortitude5916  Understandable. Admittedly, I've never really liked his content. He always comes off to me as someone who things that he is much smarter than he really is and has huge blind spots. Maybe (and I'm sure this analogy will annoy the host of Secular Talk to no end, but it's apt) he's like an evangelist who is good at gaining converts, but a terrible pastor for helping people grow.
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  12144. I have "choice," between three plans of varying degrees of actual coverage. I would rather have the choice of any doctor that I need for any legitimate medical purposes.
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  12145. Won't happen as long as we have first past the post voting. If a third party on the left gets 10-20%, it will guarantee just about every election for Republicans. The far more effective option is get out there, do the work, and take over the Democratic Party. In most places, party committee members are elected by the public, so run for committee seats, run for office, or find a candidate you can support, but that is more viable than hoping the Green Party will suddenly become relevant.
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  12146.  @Evernia6181  What would be "just the start"?
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  12147.  @jennanyx4968  Well, Tucker Carlson gave Saagar Enjeti his start. Doesn't explain Krystal doing it, though.
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  12148.  @willdasilva4459  I just hope that their volume online isn't in any real proportion to their real-world existence. I realize they are a brick wall, but I do it just so other people can see how stupid their arguments really are. One of them even tried to insist that I was a "mole" in the Bernie campaign when I rattled off the stuff that I actually did to help him win. If this really are lefties, then there are just a lot of stupid people preventing us from having nice things.
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  12149.  @willdasilva4459  My comparison is that they are like the Underpants Gnomes on South Park. When one tried the Pee-wee Herman Defense, I was actually able to explain my step two (get people elected down ballot who will then take over the machinery). There is 200 years of evidence that their way doesn't work. Ours might take a while, but it is the only thing that ever has.
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  12150. I ran for the WV House of Delegates in 2006. I got a lot of questionnaires in that time. Far and away, the most dishonest (and keep in mind that Don Blankenship sent one out, too) was the NRA. Out of 21 questions, 10 were false or misleading. The most insulting? "Maryland has ballistic fingerprinting, and it failed to identify the DC sniper. Do you support ballistic fingerprinting?" This seemed odd to me, because one of the big points of contention was that ballistic fingerprinting might have been able to identify them sooner. So, I looked it up, and Maryland did have ballistic fingerprinting... on pistols. They used a rifle. Do you see these tears that they're in trouble?
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  12151.  @Mondegreen---SFW  Once you smear feces on the walls of Congress, you are no longer able to call yourself that.
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  12152.  @uhoh8115  I was pleasantly surprised by that, because Romney as a Presidential candidate seemed willing to say just about anything.
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  12153. "Governor DeWine said it was safe to vote." That statement didn't age well.
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  12154. The guy whose signature looks like a seismograph reading of an earthquake is making fun of someone else's handwriting? Well, I guess mocking people for things true about yourself is on-brand for Der Orangefuhrer.
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  12155.  @LabGoats  They did use it. They used it to weaken the paygo rules. Without that concession from Pelosi, the coronavirus bill a d the infrastructure bill become impossible.
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  12156. If she did anything to protect his Presidency because of his personal scandals, it's fair game.
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  12157.  @lisashiplett7659  While it's a bit more controversial, someone who is really good at using follow up questions and not letting things get away is James O'Brien.
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  12158. The gun nuts used to mention the number of car deaths, but here's the thing: car deaths are now outnumbered by gun deaths because a) idiots like them made guns even more dangerous, and b) society collectively decided to do something about car deaths, in the form of air bag and seatbelt laws, and more stringent enforcement of drunk driving laws, including increasing the legal drinking age to 21 nationwide.
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  12159.  @frontenac5083  Or, and here's a thought: maybe stop making guns easier to buy than cold medicine and ban the weapon of choice for mass shootings.
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  12160.  @charlierodriguez8489  The right doesn't hate it, because they realize that one host crapping on Democrats all the time and another spending half the time crapping on Democrats and propping up Republicans is a net benefit to them.
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  12161.  Jody Owen  What does "on different lives" mean?
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  12162.  Jody Owen  Both were decided based on privacy, the same argument as Roe. That's also what made contraception legal.
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  12163.  Jody Owen  The same logic was used for all of them. If that right no longer exists, then all are endangered. Saying that it isn't because you say so doesn't make it that way. Or, is this your way of demonstrating that you don't really understand this part of how basic Constitutional principles work?
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  12164.  Jody Owen  If you overturn a precedent, then you overturn the rationale for that precedent as well. That is why, for example, Brown got rid of the doctrine in Plessy v. Ferguson. Justices do not make individual decisions that aren't related to others. No other than Antonin Scalia made that statement when someone before the Court tried to make the argument that a case applies to nothing else. When it was tried with Bush v. Gore, literary dozens of cases in state and federal courts used its logic to make rulings. Saying that it applies to nothing else is a fig leaf.
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  12165.  @liamdoyle100  Given his flip on Medicare for All, yes, yes I do think that he can be bought for $2800 a pop.
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  12166.  @msavina9129  If it's not enough, then why did Buttigieg flip flop on Medicare for All once he started getting insurance and pharmaceutical money? It isn't just one donation of $2800, as evidenced by his bundling efforts.
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  12167.  @msavina9129  It's because $2800 at a time adds up. Bundling means convincing all of your rich friends to max out, too, and Buttigieg does that with specific reward levels for your ability to bundle.
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  12168. I always claim zero on withholding. I figure that I'm not going to miss $50 every two weeks (and it will probably be spent), but you give me $1300 at once, that's money that I can use to give my family some memorable experiences. My withholding was $17 less per paycheck. Wow! What a life changing total!
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  12169.  @ChrisTheCringe  People who don't understand that you don't write off the majority of the American people if you actually want to win. The identity that we should be focused on is workers and those who support workers.
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  12170.  @Nighthowler56  Well, the big difference this time is that there are only two or three candidates (Bernie, Warren, or maybe Brown if he snaps out of the scared liberal routine) who are running for the left, and a dozen or so running for the establishment wing. Also, remember that Bernie started the campaign with name recognition lower than the margin of error and got to 45% with the entire party apparatus against him. Even if they try this time, it won't work. Fewer debates? He is at or near the top in name recognition. Corporate funding? He can raise more money from the people. Superdelegates? No say in the first round.
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  12171.  @ChrisTheCringe  Me, too. I thought the whole idea was not to discriminate.
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  12172. There are people who call themselves libertarian socialists. Both share the tendency to not really think about how things will go with the next generation. The main difference between the two in their utopias is that the lefty version tries to hit the Reset button on wealth.
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  12173.  @Teremei  Getting Trump out of office is not sufficient to fix the problems in this country, but it is necessary. Trump absolutely won't give us anything we want, but Biden might give us a little, and by not being a would-be President for Life fascist dictator, it gives us a chance to run another day. The squad is already becoming a platoon. It takes time to win the fight.
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  12174. Definitely. They were around when Souter and O'Connor convinced Kennedy to change his vote and save Roe, so they wanted to lock any possible stray Justices in by making their positions known.
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  12175. If Biden did a drug test, Der Orangestraflingfuhrer would insist that the results were fake and refuse to comply.
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  12176.  @tenout1083  You clearly haven't seen the above comment.
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  12177.  @2299mikey  Guardiola tried three times in a row, and he didn't have an answer. No matter what XI he played, Chelsea had an answer. Take the loss and stop with the excuses.
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  12178. ​ @KathrynElizabeth-j7y  Me, either. She's been pushing Horseshoe Theory nonsense for years, and between MSNBC and The Hill, she started a PAC where she paid herself more than eight times what the PAC gave to candidates combined.
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  12179. Slavery dying gradually is a joke. In PA, a "free state," gradual emancipation was adopted in 1780 (I found all this out by visiting an Underground Railroad station last summer) that said that people who had slaves in other states could keep them in PA for less than six months at a time. If they did, they were freed. Washington rotated his slaves for one day less than six months while serving as President in Philadelphia. Slaves that were born before the declaration were still slaves as long as they shall live. The last slave in PA? 1849. Is that really a good alternative?
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  12180. Well, the perp walk, too.
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  12181.  @mbealhighjump  Useful idiots help prop up authoritarians.
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  12182.  @papaofthejohns5882  I guess I missed it. While I am toward the end of Generation X and Sam is toward the beginning, sometimes we might miss millennial jokes. Please don't say you don't know who Nirvana is, or I might have a stroke.
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  12183.  @trappenweisseguy27  So, your criteria is "controversial" now? That isn't synonymous with radical. What seems radical to me is that we let insurance companies control our health care industry. Again, you're not providing an example. Just saying "she's too radical" doesn't make it so. While you can argue the effectiveness of Defund the Police as a phrase (I personally think it is far too prone to distortion, and I would prefer Demilitarize the Police or Smart Policing), the idea that maybe mental health professionals are better suited to handle mental health checks than armed officers or that maybe police shouldn't be turning a schoolyard fight into a criminal investigation, and money should be reallocated to building communities up is hardly a radical idea. Again, not only are you not providing examples, you're not even providing a logical framework for what constitutes radical.
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  12184.  @wallsttech6881  "Not at the rates of adults" doesn't mean they don't get it.
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  12185.  @SouthCom1917  Whether the OP intended to or not, it should have taken only the slightest amount of thought to realize that would happen.
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  12186. I think you have to wait a year to become a lobbyist now. I remember that Billy Tauzin resigned just before it went into effect. Talking head is much more likely.
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  12187. Mueller: We found a dead body in the trunk of your car. Trump Sycophant: What does that have to do with collusion? You're investigating in search of a crime!
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  12188.  @KennethJLave  It would take an Amendment to the Constitution. In this era of polarization, do you really see that happening?
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  12189. @UCpRADyNhnU6_4Wle6U4tAoA Sometimes, democracy can have drawbacks. Example: judicial elections. You can't campaign based on how you decide cases, so what exactly are you voting for? The question is totally irrelevant if it is something that is practically impossible. And how are we going to have "full democracy" if polls show wide support for things that are counter to democracy such as poll taxes, I mean voter ID laws?
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  12190.  @KennethJLave  Why am I talking about a Constitutional Amendment? Because the Constitution is very clear that revenue bills must originate in the House, and spending must originate in Congress. When Congress passed a law having a line item veto, it was rejected by the Supreme Court on the grounds that the Constitution is clear that bills can either be signed or vetoed (which is part of why I wish that they would take on signing statements). There are plenty of aggrieved parties who will eagerly sign on for a lawsuit if they get unfavorable results in a referendum, so it needs to be changed in the Constitution. This is why it won't happen.
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  12191.  @KennethJLave  Funny that you can't give an answer to what people are actually voting for if there is an office where the candidates can't campaign based on how they will do the job in office. Then again, you thought that a random remark about Marx was an actual response to a question a night what was in the Constitution, so no surprise here.
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  12192.  @KennethJLave  You're literally cheering yourself? Sad.
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  12193.  @Deltelly  Understood. I just think that, ultimately, it's impossible to get expertise sufficient for direct democracy for national issues. Re: health care, I wouldn't trust a referendum to get it done. Colorado tried, and it only got 21% of the vote. Sadly, either people see it is not a voting issue, or are more focused on the abstract. Everything I've seen suggests that people seem to want nothing to change and everything to get better.
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  12194.  @Frank-r3y2i  So, you don't want the government to "force" companies not to stop the machines and throw out the meat if a human being falls into it? English translation: the government preventing cannibalism is evil and invasive. I prefer not becoming an unwitting cannibal or food companies selling me contaminated food.
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  12195.  @sergeikhripun  And would forcing a vote that was guaranteed to fail give a single person health insurance?
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  12196.  @redshoes9548  You may have way more patience and consider yourself knowledgeable about the judicial system, but I am knowledgeable about the calendar, and if he doesn't get a trial wrapped up by November, we may never get a chance, because if it's his DOJ, they'll drop those charges faster than the value of Trump Towers after Engeron is done with the civil verdict.
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  12197.  Roof Korean  Yang's version is more right wing than the one that Milton Friedman proposed, so that example doesn't really help your case.
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  12198. I remember the celebrations in Northwest Philadelphia (the most left-leaning part of the city) when Pennsylvania was called for Biden and that put him over the top. It felt like total catharsis. I could only imagine the level of celebration. "Ding dong, the Trump is dead/ Open up your eyes, get out of bed/ Wake up, the wicked Trump is dead/ He's gone, below, below"
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  12199.  @prstudios3256  People also seem to forget that all but three states have sore loser laws, so he can't appear on the ballot under a different party label.
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  12200.  @ChooseCompassion  Google sore loser laws. All but three states have them, so he can't run in any states that do.
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  12201. Did Joe Rogan hear that they removed "gullible" from the dictionary?
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  12202. For those who say that she has changed, look at her history. This is the real Tulsi Gabbard. Her mask was supporting Bernie caused by an enemy of my enemy situation.
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  12203.  @GINMOONLIGHT  Polls rely on people telling the truth. If one side has a sizable portion that lies about their support in order to troll, that is the problem. It is not that pollsters are intentionally lying about the results. It is GIGO.
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  12204.  @GINMOONLIGHT  [citation needed] All of your arguments are hypotheticals. Maybe if you actually provided evidence, you might be credible. While the media doesn't always get it right, at least there are standards.
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  12205.  @sullen2420  Parliamentary parties are far different than parties in a Presidential system.
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  12206. Hillary raised more... until her well of maxed out donors and Bernie kept going back to the $27 crowd.
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  12207. Who mocks unions for wanting safe conditions for workers from his multimillion dollar house.
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  12208. "There is no such thing as a moderate Republican in Congress. They say they only vote with the President 70% of the time, but they vote with the President 100% of the time when he needs their votes." Barney Frank, 2005 (the only difference now is that the 70 is closer to 90)
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  12209.  @shinske3564  No, both siderism is lazy and only encourages the worst actors.
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  12210. Look at the press conference on the 28th. Pence has a second podium, and he is usually up Trump's butt, but this time he kept his distance. That evil cyborg Melania walked past Biden, probably hoping to give it to him. I think that he at least knew by the day before the debate.
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  12211. Which side had an interest? If Trump was the least bit competent, he would have coasted to re-election for showing a good response, so he had an interest, but like his business, he didn't know how to make it work.
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  12212.  @RJG7203  Look at his bad takes on Tulsi Gabbard and calling enforcing the rules of ballot access (which every candidate of every party must follow) "an assault on democracy." I have no use for useful idiots and the burn it down crowd.
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  12213.  @belkyhernandez8281  Just your basic Tulsi stan stuff. Not nearly as defensive about her as Dore or House, but he was pretty quick to dismiss the worst parts of her record... except for things she once said about gay people.
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  12214.  @RJG7203  I didn't say that he was Niko House. I said that when he did talk about her, it was pretty cringe. Calling enforcement of ballot rules "a war on democracy" means that he is not helpful to any left-wing cause, because he is easily duped by bad faith actors who are actually the ones trying to sabotage democracy. Did he really not think through the consequences of the lawsuit and the delay in filing it in the first place? It's not like hitting print and waiting a few minutes. This could have delayed the process by weeks, which would have meant that ballots would have gone out late to people overseas who wouldn't have had the chance to vote, and that is your war on democracy. The Green Party had plenty of chances to fix this, and they didn't do it. Instead, they went a group that is everything that they claim to hate and went along with them to wait two weeks to undermine the entire vote all because they were too stupid to properly fill out some forms. And "vote shaming" is seriously weak sauce. Maybe if people don't like being criticized when people don't kiss their butts for saying stupid things that aid and abet a fascist takeover of our country, then they should actually think a step ahead rather than be psychopaths and wish for destruction because they have a grudge.
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  12215.  @belkyhernandez8281  Benjamin Dixon is back on YouTube, and he's been putting out some great stuff.
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  12216.  @RJG7203  I'm not canceling anybody. Did you see me call for a boycott? No, you saw me say that I made a personal decision to unsubscribe to a channel that I have watched less and less and this was the last straw. Is he as bad as Rising? No. Does he have a horrible strategic blind spot that does more harm than good? Yes. Oh, my God, with all of this weakness and handwringing about "vote shaming." Never mind just how many are bad actors there are for a minute, if someone doesn't like the consequences of their actions pointed out, then maybe they should think things through before coming on a public forum and trying to enable fascism, because that is what they're doing. And if people want to come here and lie or be useful idiots, they will be called out so others can see how bad their take really is. The Green Party has been an arm of the Republican Party for 20 years, getting money and volunteers in close elections. If someone is going to lie about what actually happened in Wisconsin, they deserve to be called out. If someone falls for those lies, that person is too stupid for me to follow as a commentator.
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  12217.  @raaid85  Did David Pakman ever say that America would be better off with Moscow Donald as President? Did he say that the Supreme Court doesn't matter, or make a wildly ridiculous argument about how to stop it from happening? Does David Pakman accuse people of having Parkinson's when they don't or mull over the Seth Rich conspiracy theory?
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  12218. To me, the biggest insult on the Court was picking Thomas. I'm 44, which means that I'm older than he was when he got appointed. He is now 75. I don't know the ideal solution, but that is obscene.
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  12219.  @SeizeMeans69  I like Yang, but his college proposal is sorely lacking. There needs to be something done to deal with student loans, and 10% of income over ten years is a lot to ask for when someone isn't making much money if there are no deductions, and he doesn't support free tuition for public colleges. He is my second choice right now, though.
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  12220.  @aman-qj5sx  We already have term limits. They are called elections.
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  12221.  @Snarkonymous  You're working backwards. You don't like someone, so you are working backwards to force that person out, but throwing everyone out in the process. I kept hearing about Bernie's age, but at the age of 41, I wish I had the energy he does at the age of 79.
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  12222.  @Snarkonymous  What "age of retirement"? People can and do work well past 65 in this country. And I don't see where you get that it is 65, because anyone born after 1960 doesn't get full Social Security until 67. My office has a retirement age, but that doesn't mean that we are put out to pasture. That only means that this is the point where we no longer get penalized for taking our pensions early. Of course, age and qualifications should be considerations. Considerations don't mean that you are banned from running if you don't meet someone's considerations beyond the requirements. That is up to the voters to decide.
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  12223.  @aman-qj5sx  You are missing the point. If people don't want someone holding office, they can vote that person out. When I lived in WV, we decided to give Robert C. Byrd a ninth term. That was our right to do so. After I moved to PA, we decided to deny Arlen Specter a sixth term. That was our right. It should be up to the voters to decide.
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  12224.  @aman-qj5sx  Actually, those aren't the requirements for the job at all. Convicted felons have run before. If you look at the Constitution, they are as follows: 1) Must be a natural-born Citizen (either born in the United States or to at least one parent who is a US Citizen); 2) Must be at least 35 years of age on Inauguration Day. 3) Must have been a US resident for the last 14 years.
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  12225.  @Snarkonymous  What are you talking about? Trump lost the popular vote.
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  12226.  @aman-qj5sx  Many states don't have petition drives at all. They require a nominal filing fee instead. And regardless of rules about felons serving in state office, those laws are unconstitutional for federal office. Remember the candidate in 2012 who got over 40% of the vote against Obama in the Democratic primary in West Virginia who was serving time in bars? Well, West Virginia bars convicted felons from running.
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  12227.  @aman-qj5sx  So, you put your faith in the American people, but you want to take it out of our hands? There are always stories of major incumbents who lose their primaries. Getting rid of people who actually know how to do their jobs means more power concentrated in the hands of unelected staffers and people looking for a soft place to land (not to mention more ineffective members in their lame duck terms), and isn't that the opposite of what you want?
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  12228.  @aman-qj5sx  Look at Bernie Sanders. Look at Robert C. Byrd leading the opposition to the Iraq War in his eighth term. Quite frankly, I'm no fan of executive term limits, either. They were only put there because Republicans were afraid of another popular FDR-style candidate. Look at what happened to pretty much every President in his second term since the Twenty-second Amendment kicked in. Either ineffective, scandal plagued, or both.
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  12229.  @aman-qj5sx  I'd be open to four years, but I don't want every member in constant campaign mode.
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  12230.  @tianzhou1083  So, you are more upset at people mentioning Biden's horrible positions on busing and the Iraq War, and his ineptitude in dealing with McConnell on tax cuts, than you are with Biden for doing all of those things?
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  12231. My grandpa and millions of his generation were proud antifa. I am still mad about Trump and his minions putting up a picture of a Nazi to commemorate the Battle of the Bulge, which my grandpa fought in.
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  12232.  @__anonym0us__  Yeah, why should someone get something that helps people that only lasts for six months? Let them keep the far lower benefit.
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  12233. [In Harry Chapin voice] And the girl grew up to be just like me. Yeah, she grew up to be just like me.
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  12234. ​ @barbarakiewe2870  The Constitution has rules for who can be President. Arnold couldn't run because he's not a natural born citizen. Olivia Rodrigo can't run because she's under 35. Clinton, Bush, and Obama can't run because they've already served two terms. And if the courts have the guts to enforce the laws based on a simple reading of the Constitution, Der Orangefuhrer can't run because her participated in an insurrection after taking the oath of office.
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  12235. The 4% on income over $29,000 (example: if you make $58,000, you pay 2%) replaces private insurance premiums. I pay 4.41% now, and Bernie would change that to about 1.6%. Please take away my Aetna!
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  12236.  @studiohq  Identity politics means two different things. There is using different experiences to bring a greater understanding (which he supports), and there is a narrow appeal to identity (which he opposes). Would women have been better off if Sarah Palin were VP? Are people of color better off with Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court?
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  12237. ​ @tonywilson4713  In 2016, Jimmy Dore literally argued that the Supreme Court didn't matter and there was no way that Trump would get three Supreme Court Justices... while arguing that Trump would be better than Hillary. Watch his debate with Sam Seder and tell me if he was good until 2021.
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  12238. ​ @pubkrocknroll  There is a difference between anti-war and isolationism. Considering his initial response to what Modi did while he was pimping Tulsi Gabbard as the One True Lefty, he is clearly the latter.
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  12239. Saying that Flynn selflessly served his country doesn't hold up too well, does it?
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  12240. ​ @jontomas2271  The only other person Bernie doesn't have anything to do with who worked at a high level on his campaigns was Tad Devine, and that's because he got into hot water over his work with Paul Manafort in Ukraine. Bernie even managed to forgive Elizabeth Warren! What does it tell you if the nicest, most forgiving person in American politics wants nothing to do with you?
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  12241.  @archerbluth  Indeed. The US Green Party has been around for over 50 years and hasn't even won a Congressional seat, much less a statewide office. It is a collection of dupes run by grifters.
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  12242.  @Historia-Magistra-Vitae.  You can if you want a different establishment.
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  12243.  @kevkus  Listen to what she says about Mussolini, and then come back to us. Do you think that the Mafia doesn't exist, either?
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  12244.  @MJ2A  And what has changed in her ideology since then? David Duke pretended to change in 1991 when he ran for governor, and look how that turned out.
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  12245. Indeed. I have been working the whole time (from home since late April), and that extra money would mean that I could pay off my credit card, which would free up more money that would stimulate the economy, too.
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  12246. Did we watch the same debate? I thought de Blasio did the best with Inslee getting the silver. I thought Biden was the worst. Yang seemed pretty bad to me, because I thought the "higher ground" was the worst shoehorn. That being said, I think that the cream of the crop on night one was far better than night two.
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  12247.  @Unasstheao  If he is a joke and knows it, then what purpose does his show serve?
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  12248.  @credman  Oh, so you think we're your children, psychopath? I actually have kids, and I don't intentionally cause suffering. Maybe your parents told you that was good parenting to cover up their bad parenting, but even if we were your children, that ain't how you parent.
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  12249.  @sebastianholzl4668  It looks like we are seeing the self regard of the dum-dum left in action.
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  12250.  @johnmarengo3988  It it has literally nothing to do with the topic at hand, or it ruins the flow of the conversation. She was bad about not knowing when to pick her spot. The absolute worst was when Kennedy just announced that he was retiring, and she used that time to try to make a plug for her podcast.
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  12251.  @credman  Except that is the position you are taking. You are talking about millions of people dying in order to prove your point so that people will come begging for your wise answers. And, like it or not there are enough guardrails in place to make a 1930s-style depression next to impossible unless they are removed. So, are you saying that you want those guardrails removed in order to get your paradise? You sound like these right wingers trumpeting the story of killing some poor farmer's cow and how that was the best thing to happen to him because he started his own business.
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  12252.  @takanara7  Yeah, there's no difference between Ketanji Brown Jackson and Amy Coney Barrett at all [eye roll]
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  12253. The irony is that she is so hated by Democrats that she may inadvertently make it easier for Gallego by splitting votes with the Republican. When Lieberman won in 2006, he got 46% of the primary vote and about a third of Democratic voters, but Republicans didn't see it coming and ran a sacrificial lamb. The most recent primary poll had Gallego up 74-16.
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  12254.  @albeon_draken  Except it makes less sense in Arizona, because it's not a red state. You really aren't getting anyone better than Manchin who can win statewide in WV.
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  12255.  @invisblchzbrgr  People love to say lobbyist, but that involves actual work and expertise, and she is far too lazy for that. Being a talking head is lucrative and easy, and she gets to be on camera so (in her mind) people will pay attention her.
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  12256.  @paulhammond6978  She's probably hoping that she can use it as blackmail to convince Democrats not to support Gallego. The logic would be that a three-way race would surely sabotage the Democrats, so one last parting gift.
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  12257.  @majorlazor5058  Yeah, just let literal fascists get a little bit of power. What could possibly go wrong?
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  12258.  @majorlazor5058  Or, instead of wimping out, go for it and support Gallego. Democrats already hate Sinema anyway. Considering that she went the Lieberman route in the end, compare their numbers. Sinema's approval is abysmal. Lieberman got 46% of the primary vote and a third of all Democrats in the general. There is no doubt in my mind that Sinema would finish a distant third if she tried it, and her ego won't let her lose that bad, so she'll start getting her audition reel for Fox ready.
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  12259.  @majorlazor5058  As bad as Sinema sucks, she's not a literal fascist.
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  12260.  @majorlazor5058  Then, why are you talking about helping put the Republican? Think before you type.
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  12261.  @majorlazor5058  Social issues are usually where she is less bad. Her real awful is insisting on tax breaks for the rich.
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  12262. ​ @nboyknowsnothing5311  Theu gave those out like candy at the turn of the century.
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  12263. It needs to be overturned.
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  12264. Well, he only beat Bennet out of the race by about an hour.
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  12265.  @cieje  What other viable candidate? Pretty much everyone who has a chance of actually winning has already endorsed Biden. And if you haven't noticed, it's not 1968 anymore. It is waaaaay too late for anyone to build the infrastructure necessary to run a serious campaign.
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  12266. If he is so principled, where was he when the candidate he voted for in the 2016 general election was grifting people to the tune of nearly $7MM for a recount that never happened? Why did he defend Tulsi through all of her right-wing actions?
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  12267.  @jacobreid7077  They consider anything left of fascism to be "left leaning."
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  12268.  @Quartermaster_Veteran  Tulsi isn't anti-war or pro-peace. She is an isolationist. How does her opposition to the Iran nuclear deal hold up? How about her vote to make it more difficult for Syrian refugees to enter the United States?
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  12269.  @Quartermaster_Veteran  I just now noticed that you responded to the Syrian refugees question. So, you think that the Republican Party, which went along with the Muslim ban, only cared about an "orderly refugee process"? How much more orderly do you need? Oh, and given that she said that she wanted to give preference to "religious minorities" (read: non-Muslims), she took an unconstitutional position. Well, she also entertained war crimes, so I guess I can't be surprised. As far as her position on Iran, you don't have to take my word for it: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/01/yes-tulsi-gabbard-iran-deal-war-hawk As far as her support of Russia, here is her praising Putin for bombing civilians in Syria and criticizing Obama for not doing so: https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/649458891168714752 And this is the problem with pretending that Tulsi Gabbard has any sort of principle: if you are looking for evidence of her support of a position, both before and after her supposed shift to port, or her opposition, you will find it. That's a lot harder for someone like Bernie.
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  12270.  @Quartermaster_Veteran  Well, if you can't take me seriously, here is the peace candidate talking about torture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNqbE3jApb8
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  12271.  @Quartermaster_Veteran  Well, considering the fact that Tulsi praised Putin for bombing civilians in Syria and complained that Obama didn't, you can talk about her taking sides in a civil war as evidence of her peaceful ways all you want, but this doesn't sound like peace to me: https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/649458891168714752 "Bad enough US has not been bombing..." That doesn't sound like a person who supports peace and hates war to me.
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  12272.  @Quartermaster_Veteran  Still doesn't change that she entertained war crimes.
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  12273.  @changingworld7467  She opposed it at the time: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/01/yes-tulsi-gabbard-iran-deal-war-hawk I want someone who will get it right the first time.
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  12274. The same thing as Bernie's campaign slogan: not me, us. Bernie will also get the gavel for the Budget Committee and the Subcommittee on Health. Just because we can't get everything doesn't mean we have to put ourselves in a position to get worse than nothing.
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  12275. I was 11 when Twin Peaks originally revealed who killed Laura Palmer. I finally watched it at the age of 40, and that still freaked me out. I'd hate to imagine how my 11-year-old self would have reacted.
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  12276. Winning by 18 is still pretty bad given someone who has so many advantages. Winning New Hampshire by 8 is what convinced LBJ to drop out.
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  12277. And what annoys me is how the Mastriano supporters never just put one sign in their yards. It always has to be five or six. We get it, you are a fascist who likes traitors.
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  12278.  @modemmark421  I really could have lived without that image in my head.
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  12279.  @paulvanier429  Is Bloomberg paying you the way he paid the guy collecting petition signatures for him who I saw on Saturday?
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  12280.  @paulvanier429  Oh, there are ways. If you are as effective as he was, I would let you know, but that is a pretty high bar for ineffective support. And Bloomberg doesn't ask for money because he has one constituency that he cares about: his wealth portfolio.
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  12281. If Hillary runs, that is one more person to split up the establishment vote and make it less likely for them to get to viability, so I say have at it.
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  12282.  @jockost.maritz1096  in a 2014 interview, she was asked about torture, she gave a scenario straight out of 24 and then said she "would do whatever it takes to protect the American people." Even when the interviewer pushed back and pointed out that it doesn't work, her responded that "some people say it does work." Also, literally no candidate in the Democratic Presidential campaign supported open borders. Insisting that they did is a right-wing talking point. As far as "incorruptible" goes, she took a trip bankrolled by Syrian fascists to meet with Assad and came back repeating everything he had to say about the civil war and chemical weapons. She courted Sheldon Adelson and then did his bidding by being the main sponsor of a bill (with Jason Chaffetz of Utah) to get rid of his competition in the form of online gambling. That doesn't sound like someone who is incorruptible to me. Bonus points: her oath in Congress required her to defend the Constitution, and when she said that Trump was guilty, she violated her oath and refused to vote to impeach.
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  12283.  @annabelstien2851  Would you rather he made a totally incompetent pick?
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  12284.  @Nikosi9  Every election is about the incumbent. You have to start with a theory about what went wrong and why if you want to beat the incumbent.
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  12285. As long as UBI isn't seen as a replacement for programs we have now, I think it's something that is going to have to happen sooner or later, because automation is a question of when rather than if. (I avoid using the self-checkout at the grocery store because I don't want to help put someone out of work.) Like Reich said, if Apple were to invent the iEverything, if no one has income because everyone is put out of work, no one will be able to buy it.
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  12286. ​ @samtheman8483  This video literally shows some examples, such as the assertion that seeing Little Hunter would have swung the election to Trump, his claims about wokeness, talking about wanting to bridge the gap while refusing to acknowledge that Biden won the election, etc. His bigger tactic was actually Gish Gallop, because he didn't really make up lies as much as he did repeating the ones already floating around.
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  12287.  @jonathanhagenbuch1018  If he didn't want to go to war with Vietnam, why did he sign of on killing the President of South Vietnam days before his own death, and why did he continue and escalate the policy of sending advisers to Vietnam?
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  12288.  @HumbleAstronaut  Pretty much anyone can swear a President in during an emergency. Coolidge was sworn in by his dad during a fishing trip after Harding died in 1923.
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  12289.  @theodorekaczynski1683  People tend to mourn the lost potential. That's why you tend to see all the bad things that happened during his term get blamed on Johnson, and the good things Johnson did get credited to Kennedy. The "JFK would have pulled out of Vietnam" argument is just ludicrous.
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  12290. The parliamentarian didn't rule on student loan debt. That wasn't a bill in Congress, but written by the Administration, which SCOTUS struck down based on the emergency authority, so Biden found a different way to forgive some student loan debt. He's done so to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars.
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  12291. ​ @DrMattHH  W didn't fire the parliamentarian. Trent Lott did that. I swear, it never ceases to amaze me the people who think that the President can just do whatever he wants. The parliamentarian fight during Biden's Presidency was over the minimum wage, but it didn't have the votes, anyway, because of Manchin and Sinema. Maybe if people would focus more on down ballot races, people like Manchin would be bonus votes if we could get him rather than a brake on progress.
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  12292.  @darkhorse381  Pretty much
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  12293.  @stefsam4583  Oh, look. Aaron has a new username.
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  12294. ​ @gw7817  Indeed. That's when you know someone got carried away... even though gay marriage has been legal everywhere for eight years.
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  12295. Companies aren't a voting entity. They can give money, but if I look up the Philadelphia voter rolls, I'm not finding Comcast on the list.
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  12296.  @dougm4160  Then, the OP should have said that, but the OP didn't.
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  12297.  @seeleunit2000  My thinly-veiled bigotry? I supported making it legal. And my post was in response to the notion that if we were a democracy, gay marriage would be legal. It is, as it should be. If you want to talk about pure democracy, as the OP seems to he wanting to do, same-sex marriage performed horribly at the ballot box until just a few years before it became legal everywhere. You could make the argument that strategically placed ballot initiatives gave Bush four more years.
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  12298.  @aboucard93  [citation needed]
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  12299.  @freebobafett  Constitutional monarchy is also a thing. Admittedly, in those systems they usually don't do much, but they do exist. As far as a "single ruler," all but the most ardent dictators get some help.
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  12300.  @ErutaniaRose  Again, corporations don't vote directly. Gay marriage has also been legal in every state since 2015.
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  12301.  @ErutaniaRose  "A voting entity equal to a person" certainly implies that. I would love to get rid of personhood, but that is very different than a voting bloc. Political influence, you are correct.
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  12302. ​ @dadikkedude  The problem with simply relying on vaccination and contact tracing was that a) this was a new disease and didn't have a vaccine until it had already killed a million people worldwide, and b) you had too many paranoid idiots who refused to go along with any harm reduction strategies. The countries that didn't lock down (such as Sweden) fared among the worst, and the countries that did (such as Australia and New Zealand) fared the best. Sadly, our tools were limited in early 2020.
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  12303. ​ @s.tranger1074  Indeed. My uncle caught it as a baby and couldn't walk until he was five. He was very sickly most of his life and died at the age of 46. I'm sure he would have gladly taken the vaccine if it was available when he was younger.
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  12304. Don't just wait. Run for a spot on your local Democratic committee.
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  12305.  Kevin McDougall  October 2024. She is eligible next time around.
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  12306. The polls weren't that far off in the 2016 Presidential election. The polls tightened at the end, and they showed an average national popular vote win of 3.5 compared to the final 2.1 margin. The only two states that were outside of the margin of error were Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, the latter of which wasn't polled after early September. People forget margin of error is a thing, and there are few times where it all breaks one way. 2004 was another.
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  12307.  @earth1883  Some of us live in swing states and don't have that luxury.
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  12308.  @earth1883  Hence, the "some of us." I live in Pennsylvania, so I don't.
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  12309. Jamie Peck. She's one of the producers.
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  12310. Yes, I thought (and still do) that Bush stole the 2000 election. The difference is that once the Supreme Court acted, I said that there is nothing else that can be done, and I thought that Gore was right to concede. If at any point before January 6th, Der Orangefuhrer publicly conceded and called off his dogs, we wouldn't be having this conversation about his efforts to destroy democracy.
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  12311. All a negative test means is that you didn't have coronavirus 14 days ago. Don't be a jerk. After all, Dear Leader made everyone who got near him get tested, and look at how that went.
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  12312.  @Bladerunner-yd5lk  I voted for Hillary in November. More Bernie voters did the same in 2016 than Hillary voters for Obama in 2008. Anger at clandestine meetings to continue a failed strategy that has only worked based on the exceptional charisma of two candidates who saw the party gutted at every level below them says that we think an establishment figure can't win, so we need to try something else, like, I don't know, run an unapologetic advocate of positions the American people actually like.
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  12313.  Steven Soco  Well, I did once get someone to agree to support a $15/hour minimum wage, so it is doable ;-) I realize that I don't have all the answers, but I always try my best to engage honestly ;-)
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  12314. That dollar to help get her on the debate stage was money well spent.
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  12315. @Justin Time I specifically asked what makes it different? Both Likud and Trump are courting the most racist elements of their respective countries to maintain power. What is Likud doing that means that they have no comparison to the American right wing?
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  12316. @Justin Time If you will notice, I specifically said that I oppose BDS, but what I oppose even more is an effort to have a chilling effect on free speech and trying to advocate policies. And the Likud government (or at least what is left of it, no pun intended, after Netanyahu was unable to form a coalition) has appealed to the worst in people. Being in a constant state of strife does not justify dehumanizing people the way they have. It does not make it acceptable to continue to build settlements against international law. And it certainly doesn't justify American politicians saying that people can't make an economic protest against actions they disagree with it.
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  12317. @Justin Time I aware of the coalition system. I am also aware that there are several parties that just a few election cycles no leading party would such with a ten-foot pole, but now the Likud government embraces.
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  12318. How sad is your life to go through life giving a narcissist puff pieces to boost his ego?
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  12319. Fox is ridiculous about its misinformation to retraction ratio. I remember when I lost the battle over the remote in the barracks and had to watch Fox a few days after the invasion of Iraq. They spent literally ten hours saying that WMDs were found, and then spent just a few seconds to say, "We have received confirmation that these were not biolgoical weapons." That was it. So, of course people who watch Fox say they were found!
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  12320.  @amoore3418  They tend to like Johnson.
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  12321.  @markcarruthers9902  "The right way" that started as we know it in 1924 as a way to keep dark skinned people out? If so many more people are coming than there are slots, it's obvious that the quotas are far too low.
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  12322. He was clearly trying to do so. The problem was that this insecure manchild with something not far off from a Richard Spencer haircut talked over top of him when he did.
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  12323.  @TheSkeletonSkier  Yes, because workers were just treated wonderfully and received great income and benefits when there were low taxes. /s
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  12324.  @TheSkeletonSkier  The high water mark of how workers were treated in America was 1935-78. The top income tax bracket was over 50% the entire time, and 70% or higher all but one or two years at the beginning. In the 1950s, corporations paid 32% of all taxes. So, it looks like that's something else that you said with your ideology talking that just isn't so.
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  12325.  @TheSkeletonSkier  Reagan said that the reason why he became a conservative was because he did get to the top tax bracket. While it's true that nobody paid 70% of their income in taxes, that was the nature of brackets. It doesn't affect income below. The difference between what the top 10% pay now and what they paid then is that their share of income was lower.
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  12326.  @TheSkeletonSkier  Send me a message with the details of what you have in mind. If it sounds interesting and my schedule allows, I'm game.
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  12327.  @TheSkeletonSkier  I do not.
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  12328. Sure, we can try, but I don't think that he'll take the offer, and McConnell has already gotten everything he wanted out of Trump, so I don't see him going along, either.
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  12329.  @davidgarland2533  Well, maybe if she didn't spend the last three years sucking up to Republicans and dumping on Democrats (literally, the only purpose she seemed to serve at the debates was to try to bring someone else down to help Biden), maybe she would get invites from Democrats. She's always been a right winger. She started her public life working on her dad's anti-gay marriage crusade, and she ended her Congressional career with an anti-transgender bill and trying to convince people that Ilhan Omar stole her election. She clearly cultivated her audience once she knew where the money was.
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  12330.  @davidgarland2533  Do you not understand how primaries work? After it's over, you're supposed to coalesce around the nominee instead of taking a hard right turn.
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  12331.  @misterprogressive8730  Very few third parties even bother to run Congressional campaigns because they are not serious. You have to win a state or Congressional district outright. Yes, Bernie won his seat in 1990 as an Independent and he uses that ballot line, but he has been a de facto Democrat ever since given that the party doesn't bother to run anyone against him.
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  12332.  @misterprogressive8730  Another serious difference between systems is that a parliamentary system is much more streamlined. If Biden wins and Democrats win the Senate, Bernie will chair the Senate Budget Committee and the Subcommittee on Health. He will have a lot of leverage if Biden wins.
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  12333.  @misterprogressive8730  If the left is going to field a viable party, the only chance is to completely defeat the Republican Party so the Democratic Party can splinter without giving every election to the Republican Party.
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  12334.  @misterprogressive8730  If you want to make these arguments, at least make them understanding the different rules at play. You know why Macron won? Because he got into a runoff against a literal fascist. And using him as an example completely defeats your argument, because he ran an explicitly centrist campaign. How many seats did En Marche get in Parliament? Not very many, which hurt his ability to set an agenda. If you really want to see what would happen if one party has an ideological split while the other stays largely intact using rules like what we are talking about, look no further than the 1912 election. The Republican Party split in two over the question of Roosevelt or Taft, with Roosevelt forming the Bull Moose Party. The fourth candidate in the race, Eugene Debs, had his thunder stolen by Roosevelt and Wilson taking parts of his platform that were popular. The end result? Roosevelt won the popular vote 43-27-22-6, and the Electoral College 435-88-8 with Debs getting nothing. A third party on the left guarantees a Republican landslide.
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  12335.  @misterprogressive8730  The difference is that everyone has to join a coalition. We just make our coalitions before the elections under the banner of one party.
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  12336. ​ @DaveB-w2i  No, a lot of it is about gaming the system. In 1980, there were 13 billionaires in the United States. Today, there are nearly 800. Did they suddenly start adding more wealth, or did they start changing the rules to concentrate wealth at the top. "There is a class war going on, and it's my class that's winning." Warren Buffett
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  12337. He does talk about voting third party in safe states if you so desire. The caller is in PA, which has been decided by single digits in almost every recent election except 2008.
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  12338. It'll be a good day for America.
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  12339. 3:38 But do you know how to use them, Mr. Vaginal Wetness is a Medical Disorder?
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  12340.  @MrOnwisconsin2011  Ojeda moved to North Carolina, and people who actually live in the state see him as a joke for resigning his state senate to run for President even though he dropped out before the legislative session even started.
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  12341.  @lynneanderson4255  Bernie did as well as he did in no small part due to hatred of Hillary Clinton. Against Biden, he did worse in 2020 than Hillary did in 2016, but not as bad as Obama did in 2008.
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  12342.  @CarbideSix  Ojeda doesn't even live in West Virginia anymore. He was seen as a joke after resigning his state senate seat to run for President. A job that meets 60 days a year was too much for him. He fell in love with the celebrity.
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  12343.  @russell7489  Did you honestly expect the party to not support an incumbent who was elected to statewide office five times before the 2018 primary? Show me any time that the party establishment in a state backed the challenger in a primary.
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  12344.  @kimmikim7167  Well, not never, but it will certainly take a lot of work.
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  12345. WWII didn't end with negotiation. It ended with surrender. Russia has already invaded Ukraine once, and Putin has said that it is not a real country. The mere fact that he now wants to say that he's for peace after Ukraine has reconquered territory makes it blatantly obvious that this is just a stall tactic. The "annexation" makes it obvious that he doesn't want peace.
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  12346.  @asielnorton345  Oh, they may not like each other, but if watching Republicans this century has taught me one thing is that they will always circle the wagons. The lesson they learned from Nixon and Reagan was that if you hold someone accountable, you will suffer, but if you stick together, you will win.
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  12347.  @asielnorton345  First of all, there is no such thing as right-wing populism. You aren't a populist if you support tax cuts for the rich. Period. Second of all, show me any meaningful way that the establishment and the insurgent wings of the Republican Party have varied. Don't give me this performative nonsense that some do to appear sane to suburban voters. This is nothing more than yet another manifestation of the desire that we can just sit back and watch it all implode. We can't.
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  12348.  @asielnorton345  No, they did not separate families at the border. The "kids in cages" were already separate from their families. If you are going to spread this nonsense, either you are a useful idiot on the left, or you are a Trump troll trying to get us to let our guard down.
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  12349.  @asielnorton345  Anything calling itself right wing populism is always fake, as can be evidenced by the fact that when the rubber hits the road, they either perpetuate the same policy as the establishment with the possible exception of trade, or they use some Other as a scapegoat to let the rich continue to plunder. Either way, they are not our friends. If you don't like it, that's not my fault.
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  12350.  @asielnorton345  My perspective is that William Jennings Bryan was the subject of my master's portfolio. There are plenty of people who argue that right-wing populism is fake because it is either a front for fascism or it doesn't really affect voting. By definition, fascism is about using government to benefit the populace. Just because talking heads like to use the term for right-wing demagogues in order to discredit the demands of the people doesn't make it any more accurate. So, how can someone be populist who cuts taxes on the rich? That's like a vegan eating steak. Again, what policies do the "populists" have that are any different than the establishment wing? At least I defended my argument.
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  12351.  @asielnorton345  By definition, if you support economic policies that benefit the elite, you are not a populist. Fascism later became called "populist" to try to discredit actual populists movements that tried to help people. You might fall for that trap all you want, but I refuse to do so. And there are plenty of commentators who have accurately noted that any "right-wing populism" is a bait and switch, with Nathan J. Robinson being one of the most prominent.
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  12352.  @asielnorton345  By definition, if there are people who actually understand what the populist movement was who point out that it is inaccurate to use that label for fascism, it is by definition not universal. For someone who claims that you know the words, you are doing a good job of demonstrating that you don't.
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  12353.  @Perurikun  The Trump tax cuts were $2T over ten years. Medicare for All is that every year. It helps, but it doesn't get you there.
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  12354.  @UglyShadowChannel  Do you really trust someone who have Trump tens of billions more than he asked for in Defense spending to be the one to cut it?
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  12355.  @Perurikun  Still more than can be paid simply by getting rid of the Trump tax cuts.
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  12356.  @Nerule  She does, but her track record shows that she won't. If she defended her vote with the idea of jobs in her state, there are a lot of bases with a lot of jobs nationwide.
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  12357.  @Nerule  Even if that is accurate, he stopped, didn't he?
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  12358.  Brenton Carter  What is?
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  12359.  Brenton Carter  I am well aware that we spend more in private insurance than we would for Medicare for All. The point of the video is that Elizabeth Warren fell into the trap of not wanting to say that she is raising taxes and had a ridiculous funding mechanism. Any actual Medicare for All program would raise taxes, but it would be more than offset by no premiums or out of pocket costs. Eliminating the entire defense budget would not be enough to pay for it. Sweet self own on your part, and thank you for perpetuating that stupid idea that we can't ever say taxes will go up, even if it benefits us.
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  12360.  Brenton Carter  Read the OP, dummy, and read my comment. I think you got lost. The Jimmy Dore Show is elsewhere.
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  12361.  Brenton Carter  Even Bernie's proposal says that it will involve $2T/year in additional revenue. Existing Medicare and Medicaid funding doesn't "get us almost there." Funny how literally every single thing that you have called me has been true of yourself, Dore Knob.
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  12362.  @twzrrprz  When Hillary Clinton is running to your left economically in a Democratic primary, you know there's something seriously wrong.
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  12363.  @kellymccain3403  Biden still thinks that he was right. Do you think taking the states' rights position on desegregation is a good idea?
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  12364.  @kellymccain3403  If you still defend it, you are still accountable. All he had to do was say, "I was wrong, and I am sorry," but he didn't do that. He defended his position, and he talked up his work with Eastland last week, so it is fair game.
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  12365.  @megadog5743  "Frankly, I hope you kill each other!" Bob Kelso, "Scrubs"
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  12366.  @kellymccain3403  Well, if he is so easily cornered, what is he going to do when dealing with a troll who only cared about getting your goat? He doesn't have a temperament that is a good fit for beating Trump. Moscow Donald doesn't care about being right or consistent, just depressing turnout on the other side, so he will happily shed crocodile tears over busing or the crime bill, or the handsy stuff, or really anything he can.
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  12367. As a veteran, I literally never saw that haircut once in the military. I've seen it on non-racist skinhead girls. It's called a Chelsea.
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  12368.  @andrewreynolds9371  Sadly, there are some out there. For example, in that swing state poll that has so many people freaked out, if Der Orangefuhrer is convicted of a felony, he loses six points that go to Biden.
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  12369. What about Salinger?
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  12370. The irony is that all he had to do was keep selling pillows, and he would have been remembered as a rags-to-riches story of someone who overcame his addiction, and now he'll be remembered as a fascist clown who tried to destroy democracy.
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  12371.  @f_youtubecensorshipf_nazis  Exactly. Sometimes, I get the feeling that the people in the business who talk about the core underneath must be remembering some personal experiences and are letting that cloud things. I'd also like to know where he got this reputation as a brilliant strategist. He literally has the same strategy for everything. There is a reason why people like Doug Jones get a lot longer of a leash.
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  12372.  @admnPB  Well, he also didn't point out that Jose Diaz-Ballart was wrong. It isn't everyone getting a thousand bucks a month with no exceptions.
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  12373. Obama 2012: Bain Capital is a prime example of vulture capitalism that destroys small towns and the middle class. Obama in 2019: Let's get that guy who is a Bain Capital executive.
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  12374.  @stephanieden4  I remember that Raffensprerger said that there were more Republicans who voted on the primary (where literally Der Orangefuhrer was the only candidate they could vote for in any race, because their Presidential primaries are separate) but didn't vote in November than Biden's margin of victory in the state. Osoff got 95,000 fewer votes in the runoff than the general election and won the seat by 55,000 votes. Let's hope they replicate their Goergia results nationwide. A shift of two or three points might mean control of the House.
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  12375. That's their scam. I've seen it too many times. They complain about deficits, but then they drive them up and blame it on earned benefits (the real entitlements go to the people who get it all and want more).
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  12376.  @emfisher8168  The polls actually weren't that inaccurate. The national polling was very close (Hillary +3.5 vs. +2.1 in the election). Only two states were outside of the margin of error (PA & WI), and one of those (WI) stopped polling in September. MI was shifting, and FL & NC were both going to be close. Not that there is no problem with polls, but if under the fold questions and samples show it is accurate, they have held.
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  12377. If you listen, Powell is clearly trying to start a recession in order to take away power from workees.
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  12378.  @JamesChessman  This is where the phrase "private virtue, public vice" definitely comes into play.
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  12379. It's a classic case of the dog catching the tire.
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  12380. ​ @tommymoore8892  No, the message will be that there is no sense of strategy. The goal is to build a majority. Nominating unelectable candidates doesn't do squat for that end, and most West Virginia Democrats know that as frustrating as Manchin is, you aren't doing any better. And given the way the Democratic Party rolled over after losing the legislature, you won't see another WV Democrat in the Senate for decades. You deal with someone like Manchin by having enough Senate Democrats that you don't need his vote for much of anything.
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  12381. ​ @thesun6211  Name one. The terminally online think it is just so easy to pick some random lefty, but often don't do the work or understand the electorate. So, who can a) beat Manchin in the primary, b) win the general election, and c) be suitably left for you?
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  12382. ​ @javierrolon9972  Ketanji Brown Jackson has entered the chat.
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  12383. ​ @greenbluemonkey  So, instead of a doomed primary challenge, the answer is to elect those other candidates in greener pastures.
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  12384. ​​ @taranullius9221  Exactly. Thank God that the terminally online are too lazy to do any actual work to cut their nose off to spite their face.
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  12385.  @tommymoore8892  And how did "setting an example" work in the 2000 and 2016 Presidential election? Like it or not, you can't get a majority by subtraction, and getting rid of the one person who can win statewide in a state where Trump won by 42 and 39 points doesn't help you with that. Objectively speaking, Manchin votes with Democrats about half the time. If you actually use your brain a little bit, that is way more than you'd expect in a state this red. If Manchin wasn't there in 2021-22, we wouldn't have gotten the Inflation Reduction Act or Ketanji Brown Jackson on the bench. It sounds like you don't want any red state Senators at all, so there goes the majority (get rid of them, all of whom are up for re-election next year, and Republicans control the Senate 52-48). Great work!
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  12386.  @tommymoore8892  The example was not voting for Gore or Hillary to convince candidates that they needed to move more leftward in order to "respect the base" (actual words that I heard at the time from accelerationists and others who think that you add by subtraction). "A bit of an overstatement, don't you think?" No, because I actually looked at the voting record. Now, you might argue that Manchin slows a lot of stuff down, and you would be correct, but at least as often as not, he does tend to get to Yes.
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  12387.  @tommymoore8892  "We've tried it your way" President Gore, President H. Clinton, Senator Barnes, and others show that you clearly haven't. Your way got us five of the six members of the right-wing bloc of the Supreme Court appointed by people who lost the popular vote. The accelerationists have had a tantrum for over 20 years, and because they keep self-sabotaging complaining that they don't win, then insist "we tried" whenever they don't get their way right away. You are like children who don't understand that building political power is a process that takes decades. It took the Goldwater people 16 years to take over politics in this country, and they had money on their side. You end up doing nothing and getting mad that everything hasn't worked out.
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  12388.  @tommymoore8892  So, you don't like having Ketanji Brown Jackson on the bench? You didn't like getting the $1400 check in 2001? You don't like Bermie having the gavel of the HELP Committee or the Budget Committee in the previous Congress? I'd say those are very meaningful. I would much rather not need Manchin's vote, but the best way to make his vote irrelevant is to make it superfluous.
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  12389. I'm starting to wonder if Joe Rogan had a point about mocking the disabled. Well, Dave Rubin insists that he's not, so I will still laugh.
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  12390.  @richardyoung5293  Forbes has admitted that they overestimated his wealth for decades. I do know that he wouldn't lower his net worth to anyone that wasn't the IRS or a divorce lawyer, so the Forbes list seems like a reasonable ceiling to me.
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  12391.  Peter Torbay  So much [citation needed], so little time.
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  12392.  Peter Torbay  English translation: I can't provide any evidence for the nonsense that I spout, so I will just spout more nonsense to distract from the original nonsense.
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  12393.  Peter Torbay  If your "investigation" is the same level of being that person with all the theories that you get stuck sitting next to on the bus from time to time, I'll pass.
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  12394.  @xEnder515  Really? Mine closes YouTube out.
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  12395. The irony that there is exactly one candidate that I know of who went on TV and advocated committing a war crime and invoked the 24 scenario to do so.
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  12396. ​ @Tential1  They are literally making profits, many of which make record profits. Why do company stooges have to lie?
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  12397. No one is saying that states and localities can't go over $15.00/hour. We are just saying that should be the floor.
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  12398. Okay, the original reply has disappeared, but I am guessing that the person who made it still has that question. The reason why the ultimate goal is to set a federal minimum of $15 is because there is ample evidence that the poverty level is far too low to accurately assess how much it costs to live. Businesses get several years to increase their wages and get used to not being allowed to use poverty wages as a business model any longer. The stimulative effect will be immense, and this is why that would work better.
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  12399. Never stop pronouncing it Tool-see. It is perfectly fitting.
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  12400. She's a year older, and she sucks, too.
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  12401.  @squeallymaniac  What are you talking about?
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  12402.  @squeallymaniac  Do you only speak in non-sequiturs? What effect?
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  12403. Voted in PA. The statewide races weren't close, and in my part of Philly the real election is in the spring, but it is my right and my responsibility.
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  12404.  @Khalkara  Some people just want to feel superior, sadly, and don't care about the impact of their decisions.
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  12405. ​ @JinMeowsoon  The woman he married did. Once he confessed, she quietly divorced him and lived in seclusion as much as possible.
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  12406. Grifters gotta grift. Those multimillion dollar houses don't pay for themselves.
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  12407. It's the App-a-LATCH-un Trail, not App-a-lay-shun Trail.
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  12408. 16:36 No, Breaking Points is also terrible.
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  12409. Well, this didn't age well.
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  12410.  @jaxmiller724  "living in cities run by Democrats top to bottom" And what was the state government like? Did it routinely write its formulas to screw over cities? Did it encourage suburban creep? And again, further proof that you lied when you opened this thread. At least the people responding to you have been honest.
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  12411.  @jaxmiller724  No, Harry Potter. Once you have to invoke magic and wizards, you have already lost the argument, and you have proven to be completely dishonest.
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  12412.  @CC-bn2ws  I know that he contradicted pretty much everything that people used to claim that, no, he really is a liberal. You probably believed that Dave Rubin was a liberal, too.
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  12413.  @TheBanshee90  The Louis CK ones don't bother me, because they're generic enough that they could be written by anyone, and the only one of the three that was really on the nose was a joke that they both stole from Cosby. The difference between the accusation of stealing from Louis CK and the accusation of stealing from Demetri Martin is that for the former, the jokes were similar, but still different; whereas the Demetri Martin joke is almost exactly the same verbatim. The only real difference is that Demetri Martin wanted a 10 and Dane Cook wanted a 12. In both of their jokes, the salesperson even came back with a 9. That is too close to be a coincidence. Re: one minute out of an hour special, so why put it in to start with? His fans would have loved to see him walk across the stage and repeat himself over and over again with jokes that weren't someone else's. Heck, he could have just repeated the punchline a few more times on one of his other jokes, and he would have filled in the two minutes (the original is less than a minute, though, because Demetri Martin only says the punchline once) just like that. That is the "just the tip" defense basically.
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  12414. So true. If you haven't done so, I encourage you to go back and read how angry Civil War veterans were that Robert E. Lee got a statue at Gettysburg. For all the supposed history lovers claim it is just a neutral expression of learning, the people who risked life and limb to put down their treason knew what this was about.
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  12415. "You fool! Your very soul was required of you this very night."
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  12416.  @liesbethdevries4986  True. I guess getting booed for a minute straight pierced the veil.
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  12417.  @alewe5611  They still do some work on the channel. Season six came after they stared the new channel.
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  12418.  @sundjatamb3061  There is a world of difference between creepy and criminal.
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  12419. Deep down, there is a part of me that wonders in retrospect if some of the establishment would have done to Bernie what they did to Corbyn. It is some people's role in life to show the way, and with his hero being Eugene Debs, Bernie gets that. Now, who will be Joshua to his Moses?
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  12420.  @SilenceInTheBliss  There is no convention to contest. The conventions are over. If you mean a deadlock in the Electoral College, what states does he have a non-zero chance of winning? And even if, hypothetically speaking, the candidate who already endorsed one of the major-party candidates and has taken his name off the ballot in several swing states somehow wins enough electoral votes to throw the election to the states, the election will he decided by Democrats and Republicans, so which state delegations will vote for him? It is only a combination of his ego and some state laws that is keeping him on the ballot. Whether or not he uses the word "withdraw," once you suspend your campaign and offer to help another campaign, you have dropped out of the race.
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  12421. I knew someone about a decade ago who hung out at white nationalist websites (I think he was a contributor for VDARE) who was trying to argue on a Kucinich message board that the anti-immigrant position was truly the leftist position (there was also a weird futurism mixed in) who was "not a racist" who defended The Bell Curve, hated civil rights organizations (especially Southern Poverty Law Center) and leaders... but loved Farrakhan.
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  12422. Talking about great Brando roles and not mentioning Terry Malloy? For shame!
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  12423.  King Jon Targaryen I  What are some of the more complex points? Admittedly, it did seem like things may have had a chance in Chile, because there was someone in power who was not greedy or prone to suppressing dissent, although we will never know if he would have realized the mistake of trying to both drastically increase wages and invoke price controls (the former was a good idea, the latter was not), but it may just be that as long as we're talking about something as flawed as humanity that everything is the least bad answer.
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  12424.  @VB-dp1vs  So, I ask for evidence, and you call me a sheep who hasn't done my research? Yeah, that will help you win people over.
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  12425.  @VB-dp1vs  He's asking you? If you're so enlightened, enlighten people.
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  12426.  @linusmlgtips2123  I get that, but how many people who are less scrupulous will take that title and run with it?
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  12427. ​ @bartdoo5757  You clearly miss the point that people having to work 12-hour shifts is a big part of the problem. I guess you see that whole "eight hours of work, eight hours of sleep, eight hours of leisure" as some sort of commie utopia talk.
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  12428. ​ @reav3rtm If he really supports Medicare for All, why does he spend all of his time calling those who support it sellouts while supporting a candidate who called it "un-American" and his wife gave $1000 to a Republican running against a Democrat who supports Medicare for All and is pur best chance to get rid of actual sellout Kyrsten Sinema?
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  12429. ​ @punchingplugscf260  And machine guns were banned because they were the preferred weapon of gangsters that led to a lot more killing. This rose-colored version of how more and deadlier guns make people safer. They don't. And if you look at the per capita rates, the murder capital of America is Bakersfield... which is run by Republicans. And if you look at mass shootings, a lot happen in red states where at the state level, there are bans against local action on guns.
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  12430. Unfortunately, Dickerson forgot that Democrats controlled the Senate in 1988 when they approved Anthony Kennedy... whose seat O'Kavanaugh took.
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  12431. That's a federal crime, so that's what makes this different.
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  12432.  Mayan Ruins  Statute of limitations isn't about ready to expire on his crimes.
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  12433.  Mayan Ruins  And that's why we have to stop them.
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  12434.  @yorkiemom6144  And this is why the election is so important. We need to make sure they don't get to run out the clock and that their fresh crimes will get prosecuted.
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  12435. He's there to try to blackmail Democratic primary voters into not picking someone who will actually change anything.
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  12436. I got an ad about open carry for rifles.
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  12437.  @Acanthophis  Well, then you organize and get smarter about doing things instead of whining about such basic tactics as building a coalition.
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  12438.  @dienekes4364  I would rather have 40 solid lefties and 11 centrists than 45 solid lefties.
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  12439.  @dienekes4364  Yeah, because there is absolutely no difference between Merrick Garland and Neil Gorsuch. Or John Roberts and anyone President Gore would have picked.
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  12440.  @dienekes4364  No, we wouldn't have Citizens United. Look at the two Clinton appointees to the Supreme Court, Ginsberg and Breyer. How did they vote on Citizens United again? President Gore would have never appointed someone who would have gutted the Voting Rights Act the way Roberts and Alito did. If you see those two things as "no big deal," then you are either so privileged that "deal with the pain" is a strategy you are fine with invoking because you don't have pain or you are too lazy to do actual research. Oh, and those two cases being enough, here's some extra credit: Gore opposed the Iraq War, and Gore wouldn't have ignored a PDB entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States."
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  12441.  @dienekes4364  Who was still to the left of Gorsuch. Your argument Sri fails, as it will continue to fail. We don't live in a country where there are enough votes to get a solid lefty majority at this time. Wishing for the worst possible outcome isn't going to make things any better, it just makes them worse, i.e., killing Nixon's health care plan because it didn't go far enough only to be reduced to settling for the Republican alternative to Hillarycare. Part of being an adult is understanding when you have a winning hand and need to fight and when to take half a loaf.
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  12442.  @dienekes4364  Did I say I wanted Biden? No, what makes it easier for someone like Trump win is lazy idiots like you who insist that everyone is equally awful on every issue and ignore the actual and serious differences between the two, making the logic easier to say, "They all suck. Let's just blow up the whole system." By pretending there are no differences on civil rights, women's rights, and worker's rights, you make it easier to destroy them all. Oh, and let the record show that I provided actual examples rather than jist repeating that everybody sucks, because it takes actual effort to figure out who is better or even less bad if it comes to that. At least when Republicans do awful things, they actually think those things are good for the country. People like you who say that you care about these issues but don't do anything to make them happen but encourage the worst things to happen are far worse.
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  12443.  @johnpjones182  She was before she had all the plastic surgery.
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  12444.  mountaingoat1003  My apologies. I didn't realize that you were saying that is what they would say.
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  12445. ​ @Cheeseburger.Launch.Sequence  Indeed. That's why I found some of the subtext of Idiocracy every bit as disturbing as the thought of really, really stupid people taking over and destroying the world. It literally opens by bemoaning that stupid people have a bunch of kids and smart people don't.
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  12446.  @claudelewis509  Great USFL player, too, but he seemed to hit his peak way too soon.
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  12447.  @harrylazard805  It wasn't even how much he got paid, it was about how many players they had to give up. Here's a right wing dimwit who doesn't understand the argument he's attempting to rebut.
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  12448.  @asiburger  If you look at the whole of Tulsi's record, the aberrant period was her Bernie support. Other than Bloomberg, no Democratic Presidential candidate was to her right. I prefer people who don't support torture, compare the Iran nuclear deal to Munich, pal around with fascists, spread lies about voter fraud to make it harder for the elderly and disabled to vote, and call Medicare for All un-American.
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  12449.  @arcanondrum6543  She shared a Project Veritas video that said that Ilhan Omar paid someone $25,000 to drum up false votes in an effort to prevent what the anti-democracy people call "ballot harvesting," which is how the sick and elderly often cast their absentee ballots.
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  12450. Bernie doesn't want to be Labor Secretary. Doesn't it seem odd to you that, right after making the rounds talking about his newfound power in key committees should Democrats retake the Senate, that a story comes out saying that he wants to leave the Senate?
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  12451. And this is why multi-party systems are not inherently better than a two-party system. Quite frankly, I think the only feasible option, unless a lot of anti-Bibi parties are willing to play ball, is for Blue and White to offer a seat in government to Likud in exchange for Netanyahu being out as party leader and getting no position in the government.
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  12452.  Blue Star  So, the party that was basically the "We're Not Bibi" coalition, which won a plurality in the election, and has a bigger group to go into negotiation, will suddenly give up their leverage? And someday, I may be the NBA Slam Dunk contest winner.
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  12453. Well, it did seem like a lot of UBI advocates of late have been stealth right wingers like Andrew Yang, so coming out against it if you hear anything remotely less right wing is like Rogan coming full circle.
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  12454.  @jasonjordan8149  The problem isn't that that person gets it, but that you don't.
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  12455.  @jasonjordan8149  "So a person able to work but refuse get taxpayer paid insurance no deductible foe FREE of our taxpayers dollar. Also said person has the government paying their rent." I get that "foe" should be "for" in this one, but I honestly can't follow what you are trying to say.
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  12456.  @jasonjordan8149  At least I am not too stupid to be able to write standard English and then thinking that reveling in my ignorance makes me smarter. Taxpayers should pay for every single person's insurance in this country. It should all be in one pot. The only reason why employers want to tie it to employment is for control. There are plenty of people who want to start a business, but can't because they need their employer-based health insurance. There are plenty of people who otherwise have enough money saved up to be able to retire, but they stay in their jobs to keep their health insurance, not because they enjoy their particular work. Removing the ties between employment and health insurance gives power to workers. But all you can see is someone who you think is undeserving. That is why we can't have nice things.
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  12457.  @tsevere  Well, if you are going to argue that this is just one big misunderstanding, even though she gets into more of them than a Three's Company marathon, and then try to argue that maybe she thought that he really said that, then her serial lies and exaggerations are fair game and I would argue that the parting shot was probably shock that she was trying to pull this on a hot mic for a brief second before he regained control.
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  12458.  @ice9055  So, you don't believe in democracy?
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  12459.  @ice9055  Also, only close states "get heard." Who goes to campaign in Wyoming for the general election? Or the Dakotas? Or Montana? Or Indiana? Or Kansas? Or Oklahoma? But, yeah, the Midwest really gets heard beyond a couple of states that are close.
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  12460.  @ice9055  Well, you are just fine with a system where the person with the most votes can lose all because you think it helps you (although given your remarks about "illegals and dead people voting" tells me that if the popular vote and Electoral College were reversed, you probably would not see its benefits) and you start going with the "not a democracy, but a republic" in order to justify your opposition to democracy, so I would say that it is safe to say that you don't support democracy. Either you believe in one person, one vote, or you don't. You clearly don't.
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  12461.  Matthew O'Rosco  Let us not forget that, because it is based on population, the other reason why southern states wanted it so much is because the slaveholders could use their slaves to increase their representation in Congress and the Electoral College. Even today, it happens that states with very high turnout actually have fewer electoral votes despite more voters from states that traditionally discourage voting (Tennessee has more say but fewer voters than either Minnesota or Wisconsin, West Virginia has more electoral votes but fewer voters than Maine. I cpuld probably find something similar with a number of New England and Midwestern states vs. Southern and border states), so it actually rewards voter suppression.
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  12462.  @martinaustin6230  So, you think 10% of income for ten years is similar to paid public tuition to colleges, universities, vocational, and trade schools? Do you think Bernie would support a regressive tax like VAT? Have you heard Bernie oppose the wealth tax, or raising income or inheritance taxes? Yang isn't Bernie plus UBI at all.
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  12463.  @Evirthewarrior  Not wrong about what?
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  12464.  @michaels8620  Did what? There are a lot of comments, and with no context, I have no way of knowing what you're replying to.
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  12465.  @michaels8620  What does losing to Trump have to do with the point that Bernie lost the Presidency?
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  12466. @Defund The Tone Police You don't do anything better than me. You haven't done anything.
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  12467.  @michaels8620  So, the context is clear, and it is very different. Trump won't be President in six days. If the trial ends in an acquittal, that is still true. If Medicare for All fails, it is going to make things worse, because now you have made it harder to get it passed in the future. That's almost as bad as the person who pointed to a nonbinding resolution to prove the viability of the strategy.
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  12468.  @michaels8620  If it doesn't make it harder to pass if nearly 3/4 of the House votes against it, then what happened when the Nixon plan and Hillarycare failed? You are living proof that it is easier to fool someone than to convince someone he/she has been fooled.
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  12469.  @michaels8620  Actually, now that I think of it, the impeachment proves my point, because it had the votes to pass. Medicare for All doesn't. What have you done to build support?
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  12470.  @michaels8620  No, it wasn't. Obama passed the Republican alternative that Bill threatened to veto because it didn't go far enough. Even if you were right that Obama passed Hillarycare, it took 16 years, and you Force the Vote people insist that those of us who want to get 218 votes first don't have that fierce urgency of now, so if anything, you are proving my argument, because I thought we couldn't wait 16 years.
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  12471. Just because it is timed with her rise in the polls doesn't make it bad faith. If she were still getting 5%, it wouldn't matter that much if she is taking votes from the real deal.
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  12472. I saw Treat Williams.
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  12473. Well, Benny Boy, it's my belief that she wasn't really going to the bathroom at all, and she just wanted to avoid her constituents.
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  12474.  @samuelmerkel2888  Maybe she thought they'd give up. I don't ever want her to see a moment's peace.
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  12475. 2:32 Benny Boy only hates Hollywood because it wouldn't buy his awful screenplay.
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  12476. It depends on the context. In gerrymandered districts where it is impossible to go to far right, she doesn't. In statewide races, she becomes a total albatross.
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  12477. Well, we have to ask how much stock he has left from his days as an insurance executive.
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  12478. She still listed herself as Native American on the Texas Bar application. I have far more Native American dissent than her (according to blood quantum, I am not, but my mom is, even though neither of us claim it), but I have never in my 39 years listed anything other than white on any application. I won't deny that I have Native American ancestors, but that is a huge difference between claiming to be Native American.
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  12479.  Darth Mercur  Because Native Americans see blood quantum as an attempt to erase them, so they refuse to do anything to help perpetuate that idea.
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  12480. Would I vote for Biden if he is the nominee? Absolutely! Would I expend any effort to help him win other than pushing that button? Absolutely not! And that is why Biden is vulnerable. How many people will take time out of their busy schedules to help him? I remember 2016, living in the most liberal neighborhood in the most liberal city in the state that decided the election, and I only saw a group of three senior citizens knocking on doors for Hillary one time a month out. Intensity matters.
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  12481.  @boneappleteeth3127  Feudalism is not strictly defined by a monarchy, but the degree to which the few control the many. Most of the monarchs were very weak, and the feudal lords had the power, hence the name.
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  12482.  @boneappleteeth3127  Feudalism can take many forms. The shoguns in Japan were a version of feudalism that lasted until the 19th century. Russia was feudalistic until the Revolution.
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  12483. Exactly. I think that far more likely suspects are the mafia (who got double crossed) and the Cuban government.
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  12484.  @undergrounddojokeyboardcag701  You don't even know what authoritarian means. No civilian was ever forced by the government to get the vaccine. Or did it hurt your fee-fees when someone pointed out how irresponsible you were being?
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  12485.  @undergrounddojokeyboardcag701  Did you get the vaccine?
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  12486.  @undergrounddojokeyboardcag701  It's not a difficult question. You're not even using your real name, so Big Brother isn't coming for you. No one but you will ever know if you answer truthfully.
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  12487.  @troypropes1182  Let's talk automation. This past summer, my parents and niece came to visit. Among other things, we went on two factory tours while they were here (Herr's Snack Factory and Tour in Nottingham, Martin Guitar Factory Tour and Museum in Nazareth). In each one, they found that human hands caused a bottleneck in production (finding rotten potatoes at the former, lacquering at the latter), and by having machines do the work, they were able to increase the number of employees, and everyone in the lacquer department was retrained so that no jobs were lost. And these are not co-ops, but family owned companies with long ties to their communities (over 70 years for Herr's, over 180 for Martin). If workers had more control over how automation works, they would benefit. Maybe, for example, they could double their wages and cut their hours in half so they get leisure time. Yang is giving up and letting tech companies decide how it will happen, and if he gets away on how automation works, and he is right on there being no jobs in the future, he will create a world with a few trillionaires and everyone else scraping by on less than the poverty level. Oh, and the cost if living is going to skyrocket because we now have a consumption tax at the federal level. I think I'll pass.
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  12488.  @certhianwonderer  Because the poor and disabled don't get it or have to give up their current benefits. Since Yang has a lost of 125 programs in mind but has only bothered to share seven (TANF, SNAP, SSI, WIC, LIHEAP, housing subsidies, daycare subsidies), I have a feeling that a lot of people will be surprised to find out that not only are they not getting anything, but now they have to pay a VAT and end up in a worse position than before.
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  12489.  @dougburgan1  I was at a protest against a local McDonald's that insists on paying the minimum wage and opposes raising said minimum wage. It was the local businesses that actually paid $15/hour or are phasing it in. This is just a smokescreen to pretend to care about workers, but it's just not true.
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  12490.  @cooloutac  Four dollars more an hour, free college tuition, student loan forgiveness, health care, affordable housing with rent control and cleaner air, and increased Social Security and SNAP benefits. All of the sudden, that thousand looks pretty puny, especially when you factor in that Yang wants to get rid of the existing social safety net. If you are a single parent with two kids making $20K/year, daycare subsidies alone are worth $19K/year. Add in WIC and SNAP, and that person is much better off with the current system. Not only does he/she get nothing, but now that person has to pay a VAT. Now, Yanf is actively hurting that person.
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  12491.  @charleswashington3973  Agreed. Either his followers are as dishonest as he is, or they stop reading after the headline. I honestly don't know which is the case anymore.
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  12492.  @dougburgan1  Yang takes away the existing social safety net, and children get nothing with the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend. Do you really think $12K/year will cut it for a single parent who now has to pay for daycare and no longer gets SNAP?
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  12493.  @cooloutac  That's worse than what people who qualify for the Student Loan Forgiveness Plan pay now. That exempts income up to 150% of poverty level, and if there are multiple debtors in the household, that also factors in. You know what is even better? Charging a tax on Wall Street transactions of less than 1% and using that money for free college and trade schools and to completely eliminate all existing student loans.
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  12494.  @cooloutac  And if you do have a job and only get $2000/month, you are expected to pay $200. If you qualify for the Student Loan Forgiveness Program, you're paying about $40. $200/month is a pretty steep price to pay without the exemption for basic living expenses before you pay penny one.
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  12495.  @cooloutac  If that's all you have to live on, it is. If you have kids, it has to go even farther. No one can live on that much money.
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  12496.  @cooloutac  Then, why won't Yang give a list of the 125 programs that people have to forfeit if they take his money? And for all your college sucks talk, you are following someone who made his fortune by selling test prep software. That would be like voting for the Marlboro Man because you think he will end smoking. And as Yang structures it, he gives with one hand and takes away with another. I can't remember if I tagged you or someone else with this example, but one of the few programs that Yang has bothered to mention of the 125 is daycare subsidies. Daycare for two children in PA is about $19K/year. If you have a single parent with two kids making $20K/year, that is someone who can't afford daycare otherwise. So, this is someone who cannot take the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend. Not only does that person get nothing, but he/she now has to pay a VAT. How is that possibly beneficial?
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  12497.  @cooloutac  You already said that. Why are you repeating yourself? That is the same period that the existing Student Loan Forgiveness Plan offers to those who qualify, and it is a much lower payment. The mere fact that Yang and his supporters can't grasp this simple point proves a total indifference to the question of progressive and regressive tax, which is evidenced by supporting a plan whose benefits are regressive (because the poor and disabled don't get anything) and the tax is regressive (by definition, you can only make a regressive tax less regressive). So, those who qualify make a lower payment for the same amount of time than the one that your hero offers. That is hardly a plan to help people.
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  12498.  @cooloutac  At this point, I have to wonder if you are intentionally being dumb, or you really have a comprehension problem and I shouldn't mock the slow. So, not only does that person have to use part of the money for higher rent and the VAT, but now they have to use it to pay more for student loan payments, too? So much for the money being "life changing." And God forbid that person has a medical emergency. At $1000/month, they might be able to pay it off in ten years.
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  12499.  @cooloutac  It takes time to save for first month, last month, and a security deposit. If someone still is barely scraping by after the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend, good luck saving for that. And this argument about mobility assumes that everyone has no roots anywhere and can just rip them up at any time, especially ironic considering how many time Yang Gang bangers have to use a hypothetical extended family in order to make it sound generous. And people move for things like jobs. If there is no job waiting for someone, they aren't moving. And the idea of buying a place with your buddies might sound appealing to college students or young people, but asking people to get along for 15-30 years in close quarters and none if them needing to move for a job is an unbelievably big ask. The more you type, the worse it makes the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend look.
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  12500.  @cooloutac  Again, tell that to the single parent with two kids in daycare who makes $20,000/year and gets nothing and now has to pay a VAT. Funny how the people who get nothing are invisible to Yang Gang bangers when you talk about who is affected.
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  12501.  @cooloutac  Now, you're just lying. Yang has specifically said that daycare subsidies that daycare subsidies do not stack. At least I don't have to make stuff up about my candidate in order to make his plan look more generous than it is. You also seem to feel the need to constantly compare the one thing Yang is offering to one of many that Bernie is offering. I guess that is par for the course when you follow a con artist with a penchant for dishonesty and saying one thing to left-wing audiences and the exact opposite to right-wing ones.
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  12502.  @cooloutac  I see that you are repeating the Big Lie from Yang that everybody gets it no strings attached. People have to give up other benefits in order to get that money. That sounds like a string to me. He has 125 programs in mind, but he has only listed seven (TANF, SNAP, SSI, WIC, LIHEAP, housing subsidies, and daycare subsidies). If Art Garfunkel has a list on his website of every book he has read since 1968 (which is about 1400), then it should be nothing for Andrew Yang to list 125 programs. Then again, maybe he doesn't do that because that list will cover a lot more people than the Yang Gang bangers think, and they won't be getting anything. Funny that the rich don't have to give up their mortgage interest deduction. And Bernie realizes that there are some programs that have specific needs, and other programs that should be universal. Yang claims to want universal programs, but he opposes a real Medicare for All. Keep painting with your brush if desperation. Non-viable candidates tend to lose about 2/3 of their entering votes in Iowa, so if he's in the 1% range when all is said and done, the notion that he is going to suddenly rise to power will all go away.
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  12503.  @cooloutac  I have to ask, why are the poor and disabled invisible to the Yang Gang?
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  12504.  @cooloutac  Okay, you are such a liar. Of course, you said they stack! What else does "That single parent [my example being someone with two children in daycare] would get $12k a year more" mean? I said they didn't, and used a single parent with children in daycare as an example of someone who would be hurt by the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend. Support a liar, start spouting lies, I guess. Good-bye! I don't waste my time on YouTube with dishonest people.
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  12505.  @cooloutac  That parent making $20,000/year and giving that up to stay home and get $12,000/year will not benefit. Are you not bright or are you a bot?
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  12506.  @alphatech1031  Except this is in response to actual evidence. There is no substance in your whataboutism post.
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  12507.  @SuperCroc69  Aoparently, you must be too stupid to understand the point that I am making. Mitch McConnell wants to force a vote for Medicare for All to kill it. Do you really think that Turtle wants Medicare for All to pass?
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  12508.  @mumfordmunsley2002  Do not lecture me about what Medicare for All will do. Unlike most of the people arguing for the kamikaze approach, I have actually done the work on the ground, and thousands of volunteers such as myself got two members in Philadelphia to sign on to the bill. Do you really think that demanding a vote for something where we are 100 members short is going to make it so? Do you really think that Pelosi is going to let it come up again and again and waste the limited time there is in the calendar? Do you not see how this will lead to hostility to anyone who might support us on anything else? And he doesn't attack the left and right equally. Even if he did, they are not equivalent, so that still isn't "balanced." He spends most of his time going after Democrats and then goes on to defend people like Tucker Carlson. If he really cared about Medicare for All, why did he justify Tulsi's flip flop on Medicare for All and insist that she was the One True Lefty?
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  12509.  @SuperCroc69  How did the second chance work on the Nixon plan? How about Hillarycare? Where are the extra 100 votes going to come from, or are you too stupid to not have thought of the second step in this "plan" like the other Underpants Gnomes?
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  12510.  @SuperCroc69  You are aware that the candidate who was arguing for Medicare for All during the pandemic lost, right? And the mere idea that you think that Republicans might go along with Medicare for All, when none of them were willing to go along with the ACA and have spent the last ten years trying to kill it, shows the magical thinking that is necessary to believe that this nonsense is a good idea. Oh, and the ACA was not Hillarycare, it was the Republican alternative to Hillarycare that Bill threatened to veto because it didn't go far enough. Any attempt at comprehensive health care reform that has failed saw the next incarceration asking for less than the one that failed. Those were literally the last two health care bills that got any steam at all before the ACA. Two bills in 38 years. That is why you don't go wasting chances on health care when you know it will fail.
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  12511.  @mumfordmunsley2002  Or you can do the hard work of organizing to get support in Congress. Look up your district. If your representative is not on the list of sponsors, call, write, sign petitions, and to the extent allowable, talk to your family, friends, and neighbors to get them to do the same. Find organizations that are doing so, and they will gladly give you tools to help you get started. If we aren't going to work for it, what do you expect to happen?
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  12512.  @SuperCroc69  1) I meant to say "incarnation," but autocorrect changed it and I didn't notice. 2) The Vice President Elect has no vote and also had her own proposal that could more accurately be described as Medciare Advantage for All. 3) Oh, dear God, how much more do you not know about the history of attempts at universal health care in this country? The individual mandate with subsidies and penalties was an idea first floated by the Heritage Foundation in 1989. It was the basis for the Republican alternative when Clinton offered Hillarycare, and he threatened to veto it. It was also the basis for what Massachusetts passed under Romney in 2006. 4) There is a certain degree of political will required. It took almost a year to get the ACA when going through committees. Apparently, you think that bills magically get through with very little opposition, especially something so major, that is almost as bad as arguing that Republicans might get on board. 5) Even if public support has increased (and no one can ever really know for sure because support can be cut in half depending on how the question is asked), if the public isn't going to do the work to organize, that doesn't mean a thing. All that matters is if you get to 218 & 50. We're at 118 & 13, and the President Elect said he wouldn't sign it. So, what are you actually doing to move the needle?
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  12513. The real question is whether or not Dems already have the majority. There might be some people who would prefer someone with the winning party in power.
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  12514.  @ryanisbelle6107  And she realized that she was wrong. It takes an adult to admit his/her mistakes. This argument also ignores the fact that there is a thing called a sponsor list that does hold people accountable or catch and release. There are three possible results if the vote is forced. 1) The sponsor list is accurate, and the bill fails spectacularly. 2) The Soft Yes members become Hard No, and you're farther away than before. 3) Pelosi uses catch and release and lets some of the more vulnerable incumbents in lefty districts vote Yes knowing that it will fail. Of course, those people will never vote Yes when it actually has a chance, so you are missing an easier chance to get a real supporter of the bill in the district. There was no grassroots movement behind this, as evidenced by my half of the conversation with the Dore Knob who deleted his comments. This was virtue signaling at its worst. If you really think it was going to work, how did Hillarycare go the second time around? Or the Nixon plan?
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  12515.  @sailordaigurren8225  They are Underpants Gnomes.
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  12516. 10:06 Pete Rose bet on the Reds to win, and 32 years later, he is still on the ineligible list.
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  12517. So, Bernie is your first choice, and you respond by defending a candidate who agreed with the notion that he doesn't love America?
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  12518.  @squeallymaniac  It was the Dave Rubin interview. He kept using these right-wing frames, and she went along with them on patriotism and immigration especially.
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  12519. At this point, I am wondering if he's still on the wagon. Regardless of your opinion of his product, something just doesn't seem right.
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  12520. 4:19 No, Emma, you are not even close. Yes, Justice got elected as a Democrat in 2016, but he switched parties in 2015 and endorsed Trump as the Democratic nominee. He is pretty hard right, and he is just as much of a jerk with his money as Trump (he is the only billionaire in West Virginia). My parents remembered the 2012 heat wave and ensuing blackout where people lost power for days and had to get food because no one's refrigerator worked, and Justice literally paid the electric company to come to his house first out in the middle of nowhere. He is also just as bad as Trump when it comes to stiffing contractors. This is just one of those things where there are strange bedfellows. Either that, or Justice is positioning himself to run against Manchin in 2024.
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  12521. Personally, I think that Trump losing the nomination will make it easier for Biden, because he will almost certainly run as a third-party candidate to get his revenge, and it's 1912 all over again. Debs even got 6% of the vote that time in Wilson still won in a landslide, so West wouldn't be able to spoil it.
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  12522. Agreed. I don't think he was right on the solution, but he had the problem nailed.
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  12523. Meanwhile, your hero Jimmy Dore fought against getting actual supporters of Medicare for All into Congress. Great plan!
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  12524. Weren't the Nuremberg Codes laws the Nazis used to discriminate against Jewish people? Does he think those were a good thing?
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  12525.  @haroldwhite5761  So, saying that you think that the President committed a crime and refusing to vote to impeach is courageous? Can you explain how?
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  12526.  @haroldwhite5761  And is it about conviction, or is it about politics? Arguing that it helps Trump is clearly contradictory. I would go so far as to say even if it hurts politically, it is the job of Congress to impeach a corrupt President when he/she commits crimes.
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  12527.  @chuletaization  What experts? There were hundreds who signed off that it was. She specifically said "he was guilty," and that is why she wouldn't vote No. The line about "partisan impeachment" is ridiculous if you just think for two seconds, because that means that if one side acts in bad faith and refuses to ever, ever, ever turn on their own, every impeachment vote would be "partisan." No, what takes courage is to take a stand. Anybody can refuse to take a stand. If she thought he was guilty, she should have voted Yes. If she didn't, she should have voted No. Censure isn't in the Constitution. Impeachment is. She almost certainly thought that it would play better than it did, as evidenced by so many people at her event the night of the debate asking about impeachment, and her decision to cancel several events over the next few days. She has an instinct for publicity, and she was learning the hard way that not everyone appreciates masking cowardice in courage. Go read Profiles in Courage. All of the examples of the book were people who took a stand, not people who appealed to some vague notion of centrism or compromise.
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  12528.  @chuletaization  The Al Capone example is perfectly relevant, because it's not what you think someone did (i.e., Emoluments Clause), but what you think you can convict on. While they are not exactly the same, they are similar enough to serve as an analogy.
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  12529. How much pressure does Trump face from the left?
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  12530. Also, did you see the tax proposal?
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  12531. ​ @alexpkeaton4471  Indeed. After hearing about the challenge, Olbermann agreed to match the donation based on how long he lasted. Mancow ultimately did do it, and didn't last long, but Olbermann did give to his charity.
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  12532. It's almost like decades of pursuing policies that the majority of Americans don't want but energized your base turned out to backfire. What a shock!
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  12533. I would say second-degree murder. There is deliberate action that is premeditated and leads to death, and you know that will happen.
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  12534. ​ @ILaunchNukes  No. Mueller found ten instances of obstruction of justice, but the thing that the Trump people say was proof of exoneration involved Mueller saying that they were beyond the scope of his investigation.
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  12535. ​ @Errr717  And the majority of Republicans didn't want to work with any Democrats to get to 218, so the Republican Party is a collection of nihilists and enablers.
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  12536. ​ @Bidenmadeamess  Says the person supporting a fascist who led a coup attempt.
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  12537.  @f_youtubecensorshipf_nazis  I think the point is that they are bridge burners rather than people who want productive relationships.
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  12538.  @f_youtubecensorshipf_nazis  Calling for someone to resign is different than saying "do better." And how do we know that they were the ones who got the charges?
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  12539.  @f_youtubecensorshipf_nazis  I didn't say don't pressure people. I said that "you are beyond redemption" works far differently than "you need to do better if you don't want me to vote you out."
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  12540.  @f_youtubecensorshipf_nazis  Have you ever worked better when someone tells you that you should quit your job?
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  12541. I never thought there would be a day when I saw this Court and thought that Clarence Thomas wouldn't be the worst and most corrupt member, but I was wrong.
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  12542. Biden 2020 is like Hillary 2016. She had these astronomical poll numbers in 2013 and '14 because she was seen as "out of/above politics." America's favorite politician is usually a former politician or one on the sidelines. Once people look at his statements and positions, he will he doomed.
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  12543. They aren't giving you money out of the kindness of their hearts. They are doing it because they think they can buy you. Even if they are wrong, what does it say about you that they think they can?
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  12544.  earth ocean  In the general. Like it or not, barring some unforeseen circumstance, either Donald Trump or Joe Biden will be President in January.
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  12545. You don't think I wrote those books? Just because I can't see doesn't mean I'm dumb?
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  12546.  @Mark-oi9rf  "oranges of our country," "United Shtatesh," "bigly" And the average Biden speech is at an eighth grade level. The average Trump speech? Third grade.
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  12547.  @Mark-oi9rf  I rarely even watch CNN. I said that I don't go to right wing sites to defend Biden. And my point w as that you have clearly made up your mind already, so you don't get the "alternative perspective" you desire. If I'm going to watch something from someone on the right, it tends to be print or digital rather than video.
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  12548. 0:35 And we also don't want to create a martyr.
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  12549. She does. The same slight lisp and everything.
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  12550.  @1369Stiles  Fundamentalism is a mentality rather than a specific set of beliefs. I'll give you an example. I have a brother. We both grew up in a fundamentalist environment. I rejected the fundamentalism as I got older but kept my faith. My brother insists that because I believe "let there be light" and the Big Bang Theory are the same thing and that the universe is billions of years old, I must be faking it and not taking the Bible seriously. He rejected his faith but kept his fundamentalism.
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  12551.  @1369Stiles  Wrong. I am still a Chrsitian. Fundamentalism is a splinter group within. If you insist that only fundamentalists really have religious beliefs, you are far more guilty of fundamentalist thought than you realize. Inerrancy as a doctrine is only about 200 years old. Inspiration was the original belief, and it is still the belief of the vast majority of Christians. Fundamentalism is almost always a reaction against something. I don't lump every atheist in with Stalin and Mao. The instant you try to lump Gandhi with Modi, King with Falwell, Ali with bin Laden, and Sanders with Prager, you're doing it wrong.
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  12552.  @1369Stiles  I just realized that I didn't answer your query. To borrow a format from Jeff Foxworthy: If you believe that all of the world's wars would end if people abandoned organized religion... If you believe that you are the only ones who use ration and logic... If you believe that everyone who disagrees with you is stupid and needs to be disabused of ignorance... If you believe that everyone who claims to have faith that doesn't agree with fundamentalist dogma is lying or insincere... You might be an atheist fundamentalist.
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  12553.  @1369Stiles  1) Dawkins has argued it, and I have heard other atheists agree with it. 2) The theist could also say that believing that something comes from nothing defies rationality. 3) No, an atheist fundamentalist wants everyone to agree with him/her and sees it as a failure when they don't. 4) You said that I am no longer religious, but merely theistic. Just because you didn't directly use the words "you are lying about your faith" doesn't mean that the intent wasn't there. 5) People can believe whatever they want. I am a firm believer in the first two clauses of the First Amendment. A lot of people of faith are. As a matter of fact, it was Baptists who led the charge, and the Danbury letter where Jefferson coined the phrase "wall of separation" that was written to a church. Washington thanked several churches for their lobbying for the religion clauses in the First Amendment. You can believe that you are right, and I can believe that I am right. I can acknowledge my potential to be wrong. When you insist that yours is the only rational approach, you are denying that possibility.
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  12554. Not necessarily. The rich will toss them on the fire with the rest of us when they are no longer convenient. College professors, for example, fall into this category, and that doesn't mean that they are actively oppressing workers or have contradictory interests to workers.
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  12555.  @Mehki227  "He's a crazy ex boyfriend." "What? No, I'm not." "He's a crazy ex boyfriend." "It's more complicated than that." "He's so broken insiiiide. C-R-A-Z-Y." "Okay, I get it!" "Crazy ex boyfriend."
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  12556.  @Mehki227  I'm quoting the theme song to season one of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. The "No, I'm not" stuff is the title character in denial.
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  12557.  @populistparty2010  Meanwhile, for those of us on Planet Earth, none of this is true. Silly me for trying to engage thinking that someone who would use the proud name of Populist Party might know what that actually meant.
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  12558. Well, they say that 2-4 is the worst time for children to experience family upheaval, so probably 2025-26.
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  12559.  @jiggerypokery3761  Those scare polls work both ways. When you ask people if they support their taxes going up even if it is a lower cost than their existing premiums, it goes up. If you ask them if they support it if it eliminates out of pocket expenses, same thing. The public option doesn't solve the fundamental problem.
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  12560. "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's. Render unto God the things that are God's." Jesus
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  12561.  @katrinadennis4320  Indeed. My uncle got polio and couldn't walk until he was five.
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  12562. Indeed. The ones who talk the most do the least.
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  12563. And give McConnell control of the Senate?
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  12564. I would say that they created a Frankenstein's monster, but anyone who has read the book knows that Victor was the real monster.
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  12565. Someone turn on Kool and the Gang.
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  12566.  @firerocket7343  No, he just lifted the cap on age, which makes sense given the fact that full retirement age for anyone born after 1960 is 67. Hopefully, he didn't just learn that. He still doesn't offer the full $1000 to people getting other benefits, and he poorly defines "existing benefits." At the very least, it seems like he includes TANF & SNAP, but makes no mention of things like daycare subsidies and LIHEAP.
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  12567.  @TechnoEstate  People like you said the same thing in 2000 and 2016. How did that work out? The mere fact that the architects of each movement now deny it tells me all I need to know. What makes you think it would work out any differently this time?
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  12568.  @TechnoEstate  In 2000, the Nader supporters insisted that swinging the election to Bush would lead to a lefty renaissance that the establishment couldn't ignore. We got Kerry. Ditto 2016, and we got Biden. Your mission objectively failed by any standard. If you throw things to Trump this time and we have an election in 2024, it will be another establishment candidate. You sound like these people who insist that just a little bit longer with sanctions and the Castro regime will crack. Not to mention the millions suffering now, hence multiple prominent Never Biden people admitting that their tantrum was an act of privilege.
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  12569. Of course, they've damaged it. If the government can't do a vaccine rollout right in your opinion, how are you going to roll out a multi-trillion dollar overhaul of the medical industry with government taking a much greater role? The anti government left has hurt this way more than they know.
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  12570. To the tune of Bonanza: "Dun dun dun dun dun shiny scalpel/ dun dun dun dun dun gonna slice him up." "The Todd" Quinlan
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  12571. AOC 2024!
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  12572.  @DonLicuala  What was the population of those states? Regardless, more people voted against him than for him.
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  12573.  @KingJT80  If it didn't make other innocent people sick, I would agree, but their stupidity harms everyone, including us.
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  12574.  Truth Willout  Mine are that big orange dummy, Dear Leader, and Der Orangefuhrer. The last two didn't get added until after he won the last time.
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  12575. And as horrible as the murders were, if you watch the Netflix miniseries, it talks about some of the things that he didn't get charged with because they wanted to spare the living witnesses the trauma of testifying. He would also take children out of their bedrooms, rape and molest them, and leave them in a gas station with a quarter so they could call someone to rescue them. He was truly evil.
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  12576.  @NotBatman101  I like to think of a couple points behind. Not so far back as to feel discouraged (in track, I did better when I was in the front based on people of my own ability) but close enough to be able to swing it with a hard push.
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  12577.  Jeffrey Hittepole  That's pretty much how it works in each state and territory. It takes an absolute majority (1990) of pledged delegates to win in the first round. If it deadlocks, superdelegates come back into the picture, and the magic number becomes 2373. After the first round, pledged delegates are no longer bound.
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  12578.  @MakaveliDior  I thought Shane said that.
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  12579. "He's a pretend populist." Literally everyone on the right who claims the label is a fake populist. The real deal doesn't want tax cuts for rich people. Anyone who has ever read the "Cross of Gold" speech or listened to a recreation by Bryan when he was older on YouTube knows that populism is not a style, it is about doing right for the people.
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  12580. 12:31 and this is why UBI is insufficient to address automation. It is best completed after we have the systemic changes such as making sure that workers benefit and providing a sufficient social safety net. Otherwise, we'll end up with a few trillionaires and everyone else scraping by on $1000/month that may or may not be indexed for inflation.
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  12581. Also never forget that Bill Gates is more than twice as rich as he was when he said that he was "giving all of his money away."
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  12582. Tony Luke's are criminals with ties to Der Orangestraflingfuhrer? Yet another reason why I'm glad I get my cheesesteaks at Larry's rather than pay way too much for a name. PS It's not "Tony and Luke's," but "Tony Luke's," which is the Anglicized version of the founder's name. His son is now the face of the company in advertisements listed as Tony Luke Jr.
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  12583.  Bringette Awnn  Says the person who can't tell the difference between plural possessive and a name that ends with an S.
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  12584.  @uzoma1541  There are 125 programs that he will force people to choose between. My guess is that as many as 40% of the poorest and disabled will fall into that category.
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  12585. And what do you do when it fails?
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  12586.  @anaeusrex2014  That's not shooting it down. The filibuster is the act of people who don't have the votes. Why do you think that Democrats didn't filibuster Robert Bork? They knew they could defeat him outright.
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  12587.  @anaeusrex2014  Also, how did the second vote go with the proposals of Nixon and Clinton? Other than the ACA, those are literally the only three attempts at universal or near-universal health care to make it to the floor of Congress. Those are your antecedents, not something that got filibustered.
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  12588.  @anaeusrex2014  What action have you actually taken? Funny that the Dore cultists almost never have an answer for that question.
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  12589.  @anaeusrex2014  Not a Pelosi or McConnell fan, just someone who understands basic math. I will continue to do what those of us in Philadelphia did as part of a grassroots movement to build support for the bill. (I did my effort with DSA and Philly for Bernie, and other groups such as Health Care 4 All PA and Neighborhood Networks played a part.) You call and write your elected officials, sign petitions, and then go to your family, friends, and neighbors and get them to di the same. Our efforts led to two members (Dwight Evans and Brendan Boyle) signing on to the bill. Reminding people of just how far we have to go, and probably making the list useless because either a) the Soft Yes members will be alienated, or b) a lot of opponents who are vulnerable to a primary threat will vote for it to try to stave off that threat knowing that it won't pass. Did you not notice how many people thought Tulsi Gabbard was a lefty hero after endorsing Bernie even after her 2020 campaign where she ran to the right of every Democratic candidate not named Michael Bloomberg? In order to get it to pass, you need 218 & 50. We're at 118 & 13. What makes you think that if you "force the vote" you'll get the 100 votes in the House, the 37 in the Senate, and the signature of a President who said he wouldn't sign it? A proposal straight out of the Underpants Gnomes won't get there.
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  12590.  @anaeusrex2014  Oh, and you still didn't answer the question of what you have done to build support for the bill.
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  12591.  @anaeusrex2014  No, we are the ones who actually did organize door to door. And when Rosa Parks refused to move, who were the majority of people who used the bus in Montgomery? They had the leverage and they knew it. You think we have the leverage, but we don't. And if you think that you are really "having a national conversation" because if Twitter and comment sections, you have a long way to go indeed. The needle has not moved. If anything, it has solidified behind a public option given how many people who think they'll keep their private insurance. So, basically you are bragging about wanting to give the Presidency over to a literal fascist who is trying to get rid of democracy in order to stay in power and got the majority of his party in the House and attorneys general offices to go along with him? No wonder you are advocating for such a flawed proposal. It is not a strategy or even a plan, because there is no step two.
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  12592.  @mikeytopaz4601  Jimmy Dore doesn't advance any "progressive populist" agenda as long as he only criticizes Democrats and tells people that Trump is better. And anyone who takes the route of trying to throw elections to Republicans if Democrats don't give them everything they want and changing demands when they get it isn't communicating the message, either. Just because you don't like how math works doesn't make Sam Seder any less accurate. If your so worried that the message isn't getting out there, why don't you do it?
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  12593.  @mikeytopaz4601  "leveraging their power (again, which those Republicans demonstrated clearly can be done)" You know why it works on their side? Because they just want to blow things up. Is that what you want? Because it sure sounds like it. Even the defenders of vote forcing knew that the vote would fail. So, what's your next step?
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  12594.  @WeAreItt  Yes, it is impossible to agree with the Queen of Bad Faith for anything other than her identity. Literally no one who criticized her in this thread brought it up. Ever critique was based on the substance of her argument and the many things she has done to show that she isn't trustworthy.
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  12595. He's always had a libertarian streak, so I'm surprised it took this long.
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  12596. I remember when someone was surprised when I said that Bernie is to my left, but I support him, because the compromise will be what I want in the end. i.e., if you want a dollar, ask for two instead of a quarter, because if you ask for a quarter you'll only get a dime at most.
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  12597. My understanding was that it was a four-way race and the third place candidate won because the last place candidate was eliminated in each round. I would prefer that the top two only make it in rather than last place getting eliminated. That way, the person who wins gets a broad range of support.
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  12598. @vl2 It's not about the fact that he is losing his hair. It's the fact that he thinks that people don't realize that is why he wears a hat like he's Mike Love.
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  12599. Every dollar you give Tulsi is a dollar you can't send Bernie, and given her record and her playing Biden's wing woman in hopes of the VP slot, it seems like someone who is reverting to type.
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  12600. ​ @stevc1122  Plenty of white people live in Hawaii.
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  12601. "You could just as easily say that God keeps sending would-be assassins to try to kill him. This is just ridiculous!" David Pakman
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  12602.  @conservativedragon  The irony of being anti-vaccine while invoking a war that couldn't have been one without the very first vaccine.
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  12603.  @changingworld7467  She praised Putin for bombing civilians in Syria while complaining that Obama didn't. That is "something to do with Putin" to me.
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  12604. @jshowa o They weren't taken at random. There was a list based on historical accuracy. She didn't have any problem with the standards when she made the debate stage before. Why wasn't she speaking out for Gravel or Moulton or Messam or Sestak? It's because it affected her, and if she got in, she wouldn't be complaining now.
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  12605. @jshowa o If they went by the RCP average, there would only be seven candidates on stage, with Booker, Castro, and Klobuchar disappearing. Tulsi never once complained on behalf of any of the other candidates who didn't qualify for either of the first two debates, and if sue qualified, she wouldn't be complaining, either. The irony is it all is that you are asking for a stricter standard where she still doesn't qualify.
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  12606.  @changingworld7467  She couched it in "going after al-Qaeda," but all evidence showed that it turned out to be a civilian area. It's not my fault that sue has such a sketchy history when it comes to dictators.
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  12607. I remember the Ron Paul people started to embrace that movie in 2007 with their first moneybomb.
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  12608. Here's my question: why was it even an option? At the point Will Smith said No, Security should have said Yes.
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  12609.  The1Returner  Well, I think that each are bad in their own ways. I would say that Alyssa Milano is probably doing more damage just because more people take her seriously.
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  12610. People voted for that big orange dummy believing his lies about egg prices. I bought a dozen eggs of the store brand yesterday at $6.59. The last time I bought a dozen eggs at the store in the Biden years they cost four in December. How did that work out for us?
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  12611. It will only be a comedy if people like this are ultimately defeated.
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  12612.  @JohnCarterRocks  Presidents have been influencing legislation since Washington.
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  12613.  @JohnCarterRocks  You can say it all you want, but literally every President played a role in whipping legislation if anything ever got passed. When they solely deferred to Congress, nothing ever did get done. And what are you defining as an "executive solution"?
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  12614.  @JohnCarterRocks  What are some examples? You're making a circular argument hete.
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  12615.  @JohnCarterRocks  The point was that half of those things that you are listing that only a President can do involve Congress or legislation. And, it turns out that Bernie did talk about things that had to do with the rest. The mere fact that you included "make suggestions about things that should be new laws" completely defeats your entire argument that Presidents are far too involved in the legislative process."
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  12616.  @JohnCarterRocks  He talked about trade many, many times. That is done through treaties, and that is something a President can do according to your list. Nice try, bantamweight.
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  12617.  @JohnCarterRocks  Presidents negotiate them. Try again, bantamweight.
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  12618.  @JohnCarterRocks  1) Bernie also talked about TPP, and how people talk about the trade agreements they like or don't like that already exist is a good clue of what kind of trade agreements they will want in the future. 2) Apparently, you missed the point that most of the things that you listed were about things that Presidents do with Congress. That was my point that you refuse to accept because you want to stand on some semantic argument of pretending that the roles of the executive and legislative branches don't overlap.
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  12619.  @the_productionz2960  That may be the most ridiculous argument I've ever heard. Thank you for demonstrating that conspiracy theorists don't actually care about facts or evidence.
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  12620.  @raymonddeflaviis2306  How do you define freedom? If you go back far enough, all property is stolen, so why is that the one thing that those with a libertarian streak seem to care about above all others?
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  12621.  @raymonddeflaviis2306  I said "libertarian streak," which in this case is emphasizing property when talking about freedom without ever saying what it means to those saying it.
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  12622. Who would have predicted that the ADL would be defending a Nazzty salute in 2025? Not me.
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  12623. One thing the New Atheists ignore or explain away is that there were literally tens of millions killed in the previous century by those explicitly trying to get rid of a theistic religion.
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  12624.  @the_REAL_Pearl_  Fifty years
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  12625. Few people are as good at quoting pop culture and as bad at understanding it as Ted Cruz.
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  12626.  @mjchakos1  If you're not sure what my point is, that's because your right-wing goggles won't let you see plainly the example. The point is that there is good debt (buying a house) and there is bad debt (buying a sportscar). You can handle much more of the good kind because it leads to long-term benefits. While you clearly missed the sarcasm of another comment, tax cuts for the rich is not one of those things.
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  12627. If his name were Donald John, no one would have ever heard of him.
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  12628. Let me make sure I understand this. One of the complaints made by Brexit advocates is that the EU set the tariffs and let imports come into the UK with too little restriction, and a non-EU UK will lower tariffs? Okay, what is Brexit really about?
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  12629. That's because they know he'll fight. I remember a poli sci professor whose husband was connected with investors in fossil fuels. For the most part, they didn't really care about who the Democratic nominee was regardless of the rhetoric... until Al Gore, because they knew that he meant it.
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  12630. Wasn't Roy Cohn Moscow Donald's Roy Cohn?
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  12631.  @Foxbetscrazy  Trump oversaw a net loss of manufacturing jobs, while Biden oversaw a net gain. General tariffs lead to trade wars, and everyone loses a trade war. The trade deficit went up.
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  12632.  @kaiza6467  I think he was emphasizing that Bernie didn't in addition to not inheriting it.
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  12633. And when did Ukraine bomb Russian hospitals, again?
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  12634. Matt, you might think that this isn't the ideal strategy, but what evidence do we have to the contrary? Biden gave the left more than we've gotten in my lifetime, and you spent all your time complaining about the 10% that you didn't get instead of the 90% you did, along with gratuitous swipes over age. Maybe, just maybe, if so many on the left weren't such malcontents, it wouldn't convince the normies that we're ineffective so we can actually win going to the left. The one Presidential candidate in my lifetime who legitimately tried to win going left was Bernie, and his second time around showed that a lot of his votes the first time were people just not liking Hillary and he happened to catch the wave. We need to be better if we want better policies.
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  12635. Well, everyone else knew for over a month. I guess it took that long for her to realize it as well.
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  12636.  @credman  Except we're seeing plenty of evidence already that this is the case in several races in special elections. It works for them in the deep red areas, but that is it.
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  12637.  @DaemonJax  People who thought that he was his character.
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  12638.  @dalekrenegade2596  Indeed. And could it be any more cultish that they say that he is the only truth teller?
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  12639.  @prodemocracyseth  I have known plenty of stupid people who talk just like that and aren't, and I've tangled with enough people online who think that it is a miracle drug to not discount it out of hand.
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  12640.  @prodemocracyseth  Malcolm is clearly saying that you saw sarcasm that wasn't there.
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  12641.  @allprogressivesarechildgro6809  Sam Seder never said it was a hoax. Why do you have to lie, Aaron? Are you just trying to convince yourself?
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  12642.  @MetalDetroit  So, the military and interstate highways aren't run at the federal level? You could save yourself a lot of embarrassment just by admitting that your talking point is wrong.
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  12643.  @MetalDetroit  Not perfectly, and the latter would work much better if not for anti-tax ideologues such as yourself, but they both do their job far better than the private sector could do.
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  12644.  @MetalDetroit  Then why were revenues so low in the 2000s? Why did so little of the last tax bill go to anything other than stock buybacks? At a certain point, I just start to feel sorry for people who live in their ideological bubbles. Fact: the economy grew faster and more people reaped those benefits in the 35 years after WWII (when the top tax rate was never below 70%) than in the last 38 years (where it was never above 50%). Do you just try to say false things, or are you just that poorly informed?
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  12645.  @MetalDetroit  Revenue as a percentage of GDP, and the fact that the Bush tax cuts ended up resulting in a revenue drop of $2.9T over a ten-year total according to the CBO, far more than the $2T they were supposed to cost. I could also point out the fact that the two worst recessions since 1933 both occurred under Presidents who accepted Reaganomics (1982-83, 2008-09), which coincidentally also produced the highest unemployment since the Great Depression (10.8% in 1983 and 10.2% in 2009). You're still failing basic economic history. I almost forgot, re: stock buybacks, just because some companies are doing R&D doesn't mean all of them are. The ones that are ended up doing so in a way that will speed automation, similar to what Carrier did after those jobs were "saved."
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  12646.  @MetalDetroit  The Great Recession was caused by deregulating Wall Street and big banks. There was another smaller bailout during the Clinton years, and Reagan had to bailout the S&Ls to the tune of $350B after he deregulated them. Yes, too many Democrats went along, but that deregulating finance was conservative dogma, and still is given all the talk of how Dodd-Frank went too far. You know what else increased in the Bush years? Population, to the tune of about 15%. Did revenue increase by 15%? It did not. It only increased by 5%.
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  12647.  @markmoses4646  You are aware that it takes more than a majority to pass a Constitutional amendment, right? There is a difference between something that can get a majority but not a supermajority, and something that is guaranteed to fail miserably by any standard. So, let's just assume for a minute that the real goal was to "expose" the opponents of the bill and the sponsorship list is meaningless. Are you familiar with the concept of catch and release for legislation?
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  12648.  @markmoses4646  Catch and release is where the person doing the whip count allows members in vulnerable districts to switch their votes once it is obvious that the votes are there for the desired result. The most accurate quote about this came from Barney Frank in 2005: "There is no such thing as a moderate Republican. They may say that they only vote with the President 70% of the time, but they vote with him 100% of the time when he needs their vote." It was pioneered by Tom DeLay when he was House Majority Whip. So, given that this is a thing, how is forcing any vote going to expose anyone? Given that we are 100 votes short, members in super-lefty districts can easily get the green light to vote Yes even though they would never do so if there was the slightest chance that it would succeed. Forcing the Vote in 2019 would have cut the legs out from under the Bowman campaign.
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  12649.  @markmoses4646  Civil rights legislation got filibustered. Again, this is something that had majority support. You don't just being something up to feel good or stroke your ego. Showing weakness doesn't build support for the bill. If anything, the more likely result is to turn a Soft Yes into a Hard No. So, what have you done to actually build support for Medicare for All and getting sponsors, keeping in mind that YouTube comments don't count?
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  12650.  @markmoses4646  People wouldn't know the vote switched until years later when the composition of Congress has changed, so it is pretty obvious that a basic understanding of this tactic makes the tactic you are advocating completely ineffective.
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  12651.  @markmoses4646  I don't think that you understood my point at all. 58% is a whole lot more than 27% or 13%. That is showing the weakness.
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  12652.  @tomuchtosay16  How did that work for Yang, Booker, and Gabbard. One got out before any votes, one got out after failing to break 5% in either of the first two contests, and the other ended up with one delegate in American Samoa after literally moving to New Hampshire and finishing seventh. Don't lump Bernie in with that group.
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  12653.  @Demo5  Corbyn was also hurt by the Brexit Party only running candidates against a Labour incumbent. Most of the seats in the North that the Tories won weren't because people rushed to Johnson (most seats showed Tories either losing a little or gaining a point or two), but Brexit took away Labour votes. He also had the bad luck of being part of the one party that had legitimate regional differences on the most important issue of the election. Clement Atlee himself couldn't have threaded that needle.
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  12654.  @Demo5  Understood. I get the idea of expanding the electorate, and while you might get some never voters or occasional voters, you can't really rely on that model. My main point was that Labour in 2019 was really more of a perfect storm of bad luck than anything mixed with more than a dash of Blair wing sabotage.
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  12655. I'm not surprised. I remember ten years ago when a couple of right-wingers asked me why I was so passionate about "socialized medicine," and I told them that my mom had to wait eight months to get a gallbladder surgery when I was in 5th grade because we didn't have health insurance at the time and three weeks earlier my brother had broken his arm, so any hospital insisted on a down payment for the surgery. In that time, the gallbladder became gangrenous, but by a miracle she's still here (I get the title of this channel, but that's what I consider it that her gangrenous gallbladder didn't rupture in those eight months). They were silent for a few minutes and then asked why my dad didn't apply for Medicaid, which a) they both hated, and b) in WV in 1991, Medicaid was only for children, and he made less than $100/year too much to qualify even if she would have been eligible. No heart at all on the American right.
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  12656.  @evolvedape3341  What the Republicans have been doing for decades is changing the system to benefit them. Biden won by 7MM votes, but a shift of 44,000 votes in the right places would have shifted the election to Trump. Did Republicans respond by asking why they have only won the popular vote once in the last eight elections? No, they responded with 165 bills to try to make it harder for people to vote to freeze their power in its place because they have abandoned democracy. I think that a Parliamentary system is not going to fundamentally change anything, but I don't pretend that the party that doesn't want people to vote isn't trying to change the rules of the game, either. Let's be real about what is happening here.
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  12657.  @readellwatson1112  We say plenty. It's not our fault that nobody wants to cover it. The religious right has insisted they are the true members of the faith, and because loud and obnoxious gets all of the attention, a lot of the press want to ignore the left. I remember when Wolf Blitzer was interviewing Paul Begala (named after the pope when he was born who named his firstborn son after the pope when he was born) and Robert Novak (who converted late in life). The pope was in the news, and Blitzer described them as "two good Catholics, well, maybe not Paul." Needless to say, Begala didn't like it, but this ignoring the religious left (at least among white people) happens a lot.
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  12658.  @robinsss  Where is the evidence of this? You keep saying that over and over again, so you surely have a study that points to this.
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  12659.  @robinsss  So, you logically start from the position that police can't possibly be racist, so you work backward to find a justification? If I were going to spam every thread with something, I'd at least try to use actual evidence. I get that just talking about the way things you want to be is appealing to libertarians, but I thought your kind hated authority.
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  12660.  @joncoda365  Thank you. Even if someone wants to see if there is a logical reason why this is all just one big misunderstanding like a Three's Company rerun, have at it, but test your hypothesis and see if it has any merit, especially the idea that, in order for it to be correct, not only are black people more likely to sell drugs outdoors, but that tendency increased in the last eight years even though they would face more scrutiny. Drug dealers are not stupid. Surely, they would realize when there are places where they are more likely to get caught.
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  12661.  @robinsss  Oh, my God! Are you really playing the semantics game? You said it when you said, "I started with the factual racial disparity and asked 'Is there a logical non-racial way we could have arrived at this disparity?'" (grammar cleaned up) And you keep saying that white people do drug deals indoors, but you show no evidence. And someone who is motivated to make an excuse for others had better offer more than just an assertion.
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  12662.  @robinsss  And where are these police chiefs who supposedly all agree that black people deal drugs outside, and white people deal drugs inside, who aren't trying to cover for racist cops when they get put on the spot? And do you think that black people became more likely to deal outside during the Buttigieg years? Adam and Eve had better fig leaves than you do.
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  12663.  @robinsss  Link please. And you clearly miss the point that the ratio of black drug arrests to white drug arrests increased in the last eight years in South Bend.
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  12664.  @robinsss  Still haven't provided evidence other than one quote without any link or any evidence that the person used.
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  12665.  @robinsss  And Buttigieg himself insisted that overall drug arrests went down, so that theory doesn't work, either. Anything else you're ready to pull out of your butt to see if it works?
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  12666.  @robinsss  The question was about the ratio. He tried to make the argument that the raw numbers dropped. If that was wrong, the fact checkers would have been all over that one.
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  12667.  @robinsss  Yes, because the ratio increased. Well, congratulations on removing all doubt that you just don't want to admit that there is a racial component while playing the stupid criminal argument. You're making my argument better than I ever could.
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  12668.  @robinsss  It is completely logical to note that you have no evidence for your assertion.
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  12669.  @robinsss  That black people deal drugs outdoors and white people deal indoors. Your underlying assumption for your entire argument is one big [citation needed].
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  12670.  @robinsss  Oh, so since you now can't find the quote, you're basing it on something that you saw in a video from 30 years ago? That is hilarious. Maybe the reason why the only evidence you have is a quote that you can't find and anecdotal evidence from videos decades ago is because the evidence just isn't there.
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  12671.  @robinsss  I didn't say no one deals drugs outdoors. I said that you have no evidence about it being more likely. If you want to keep making your argument look awful, go right ahead. Just like every other libertarian online, you can't admit to a mistake, so your defense gets more and more desperate with each reply.
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  12672. I think Schumer would fear losing 30% in the primary because someone else might come along and get more the next time.
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  12673.  @LethalBubbles  Indeed. Then again, as far as someone leaving the job, if the worker gets paid better and treated better, as well as maybe some profit sharing, wouldn't that make workers far more likely to stay where they are?
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  12674.  @tannermcnabb4836  So, you want to respond to an objection to an ageist argument against democracy by saying that the real goal is a different argument against democracy? When Iived in West Virginia, it was my right to vote to give Robert C. Byrd a ninth term in 2006, and 63% of voters agreed with me. When I moved to Pennsylvania, it was my right to vote against giving Arlen Specter a sixth term in 2010, and 54% of primary voters agreed. If turnover is something that really bothers voters, they can vote people out. Now that you're talking about an idea that has proven to give more power to unelected staffers who are less accountable to voters, you're saying that you want to force AOC into retirement at age 41. Why do you hate democracy so much?
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  12675.  @tannermcnabb4836  The standard term limit proposal is 12 years. Even if you went with 20, that still forces her into retirement at age 49. Now, tell me how this is reasonable. If you like Bernie and AOC, why propose something that would kick him out of office and something that would force her out at a young age? Or did you just maybe stop to think that blanket solutions to "I don't like who other people vote for, so I want to make it so that no one can ever vote for someone like that person ever again"? And, ultimately, that's what age an term limits is: changing the rules because you don't like who wins. Yes, people vote for familiar names, but incumbents lose all the time. If people really want someone else, they'll vote out the incumbent. AOC is there because she beat not only an incumbent, but an incumbent in leadership who was being groomed to take over. Saying "it's too hard" isn't a reason to get rid of the actual good people.
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  12676.  @tannermcnabb4836  I didn't respond to your minimum age statement because you didn't respond to me. A minimum age is perfectly reasonable because someone has to have some lived experiences. And I support lowering the voting age to 16, btw. Ignoring the ageism (and several people have pointed it out so far), as people live longer, you are talking about forcing people to pasture. A century ago, not many people lived past 80, but now the average life expectancy at birth is 79. Quite a few people function well well into their 90s. Seeing this particular 89-year-old be well past it and come up with the idea "nobody over 70 should hold public office" is a bad take. And speaking of things you told others, so what if your proposal would arrive too late to take out Bernie? It might arrive on time to take out the next Bernie. Instead of getting mad that someone would criticize your awful idea and your tendencies toward opposing democracy, maybe look at those ideas and why a reflexive notion of wanting to take away the right for people to vote for someone they want because of age or experience might be bad.
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  12677.  @tannermcnabb4836  Term and age limits are anti-democracy. It is telling people that they can't vote for someone over a certain age or over a certain number of times because you don't like who they vote for. How is that pro-democracy or not ageist?
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  12678.  @tannermcnabb4836  I don't like Presidential term limits, but I realize that support is not there to get rid of them. Was America ill served by having FDR as President during WWII? The only term limits I could get behind at the federal level are for judges, and that is because they are appointed. And those Presidents who used the power of government to stifle opposition over decades were not the result of tenure, but of a weak democracy with no one able to put up a fight. Since a long time in office "inevitably" leads to making the head of government untouchable, why didn't that happen when someone went past two terms nationally? Why was Andrew Cuomo forced out in the middle of his third term as governor? You say it's "inevitable," but there are plenty of counterexamples.
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  12679.  @tannermcnabb4836  Ah, but there's where you completely miss the point. When you make blanket rules, you ignore the exception where someone who does a job well who the people want to stay in power, and you say, "Well, it doesn't work in this other case, so that's too bad." Because you want the rule, the burden is on you to prove that it never works. Since I found an example of someone who held an executive office for more than two terms where it did work, I have successfully proven my case.
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  12680.  @tannermcnabb4836  And that's why saying, "I like Bernie and AOC" doesn't work as a defense on legislative term and age limits, either, because they still wouldn't be allowed to serve past some arbitrary point that you say is too long. The exceptions are the point. I want the people to decide, and you want to take that power away. I don't like Mitch McConnell, but the people of Kentucky made the call that he gets to stay, and that's democracy.
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  12681.  @tannermcnabb4836  And speaking of avoiding the question, I tagged you with the question of what is pro-democracy and not ageist about age and term limits, and you didn't answer. Since you don't like me categorizing it as opposing democracy (and your argument has literally been about not liking who people choose), then why avoid the question of why I'm wrong in categorizing it as such.
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  12682.  @lucboy13  You're actually capable of more than copy and paste :-0
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  12683. His support is pure Obama nostalgia. Once the debates start and people realize that he is selling "No, We Can't!" he will come back down to earth, and people will remember why he has never made it past Iowa in his previous two campaigns.
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  12684. "The fact that Trump is cognitively impaired." Freudian slip, Vivek?
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  12685. Their plan is to hope people forget their absolute and total incompetence in fixing any problem and rely on the fact that some people seem to think that the President is a king who can just get anything at the drop of a hat and not realize that their obstruction is the problem and that giving them more power only encourages more obstructionism.
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  12686. ​@MadReese69 She's not running to be President. She is running to be Der Orangefuhrer's running mate.
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  12687. He seems like someone who is a Republican because where he lives the primary is the only game in town. When I grew up in WV, and it was still the bluest state in America (WV voted for 14 of 17 Democratic Party Presidential nominees from 1932-96, and Minnesota and Massachusetts was tied for second with 13), I hardly ever saw a Republican run for anything below the statewide level. In Philadelphia where I live now, in the most liberal part of town, it is the same way. When one party dominates, there are a lot of people who join it just because they want to have a say in local elections. (Someone in my office who lives in Delaware County is a registered Republican for the same reason.) This guy is a Democrat in all but name.
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  12688.  BLACK LIVES AGAINST GAYS  Because when I think "gay agenda," I think the man who won't have dinner with a gay couple unless he can specify that he in no way respects their union.
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  12689. When will someone call his bluff? He's going to appeal anyway, so just get a sentence out there into the ether so we all know the stakes.
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  12690. Isn't this the same thing that Hubter Biden is getting indicted for?
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  12691.  @protennis365  Trying to buy a gun when you aren't allowed is also against the law.
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  12692.  @Ms.K001  Give me a year, or a rough era. Surely, you have an idea of when these halcyon days were. Why is it so hard to get people on the right to give the time when we lost our way?
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  12693.  @Ms.K001  So, America was great until six months ago, but the time was "before white liberals gained power and popularity," which was 88 years ago? Nice to see the bad faith efforts continuing in full force.
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  12694.  @Ms.K001  In further proof of your dishonesty, you changed it from 2017 to 2020. And if that is really your answer, you are once again showing how ridiculous your argument is. 2017 was a nadir of power for the left in this country. What power have we gained in the meantime? Yes, we got the House and a few state legislatures, but that's about it.
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  12695. How he missed the idea of making money off it is the most baffling thing of all. Not because he is a great businessman, but because he puts his name on everything like a kid going to summer camp. A couple months before the election, I took my daughter to a mini-golf/ petting zoo place, and there was this family wearing MAGA masks. My initial thought (that I obviously kept to myself) was "At least they're wearing masks," and then, "Trump could have made a killing selling these with his crazy base."
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  12696. She is no saint, but she is objectively less bad than the people trying to force her out.
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  12697.  @AnthonyGarcia-kr9vu  You know who else endorsed Hillary? Tulsi. And she just showed that she has the spine of an amoeba with this vote. Take a stand, or stay home.
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  12698.  @AnthonyGarcia-kr9vu  So, you think that all Presidents willfully violate the Emoluments Clause and blackmail foreign leaders to dig up dirt? If they do, then they should be impeached, until they get the hint that doing so will get this scarlet letter on your obituary. If you want to defend lawlessness, go ahead, but that is not courage.
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  12699.  @AnthonyGarcia-kr9vu  If Tulsi really had the courage of her conviction, she would have voted No. Present is No for cowards.
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  12700.  @twoshedsjohnson8540  No one said she didn't pay in. You insisted that she only got back what she put in because she "paid into it for her whole life," even though she only paid in for five years. If you believe receiving government benefits is wrong, and then you insist that it is different when you get it (plenty of other people paid into Social Security when she said they were parasites), that is hypocrisy. As far as my ability to think through things rationally, I'm not the one who used the Constituion for my ideological argument out of desperation only to accuse someone of being irrational when that person asked what part of the Constitution backs up your argument. Surely, a rational person such as yourself could answer such a question.
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  12701. Trump knows about heavyweight, but only in the literal sense.
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  12702.  @LinkRocks  As long as they keep whining that it needs to be bipartisan, you need to keep the pressure up. Don't let up until it is done.
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  12703.  @tristanmaxwell8403  Even though a third of everyone who serves in war is in a reserve component? You know, if you didn't go the Super Troopers route, you wouldn't have such problems. All you had to do was respect the Twenty-sixth Amendment to save yourself from it.
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  12704.  @tristanmaxwell8403  How do you define "debunked"?
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  12705.  @tristanmaxwell8403  Because of porn spammers, a lot of YouTube channels won't let you post links. Umberto Eco grew up during Italian fascism, and he was a historian and researcher, so his credentials are secure. He wrote a list of 14 traits that all developing fascist movements (which he called Ur-Fascism) share. Here is the list. Tell me which of these you think don't apply to Donald Trump and his movement: 1) The cult of tradition 2) The rejection of modernism 3) The cult of action for action's sake 4) Disagreement is treason 5) Fear of difference 6) Fear of social frustration 7) The obsession with a plot 8) The enemy is both strong and weak 9) Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy 10) Contempt for the weak 11) Everybody is educated to become a hero 12) Machismo and weaponry 13) Selective populism 14) Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak
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  12706.  @FlyingT20  "Increasing more civic opportunities for younger voters" by changing the Constitution to make them pass a test to be able to vote? Yeah, that makes sense.
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  12707.  @christianbrooks9155  The problem is not whether or not people can pass a test. The problem, as literacy tests have proven, is that tests can be used to keep "those people" from voting based on how they are evaluated. Anyone who actually knows history and understands civics knows why such a test is antithetical to democracy.
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  12708.  @christianbrooks9155  "A republic NOT a democracy" shows that, not only do you hate democracy, but you don't understand the definition of republic. All a republic means is that there is no monarch. You can be a republic and a democracy (such as France and Germany) or a republic and not a democracy (such as China and Vietnam). You can put whatever lipstick you want on your "my party performs poorly with younger voters so I'll just take away their right to vote" pig all you want, but it's still a pig.
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  12709.  @FlyingT20  Let me help you out. There are a limited number of "civic opportunities" out there. Making it more difficult for people to vote is going to make it less likely that elected officials pay any attention to them. Your up is down logic might work other places, but not here.
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  12710.  @FlyingT20  "It is not a literacy test, it is an multiple choice test" Yes, because standardized tests can never be manipulated to make it easier for people to fail. "He should have thought about how it would be perceived" Because taking away the rights of people is a perception problem, and never the intentions of authoritarians who want to reduce the impact of a voting bloc that they know is one of the least likely to vote for them. And, you know what. I don't care how easy the test is. It is about taking away the right of certain people that Vivek Ramaswamy deems unworthy to vote, and that should make the blood of anyone who loves this country run cold.
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  12711.  @FlyingT20  I called Trump a fascist. I called Vivek an authoritarian. All fascists are authoritarian, but not all authoritarians are fascist. And, yes, wanting to take away the right of people to vote who are one of the most likely to vote against you is a total authoritarian move.
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  12712.  @FlyingT20  "No rights are being taken away." Now: Everyone over the age of 18 is allowed to vote. If Vivek gets his way: only people aged 18-24 who can pass a test or perform a job that he deems worthy will be eligible to vote. It doesn't take a genius to realize that plenty of people will lose their right to vote under this system. Just because you are too dishonest to admit that this is the case doesn't make it any less so.
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  12713.  @FlyingT20  Will people not be able to vote under his proposal who are eligible to vote now? Re: authoritarian vs. libertarian, the gap between the two is much smaller than you think. See also: Pinochet, Augusto.
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  12714.  @FlyingT20  "youth is way more likely to vote for him in the primary" Yes, because the group that says that environmental protection is one of the most important, if not the most important, issue is going to vote for the guy who says "climate change is a hoax." And when I checked the Fairleigh Dickinson poll, they had a breakdown of primary support by age. Vivek Ramaswamy had a nice, round number among voters under 30.
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  12715.  @ikexbankai  Do those rich donors get private time because they donate to Bernie? Is there any evidence that Bernie changed a position because of donors? There is plenty of evidence that Buttigieg went from Medicare for All to Medicare for All Who Want It once he started courting donors. And, again, he specifically refused to take money from financial companies so he could stay neutral when he was running for state treasurer. Was he wrong then, or is he wrong now, and why?
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  12716.  @ikexbankai  1) You mean like the ones where he said that Medicarefor All is the compromise position? 2) So, people are trying to buy off a state office, but no one wants the ear of the President for influence.
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  12717.  @ikexbankai  Obama started with a public option, and he ended up with the Republican alternative to Hillarycare. He had 60 Senators, and best case scenario is 53 for the 117th Congress. Considering the way he has trashed actual Medicare for All (which is far different from his prior rhetoric), why do you think that he will succeed where Obama failed? Also, if Medicare for All is the eventual goal, why keep complaining about taxes going up and praising private insurance? If you can't see a change, you just don't want to.
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  12718.  @suides4810  His term ends next month.
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  12719.  @ubuu7  For someone who opened by talking about enjoying seeing someone seethe in anger, you sure do show an awful lot of anger. To quote Walter Sobchack, I'm calmer than you are. So, just a tiny sliver are getting one or more of the 125 programs that people have to forfeit if they take his money? And what are you basing that on, since Yang has only mentioned six (TANF, SNAP, WIC, LIHEAP, daycare subsidies, housing subsidies), you don't know, and there are probably a lot of people who would be quite shocked to see themselves on that list. So, you support regressive taxes? Instead of basing it on the ability to pay, you are just fine with making the poor pay a higher percentage of income? But, I thank you for demonstrating the stereotypical Yang Gang banger who doesn't care who gets hurt, as long as you get $1000/month. I couldn't have done it better myself.
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  12720.  @ubuu7  Because there are a lot of poor people who don't get the money at all or they have to give up what they are getting. But, of course, they are a tiny sliver to you might claim to care about the "broader poor," but as long you get yours, you don't care about the family with two kids in daycare who is already getting more than $1000 in daycare subsidies who now has to pay a VAT, just as an example.
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  12721.  @ubuu7  TANF is decided at the state level, as are the levels for daycare subsidies, but a lot of the funding comes from the federal government. And, perhaps you forgot about the ruling that allowed the ACA to survive, but it gave states the right to set their own benefit levels for programs like TANF and SNAP, among other things. So, Yang could say, "pretty please adjust your benefits to compensate for the VAT" all he wants, but they don't have to. And given the fact that TANF is one of the few programs that Yang has mentioned by name, and TANF is awarded on the basis of having children, so if someone is getting something from the list of 125 programs (which I guarantee has to be pretty expansive and affect a lot of people in order to get the count that high), the household probably isn't getting anything either. Apparently, you don't seem to understand the point that I was making. It was not that everyone wants to keep what they have, but there are plenty of examples now of the benefits being over $1000/month now just based on the programs mentioned. Since you want to talk high rent, those areas have housing subsidies that are worth way more than $1000. So much for saving to move out! But the point was that there is no reason to use a regressive tax to pay for it other than ideology. You could avoid all of these issues by using a progressive tax to pay for it, and not forcing the poor to choose. The rich get to keep their welfare, so why do the poor have to give up theirs in order to get this "right of citizenship," unless Yang sees them as second class citizens to begin with?
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  12722.  @ubuu7  And once again, the extended family trope in order to try to make it sound more generous than it is. Not everyone has an extended family, and this idea shows that the other fundamental problem of leading with even a good UBI is that it follows the Thatcher philosophy of society. No thanks.
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  12723. What has Ana ever said about Tulsi that is false? Just maybe, she feels bad about not getting this charlatan in 2016 and giving her a platform, so she is trying to make up for it by reminding people of what she didn't three years ago.
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  12724.  @nihilistnick5094  No, I am holding her record against her. I am looking at what she did as a state legislator and as a member of Congress. 38-17=21, her age when she won election, so nice try, unless you want to say that she is just some legacy who should never be judged.
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  12725.  @nihilistnick5094  She is called an Assad apologist because she refuses to call him a war criminal and agrees with his narrative about the civil war. She said it was a fact-finding mission, to understand the civil war, but it was funded by Syrian fascists and she never went to any rebel areas, only Assad strongholds and staged photo ops. Given her past praise of Putin for bombing civilians in Syria while complaining that Obama didn't, this shows a serious lapse in judgment, not a shining example of diplomacy.
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  12726.  @nihilistnick5094  So, the candidate who is pulling the Andrew Yang/Kamala Harris/Elizabeth Warren tactic of calling something Medicare for All that isn't is the closest to Bernie? And she may be eschewing big donors now, but she sang a different tune when she courted Sheldon Adelson and did his bidding to try to get rid of his competition in the form of online gambling. That defense doesn't work, either.
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  12727.  @nihilistnick5094  She has been in public life for 17 years. She was first elected in 2002 to the Hawaii Legislature. At the very least, someone has to be 35 to be President, so she was clearly an adult 17 years ago. You asked a question, but it was a loaded question that was based on falsehoods and bad faith. The follow-up about her childhood betrays that.
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  12728.  @nihilistnick5094  Your question was asking if I would hold her upbringing against her. She is 38. If you knew the slightest amount of her biography, you would know that 17 years ago, she was an adult and she was elected to the Hawaii Legislature. And you can try to pass it off as an innocent question all you want, but opening by accusing anyone who is critical of Tulsi as smearing her rather than looking at legitimate problems in her record and public statements indicates a bad faith effort. So, are you still trying to stick to the defense that you honestly didn't know that I was referring to her public life as an adult when I referred to 17 years?
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  12729.  @nihilistnick5094  Show me where you criticized Tulsi. You said that even the things that were true were being spun in an unfair light. You accused Ana of smearing Tulsi and your example was that she was trying to win over people on the right, and that her embrace of Assad and Modi is just diplomacy. If I missed it, feel free to show me where in this thread, because if that is criticism, I'd hate to see high praise.
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  12730.  @nihilistnick5094  I really couldn't care less about the personal relationship between Bernie and Tulsi. I care about wjat she is proposing, and her public record. If people want to defend her statement of torture in 2014 and say that there are reasons to torture, they probably aren't going to Bernie in the first place. Literally every example I have mentioned is documented. If you want to say why they are wrong, feel free to do so, but just taking a big blanket and calling everything a smear doesn't address the issues other than the people who already believe that. And proposing the same approach to Medicare ("Medicare Choice") as pretty much everyone else in the field is really second best? Well, I guess everyone else is tied for second since only one candidate supports Medicare for All, so technically that's true.
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  12731.  @nihilistnick5094  I have literally heard no substantive defense ever by Tulsi supporters for any example. The constant retreat to the word smear as though it is an incantation that makes all the bad stuff she said and did go away doesn't work on anyone not already drawn in.
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  12732. Never forget that big orange dummy once said at a debate that wages are too high.
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  12733.  @ronniedeezy4831  Any vote that is not a Yes goes against the bill. Given where her line will probably be drawn, voting No on a bill with nearly unanimous support is about as politically astute as wearing an orange shirt to a St. Patrick's Day parade.
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  12734.  @jeffw527  And it's not even close.
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  12735. ​​ @lordvadertheleftie9703  Injecting light in your butt.
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  12736. Let's look at the A Few Bad Apples Defense once and for all. When the cops in Buffalo were arrested for what they did to tha elderly man, over 50 additional cops in Buffalo resigned. That sure does sound like more than a few. Hopefully, stuff like this will help get rid of the bad apples who just haven't been caught yet.
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  12737. Forget 2024, this is the most important VP selection since 1944 when pretty much everyone involved who knew that FDR wanted to dump Wallace realized that they were picking a President, and it was just a matter of when.
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  12738. So, dozens of people are also faking it and several doctors are going along with it?
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  12739. "When have Republicans not been fighting the culture war?" Well, they were on the right side of it for the first 20 years of their existence, but a little less so for their next 90 but still better, so maybe from 1877 to 1950, but that is an extremely generous interpretation.
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  12740. I was 36 when I became a parent. It's one thing to love and support your kids, but theocrats are really the last people to talk.
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  12741.  @stormhawk4277  Lenin got propped up by Germany to defeat the existing regime. He was always far more of a chaos agent than he was willing to admit than someone acting on behalf of workers. Yes, Stalin was worse, but Lenin wasn't great.
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  12742.  @aheroictaxidriver3180  Yes, the Kaiser helped Lenin take power because he cared so much about Russian workers.
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  12743. You mean the guy who is opposed to increasing the minimum wage and card check? He's a libertarian wolf in leftist clothing.
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  12744. Every accusation hs a confession with him.
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  12745.  @keirenle  You don't have it because you have a much different way of doing it at the sector level that involves a stronger unit and negotiation.
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  12746.  @liamhumphreys9011  Do you consider books to be a luxury item? Yang has said repeatedly "every Amazon purchase"?
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  12747.  @RiamsWorld  So, you want to hit the gas and the brakes at the same time?
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  12748.  maccajoe  If you don't get it, then when you spend dollar one, you lose money.
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  12749.  @erynpimentel915  They just see "more money from me!" and stop looking at anything else.
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  12750.  JB JG  In addition, if workers had more of a say in how automation was done, it wouldn't have to be that way at all. This summer, my parents and my niece came to visit. While here, we took a couple of factory tours (Herr's Snack Factory and Visitors Center in Nottingham, and the Martin Guitar Factory Tour and Museum in Nazareth). At each one, they found that human hands caused a bottleneck in production (finding rotten potatoes at the former, lacquering at the latter), and using a machine to do it increased jobs, and lacquer workers at Martin were retrained to a new job, so no one lost a job. It helped that these were family owned and each has long ties to their communities (Herr's for over 70 years, and Martin for over 150), but if companies were required to act for stakeholders rather than just shareholders, and employees had a say, automation might mean doubled wages and half the hours, so people actually get leisure time and the same amount of money. The Yang Gang bangers are just accepting defeat.
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  12751.  @chriscurlett4548  No, it would not be regressive, because of how it is taxed. Instead of consumption, it is taxed on income, with a 7% employer payroll tax (proportional) and a 4% employee payroll tax that exempts the first $29,000 of income (progressive). Before you say that Yang exempts staple goods, my state exempts groceries, clothing, medicine, and diapers, and here is who actually pays: https://itep.org/whopays/pennsylvania
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  12752.  @thewreckedup  It gets passed onto the consumer: https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/who-would-bear-burden-vat
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  12753.  @thewreckedup  The poor don't get it, and they still get taxed, so it is still regressive. Yang could have used income taxes, capital gains tax, or any number of progressive taxes to pay for it, but he decided not to. Retail has a profit margin of far less than 10%. If they ate the cost, it would be like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3236M7qnjY
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  12754.  @RiamsWorld  You wanna know a reason why it will be passed onto consumers? What happens if a business sells at a loss? 1.5>10, so you are thinking that businesses will sell at a loss.
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  12755.  @JasonSchaeferGF  You can, because it is hitting the gas and the brakes at the same. There is no reason to start with a regressive tax other than ideology.
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  12756.  @lensole  He doesn't force everyone to work. The FJG is voluntary.
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  12757.  @keirenle  Then, why did he tell Ben Shapiro that "the magic of a thousand bucks a month is that it is below the poverty level for one person, which means that people will still have to work if they want any life of meaning"?
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  12758.  @thewreckedup  He is against increasing the taxes other than capital gains. Instead, he resorts to his I Give Up candidate mentality and says that we can't do anything about it.
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  12759.  @keirenle  This is because people have a lack of possibility and too easily give up. There is nothing that says that companies have to act only in the interests of shareholders and that workers get no say. This summer, my parents and my niece came to visit. While here, we took a couple of factory tours (Herr's Snack Factory and Visitors Center in Nottingham, and the Martin Guitar Factory Tour and Museum in Nazareth). While there, we were told how human hands caused a bottleneck in production (finding rotten potatoes at the former, lacquering at the latter), and by having a machine do that, they were able to increase the number of employees, and the workers who did lacquer at Martin were retrained to a new job so no one lost a job. Now, these are family owned and operated, and they have long ties to their communities (over 70 years for Herr's, and over 150 for Martin), and they were able to do it. If workers had a say, or companies were obligated to consider stakeholders, it wouldn't have to be that way.
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  12760. Well, after Tulsi using Project Veritas to go after Ilhan Omar, and the fact that she ended her campaign just attempting to be a takedown artist, this didn't age well.
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  12761.  @anonymoustroll4195  *lose miserably
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  12762. Dear Leader in 2024: The stock market is going up because of I'll win the election. Dear Leader in 2025: There's a period of transition. Consistency truly is the hobgoblin of small minds.
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  12763. You know the schoolyard taunt: it takes one to know one.
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  12764.  @Boobalopbop  Well, not poor, but she certainly wasn't rich. She definitely wasn't a legacy of someone who had too many houses to keep track of (McCain literally didn't know when someone asked him how many houses he owned in 2008).
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  12765.  @anthonysmith3851  Then, you should know that there is a difference between a jury of one's peers who are mere observers and a jury that in many ways overseas the rules of the proceeding. You wouldn't see a lawyer before the Supreme Court getting angry and complaining that someone dare ask a question about the events that they are there to rule on.
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  12766.  @anthonysmith3851  And do lawyers usually yell at jurors?
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  12767.  @cremelynn6339  Each side would have gotten to name equal numbers.
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  12768. 10:37 Indeed. That is why Ron Paul is not really a libertarian. You could imagine how mad the Paul cultists got when I pointed out that he had more in common with Pat Buchanan than Harry Browne.
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  12769. ​ @Vanilbeanedits-1  Because Vivek kept trying to change the subject. When you are asked about saying that Trump did something awful, and you start by saying "I want to bring people together," that has nothing to do with the subject. He's surely seen the Pakman interview where Vivek spent six or seven minutes at a time not answering his question and knew better than to let him filibuster.
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  12770.  @ebreshea1337  Vivek Ramaswamy never answers anything directly, because he knows that if he talks long enough, the interviewer can't possibly rebut all of his points. It is a technique known as a Gish Gallop. He knows that a television interviewer is incredibly limited in the amount of time, so he knows that if unimpeded, he can only receive three or four questions and look like he is being forthcoming, but he is not.
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  12771.  @ebreshea1337  He certainly tried his best to filibuster in the debate last month. As far as not wanting to answer anything about Trump, like it or not, Trump is the elephant in the room. If they ignore him, he wins the nomination. I don't know if you are a fan of distance running, but this field reminds me of those running against Mo Farah in his day. Everyone knew that he had the best kick, but in championship races, everyone was afraid to push the pace early, for fear that they would be too tired to make their move, and they ended up losing to him when he ran his race. Only Chris Christie, and to a lesser extent Asa Hutchinson and Mike Pence have even tried to make a move, but if no Not Trump is willing to make that sacrifice (and it might be the case that eventually those not fully on board would respect someone who did so enough to give that person a chance), the race will not change.
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  12772.  @ebreshea1337  Then again, I get the feeling that most of them are running to be VP, and that's the real reason why they won't do it.
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  12773.  @ebreshea1337  They all say that they have no interest in being VP. But just in this century, John Edwards, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris disprove that notion. People might say that they hate negativity, but like it or not, an election is about contrasts. If you are nearly 50 points down, your only chance is to bring the leader down. The reason why Trump is extremely likely to be the nominee is that his opponents keep hoping that someone else will take care of Trump for them, but given the timetable for the trials, the earliest moment would be after he won enough delegates for the nomination and then a brokered convention. As far as the online comments, President Paul, President Sanders, and President Yang can tell you how representative comment sections are of the voting population at large.
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  12774.  @betsycollamore9966  Philly Neighborhood Networks
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  12775. ​ @tjwallis7948  You mean the woman who wrote a book advocating a red/brown alliance, who before spending all of her time complaining about Democrats ran a PAC that was supposed to help lefty candidates where she gave herself more than eight times what she gave the candidates combined? Why would anyone have any issues with her?
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  12776. ​ @TihetrisWeathersby  Indeed. Considering the way Biden got screwed on some of his big policy goals, what makes them thinking President Sanders wouldn't have gotten it worse all so the money people and the centrists could say, "This is what happens when you elect a socialist"?
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  12777.  @kimwalter8753  Any time. Thank you. I definitely got angered when I heard this after he said that he would make sure they followed up.
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  12778. That's not a manic episode, Sam. That's a bender from someone who is off the wagon.
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  12779. If "nobody believes that the Supreme Court will overturn the Affordable Care Act," why did they take the case?
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  12780.  @nathanroper2611  I'm pretty sure that his would-be assassin lost his nerve and didn't go.
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  12781.  @Galilelo_Telescope  He is.
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  12782.  @JulioReguero  When did Tim Ryan align himself with Trump?
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  12783.  @maxsmart9116  It's a statewide race. Those lines were drawn centuries ago.
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  12784.  @JulioReguero  Yes, asking a question about when a Democrat who regularly votes with Democrats aligned with a vile figure means I'm "MAGA." Then again, the irony of you saying that while helping Mitch McConnell is especially delicious.
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  12785.  @corpsefoot758  Like it or not, anyone other than one of the two major-party nominees literally has a zero chance of winning office. And don't pull this "they would if more people vote for them" nonsense, because it's about getting to 270 electoral votes, which means either taking votes evenly from both parties or becoming the de facto nominee of one of the major parties. Anything else means that the best hope is throwing the election to the House... where it will be decided by Democrats and Republicans. The people who operate on ego and vanity thinking that they are too pure for this world cause real suffering, and in 2016 nearly opened the door to a fascist dictatorship.
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  12786.  @corpsefoot758  Political parties are based on the people in it. If you don't like it, stop whining and being lazy and actually do something about it. If people want a party to go a certain way, they can vote and organize that way. Joseph Crowley turned out not to be inevitable after all.
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  12787. 9:43 Darn right, Sam! When fighting against fascism and those who want to destroy our democracy, it needs to be all hands on deck fight of anyone willing to stand on the side of good. We might have to have some other fights later (in all honesty, a part of me would like to see the Republican Party go the way of the dodo [because they have shown no desire to deal with the cancer], the few sane Republicans and conservatives join with the Democrats, and a new party [maybe call it Labor] for people on the left), but if we lose democracy, we'll never get to have the chance to make the kind of society that we want.
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  12788. Bernie is not the hero we deserve, but he is the hero we need.
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  12789. Pat, he didn't make the effort to make it look real because he knows that the only audience he really cares about (his base) doesn't care if it's real or not, just as long as it angers the left.
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  12790. And Gym Jordan doesn't have the votes. As I'm watching, they're up to the Ks, and there are more than enough to defections to not only deny the majority to Gym Jordan, but to give the plurality to Jeffries.
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  12791. My retinas are burning from this comment.
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  12792. @Tommy Vaughn And Denmark defines itself as a social democracy. I personally don't care too much about the name, but I am just pointing out that some argue that there is a difference between the two.
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  12793. @Tommy Vaughn Pakman himself has defended socialism against, among other things, the "socialism has never worked" argument. If socialism is defined by who controls the means of production, his argument is accurate. It seems like semantics to me, but it is accurate by that definition.
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  12794. ​ @MissStateFan  So, you want to "make a statement" by helping elect the man who literally tried to destroy democracy in this country? Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face!
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  12795.  @leonscott543  And how exactly is throwing the election to Trump going to change things? In 2000, Nader insisted that Bush winning would scare the Democratic Party into giving them the things they wanted. Bush took office, and we got the Iraq War, Roberts, and, Alito. In 2016, I kept hearing the same thing about throwing it to Trump, and we got a million dead from coronavirus, an attempted fascist coup, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett. I don't think we can stand too many more of your lessons.
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  12796. So, now Krystal "I was promised an insurrection" Ball cares about standing up to Trump? Let's see if this lasts.
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  12797. I'd only ever seen the payoff. It was even sweeter seeing the build up.
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  12798. In addition to anticommunist vestiges, this is also an example of our Electoral College at work. Would people in both parties be bending over backwards to appease the anti-Castro people had they ended up in Alabama or Mississippi instead of Florida?
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  12799.  @danielvillagomez1591  Me, too.
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  12800. That, and if you work a physical job, asking someone to hold on for two more years is a tall order.
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  12801.  @java4653  There was that moment in the debate when someone asked Ron Paul what should happen if someone without insurance got sick, and he basically said that the person should die in so many words, because "that's what happens with freedom." Apparently, she didn't like that idea when it happened to her.
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  12802.  @J.CashDro  I want him and everyone to get the very best treatment, and several Senators this century have had strokes while in office and performed their jobs just fine.
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  12803.  @TheFamousMockingbird  Are you a doctor who knows his cognitive state? Every journalist but one who dealt with him after the stroke said that he could follow the conversation just fine with the captioning device, and he's held plenty of rallies.
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  12804.  @letsgobrandon9867  Well, Aaron, there were several times where he got in zingers on Oz on the spot. What was the excuse of Snake Oil Salesman Oz stuttering several times. I've never heard mention of a stutter before.
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  12805.  @J.CashDro  If your health care is so awful, then why don't you come down here and see what it's like when you are the mercy of business for your health?
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  12806.  @J.CashDro  Well, maybe if Canada would vote in NDP or a party truly committed to it, that wouldn't be an issue.
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  12807.  @J.CashDro  You think doctors work for you in America? They work for the insurance companies. Then again, I guess you've done plenty to prove that your statements are nothing more than concern trolling.
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  12808.  @J.CashDro  There is a concern troll who claims to really be looking out for the best interests of someone while really having another agenda.
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  12809.  @J.CashDro  So, you voted NDP, you complain about your single payer system, and you're going after the more lefty candidate in a race in another country? Something doesn't add up.
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  12810.  @J.CashDro  You don't know what kind of therapy he has, and you apparently have only seen this one event in a format that multiple neurologists said is the absolute worst for someone still dealing with the auditory process. Why, just the next day, I saw him do a great job when he had more than 15 seconds to answer.
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  12811.  @J.CashDro  "I'm not concerned at all" This is just sad that you don't know what the phrase means at this point. And of course, you're not concerned. A concern troll fakes it, and doesn't do a very good job of it.
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  12812.  @J.CashDro  So, you're just now realizing how bad people think Oz is? The man literally made his fortune selling phony cures on TV. And go watch video of Fetterman the next day speaking for 13 minutes at a rally, and watch him doing an interview with Joy Reid. If you actually listened to experts, they would have told you that a format where someone has very strict time limits to give answers (some as few as 15 seconds) is the worst format for someone in his situation, and you'd know that his brain is well on its way to recovery.
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  12813. 11:46This looks exactly like Mac making the "science is a liar... sometimes" argument on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
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  12814. Potential benefits for running as an independent in 2024? You mean taking her votes entirely from the left and giving the Presidency to Trump, which means the end of democracy as we know it? And if you think that she had "obstacles" running in a Congressional primary, what makes you think those obstacles won't be a thousand times higher for a Presidential campaign?
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  12815.  @camelopardalis84  Sometimes, I don't know which is worse.
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  12816. Katie Porter is the secret weapon. I wouldn't mind seeing her as the number two or in a Cabinet position under President Bernie.
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  12817. I have borderline high cholesterol (last annual bloodwork was 214). It's not even high enough for the doctor to recommend me for medication. If I were to die of coronavirus, would they say "he had a comorbidity"?
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  12818. Total Lucille Bluth energy, except she was funny.
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  12819. Because far too many aren't paying attention to what is happening.
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  12820. We don't have any problem with peaceful protest. Our problem is with violent attempts to overthrow our government.
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  12821. Well, the title is a little bit off. Turtle cares greatly about integrity, because he knows that he can exploit it.
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  12822. The mistake was taking the DNA test and listing that as her race. Anyone who knew anything about Native American issues in American politics would tell you that blood quantum is an extremely sensitive issue, and taking that test gives in to the idea that it is a legitimate way of identifying as part of a tribe. I'm not going to call myself a Cherokee or Shawnee because I am not a part of either tribe. My grandpa was a dark-skinned man, but if you asked him if he considered himself to be a Cherokee or Shawnee, he would have given you the same answer that I did. Even if my DNA were to say "12.5% Native American," I still wouldn't say "I am a Native American," even if it is accurate to say, "I have Native American ancestry."
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  12823. I think the drug killing is probably the most likely. If she disappeared, surely something would have come through.
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  12824. You know, people have been really nice to me since I moved into the building.
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  12825. Also, Sinema supports keeping it in its current form, too. Do you not mention her because she's pretty?
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  12826.  @sssarzzz  And it used to be used rarely because it required actual effort. Now, all you have to do is say that you are going to do it, and that's sufficient. If you forced people to talk for hours and hours, and you changed the rules in such a way where opponents of a bill had to stay on the floor or close by for roll call votes, it would be impossible to do it that often, because it would be much easier to stop it.
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  12827.  @respectedlocalgentleman7108  I don't think Marvelous was in on any fix at all. He was too principled to do it. As far as Riggs, I honestly don't know. He seemed like the type who would fix it in hope that the rematch would make even more money, but the particulars seem to change depending on how told the story. Hagler was definitely robbed, though, as seemed to happen when it didn't get decided by the count.
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  12828. This is a classic case of the dog catching the tire. You stoke people up for 50 years, and sooner or later, you have to deliver, but they found out the hard way that a lot of people who called themselves "pro-life" were just personally uncomfortable with abortion.
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  12829.  @TheClayCoKid  On a lighter note, let's go....
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  12830.  @TheClayCoKid  On a more serious note, "Obama built the cages" is a right-wing talking point. Did Obama separate parents from their kids, lose track of them, and oh by the way, not bother to give people enough water? There has to be somewhere for people to go while they're waiting for their hearing. Also, Bernie's campaign in 2016 was harmed because he didn't realize until it was too late that he legitimately had a chance of winning. He didn't have the infrastructure he needed after New Hampshire to win the election, and he was trying to build the runway and fly the plane at the same time. The fact that he got to 44% was nothing short of miraculous.
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  12831.  @Alex__Blocker  "As a left-winger who will not vote for Biden I want you to know I'm 100% okay with you blaming me if Trump wins a second term. I mean it. Blame me." Kyle Kulinski, April 13, 2020
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  12832. Anything they don't like.
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  12833. 24:08 Admittedly, I've never watched local TV in Germany (during my brief stay there with my summer military training, our barracks didn't have local TV so we watched videos on our days off), but here in the US, you can't watch local news without hearing about someone getting shot. That's partly why just about the only local news I'll watch is weather and traffic, but sometimes sports and election returns.
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  12834.  @barbiquearea  The Green Party has been a tool of the Republican Party since at least Nader. It is a group of useful idiots run by grifters to try to split the left to help Republicans.
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  12835. Default 50/50 with no child support "unless that doesn't work" for the estranged couple? He does realize that this will still lead to battles about child support, right?
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  12836.  @milkymane4910  Oh, okay. I have seen him on a lot of interviews, but I didn't know he had his own channel. Thank you!
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  12837. I disagree with your argument about Medicare for All and comparing it to DOD waste, but you are right on that she made a huge misstep with Don, Jr. That was a total unforced error. Investigate for corruption, and don't bring it up when taking down a troll.
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  12838. I have said for quite some time that Marla Maples was far and away the best mother who birthed his children (that we know of). She was the only one who had the sense to keep her kid away from him.
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  12839.  @julieannmyers8714  Because he said it in an interview, and he is too dishonest to say when he last updated each page, or that he made such a major change in policy.
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  12840.  @coasterblocks3420  No, but thank you for playing.
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  12841.  @coasterblocks3420  Tell that to Modi.
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  12842. Lin-Manuel Miranda was also in that really good episode of BoJack Horseman where he played Beatrice's older brother, so that has to be the silver for the rare good thing to come out of Hamilton.
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  12843. They still think that they can win over soft Trump voters if they're not too mean. Of course, people on the left who should be their natural allies are just awful.
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  12844.  @jessestreet2549  Bernie lost the nomination because he got fewer votes. The drop in performance between 2016 and 2020 shows two things: 1) a lot of 2016 votes were cast people opposing Hillary rather than supporting Bernie; 2) when there is a fascist in office, people are afraid to dream and just want the bad man to go away. No matter what the DNC thinks, the final decision rests with voters. If you keep sounding like another group of rear guard people who shall remain nameless and not actually learn how to improve, you'll never get better. Conspiracy theories are a security blanket.
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  12845.  @jessestreet2549  "HRC won the popular election but lost the ec because of Repubs grabbing important state government seats" For someone who talks about "the civics lesson" at the end of this post, it's amazing how basic understanding of how things work eludes you. The Electoral College is decided in 48 states and DC by the result of the popular vote within the state, and in the other two states, the statewide winner gets two electoral votes and each Congressional district gets one vote. State lines are not gerrymandered. Hillary Clinton lost the deciding three states because she took them for granted and focused on running up the margin in places like Chicago and New Orleans instead of making more of an effort in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and State College in Pennsylvania; in Madison and Milwaukee in Wisconsin; and in Detroit, Lansing, and Ann Arbor in Michigan. If you have every state go statewide with their vote, it affects things by one electoral vote in 2016, and they cancel each other out in 2020. It is not gerrymandering, but the concentration of Democratic voters in urban areas, that makes it possible for Republicans to win the Electoral College despite even trying to win over a majority of voters.
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  12846.  @jessestreet2549  Yes, conspiracies sometimes are true, but here's a good rule of thumb: if a conspiracy theory is a way to avoid doing better or feeling better about losing, it's probably not.
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  12847. Actually, the business news channels aren't silent about corporate profits, they praise them.
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  12848. Much like Voldemort, it is impossible to be loyal enough to Trump.
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  12849. ​ @niyanajima3517  We've seen how peace talks work with expansionist dictators who use Lebensraum arguments to justify their second invasion of a country in a decade and say that it isn't a real country, anyway. Any "peace" is just a pause until Putin can replenish his armies. For all your talk about "promises," what about the Russian promise to protect territorial sovereignty of Ukraine if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal?
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  12850.  @cheeto8960  So, things said at the barrel of a gun are the thing that you are holding them to? You are aware that was after the invasion, right? Last I checked, when you turn down an offer, that offer is void. Re: Putin's threats, so you're going to let an expansionist dictator set the terms for a neighboring country? Yeah, that makes sense.
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  12851.  @cheeto8960  "A buffer state"? Listen to yourself. That just totally dehumanizes the people in bordering countries and treats them like nothing more than a game piece. You aren't helping your argument at all.
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  12852.  @cheeto8960  So, America is the one who will respond with nuclear war, but Putin has literally threatened it multiple times? Thank you once again for illustrating that for a swath who claim to support "peace" and "anti-imperialism," that it just really means anti-American. And Ukraine originally wanted neutrality before Russia kept invading its neighbors. There is a huge difference between being tired of the Cold War and not wanting to be invaded when a country is run by someone who wants to resurrect the Soviet empire and has made steps to try as best he could.
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  12853. Take his passport already!
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  12854. ​ @AA-mm6wu  I think you got it backward. He got polio as a child, so his reptile brain gets the harm involved in a vaccine denier running HHS. If he'd have voted for conviction in 2021 and not dragged his feet on allowing the hearing, all this could have been resolved, so it's still a case of closing the barn door after the horses got out, though.
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  12855.  @abigailpmm1182  The one in West Texas.
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  12856. I'm suspicious that the "sources" are trying to put the pressure on Mueller to try to speed him up. It's odd timing to stop at Stone when you have Kushner and Trump Jr. also on the hot seat.
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  12857.  @benstromback5809  He is on the right. That is the grift: you go out there and say that the left is bad, and the right can say, "see, even lefties hate the left!" Tim Pool does the same thing. The problem with this grift is that you can only keep it going for so long, so now he has to admit that he is voting for Trump, and he has been talking for a while about moving to Texas because they are supposedly "open minded." Well, I have been to Texas, and that is not a phrase that I would use, especially toward gay, Jewish men.
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  12858.  @benstromback5809  He has said it more than once.
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  12859.  @johnlast8578  Yeah, apparently you don't get what the phrase "eat the rich" really means. Speaking of education, just because you squandered yours doesn't make all unions bad.
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  12860. They were listed months ago. Complain about the things they actually do.
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  12861.  @LadyMaeloraBeesbury  You can argue that they should have been included, but the standards were pretty clear all along. If YouGov wasn't listed, then it had to get on through another group, and unless the polling world has changed since the Journalism 101 and Political Science 102 classes I took, it is not merely a case of a polling operation having a benefactor, but the groups work together. Yes, you can complain about it being arbitrary, but it wasn't hidden.
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  12862.  @LadyMaeloraBeesbury  Well, in all honesty, given the fact that her people didn't utter a word to defend Mike Gravel before the second debate or Steve Bullock before the first, it just feels to me like sour grapes about her exclusion rather than a complaint about unfair rules. There were a total of 21 polls that counted, so a viable candidate should surely he able to get to that level in four of those polls. That isn't even 20% of them. A list was provided months ago. Technically speaking, there are far more than the 20 candidates listed by the media running, so you have to have a cut off somewhere. My one complaint about the process was that it seemed silly to me to give candidates three months to meet the criteria for the fourth debate if the idea was to thin the herd, but it's not like it was some secret. When you have a field this big, you can't be as generous with pills as in an election like 2004 or '08 when there were far fewer candidates running.
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  12863.  John Doe  So, the side that is shown in the video having blatant double standards and dishonesty, is the one that "has standards." You keep using that word. I do not think that it means what you think it means.
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  12864.  John Doe  The right wants power, and they don't care what they will do to get it. Oh, I get what they tell themselves, but it doesn't stand up to the least bit of scrutiny. Surely, Lindsey Graham knew that there was a real chance of someone on the Supreme Court dying in 2020, but he still confidently said in 2018 that he absolutely would never have a hearing (something he could stop as the committee chairman) so close to the election. When you say things are principles and then you ignore those principles constantly, it is going to get scorn and it deserves it. If the record gets tied in the time between vacancy and confirmation, we are literally talking two days before the election. We have a party that called using an executive order for prosecutorial discretion "tyranny" while supporting someone who is ordering child kidnapping and forced sterilization of women. Yes, you can say that I'm "contributing," but I really don't care. Democracy is at stake, and this is no time for both siderism. Both sides are not equally bad. Period.
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  12865.  John Doe  We have reached a period of decision. There is no neutral.
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  12866.  @douglaslangley9251  Harrison could read Eastern music, but not Western.
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  12867. Is this that jerk Blake making a comeback, or is this someone else?
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  12868.  @1MarkKeller  Probably just his buddies.
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  12869. That is so unfair! Everyone in Congress also hates Ted Cruz.
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  12870.  @Liftheavyrustylbs  She took an online law class from Jeff "I do not recall" Sessions.
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  12871.  @jamessaunders1926  Spoedy doesn't mean immediate. There are literally thousands who have to go through the system. They have to wait their turn.
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  12872. How did having more police officers work in Uvalde?
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  12873.  El-ahrairah  Bernie would definitely be a worse candidate if he picked the only candidate who has advocated a war crime.
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  12874.  @gravecode  No torture apologists. Ever.
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  12875.  El-ahrairah  There was a report in 2007 that also said that torture doesn't work. The Army Field Manual prohibits torture. Her reasoning now is one of practicality, not "I am so sorry that I advocated for a war crime that should not be used even if it works." Torture support is a stain that never comes off.
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  12876.  El-ahrairah  So, you think that a President should be able to openly commit crimes and never be held to account? Do you think the Iran nuclear deal was like Munich? Do you think there is a middle ground to be had on kidnapping children? Those are the things she goes on Fox to say.
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  12877.  @gravecode  She invoked 24 and said she would do "whatever it takes to keep America safe." That is code for supporting torture, because all but the completely moronic will openly advocate for a war crime. She now blames it on not reading a report, but it had long been documented to be ineffective and prohibited by the Army Field Manual. Considering that she invokes her military status like she's Walter Sobchack, she should know that.
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  12878.  El-ahrairah  Still doesn't change that the Army Field Manual and Geneva Conventions prohibit torture. If you want to be a torture apologist apologist, that is your right, but make no mistake that this is what you are doing.
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  12879.  El-ahrairah  Show me where any other candidate defended torture, and I will roundly condemn him/her, and I will drop the word "only" from my criticism. When we found out about Abu Ghraib, Joe Biden said, "Torture is wrong, and you are endangering people like my son." He may be wrong about many things, but he got that one right.
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  12880.  @gravecode  She was asked about torture, she said that torture can work, and then she said she "would do whatever it takes." At a certain point, you are being willfully blind.
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  12881.  El-ahrairah  Those are people who you don't like, but you are defending Tulsi and what she had to say about torture.
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  12882. "A little more." J.P. Morgan, in response to the question of how much more he felt that he needed after becoming a billionaire.
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  12883.  @adventuresofnategabeandzoe  Indeed. Nobody "earns" a billion dollars.
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  12884. The only polls that I ever questioned were the ones where there were almost no interviews with people under age 50. That being said, I have said all along that the reason for the big lead was Obama nostalgia. By the time Iowa rolls around, he'll come back down to earth.
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  12885.  @thebatmanover9000  But not an entitled Valley Girl.
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  12886.  @Dan0TheMano  Congress can't pardon people, so it's just posturing. And pardon someone who claims to care about transparency who has made himself nice at home for Russia for years? I don't let spies off so easily.
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  12887.  @Dan0TheMano  Daniel Ellsburg didn't fly to Russia with untold documents. Why do you think that Russia has kept him for seven years? Why would someone who is so opposed to government spying living in a place with so much spying on its citizens? His defenders never seem able to answer that one.
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  12888.  calo10able  Trump didn't make a successful reality show, Mark Burnett did. Trump was an employee. Oh, and Vox did the math. If Trump had simply put his inherited fortune into an index fund, he would have more money than he does now, even by the inflated Forbes estimate. If you don't care about who you hurt, not paying for anything could also pad your net worth.
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  12889.  @williamkelley1971  Interpolation in which context? The standard definition is estimation between two points.
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  12890.  @barbiquearea  You mean the video evidence that his defenders conveniently leave out where he shoots one person, and then thinks that he is no threat to the person he shot when he was pointing at him while the guy he shot didn't have his gun pointed at him? And his motivation is totally relevant, because people who go looking for trouble are far more likely to find it. And motive is everything in this case. If you really think that his motives are meaningless, where have you been when your fellow Rittenhouse stans talk about the criminal records of the people he shot. He had no way of knowing that.
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  12891. "We go to the moon in this decade and do these other things not because they are easy, but because they are hard." John F. Kennedy, 1962 "We shouldn't try because it is too hard." Joe Biden, 2020
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  12892.  @aaronhumphrey3514  The President has no say whatsoever in the amendment process. It is 2/3 of each house, and it needs to be ratified by 3/4 of state legislatures (most states require a simple majority) in order to go into effect.
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  12893.  @soulknife20  Indeed. How many usernames is Aaron Dickson up to now, anyway?
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  12894.  @leothenomad5675  Oh, it seems like way more than that. He's gotta be getting close to having enough split personalities to play his own baseball game.
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  12895.  @ColinFox  These are people who are either trolls who are here to sew discord, lazy people who do nothing and expect everything to get better, or people who don't understand how anything works and just expect things to get better by magic. As much as they complain, Bernie got fewer votes. Would they approve Trump tactics for trying to hold onto power if Bernie tried it?
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  12896. Sam is Generation X.
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  12897. Others might be providing lip service to Bernie's ideas, but we know that he'll actually fight for them. Obama forever tainted the cipher candidate for me, and I don't want someone who will negotiate with him/herself on the important issues.
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  12898.  @ashlomen8432  WWII didn't end with a nuke in Europe.
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  12899.  @537monster  Joseph Crowley did something similar.
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  12900. Slim lead?!?! That's higher than the margin of error! Does anyone honestly think if Der Orangefuhrer was up six in a poll that they'd call it a "slim lead"?
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  12901. If I was a drinker, I'd pass out if I tried to take a drink every time he said "not left, not right, but forward" in order to dodge a question.
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  12902.  @joaodias2487  I have checked his website. How is the current system better than his? Aside from the fact that he uses regressive tax to pay for it, let's take a single parent with two kids who receives SSI and SNAP. That's $1300/month. As Sam points out in the video, people who get Social Security disability (SSI is different, but VA benefits also fall into this category) get far more than $1000/month. People in nursing homes have bills that are four and five figures every month. Let's not forget daycare subsidies. Do you have any idea how expensive daycare is? As they said on the video, if it wasn't to replace existing benefits, it would be far better, but making people choose makes it a net negative, and it will make it easier to destroy those existing programs by, as Norquist likes to say about government in general, making it small enough to drown it in a bathtub.
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  12903.  @joaodias2487  It does for the people who do. Making people choose makes it a replacement. If you Yang Gang bangers would just admit this is a problem for people actually on the left, then just maybe your hero woukd get that it is problematic, and this is why he is getting pushback now that people know the specifics.
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  12904.  @punkgrl325  Yes, that is a lot of disabled people... who Yang admits won't be helped.
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  12905.  @calbear1568  He specifically said in the video that he hopes that no one will sign up for the welfare system as we know it in the future. Unless people will no longer be disabled in the future, that definitely won't happen... unless he hopes to so weaken the existing programs that they wither on the vine.
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  12906.  @justatiger6268  I believe it's spelled free-DOM.
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  12907.  @melissabrummer1851  He supports Medicare for All so much that he endoesed the candidate who called it "un-American" in the primaries, reserves most of his anger for the people who actually support Medicare for All, gets mad at people for trying to get sponsors of Medicare for All into Congress rather than go to his marches that nobody else knows or cares about, and doesn't care about the Supreme Court, which has the power to overturn Medicare for All if it ever passes Congress. Now, if we get our Jimmy Dore world, how are we going to actually get Medicare for All?
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  12908.  @dudeman5303  That's why I think it's something Fruedian. My understanding is that his cop dad paid for his schooling, too.
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  12909.  @rhob5730  Which union? I'm in SEIU in this side of the pond.
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  12910.  @rhob5730  Cool!
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  12911. Can we please, please, for the love of all that is sacred and good in this world, stop calling right-wing demagogues "populists"? Donald Trump is not just the opposite side of the same coin as Bernie Sanders. Actual populism involves addressing the needs of the people. No self-respecting populist would ever push a tax cut for the rich that made W look like Robin Hood in comparison. As Ruy Teixeira noted, left (or real) populism focuses on injustices in the system that favor the rich; whereas right (or fake) populism uses some other to demagogue against in order to divide working people to benefit the top.
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  12912. I remember when she started her journey of leaving the left, and people kept saying that those of us who were warning that she was going down the Rubin/Dore route were overrated or enforcing orthodoxy. Are you ready to admit that those of us who called it were correct all along?
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  12913.  @labdogs42  Oh, that's who he always was, but the weasel thing came from the stuff he pulled around the Iowa caucuses, and the rat faced part, I mean look at that upper lip.
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  12914.  @eddietheberniebro5503  No, Saagar supports Trump, because even when he pretends to support left-wing positions on economics, he lets his fascist law and order takes or his racist immigration and social takes have priority. I don't know whether you are a useful idiot or a right winger pretending to be a lefty to depress turnout.
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  12915.  @eddietheberniebro5503  And Saagar Enjeti isn't one of them. If you see Trump and his phony populism, and you still support him after all that, you're not to the left on economics. Either that, or economics just don't really matter to you at all.
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  12916.  @eddietheberniebro5503  Working with is fine when they come to us. Pretending that we can form a governing coalition with them is a different story.
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  12917.  @bobcatbub  You're right. He didn't ignore it. He made it worse by telling people that it would just go away, complained about mask wearing, and encouraged armed protesters at state capitals when the governors tried to fix the problem. If he had taken decisive action like Ardern did, over 400,000 people who are dead would still be alive, mask wearing wouldn't have been politicized, and here is the biggest irony of all: he would have ridden that goodwill to a solid re-election victory.
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  12918.  @dudeguy7347  Not unless you say what it's about.
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  12919.  @dudeguy7347  He's not doing what you say he's doing. He also insisted that there was no vaccine or antiviral treatment. The evidence shows otherwise.
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  12920.  @dudeguy7347  He specifically said that the vaccine wouldn't work. Evidence has demonstrated that the vaccine does work. Therefore, either you are lying or you don't understand what you shared.
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  12921. ​ @markmorris8532  He resigned, and DeSantis has already said there will be a special election. He's gone. Nobody likes him except for Traitor Greene.
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  12922.  Michael Timely  Why would Republicans have been in a position to block criminal charges against Bush? That would have been a DOJ activity. I'm not saying that all that goofy stuff about Alex Jones or Ron Paul holds any water, but Obama could have done something. Even South Africa went the truth and reconciliation commission route. Not that I think this is acceptable for a settled democracy (all along, I said Bush & Co. should have been prosecuted for war crimes), but at least they tried to address the horrible things that happened in their country.
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  12923.  Michael Timely  Kind of like those who whine about free speech but want to take it from others.
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  12924.  Michael Timely  Oh, we're in agreement. I was talking about those on the right who claim to be free speech warriors (especially the racist/fascist faction) who say they only support free speech when they really only mean free speech for themselves.
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  12925.  Michael Timely  Amen to that. I remember some College Republicans (others I got along with very well) whose only political argument was, "Well, we won, so too bad." No principle at all.
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  12926. Yeah, the guy who took down posts from critics of the Turkish government when they threatened to shut the website down (his predecessor called their bluff) is the champion of free speech.
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  12927. He should have named Doug Jones: someone who actually got results as a prosecutor, being the first to win a hate crimes conviction in Alabama. And, unlike Garland who had a lifetime appointment, Jones was just out of a job.
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  12928.  @moonlightfishin4113  You seriously think that there was no crime? Trump tried to overturn a democratically-held election and pushed a violent insurrection to try to hold onto power. If that's not a crime, what do you call it?
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  12929. ​ @recklart8592  Actually, hundreds of billions, if not trillions, have been repaid. Remember about ten years ago when the Chicken Little crowd insisted that we were headed for catastrophe because the SSTF took in less than it paid out? That was because some of the Treasury bonds were redeemed in order to make Social Security payments. When Social Security was established, it had two rules that made it different from all other government spending: 1) it had to be paid for by separate funds from Social Security payroll taxes, and 2) the money would be kept in a fund separate from the general fund. Whether you agree with the basic mechanism or not, the rule changes with the Greenspan Commission worked as intended (except they underestimated wealth concentration since 1983, which meant that instead of 90% of all earned income being subject to the tax, it's closer to 82% now, which would have made it fully solvent until 2063 if that were still the case), because the idea was to take in way more than needed at the time when there were far more workers to retirees, and use that money to weather the storm as that ratio shrinks and the baby boomers start to collect.
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  12930.  @sekulrtsnfnugg6126  You don't have a vote when it will lose. You're welcome.
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  12931.  @Hairbrain  So, you really think that a vote in the UK Parliament is analogous to what happens in Congress? Or that a Constitutional amendment is the same as a law? If Medicare for All has such overwhelming support, why didn't Bernie win the nomination? And when Women's Suffrage failed, was it close, or did it only have the support of 1/4 of the House and 1/8 of the Senate? No, there is no rule that it will never get another vote, but 75 years of history shows that a failed vote leads to a weaker bill the next time.
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  12932.  @niccolea2086  Sadly, he did not. I haven't heard how close he got, so that might be a good indicator of whether or not he is going to try to keep going. It seems like Gravel thinks he is close enough to be in the running for the second debate, but I haven't heard much in terms of updates from Messam.
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  12933.  @niccolea2086  Her idea was similar to an idea that Oregon had for its student tuition for those who go to public colleges and universities. In exchange for staying in state and paying a 2% payroll for ten years, their debts will be forgiven. That is definitely an improvement, but not quite total forgiveness. (I am in the program for government workers, and it works out to an effective rate of 3% or so after the deductions.)
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  12934.  @chillywilly6076  I don't think the OP meant warped as in worse, but distorted, and she does have a foreign policy that is descended from Ron Paul and the America First Committee before him.
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  12935.  regulator619  Where are you? I provided the video evidence. Where is your condemnation? Oh, that's right. It's all about personality instead of principle with Tulsi supporters.
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  12936.  regulator619  Okay. If you give a response, I will apologize and delete it so that no one else sees what turns out to have been a premature judgment.
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  12937. I don't know if it will be the depths of 2008, but I've been trying to tell anyone who would listen that price/earnings ratios were way too high, because stocks had no relation to business results, and the question was when gravity would hit, not if.
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  12938.  @doctorlemon243  What liberties? The right to treat workers like slaves?
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  12939.  @doctorlemon243  "Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves the much higher consideration." Abraham Lincoln So, was Honest Abe a commie? Would the rich person be so rich if it wasn't for people working for that person? Or is the relationship between the two much more entwined where it would make more sense to maybe make sure that people who are working full time in this country don't need subsidized because their stingy boss refused to give a raise in real terms in 40 years despite productivity doubling?
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  12940.  @doctorlemon243  So, productivity has doubled in the last 40 years, and labor has gotten none of the benefits, and "workers get enough"? Tell you what, let all the workers stop working, and let all the rich go Galt, and tell me which one rebuilds first. Here's a hint: it's not the ones who don't know how to do the actual work.
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  12941.  @doctorlemon243  Work that workers have done has led to them adding twice as much value, but wages have been stagnant for decades. That is not enjoying the fruit. That is greedy people at the top skimming everything. The cream separator of Tommy Douglas come to life.
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  12942.  @doctorlemon243  Again, socialism and communism are not the same thing. The Communist Manifesto is only about 50 pages, so you can finish it in an hour. Marx detested socialists. There's not a lot that Bernie is proposing that is, strictly speaking, socialist. Compare his platform to Allende. If the powers that be won't allow the next FDR, they are making real Marxism that much more likely, and guess what. I don't want that, either, because Marx was far better at diagnosing the problem than the solution.
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  12943.  @doctorlemon243  I do thank you for your honesty. His information is out there for all to see. It might not be so scary after all, especially considering that a lot of it follows the economic model that led to the greatest economic growth for the greatest number of people in our history.
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  12944.  @timn5008  Got him to admit that he didn't know what policies of Bernie's were bad (because he didn't know what policies Bernie actually proposed), didn't I? ;-)
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  12945.  @doctorlemon243  How does it help everyone? Everyone would get free tuition to public colleges, universities, and trade schools. Everyone will know he/she has quality healthcare. Everyone will benefit from breathing cleaner air and drinking cleaner water. Everyone will benefit when tens of millions of people are put to work to fix the pressing needs of this country, and when we have an infrastructure that is once again the envy of the world.
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  12946.  @doctorlemon243  And "minorities get free college"? Nice dog whistle. Bernie is offering everyone free college or trade schools, whichever the case may be.
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  12947.  @doctorlemon243  People go to trade schools and community college, don't they? Those are covered as well. As to the question of why they have to pay, in the words of George Costanza, we are living in a society. We started paying for high school at a time when not many people went past the eighth grade. People who don't own cars pay for highways. People who don't have kids pay K-12. But even if not everyone pursues a post-secondary education, the kid from a poor background with wasted talent might be the one to cure cancer or diabetes. And all that gone because we didn't decide to do our best to help people realize their potential.
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  12948. Manchin is to the left of every Republican. If you get rid of Manchin, the most likely replacement is Jim Justice. Look up his record and tell me which you prefer. Yes, primary Sinema, but Manchin is the best we can get in West Virginia. To use the mirror of Buckley, we should support the leftmost candidate who can win.
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  12949.  @adrianl7604  I think that, when there are 50 seats, and no room for error, sometimes it is better to literally get half than nothing. He frustrates me, too, but I know what the alternative is. Maybe the far better thing is to help 2022 Senate candidates so his vote and Sinema (who is far worse because she is in a blue state, and the other Senator is to her left and much more popular) and Manchin won't have the deciding vote anymore.
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  12950.  @adrianl7604  And you consider voting for the coronavirus bill "no functional difference"?
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  12951.  @aylbdrmadison1051  Consumption taxes are literally the textbook example of a regressive tax. Unless it has changed since the last time I dealt with people pushing this one, it didn't even exempt food. By definition, the more you make, the lower percentage of income you spend. If consumption taxes are not regressive (you can only make them less regressive, never progressive), find me one specific example anywhere of the rich paying a higher percentage of income than the poor do in consumption taxes. Here's a hint: you can't do it.
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  12952.  @charlieduvall6463  If he got a vote for every fake personality he uses, it would be close.
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  12953. I remember VOA in Kuwait 15 years ago. It was horrible! The two things that I remembered were op-eds "expressing the perspective of the United States government" and them getting rid of the words in "Born in the USA" that were critical of Vietnam and how bad things were for the veterans who came home.
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  12954. ​ @hizzlemobizzle  Indeed. Whenever I hear people talk about the strategic brilliance of Evil Turtle, I remember that any idiot can just block something, and Marjorie Traitor Greene is a perfect example.
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  12955.  @robertferguson6827  Since you are so convinced that you know how to get it, what state are we going to get Medicare for All enacted in? How is a Presidential system different than a Parliamentary system? What happened the second time around to the plans of Truman, Nixon, and Clinton?
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  12956. Some people have the role of showing us the way, and others have the role of taking us there.
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  12957.  @fredsanford1437  He didn't have the votes. Maybe because Bernie actually cares about democracy and actually getting things done.
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  12958.  @fredsanford1437  No. Wikileaks proved that the DNC didn't like Bernie. Doesn't mean that votes were stolen. Nice try.
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  12959.  @fredsanford1437  [citation needed]
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  12960.  @fredsanford1437  When I have actual evidence, I present it. I don't insist that people take my word for it. When people got mad that I said that a VAT was a regressive tax, I gave data. If you have evidence that votes were changed, show it. The anti-anti-Trump crowd falsely claimed that Russiagate was an allegation that Hillary won, but it was that there was interference. No one is disputing who the DNC wanted to win or how much they tried to shield Hillary. The accusation on your part is that they changed votes. The burden of proof is on you.
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  12961.  @fredsanford1437  So, you're so certain that the 2016 election was stolen that you're implying that I am uninformed for saying that the evidence wasn't there for what you claim to be there, but now you're "not sure" that votes were changed? By definition, they can't both be true. If you aren't sure that votes were changed, then you can't say that the election was stolen. Have fun continuing to be irrelevant because you don't want to get your hands dirty making decisions with actual consequences, all while not realizing that not making a decision is making a decision to get far less of what you claim to want.
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  12962.  @jeffarnold3800  Except when you win a snowball fight and show that the greatest snowball was fear. Merry Christmas :-D
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  12963. 15:24 Correction: Trump is on tape saying that he inspected naked teenage girls, not women. This was the Miss Teen USA contest he was describing.
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  12964. I have seen a person who may be his son or grandson selling Purdue in PA, but he didn't make it down to WV for advertising when I was growing up.
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  12965. Maybe people should stop voting for the party that wants to blow things up and elect the party that believes in governing.
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  12966.  @robertredmon5409  Well, maybe if the Republicans in question wouldn't have made posts threatening violence against their coworkers, this wouldn't have happened. But yeah, wanting petty payback is no different than saying that members can't harass or threaten colleagues. In 1856, you probably would have wondered what the big deal was about Preston Brooks.
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  12967.  @robertredmon5409  Keep telling yourself that. Your initial comment proves that you only care about power and have no principles on the subject.
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  12968.  @robertredmon5409  If that helps you sleep at night.
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  12969.  @LogoLamont  Child kidnapping, forced sterilization of women, undermining democracy, killing over 200,000 people due to incompetence. If that's winning, I'd hate to see losing.
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  12970.  @woodwood9411  "not conditional or limited: absolute, unqualified." If we're going to use words to defend a position or policy, we should use the correct word. If someone hears unconditional, that person will think there are none at all. Giving up existing benefits is a HUGE condition.
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  12971.  @rickysoulless6534  You're showing your true colors. Not all who don't work or lazy bums who are able bodied who don't want to work. I look at applications every day, and very few have no income.
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  12972.  @rickysoulless6534  You said that people who receive benefits now don't want to risk it "by actually becoming productive members of society." That clearly implies that those who receive benefits now are not productive members of society. I'm
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  12973.  @solenstyle  That is not my understanding at all. My understanding is that assistance should be used to alleviate poverty. The amount that he proposes won't do that. Another big issue is wealth and income inequality. This does not mean that everyone makes exactly the same or has the same, but that once those differences get so vast, the rungs get so far apart that climbing the ladder becomes virtually impossible. The absolute/relative question reminds me of an experiment. (Robert Reich talks about it in one of his lectures.) Two people were offered a total of $100. However, one person was supposed to come up with a way of dividing the total. The other could take it or leave it. If the other person turned it down, no one got anything. Some people split it 50/50, but others wanted more. The researchers found that the offer had to be at least $25 to get someone to accept. Using the logic of your post, people should take anything above zero. After all, it was money they didn't have coming into the deal. People didn't take it because they saw it as unfair. In other words, the relative effects are also important. As far as Yang saying that other things should matter besides GDP, I agree. However, that doesn't change the fact that his proposal does nothing to alleviate poverty, does nothing to address inequality, and because of the way it is funded might actually make both problems worse.
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  12974.  @platoniczombie  I agree with most of that, but I don't think he's one of the best. He opposes increasing the minimum wage, his college proposal is terrible, and he wants to pay for his one big idea by a regressive tax. That being said, there is a good way to do UBI, which would either be as a supplement to what we already have, or big enough that people can work because they want to rather than because they have to. Unfortunately, his is neither. That is why the more I learn about him, the more he seems like a libertarian wolf in leftist clothing.
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  12975.  @jamesk7063  See above. Poor people get punished when any version of UBI replaces existing benefits.
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  12976.  @omnifluff5540  I did go on his site, but I thank you for providing yet more evidence that Yang is a libertarian wolf in leftist clothing.
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  12977.  @stevendayt97  Not according to the Yang website. You have a choice between the benefits you have or taking the $1000.
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  12978.  @stevendayt97  If that's the case, then that is new. See the above comments from those defending the either/or nature of his proposal.
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  12979. A public option is not Medicare for All. That's like saying you support brown-haired blondes.
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  12980.  @Chadwickthegooberknight  We have tried the way of incrementalism for over 70 years, and what has it gotten us? How much longer are we going to have to wait? Other countries have done it (and the UK did it still facing rations in the wake of WWII), so why can't we?
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  12981.  @Chadwickthegooberknight  And it is heavily regulated, and as the last three years have proven, any Republican President and Congress would undermine private plans far more easily as long as private insurance as able to exist as it does now. And Medicare for All does allow for supplementary insurance... after medical, dental, vision, hearing, and mental health are covered.
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  12982. I am not a fan of Big Pharma. I am a fan of life-saving medicines. My uncle got polio (1947-93) and couldn't walk until he was five. A friend from work was "hesitant" because some of her friends who work in a nursing home resented being forced to take the vaccine. She got coronavirus, and the worst side effect I got from the vaccine was a runny nose for a couple days and some headaches.
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  12983. Kicked out of the military for being a drunk and elected to Congress. Imagine the logic behind that one.
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  12984. "Whateva! I do what I want. -Eric Cartman" -Donald Trump
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  12985.  @prodesu8607  Let me look over the interview later tonight. It has been a while, so I don't remember the specific points of his dog whistle, but it was definitely there.
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  12986.  @cooprdog3793  Well, if you run away from it, of course they won't. People like Kynect, and his efforts to undermine it may very well cost Bevin his office, so it moves the needle when people fight back.
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  12987.  @riffsthatkill2180  I think it's something like a third of 40% of the board has to be workers.
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  12988.  @riffsthatkill2180  Oh, the same nonsense about how workers don't know what's best for us and how unions destroy jobs and needing yo compete, even though Germany is a net exporter.
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  12989.  @TheBigGetEven  But what is the idea that Dore could serve a similar purpose based on? As time has gone on, he has started to reinforce the narrative. Considering that a substantial portion of his audience is already right wing, we would surely hear about successes if they were happening more often.
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  12990.  @greybright7783  Well, that makes you a tiny minority. I have asked a lot of Never Biden people, and almost all avoid the question. Exit polls don't measure things like mail-in voting, so they are not the end all be all proof. Unfortunately, the establishment are smarter about getting results, because a lot of the people who were drawing votes from Bernie stayed in well past when they should have gotten out (in any normal cycle, a candidate from Massachusetts getting single digits in New Hampshire would have been the end of the road), and majority support never coalesced.
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  12991.  @Ekkie101  Sadly, Curly and She'll didn't live long enough to find out how beloved they truly were.
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  12992. There is definitely a difference between "I think this is a terrible bill that will make things worse for America" and taking credit and saying "I think we should pass the other bill first, because I don't think that we'll get what was promised that is even better" and voting against the final bill while voting for it in committees.
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  12993. Bernie talks about value and politics at the same time. Pete's smart. Why can't he walk and chew gum at the same time?
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  12994.  @JRock4572001  Well, they did elect Steve Beshear to two terms as governor, and Matt Bevin is in serious trouble, so just maybe if the establishment stops shoving people like Amy McGrath down their throats, and Democrats make it clear where they stand in Harlan, they can pull it off.
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  12995.  @AshGreen359  Maybe the OP is suggesting that will be seat number 51.
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  12996. 4:37 As a governor worker, I thank you for pointing this out. It is incredibly frustrating being a talking point for people who want to sabotqge your work.
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  12997.  @ninamimi6622  Well, then, why not say, "We can't use it for hospital workers, but we will give them to the general public instead"?
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  12998. "Stupid people elected by stupider people." Christopher Titus
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  12999.  @Squncoin  I've heard conservatives tell me that the only reason they think Democrats support a pathway to citizenship (amnesty was 1986) is so the new citizens will vote Democratic. Maybe if they had policies that appealed broadly, they needn't fear that outcome.
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  13000.  @jessizthebess4590  If you're replying to me, I didn't say you, I said that I've heard some conservatives tell me that. About three or four in person, more on social media. Do you have a guilty conscience?
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  13001.  @Squncoin  Not that they would, but that if they did, they wouldn't have to fear getting voted against by the people who they scapegoat.
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  13002.  @jeremygregorio7472  Not in the first round.
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  13003. You mean the guy who intentionally ran in 2000 to throw the election to Bush, lied to his exploratory committee about only campaigning in safe states to make it more likely for the Green Party to get to 5% and quality for federal matching funds, ran in 2004 despite everyone in his exploratory committee begging him not to, running as an independent despite insisting in 2000 that his goal was to build a third-party movement, went crawling to the Reform Party to try to get the last vestiges of their ballot access when he realized that it was hard to run without an existing infrastructure, all while then trying to go back and get the Green Party nomination that same year, and then spent the 2010s espousing the virtues of Michael Bloomberg and Rand Paul for President? That's who you miss? Good riddance to someone who spent the last 40 years resting on his laurels.
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  13004. It didn't start out this way. To use another example, Scientolgy doesn't give people the Xenu story until people reach OT3. By then, you're already invested and Sunken Cost Theory starts to kick in.
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  13005. Get rid of the tool for dine and dash Republicans to screw us all once and for all.
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  13006.  @nataliejansen2371  Oh, okay. I did not know he was in that. I had heard of the show (and of Kirsten Bell) but never seen it. The only person I recognized was Zooey Deschanel, and that was pretty much straight off 500 Days of Summer.
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  13007. I remember seeing it live, and seeing Sam just waiting to open his mouth at the end after the nonsense Boxer said only to be told it was 9:00. Alwaus frustrating when something like that happens.
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  13008.  @bobsana4590  Burning a book implies buying it first. We should treat it like Dave Rubin's book. Read free samples and then mock them repeatedly.
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  13009.  @bobsana4590  True, but the writer gets paid even with bargain bin purchases.
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  13010.  @Bmanritchie  I am a Christian, but one embarrassed by the stupid people who pervert what Jesus actually said. I remember someone pulled the Christian nation argument with me, and I asked that person to recite the first ten words of the Bill of Rights. He had it on hand, but seemed to think that the Free Establishment Clause somehow canceled out the Establishment Clause.
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  13011.  @platitudeypus  And you know what will happen? It will lose miserably, and then where do you go? The Underpants Gnomes strike again.
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  13012.  @redrick8900  Libertarians believe in property uber alles.
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  13013. 4:08 Yes! Never forget that Doug Mastriano is a literal fascist who wants to get rid of democracy. If he wins, he gets to appoint the Secretary of State, and he's already said he won't certify for a Democratic candidate.
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  13014.  @robinsss  Well, since you say so, such great logic is powerful.
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  13015.  @robinsss  You are aware that you have to renew an ID, right? They have these things called expiration dates. As a matter of fact,.when PA considered its version of a poll tax, my Veterans ID wouldn't have counted because it didn't have an expiration date. Therefore, if you need it to vote, and you need to pay to get the ID, it is a poll tax. Again, very ironic coming from someone who has pulled the taxation is theft argument. Then again, it never ceases to amaze me how libertarians always seem to find an exception to less government in order to give power to the wealthy or take it away from the rest of us.
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  13016.  @robinsss  But people who don't drive have less need of an ID, and you want said ID in order to be able to vote. Therefore, you support poll taxes.
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  13017.  @robinsss  Wrong. You're not allowed to use an expired ID, and most photo IDs expire in four or five years. If that law wasn't stricken down, my license that I got a couple months ago would be no good by the time the 2026 elections came out, and there are plenty of people who don't drive. I guess you don't really believe in freedom after all. What a shock!
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  13018.  @robinsss  You've been spamming this channel for years and years. You have used the "taxation is theft" argument multiple times.
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  13019. 16:40 Thom Hartmann thinks it's becauxe he's focused on House races so Johnson can work out his "secret plan." We need to lock him up and throw away the key.
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  13020.  @EverettNewell  Also Der Orangefuhrer.
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  13021.  @liberaldriller9884  Actually, he let other people demagogue against gay people while quietly killing federal legislation because of his daughter. Principle still applies. Like how Nancy Reagan only supported stem cell research in the hope that it would help Saint Ronnie.
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  13022. I don't see Timmy Boy complaining that women have to pay more to get a haircut.
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  13023. And the Hill Shills called him a hypocrite for using a private plane... given by the Clinton campaign to help Hillary. No good deed...
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  13024.  @Armed-Forever  What are you talking about? There may be some words that you are missing, but I'm not sure what argument you're trying to make or what you are responding to.
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  13025. If it walks like a fascist, and it talks like a fascist, we should call it fascist.
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  13026. ​ @Carol98-by3qc  Their favored excuse when caught in a lie or something embarrassing. They almost.never try to give a context.
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  13027.  @TheColdrush22  If she doesn't care about refugees, why was she one of only 16 Democrats to vote with Republicans to make it harder for Syrian refugees to enter the United States? 18 levels of verification aren't enough for her? A vote that, by the way, she still defends. Why did she praise Putin for bombing rebel strongholds in Syria? Why is she so noncommittal on whether or not Assad used chemical weapons (on The View, she said he did, but denied it on Morning Joe)? Do you consider it a significant answer to her previous defense of torture that she was waiting to read a 2014 report that said it didn't work when there was a previous report in 2007 that said the exact same thing? Is it acceptable that she was willing to consider a war crime, even if she now says she opposes it on practical grounds rather than moral ones? Are you confident that another report wouldn't change her mind? If she wanted to make peace by "meeting with people," why did she only go to Assad strongholds in Syria and then say that he had broad support? If she doesn't support Sisi, why did she praise him for "stopping terrorists" after a brutal crackdown on protestors? If she doesn't support Modi, why does she continue to say such nice things about him and deny his role in demonizing Muslims? Finally, how many big things does someone have to apologize for past opinions and positions held before you start to ask whether or not she's building on a foundation of sand?
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  13028.  @falllinemaniac  As she points out, she did it in the Obama years. This was before her trip to Syria. She still defends that vote today. Putin was not interested in getting "terrorists" in Syria. He was only interested in propping up the regime. And this idea of Assad as the "elected leader" of Syria, who was his opponent? Oh, that's right, elections in Syria are a show. If Assad didn't use chemical weapons, why did Tulsi admit it on The View? If she is honest, why did she then say he didn't on Morning Joe? Tulsi is not pro-peace. She is an isolationist along the orders of the America First Committee. Finally, she is not the only peace candidate since Dennis Kucinich. I was a supporter of his in 2004. I met him several times when he came to my native state. I asked him questions. He actually did support peace, and quite frankly, his spiritual heir on foreign policy, because I saw her town hall, and she wants to bolster the State Department to negotiate and increase actual peace. Tulsi wants to abandon the world.
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  13029.  @falllinemaniac  No intervention does not mean no refugees. If so, why did Republicans overwhelmingly support the bill she voted for? Taking refugees means that you acknowledge that their is a human rights crisis, and we cannot leave people to die. In 1940, you probably would have turned away the St. Louis based on that logic. How did that work out for them?
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  13030.  @falllinemaniac  Who doesn't fail my test on foreign policy? Literally other candidate in the field as far as I know hasn't invoked 24 to justify torture. Literally every other candidate has avoided praising Modi and Sisi as far as I know. If she is so opposed to regime change wars, why does she support the latter? Not only was his reign the result of the Arab Spring and taking out a democratically elected leader in Mansour. Not to mention not only ignoring his crackdown of protesters, but praising him as "fighting terror." Re: the Flynn report, you mean the guy who was a for hire operative to anyone who paid enough money? I don't consider him to be more trustworthy than actual organizations that monitor the use of such weapons: https://www.armscontrol.org/blog/2018-09-23/what-you-need-know-about-chemical-weapons-use-syria The question of who will take Assad's place, not every opponent of Assad is a terrorist. The civil war started in 2011 after his crackdown of protesters. I am not saying that we should take him out, but perhaps the Syrian people should get to decide in an actual election.
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  13031.  @falllinemaniac  As I said earlier, Marianne Williamson does not actually talk about propping up dictators and human rights violators, but actual peaceful negotiations and working to solve issues diplomatically.
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  13032.  @falllinemaniac  You are the one who said "no intervention means no refugees." St. Louis passengers were refugees. The United States and several other countries said "it's not my place."
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  13033.  @falllinemaniac  The question of the legitimacy of the Syrian elections, Assad didn't have any opposition in any election until 2014, and in that election, he only put ballots in areas that were loyal to him. Oh, yes, that is democracy: https://www.macleans.ca/news/world/5-things-to-know-about-tuesdays-presidential-election-in-syria/ At a certain point, I have to ask why you continue to cite the party line of Syria regardless of actual information. If Trump doesn't let anyone in the Pacific time zone vote, would you consider that a legitimate election? The questions of his legitimacy have to do with a foreign power putting its thumb on the scales and an antiquated system of counting votes. Not that there aren't problems with American voting, but if you honestly think that Assad's election is the same as American elections, I have to ask whether your understanding is willful, based in a reflexive anti-American sentiment, or an intentional effort to provide cover for the murder and displacement of millions.
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  13034.  @falllinemaniac  Well, then, why not say from the beginning that you disagree with the vote? I am a huge Bernie fan, but I don't agree with everything he says, and that doesn't diminish my support in any way.
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  13035.  @falllinemaniac  Which is it, are they "American paid mercenaries," or are they jihadis? If you don't care about the Syrian elections, why did you use them to state that Assad as the rightful leader in Syria? There is a difference between wanting to take Assad out and looking the other way at his human rights violations. Like I said, Marianne Williamson makes that distinction. I knew of her works, but I first saw her in the Dennis 2004 campaign video This is the Moment. I saw her town hall, and I checked out her website. She talks about the problems an aggressive foreign policy cause, but she points out that this is no excuse to ignore human rights violations or remove ourselves from the world. Tulsi is about isolating the US. There is a vast difference between the two. One supports peace, and the other is the modern-day America First Committee.
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  13036.  @falllinemaniac  Obama actually tried to close Guantanamo, but Congress blocked putting the prisoners in the United States, and with no extradition treaty, they had nowhere to go. Everything else in your criticism, I agree with. I agree that there is some degree of naivete in Williamson, but using the State Department to negotiate and increase actual peace is something that I think is a good idea. If Dennis had said that 15 years ago, people might not have been so quick to dismiss his idea for the Department of Peace. I admit that I thought it was silly on first hearing, until I realized what he meant. I won't vote for her, either, but hers is a voice that I think is important for the early debates.
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  13037.  @falllinemaniac  I don't mind the debate at all. If someone makes a point that I think is a good one, I will look at it. I think that also includes looking at evidence and research. Dismissing evidence because someone actually bothered to do research and is willing to present it for scrutiny is not helpful. If you think Assad is this great guy who is just misunderstood, have at it, but dismissing out of hand actual evidence because it doesn't fit your narrative won't convince anyone, neither will mocking the idea of using a simple search engine as "I'm not a professional." Evidence is good.
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  13038.  @falllinemaniac  Why do I despise Assad? He is a dictator who suppresses dissent and has displaced millions while causing chaos and damage to his country and his people. Why do you like him so much? Or, is it that you are so opposed to military action (other than ensuring the safety of the Kurdish people, I don't) that you insist on defending him for that reason because you feel that pointing out his atrocities automatically leads to war?
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  13039.  @falllinemaniac  No, the DNC is not moving the goalposts. It would help if you were telling the truth, but since you object to me showing actual research to back myself up, the standard has always been 1% in three national or early state polls or 65,000 unique donors with at least 200 donors in 20 or more states up to 20 candidates with the national polling average serving to determine who gets in if there are more than 20 who qualify and so far, that is only 15. The cutoff has to be somewhere, and top 20 seems pretty reasonable to me. I, too, donated to Williamson, and am looking at Gravel and Messam to decide if I want to donate to them.
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  13040.  @falllinemaniac  Secular governments have done all kinds of bad things in the Middle East. The question isn't secular or fundamentalist, as Tulsi Gabbard would have you believe, but dictator or democracy. Saddam Hussein was secular. So is Erdogan. So was Gaddhafi. I find it interesting that you didn't include the Kurds. At this point, I have to wonder if the Assad government is paying you for every nice thing you say about him, because you are more reluctant to criticize Assad than Trump is to criticize Putin. As far as supporting efforts to remove Assad, I think that it has to be done internally, and through free and fair elections, with real opposition candidates and no threat of violence for supporting them. And he has to stop the civil war. The United States should practice humanitarian aid, and we should protect the Kurdish people. That should be the limits of our direct involvement. Sanctions, if targeted to actually affect those committing the human rights abuses, or similar activities, is acceptable to me.
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  13041.  @falllinemaniac  She is not stronger on foreign policy. I know how much you support Assad, but she also supports Sisi. She opposed the Iran nuclear deal. She supports Modi. She voted to make it more difficult to accept refugees. And she justified torture. Tulsi also says sue supports the war on terror. I know you hate research, but here it is, anyway (with plenty of links to justify every statement): https://arcdigital.media/tulsi-gabbard-is-not-anti-war-660e7d1e4ce1 And Bernie did not support overthrowing Maduro. He asked for free and fair elections, something there has been some question about in the last one: https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/25/bernie-sanders-venezuela-maduro/index.html
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  13042.  @falllinemaniac  When will you start being honest about this "only" stuff? Not only did Bernie call Trump out on Yemen, but unlike Tulsi, he actually did something about it. Who was the lead sponsor of the bill that he vetoed? Who helped organize the coalition that voted in favor of the bill? You complain when I call out Tulsi for her words, but that is all I can go by since Bernie has actually done things on these fronts. I hope I get a candidate who meets my standards, too, but the primaries are the time to push for the best, and the general is the time to see who is the better or less bad who can win. I live in one of the three states that decided the last election, I am a pu]blic worker who got screwed over in a scenario that Jimmy "McConnell won't get rid of the filibuster" Dore said wouldn't happen, and I am a veteran of the war Bush pushed us into and Gore opposed, so every time my upper back acts up or my sinuses act up, I am reminded of the importance of knowing when to be ideal and when to be practical.
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  13043.  @falllinemaniac  I didn't see the interview, but she might have meant just to be safe, but I haven't seen any public statement to counter that, and since I gave Williamson and Messam a dollar to help them get to 65,000, I will be very mad if either of them get there only to be told they didn't make it because of the polling threshold if there are less than 20 candidates on stage.
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  13044.  @falllinemaniac  I trust Abrams and Pompeo about as far as I can throw them, and see the comments about my back above for that answer.
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  13045.  @StephanieM772  How so? He listed his problems with her stances and her record. Were his statements inaccurate?
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  13046.  @StephanieM772  But his point in January, and mine in general in this discussion, is that she isn't that strong lefty voice. Her anti-intervention stance looks to me more like America First than genuine left leanings for peace, and she plays both siderism on policy.
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  13047.  @StephanieM772  Well, maybe if Tulsi supporters wouldn't start off the way they do, those of us who don't trust her wouldn't be so dismissive of those who say that we are evil, or warmongers, or ignoring her as part of some evil conspiracy.
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  13048.  @StephanieM772  You said that she was important and she needs to be heard. In other places, there was talk of her lefty credentials. The first one was why I said that David didn't want to kick her while she's down, I questioned the lefty credentials because you complained about journalists and commentators on the left dismissing her. I directly addressed all three points in the OP.
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  13049.  @rdu239  So, you want to let Moscow Mitch tell you what is legitimate? If JFK were still alive, he would want to include a chapter in his book about you!
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  13050.  @seanmccartney5177  You made the accusation, so surely you know of some examples.
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  13051.  @seanmccartney5177  No, you played whataboutism. I guess you missed it.
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  13052. Joshua Harris would be a terrible owner! He is only in it to make money. Look at the awful teams in Philadelphia. They were so intentionally bad that the NBA forced them to actually put an NBA-caliber team on the court.
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  13053. This is what Ostrich Syndrome looks like.
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  13054. Bees kill more humans than any animal other than mosquitoes.
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  13055. In fairness, the final number didn't come out until Monday.
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  13056. Some who claim the name of Jesus use it to justify extravagance. I would love to see them in real time while reading "In His Steps" to see their minds trying to square the circle.
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  13057. That reminds me of when I was in the desert and got a letter from the Adjutant General in order to try to encourage me to stay in (I got out once my enlistment expired), but when I opened the letter, it was to my cousin. At least they had the excuse of the last name being the same.
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  13058. At this point, being anti-vaccine is like being pro-torture in respectable circles. No one comes out and says it (even Jenny McCarthy insists that she isn't anti-vaccine), but they use dog whistles and coded language to make it obvious what they are trying to do. Therefore, it is completely fair to say that someone who doesn't directly say that he/she opposes the vaccine while spreading misinformation is anti-vaccine.
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  13059. "Republicans by sneakers, too." Michael Jordan on why he refused to endorse Harvey Gantt against Jesse Helms after the latter ran the horribly racist "Hands" ad in 1990
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  13060. Could you describe it? Maybe it goes by a different name here.
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  13061. I don't celebrate their suffering, but they definitely caused it. I sae a Christopher Titus video where he summed up the phenomenon perfectly: stupid people electing even stupider people.
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  13062. Trayvon Martin was 17. Everything else is spot on.
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  13063.  @governmentcheese2257  I can't help but wonder if the whole discussion (and how many people seem surprised when veterans say it's laid on thick) is a side effect of having so few in the military today. Not that I want a draft or anything, just a thought when hearing people mention military service.
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  13064.  @user-os8sq3uh4n  Oh, and in a further example of how she exploits her military service, when she cut an ad for Bernie, his campaign put disclaimers on any picture of hers in uniform that this did not constitute an endorsement from the DOD. Does Tulsi do that? No, she doesn't. Then again, a lot of us who served don't feel the need to bring it up every other sentence.
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  13065.  @user-os8sq3uh4n  And if you are really echoing Moscow Donald with that "never got captured" nonsense, then you are a worthless piece of human garbage. His plane was shot down, and that is how he got captured. You can question how much he actually talked when he got captured, but getting captured happens in the military. Or are you going to defame Purple Heart recipients as well because your cult leader Tulsi doesn't have one, either?
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  13066.  @canadianperspective3731  Those are called literacy tests. We used to have them, and we got rid of them for good reason.
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  13067. 4:01 Actually, that big orange dummy said he was going to prevent World War Two.
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  13068. I have heard that argument for 20 years. How has that worked out? The Democratic Party gets scared and votes for someone "safe" in response to defeat and goes to the right. (Don't give me Obama, because he ran to Hillary's right on economic issues and even talked about the need to "do something about the deficit in Social Security," which hardly ever means the simple act of raising or eliminating the cap, and kept praising Reagan.) The last time Democrats responded to a loss by moving left was arguably 1984. We are literally looking at the barrel of a fascist dictatorship, and you are still spouting this discredited theory.
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  13069.  @alancrossley509  I'd rather vote for a corpse than a fascist who openly admits that he wants to be a dictator.
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  13070.  @nsdfancy  Nike makes money off the coach's bad actions, and it stood by Salazar for years. They don't act in total naivete about what happens with their money. It's like the line in Quiz Show when the president of Geritol tells the investigator, "You're saying that I had something to do with fixing the shows? That's insulting." When asked if he was in the dark, he said, "Now you're saying that I don't pay attention to what people do when I write their checks. That's even more insulting." Nike saw the gold medals by people wearing the swoosh and all of the publicity from the Oregon Project. Bill Bowerman would be rolling over in his grave if he knew what was happening.
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  13071.  @joshuaantony1975  Show me any elite professional runner who doesn't have a shoe deal. Any one. At all. You also don't seem to understand that the market leader often sets the parameters of the market. Just like manufacturers had to go along with requirements of Wal-Mart at the turn of the century and have to do so for Amazon today, no one is going to go significantly away from what Nike is offering.
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  13072.  @joshuaantony1975  I'm the only one who is arguing facts. I'm not the one who so very dishonestly charged the question from "runner" to "athlete." I'm not the one defending a known sweatshop merchant that it turns out treats elite athletes in smaller sports with the same disdain.
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  13073.  @joshuaantony1975  I said you dishonesty changed the question from "runners" to "athletes." Among others, you mentioned a player in the NFL. So, let's look at the economics of the two sports: NFL: median salary of $860,000 and a minimum salary of $465,000 IAAF: 90% of elite athletes receive less than $15,000 in prize money. Yes, those are totally the same.
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  13074.  @joshuaantony1975  You are too stupid to understand that there is no salary for elite runners unless they get sponsors.
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  13075.  @joshuaantony1975  You literally thought that you had a point in your favor by not understanding that sponsor salary is the main source of income for runners and that prize money is the equivalent to player salary in the NFL, and thus don't understand why an NFL player would be in a different position than a track athlete. Also, you apparently don't understand that non-compete clauses are a thing. If she left Nike, she couldn't just go to another company. So, she could leave... and try to make it on poverty wages. Understand the economic model of a sport before you try to spout nonsense, and maybe you'll understand why it is nonsense.
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  13076.  @joshuaantony1975  Which are you, 14 or 12?
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  13077.  @maximyles  Clearly she wasn't "remaining strong." Sadly, history is full of young athletes who were worn out before we could see how great they really were. Gerry Lindgren peaked at 19. Jim Ryun peaked at 20. Mary Cain peaked at 16. This is because they had coaches who saw visions of glory instead of thinking about the athlete and running them into the ground. What nutritionist and doctor helped Salazar determine this was the correct weight for his athlete?
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  13078.  @zapazap  Apparently, in your eagerness to defend Nike and try to make some ridiculous racial argument, you completely missed the point about the economic model of track and field. It is not like major team sports in that you get a salary to compete. You get prize money, and the prize money is so very low that 90% of elite runners make less than $15,000/year in prize money. Even the biggest of the big usually are in six figures rather than the seven or eight of other sports. That answers two of your questions borne by not reading and defending the indefensible: $15,000/year goes a lot farther in East and North Africa than it does in North America and Western Europe, and something has to fill in the gap. Even for those athletes outside of the industrialized world, shoe companies tend to sponsor camps and agents are the ones with ties to shoe companies are the ones who pick people to join the circuit. So, given the economic models that exist now in the sport, how is a runner supposed to make it without a shoe company endorsement?
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  13079.  @zapazap  If by covering up PED scandals and getting positions on athletic boards to keep people from being held accountable as "doing something right," yeah, sure.
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  13080.  @maximyles  Any athlete who peaked young either just had nothing more to prove (Herb Elliott, who never lost and was an amateur who couldn't afford to fly halfway around the world that often) or were overtrained. I don't know your experience in endurance sports, but barring injuries, almost all athletes at any level take about ten years of hard training to reach their full potential. If you don't think that making someone run over 250 miles a week (Lindgren), run hard intervals every day from the age of thirteen (Ryun), or forcing a developing girl to meet an arbitrary weight that clearly left her weakened and exhausted (Cain) had a role in their stunted development, either you are blind to the circumstances, or you are really grasping at straws to defend Nike and their indefensible program and coach.
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  13081.  @maximyles  250 miles a week is obscene unless you are an ultramarathon runner going extremely slowly. The typical elite 10,000 meter runner (Lindgren's event) typically runs anywhere from 80-140 miles per week. Swimming is far less of a cardiovascular exercise than running, so those aren't comparable. The human body can only withstand so many hard miles (Frank Shorter and Bill Rodgers, who propelled the American running boom in the early to mid 1970s, were elite marathon runners and neither are capable of running a marathon today), and being burned out by the time you're 19 means that something was wrong. Also, Lindgren and Ryun weren't never-was. They were both world record holders, and Ryun was an Olympic silver medalist as his downhill began. Part of the reason he won silver instead of gold was because he contracted mono and couldn't train for several months in the spring leading up to Mexico City, a disease that is a symptom of overtraining in endurance athletes. For comparison in terms of when an athlete should peak, here are the ages of the dominance or the greatest performances of other all-time great distance runners: Paavo Nurmi, 27; Emil Zatopek, 29; Ron Clarke, 27; Lasse Viren, 23: Abebe Bikila, 28; Said Aouita, 25; Peter Snell, 23-25; Haile Gebrselassie, 23-27; Kenenisa Bekele, 26; Hicham El Guerrouj, 26; David Rudisha, 24. Any endurance athlete who peaks at 19 or 20 is being done wrong. Since you are familiar with boxing, I will paraphrase one of the greatest movies ever made with a former boxer as the main character: their coaches should have been taking care of them. They should have been looking out for them instead of taking the short end money meets.
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  13082. As a Pennsylvania resident, this is yet more evidence that we need Fetterman. In 2006 (the year before I moved here), Lynn Swann got clobbered. Let's get to three out of four in defeating celebrity candidates.
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  13083.  @IRuinEvrything  You can't get daycare subsidies (one of the few programs that Yang has specified that people have to forfeit if they take his money out of the 125 total) unless you work. Then again, Yang says that we need the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend because there won't be any jobs left in the future. If he is right, we will live in a world with a few trillionaires and everyone else scraping by on less than the poverty level for one person. And all those other programs that are need based when the need increases? Well, Yang said that he wants to get rid of those. And if you think that you can enact the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend without a bureaucracy, I can get you a good deal on a bridge.
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  13084.  @IRuinEvrything  Imagine how much it will cost to A) Make sure that someone has turned 18 and is now eligible. B) Has died, so no longer needs a check. C) That bank accounts don't change so the money doesn't go into the ether. D) That someone isn't getting one of the 125 programs that make people ineligible, or that they have gone without for the requisite amount of time. Yeah, that won't take any bureaucracy at all eye roll
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  13085.  @IRuinEvrything  And, if people realize that they are better off on the current benefits, those people will lose out, because now they have to pay a VAT because Yang refuses to fight tax avoidance and evasion.
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  13086.  @IRuinEvrything  And how are they going to "Do the arithmetic" if Yang refuses to provide a full list of the programs that people have to forfeit if they take his money? Shouldn't people have that information not just when they are determining which is better, but during the campaign so they can make an informed decision about him as a candidate?
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  13087.  @IRuinEvrything  I take it that you have never heard of fake IDs.
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  13088.  @IRuinEvrything  That isn't a lack of bureaucracy. You can argue that it is less bureaucracy, but things get lost, and there has to be a way to make sure those things don't jeopardize the benefits that people are counting on.
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  13089.  @IRuinEvrything  I love that you love in a world where acknowledging that some people will break the law means you think that everyone will break the law, and that throwing out a multi-trillion dollar program and doing nothing to ensure that it does not end up costing more than estimated will do nothing to affect the feasibility of a proposal.
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  13090.  @GalekC  Part 15 did that to me several times.
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  13091. Perot dropped out the first time because he didn't want to throw the election to the House. This is what would have happened if no one got to 270 electoral votes... where it would have been decided by Democrats and Republicans. He knew he couldn't win.
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  13092. Centrism is basically "let's take whatever you want to do, no matter the price tag how big or small, and do just a bit less."
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  13093. @Ruthless Minion Not the Supreme Court, and that was only after McConnell blocked 93 judges so he could have a full plate ready for when a Republican took the White House.
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  13094. @Ruthless Minion What are you talking about? The numbers were there when it happened for the lower courts and Cabinet members. The leadership said at the time that the difference is that lower courts are bound by precedent and the President should have a functioning government. Then again, actually thinking things through has never been your strong suit, has it?
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  13095. Agreed. When I hear Yang Gang bangers insist that breaking up Facebook is "20th century solutions to 21st century problems," and nonsense about forcing people off the social network part, I point out that there is no reason why Facebook needs to own Instagram. Admittedly, that is just for brevity, but there is no reason this lizard person has to get all of the money.
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  13096. Listen to even those who don't claim to be tankies make excuses for the civil liberties abuses of people like Castro. It's more online than the real world, but I remember someone coming to a union meeting talking about some field trip he took to Cuba to work on a farm and "learn that there's another way to live." I'd be much more open to Marxism if I could only see evidence that "tyranny of the proletariat" doesn't just become "meet the new boss, same as the old boss."
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  13097.  @BL-sd2qw  Oh, I get the idea that it doesn't really make sense, but the way they square the circle is by insisting that it's temporary, when they clearly want it to last forever. That's its contradiction. The anarchist versions fail because they never have a satisfactory answer for how you keep someone from accumulating property again once its taken away (and when you assume greed will no longer be a thing, you have already lost).
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  13098.  @BL-sd2qw  They still have property, so that is not what communism advocates.
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  13099.  @BL-sd2qw  The articles I looked up emphasized that it was matrilineal/matriarchal, and how that was how property was passed down. Even if you grant that, I doubt most people in society want to switch to a world where people live off less than $250/year.
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  13100.  @BL-sd2qw  My response had to do with why a supposed egalitarian philosophy like communism seems to almost always lead to dictatorship. It wasn't the concept of a gift economy, but whether those who oppose democracy will end up with a dictatorship rather than a utopia.
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  13101.  @BL-sd2qw  I didn't say that peace was utopia. What I meant by utopia is something that assumes that imperfect humans will do something in a perfect way in order for the system to work. In that sense, left-wing communists and right-wing libertarians have far more in common than they care to admit, which is why the latter will invariably resort to calling someone a socialist or communist for proposing any action to rein in the corporations that they claim to hate. Communism assumes that greed will no longer be a thing in order to work, but ignores the fact that the accumulation of possessions and property didn't come from thin air. If you really want to see Underpants Gnomes thinking, The Conquest of Bread imagines a world without taxation, possessions, or government, but somehow that field trips to farm for a day or two will feed everyone and those field trips will be evenly spread out over the year, and the stalls will be mucked. You can call pointing out that this won't work "captivity" if you want, but there are some basic things that need to be in place for society to work. People are starting to see why bureaucracy is necessary after seeing what happens when someone tries to blow it up.
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  13102. @BL-sd2qw  It's violent? Not sure exactly which one you're pointing to as "violent," but it looks like an obvious case of someone who has a poor response for ignoring what has actually happened when people have claimed (and still claim) certain labels where they clearly don't match up with the rhetoric. At a certain point, it just looks like you're playing buzzword bingo.
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  13103.  @BL-sd2qw  And spamming 13 posts of book titles in order to try to make some parting shot? Do you honestly think that makes your argument look stronger? I sincerely hope not, because this is the worst self-own I have seen since Darryl Perry.
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  13104.  @BL-sd2qw  You already made it clear that you had no desire to engage, so what is the point of continuing?
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  13105.  @jessl1934  Yes, he used a lot of executive orders, but he did not try to overthrow the courts or take away civil liberties and the right to vote. Had there been no coup, he would have left office in 1976. Compare him to some of the other leadership that tankies try to hold up, and even that others who claim not to be tankies defend. My point was not that Allende was perfect, but that he was the only one who never tried to become a dictator.
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  13106.  @AnthonyRussell-w8l  For people who claim to be acting in the interests if the people who end up as dictators? Indeed.
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  13107.  KAOS NATION  And if you asking him if he should pay more in taxes, he will say yes.
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  13108.  KAOS NATION  Actually, the rich give less to charity as a percentage of income than the rest of us.
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  13109.  KAOS NATION  Tell that to Sam Walton.
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  13110. Any other American viewers who see striking similarities between Stabbed in the Back and The Lost Cause?
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  13111.  @bagginbrooks6573  Or maybe the sociopaths who only think of themselves and willfully harm others should be the ones who stay home.
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  13112.  @bagginbrooks6573  No, the people are causing a risk to others should be the ones to stay home.
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  13113. 2:04 Actually, according to several defectors, he doesn't really believe that. He (correctly) thinks his followers do, and is using those idiots to try to gain power for his fascist dictatorship.
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  13114.  @TTownTim  It's the Two Santa Claus Theory. Thom has talked about it before.
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  13115.  @TTownTim  True. Sadly, just enough are.
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  13116. If Presidents are immune for "official acts," maybe it's time to arrest certain members of the Supreme Court (I refuse to use the title Justice, because they hace betrayed that word) for dereliction of duty. After all, a President is immune if it's an official act.
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  13117.  @therose5783  SNAP actually has gone up the last two years. Here in PA, the max for two people was $204, and now it's $250. There is also a program where the federal government guarantees the max, so I'm not sure what is going on in your end, but you may need to look for a one-time payment to get the difference.
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  13118.  @ninij9692  I was looking at the amount for one person. And the federal government has been making up the difference so people get the maximum regardless of their income level, as long as they are under the limit, which depending on age and disability is 130-200% FPL.
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  13119.  @theinvisiblewoman5709  There are some things up for interpretation, but the federal government is providing funds to cover the gap between the calculated benefit and the maximum benefit.
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  13120.  @andrewcoon7695  The supplemental may end, but the maximum amount is set by federal policy. That will be in place at least until the updated poverty guidelines in the fall.
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  13121.  @andrewcoon7695  Indeed. Now, people might be getting TANF (or, some people get a nominal amount that was passed as an end-around to Boehner trying to reduce the SNAP roles by tying it to receiving cash), but you can only use SNAP for food, and not prepared food, either, so that leaves out the deli and bakery.
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  13122.  @charliemirus4124  It's a Twain
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  13123. I wish Van Jones spoke the truth more often.
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  13124.  @chrishines3222  Democratic Party didn't kidnap kids. That was all the Trump Team. The "kids in cages" came without their parents in the Obama years.
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  13125.  @JavierFernandez01  You don't even have a coherent response. Sad.
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  13126. What a stupid controversy. I'm a seminary graduate, and I don't expect people to refer to me as Reverend outside of social situations. Heck, I don't even care if people call me that in church. Some people have egos that are way too big.
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  13127. I must admit that I have tended to prefer the Reluctant Royal to the Royal Rebel (although, except for The King's Speech, usually only in comedy). It just seems like the people who live it up are too obsessed with the frivolity, so it just doesn't do anything for me.
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  13128. 3:10 From your lips to God's ears.
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  13129. I'd hate to tell this guy, but you could live off one income until well into the 1970s, decades after Social Security became a thing.
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  13130. ​ @cdreid9999  So, Sebastian is a villain? What did he ever do to anybody?
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  13131. "He said, 'I'd rather make a deal than have a war.'" So did Chamberlain. How did that work out? As Spock said in the greatest Star Trek episode, "Peace is the right answer, but this was the wrong time."
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  13132. We have term limits. They are called elections. When I was in WV, we wanted to give Robert C. Byrd a ninth term, so we did. After I moved to PA, we wanted to deny Arlen Specter a sixth term, so we did.
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  13133. What was on his porn search again?
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  13134. @Kevin Leavey I am voting for Biden. I don't think that Trump can handle an extra debate, but that doesn't mean that he knows that he can't handle it. The usual rule of thumb is that the candidate who is behind tends to want more debates and the one who is ahead wants fewer.
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  13135. ​ @jordanslingluff287  No, a combination of pent-up demand and monopolies taking advantage of the supply chain issues as a cover story are what caused it.
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  13136.  @danny5637  It depends on if it is a Traditional or Roth. It sounds like a traditional is being described by the OP, where you buy pre-tax and pay when you sell as opposed to a Roth where you buy post-tax and withdraw tax free.
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  13137.  @JustMe-ec2ph  Things get done in this world by people who do things that aren't appreciated in their time. As Bernie himself said in his first speech after his heart attack, when we do things for others that they won't be able to see ourselves, that is when we will have the society we want. The anti-anti-Trump crowd are idiots, so why should he quit because they don't appreciate what he does? I'm 38 years his junior, and I wish I had half his energy. The ego part comes from saying that if people don't treat you the right way, you'll withhold your efforts. America isn't a social club where we can just work elsewhere.
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  13138.  @JustMe-ec2ph  No, but the refusal to do any more to contribute when you still have the energy and the desire because you didn't get enough applause would be. I, for one, believe in not putting people out to pasture, especially once in a generation (if not once in a lifetime figures) who still have plenty of good that they want to do.
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  13139.  @JustMe-ec2ph  If someone decides "I've done everything I can or want to do," more power to that person. If someone decides that he/she has the vigor and the desire to keep fighting, we should also respect that. Maybe because I've done internships in retirement communities and even there saw that there will people who still had something to give and wanted to give, I would never take that away from someone because of age, with the possible exception of Supreme Court Justices who need to think far more than the rest of us do about a successor, because timing it wrong can literally lead to a chain reaction lasting for over a century. For everyone else, I just think that we need to see who can still give at a high level. Quite frankly, Bernie strikes me as the kind who would get bored if he retired.
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  13140. "We were allowed to make jokes about anything except that he wasn't as rich as he said he was." Anthony Jeselnik describing the ground rules for the Comedy Central Roast of Donald Trump
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  13141. $40 ravioli?!?! I balk at paying more than $20 for food for myself for the whole meal.
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  13142. Pawns can get promoted and are very powerful indeed. Never mind that if pawns know how to work together, they can force checkmate.
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  13143. But he only has high level I-DEE-uhs.
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  13144. A public option is an improvement over what we have, but you try to get the best thing you can get.
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  13145. Hope your treatment is a success.
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  13146.  @cadeholbrook2454  Google coverage denied after Affordable Care Act. It is virtually toothless now.
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  13147.  Illhan Omars brother's wife is Illhan Omar  I think it could have been, but that window is gone. Where do you live that the virus is as good as gone?
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  13148. ​ JustinWilliams-ed2ug  Jeb! is 6'3, and he easily has two inches on him.
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  13149.  JustinWilliams-ed2ug  6'1 is still pretty tall. We're just mocking the fact that he feels the need to lie about it and say that he's 6'3. I've seen Jeb! standing next to Poppy, and their stated height difference plays out. Obama is also 6'1, and the two look to be the same height to me. As far as the mockery for lying goes, there was a guy in my old office who'd insist that he was taller than he was. Finally, the two of us stood next to each other in stocking feet, and after he kept up his lie after getting caught, I told him, "There's no shame in being the same height as Tom Cruise. I felt a lot better about myself when I accepted the fact that I'm the same height as Michael J. Fox."
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  13150.  JustinWilliams-ed2ug  It's not just the lying about the numbers. It's about the things that he does to try to mask the truth. I'm way shorter than Trump, but I'm not a liar (seriously, Google the heights of the people I mentioned in my story, I was clearly being self-deprecating making fun of the guy lying about his height). Then again, I'm not the one bragging that my great genes make me a superman, either. There's a difference between a short person mocking a vain person who wears lifts and still can't make it to his stated height or someone with a few extra pounds to lose mocking someone for wearing a girdle and lying about height and weight to literally be just on the side of obese.
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  13151.  JustinWilliams-ed2ug  Indeed. If he was really 5'10 and 300 pounds, I really wouldn't care... as long as he didn't so obviously lie about it.
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  13152.  JustinWilliams-ed2ug  Well, I guess we'll all find out sooner or later. I don't know the effects of lifts, but Obama is 6'1, and they both look to be the same height to me.
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  13153. Poor people get ahead by borrowing capital? Where does this idiot live? Who's going to get a loan when banks won't loan you money unless a) it reaches a certain threshold and b) you hace collateral. And this also forgets the fact that most poor people work. So, how in the world is some poor person supposed to borrow money to start a business while working and not making ends meet? Did Marie Antoinette write his economics textbook?
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  13154. Brilliant!
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  13155. Reasonable doubt doesn't mean to say literally anything in defense of a client. This isn't Nam, Smoky. There are rules.
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  13156.  @SLC-Smudge42  Oh, when I was on jury duty for a drug trial, I heard a pretty silly defense ("I wasn't selling the heroin, I was buying it"), but if the defense attorney absolutely knew that it was false, he would have been sanctioned.
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  13157. Well, he does end the infamous call by talking about cuckolding, so he was already there.
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  13158. Merchan already gave it away when he said that he doesn't want to put Der Orangefuhrer in jail. We are supposed to live in a system where no one is above the law. If anything, a President should be held to a higher standard.
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  13159. If they don't want TOS agreements on forums like these, then just maybe they are saying that these should be either regulated or just flat-out taken over as a public forum.
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  13160. Beto gave non-answers in two languages.
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  13161.  @thalesnemo2841  If you can't see the difference between neoliberalism and fascism, you are doing it wrong.
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  13162.  @johnhand46  My point is that even if "the DNC" wants to get rid of her, it's really up to voters. As far as "useful" goes, if the Democratic Party were to remove them, there wouldn't be a majority, and voters would revolt. People keep acting like we live in a Parliamentary system or miss the point that in this country, the party is the people. If voters wanted rid of her, she would be gone. If enough voters wanted Bernie as the nominee, he would be President now. The days of the smoke-filled room are long over. If they were still here, I gah-ron-tee that Trump would have never won the Republican nomination, let alone the election. Yes, they have been spineless since, but it was ultimately Republican voters that stuck us with him.
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  13163.  @johnhand46  Again, you seem to keep using "the DNC" like the establishment boogeyman. Dole outspent Clinton, and that race was so far gone that people later admitted that Dole picked the venues he did for his 96 hour marathon final campaign push to try to help down ballot candidates so Republicans could hold Congress. And Bernie held the lead in fundraising through February 2020 in the Democratic primary. Yes, money helps, but anyone who has actually either been a candidate, run a campaign, or worked on a campaign can tell you, it is not raising the most money that gets you victory. You have to raise enough money to get your message out there. As others have pointed out on this thread, there was a lot of boots on the ground and signs for Omar's opponents. Participate in enough electoral politics, and you get on plenty of e-mail lists. I saw plenty from Our Revolution asking for funds to save Omar, but I don't remember any from the DNC or the DCCC. The latter is there to protect incumbents first and foremost, so they aren't going to tout her opponent, but they clearly weren't giving her the help of other endangered candidates like Engel. You want to invoke conspiracies, but you bristle at that when I say that is what you are doing.
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  13164.  @johnhand46  I did not donate. Quite frankly, I spent a lot of 2020 financially trying to get out of cc debt (I got it paid off last March), so even Bernie didn't get much money from me, and definitely not monthly. Again, 90% is not 100%. I gave prominent examples of the candidate with the most money losing. The conspiracy part is that you think that "the DNC" finds candidates to prop up elected officials they don't like, therefore everyone who doesn't get the full press is "useful" and doesn't get opposed. That's not how it works. The DNC is not nearly as powerful as you think it is.
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  13165.  @johnhand46  Thank you. It took me about 3 1/2 years after my then-wife left to get it paid off. If not for the stimulus checks and my daughter's preschool being closed, it would have probably added a good 6-12 months to my schedule. One piece of encouragement that helped me was, "it took years to dig the hole, so don't expect fill it in in a few months." Patience and cutting back on some frills did wonders. You can do it.
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  13166.  @johnhand46  We are in agreement that the parties can put their thumb on the scales, but it isn't foolproof. The Republican Party tried just about everything it could to send signals that it didn't want Trump, but it didn't work. The Democratic Party machine in NYC did what it could to keep Crowley and Engel, and they weren't caught unaware with the latter, and neither held on.
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  13167.  @johnhand46  Joseph Crowley (then fourth in the Democratic House leadership) lost to AOC in 2018, and Engel (chair of the Foreign Relations Committee) lost to Bowman in 2020. All the best to you as well!
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  13168.  @evelezpuma  I think Tammy Baldwin might actually be a solid running mate. She has a pretty good voting record, and she is from Wisconsin, a vital state for 2020. As far as Bernie and Warren both having similar goals, I honestly don't think they do. Warren wants to nibble around the edges to improve the system, while Bernie sees it as unsustainable. Their particular policy prescriptions are similar, but they come from different places.
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  13169. @Jack R He has already said he would pick a woman.
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  13170.  @Menace__  Against raising taxes on the rich. Won't do anything to make it easier for workers to organize. Wants to get rid of the existing social safety net. Oh, yeah, he is a real strong lefty all right.
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  13171.  @aliamjon2550  They were pardoned because Trump decided to use his nearly absolute pardon powers like a mob boss.
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  13172.  @marciamakesmusic  There is a big difference between saying "it is counterproductive to mock all religious people" and "let's form a theocracy." We have seen in history what happens when people hold your beliefs about trying to get rid of religion. Hint: just as one example, more Christians were killed in the 20th century by people trying to wipe out religion than the previous 19 centuries put together. And you are proving my point that fundamentalism is not the exclusive property of those who belong to organized religion.
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  13173. Is there a particular part of PA where Rednor's is more prominent? I have lived in Montgomery County for three years and Philadelphia for 12, and while I'm familiar with Wegman's, Rednor's not so much.
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  13174.  @JohnSmith-dv5ek  She is tainted, because as a Congresswoman, she courted Sheldon Adelson and did his bidding to try to get rid of his competition in the form of online gambling. Considering her wing woman act of Biden lately, I think she is reverting to form.
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  13175.  @GenXGamez  Forget Cadillac plans. The main reason why we have employer-based private insurance in the first place is because unions wanted something to make up for no wage increases due to the wage and price controls during WWII. You forget that this is not just about party labels, it is about saying that, while we will not let people replace the ACA with nothing, the ACA did not lead to universal coverage, and 30MM Americans not being covered is 30MM too many. This has been the Democratic Party position since 1948. Some of us want to actually realize it.
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  13176. Actually, Poppy did get a majority in 1988. He was the last.
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  13177.  @Lgliam20  I was livid when I saw that. That, and the ad trashing both Medicare for All and the public option.
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  13178.  @ianmorris7485  Most cults are more sophisticated than this one. Most hide the bad stuff and suck people in with the positive, but this one didn't.
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  13179. ​ @LisaMorrison-cn4pt  Or convinced themselves that there was no difference between the major-party candidates and voted third party.
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  13180. ​ @MetalMama-zb4wg  Gerrymandering plays no role in the Presidential race.
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  13181.  @MetalMama-zb4wg  Do you even know what gerrymandering is? It is drawing favorable lines for a legislative contest. The Presidency is decided at the state level. State lines were not drawn to give an advantage to one side. Therefore, gerrymandering does not affect a Presidential race.
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  13182. @MetalMama-zb4wg  And what does this have to do with a Presidential election? I get that you think that you had a gotcha, but you didn't.
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  13183.  @MetalMama-zb4wg  And sometimes, gerrymandering involves sticking as many voters of one party as possible into a few seats so their strength is diluted elsewhere so the other party can win. Fixed it for you. And both are still irrelevant to a Presidential election.
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  13184. Well, she already cooperated in Georgia, so I was wondering how long it would take to come to a deal.
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  13185. ​ @carnivorepolice5-0  Wrong. Der Orangefuhrer refused to call the National Guard on "my people."
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  13186.  @sicvic0604  Let's all laugh at him!
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  13187.  @09BiGDylan  That's why we need Ranked Choice Voting. In my office, someone literally waited until 15 minutes before he was leaving on the last day to announce for shop steward, and wrote down someone to run against him. The real opposition candidate asked the spoiler if she really wanted to run. and she said no. By the next morning, she changed her mind and went along with the plan. The Greens were also funded by Republicans for this challenge, and Republicans have funded their efforts and worked their petition drives for 20 years. If you are a Green, you're either a grifter or a useful idiot.
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  13188. I think you're also forgetting Will Rogers.
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  13189.  @drakekoefoed1642  The bailout was Sept. 2008.
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  13190.  @fyodordostoevsky9028  He did some good, and I voted for him both times, but in many ways, he was a disappointment. He didn't ever realize that the American people were hungry for a new path forward, and he wouldn't do it. Even Reagan put bankers in jail.
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  13191.  @mnomadvfx  If they do get rid of Santos, it won't be until after the Speaker vote. McCarthy knows that he needs Santos (although how he's going to get to 218 is still.a mystery), and all he cares about is getting that gavel.
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  13192. Hopefully, Buffalo is blue enough that this loser will get beaten twice by a great candidate.
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  13193.  Inside Voice  The law requires neutrality. He is laying down the gauntlet that there has to be neutrality. He cannot unilaterally change the rules under the Wagner Act and Taft-Hartley. I want the latter repealed, but it is the law of the land, so unless we get it overturned, it does help set the limits of what can be done.
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  13194.  @George-zj9rr  Yes! Der Orangefuhrer is more than petty enough to sabotage the election if he can't win.
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  13195. That was the one time he told the truth.
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  13196.  @joralemonvirgincreche  And unless someone set something up in the least advantageous way possible given estate tax law in this country, her friend shouldn't have, either.
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  13197. "We did our due diligence." You keep using that word. I do not think that it means what you think that it means.
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  13198.  MidScream1  So, you want Bill Gates to never pay a penny on the billions in stock increases now that he is retired from Microsoft? Should Jeff Bezos get his "Amazon winnings" tax free? Larry Ellison? Most of those people take their pay in stock rather than income.
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  13199.  MidScream1  I am aware, but you said that there should be no tax on capital so I was asking if you think that they should be tax exempt for those.
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  13200.  MidScream1  Unless you are using words in a very different way than most people who describe tax policy is using it, you are advocating for no tax on capital gains or dividends. The only proposals for taxing unrealized capital gains are the wealth tax (which I have mixed feelings about just because I don't want the government to become too reliant on such large sums of wealth being maintained) or inheritance (which I fully support, because Buffett could pass his shares in Berkshire Hathaway to his wife and kids upon death, and they could sell them tax free, and that is obscene). Taxing the profits is by definition taxing capital, because that is the source for the money.
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  13201.  roccorostagno  Which policy has the right "moved to the center" on? Taxes? Civil rights? Voting rights? Civil liberties?
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  13202.  roccorostagno  What an interesting response that manages that blend of condescension and missing the facts. Let's start by the premise that you said that Republicans have moved to the center. 1) Taxes: Reagan raised taxes 11 times to rein in the deficit. Poppy did the same thing in 1990. Grover Norquist likes to brag that no Congressional Republican has voted to raise taxes since. I'd argue that is moving to the right. 2) Civil rights: Let's talk history. For its first 110 years, the Republican Party had an admirable record on civil rights. However, after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Democratic Presidential nominees who were on the record on the bill in 1964 were 4-0 (Johnson, Humphrey, McGovern, Mondale) in support of the bill, while Republicans who won the Presidential nomination had a record of 4-5 (Nixon [twice], Ford, and Dole in favor: Goldwater, Reagan [twice], and Poppy [twice]) against. 3) Voting rights: which court gutted the Voting Rights Act? Oh, that's right! It was the Roberts Court, with the five conservatives voting in the majority. Democrats aren't for non-citizens voting, we're against poll taxes. 4) Civil liberties: which party has taken the lead on fighting civil forfeiture?
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  13203.  roccorostagno  Well, which is it, is it a good thing that Republicans haven't raised taxes since Poppy, or is the national debt a bad thing? You can't have it both ways. Re: the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act, interesting that you can't actually engage the substance of the question. As far as Byrd goes, I am a Christian, and I believe in redemption and repentance. For the last 40 years of his life, he supported civil rights, and for the last 50+ years of his life, he apologized for his past, so I would say that he definitely strived for redemption and proved that he wasn't the same man he was at the age of 24. That doesn't excuse what he did, but that shows that he knew it was wrong. Vouchers are not a civil rights issue. If you cared so much about poor inner city schools, you wouldn't be supporting something to take money away from the schools that a majority use to give to schools that don't perform any better on the whole, but your no-tax ideology means gutting those schools even more. As far as money and politics, of course nothing can be done with that attitude. Public financing of campaigns is the reform that makes all other reforms possible.
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  13204.  @JohnSmith-ft4gc  And that weasel had a list of programs in mind (he started by saying there would be 126, but when he realized that the RSDI section of Social Security was too popular, he stopped making that either/or and then said 125) that he wanted to get rid of, but he refused to provide a full list. Mother Jones asked for it when they did a profile, and the campaign "would get back to them," but they never did. That makes him even worse, because no one ever knew the choice.
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  13205.  @copp214  My understanding is that she goes by Ivanka because the -ka suffix is the feminine diminutive in Czech (similar to -ina in Spanish). For linguistic fun, the name Priscilla actually derives from Prisca, but because some biblical translations used the diminutive form when translating Prisca, Priscilla is just the name that stuck.
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  13206.  @copp214  Thank you. There are some things in life that I can remember in more specific detail, but all of the sudden, when I thought Joey Lawrence, the others came to mind as well.
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  13207.  @billbo747  Thank you. This is something that I and many others will never give up on as long as we have energy left in our bodies.
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  13208.  @eminentbishop1325  I was part of a grassroots group that actually got a member of Congress (Brendan Boyle) to sign on to Medicare for All, G. If you don't think that it takes an actual grassroots effort to get things done, you are like that John Mayer song, but if you keep waiting on the world to change, you will have a long wait.
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  13209. Just get rid of the cap on Social Security FICA, and problem solved.
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  13210.  @chieromancer  My understanding was that they are both FICA, but separate line items with different rules, which is why I referred to it the way I did.
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  13211. Even the cops seemed confused by the whole thing.
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  13212.  @sandyunderpants4376  "I've never heard of it either." "This is new to me."
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  13213. I always took the joke to mean that Doug was scared that he was going to get attacked.
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  13214. My theory is that they're booing because they didn't like being told the truth about what Dear Leader has in store for them.
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  13215.  @havok6927  And if you look farther, Clinton started his campaign much later. He hadn't been running for 23 months.
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  13216. "Taking money from people who didn't go to college it and giving it to those who did." Well, I rent and I give my money to homeowners, and before I had a kid who was school age, I gave money to kids who went to school. The government isn't an individual account.
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  13217.  @empanada223  True, they do have that infrastructure, but they still actually bother to show up, and despite protestations of people who insist that Perot threw the election to Clinton (he took equally from both parties), the right actually shows up. Yes, they have infrastructure, but that's politics. At a certain point, while we want to call out the lies, we can't sound like Rand Paul lamenting "legal strategies to encourage their voters to show up." We should be reminding our side to a) always show up, and b) celebrate the half a loaf instead of complaining about what we didn't get.
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  13218.  @damiencross8921  Well, he does have an infant, so never underestimate tired as the option.
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  13219.  @21stCenturyBR  He's not there yet, but give him a second term and he will be. His talk about taking ballots should make the endgame clear.
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  13220.  @fangirl3086  So, I take it that your family has gotten lucky with the coronavirus. My family has dodged that bullet, but I don't look at that narrow prism. I hate both, but when it comes to fascism, there is no hope that it won't eventually come for you.
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  13221.  @fangirl3086  Fair enough. Someone at my brother's job tested positive and he had to get tested a week ago. Thank God it was negative.
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  13222.  @ronjeremy1232  Grownups are talking. If you don't know basic concepts, don't be a Mark Twain quote.
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  13223.  @fangirl3086  These people are the worst. They're willing to kill themselves to "own the libs."
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  13224.  @merbst  She had a thing for Bill, not Hank.
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  13225. Ohio is pretty much a reach state. If Biden wins Ohio, he's probably close to 350 electoral votes.
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  13226. I personally don't think that Newsom will pick Lee because she's already in a contested primary, so that would be putting his thumb on the scale. If she goes (and she should have gone in 2020 after the debacle of the Barrett hearings), it will almost certainly be a caretaker.
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  13227.  @mynameisgladiator1933  Yes, because nothing says "communism" like a contest to see who can haul the most loads and running a pawn shop where you try to maximize profit from often desperate people trying to get a buck.
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  13228. Grant was really good, but I'll agree that the history has for the most part left the building.
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  13229.  @Etaoinshrdlu69  Indeed. At least she has to pretend to care for the poor and is expected to do actual public service.
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  13230. Traitors love traitors.
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  13231. Then, what is the context?
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  13232. But won't people who are both active and online get more active, thus recruiting more people, thus leading to more people doing the actual work?
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  13233. Yes! Somebody gets it. Even if Bernie won, the centrists wouldn't roll over for him the way the establishment rolled over for Trump. Then, do you stay home in 2024 saying that Bernie failed? We can't win because far too many people on our side are frankly stupid when it comes to electoral politics.
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  13234.  @alexsmith2910  There are limits to how much you can do with executive orders.
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  13235.  @whyamimrpink78  Yes, because Republicans made a good faith effort to work with Democrats, from a majority voting against certifying the 2020 election, continuing to spread the Big Lie, refusing to vote for bills with their own ideas, and basically doing everything they can to sabotage Biden. What are you doing here, did you get sick of embarrassing yourself on the MR channel?
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  13236. How in the world does anyone think that Tim Pool is anything other than far right? Are they trolling, or just so extreme that anyone to the left of Mussolini is a liberal?
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  13237. They are saying that there are three possible outcomes regarding UBI (which is a total misnomer for the Freedom with 125 Strings Attached Dividend, because it is neither universal nor basic income). In order from best to worst, they are as follows: a both/and system, the status quo, an either/or system. An either/or system is worst because it actively and purposely harms the most vulnerable in society.
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  13238. Yet you did.
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  13239. Darn right! With "friends" like these, who needs enemies?
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  13240. As much as right wingers want to make Rowling a cause celebre these days, [in Homer Simpson whisper] the people who bragged about pure blood were the villains of the story.
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  13241.  Loraine Jones  We have to do it. We can't rely on someone else to save us. That means doing the actual work, though.
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  13242. Speaking of reputation laundering, in 2005, Bill Gates said that he was "giving away almost all of his wealth." At the time, he was worth $54B. Now, he's worth $134B. He sure did buy a lot of time with that one big lie.
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  13243. None of us are perfect, but a lot of us haven't gone down the Q rabbit hole and spread anti-Semitic conspiracies.
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  13244.  @calixkinggaming7275  It's your obligation to say if you have experience, not mine to beg for the wisdom of the person with the vague both siderism.
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  13245.  @calixkinggaming7275  And where did you pull "a 10% chance" from? You might want to become a proctologist after that one.
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  13246.  @rich2583  First of all, Democrat is a noun, not an adjective. Second, and more importantly, look at what has happened after union participation dropped. Over 40 years of stagnant wages while CEO pay has skyrocketed, and the creation of the gig economy. If unions were a relic that did nothing, companies wouldn't try so hard to keep unions out. Then again, it never ceases to amuse me how the corporate stooges can only repeat talking points. As far as unions giving money to Democrats, [in Homer Simpson whisper] unions can't use dues to pay for campaign funds, and most unions always endorse a few Republicans for fear of being painted as partisan.
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  13247. ​ @lordflyquad4721  And here's an irony alert: the runoff system in Georgia was imposed to try to harm black people, but he may well have lost in 2022 if there was only one round, because how many people who voted Libertarian as a protest vote would have voted Republican in November if they knew they didn't have another shot?
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  13248.  @DOGbackwardz  No, that would be agnosticism. No one can prove one way or the other. I am not saying that everyone should he an agnostic, but you are insisting that you are only demanding proof, which is dishonest. Anyone who is a theist can just as easily argue that you believe that everything came from nothing without evidence.
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  13249.  @TheMisterGuy  Saying you don't know doesn't make you an atheist. And gnosticism means something completely different. It was a movement popular in the second century that rejected the material world as evil and focused on a secret knowledge. There were gnostics of many stripes, with the most famous being the author of the Gospel of Thomas.
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  13250.  nickers7409  Not sure what you're trying to get at. Yes, theism vs. atheism is a question of faith. That's what I've been saying. If you're saying "I don't know," that is not atheism. That is my point.
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  13251.  @Cindy99765  The defending Joe Biden thing was last month. The playing both siderism on the shutdown was six months ago. Her supposed conversion was three or four years ago. Even now, she insists that she doesn't support torture (even Biden consistently opposed torture) because it is immoral and, you know, a war crime, but because it's not effective, so if someone told President Tulsi that it was effective, I don't trust her not to use it. As a veteran who actually did the right thing when dealing with POWs, I am angered and infuriated that she even discussed the idea of when a war crime is a good idea. You will note that I didn't mention any of her awful former stances on social issues, because I do believe that her statements about those are sincere. The fact that she keeps lying about her past on those other issues means that she gets no pass from me on them.
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  13252.  @Cindy99765  Oh, and I forgot that she also voted with Republicans to make it more difficult for Syrian refugees to enter the United States. This was in 2016. By all estimates, she was supposedly a peace supporter by then. And she still defends that vote, too. Anti-intervention is not pro-peace.
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  13253.  Robert Clawson  Then, you are someone who cannot be bothered to look at evidence.
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  13254. You can be right, but for the wrong reasons. That being said, I have a thought: pretty much every Administration has at least one high-level appointment fail (Poppy: Tower for Defense; Clinton: Baird and Wood for AG; W: Chavez for Labor; Obama: Daschle for HHS and Richardson for Commerce; Trump lost a Labor Secretary, but I can't remember the name). Could it be that Biden picked her expecting her to fail so he could get someone else? After all, it does seem like nobody not related to her or named Clinton actually seems to like her.
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  13255. As soon as I saw the title, I had to click to figure out which one.
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  13256.  @danishbiochem  So, you want four more years just to make people suffer through a fascist would-be dictator who has made it clear he doesn't ever want to leave? You seriously think that this will help you get what you say you want when it has been tried for 20 years? Either you are a psychopath or a useful idiot.
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  13257. Yes, because pacifists who rarely vote are going to take over a country.
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  13258.  @tskjesusfreak  Okay, let's follow your logic. A group is going to become less than 2% of the American population, mostly concentrated in two states, and they don't even vote, and these are the people who will take things over? They couldn't even take over Lancaster County if they wanted to. At least make your conspiracy theories a little bit plausible.
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  13259. If this was the only time you heard him, yes. This is the culmination of dealing with a lot of nonsense.
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  13260. Even Roberts saw that for what it was.
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  13261. Threatening the lives of workers because your 11-figure net wealth isn't enough for you is the textbook example of a psychopath. While I am not a socialist (because it feels like "meet the new boss, same as the old boss"), we cannot have capitalism as we know it and survive as a society.
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  13262. And to point out that Justice Garland likely would have insisted that the vote be delayed.
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  13263. She was the one that people tied to W push polled in SC to imply that McCain had an illegitimate black child. I believe she was born in Bangladesh.
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  13264.  @jacksonwillbert1352  Ask the pollsters. I didn't make it up.
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  13265.  @Celisar1  Hence, the "until Harris cratered" part. It used to be true.
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  13266.  @vitawaterplz  Yes, because no individual store ever closes during a time of economic growth. [eye roll]
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  13267. I was suspicious of her when first she went to interview with Der Orangefuhrer for a job, and then started spouting Assad propaganda, but my past straw was seeing her torture interview three years prior on Indian TV.
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  13268.  @sorrymrgoogle2601  What claim is false? After a debate, there was a system error that blocked her website for spam. She went on Fox crying conspiracy and sued Google for $50MM for damage to her campaign, but at the time her campaign had only raised 13.
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  13269. Yeah, when is the last time an Presidential defeat led the Democratic Party to the left?
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  13270.  @IcarusLime  So, it hasn't worked in 88 years, and you think it will magically work four years later? And even that analogy doesn't help you, because FDR spent most of the election complaining about the deficit. Despite where he ended, he didn't campaign to the left of Al Smith.
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  13271.  @IcarusLime  Giving Trump four more years means that there may not be another election, and it means untold suffering. You don't play footsy with fascism to get what you want, because it tends not to want to give up power. That's the problem with the Never Biden crowd: you have to downplay the actual suffering being caused to try to get what you want. And, the fact that you think that the elections of the 1920s were because left wing voters stayed home shows your total lack of historical understanding. It was a far less polarized time. The only thing that has ever worked for taking over a party and causing a political realignment isn't whining and decreasing your bench and your base of power. It is working hard to win down ballot and party committee races. In case you hadn't remembered, the last takeover of a political party occurred after that party had won two of the previous three Presidential elections.
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  13272. Indeed. Republicans only care about power.
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  13273. Manchin wasn't in the Senate at the time. He began after a special election in November 2010 to finish the unexpired term of the late Robert C. Byrd. The Senate vote for the bill was in December of 2009, with the conference occurring in March 2010.
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  13274.  @mikegrace2819  Reducing senior citizen poverty by 80%. What a nightmare!
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  13275.  @mikegrace2819  Yes, I suppose that senior poverty going from 67% in 1928 to 10% by 1945 is just a coincidence.
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  13276.  @mikegrace2819  [citation needed]
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  13277. Manchin is more easily understandable when you understand that, by definition, in order for him to win, he needs to get at least 40% of his support from Trump voters. He is literally the best that you can get in West Virginia. Sinema has no such excuse. Biden and Kelly both won Arizona, the latter with a bigger margin than her, and he has higher approval ratings.
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  13278.  @xyzsame4081  Are you actually from West Virginia? Do you know people there, or are you looking through what you hope is true. Polling data on health care is entirely unreliable, because most people don't even know what is in the bill. I keep getting Dore knobs praising Tulsi Gabbard saying that banning competing private insurance is un-American, while being mad that a vote wasn't forced... on a bill that bans competing private insurance. I did canvassing on Medicare for All, and I talked to at least half a dozen people who sang the praises of Medicare for All only to immediately make it obvious that what they really mean is that they like the idea of universal health care, but what they really want is a public option. And, yes, Bernie did well in 2016, but that vote was definitely more a case of being a vote against Hillary rather than a vote for Bernie. I would love for Manchin not to be the way he is, but you're not getting anyone better. Why do you think Paula Jean Swearingen lost by 43 points to Shelley Moore Capito in 2020 and no one outside of internet comment sections has been hyping a primary challenge to him in 2024?
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  13279. ​ @NM-qd3tm  I never met Hitler, and I hate him.
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  13280.  @humanbeing2420  Darn right! Dore and his dimwit followers spend all of their time doing nothing and complaining that they never win.
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  13281.  @devonloganreiss8999  Okay, let's just assume for the sake of argument that a third party doesn't just split the left vote like the Bull Moose Party split the right vote in 1912. The best you can hope for is that no candidate wins 270, and the election will go to the House... where it will be decided by Democrats and Republicans. Great plan!
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  13282.  @cejannuzi  Only Tulsi explains how she pays for health care? Do you get paid by the lie? Bernie has explicitly said many times how he would pay for it: add a 7% employer payroll tax and a 4% employee payroll tax. Even if you reduce the DOD budget to zero, that wouldn't be enough to pay for Medicare for All.
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  13283.  @cejannuzi  Yes, she is so brave. That is why she, instead of admitting that at one point supported torture, insists that her going on about it for a minute and a half invoking the 24 scenario.was all just one big misunderstanding. Well, when POWs came to my base, and I was the sergeant in charge, I treated them humanely. Anyone who thinks torture is acceptable insults those of us who did the right thing.
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  13284. ​ @markrobinowitz8473 And his campaign was so poorly thought out that he ended up changing the party he was running on within days of announcing because of reports about how awful the MPP is. He claimed he didn't know, but he was on their board of directors, so he should have known.
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  13285. Ouiite frankly, it seems like RFK Jr. is courting a right wing audience and doesn't really care about actual lefty policy. Williamson says nice things, but she is not actually building a movement. How do I know this? Because I gave her a dollar to help get her on the debate stage in 2019, so I am on her e-mail list Her first debate was a disaster, but the second was much better, and seeing her interview with Dave Rubin was worth its weight in gold (the only interview of his I've seen in its entirety). I heard virtually nothing from her e-mail for over three years... until she decided to run for President again. And while some of her position statements are good, there isn't really anything in terms of a call to action or organizing outside of asking for money for her campaign. Being a Presidential candidate is not purely an exercise in ego,.but a statement about actually being an effective leader.
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  13286.  @jimspy1001  The high water mark for the Green Party was 2.74% by Ralph Nader in 2000. In order to get to the debate stage as a third party candidate, you have to be at 15% in polling. He might make it easier for Trump to win (because he's not getting any votes that would otherwise go to Der Orangefuhrer), so his campaign really serves no purpose.
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  13287.  @curiousgirl.4134  What Gallup Poll? The most recent poll that I saw that included third-party candidates was Eschelon, and it had Kennedy at 8, and West and Stein at 1 each.
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  13288.  @curiousgirl.4134  You mean his integrity like violating campaign finance law to promote a Super PAC ad and to lie about not knowing about the ad when his family condemned it?
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  13289. ​ @ighdesigns  Yes, we do.
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  13290. Actually, "pointy-headed intellectuals" came from George Wallace.
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  13291. Der Orangefuhrer endorsed Oz? I live in PA, and the annoying anti-Oz ads have definitely outnumbered his annoying ones for weeks.
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  13292. @Vlad and his Puppet Well, it's not as much that he wants Moscow Donald as his first choice, but he is running to try to scare the easily scared and convince them not to nominate someone who will actually change anything, so if Bernie or Warren gets the nomination, he will run against them to keep his tax cut, but someone like Biden or Harris and he won't run.
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  13293. Even if Harris loses Iowa by 3, that's a sign that Trump is in HUGE trouble.
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  13294. Anna as a side character? Did the person who included that not see the first movie?
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  13295.  @ubuu7  Yang specifically said that is what he wanted to do, thus making the benefits regressive. He also wanted to use a regressive tax to pay for it. There is a lefty approach to UBI, and a right wing approach. Yang's was the latter.
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  13296.  @ephemer1125  I think you need to pay attention to what you read. The difference between a lefty UBI and a right wing UBI is what it does to existing programs. I clearly criticized Yang for proposing the latter. I have also said that societal issues need to be addressed before going forward with any sort of UBI. It is a distraction from the kind of things that we really need.
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  13297.  @ephemer1125  You clearly didn't. Robert Reich had a lefty version that was paid for by higher taxes on the rich, as did Martin Luther King. However, the ultimate problem with UBI as an overarching policy is, as was said in Jacobin, "If you make it universal, it's not going to be a basic income. If you make it a basic income, it won't be universal." The main version being proposed is the right-wing version. There is a Marxist version called salarie en vie. Just because I don't agree with them doesn't mean that they exist.
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  13298.  @ephemer1125  Are you stupid, or just looking for a fight? My comment was never, ever about how likely something was. The point was that UBI has different versions, and the specifics make all the difference in the world. By your logic of "realistic," the Yang version isn't going to pass either, so that would mean that there is no UBI proposal at all.
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  13299. ​ @Ico2187  I'd decide not to dance just so she'd appear.
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  13300. How do the denialists address the fact that schools are still funded by property taxes and that housing discrimination has led to disparities in property values?
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  13301.  @malcolmx2461  What does that one mean? Last summer, I spent a long weekend at my parents' house and saw a Three Percenters decal on someone's SUV. My parents didn't know what it meant. There are a lot of these fascists hiding in plain sight.
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  13302. Are they testifying under oath? This seemed like a public comment period.
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  13303.  @angelamitchinson8439  Hello, hello, hello, how low?
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  13304. Maybe he was so shocked that she didn't recognize it that he couldn't come up with a response.
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  13305. 3:54 Goldwater ran on privatizing Social Security in 1964, and plenty on the hard right have been arguing that it is communistic ever since it passed.
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  13306.  @jonnyenough1531  He refused to say one way or another for three minutes, and at another point, he said that Biden "allegedly won the election." I swear, people are so determined to find the Sane Republican that they'll invent him/her out of whole cloth.
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  13307. ​ @ltstrong8368  Who was it who cut funding to testing for bird flu again? Whose press secretary has complained about killing birds in order to try to contain bird flu?
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  13308. ​ @edwinhermanson8842  It does when he makes the conditions easier to spread the virus that is causing prices to rise.
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  13309. I care about health far more than age in a Presidential candidate. I'm 39, and Bernie's schedule and energy puts mine to shame. That being said, I do think that when you are a septugenarian, you really should have someone under 60 as your running mate.
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  13310. The goal was never about giving Der Orangefuhrer blanket immunity, but to delay the trial, and they have already succeeded.
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  13311. I think the establishment has already moved on to Kamala Harris.
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  13312. Did anyone else get an ad about side hustles on the video? That is just a little too much on the nose.
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  13313. Tulsi is "very progressive"? The one who defended torture? The one who voted with Republicans to make it more difficult for Syrian refugees to enter the United States? The one who supports Modi and Sisi? The one who praised Putin for attacking civilians in Syria and complained that Obama didn't? The one who courted the support of Sheldon Adelson and did his bidding to try to eliminate his competition? The one who played both siderism on the shutdown? And those are just the things she hasn't backed away from.
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  13314.  @joanna.hadley  Because you just realized that Tulsi's record doesn't match her reputation, or there is something that you think is false in this list?
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  13315.  @jjoohhhnn  Okay, let's follow it down that particular rabbit hole. This is not a judgment about whether or not Oswald acted alone (I personally believe that he didn't, although I'm not sure what form that took), but what policies did Kennedy pursue that angered the Fed?
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  13316.  @infjintegrityvsnarcissism7295  Well, she was the one who got the ACA over the line, and that's not nothing. After Scott Brown's election, Obama was willing to scrap the whole thing, but Pelosi is the one who insisted that Obama persist and get things done in the Senate, even if that meant the House would drop the individual mandate, because she knew that something had to improve the status quo. Considering the fact that every proposal seemed to see it farther and farther to the right (let us not forget that Truman proposed something akin to the NHS after WWII), I think that was a valid point. I don't take away her achievements, but it's obvious that she has moved to the right while the party has moved to the left.
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  13317. You mean that comparing the Iran nuclear deal to Munich, accusing Ilhan Omar of voter fraud, pushing bills to make it more difficult for the elderly and disabled to vote, supporting torture, playing both siderism on the shutdown and the wall, angling to be Trump's SOS, defending Biden on busing, refusing to vote for impeachment when she said Trump was guilty, and being best friends with a literal fascist didn't do it? I've gotta ask why you held out hope for so long other than Sunken Cost.
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  13318.  @Tal__  What was it about her platform that you liked? She wasn't the peace candidate, she was an isolationist, as evidenced by how she initially cheered Trump leaving the Kurds in Syria to the slaughter... until the obvious slaughter actually happened, and she was shocked, shocked that it did.
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  13319. If it is about patriotism but not politics, then worrying about backlash is not helping your case. She won't be in the 21st century version of Profiles in Courage.
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  13320.  @martinirving3824  "They campaign saying that government doesn't work, and then spend their whole term trying to prove the theory."
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  13321.  @fredsanford1437  No, because he tells people who would otherwise vote for Democrats not to vote for Democrats, and when a good lefty wins a Democratic primary, in his mind that is proof that he/she sold out and must be immediately abandoned. If Democrats lose, who will win? It doesn't take a genius to figure this one out.
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  13322.  @fredsanford1437  Keep voting for thinking that you are morally superior and then wondering why the world gets worse.
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  13323. "When you are used to privilege, equality feels like oppression." Now, let's go prove that we are a nation of laws abs really watch him have a tantrum.
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  13324. That may be the most natural segue for an ad I have ever seen on YouTube.
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  13325.  @nav437  *1965
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  13326. Do you really think the "Bernie or Bust" crowd actually liked Bernie? They were Never Hillary. If Biden had been the last opponent standing, they would have been Biden or Bust. They would have been Warren or Walk, Martin or Move, Lincoln or Leave, Webb or Walk, etc. You should have seen the way they savaged Bernie after he did exactly what he said he would do all along and endorse the eventual nominee. Don't give them the dignity of associating them with Bernie.
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  13327. Jesse, you're usually great with names, but one small error. The name of the town is pronounced Mate-wan rather than Mat-e-wan.
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  13328. Or, she is even worse: one of the ones who know she is crazy but won't do anything about it.
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  13329.  @s0515033  Rupert Murdoch changed his citizenship to buy 20th Century Fox. Jeff Bezos isn't going to give up the American market. If companies benefit from our infrastructure, they need to pay for it.
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  13330.  @MsAppassionata  Monoclonal antibodies. That is far more "experimental" than the vaccine. Ironic that the same people who whine about Big Government Red Tape from the FDA are now saying that they acted too quickly.
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  13331.  @MsAppassionata  "I don't have o-pin-I-ons, Jon. I spend 50% of my time repeating what one side says, and 50% of my time repeating what the other side says. It's called objectivity." Rob Corddry, The Daily Show, 2004
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  13332.  @JohnJRando  And Yang is very careful to hide it in front of general or left-wing audiences. I think he is the most dishonest candidate in the Democratic primary. Buttigieg is someone who has no core and is lying about effects, but Yang clearly has his beliefs, but he is hiding the major part of his plan that will scare off the people who like him the most. He also goes back and scrubs his website repeatedly, so that when I tried to show a Yang Gang banger in September what he said about SSI in June, it was gone. He is literally gaslighting people who are trying to research his plan.
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  13333. "A lot of people who thought they were pro-life [sic] have realized that they are pro-Roe." David Jolly
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  13334. Well, she did say she'd rather be pretty than smart, so MISSION ACCOMPLISHED [awkward speech in jumpsuit follows].
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  13335. After Scalia died, I wanted Obama to pick her for the Supreme Court (a Democratic governor would get to name her replacement, and I thought it would be more difficult for Turtle to stiff someone he saw every day, and since she would have been replacing Scalia, she was pretty much a guaranteed improvement). Now, I'm glad he didn't.
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  13336. Yang does not deserve credit for meaning well. If he did, he would be honest about his proposal instead of going the exact opposite things to left- and right-wing audiences and never explaining the asterisk for the former. If you can't tell the truth about your signature proposal, you probably don't mean well.
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  13337. Is that video real, or is it a parody? I honestly don't know which would make it funnier.
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  13338.  @stephanieann6622  If voting didn't matter, why are Republicans and fascists trying to take that right away?
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  13339.  @stephanieann6622  Well, seeing the Enlightened Centrist stuff at the end, it's obvious what you are trying to do: you're trying to spread conspiracy theories to keep people from voting.
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  13340. This is why having a union job is so important. I have worked from home the last two years and change, and when 5 PM rolls around, I can put it behind me. My supervisor pointed out that we actually got better numbers after we got sent from home. These people just want to exercise control, and they miss the point that a happy worker is a busy worker.
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  13341. And in an act of telling on himself, Der Orangestraflingfuhrer talking about his fear of getting eaten by sharks corroborates what Stormy Daniels said about her encounter with him. Nobody else talked about it before she did.
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  13342. "The cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die." Edward Kennedy, 1980 We will keep fighting with you and to make sure that your legacy shall continue.
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  13343.  @ocumstweezers  I did not know that. What a difference between a genuine person and someone looking for attention! Has Cory Booker ever done any of this without camera crews following him?
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  13344.  @ocumstweezers  From what I've heard, a lot of his "heroism" really did turn out to be publicity stunts rather than doing good for its own sake. There is a certain rabbi who Bernie didn't go with who said that is the true measure of a good deed.
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  13345.  @thestudy6875  Yeah, that's who the guy in my unit sought out. If someone said "show me where it says I have to pay," and I can find the answer in black and white in five minutes, I'm not going to trust what that person says elsewhere. Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society, and when the IRS has repeatedly emphasized that "voluntary means that you volunteer the information, not that you don't have to pay," I for one will not deal with the legal hassle from trying to get one over.
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  13346. Is Die Linke still a thing in Germany?
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  13347.  @berlinkozyreva  This was in Iraq, not "in peacetime." If they still work, sure, but at a certain point, it does get harder and harder to find replacement parts.
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  13348.  @xemy1010  So, you think Milton Friedman was a leftist? Yang is not doing both/and (leftist UBI), he is doing either/or (libertarian UBI). He forces people receiving 125 programs to choose between their current benefits and his plan, but rich people get to keep all of their tax deductions, and he uses a regressive tax to pay for it. Hardly a leftist plan. He also opposes increasing the minimum wage, regulating or breaking up tech monopolies, making it easier for workers to organize, student loan forgiveness (other than something that is even worse than what public sector workers get now), paid college and vocational tuition, affordable housing, and raising taxes on the rich at all. That is a lefty to you? And as far as the whole "slaving away at a job," he told Ben Shapiro that he won't index the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend to inflation. So, if he is right that there won't be any jobs left in the future, the end result will be a massive underclass expected to live off $12,000/year in perpetuity. Some gift!
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  13349. Hethinksthatmakeshimsoundsmart.
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  13350.  @greenlime1997  What in particular do you think should be done?
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  13351.  @greenlime1997  Strip them of their committees, and they can go to McConnell, give him the gavel, and get them back. Did you ever think that the real problem is that there are 50 and only 50? The greatest accomplishments came when there was an actual margin of error.
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  13352. Some people would let their personal ambition say, "You don't want me as President, so I don't want you." Bernie says, "Where can I do the most good?" and he does it. Truly an inspiration!
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  13353. Either be a royal or don't. If you think that the Institution is so bad, then give up the titles. And don't he surprised when Charles wants to protect the institution and makes it obvious that you made your choice.
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  13354. What was petty on Sam's side? He was arguing that everyone benefits from things others pay taxes for (as George Costanza reminded us, "We are living in a society!"), but he didn't want to pay for others.
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  13355.  @zapkvr  Agreed
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  13356. Is it the fake boarding school accent? She didn't do that with her short A's three years ago.
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  13357.  @thedissidentleftist6997  That's probably an underestimate of how much he goes after Democrats.
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  13358. They got sick and tired of the veneer of compassion.
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  13359. I was thinking a cross between Ron Livingston and Jeremy London.
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  13360. He is? I knew Robert Novak was, but I had never heard that about Carlson.
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  13361.  monokhem  Unless I misunderstand your point, what are corporations doing that are the right thing in this example? Which video should be demonetized that David showed got that treatment?
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  13362.  monokhem  Usually, when you enter into a term of service with a company, you provide something, and they provide something, and there are rules about when it has been violated and the other side doesn't have to meet its obligations. One of those obligations is that Pakman abides by his user agreement, and YouTube allows him to collect ad revenue. YouTube seems to have arbitrarily removed ad revenue without any explanation, so how is what they did fair or just or honoring the contract?
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  13363. @D2 E2 It only takes a point or two.
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  13364.  @caitlynh3216  Yes, because a party created out of the blue by people with no ability to organize or electoral experience is going to break the record for a third party which was set by a popular former President. And when the Bull Moose Party got that 27% and relegated the GOP to third place, that really destroyed them.
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  13365.  @emjay2045  Well, that's a bit redundant, but true.
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  13366.  @tier1solutions28  Perhaps his campaign team knew something that he didn't, and they encouraged him to go all out at the end. Considering how rallies with adoring crowds are his second Adderall, he went along.
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  13367.  @LunaTulpa  The thing that is the most insane of all about that is that he has so much money that he could still blow a billion dollars on a vanity project and still end up richer than before the campaign started. Kinda like how Bill Gates is more than twice as rich now as he was when he started "giving it all away" in 2005.
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  13368. @Ruthless Minion She has a net -46 approval among Arizona Democrats. It would take a resurrection rivaling Lazarus for her to come back from that.
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  13369. A Presidential campaign doesn't build character, it reveals it. To paraphrase the Gin Blossoms, we found out about Liz.
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  13370.  @chuletaization  Steve Bullock, for one. Beto O'Rourke possibly. Well, Hickenlooper did finally get the hint and run for Senate instead.
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  13371.  @chuletaization  You are aware that there are two seats per state, right? And what can Hickenlooper do? Well, he had much better numbers than everyone else, so he could win the seat, and removing the calendar from the hands of Mitch McConnell is quite a vital task.
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  13372.  @UnlockingCentralFlorida  Point taken. I'm not a huge fan of Hickenlooper, either, but if he gets is to 51 to take away the calendar from McConnell, I can tolerate him a bit more.
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  13373.  @ericthomas917  No. I think that a vote that burns bridges and is guaranteed to end in failure is worse than nothing. A much better concession would he getting rid of seniority for Committee chairs.
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  13374.  @antonyhanson4479  Well, then, do the work to get them on board. Forcing them to vote on something they oppose does nothing.
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  13375.  @antonyhanson4479  But you're missing the most important point. There aren't 218 votes for it in the House. If you "demand" it, and then the answer is no, you're in a worse place than before, because bills like that don't get a second chance.
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  13376.  @internetexplorer8234  We have literally elected the two oldest Presidents ever in a row. Trump (70) beat Reagan (69). I just don't think Bernie wants to run at 83. If he runs again, I'm all in, but Bernie never truly wanted to be President. He wanted to build a movement. Some people are just destined to be a Moses where Joshua has to actually go in.
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  13377.  @Terry-nr5qn  So, we need a libertarian who wants to get rid of the existing social safety net and give people checks that are "below the poverty level for one person, which will force people to work if they want any life of meaning" all while saying that there won't be any jobs? Someone who sees no problem with wealth inequality and concentration? Someone who said that Bernie inspired him in 2016, but he couldn't be bothered to vote that year? Someone who wants a regressive tax? Someone who is indifferent to labor? I don't think so. He proved that he was not the one when he got all of zero delegates and never cleared 5% in any state.
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  13378. So true about the denialism. One of these wingers started with the groomer nonsense, and I pointed out that Tennessee tried to get rid of the age of consent for marriage completely. The idiot was convinced that Tennessee was a blue state.
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  13379. David Pakman: Giving Them Enough Rope Since 2005
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  13380. And that's why hustle culture is a scam, a carrot that you never catch. So sorry that happened to you, but glad that you moved on to better things.
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  13381. Too bad he's spent the last 15 years sucking up to those people and writing books like Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us and advocated for Michael Bloomberg and Rand Paul.
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  13382. Right wingers: Democrats want to get rid of the Constitution. Der Orangefuhrer: The Constitution should be suspended to reinstate me. Right Wing: Nothing to see here.
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  13383. Too bad that his record doesn't show that.
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  13384.  @Wtyandell  And if none of them were his students, where is the power imbalance? If they were, I'm sure we would have heard about it.
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  13385. Where is Bill Hader as James Carville? That should have gotten at least an honorable mention.
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  13386. You already had a sponsor list. Biden won the nomination despite saying he wouldn't sign it. And how did things go the second time around for Hillarycare?
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  13387.  @MrMarket1987  Of course. I am no fan of the Electoral College, but loathing and despising it doesn't mean that we'll suddenly get a national popular vote. That will be an even heavier lift than Medicare for All. (In all honesty, in 2004, I hoped that Kerry would win the election while losing the popular vote so Republicans wouldn't see it as benefiting them and come onboard for getting rid of it.) That is a 2/3 vote in each House of Congress and ratification by the state legislatures in 3/4 of states.
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  13388.  @Jcewazhere  In Dude, Where's My Country? he argued against recycling saying that is never actually gets recycled. Most of his had ideas are environmental in nature, but he is a bit of a celebrity fluffer who has been trying to get Oprah to run for President for years before settling on Michelle Obama last year.
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  13389. Did she and Sam eat a steak afterward, and if so, did Sam actually swallow it?
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  13390. The difference between triathletes trying to swim in a race and prison escapees is that one group was able to train for months or years and the other group weren't even allowed to take cold showers to get used to the water. That also diminishes their chances.
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  13391.  Bartleby O'quinn  There were two third party candidates who got attention in 2000. One only went to safe states because he wanted the candidate closest to his views to win. The other lied to his biggest supporters and exclusively went to swing states. According to exit polls, a net of 16-26% more of his voters preferred one of the major parties than the other. If you look at his total in the deciding state, and you add the smaller estimate to the candidate his supporters preferred, Gore would have won Florida by 15,050 votes. Yes, Katherine Harris and the US Supreme Court stole it, but without Nader, it wouldn't have been possible.
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  13392.  @inescastellano7960  Seeing him go to Spurs was heartbreaking, but there will always be a warm spot for the Special One.
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  13393.  @lindafoxx1659  Because she is going there to get money to spread right wing propaganda.
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  13394.  @lindafoxx1659  I apologize. I didn't get the update. She has been spreading right-wing propaganda about alleged voter fraud, cancel culture, and abortion.
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  13395.  @abouelkhees  Yeah, Tulsi compared the Iran nuclear deal to Munich because "she's an anti-interventionist." Unless you're proving the point that this phrase is nothing more than a rebranding for isolationism.
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  13396.  @lindafoxx1659  Truth be told, if you look at her history, the endorsement of Bernie was the real aberration in her record. Her voting record is to the right of Beto O'Rourke.
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  13397.  @deafforever3534  What "good counterpoints"? They have been very clear that there needs to be a greater social safety net so people can absorb the blow of a lengthy period of time when not working due to shutting things down and too many just wanted to reopen.
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  13398. That's the problem with his proposal. It's the libertarian version of UBI, not a left version of UBI. Heck, you can't even call it UBI, because he doesn't even give it to everyone.
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  13399.  @rettwoods  In other words, you are making the right wing argument for UBI: instead of the evil bureaucracy, just give it to everyone.
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  13400.  @jimmystoneful  There is a way that is proposed by Reich that does not make the either/or statement that Yang does. I am not against the idea of the UBI. I am against the libertarian version that is meant to replace existing programs and is ultimately insufficient to lift the poor out of poverty, especially when using a regressive tax to pay for it. You think that he's making an idea that originated with Milton Friedman palatable to the right? If it replaces the existing system, it's already palatable to the right, because it's their idea.
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  13401.  real balance  An excise tax on luxury items would definitely be preferable to what is being proposed. I'm not sure if that will be big enough, which is why I would much rather the tax be on larger incomes and assets.
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  13402.  @jimmystoneful  You can't have it both ways. Either it is a replacement, or it's not. I mentioned cutting existing programs because Yang said on his website that part of the way it would be paid for is with less money for existing programs. As far as my support of existing programs, UBI and existing programs serve very different purposes. One of them is for specific problems or situations. Making people choose between programs is cruel.
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  13403.  @ishaq24722  So, we should just not do anything because we are afraid of what Republicans will inevitably do when they take power? What is the point of having control of Congress if you want to give it up? I am fine with making them talk and sleep on cots in order to maintain the filibuster, but ultimately, the supermajority requirement is toxic.
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  13404.  @markgamolka1045  You mean the Jimmy Dore grift that has fielded exactly zero candidates for public office?
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  13405.  @markgamolka1045  What is dishonest about Jimmy Dore's position is that literally everything he does makes it less likely to get what he says he wants. He claims to be "anti-war," but gets mad at Biden for actually ending a war that went on for 20 years. He spends all his time complaining about Democrats who deviate from what he says he supports even one time, but yet he sings the praises of Tucker Carlson and the Boogaloo Boys. He claims to support the working class, but goes after teachers unions when they get locked out. With friends like him, who needs enemies?
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  13406. Indeed. At a certain point, you have to ask yourself what the point is with "awareness." Everyone already knows about a lot of these, so quite frankly, it makes no sense to spend money on that instead of research.
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  13407. All that was needed to complete the Dickens recital was saying that should happen quickly to reduce the surplus population.
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  13408. Yes, because the guy who used the name of Medicare for All because it was popular to describe something that wasn't even a public option and managed to take Milton Friedman's negative income and make it worse by adding a regressive tax is a good guy who's going to help Bernie over the line? Yeah. That makes sense. He didn't even bother to vote for Bernie in 2016 despite insisting that he was a supporter.
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  13409.  Brainjock  "Asset" is someone actively working for the cause. "Useful idiot" is someone who falls for their propaganda and spreads it. They have very specific meanings and functions.
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  13410. @Kyle Jones No, it is saying that in addition to RT and Sputnik loving Tulsi, Jill Stein is a Russian asset. The "also" refers to the Russian asset. The question was about Republicans encouraging Tulsi to run third party: "So he [Trump]'s going to try and drive the people not to vote for him but just to say, 'You know, you can't vote for them, either.' And that seems to be, I think, to the extent that I can divine a strategy, their key strategy right now." "Well, I think there's going to be two parts, and I think it's going to be the same as 2016: 'Don't vote for the other guy. You don't like me? Don't vote for the other guy [...] "They're also gonna do third party again." You're forgetting an awful lot of stuff before the quote that the "they" is the Trump campaign. And if you don't think Tulsi is the favorite Democratic Presidential candidate of Russia, how do you explain the positive RT coverage and the way that she keeps lining up with their objectives, to the point of praising Putin for bombing civilians in Syria while complaining that Obama didn't?
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  13411.  Brainjock  A useful idiot doesn't know that he/she is being used. Stein does, but I don't think Tulsi does.
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  13412.  @buildingblocks575  Not that I lamented what could have been with a Hillary Presidency, if she got elected, she probably could have also gotten a Democratic Senate based on how close things were in PA & NC, and Gorsuch and Kavanaugh would not have made it to the Supreme Court to do their damage for 30-40 years. Not that she was a great candidate, but we are in much worse shape with Moscow Donald in the White House.
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  13413. Well, he lied about being a Bernie supporter (he didn't vote in 2016, and he didn't volunteer or donate to the campaign), he bragged about "creating jobs" when heading Venture for America (it met less than 2% of its goal), and he named his health care proposal "Medicare for All" despite not even being a public option because the name was popular, and he repeatedly lied about who would benefit from his proposals (and never gave a list of the 125 programs that were either/or). Oh, and he was a shameless panderer who told David Pakman and Dave Rubin the exact opposite things about the same proposal. If that is honest, what is lying?
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  13414. There are exactly two candidates who have a nonzero chance of winning. Only one is trying to start a fascist dictatorship. So, if you are still whining at this point, then you must be fine with a fascist dictatorship.
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  13415.  @chemdog1632  If you really believe that, then you want to inflict harm on millions of people because you didn't get your way, which makes you a psychopath. Never mind the fact that I have heard this accelerationist nonsense for 20 years, and the exact opposite keeps happening, if Trump wins, there is no second chance.
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  13416. Thank everyone who voted third party in 2000 and 2016 because they thought Gore and Hillary weren't pure enough. Because of their stupidity, five of the six who voted to make Nixon correct now sit on the Court.
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  13417.  @minamur  I sure do.
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  13418. It was an Unsolved Mysteries.
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  13419.  @54tisfaction  You ultimately get to a point where you have to make an appointment. There comes a point where you get far enough up the ladder and there is no "most qualified."
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  13420.  @54tisfaction  I don't know if you have ever worked for the government, but pretty much any government job ends up with a political appointment at the top. And there is no way to truly have an independent board that appoints people. At that point, who gets to pick the people on the board?
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  13421.  @benzell4  Consitutional amendments are passed in ways different than ordinary laws. It is far and away the most difficult lift in the legislative world. There's a reason why only 27 have been ratified, with only one coming in the last 50 years.
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  13422. Most distance runners burn more sugar than fat. However, ultramarathon runners go at slower speeds and burn more fat. There are major races of 50-100 miles where the woman won outright.
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  13423.  @sekulrtsnfnugg6126  This video has over 75% likes. You wanna try that math again? The last time I checked, getting ratioed meant more dislikes than likes.
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  13424.  @sekulrtsnfnugg6126  More comments than likes only works for Twitter, because by definition any video that has discussion is going to get "ratioed" by that definition, and someone's troll army getting pushed back by fans would supposedly help your aim.
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  13425. The moment Doug Jones barely beat Roy Moore after we found out what we did about him, and he lost in 2020 in a landslide against someone whose political views were just as awful but not a pedophile, that was a scary moment.
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  13426. Because people get what they vote for. Like it or not, enough people like the nonsense to keep its perpetrators in power.
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  13427.  @tomitstube  I guess YouTube are all of my responses. You can Google Krist Novoselic defends police, and it will show you articles where he praised Trump's speech on the protests, and Axl Rose BLM will give you stories of him taking the other side. Thirty years ago, nobody would have guessed that.
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  13428.  @himynameisrev  Alaska gives out a variable amount that is a far smaller amount than the Freedom with 125 Strings Attached Dividend. They also don't exclude people who get other benefits, and their TANF is over $900/month. Add in SNAP benefits, and you're already over $1000.
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  13429.  @himynameisrev  And automation all depends on how it is done. A couple years ago, my parents and my niece came to visit me and my daughter. Among other things, while they were here, we went on two factory tours (Herr's Snack Factory and Tour in Nottingham, and the Martin Guitar Factory Tour and Museum in Nazareth), and at each one, they found that human hands caused a bottleneck in production (finding rotten potatoes at the former, lacquering at the latter), and having robots do it led to an increase in employment, and everyone at the Lacquer Department was retrained, so nobody lost any jobs at Martin.
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  13430. UBI isn't inherently left or right. Milton Friedman had a version of it. It depends on the details.
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  13431. ​ @SmallMountains  The players are at most an inch taller than 30 years ago, so nice try.
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  13432.  @GoddamnAxl  A lot of why scores are so much higher is the increase in three-point shots.
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  13433. When Roe was a thing, people could speak of the evils of abortion with no real consequences because it was abstract. Once it was repealed, a lot of people who were personally uncomfortable with abortion and called themselves "pro-life" realized that they were pro-choice after all.
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  13434.  @kylejones8289  Even if it worked the way they wanted, it still was a terrible idea. Thomas Jefferson realized that by 1820. Several changes to the Constitution have been to make it more democratic, such as direct election of US Senators and expanding the franchise. In all honesty, in 2004, a part of me had hoped that Kerry would win the Electoral College and lose the popular vote so it wouldn't be seen as something that only benefited one party and made it easier to get support to repeal it.
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  13435. Mike Pence ultimately did the right thing... after trying every possible way to find a way to do the wrong thing.
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  13436.    He wasn't made DNC director of outreach, he is director of outreach for Senate Democrats. And he went to a lot of red states and won a lot of people over.
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  13437.  @elsierodgers4874  Oh, some of these people insist that benefits were too generous even before the increase. The worst are the people who call in wanting benefits but think that they're better than everyone. This one woman who was getting a Medicare Part B premium payment from us was running her mouth about how she wasn't like all these freeloaders who didn't have any self-reliance, but then she whined and moaned for half an hour to try to make sure that we counted every single deduction.
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  13438. The first answer Steyer gave was probably pretty accurate.
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  13439. Be fair, Seth! We didn't elect President Nip Slip, the Electoral College did.
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  13440. When even Andrew Cuomo's brother sees that Bernie actually does those things better than Warren, you know you really stepped in it.
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  13441.  @maxsmart9116  My guess is that guy gets paid for every copy and paste.
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  13442. The problem is that of the British parties, Labour is the one party that not only wasn't united on Brexit, but its division was so starkly geographical that there was no way to thread the needle. Come out anti-Brexit and you get killed in the north, support it and you get killed in the south.
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  13443. Deep thought: if you are talking about demand for health care as being bad, you are saying that you want the poor to die. Just come out and admit it!
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  13444. This is New York.
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  13445. Indeed. I keep asking the Dore Knobs or the people who say, "he's funny, but..." for an example of something funny he's ever actually said, and I get crickets. Borscht Belt comedians mock his act for being tired.
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  13446. It's just like in baseball how teams are obsessed with getting walks and home runs and nobody chokes up on two strikes to try to put the ball in play anymore, the hit and run is extinct, the stolen base gets rarer by the season, and the game got boring. It will have to take some brave team willing to play a different way and actually win before the spell is broken.
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  13447.  @homersimpson6585  1) The line is "speaks German." 2) It was the German people who gave him the power to do the stuff he did.
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  13448. If he was in the military, he took an oath to defend the Constitution, so how is he able to run for office?
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  13449. Where is Anthony Michael Hall on this list?
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  13450. ​ @schmuckytheraiderbear5043  Do you think that Trump would have gotten any ceasefire or tried for a second?
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  13451. Read the article "Tulsi Gabbard is not Your Friend" by Jacobin. This is her true self. She only endorsed Bernie to fend off a primary opponent to her left.
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  13452. In Money Makeover, he argued that lower debts should be paid off first regardless of the interest rate, and against any investment until debt could be paid off. It seems like he started by borrowing from David Bach, and now he's borrowing from Suze Orman. Oh, and his advice on spending down once you retire was ridiculous, saying "the market grows at 12%, and inflation is 4%, so you can spend 8% a year and be fine." Maybe if you don't expect to live 10 years after retirement, and the S&P average is 9%, which would be even lower with his advocacy of high-load mutual funds, and that bad idea is all him.
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  13453. Retirement and index funds use the S&P 500 far more often than they use the Dow, so what does a Dow milestone really mean?
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  13454.  @angryretailbanker5103  The irony is that he is really bad on that one main thing that he cares about.
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  13455. Maybe if they didn't say Never Biden, and Krystal didn't spend more time criticizing Biden than Trump on her show, maybe the message of what they want would actually get through.
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  13456.  Donald Smith  I never said to never criticize the Democratic Party. I've done it plenty of times. Then again, I am an adult and I actually think about more than my personal feeling of superiority when I vote.
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  13457. Say it! Saaaaaay it!
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  13458.  @biokido575  So, under 11 is greater than 32.01? Math is not your friend. A lot of what happened in Vermont was the costs were underrepresented, and being a small state, they didn't have the risk pool benefits that a national plan would. Bernie has been upfront about how it will be paid for.
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  13459.  @biokido575  Bernie said exactly what it would be. If you are fine with paying more, getting less, and 45,000 Americans dying every year from a lack of health insurance, you believe that all you want, but I have no desire to do so.
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  13460.  @biokido575  Keep telling yourself that. I guess sometimes people have to lie to themselves to justify their indifference to others.
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  13461.  @biokido575  Debunked by whom? And Medicare has a lower overhead than private insurance, and we spend more than anyone else only to get the 37th best in the world.
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  13462. Watch Warren trying to do the math in her head at 11:20. Not a good look for the "numbers candidate."
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  13463. In PA, ABAWD were not eligible for Medicaid until 2015. Corbett tried this work requirement in late 2014 to try to save his bacon, and when Wolf won, he made it a straight up expansion.
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  13464.  @infjintegrityvsnarcissism7295  What has Casey torpedoed Democrats on?
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  13465.  @hangukhiphop  Sorry, I misread the post and thought you meant that the rich would just find a loophole so we can't really do anything about it.
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  13466.  @Toad2943  The rules about pledged delegates have been in place for over 40 years. They know that they can't do something like that after already making the rule change for the first round. They have to abide by them, so it will be too obvious, and Perez doesn't want to be obvious after what happened the last time (as evidenced by having more debates and making them more open).
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  13467.  @Qossuth  Looking at the numbers in the early states, I think that this could very well be a momentum thing like Kerry in 2004 (and, why I said at the time that Hillary knew she needed to win Iowa at all costs), where he won early and couldn't be stopped. No candidate has ever won the Iowa/New Hampshire double (Carter, Gore, Kerry) and lost the nomination. If he wins the double, he wins Nevada, and if he gets close in South Carolina, he will beat expectations (and he actually has the most endorsements from state legislators in the Palmetto State, so he might still pull it off). He already has the lead in California and other Super Tuesday states, so he can get quite a head of steam by the end of Super Tuesday and steamroll to victory.
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  13468. They pretty much gave up on that in 1877, when they decided that they would give up Reconstruction in order to steal an election.
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  13469. You really think that the MSM is in Biden's pocket? Hahahahahahahahahahahaha Hold on, let me catch my breath. Hahahahahahahahaha Okay, now that I have that out of my system, have you actually seen MSM coverage of things? To hear the talking heads go, you'd think it was still 8-9^ inflation instead of 3. Every time we had good jobs numbers, they kept lamenting how this was going to make inflation worse. And that's even before bothsidering everything to death. A lot of them miss Der Orangefuhrer because he brought them ratings.
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  13470.  @spicymemes7458  Except Cornel West doesn't want concessions. You don't lie about things that your good friend Bernie Sanders said about conditions for working people if you haven't already decided to go scorched earth.
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  13471.  @j.israelsson  People are disillusioned because they don't understand how things work and don't know how to take any Yes for an answer. With dummies like this, no wonder we have a 6-3 right wing Supreme Court. An election isn't about expressing ideological desire, but about making the tough choices and knowing when to use your heart and when to use your head. But, yeah, let's turn things over to fascists because we didn't get our way on everything.
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  13472. Only Democratic candidate. Trump could do the same.
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  13473.  @armondtanz  He still wants to base things on his feelings. Faith is a feeling, and lots of people of faith have different interpretations. He also said he would support the Supreme Court taking away rights based on those feelings when Thomas and then Cruz mentioned Obergfell (sp?) being next after the Dobbs decision.
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  13474. Look at how much Biden got sabotaged. Do you honestly think Bernie wouldn't have gotten the same or worse?
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  13475. Well, they tried, but unlike Biden who looked like a doddering fool by the end, Bernie stood stronger after the weak sauce the centrists tried to throw his way.
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  13476. They could put it on PPV, and it would pay off the national debt.
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  13477.  @markusmiekk-oja3717  That's because fundamentalists have more in common with themselves than other co-religionists.
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  13478. If you shoot someone who was later found to have terminal cancer, you still go to jail.
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  13479.  Andrea MENDENHALL  Well, if no one owes anyone anything, how did he get to an Ivy League school? Why are you using technology that started with Defense spending?
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  13480.  Andrea MENDENHALL  You're missing the point. Someone clearly paid for him to get there. The fact that you said that you think that government should be reduced by 90% says that you just like to repeat buzzwords rather than actually make honest statements.
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  13481.  @soulknife20  Indeed. I'll even defend "If Everyone Cared" or "Someday" if I'm in the right mood. A lot of bands have a pretty good first record, but the problem comes when they try to make their first record over and over again (see also: Creed).
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  13482. At least. He may have been on stronger stuff.
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  13483.  @michellesvintagelibrary  Would you rather keep it at $7.25 in perpetuity?
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  13484. Maybe she came aboard after he left.
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  13485. Probably to keep them from working together with the fascists at the gate.
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  13486. He doesn't follow Madison. What an insult! He follows his dad, but somehow managed be dumber and more smug.
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  13487. "Mother stands for comfort, Mother will hide the murderer." Kate Bush
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  13488. I have a little bit of difference on the statement about steroids compared to hand-eye coordination. Yes, someone has to have the coordination to hit, but how many of those hits that would have been outs made it over the fence because of the extra muscle?
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  13489. Dennis Kucinich was the co-founder of the CPC.
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  13490. Solid performance, but thing that would have been even better would have been specifying how we kept hearing about Infrastructure Week for years, but it was the Biden/Harris Administration who passed it.
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  13491. Dan Rostenkowski, Bob Ney and Duke Cunningham both went to jail for bribery. Now, technically, the poor wouldn't really be in a situation to receive such bribes, but it does happen.
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  13492. There are two ways to change it: amendment or convention. Do you really think that anything like the First Amendment will survive rewriting one from scratch? Look at which party is pushing for that route and get back to me.
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  13493.  Evan Zuppardo  How should it be determined in a document that is supposed to last for a long time? The people who use those phrases will just continue to find new ones.
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  13494. More like flyweight.
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  13495.  @sergeikhripun  Let's just say for the sake of argument that you are right. (Just to make it clear, you are not, but just for the sake of argument.) Let's say that Joe Biden would be able to give Medicare to everyone with the stroke of a pen, and it covered everything. Let's go even further and say that you wouldn't still have to pay copays or deductibles. Have you even remotely given any thought to what would happen if you tried to get Medicare that way? Clearly, you have not, because you surely are not dumb enough to think that the health insurance industry wouldn't sue en masse, or to think that this Supreme Court would allow that to stand. So, are you really that stupid, or did you just not think ahead?
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  13496.  @sergeikhripun  I don't understand supermajority? Okay, dummy. Here goes: supermajority (n) A majority (such as two-thirds or three-fifths) that is greater than a supermajority. Since I have had some bad luck with getting links scrubbed, Google supermajority definition. This is the definition from Merriam-Webster. I don't deal with liars, so I am done with you. Now, if you are just stupid, or you want to apologize for lying, then we can continue, but I am not wasting my time on your Dore-addled brain any longer.
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  13497.  @sergeikhripun  Oh, okay. I'm not dealing with a liar, I'm dealing with an idiot. I guess the object of your admiration meant that one went without saying as far as the latter. If you want me to answer your question, I just want to figure out if I am dealing with someone who is dishonest, someone who is your garden variety stupid, or someone who is genuinely cognitively limited. Show me where you find someone else, anyone else, using your definition of supermajority? Since you claim that you are using "the political definition" and I am using "the dictionary definition," are you not aware that the reason why the term supermajority exists is because some things cannot pass with a simple majority, and there needed to be a distinction so that people understand why things fail with a majority? And I don't know where you are getting your numbers, but did you not notice that for all this talk from Angry Leader that the vote was planned to fail in the first place? Did you not notice that Biden's numbers didn't move when he said that he wouldn't sign Medicare for All in the primary? Apparently, you missed that the people of Colorado had a referendum for Medicare for All a few years ago and it only got 21% of the vote. You probably also didn't read below the actual top line of the poll and find out that a majority wrongly think that Medicare for All allows competing private insurance. Thank people like Jimmy's object of affection Tulsi Gabbard who insisted that she supported Medicare for All while saying that the thing that actually made it work is "un-American." You probably haven't done the actual organizing work and talked to people who said that they liked Medicare for All while angrily insisting that you can't "take away people's choice for insurance." I have actually done the work, and because of me and others like me, Brendan Boyle is a sponsor of the bill. You also missed the point where I said that the Democratic Party is not an ideological party in the way the GOP is. It is a coalition. Party control is irrelevant to the question of Medicare for All having a chance of passage given that only half of the Democrats in the House and a quarter of Democrats in the Senate sponsor the bill. You know what percentage of Congressional Republicans support Medicare for All? Zero. So, what have you personally done to build support for Medicare for All?
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  13498.  @sergeikhripun  FDR introduced the minimum wage as a law, not as an executive order. And he did it after he had sufficient support on the Supreme Court to get it passed. If he went for the minimum wage in 1933, it would have gotten struck down. He did it in 1938. And the minimum wage was a law passed by Congress, and you are proposing an executive order. If you suddenly tell people who negotiated health insurance far more generous than Medicare that they no longer have that insurance, you will destroy support for Medicare for All. You do things to actually build support. You don't go by a poll and say it is popular. If Biden signed it tomorrow as an executive order and abolished private insurance, there would be a stay before the day was done. I'd be surprised if it took an hour for such a stay. Just like a typical Dore Knob, you just want to feel better rather than actually make anyone's lives better.
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  13499. The original text of the amendment includes a ten-year time limit. I don't see it getting ratified even if 38 states sign on, and there will be lawsuits saying that it did not pass. Do you honestly believe that the Roberts Court wouldn't strike it down?
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  13500.  @a5cent  "Mistakes on the issue of supporting Ukraine"? I really don't understand what you're getting at. In a larger sense, if it leads you to defend torture and spout propaganda of multiple dictators, it clearly shows the limitations of isolationism, where you are content to watch the whole world burn.
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  13501.  @a5cent  "many of us now oppose it all, thinking they will be right more often than not." But that's the problem. It's not thinking. If you want to have a healthy skepticism, have at it, but when it comes to applauding abandondoning a group that has stuck their neck out for us so many times like the Kurds, that is being a useful idiot for a dictator.
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  13502.  @a5cent  It can be a bit confusing when one switches from first to third person in the same comment. My reply pointed out that, regardless of the motivation, it is borne from laziness. I remember in the early days of the Ukrainian invasion, someone said that assuming the CIA is wrong will make you right 90% of the time. Even if that's true, you're still wrong 10% of the time, so you can't just blindly ignore or accept. Personally, I was skeptical, but once it became obvious that the forces were mounting at the border, that's when I realized that maybe they were right this time.
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  13503. Remember when video of Steve Kornacki explaining the election went to #1 on Pornhub? I think video of Trump getting evicted may have the same impact.
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  13504.  @luke5058  And if they haven't set up the rules, they clearly aren't the ones enforcing it at this time. Therefore, the point is still invalid.
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  13505. True, but he is in a close race, so hopefully enough people in his state do that he will be gone in January.
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  13506. In all honesty, I don't know any other way to have a format with such a ridiculous number of candidates running, many of whom should be running for governor or Senate instead.
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  13507.  @CalebCalvin  The vast majority of his "wealth" is in his highly-leveraged properties. How much would he really be worth of we knew how much he owes on them? And, since he wouldn't sell, that makes me wonder if it's because he couldn't sell.
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  13508. She is aware that probation is conditional, right?
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  13509.  @USUG0  Except when your wealth is based on stock shares that are more inflated than the Goodyear blimp, it's hardly being rich, because it's not like he can sell it. Who would buy it? Everyone would see it as a sign of panic.
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  13510.  @tayahoneybear  Good: GM is alive and bin Laden is dead. Ending DADT. The Iran nuclear deal. Passed the ACA. Bad: Refused to ask for enough stimulus to get unemployment down fast enough. Offered reduction in Social Security benefits. Kept trying to work with Republicans long after it was painfully obvious to any outside observer that they wouldn't.
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  13511.  @aceclop  What percentage do you think is "far left"? The far right controls everything in the GOP. What should the minimum wage be? If it kept up with inflation from 1968, it would be $11.62. If it kept up with productivity from 1960, it would be over $22.00. The Republican Party does not want people to "be able to have any gun we want as long as we can pass a lengthy background check " because literally every time in the last 25 years that people tried to toughen background check laws, they opposed it. When Republicans retook the House in 2011, they promptly worked to gut funding for the ATF and make it more difficult for them to store the information on databases to make it easier to catch someone during the background check. As far as reparations, I think it would depend on what it looks like, and I think Native Americans should also be included. There is ample evidence of how slavery and Jim Crow have residual effects today. With that in mind, what do you think we should do to try to remedy them?
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  13512. 2:51 She does have a man in her life.
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  13513.  @paxundpeace9970  So, calling people inbred is going to win people over? Great strategy! That is literally the worst thing that you can call someone from West Virginia.
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  13514.  @NoWay1969  Then, why did he tell Dave Rubin and Ben Shapiro that he ultimately wants to get rid of the existing social safety net?
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  13515.  @NoWay1969  He said that the current programs are bad, and the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend will make it less likely for people to get caught in the system. However, this shows a total misunderstanding of how these programs work. The vast majority are off within two years. You will never eliminate the need for the existing social safety net, because there will always be disability and frictional unemployment and poverty. And Yang envisions a future with 1/3 of the population unemployed. His freedom with 125 strings attached dividend is already below the poverty level now, and I can think of several situations where it pays out well over $1000: 1) Single parent with two kids who gets SSI and SNAP gets over $1300/month. 2) TANF in New Hampshire is over $1000/month. 3) Housing subsidies. 4) Daycare subsidies with multiple children in daycare. With nothing else to fall back on because those programs have been eliminated or for fear of losing what they currently get, his proposal would increase poverty if his worst-case scenario comes true, and create a permanent underclass. And he won't provide a list of the 125 programs that people have to forfeit if they take his money, so we don't know if unemployment is one of them. We also don't know how long taking his money will keep someone locked out of the existing social safety net. Unemployment has a cap, but it pays about 60% of income. So, if someone is making $39K/year and takes the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend, that person would be giving up biweekly unemployment of $900. I hope that person has his/her house paid off, because Yang is opposed to actually doing anything about affordable housing.
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  13516.  @NoWay1969  How do we know it doesn't include unemployment if he won't provide the list? Mother Jones asked for it back in April, his spokeswoman implied that he didn't have a final list (even though he had a count long before then) and they promised to update the story if he did, and it hasn't been updated yet. I have heard people say both. Because of his opacity, I don't have trust that it won't be. And you seem not to understand how it works. There are a lot of situational things, and not only do those people not get benefits while everyone else around them does, thus exacerbating inequality (and wages have kept up with inflation over the last 40 years, so that shows why just staying the same isn't sufficient when the rungs get farther apart on the economic ladder), but they now have to pay a VAT because Yang refuses to even try to address wealth and income inequality. So, in both an absolute and relative way, they are worse off than before. And the Yang Gang bangers seem not to understand that there is often more than one program that people will qualify for, which is why it is dishonest to only mention one program to try to pretend that it is better. Yes, it makes things a lot worse. If we only have the $1000/month, that won't be enough, and that is why it will be a permanent underclass. I keep hearing that we can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good, but a program that hurts the most vulnerable in society and lets the rich keep every single tax loophole is not a good, it is a bad, if not an evil. And Bernie proposed things that are far better. His was similar to what Richard Wolff proposed of, instead of letting the monopolies and big corporations get most of the benefits, use the benefits of technology to force increased wages and decreased hours to increase quality of life and make room for more people to work. You can scoff at that idea if you'd like, but why do you think we have overtime laws?
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  13517.  @NoWay1969  Again, Bernie gave a proposal to deal with automation: increased taxation based on automation and increase wages so that workers don't need to work as long. That is not to say that we don't have lasting poverty now, but making the most vulnerable in society give up what they currently get when others who are better off have to give up nothing (I get to keep my child and child care tax credits) is not any way to address it.
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  13518.  @NoWay1969  "It's a $6.25 an hour raise to everyone." I thought the whole discussion was whether or not it is a good idea to force people to choose between their current benefits and his plan. That doesn't mean everyone gets it. It is this rhetorical sleight of hand that is why, to answer earlier queries, so many of us who support Bernie are highly critical of Yang: the fundamental dishonesty. Either that is an intentional misrepresentation, or Yang supporters don't even see the people who don't get any benefits from his plan.
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  13519.  @NoWay1969  Also, you never answered my question about why you think a substantial portion of Democracy Dollars will go to state and local races when Presidential races currently get the lion's share. Did you ever come up with an answer?
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  13520.  @NoWay1969  I will make this as simple as I possibly can. I thought I did so with my example of the tax credit, but I guess not, so here goes: Person A is a single parent with two kids who gets SSI and SNAP. That person gets $1300/month. This person gets no new benefits and a 10% tax on everything he/she buys to pay for something he/she won't get. That person is unequivocally worse off under Yang's proposal. Person B only gets SNAP. That person lives alone, so in order to get the $1000, he/she has to give up $200 in SNAP. That person gets a net benefit of $800, not counting the tax. Person C is a little bit over the income limit for most state programs, so let's call it $25K/year just to be on the safe side. That person gets a full $1000, and thus gets more than the poor. If you can't understand that, you simply cannot understand the lefty argument against how Yang structures his UBI that is neither universal nor basic income.
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  13521.  @NoWay1969  And that is why Bernie also wants to increase Social Security. Also, if someone gets SSI, that person won't be getting TANF.
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  13522.  @NoWay1969  If you want to say that you are speaking knoweldgably on the social safety net, at least get the programs straight. I said SSI and SNAP. SSI is very different from TANF, and you can say that's rare all you want, but a) in New Hampshire, TANF is over $1000, and b) I don't care how rare it is. I care about the fact that the only people who get negatively affected are those who need it most. Well, Yang said that no one will be negatively impacted, but he won't give any specifics to prove it. He won't provide the full list of the programs that people have to forfeit if they take his money, and he won't say which kinds of items will be exempt from the VAT. For someone who likes to where MATH hats, he sure is reluctant to show his work.
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  13523.  @NoWay1969  $24,000 for one person is nearly twice the poverty level for one person ($12,200). Not rich by any stretch of the imagination, but not poor, either. I intentionally looked for an example of someone above the working poor, but still clearly working class, to highlight the difference in effects.
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  13524.  @NoWay1969  So, Yang has said to "just increase their benefits," even though just about every program gets its benefits determined at the state level, which the Supreme Court confirmed when upholding the ACA but letting states opt out of the Medicaid expansion, they don't have to do? So, that is a sufficient answer, but Yang saying that he can't do anything about housing because that is a state and local issue (even though there is nothing stopping the federal government from imposing rent control or working for affordable housing) is enough to dodge responsibility? And don't give me the nonsense about learning on the job. The last three years have proven why "I'll just learn on the job" is the wrong answer for someone wanting to be President.
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  13525.  @NoWay1969  You still don't understand how progressive and regressive taxes work, and why a VAT is regressive even with the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend fits. So, I will explain one final time, and use the example that you gave. The person who you mentioned making $24,000/year and getting an extra 12 will still probably spend it all or close to it. That means an extra $3272 in taxes, or 13.63% of income in taxes. If you say, "Yes, but that person got a third of their income," the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend is not treated as a tax rebate. If it were, it would not affect existing programs, which again shows that he doesn't understand how the machinery of policy works. Someone who is rich doesn't spend all of their money. So, let's take your person making $240,000/year. That person will only spend about half of income, because they invest the rest. They won't spend that extra money except to offset the taxes. So, that person will pay taxes of $12,000, or 5% of income. 5 is a lot less than 13. That is the fundamental flaw in literally every single argument that tries to insist that a consumption tax can ever possibly be progressive: it forgets the fact that the rich have far different spending habits, because there are plenty of things that are needed, and those things are a much larger portion of income for the rest of us. You can give your hypotheticals all you want, but the fact that 45 states have overall regressive taxes and they rely more heavily on consumption than the federal government betrays your argument and proves mine. At a certain point, you can talk hypotheticals all you want, but I have actual proof of what happens when you tax consumption rather than income or wealth.
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  13526.  @NoWay1969  If you see the problem with Yang's proposal for Medicare for All, why do you not see the problem with his proposing a regressive tax.
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  13527.  @khalilahmadi2037  So, you expect people to stay friends for 15-30 years with the added stress of home maintenance and property taxes? Great plan!
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  13528.  @calbear1568  Private insurance can offer a no frills plan that has a low sticker price, which those who are reasonably young and healthy will snap up. That will funnel the sick and elderly all to the federal plan, thus not spreading the risk. You saw it with the stories of people when "Obamacare took my insurance away," and it took it away because the plan didn't offer basic coverage.
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  13529.  Sex Johnson  And his refusal to go after tax avoidance and evasion, and his refusal to support any legislation that actually makes it easier for workers to organize, or to do anything about affordable housing or rent control. He is the worst if you exclude the absolute bottom of the pile people who have spent years or decades sucking up to corporate power (Biden, Harris, Klobuchar, Booker, Buttigieg).
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  13530.  @NoWay1969  No, you didn't explain that it wouldn't hurt anyone, you just repeated that Yang said that it wouldn't hurt anyone. That is not good enough for me. I have heard "trust me" all my life, and I don't trust him. It is a huge deal that he refuses to give specifics, because that is what would prove that he isn't hurting anyone. No, Yang isn't keeping the details a secret because he knows he has to rely on states. The freedom with 125 strings attached dividend is a federal program. Increasing benefits at the state level of something that he can't do, so he can't address the issue.
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  13531.  @NoWay1969  And Yang has more in common with Trump than you think. Both have no government or military experience. Both are acting as though they along can fix it. Both do nothing to address wealth and income inequality. Neither wants to raise taxes on the rich or corporations, even though they like to say they do.
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  13532.  @calbear1568  So, the goal is to make such a Herculean effort to pass the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend, and then to turn right back around and do it again for "a little bit better than the ACA"? And you Yang Gang bangers say the rest of us think small!
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  13533.  @NoWay1969  "All we can do is repeat what the stated policies are." And this is the irony of someone who supports someone whose slogan is Make America Think Again saying to just trust him at his word and not actually look at the implications, whether or not someone actually has the authority to do something that he/she says, or whether or not it is contradictory with other things that are said. You said that you trust him, despite the fact that he has said several contradictory things about his proposals, especially between right-wing and left-wing audiences. And if you can't understand that making someone forfeit current benefits in order to get his money is a string attached, then you either have an understanding of it that no one else does, being intentionally dishonest, or being willfully ignorant. I don't know which, and at this point, quite frankly, I don't care. Now, let's look at your proposal for just how easy it would be to give someone an EBT card to cover the VAT. Well, benefit levels for most programs are determined at the state level, and the Supreme Court has already said that the federal government can't force them to change benefit levels, so that's out. So, it would clearly have to be done at the federal level. So, the federal government would have to start keeping records of how many benefits people get, and calculate the "rebate." Oh, and someone also has to keep track of who gets the other benefits in the first place. Far from getting rid of bureaucracy, this creates a new one. And you keep saying that the VAT is not regressive, when you have to add something else to try to not make it so. Do you know what would not be a regressive tax? Taxing capital gains to pay for it, because poor are less likely to own stock. Or, you could have a tax on income above a certain level. See, if you use an actual progressive tax, you don't have to use the benefit to insist that the tax is not regressive. Finally, at another point, you said that $24,000/year was poor. I don't think you realize just how much you undercut your own arguments. If that is poor, then half that is clearly insufficient. If that is the case, then making people give up what they have in order to get that money is clearly wrong.
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  13534. A big reason for reluctance when it comes to kamikaze tactics on the left is that the right doesn't really want to do anything, so they are just fine with torpedoing legislation. We already know that Republicans are a total lost cause, and chasing them is like Charlie Brown and the football. When people complain that Democrats can't get anything done, it's because they have no margin for error. If both sides say No and you are under 218, the bill fails, so you have to pick a spot where inaction will hurt people.
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  13535. Listen to Jim Jones's death tapes. The similarities are disturbing.
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  13536.  @Jygzaw  Yeah, I'm supposed to trust the guy who said that he supported Medicare for All when admitting that he just wanted to use the name, especially when he told Ben Shapiro that "the magic of a thousand bucks a month is that it is below the poverty level for one person, which means that people will still have to work if they want any life of meaning." Add in that he has lied about his job prowess, and one con man from business is enough for a lifetime.
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  13537.  Ash Win  How do you define "success"? A tax that makes the poorest pay up to ten times what the richest people do is not, and will never be, a success in my book.
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  13538.  @Black_Caucus  We actually have a version of the wealth tax, and it is called the estate tax. It clearly gets revenue.
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  13539.  @2727rogers  No, it's not. Anglican is not Catholic. Lutherans recite the Apostles Creed, too, so using your logic, they are also Catholic.
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  13540.  @Hartley_Hare  There is both an Armenian Catholic and an Armenian Orthodox.
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  13541.  @2727rogers  Several people have tried to explain what it means in that context. If you want to continue in your ignorance, you go right ahead, but I'm not going to indulge it.
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  13542.  Don P  It was. Sadly, history is repeating himself, except I think the last time it was over 20.
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  13543.  Paul Miskell  I've seen lots of these Trump books for kids.
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  13544. Another reason to think this was a right winger is that Anthony Kennedy was initially the fifth vote to overturn Roe in 1992, but Souter and O'Connor helped him find an acceptable way to maintain the ruling. They surely feared that someone else would be the next Kennedy.
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  13545.  @sandyunderpants4376  Because it's more likely to solidify right wingers. That's who these Justices are playing to. Unless you have some other reason why you think that the first place the leaker would go would be the Wall Street Journal, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch. As far as Bart O'Kavanaugh goes, if anything he'd be even angrier at the left after this, and really won't want to give us anything.
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  13546. "No former President has been treated like this." Well, that's because no former President (including Nixon) was a criminal the way this one is.
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  13547. The fumes of his economy? When he left office, unemployment was nearly double what it was when he took office, and stocks had plummeted.
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  13548. You can see it coming, but unless you have insider information, you can't say when. When the tax cuts were enacted, we already had a higher price to earnings ratio than during the dot com bubble. All these buybacks have only made it worse. The fundamentals are incredibly weak. We have a bubble, and Trump putting the screws on to lower interest rates means the bubble is only getting bigger. When they run out of room and the bubble pops, we are screwed because that Big Orange Dummy is taking away the tools to actually fight a recession.
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  13549.  @jocksharerock7318  I'm from the military, and I don't yell over top people and lie all the time.
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  13550.  @jocksharerock7318  Insisting that AOC isn't a Democrat, for starters.
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  13551.  @jocksharerock7318  If he doesn't want divisions, crapping on people like AOC and Bernie Sanders is a terrible way to do it. He is not acting in good faith. I commented elsewhere pointing out just some of his obvious contradictions.
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  13552.  @jocksharerock7318  And he kept saying that she wasn't a "real Democrat" when called out on it, and implied that she was a DINO when he got caught. You're better than this.
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  13553.  @jocksharerock7318  Fair enough. I am also a fan of yours as well, which is why I was so surprised. I do know that sometimes I can miss the finer points of a conversation because I tend to listen to the long form stuff while I'm working, but I wish you nothing but the best for 2021.
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  13554.  @DaemonJax  She's not white. She's of Samoan descent. You are right about that veneer. It proves how little people pay attention.
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  13555.  @keirfarnum6811  She is a Hindu, but she has a white father and a Samoan mother.
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  13556. If you can't make the third debate, you need to get out. At that point, you are just wasting your supporters' money and time.
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  13557.  @fyrespark2077  Ask a dissident if it is better. Ask any number of people for whom human rights have been violated.
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  13558.  @fyrespark2077  Is that really your tankie take? Authoritarianism is okay if you like what the authoritarians are doing.
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  13559.  @nafiulshelim6194  When was Bernie governor of Vermont? When he was mayor of Burlington, he started the process that got Burlington to 100% clean and renewable electricity. So much for that red herring.
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  13560.  @shredmaster1049  Unlike Der Orangestraflingfuhrer, Biden doesn't knowingly host superspreader events and kill his supporters.
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  13561.  @yabutmaybenot.6433  So, you are "anti-imperialist no matter who does it," but you are defending atrocities because the US says they happened? You might think you're anti-imperialist, but you're not.
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  13562.  @ericgandara7438  What specific regulations on business do you see as excessive?
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  13563. If you ever get the chance, read the letters to the editor of Union veterans of the Battle of Gettysburg and how rightfully outraged they were that Robert E. Lee was getting a statue there.
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  13564.  @pete_lind  Indeed. It is far more common than people think for people to have missing incisors because of dental implants. Examples: Ed Helms had that and took his implant out for The Hangover. Also, if you watch early seasons of Scrubs, you will notice that Donald Faison has baby teeth where his incisors would be, and in later seasons (probably after they fell out, because it tends to happen naturally in someone's 30s), he is clearly wearing veneers.
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  13565.  @sheraldhill2728  How do you have equality of opportunity if the rich can buy their way into the best schools, use their family connections to get the best jobs, etc.? I think Marx had a lot to recommend when diagnosing the problem, but his solutions were impractical. You can have more equal opportunity, and a floor for opportunity, but you will never have equal opportunity as long as there are people who can make their opportunity more equal than others.
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  13566.  @Angelito_Noreaga  Indeed it is.
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  13567.  @mborok  She's not anti-war. She is against American soldiers being killed, but she is perfectly content with watching the world burn.
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  13568.  @sensible1163  Indeed. My hands are fairly small (but I'm 5'5 with a small frame), so when I saw a life-sized model, I noticed that my hands were roughly the same length as his, but my fingers were longer.
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  13569.  @clgraham82  As am I. Still doesn't make her income the top 1%, though. That like is somewhere around $300-400K.
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  13570. Trump did not win a majority of the popular vote. 49.8% is a plurality, not a majority.
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  13571. Darn right! Please take away my Aetna. If we get Workplace Democracy, Bernie will require companies to pass the cost onto consumers. My employer share is 27.6%. Do I want a 20.6% pay increase? You bet, I do!
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  13572.  @le7mule21  "Generational destitution" is not because of immortality. And again, the point was whether or not it is correct to blame the current generation for the acts of their ancestors.
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  13573. Joe Biden's problem is that he thinks politics is baseball, where it makes sense sometimes to go for singles instead of home runs for fear of striking out. However, he is playing the wrong game. When you negotiate, you always ask for more that you want. If you want a dollar, you ask for two; you don't ask for a quarter and brag about your dime.
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  13574. Somewhere, Corey Feldman is having a good laugh.
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  13575. Let us not forget that Bernie was good at beating polls. The overall average was 9, and Iowa was 6. If he gets something similar this time, he is definitely winning Iowa, and if he does, he wins New Hampshire, and no candidate has ever won the double without winning the nomination.
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  13576.  @everythingsfine1395  Maybe if Putin would stop attacking his neighbors, his neighbors wouldn't want to join NATO. Nobody was forced to join.
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  13577.  @exiledhebrew1994  Yes, because it's all about Russia. Once you make the Lebensraum argument, you forever lose the right to insist that you only want your sovereignty proected.
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  13578.  @pastamondays  Towards the left? Where have you been? They just loved Bernie.
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  13579.  @bullydwilliams6785  Negotiating prescription drug prices, universal pre-K, increased funding for renewable energy, et al, is "nothing left"? We are comparing the bill to the status quo, not what we wanted.
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  13580.  @HeyLetsDoAThing  How did that work out when Kennedy blocked the Nixon plan for health insurance because he thought he could get something better?
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  13581.  @HeyLetsDoAThing  I heard you the first time, and it was just as stupid then. Explain to me how universal pre-K, negotiation for prescription drug prices, and record funding for renewable energy, among others, is "setting us back even further." In case you aren't just a bot or a troll incapable of anything other than copying and pasting the same thing that you think is brilliant, Kennedy said for the rest of his life (38 years), he never saw a health care plan as good, and stopping Nixon in 1971 because he thought he could was his biggest regret.
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  13582.  @HeyLetsDoAThing  Not sure what happened to my reply, but what specific part of the BBB do you consider "setting us back even further"?
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  13583.  @HeyLetsDoAThing  So, you let the conservative Democrats control you so much that their version of things automatically clouds your thinking? And what was the alternative to what Nixon proposed? The only major pushes after that were Hillarycare and what became the ACA. Each proposal was farther to the right than the one before it. You are living in a world that doesn't exist where we just get better things when we say no. When we say no, it only gets more watered down. Yes, the Nixon plan had its flaws, but would more people have died under what he offered than what we ended up with in the 50 years since? If the answer is no, then Kennedy was right to point out that it was a mistake to not take the deal.
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  13584.  @bullydwilliams6785  Sinema has a net -46 approval rating among Arizona Democrats. Barring a resurrection this side of Lazarus or the opposition doing something stupid like not coalescing around one candidate (See: MA-4 primary, 2020), she is doomed. That is hardly "working for her."
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  13585.  @anderseckstrand7033  The five Supreme Court Justices who were put there by Presidents who lost the popular vote but managed to sneak in no small part because just enough people in swing states thought there was no difference between the two. Accelerationism is the belief that things have to get really bad in order to get what you want to wake people up. That is the nonsense Nader argued in 2000 (while taking a lot of money from Republicans to pretend that the man who wrote Earth in the Balance was no different than a former oil company executive for a party supposedly founded on care for the environment), and it is was the Never Hillary crowd argued in 2016.
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  13586.  @anderseckstrand7033  So, because what we have isn't enough, we what, take nothing at all? Yes, because that works so well the next time around. See my example of Kennedy and Nixon on health care in 1971.
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  13587.  @bullydwilliams6785  The payment comes later. Or are you conflating campaign contributions with personal finance? And for someone with ambition to realize those ambitions are now dead, that is an extremely steep prices. Then again, you haven't been honest about other things, either, so why start now?
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  13588.  @bullydwilliams6785  I think that she loves being hated, and thinks that the fact that she is popular among Republicans mean that they will vote for her, not realizing that approval and voting patterns don't always match. And you keep lying by saying that "nothing is left" in the bill. There is less than what a lot of us wanted, but there is not nothing. As long as you say there is. You are lying.
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  13589.  @HeyLetsDoAThing  No, they control you, because you literally opened with, "They want it, so it can't be good." Well, like it or not, with 50 Democrats in the Senate and 222 in the House, by definition they have to get on board with any proposal.
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  13590. ​ @vegandogs  When Roman Polanski was arrested in Switzerland for extradition for his crimes, several Hollywood celebrities defended him. Sam posted a tweet mocking them, using that phrase to say that he shouldn't go to jail. Mike Cernovich found it and said that Sam was defending crimes against children, and he was fired from MSNBC for about two days.
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  13591.  @hexum7  Oh, okay. Sorry about that. I couldn't pick up on it.
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  13592. Don't forget praising Sisi after killing protesters in Egypt, praising Putin for bombing civilians in Syria while complaining that Obama didn't, comparing the Iran nuclear deal to Munich, supporting torture, and going along with Dave Rubin that she is the only Democratic Presidential candidate who loves her country. Forget Zack Morris, Tulsi Gabbard is trash.
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  13593.  @simplicitylost  Not every member, but every state. Here is the relevant section in the Constitution: "And that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate." That's the end of Article V, and it has usually been interpreted to mean that all states would need to agree to abolish the Senate.
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  13594.  @linuxd  How do you define "almost"? It took 15% in multiple polls, and Johnson peaked at 9% in one poll.
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  13595. Bernie is a Democrat in all but name. He is a member of the Senate Democratic leadership, he ran for President twice, and he organizes with Democrats in the Senate.
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  13596. @Gamacide Biggs Indeed it is.
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  13597.  @mjchakos1  Well, then, why does California need it in order to be a functioning democracy?
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  13598.  @mgm8822  That is so unfair! Timmy is way smarter than Charlie Kirk, and a better person, too.
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  13599.  calo10able  Left-wing tolerance: Treating people as equals, and calling out bigotry. Right-wing tolerance: Those who say the slightest thing critical of those who peddle hate are the true bigots.
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  13600.  calo10able  Keep telling yourself that. Just like you told yourself that if someone is gay that person must be a lefty, but you don't prejudge people.
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  13601.  @brianshank1343  I don't want an FPTP primary. I want Ranked Choice Voting to apply there as well. I am no fan of the jungle primary.
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  13602.  @brianshank1343  My main concern with approval voting is that it just seems a little passive. Voting is a choice, rather than "these people are okay," and approval doesn't really gauge degree of support. Depending on the state, the requirement is to pay a fee, collect a certain number of signatures, or both. I ran for the WV House of Delegates in 2006, and you had to pay a fee. The actual amount was 1% of the annual salary, or 1/2% for the House of Delegates. Because it is a part-time legislature, that worked out to $75 at the time.
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  13603. Yes, it can get worse than Joe Manchin. Ladies and gentlemen, Shelley Moore Capito.
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  13604.  @agny369  Assange is definitely an anti-American stooge. I just find it incredibly suspicious that Snowden took classified documents with him to Hong Kong and Russia. At a certain point, some things just seem like the actions of a spy rather than an advocate for transparency.
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  13605. Because this is a primary.
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  13606.  @KeviBx  Almost forgot: serving as a launderer of Russian propaganda since at least 2013.
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  13607. Indeed. At least 99% of my vote for Biden in the general election was a vote against Trump. The people celebrating in Philadelphia were celebrating Trump's defeat more than anything when we let out a joyful noise.
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  13608.  @Lightmane  They may occasionally pay lip service to those things, but literally everything that they do takes us farther away from those things.
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  13609. ​ @Ivan-bw6iw  I did everything that I could to help Bernie get elected, but looking back, if he had won, do you honestly think that he would have gotten less sabotage than Biden did? He gets to chair the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. If he had won, a Republican would have gotten to name his successor, so given where we ended up, Evil Turtle would have taken over the Senate.
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  13610.  @nedzed3663  I dealt with some of them, too. I found the Yang Gang bangers more annoying because at least the Tulcels tried to mix it up a little. The Yang Gang bangers were so predictable that after a while my phone started recognizing entire phrases when I would offer a rebuttal.
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  13611.  @nedzed3663  The most frustrating for me was when people would cite this same Medium post that said the Freedom with 125 Strings Attached Dividend would benefit 94% of the population, which it derived using the lazy math that this is how many people make less than $120,000, and it completely ignored the people who already get more than $1000/month now. The response was always the same thing that Yang exempted staple goods, but when I showed how the poorest 20% still pay several times more than the richest 1%, then they'd try to change the subject to automation. When I pointed out that I took factory tours with my family where they found bottlenecks in production and that solving them actually meant more net jobs, they would say it was impossible because automation could never do that. I guess these people never heard of creative destruction or asked themselves how we still have people working after people left farms.
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  13612.  @Dave102693  She only lost once, and she got a lot closer to the nomination than Biden.
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  13613. The Trump Presidency was born in Pennsylvania, the Trump Presidency died in Pennsylvania, and we will keep it dead in Pennsylvania.
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  13614. Larry Summers is liberal?
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  13615. Yes, the man who says that he should be able to suspend the Constitution is a freedom fighter willing to go to jail to defend it. [In Dr. Evil voice] Riiight.
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  13616.  @petegromov9037  Even that wasn't a free market, because there were extremely high tariffs at the time to protect national markets from cheaper foreign markets.
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  13617. I will support Bernie if he runs again, but my big concern is if we'd see a Corbyn situation of total sabotage if he gets the nomination or wins. I don't think that we'll see the oldest President three times in a row, but stranger things have happened. It can't just be about winning the office, we also need people down ballot to help get stuff done.
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  13618.  @dianedenham5259  Trump has a lazy cult, but Bernie has an army.
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  13619.  E H  If that helps you sleep at night. Every single one has been documented.
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  13620.  Alabama Man Special Edition  Where is your evidence that "Hispanics favor Republicans," Troll Man? The high water mark for Hispanic votes for a Republican Presidential candidate this century was the 44% that W got in 2004. Der Orangefuhrer got 32%.
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  13621.  @henrygustav7948  The tax increases are lower than the current insurance premiums now, which don't even cover everything. Using my health insurance as an example, between the employer share and my share, it comes to 32.01% (27.6% employer, 4.41% employee). Bernie's plan would be 11% (7% employer, 4% employee). Would I rather it be 11% in taxes to cover everything than 32.01% in premiums not to cover everything? You bet, I would!
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  13622.  @henrygustav7948  You mean like how the tax increases gutted jobs in 1993, or 2013?
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  13623. Lionel Hutz did lose a case. In his first appearance, he lost Bart's personal injury suit. I can't remember for sure, but I think that he was also the lawyer when Marge went to jail for shoplifting.
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  13624. 3:50 Darn right, David! It should be obvious to anyone who doesn't reflexively hate America or insist that we are in the wrong who started this, and who can peacefully end it by ending the threats and the posturing.
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  13625. Beetlejuice a surprise? Yes, I was eight when that movie came out, but it was pretty obvious from that trailer that it was going to be a funny movie.
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  13626. I remember some of the Yang Gang bangers insisting that their idea would "reduce the bureaucracy." As a bureaucrat, it was pretty obvious that someone would have to make sure that the checks went out, make sure all the accounts were accurate if people got direct deposit (or more demand for mail if they got checks), and since his was either/or, to make sure that someone wasn't getting benefits in one of the other programs that disqualified someone. When someone goes after bureaucracy, they are going after those with the thankless task of making sure things work.
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  13627.  @danielhood4062  Sure, you did.
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  13628.  @danielhood4062  Well, by your logic re: student loans, you would have been white knighting people when Pell Grants became a thing because people before didn't get it. If you think it's wrong for the first group of people to get benefits, it will never be okay to start them in your eyes. Your views are exposing your lies.
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  13629. They want a permanent underclass, but they want to pretend that they don't. Either they are lying or are too stupid to understand that they are espousing the Anyone Can So Everyone Can Fallacy. Even if the first part of that is true (and that's a big if), the second is definitely not.
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  13630. When I first saw what position he got, I was laughing to myself that Transportation Secretary is where people go to retire. Hearing his ridiculous justification just never ceases to amaze me about the arrogance of Mayo Pete for things that he clearly isn't qualified for.
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  13631. ​ @davidwilliamson9333  So, talking over someone is "winning the debate"? Silly me, I thought the idea was to present a case with facts and evidence.
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  13632. Indeed. While Der Orangefuhrer might be more evil, Evil Turtle was his biggest enabler, all because he wanted judges and tax cuts.
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  13633.  @NPC-zf9lz  Primaries aren't the general, and the mere fact that Der Orangefuhrer has revoked several endorsements to try to save face (and his most prominent endorsement got less than a third of the vote) shows that he does not have the Midas touch.
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  13634.  @skechij5856  The underlying crime was election fraud. And if it were really past the statute, it would have been thrown out on appeal or by the judge. The only way this case is "the weakest" is because of how severe the others are. And the right doesn't care what he was charged with, so I really don't care if they take it seriously, because they are cult followers for whom Trump could shoot someone in the middle of 5th Avenue and not lose their votes. We all saw 1/6 live, and they insist that it was a peaceful protest.
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  13635.  @vgaportauthority9932  These idiots never learn. That's why Dore Knobs insist that AOC should forever be bound the Force the Vote despite realizing that it was a dumb idea that wouldn't get anyone health care.
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  13636.  @jobgonzalez6509  So, a single parent with two kids in daycare making $20,000 a year should have to choose between giving up the daycare subsidies (and thus not being able to afford childcare) or having to pay an extra 10% for anything that Yang deems to be nonessential for benefits that he/she won't receive? What a great plan!
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  13637.  @schumanhuman  It may be what you meant, but that is not what the person you are defending wants to do. And Yang doesn't offer a plan that is universal, because the poor and disabled have to choose between their current benefits and his plan, which is paid for by a regressive tax. Re: housing subsidies vs. UBI, having housing subsidies is not causing rent to be as expensive as it is in NYC. Twenty-five years ago, Ottawa blamed high rent on rent control, which they believed distorted the market, and homelessness quintupled in five years. UBI would easily see a lot of it eaten up by landlords who see people getting an extra thousand dollars a month and want a piece of that pie.
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  13638.  @Prague3203  If he really believes that no one would need the existing social safety net, he is an idiot. Then again, this is to be expected from someone with the housing policy of "use your thousand to buy a house with your friends." There will always be the poor and disabled, and there will always be frictional unemployment. To pretend that his proposal would get rid of that is a magical thinking that Hogwarts would laugh at.
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  13639.  @schumanhuman  The version that I had seen in the past seemed to want to punish rural families. The person who advocated it to me was pushing a version where undeveloped land got taxed at steep rates. I will have to look at the ins and outs of this specific version to see if it is workable. As far as rent control and new development, the places where it works best are highly concentrated areas, and there are rules that landlords can increase the rent if they prove that they are developing. My adopted home city of Philadelphia got rid of rent control before I moved here, but some people either got grandfathered in or some landlords decided to honor the rent control. At one point while making conversation, my landlord told me that the person who lived in my apartment before me lived there for 50 years (she moved to a nursing home), and even to the very end, she was only paying $40/month rent. That didn't stop the landlord from renovating when she moved out and renting to me for $725, or letting other people stay where they were until they decided to move out or they died at a lower rate. People like that are the ones who get hurt when people only think of development and its often following sister gentrification.
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  13640.  @schumanhuman  Yang said on more than one occasion that daycare subsidies is one of the things that is either/or. That is the undeniable effect of telling poor people that they either have to get rid of the thing that is helping them be able to hold a job (he loves to tell stories of the extended family to try to make it more palatable, but even the nuclear family isn't an option for a lot of people these days) or keep it and see their cost of living shoot way up. I don't think that he is gleefully doing it; I think that he has an ideological agenda of destroying the existing social safety net and he just doesn't care who gets hurt. At one point, he listed VA Disability, but he took it off the list because he realized that would go over like a lead balloon. Any libertarian wolf in leftist clothing is dangerous.
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  13641.  @Prague3203  Other than vague statements of support for MMA fighters, what has Yang actually done or what specific policy positions has Yang taken in support of labor? Yang opposes increasing the minimum wage (and uses the right wing framework to do it) and his general position is "I support labor, but..." that shows that he really doesn't support labor at all. Instituting the right wing version of UBI is not going to bring about increased labor activism. If you have to use magical thinking in order to make your proposal look humane, just say so.
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  13642.  @Prague3203  Yang literally said "friends can combine their thousand bucks a month to buy a house." Why don't you actually defend what Yang says instead of what you want him to say? They say that everyone has a price. Is your price $1000 a month offset by a VAT?
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  13643.  @Prague3203  People living communally is specifically the example that Yang has pushed. I'm not the one trying to pretty up what he said to make it sound better than it is. That being said, if you have to rely on extended families for most of your examples (or specifically encourage people to buy a house instead of developing a housing policy), you are inadvertently giving away the game that your proposal isn't as generous as you would have people believe.
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  13644.  @Prague3203  Yang is not for increasing the minimum wage. Why do you have to lie? His argument wasn't that the minimum wage at the federal level is too one-size-fits-all (putting aside the irony of that from a man who insisted that this will revitalize rural communities because he said that people will move to where houses are cheap, ignoring that people live where they do because that is where the jobs are), his argument was that any increase in the minimum wage will lead to job loss and "$1000/month for everyone is worth more than $15/hour." And this talk about "increased bargaining power" is little more than an incantation to try to make the counterargument go away. Who is going to have this "bargaining power"? Only 6% of the private sector and 32% of the public sector workforce is unionized, so if you aren't one of the fortunate ones like me, who is doing the negotiating? And don't give me "if people get $1000/month, they can turn down the job," because Yang himself gave the game away when he told Ben Shaprio that it's only $1000 so people still have to work, and he specifically called that amount magical. I guarantee that, for most workers, the best case scenario would be their bosses telling them "you just got an extra thousand dollars a month, so why do you need a raise from me?" if not an outright cut in wages. Your statements are based on wishful thinking rather than how employers actually treat their workers. Their goal is to keep costs down as much as possible, or else the topic of robots wouldn't even be a thing.
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  13645.  @Prague3203  Except you are forgetting one thing: the people who are using the supplemental unemployment are getting more than $1000/month. Yang himself told Ben Shapiro that people would still have to work at that level. In other words, it's not the "bargaining chip" that he tells left wing audiences it is; it is the opiate that he tells right wing audiences that it is. Enough to have people think that they are getting something, but not enough to actually be able to live on.
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  13646.  @Prague3203  He said that it wasn't. His plan wasn't to build more housing, and it wasn't to do anything to make housing more affordable. When your immediate answer is "they can use this money to pay for it," you are not dealing with the substantive issues that lead to a lack of affordable housing, and if you won't let people get the money plus take housing subsidies, the end result will be more people at the mercies of the market.
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  13647.  @Prague3203  You mean that he now supports it because he realizes that the right wing position is untenable in a Democratic primary where it is at near unanimous consensus on $15/hour. Sorry, but he has revealed his true self to right wing audiences too many times for me to believe his epiphanies now.
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  13648.  @schumanhuman  A lot of land in rural areas are undeveloped precisely because they are rural areas. If you emphasize "undeveloped land," there are serious environmental ramifications, which isn't surprising given that the idea originated in the 19th century, and its structure is largely similar.
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  13649.  @Prague3203  So, I am supposed to believe that the person who lied about his goals for the existing social safety net, who lied about his support for Medicare for All, who lied about his support for Bernie in 2016 (he neither voted, volunteered, nor contributed to the campaign), who lied about having a post-work economy, who lied about who would pay the tax, and who lied about giving it to "every adult, tax free, with no strings attached" is suddenly telling the truth? When someone lies that often, I need that person to admit that he lied, especially given his tendency to be honest about his motivations to right-wing sources.
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  13650.  @mbburry4759  Buying a car is an exempt expense for many programs. Why do Yang Gang bangers have to make stuff up in order to defend their position?
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  13651.  @mbburry4759  And you don't have "no crazy paperwork" and no bureaucracy under the Freedom with 125 Strings Attached Dividend. You will have to verify that you aren't getting other benefits, and given how many millions of stimulus checks were lost over the past year, what makes you think that it won't continue to happen?
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  13652.  @mbburry4759  Yang doesn't want universal health care. He didn't even offer a public option. If you want to be credible, maybe argue for the actual policy involved. As far as a roommate/spouse/partner/whoever pooling their resources to make it work, you are forgetting that kids don't get a penny, and the things that Yang wants to take it away make it harder for the poor and disabled, especially given his payment method.
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  13653.  @Prague3203  I don't think that you know what that word means. I will make it as simple as possible. In 2019-20, he clearly proved himself to be dishonest (I also forgot to mention that he lied about how much of a failure Venture for America, the biggest thing he had done prior to running for President, turned out to be) and he had a tendency of revealing the game when talking to right-wing audiences. I say that with total confidence because the way he wanted to do things made absolutely no sense if you didn't hear what he told people like Dave Rubin and Ben Shapiro. So, given his tendency to lie to left-wing and general audiences and give the game away to right-wing audiences, why should I believe that he is telling the truth now if he never admitted to lying in the first place? Surely, you have a reason other than liking his one idea.
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  13654.  @Prague3203  He said that it was going to lead to 100,000 jobs in poor cities. There were less than 4000 jobs, and half of those were in boomtowns. If someone is that far off when estimating what he can do, that makes me highly skeptical of his expertise. Every example that I gave is true. Just because I don't go along with personality cults where I think that pointing out actual parts of his record is "making up an individual to attack" doesn't make it any less true. Yang never corrected general audiences when they said that every adult got it, and in his early events, he said it was tax free. He insisted that businesses would pay for the VAT, when every study shows that it is entirely passed on to the consumer. Nobody made Yang say that he supported Bernie in 2016. Nobody made him tell Dave Rubin that this would be a more palatable way to get rid of the existing social safety net because it would be gradual. Nobody made him tell Ben Shapiro that the "magic of a thousand bucks a month is that it is below the poverty level for one person so people will have to work" while saying his plan was necessary due to there not being enough jobs. Not only did nobody tell him to call his plan Medicare for All when it wasn't, he even admitted to Dana Bash that people in his campaign warned him against using that term and he used it because it was popular. I'm only talking about the documented lies that fueled his campaign. If you don't like that he did it, take it up with him.
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  13655.  @Prague3203  As far as his "lofty goals" went, he's the one who bragged about "creating jobs" at debates and training entrepreneurs while conveniently leaving out that he only met 2% of his goal.
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  13656.  @Prague3203  I actually ran for office, and I didn't lie about my positions. Yes, Horseshoe Theory is a thing for some issues. This wasn't about "reaching everyone," because if it was, it was wasting his time talking to people who couldn't vote for him. You must be new to politics, because you would know that it would come back to burn you if you are saying one thing to one audience and the exact opposite to another. That is not "politics," that is lying. And it's interesting that you bring up Horseshoe Theory in this instance, because there is a left-wing and a right-wing version of UBI. The key difference? Ones on the left are meant to supplement existing benefits (with the possible exception of TANF), and ones on the right are meant to replace it. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see which side his is on. He invoked Martin Luther King, but his policy is Milton Friedman, made worse by paying for it with a regressive tax.
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  13657.  @schumanhuman  I didn't say anything about farmland. Why do you keep mentioning farmland. My point was that people move to rural areas because they want open spaces. Something that says "you're not using your land" is anathema to that, and it poses serious questions about things like wooded or remote areas where development could damage the area in many ways.
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  13658.  @mbburry4759  Well, did you ever stop to think that Georgia designed it in such an awful way because they wanted it to fail and resented the federal government telling them to do it? In Pennsylvania, the first car is exempt, and pretty much the only things where assets factor in at all are TANF and Medicare Buy-in or nursing home programs. And the "nearly dollar for dollar" is by definition not the case for SNAP because, for example, the maximum payout for one person is $234, and I guarantee that the income ceiling is not $234 in any state. So, your answer is, because some states design it poorly, to take it away from everyone who needs it? Using an example about it "punishing people and making it impossible to work," daycare subsidies is something that Yang would put on the chopping block, and by definition, it is there to help people be able to work. For two children, daycare alone is easily over $1000/month without the subsidies, and for one child, you are looking at anywhere from $600-800 depending on where you live. If someone is receiving the daycare subsidy, that person is probably also receiving other programs, too, such as SNAP, which puts him/her over $1000. If you've got someone making $20,000/year (and Yang doesn't support raising the minimum wage, so it is still a thing in his world), he wants to take away the thing that makes work possible in order to give someone less than his/her job is paying, or he wants to give that person nothing and force him/her to pay a regressive tax for benefits that he/she will not receive. It sounds like the Freedom with 125 Strings Attached Dividend is actually more guilty of what you think the existing social safety net does than the one we have now.
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  13659.  @Prague3203  Okay, let's just hypothetically assume that you are correct, and that Yang didn't really want the right-wing version of UBI (even though, by definition, he did), and he really just wanted to lie to right-wing audiences so he could "make it law" instead of lying to left-wing audiences, as I have argued. Well, in that case, you and your hero don't know the first thing about trying to make things law because you have to get elected before you make something a law. Emphasizing the right-wing nature of the bill is going to alienate voters in the Democratic primary, and how well did that work? I'd say that not getting more than 5% in either early state and zero delegates shows just how effective it really was. And I've had friends who wildly overpromised things, too. They were still my friends, but I learned that I couldn't trust a single thing that they said about their capabilities, and and overestimating the capabilities of a program by over 50 times (remember, this was only going to be about jobs in poor cities, so by definition the people who went to boomtowns didn't accomplish what they set out to do) tells me that this is someone who tends to run with something that sounds good and overestimate his ability to deliver. If someone is that off on that, it makes me question how right he is about a lot of his projections.
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  13660.  @schumanhuman  I'm saying that it was designed by someone who had no thought of the environmental consequences and was tailoring his plan to people living in cities. The more I point out that something is not as beneficial to one group of people, the more and more you turn it into a Rube Goldberg device that is going to have to be so complicated that everyone will have to hire someone to do taxes in order to make it work.
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  13661.  @schumanhuman  Yes, development is limited, but didn't you just tell me a few days ago that one of the problems with rent control was that it hindered development?
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  13662.  @schumanhuman  The US Green Party has been funded by the Republican Party for decades. They are not honest actors, so that doesn't count "all those environmental activists." And which is it, is all land taxed the same, which will screw people in rural areas, or is it based on what is undeveloped, which also screws people in rural areas depending on how it is calculated? And you think that getting rid of the capital gains tax for selling property is a good thing?
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  13663.  @Prague3203  Sorry for coming back days later, but I suddenly had an epiphany while watching another video about NYC: they already have a minimum wage of $15/hour. It went into effect at the end of 2019. The rest of the state is either at $15, or on their way to $15. Therefore, unless he supports something higher or wants to take it away, there is literally nothing that he is promising workers in terms of higher wages in his proposal. Therefore, he still didn't make a lefty move to increase wages by taking that position, unless he publicly supported abolishing the minimum wage, which I hadn't seen yet.
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  13664.  @graceg3250  No, because he said there were 125 programs that he wanted to make either/or, and housing subsidies were one if them, and so was LIHEAP, which he referred to as "heating subsidies." He only ever specified a few, though: TANF, SNAP, WIC, SSI, LIHEAP, housing subsidies, and daycare subsidies. He also walked back two others (RSDI and VA Disability), but the mere fact that he put those two on the list in the first place is highly suspect. Then again, he never did give a full list of the 125, so it would have been impossible for people to make an informed decision about his proposal when he was running.
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  13665.  @Josh-oj9mm  Wrong. Why let the rich keep all of their loopholes, but not the poor. Besides, most people tend to get more than one program. If the Freedom with 125 Strings Attached Dividend was such a good plan, why didn't he give a full list of those programs that were either/or? And those people who get more now who won't get anything under Yang? Now, they would have to pay a VAT, so they are in a worse position than before. It is a regressive tax to fund a regressive benefit. How do you tell the difference between left and right UBI? The left does it as a supplement to need-based programs, and the right does it as a replacement.
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  13666.  @pale2502  My five year old daughter accepts defeat better than you children.
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  13667. That's not what Bernie proposed at all. Bernie's proposal was to rotate federal circuit judges onto the Supreme Court.
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  13668.  @sunkillsmoon  *grammar
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  13669.  @newbieprepper8451  If you don't want to allow "victim," don't allow "victim," "rioter," and "arsonist."
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  13670. ​ @lemonsandaztecs3072  Is this a funny joke? Trump got rid o restrictions on drone strikes and then insisted that the Pentagon couldn't release the body counts from drone strikes. It was Biden who actually ended a war.
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  13671. I don't know. Jimmy Savile went to his grave thinking he got away with it. That being said, I don't want Der Orangefuhrer to breathe a breath for the rest of his life as a free man or a man who isn't painfully aware that he is hunted or in jail.
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  13672.  @thomassirman1382  Harris is the worst, then Booker, then Gillibrand.
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  13673.  @milesblue638  Definitely. Man oh man, did he have an insufferable base of support. Still does.
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  13674. Not voting only enables the worst actor. If you honestly thought that a 50-50 Senate with Republicans refusing to play Ball would get much done, you weren't paying attention.
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  13675. Even if there is a 5% chance of getting most of the things Bernie wants, that certainly beats zero chance.
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  13676. 3:07 When he ran, Obama kept talking about wanting to be a realigning President. After things collapsed under Bush, he had his chance, but 2008 was clearly a dealignment election in retrospect. Obama wouldn't change course, and we suffered for it. If you look back at every other dealignment election (1840, 1876, 1968), bad things happened, and it was a lengthy period of instability.
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  13677.  @ZekromAndYugiAndDrago123  So, the guy who escalated the use of "advisers" in Vietnam and signed off on deposing the President of South Vietnam had almost ended the Cold War? I swear, Kennedy gets the credit for everything good while Johnson gets the blame for everything bad, regardless of who actually did what in those eight years.
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  13678. Indeed. These are the kinds of people who if they get 90% of what they want will spend all of their time complaining about the 10% that they don't.
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  13679.  @nuance8530  I understand that. I think the real problem is that you have people in power who mostly took office or otherwise came of age politically as Democratic power was waning, and they have convinced themselves that they can't ask for anything. However, part of the reason why FDR and LBJ got what they did was because they always had a healthy margin of error. With Republicans completely abdicating responsibility, you need greater than 98% in the House and 100% in the Senate among Democrats, which will always be a tall order because the Democratic Party has always been a coalition.
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  13680.  @nuance8530  Perhaps, but like it or not, the only way to punish them is to empower not only the people who want the exact opposite of you, but who literally want to destroy democracy, so you might not get another chance.
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  13681. ​​ @butwhytharum  Not when a lot of them started buying houses during the housing crash in 2008 (I never saw a Berkshire Hathaway For Sale sign until the housing market was at bottom) and the connected stock market crash. A couple years ago, one of my daughter's friends was moving out of state because her dad got a new job. Her mom told me that they put it on sale for $300K, but "someone offered $340K upfront." Such actors distort the market because a) they make it impossible for families to buy houses which b) means that people who would otherwise be buying houses are now stuck in the rental market, which increases rental costs, which c) makes it that much harder to save to enter the housing market. There is theory, and there is how it plays out in the real world. There was a stretch after she told me that when not a month went by where I didn't see a For Sale sign only to be replaced with a For Rent sign two or three months later. Out of curiosity, I checked the rental prices, and they were outrageous, even for a 1 BR apartment.
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  13682. Well, I guess now we know that they aren't implants.
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  13683. When I moved to PA in 2007, I was happy about being in a state where my vote for President actually matters rather than being in a safe state. Now, I wish I were still in a safe state so I didn't have to vote for Biden.
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  13684. If Nader wasn't on the ballot, Gore wins Florida by a comfortable margin that can't be stolen from him.
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  13685.  @Spartacus4000  Any excuse to ignore the fact that some Capitol Police helped the fascists who were literally trying to assassinate members of Congress who wouldn't overthrow democracy and put feces on the walls of Congress, I guess. Even if you knew something was coming, if you weren't outraged, you weren't paying attention.
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  13686.  @dumbassmoron  What have you done to build support for Medicare for All?
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  13687.  @Puzian  So, pushing for a vote that you know is doomed to fail is more important than an attempted fascist coup? Yeah, you're priorities are in a good place.
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  13688.  @Puzian  You are aware that the supporters had the votes for the EPA, right? Medicare for All doesn't. What have you done to change that?
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  13689.  @Puzian  So, you think that money is enough? I didn't say what did you give, I asked what did you do? You haven't actually done any of the grassroots efforts to organize? Hiding behind "I'm just one person" is not how things get done.
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  13690.  @Puzian  His point was that you haven't actually done the work to build support.
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  13691.  @Puzian  If you want Medicare for All, do what some of us have actually done and work for it. There is a list of sponsors. If your member isn't on the list, do the actual work. Don't sit on a keyboard and expect Jimmy Dore to do the work for you. Here's a hint. He won't.
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  13692. I think he was quoting Thom, but I'm sure he probably put those in the third category.
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  13693. Or, and here's a thought: why not just get rid of the debt ceiling once and for all?
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  13694.  @digitalperson108  You haven't actually shown your evidence. What's the matter? You got called out and you know you don't have anything?
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  13695.  @digitalperson108  You have provided no evidence or documentation. You started by saying that everyone was wrong and you were right. Now, because you know that you are, you are trying desperately to hide it. All you are doing is exposing your ignorance and boosting the algorithm so other people will see the video.
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  13696. It didn't help Lindsey Graham, and I have known my fair share of people in my days in the military who were just awful. Like with everyone, the question is what part of your nature you decide to feed.
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  13697.  @findingnory  You can only play with fire for so long before you get burned. Ever since at least The Clinton Chronicles, Republicans have been far too cozy with the fringe. Trump is its logical conclusion.
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  13698.  @vulcanraven9701  McCain voted against the Bush tax cuts.
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  13699. If Trump gets convicted, I'm pretty sure that he is disqualified from the ballot, and Republicans will just have to pick someone else. Re: too soon or too late, it's like the gun nuts: mention doing something about it when it's in the headlines, and it's too soon; wait a while, and there's no need to act.
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  13700. Tulsi gets applause lines on Fox by appealing to their isolationism or by baiting the left with some stupid semantic games. Bernie won over the crowd by appealing to ideas that actually affect people where they live and help them. One is pandering (there's a reason why she used to be Fox's favorite Democrat), and the other is principled.
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  13701.  @65minimom  My only concern with Nina as VP is that she hasn't won anything higher than state senate. She is a great and fierce advocate, but I want to see someone a little bit higher up as VP. It's too bad Jayapal is not eligible. She would be great.
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  13702.  @chadsimmons4496  So strong that she supported Vladimir Putin bombing what turned out to be civilians in Syria, and found the 24 scenario convincing when discussing torture. Oh, and she praised Sisi for "fighting terrorism" after a brutal crack down on dissent in Egypt. Read beyond the headline. She's not even good on the one thing that she says separates herself from the rest. Isolationism is not pro-peace.
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  13703.  @clarityofmind7317  Are we really using Moscow Donald as the standard? I personally think that it will probably be Warren, but I just don't see him picking a state senator to reassure voters should his health go south. That's not to say that there isn't a Cabinet position for her, but I just don't see the number two spot.
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  13704.  @chadsimmons4496  And Bernie voted against the Patriot Act and the Iraq War. As far as I know, the only potential candidate who voted for the Patriot Act was Biden. Mentioning things that aren't unique to Tulsi Gabbard don't show that she is the best.
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  13705.  @chadsimmons4496  My point wasn't that you don't like Bernie, just that Tulsi shouldn't get credit for things others in the field do. My apologies for any confusion.
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  13706.  @chadsimmons4496  I thought it was the OP, but in one of the replies, you said that she was the strongest anti-war voice, and I pointed out some of the ways that her reputation among some as anti-war is undeserved. Then, you pointed out stuff that literally applies to every other announced candidate. No one voted for the Patriot Act. No one voted for the Iraq War. Saying that someone is the "strongest" when your examples don't set her apart doesn't prove your point.
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  13707. ​ @basedtruthpiller7140  "He's a lot of fun. And he likes them really young." Der Orangefuhrer on Jeffrey Epstein
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  13708. I think she was clearly ready to do so, and this was just her first chance. You have to take advantage, because it might never come back again.
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  13709. Darn right! He begged Dan Quayle to help him find a way to steal it. Who would have thought he'd emerge from the woodwork as an actual hero in this mess?
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  13710.  @ilovecatvideos1851  He eventually did come to the right decision, but there was no need to see Eastman. All he had to do was say, "We cannot do it, and I will not end democracy."
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  13711.  @contentlyshane  Centrist is not a synonym for moderate. It's a synonym for triangulation.
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  13712.  @chadnad4370  "No, my people never lived here for centuries. /s" The Zohan You are aware that Jewish people were expelled from the region multiple times, right?
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  13713.  @dlynn101  I didn't say that people should, but there is a way to do criticize without helping those who want to destroy an entire ethnic group in the process.
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  13714.  @dlynn101  I have no problem with that. If you look through the thread, there are clearly people who want to use criticism of Israel as a veil for anti-Semitism. That, and that alone, is what I am calling out.
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  13715. ​ @adria89  Gerrymandering has nothing to do with the Electoral College. 48 of 50 states give all electoral votes to the winner of the statewide popular vote. Or are you participating in what is fighting the inability to distinguish between lose and loose as my biggest linguistic pet peeve by using gerrymandering as a catch-all term?
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  13716.  @adria89  Gerrymandering is drawing favorable legislative districts. That has nothing to do with a Presidential election.
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  13717.  @adria89  Assuming that you're right (I don't, but just for the sake of argument), how does that explain Trump losing the popular vote both times?
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  13718.  @adria89  I get that people sometimes let pride get in the way rather than admit to a mistake, but you're just embarrassing yourself now. Wisconsin had its gerrymander the cycle before, and Obama still won the state by a comfortable margin. People didn't suddenly wake up four years later and say, "We won't win the state legislature, so I guess I'll just stay home and not vote for President." Enthusiasm for the Presidential race determines turnout far more than down ballot races.
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  13719.  @adria89  You're the one trying to say that they behave a certain way just to try to save face, not me. It's not my fault that you didn't realize such clear counterexamples existed.
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  13720.  @adria89  That happens anywhere the race isn't close. Evidence has shown time and time again that turnout is higher in swing states than safe states. Gerrymandering has nothing to do with that.
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  13721.  @adria89  I once lived in a district where over 90% of the vote went one way, and everyone knew that the real election for everything below the state level was in the spring, but people still showed up in droves in November.
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  13722.  @richarddeturner  You can either say that the American people elected someone, or you can defend the Electoral College, but you can't do both.
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  13723.  @richarddeturner  The Electoral College is a thing because the Founders thought that they knew better than the people, and learned men would be the best to decide. "Generally lines up" is not the same as matching the will of the people. More people wanted Hillary Clinton than Donald Trump, so it was not "the American people" who picked Trump, but the Electoral College.
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  13724.  @richarddeturner  You who think you understand the system (but clearly don't, or don't know how to follow an argument) gave your supposed reasons why the Electoral College was implemented. The "elected king" thing is total nonsense, so I pointed out that the original idea was to have the learned men (and in 1787, it was men) make the decision with people picking who the electors would be. Then again, it only took three years after writing the Constitution for the first political party to become a thing in America.
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  13725.  @TechGroupF430i  I remember seeing how volatile stocks were at the time, and followed up with price to earnings ratios higher than the dot com bubble, and it should have been obvious to anyone that a big bubble was building. Of course, Trump wanted the sugar high to win a second term, but coronavirus meant it would collapse anyway.
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  13726. You know who some of those people are who don't want peace? His SOS and National Security Adviser.
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  13727.  @greenmacaroni8872  Yes. First things first. Get rid of the fascist, let Biden name the successor to RBG (so help me, if Biden wins and there is a Democratic Senate, and she is still on the bench next October, I will lose all respect for her), and then while they're doing that, we keep finding great down ballot who will be part of the machine that will ultimately take over.
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  13728.  Wendy Regis  Bernie said all along that he would endorse the eventual nominee and do what he could to help. Amazing how many people say they like an honest man only to get mad when they realize that he was telling the truth all along.
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  13729.  Wendy Regis  How did he "vote against us"?
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  13730.  Jack M  Either Biden or Trump will be elected. I say that with 100% certainty. If you want four or more years, and possibly the end of American democracy, then go right ahead, but I am not going along with your suicide mission.
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  13731. @The Central Scrutinizer Understood. In all honesty, I can't tell the difference between the people who have no sense of strategy and who are active saboteurs on places like this.
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  13732. @The Central Scrutinizer Like the fossil fuel industry about global warming: our business is to create doubt.
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  13733.  @crumbtember  You are correct. In many of the occasions where it was tried, it became a matter of "meet the new boss, same as the old boss." I also think that greed is something that ultimately prevents the Marxist vision from ever taking hold. When I read The Conquest of Bread, I kept thinking, "but who will organize these field trips to the farm with no taxation and no government?" and when Jamie was still on the show, I kept thinking, "with no government, who is going to stop someone from seizing wealth and property and starting the cycle all over again?" There is also the troubling fact that, outside of Allende, I can't think of a single Marxist head of state who tried to put ownership of the means of production more into the hands of the people without committing human rights abuses or stifling dissent. And Morales and Lula don't count, because they've largely governed as social democrats. I'm all for the idea of making it easier for workers to control their business, but I think that it has to be their decision to go that route. If I could see those things being overcome (and people who identify as socialists, even the non-tankie variety, wave off human rights abuses), then I'd gladly sign up.
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  13734.  @whyamimrpink78  Oh, so now you can admit manslaughter? Funny that before you were saying that Chauvin did nothing wrong.
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  13735. Tommy Douglas had a son-in-law who protested the Vietnam War, and a grandson who plays the living embodiment of the defense of torture. How things stray.
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  13736.  @judetunes1893  Just pointing out the shock that hos grandfather did something so great and his grandson did something so horrible, even though his dad did a lot of good, too.
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  13737. Agreed, except most of these people hate Bernie because he has a better sense of strategy than they do.
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  13738.  aadarsh  2018 wasn't a wave year for the Senate. Also, if you look at what happened in elections in WV, there was no Democratic wave. The "great showing" for the House was candidates losing by 10-20 instead of 30-40.
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  13739. And we have actually had an illiterate President, which just reinforces how dumb Trump really is.
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  13740. You know why fewer people suffered chronic diseases in 1960 than today, Bobby? Because the average life expectancy was 67, and acute illnesses killed people before chronic diseases could. Some of those things that killed a lot of people? Polio, measles, and smallpox, which have been severely reduced (and in the case of smallpox, eliminated completely) by [checks notes] vaccines. Since you don't like vaccines, does that mean that you want to save money by people dying from smapox instead?
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  13741.  @apz202  [citation needed]
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  13742. So true about for-profit banks and sabotage. Dennis Kucinich recently wrote a book about the banks in Cleveland throwing the city into default over $15MM in debt when he was mayor in 1978 because he refused to sell the city's electric company. He was run out of town on a rail, but 15 years later, the city praised him for making the right decision because the residents of the city saved hundreds of millions over that time period.
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  13743.  @randall9978  And what is your point? That she should only take interviews from those who will ask her softball questions?
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  13744. She got there in four polls.
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  13745.  Alabama Man Special Edition  And you are more likely to die in a red county within those blue states than the blue ones.
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  13746.  @ashesmandalay1762  So, you think that he's going old school and going for the Larouche grift?
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  13747. ​ @1massboy  People thought Wisconsin and Michigan were.mortal locks in 2016. How did that work out?
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  13748. ​ @loki2240  You are correct! The fact that third parties are obsessed with matching funds instead of building from the bottom up (and the number of times Greens have worked.after Republicans to try to screw over Democrats) should make it obvious that they don't actually care about holding office or don't understand basic political science.
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  13749.  @1massboy  Yea, if you look at historical patterns, most states tend to be consistent, but there are often states that end up being a surprise. From 1032-1996, no state went blue more often than West Virginia, and it hasnt gone blue since. Going into 2008, Virginia was tied for the longest red streak in America, and it hasn't gone red since. Before 1992, the reddest state in America (only going Democratic once in its entire history [1964]) was Vermont. It has been blue ever since. Delaware and Illinois used to be swing states. California went red every election from 1968-1988 before going blue. Would any of those have happened if the people in the state had said, "Well, it's a afe state, so why bother?"
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  13750.  @1massboy  Most doesn't mean all. And Vermont wasn't suddenly boiling over with Democratic fervor in 1992. Until that point in time, Pat Leahy was still the only Democratic Senator ever elected from the Green Mountain State. Yes, most states tend to be one way, but you clearly don't understand the larger point that there are always surprises. Nobody thought Wisconsin and Michigan were flipping in 2016. Oh, and why is it that the notification shows your name in a Cyrillic alphabet, but your username here is in the Latin alphabet? Are you trying to be someone else?
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  13751.  @1massboy  I could also point to Indiana in 2008. Nobody thought Indiana was going blue in 2008. It hasn't been close before or since, but it did.
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  13752.  @1massboy  I'm losing nothing, because I'm not the one who doesn't seem to understand that surprise results happen all the time at the state level. And as far as those "warning signs," switching for a Presidential election is often (not always, but more often than not) the first sign of political realignment at the state level, not the last. When West Virginia went red for only the fourth time in the last 70 years and the first time for a non-imcumbent Republican since 1928 (the three times it went red from FDR to Clinton were 1956, 1972, and 1984, with popular incumbents who won re-election in a landslide), the Democratic Party held every statewide office, every Congressional seat but one (who won a very close race that year and was the daughter of a popular former governor), and controlled both Houses of the Legislature by margins of 75-25 and 25-9. Does that really look like a state that's about ready to flip? If Republicans hadn't seen an opportunity there, Florida would have been irrelevant, so even if 40+ states are safe, there is usually some outlier that nobody expected to see on the list, and this goes both ways.
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  13753. Maybe
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  13754.  @mattw7057  It's a fact because you can look at her supporters and how much the fact that she is young and pretty comes up, and how many act like they hope that she'll get with them if they just defend her enough.
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  13755.  @mattw7057  Well, that doesn't change the fact that you admitted that you think that the one you supported is prettier. (I wouldn't go nearly as far as "hot af." I would consider her above average.) And using yourself as an example is every bit as anecdotal as the observations of anyone else here. Wait, it's more anecdotal, because at least we are talking about a bigger sample size.
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  13756.  @indymarrow8050  Well, considering that we don't see your profile picture, there's no way of knowing how svelte you are, but again, the main goal when you are hungry all the time is not to be hungry anymore. As "Once A Runner" put it, "Fuel for the fire. It doesn't matter what burns."
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  13757.  @TheSkeletonSkier  Steve Jobs didn't invent the computer. Bill Gates didn't invent browsers. Jeff Bezos didn't invent online markets.
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  13758.  @TheSkeletonSkier  Steve Jobs didn't "make the iPhone," he made someone else make the iPhone. Jeff Bezos was only able to offer so much volume at so little cost because he had investors willing to literally lose billions of dollars until he destroyed the competition. That doesn't display his brilliance. And Bill Gates stole what became Windows from Apple.
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  13759. "He was behind, I endorsed him, and he won by a landslide." [Checks notes] Race was so close in 2018 that it went to a recount.
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  13760. The big shock to me was when, three years ago, the price to earnings ratio exceeded that of the dotcom bubble, and it kept going up. This will not end well.
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  13761. I expect something, but I expect it to be way too small to have any serious impact on the problem.
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  13762.  @PretenderCS  Never had it, because the votes weren't there. Jimmy isn't giving you accurate information.
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  13763.  @jamessunderland1876  You are aware that there is a list of sponsors, right? And what are you actually doing to build support for Medicare for All? You don't add by subtraction.
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  13764. That is a far more dangerous game than having a fight over a regular bill.
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  13765.  @GhostOnTheHalfShell  Because they are nihilists who want to blow everything up.
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  13766. "They're all gonna laugh at you!" Margaret White
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  13767.  @cottontaelle  Put underscore around the phrase that you want.
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  13768.  @cottontaelle  Any time
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  13769. Gee, it looks like Aaron and his many aliases are awfully quiet after being so certain that it was a lefty trying to put pressure on the Justices to change their mind. Then again, to think that he'd actually have enough principle to say how wrong this was is about as likely that he can go one video without changing his username.
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  13770. @Scott Simmons You mean like how you were going to hold the House in 2018 and Der Orangefuhrer was going to win in a landslide in 2020?
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  13771. So, she is conflicted about committing a war crime? There is nothing to be conflicted about. It is either acceptable or not. By hiding behind her veteran's status, she insults every one of us who did the right thing.
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  13772.  m hm  Well, technically he hasn't (you have to take a salary, so he has made a big show of donating it), but insisting on staying at his own properties and not comping rooms for Secret Service means that he gets more money in grift than his salary would ever be.
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  13773. I actually saw Biden speak at the 2023 AFL-CIO Labor Day parade in Philadelphia. At the angle I was standing, I could see his Teleprompter, and he not only followed it just fine, but he riffed and improvised based on the audience and the applause lines that hit. Maybe Beetlejuice lady was having trouble reading or understanding how riffing works, and maybe that's why she thought he wouldn't follow it.
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  13774.  @don7117  Who did David Duke endorse, again?
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  13775. I did not want a visual of that big orange dummy in a leotard.
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  13776. So, MTF athletes shouldn't be allowed to compete in high school, but you use the ladies' tee when playing golf?
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  13777. I am all fine with innocent until proven guilty as far as banning someone from the ballot, but he confessed. What is left to prove?
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  13778.  @Deepstatedebate  That doesn't make a lick of sense.
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  13779.  @nosuchthing8  Their biggest mistake as far as separation of powers is that they expected Congress to be the more powerful body. Once you understand that, a lot of other things make sense.
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  13780.  @soulsmith4787  And we know who will be there when the Electoral College convenes. A three digit vote may be close enough to steal, but a five digit vote isn't, and there is no way the House will approve it. The whole "one state, one vote" only applies to votes once the electoral votes are counted. The House will never allow Trump to steal it, and if he tries, and the Senate goes along, and we end up with a deadlock, say hello to President Pelosi.
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  13781.  @HarryS77  I don't disagree. My point was limited to political parties.
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  13782. My union didn't make such a mistake.
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  13783. Did anyone else think they saw Cyrillic when looking quickly at the logo for the Article III Project? Image matters, goofballs.
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  13784.  @dashx1103  So, your response to an attemoted insurrection where people were trying to kill the Vice President and Speaker of the House is that they should have gotten rid of the agency charged with protecting the Capitol? Yeah, that makes sense. And the bill where they tried to put the $15/hour minimum wage was the bill that they ultimately vote for because it cut child poverty in half. So, which is it, should they have voted to cut child poverty in half, or should they have killed it because they didn't get everything they wanted in a bill that was defined by its urgency?
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  13785.  @dashx1103  Yeah, and you know what would happen? People would have been denied the help that they need or saw it being delayed, and you would have been blamed. There were urgent things in that bill. It needed passed quickly. The study shows that the child tax credit alone had that effect.
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  13786.  @dashx1103  Billions? The annual budget for the Capitol Police is $460MM. Funny how your follow ups tend to show that you aren't really as informed about what the actual bills say.
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  13787.  @dashx1103  Again, I gave the difference between emergency bills and important bills but not necessarily urgent. The coronavirus bill was the former, and the infrastructure bill is the latter. That is when you use your leverage. The point is to pick your battles, but you start by saying "I would have voted Yes," but then you say, "I would have held up the process if I didn't get the provision that I wanted." Like it or not, when you have 50 Democratic Senators and Republicans who absolutely refuse to play ball, you have to get everyone from Bernie Sanders to Joe Manchin on board. And like it or not, Bernie has an understanding that sometimes it is better to take the half a loaf, because he knows "just fight everything" doesn't work.
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  13788.  @dashx1103  And there was a test vote in the Senate for a $15/hour minimum wage that didn't even come close. Like it or not, if you don't have the votes, your leverage is gone. You probably would have been one of these people saying "$15 or nothing" if they had gone for $11 as a compromise to get something passed to increase the minimum wage.
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  13789.  @custodiancolorzoo870  Dore also goes on Tucker Carlson to talk about working with literal fascists. Not remotely the same thing.
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  13790. While I am skeptical of the single bullet theory, not only was JFK sitting higher, but the seat was further in and Connally was leaning back when he got shot. If we are going to argue against it, we shouldn't make the argument look weaker than it is in order to inflate the argument against it.
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  13791. "They'll never hurt me... so buy this stuff to keep my show on the air."
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  13792. Is it just me, or was that the most awkward seating arrangement ever? She was literally at a different table out of the line of view.
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  13793. You mean illegal like your National Security Adviser and your son-in-law to set up back channel negotiations with Russia before your inauguration?
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  13794. Indeed. My ex-wife needed to take contraception because if she didn't, there were times where she'd go through a cycle every two or three weeks. We were able to realize she was pregnant literally within days of when her cycle was supposed to start.
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  13795. ​ @henrybutchy3242  Even Der Orangefuhrer didn't lie about his life story to the extent that Santos has. Trump lies about his grades at Penn, while Santos lied about even going to a college.
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  13796.  @Alexandria.Washington  Based on what?
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  13797.  @DemsJugglingLs  People change party and ideology all the time. Your Dear Leader ran on single payer health care and a one time wealth tax for people over $50MM to pay off the national debt in 2000.
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  13798. He wasn't in charge of the H1N1 response. He was in charge of the Ebola response which ended up having all of 11 cases and one death. Certainly preferable to what we've gotten lately.
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  13799. The threshold wasn't that high in the Democratic primary, because O'Malley never got close to that, and he was invited to all of them until he dropped out.
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  13800. Of course, people can change their minds. However, Biden is still someone who has those centrists instincts that he still thinks are jist what the doctor ordered. If he made that conversion some time ago, then it might be more believable, but he's still there. He hadn't changed his mind.
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  13801.  @G27pat  Did you not watch the video? Biden is who they were criticizing.
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  13802.  @rowanlees9779  Well, the fire breathers insist that any talk of strategy means that TMR inherently pulls its punches against Biden, even though the video is clearly critical of him.
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  13803.  @rowanlees9779  Any time
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  13804.  @G27pat  So, you are watching a video of them calling out Biden and come to the conclusion that they won't call out Biden. [In Dr. Evil voice] Riiight... And funny that you take a shot out of nowhere at the two people who can keep from giving McConnell two more years of control of the Senate calendar. Do you actually want get anything done or do you want to give Biden the excuse that he couldn't get anything through the Republican Congress?
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  13805.  @G27pat  What context is there in your comment and your response (especially since my answer made it obvious that I thought you were talking about Sam) that this is who you were talking about?
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  13806.  @burtgrabmore2972  This guy spent over a year offering nothing other than Scoreboard. Funny that he was silent for most of February.
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  13807.  @Mangzorz  That's because accelerationism is stupid, not to mention psychopathic. These people think that by throwing the election to Trump that people will be sorry and come running to them. All it does is infuriates the people who they think will come to them and scares everyone into the "safe" version where people are afraid to dream or ask for anything bold. These people are privilege at work.
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  13808.  @t.rolljenkins8321  So, in your brain, "other countries can afford the thing that you are saying the richest country can't" automatically equates to "I hate the United States"? Not since Dr. Samuel Beckett have I seen such a leap. Or does it just hurt your little head when your talking point is shown to be more hollow than chocolate bunnies?
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  13809.  @davidvenegas6401  So, people who can't vote are in the same boat as people who can do the thing that people died to give them the right to do, and they refuse? Got it.
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  13810.  @crazyoldworld7946  Well, the reason why it started in the 1980s is because the right didn't whine about how they were going to stay home after getting slaughtered in 1964 and seeing establishment candidates win the nomination three times in a row after that. They organized. They ran for stuff down ballot: party committee spots, precinct and ward chairs, school board seats, city council and state legislature members, and then by 1980, they became unstoppable. If they are going to spend 16 years fighting to hurt people, why are so many giving up in the fight to help people? Republicans and centrists win because, quite frankly, too many on the left are lazy. I remember last week talking to someone who was insisting that Bernie should run on the Green Party, and I pointed out that sore loser laws don't allow it. Then, she accused me of being a Hill Shill from the last cycle. When I pointed out all I did to work for Bernie this time and asked her what she did, stony silence. I can't help but appreciate the irony that the people who believe government doesn't work always show up to vote, but it's true. It should be those of us who see its potential.
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  13811.  @davidvenegas6401  And do you honestly think that the people who win office care about low turnout? If you honestly think that they do, and they will address the concerns of the non-voter, you haven't been paying attention for the past 230 years. Why do you think no one will openly admit to opposing Social Security, but it's considered "radical" to offer free college tuition and student loan forgiveness?
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  13812.  @davidvenegas6401  Did I say "put kids in cages"? No, I did not. I said kidnapping children. As many faults as Obama had, kidnapping children is not one of them. He didn't order children separated from their families without keeping track of the parents, then send the children thousands of miles away. If you think that is the same as "putting kids in cages," then I don't know what to tell you. And you are missing my point completely. For one, usually when I hear the word "shaming," it tends to be whining about someone saying something critical, as though someone can ignore the consequences of their actions. If you live in a swing state and don't want to vote for Biden, have at it. However, those of us who live in a swing state do not have that luxury. Like it or not, Joe Biden or Donald Trump will be President at noon on January 20. And one thing I noticed that you didn't address at all was the Supreme Court. Four of the five members of the conservative bloc are there because they were appointed by Republican Presidents who most Americans rejected in favor of another candidate who snuck in via the Electoral College at least in part because people insisted that there was no difference between the major-party nominees and wanted to "teach the Democratic Party a lesson and force them to pick a lefty the next time." (Admittedly, this played a much more obvious role in 2000 than 2016, where there was some ambiguity over whether or not that was enough.) One of the Justices on the liberal bloc is 87 and has had multiple bouts of cancer. Another turns 82 in August. If Trump gets to name the replacement for one or both of them, we may very well see labor unions abolished. (Even before Kavanaugh, they cited a decision that was overturned that struck down child labor laws. This would be like using Plessy v. Ferguson to decide a civil rights case.) Even before this round of right-wing Justices, the Voting Rights Act was gutted. If you want to ignore the consequences of those things, I will not aide and abet your guilty conscience. And unless a plane carrying Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh crashes while a Democratic President and Senate are in office. This election is not about the next four years. It is about whether any good things can be accomplished in forty years. I actually went out and did the work to try to help Bernie win the nomination. I knocked on thousands of doors, did a reading at a fundraiser, made dozens of calls, and served as a captain on a petition drive. What did you do? Did you do the work, or did you sit on the sidelines and complain?
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  13813.  @davidvenegas6401  Did you knock on doors? Did you make phone calls? I knocked on doors, I made calls, did a reading for a fundraiser, and I was the captain of a petition drive to get Bernie on the ballot. This on top of giving money. Oh, and I'm a single parent, so I brought my four-year-old daughter along while doing several of these things. Everyone has something that they can use an excuse to say that they can't do the work. And, yes, Republicans blocked Garland. But guess what? That means that you have to make sure that Mitch McConnell isn't the Senate Majority Leader anymore. And if Biden wins, it takes a net of three to make sure Turtle is irrelevant. Jones in Alabama is probably a goner, so let's say four. There is a real chance to win seats in Arizona, Colorado, Maine, Iowa, Montana, and North Carolina. Win four of six, and we get someone like Sotomayor or Kagan on the bench, so that way a generation doesn't have to worry about the abolition of child labor laws, civil rights laws, and environmental laws.
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  13814.  @davidvenegas6401  I didn't say that I was going to volunteer for Biden. I said that I was going to vote for him because I live in a swing state. There was no "retreat" to local elections, just an acknowledgment that a) that is how you take over a party, and b) an acknowledgment of the fact that the Senate gets to decide whether or not the President gets the chosen Supreme Court nominee. If you only focus on the top of the ticket, then you are allowing the party to hollow out, and you sound like the people who are in denial about the down ballot damage that Obama did to the party because he won twice.
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  13815.  @davidvenegas6401  And, as I said, everyone has excuses for not taking action. It wasn't a competition about who has the biggest. The people who fought for civil rights in the 1960s and the right to organize in the 1930s had it much worse than most people today. Then again, part of the reason we have it as good as we do is because of people like them.
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  13816.  @davidvenegas6401  I never said it didn't. I said that ignoring electoral politics is dangerous, and you have never explained how people will not be harmed by such inaction. So, you're still wrong.
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  13817.  @davidvenegas6401  I did. He will make better Supreme Court choices, thus giving future generations an actual chance at getting good legislation passed. Trump guarantees a veto on any good bill for 30-40 years to come. If that means nothing to you (and given that you are conflating unaccompanied minors being detained until talking to a lawyer with kidnapping children and expecting a two year old to represent herself in court despite not speaking English tells me that you are either a Trump supporter trolling or willfully ignorant), then you are indifferent to the suffering of future generations.
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  13818.  @davidvenegas6401  Obama had a Republican Senate to deal with in 2016. If Biden gets a Democratic Senate, it's not luck at all. So, are you a Trump troll, or are you someone who hits doesn't understand how electoral politics works? At this point, I really can't tell.
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  13819.  @davidvenegas6401  I just have to say, control of the Senate is simple luck? Really? No wonder you have such odd takes!
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  13820.  @davidvenegas6401  Look at the numbers. Arizona and Colorado already look like lost causes for the Republicans, and Maine is rapidly approaching that level. So, one of three other vulnerable Senators falling when, among others, a popular governor is also running, I would say that things look good if Biden also wins.
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  13821.  @farzana6676  Well, this came up in the context of judges before the 2016-17 fight. Hence, why "tipping the court" didn't make sense, and why I said "Ginsburg to Kagan." Garland came later.
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  13822.  Dzooky P2P  Of course, you can blame Trump. He is the one who withheld protective equipment and ventilators, giving Democratic governors a fraction of what they wanted and more to Republicans. Had he modeled leadership and encouraged governors to shut their states down and have mask orders, it would have happened. His happy talk killed over 100,000 people.
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  13823.  Dzooky P2P  We don't know every person he consulted with, but if I land a big interview with an evasive figure, I'm going to look through my Rolodex for everyone who could help. If my dad was the top doctor in the specialty in Australia, I would get him on the phone.
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  13824. You expel members of Congress by a 2/3 vote in their respective House, and sadly too many are in on it to get it to happen, but I agree with your basic point.
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  13825. ​ @iansaliba-curtis1041  It takes a 2/3 vote in the House. Democrats don't even have a majority in the House, and they have a majority in the Senate only because of two enlightened centrists. In what world do you think any of them would get a 2/3 vote to remove? In all honesty, I'm still pleasantly surprised they were able to get rid of George Santos, if that is his real name.
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  13826.  @LiveFromLondon2  What killed Labour is that Nigel Farage started a party that only ran against Labour MPs. All these places in the north where the Tories won? They lost votes in 2019. Labour just lost more.
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  13827.  @ERS2000  Like it or not, barring some medical catastrophe or something like that, Donald Trump or Joe Biden will be elected President. There is literally zero chance of someone else winning. If you live in a safe state, have at it, but those of us in swing states don't have that luxury. I will make sure that Donald Trump does not get to name the successor to RBG, so that any good thing that President AOC or anyone else can get through Congress will be overturned by the Supreme Court. If he gets to name the successor to Breyer (who will be 82 this year) as well, we will NEVER see any good legislation survive the Supreme Court in our lifetimes.
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  13828.  TheEsotericZebra  Kyle is someone whose reputation as a strategic genius I have never understood. It takes a very long time to build up the networks necessary to enact change. He seemed to think that he could do it in four years, and is saying that he tried, and it doesn't work. It took the right 16 years from the Goldwater campaign to take over the country. In my native state, it took Republicans 14 years to take things over when they decided to actually start trying after Bush's surprise win in the Mountain State. On the left, these things take a very long time. Despite people on the left using the name "progressive" now, the Progressive Era was a business friendly way of reform. It was the Populist and Socialist movements building for 40 years that made the New Deal possible. Anyone who is willing to give up after less than ten years of fighting was never serious about positive change in the first place.
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  13829.  @TheReddaredevil223  And the Supreme Court picks that you are just willing to the Republicans get to stay there long after Trump. How did your strategy work out in 2016? Did it force the establishment to let Bernie have the nomination? I went out there and knocked on doors for months, made phone calls, participated in a fundraiser, and led a petition drive in PA. I was sorely disappointed when Bernie lost, but I will not take it out on the rest of the country.
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  13830.  @TheReddaredevil223  Yeah, so you'll destroy any chances of getting anything good that will survive the Supreme Court all for spite. Great plan!
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  13831.  @TheReddaredevil223  Still throwing a tantrum and saying that you would rather finish the job that you say that Biden is starting by guaranteeing that nothing good will ever get through the Supreme Court. I don't really care who started it.
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  13832. Sadly, I have heard people argue that people shouldn't have to pay taxes for schools if they send their children to private schools. When I was running for a seat for the state legislature, neither I nor my opponent had children (I did years later), and I would have gone to that follow up had there not been some issue where he and his wife couldn't conceive.
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  13833.  @cgates2  He has been giving bad takes from the Tree of Life shooting (if we give people $1000/month, it will end racial unrest, which will only get worse when white people are no longer a majority) to Medicare for All lies to wanting to get rid of the existing social safety net to not wanting to increase the amount of his plan to force people to work to "buy a house with your bros" as housing policy to "it's already too late" on climate. He has always been bad. His supporters just refuse to see it.
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  13834. ​ @dethtongue945  Beavis doesn't have big gums. He's closer to Butt-head.
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  13835. Google Spencer from Sorority Boys. They even have similar voices.
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  13836.  @eddietheberniebro5503  One is voting for his party, and the other is discouraging people from voting for hers. Totally the same.
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  13837. JLP wants to know what love is. He wants you to show him.
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  13838. So, that's what DW stands for!
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  13839. The messed up thing? I can't remember the name of the case, but Thom Hartmann talks about a case from the 1880s where a clerk inserted a footnote saying that corporations are people that was used to justify every case of corporate abuse since then. He talks about it in his books.
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  13840. A lot happened in the intervening two years. It became more and more obvious that there was no way to insist on a Lexit as long as the majority of Labour opposed it. One vote does not determine something like this for all time.
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  13841. When they say incapable, do they mean temperament or do they mean that he didn't have the mental ability to write it?
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  13842. Well, his universal basic income is neither universal nor basic income, so at this point, he is the most dishonest candidate not named Donald Trump.
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  13843. If Jimmy Dore wanted Medicare for All so badly, why did he endorse the candidate who literally called Medicare for All "un-American" in an interview with Anderson Cooper? Twice. Tim Pool also claims to support Medicare for All, but when every single bit of your political action would lead to the exact opposite result, I really don't care what you claim to believe about individual issues.
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  13844.  @jillcarlton3265  Any time
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  13845. Biden said that Bernie trusts corporations, which shows hos ignorance, because Bernie's workplace democracy plan forces them to give the difference in either increased wages or benefits. Since health insurance costs are fully deductible for employers, as are worker's pay, it is very easy to make sure that companies are following the law.
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  13846.  @FTsingos  Well, Ticketmaster skims off the top from them, so I'm not totally surprised, but given a lot of their other stances, it kinda seems like the right thing but for the wrong reasons.
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  13847. Remember the lesson of MA-4. We need one champion to take her on so the vote against her doesn't get split.
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  13848. I think he was genuine, but let's face it: Cory Booker is all about schmaltz.
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  13849. If you don't clear cut, trees grow back.
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  13850. I don't think Manchin would be re-elected in 2024 as a Republican. The Republican Party is way to his right in West Virginia, and he would never get out of the primary. Sadly, I worry that Jim Justice is a mortal lock no matter what happens in the next three years if he wants it.
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  13851. ​ @janealstad5588  And Cornel West.
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  13852. ​ @geogmz8277  Will there be coconuts on this island?
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  13853.  @danfry532  And the MRA people. That's another group that goes on identity politics of the right.
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  13854.  @danfry532  Oh, I'm sure if I mentioned a right-wing identity politics list, I would forget quite a few myself ;-)
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  13855.  Ken Tinman  It's in the one about her first one. I'll look for the link when I get home and post it.
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  13856. He always was the most senile.
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  13857.  @dinezthompson9832  I just finished Portlandia a couple months ago, and I still have that song going through my head ;-)
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  13858.  @dinezthompson9832  I didn't type the username, I just hit reply :-P
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  13859.  @normalhuman6581  Andrew Yang is a right winger. They liked him because he explicitly admitted that his plan was sticking it to immigrants. He also literally used the occasion of a synagogue shooting to lament America becoming minority majorty.
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  13860. In the immortal words of John McEnroe, you canNOT be serious! All 20 candidates had a representative in the room. They all witnessed each name being folded exactly once. They saw the exact order of the draw. That level is almost as bad as the people who still insist to this day that the 1985 NBA draft lottery was rigged so Ewing would go to NY.
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  13861.  @camelopardalis84  Almost 30 years later, I still laugh at every rake he steps on.
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  13862. Some thoughts about "not being able to turn the economy around in thirty days: 1) Dear Leader promised he'd cut prices on Day One. 2) Dear Leader insisted that stocks were growing because he was projected to win the election last year, so why is it still not growing? 3) You can't quickly turn a ship around, but you can quickly run it into an iceberg.
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  13863. Somewhere, Dan Quayle and James Stockdale are having a good laugh.
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  13864.  @MTGWMV1  Obviously, you have never done a real debate. In a real debate, you have to shut up and listen for a little while so you can actually have some back and forth. Shouting doesn't make you right, and I mean the general you and you specifically.
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  13865.  @ericbrooks939  If he is an activist, what specifically has he won?
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  13866. At this point, I think that it just has to be the worst example of the Sunken Cost Theory ever.
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  13867. I wonder if the people at my church knew that they were renouncing Jesus when they brought bagels to eat for the coffee hour a few times.
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  13868. Doesn’t "Heroin" by The Velvet Underground go I-IV?
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  13869. My dad's mom (I never ever describe her in direct relation to me) didn't want anything to do with him after we went to my uncle's funeral, and the whole family didn't, either. For the longest time, it was odd to me, but hearing Mary Trump proves that the messed up people hate good people. The fact that your POS uncle and grandpa don't like you shows how good of a person you really are.
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  13870. The difference between a fully automatic and semiautomatic rifle is that a semiautomatic weapon, you have to keep pulling the trigger, but a fully automatic you just have to keep the trigger pulled for it to keep firing. As crazy as this country is, fully automatic weapons are actually banned, but I get the feeling that these idiots wish they weren't.
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  13871.  @remy1728  Amen! If Biden is the nominee, he will get my vote, but he won't get me lifting a finger other than pushing the button in the voting booth. Now is not the time to settle.
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  13872.  @kennymichaelalanya7134  "abort but at a grace point" What are you talking about? Do you not understand what words mean? Well, you think that Tim Pool is a liberal, so I guess not. If your "grace period" ends before fetal viability (which is roughly 24 weeks), you are not pro-choice. Lindsey Graham proposed a ban at 15 weeks. Does that make him "pro-choice"? Or, are you just so far to the right that anything to the left of Bill O'Reilly is a flaming lefty? And even in the third trimester, the only reason that a woman gets an abortion is to save her life because something went horribly wrong. And when you put these bans in place to make women wait until they can prove that they are in grave danger, that leads to the grotesque sight of women forced to wait in the parking lot until they become septic or hemorrhaging. Some pro-life movement!
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  13873.  @bgcheese  His problem is that he is a right winger who needs people like Tim Pool so he can pretend not to be as far to the right as he really is.
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  13874. ​ @dpersonal4187  Oh, look. Someone who either doesn't understand the difference between a primary and general election or is playing dumb. Considering that you're all over the place in your argument, I'm guessing the latter.
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  13875.  @dpersonal4187  You're the one who started by pretending to be a purer than thou type and implying that he sold out and then pretended to go.the centrist route by saying some nonsense about how he split the vote. Tell me, how many votes did he get in November 2016? Oh, that's right! He wasn't a candidate in the general election.
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  13876.  @russellchallinor3117  Look at the stuff that Trunp said about the very people who voted for him.
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  13877.  @WanderingIdiot81  Such wonderful insight. It's not my fault that the bridge burners don't understand how to count to 218 & 50, and then complain when that comes back to haunt them.
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  13878.  @dannybagley9424  Wjat Pramila Jayapal said was that, if the cost has to come down, there is a difference between doing it for a shorter period of time (and thus making a popular program that can get reauthorized 5-7 years down the line instead of 10) and picking a few priorities. Honesty isn't your specialty, is it? Hence, why you couldn't provide your evidence.
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  13879.  @WanderingIdiot81  Okay, let's say that you want to run on that in 2022. The average voter doesn't know inside baseball. You know what he/she would say? "You controlled the White House and Congress, and you had two years to do it, so why should we trust you this time?" I don't care about the price. I care who gets helped.
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  13880.  @dannybagley9424  If you are so honest, why can't you provide any proof?
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  13881.  @dannybagley9424  Nothing is final until the bill is final. As far as the Green New Deal goes, Markey has already said that he'll vote No if it is gone. Show me where the Bernie and Jayapal conceded these points.
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  13882.  @dannybagley9424  Because it is obvious that the full bill isn't in the cards, so the question is whether you do the programs for less time to allow them to catch on. For someone who brags about speaking truth, you sure do a lot of speculation.
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  13883.  @dannybagley9424  Well, then say what you want about what you want in the bill, but when you say that you've already been sold down the river, you are not being honest, which you claim to be your specialty.
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  13884. Yes, Pelosi met with Assad and JFK met with Khruschev, but they didn't parrot their line after meeting with them.
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  13885. 33:58 "Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?" We all now how that ended, and to his dying breath, Henry II swore up and down that wasn't his intention.
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  13886. Seeing Sarah Palin now, the more shocking thought is that Nicolle Wallace actually made her look smarter than she really was in 2008, and even then, she was so disgusted by what she saw as John McCain's poor judgment that she couldn't bring herself to vote for him.
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  13887. He's always been bad. He just used to hide it a little bit better.
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  13888. Der Orangefuhrer keeps complaining about the two-tiered legal system, but he's too stupid to realize that he's a beneficiary of it.
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  13889. I don't care if it's one dollar. He shouldn't be profiting off such things.
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  13890. 3:42 I get a refund, so I love the IRS.
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  13891. Press conference during Shabbat? Call me a goy, but wasn't the verdict on a Thursday, and Biden gave the statement the next day, well before the sun set, thus not interfering with the Sabbath at all?
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  13892.  @mikenapolo2490  And if enough people had gotten the vaccine, the virus wouldn't have mutated to a more vaccine-resistant strain. The original version is nearly dead. But a third of the population decided to be dummies and ruin it for the rest of us.
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  13893.  @EveninSkye  The Both Siderism Express right on time.
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  13894.  @mikenapolo2490  You mean the "natural immunity" when there weren't enough hospital beds and it was killing 5% of the people who contracted it? Yeah, that makes sense.
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  13895.  @mikenapolo2490  Well, here in Philadelphia, it was packed. Then again, I'm not the one who wanted to kill millions of people and pretend that coronavirus is like the chicken pox where you get it once and never again. My idiot brother thought that the vaccine didn't do any good, and he's gotten coronavirus three times already, and he passed it to my niece twice. To this day, I still haven't gotten it and neither has my daughter, the latter despite spending half her days with my ex-wife who's gotten it twice. Then again, you'll probably be one of those people begging for treatment only to find out that you waited too long.
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  13896. Centrally plan liberty= Think through ideas to see whether or not they can or should work in reality.
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  13897. Videos like this are why David Pakman > Kyle Kulinski, and it's not even close.
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  13898. Then, if you live in a swing state, you are enabling Trump.
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  13899. Chile was the oldest continuous democracy in South America before 1973. Never assume that it can never happen.
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  13900.  @peterrauth118  You also said "with minor exceptions." I'd say that a fully functioning democracy for over a century is a pretty big one.
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  13901.  @peterrauth118  It only takes a few.
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  13902.  @KingOfShenanigan  And here's a dirty little secret for the whole "revolutuonary" arc: the Electoral College guarantees a two-party system. If that's what you really cared about, you'd be talking about work at the local level to build a party.
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  13903.  @KingOfShenanigan  Oh, yes, because it's all about i-DEE-uhs and not actually doing anything to make anyone's lives better. How's that worked out for the last 200 years?
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  13904.  @KingOfShenanigan  And if they run as a third-party candidate or an independent, they aren't taking votes equally from the major parties. This isn't about your ego, it is people's lives at stake. Five Justices on the Supreme Court got there in no small part because of people insisting that there was no difference between the two major parties, and as we have seen, there is a huge difference between a 5-4 Supreme Court and a 6-3 Supreme Court. Let us also not forget that Gore opposed the war in Iraq. Or that Trump ripped up the pandemic response plan and thanks to that over a million people are dead. As long as we have an Electoral College with FPTP voting in the states and an absolute majority of electoral votes needed in order to keep the election out of the House (where it will be decided by Democrats and Republicans), voting third party actively makes things worse because some people see voting as an exercise in ego rather than an exercise in self governance.
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  13905.  @KingOfShenanigan  And who actually did more for socialism in the 20th century, Eugene Debs or the Sewer Socialists in Milwaukee? As far as building a movement, here's a fact about how well third party Presidential campaigns work on that front. In all of American history, every third party campaign or independent movement that got 5% of the national popular vote got a lower percentage the next time out, and only one (Perot as an Independent and then under the Reform Party) got more than 5% twice, and that's because he fell from 19% to 8.
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  13906.  @soulknife20  That's Aaron's defense mechanism when he knows he has lost. If he wasn't such an awful person, it would be sad.
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  13907.  @highlonesomed  Actually, she did mention it, and she insisted that Modi did it for gay people in Kashmir. She is awful by any standard.
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  13908. Well, considering that he didn't answer the question in either language, it just felt like a stall for time.
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  13909. Not according to the polls that have asked Stein and Johnson voters who they prefer this time.
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  13910.  @docan5248  The thing that baffles me is that those who are third party stans seem to think that the establishment just came out of the sky. They got there in no small part because they outworked us for decades.
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  13911. If I were arresting Der Orangefuhrer, I would have had tears in my eyes... tears of joy.
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  13912. James Comer calling someone stupid is like Warwick Davis calling someone short.
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  13913. Uncommitted plus Dean Phillips in PA was still lower than Nicki Haley votes, so no, we're not more divided.
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  13914. Well, Emma, Bernie is also next in line for the HELP Committee where he can wield the gavel once wielded by the Lion himself.
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  13915. ​ @gouge_away  I think you mean in the first few seasons. Larry David left after S7, and Larry Charles left after I think S4 or S5. Jerry took over as show runner the last two seasons.
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  13916. Arrested Development S 1-3 > Community S 1-3, but Community S 4 > Arrested Development S 4-5
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  13917.  @yasminerivera9151  How is staying home or voting third party and letting four of the five right wing Justices get there working out? Thanks for the Voting Rights Act getting gutted, Janus v. AFSCME, and Citizens United!
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  13918.  @yasminerivera9151  In the 1980s, it was common for judges to get unanimous or nearly unanimous approval. Biden was also one of the people who led the charge against Bork, who would have been much worse than Kennedy. There is a difference between voting and nominating, and if you think that Biden is going to name some Federalist Society hack, you are lying to yourself.
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  13919.  @yasminerivera9151  Did I say that Biden would be a great or even good President? If you think that Biden would appoint someone on the Federalist Society, either you don't understand how judicial politics works, or you are lying to yourself.
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  13920.  @yasminerivera9151  There are degrees. The mere fact that you think that someone who voted for someone who was approved unanimously is looking for more judges just like that when he voted against Bork, Thomas, Roberts, and Alito after that demonstrates your dishonesty. Do you think Edward Kennedy would have nominated a Federalist Society Justice? After all, he voted for Scalia, too.
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  13921. He's not my cup of tea, but he's not that bad. At least Andy knows how to construct a joke.
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  13922. That leads to a very dark place. Look at the history of literacy tests. The answer is educated, and for the educated people to develop a bit of strategy. Stupidity on the right is focused on not knowing basic facts. Stupidity on the left is based on not understanding the consequences of refusing to vote or voting for people with zero chances of winning in the name of "teaching a lesson."
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  13923. You are so right about being obsessed with the anti-establishment thing! The establishment didn't like Trump, either. Reflexively liking everyone someone doesn't is just as lazy and unthinking, because you are still letting them decide for you.
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  13924.  @cherbear1996  Never underestimate the ability of tankies and America haters to get things wrong.
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  13925.  @th3batfink  Reality has a well-known left-wing bias.
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  13926. Can't do it. This is a run-off between the top two candidates in each race.
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  13927. So, it can't handle a lob, but it's supposed to stop a bullet going several hundred miles per hour?
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  13928.  @redactedredacted6648  Yang is taking away. He is forcing the poor to choose between their current benefits and his plan, while using a regressive tax to pay for it. He also has no desire to fight corporate power, tech monopolies, fight tax avoidance and evasion, or work on affordable housing or rent control.
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  13929.  @petyrbaelish1216  I understand enough to know that expanding the electorate is the only chance if you actually want to make a difference. Just because it isn't easy doesn't make it impossible or even have residual effects.
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  13930.  @petyrbaelish1216  Bernie ran against the most powerful machine in the Democratic Party with no name recognition and got 44%. That was nothing short of miraculous. 2020 proved the accelerationists wrong once and for all because he did worse than in 2016. And, if you didn't notice, Bernie and AOC had their breakthroughs by expanding the electorate.
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  13931.  Aaron Dickson  I felt sorry for his wife over that one.
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  13932. I guess there is a question of incompetence or malice.
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  13933. Andrew Johnson was illiterate, so he is definitely a contender for dumbest President ever.
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  13934.  @bkbland1626  Perhaps, but there was some evidence that he wasn't too intellectually curious, either.
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  13935. @G R You're the one talking about Democrats losing the majority as a result of Force the Vote, as though through some magical wish that this will be your long game and people will demand massive change and get it. As the Bush and Trump years have proven, too many become scared to dream and just want the worst of the worst gone.
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  13936.  @Arbaaltheundefeated  Yes, because 38 Democratic Party loyalists are going to throw the election to Trump after he lost the popular vote by more than six million. Do you not remember in 2000 when Democrats were trying to flip three votes to give it to Gore after the Supreme Court nonsense?
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  13937.  @Arbaaltheundefeated  Given the number of electors who are bound by laws that replace them, it's not just "very unlikely," it is virtually impossible. It was as "theoretically possible" as the recounts swinging tens of thousands of votes in any given state.
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  13938. [In J. Walter Weatherman voice] And that's why you don't pick someone for Transportation Secretary whose main qualification is "I love trains."
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  13939. I read somewhere (I can't remember where) that it takes about $12MM/year to live Moscow Donald's lifestyle.
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  13940. Personally, I think that she runs too far away from Biden. Maybe instead of pretending that it will be a totally new start, say something to the effect of "there were a lot of things we did well, and I want to build on those [and give examples], but I have my own experiences and priorities that I will address."
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  13941.  @IrisHammesfahr  And they'll jump on anything regardless. It almost always does more damage to try to run away from the incumbent President. Remember in 2014 when Kentucky was the national model for how to run the ACA, and Grimes was so scared of Obama's numbers that she refused to correct Evil Turtle's lies that he would protect Kynect (the state exchange) as he was literally trying to destroy it? There is nothing to be gained, because people know she was Biden's VP, and there is a group that would be turned off by disowning the person who put you in a position to succeed. Her radio ads say that they lowered the cost of insulin and mention the Biden/Harris Administration and how she wants to expand it to everyone. I just wish she'd throw in a little of that.
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  13942. Sean Penn in "I Am Sam"? Came home empty handed.
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  13943.  @cinnaren6223  He's referring to a movie.
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  13944. Seeing RM without his glasses is like seeing Slash without his top hat.
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  13945. If you are really a lefty who in can't bring yourself to vote rather than a right-wing troll pretending to be a lefty to sow discord, then you apparently don't understand that if lefties don't vote, the winning primary candidate will be farther to the right, which will get you the opposite of what you claim to want. Great plan!
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  13946.  @sol5916  One party has over 90% of elected officials wanting to increase the minimum wage to $15, and the other has zero. One party has given itself to fascism, and the other hasn't. I don't know if you say these things to make yourself feel better or to convince others of your lies to help the Republicans, but I'm not surprised by the lies since you haven't said anything honest yet.
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  13947.  @sol5916  Florida approved it through a ballot initiative. Minimum wage increases literally have a perfect record as ballot initiatives. Are you continuing to carry on in the hopes that probability will kick in sooner or later?
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  13948.  @sol5916  And there it is. It didn't take long for the mask to come off to expose that you are really a right wing troll trying to convince lefties not to vote.
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  13949.  @sol5916  No, when you made the remark about how "the other side is authoritarian" and needs to stop telling you how to live your life, you gave yourself away. Confusing a ballot initiative with a legislative act is just an example of your stupidity.
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  13950.  @theavareh1  Ever since she released her health care proposal, it became obvious that in the race second best was really the least bad.
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  13951. "That was beautiful, man!" Willam Black, Clerks
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  13952.  @Will_Moffett  Well, if you watch the show, I don't know what percentage it is, but I don't think that it is literally meant to be 50%. Once in a while, you have to enjoy a spectacular faceplant by an awful person.
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  13953. The instant Ford pardoned Nixon, he affirmed Nixon's statement that "being President means that it's not illegal." You can trace Iran-Contra and the attempted coup directly to that decision. I still think that when Goldwater went to the White House a few days before Nixon resigned that he laid out the deal "resign, and you'll be pardoned; fight it, and you'll lose and go to jail."
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  13954. £8/year? How much is that when adjusted for inflation?
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  13955. Given his physical similarities, look for the scene in Ted Lasso where Coach Beard goes to Nate's house in the evening before the last game. This is surely the nightmare going through the head of Der Orangefuhrer.
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  13956. ​ @jacquesn-n910  Outside of comments online, what have you actually done to talk to people about Medicare for All? Have you read past the top line of the poll that shows that a lot of people who say they support Medicare for All really support a public option? Have you actually talked to people to get petition signatures from people to let their Member of Congress know that they want them to sponsor the bill when they stsrt by saying that they support it only to hear them go on about "as long as people don't lose their current plan"?
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  13957.  @lynneanderson4255  Bernie lost because our side was stupid, and they were smart. Given the single digit support Buttigieg and Klobuchar had among POC voters, it was a matter of time before they dropped out. And while everything about her pre-2019 history suggested that Warren never really wanted to be President, once she got a taste of the lead, she was willing to stab everyone in her way, and she should have dropped out after the worst ever finish by a Massachusetts statewide elected official in New Hampshire. We can either whine about cheating, or we can get smart and coalesce. In terms of not learning the lesson, look at the race in Massachusetts where the centrist/right wing candidate won Kennedy's old seat with 22% of the vote.
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  13958.  @gamingislife3332  And what I'm saying is that we need to stop with the ageism and stop trying to push people out the door who still have a lot to offer, especially at the zenith of their power. If he has the health and he has the desire, who are you to tell him it's time to go?
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  13959.  @gamingislife3332  So, you have a problem with letting the people decide who they want representing them in the Senate? If people don't like their representation, they are free to vote them out.
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  13960.  @gamingislife3332  See, the difference between me and advocates of term limits is that I don't talk about The Way Things Ought to Be, I look at the way things really are. Several states have enacted legislative term limits. Did it happen the way you think it would? No, it resulted in more control by donors (if you know you're only there for 8 or 12 years, you're going to look for a place to land) and unelected staffers (who understand the nuts and bolts of government in a way that the transients don't). My native state of West Virginia wanted to give Robert C. Byrd a ninth term in 2006, and we did. My adopted home state of Pennsylvania didn't want to give Arlen Specter a sixth term in 2010, and we didn't. If you don't like that people get re-elected, that's up for the people to decide. I ran to try to deny someone a fourth term in the WV House of Delegates in 2006 and failed. Fourteen years later, someone else beat that person in the State Senate primary. I would have liked to have served, but the people didn't vote for me, and I accepted it. I was depressed about it for a couple days, but I accepted it as soon as I saw that my opponent's lead was far too great to overturn, and I conceded. That's democracy.
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  13961. That wasn't sarcasm? I really don't get that guy.
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  13962. The moment that Timmy Boy realizes the monster he has created. It almost makes me feel sorry for him. Almost.
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  13963. So, how is this not a concentration camp again?
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  13964. So does Ron Paul. I remember some people who thought that he was really a Democrat. Are you one of those people?
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  13965.  gespilk  Then, why is she being Biden's wing woman the last couple of months?
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  13966.  @MrBandholm  We declared war against Japan after Pearl Harbor, the last time we ever did. (Germany and Japan subsequently declared war on us.)
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  13967.  @MrBandholm  Actually, it was a vague "authorization of force" against anyone who attacked us on 9/11 and their allies, and it has been used since for everything under the sun. Maybe we need to actually start declaring wars again if we are going to go fight in them.
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  13968.  @MrBandholm  I wasn't arguing it's legality, just that a) there were times we were attacked and we still declared war, and b) Congress has been abdicating its responsibilities on the question of war and peace.
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  13969.  gespilk  Who knows, but she has given plenty of reason over the years not to be trusted on the left.
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  13970. You know how you get that question to stop? Your people need to start accepting election results and say that they will stand up to the toddler at the top of their ticket, and actually do it. Then, there's no question to ask anymore.
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  13971.  @philippesimon9855  They didn't? That's not what I heard in the comment section for months. Why, in another thread in this very video, a Tulcel said that she "basically had the same policies as Bernie." Jimmy Dore and Niko House certainly thought so.
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  13972.  @compactinfinity  So, the answer is to just give up, let corporations get all of the say in what automation will look like even though it can be done in a way that actually benefits workers (more below), gut the existing social safety net, and force people to live on a pittance meaning a world with a few trillionaires and everyone else scraping by on less than the poverty level for one person? Explanation of automation working for workers: this summer, my parents and my niece came to visit. We went to a couple of factory tours (Herr's Snack Factory and Visitors Center in Nottingham, and the Martin Guitar Factory Tour and Museum in Nazareth) and it turns out that human hands caused a bottleneck in production (finding rotten potatoes at the former, lacquering at the latter), and letting machines take care of these caused and increase in jobs, and at Martin, every single person who worked on lacquer was retrained to a new job, and there was not one person who lost a job. If workers had a say in how automation was done, and/or companies looked at stakeholders as well as shareholders (it probably helped that each company is still family owned and has a lot of ties to each community, with over 70 (Herr's) and 175 (Martin) years in the community, why can't other companies do that? Why can't they raise wages and cut hours to actually give people more leisure time?
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  13973.  @douglaslangley9251  Well, this proves just how right wing Yang really is. When dealing with Yang Gang bangers, it never fails that they start invoking right wing talking points on economic issues.
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  13974.  @compactinfinity  How will there be no more poverty if Yang specifically told Ben Shapiro that "the magic of a thousand bucks a month is that it is below the poverty level for one person, which will force people to work if they want any life of meaning." If you are getting rid of other programs, and you are right that there won't be any jobs left in the future, this means more poverty, not less.
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  13975.  @compactinfinity  What part of the Constitution does a Federal Jobs Guarantee violate?
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  13976.  @compactinfinity  Under Bernie, childcare will be free. Under Yang, people who get daycare subsidies have to give them up in order to take his money. Daycare for two children is over $1500/month in PA, so a lot of people will get nothing and suddenly have to start paying a VAT.
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  13977.  @compactinfinity  Of course, you're a libertarian. That whole "unconstitutional" nonsense gave it away. What article and section, or amendment, prohibits a minimum wage or jobs guarantee?
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  13978.  @compactinfinity  Please, for the love of all that is holy, download grammarly. If you want to present ideas in a coherent way, try to organize your thoughts and figure out how to spell and use punctuation. You can get it for free, or similar programs that do the same thing. I get that typos happen occasionally, but this is ridiculous.
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  13979.  @compactinfinity  And Yang has specifically said that there are 125 programs that people have to forfeit if they take his money, but he refuses to provide a full list, which means an awful lot of people will be surprised.
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  13980.  @compactinfinity  No, he has stated a few of the programs. There are six that he has been consistent on: TANF, SNAP, WIC, LIHEAP, daycare subsidies, and housing subsidies. That leaves 119 that he isn't telling, which makes it impossible for people to make an informed decision about which is better. Considering the way that he says one thing to general and left-wing audiences, and another to right-wing audiences, he has earned zero trust on what he will actually do.
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  13981.  @compactinfinity  What are you basing that assumption on? Does he have a track record? Does he have any consistency at all on how he talks about these things? In fact, based on the few programs that we know, there are a lot of people who won't get any benefits from his program: 1) TANF in New Hampshire is over $1000. It is $923 in Alaska, and over $700 in New York and California, which means that with SNAP, it will be over $1000. 2) Daycare for two children is over $1500 in Pennsylvania, so I am guessing that applies in plenty of other states. 3) Housing subsidies are easily worth more than $1000 compared to market prices in many high rent areas. So, no only do those people not get any money, but now they have to pay a VAT, which means that they will suffer. Any proposal that hurts the poor and doesn't affect the rich is horrible, and it deserves all of the criticism it gets.
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  13982.  @compactinfinity  Seriously. It's not "a few mistakes." At this point, I am trying to figure out whether it is stubbornness or ignorance, because the Fat Fingers Defense doesn't work when using the wrong word or making a spelling error that is nowhere near the correct key, so you clearly misspelled. You are missing my point. I don't care about it being "the optimal" or "the average," I care about who gets impacted. If you are getting more than $1000/month, you clearly need that money, and now you are being told that you won't get the extra thousand bucks a month, but Yang said that money is "a right of citizenship," so you are in essence being told that you are a second class citizen. Why do the poor have to choose, but the rich keep their welfare?
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  13983.  @compactinfinity  And even if someone ends up better off, that person is not getting the full thousand, which means that if things like rent go up, they are not going to get much, if any benefits.
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  13984.  @compactinfinity  And why do you have to point to two-parent households? Single parent households exist, and a lot of those will be hurt. My point is and has constantly been that his proposal hurts the most vulnerable in society. And if someone takes the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend, and suddenly has circumstances change, and they will be better off taking other benefits, they are just out of luck. Yang's proposal is downright cruel.
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  13985.  @compactinfinity  Actually, it's not only for luxury goods. Yang has said repeatedly "every Amazon purchase." I don't consider books to be a luxury item, and Amazon sells groceries, too. If it is only luxury goods, 10% won't be enough to fund it. I don't know if you are just believing the thing you want to believe when he gives contradictory statements, but it is obvious that he is either a) making a broad based tax, or b) his definition of luxury is something most people would not accept.
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  13986.  @compactinfinity  He has not been consistent about what is opt in. He has only allowed Social Security and disability payments to stack after he realized that saying "the disabled will probably not be better off under my plan" is not a winner.
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  13987.  @compactinfinity  Oh, yes. No landlord ever has increased rent just because he/she could. And since Yang has no desire to enforce antitrust laws, what will stop landlords from agreeing to increase rent at the same time? And this whole "room with your buddies" thing is totally ridiculous. Never mind the fact that I am 40, and the idea of college roommates lost its appeal a long time ago (and was based on necessity more than anything), so I am guessing that most people don't want to hope their friendship survives the 15 or 30 years of the mortgage.
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  13988.  @compactinfinity  Where did I say anything about desire? Sometimes, it feels like you're reading is as bad as your spelling and grammar.
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  13989.  @compactinfinity  Ah, yes, that libertarian dishonesty that says that, because we think there is a minimum that people should make, that we want people to only make that level. Then again, I'm not the one pretending that my chosen candidate wants to increase the benefits in his signature proposal when he flat out said that he didn't, I guess I shouldn't be too surprised that you are reading things that aren't there.
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  13990.  @compactinfinity  Do I think that? There are places that rent costs far more than an average mortgage payment is lower than rent on comparable dwellings now. You know why they are able to do it? Here's a hint: the mortgage payment isn't the key to buying a house, the down payment is. If you don't have tens of thousands of dollars saved up, there is nothing you can do about it if the rent is higher than a mortgage payment. If anything, that makes it even easier to do it, because that would make it even harder to save up to make that down payment. What else can I expect from someone who actually admits to espousing a political ideology that believes the same thing on Wednesday that it did on Monday, regardless of what happened on Tuesday?
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  13991.  @compactinfinity  He never said what?
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  13992.  @compactinfinity  If I thought Yang really was a liberal or a leftist rather than a libertarian wolf in leftist clothing, I wouldn't keep finding things that I would think he would say as a lefty. If he really was, the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend would not have those strings attached, he would not use a regressive tax to pay for it, he would not oppose higher wages, he would fight tax avoidance and evasion instead of giving up and forcing the poor to pay, and he would stop defending big tech and monopolies by insisting that anti-trust laws are "20th century solutions to 21st century problems" when there is no reason Google needs YouTube to survive, Facebook doesn't need Instagram, and Amazon doesn't need Twitch.
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  13993.  @compactinfinity  A majority actually supports Medicare for All. A majority (including a majority of Republicans) support increasing taxes on the rich. A majority support a minimum wage of $15/hour. A majority support the right of workers to organize. Speaking of which, where does a Federal Jobs Guarantee violate the Constitution? You didn't think I forgot that, did you?
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  13994.  @compactinfinity  The fact that you can't explain proves that you are guilty of the same libertarian flaw that insists that things that you don't like are somehow unconstitutional. It's because the only way you can defend your position is to pretend that everything else is outside the pale, so it can't even be discussed. Very small thinking.
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  13995. The issue is whether or not people benefit from the system, and I think it is safe to say that all the unpaid labor helped build a lot of infrastructure in this country. There has to be some way to address the issue other than pretend that everything is better now. Look at how reparations helped people heal in Germany.
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  13996. 0:12 You already tried to get rid of it with something worse that cost more in 2017, Donnie. We're not falling for that one.
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  13997. "The Biden Administration didn't support a peace deal on the table in 2022." Did that peace deal involve Russia leaving all of Ukraine entirely and respecting their sovereignty? If not, then they should have opposed such a deal.
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  13998. ​ @lawrence208  Clearly, Markwayne was two of the 13. Math is not your friend, tough guy.
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  13999.  @alidabirnia2882  What does he actually do to support Medicare for All? He spends most of his time going after the sponsors of the bill, he endorsed an opponent of Medicare for All in the 2020 primary (and called her strategy, which included calling Medicare for All "un-American," brilliant), and his wife gave $1000 to a Republican running against not only a sponsor of Medicare for All, but the most likely primary opponent to Sinema. Oh, and let's not forget that he had his "M4M4A rally" a few days before Nina Turner's primary and then called her a sellout and turned on her for not showing up. As Andrew Yang proved, support for UBI is not automatically left wing. The devil is in the details. So, I'd say that these examples don't disprove the theory.
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  14000.  @richardmadden8742  Yes, because Jeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson would have handled things exactly the same way.
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  14001. I had a cat that would almost always paw with his left.
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  14002. My map looks similar to yours. I had Trump winning Florida, and Biden winning Georgia and Iowa, for a total of 328-210.
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  14003. Well, it was April 20th...
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  14004.  @glumdrop4672  Norms aren't "pillars of society." Despite what Manchin and Sinema would have you believe, the filibuster is not a bedrock of society, just someone finding a loophole. And the filibuster we have now isn't even worthy of the name. It's not Mr. Smith at all. Ironically, when Bernie Sanders gave an eight-hour speech protesting the extension of the Bush tax cuts in 2010, that was the first actual filibuster on the Senate floor in 20 years. As far as "understanding," I can only go by what you say. If you don't know how to express yourself, that's not my problem, but everything in your original post from the instant you started talking about the right suggested exactly what I responded to.
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  14005.  @AloisWeimar  Right wing populism is fake. It's just a way to distract people from the real enemy.
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  14006.  @resourcedragon  I didn't say it was.
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  14007. For as much as right wingers love to hate on soccer as un-American, the European leagues have teams that use their own money to build a new stadium or renovate their existing stadiums. Subsidized sports stadiums whole vital services get ignored are an insult.
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  14008.  @bslygh  I hadn't seen it in a while and thought he was just a temporary guest host. Other comments tell me that he came back [egg on face].
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  14009.  @osiruskat  I grew up in a state that was "always" one way, and it hasn't gone blue in a Presidential election since 1996. Sinema doesn't have "the best of both worlds," because Democrats hate her. As frustrating as Manchin can be, he actually threaded the needle until the last year or so in a state that is way more red than Arizona has been for decades. If Arizona wanted someone like Sinema, Kelly wouldn't be more popular.
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  14010.  @jonathanthainguyen  She knows that talking heads make way more money for less work. She doesn't even really do her job.
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  14011.  @osiruskat  Kelly replaced the same person Sinema did.
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  14012.  @osiruskat  And while Arizona has usually gone red, ever since Clinton won it, except for the year McCain ran, it's been getting more competitive every cycle.
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  14013.  @alwayslernin4400  No. The governor would get to name her replacement. There are no rules that the replacement has to be of the same party as the Senator who created the vacancy.
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  14014.  @huaxzhang  You cannot. And her term is up in 2024. Arizona has a solid contender in Ruben Gallego who could win if Democrats are smart and don't split the opposition to Sinema.
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  14015.  @alwayslernin4400  But there's not. I'm sure that the governor would probably say, "I got more votes than she did, so I'm doing what I was elected to do."
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  14016.  @osiruskat  Kelly's wife was never a Senator. She was a Congresswoman. The seat Gabby Giffords held in the House was eventually held by Martha McSally, but she was nominated in 2018, lost the seat, was appointed to fill McCain's seat after his replacement resigned, and lost in 2020 to Kelly.
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  14017.  @osiruskat  Goldwater left office 35 years ago. He would he a heretic in today's Republican Party, both in ideology (his conservatism was almost entirely fiscal) and fealty (there is no way that the man who told Nixon that there were enough votes to convict in the Senate and he was one of them would have been this much of a sycophant to Der Orangefuhrer). There are several solid lefties in the House delegation, so the people like Paul Gosar are not representative of the state at all. Sinema is one of these people who decided "I'll never be poor again" and if it means betraying the people who helped her get where she is, so be it. There's a reason why she's missed several votes to attend high-dollar fundraisers, but hasn't held a single town hall in her three years in the Senate. It's obvious who she really serves.
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  14018.  @osiruskat  Well, Democrats have done things. Some were actually pretty big. Not as big as we wanted, but I can't help but think that one main reason why we keep losing is that Republicans keep celebrating the smallest accomplishments, while if we get 90% of what we wanted, we spend all of our time complaining about the 10% we didn't get, which reinforces a narrative about not being able to get anything done at all.
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  14019.  @osiruskat  Agreed that we would all be better off if Republicans todsy were more like Goldwater than Trump.
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  14020. The best parent of the whole bunch is Marla Maples, because she kept Tiffany far away from him.
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  14021.  @Jerry-zf3ip  Before Bernie got elected to his first office in 1981, only one Democrat had ever been elected to the US Senate from Vermont (Leahy first elected in 1974). It went for Alf Landon. There's even a joke in "White Christmas" about Democrats being an endangered species or something to that effect. Bernie helped pull Vermont to the left. He's actually been at the forefront of a political realignment at the state level. How many people can say thay?
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  14022. Not second generation. Second year.
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  14023.  @alejandrorivas4585  Well, then, you need to look. Yes, Bernie is a once in a lifetime figure, but sometimes you have to pick your best option.
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  14024. This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps!
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  14025. Yes, it is. Have we done enough of the work necessary to get someone better? I did what I could to elect Bernie, but quite frankly, not enough did, and there weren't enough people in places to offer support to make it possible. If you don't like the field, run for county executive committee, city council, school board, or state legislature. If you haven't tried, then it is your fault.
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  14026. @user-mx9th2fx8r Right, so you are clearly basing yours on personal feelings of wishing this was the time he'd be wrong. Okay. Of course it's possible, but when someone found patterns that held for 120 years in order to develop a system that has held up for 40, there is a question of possible vs. likely. I just don't see this as the election that will break a 160-year pattern. What are you basing yours on?
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  14027.  @Valerielopez2002  And what specifically are you basing your opinion that he us wrong on those three keys on? What indicators or events? Not just your feelings.
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  14028.  @michellem.1749  Rogan himself admits to being dumb. What do you base this on?
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  14029.  @docvaliant721  Yeah, because everyone gets polio now.
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  14030.  @liberalrationalist8905  I'm well aware what it refers to. I was being sarcastic to the person who claimed that it isn't real.
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  14031.  @chrisallum9044  If you are going to make the accusation, it is your responsibility to provide the evidence.
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  14032. Maybe not Lieberman (who had far less of an excuse being in a solid blue state), but he is to the left of every Republican. Nelson couldn't say that at times.
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  14033.  @peoples2296  Manchin wasn't there at the time. If you look at the grand total of their record, Lieberman wasn't as far right. The comparison for Lieberman today is Feinstein, the most conservative Democratic Senator in a blue state.
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  14034. @SwampFoxX1780 Not all fascists hate Israel. Considering that they have another version of the Jewish Question, and they use several of the code words, that doesn't protect from the argument, either.
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  14035. Well, at this point, the neoliberals are our only hope.
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  14036. You pretty much always see one of these centrist third parties making ample noise in the media, only to disappear before even getting onto the ballot. It's nothing more than a fundraising boondoggle.
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  14037. I can get the whole thinking you fell under some category, but my maternal grandfather had two grandmothers who were full Native American (one Cherokee and the other Shawnee), and according to blood quantum rules, my mom qualifies, but I don't. Neither one of us has ever checked it on any box. Having that ancestry doesn't make you part of that group.
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  14038.  broccolli god  You don't think law firms knew that she did? Also, how did her boss know to list her in a section on minority faculty?
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  14039.  @bongodave13  So, the CNN website is a "tinfoil conspiracy"? You know that it has hyperlinks that shows the documents, right?
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  14040. ​ @thekarret2066  Indeed. Apparently, Dim thinks that men with testicular cancer aren't real men, women who get uterine or ovarian cancer aren't real women.
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  14041. What about Jennifer Granholm?
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  14042. I can believe that Der Orangestraflingfuhrer hasn't ever drunk alcohol, but I don't for a second believe that he's never done drugs.
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  14043.  @mikebevan1034  Or, he could have done like Ardern did in New Zealand and come up with a plan, made sure people had the resources they needed to get through it, and reassured people they could get through it. FDR did the same thing with banks in 1933, and people actually put more of their money in banks, dramatically reducing bank runs. Then again, not dismantling the very group whose job it is to prepare for such emergencies is a good place to start.
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  14044.  @mrbadguysan  I didn't see the notification to your original quote. Not what you gave, but what did you do? And why does it matter? "Not me, us" wasn't just about a pithy phrase;it was about doing the work that needed to be done. So, if you're going to trash the man, what did you do?
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  14045.  @rainman11985  Usury is not interest. Usury is excessive interest.
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  14046.  @rainman11985  The debate is indeed over the question of excessive interest. In the Middle Ages, the Catholic Church defined any interest at all as usury. Because Jewish people were under no such restrictions and were banned from a lot of other professions, that is where the stereotype of the Jewish banker came from. I would argue that 15% is more than enough to make a decent profit and mitigate risk.
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  14047. @greg polhemus Again, that was a time when the Catholic Church defined any interest at all as usury. No one is proposing that today.
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  14048. Government is inherently neither good nor bad. We adults know that the real question is what government should be doing.
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  14049. Forgiving student loans is "vile"? How much of your debts have been forgiven, Donnie?
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  14050. Not Amy McGrath! Matt Jones is the one Turtle is afraid of, especially since McGrath couldn't win in the bluest district in the House.
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  14051. But why they believe that is a different story.
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  14052.  @cy-villian  Not really. If you think that you don't live in a real democracy because people who don't look like you don't agree with you and are growing in number, your solution is going to be very different than someone who believes that the problem is that it is too hard to vote and rich people have too much power. Not sure why you immediately jumped to "identity politics," but if you really care about working people, you have to want things to be better for people of all races.
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  14053.  @shinystarmiestudios4179  Which means that he shouldn't be listened to. The MR crew are good friends with Nomiki Konst, but once they realized that she was splitting the vote with an actual lefty to help an establishment tool get elected when the other candidate was already on the ground and had grassroots support sewn up, they called her on it. While admittedly Sam was a bit more reluctant to do so than I had hoped, they did. Kyle Kulinski would never do anything like that.
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  14054.  @djVOME  He didn't say that at first. His initial comments in the wake of "blame me if Biden wins" insisted that people should not vote for Biden unless he met certain demands. Yes, he did drop that, but only once it became obvious that such pronouncements were alienating his audience.
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  14055.  @lishawnstreeter6577  Maybe Destiny wouldn't attract so many right wingers if he didn't spend all of his time going after the left lately.
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  14056.  @aozf05  Except what Jimmy Dore does literally makes it harder to get the policies that he claims to support, and given the way he trashes teachers unions, that isn't something a true champion of working people would do. The only correct way to handle the Dore/Kasparian situation was to say "Dore is wrong on this one. Full stop." One of his best friends and his girlfriend are the biggest advocates for a red/brown alliance. He uses similar language. Those never end well for the red side. Kulinski may have eventually said "vote for Biden if you live in a swing state," but that was only after months of going along with the Brihana Joy Gray line of "only vote for Biden if he meets our demands." Then, the man who cofounded a group dedicated to electing candidates down ballot refused to vote in 2020 because he didn't like either of the major party Presidential candidates and because the polling place "was too dirty" and too gauche. For someone who "knows it's a game," he's -very bad at it. He picks the worst teammates and he only has one strategy that very rarely actually works. He is Chip Kelly with the 49ers.
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  14057.  @mikem4481  And judging by your comments, you support someone who brags about grabbing women's genitals and partied with a pedophole with his own private island. Quite the own goal there.
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  14058.  @mikem4481  Keep telling yourself that. "He's a really fun guy who likes them young." Donald Trump
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  14059. Michael Moore has this weird affinity for pushing celebrity candidates. In 2004, he was begging Oprah to run.
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  14060. You mean conservatives like RBG, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan?
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  14061. Oh, he'll be back sooner or later, and we'll be here to rub his nose in it.
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  14062.  @zinaj9437  There are already 24 candidates. How many more is she waiting for?
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  14063.  @zinaj9437  Lots of people expected Obama to run, but few expected him to win. Still, my point is simple, who else is out there who is not running yet who might be better? A field with a ridiculous amount of candidates is far different from one where everyone is afraid to run. Given the schedule, the rules for the debates, and the size of the field, it is as good as settled.
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  14064.  @jamescarrington9320  How was she snubbed? Other than Pelosi insisting that she is one of many, I thought that she got the committee slots she wanted. That, and she'll only be 31 on Inauguration Day, so I don't think she is already trying to leave Congress.
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  14065.  Frederic Bastiat  Which is more realistic, that a mixed race black child with an obviously ethnic name had parents who, three years before the passage of the Civil Rights Act and four years before the passage of the Voting Rights Act, faked his birth certificate and managed to get an announcement in not one, but two, Honolulu newspapers, all so that 47 years later he would be eligible to run for President (even though such efforts wouldn't matter, because his mother was a US Citizen, based on the examples of John McCain and George Romney), or that he was really born in Hawaii?
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  14066. [Either Newman or the movie where the homage is taken from] So, what took you so long?
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  14067.  @billlowe70  I didn't even notice. Stupid Gestalt!
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  14068. ​ @Zetirix  One party supports democracy and polices its own. The other refuses to do so and defends and lionizes a convicted criminal and civilly liable sex offender.
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  14069. ​ @Zetirix  If you support a candidate who wants to destroy democracy, you oppose democracy.
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  14070. Is Donnie passing the time by playing a little solitaire?
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  14071.  @mehjones8008  It's a little over a year. Bernie was born in September 1941, and Biden was born in December 1942.
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  14072.  @DubhghlasMacDubhghlas  When is the last time a third party candidate actually won without backing of one of the two major parties?
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  14073.  @DubhghlasMacDubhghlas  Washington won in 1789 because there were no parties. By 1792, he was a Federalist. My point was that you said that a third party would build to where it gets Congressional seats. So, when was the last time that a third party candidate won without backing of a major party? Bernie and Angus King are de facto Democrats. Joe Lieberman got the support of Republicans in 2006. You don't get viable third parties because the Presidential race is geared for two major parties. The last major party came about because the Whigs completely collapsed. If one of the two major parties were to collapse today and another took its place, that still wouldn't be proof that a third party is a viable route, but that there was a vacuum. Parliamentary systems encourage parties to build coalitions after the election. Presidential systems with no run off encourage the voters to build coalitions before the election.
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  14074.  @DubhghlasMacDubhghlas  How many of those are elected by pluralities? In France, they have a runoff.
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  14075.  @DubhghlasMacDubhghlas  With rank choice, they are selected with a majority, and the spoiler effect is not there. With FPTP, the spoiler effect is absolutely there. The spoiler effect is far less conducive to third parties, as is a Presidential system. Combine the two, and that is why you get a two-party system in the US.
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  14076.  @DubhghlasMacDubhghlas  They win with less than 50% on the first ballot, but they have to prove to be acceptable to a majority of voters, and people who might otherwise be disposed to vote third party who don't want to waste a vote can do so knowing that they can use a second choice for a candidate with a chance of winning. Therefore, no spoiler effect. The spoiler effect is why you don't see third parties gain prominence in FPTP. What you see is third parties with support in a particular district, and you still see strategic voting, because people otherwise predisposed to Labour in a district where the two strongest candidates are Conservative and Liberal Democrats will go Lib Dems to stop the Tories.
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  14077.  @DubhghlasMacDubhghlas  Yes, candidates can win locally. Libertarians are relatively well organized, and they haven't won a Congressional seat in 50 years of trying. The reason why it doesn't work above the local level is because the country has such a focus on races at the top. There's a reason why the success of Bernie hasn't been replicated.
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  14078.  @DubhghlasMacDubhghlas  When Bernie first ran, Vermont was the reddest state in the country. To this day, it has literally only elected one person to the US Senate on the Democratic ticket (Patrick Leahy). In 1990, when he first won election to Congress, Vermont had only ever gone Democratic in one Presidential election (1964). In the first 34 cycles after the Republican Party was formed, Republicans won 33. Even before the Republican Party, it still didn't go Democratic. The only exception before that was 1820, when the Democratic-Republican Party was the only game in town. Even when Libertarians and Greens get local successes, they haven't been able to translate it into higher office.
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  14079.  @supremeio5930  Literally no bill that would more than double the minimum wage was scheduled to do it immediately. All were phased in. To pretend otherwise is either lying to yourself or lying to the people who stopped by to read what you posted.
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  14080.  @supremeio5930  Her point was to pretend that everyone who supported it wasn't as pure as her and you know it. I've seen it from people who tried to insist that $15/hour is too low "because I see plenty of signs offering $15/hour." I've seen it from people who said they wouldn't support $14/hour if it had the votes to pass the Senate. I am a Caseworker and work with people who make well under 15 every day, so this is very real to me as opposed to the Purer Than Thou BJG.
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  14081.  @supremeio5930  She literally said to raise the minimum wage to $20 immediately, not that the fight begins for $20. Oh, well, defend a dishonest person and I guess you just naturally gravitate toward dishonesty.
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  14082. Are you talking about the one based on how David Pakman pronounces her name, or is there another one I missed?
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  14083.  @robrich7846  The irony is that he tries to be careful about pronouncing names, and someone like Kyle Kulinski loves to do that (as much as I don't like either person, you can't tell me that his nickname for Buttigieg isn't homophobic, and you'd think someone with a non-Anglo name wouldn't knock someone else for having a non-Anglo name like he does Klobuchar), but Pakman managed to get her essence almost by accident.
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  14084. There's nothing Democrats can do to stop tax cuts for the rich if every Republican votes for it. That's why you fight to win so you can stop this stuff instead of complaining later that people without the votes don't stop things.
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  14085.  @Nick-gp9et  Says the representative of the "fascism is no big deal" wing.
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  14086. I have been saying for a while that Biden's numbers will come crashing down to earth as soon as he gets in and people remember why he never went very far in either Presidential campaign. If he gets less than 15% in Iowa, his campaign is as good as over. If he doesn't win one of the first four, he is out. I expect it to be the first instead of the second, but I don't see him making it.
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  14087. If Der Orangestraflingfuhrer gets probation or something to avoid actual punishment, Merchan will throw away his credibility. I hope Glenn is right.
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  14088.  @anthbills307  Indeed. The only possible advantage I can see for executive term limits is that you can concentrate a lot of power, and if the system is weak, it might break. When it comes to the legislature, in my native state, we voted to give Robert C. Byrd a ninth term. A few years later, my adopted home state voted to deny Arlen Specter a sixth. Both were our rights. What the people who keep talking about term limits don't seem to get is that their real beef is who people vote for.
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  14089.  @RJH755  Some people just want to complain.
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  14090. Darn right! I hate veggie burgers. My only request is to properly label it so I don't get an unpleasant surprise.
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  14091.  @hollycampbell4103  Not all, just the followers of Supply-Side Jesus.
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  14092. ​ @davidcarson4421  The vaccine wasn't around until two months after he got sick, and it was pretty bad. Not bad enough, though.
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  14093.  @tmcd5049  Garland was appointed by Biden.
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  14094. I thought nobody would replace Roger Taney as the worst CJOTUS in history. Boy, was I wrong!
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  14095. Isn't forgetfulness a sign of drug use? I seriously worry that this guy is off the wagon.
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  14096.  @inspectortanzi  Again, why do you have to go to Semen? That's not where my mind goes, and there are plenty of other rhymes much closer to Seder.
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  14097.  @inspectortanzi  No, she asked about his "initial support for FTV." Sam never supported FTV. He said that the squad and the CPC should try to "use some leverage, but I'm not sure that this is it." This is what he said in real time, and this is what he told Gray. After a day or two, he was unequivocal that this particular usage of "leverage" was a bad idea, and it wouldn't get us any closer to Medicare for All. Then, after a week, he realized that Jimmy Dore and his ilk were using it as an excuse to go after the Squad, which he wholeheartedly rejected. She asked his position, he told her, and she kept lying and said that he supported it until he heard that Jimmy Dore did. The title of her show was very apt.
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  14098.  @inspectortanzi  Homophobia coming from someone who is obsessed with semen and another man. Interesting combination.
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  14099.  @inspectortanzi  I saw his original videos on the subject in 2020 when it happened. Just because you like people who pull things from their butt doesn't mean that everyone else does.
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  14100.  @inspectortanzi  Keep telling yourself that.
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  14101.  @inspectortanzi  If that's all you're left with, I'm sure that you hugged your pillow just obsessed, but your obsession with semen and your homophobia says far more about you.
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  14102.  @inspectortanzi  His Rubin videos get way more than Dore videos, but of course, the Dore Knobs won't know this. Like the Larouche cult before you, one day you woke up right wing and didn't even know it.
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  14103.  @inspectortanzi  Yes, because the world revolves around what you think, and your love for anti-anti-Trump grifters.
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  14104.  @inspectortanzi  His idiocy is a constant source of amusement. Your hero Jimmy's idiocy is just sad.
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  14105.  Adept HNIC Archives  Apparently, you don't understand the legislative strategy of catch and release, and why forcing the vote was a stupid strategy that wouldn't have gotten us any closer to Medicare for All (and given his support of Tulsi Gabbard, who called Medicare for All "un-American" in an interview with Anderson Cooper, not once but twice just in case people thought it was an accident). There are exactly three things that could have happened relative to the sponsor list and a vote on Medicare for All: 1) the vote would have exactly matched the sponsor list, and it would have been a total waste of time; 2) a bunch of people who put their name on the list would have voted No, and you would have seen a demoralized base; 3) knowing that the vote was doomed to fail, people in lefty districts who were didn't want Medicare for All would have voted Yes to fend off primary challengers, knowing that they would never vote Yes if it actually had a chance of passage. And either way, Nancy Pelosi becomes Speaker. So, what exactly would forcing the vote accomplish?
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  14106. ​ @jeffhaddix9508  Compared to uneducated people who only know how to cite one study that has been so thoroughly debunked that the journal that published it retracted it and the person who did the study got his license revoked? Yeah, I'd say you can.
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  14107. @TV_Alt Would you prefer it if they went to live on the compound of the scion of wealthy industrialists who might kill them?
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  14108. Looking at the Oz video again, I can't help but think, "You have handlers. Didn't anyone think, 'Let's get a basket from the front of the store so he could carry it all'?"
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  14109.  @Terrackhimself  Read books about what was happening, or watch The Big Short. The subprime mortgage market showed problems for years, and the market was overleveraged with credit default swaps to the point where it was there for all to see. Just because you didn't see it doesn't mean that it wasn't there. I remember hearing about big brokerage houses that dealt with credit default swaps going under for months before everything went down, and if the public was hearing about it for months, the regulators should have seen it coming years in advance.
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  14110.  @worldcitizenra  Yes, the Obama Administration made a massive mistake in not punishing the people who nearly collapsed the economy. I argued for years that the moment Obama lost the Congressional majority was when he said that UAW workers needed to "make sacrifices to save their companies" when it came to their contracts, despite saying that "contracts are sacred" when it came to Wall Street bonuses. However, the point was whether or not TARP was the doing of Obama and Biden. It was not. It passed in 2008, a month before the election. By the time the auto companies came hat in hand, the willingness to offer funds was already strained. If the vast majority of people opposed another round, what makes you think that something that protected homeowners more aggressively than what happened would have passed in that atmosphere?
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  14111.  @thefarmersdaughter8235  Banks did foreclosures. If you want to make a statement, think for just a little bit, and you might save yourself some embarrassment. And watch the Schoolhouse Rock video to learn how laws are made.
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  14112.  @thefarmersdaughter8235  Well, since you apparently think that the executive is completely unrestrained by laws, then you definitely do.
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  14113.  @thefarmersdaughter8235  That is not in dispute. Read my comments above. Why not engage in the actual argument?
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  14114.  @thefarmersdaughter8235  What I understand is that you think that the President can just do whatever and can invent new laws and policies out of whole cloth. They should have prosecuted the bankers who did this. I already said so. That doesn't change the fact that they were constrained by what TARP actually said, which was passed before the election.
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  14115.  @thefarmersdaughter8235  The President cannot "rewrite" a bill. That's not how it works. Are you saying that you don't understand how a law is made? Because it sounds like you don't.
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  14116.  @thefarmersdaughter8235  What does what Biden is signing have to do with TARP? You're the one who brought up TARP, so don't pull this Gish Gallop nonsense of trying to change the subject. Or, are you ready to concede the point that you were wrong about TARP?
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  14117.  @thefarmersdaughter8235  *You're
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  14118.  @thefarmersdaughter8235  The bill has to be passed by Congress. TARP was implemented to keep banks solvent. Democrats only had 60 votes for a few months, and Republicans had ground everything to a halt. Unless you want to get rid of the filibuster, but even if you did, it was still in place in 2009.
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  14119.  @thefarmersdaughter8235  [citation needed]
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  14120.  @thefarmersdaughter8235  1) That's not a citation, and 2) who was President on that day?
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  14121.  @thefarmersdaughter8235  Barack Obama became President on January 20th, and you didn't even give the name for a title of your article that supposedly proved your point.
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  14122.  @thefarmersdaughter8235  And the "more accountable" was Dodd/Frank, which Republicans hated and they gutted with enough corporate Democrats going along to make it veto proof in 2016. Making banks "more accountable" doesn't mean guaranteeing that everyone could stay in their homes. So, either a link or at least the decency to give a title for what you are seeing. Considering how uninformed you have proven yourself to be about basic aspects of the program, I want something concrete to make sure that your proof says what you said it did.
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  14123.  @OfficialSeth  Except the Republicans actually have discipline and both show up to vote and vote along party lines. Even in 2016, exit polling showed that Gary Johnson took more votes from Hillary than Trump. Now, it will probably go the way if the Schultz campaign, or No Labels, or any number of centrist parties that get an initial media splash because a relatively famous person is attached to it, but it never works because it has no actual support. "Tens of thousands of supporters nationwide" might, if properly allocated, get you on the ballot in about 3-4 states, but this is the guy who botched his Ohio ballot petition because he forgot to say he was running for President.
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  14124. If there are no more janitors, that is an Everyone problem.
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  14125.  @elconceptodematiz5574  You don't know what I did during the Obama years. Once again, you are making assumptions based on political affiliation, thus proving my point that your accusation is your confession. Considering the way you are cheering on massive slaughter of the Kurds and staying silent on Yemen, you are the one acting like a partisan cheerleader. You have exposed the truth about yourself.
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  14126.  @elconceptodematiz5574  Says the person who thought that we had no involvement in Yemen, and the one who insists on a neutral status on Trump and only opposing war. The biggest lies some people tell are too themselves.
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  14127.  @elconceptodematiz5574  Whatever helps you sleep at night.
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  14128. I personally think that we should focus a little less on the four-day week and focus on a 30-hour week. Increase wages enough so that people still make the same if working full time, but for me personally, a six-hour workday would be far more preferable. The key is giving a worker the choice of an extra day off or a shorter workday.
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  14129.  @mjchakos1  Well, they're free to vote No, and they are free to change jobs to one where their bosses will walk all over them and enjoy at-will employment.
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  14130.  @mjchakos1  Oh, so states can do it democratically, but Congress can't?
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  14131.  @mjchakos1  Do you not know what an at-will employment agreement is? In most states, unless a contract specifically prohibits it, you can be fired for any reason or no reason at all. And why can't they negotiate separately? Because the Fair Labor Relations Act requires that unions represent all workers on the job whether they contribute or not. There are people in my office who refused to join the union, but they ran to the stewards for disciplinary hearings, and they didn't complain about getting the paycheck that their union contract provided.
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  14132.  @Artchick1972  They might not want to join the union, but I don't see them complaining about getting weekends and holidays off or cashing the checks that are higher across the board than their non-union counterparts.
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  14133.  @mslisa5791  So, you love having to pay both halves of your Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes and have to pay for your own health insurance? Either we hang together, or we hang separately. If others in the company feel th same as you do, they are free to vote No.
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  14134.  @mslisa5791  So, most people can't afford it, but the number of uninsured was drastically reduced during the Obama years? Maybe instead of saying "I have flexibility," you would be better served by coming together to get better treatment. Even a weak union like the TA union at Temple got pay increases of 40% and fully-paid health insurance for those who teach two classes.
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  14135.  @facitenonvictimarum-2245  Anything less than an A in West Virginia costs you points at the polls.
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  14136.  @facitenonvictimarum-2245  If Manchin were to switch parties, McConnell gets the majority again. Is that what you want?
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  14137. @Sonic Phil I'm doing good. How about you?
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  14138.  @frigginjerk  Some people want to focus on what they don't get instead of what they do get. Yes, the senior Senator from my native state can be frustrating, but he is to the left of every Republican in the Senate. In the whole time he's been there, he has been to the left of every single Senate Republican. In a state where Trump won by 39 points, we should be glad that we get half of what we want from Manchin instead of none of what we want from John Raese, added with trying to abolish Social Security, Medicare, and the minimum wage. Forget crumbs, that's like making you vomit what you've already eaten. I would not hesitate to vote for Manchin for Senate if I lived in WV still.
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  14139. If you see your relationship as an asset or publicity in any way, this is a recipe for disaster.
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  14140.  @edo2514  You are aware that the Speaker only refers to the House, right?
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  14141. What I don't get is why none of the fake electors have since been on the phone with their lawyers to play Monty Hall with the prosecutor and make a deal.
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  14142.  @josevonbuergenwader2  Well, Trump isn't a populist, but everything else is spot on.
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  14143.  @nowayjosedaniel  Yeah, I heard about his "selling out venues" credentials. A Dore Knob bragged to me about how Jimmy Dore sold out a 600-seat theater for two nights in Chicago. In a city of 3MM and a metro area of 9.4MM. My hometown sold out a 400-seat auditorium for three nights for a locally produced play one year and four nights the next. In a city of less than 3000 in a county of 26,000. Anyone can book a small venue and brag about filling it.
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  14144.  @nerdslinger1782  The only producer credited on the show is his wife. How come no one knows who he fired? It sounds like someone in junior high who has this totally hot girlfriend from out of state, but you don't know her and he doesn't have any pictures.
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  14145.  @nowayjosedaniel  Is that the best you can do? You had a month to come up with something.
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  14146. If you just get rid of the cap completely instead of doing a donut hole, you end up with enough to never have to worry about solvency again.
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  14147. I call them right to work for less laws.
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  14148.  @ReVeralife  But you're not. Any minute that you spend organizing a protest in hopes that this will lead to the establishment finally accepting Bernie is time not spent organizing to get him to 1990. If Bernie wins Iowa, he wins New Hampshire, and he probably wins Nevada, too. The campaign has the funding and the staff to be ready for a big Super Tuesday push (the other day, I was at a phone bank party making calls to Minnesota) to capitalize on this effort. There are 37 days between the last contest and the convention. It will probably be obvious long before then if the race is deadlocked. That is plenty of time.
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  14149. We don't have to win the entire white without college degrees, we just need to do better. If it goes from -25 to-20, and everything else stays the same, Democrats win the three Great Lake states that decided the election.
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  14150.  @n.o.a.w.3264  If it is in the right place, it doesn't matter how hard it is. There was a De La Hoya fight where people were yelling Fix about a fight where he was animated and livid after losing, but if you get hit just right, it doesn't take much.
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  14151.  Kathryn Elizabeth  So, if Breyer finally takes the hint and retires next year, we let Evil Turtle hold another seat open?
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  14152. I was right there until that last clause. If it weren't for Biden, we would be talking about his terrible night when he got in trouble over the police shooting.
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  14153. He also delayed and delayed for years until he knew that Pacquiao lost a step. As disgraceful as what Leonard did to Hagler, except Hagler really did win that fight but got robbed.
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  14154. Especially if she went from second to first. I also remember a Republican Congressman suing in Maine because he was ahead after the first round but ultimately lost.
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  14155.  @tommyanomaly6193  To an extent, but in general, the left tends to approve of this more than the right.
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  14156.  @tommyanomaly6193  What? That makes no sense at all. I support Ranked Choice Voting. My only point was that, to an extent, some people do it less because of the idea of getting rid of the spoiler effect, and others more because of opportunism, but that people on the left overall are more likely to support it.
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  14157. 41:19 Speaking of which, stop calling it climate change! It was a term invented by Frank Luntz to minimize the damage. Why do we keep falling for this?
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  14158. The best chance to derail the nomination was the committee, because it takes four Republicans to cross the line instead of one. Every single member counts, because the bigger majority they have, the crazier they can go.
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  14159. Is Obama the one who disbanded the Pandemic Task Force? And how many people were killed by H1N1 again?
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  14160. I take a back seat to no one in mockery of Tim Pool, but what is the point of having a button you never button?
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  14161. I'm not a lawyer or a senator, but I have an idea: call the witnesses who would have corroborated her story, and not put so many witnesses attacking her.
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  14162.  @lucasparham5068  Well, he repeatedly refused to say that he would reject the support of white supremacists and more than once used racial dog whistles (such as lamenting America becoming majority minority in 2045 after the Tree of Life shooting), not to mention that if he told Ben Shapiro that "the magic of a thousand bucks a month is that it is below the poverty level for one person, so it will force people to work in order to live any life of meaning," so if he's right about automation, he envisions a world with a few trillionaires and everyone else scraping by on less than the poverty level. That sounds pretty far right to me.
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  14163.  Mythic  Indeed, and this is proof that Yang Gang bangers work backward based on the fact that they prefer Yang and can't admit that he does any wrong or ever lies.
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  14164. Where is there concern about Trump canceling the Emoluments Clause?
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  14165.  @malverdetx8582  He buried the answer, and you know it. He gave so many qualifications to his answer that it was obvious that he was playing to a crowd that believes that the answer is No, and his argument about the lack of revenge porn before the election being why Trump lost has been disproved repeatedly.
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  14166. It takes approval of every state to do that, so it will never happen.
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  14167. Because the sane people knew to get off that sinking ship.
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  14168. Evil and unfunny and untalented Dan Aykroyd.
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  14169. This is what people mean when we say that there is a good identity politics and a bad one. It is a sad thing the way a term for inclusiveness has been used for people who want to try to divide people on narrow grounds.
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  14170. ​ @viejolincanada  And calling anything that allows more legal immigration than you want "open borders" or anything that doesn't immediately deport over 10MM people "amnesty" shows that the people who claim to care about our borders just want to keep people out.
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  14171.  @Cream147player  Even his "one right call" was still bad, because Trump only banned Chinese nationals.
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  14172. By the time it's over, it will probably be over half a million deaths on his tiny hands.
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  14173. I lost all respect for Russell Brand once I heard him telling people not to vote in 2014. Ironically, seeing John Lydon push back against that was probably the last thing he did that I respected.
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  14174.  @5353Jumper  Biden has already lowered the deficit each year in office thus far. It would be much better just to get rid of it.
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  14175. @JV Riley Absolutely Biden won
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  14176.  @nuclearneo577  Well, not getting involved with the Vietnam War, because that started with Eisenhower, but everything else is spot on.
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  14177.  @AdamBladeTaylor  He was so adamant about pulling out of Vietnam that he increased the numbers of advisers and authorized the assassination of the South Vietnamese President. When it comes to JFK, look at what he did, not what he said. Pro tip: he didn't do squat on civil rights or health care, either.
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  14178. @James Hagan Indeed. The only whitewashing that was more successful than Camelot was that of Reagan. JFK was all talk on domestic policy.
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  14179.  @AdamBladeTaylor  What exactly were his lefty credentials? He wanted a tax cut for the rich (LBJ restructured it to close tax loopholes in exchange for the lower top marginal rate), and he did nothing on civil rights or health care. Getting the Cuban Missile Crisis right and signing a non-proliferation treaty alone don't make someone a lefty. Heck, Nixon and Reagan got the latter.
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  14180.  @sail2byzantium  What did JFK actually do on race? The Camelot acolytes can only ever mention his speeches. Don't tell me what he said, show me what he did. Thanks to the mythmaking, JFK gets all of the credit in the eyes of far too many for the good things that LBJ did while LBJ gets all of the blame for the bad things that JFK did.
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  14181. @James Hagan I think his death helped Johnson legislatively, but we cannot forget that he was arguably the most powerful Senate Majority Leader to ever live. He was just flat-out better at maneuvering to get things done. Probably the biggest mistake the Kennedy people made was not to use that to their advantage for fear that he'd try to upstage the President. Russell even admitted that he could have defeated Kennedy if he tried to push it, but he was no match for Johnson.
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  14182.  @sail2byzantium  I didn't say that you did. I said that his most ardent defenders try to do that. Yes, making a speech to lay out a vision gives someone a little credit, but without any action, it feels like little more than an effort to placate a part of his base that was getting restless. JFK talked about a lot of stuff, but when it came to domestic policy, he very rarely got around to actually doing anything about it. I've even heard some talk about a speech he gave on universal health care, but he never lifted a finger or even got behind a bill. Like Obama after, he benefited from personal charisma and eloquence, but had a thin record of actual accomplishments.
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  14183. @James Hagan In all honesty, while people like to do the alternative histories of what would have happened if JFK lived, one that I find fascinating is what would have happened if LBJ had won the 1960 election. It also leads to the question of whether, had he lived, JFK would have ultimately grown into the true leader and difference maker that his baby brother became.
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  14184. @James Hagan Hoffa had a personal history against the Kennedy family. Johnson may not have had those problems. I'm not saying that it was extremely likely, but just wondering what could have been.
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  14185. @James Hagan Maybe not with the escalation being quicker. If you look at the advisers who LBJ picked and compare them to the ones JFK did, they were far more dovish. You definitely don't have McNamara in the room, and I think that makes a big difference. LBJ was the logical conclusion of what came before him on Vietnam, so I think that part of the timeline is largely unchanged. Would LBJ have also signed off on assassinating Diem?
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  14186. @James Hagan Signing off on what he did still doesn't sound like someone who is trying to wind things down in Vietnam.
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  14187.  @nealtauss1715  Yeah, nothing is ever his fault when it comes to Vietnam. Funny how nothing is ever his fault for those who want to fit their square peg into the round hole of what happened.
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  14188.  @nealtauss1715  RFK Jr. Good fight. Hahahahahahaha Hold on, let me catch my breath. Hahahahahahahahaha Well, if you believe nonsense like that, no wonder you believe the nonsense that Oliver Stone tried to push.
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  14189.  @jacobjones5269  Oswald definitely shot JFK. The only real questions are if there were other shooters or what kind of network that he had helping him.
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  14190. @Ryan Scates The idea that he was such a progressive guy didn't come from LBJ (who was to his left), it came from his speechwriters. If you want to see some ridiculous mythmaking, look for a book called The What-Ifs of American History. It is a collection of alternative history. Some is interesting, but some is bizarre. The book ends with a world where JFK wasn't assassinated. It was written by either Dallek or Schlessinger. In it, not only does JFK get out of Vietnam, but he passes all of the Great Society and civil rights legislation that LBJ did, and Bobby gets elected in 1968 and serves two full terms. Usually, you have to verify your age to see that much masturbation.
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  14191.  @hexum7  What about the Zapruder film that looks like there is another shot either from the front or the side, and the police scanner that picked up four shots in the area? Those to me suggest a second shooter. Those who say that Oswald didn't shoot JFK are totally ridiculous, but the idea that there is absolutely nothing more is also pretty far fetched. I don't for a second believe that it was a government agency, though.
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  14192.  @nealtauss1715  It took you three weeks to come up with that? Increasing advisers in a country fighting a civil war is an escalation. Signing off on a coup is tantamount to authorizing assassination. Albert Gore, who had a much higher opinion of JFK than he did LBJ, said that more than once JFK told him that after Cuba (as well as China under Truman), he couldn't afford to let the dominoes fall in Vietnam. And RFK was a US Senator for four years, so we know his actual public positions on Vietnam. He didn't come out against it until he started running for President in March 1968. For people who opposed the war, they had a funny way of showing it. Then again, I have what actually happened on my side, and you have an Oliver Stone movie.
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  14193.  jfsfrnd  Three of them can't vote because they are quarantined, so they have no margin for error at this point in order to get enough to maintain a quorum.
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  14194.  jfsfrnd  Senate rules state that members have to be on the floor to conduct business. Committee hearing don't have that requirement, though. It's specifically in the Constitution that a majority present is necessary for a quorum.
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  14195.  jfsfrnd  Any time
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  14196.  Truth Willout  Indeed
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  14197. As Gil-Scott Heron said, the revolution will not be televised. Bermie and AOC are drawing huge crowds, but you'd never know it from watching the news or looking for headlines.
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  14198. I think Mike Lindell is back on the crack.
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  14199. 6:19 The projection is strong with this one.
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  14200.  @tomaskuli177  I've been saying for years that the rich should go ahead and go Galt. We'll do just fine without them.
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  14201. There was a long time of sewing aeeds, but for me, the key moment when Republicans decided to completely sabotage America rather than even try to govern was the election of Obama. Boehner made it a point of pride of 100% No votes on everything Obama pushed in the House. At the same time, Evil Turtle realized that he could block just about everything, and he did as much as he could, literally filibustering his own bill when Obama announced support for it. He expected Obama to get the blame for it, and it let to every grinding of the gears ever since.
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  14202. If Biden realizes that he can't win, we're all screwed, because nobody is going to be able to ramp up a campaign that quickly. If he's not at the top his game, that's what the VP is for. Our problem, quite frankly, is that we are a group of chickens. We are so scared of our own shadows that we are always expecting disaster to strike and we make it more likely. If the movers and shakers would have done what Obama and Jasmine Crockett did en masse, this story would already be over, and we could rightly focus on the fascist Supreme Court ending America as a republic.
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  14203. Speaking of anecdotal thinking, I remember in 2004 making a remark to someone that Morgantown is the most liberal town in West Virginia (now, that is a relative term, but not so much then). Someone told me, "Well, all of the business people I talk to in Morgantown are pretty conservative." I based mine on the fact that the two most left-leaning members of the House of Delegates were elected there, not what a conservative group within that place thought.
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  14204.  @camerondavis8356  Let's hope so.
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  14205.  @clintholmes2061  Like it or not, once the primary was settled, there was literally zero chance that anyone other than Biden or Trump would get elected. If you want to live in a fantasy world where there are no consequences to your inaction, have at it, but those of us who live in swing states have no such luxury.
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  14206.  @jackarmstrong5645  Indeed. That is what the flame throwers will never understand. It's better to get 10% of what you want than nothing. The primary is the time to fight where you want, and the general is the time to get the best you can get. I just prefer to go into the election with my eyes wide open.
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  14207.  @hepwo91222  A "flu" that killed more than a million in the United States, and 10,794 out of a population of 25.69 million, or roughly 1 in 2390 people. In the United States, that was 1.02MM out of a population of 329.5MM, or 1 in 323 people. But, yeah, totally harmless.
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  14208.  @DUDEBroHey  Yeah, it's only still the fourth leading cause of death in America, but totally nothing.
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  14209.  @DUDEBroHey  Ah, yes, the person who resorts to a wall of insults because there is nothing substantive to be said other than a tantrum about MUH FREE-DUMB. Fat people aren't killing other people because of their weight. Funny how the "freedom" crowd claims that people should be able to do things as long as it doesn't hurt other people, but they refuse to do things that make it harder to hurt other people, while going after things that people are only doing to themselves.
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  14210. I think he's more likely to run than not, but he may well be floating a trial balloon as his excuse. If he thinks he has a good shot, he'll probably run, but he sees those diminishing crowds and even occasionally gets booed and is stunned by it.
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  14211.  @peterbrandt7911  Well, Mao also deserves a place in that group of infamy.
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  14212.  @LesterBrunt  [citation needed]
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  14213.  @aliing3697  The greatest President in 100 years? FDR, Truman, LBJ, JFK, Ike, and Wilson are all saying, "Get in line. I actually accomplished more than you."
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  14214. Deep down, the right knows that it has lost the battle of the ideas. Hence, the effort to rebrand all of their awful ideas. (Yes, both sides liked eugenics 100 years ago, but something changed that about 80-90 years ago. Gee, I wonder what or whom.) That's why "white supremacist" became white nationalist, then ethnostate and alt-right.
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  14215.  @KeesBoons  A simple search on YouTube will help you find it.
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  14216. Just the ones who vote against health care for other people ;-)
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  14217.  @soth1sol  Ka-ka-ka Ka-ka-ka
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  14218.  @Crazyd_  Far left? What specifically about Yang is left at all? His signature proposal is a right-wing UBI (because it is meant to ultimately replace the existing social safety net) paid for by a regressive tax. He opposes increasing the minimum wage and taxes on the rich. He opposes enforcing antitrust laws. His policy for global warming is to save up $1000/month at a time and move to higher ground (good luck if you're still paying a mortgage on a house that is literally underwater), and his idea for affordable housing is "biy a house and move in with your bros." Oh, and his health care proposal, despite the name Medicare for All, isn't even a public option. He is a libertarian wolf in leftist clothing, and he's stripped in the last year or so.
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  14219. Part of being an adult is the ability to accept seemingly contradictory ideas at the same time. Yes, Maduro has done some bad things. No, taking him out will not make things better.
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  14220. That is so unfair! The only thing they have in common is that they are the worst.
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  14221. If they're going to do it, they really need something closer to the Wisconsin model where you need 25% of signatures, and the election is H2H rather than a two-step where the former requires a majority to survive and the latter requires a plurality to win.
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  14222.  @akihitochan  Then, what is the context? I've heard Ted Nugent pull the same move when called out on his nonsense.
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  14223. Okay, let's talk about healing. You don't reattach an arm with gangrene. Get rid of the poison and then think about healing.
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  14224. Emma, there has been an end goal all along: get Russia out of Ukraine. Anything less is appeasement.
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  14225. He's on camera more in TMBS episodes.
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  14226.  @zUJ7EjVD  His goal isn't really to persuade people who call in. It is to persuade the people who are listening not to throw in their lots with people like the caller.
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  14227.  @oxymoron02  I'm 42, and I have run for office, so your patronizing will not work on me. The point is that you cannot reach everyone, and you'll just end up constantly frustrated if you do. JOB and others like him aren't trying to persuade the caller, because there is something else on a subconscious level that means people like that won't be reached. It's the same reason why it's pointless to have a debate without an audience.
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  14228.  @arcanondrum6543  I think it's only available on satellite carriers, because I have Comcast and don't get it, but when I lived outside of the realm of cable and had Dish Network, they had FSTV, and my parents have it on Direct. That's where I discovered Rick Smith.
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  14229. This explains so much!
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  14230.  @ishigami4622  Not when he goes to the neighbor's house to continue going after Harry and Marv.
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  14231.  @damonstapletonjr7044  How is it self-defense if he goes to a neighbor's house to set up more booby traps? You are also supposed to retreat if you have the reasonable opportunity to do so.
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  14232. @Тhغ Pдىтд Мдй My memory may be off, but I remember him going into the house, setting up traps, and calling the police with a disguised voice saying he was the neighbor.
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  14233.  @BigCountryKracker  In the beginning, it was his house. Then, he goes to his neighbor's house and does the same thing. Have you not seen the movie?
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  14234.  @BigCountryKracker  Illinois is not Mississippi.
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  14235. Obama had 60 Senators, and he couldn't get a public option. There won't be anywhere near 60 in the 117th Congress, so why do you think Buttigieg can succeed where Obama failed?
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  14236. That Alex Jones one has some Shooter McGavin vibes, if Happy Gilmore wanted an R rating instead of PG-13.
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  14237.  Mårten Larsson  Well, he is a talking head for RT, so no wonder he sounds like a Russian bot farm come to life.
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  14238. Well, Delaney was a health insurance executive...
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  14239.  @white_isnt_a_race2338  Indeed. Consumer choice isn't sufficient to defeat a company like Amazon, especially given how many subsidiaries they have. You could easily think that you are beating them, only find out they are one in the same, like Elaine and her fight with Cinco de Mayo's.
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  14240.  ppm120667  You don't care? So, civil rights, voting rights, and the rights of workers to organize don't matter to you. Oh, okay, I get it now. You're the kind of #usefulidiot who throws a tantrum when you don't get what you want because you'll be just fine.
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  14241.  ppm120667  My policies? I voted for Bernie in the primary and actually tried to help him win every way I could. Then again, I am an adult, not a tantrum throwing psychopath who doesn't care who gets hurt of I don't get what I want.
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  14242.  ppm120667  News flash: $15/hour minimum wage. News flash: ending the unrealized capital gains loopholes for estate taxes. Then again, you peddle in ignorance and think that it's wisdom, so I'm not surprised that you didn't know that.
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  14243.  ppm120667  Eliminating malpractice insurance? If you eliminate malpractice, go right ahead. For someone who claims to be a big lefty who is better than everyone else, I find it interesting that you are singing off the right-wing hymnal from 20 years ago.
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  14244.  ppm120667  Well, radiologists policed themselves, and their premiums plummeted. When my brother was in third grade, the doctor set his forearm upside down after it was broken. If that would have been my son instead of my brother, he wouldn't have ever had to worry about money again. As long as fields refuse to deal with those bad apples (which spoil the whole bunch), they are endangering patients, so that is why they need to pay premiums. Cinsidering how that the worst actors could never actually pay the settlements, there is a good reason why malpractice insurance exists. Then again, considering your lack of understanding in one area where your Dunning Kruger is kicking in, I can't be surprised that it kicks in other places, too.
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  14245.  ppm120667  Malpractice insurance is sold by specialty. A GP will pay a different rate than a surgeon, so that doesn't help your argument at all.
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  14246.  ppm120667  If the damages that malpractice cause aren't limited, then the damages shouldn't be limited, either. Thousands die or get maimed every year with long-term medical care required. But, yeah, you're the true lefty who cares about the people.
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  14247.  ppm120667  I'm not saying that I like the system we have now, but Medicare for All is health insurance for everyone. The mere fact that you keep talking about paying for a doctor out of pocket shows that either you aren't the lefty you pretend to be, or you are extremely misinformed on the issue that you claim to be a dealbreaker. Then again, it's not surprising since you don't actually want to do anything about it except vote for a party that you know can't win to help a party that wants to go the opposite way of what you claim to want to go.
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  14248.  ppm120667  I saw what you said about Medicare for All, but the fact that you seem just fine with paying out of pocket for seeing a GP shows a lack of understanding of how it actually works. Considering your profession, my theory that you think that you can just ride out four more years (or even decades) and that is why you don't really care about things that affect workers turned out to be correct. Some lefty you turned out to be!
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  14249.  ppm120667  Saying that they shouldn't practice is well and good for dealing with future malpractice, but that doesn't really help people the first time a doctor commits malpractice, does it? And those other specialties or even GPs can cause serious harm. If a doctor misreads a test for allergies, that doctor can kill a patient. If an eye doctor prescribes the wrong eye drops, he/she can blind someone. Some things may be an honest mistake, but not having insurance means that the patient really won't get his/her needs addressed when malpractice happens. You ignore that at the peril of the American people.
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  14250.  ppm120667  You think that the right to vote is "frivolous"? There has been a concerted effort to gut voting rights in this country for decades, culminating in Shelby v. Holder, which got rid of the preclearance requirement for areas with a history of discrimination. If you don't care about that, then you are a right-wing troll pretending to be lefty. Considering your argument on medical malpractice, you are just digging the hole deeper.
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  14251.  ppm120667  Show me the evidence of frivolous lawsuits. Your right-wing trolling has been exposed. Your nonsense about how "a basic checkup should be paid out of pocket" proves that you don't care about the poor. Pretending that malpractice doesn't exist hurts people, and you are doing it in field after field. I gave examples of how other fields besides surgery can cause serious damage that costs a lot of money to address. Your other remarks show that you really don't understand how insurance works at all. You spread the risk, because the costs are far too high on the individual level, so if malpractice insurance doesn't exist, and someone causes multimillion dollar injuries (which you apparently so think isn't a thing since you think damages should be capped), the patient won't be able to address his/her needs. Are you just still going in the hope that probability will kick in and sooner or later you'll get something right? Then again, you already proved that in your talk about wages being insubstantial. Enjoy your sheltered life while you can.
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  14252. ​ @carrite  If he gave up here, everyone would know that the race is over. It's the biggest of the top tier swing states, so of course he'll spend a ton in PA.
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  14253. His dad always sounds shocked, almost like his brain can't believe the nonsense coming out of his mouth. He has that condescending sound of someone who read an Ayn Rand novel and thinks he is one of the chosen few who understand the way the world works. If this political dynasty continues, I'd hate to see how awful his scion turns out to be.
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  14254.  @JDMI-  There are times when fortune needs to favor the brave. This is one of those times.
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  14255.  @KingJT80  Definitely.
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  14256.  @manholeeunuchsbane6197  That is definitely true. I do remember seeing some differences of opinion when trade came up (O'Donnell is the most supportive of free trade agreements, and of the current lineup Hayes is the biggest opponent), but it doesn't really seem like there's been too many issues that lead to such a divide. Since the biggest issue right now is 1/6, that does seem to be something that tends to breed more consensus.
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  14257. Oh, I will vote for Biden if I have to, but I won't spend an ounce of my energy working for him. The only candidates I would even consider volunteering for in any capacity are Bernie, Inslee, and Warren. The "if I have to, I guess" candidate is a guaranteed loser.
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  14258. I really hope he loses the primary, because I don't want to see his ads for the next seven months. I don't even want to see them for the next seven weeks.
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  14259. Not counting the tankies who are just ridiculous, the honest people on the left whose brains are being broken is because, ironically, they are fighting the last war. It was pretty obvious that the Iraq War was based on lies, but too many took that to mean that everything the United States government says about the broader world is a lie. In the days before Russia invaded Ukraine, a lot of people were convinced that it would never happen, even as tanks were lining up on the border. Saying they always get it wrong is just as lazy as saying they always get it right. I remember someone in the comments early on said, "but being skeptical [sic] of the CIA works 90% of the time." While I think that they didn't understand the difference between skepticism and refusal to examine the evidence, even if that statement was true, automatically rejecting it puts you in a really bad place for the 10% of the time when they are right.
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  14260.  @danielrogers1  True, but to bring it up in this specific context makes it pretty obvious that he is admitting to this particular thing even if subconcioulsly.
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  14261.  @peoples2296  They might say that they like Medicare for All and increasing the minimum wage, but it doesn't affect their voting at all, so it really means nothing.
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  14262.  @kinghassy334  I did something similar a week or two ago when someone insisted that Krystal Ball "goes after establishment Democrats and Republicans equally." Never mind the problem of acting like they are equally bad when only one is ignoring coronavirus and trying to set up a fascist dictatorship, but looking at the "progressive commentator," I had to sift through nine negative Radars about Biden or Democrats to get to one negative Radar about Trump.
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  14263.  @Mike2digital  Oh, I get it now. You are some lazy NEET in your mom's basement who has no expenses and wants free money.
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  14264.  @EconomistGI  Which part, exactly?
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  14265. I had the news on in the background during my break, and they were saying that seven House Republicans hace said they won't vote for Scalise, and seven are undecided. One of those undecided, Ken Buck, said that he won't vote for any of the candidates for Speaker unless they publicly admit that Biden won the election, so you might as well say there are eight No votes. David Duke without the Baggage can only afford four, so it looks like we're doing a vote-a-thon again.
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  14266. Collins and Murkowski didn't vote for all three. Because a lot of people fall for the Catch and Release tactic pioneered by Tom DeLay, each voted against one (Murkowski voted against Kavanaugh, and Collins voted against Barrett), but only after it became obvious that they had the votes.
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  14267. As bad as Chris Matthews was, he was absolutely right that too many people look for heretics instead of converts.
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  14268.  @barbiquearea  Really?
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  14269. ​@@whoshighpitch Used to be? I think he's still out there somewhere, even if not as successful as his heyday. I'm not a big country music fan, but when I was in Ft. Bragg waiting to get shipped to the desert, he was performing a show at the sports bar, and one of our sergeants went to see it. Said he was a real nice guy and took a picture with him.
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  14270.  @TheAcousticgrace  Okay, here's a reason: he offers nothing constructive. All he wants to do is yell how everyone who doesn't agree with him is a sellout, unless it is Tulsi Gabbard, who actually called the Medicare for All plan supported by Bernie "un-American." Then, it is brilliant politics. He is not someone who is doing the hard work to make Medicare for All happen, and his efforts to help Trump win make it likely that enough Supreme Court Justices might just rule Medicare for All unconstitutional. By forcing a vote when there is nowhere near enough support, he is guaranteeing its defeat and making it harder for those of us who are and have been actually doing the work. Those are for starters, and there are plenty of people who have pointed out the problem with his nihilism and his strategy" which clearly doesn't have a step two.
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  14271.  AUTONOMEN LX  I wrote, made calls, and signed petitions to get Medicare for All, and I supported the one candidate who actually supported Medicare for All in the Presidential race. As part of a larger effort in Philadelphia (I did mine with DSA and Philly for Bernie, but other groups such as Health Care 4 All PA and Neighborhood Networks played a role as well), I personally knocked on hundreds, if not thousands of doors and got others to sign petitions, call their member of Congress, and do the same thing I was doing, and we got two members of Congress (Dwight Evans and Brendan Boyle) to sign on. And yes, I used a first person that didn't include the Force the Vote crowd, because when I ask what you have done, I either get silence, people who think that hashtag activism is activism, or excuses. Considering the fact that you tend to think that demanding a vote and "holding people to their word" when if people actually followed their word would be 100 votes shy in the House and 37 in the Senate shows a lack of understanding of how to accomplish anything.
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  14272.  @TheAcousticgrace  I have watched enough of Jimmy Dore to know what I saw. If anyone else had invoked 24 to justify torture, he wouldn't have said, "You don't really support torture do you?" "Okay, good. Now we've got that out of the way." The votes simply are not there, so what good will having a vote do? It will do worse than nothing, because it will discredit the movement as wasting time on a bill that was 100 votes shy. I care because stuff like this distracts from the necessary work, and it is done to discredit those people who actually are doing the work. You said "if not now, when?" The answer is when the work is done and we get 218 & 50. Every attempt at universal or near-universal health care that failed in this country meant that any effort would lie dormant for at least a decade, and the next one would be weaker than the last. Why do you think this time would be any different? If it is what you really want, do you really want to see it fail only for a public option vote more than 10 years away to follow? If Force the Vote isn't going to Do the Work, why do you think that you would be successful in primarying 104 incumbents?
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  14273.  @TheAcousticgrace  Support for Medicare for All is incredibly soft. If it were as solid as you say it is, Bernie would have won the nomination easily. Something that has popularity that can be cut in half depending on how you phrase the question is far different. Here are some examples: "Do you support Medicare for All if it raises taxes?" 37% support "Do you support a single payer health insurance system?" 49% support "Does Medicare for All allow competing private insurance?" 51% of opponents say Yes, and 55% of supporters say Yes Do those numbers look like the kind to a) strike the fear of God into reluctant members of Congress, b) would withstand the onslaught of a negative campaign, or c) convince 100 members to change their minds? You can't pick and choose the data to support your argument, and quite frankly, hanging your hat on only the top line of a poll is laziness that leads to complacency.
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  14274.  @TheAcousticgrace  And Jimmy Dore then said that you could then defeat Democrats who voted No in the primary. If the Force the Vote crowd isn't going to do the heavy lifting (as evidenced by insisting that it is popular without the caveat that a lot of the support is soft support), then how are you going to have the discipline, funding, and organization to defeat 104 incumbents in primaries, or do you think that it will just take care of itself? And how do you know that a bunch of members wouldn't just vote Yes to try to fend off a primary opponent (like Tulsi did by endorsing Bernie) knowing that it would still fail? We already have a list, so let's just start from there and build the sponsors.
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  14275.  @TheAcousticgrace  I've seen some polling that offers probably the best indication of support that is something to the effect of asking about higher taxes but also adding that there will no longer be out of pocket expenses, and it's usually somewhere in the mid-50s. I do think that the waters were definitely muddied by people like Tulsi Gabbard insisting that they supported Medicare for All but that it was un-American to "force people onto the government plan." I think stuff like that is a big part of why so many think that Medicare for All is a public option (I lost track of how many tulcels insisted her proposal was Medicare for All on these pages), so that is why we need education. I understand the urgency of now, I really do. I would just prefer that we use that urgency to get sponsors, because nothing I have seen in the history of this fight has ever really given me reason to think that rising from the ashes is really a thing. The health insurance industry is going to use everything they have to fight this, because they know that they're out of business if we succeed, so I want to make sure that half our army won't retreat. In Colorado of all places, a referendum to get Medicare for All only got 21% of the vote. I just don't see how we recover from getting 27% of the vote in the House.
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  14276.  @TheAcousticgrace  I don't know if deliberate is the right word for it, at least in the beginning. Private insurance started here largely during WWII (public hospitals were free for a long time) because there were wage controls in place, and unions wanted to be able to ask for something for workers, so the federal government agreed to make payment to health insurance deductible. However, it eventually started to take a life of its own, and nowadays, a group that has such sway over 18% of the economy has a lot of power. I'm not saying it's impossible to overcome, but every defeat is that much more that opponents use to say that it is a nad idea. If the Colorado initiative had lost close, I don't think it would have been as devastating, but losing nearly 4:1 is a huge blow. This means that we have to know what we are dealing with rather than thinking it is as easy as a hashtag campaign.
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  14277. That's always what amused me the most about the Snowden saga. The American government is so oppressive that you go to China and Russia?
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  14278. A lot of bailouts went to people who went to elite colleges. Some of us with giant student loans got them for going to grad school, and we got the jobs we did in part because the Student Loan Forgiveness Plan was the only way we could afford to deal with it. If my student loan was completely forgiven now and not 5 1/2 years from now, I could start saving for a house, and lots of others could as well, which would stimulate the economy.
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  14279.  @rumblefish3034  You're telling me that none of them had anything to do with the concepts? Or that Steven Crowder (the other example I mentioned) didn't write his sketches?
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  14280.  @rumblefish3034  You're the one trying to make it unnecessarily narrow to try to defend them, not me.
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  14281.  @loyaltycreate1938  Der Orangefuhrer wanted to get rid of the filibuster, and Evil Turtle refused. The only things that he really wants are tax cuts for the rich and judges. He got there after the budget was carved out of the filibuster, and he already got rid of it for the Supreme Court. He likes inaction.
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  14282. If he were any slimier, he'd be hanging in the rafters at Nickelodeon waiting for someone to say, "I don't know" to fall on their head.
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  14283.  @kod5660  Yes. Yes, they do.
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  14284.  @kod5660  Oh, I agree. Some were clearly in the audience. I thought it was delicious when Bret Baier asked if anyone got insurance from their employers, and then by another show of hands, how many were willing to give that up for Medicare for All, and almost all of the same people raised their hands.
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  14285.  El Matadores  I never thought Nick DiPaolo was that funny. Unless that crowd is smaller than the stage suggests, I don't think many in the crowd did, either. As far as my comedic tastes, I don't know about the OP, but here are some that I like: Lewis Black, Greg Giraldo, Mitch Hedberg, Dave Chappelle, Dina Hashem, Taylor Tomlinson
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  14286.  @skyywriting  If you want to make it obvious, fine, but you're acting like employers are these benevolent, understanding figures who wouldn't just as easily fire you if someone else is willing to take on way too much for way too little pay because that person thinks "this is how I get ahead." Yes, as the video says, organizing is the more sustainable answer, but given that most workers don't have a union fighting for them, this is what people get reduced to. When the boss gets passive-aggressive, it's not the job of the worker to bridge the gap. Listen to corporate speak sometimes. It's designed to be opaque to make everything look like the fault of workers.
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  14287.  @tourniquet3306  You don't think that landlords pass it onto the tenants? As to the larger question, the point is that the super rich manipulate their income so that it is not taxable, and a wealth tax is designed to fight that manipulation.
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  14288.  @tourniquet3306  By taking income as stock options rather than salary, even when it gets cashed in, it is at a lower rate. If they die, and they still have unrealized capital gains, the rate at which they die never gets taxed. (Example: If Jeff Bezos died today, his kids could cash out Amazon stock, and the capital gains basis is where they inherited it, so they would get a 12-figure net worth and never pay a penny in taxes.) And I don't know why you are using the first person, because the wealth tax doesn't kick in until someone has assets of at least $16MM.
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  14289.  @tourniquet3306  So, his kids get to keep hundreds of billions of dollars tax free? Estate taxes don't tax the dead. They tax the heirs.
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  14290.  @tirebiter4009  I think if it's above the recount threshold, you're not allowed to do a recount in Arizona.
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  14291.  @bertdesantis  Why do conservatives have to be the right? In some places, liberals are on the right.
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  14292. Oh, she thinks voter suppression is fine when it comes to Democratic voters, but when her own party gets stung by their own tail, she cries foul.
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  14293.  @bertdesantis  Clearly you don't understand. In Australia, the party of the right is the Liberal Party, and the party of the left is the Labor Party. I don't know if they still do, but Sweden also at one point had that same dynamic.
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  14294.  @bertdesantis  Before you went mask off, you made some statement about how "we need both left and right." Well, why can't liberal be the right wing? Why does it have to be conservatives or, in some cases, fascists?
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  14295.  @dicezart9667  How exactly do you "map things out to make things easier to vote for one side than the other" in a statewide election? If you are talking about having more polling places in friendly areas, that's not gerrymandering. The map for the area Ted Cruz represents was literally drawn in 1845, 125 years before that weasel was born.
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  14296.  @dicezart9667  English translation: rather than admitting that you don't know what gerrymandering is, you want to engage in histrionics.
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  14297. Someone always loses a nomination in every Administration. I think Biden picked her to stick it to the Clintons, whom he has long hated, and the establishment crowding him out in 2016 surely didn't help.
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  14298.  @calegrenillo-weaver4574  It wasn't just our government, and those "ordinary people" were chosen by the Assad regime. Your accusation is your confession.
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  14299.  @Grim_Beard  There are plenty who do. The problem is that the idiot fundamentalists are the ones who get all the attention.
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  14300.  @Grim_Beard  If you're talking about selling all possessions, the early church practiced communal living when people sold their possessions. That qualifies based on that standard. Jesus was "from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs" 1800+ years before Marx, but it cannot be done alone for everyone. There have been Christian communalism movements the whole time.
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  14301.  @Grim_Beard  That was the definition, and not everyone was expected to give away all of their possessions. Zacchaeus was celebrated for giving half of his possessions away. Half isn't all.
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  14302.  @Grim_Beard  Atheist fundamentalists are always quite amusing. That was literally for one person. Peter had a wife at home, and he didn't get kicked out of the group for not selling his house. Luke 19:8-9 is just as unambiguous that the same thing that the Rich Young Ruler asked for and didn't attain was given to someone who gave away half his possessions, not all. Now, don't get me wrong, I loathe and despise the Prosperity Gospel, but it is quite obvious that this was the prescription for one person whose chief love in life was money. All are expected to give some, but only some are asked to give all.
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  14303. The how is very important. Reich has a decent one, but the tech/Yang/libertarian version is just an excuse to gut existing benefits.
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  14304. That's a Tears for Fears song.
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  14305. ​ @mananimal3644  One or the other will be President. Pretending that you are above it all changes nothing.
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  14306. ​ @Craxin01  And he'd have gotten the Machin/Sinema obstruction treatment much worse, especially considering that Republicans would have still controlled the Senate.
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  14307. ​ @Justin33443  You mean people who vote for a party that gets a substantial portion of its funding from Republicans in order to try to work together to help Republicans beat Democrats? Yes, I will blame dupes who vote for grifters.
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  14308. So far, it seems like Bernie and Biden are taking from each other, as well as Warren and Harris. Bernie gets more support from lower income earners, and Warren gets it from higher earners. In all honesty, if Biden keeps getting exposed in these debates, he won't get out of Iowa at all, but I think that a non-aggression pact is fine for now, although I do think that whoever finishes lower in New Hampshire needs to get out.
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  14309.  @BadAssElf810  What you called fascism is authoritarianism. All fascists are authoritarians, but not all authoritarians are fascist.
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  14310. 8:17 Darn right! It is the best book.
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  14311.  @SaintGBar22  Why didn't she use her e-mail to build up those candidates? I hardly heard from her for three years, and now I get multiple e-mails a day.
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  14312. And another round of tax cuts for the rich that makes the Bush tax cuts look like Robin Hood by comparison.
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  14313. It's Battered Spouse Syndrome. I remember when Hillary Clinton that she had scars from the battles of the 1990s, but they were wounds, not scars. Pretty much all of the Democratic leadership was around when the Gingrich Republicans took over the House by going scorched earth, and they never got over it.
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  14314.  @antonioscendrategattico2302  He is internet popular, not real world popular. He couldn't win the nomination against someone who lost the general to Capito by 43 points.
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  14315.  @eleanoraquitaine2966  In all honesty, I don't know why people here are so surprised. Look at what he did on coal safety as governor in 2006. He is capable of rising to the moment.
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  14316.  @lynneanderson4255  I don't think that was a case of love for Bernie as much as it was hatred for Hillary.
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  14317.  @lynneanderson4255  If it was Bernie's message, where was it in 2020? I still held out hope after Super Tuesday, but seeing Biden blow Bernie out of the water in Michigan showed me that a lot of votes that he got were people who wanted to stick it to Hillary.
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  14318. Reagan/Bush, too. In fact, Poppy is the one who coined the term voodoo economics.
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  14319. As Barney Frank put it, they claim to only vote with the President [when he said it, Bush was President] 70% of the time, but they vote with him 100% of the time when he needs their votes.
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  14320. Mike from PA was dead on. At the time, I lived in the most liberal neighborhood in the most liberal city in PA, and I only saw a few senior citizens knocking on doors three weeks out. I voted for Hillary, but other than warning people of the dangers of Trump among friends or on social media, I didn't really do anything. That being said, two weeks ago, 75 people of varying ages, economic backgrounds, and races came together to knock on doors for Medicare for All and for Bernie. I haven't seen anything like that nine months before a primary ever.
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  14321.  ppm120667  "Mussolini was elected into office. By your logic, you just called every Italian who voted for him a right-wing fascist." If the shoe fits.
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  14322.  S E  Then, why didn't she actually work with Bernie to try to stop the war in Yemen?
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  14323.  S E  There was no poison pill. That being said, why not work with Bernie to write the bill? I didn't say she voted against it. I said that she didn't take leadership on the issue.
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  14324.  crooko dile  She's so antiwar that she cheered Kurds being left to slaughter. Isolationism is not peace.
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  14325.  ppm120667  I got sent to that war that I opposed. Unlike Tulsi, I don't look at that experience as an excuse to defend torture. In fact, when she said that, she insulted me and every person who did the right thing when I dealt with POWs. (In the course of that duty, I actually met Saddam Hussein's cousin, and I made sure that he had blankets, food, etc., and because I was a sergeant, everyone knew that I tolerated no such horrible treatment.)
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  14326.  ppm120667  I'm not a neoliberal. I supported the candidate who actually did support peace in the primary. That doesn't mean that I can't be critical of fascism when I see it.
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  14327. 5:40 That's Canadian for "mess with us and we'll slice your throat."
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  14328. If something funded by taxpayers means that "government didn't create jobs," then employers don't provide jobs, because those are funded by customers.
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  14329. I have never understood stealing art. You can't sell it. If you show it, you're going to get caught.
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  14330.  @amberleeannalee1999  If you kick her out, you automatically make Evil Turtle the Majority Leader, and you will see him hold more Supreme Court seats hostage. Is that really what you want?
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  14331.  @woobiefuntime  Can't is different than won't.
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  14332.  @woobiefuntime  Tell me the book, chapter, and verse. I am sick and tired of fundamentalists making stuff up about the Bible and incredulous people repeating it.
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  14333.  @joananthony6323  That's not how it works. If someone gets less than 15% in a state or Congressional district, that person gets zero delegates. If anything, Beto would help Bernie, because he is more likely to take support from Biden.
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  14334.  @TheEyeball37  Since Bullock couldn't even make it to the top 20, he just needs to get out right now.
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  14335. At one point in time in this country, one parent (I don't care which one, but one parent) made enough to provide for a family. Now, two incomes are barely enough, and there are a lot of extra costs when both parents work. I'm not saying that a bunch of people should leave the workplace, but people should work that second job because they want to if they so desire, not because they have to.
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  14336. Christopher Titus said that Congressional Republicans are "stupid people elected by even stupider people." When it comes to Boebert, I think this might be a case where they elected their intellectual equal.
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  14337.  @Airola  Well, if you want to play that game, if there would have been better writers after Episode 16, then the show might have lasted several more years, became a parody of itself, and left no appetite for Fire Walk with Me or The Return.
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  14338. ​ @1MarkKeller  Indeed. I was especially annoyed when she tried to give stress from the war as a reason for the streak in her hair (which is now on the other side). There are pictures of her several years after she got home where she had jet black hair. I started getting a few gray hairs in my beard about a decade after I got home from war, but they are more prominent now, and when people ask me, I'm honest about it and say that I'm getting older. Just be honest, Tulsi!
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  14339. Mr. Burns come to life as a politician is perennial candidate John Raese (lost WV Senate races in 1984, 2006, 2010, and 2012, narrowly lost the gubernatorial primary to the incumbent in 1988). Media baron, bald, even has a hunchback. The only physical differences are that he is heavier and doesn't fold his hands in front of his hands.
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  14340.  @punishedrab9364  There are plenty of people of faith on the left. I suppose that you think that Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis were faking it.
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  14341.  @ccole1255  I think you may be right. I have dealt with people or even polls that try to insist that being a person of faith is incompatible with being on the left, but I think this is a serious mistake, especially strategically. The cruel irony is that the people who now call themselves evangelical used to call themselves fundamentalist before they polluted that term, too. If they keep going this way, in 50 years, they'll try to call themselves mainline. Let's go! Mountaineers!
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  14342.  @michael_c2  So, Kyle Kulinski is just an extremely bad of judge of character? Then, we shouldn't listen to him. He is one note, and given the fact that he didn't even bother to vote down ballot in 2020 tells me that he sees all of this as a game. There are different kinds of grift. Some people do it for the money, Kyle does it for the clout. Besides, now that he's got Krystal Ball and that sweet, sweet MSNBC cash and access to an eight-digit fortune, it looks like he enriched himself after all.
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  14343.  @Helmuesi911  If the national party didn't try to sell the chances for Val Demings (who lost by 19 in a large and expensive state) and focused more on Mandela Barnes, that could have meant one point... and the win. So frustrating!
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  14344. Change starts at home.
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  14345.  @bellyhead67  Oh, yes, watching anti-anti-Trump grifters is so much better. No thank you. We aren't useful idiots here.
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  14346. So, that's what EWTN stands for! I knew it was a Catholic channel, but I couldn't figure out the acronym for the life of me.
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  14347. Me, too
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  14348.  GreenIdLady 1  I don't think that is the larger goal, but there is a vocal minority who do want it.
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  14349.  @aardvarkhendricks6555  The ABA is not the end all be all of determining qualifications, and not all were Not Qualified.
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  14350.  @aardvarkhendricks6555  There is no workaround. There are three ways that a federal judge will leave the bench: death, retirement, and impeachment. The rules for impeachment are very clear. This may be the weakest argument I have heard over the last week, and that's saying something.
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  14351.  @aardvarkhendricks6555  And who has the final call on whether or not such behavior has taken place? The Senate, where it takes a 2/3 majority. And how are you going to suspend their salary? Are you thinking out loud, or do you have an actual idea in place for this is happening. The idea that we can "get around 2/3 of the Senate" suggests that you haven't.
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  14352.  @aardvarkhendricks6555  That's not how removing a circuit works. You don't get rid of people you like, you have to get rid of the entire circuit, not individual judges you don't like. Basically, you are saying to get rid of the entire federal judiciary. Is this really your thinking? Maybe the next time something comes out of your butt, you should think of flushing. And you can't just "eliminate all of the old judges of every court and replace them with new judges." At this point, either you are incredibly stupid, or you are trolling.
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  14353.  @aardvarkhendricks6555  Anyone who has either read the Constitution or taken the most basic civics or constitutional law class would know why these are bad ideas. One of the hallmarks of democracy (and part of the reason why judges get lifetime appointments) is judicial independence. You are saying that you want to get rid of that principle, because Republicans can just as easily do it. Any guard rail that any future President has to rein in his/her worst and illegal impulses will be gone. Basically, you are doing Trump's work for him.
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  14354.  @aardvarkhendricks6555  So, a constitutional lawyer is going to stumble upon this page and justify something that it doesn't take Thurgood Marshall to see won't work? The ego! Maybe talk to friends or family who are lawyers if you are really serious about it instead of just trying to find a "solution" that will completely thwart American democracy.
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  14355.  @aardvarkhendricks6555  In case you didn't know, we had a war over 150 years ago that decided the question of whether or not the United States gets to split up.
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  14356.  @aardvarkhendricks6555  Consolidating courts due to bureaucratic reasons is not the same as eliminating the entire federal judiciary.
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  14357.  @aardvarkhendricks6555  And you really think that Republicans won't? I'm guessing you've never played chess.
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  14358. ​ @joleerinehardt2676  Sadly, there are too many on the left who, if they get 99% of what they want, will spend all their time complaining about the 1% they didn't get. One thing the right knows to do better than we do (at least from a messaging standpoint) is to take the half a loaf and fight for the other half another day.
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  14359. Dark Brandon rides again.
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  14360. What about New Orleans in order to preserve white supremacy in 1866? Wouldn't that be considered a successful one as well?
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  14361. Tyler Hamilton himself admitted that there is no way of knowing how good he would have been after 1997.
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  14362.  @InternetMameluq  He didn't take down the Seth Rich video or demonetize it, did he? No, he is still making money off it any time someone watches it, so he doesn't get credit for saying Oopsie a day later.
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  14363. I must say that I have honestly never understood the "but these are small countries" argument. If we have 60 times their population, we also have 60 times their tax base. If anything, our bigger population should make it easier to fund these programs, not harder.
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  14364.  @soulknife20  Someone else picked up on my typo first. Do you want me to nitpick your comments to find typos?
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  14365. Not if they are running a vanity campaign that is wasting money and not running for something he/she is better suited to but won't run thinking White House uber alles. I'm looking in your direction, Steve Bullock.
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  14366. ​ @52flyingbicycles  Given all of the times that Greens have been funded by Republicans, with Republicans often doing the petition drives to get the Greens on the ballot and slow walking lawsuits when they're too incompetent to fill out a form correctly (see Howie Hawkins in Wisconsin in 2020), the Green Party is a collection of grifters and marks. Which are you?
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  14367.  @DemonDante1000  Talking about doing the same thing over and over again when the thing you've done over and over again gave us five of the six Supreme Court "Justices" who declared Trump a monarch is especially rich.
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  14368.  @DemonDante1000  But let's follow through and see if you are more than an Underpants Gnome. Your strategy: Step 1: Vote third party to throw the election to Republicans. Step 2: ? Step 3: Leftist utopia What is Step Two?
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  14369.  @DemonDante1000  And if you think that Jill Stein has any nonzero chance of getting elected President, you don't understand the rules. If she doesn't get to 270 electoral votes, the election gets thrown to the House... where it will be decided by Democrats and Republicans. And before you say some nonsense like "they'll pick her as a compromise candidate if they deadlock," they will do no such thing, because the Senate gets to elect the Vice President, and whoever they pick would become President if the House can't pick a winner in time.
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  14370.  @DemonDante1000  You're not "part of a coalition that can't be taken for granted and has to be listened to." How well did that work out after 2000? Or 2016? You're not part of any coalition as long as you are Green, except for with Republicans given how much they help you out with ballot access and lawyers when you're too incompetent to fill out a petition form properly and you can gum up the works to make it harder for everyone else to vote like in Wisconsin the last time. No, you didn't answer the question. You just insist that by helping Republicans win that you are the power breakers. Well, Democrats won plenty of elections without you. With that less than 1% Greens get in most elections, you're barely an afterthought. Oh, but this one, where you openly say that you want the would-be fascist dictator to win, will be the one where Democrats do what you want. You didn't answer because the first step to your plan has happened twice, and instead of the leftist utopia you promised, we got the Iraq War, the Roberts Court, and an attempted coup. Great plan!
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  14371.  @473weasel  So, you push for a candidate who defends it in Ukraine? Yeah, that makes sense.
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  14372.  @DemonDante1000  Not sure what happened to my reply, but trying it your way led to five of the six members of the Supreme Court that voted to make Trump a king above the law. Ask the DKP how things worked out for them when they refused to be part of a coalition with the SPD because they thought they were the greater threat. You proved that you aren't part of any coalition, except for the Republicans you work with over and over again in your sabotage.
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  14373.  @laurentkelly150  Voting third party is telling yourself that you're better than everyone else while letting the worst possible actors have their way. Haven't you ever wondered why Republicans fund such a high percentage of Green activity?
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  14374.  @DemonDante1000  No, wait. I just woke up, and my brain is just now seeing it. Here is what it means that enough people tried it your way: at one point, you specifically said that WHEN (caps yours) Trump wind in November, then Democrats will have no choice but to listen to you. Well, in 2000, the number of Nader voters in Florida were nearly 200 times the number Bush "won" by. And did a hardcore lefty win the nomination in 2004? No, Kerry did. In 2016, exit polls showed that Johnson and Stein voters overwhelmingly favored Hillary to the point where it definitely made the difference for Trump in Michigan and Wisconsin and possibly in Pennsylvania. So, using the accelerationist argument that you made in that sentence, the Democrats should have done what you wanted, but Bernie got a lower percentage of the vote the second time out. And Bush and Trump nominated five members of the Supreme Court. So, Step One of your Underpants Gnomes theory if political change not only didn't bring the leftist utopia you claim to want, but it brought us to the brink of a fascist dictatorship.
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  14375.  @DemonDante1000  "since when has any third party been allowed" In West Virginia, any party that gets 1% of the vote in a gubernatirial election gets an automatic ballot line for the next four years. The Mountain Party met thst threshold in 2000, and it has been a recognized party ever since. At some point in the past decade, they decided to align with the Green Party. In all that time, they've never won a single legislative seat. So, even when the big, bad major parties remove an obstacle, your obsession with the top of the ticket has not helped build anything.
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  14376.  @DemonDante1000  "Including the Gaza policy" Well, we've seen your party's Ukraine policy, so you have no room to talk.
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  14377.  @DemonDante1000  "someone voting for the same party and expecting things to change" I've been, to use the formulation of Rachel Maddow, voting with my heart in the primary and my head in the general election. And far from the "nothing" you suggest, it got Ketanji Brown Jackson on the Supreme Court, Lina Khan heading the antitrust division of the FTC, Bernie getting the gavel of first the Budget and now the HELP Committee, and Hot Labor Summer. It's not everything, but it's way more than the Green Party has ever given us.
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  14378.  @DemonDante1000  If third parties wanted more of the vote, then they should do what Bernie did: run for a municipal office and prove their competence so people actually want to vote for them. But third parties don't actually want to govern, they want to claim some phony moral purity. If they actuslly did win, then they might have to make some compromises or end up being irrelevant.
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  14379.  @DemonDante1000  Your candidate isn't the peace candidate. Your candidate is the candidate of giving Putin what he wants. If he takes Ukraine, sooner or later, he'll go into a NATO country, and you'll have World War III.
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  14380.  @DemonDante1000  Re: what the American people want, how many Americans have you actually talked to to try to organize to get the world that you claim to want? I'm guessing my number is higher than yours. In some of those conversations, I was working with the DSA to help Bernie and to build support for Medicare for All to pressure members of Congress in the Philadelphia area to sign on to Bernie's bill. In several conversations, I noticed that there were a lot of people who actually wanted a public option when mentioning Medicare for All. The Kaiser Family Foundation poll showed that a majority who supported Medicare for All were vaguely talking about universal coverage. (This was no doubt helped along with grifters like Yang calling his proposal Medicare for All when it wasn't even a public option, and Buttigeig with Medicare for All Who Want It.) So, when the needle didn't move despite Biden saying he wouldn't sign Medicare for All, once I was removed enough from the bubble of a campaign, I realized that was because those numbers didn't mean what we thought we did. So, to apply this to your argument, if Americans really wanted a third party, we'd have one, but the fact that none has gotten 5% since Perot, only one third party or third-party candidate has gotten 5% or more in successive elections (Perot, although the Socialists just missed that in 1916 after getting 6% in 1912), and every third party that has gotten 5% has gotten far less votes the second time around says that maybe, just maybe, Americans don't want a third party long term, especially if one or both of the major parties will adopt their proposals if they actually prove to be popular enough.
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  14381.  @DemonDante1000  I am talking about your party's standard bearer, Jill Stein, going on and on about "peace" all while refusing to call Putin's actions either a war crime or genocide. When she is asked about it, other than better syntax, it sounds just like Trump's apologia.
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  14382.  @DemonDante1000  Not sure what happened to my reply, but Stein goes on and on about "peace" when Ukraine comes up while refusing to call what Putin did a war crime.
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  14383.  @DemonDante1000  No, the Green Party didn't bother to put the address of their own VP candidate, they were given a chance to correct it, didn't do it, waited until two weeks after the deadline to complain, and then used a Republican law firm to sue. Because of that lawsuit, it delayed the ballots in Dane County going out by nearly a week in a state with a hard deadline of Election Day to receive the ballots. You can scream "misinformation" all you want, but People's World had a very in depth article as it happened.
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  14384.  @DemonDante1000  I'm on this page a lot more than you are, and nobody's forcing you to stay.
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  14385.  @DemonDante1000  Do you honestly think that breaking up your replies into half clauses makes you sound more intelligent or forceful?
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  14386.  @DemonDante1000  There is literally a video on this channel called "Jill Stein STRUGGLES to Call Putin a War Criminal." As far as the idea of "she hasn't had a chance," well, it's not my fault that she has no popular appeal, and that she thought that jumping from a municipal office to the highest in the land made a lot of sense, but the fact that she is so cozy to Putin and can't call out his crimes when given plenty of opportunities to do tells me that I don't want her to get such a chance. Then again, you've already said that you want Trump to win of the major-party candidates, so I can't be surprised that you support someone who agrees with him on Ukraine.
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  14387. Does this knob understand that health care directly affects the inalienable right of life?
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  14388. ​ @whiskeymonk4085  Oh, look! A scab.
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  14389.  @whiskeymonk4085  And when Bernie goes, he'll have lived a full life and meant something to millions. When you go, if Coco is right that your second death is when no living person remembers you, your afterlife will be very short indeed.
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  14390. ​ @hello7032  She was the loudest voice insisting that Bernie could win the nomination with 30% of the primary vote because there was no way that the other candidates would coalesce around one candidate. Her involving Michael Brooks in the FTV debate was vile. And that debate was total bad faith because she kept getting mad at Sam for changing his opinion from one that he never had in the first place, because he always insisted that he thought there were better ways to get leverage. And what does it say that the nicest, most forgiving person in American politics wants nothing to do with her?
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  14391.  @hello7032  Indeed. Any idiot can blow things up.
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  14392.  @AF-wd2gt  She moved the health car debate forward? What Obama signed was the Republican alternative that Bill threatened to veto because it wouldn't cover everyone. Then, Hillary pretended that this was as far left as anyone could go. Maybe being third in the US Senate in health insurance and pharmaceutical contributions changed her mind on what was possible.
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  14393.  @AF-wd2gt  And in 2016, she was saying that single payer would never, ever happen, so that proves that she gave up on health care. Yes, she helped pass CHIP, but it's not like no one was saying "have a way to cover kids in America" in 1998.
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  14394. Philly suburbs, and I paid $3.10/gallon for gas, which is way down. The last time I bought eggs was about three bucks for jumbo eggs.
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  14395. ​ @matthewschwartz6607  When you include polls that ocersample Republicans in them or show ridiculous tabs below such as voters under 30 going Der Orangefuhrer by double digits when every Democratic Presidential nominee has won that age group by double digits this century.
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  14396. ​ @TheQuadrant193  SUCKS
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  14397.  @MJ2A  What are some specific examples of this?
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  14398. Indeed. The stuff that Millenials are complaining about happened to us first. The usual role of thumb for lenders is that someone buying a home shouldn't pay more than four times the household income. In 1960, the average house cost nearly twice the median income. Today, it's nearly eight times. In other words, even if you have two people working and both making the median income, they can barely afford to buy a house. It seems like the only ways anyone under the age of 50 can do so is 1) living in an economically depressed area with bad schools, 2) get something from a sheriff's sale or bank repossession, or 3) hope that you can inherit one.
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  14399. Glad to see this guy has seen the error of his ways, but he needs to follow up in order to have true repentance.
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  14400.  @nutyyyy  When is the last time your hypothetical happened?
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  14401.  Curious Mind  Dispatch are police.
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  14402.  @Noname-hw9bx  Believed by whom? I think that Arthur Leigh Allen is the most likely, but there were probably others who continued killing as the Zodiac.
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  14403.  @Noname-hw9bx  Why use "some people"? In the words of Jerry Seinfeld, who are these people?
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  14404.  @Noname-hw9bx  I'm not saying that you are. I'm just wondering. It seems like some people want to attribute unsolved serial killers to known ones. I remember a Dateline story insisting that Ted Kaczynski was the Zodiac.
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  14405. Demings is worse. You should go back read some of her defenses of crooked cops when she was police chief.
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  14406.  @alabamaman5994  "women are born with eggs" So, by your logic, people born with XX chromosomes who have reproductive issues aren't real women?
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  14407.  @TechGroupF430i  Indeed. It's one thing to worry that we may be at the beginning of such and arc (with statements such as "this makes me not want to work with anyone on the left anymore") and insist that the arc is complete. While I stopped watching the main show after finding out that Cenk was union busting and using the exact same logic as right wingers when doing so, but it doesn't mean that they are full-blown right wingers now. While time will tell whether or not this is an aberration, it doesn't mean they've already flipped.
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  14408.  @vgaportauthority9932  Why is it not surprising that Aaron is lying again?
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  14409.  @axetune  If that helps you sleep at night.
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  14410.  @axetune  The projection is strong with this one.
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  14411.  @zehrag3781  Well, which is it, some say that it was a Soviet legacy, and others say it's an American lab? You really need to keep your story straight.
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  14412.  @axetune  Saying that you are right doesn't make it so.
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  14413.  @axetune  I did. You made an assertion. Then, you repeated it. That's not "backing it up."
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  14414.  @axetune  Just saying that you are right doesn't make it so. That is exactly what you are doing. Disproving it would be showing what she said that is counter to the accusation.
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  14415.  @joshuad7953  Oh, look, someone who insists that anyone who wants anything other than letting Russia get everything that they want is advocating for total war. What a shock! Today, Putin literally threatened to do to Bosnia what he is doing to Ukraine. While I think that the appropriate response does not involve direct conflict at this point, we may reach a time where Russia crosses a line that cannot be avoided and attacks a NATO member and we will have no choice but to fulfill our Article Five duties. There is a world of difference between isolationism and peace, and between anti-imperialism and hating America.
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  14416.  @joshuad7953  Didn't say they were. My point was that it shows a pattern of aggression from someone with clear designs on expansion who may one day invade a NATO member. You seriously sound like an America First person in the 1930s.
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  14417.  @joshuad7953  If the United States invaded a country because they didn't like potential allies, I would condemn it, too. The difference is that I don't base my opinions in hatred of America but actual universal principles. Human rights exist. The Christian missionaries in India were right to oppose burning widows on funeral pyres. Pretending that someone with expansionist desires and actions can just be ignored is a fallacy that is paid with the lives of the tens of millions
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  14418.  @joshuad7953  And let's talk about Russia's obligations. They specifically stated that they would always respect the territorial integrity of Ukraine if they dismantled their nuclear weapons. While that doesn't mean that we are obligated to fight, the fact that we signed that treaty as well means that we are obligated to defend Ukraine. If Russia gets what they want, it will set back the cause of nonproliferation if not destroy it. That is why it should matter to you what is happening in Ukraine.
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  14419.  @joshuad7953  If the world burns, it comes to you eventually, no matter how much you would like to pretend otherwise.
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  14420.  @joshuad7953  That wasn't part of any agreement. James Baker floated the idea in talks, but it was withdrawn. The fact that German reunification was allowed and them being allowed to stay in NATO proves that talking point wrong. Funny how you say that you're all about the American people, but you're singing off a different hymnal.
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  14421.  @ununseptium7961  You don't like teams, but you have a Manchester City shield as your profile pic. You do realize that's not a municipal seal, right?
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  14422.  @Oram77  Was he telling the truth when he said Hillary has Parkinson's? Or that there was something to the Seth Rich story? How about 9/11 Truth? How about what he said about the ability to filibuster Trump's Supreme Court picks?
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  14423.  @ununseptium7961  Okay, do you want me to make a serious point rather than a joking one? You said "progressive means progressive on every issue." Well, Jimmy Dore supported Tulsi Gabbard, Torture Advocate, in the primary. When people pointed out her defense of Modi, a literal fascist, he said he didn't care about India. He also didn't care about what the Supreme Court could actually do if Trump wins the election. So, is that the "team" that you are on?
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  14424.  @ununseptium7961  And really, did you not expect people to point out that irony? It would be just as ripe for the picking if I had a Chelsea badge on mine and said Russian billionaires shouldn't exist, or if you talked about how not having a salary cap makes sports unfair.
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  14425. Look for the true freak label.
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  14426. UBI is one of these programs where the details are very important. The two most important are what to do with existing programs and how it is taxed. The worst forms of UBI that must be avoided are those that are intended to replace the existing social safety net. The best programs act as a supplement, and the worst act as a replacement. Looking at the latter, Friedman saw it as a way to get rid of existing programs, and Yang made his version either/or, and refused to say which programs people would have to forego in order to receive benefits except to say that it was a total of 125 programs with only six mentioned: TANF, SNAP, LIHEAP, SSI, daycare subsidies, and housing subsidies. So, if you're part of the other 119, you end up finding out that you get less than you expected or nothing at all. As far as payment goes, the best would be things like taxing profit from those who benefit from automation. The absol worst is a consumption tax, because that disproportionately affects the poor, which means that at best you are hitting the gas and brakes at the same time, and at the worst you are increasing wealth inequality. The most regressive forms of taxation are consumption-based, such as sales or a VAT. If you are also finding ways to make sure that "everyone" doesn't include the poor, it's the worst of both worlds.
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  14427. Biden has enough delegates to win the nomination, so what would it accomplish?
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  14428.  @ViralmediaAi  Ranked Choice Voting for primaries is a different beast for national races. Do you want to force someone to raise a billion dollars a year before voters even start in order to have a chance? Because that's what a national primary will do.
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  14429. What have you done outside of voting? I swear, the people who pull the conspiracy theory card are so weak that if they realized how strong the people can be when put together, there is no end to what we can accomplish. The centrists won the nomination because their people actually show up to vote.
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  14430. Ana thanks you for your engagement which only helps the TYT algorithm.
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  14431. 6:17 Oh, yeah!
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  14432. Same reason Mike Love always wears a hat: he thinks people won't realize that he's bald.
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  14433. Last month, the Board of Education for my daughter's school had a discussion about relaxing masks. The crazies bombarded the meeting (I ended up going second, but leaving after an hour and a half) insisting that the masks needed to come off (the most ridiculous was insisting that the schools take down posters that said "Heroes Wear Masks" because it made their kids feel bad and another about fogging glasses as though you can't wipe glasses), but I compared it to Leon Lett fumbling at the Super Bowl because he celebrated too soon. Sadly, it looks like this may be the case.
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  14434. 12:39 "If I could, I'd take that moment, marry it, and have kids with it." Dr. Perry Cox, "Scrubs"
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  14435. Dick Gephardt did the same thing in the early 1980s.
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  14436. In 2014 and 2015, I begged her to run for President, because I thought she was the one to beat Hillary and stick into Wall Street. However, this campaign his revealed the truth about her. Then again, she did vote for Reagan twice and then Poppy, and her rationale for the change was that "Democrats are the better party for markets," a centrist argument if there ever was one.
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  14437. This guy needs to watch the Gilligan's Island episode where they find the gold mine. Apparently, he thinks that the left wants every single thing on the planet to be monetized.
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  14438. Tim Pool wishes he sounded like Nickelback! He sounds like Puddle of Mudd on their worst day.
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  14439. ​ @WhoKnows-ku6xm  You seriously think that it would be "difficult to coordinate" such a move? Even if you ignore the kind of legislative victories Pelosi managed to pull off, the math isn't hard at all. If every single aponsor of the bill votes Yes, you were still over 100 votes shy. Do you seriously think that a dozen centrists in heavily blue districts couldn't vote Yes in order to suck the air out of a primary challenge? I guarantee that Engel would have jumped on that in a heartbeat to blow the challenge from Bowman out od the water. Tulsi Gabbard did the same thing by supporting Bernie in 2016 after being known for going on Fox to complain that Obama didn't demonize Muslims more and for not meeting a hard-right foreign head of state that she didn't like.
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  14440.  @nickthompson1812  If she is a union buster and corporate stooge, then that person is a ladder puller, regardless of race or gender.
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  14441. Not if he wins Iowa. He does, and he gets the double. No candidate has won the double (Carter, Gore, Kerry) and lost the nomination. I think if he gets the double, he wins Nevada, and gets close in South Carolina. If he wins California and most of the Super Tuesday states, that's almost the whole ball game right there.
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  14442.  @MrVedude  California comes before NY this time. It's on Super Tuesday, and the latest poll shows him in the lead. Other states that I've seen him ahead are Massachusetts (Warren isn't even at viability [15%], only getting 13) and Wisconsin (double digits). He has held the lead in New Hampshire ever since he announced, so I think it all depends on Iowa, because that one will give him momentum.
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  14443. The more establishment candidates, the harder it is for any one of them to get to 15%, meaning it's harder for any one of them to earn delegates. Come on in, indistinguishable establishment shills! The water's fine.
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  14444.  @TheGreatRakatan  And they have no understanding of history, because the person who has done more for poor people than anyone else in this country's history was FDR, and he was [in my best Ron White voice] loaded.
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  14445. Don't forget 1988. Michael Dukakis was the safe technocrat against Jesse Jackson on the left. End result? Ten states and DC for 112 electoral votes.
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  14446. Actually, there are several other clauses, but these are the Religion Clauses in the First Amendment. It also covers speech, freedom of the press, to peaceably assemble, and to petition the government.
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  14447. ​ @hydratanksamari  I don't know if the OP is being sincere or trolling, but expanding the child tax credit helps pay bills, but we need construction (including public housing) so people can actually buy a house, and we need to do things that our capitalist system will not crack down on when it comes to who can buy a home. In order to get a home loan, banks tend to say that you can't borrow if the house to income ratio is greater than 4:1. In 1950, the median house was less than twice the median income. Today, that ratio is closer to 8. And it's harder to save because rent is so high, so the down payment is that much lower, which means that mortgage payments are higher and people have to pay mortgage insurance. If you can somehow manage to overcome all this and still find a house, shell purchasers will offer to pay above the asking price and in cash, so good luck competing with that. Then, the shell purchasers turn around and put a For Rent sign up, and because way too many people who should be in the housing market are forced into the rental market, prices go sky high, meaning that you can't save, and the cycle gets worse and worse. Housing is in a death spiral at this point, and everyone except for renters benefits from higher prices (landlords get to charge higher rent, sellers get more money, real estate gets its cut, local governments get more revenue from property taxes, which means schools are better, and homeowners get to show off how rich they are), so there is no market incentive to address the problem.
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  14448.  @aliamjon2550  Yeah, which party elected Reagan, Schwarzenegger, Bono, Eastwood, Gopher, etc., to public office?
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  14449.  @firstlast9916  Somebody clearly didn't watch the video and just replied because his fee-fees got hurt. Won't get raped and beaten in private schools? Are you going to be here all week and remind us to tip our waitresses? There are plenty of both that happen in private schools. Then again, some of us don't work backward from our ideology to try to justify Ar-uuuh, Government Bad.
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  14450.  @guynorth3277  The person who is backing you up without the dog whistle is as wrong as you are. Immigrants have held government jobs in the line of succession before. (As a matter of fact, Jennifer Granholm is right now.) All that means is that their office would get skipped if it comes to that.
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  14451.  @arjunsidhu896  Maybe, but it seems like people usually don't once they get into leadership positions.
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  14452.  @brandonsmith9098  So, your logic is that this is a good move for Democrats... who you don't trust to get over the finish line? The whole point is the risk that they lose is too great, especially considering that the crazies actively want to take away the right to vote them out. Do you not see the flaw in this logic?
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  14453.  @brandonsmith9098  Trump got 74MM votes in 2020, and Republicans control the levers in a lot of states and have used it to make it harder to vote. There are too many things that could go wrong.
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  14454.  @jackeagleeye3453  No, it didn't. Trump was already the incumbent in 2020. There was no way he wasn't getting the nomination. Biden won because every Presidential election with an incumbent is a referendum on the incumbent. Republicans gained House seats, and Democrats only won the Senate after Trump's temper tantrum led to depressed turnout in the runoff. The only time the strategy worked was 2012, when Claire McCaskill knew that the only candidate she could beat was Todd Akin. Throwing support behind Gibbs over Meijer strengthened Trump's hand in the party, because seeing someone who voted to impeach survive a Republican primary would have been a huge win for weakening Dear Leader.
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  14455.  @brandonsmith9098  In blue states, it's unnecessary; in purple states, it's dangerous. Looking at the most egregious example of this strategy (against Peter Meijer), you got rid of someone who impeached Der Orangefuhrer and risked giving the seat to an election denier. If John Gibbs wins that seat, it's on your head, just like Trump and Bush are on the heads of people who insisted there was no difference between the two major parties.
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  14456.  @brandonsmith9098  The district isn't "leftist." It is a close district. House races are decided far more on the general mood of the district toward the parties than statewide races like US Senate or gubernatorial elections. Never underestimate how much Republicans hate Democrats and are willing to put up with awful candidates in order to "own the libs."
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  14457.  @jackeagleeye3453  Senate is a different beast than the House. So many of those races are gerrymandered that maybe 5% nationwide are competitive except in the largest of waves. And you forget that Trump actually increased his share of the popular vote from 2016 to 2020 by a point. The bigger difference maker was that the share of third party votes fell from 5.73% to 1.83%. A shift in third party votes that severe for Congressional races is almost unheard of.
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  14458.  @jackeagleeye3453  And a lot can change in three months. As long as you have Trump himself out there and talking about running again, every Republican bears that albatross. Maybe the far better option is to let the chips fall where they may and point out that there are no good Republicans.
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  14459.  @Aeroneus1  Oh, and Tulsi Gabbard voted for Bernie, too. The why is every bit as important as the how. All you've shown as far as ideology is anti-anti-Trump tednencies.
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  14460.  @Aeroneus1  Oh, I know plenty of people in daily life who are decent people who say they're Republicans, but if you vote for unmitigated evil, does it really matter what a nice person you are in your personal life if you do incredible damage to the world? And after January 6th, a lot of Republicans wanted to quit Trump, but who opposed it? That's right: Republican voters who insisted that they get back on board.
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  14461.  @Aeroneus1  Okay. If you think the two-party system is so evil, why do you think we have it, and how is it in any way meaningfully different from multi-party systems where it all boils down to two coalitions, anyway?
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  14462.  @Aeroneus1  No. Enlightened Centrist is a very specific type.
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  14463.  @Aeroneus1  Look up Enlightened Centrist. It's not a compliment, but you fit the bill perfectly.
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  14464.  @taranullius9221  Indeed. Much like Russia pretending to be interested in peace talks only when they are retreating, funny who the fascists only want "civility" and "seeing the value in both sides" when they lose.
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  14465.  @Aeroneus1  The closest you came to an answer is the fact that you don't like that lefties won't find good things to say about fascists. Well, guess what. I don't care how good of a painter Hitler was, either.
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  14466.  @Aeroneus1  At least I know when to use "a" and "an." And since you looked it up, it's very interesting that you kept responding like someone who didn't understand what the term meant.
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  14467.  @Aeroneus1  "you are literally looking for a fight" Says the person playing both siderism and saying that everyone here except you is part of a cult.
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  14468.  @Aeroneus1  Except you haven't given a single specific. You just come in and say "a pox on both your houses." If you want to troll, you will either get ignored or get called on it. All you've done is complain that we don't see the good in the right. Well, I used to, until they invaded the Capitol trying to overthrow democracy and defended the people who did so. I respect Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, and what happened to them? Oh, that's right! They were kicked out of the club.
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  14469. You know it's bad when Brian Kilmeade (or as he was known on The Colbert Report, the brown-haired guy who isn't Steve Doocy) is the voice of reason.
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  14470. Sometimes, trying not to appear political is the most political decision of all. Thanks a lot, Merrick!
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  14471. ​ @TheDistortionPrinciple  We've had a two-party system for our entire history, and we've had plenty of landslide elections. If you count a landslide as a double-digit win, the last was 1984. At five points or above, the last was 2008. Still, it happens.
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  14472. Justice delayed is justice denied.
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  14473.  @jollyjoker888  When he flipped on something, it was usually to sign something that he said was too expensive (the 2002 farm bill) or unconstitutional (McCain-Feingold). His flip flops meant doing something he originally didn't want to.
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  14474. That's how a short king does it!
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  14475.  @jillfeatherman5523  Oh, you got me good. I'd better get some ice for that burn.
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  14476.  @meowmageddon  You volunteer for her opponents. There are dialers where you can get the word out. If you know people who live in their districts, talk to them and maybe encourage them to knock on doors. There's always something you can do.
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  14477.  @nathandrake5544  The UK, either.
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  14478. Here's what I don't get. Didn't the judge tell him not to break any laws when granting him bail? Witness tampering is against the law. So, why isn't he in gail already? I'm sick of thw tenth chances!
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  14479. 15 candidates or so are already halfway there, so it doesn't seem unreasonable at all. Give candidates time to catch on. If not, there is no point in that many candidates to let someone like Biden hide.
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  14480. I would personally prefer to have a shorter work day (six hours) than fewer days in the work week.
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  14481. If he wants to be FDR, he is not there yet. I do think that it is possible for Bernie to play Huey Long to Biden's FDR, but he needs to go a little bit farther in rejecting the assumptions of the past 40 years.
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  14482.  @Vintagebleu  Oh, I get that. I find it ironic that the people who claim to love the Constitution don't understand this basic fact.
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  14483.  @zebulon9307  When you have a fascist trying to use the judiciary to take over, it sadly matters a great deal. See also: Hungary, where Orban pulled it off.
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  14484.  @keirfarnum6811  Slight return or no return?
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  14485. I don't think that what bothered him was the fact that he got conned, but the fact that his Fuhrer admitted that he was scanning him.
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  14486. Before the vaccine, coronavirus was killing nearly 5% of people who got it. After the vaccine, it's less than 1%. These dummies want to talk about something that, at worst, is 1/2500 as likely as literally dying in the pre-vaccine world as their proof. As SohoBrody would say, Despicable!
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  14487.  @rodmiller6872  What damage did Trump do? Well, aside from literally trying to destroy democracy on the way out the door, there was tearing up the pandemic response plan, making states bid for PPE, a tax cut that made Reagan and Bush look like Robin Hood, and stealing nuclear secrets. What good did Wilson do? Child labor laws, increased enforcement of antitrust laws, and the framework that had we listened would have prevented WWII and when we did listen it did prevent WWIII.
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  14488.  @mikealvord55  Not that good at what?
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  14489. Micro Machines!
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  14490. This is what happens when a major political party would literally prefer to suffer themselves in order to prevent people they don't like from getting anything that they feel they don't deserve.
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  14491. It wasn't even his call. The president gave him a chance to form a majority, and he couldn't do it. Knowing the other party couldn't pull it off, it led to elections.
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  14492. Well, if there are two more Democrats to their left, we can get these things passed and not have to kowtow to Manchin and Sinema.
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  14493. Season 1. I think episode 8.
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  14494. So true. I have repeatedly pushed back against the idea that the left is anti-American, but some of these people seem to actively cheer bad things being done as long as we're not the ones doing them.
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  14495.  @willty3099  Would you rather give McConnell the gavel back in the name of ideological purity?
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  14496.  @unc0mm0n2  Manchin is to the left of every Republican in the Senate. If he flipped, he would go hard right in the process. This is literally a question of half a loaf vs. food poisoning making you throw up what bread you already ate.
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  14497.  @philipwipernickle4780  I would also include Inslee as a top tier candidate in my rankings.
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  14498.  @philipwipernickle4780  He is emphasizing the climate crisis. He did a very enlightening interview with Rachel Maddow when he announced. My top four are Bernie, Inslee, Warren, and Williamson in that order.
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  14499.  @philipwipernickle4780  Well, unless you care about the moral implications of your policy and your own humanity.
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  14500.  @Tinker-xr1gi  What I mean is what the final package will look like. Will it include direct payments? Focus on communities? Will there be a comparable package for Native Americans? Things like that.
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  14501.  cassl14  If Tulsi is the peace candidate, why was Bernie the one who actually did the work to invoke the War Powers Act to rein in the efforts against Yemen?
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  14502.  @enriqueflorendo345  You mean the woman who, in an effort to defend Tulsi, said that David Duke was a fan of peace?
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  14503.  cassl14  Some people are blinded by her endorsement of Bernie. Some never bothered to look deep in her record. There are a lot of troubling things before and after her supposed conversion. She supported torture, she opposed the Iran nuclear deal. She praised Sisi for killing protesters. She praised Putin for bombing civilians in Syria and complained that Obama didn't. Oh, and she courted the support of Sheldon Adelson and did his bidding to try to get rid of his competition in the form of online gambling.
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  14504.  @enriqueflorendo345  That was more like the last straw for me. After a while, I get sick and tired of hearing someone dismiss legitimate criticisms based on someone's actual record as a "smear." Maybe that person is so blinded by loyalty to a candidate as to be incapable of making comment about that person.
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  14505.  @KingofHearts  But Yang didn't destroy Rubin. Rubin got him to admit that his ultimate goal is to get rid of the existing social safety net. That is getting owned, not owning Rubin.
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  14506. So, using her logic, it's okay to support someone who wasn't convicted crimninally but who was found by a court to be more likely than not to have done it. So, since it doesn’t really count if it doesn’t result in a conviction, isn't she saying that it didn't really happen to her because she never came forward to the police? NOTE: I am only pointing out how horrible her defense of endorsing Der Orangefuhrer is, not making any comment about what happened to her.
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  14507. I prefer Stuart Smalley's version: Cleopatra isn't the only queen of denial.
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  14508. Once. I can't remember the circumstance, though.
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  14509. The economy had been reopened by the time Biden took office. His biggest numbers for job growth have been this summer, so it is way more than just riding the wave of good timing.
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  14510.  @joelrivard5598  And yet the jobs didn't come back under Trump, because demand wasn't there due to the fact that we were in a much worse place with the pandemic. Considering the way that Trump was obviously inflating the stock market (the P/E ratios in 2018 as markets were starting to enter bear territory were higher than the dot com boom, so we were clearly in need of a correction) shows that economic gains weren't being widely shared. Real wages have also gone up in the last year the way they haven't in decades.
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  14511.  @joelrivard5598  Real wages is wages minus inflation. Wages have gone up double digits while inflation is six percent. Therefore, real wages are up.
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  14512.  @joelrivard5598  If you are reduced to this, you have already proven how weak your argument really is.
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  14513.  @joelrivard5598  Inflation statistics are year over year. If it was six percent a month, prices would have nearly doubled in the past year. If such ignorance weren't so sad, it would actually be pretty funny.
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  14514.  @joelrivard5598  It is year to year. Do you need to read the whole story? It is reported monthly, but the basis of comparison is the year before.
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  14515.  @joelrivard5598  The mere fact that you acknowledge that the previous was year over year while pretending that they suddenly changed their metric says more than anyone else could ever say to point out the flaw in your statement.
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  14516.  @joelrivard5598  Gee, I thought you were going to provide your evidence. If you are going to argue that it is 6.8% for the month of November alone, which would mean an annual rate of 120%, thus having the rate increase 20-fold in one month, it is your responsibility to provide that evidence.
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  14517.  @joelrivard5598  YouTube doesn't let a lot of people provide links, you whiny winger. Provide the article name and title, then.
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  14518.  @joelrivard5598  And I know that you're either lying or stupid, because I have seen those stories, and I actually know to do the math to figure out what that kind of rate that you are claiming means. The 6.8% is over the past year.
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  14519.  @joelrivard5598  And again with bringing up something completely irrelevant to the conversation to distract from the exposure of either your dishonesty or ignorance. It didn't work the first time, and it won't work this time, either.
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  14520.  @joelrivard5598  I just read an article from USA Today that talked about the Fed considering raising interest rates. And it talks about the inflation in November at a 6.8% annual rate. Gee, what a shock. A right winger who didn't know how to interpret data. What a shock. Let me limber up so I can do my victory lap for being accurate about how inflation is measured.
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  14521. Jamie, you are wrong about how disputed elections are handled. It is up to Congress to determine which set of electors gets counted. If Pence tries to announce Republican electors in, say, Pennsylvania, it only takes one member of each House to challenge that, and a simple majority in each House will change that. There have been two challenges in the last 60 years: Poppy led a challenge of a faithless elector in North Carolina who voted for Wallace instead of Nixon in 1969, and there was a challenge of Bush's Ohio votes in 2005. Neither succeeded, but that is what happened. There are safeguards that you aren't acknowledging so you ca be edgy.
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  14522. ​ @JosiePC44  I've only bought two things from Amazon since October 2020, and that was only after trying literally every other place I could find to get. Everything I see about this company makes me feel better about avoiding this company.
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  14523. Why?
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  14524.  charles allan  You mean Tulsi "I'm a hawk on the war on terror, took money from defense contractors until 2017, and kept voting for the defense budget thereafter" Gabbard? No, she lost because people started doing the most basic digging and realized how disturbing some of her positions really are.
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  14525. You have to propose something that will get more than a handful of votes in order to move the conversation.
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  14526. This kindling has sadly been around for quite some time. I remember wingers trying to tell me ten years ago that children of illegal immigrants (and some even used the slur that I will not repeat), so they shouldn't get citizenship due to the war loophole of the Fourteenth Amendment. It just took a spark, and sadly, we have a big one.
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  14527. You forgot fresh ;-)
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  14528. Well, if she does so in the privacy of her home and doesn't take anyone down with her, so be it. That's my major problem with the anti-vaccine crowd. If you want to ignore best practices, don't take up a bed in the hospital.
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  14529.  @5675492  As long as you have the Electoral College, you will have a two-party system. If you don't like it, complaining about two parties won't do a thing.
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  14530.  @5675492  We are in agreement on that front. I was only trying to make a point that, despite all of the problems with the system, it is still the responsibility of the people in a democracy to say that we don't want this. Money in politics is of course the biggest obstacle that we face now.
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  14531. ​ @monsieurgarf4058  And how is letting Republicans win because of a tantrum to work out? Oh, that's right: that led to five of the six members of the right-wing bloc that is actively working to destroy democracy.
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  14532. Great video. Just one problem: right-wing populism is fake populism. Ruy Texeira of all people explained the difference in the best way I have ever seen: left-wing (or real) populism points to struggle between the wealthy elite and the rest of society. Right-wing (or fake) populism complains about the elite, but it uses an other seen as lower that is conspiring with the elite (immigrants in the case of Trump, and almost always some sort of minority) that is the real problem. No real populist cuts taxes for rich people. Donald Trump does not deserve the honor of a title once held by great men like William Jennings Bryan.
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  14533.  Flightof2Owls  That dummy Cruz even comes out and saying it, calling it an addiction that must be stopped in its tracks. Because people might like everyone being covered and not paying these evil middlemen. The horror!
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  14534.  @brianel3006  Such as?
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  14535.  @brianel3006  He seemed to get quite indignant once the abortion questions started, and he implied with his apology once he realized that Neil is conservative that people on the left don't deserve his respect. That doesn't sound like addressing everything to me.
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  14536.  @brianel3006  He didn't say it in those exact words, but he clearly implied it. He said that the interviewer was biased, but when he later found out that he was an arch-Tory, he apologized because he thought he was a leftist, not because he was rude and refused to answer questions. He said that people who disagree with him on abortion aren't really Jewish. That counts to me as dismissing people with different views. He is used to the circle jerk that is the IDW and didn't know how to handle it when someone pushed back and asked hard questions. And it was going badly long before the abortion questions. I saw the whole interview on the BBC link. That was merely the climax.
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  14537.  @brianel3006  No, Judaism is not opposed to abortion. Most Jewish theologians refer to a fetus as a potential life, not a life. Again, what difference does it make whether Andrew Neil is on the left or playing devil's advocate? If he doesn't like people asking him critical questions, then he needs to stay in his bubble.
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  14538.  @brianel3006  "Heretical"? In other words, you wanted a sycophant to interview him.
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  14539.  @brianel3006  That was the only loaded question he asked, but if you think it's just fine to force every woman who has a miscarriage to then have to go through a police investigation, maybe that is going backward big time. Asking Ben Shapiro about the stupid and bigoted things that he wrote (and either defends or lies about today) is perfectly legitimate.
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  14540.  @danmortenson5274  The money has to be enough to actually run a campaign. $5000 might be enough for a small-town city council race, but that's about it. Yes, people will always go for the known entity. My point is that any public funding has to be enough to get other candidates the opportunity to get known. I'm helping a friend of mine in a state senate race where the district is in Philly. Even though he's putting most of his effort into grassroots organizing, the goal is half a million dollars. I am all for public funding with taxpayer dollars. I just don't want to be so stingy that no one takes it up given the restrictions involved (See: Presidential Campaign Matching Funds, where the only candidate to take it in 2016 [Martin O'Malley] went nowhere, and I don't think any candidate took it in 2020).
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  14541. Yang is a con artist who has been exposed many times. He said that he was a Bernie supporter in 2016, but he didn't even vote in the 2016 primary, and there is no record of him making any donations. He is a total fraud who needs to be seen as such.
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  14542. This is the exact joke they made nine years ago. Are they really that mad about a joke that has been gone over and over?
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  14543. They love making it hard for us to vote. When their machinations affect them, it's an outrage. These are probably the same people defending making it a felony to give people water who are waiting in line to vote.
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  14544. @Paulie Doodle Actually, it's people born from 1981 to either 1996 or 1999. I've heard both. Not sure when the end date is established. Those born after are called Generation Z.
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  14545. @Paulie Doodle Oh, okay. I had seen some say the cut off was 1997 and others 2000 and people talking about Generation Z voting patterns, so I wasn't sure which was the final line.
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  14546.  @ezajurrahman9421  The DNC isn't nearly the enemy as a literal fascist who is making noise about being President for Life is.
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  14547.  @ezajurrahman9421  If Biden wins and Democrats win the Senate, Bernie becomes Budget Committee Chair. If Trump wins, we get nothing. Who is the biggest enemy again?
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  14548. They have always given their opinions.
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  14549. @Abdul Jalloh You are aware that Mussolini was an actual fascist, right? And the orange man is bad.
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  14550. It was definitely Thomas or someone affiliated with him. He was there for the Casey decision in 1992, and he was furious that Kennedy switched his votes. It was someone who wanted to lock people in.
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  14551. In my office, the union chief steward was basically a gay male Regina George. The office is 70% female, and not knowing how girl culture works at all, as the strategist for the opposition, I actually watched this movie to try to understand what we were dealing with.
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  14552.  @konstantinakatmada8019  The opposition won, I ended up finishing out the unexpired term because the new chief had to move and no one else wanted it, and I lost re-election. I guess it's true what they say about going after the bear.
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  14553. ​ @debbiem7443  Do not collect $200.
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  14554. Longer than that. It was gone since at least 2016. Watch his debate with Sam Seder.
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  14555.  @furiousmat  Trump said that wages are too high in America. Talking about the silent majority and the forgotten man are not populism. If it doesn't have actual policies designed to help working people and the poor, it's not populism, it is demagoguery.
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  14556.  @furiousmat  Anti-environmentalism isn't populism. If you haven't noticed, there are fewer mining jobs now than there were four years ago. Opposition to trade deals isn't necessarily populist, especially if you think that wages are too high.
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  14557. I've dealt with dummies like these who seem to think that lefties should be the mirror of the Freedom Caucus. The Freedom Caucus strategy works for them because they don't want to do anything. We want things done. Therefore, getting a little bit of what you want gets you closer to your goal than getting none of what you want.
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  14558.  @jackharper_games9046  You don't say he deserved death, but you said earlier "nature did that for us thankfully." That sure seems like it to me, you ghoul.
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  14559.  @jackharper_games9046  So, you like freedom and advocate burning books of people who you don't like? I thought one of Dave Rubin's i-DEE-uhs was that we should support free speech. You clearly don't.
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  14560. I am allowed to vote early, but I just prefer to go to the polling place after work, even though I knew the my candidates for governor, senator, and state senator won the primary. (My state house candidate lost, but the nomination was the general if memory serves me right.) That is my choice, and if someone would prefer to vote early, that should also be allowed.
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  14561.  @kingmajin2829  The problem is that they make other innocent people sick. If they were the only ones suffering for their stupidity, more power to them, but they are not.
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  14562.  @Mr.aAdDies  The he is referring to Machin. Sorry this is beyond you. It's very simple: the Republicans have made it obvious that they will never allow a Democratic President to nominate a Supreme Court Justice as long as they control the Senate. If Manchin became a Republican tomorrow, McConnell immediately gets control of the calendar, and the vote gets canceled. Sorry this is too complicated for you to comprehend.
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  14563.  @darkdan3379  Oh, so you're an accelerationist? Well, why didn't you just say from the beginning that you are a psychopath who wants people to suffer if you don't get your way on everything? News flash: you don't add by subtracting.
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  14564.  @darkdan3379  Not sure if you deleted your question or YouTube is acting goofy again and only letting me see it in the notifications, but I literally just gave you an example: he is voting for Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court. And spare me about how there are three Republicans voting for her, because if you've been paying attention, none of them said they would until she had the votes to be confirmed. Show me any nominee for anything the last two years who got approved with any Democrats voting No. And I don't know where you get this idea that his seat is "assured." He only won by three points the last time against an uncharismatic lump whose wife was a lobbyist for the biggest manufacturer of Oxycontin. Quite frankly, I doubt he runs for re-election given some of the other things I have seen (look at how many people were convinced that he was ultimately going to accept some watered down version of BBB, as he did have a tendency to eventually do that on these sort of things), and if he doesn't, that seat is as good as gone. The 2020 nominee lost to Capito by 43 points, and even popular Democrats have lost re-election in the past decade.
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  14565.  @darkdan3379  That doesn't make any sense. Yes, the Republicans did start the Supreme Court thing. What does that have to do with the fact that Manchin hasn't gone along with it? If he became a Republican, then they have already made it obvious that they will block everyone that Democrats put up. If your response is "this person votes against me, so I don't ever want him to give me anything," then you're setting yourself up for decades of bad decisions. A majority of Justices on the Supreme Court were put there by candidates who lost the popular vote but got the office in part because enough people in certain states refused to vote for the Democratic nominee as not good enough. My mom has an expression for stuff like that: you're cutting your nose off to spite your face.
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  14566.  @nicholasrapose196  I agree that he's incredibly frustrating. When I lived in West Virginia, I voted for other candidates as a protest, because he was never in any close races. (Had I stayed longer, I would have voted for him in the 2008 primary because his primary opponent ran to his right.) However, I would have voted for him in a heartbeat if those races were close. But what do you expect from someone in a state where Trump won by 42 and 39 points? Maybe if we mobilized ourselves more in close races in Maine and North Carolina, we wouldn't be in this situation in the first place. I get the frustration, but we shouldn't take it to self-destructive places. I'm all for anything to embarrass him as long as he does awful stuff like this and won't vote in a way that helps his constituents more often. (In all honesty, I think he's going to retire, because he used to be much better at threading the needle to avoid completely alienating the left, and when he was the deciding vote, he didn't torpedo legislation in the past, just wanted to water it down.) Now, Sinema on the other hand, hers is just baffling. Her state went blue in 2020, barely went red in 2016, and there is another Senator to her left in the state who is far more popular.
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  14567.  @ronniestobbart4759  Who in West Virginia has a chance of winning who is better? I want a name.
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  14568.  @rabbitskipper4454  That is accountability? Was he accountable when he refused to release the tapes of the racist cops? Was he accountable when he said to the people of his town that any police officer who had substianted racism would be off the force when the shooter already had such a well-documented history? He said he was sorry the same way as when South Park spoofed BP.
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  14569. It's something that some who have these wonderful things called unions still have, and other people should have, too.
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  14570.  @aliamjon2550  And you say this like you are celebrating. Nice to expose yourself as a shill.
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  14571. Well, I guess now we know that not only is Aaron Dickson a pathetic troll who has to make up imaginary friends to agree with himself, but now we know that his positions are based in nothing but a reflexive opposition.
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  14572.  @jboushka  If you are talking about David not being born in the United States, were his parents American citizens? I am curious, because I have never seen one way or the other, but if either one was, he would be eligible. Being born in a foreign country never affected the campaigns of Ted Cruz (Canada), John McCain (Panama), or George Romney (Mexico).
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  14573.  @upat65  George Romney was Mitt Romney's father. He was head of American Motors (it merged with Chrysler in the early 1990s), governor of Michigan, and a 1968 Presidential candidate. He was born in Mexico (his father and grandfather moved there after Utah banned polygamy), and moved to the United States at age five during the Mexican Revolution. I knew David was born in Argentina, but I never heard if his parents were also Argentinian natives.
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  14574.  @jboushka  That would be delicious.
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  14575. Actually, it would take 11 Republicans not voting in order to make Jefferies Speaker. Basically, every two members who don't vote reduces the threshold by one. In order to get the threshold to 212 (the number Jeffries gets), the number voting needs to be 423. With one vacancy, there are 434 members-elect. So, it takes 11 no shows for Jeffries to get it.
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  14576. 10 years ago, I saw a clip of Meagan McCain on Real Time. Paul Begala criticized Reagan's actions in Lebanon and Grenada, her response was, "Well, I wasn't born yet." Begala shot back, "Well, I wasn't alive for the French Revolution, but I know what happened." It was a beautiful moment, and she clearly hasn't learned.
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  14577. Indeed. I keep hearing people say that he is funny, but nobody can provide an example. Some try to point to his forgettable Comedy Central special, but they miss the point and can't actually point to anything funny within the set.
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  14578. ​ @TreyDobe  That, and "I could shoot somebody in the middle of Fifth Avenue, and I wouldn't lose any votes."
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  14579. Actually, he couldn't lift his arms over his shoulders. Not the first time Der Orangefuhrer has mocked a disability, and it definitely won't be the last.
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  14580.  @rsync9490  It's a Presidential year. She won't make it out of the primary.
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  14581. "Limited government" for what was literally the biggest power grab by the federal government in American history. I'd hate to see how he'd explode when someone compared it to the Articles of Confederation.
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  14582. 0:44 You are correct, Sam. Anyone born after 1960 has a full retirement age of 67. My dad was born in 1948, and his full retirement age was 66.
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  14583. I'm a Caseworker, and it's a huge hassle dealing with the private insurance companies. It should be any doctor or facility that takes Medicaid, period, instead of dealing with networks.
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  14584. A few weeks ago, I read a book called What Went Wrong with Capitalism. It definitely wasn't the book I was expecting. One thing I noticed was just how callous the author was toward anyone who wasn't a titan of industry. Remember that they don't think of you or think of you in the worst way if you do come into their thoughts.
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  14585.  @jonny-b4954  Not sure I get the point you're making.
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  14586.  @carvedwood1953  So, Bernie isn't allowed to run either time because of some artifi limit. Biden has been the best President of my lifetime (he is my eighth), so should we have been denied that because he was 78 when he was sworn in?
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  14587.  @henryannis8752  So, they were "unarmed" even though they carried zip ties, built a gallows, and some had tools for electrocution such as that guy and Arkansas who stole Pelosi's letter? Don't play whataboutism. You say that you oppose armed rebellion, but you keep trying to defend it. Is that a phrase that you are giving to try to sound reasonable to try to catch people who disagree with you off guard?
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  14588.  @MrFungus420  No, the "militia" has not been the citizenry. It was the precursor to what is now the National Guard. Article I, Section 8 lays out its role.
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  14589.  @henryannis8752  There were people killed by those trying to overthrow democracy. Just because they didn't use guns to do it doesn't mean that they didn't kill people. Nice Sideshow Bob pivot though: Attempted treason! You don't get a Nobel Prize for attempted chemistry. It's denialism like yours that shelters the fascists. Ironic that you think the left is trying to "destroy freedom." It seems like there are always two kinds in order to try to make a side sound reasonable to normies: denial and minimizing. Somehow, you've managed to do both. Enjoy OAN and Newsmax.
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  14590.  @MrFungus420  Constitution supersedes US Code.
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  14591.  @underworld7148  Except they are being detained for more than 20 days, they are then being separated from their parents with no way of return. There is a word for that: kidnapping.
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  14592.  @robertpresley1503  And this is someone who has several usernames as well.
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  14593.  @marybrown7203  I'm not sure. At first, I thought it was burner accounts that were removed. Maybe it's some weird way of saying that they don't care and laughing that they got people to respond.
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  14594. ​ @Whoyouwishyouwere  You: It's bad to subjugate people to do what you want. Also You: Supports an economic system that is literally a dictatorship in the workplace that inherently concentrates wealth and power at the top and you want to do nothing to rein its excesses in.
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  14595. 1:28 reminds me of this guy in my National Guard unit 20 years ago who repeatedly said, "We could pay off the national debt if we increased exports by 15% and decreased imports by 30%." Seeing some people think that was wise, I finally asked him how we should do that. He got flustered and said that I should come up with an idea. I said, "Well, you could try tariffs, but nothing would stop other countries from doing the same thing to us, so there goes your exports." The sad thing is that some people thought nobody would dare enact retaliatory tariffs.
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  14596. @Gabe Rumoro Superdelegates have no role if a majority is had in the first round. Right now, only three candidates are at or near levels of viability, and I have a feeling that, if Warren finishes behind Bernie in New Hampshire, her campaign is effectively over.
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  14597. Evil Turtle has been saying the quiet part out loud since at least "our top political priority is to make Barack Obama a one-term President." When I think he can't be more obvious, I am proven wrong.
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  14598.  @kingdingaling413  No, he suggested working with Boogaloo Boys, and he was too lazy to look them up to find out that not only do they as a whole have a strategy of pretending to be left, but his particular guest did the exact same thing based on his history.
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  14599.  @VMohdude-  WWII? The Civil War?
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  14600.  @VMohdude-  No, but the argument could be made that they were involved with the attacks given their support of Al Qaeda.
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  14601.  @VMohdude-  If there was a strike to get Bin Laden, Afghanistan surely would have deemed it as an act of war, so what should have been done?
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  14602. @Henry Russell Indeed. I don't understand why people like him. He's just weird for the sake of being weird.
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  14603. And look at what Ed Schultz had to say about Putin on MSNBC and what he had to say on RT. I don't think it's a coincidence that he only got invited to CPAC after the new job.
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  14604.  @SclountDraxxer  Here is a compilation before and after his switch: https://www.thedailybeast.com/ed-schultz-touts-vladimir-putin-and-himself-in-bonkers-interview
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  14605. ​ @Know_Your_Enemy42  And that is why Marla Maples will always be the best mother of anyone who birthed the big orange dummy's children.
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  14606. "They weren't booing, they were saying 'Boo-urns! Boo-urns!'"
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  14607. If McCarthy hadn't gone on This Week to blame Democrats for nearly shutting the government down after they bailed him out, he almost certainly would have survived. Johnson clearly learned that lesson.
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  14608. Maybe if this guy could shut up for five seconds and listen, he might actually hear what Sam and Michael are saying.
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  14609.  @toyeb5749  It screwed us in Generation X, too. Our oldest were 16 when he took office and the economy stopped working for the vast majority of the people.
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  14610.  @seanshameless0  I would say least bad, but you are spot on.
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  14611.  @nodnarbeht9505  And what does that actually accomplish?
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  14612.  @HaeravonFAQs  What does that do for getting things passed now?
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  14613.  @nodnarbeht9505  No political party in the United States has the ability to ban people. If they did, David Duke would have never won elected office. And they're in the Senate now. It is 50-50 now, making every Democrat the deciding vote. So, how does that actually accomplish anything for getting legislation through now?
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  14614.  @nodnarbeht9505  Trump won West Virginia by 39 points. Manchin's 2018 primary opponent lost the 2020 general election by 43 points. Who do you think is going to actually win West Virginia who is to his left? And don't give me this "he is no different than a Republican" because literally no Republican has ever been to his left in his 11 years in the Senate.
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  14615.  @nodnarbeht9505  The fact that you think that the point is dumb shows that you have no understanding of American political partisan history. Before Barack Obama became President, the most conservative Democratic Senator was always to the right of the most liberal Republican Senator. Nelson was to the right of Snowe from 2007-08 and Lincoln Chafee in 2005-06. Zell Miller was to the right of Chafee from 2000-04, etc. No overlap in ideology is a relatively new phenomenon. Then again, you're pulling stuff out of your butt about parties being allowed to just randomly kick people out, and the more you type, the more you demonstrate your ignorance, so do you just hope that probability will kick in sooner or later?
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  14616.  @nodnarbeht9505  Maybe you should do a Google search and learn about which state you are actually talking about. As far as "the illusion of the majority," the Democratic Party has always been more of a coalition than an ideologically united movement. And I gave examples of things that actually happened. You sound like one of these idiots who would turn down a minimum wage increase if it was $14.99, or if it took any longer than you wanted for it to kick in. It wasn't Republican votes that put cutting the child poverty rate in half last year over the finish line. And you also don't understand the importance of judges, either.
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  14617.  @nodnarbeht9505  And if either one is out, McConnell immediately becomes majority leader, and nothing gets done at all. So, probability still hasn't kicked in yet, because expelling a member from a legislative body is not the same thing as kicking that person out of a party, and the former takes a 2/3 vote.
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  14618.  @nodnarbeht9505  Yes, because autocorrect forgets that there are two Virginias all the time. I've had autocorrect change words, but I've literally never seen it delete words when you spell out an entire word that fits the contexts and works as a state. And you want to know what helps Republicans get into power? They celebrate every accomplishment no matter how small, and if we get 90% of what we want, we spend all of our time complaining about the 10% that we didn't get. That, and the fact that too many of our voters are a) lazy (won't bother to vote), and/or b) have no sense of strategy (think that voting third party is a viable strategy to get what you want). I dealt with tons of people who whined that the stimulus check was $1400 instead of $2000, and others who complained that because they didn't have kids, they didn't get the child tax credit. Then again, I'm not the one who wants to literally hand power to Mitch McConnell and think that's going to suddenly help. Pro tip: the American people don't really care who controls Congress. If things don't happen, they blame the President's party, and you want to guarantee that literally nothing will happen for the next year, which will guarantee that literally nothing will for the next two.
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  14619.  @nodnarbeht9505  "Biden has already filled the majority of judge seats and it's literally the only thing he has gotten done?" Literally not true. He also got the coronavirus bill and the infrastructure bill through. Thank you for proving my point about never celebrating accomplishments.
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  14620.  @nodnarbeht9505  Again, expelling members from office not the same thing as kicking people out of a party.
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  14621.  @nodnarbeht9505  Also, you are aware that judicial openings continue to happen, right? One example, if he ever learns from the last vacancy, is Stephen Breyer. If you think that McConnell won't hold the seat open for three years, I can give you a great deal on the Brooklyn Bridge.
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  14622.  @nodnarbeht9505  Again, you fail to understand what the word "never" means. Considering that you also thought the idea of ideological overlap was ridiculous, that shows that, deep down, you know that the word "never" is literally false. I gave examples, and two of the three examples I gave were examples where literally zero Senate Republicans voted to help.
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  14623.  @nodnarbeht9505  "he has filled the majority of judge seats [sic] that will be open before midterms" And "majority" is not the same as "all," is it?
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  14624.  @nodnarbeht9505  Why do I have confidence that they would vote for a Supreme Court Justice? The same reason why they voted to confirm 40 federal judges last year, the most by any President since 1961.
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  14625.  @nodnarbeht9505  Let's just assume, for the sake of argument, that you are right about expulsion (you are not, because expulsion means that someone is kicked out of Congress, not a party). Even if one or both of them don't retaliate by caucusing with the Republicans, that means that Democrats no longer have a majority in Congress, and not only does McConnell get control of the calendar, but Lindsey Graham gets the gavel in the Senate Judiciary Committee. You've watched too much "Prime Minister's Questions." Our system doesn't work that way.
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  14626.  @dabblerdeluxe775  There is a left-wing UBI and a right-wing UBI. The difference? Lefties want to use UBI to supplement the existing social safety net (with the possible exception of TANF), and right wingers want to use it to get rid of it. Yang might have invoked Martin Luther King, but his plan was Milton Friedman.
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  14627.  @FedThePoopy  He is the biggest liar running for President not named Donald Trump. And that is saying quite a lot.
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  14628.  @camelopardalis84  I fell for it at first, so I'm guessing that is the mistake that he made.
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  14629.  @camelopardalis84  The he was the person who linked to you. It seemed like he made the same mistake I did of missing the joke. Misreading is the "that."
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  14630.  @SR-lh4rm  Universal health care is a goal. Medicare for All is a method of getting to universal health care through expanding the existing government program to cover everyone. Yang doesn't do that. Therefore, he doesn't support Medicare for All. And his proposal for universal health care is to maybe someday get there after costs get cut, even though it is the getting rid of competing insurance that causes the savings, so it sounds like he maybe someday likes the idea of universal health care.
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  14631. Speaking of Pence, does anyone else get the vibes of a less likable Norman Bates from him?
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  14632. Companies care about control far more than they cared about results. Take the UAW strike against GM in 2019. The first thing GM did was take away the health insurance. More than once, GM executives have complained about the cost of American health care (including stating that health insurance adds more cost to a car than the steel in the car), but they won't push for Medicare for All, because they want that plan to dangle over the workers' heads. You can also see it in the push to force workers back into the office, despite all evidence showing that work from home has been a massive success.
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  14633. Leona Helmsley thought so, too, and how did that end up?
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  14634. Der Orangefuhrer: We need a President who can get people together. Also Der Orangefuhrer: If you supported any of my primary opponents, you are banned from my group.
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  14635.  @timmins316  Did Hillary Clinton have Parkinson's? Did the DNC murder Seth Rich? Was 9/11 an inside job?
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  14636.  @niccolea2086  When this stupid notion was nearing its peak, one of its advocates kept telling me that I should go there to watch how they'll show their grassroots strength, and this when I kept telling him that it was a poor strategy and wouldn't give anyone any health care. Finally, I asked after the impeachment was over, and he estimated that 50 people showed up. That's not going to put the fear of God into anyone. It's pretty obvious to anyone who wasn't too far in the YouTube bubble that this wasn't going anywhere.
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  14637.  @S.Freud.  That is so unfair! As Lincoln Osiris put it, Forrest Gump looked and acted stupid, but he was really smart deep down.
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  14638. No "The sea was angry that day, my friend"? Blasphemy!
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  14639. I read a book about political cycles called The Great Game of Politics. Some things were pretty far off, but one thing that I did think was very insightful is that the author argued that majority party Presidents (i.e., every Republican after Reagan) will try to emulate the paradigm maker, and it is more important to look at the individual for the minority party to see if it is someone who accepts the paradigm (Clinton, Obama) or someone who doesn't (Bernie).
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  14640. I will never understand why the crazy are always willing to do so much work since they hate government so much. Back in February, my daughter's school district was weighing easing the mask requirements. I was one of two to argue caution, and so many people wanted to complain that they had to put people in the auditorium to filter in and out. They went on for nearly four hours, and no one person was allowed to talk for more than five minutes.
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  14641.  @jon.wilson  Sorry for the delay. When I first got the message it was just as I was getting my daughter ready for school. If the link disappears, go to Reich Wing Watch on YouTube. The video is called "The Jimmy Dore Deception" and the section starts a little after 25 minutes in.
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  14642.  @jon.wilson  Jimmy Dore supporters said it was fake, but they haven't debunked it. There is plenty wrong with "wanting politicians to earn their votes" if they want a litmus test based on not understanding how things work that won't get anyone what they claim to want and to help out the people who want the opposite of what they claim to want. Force the Vote is theater. It is not serious organizing.
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  14643. ​ @nottelling4828  What is his "excellent financial advice"? I've read one of his books, and his investment advice is horrible and he takes money from high-commission vehicles that he pushes on his show.
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  14644. Romney represents one of the reddest states in the country. He has a much greater risk of losing in the primary.
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  14645. I find it amusing that a libertarian/Objectivist actually argued that people will do better... in a society.
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  14646. How much more evidence do some people need to see that she isn't who we thought she was?
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  14647. I remember Jillian Mele from the traffic report on NBC10. Quite disappointing to see where she ended up afterwards.
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  14648.  @marmalaterjones4526  What are some examples of this "sharp wit"? When I used to watch occasionally, it all seemed on the level of a Borscht Belt comedian to me.
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  14649.  @seaofgreens  Nope. Still don't understand the point.
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  14650.  @dman5ful  If he is "absolutely hilarious," what are some examples of his hilarity? What is a bit of his that you find to be funny? Or more than one, since he is "absolutely" hilarious.
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  14651. @ocelot. Seriously, you Doreknobs sound like Trump suing Bill Maher for demanding a birth certificate to proof that his mother wasn't an orangutan.
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  14652.  @weneedcriticalthinking  I take it that your pretending that the Seder/Dore debate never took place? Look at the trajectory of people like HA Goodman, and you will find that they are very similar.
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  14653.  Harry Mann Jr  Apparently, you would rather pay more and get less.
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  14654.  Harry Mann Jr  What is your share, what is your employer share, and what is your co-pay/deductible situation?
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  14655.  Harry Mann Jr  So, your premiums aren't deducted from your paycheck? Looking only at taxes does not look at the actual picture. And, if your premiums are deducted from your income, then they would no longer be under Bernie; if they are not, then you wouldn't have to write a check to your insurance company any longer. Since you said you would be better off, let's look at an actual and honest comparison.
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  14656.  Harry Mann Jr  Okay, I will try to make this as clear as possible. Bernie is raising taxes while getting rid of expenses. I did the math comparing existing premiums to Bernie's proposal. 32.01>11. So, I am paying more to private insurance for less coverage. I would much rather see 11% between employer and employee contribution than 32.01%, especially since I would no longer have to pay co-pays and deductibles. The net income will be higher by removing that expense, because the taxes are lower than the premiums, which would disappear.
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  14657.  @marcoszavala8435  And we aren't "stuck in Ukraine." If you really support peace, then you will support Ukraine, because if Putin wins, he will feel vindicated, and it's just a matter of time before he invades a NATO country and we have WWIII. There is a huge difference between isolation and peace.
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  14658.  @herculesbrofister265  That and hating Muslims.
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  14659.  @Atmost11  Yeah. Why try to get people sympathetic to your cause in Congress? Speaking of which, when I ran for a seat in the WV House of Delegates in 2006, I remember someone lamenting that there weren't more pro-choice legislators. Well, considering that the big anti-abortion group in the state was a PAC that gave money to candidates and the pro-choice group was a 501(c)(3) that couldn't, what did they expect?
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  14660.  Flightof2Owls  A lot of them remind me of the journey of watching the show Rising. I liked it at first, although it did seem odd that they seemed to hate the establishment Democrats more than Trump. Then, after Bernie lost the primary, they went off the rails. Krystal Ball went full Never Biden (at least until seeing Trump's response to protesters, but her turning back was a weird angle where she defended violent protests), and Saagar revealed his full fascist leanings. I almost never watch it, but the videos that show up in my feed are far more critical of Biden than Trump. I actually met her when she came to Philadelphia to a DSA meeting the day of the South Carolina primary and took a picture with her and my daughter. It's shocking how quickly someone can go downhill so quickly. At first, I thought it was just the nature of a primary, but was I wrong the whole time?
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  14661. @Mars Falcon Yes. I expect to be disappointed 90% of the time by President Biden, but preventing a fascist dictatorship and naming the successor to RBG so that President AOC or anyone else can get bills through Congress that will survive the Supreme Court is good enough for me.
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  14662.  Flightof2Owls  I live in one of the three states that decided the 2016 election, so I knee from the beginning that I would vote for the Democratic nominee, although once the dust settled of 2019, it became obvious to me that only Bernie would get my weekends. If I still lived in West Virginia (where Biden couldn't use my vote) or New York (where he doesn't need it), that might be a different story, but I don't have that luxury in Pennsylvania. Agreed about who runs The Hill and whether or not this means that she is being paid to help out Republicans or if that just happens to be the effect of her commentary. Sometimes in life, you just have to k know when to settle. (If you've heard of her, Taylor Tomlinson has a funny bit about settling.)
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  14663.  Flightof2Owls  Indeed. Even if I still lived in WV and said to myself, "I live in a safe state, so I have the luxury of leaving the top of my ballot blank," I certainly wouldn't be trying to talk other people who didn't have that luxury out of voting for Biden.
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  14664.  Flightof2Owls  Well, I guess we are seeing yet more evidence of our previous conversation about how difficult it is to tell the difference between people on the hard left and right-wing trolls trying to depress turnout on the left.
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  14665. I've seen part of it to see people mocking it, and pretty much the whole thing is "I'm gay! Look at all the gay people in the room!"
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  14666.  @patriotforhumanity7174  Well, after I sorted through the tinfoil, it became obvious that you have no strategy, just a plaintive yell.
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  14667. Reagan pulled it off in a 1980 Republican primary debate.
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  14668. ​ @corvos3719  "Roseanne has 23 personalities. I guess one of them is a Nazi." Tom Arnold
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  14669. I know that Trump and Robert Kiyosaki got in trouble for calling their hotel lobby scams "university," but not sure about anyone else. Maybe that's why Prager calls his PragerU instead of Prager University.
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  14670.  @freetrailer4poor  As far as "real wage growth," look up the Pullman strike.
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  14671. [In Jeff Foxworthy voice] If someone gets paid more than you do to tell you how to do your job... you might be a worker.
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  14672.  @ofdrumsandchords  It shows up in notifications, but when I click on the thread, it's gone. Not sure what's going on with it.
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  14673.  @ofdrumsandchords  "Thousands of people are on the roads of exile. So what game are Biden and the western [governments playing]? They send weapons but, fortunately, they don't want to get in the fight. Do they want Russia to get bogged down like in Afghanistan? Meanwhile, people die." And how many people die if Ukraine surrenders? What stops Putin from doing it again in a few years to get more of Ukraine? Sometimes, you have to stand up to a fascist, expansionist government that is using literal Blood and Soil and Lebensraum arguments to justify its expansion.
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  14674.  @ofdrumsandchords  "That's totally cynical. Unless they are stupid. Ukraine can't win a war against Russia. Zelenskyy knows that." Ask Ho Chi Minh if it's impossible. Russia should know wars of attrition better than anyone. A stalemate is as good as a win for Ukraine.
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  14675.  @ofdrumsandchords  "But he understood that NATO and the EU won't help him a little late." He is getting help. Just not the full extent of what he wants. International soldiers are less effective in insurgent warfare. It needs to be the people defending their own land. A no-fly zone was always going to be a non-starter.
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  14676.  @ofdrumsandchords  Better than your alternative of just rolling over and giving in to a fascist invader, because appeasement worked so well the last time.
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  14677.  @ofdrumsandchords  And you want to just give Putin whatever he wants. How has it worked in the past giving expansionist dictators everything they want?
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  14678.  @ofdrumsandchords  Oh, I did understand. You keep saying that Ukraine should just give up and let Russia get whatever it wants. I don't care how you try to dress it up, because that is the fundamental point of every post you have published in this thread. I pointed out how smaller armies win, and you just respond with tired cliches about how that means that people will die, and then you go silent when asked a follow-up about how many people will die in the long run if Putin gets what he wants.
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  14679.  @ofdrumsandchords  Are you serious? The person who just says that one side should surrender because another army is bigger is giving someone else lectures about "understanding geopolitics"? You are aware that Russia gets a veto in the UN, right? For someone who "knows geopolitics," that's a pretty odd statement. Nothing you have said shows an understanding of military or diplomatic history, let alone "geopolitics." "He doesn't want Ukraine." "The worst event of the 20th century was the collapse of the Soviet Union." Vladimir Putin "Ukraine has no history. It only existed because Russia created it." Vladimir Putin Yeah, he has no overarching territorial ambitions at all. Continue to embrace the person willfully bombing hospitals with some nonsense about "look beyond good and evil." It's because you know that there is nothing just in this war.
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  14680.  @ofdrumsandchords  "you wrongly think that I picked a side" Oh, but you did pick a side. You're just not honest about it. You kept arguing that it is irresponsible for Zelenskyy to do anything other than full surrender and giving Putin exactly what he wants. You have insisted that Russia has already won. It doesn't take a genius to see which hymnal you are singing off of. Re: no evidence, this is the same thing that people said before Putin invaded in the first place. Pointing out that someone who is aggressive and keeps bragging about his non-comventional arsenal might use it is hardly a stretch.
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  14681.  @ofdrumsandchords  You didn't say that Russia already won and that any moment Zelenskyy delays surrender kills his people? It doesn't take a scholar to figure out whose side you are taking.
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  14682. @COMMIES ARE DUMB AF! AHAHA! So, libertarians have the same ideology as Sam? Who hung up on whom when Darryl Perry, a Libertarian Presdiential candidate, called the show?
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  14683. @COMMIES ARE DUMB AF! AHAHA! Obviously, you haven't watched the show.
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  14684.  @Martinroadsguy  Absolutely. I still remember the GM strike from 2019. The very first thing GM did when the strike began was take away health insurance. They clearly see the control as more important than the money, unless they worry that they'd end up having to share more of the profits with one big negotiating chip gone.
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  14685.  @Angel-sf3ij  You mean Susan "greatly concerned" Collins? She hasn't shown any since the vote to repeal the ACA.
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  14686.  @julianmarsh1378  When did they try to stand up to Trump? He gave them their tax cuts and judges, and they looked the other way when he committed crimes. Nixon resigned go because Democrats didn't like him. He went because Republicans told him he would be convicted in the Senate.
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  14687.  @julianmarsh1378  But what did they actually do? Not tough talk, but what did they actually do to try to rein him in?
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  14688.  @julianmarsh1378  But that's their game. They always pretended to be outraged by the scandal du jour, but they never actually did anything about it. Fifteen years ago, before he sold out to the banks, Barney Frank had this to say about the Very Serious Republican: "There is no such thing as a moderate Republican. They say, 'I only vote with the President 70% of the time,' but they vote with the President 100% of the time when he needs their votes."
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  14689.  @julianmarsh1378  We tried that 155 years ago, and how did that work out? I'm not saying every single Trump supporter, but I am saying that he and the people who did his bidding need to go to jail, and everyone who was complicit needs to be voted into retirement.
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  14690.  @julianmarsh1378  Did we forgive and forget after WWII? How did that work out compared to the aftermath of f the Civil War? Sometimes, you have to make sure that fascism is not tolerated. As Spock said in "City on the Edge of Tomorrow," it is the right answer, but at the wrong time. If we "forgive and forget," we will have a Second Lost Cause.
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  14691.  @julianmarsh1378  The biggest mistake of Reconstruction was not hanging Lee and Davis. Instead of treating the leaders as the traitors they were, they were allowed to make myths about what they did for people who were mad about slaves being freed. If we ignore what they did, we give them an excuse to do it again even worse the next time. Maybe Tom Cotton wins the nomination as a competent Donald Trump. We ignore evil at our own peril.
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  14692.  @julianmarsh1378  Trump isn't pure evil? Child kidnapping and forced sterilization are pretty evil to me. If it isn't to you, what would it take? Killing hundreds of thousands of people? Oh, wait... Fascism cannot be tolerated.
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  14693.  @julianmarsh1378  Lee and Davis set up a government in the name of enslavement of another people and white supremacy. You've seen Gone with the Wind one too many times. It is a great movie, but terrible history. Show me another time where losers of a civil war were treated as well as ours. Then again, you're actually perpetuating the Lost Cause nonsense of evil Radical Republicans who went too far. What's next, are you going to say that the KKK really did start off as a social club?
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  14694.  @julianmarsh1378  There was slavery in the Empire when independence happened, and only one group said that the notion "all men are created equal" was false. Admittedly, the final version did not meet the ideals, but at least the ideals made the more perfect union possible. Lee could have just as easily retired to Virginia instead of raising arms against the United States. For someone not particularly fond of slavery, Lee sure did have a reputation as a pretty mean slaveholder: https://www.theatlantic.con/politics/2017/06/the-myth-of-the-kindly-general-lee/529038/ Any more Lost Cause nuggets you want to share? I get that acceptance of it falls on a spectrum, but you are definitely on it.
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  14695.  @in_wino_veritas  Apparently, she viewed this as appeasement that would somehow lead to Iran getting nuclear weapons in the end. I don't know why, but this was the right-wing talking point at the time.
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  14696.  Orphan Annie  He literally owns a media network, so by definition, it is his colleagues and competitors who are the MSM.
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  14697. Well, I wasn't thinking she was. Now...
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  14698.  @philjoseph3252  And almost every other government handled it better. I can't think of any other who dissolved a pandemic task force out of spite for their predecessors. People on the right loved to point to Italy, but the tables have turned. Yes, few have seen anything like this, but most rose to the occasion. Trump didn't.
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  14699. We need more people calling it "right to work for less." Don't let them get away with their Orwellian labels!
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  14700.  @dangerouslydubiousdoubleda9821  Because Alabama Man's seventh incarnation can't abide the idea of a qualified black woman.
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  14701.  @lilyscarlet2584  What downward trend specifically started in the 1940s and accelerated in the 1960s?
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  14702.  @lilyscarlet2584  Oh, so things that happened that you don't like ideologically rather than whether or not those things actually worked for the American people. Got it. I must say that it is quite telling that you cite civil rights laws as a big contributor to the downfall of American society. And despite the fig leaf of the gold standard, that was fully abandoned in 1971, not the 1960s, you're not fooling anyone.
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  14703. Look at the partisan makeup of Congress when FDR and LBJ got their agendas passed. Add in the fact that filibusters were talking before the 1970s, and the polarization where Republicans refuse to go along with anything, and that makes a huge difference.
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  14704. I, too, have a fascination with how people can fall into cults. Whenyou watch videos about Jonestown, pretty much all of the survivors hate Jim Jones (his adopted son is a bit more ambivalent), but the Branch Davidian survivors are still loyal to this day. What will it take for the Trump cult to see him the way People's Temple now sees Jim Jones?
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  14705.  @charleswatts2503  I think he's so worried that people will see it as payback that he didn't get the Supreme Court seat that he's bent over backwards to show that he is "fair." In all honesty, I think that Doug Jones would have been a much better pick. He was already a US Attorney who went after tough cases, and unlike Garland (who had a lifetime appointment), a nice place to land would have been a plus for Jones after he lost re-election.
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  14706. Sometimes, the moral thing is the politically advantageous thing. Since Pelosi doesn't care about the moral argument or the shame, AOC is trying to point out how wrong her calculation is.
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  14707. That didn't take long.
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  14708. Well, I don't think she's actually been beautiful for quite some time. I don't like that Frankenstein approach if a face beyond all recognition.
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  14709. Thom Hartmann talks about it quite a bit. There was a memo in the 1970s called the Two Santa Claus Theory. Republicans had a somewhat deserved reputation in the New Deal/Great Society era as opposing big deficits. Some then argued (around the time of supply side theory being formulated) that Republicans could keep power if they used it to appeal to their Santa Claus to cut taxes, forcing Democrats to cut spending. Of course, Democrats helped them beyond their wildest dreams after Reagan won. It's the same reason why a Republican President will cut taxes and then whine about the deficit they created in order to use that as an excuse to go after Social Security and Medicare.
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  14710. She wasn't sincere. It was an attempt to try to damage Democrats for that People's Party grift. And I remember her debate with Sam. I got sick of watching after 45 minutes once it became obvious that this would be the pattern the whole time. BJG: Why did you have this position? SLS: I didn't have that position. BJG: Why did you have that same position that you just said that you didn't have? I'm still trying to figure out whether Bad Faith or Useful Idiots was the most unintentionally accurate name from the grifter podcasters.
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  14711. So, you want to make it more difficult for Syrian refugees to enter the United States? Do you think it's a good idea to praise a head of state after killing protesters, like she did to Sisi in Egypt? Or when she praised Putin for bombing civilians in Syria while complaining that Obama didn't?
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  14712.  @george1234567895  See what she has said about the Islamic people over the years. Her whole shtick used to be going on Fox and Bill Maher to attack Obama from the right on foreign policy by not going after Muslims.
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  14713.  @Oram77  Funny that no one could cherry pick Marianne Williamson to find her agreeing with Dave Rubin and his framing.
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  14714.  @Oram77  Okay, someone is clearing hearing only what he wants to hear. Do you think Obama should have bombed civilians in Syria? Tulsi does, or at least she did at the time. She also opposed the Iran nuclear deal. How has that position worked when a President backed out? And, btw, saying she supports it now doesn't make her judgment any worse, because she got it wrong the first time, when it counted.
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  14715.  @Oram77  Still doesn't change the fact that for all of this talk about cherry picking, no one could find an example of Marianne Williamson going along with Rubin's framing or saying such awful or stupid things. Then again, maybe her ego was so swelled when he called her the patriotic one that she was blind to the implications of everything else he said about how Democrats hate America.
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  14716.  @redrick8900  How are workers exploiting the system? You are using that word, but I do not think that it means what you think that it means.
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  14717.  @redrick8900  If that makes you sleep at night. You're the one who thinks it means "getting something out of the system."
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  14718. The only disagreement is that Romney would be 77 by then, and the base hates him.
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  14719. 11:34 Katie, you are so great on so many things, but there are plenty of men and single parents who have to know how to correctly load our dishwashers correctly and do. The patriarchy makes things worse for both men and women, so please don't say things to reinforce the stereotypes.
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  14720. Somewhere, Mara Wilson is reminding people that this dummy is not representative of their family.
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  14721.  @leodivine  That makes it even better! I hadn't even thought of that possibility.
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  14722.  @leodivine  I would say Warren without the selling out.
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  14723.  @arrow1414  Peoples World has an article as well from 2020 about Wisconsin that they use as a springboard to show the long history of the red/green alliance. The article is "GOP election sabotage scheme using Wisconsin Green Party fails." After the main story, they give several examples of the Green Party being used as a flat out vehicle for election sabotage. Considering that their own nominee at the top of the ticket knew what they were doing, I think it's fair to say that a lot of party leaders know. It even has a link showing where ex-members documented how Republicans took over state parties.
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  14724.  @arrow1414  Indeed. I was just surprised to hear the honest statement after hearing them say for years that Trump is the outlier and they're the real deal.
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  14725.  @arrow1414  Oh, make no mistake, they have no problem with foreign entanglements. Their desire for international inaction is just like their concern over deficits: only valid when pushed by a Democratic President.
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  14726.  @pbj9270  "she was for getting out of Afghanistan and Syria" 1) See her response when we actually got out of Afghanistan. 2) Her support of getting out of Syria was regardless of what happened to the Kurds there, and she ignored the predictable slaughter as soon as it happened, because she is content to watch the world burn. Isolationism is not peace.
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  14727.  @pbj9270  "She is pro Medicare for All" She supports it so much that she called it un-American to Anderson Cooper. Twice. She supports it so much that she had her own fake alternative, Medicare Choice, in the primary. Anyone who knows anything about Medicare knows that Medicare Advantage is not the same thing.
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  14728.  @pbj9270  "the far left hates her for being a soldier" Anyone who believes in human rights hates her because she hides behind her military status to defend war crimes, and a lot of people notice that she only ever talks about the effects on American soldiers. And as a veteran who briefly dealt with POWs during my tour of duty in Iraq, and as sergeant of the guard made sure that everyone was treated humanely, I was outraged to hear her defense of war crimes.
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  14729.  @pbj9270  I mentioned it earlier. In 2014, in an interview on Indian TV, she invoked a scenario straight out of 24 to justify torture. She was literally the only candidate not named Michael Bloomberg to ever support torture who was running in the Democratic primary. The interviewer even gave her a chance to back out by saying that studies showed that torture didn't work, and she responded with "other people say it does work."
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  14730.  @pbj9270  She literally said it in the interview when the interviewer pointed out yet another study that showed that it didn't work. (As much as she loves to trot out her veteran status more than anyone this side of Walter Sobchak, you'd think she'd know that the Army Field Manual prohibits torture.) And I can't say that I'm surprised that the person who insists that Tulsi didn't support torture found a way to justify torture. If it were my kid, I would know that torture doesn't work, and only leads someone to say whatever is necessary to make the torture stop. Yet again, it never ceases to amaze me how often the tulcels insist that they don't support torture and neither does their object of adoration, yet without fail, every single one has defended torture. The whole idea that its supporters use is that there are these emergencies that justify its use.
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  14731.  @davidfaustino4476  Why would you need other programs? "The magic of a thousand bucks a month is that it is below the poverty level for one person, which will force people to work of they want any life that motivates them." Andrew Yang to Ben Shapiro when answering why he wouldn't increase the amount of the Freedom with 125 Strings Attached Dividend (emphasis his) Yang also said that his plan was "a right of citizenship" when asked why the rich should get theirs. So, does he see the poor and disabled as second-class citizens?
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  14732.  @ravendawnhead97  Yang doesn't just want to cut SSI and SNAP. He wants to cut a total of 125 programs, but he has only listed seven that he didn't walk back because they were politically unfeasible: TANF, SNAP, WIC, SSI, LIHEAP, daycare subsidies, and housing subsidies. Just to use an example about people "not needing it," imagine a single parent making $20,000/year. That parent has two young children. Daycare for two children is well over $1000/month, so either that person will have to give up the benefits that make his/her job possible (and someone at that income level is almost certainly also on SNAP and WIC), or get nothing and have to pay an extra 10% on everything that Yang doesn't deem essential. And your talk about making it more generous and including children is rebutted by Yang himself who told Ben Shapiro that he wouldn't increase it because the "magic of a thousand bucks a month is that it is below the poverty level for one person, so people would need to work in order to have any life that motivates them" (emphasis his). He doesn't want a more expensive program. He wants to destroy the existing social safety net. There will always be poor and disabled people, and there will always be frictional unemployment. Ignoring that is totally callous.
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  14733.  @AshGreen359  Which means that he will defend it instead of trying to show that he is just like the Republicans on economic issues.
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  14734.  @Robert-dt3is  You consider the Ben Shapiro interview hard hitting? It was softball after softball sprinkled with ego stroking. I had to turn it off after 46 minutes. Shapiro did get Yang to admit that he wants to keep it below the poverty level for one person to force people to work, which shows that his post-work talk is one big lie.
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  14735. Jimmy Dore gets points for supporting AOC early on... but he loses those points for jumping down her throat as proof that even leftists will sell out because she decided not to pick a fight with Cuomo after he won the primary (despite the fact that she supported Cynthia Nixon in the primary).
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  14736. Jayapal for Speaker 2021!
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  14737. Speaking of the whole "West Virginia" thing, it annoys me to no end any time I see a Confederate flag when I go home to visit my family. Do you not realize that we only exist as a separate state because we wanted nothing to do with the Confederacy? A little over 20 years ago, I bought a bumper sticker for my car with a no circle through a Confederate flag that said, "You lost, get over it!" I have no time for traitors and traitor apologists defending treason for the worst possible cause.
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  14738. Some mental images just can't be unseen :'(
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  14739. If he wants to testify, he should do it, but he knows he's such a liar that he'd get burned.
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  14740.  @Outside85  With Coach Beard vibes, too.
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  14741. Good Lord, look at that lighting! Lindsay: How did she pass her driving test? Gob: She didn't. She had me dummy up a license for her [picture of Lucille's bleached out license]. She wanted to look 48, so I had to check albino on the form.
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  14742.  @OfficialSeth  Heck, yeah! I, too, was one of the Draft Warren people, although I gave up by the summer of 2015. I remember seeing Bernie on The Ed Show (sadly, the last consistent voice for workers on major American TV to this day), and Bernie kept saying, "If no one will run to stand up against Wall Street greed, I will!" Looking back, I think that he was probably one of the people behind the scenes begging hard for her to run, but sometimes in life, fortune favors the brave. Now, her proposals seem disappointing in comparison.
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  14743. Well, they're not all white. One is Latino.
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  14744. It's not about age at all. I voted to give Robert C. Byrd a ninth term in 2006 a few days before his 89th birthday. He wasn't forgetting where he was, and his mind was still strong. Yes, it is true that he only lived 3 1/2 years into that term, and for the last year and a half he was rarely there after recovering from illness in 2009, but at least he showed up when he knew there was a key vote. Feinstein just doesn't have it anymore, so she needs to go.
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  14745. @Salmon I knew about Harvard and the Texas Bar, but I didn't know about the cookbook. Do you have a link?
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  14746. @Salmon Oh, my God! How much deeper does this go? At this point, it feels like it was just this side of Rachel Dolezal (sp?) minus the makeup.
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  14747. Before 2017, anti-vaccine was a horseshoe effect, with people like Jill Stein and Rand Paul pushing that nonsense. Then, a polarizing figure pretends that the underlying virus isn't real, and all of the sudden, it is mostly a right wing phenomenon. Look at my shocked face :-|
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  14748.  @tomogden2432  It currently is a right-wing phenomenon, but that doesn't change the fact that the anti-vaccine movement used to be both extremes, with the left driven by anti-authority and the Natural is Always Better Fallacy. My point was that the anti-vaccine movement changed and became more polarized, just as the abortion issue did under Reagan.
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  14749. Elizabeth Warren: I have a plan for that. Bernie Sanders: I have a much better plan for that.
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  14750.  JB JG  Ivanka isn't pretty. She has a good plastic surgeon.
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  14751. In 2015, when I still lived in Philadelphia, I really liked a lot of what Nelson Diaz had to say in the mayoral race, but early polling had Anthony Hardy Williams (known as the Voucher King and the Charter King because of his desire to gut public education as a state senator) ahead. Polls still showed it close leading up to the primary, and I really didn't want him to win, so I ended up voting for Jim Kenney, who won in a landslide. If Ranked Choice Voting were a thing, I would have gladly voted Diaz first choice and Kenney second to stop Williams, but I had to go strategic. Seeing how close the polls were and where Kenney finished, a lot of his votes were probably votes against Williams.
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  14752. That is so unfair! Regina George is smart.
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  14753. He's a less funny version of The Todd on Scrubs. He's gotta be an idiot savant.
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  14754. Some of these were clearly "make-up" awards. When you point out that they were more worthy for prior roles, that is the Academy's way of apologizing. Resse Witherspoon, though, I don't know what the logic was for that one. Gwynneth Paltrow makes me wonder what kind of dirt Harvey Weinstein had on Academy members.
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  14755.  @AnalyticalHeart  He also thinks that we should get rid of birthright citizenship, yet he himself is the child of immigrants and ran for President even though, by his own standards, he would not be eligible.
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  14756.  @a-10wartaboo77  TARP was passed in October 2008, but Obama did extend the Bush tax cuts for two years, so the overall point stands.
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  14757. Libertarians advocate what they do because they think they'll be the lords only if the government was out of the way, but the irony is that they don't realize that if government doesn't play a role, it will be seized by the corporations, and that we got rid of company downs for a reason.
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  14758. @JaiAnthony-xk6vq Are you saying that Jayden Smith is a good actor? That Sofia Coppola wasn't widely panned for her role as Mary Corleone? Name someone who does that poor of a performance in a major movie who then becomes a top writer and director within a few years.
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  14759. @JaiAnthony-xk6vq I know that Jayden Smith has stunk up the place in several big-budget movies. The privileged are allowed to do so in a way the rest of us weren't. Al Franken, despite 20 years in the industry and already having a hit under his belt, was never allowed to star in a movie again after Stuart Saves His Family bombed. Other than saying "you don't know," give me an example of someone allowed to reinvent him/herself as a writer/director after a performance panned nearly as widely as Sofia Coppola.
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  14760.  @majeedmamah7457  How many jobs did he get in the meantime, though? Anyone else would have been done after the first or second bomb, probably the first.
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  14761. You can do it! Please run a third party campaign. Your supporters demand it.
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  14762.  @mandatoryhelicopterrides3617  The polio vaccine that the "not anti-vaccine" crowd likes to use as a counter? 61% effective. So, why don't you hear about people getting polio? Because nearly everyone gets it.
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  14763.  @soulknife20  My idiot brother refused to get vaccinated, and he got it twice. It didn't go too well for him either time. I haven't gotten it once. Neither have my parents of my child. My ex-wife who was vaccinated got it from work, and she didn't pass it along to our kid.
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  14764. Indeed. I fully expect to be disappointed by Biden 90% of the time, but sometimes you need to work with Stalin to get rid of Hitler.
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  14765.  @jesusaguilar4585  Fair enough. Point stands that extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures.
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  14766.  @VMonkies  More than they already have? Way to spread things that will only help Trump. Hint: he likes seeing faith erode in the election, so you are doing him a favor.
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  14767.  @VMonkies  You're not talking about the candidates. You specifically mentioned the USPS. It is Trump who is seeing doubt about their ability to get the ballots in.
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  14768.  @tripvic7629  So, a party that has no Congressional seats and no statewide offices and isn't even trying is a viable alternative? The party that repeatedly gets funding from Republicans up to and including trying to gum up the works because they were too incompetent to fill out a petition drive correctly and too lazy to fill out an affidavit to fix it is "a viable alternative"? I've never done drugs, but it sounds like you never stopped.
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  14769.  @VMVarga-zg4cl  How bad do you have to be to alienate the nicest and most forgiving person in American politics?
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  14770. Showing up to work is for the rest of us.
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  14771.  @IceMetalPunk  The term began less than a month after the election. Why should the people be deprived of representation because of bad luck in the system. In the example in the video, Mel Carnahan died a month before the election, and the governor had already said that he would appoint his widow to seat if he won. The vast majority of the time, it tends to be a relative, widow(er), or top staffer. In states that do it the way you want, there is an incredible advantage for the living candidate. In 2002, Paul Wellstone died in a plane crash less than two weeks before the election. He was leading in the polls before his death, but Minnesota required a living candidate to be on the ballot, so Democrats nominated Walter Mondale about a week before the election. Mondale lost narrowly. If Minnesotans wanted to vote for Wellstone in tribute, that should have been their right.
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  14772.  @IceMetalPunk  It was a month ahead of time. She pretty much campaigned for the seat. Just because you don't respect the intelligence of the voters doesn't make it any less true that they knew that Jean Carnahan would take the seat. Postponing an election would be a logistical nightmare, so letting the deceased candidate stay in the ballot is the better option.
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  14773.  @IceMetalPunk  "I believe in the possibility of democracy, because I believe in the potential of man. I believe democracy is necessary because of the limitations of man." Reinhold Niebuhr If you believe that democracy isn't possible and something is better, you are advocating for authoritarianism, because you want someone to tell the stupid people what to do.
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  14774.  @IceMetalPunk  Because meritocracy ultimately becomes a dictatorship. I have read The Republic. There is also the question of what qualifies as "merit." Democracy is not perfect, but self-determination is much better than letting someone just make the decisions because he/she is the one who is worthy.
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  14775.  @IceMetalPunk  And who gets to decide who are the most qualified? You'll see all kinds of turf battles over things like specialists vs. GPs. There is also the fact that meritocracy tends to lead to an aristocracy, because the "winners" will start to pay to get their kids the advantages to game the system... much like what happens today economically.
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  14776.  @IceMetalPunk  Won't that just encourage people not to take on older or other high risk patients because it brings their stats down? Even Scrubs had enough medical consultants to know the problem with that metric.
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  14777.  @IceMetalPunk  Yes, people are doing that now... because of the emphasis on meritocracy in the private sector. Considering the way it has seeped into the public sector (if the Biden-Harris ticket wins, this will be the first time since 1972 that we will have elected a national ticket where neither candidate has had an Ivy League or service academy degree), I would argue that meritocracy that we have now is part of the problem with our current government. Once we accept the hierarchical notion that the winners are worthy and everyone else isn't, then you will have a society that overlooks the vast majority of its people, and that is why democracy is better when it comes to picking our leaders.
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  14778.  @IceMetalPunk  That's the theory, but it's not the reality. The main difference between left and center is that the left realizes that very few people will climb the ladder, so the desire is to make things better for the most people. The center (which accepts the right's fundamental argument about hierarchy) just wants to make it easier for the chosen few to climb the ladder. Do you think it's a good thing that five schools (Yale, Penn, Harvard, Columbia, USNA) have had such dominance in national elections for nearly 50 years? And you know why a good mechanic is a different question than a good area of governance? Because one is very specialized, and the other is not. You didn't even have a response to the basic flaw in using percentages as a metric for determining who gets to run your Ministry of Medicine (which also has Peter Principle problems written all over it, because while Ben Carson is a great surgeon, his goofy answer on Medicaid shows that he doesn't have the first clue about administration) is that it ultimately reinforces the ridiculous notion that this is God's way of determining who is smart and who is poor, except Ron Swanson is a caricature meant to be funny.
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  14779.  @IceMetalPunk  The problem with these ways for government is that the people who tend to make these find ways that describe their skillset pretty well or find a way to advantage themselves (See: the McGovern Commission). I don't think that it's a coincidence that the social safety net started to crumble once the ostensibly left party accepted the meritocracy narrative.
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  14780.  @IceMetalPunk  The difference between democracy and meritocracy is that it is easier to get rid of people who we think are doing a bad job in a democracy. Yes, gerrymandering is a bad thing, but there are limits to gerrymandering. If we go with meritocracy, we're stuck with the "experts." I would much rather have a system that tries to act on behalf of more people. Meritocracy doesn't do that. These councils also lead to a system with a lack of external restraint. Then, there are competing groups of experts. Who will decide how best to settle tort laws, lawyers or doctors? And what is the basis of this "working out for the best"? I'm not saying that you have to have all of the answers, but that your proposal easily creates just as many problems as it solves, if not more.
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  14781.  @IceMetalPunk  But the question of what a government should do is not an objective question, but a philosophical one. The way to get there is extremely subjective. I am not saying that all morality and ethics are subjective at all. My point is that there are always competing claims about what is even in the realm of government responsibility, and I would much prefer that being decided by the people. Discussing it sounds like the type of democracy used by the Iroquois Confederacy. That is not an argument against democracy and for just letting experts decide. So, let's look at the objective measures. Things have gotten worse in this country the more that we relied on the meritocracy argument. Shouldn't that, by your own criteria, disprove the theory?
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  14782.  @IceMetalPunk  Well, is the role of government to see stability or growth? Is it to see the largest fortunes possible, or is to see to it that there is a floor that no on falls under? Is it to favor business, or to favor workers? I have my opinions on those things, but at least I have enough humility to argue that others have a point of view that is informed in a different way than mine and leads to different conclusions.
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  14783.  @IceMetalPunk  I do have some evidence of a greater emphasis on meritocracy, but I will need some time to find my resources. I'll give you the links later tonight.
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  14784. They don't know enough to know what they don't know, aka Dunning-Kruger.
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  14785.  @iAmTheSingularity  Not sure what this has to do with the original comment.
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  14786.  @iAmTheSingularity  Agreed with the first part, but you're going off into some tangents. Of course, we can't work with them or win them over. That was the whole point.
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  14787.  @iAmTheSingularity  Fast enough to be able to write sentences that people can diagram.
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  14788.  @iAmTheSingularity  Oh, look. You don't know what a sentence diagram is. See my shocked face :-|
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  14789.  @iAmTheSingularity  Still don't get your "it"? These words that you keep putting up that don't fit the sentence at all makes your point completely confusing. A sentence diagram shows exactly where everything goes in the sentence. If it can't be diagrammed, it is most likely nonsense. If you didn't notice, the Shocked face was neutral.
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  14790.  @iAmTheSingularity  My point is that you throw random words out, and your writing looks like you have lost your thought pattern. Quite frankly, towards the end, it looks like you started drawing random words out of a hat. I understand the words. They just aren't put in any sequence that makes any sense.
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  14791.  @marconapolitano2821  Okay, let's say we get rid of government and realign or economic structure to perfectly match The Conquest of Bread. With no government, 1) who is going to ignore those field trips to the farm? 2) how do you deal with people who don't want to do their part in producing food? 3) how do you prevent someone from accumulating wealth again so that we don't end up right back at feudalism?
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  14792.  Kommisar   1) In the book, Kropotkin does the math to figure out how much work it would take for each person to do the work to produce enough food for everyone. While he didn't use the term field trip, his idea was that it would be a fun excursion of two or three days a year for people to produce food. 2) I am well aware that we don't live in an agrarian society. The point is that with no money, no government, and no organization, distributing the food that gets produced becomes a lot less efficient. I could also ask who is going to maintain the roads so that the supply chain can continue to get the food to people. 3) You completely sidestepped the question of the accumulation of wealth. There will always be some way to measure the exchange of goods and services. Some people are better at managing the same amount. Therefore, those people will end up with a surplus. Eventually, someone who is not as good at handling money (I am using it as a general term for whatever society uses as the measurement for goods and services, even if not cash as we know it, so I am not talking about a semantic argument) or has some misfortune fall will need assistance. If there is no government, and over time the people who are really good at handling money are able to accumulate (and no government means no taxation or way to confiscate such wealth) to the point where people come to them. The cycle repeats itself. You cannot stop the accumulation of wealth without a government, period. Unless you want everyone to barely have enough to survive, but based on your response to the second point, you clearly don't.
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  14793.  Kommisar   So, are you a hardcore lefty who is anti-anti-Trump, or are you a Trump supporter turning a blind eye to his attempted coup and his months of priming his people for that very moment?
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  14794.  @marconapolitano2821  I'm sorry, based on your initial comment on a video decrying tax shelters for the obscenely wealthy and the pseudo-populist tone of your other comment, I thought I was dealing with an anarcho-socialist. I now realize that I responded to the wrong type of Underpants Gnomes thinking and that you are a right-wing libertarian. This will make me more informed about what I am responding to. 1) The Conquest of Bread is a famous book in anarchist circles. When mentioning his ideal society, the author says that most work will be unnecessary, as would be the divide between rural and urban. He uses some basic math to figure out how much work it would take per person in order to provide enough food for the population and insists that such work would be joyful, but call it a hunch, I don't think many will volunteer for shoveling manure. Since I initially misread you, that's what I was responding to. 2) And how does charity work on the aggregate? Before the New Deal, 2/3 of Americans over 65 lived in poverty, and this was fairly constant. With Social Security, senior poverty is now 10%. The begging everyone on GoFundMe does not provide all of our needs. 3) And what was the literacy rate and the percentage of the adults who graduated high school when private companies controlled schools? How long did it take to drive across the United States when private companies built roads, and what was their state of repair?
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  14795.  @marconapolitano2821  What data? In the aggregate, charter schools do not outperform public schools. Yes, there are some high-performing charters, but also some very low ones. Even if they did outperform public schools, that still doesn't prove your point because [Homer Simpson whisper] they get their money from the government.
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  14796.  @marconapolitano2821  So, Social Security is "the worst option possible" to ensure that seniors don't starve, but it reduced senior poverty by over 80%? Yeah, that makes sense.
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  14797.  @marconapolitano2821  What is this Standford, and where is the study?
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  14798.  @marconapolitano2821  On a more serious note, Social Security has been around for 86 years. I am 41, and longer than I have been alive, people have been insisting that Social Security is not sustainable, and its collapse is imminent. How long do you have to be wrong before you admit it?
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  14799.  @marconapolitano2821  Oh, no. You're making the argument that a study proves it, so give your evidence.
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  14800.  @marconapolitano2821  The Greenspan Commission was explicitly designed to collect more in payroll taxes before the baby boomers started to retire, and then to use Treasury bonds the surplus purchased to make up the difference. And there is always money coming into Social Security, so it is not a "crash." That is the point where we will run out of the Treasury bonds. A simple adjustment or elimination in the cap to the payroll tax is all that is necessary to address that issue. Do you just repeat everything that you've heard, or do you think them through?
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  14801.  @marconapolitano2821  Well, if you are going to complain about the Social Security payroll tax being regressive, you should have no trouble with making it either less regressive or proportional. Be honest. Your beef with Social Security is pure ideology, because it disproves your notion that government can't do anything.
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  14802.  Kommisar   Oh, look. You said Social Security is a Ponzi scheme. Do you have right wing bingo yet?
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  14803.  Kommisar   At least I know a) the difference between embarrasses and embarrassing, b) that right wing talking points don't get lefties to say "you're right, I should never post again" on a lefty channel, and c) I have actually read The Conquest of Bread, so I know what I'm criticizing. Apparently, you don't seem to understand when someone is critical of something, either. And again, the projected shortfall is easy to overcome. If the cap were doubled, it would be eliminated. If it were eliminated completely, it would more than double the projected deficits (which are based on a moderately pessimistic version of economic growth, anyway). I, for one, and confident that we can average over half of the GDP growth that we have averaged over the past 75 years, and that is where the projected shortfall estimates arise.
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  14804.  Kommisar   "God, you're stupid!" Charlie Kelly, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia I quoted the book to criticize anarchism, dummy! I wasn't advocating anything. If you actually have any reading comprehension at all, you would have seen that my point was that it is an unworkable idea, because even if you were to go that route, with no one organizing it, no one would want to clean the stables.
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  14805.  Kommisar   Apparently, you don't seem to understand what left anarchism looks like, and that it is actually closer to communism than the neo-feudal program that ancaps want.
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  14806.  @chlduiowks  Indeed. One time, I was rereading Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty, and I was trying to show my daughter how he swung the bat. To be able to make a decision and adjust his hands based on that decision in less than half a second is just phenomenal.
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  14807. It's pretty obvious what is going on. He doesn't want to debate on Thursday, so he's trying to find a way to weasel out of it. If he doesn't show, let Biden debate an empty platform.
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  14808.  @BKMcl  If we get rid of the Fed, what will replace it? I'm not saying that it shouldn't be accountable, but asking what will take its place.
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  14809.  @BKMcl  If we adopt the gold standard, we are limited by the amount of our gold reserve, and given how wildly the economy swung before the Fed, and how unstable the dollar was during the gold standard, this would be a step backward. There is a reason why advanced economies switched from the gold standard to a fiat standard, and even if we didn't, how is gold any less of a fiat than what we do now? If it is valuable because everyone says it is, that seems like a fiat currency to me.
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  14810.  @BKMcl  The reason why we have the Federal Reserve is because in the Panic of 1907 (the fifth in the first 110 years of the republic), the Great Depression was averted because J. P. Morgan got in a room and decided which banks would survive and which wouldn't. I would say our current system is preferable to that, because at least you have some federal oversight. And given the fact that Hamilton set up the system that he did, I wouldn't argue that the founders were against the idea of the elite dominating.
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  14811.  @BKMcl  Any time. Well, he was the first billionaire (whose response to how much money he wanted was "just a little bit more"), and he was powerful enough to decide such things. In some ways, the Fed debate reminds me of the TARP or the ACA question. Not that it is ideal, but it has to be compared to its alternatives (i.e., if the choice was TARP or nothing, it was preferable, but it could have been done in a better way). I just don't know what would be preferable to the Fed, but I do think that it focuses too much on the inflation part of its charge and not enough on the employment part.
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  14812. Sam Seder has long refused screen calls. Idiots like Colt and jerks like Blake do more harm to their ideology by opening their mouth than anyone else could do by just saying those people are awful.
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  14813.  @AcmePotatoPackingPocatello  Elon Musk? The libertarian who wants to build underground tunnels to remove himself from us commoners who get in his way on the road?
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  14814.  @AcmePotatoPackingPocatello  He is not trying to mass produce electric vehicles. He wants to keep it a niche object so he can charge six figures, thus ensuring that fewer people will buy it, and he isn't actually proposing more mass transit. Therefore, his actions are a net negative. Enough said.
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  14815.  @AcmePotatoPackingPocatello  Who has $35,000? How many of the underpaid and maltreated workers at his factories can afford that? Something seems more than a little off on your math. You said that you could drive from LA to Seattle and back for $97 and a 300 mile charge costs $4. Cross multiplying tells me that it would be 5000 miles to Seattle. Also, another question about the carbon footprint is what materials that they use in the manufacture of the engine. Some methods mean that it actually uses more CO2 than traditional vehicles in hybrids. There is evidence that, just to break even compared to a traditional car, it will take over 100,000 miles to do so on emissions, not to mention how many more rare earth materials they use, which affects water supply. If he wanted to really do something for the environment over and above virtue signalling, he should be trying to make electric mass transit and investing in renewable energy.
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  14816.  @AcmePotatoPackingPocatello  I'm not saying everyone has to do things the way I ask. What I am saying is that people have to look at the totality of one's actions, and a high-end car with building materials that cause a lot of water pollution isn't going to save us all.
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  14817.  @AcmePotatoPackingPocatello  You said $4 for 300 miles and $97 from LA to Seattle and back for the electricity. Now, I initially miscalcluated in based it on 400 miles instead of 300 miles, but that would mean that one dollar of fuel is 75 miles. 75×97 is actually closer to 7300 miles, and I knew that there was no way that a round trip could be that far, because that is Boston to LA territory. Also, I am well aware of the effects of CO2. My point was that you said that your car is "carbon neutral." It isn't. Never mind the question of where your electricity comes from, the actual production of the car causes a lot more pollution, including greenhouse gases, than conventional cars. Hence, the notion that you would have to own that car for a long time to break even compared to a conventional car. It's not that your intentions are bad (far from it), but thinking that any car is carbon neutral is incorrect. So, if you buy another one relatively quickly, you are actually causing more pollution than just keeping a conventional compact or sub-compact for a very long time.
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  14818.  @AcmePotatoPackingPocatello  My larger point was about virtue signalling about making a purchase that the average person cannot afford. Maybe instead of emphasizing your own virtue, acknowledge that people with less money are making conscious decisions as well to minimize their impact based on their finances and transportation needs, instead of painting someone selling a niche product as one of only two "indispensable" people.
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  14819. Jamie Raskin for Speaker! He's acceptable to the establishment and a solid lefty. He can get the votes.
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  14820. The 30 years flap proves her tendency to exaggerate. She used to say that she was the only one to have beaten a Republican incumbent 25 years ago, but she stepped in it because she had to just add onto it.
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  14821.  Truth Willout  *Robert
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  14822.  @VMonkies  He'll notice if Ivanka gets sick, but that's only because it affects his spank bank.
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  14823. In all honesty, the only things he really wanted to do were cut taxes for rich people and load the courts. Any idiot can block stuff.
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  14824. Squishy?
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  14825. 2:00 That is so unfair! Ralph Kramden may have been a loudmouth, but he was ultimately a decent and loyal person.
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  14826.  @tellall23  Hillary Clinton turned her fire on Tulsi Gabbard in 2019. Before that, to the extent there was any beef, it was mostly annoyance over the fight over debates. I'm talking about pointing out that she wasn't a lefty in 2017.
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  14827.  @zztzgza  "I lived my whole life on that!"
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  14828.  @AceofCrazy89  The people who make the decisions will tell them to get him out of office, preferably in handcuffs for trespassing.
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  14829.  @AceofCrazy89  Cops aren't military. When the military say that they are sitting it out, that completely undermines your theory that they'll help Trump stay in office. It simply means that they won't endorse. This term ends at noon on January 20. If he loses and refuses to leave, he is no longer commander in chief, and he will be trespassing. I'm not saying that he won't try, just that there is no guarantee that he will succeed.
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  14830. "If you control the language, you make thoughtcrime impossible" comes from Goldstein's book in "Nineteen Eighty-four."
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  14831.  @arentube8123  There are no weapons lab. That is the point. Tulsi "candidate of peace" Gabbard is repeating propaganda being used to justify an invasion of a sovereign nation.
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  14832.  @wrm3016  I'm pointing out the hypocrisy. Mittens never expressed any desire of punishment for what Tulsi Gabbard said.
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  14833.  @reddott2k  The point in wino veritas is making is that Tulsi can't back away from supporting Medicare for All because she never supported it in the first place.
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  14834.  @siddharth6985  She blindly supports Modi and insists that they invaded Kashmir because they care about gay rights, so what is your excuse for that?
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  14835.  @reddott2k  Her Presidential campaign. She called it Medicare for All, but she described a public option.
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  14836.  @reddott2k  I don't at all. I was making the argument that she was fake. She did just enough to make the naive think she was a lefty, but she never was.
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  14837.  @DNSMLT  I am, and I bitterly resent the way that she hides behind her military status to justify awful things. When I heard her say that she supported torture because of her military experience, she insulted me and every person who did the right thing in theater. There were times I was put in charge of POWs until they were sent to a central facility (I even met Saddam Hussein's cousin), and I made sure that everyone was treated humanely.
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  14838. Some people simply have a lot in life to show people the way, even if they can't get people all the way there. William Jennings Bryan was certainly one of those who made FDR possible with his three Presidential runs where he moved the Democratic Party away from laissez-faire economic theory. If he loses this time, but makes it possible for someone like AOC or Ro Khanna possible, then he succeeded.
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  14839. Actually, the 7MM that Biden won by was only saved by about 43,000 (10K in Arizona, 12K in Georgia, 21K in Wisconsin), because if you give that to Trump, it's a 269-269 tie and the state delegations would have been sufficient to throw the election to Trump.
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  14840.  @gracehaven5459  That was Elisha.
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  14841. Before Yang found his audience of tech bros, he willingly and gladly used racial dog whistles and appealed to racists to build support (the most disgusting example was using the Tree of Life shooting in 2018 to lament whites becoming a minority in 2045 and how we'd better act fast in order to get his proposal, and he talked many times about how xenophobes would like that only citizens get the Freedom with 125 Strings Attached Dividend). If you have a lengthy history of acting in bad faith to build support, you can't get mad when people think the worst of it when you give a muddied answer on questions of race.
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  14842. Jim Clyburn: yet another example of someone trying to trade off his initial heroism to hide his corporate greed.
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  14843.  @HTownCharlieBrown  When Manchin was governor and there were two coal mine explosions within as many weeks in 2006, he ordered every single mine in the state closed until safety audits could be conducted and a stronger mine safety law passed. It took three days. That same year, he passed an increase in the state minimum wage. After Sandy Hook, he led the effort to strengthen background checks on gun purchases. He usually goes just far enough left to avoid a primary defeat, and not an inch farther, but this was his true profile in courage moment. He got his seat by defeating someone who wanted to abolish Social Security, Medicare, and the minimum wage. He has done a lot to be angry about, but he is literally the only Democrat who can win statewide in WV right now. Doug Jones got some slack for being in a state that Trump won by 25, but Manchin has managed to hold on in a state Trump won by 40. Call out the bad stuff, but have some perspective.
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  14844.  @FalconFlyer75  You are correct, sir or madam. People keep saying that he should run as a Republican, but those are purists who don't know anything. He would never win a Republican primary because he supports Social Security and Medicare, and his opponent in 2010 and 2012 wanted to abolish both as well as the minimum wage. Manchin signed an increase in the state minimum wage when he was governor. He also helped save the ACA, so that alone would ensure his primary defeat. Getting half of what you want out of a Senator from the state that Trump won by the second-highest margin nationwide is miraculous.
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  14845.  @TheGIGACapitalist  He is literally the best that we can get out of a state like West Virginia, and I don't remember people giving Ben Nelson or Doug Jones that sort of grief, even though Manchin is in a state that is much farther right now than either of those.
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  14846.  @FalconFlyer75  Agreed. Call out Manchin for the bad stuff he did (and I say that as someone who once knew him and he knew me when I lived in the Mountain State), but don't pretend that you're going to get the second coming of Bernie when he leaves the Senate.
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  14847. When you pick so very wrongly, it definitely damages your confidence in your ability to get it right the next time around.
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  14848. Indeed. I don't think that we should completely give up, but it shouldn't be our first priority, either.
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  14849. Manchin won his last election 48-45 against an uncharismatic lump whose wife was a lobbyist for the biggest manufacturer of Oxycontin. There was no way he was beating Jim Justice next year. I have been saying since the BBB debacle that he wasn't going to run again. In what would be the last term for both Byrd and Rockefeller, each decided to finally condemn mountaintop removal. Manchin decided to cash in and no longer do just enough to avoid completely alienating the left.
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  14850. Well, he is staying long enough to block a no-deal Brexit, so he is going out in a great way.
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  14851. Darn right, Robert!
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  14852.  @MrHistory1776  So, you don't agree, but you are spending all of this time and energy defending this action that affects by his own estimation, a dozen children at most? An interesting use of your time, which is especially fitting given the point of limited the legislative calendar is.
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  14853.  @a.champagne6238  He has been right about a lot of people, but he is wrong about his dad.
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  14854. ​ @wilcee238  What were some of his funny jokes? I have literally been trying to find this out for years. Most of the jokes I remember seeing were Borscht Belt level.
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  14855.  @wilcee238  No, I mean what was a specific funny joke of his?
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  14856.  @wilcee238  I guess I'd have to hear the joke, but that hardly sounds like someone who was a laff riot back in the day before his brain rotted with that sweet, sweet, selling out cash ;-)
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  14857.  @Mackinz92  And if you do cough * Iran-Contra *cough try to have someone with enough personal appeal to survive until we can get the propaganda machine up and running.
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  14858. Sarcastic Bernie is life.
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  14859.  Ron Maimon  There were already enough votes to beat a filibuster. Dore fanboys who don't understand the rules end up looking like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KeG_i8CWE8 So, Bernie could either make the blow it up people happy by voting no, or he could actually push for something to help people. He made the right call.
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  14860. ​ @_Its.Just.Felix_  Such things are easier to do in a Parliamentary system, but the only way you could really do that would be to effectively void every election and require another one. When you have fixed terms, there's no real way to do it.
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  14861. I think it bottomed out at 14%. To put that in comparison, Blagojevich was on his way to jail, and his last poll before he got removed from office had him at 13%.
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  14862. [Taps the mic] Is this thing on?
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  14863.  @bungersinyourarea  It's a troll account from someone who loves to post random nonsense.
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  14864. This is almost as odd as Paul "Speaker Sad Eyes" Ryan being a noted Ayn Rand fanatic and claiming to love Rage Against the Machine.
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  14865. Darn right! Turn the squad into the platoon and then the company. Run people for school board, city council, state legislature, and party committees. The people who don't understand how politics work and don't want to learn can stay on the sidelines getting nothing done.
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  14866. Some thoughts: 1) I am a fifth generation veteran, and I don't think that makes my service more valid than someone who wasn't (and none of us got higher than Sergeant, so it's not like we got a leg up), 2) Her dad was next to last in his graduating class. He was still able to get an aviation position. Does anyone honestly believe that he got his slot or his wings based on his ability?
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  14867. Whitmer
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  14868.  @ac4th371  Agree about the House figures, but given Trump's stated desire to set up a dictatorship, we can't ignore the top of the ticket.
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  14869. The last call just brings up something that baffles me. What is the deal with all of these people who think that losing narrowly in a statewide race is a springboard to national office? The last person to gain remotely any traction was Poppy in 1980, and that was ten years after losing a Senate race and holding a bunch of appointed positions in the meantime. The last one to make the transition that fast was Lincoln... the second nominee his party ever had.
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  14870. So, it is trickle up if the poor and disabled have to choose between their current benefits and his plan when it is paid for with a regressive tax and the rich get the full $1000? Maybe he needs to think harder still.
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  14871.  @RobertSmith-lg7jp  Atheism is a religion that doesn't realize it is a religion. Given that the latest line is "we just want proof," when that is agnosticism, there is also a lot of dishonesty about what a lot of them really are. And the ones who still fall into the fundamentalist worldview are the people who basically said, "I disagree with how the fundamentalists said what Christianity had to be, but I still accept their framing." I've had more than my fair share of discussions with people like that over the years.
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  14872. @John Dew Depends on the type of agnostic. If you are open to the idea of a higher being or just think it is unknowable, that is far different than saying that there is no God.
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  14873.  Fly by night  Don't even give him the out to say "if he doesn't like their service." He never likes the service if he thinks that he won't have to pay. He has bankrupted his own businesses six times out of incompetence, and he has bankrupted untold numbers of small businesses out of greed.
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  14874. Not even close! Biden is the most successful since LBJ by far. In 2020, my vote was largely against Trump. In 2024, it will he a positive vote for Biden.
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  14875. ​ @comments8742  Indeed. That is some pretty serious catface.
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  14876.  @joeblow8750  Yes, by having someone who wasn't sure about the case that legalized contraception, and was opposed to equal pay legislation. So much better.
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  14877. 1:42 Bad Faith, Useful Idiots. Yep, it checks out.
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  14878. Klobuchar also did a Fox town hall. My guess is that someone told Wallace to push back against whoever got booked next. Whether or not it was intentionally targeting her as a woman, I don't know, but I will give Gillibrand credit for her response.
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  14879. Sinema will be primaried (Ruben Gallego is the most likely challenger). In all honesty, I think that Manchin will probably retire in 2024. Even if he doesn't, a primary challenge wouldn't be successful because West Virginia Democrats know that he is literally the only Democrat who can win statewide in WV right now.
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  14880. "Attempted murder! What kind of crime is that, anyway?" Sideshow Bob
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  14881. No succession plan?! What the heck does she think the Vice President is for?
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  14882. I had never heard the second part where he wouldn't go to a wedding with a Gentile. How far does he take this? Would he go to a wedding involving a Reform Jew? After all, a lot of Orthodox (and even some Conservative) say Reform doesn't really count.
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  14883. "The enemy is weak and strong at the same time." Umberto Eco, "The 14 Traits of Ur-Fascism"
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  14884.  @b-gill9224  You mean insisting on some vague notion of "fighting" without doing actual work and turning people against people who actually do the work because of tactical disagreements? Oh, yeah, he's really productive!
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  14885.  @dudeman5303  Actually, one small correction: Tulsi endorsed Biden three weeks before Bernie dropped out.
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  14886.  @b-gill9224  So, he endorsed someone not for her policy, but because she went on his show? What a beacon of integrity!
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  14887.  @Apostate1970  Does it have private insurance that competes with the public plan? Therefore, by definition, it is not single payer. And she called single payer "un-American" when speaking to Anderson Cooper. Are you lying to us or are you lying to yourself?
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  14888.  @Apostate1970  Do you give up the public plan if you have the private plan? Therefore, it is not single payer. And public education is not universal, not single.
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  14889.  @Apostate1970  And clearly you weren't paying attention when Tulsi "Just As Good As What Bernie Offered" Gabbard called the key element of his plan "un-American."
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  14890.  @b-gill9224  He's so "independent" that he can be bought for an appearance on his show (Gabbard) or a $2500 check (pro-Assad groups). That's not independence.
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  14891. Joe Kennedy is a far cry from his great uncle. If his name were Joseph Patrick, he'd have no chance.
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  14892.  @realzachfluke1  It bought David Brock almost 20 years of still having a career, so why not?
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  14893.  @929mmr  Pelosi hasn't been "on the left" for quite some time now.
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  14894. 6:03 The accelerationists made the same argument in 2000 with Nader. How did that work? If anything, the fact that Bernie got 44% of the primary vote in 2016 and got 32% in 2020 before he dropped out should prove once and for all that when the hard right takes over, too many people are afraid to dream.
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  14895. And Wallace has long said that she felt so horrible about working for Sarah Palin in the McCain campaign and seeing what a reckless decision he made with his first (and in retrospect, only) Presidential decision he made turned out to be. Steve Schmidt, on the other hand? Screw him. He's still in purgatory, because he is trying to push Howard Schultz on us.
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  14896.  @jonsouth1545  How old are you? If you are under the age of 41, that really isn't saying much.
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  14897.  @josephsilas9945  "The fault lies not in our stars, but in ourselves."
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  14898.  @rosswatkins2277  Only one is occupied by literal fascists who tried to destroy democracy. Your both siderism only serves to help the most corrupt of all. End of story.
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  14899. If Hoffa were still alive, he would be 106, so I seriously doubt that theory.
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  14900.  @originoflogos  They wouldn't need to filibuster if they had the majority at the time. They could just defeat it, like Dems did Bork.
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  14901.  @alanfike  Lieberman has been out of the Senate for eight years. What are you talking about?
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  14902.  @vrknyght8207  I haven't lived in WV for 14 years. Let's see, I phone banked, canvassed, served as a captain for a petition drive, and did a reading at a fundraiser. I will not apologizing for understanding that the Supreme Court is a thing, and that even if you get the perfect candidate and can get the perfect legislation through, they can destroy everything, but yet you want to give McConnell the chance to make it even worse. You were probably one of those people pretending that it didn't matter when McConnell held the seat hostage after Scalia died.
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  14903.  @luddity  Tulsi clearly is running to be Biden's running mate. Did you see the way she has been defending him on busing and Iraq? Or the way that she kept changing the subject to Harris whenever Biden was in trouble?
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  14904.  @vincentfalsitta5332  Sadly, too many Democrats abandoned working people in the 1990s not realizing that rural America is not with them. End result? Michael Dukakis won more counties in 1988 than Obama did in 2012.
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  14905. If I have to go back to the office by then, I am taking the day off and getting the popcorn ready.
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  14906.  @ggd4092  High level, important i-DEE-uhs.
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  14907. I'm sorry, but at this point, it seems like the word "shame" has just lost all meaning at this point. In modern parlance, it seems to just mean criticism.
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  14908. If Mike Johnson learned anything from the tenure of Kevin McCarthy, he'll decide not to burn bridges with Democrats just before a vote to remove him. The smart thing to do to hold the job would be to enter a power sharing agreement, but he'll never do that.
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  14909.  Sam Sepiol  Your advice would make it easier for Republicans to get elected. Great strategy to get what you want! If you really want to win, you need to do the actual work of taking over the Democratic Party like the right took over the Republican Party after Goldwater.
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  14910.  @Rob_Cary  Even compared to everyone on stage, when you looked at their actual record, she was to the right of everyone not named Michael Bloomberg. Just because people didn't want to give up the fantasy doesn't make it any less true. Her voting record in the House was to the right of Beto, and they both started at the same time. Difference is that he wanted to win statewide in Texas.
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  14911.  Sam Sepiol  Am I to take it that your first response was sarcasm?
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  14912.  @Rob_Cary  The fantasy that she was the second best candidate. You said "before Warren showed her true colors," but that was after Tulsi showed hers. She started by playing both siderism on the wall, spent the summer sucking up to Biden on busing and Iraq, she agreed with Dave Rubin that she was the only Democratic candidate who loved America and said that every other candidate wanted open borders, and she voted Present (which is really No for cowards) on impeachment even after saying that she believed that Trump was guilty. Where is this evidence that she was second best?
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  14913.  @Rob_Cary  Ask people in or from West Virginia, and they'll tell you that he's a joke. A one-term state senator who gave up his seat to run for President only to drop out before the legislative session even started? He clearly got blinded by the attention. His policies weren't that far left, either.
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  14914.  @Rob_Cary  Beto was the second half of the pack to me. It's not my fault that her record is so bad that his was objectively better, and he had the excuse of trying to run in Texas for not being a lefty. My second was Williamson. Warren was either third or fourth for me before the primary voting started. What in particular made Tulsi anywhere near the top? Torture apologists who oppose non-proliferation deals and defend people like Assad, Sisi, and Modi are not my idea of a top tier candidate.
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  14915.  @Rob_Cary  Again, Warren did that stuff after Tulsi spent 2019 showing that her fake self was supporting Bernie in 2016.
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  14916.  @Rob_Cary  Again, look at the record. Yes, every candidate was at best a distant second to Bernie, but some were far worse than others. Objectively, Tulsi ran farthest to the right of everyone not named Michael Bloomberg.
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  14917.  @Rob_Cary  Yes, but not after resigning from the state senate. That is what destroyed his credibility. If a state senator is getting in the race, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that the field will be incredibly stacked, and there will have to be something done to limit the number of candidates on stage. You keep saying that Williamson was a joke, but at least she had a couple of really good ideas and did the actual work to get on stage.
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  14918.  @Rob_Cary  If you read what Bernie has to say, you understand that he calls himself a socialist because deep down, that is what he wants. Instead of pushing for full socialism, he has spent decades expanding the limit of what is possible in this country. Even if Bernie had won, look at the pushback Biden is getting for what he wants. If Bernie won with a similar makeup of Congress, it would be blamed on someone so far to the left and you'd get nothing but centrists. Do you really think that appealing to gun nuts will help? The Republicans will always go more extreme on wedge issues, and only appealing to white men is a failing strategy, especially as the country gets less white, because speaking of wedge issues, that's what "anti-SJW" really boils down to when it comes down to it.
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  14919.  @Rob_Cary  You: Anti-SKE represents real leftism. Also You: We need to win over the right. Do you not see the failure of the logic there?
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  14920.  @Rob_Cary  "Free speech absolutism and policy over identity." There is no such thing as absolute free speech. You can't yell Fire in a crowded building when there is no fire, you can't libel, and you can't have kiddie porn. And the things that the "free speech absolutists" are complaining about are idiots violating terms of service for a private company, and when they make their own spaces that will be "truly free," without fail they end up starting TOS and the bigots get mad and leave. As far as "policy over identity," you have literally spent several posts insisting that the second most conservative candidate in the 2020 was second best. You're literally echoing the Dave Rubin argument.
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  14921.  @Rob_Cary  1) Medicare is such a "crap program" that it is routinely the most popular or second most popular health insurance program in America. The one that it battles for number one? The VA, which is full-on socialized medicine. You're talking to people too far gone if they hate Medicare. 2) Those same people who "can't vote for a socialist" think that literally everyone to the left of Goldwater is a socialist. Again, they are too far gone.
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  14922.  @matthewsteward  There are 125 total programs that were either/or. Your comment was based on the lie that Yang only wanted to gut one or two programs.
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  14923. This reminds me of a 30 for 30 I saw about the Colts leaving Baltimore because the Isray family extorted the city and state and it didn't work. A few years later, they dump all this money into Oriole Park at Camden Yards, and almost every team that built a new stadium since did it with taxpayer dollars (I think the Yankees and Cowboys are the only two exceptions). Oh, the joys of capitalism by extortion! The irony is that as much as the right hates Europe and soccer, those leagues are the most capitalistic because they get no government subsidy (couldn't you imagine the fight in London if Chelsea got more money for a stadium than Arsenal?). What will it take to stop this? We know some places are hubs, so if NY and VA would have just said no money outside of needed infrastructure, would that have broken the spell?
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  14924. It's about time. I'm sick of the Chicken Littles clucking that the sky is falling. As Lawrence O'Donnell noted last night, there have been two other times in the history of the modern primary (1972 for Democrats, 1980 for Republicans) where people tried to push out someone who had already won the nomination: Clinton in 1992 (who was third behind Perot and Bush, 39-31-25 in June) and Trump in 2016 (after the Access Hollywood tapes). Both times, th campaigns righted themselves and the people despairing came back aboard.
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  14925. ​​ @ticthak  There's no one who can win in WV. The last non-Manchin Democrat to win statewide was the state treasurer, who was popular for making a concerted effort to help West Virginians get millions in unclaimed money from the state government. He lost re-election in 2020 by 13 points to Capito's nephew.
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  14926.  @noahvannote417  So, having literally just taken unified control 15 days ago, they should have already made it into law or they're being dishonest? Amazing the lengths that the people who play both siderism will go in order to maintain their perspective.
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  14927. Second and third generation continuing to fail upward? You mean like Moscow Donald? ;-)
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  14928.  @mickiec1841  Ralph Nader got over 180 times the margin in Florida. Exit polls showed that Nader voters preferred Gore by a margin of 16 (37-21) to 26 (44-18) points. If we were not on the ballot, Gore would have won Florida by over 15,000 votes. Yes, the Supreme Court stole 2000, but Nader made it close enough to steal.
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  14929. Yes
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  14930.  @AvelierPlays  Yes, because why would a country that has already been invaded once have a desire to join a protective treaty? /s
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  14931. Relevant? 13 candidates have already qualified for the first debate. Tulsi Gabbard has not. Less support than Andrew Yang doesn't sound relevant to me. Honorable? Because nothing says honor like going on Fox to whine that Obama isn't saying "radical Islamic terror." Or voting with Republicans to block Syrian refugees. Or supporting Modi. Or supporting Sisi. Or blaming both sides on the wall. Or supporting war crimes if they match scenarios straight from the movies.
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  14932.  @JackFury  I'd argue that Bernie or Bust people were never Bernie's base, but Never Hillary. He just happened to be the top remaining challenger. The way they savaged him after he did exactly what he said he would (endorse and support the eventual Democratic nominee) tells you everything you need to know about them.
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  14933.  @JackFury  So true. I guess my truth in advertising instincts kick in when I hear that phrase. I actually did support Bernie, and I still do. The fact that Yang hit the debate threshold before Tulsi (I don't think she has yet, but I know she didn't as of 3/31) tells me just how small they really are.
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  14934.  @sga3084  You think that we have to settle for a centrist to get that?
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  14935.  @satevo462  And he got the tech bubble so wrong that his firm lost 90% of its value in 2000-01. That's 1929 crash territory.
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  14936. I really hope you are right about this one.
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  14937. "There is always one candidate who is worse than the other. We have a long history of figuring out who is the lesser of two evils." Molly Ivins
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  14938. National conservitism? Anyone else catch the dog whistle?
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  14939. There have been several candidates born outside the US before Cruz. McCain was born in Panama, and that never mattered for either campaign. George Romney was born in Mexico in 1907 (his parents fled the US after Mormons agreed to ban polygamy in exchange for statehood) and he moved to the US when he was five, and this wasn't an issue when he ran in 1968. If one parent is a US Citizen, you are at birth. Cruz' mom was. This is why, even if the birther nonsense were true, it wouldn't matter, because his mom was a US Citizen.
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  14940.  @JPH1138  The exemption is $20,000 for income taxes, but payroll taxes are collected from the first dollar.
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  14941. He's still ahead, but the trajectory suggests that he won't win.
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  14942. Well, he probably wouldn't be forcing people to go back to work, taunting governors who are trying to keep residents safe, and telling people to inject bleach. That's not a lot, but it's not nothing.
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  14943.  @Xianfaquanli  Ah, yes. The old right-wing talking point about how you don't oppose increasing wages for workers because you are anti-worker, but because you are really pro-worker and don't want to see workers lose jobs. Well, besides the fact that it is phased in over several years (Bernie's plan is four, the House bill that passed was seven), and the states and municipalities that increased it to $15 did not see an increase in unemployment or inflation relative to the surrounding areas that didn't do it, what opposing increasing the minimum wage wage really tells me is that a lot of people who claim to care about working people are just fine with poverty and starvation wages. And I think you missed my entire point. First of all, I don't care if they get one book at all, that is a tax that still harms them. Second, there are plenty of things that people do buy that may very well be considered a "luxury" under this definition that they will pay. Third, if he had made his proposal both/and and actually wanted to use a progressive tax to pay for it instead of continuing his streak as the I Give Up candidate, then there would be no chance of imagining a scenario where his plan hurts the poor and disabled. Finally, in your "not hurting them," you are forgetting how inequality works. The complaint about wages isn't that they have gone down, but that they have stagnated relative to inflation, and as the rungs get farther apart on the economic ladder, that harms the people at the bottom, so if everyone gets benefits but them (and the ones who currently get benefits that are less than $1000/month don't get the full benefit because they have to give up what they currently get in order to get his money), they will suffer and income inequality will get worse. Great plan!
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  14944.  @stretchygeneral3433  No, he wants the appearance of more involvement. His version of UBI is the spiritual heir to Friedman and Murray. He is opposed to increasing the minimum wage. He wants to leave tech monopolies alone. He will do nothing to fight tax avoidance and evasion. Those are all hallmarks of a libertarian.
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  14945.  @stretchygeneral3433  VAT is passed onto consumers. Either he is ignorant of that fact or lying, but the fight over Trump's tariffs should make that obvious. What loopholes does he support getting rid of? Literally every single time I have heard him talk about tax avoidance, it was to say that we can't increase taxes on the rich or corporations (right wing argument), or to push his regressive VAT (a right wing plan). He literally has nothing for tax avoidance and evasion that would be paid by the people doing the actual avoidance and evasion. He is not for universal health care. He is for a public option. His plan is like Buttigieg because their worship of markets tells them to go this way, and given how Republicans have gutted the ACA, there is nothing that will keep them from getting the public option. The time for half measures is over.
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  14946.  @FreckleFoxShow  Well, SSI doesn't. Yang has specifically said that several times. Why should someone get to get the benefit if that person is in a different category of disability?
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  14947.  @FreckleFoxShow  I am aware they are funded in different ways, and quite frankly, it is completely irrelevant to the point. The question is whether or not it is right to construct a UBI that harms the poor and disabled. Those who receive SSI and SNAP will be harmed both on absolute (because they don't get an extra money, and they now have to pay a VAT because Yang refuses to fight tax avoidance and evasion) and relative terms (If those around them get more money and they don't, among other things, it will be much easier for them to get priced out of their homes).
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  14948.  @stretchygeneral3433  No, you didn't "explain" anything, you just said it as an article of faith. Whenever his proposal for tax avoidance and evasion is a method of taxation that gets passed to the consumer, that is not fighting tax avoidance and evasion by corporations.
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  14949.  @stretchygeneral3433  I am well aware that there are different programs. The fact that you can't seem to understand my point that forcing any disabled people to choose between their current benefits and his plan just because of which budget it comes from is shameful.
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  14950.  @stretchygeneral3433  And the average person with SSI also gets SNAP. The max payout is $771, with some high-cost states offering SSP to boost the benefits. In PA, it is $22.10/month on top of SSI. And the average of $534 is misleading, because for some people, they get SSI and RSDI if their RSDI payment is lower than the SSI payment. Even if someone gets more from the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend, that misses the point. People who currently don't receive benefits get the full thousand. No one forces millionaires and billionaires to give up their tax deductions and credits that are way more than $12,000/year.
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  14951.  @stretchygeneral3433  Other examples of people who will be harmed by the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend: 1) TANF in New Hampshire is over $1000/month. 2) A single parent with two kids who gets SSI and SNAP gets over $1300/month. 3) Housing subsidies 4) Daycare subsidies with multiple children And those are just the ones that we know of because Yang refuses to provide a full list of the programs that people have to forfeit if they take his money. Mother Jones asked in April and got a response of "we'll get back to you." They never did, showing shades of another rich person who thought that he was the only one to be able to fix things.
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  14952.  @stretchygeneral3433  There are a lot who won't, and they shouldn't have to choose between their current benefits and his plan.
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  14953. No. You'd need impeachment and removal. There is no such thing as a No Confidence vote in the US Constitution.
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  14954.  @edwinsoto6932  I just knew about her making the money through royalties rather than exploitation. That was mainly what I meant.
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  14955.  @keirfarnum6811  Indeed. I'm 5'5, and I don't want a George Costanza situation where I have to wear the same shoes in all circumstances in order to keep the illusion of being the same height as someone.
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  14956. Indeed. This is why right-wing populism is fake, and we need to stop calling it such. Real populists don't want tax cuts for rich people.
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  14957.  @joseburgos9654  You wanna know why so many poor people are overweight? It's because junk food is cheap. Gwyneth Paltrow tried to make it a week on the SNAP budget, but she ran out of money after five days. My church has a Lenten challenge where some of us got back our food spending to the SNAP limit and donate the difference between that and our regular spending to an anti-hunger charity (it gets voted on by the participants, and Heifer International has won each year). Of the six years I have participated, I have gained weight in five, and the other stayed exactly the same.
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  14958.  @WobblyBits_X  "There is only one." Father Merrin, The Exorcist What makes it even sadder is that Aaron has to make up all these usernames to pretend like he has friends.
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  14959. The biggest irony over the debate over who is the "most progressive" is that three of the four movements of the 20th century (TR, Fighting Bob, and the Clinton years), "progressive" referred to a centrist or center-left good government movement (the exception was Wallace in 1948). So, in that sense, Biden is right. Then again, as I have told my friends many times as far as why I avoid that label, I have heard Hillary call herself a progressive many times, but I have never once heard her call herself a liberal.
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  14960.  @jimgraham6722  The example you gave is someone profiting off of corporate welfare in order to become the richest man in the world. That is hardly an example of positive creation.
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  14961. If Biden is so incompetent, what does it say about them that he keeps beating them like a drum?
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  14962.  @Assembled-Saints  Every vote doesn't count now. Campaigns only go to swing states. Pennsylvania got most of the attention in this election. We appreciate it, but there are four states with bigger electoral hauls. For most of the country, the Presidential election doesn't exist.
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  14963.  @digitalperson108  The Electoral College exists for two reasons: 1) the Founders didn't trust the people to decide (See also: United States Senate) 2) the slaveholders wanted to be able to use slaves (who they thought of as subhuman except when it came to raping the women to get more property) to leverage greater power. That being said, let's talk about its rarely spoken effect on democracy: it encourages lower vote turnout. This is because the number of electoral votes is fixed, and there are times when fewer people vote in states with more say. Not a lower percentage, fewer people. Here are some examples: Maine (4 EV): 819,461 total votes New Hampshire (4 EV): 806,182 total votes West Virginia (5 EV): 794,731 total votes Oregon (7 EV): 2,374,321 total votes Kentucky (8 EV): 2,136,768 total votes Minnesota (10 EV): 3,277,171 total votes Wisconsin (10 EV): 3,298,041 total votes Tennessee (11 EV): 3,053,851 total votes So, tell me, how is this fair again? I get that you are trying to pretty up opposing democracy, but tell me why states where fewer people voted should get a larger absolute say in who gets elected.
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  14964.  @lynnehanses8474  Even that's not true, because margins still matter in a popular vote. The states the race goes to now are the biggest close states. Most of the attention went to Pennsylvania, Florida, and Michigan, and the only reason it didn't go to Texas as much is because Democrats didn't think there was a chance until pretty late in the game. I guarantee that Texas, Florida, and Pennsylvania will get the lion's share of attention next time. Losing Wyoming by 20 instead of 30-40 and doing similarly in other states adds up.
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  14965. I think he's talking about the traitor who got shot when a Capitol Police officer warned that he'd shoot if they didn't get away from the door while they were trying to smash the windows in and get to the members of Congress.
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  14966. What about Toofer's great-great-grandparent?
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  14967.  John Carosi  We can make a human chain all the way to Sing-sing.
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  14968.  @mattgreek1066  Well, they know that their people will show up regardless, so they are just fine with no one else voting.
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  14969.  @bjones8470  Well, Bernie tried, and look what happened. They didn't vote. When you have limited resources, it is far more effective to focus on mobilizing people you know will vote than persuading those who don't.
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  14970. If my student loan debt was gone, I could actually start saving up to buy a house instead of spending five figures a year in rent, with nothing to show for it at the end
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  14971.  Uncanny Valley Too  Trump is Presbyterian, so there goes that conspiracy theory.
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  14972. You mean like defending Sisi in Egypt and supporting the overthrow of a democratically elected government? Or voting to keep refugees out of America? Or giving voice to the 24 scenario for torture? He can learn a lot from Tulsi! He can learn what not to do.
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  14973.  @deepdish2034  Nobody mentioned forcing people to move. The policy was whether or not schools should be segregated based on race. It was clearly happening, because the very people who had no problem with sending black kids to another neighborhood or another town to keep schools segregated suddenly cared about community schools when black kids being sent to white schools to integrate them. Not buying it.
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  14974.  @Kamfrenchie  Jimmy Dore didn't get Russiagate wrong? "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you find the e-mails." "If it's what you say it is, I love it! Especially later in the summer." "You're about to find out some interesting things about the e-mails." How many people were convicted in the investigation of activity with Russia again? You're right. You don't pay much attention. Okay, so let's look at the story that brought Glenn Greenwald into national prominence: the Snowden case. Doesn't it seem just a little odd to you that someone who claims to oppose government secrecy went to both Hong Kong and Russia (hardly exemplars of open society) with documents he stole from work in hand? And that he recently petitioned for a Russian passport? You anti-anti-Trump types need to be careful. You might be surprised where you wind up.
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  14975. @AmateurThespian I would hardly call an attempted coup in Venezuela and trying to starve the people all while sending military into the region "not war." The reason why Trump backing out of (another) act of war against Iran at the last minute is different is that Iran didn't attack Americans on our land. The difference between Trump and Bush is 19 years of war fatigue. Without those intervening years, I am confident that he would have started a more direct war. And your comment forgets that he is still doing covert wars in places like Yemen.
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  14976.  @Darke_Exelbirth  Do we have 51 votes at this time without her?
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  14977.  @theme34xcp  Did I say anything about liking her? Once again, you don't seem to understand what getting to 218 & 51 looks like.
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  14978.  @theme34xcp  Apparently, you have selective reading. Is it like selective hearing I've heard so much about? I said that that can't be all that you do.
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  14979.  @Darke_Exelbirth  Well, we're stuck with her for at least the next three years, so what are you going to do while you wait for your master plan to kick in with you ageist nonsense. Well, I guess you deserve some credit for not even trying to hide it.
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  14980.  @DragonXflyer  You are aware that Christian Scientists are a very different thing, right? They do refuse all medicine, though, so they definitely buy the nonsense, but for different reasons.
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  14981.  @aliamjon2550  So does this one. Look at the map and see the correlation between low vaccination rates and high infection and death rates.
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  14982.  @aliamjon2550  Because each variant has its own curve, and their good is worse than a lot of places would consider their bad. Explain why Mississippi has the highest death rate per capita in the nation and if it were its own country would be second only to Peru.
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  14983.  @aliamjon2550  No one ever said that there weren't breakthrough cases, death wisher.
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  14984.  @AdamSmith-gs2dv  Because New Jersey got the worst of it in the very beginning when masks and social distancing were the only preventative measures available. Check which states have been the leaders on a rolling basis rather than a cumulative and you'll see that in action.
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  14985.  @AdamSmith-gs2dv  The leaders per capita within the last week were Idaho, Montana, West Virginia, Georgia, Florida, Wyoming, Alabama, South Carolina, Kentucky, North Dakota, and Pennsylvania. In other words, you have to go through nine red states and a state with a Republican governor shunning such mandates before finding a blue state with a Democratic governor, and that governor lost a lot of his power of emergency declarations when the Legislature took it to the people that they could override any emergency declaration after 21 days. In the rolling per capita count, New Jersey is 44th, being led by Maine, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Kansas, and Rhode Island. So, either blue states or states with a Democratic governor.
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  14986.  @leddyal-khalaf8322  Also, given the other health issues he had, his immunity was already severely damaged.
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  14987.  @weo-mum-mum  I only know it from the East Hollywood Squares sketch on In Living Color ;-) I couldn't help but deploy it after "word on the street..."
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  14988.  @nrXic  I would argue that the more apt analogy is Britian and India.
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  14989. Nancy Mace: We need to respect women. Also Nancy Mace: Voted for and endorsed misogynist who bragged about SA and hung out with Jeffrey Epstein.
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  14990.  @BenedictMHolland  I don't remember controversy with Powell. I remember it with Rice because of her role in the buildup to the Iraq War.
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  14991. Obviously, you've never lived in places where people made less and things cost less, or remembered that the Great Depression, as well as several other depressions in the 19th century (1837, 1873, 1893) were caused by deflation.
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  14992.  @victorzzt  If a third party is serious about winning, rather than trying to raise money, it needs to build at the local level. The last third party to have a significant Congressional presence was the Socialist Party, and that's because they actually organized and held the mayoralty in Milwaukee for decades because they actually delivered for voters. Bernie spent the 1970s getting single digits in statewide races, but it wasn't until he decided to run for mayor in 1981 and actually delivered results for the people that he became a viable candidate for statewide office. Notice a pattern? It's why the Minnesota Independence Party died after Jesse Ventura served his term.
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  14993.  @subsonic9854  Well, budgeting rules beg to differ. If revenue will be reduced, and the government is paying for a helicopter pad, that sure seems to me like there was money that could have been used for other things.
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  14994.  @subsonic9854  Perhaps not. I have seen commercials where NY state offers complete exemption from income taxes for out of state businesses that move in for ten years. I'm not sure if NYC has a similar program or not. But the complaint was never just about the tax revenue. It was also about how the deal would not lead to locals getting jobs, but most of the jobs would be people Amazon brought in, which would cause it would displace residents, which would be compounded by the housing that would have been demolished. A lot of people saw it coming, and that's exactly how things played out in VA, so it was hardly accidental.
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  14995.  @emp9413  So, because he says one thing that you like, a whole bunch of stupid stuff, and gets people to oppose the party that actually has members that support the policy he claims to support gets overlooked because he is "informing" them? [In Dr. Evil voice] Riiight.
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  14996.  @oldsrocket8841  Would a doctor be able to operate if the hospital isn't sanitary? Would any of us be able to eat if there wasn't anyone to harvest the food? THAT is why we should give fair wages.
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  14997.  @oldsrocket8841  I think that it should be enough that one parent (I don't care which one) can support a family. I think a $15/hour minimum wage phased in over five years with indexing for inflation thereafter is fair.
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  14998.  @oldsrocket8841  All right! It sounds like the beginning of a groundswell.
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  14999.  @dal8963  The point is that he understands deep down where Sam is taking the argument, which is why he is lying about how much his truck (which is subsidized by those who live in urban areas or don't drive) cost.
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  15000.  Alexandre Gareau  I have been saying for a long while that it is just a matter of time before he converts to the right.
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  15001. I swear, the anti-anti-Trump grift is insanely lucrative.
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  15002.  @chrisolivo6591  Camden gets more public funding from NJ because they have a policy of using state money to fill funding gaps. Compare the combined state and local funding for Camden and Cherry Hill, and then show me how much more Camden gets.
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  15003.  @IMSiegfried  It depends who "us and them" are, but I agree with the basic idea.
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  15004.  @IMSiegfried  I would go with citizens as Us and the rich and corporations that screw us over as Them. As far as the two-party system goes, as long as you have first past the voting, there will always be two main parties. Given what Germany has to go through to build its coalition, I don't think a full multi-party system with proportional representation is the answer. I would much prefer Ranked Choice Voting.
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  15005.  @IMSiegfried  You may be, but when most people are pressed further, they lean toward one or the other. Not everybody, but most people. I would argue that, based on election results over the last 30 years, there are only about 10% of all voters who are truly independent or Other.
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  15006.  @IMSiegfried  True. Well, if 40-50% claim the label, and 10% really are, that isn't nobody ;-)
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  15007. There are some who have plans, but the leftist internationalists like Bernie tend to get drowned out by the isolationists, which is a right-wing position.
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  15008.  @morriganrenfield8240  I didn't say that all right wingers are isolationists. I said that isolationism is a right wing position. That's because isolationists are content to let the rest of the world burn, as long as it doesn't come to their door.
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  15009.  @Cowboyz890  They wouldn't change it because it would look bad. They tried to change the rules to game the system in 2003 thinking that Kerry would win the Presidency, where they called for an election to keep Romney from naming the successor. Well, when Kennedy died, they had to live with it, so the compromise was that the governor got to make a temporary appointment until a special election could be held. Changing it three times in less than 20 years to try to game the system would be a bad look.
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  15010.  @iamdanyboy1  But then he refuses to vote at all in 2020, even for down ballot races, and tells Joe Rogan that he didn't vote because he lives in a safe state (although there were some key legislative races) and the polling places looked dirty. He is definitely going down that road.
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  15011.  @l.w.paradis2108  Because math. McConnell changed the rules that it only gets two hours of floor debate on the Senate. Graham controlled the gavel in committee, so he could force it onto the floor where it is guaranteed to pass.
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  15012. The guy who said in 2015 that wages in America are too high and praised illegal firing of union workers in 2024 screwed over working people? No! As a union member (ours endorsed Harris/Walz), I am saddened and angered by how many workers don't know, to borrow a phrase from Hazel Dickens, which side they are on.
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  15013. If you push out theists and rely on atheists and agnostics (must studies show that people who identity as "not religious" tend to have beliefs but don't practice an organized religion), you are pushing away over 90% of the population. And like it or not, a lot of people who did some things that we like such as abolition, civil rights, and fighting to help the poor did so because of their faith, not in spite of it. When will people learn that you need to build rather than tear down?
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  15014.  @americanliberal09  Someone who gets that atheists and agnostics are not the same thing. It is so annoying that people claim to be atheists while making the agnostic argument that they "just think there should be proof." My only point in combining the two was to point out that these are the two groups that don't claim to believe in a higher being of any time.
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  15015.  @americanliberal09  Agreed. They aren't the same. People also don't seem to understand that a lot of people who identify as "not religious" have religious beliefs, but don't belong to an organized religion. However, if you want to say that people who do belief in a higher being, regardless of what they believe about that higher being, is detrimental to your cause, you're really only left with those two groups.
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  15016.  @americanliberal09  Look at the studies. A lot of people who define themselves as "not religious" maintain a lot of the beliefs about the supernatural and cosmology, but they reject organized religion.
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  15017.  @americanliberal09  Okay, I have three degrees in religion, including two graduate degrees. Religion has several degrees. By your logic, a lot of things that are considered religions (such as Confucianism) wouldn't really fit. The Raelian cult is clearly a religion, but it is adamant that it is atheistic, so should they not count? Buddhists run the spectrum from atheism to polytheism, so should they be considered a religion? I am not saying that they are synonymous. The original video was started by a comment wanting to excise everyone who had religion from the left. Therefore, the only two groups that would be left by that statement would be atheists and agnostics. Your argument is the equivalent of saying that is inaccurate to lump Christians and Muslims if someone said that atheists should be excised from a political movement. Of course, they're different, but they both fall under the same umbrella based on the criteria.
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  15018.  @americanliberal09  Your point misses the the entire argument of the response. Did you not watch the video? Of course, people can be either religious or irreligious and still be left wing. The commenter the MR Crew responded to only wanted the latter. My point was that you would be left with a tiny, tiny group that would not excise. The point is not what religion and politics have to do with one another (except tangentially). The point is who would be left for your political coalition. The comment didn't specify which religion. The comment said to get rid of everyone with religious beliefs. My contrasting example was one that applies similarly if the reverse were being suggested. It is not about everyone being the same, it's about who would be remaining once you excise a group of people. I know atheists and agnostics aren't the same thing, but they are the only people who wouldn't be excised by the person they are responding to.
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  15019.  @americanliberal09  If the video said that polytheists should be excluded, would you then get insist that atheists, agnostics, and monotheists would be all that's left? What exactly is it that you are holding onto. It should have been obvious that I was saying that they weren't the same, so why keep insisting that they are different?
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  15020.  Noiseless Sounds  He resigned because Barry Goldwater told him that he didn't have the votes to survive in the Senate. Republicans stayed with Nixon until they didn't. With Fox, I don't think someone like Goldwater would be able to tell Nixon that.
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  15021.  @divadjens4278  Why? That doesn't guarantee a 2/3 vote in the Senate, and as long as we have FPTP, it won't be a multiparty system.
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  15022.  @divadjens4278  The first goal would be to implement Ranked Choice Voting. Get to a point where the spoiler effect no longer exists, and you will see more people open to the idea of saying, "I like X, but if my candidate doesn't have a shot, I can be strategic and vote Y with my second choice."
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  15023.  @divadjens4278  Much like I have long argued that public financing of campaigns is the reform that makes all other reforms possible, Ranked Choice Voting is the one that makes a multiparty system possible.
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  15024.  @Kylopod  My problem with proportional representation is that it tends to lead to much more ideological rigidity within the parties. A lot of times, the major difference between a two-party and a multi-party system is that one makes its coalitions in advance, and the other waits until after the election. I would be fine with a two-plus party system. There are also constitutional questions about what PR would look like in the House, considering that each state gets its own representation. There are seven states with one member (so, nothing will change), five other states with two members (so a 1-1 split is a real possibility), and three other states with three (making 2-1 a real possibility), so would this really make a difference?
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  15025.  @heronimousbrapson863  That seems to have grown over the years, but I would argue that there is definitely less in the Democratic Party than, say, the Green Party. My other point was that not knowing the coalition ahead of time can be a mess, like whether the CDU will partner with the SPD or the Free Democrats in Germany.
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  15026. Given the impact of the awfulness of Buchanan, it may be too soon to completely say that Trunp is the worst, but he's definitely in the bottom two If we have years or decades of unease because of the Pandora's Box of fascism he openee, he gets the top slot.
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  15027. Well, Republicans used to censure and shun members like Marjorie Taylor Greene... only after they proved to be no longer useful.
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  15028.  @aliamjon2550  And Cynthia Nixon wasn't running for President, she was running for Governor, so what's your point? You just voted for someone whose last job before President was reality TV show host and brand licensing.
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  15029.  @aliamjon2550  I do have a child. Then again, the fact that I am not a selfish jerk tells me that I should feel sorry for the life lessons that you are teaching your children. No, why I feel that way is because when I was younger, my family didn't have health insurance. My dad worked harder than just about anyone I know, but he didn't make much money and worked a job that didn't offer it. My brother broke his arm when I was in fifth grade and he was in third, and three weeks later, my mom found out that she needed her gallbladder removed, but no one would do it because of a nearly $5000 outstanding bill. Finally, after eight months, a bank gave him a loan for a down payment on the surgery, and the gallbladder became gangrenous. My mom nearly died because of selfish jerks like you whining about "long lines." I'm not teaching my daughter to fail on the lessons of basic humanity like you did and do.
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  15030.  @marmadukescarlet7791  It's clearly a dog whistle, but I do what I can to try to expose the obvious that they are saying that we can't have nice things because of black and brown people.
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  15031. ​ @MarshallArtz007  There is plenty of evidence that he was. While Biden was spending a month before the first debate jetsetting and getting the Ukraine deal done, Reagan was sleeping through Cabinet meetings.
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  15032. If you seriously think Manchin will change parties, you really don't understand West Virginia. For starters, he'll never leave the party that elected his father mayor and his uncle secretary of state, state treasurer, and state legislator. Second, he has been to the left of every Republican for the entirety of his Senate career. He voted to remove Dear Leader from office twice. Do you honestly think that someone like that can win a primary? Granted, the fact that he beat a lump like Morrisey by only three points shows that he is vulnerable if the Republicans pick a halfway appealing candidate in 2024, but he won't be it as a Republican.
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  15033.  @DougGreenberg50  At one point in the campaign, Trump alluded to Scotland... which is covered by the NHS.
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  15034. "Breathe through your damn mouth!" Ned Flanders
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  15035. There are. They're called airplanes.
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  15036.  @madcow1998  Here is the article in question that shows that this is not only a widespread phenomenon, but far more common in cities (where people don't need to drive): https://www.pennlive.com/midstate/2012/07/voter_id_law_9_of_pennsylvania.html So, we should create a law to disenfranchise nearly one in ten voters (and one in five in big cities) in order to stop something that even the lawyers defending it in PA couldn't find any examples of existing and nationwide is on the order of one in 100,000,000? Fascists gotta fascist.
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  15037.  @madcow1998  I'm not the one wanting to restrict the vote or overthrow democracy.
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  15038.  @madcow1998  You supported the aims of laws making it harder to vote by defending the underlying argument. Just because you are in denial about what you are doing doesn't mean that others don't see your power level.
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  15039.  @madcow1998  It's not just about forcing people to take a day off work to get an ID. It is other laws such as making it a crime to give people waiting in line to vote food and water... while taking away polling machines in majoirty black and brown precincts away so that people have to wait longer to vote. Funny how people in majoirty white precincts didn't have to wait as much as 8-10 hours to vote. The thing you call ballot harvesting is allowing someone to collect ballots. If someone is disabled and can't leave the house, or has to work two jobs, it makes it a lot more difficult for that person to submit the ballots, and given the sabotage of the USPS by DeJoy, fewer people are going to put their ballots in the mail.
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  15040.  @madcow1998  Where is this evidence of multiple voting? Dan Patrick offered a million dollars to anyone who found an example, and the only person who tried to cash in was John Fetterman, because there were three instances of people voting twice in Pennsylvania... Trump voters all. In a state with over 6.9MM votes cast. Now, you're just grasping at straws.
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  15041. The media rigged the 2016 election? Your boy won.
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  15042.  @tylertone2776  Really?
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  15043. He was apparently just getting warmed up and wanted to get in on the grift.
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  15044.  @Sircinus3005  Oh, okay. I remembered him during those times as someone who was pushing back against the Patriot Act but had strange takes on a lot of things before I realized that he was a libertarian. I guess this is yet another example of just why it was so strange when he decided to reinvent himself as a lefty hero.
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  15045. Based on the wording of that stupid bill, does that mean Congress has to get notified any time Biden drinks a cup or coffee or a cola or eats a candy bar. [In Napoleon Dynamite voice] Idiots!
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  15046.  @MiikeJone  "If The Human Fund isn't real, then that means that those cards were fake, and you'd better have one hell of an explanation for why you gave me a fake Christmas gift." The one time Kruger ever got mad at something that happened at the company :-P
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  15047.  @robinsss  And it's very interesting that you had no answer or response to Ron Paul's response to someone dying without health insurance.
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  15048.  @robinsss  "But in discussion, you are required to discuss the subject on the table" In Sam's debates with libertarians, he lets the libertarians choose the topic. And the fact that you concede that it didn't stop libertarians from talking about what they want to talk about proves my point about indifference. Why, in another comment on this very video, when I brought up the libertarian tendency to oppose the Civil Rights Act of 1964 because they feel that the freedom to discriminate outweighs the freedom of a traveler not to starve, he immediately brushed aside my point about discrimination and immediately started pining for the lost freedom to discriminate. "The fact that a libertarian didn't bring ip the benefits of the Civil Rights Act doesn't mean he doesn't care about those benefits." Yes, it does. Or at the very least that he thinks that those benefits are outweighed by the supposed harms caused by not allowing businesses to discriminate based on race.
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  15049.  @robinsss  So, if we can somehow prove that someone is starving because that person has been unable to otherwise get service, then (and only then) do you feel that it is appropriate for the government to intervene? How compassionate! And you wonder why people think that libertarians are callous. I think that the plight of Katie Cox in Texas and other women literally going to a hospital parking lot in a diaper waiting to hemorrhage so they can be close enough to death shows just how hollow such emergency provisions really are. So, you see the right to discriminate as more important than the right to eat. You might pat yourself on the back for being kinder than those other libertarians, but you're not. You've proven my point that libertarians just don't care about people, and that is baked into the ideology.
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  15050.  @robinsss  We know you're not saying that you'd personally do it. You just happen to have no problem with other people doing it, and that is the problem.
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  15051.  @robinsss  I'll answer your right to property question when you answer my question about Ron Paul saying in a debate, when asked if someone without health insurance should die, that "freedom has consequences" to cheers from his supporters, something backed up by one of his top level staffers dying from cancer, and how that relates to libertarians being callous.
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  15052.  @robinsss  No, that is not the issue. Things are owned privately and publicly, and there are things that are for public use and not for public use. If either or both are public, you are not allowed to discriminate. The fact that you want anything that is for public use to be allowed to be discriminatory is appalling. Aside from my example of travelers not being able to use public highways due to discrimination by restaurants, gas stations, and hotels is shameful, and you want to go back to the days where such things are possible, there are also small rural towns with only one grocery store. If that store suddenly decides that it wants to discriminate (which you want them to be allowed to do), you are in effect making that town unlivable for those who are discriminated against. Once again, libertarian thought is based on self-centeredness and callousness, because you don't care about how your beliefs affect others.
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  15053.  @robinsss  No, it is your job to prove you care, when your actions show indifference to people and you insist that you actually do care. The effect on people never seems to matter at all in libertarian thought. I get that you want to pretend that you're engaging in the issue, but I have answered your question about the difference between a private club and a business that is open to the public many times. When you open your business to everyone, you are bound by certain rules in how you treat the public. Re: government owned grocery stores and gas stations, I never said that it was inherently good or bad. There's a town in Florida that bought its grocery store when the Almighty Market said that it was too small to be profitable and threatened to turn them into a food desert, and they're doing just fine. You're the one who has no problem with people doing business using public infrastructure to discriminate against people to the point where you pretend that you are compassionate by saying that you'd make an exception if it was life or death, but the Texas abortion ban proves how hollow those exceptions are, because those who want to ignore the exception will insist that it's not really a life or death situation after all. And you getting mad when I point out the effect of discrimination in gas stations and grocery stores, especially in isolated areas, seems more like someone mad that he got called out than someone who actually cares about how it affects people.
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  15054.  @greatdude7279  You mean a party that got propped up by Germany to ultimately make concessions in Brest-Litovsk that were far more severe than anything demanded of Germany in Versailles?
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  15055. I'm at the tail end of Sam's generation (Generation X), and I didn't know that was a Drake reference, either. Like Sam, I do know that he is a musician.
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  15056.  @faceclutch5555  We have to draw a line in the sand somewhere.
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  15057. You've convinced me, Lindsey. I'm going to send a few bucks to Harrison.
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  15058. 14:50 Indeed. What do you call a coup where the leaders aren't punished? Practice.
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  15059. How much filler does Kimberly Guilfoyle have in her face? If he wasn't already dead, I would have thought that was Pete Burns. Seriously, people! Cosmetic surgery almost never works. Don't think you're the one in 1000 who can pull it off.
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  15060. Aramaic
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  15061. There have been two times where a floor vote was forced on the Electoral College (1969 and 2005). The former was ironically started by Poppy Bush because of a faithless elector in North Carolina voting for Wallace instead of Nixon. In 2005, Barbara Boxer agreed to sign a petition to challenge the votes in Ohio. Both were heavily defeated. If the Republican Party still hasn't broken free of the cult in the next eight days, and the House rejects the challenge and the Sebate approves it, the tiebreaker according to the Electoral Count Act of 1887 is whichever slate was certified by the governor of the state, so it is still doomed to failure. The only question is how much damage can be inflicted in the meantime.
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  15062.  @CuttyKitty1  I have sympathy if she realizes the error of her ways and will make sure that she doesn't do it again, but not if she's going to keep harming the rest of us.
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  15063. Anyone who went to basic training at Ft. Leonard Wood knows that it's "misery."
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  15064.  @ajtcaps  Oh, okay. Not sure where I heard that he was Canadian.
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  15065. Well, Trump was impeached, but he was acquitted in the Senate. That being said, I agree that the only way Biden wins is if the economy goes into free fall or this virus gets even worse.
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  15066.  @bellyhead67  Okay, let's think of the actual impact that these people have. TC: Democrats are bad, vote Republican. JD/KB/GG: Democrats are bad, so don't vote for them. As bad as Tucker Carlson is, he is honest about what he is doing. Either the three who you think can convert people are lying or they are so conceited that they are blinded to the consequences of their actions. They are helping Republicans, who have now become a fully fascist party.
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  15067.  @bellyhead67  Jimmy Dore and Krystal Ball have advocated it many times. Greenwald still wants to say that he is a journalist, so he is much more subtle about it. Tucker Carlson is relevant because you are insisting that people like this go onto his show are converting people to the left. Therefore, it is totally relevant what people hear when watching them on his show. It is the same reason why any attempt to examine Rising or that book of radars that they "wrote" (Not that they didn't write the radars, but it clearly wasn't the process of writing a new work, but repackaging their existing work. When I heard them talk about how at work they were on writing their book, you can imagine how furious I was when I got it.) without looking at what Saagar Enjeti does. Tucker Carlson doesn't just let people like Greenwald on to speak. He steers the conversation where he wants it to go.
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  15068. My dad has one of those folding rulers.
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  15069. In 2006, I ran against Carmichael when he was in the House of Delegates. Even though the district (most of Jackson County) is not a coal producing area, when I pointed in our debate out that coal will run out and demand for renewables will grow, so we should be ready and put wind and tidal turbines in the county, he went hysterical and said that I was trying to put coal out of business, never mind that I never said anything of the kind about shutting down companies for anything other than safety violations (I was endorsed by the UMWA, he was endorsed by the WV Coal Association). A few days after the debate, I was knocking on doors in Ravenswood when a coal miner saw me, said that he was in the debate, and he thanked me for telling the truth. Sadly, some people will always chase the dollar instead of fighting for the worker. Thank you, Richard Ojeda, for being on the side of working people!
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  15070. ​ @LPAFilm  Let's see, vote for someone who will give us some of what we want and keep a fascist out of the office who has literally talked about consolidating power and advocated extrajudicial killings, or someone with literally zero chance of winning while will make it easier for said fascist to win. Hmm, what is better? I'll let Cornel West speak for himself: "We must slay the dragon of neo fascism before we slay the dragon of neoliberalism." Cornel West, when endorsing Joe Biden, 2020
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  15071.  @seandoyle296  The last thing I watched last night was impeachment coverage on MSNBC. When I turned on the TV this morning, the chyron was about how the race was tightening in Iowa as Bernie has opened a lead at the edge of the margin of error. They are still in the denial stage.
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  15072. I swear, the stupidity of some people! You sound like 9/11 Truthers! Do you really think that Trump is that good of an actor to fake trouble breathing? Do you think that he really wants to fake going to the hospital to look weak? Try to take the tinfoil off and think a little before you say stupid stuff.
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  15073. She is one of these people who learned the wrong lesson from the 1990s. The lesson was "don't impeach for no good reason," but the establishment and the scared left took it to mean "don't ever impeach no matter what, because you will just see the other side circling the wagon." Even on the pure political question, ask President Gore how well he was able to use Clinton on the campaign trail or Governor Bush if he went anywhere by talking about restoring honor and dignity to the White House.
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  15074.  @Rhiannon1261  That's Schwenksville in northern Montgomery County.
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  15075.  @johns3318  Yeah, because isolationists are content to let the rest of the world burn.
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  15076.  @user-tf4ho2uo1e  It depends. Is it because those bases are unnecessary or just to pull back? Does it complicate things with allies who want you there and need that help? For example, people like Tulsi Gabbard praised Der Orangefuhrer for withdrawing from the Kurdish areas of Syria, but in a move as predictable as the sun rising, Turkey responded with attacks on the Kurds.
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  15077.  @user-tf4ho2uo1e  What does what the Joint Chiefs have to do with anything? You asked about my personal opinion. But, as far as the US military goes, once the USSR got rid of the nuclear warheads in Cuba, that ended the Missile Crisis. They weren't forced to get rid of the entire military base. And the US got rid of the warheads in Turkey, too.
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  15078.  Brosedale  Anti-war is not pro-peace. I knew someone who said the same thing she does about the dangers of US overreach and said that he supported peace... while defending the Lebensraum policy, paying slave owners for their "property," and Imperial Japan. No one who supports Modi or makes excuses for Assad, while deploying a Republican talking point they gleaned from watching too much 24, does not support peace, and anyone who says she does is a liar or a useful idiot.
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  15079.  Brosedale  Except here is the difference: I don't support external regime change. I realize that forced democracy is a contradiction in terms that has only worked once (Japan). Tulsi Gabbard has defended Modi and denied the atrocities of Assad. You deflect when someone points out that she's done those things. Checkmate.
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  15080. Depending on how it is done, it isn't even good. If Yang won't provide a list of the 125 programs, how can people know how much they will lose, and how beneficial it will be? Then again, why force people to choose in the first place other than right-wing ideology?
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  15081.  @pmail2731  Do you really not see how telling someone who gets SSI and SNAP that not only will they not be getting the $1000/month, but they will still have to pay for it through a VAT, is harmful?
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  15082.  @pmail2731  Nobody knows how many people will benefit, because Yang refuses to provide a list of programs that people have to forfeit if they take his money. And, if something actively hurts the mist vulnerable in society are creates a permanent underclass, I don't care if it benefits me personally. That makes it bad.
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  15083.  @pmail2731  So, you think that programs that hurt the poor and disabled are good for society?
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  15084.  @Ghost-fd5vn  It takes 15% of the vote in a state or a Congressional district to win delegates. You know what would be far easier than hoping that other candidates give Bernie their delegates? Focusing all of the energy in getting Bernie delegates. All Tulsi is accomplishing is having votes go into the ether. If you want Bernie, help Bernie.
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  15085. For someone who "isn't anti-union'" he sure does sound like he hates unions. I'm also betting that he's lying about the salaries, too.
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  15086. What does how hard Michael Cohen can hit a golf ball have to do with anything? #Unhinged
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  15087. People like Ralph Nader made that same argument in 2000. How did that work out, and why did anyone think that it would work differently?
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  15088.  @gbeaver57  He will be 78 at the time. I just don't see three straight elections being won by the oldest candidate ever.
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  15089.  @joshuamarx8209  It tried, but it very well could have paved the way for the next fascist to succeed.
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  15090.  @joshuamarx8209  There are warning signs, and that is why we need to do everything within the limits of the law to oppose fascism. Once it becomes successful, it's already too late to do anything about it.
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  15091. I call a bowel movement "taking a Trump."
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  15092. They didn't "want more time," they wanted to change the results of the election. They are autocrats, because a fundamental building block of democracy is that the loser accepts defeat. 220 years of peaceful transfer of power ended because of idiots like this.
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  15093.  Hulk Smash  Look up the difference between debt and deficit, genius.
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  15094.  @shawnsimmons4718  First of all, no, and second, how did you gather that idea from me pointing out that Obama didn't increase the budget deficit.
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  15095.  @oscartorres6630  Brandon Sutton
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  15096. Lucy is a fun trip if you can make it. I brought my daughter a couple years ago to celebrate Lucy's 140th birthday. I just didn't know how close it was to the beach, so she didn't bring her bathing suit.
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  15097. Going bankrupt in a business where the house always wins tells you everything about his business acumen.
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  15098.  @iarocks44  Actually, wars don't stimulate the economy long term, because they take away from building infrastructure at home. They like wars because they know most major media likes wars, and it will give them a popularity boost. And, Ford did, given the actions of his government in East Timor in 1975.
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  15099.  @iarocks44  Wars stimulate the economy long term? I'd like to see the evidence of that. Even Eisenhower pointed out that war means that schools and hospitals don't get built. The larger point? If we have had Presidents who didn't get talked into war, then it is entirely possible that it can happen again, if you elect someone who isn't hawkish. Yes, people might point to Obama and his 2002 speech, but once he got to Congress, he voted exactly the same as Hillary on every question of war and peace. Maybe look at someone with a track record of opposing wars except as a last resort, and you will find someone who will stop the war President streak at six.
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  15100. ​ @Korcasandromedaa  Many might not, but enough will.
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  15101.  @Hugotje1  So, Richard Spencer isn't a fascist? Please explain.
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  15102.  @binmcbin1890  By definition, every libertarian hasn't followed through. All you have to do is ask a follow-up question.
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  15103.  @Cussy69_420  The caller is a repeat caller who starts off saying that he's acting in good faith, but it always devolves pretty quickly.
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  15104.  @RyanMcHugh1984  This guy doesn't want to join our coalition. Look up the one where he doesn't want to pay for other kids' lunches.
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  15105. *Expel Other than that, you are on the money.
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  15106.  @tpowell3776  If she gets a halfway decent primary opponent, I will throw a few dollars his/her way.
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  15107.  @lescwilson  Who supports the one who talks about never leaving the White House repeatedly again? It's not us.
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  15108. You mean like dusting off a Milton Friedman proposal to hurt the poor and managing to make it even worse by adding a regressive tax to it? How about advocating torture and defending a literal Hindu fascist the way Trump does Putin? Great contributions!
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  15109.  @Tristan_Retro_King  "That's why the Electoral College is important"? So, something that makes voters in most states irrelevant, encourages low turnout to the point where there literally exist states that have fewer raw votes but more electoral votes, and makes it easier to allow tampering to take place (it would have been much more difficult to rig 2000 if it wasn't one state that decided it, and while five times have had a popular/electoral split, there were close calls for a split in about a third of all Presidential elections). So, do you hate democracy, or do you just like it less than you hate Hillary?
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  15110.  James Redic  Bernie a neoliberal? I don't think that you know what that word means.
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  15111.  @allegory6393  It takes a 2/3 vote in each House of Congress and majorities in 3/4 if state legislatures do so. When have Democrats had the chance to do so? And, if you haven't noticed, the Electoral College compact, which neutralizes the Electoral College with states agreeing to award their electoral votes to the national popular vote winner once a majority of Electoral College votes agree to it, is now more than halfway to what is needed to make a national popular vote what decides an election.
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  15112.  @tonylikesphysics  In 2008 and 2012, the Electoral College confirmed the popular vote. So, because you "don't want Calfiornia to decide," even though they have less than 1/8 of the vote, and therefore won't decide it, you prefer a system where only about eight or nine states matter at all in deciding the President?
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  15113.  @tonylikesphysics  This isn't 1860. And even then, the "collection of states rather than a nation" argument was phony. You want proof? Look to literally the first sentence in the Constitution. It says "We, the people," not "We, the collection of states."
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  15114.  James Redic  I don't think you do. I also don't think that you understand how elections work. Like it or not, Joe Biden or Donald Trump will be elected President in November. Taking your ball and going home accomplishes nothing that you want, and given that four of the five Supreme Court Justices in the right wing block are there in part because of people insisting that there was no difference between the two major parties, it does a lot of harm.
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  15115.  @allegory6393  When have Democrats had anything near what it would take to get it done. Quite frankly, at this point, other than the Electoral College compact, the only way that it will happen is if a Democrat wins the election and loses the popular vote.
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  15116.  James Redic  In 2016, there was a Supreme Court case that was trying to turn public sector unions into right-to-work-for-less. It failed because Scalia was dead before the final decision. It passed two years later with Gorsuch in place. Who voted to let workers organize? Ginsberg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan. That's one example right there. Another example is the Voting Rights Act. The Roberts Court gutted it. Who voted to preserve it? The same four I mentioned above, but yeah, they just go right along with everything the hard right wants. Your vision is a lazy vision because it makes it easier to just say that everyone sucks.
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  15117.  @allegory6393  That's bipartisanship. You're only making my argument for me.
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  15118.  @tonylikesphysics  There's no mention of "federalism," either, so that doesn't mean anything. Yes, states have rights, but the Constitution is explicit that the federal government is supreme. For that matter, the biggest power grab by the federal government wasn't 1865, it was 1787.
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  15119. "Should people with IQ under 85 get a vote?" Be careful what you wish for, Joe.
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  15120. It's those fake fluorescent lights. My skin is perfect.
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  15121. ​ @RBZ-1  The only reason why I don't think that Der Orangefuhrer is the literal Antichrist is because the Antichrist is because the Antichrist is supposed to start off by doing good things in order to fool people before revealing his true nature.
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  15122. Apparently, he thought they'd stroke his ego the way McAfee does.
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  15123.  @williambartholmey5946  If he did, it seems like he would have been far more prepared. Or maybe he thought they wouldn't have made fun of him for the anti-vaccine stuff.
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  15124. On a much larger scale, this reminds me of a turn of the century event where there was a TV show Who Wants to Be a Multi-Millionaire? that ended up being a total trainwreck, and for a couple years, the "winner" of the show, Darva Conger, kept giving "exclusive interviews" and posed for Playboy insisting that she wanted her privacy. Eventually, people finally stopped putting her on TV.
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  15125. The polling threshold is ridiculously easy. You only need 1% in three polls that are either national or one of the early states. I can't remember whether or not it is national or state polls that get the tiebreaker.
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  15126.  @vincesmith2499  "Jim Crow laws were what hurt blacks, NOT free markets" Yes, because the Montgomery Bus Company was only acting on the basis of the law./s And there is de jure discrimination and de facto discrimination. You clearly don't care about the latter, and you put your fingers in your ears and pretend that there wasn't massive discrimination... while insisting that we didn't need the thing that stopped it. You sound like Roberts insisting that Section 5 of the VRA is unnecessary because racism is no more and ignoring how several states literally moved within minutes of the Shelby decision to find ways to make it harder for people to vote.
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  15127.  @vincesmith2499  Funny how you keep trying to pull the reverse discrimination card in order to try to mask your true intent. White people didn't literally have to avoid highways 60 years ago because there was literally nowhere they could eat, sleep, or get gas for literally hundreds of miles. And the fact that you keep emphasizing property proves that, deep down, that's all you really care about, not people or how hour awful worldview affects them.
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  15128.  @vincesmith2499  Capitalism both kills and creates poverty. I still remember an episode of BS where they literally defended sweatshops.
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  15129.  @vincesmith2499  Not when you open that property to the public.
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  15130.  @vincesmith2499  So, you're saying that you have to keep people poor to prop yourself up? Yeah, you're one of life's winners.
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  15131.  @vincesmith2499  You know, when you say "duh" after an assertion, it doesn't prove the argument. Who says government has no right?
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  15132.  @vincesmith2499  Once again, you have to fall back on The Way Things Ought to Be. And the people who inaccurately thought that raising interest rates caused inflation rather than limited the money supply and reduced inflation are hardly the ones who "should be taught" in order to avoid logical fallacies.
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  15133.  @vincesmith2499  How silly of me! I completely missed the irony of a libertarian wanting the government to indoctrinate people into his preferred philosophy. That's gotta sting!
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  15134.  @vincesmith2499  So, you don't want government telling you what to do, but you do want government telling other people what they have to believe? Hypocrisy, thy name is Vince.
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  15135.  @vincesmith2499  "Freedom means property rights. Period." And you wonder why critics of your ideology point out that if freedom means property, lack of property means no freedom.
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  15136.  @vincesmith2499  And we also have civil rights laws, which you loudly complain hampers "freedom," so it's more than a little surprising that you don't whine about your tax dollars going to ideas that you don't like, so you insist that they go to something that you do.
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  15137.  @vincesmith2499  "Then GET property. It's not that hard." Do you know anything about the real world, or is everything a hypothetical for you? The usual rule of thumb in order to get a loan is a debt to income ratio of no more than 4:1. In 1950, the median house in America cost a little less than twice than the median income. Today, that ratio is over 7:1. Still, if you somehow manage to save up enough to make a down payment and make a bid even though rental costs are through the roof (since you want landlords to be able to charge whatever they want, obviously that isn't going to change), then you have to deal with fronts for private equity firms bidding way over market price (a friend of my daughter had to move a couple years ago when her dad got a job out of state, and someone bid $40K over asking price in cash), and a few months later, the For Sale sign gets replaced with a For Rent sign, with astronomical rates that cause a ripple effect throughout the market, both increasing demand for rent (which increases the price) and reducing the supply for buyers (which increases price). All things that your belief system encourages, or at the very least does nothing to rein in. How does it feel to be a 21st-century Marie Antoinette?
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  15138.  @vincesmith2499  Well, we're not going to get rid of them, but you've already shown your hypocrisy on the subject and your desire to use schools to indoctrinate children to your belief system. You've become everything you hate.
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  15139. She was definitely waiting for something to bury her story and had this ready to go.
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  15140. @independentCog And a majority of Republicans voted for it in Congress and a majority of Democrats voted against it.
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  15141.  @PinkSakuraBunnie  Voters don't care what's in the bill as much as who is pushing it. It's not even a question of the bill itself. When you are in an R+39 state, people don't care about the nuances. Ben Nelson was much farther to the right than Manchin is now for his first eight years in the Senate, and Nebraska was never as red during that time as West Virginia is now.
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  15142.  @twoshedsjohnson8540  Anyone who is able to take the vaccine and willfully refuses to, whatever the reason, deserves the blame. In my own family, that includes my uncle who bragged that he wouldn't be a Guinea pig before contracting it and getting sick and my brother who insists that vaccines don't do any good anyway because he got the mumps when he was two and seems obsessed with keeping distance.
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  15143.  @twoshedsjohnson8540  [citation needed]
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  15144.  @twoshedsjohnson8540  Then again, if you honestly think that people aren't passinga disease that spreads from person to person, it's probably in Wishful Thinking Digest.
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  15145.  @critterray6742  Give an example. Don't just say "lots of reports." And we knew from the beginning that people could still get it if they were immunized. No vaccine is 100%. However, if enough people get it, there won't be as much fertile ground for transmission, and things like the Delta Variant wouldn't even be a thing. Now, there is talk that we may be seeing a Mu.
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  15146.  @CarnelianChris  English translation: when enough people get it. That of course misses the fact that plenty of people have gotten multiple variants of coronavirus. Well, you can not comply, but you won't get any sympathy from me when you deal with the consequences.
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  15147. Putin has literally said that Ukraine is not a real country and that it all should be part of Russoa. There is no world where someone says that and any country will accept a."peace treaty," because all it becomes is just a pause until Russia does it again and again until they take it all. How is that "peace"? How is rewarding Putin for kidnapping children and sending them to Russia "peace"? "Just give them the Sudentenland, and we'll get peace in our time."
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  15148.  @karenfitzpatrick6256  If the voters wanted someone else, that would have done the job. Bernie didn't fail, we did. I did what I could (and I mean actual on the ground work, not just writing a check), but a lot of people didn't, and voter turnout was down in the 2020 primary, even before coronavirus.
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  15149.  @buddygrimfield7954  If Trump won in 2020, that was it. You probably would have been one of the people telling the DKP not to form a coalition with the SPD in 1933.
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  15150. @C Q How many did you knock on? How many members of Congress signed onto Medicare for All as a cosponsor because of any effort that you were part of? Oh, and since you're throwing out 300MM, are you now saying that scientific polling is false? Did you ever notice the below the fold numbers that give further details other than supporting something called Medicare for All?
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  15151.  @NicolasMendoula  Because too many people want everything to get better and nothing to change.
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  15152. @C Q It's like this. I'm a veteran. However, I don't think only about myself. And because I wasn't born into a world where I already had universal and free at the point of service health care, I had to learn what it takes to actually move the needle to get support for such things. I don't go through life thinking that I'm floating on air when I'm standing on top of a building.
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  15153.  @lynneanderson4255  You're missing the point. It was up to voters to ratify it. Like it or not, Bernie didn't have the votes. These accelerationist idiots insist that the people will come to them when things get really bad, but Bernie going from 44% in 2016 to 32% in 2020 shows that a) a lot of his votes were from people who just didn't want Hillary the first time, and b) people who are afraid and just want the threat gone aren't willing to dream. And what did you to actually help Bernie win?
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  15154.  @captscarlet8793  And therein lies the rub. As Bernie reminded us in his return speech from his heart attack, in order for society to flourish, we must have people willing to plant trees whose shade they'll never get to sit under. Especially poignant given the timing, and a reminder to me to try to make things better for my (now) six-year-old daughter even if they aren't for me. (For example, if I hear one more person saying "but I had to pay for my college," I may literally scream.)
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  15155.  @speedy01247  And until he got double crossed, who did Stalin side with before and during WWII, again?
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  15156.  @definitiveentertainment1658  I think of it this way: you don't get a dollar by asking for a quarter. Obama tried to get the public option, which was already a compromise, and we ended up with the Republican alternative to Hillarycare that Bill said didn't go far enough. If Bernie tries and fails for Medicare for All and has to settle for a public option, I can live with that, but if we start with a public option, we're doomed from the start. I think there is also the Overton Window effect. In 1981, Reagan was considered radical for dropping the top marginal tax rate to 50%. Now, asking for a top rate of 50% is seen as radical on the left. Even if Bernie doesn't get all of what he wants, he'll get some, and that's good enough for me, because instead of the last three Democratic Presidents each having a legitimate claim to the title Most Conservative Democratic President Since Grocer Cleveland. Bernie will stop that streak, and maybe be Most Lefty President Since Franklin Roosevelt, or maybe he won't even need the qualifier.
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  15157.  @soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342  I would hope so, but it took him a year and a half after the debate to see through Jimmy Dore. In all honesty, I think that he would have had two sides warring saying "he has been having some awful takes, but he got me the Lula interview. What to do, what to do!" Right Wing Mandela was my favorite.
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  15158. The same logic Peter Schiff is using: Why should I pay for vision? Glasses cost money! "Yes, Peter, but if you have workers who can see with corrective lenses, they'll be better able to perform their jobs."
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  15159.  @fatrobdouble  No, they are turning their heads like a wrestling referee when corporations hit someone with a chair. When you don't understand positive rights that a government provides, you allow a lot of bad things to continue. The people who had to wait for civil rights because the libertarians were having none of it hardly see libertarians as bastions of freedom.
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  15160. Merrick Garland as AG is a JOKE! Picking him was nothing more than a troll move. Biden should have picked Doug Jones. Even from a personal standpoint, Garland had a lofetime job, while.Jones just lost his.
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  15161.  @onepartyroule  If you don't want to get burned, don't go to a roast.
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  15162.  @onepartyroule  What was preapproved? Look up the definition of assault and battery in California, and tell me why you think it doesn't fit. Legal Eagle did a video where he actually showed the definition.
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  15163.  @onepartyroule  "At no point have I suggested that the SNAP was assault according to the law." Also you: "No one made the claim that it was a 'crime.'" Unless the "it" was a little clunky, it seemed like you were talking about the slap. If you were referring to the joke, the point is that the law clearly thinks that one is worse than the other.
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  15164.  @onepartyroule  Then, in the eyes of the law, the thing that Will Smith did is worse than the thing that Chris Rock did.
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  15165. They care more about party than ideology. They want a scalp, so quite frankly, once I heard that Tanden was the nominee, I was convinced that he put her up to be that scalp, because every Administration since Poppy lost at least one Cabinet fight.
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  15166.  @cosmicgiraffe4071  The official margin of error in Florida in 2000 was 537 votes. Ralph Nader got over 97,000 votes. Among his supporters, exit polls showed a net of 16%-26% preferred Gore to Bush. If you add 16% of Nader's vote (37-21=16) to Gore's total in Florida, he wins by 15,050 votes despite the chicanery of Katherine Harris and the Supreme Court. And at the time, Nader's strategy was that if the election got thrown to Republicans, then the Democrats would come begging and give them everything they wanted. Jimmy Dore repeated that argument in 2016. It gave us the Iraq War, five right-wing Supreme Court Justices, and bungling the coronavirus response and killing possibly over a million Americans before everything is said and done.
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  15167.  @cosmicgiraffe4071  Third party voting does absolutely nothing in a first past the post system. And exit polling shows that they aren't getting non-voters involved as much as they are actively harming Democrats. Dore's wife even gave $1000 to a Republican running against a sponsor of Medicare for All in Arizona who is Sinema's most likely primary opponent. But, yeah, they're not actively helping Republicans. eye roll
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  15168.  @LinkRocks  UBI is a devil in the details thing. Milton Friedman supported UBI.
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  15169.  @1MarkKeller  Look at how red West Virginia is. By definition, he has to get a lot of Republicans to vote for him. The real problem with Manchin is that he's probably about ready to retire, so he isn't trying to appeal to the left anymore.
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  15170.  @1MarkKeller  You mean Tim Ryan? He is much farther to the left economically than Manchin, his background is in labor rather than business, and he doesn't have to appeal to nearly as many Republicans as Manchin does. While he's not a big lefty, he'll do right by Ohio far more than he'll do wrong.
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  15171.  @DavidRichardson153  That's fair. Admittedly, there are times that I have dealt with people who think that it should be the end-all-be-all to our political pursuits. As far as the other question of means testing, these programs were never meant to be universal, but to address a specific need. I don't think that's all the government does, but I think that it should be there for people who need it.
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  15172.  @1MarkKeller  You started by saying "be careful about Vote Blue No Matter Who," and you gave Manchin as the example and how he tries to appeal to Republicans. Well, like it or not, if we are going to win races in red states, they might have to get a little slack. (And before you point out that Bernie won WV in 2016, that was obviously a case of people voting against Hillary. Heck, an incarcerated felon got 41% against Obama in 2012.) Then, you pivoted to Ryan "appealing to Republicans." Well, assuming turnout more or less matches 2020, he needs his base to be 15% of Republicans to get over the top. Manchin needs his to be at least 40% Republican. Can you see the difference between the two? What am I missing? I, for one, follow the adage of "the farthest candidate to the left who can win." Like it or not, that is Manchin in West Virginia. (Or was, because he burned a lot of bridges on BBB, and since he barely beat Morrissey in 2018 and will be 77 at the end of his term, I doubt that he'll run again.)
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  15173.  @meredithwhite5790  May I ask why?
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  15174.  @meredithwhite5790  When did Bernie ever backtrack on Medicare for All?
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  15175.  @meredithwhite5790  Okay, I just wanted to make sure, because the way you worded it initially sounded like you'd vote for Buttigieg because Bernie and Warren betrayed their principles.
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  15176.  @meredithwhite5790  Gotcha! Thanks for the clarification. I was at a debate watch party with Philly for Bernie, and I explained it as "when it comes to Medicare for All, there is Bernie, and there is Not Bernie."
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  15177.  @1MarkKeller  "I honestly worry about him becoming the next Manchin" What context makes Tim Ryan the next "him"? The OP is about Tulsi Gabbard and Andrew Yang. Unless you're responding to a since-deleted reply, nobody was talking about Tim Ryan. And, as I pointed out, there's a big difference between needing to appeal to a few percentage points of your base as Republicans (I earlier overstated it. He needs 8-10% of his voters to be Republicans to win.) as opposed to nearly half. Are you saying that we should just concede all of the red states? As frustrating as Manchin is, we need him. Before 2020, the second most conservative Democrat in the Senate was Doug Jones, and people gave him a pass on a lot of bad votes because they understood that he was in a very red state. Before Manchin, the most conservative Democrat in the Senate was Ben Nelson, who similarly got a wide berth. They had to overcome a margin of over 20 points. Trump won WV by 42 points in 2016 and 39 points in 2020. We have to push the candidate farthest to the left who can win, even if they can annoy us sometimes because they don't want to go as far as we do. You don't add by subtraction to get a majority.
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  15178.  @1MarkKeller  Maybe two windows were open. It happens to the best of us.
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  15179.  @1MarkKeller  Any time
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  15180.  @amirdawson770  I just think that there are some people who like Jim, and some people who like Dwight. I happen to fall into the latter category, although I wouldn't want to deal with someone like Dwight or Michael in real life. I pretty much missed the show when it first came out, because I happened to see a couple minutes when it was trying to be a poor imitation of the original, but my car was in the shop one weekend and, having nothing to do with no Premier League games early in the morning, I stumbled upon a marathon. After three or four episodes in a row, I did not have the highest opinion of our hero. Probably happened to others as well. To each his/her own, I guess.
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  15181.  @rs5570  Thank you. 2005 was when I graduated from the finest land grant university in the Mountain State.
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  15182. @Dhanushka Jayasinghe As do I, but truth be told, if the rich keep finding ways to screw people over, more people will start to find what Allende tried to do that much more attractive.
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  15183. Terry Malloy only third? Blasphemy! There has never been a greater acting performance ever put to the screen. That movie shows a range that others just can't match.
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  15184.  @dudeyo2688  That picture of him with Mittens after the 2016 election looked positively satanic.
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  15185. The one who had the question changed it when he saw the announcement earlier that day. Maybe Biden wouldn't have gotten that question if he didn't lie.
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  15186. Was that a Freudian slip when you referred to Tate as Taint? ;-)
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  15187.  @bloo9699  Too bad that these epiphanies don't seem to last too long with right wingers.
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  15188.  @phildeb4859  That is just not true. Bernie has explained and wrote in the bill how Medicare for All is funded (7% employer payroll tax and a 4% employee payroll tax that exempts the first $29,000 of income). That is enough money to make it happen. He has also explained how he will fund free tuition to college or trade schools and student loan forgiveness (financial transaction tax). He has long said how he will pay for stuff.
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  15189. Whoa! She doesn't recognize Joey Lawrence? I am old. Wasn't he making a comeback earlier this decade?
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  15190.  @Nekulturny  So true about meeting your heroes. When I was four, I was big a fan of George Jones. My parents found out that he was doing a show about an hour from our house, and we were supposed to get to meet him. Not only did that not happen, but his bodyguards were quite hostile (and I didn't remember all of the details because I was four, but my mom who stands all of 4'8 was trying to get a picture of the concert, and said bodyguard "moshed" where we were standing right into her and when she got the pictures, every single one was blurry.) The next day, I said, "I don't think I like George Jones anymore," and 38 years later, I've never voluntarily listened to his music since.
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  15191.  @williambartholmey5946  He was also the one who refused entry because he was drunk, and again, I was four.
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  15192.  @henryhudson1297  He is an addict, so he seems like he's back on the pipe.
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  15193.  @henryhudson1297  It's possible. I just think that addicts are also good at hiding it for a while.
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  15194.  @yiarkungfu  Aaron is a pathological liar and the most notorious troll in this channel. He is so pathetic that he literally has dozens of usernames and replies to himself so he can pretend to have friends and people who agree with him.
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  15195. Your Ben Shapiro imitation is far too slow. I wouldn't be mistaken for the Micro Machine Man, either, but the trick to imitating him is to use short phrases. Anything else and it just won't come out fast enough.
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  15196. I think my favorite part is the deadpan look on Kaitlan Collins's face when she asks the follow up.
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  15197. People can run from prison. Eugene Debs did in 1920 after being jailed for making an antiwar speech. Remember the convict who got 41% in the WV primary against Obama in 2012?
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  15198. ​ @naaldvoerder  What are some of Jimmy Dore's funny bits?
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  15199. You are so right about the scolds when someone is coming to their side. To paraphrase a since canceled media figure who would once in a great while come up with something insightful in the midst of a lot of nonsense, the right looks for converts, but some on the left are looking for heretics.
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  15200.  @aliamjon2550  Oh, look. The guy who insisted in one thread that his party supports civil rights is calling child kidnapping "a good start." See my surprised face :-|
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  15201.  @maxsmart9116  Perhaps you are right. Admittedly, when I see bad faith in one part, I do tend to see bad faith in others, so I didn't see a praise of honesty when reading it.
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  15202.  @aliamjon2550  My apologies. I thought the "that would be a good start" referred to the topic at hand of what is euphemistically called child separation instead of "being honest." That being said, the irony of saying that being honest would be a good start while repeating the falsehood that Obama started that particular practice (the kids in cages during his administration either came by themselves or got to stay with their families) is pretty thick, especially given the tendency on the right to crap on everything Obama did in the first place.
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  15203.  @KaiserMattTygore927  It took the right 16 years to take over the Republican Party and drag the country to the right. Are you telling me that you are going to give up? No wonder we can't win anything!
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  15204.  @grmpEqweer  What have you been doing with your hope? Third parties will not be an option as long as we have an Electoral College. If the votes are there, they can't do anything about it. If you don't like who the DNC people are, run for committee seats. In some states, it is a very minimal fee to run. In others, it just takes a few signatures. If we work for it instead of putting all the hope on one person, and have a sense of strategy, it is a matter of when rather than if.
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  15205.  @johnnaue  Look at Eisenhower and Nixon and then compare them to the Republicans of today. Heck, they are to the left of a lot of Democrats today. They transformed it for the worse. If you aren't willing to keep fighting to transform things for the better, then this is just a hobby for you. It's not for me. My mom almost died when I was in fifth grade because we had no health insurance and because my brother had broken his arm three weeks after she was told she needed to have her gallbladder removed, no one would do it until finally my dad was able to get a loan for the bill. I will keep fighting as long as I am physically able.
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  15206.  @mikewilliams4676  All I got was a runny nose and a headache that were gone in two days. [Whispering] The horror.
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  15207. Trump: incestuous president.
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  15208. 7:18 Indeed. The hardest time to cheat is always the first.
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  15209.  @howardfriedman7077  But Congress passed what it did based on the recommendations of the Greenspan Commission. I always try to go to the source when it some movers and shakers, especially when its chair got rewarded so handsomely.
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  15210.  @howardfriedman7077  What were the changes? It's been a while since I studied it for my Politics of Economic Policy class as an undergrad.
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  15211.  @Imperial-Socialist  Is it written in crayon?
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  15212.  @May-tj9uh  Define "failure."
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  15213.  @May-tj9uh  Worst-case scenario, it can still pay out 78% of all benefits for the foreseeable future. Lifting or eliminating the cap (which was formulated before the extreme wealth and income inequality really started to take home, so instead of covering 90% of earned income, is closer to 82%), then the problem is solved. That's hardly a "failure" or "being unable to pay out promised benefits." Your scare tactics fool no one.
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  15214.  @May-tj9uh  You don't even know what SSI is. It is for the disabled who are poor and didn't work long enough to qualify for Social Security retirement, which is called RSDI (Retirement, Survivors, and Disability Income). And your non-sequitur about only certain people getting benefits shows yet again that you still don't know what you are talking about.
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  15215.  @May-tj9uh  No, it's not called Social Security insurance. It is called an insurance program, but so as not to be confused with Supplemental Security Insurance, it has a completely different name. And there is no individual account. It is a pool. The pool makes adjustments. As far as your argument that changing the cap somehow means that "it didn't keep its promises," private insurance increases premiums all the time. Are you just hoping for probability to kick in at this point?
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  15216.  @May-tj9uh  If you buy insurance for one year, you're getting a pretty awful plan, and your changes are far more than happen with Social Security, which has only had one significant change in the last 80 years. And funny the use of "forced." There is always something that government does that people don't like. I don't hear too many Mennonites saying they're "forced" to pay for the DOD budget.
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  15217.  @uchennakpaduwa9592  Because he doesn't want it to pass. The elected officials are not nihilists, and they actually want to accomplish things, so why should they?
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  15218.  Atheos B. Sapien  The identity politics crowd decided that if they had to have a milquetoast white male candidate, they wanted him to be gay.
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  15219.  Atheos B. Sapien  I think he could close his eyes and think of England if he thought that would get him votes.
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  15220. There is no limit to the obliviousness of Dave Rubin.
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  15221. ​ @JRMCNEA  Well, it looks like Roe is now dead thanks to those Justices who you insisted would have voted the exact same way as Obama Justices. How does it feel to be so obviously wrong?
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  15222. ​ @aicram62  No, that is your intellectual fig leaf to justify yourself after the fact and salve your conscience. Once Scalia dead and McConnell refused to allow a hearing for anyone Obama nominated, the 2016 election became a battle over the Supreme Court, and you set back rights for decades in the name of "purity." Congratulations!
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  15223. I don't think Manchin would, because he is part of a political dynasty (his uncle was secretary of state and state treasurer), and the Republican Party in West Virginia is so far right that he would be in no man's land, and would lose a primary in 2024. Quite frankly, at this point I worry that Justice could beat him with a left-right strategy. Sinema, on the other hand, seems to have no party loyalty (she is a former Green who ran as a lefty when she first got to the House and has continued moving to the right to the point where it wouldn't surprise me if she were to overtake Manchin as the most conservative Democrat in the Senate), so she would be more likely to flip. However, the fact that the most conservative Democrat in the Senate (Manchin) is to the left of the most liberal Republican (Murkowski), I think that either one having not voted for Dear Leader would be doomed in that death cult. The question is whether or not the ego will let them see that.
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  15224. Do not give this woman a minute's peace for the rest of her life. Any time she is in public, ask pointed but respectful questions. Even when she inevitably loses or sees the writing on the wall, keep it up, because her inevitable future cash grab was made possible by us.
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  15225.  @timi3020  Candidates who are running on electability and national numbers tend to hemorrhage support after losing the early states. If Biden is third or fourth in Iowa and New Hampshire, he doesn't keep that level of support in South Carolina. And given the importance of the expectation games, Biden winning South Carolina by single digits would be as damaging as it was for Johnson in New Hampshire in 1968.
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  15226.  @timi3020  Tell that to the Obama 2008 campaign. And the importance of Iowa and New Hampshire is not math, it's momentum. No candidate has ever won the double without winning the nomination. History is littered with campaigns that looked to have rock solid national numbers until actual voters started taking part.
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  15227.  @satevo462  That proof that brain surgeons aren't necessarily smart about other things thought that he was asking her about cookies when she asked him about foreclosures, and patiently tried to explain it.
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  15228.  @MrBlaktoe  Oh, I know what you mean. I wonder how much of it is the degree if specialization that is involved. I tried to make my way in academia, and the advice they give you is to try to fit every possible paper into your dissertation topic. While I ultimately didn't get my PhD (the foreign language requirement did me in), I doubt there are 50 people alive today who could tell you more about the Cross of Gold speech than me. I think once you get done with training, though, it is your job to not be a total dunce about everything else (and that must be what is happening on your end as well), and if I see one more person list his surgery background to defend his tenure at HUD, I might literally scream.
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  15229.  @wayneshilcock3027  So, because of his desire to please Putin uber alles, you think that is a good thing?
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  15230.  @ssj4curtis  You don't understand how any of this works, does it? People like you have been saying this for 20 years, and what do you have to show for it? There has only been one proven way to take over a party, and that is from the bottom up. Even if Bernie won the nomination and election, do you think he would have gotten the legislation he wanted? No. And then what would have happened? It would have been blamed on him being a lefty and spooked people away from giving the keys to us for decades to come. He built a movement that is growing. If you don't want to actually do anything, that's on you, but bragging about being pure while losing is demanding to be ignored.
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  15231. What's this "we" for New York? He's a Floridian now.
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  15232.  @utterlyviolet  Agreed about Shahid, but the House doesn't get any say on the Supreme Court, so what should she do with a majority determined to ram the pick down our throats?
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  15233. Well, Fox already lost nearly $800MM for their last round of election lies, so they've clearly learned their lesson and don't want to be sued again.
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  15234.  @sallychi8406  Pretty much. Sadly, because most people don't realize this, Biden has to continue the kabuki.
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  15235. So much for, "I have a lot of cash. About 400 million."
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  15236. ​ @ModerateMiddle  If he is such a "Tenth Amendment absolutist on the issue," why was he so lamenting when the people decided in a way he didn't like? And his "we needed to give a positive alternative" shows ignorance on the issue, because anti-abortion activists did put "positive amendments" on the ballot in other states, and those failed. It was buzzwords and word salad.
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  15237. ​ @ModerateMiddle  He also refused to answer the questions about "who's really running things" and making Biden run for President. Empty conspiracy rhetoric.
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  15238.  @ModerateMiddle  Well, he didn't lead with "donor class." If he would have talked about the people writing the checks, fair enough, but he instead alluded to a conspiracy that is forcing Biden to run against his will. But he didn't lead with donors, and he didn't get to them until much later. And such a conspiracy is a combination of sour grapes (because he is clearly falling out of favor and crashing and burning) and ignorance of how things work. because there is no conspiracy forcing people to run. The money people can withhold to screw over a candidate, but they can't get someone in the race.
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  15239.  @ModerateMiddle  Re: The Rock, candidates get recruited all the time. Saying "I think that you might be a good candidate for office" is far different from "if you don't run for office, we'll dig up dirt on you, because you're our puppet now."
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  15240.  @ModerateMiddle  Elizabeth Warren. There are plenty of others, but she's the first one that came to mind.
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  15241.  @ModerateMiddle  Yes, the Democrats will run with Biden. There is no credible alternative running, and it is far too late to build the operation necessary to run a national campaign for the primary, so barring a stroke or something, Biden will be the nominee.
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  15242.  @ModerateMiddle  I don't know who asked him to run, and I don't care. It is not some shadowy conspiracy like you are trying to consider it. By that logic, Michael Moore is in on the conspiracy because he was trying to get Oprah to run in 2004. Do you honestly believe that potential candidates wake up one day saying "I want to go to Iowa or New Hampshire today" without some reason to believe that there might be a path to victory? Not everyone who runs gets recruited, but some do.
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  15243.  @ModerateMiddle  Well, like it or not, some things that aren't a priority to you get to your desk as President. If you think "he'd sign it if there was a consensus," then he is obviously not a "Tenth Amendment absolutist" on the issue. And not having a coalition has never stopped Republicans before. While McConnell won't, there is no doubt in my mind that a Republican Senate Majority Leader who was obsessed with the issue the way McConnell is obsessed with judges would get rid of the filibuster for anything dealing with reproductive rights. Vivek can say that he wants to build consensus all he wants, but you don't do that by making your signature proposal taking away the right of people to vote with a modern-day literacy test for the age group most likely to vote against you.,
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  15244.  @kriskquinn.68  If he didn't want to name a specific person, he could have mentioned an organization or type of person. Instead he used a lot of words but didn't actually say anything, the Vivek Special.
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  15245.  @kriskquinn.68  Re: "declining acumen," he clearly had a bad night that spooked people, but considering the fact that he got the longshoreman's strike resolved without invoking Taft-Hartley, it looks to me like he's doing just fine.
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  15246.  @ModerateMiddle  Oh, and someone else responded, so I realized there was something I missed as I scrolled down, namely the incredibly dishonest argument that the Supreme Court didn't take away anyone's reproductive rights. Even if you want to say that they didn't directly take them away when they left it to the states, there were several states that had "trigger laws" on the books ready to go the instant the Supreme Court did what they wanted, so they did just that. Then again, with a username like yours and advocating a right-wing position, I have to ask why there are so many on the right who like to do that. Is it an Overton Window thing? If you're on the right, just admit it.
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  15247.  @ModerateMiddle  So, you are "radically pro-choice," but you are glad that tens of millions of women lost their right to choose? You are clearly using the Tim Pool definition of "pro-choice." It doesn't matter what you call yourself if everything else you say immediately undercuts it.
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  15248.  @ModerateMiddle  "The trigger laws were simply outdated positions for most of those states." It didn't change the fact that they went into effect unless a judge, a referendum, or the legislature canceled it. They knew what the effects would be, and to pretend that wasn't is fundamentally dishonest.
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  15249.  @ModerateMiddle  And if you hate the left/right spectrum so much, nobody forced you to pick "ModerateMiddle" as a username.
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  15250.  @kriskquinn.68  Yes, the nefarious "they" who are really doing everything. And just like all conspiracists, complete with a fail-safe out to make sure that your hypothesis can never be disproven.
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  15251.  @ModerateMiddle  Someone replied on this thread that I had forgotten about long ago, and I realized that I missed one of your questions, so I apologize for the very lengthy delay. The part about seeing this movie before refers to using states' rights as an argument against federal civil rights laws.
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  15252.  @roddas26  How pathetic are you in victory going to a year-old video to gloat?
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  15253.  @roddas26  Going to a year-old video to concern troll isn't gloating to you? Either you're lying to me, or you've so surrounded yourself with other coarse people with nothing better to do that you've lost all sense of proportion.
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  15254. @roddas26  If that helps you sleep at night.
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  15255. @roddas26  How should I know? I'm not the one stalking year-old videos and offering nothing productive to the conversation.
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  15256. @roddas26  You still don't have anything to contribute, do ya?
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  15257. @roddas26  Sure you did. And I will win the next Olympic marathon.
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  15258.  @ModerateMiddle  The Fourteenth Amendment has never been interpreted by courts to refer to a fetus. That's why you see such abhorrent nonsense as claiming that women are having abortions after giving birth. By definition, it is no longer an abortion after birth. And do you know what would make things easier for women in those situations? Not making them travel thousands of miles to get the care they need.
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  15259. The MSM needs to look up the two Santa Claus theory. It was written in the 1970s and basically said that Republicans should just cut taxes and not worry about the deficit, because if it gets too bad, that will keep Democrats from spending. I don't remember who originally wrote it, but Thom Hartmann often brings it up.
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  15260.  @YevKassem6288  Then, that's why you vote her out in the primary. All waiting until November does iseafe you with voting for someone who thinks that her main problem is that she doesn't go far enough.
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  15261. You can in Maine and Vermont.
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  15262.  @joey22306  9/11 truth, Seth Rich, Hillary has Parkinson's. I know that was more than one, but if you don't think Jimmy Dore is a conspiracy theorist, you are willfully blind.
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  15263.  James Redic  So, you thought that conspiracy was ridiculous, too?
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  15264.  @jocksharerock7318  You don't think there are kids who get dropped off and once the parents are out of sight, they sneak out of the building?
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  15265. Joe Biden won the nomination because people thought he was the only one who could win in November. Bernie did far better when Obama was President. In other words, people don't dare to dream with a Republican President, so accelerationism is totally and thoroughly wrong.
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  15266. "$8000 each?! That's how you make a smart deal." "Well, it's $8000 total." "You know, George, the whole reason to hold out... is to get MORE money, not less."
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  15267.  @twright3802  I would say that they did at one point, but it was at least as early as 1877 (when they stole an election from Samuel Tilden and agreed to end Reconstruction in exchange for the White House) and as late as 1968 (when they implemented the Southern Strategy).
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  15268. These birther idiots could have taken a time machine to look right at Obama's mom's hoo-ha during the birth, and they'd still say they have doubts. What they also miss is that even if everything they say is right Obama is still a natural-born citizen, because his mother was. Funny how nobody cared when it was McCain or George Romney running.
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  15269. I thought it was awful. I would much rather have seen some actual back and forth on policy rather than personal conflict. Perhaps the biggest missed opportunity of all was when Harris was asked about Buttigieg using the fake photo for his Douglass Plan, but she didn't even mention the 400 fake endorsements and the insulting way that he treated it as opt out. Is that a trick he learned in his meeting with Zuckerberg?
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  15270. Great video. Just one point of disagreement: it is too tame to call it "family separation." We need to call it what it is: kidnapping.
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  15271. And this is why Howard is the King of All Media, and Joe Rogan will be quickly forgotten.
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  15272.  @uncletom356  I don't know about Hitch. He definitely took a turn when it came to Iraq, and seemed to almost turn into a neocon.
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  15273.  @uncletom356  That's a fair point I think this is a place where people of goodwill and honest intentions can disagree about the emphasis. I don't think that mine is necessarily grounded in pessimism, because I do tend to give people credit for realizing their past mistakes and showing genuine repentance (See: Byrd, Robert C.), but I can understand how someone would want to hope that the positive contribution is the one that gets remembered.
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  15274.  @uncletom356  I don't think it's a matter of looking past as it is saying that someone legitimately changed for the better, expressed complete remorse for his past, and tried his best for decades to make amends. To paraphrase Gene Cousineau from Barry, I have to believe that people can get better, or the world is in a lot of trouble. It is truly said to watch heroes fall, though. Thinking about these things is vital to us all, though, as we try to make the world a better place, and I do appreciate the discussion about how we think about flawed people and they fit, because we are all flawed in our own way.
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  15275. "The creation of the Federal Reserve put bankers in charge instead of the Treasury." These libertarians are so ahistorical! The Fed became a thing because there was a bank panic in 1907 that nearly caused a depression. The reason why it didn't was because JP Morgan literally sat in his office listening to appeals from banks to see whuch would survive and which wouldn't. That was one step too far for most people.
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  15276. 10:31 He's not the President of the United States. We fixed that Electoral College mistake four years ago.
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  15277. 17:52 Indeed. Last summer, my daughter was obsessed with a book she got from the library about a dung beetle, and she never ate poop.
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  15278. At the ad break, mine said, "You're not going to get up there and say... Are you looking for extra income?" :-P
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  15279. Actually, Chris Cooper's was the ridiculously homophobic character in American Beauty, not Kevin Spacey. Speaking of Kevin, thank you for ruining such a great movie by who you turned out to be in real life.
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  15280. Doesn't that equal Larry David with hair?
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  15281. Worst. Hypeman. Ever.
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  15282.  GazB  Legal scholars argue that this is impossible. I would be more worried that Trump would resign a day early to let Pence do it.
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  15283. 4:03 So true, Brandon. I went to Iraq in 2003 opposed to the war and I came home in 2004 very opposed to the war. Our unit kept trying to think of ways to recruit, but I absolutely refused.
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  15284. How are Democrats going to do a national mask mandate when you are the President?
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  15285. Michael Knowles needs to Google Renee Richards US Open. While that was before my time, Billy Crystal played a character who had a sex change on Soap, and I remember seeing Geraldo and all kinds of talk shows bringing up the subject.
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  15286.  @Phlebas  Except, as 2020 has shown, these people can be persuaded if it is seen as an issue where one side cannot fail. With Republicans trying to gut voting rights in states where Biden won, we can take no chances. The only thing that I can say is that I hope this one ends up like the Movement for a People's Party or Howard Schultz and doesn't actually go anywhere.
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  15287.  @Phlebas  Part of the reason why I think a stronger third party candidate would have been fatal is that a lot of people were voting against Trump rather than for Biden. The only times this century when a third-party candidate got at least 2%, a Republican snuck into the White House despite losing the popular vote. Even Gary Johnson, who was on the right, took more from Hillary than Trump. I agree with the logic that if you really don't like someone that you vote for the candidate most likely to beat that person, but we really can't underestimate just how much negative partisanship plays a role in American politics today. They may not like Trump, but they hate Democrats. Decades of being told a group is pure evil has that effect.
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  15288.  @tjw1861  Younkin tried to have it both ways. He was not a repudiation of MAGA world. He sought and won the Trump endorsement and won on racially coded campaigning.
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  15289.  @jakublizon6375  He's whatever will get him the most money.
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  15290. Mondale got 41%, McGovern got 38%. The last Republican to get under 40% was Goldwater.
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  15291. "I never thought I would run for President." Really? No one runs for Senate before the age to actually hold the seat (he turned 30 a month after he won his election) who isn't thinking about running for President.
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  15292.  @noneya1238  You want to give all the credit to Russia, which entered a Non-Aggression Pact with Hitler and maintained it until Germany invaded? The US couldn't have won without Russia, but what exactly were they doing on the Western Front to get all the credit? Or did they win Japan all alone by declaring war against them a whole week before Hiroshima?
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  15293.  @noneya1238  So, why denigrate the American role in winning? It would have been one thing if you said "team effort," but you clearly did not.
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  15294.  @noneya1238  Eventually... after you said that Russia won WWII, not the United States.
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  15295.  @julymagnus493  It's been a while, but the one that I remember is Twilight of the Idols, which I thought was horrible.
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  15296.  @matthewcappetta3752  What did the original look like? From what I've heard, it's not like it was difficult for people to get a might makes right interpretation in the whole time it was written, and when I got to grad school, unless those were the still corrupted versions I read (which then leads to the question of why the distorted version is even taught at all), they still seemed to go in that direction.
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  15297.  @communitywoodworking9370  I'll have to add that to the queue. I did also read "Also Sprach Zarathustra," but maybe it was too close to reading Twilight of the Idols and clouded my judgment (these were assigned readings senior year of undergrad). Thanks for the heads up.
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  15298. On a separate note, who is the distance runner on staff? I saw those recommended videos ;-)
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  15299. Why do you still love someone whom you admit is being used as a puppet for anti-American propaganda?
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  15300.  @michaelirwin6137  I find it interesting that you think that what someone refers to as "anti-American propaganda" is "speaking the truth." I've known people like you, who are always willing to defend America's enemies and ignore their misdeeds while claiming to believe in accountability. Any foreign group that did what it could to spring Trump on us is anti-American, plain and simple.
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  15301. Actually, given what we know about his aversion to condoms, that explanation wouldn't work, either. He probably thinks he has super genes that make him immune.
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  15302. Well, maybe not WW3 on purpose, but I think that they want a war, and may very well stumble into WW3.
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  15303. The moment came for Schumer, and he failed. There is no way his leadership can survive. If you're a leader and nobody follows you, you're just walking. Let's get an actual leader.
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  15304. Some people are meant to be Moses, and some people are meant to be Joshua. Very few get to both point the way to the better place and actually get to lead there. I was hopeful that we could make sure this movement would have been the exception, but I will not fault Bernie for lighting the fire.
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  15305.  @cupiduspacis4209  You can quote Glenn Greenwald all you want, but considering his take on Snowden as really caring about privacy so much that he went to those bastions of freedom of China and Russia, not to mention some of his other hot takes, he is not infallible.
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  15306. Romney and Al Gore both had the same problem: the thing that they cared the most about (his faith for the former, and the environment for the latter) were seen as turn-offs to voters they needed, so they didn't bring it up and suffered because they were seen as stiff and not willing to show who they really were.
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  15307. 5:49 "I don't have o-pin-ions, Jon. As a journalist, my job is to spend 50% of my time saying what one side says, and 50% of my time saying what the other side says. It's called objectivity." Rob Corddry, The Daily Show (2004)
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  15308.  @andyrihn1  1) That 5.56 travels a lot faster, 2) and the bullet is designed to bounce around the body in ways that the bullet from a 30-06 is not. It is not uncommon for entry wounds in the chest and exit wounds in the head. Tell me that you know nothing about ballistics (or are deliberately lying about ballistics to downplay assault weapons) without saying that you know nothing about ballistics. Riddle me this, Batman: if an AR-15 isn't so deadly, a) why is it the weapon of choice for mass shooters, and b) why do you think the military uses that 5.56 that you are pretending is nothing?
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  15309.  @andyrihn1  Funny that you keep hanging all your hope on the 5.56 and not the rifle that propels that 5.56 much faster. So, are you saying that the drill sergeants and range instructors lied? Or are they all mistaken, and that everyone else is wrong but you?
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  15310.  @andyrihn1  They have a different mechanism than a hunting rifle. For all this trying to downplay it, it's quite interesting that people who actually hunt (especially those who eat the meat) don't use assault rifles to hunt with.
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  15311.  @andyrihn1  But, yeah, assault rifles really don't do anything and idiots pay several times the cost of a hunting rifle just to own the libs and own an inferior product.
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  15312.  @andyrihn1  Yeah, hunting people.
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  15313. ​ @avedic  Sadly, I'm wondering if the problem is that too many on the left would rather be pure than get some of what they want. We get poll after poll showing that people agree with us, but too many are too lazy to do the necessary work. If you keep waiting on the world to change, you're going to be waiting for a long time.
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  15314. Correction. DeSantis made DeSantis look like a clown.
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  15315. Gee, it's almost like people warned that this is exactly what happens when you start a trade war. I remember 20 years ago in a National Guard meeting hearing someone rail about the trade deficit. I got sick of hearing it, so I finally asked him how you'd solve for it. Then, I pointed out what would happen if you actively tried to reduce it through things like tariffs, and some were convinced that the other side wouldn't do retaliatory tariffs.
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  15316. His FEC report shows that this isn't true. That is the number of *donations*, not the number of *donors*. He is at 47,000 donors, but he has met the 20 state threshold. I do think that he's on pace to qualify, though.
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  15317.  @josephrichardson2365  My apologies. I just saw the article that I got that from in The Daily Beast. The article was from March 6, and I conflated the two numbers.
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  15318. Maybe if Tim had gone to school past ninth grade, he would have learned some basic research skills.
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  15319.  @savagetr1539  What makes it even worse is that this is his fourth or fifth account.
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  15320.  @squeallymaniac  You cannot centrally plan liberty, Sam! That's why I love free-dumb! That's why it's so important!
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  15321.  @kyrk2112  I mean that I did things like looking it up rather than getting caught up in the hype. Her record is terrible. Her supposed conversion is wearing off and she is reverting to type.
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  15322.  @triknives  You are aware that someone has to get out of the primary to win, right? The right is already onboard with Trump, and the libertarians aren't going to win, so what is her lane by alienating people who vote in the Democratic primary that she is running in?
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  15323.  @ODC88888  Does that inoculate her from every single bad thing she has done before or since? Given the dynamics of her race and her efforts to move right, it is more and more obvious that she endorsed Bernie in order to fend off a challenger to her left in the primary by supporting a popular candidate in her state. It was calculation, not bravery, given her awful record and her reversion to type.
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  15324.  @natalierose1072  He's a troll. I have been standing (many times alone) in these pages pointing out her awful record, getting called a warmonger, and a DNC shill, and he accused me of being a Tulsi shill, too. The mere fact that he is using two different usernames says it all.
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  15325.  @ODC88888  Thank you
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  15326.  @1drummer172  She gave the whole quote. The words were right there. It doesn't help him.
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  15327. I've noticed quite a few idiots on YouTube who insist that "the left takes things too far" because [insert random personal nonsense here]. One tried to say that because I said that if he still thinks Trump should win in 2024 that he isn't really on the left after all. If stupid stuff like this makes you a right winger, you were never serious about your beliefs in the first place.
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  15328. You're not from Wisconsin, either, Mike.
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  15329.  @akumakorgar  Well, then, I commend you for doing actual work. Probably the most pathetic example I remember was someone who had PhD in his handle who insisted that he was not a revolutionary but thought that a revolution was inevitable. I have been involved with plenty of efforts, including a petition/canvassing drive that convinced a member of Congress (Brendan Boyle) to sign on as a cosponsor for Medicare for All.
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  15330.  @akumakorgar  Because history has shown that nothing is inevitable. And if you're not going to do anything to make it happen, no oke is going to come to you begging for advice. And, guess what, if you don't care about elections, you won't get any change at all, so the best that you can hope for is begging for scraps from people unsympathetic to your movement. I saw it up close in West Virginia where plenty of people lamented that there was a lack of support for pro-choice policies in the state legislature even though Democrats at the time had a greater than 2:1 majority in each house. Well, the fact that the leading pro-choice group in the state was a 501 (c)(3) and the leading anti-abortion group was a PAC, what did they expect? If you put no one in office, you can't complain that they aren't responsive to you.
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  15331.  @akumakorgar  The suffragettes ultimately got what they wanted through electoralism. Labor didn't get nearly as much as they did until they actually got sympathetic people in office. If it was all left to battles like Blait Mountain instead of getting the Wagner Act, nothing would have happened. If people unsympathetic to the civil rights movement were in Congress and the Supreme Court, nothing would have happened. Once you say that voting does nothing, you automatically reduce your possible avenues for getting anything. Quite frankly, I don't care what you think about my opinion, because you'll still be coming around decades for now insisting that voting is a waste of time and the real revolutionaries like you will have victory just around the corner.
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  15332.  @akumakorgar  Of course, you have a right to object. I meant "don't complain" in the sense of don't be shocked when nothing happens.
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  15333. I have been saying for a while that it would work on so many levels if he wore a Brooks tracksuit.
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  15334.  @billdunlap320  Even the people who thought they could gerrymander their way to a House majority are now whining because Democrats at least broke even on that front. Don't count your chickens before they're hatched.
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  15335.  @improvisedsurvival5967  If the poor didn't buy what the rich sold, you wouldn't have a job. If the poor didn't make what the rich sold, you'd have nothing to buy, so maybe, just maybe, the rich shouldn't get everything.
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  15336.  @aaroncarl2493  Oh, yeah. That's the one.
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  15337.  @grisflyt  Sadly, a lot of people in public life exaggerate when it comes to military experience. I was shocked to find out that Tulsi Gabbard was a nurse. The year I got home from Iraq, the Republican nominee for WV Attorney General got mad that the incumbent (who famously didn't debate) wouldn't debate him and said "I didn't fight in Iraq..." and something about debating. He didn't fight. He was a JAG. Those chickenhawk conservatives just want to hide behind the valor of others.
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  15338.  @redwildrider  Agreed that gerrymandering is a big part of what keeps people in the House so long. I just pointed that out about the Senate because this was a debate between two senators.
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  15339. Are against democracy. If you don't like someone, vote that person out.
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  15340. Some Jewish people do oppose a Jewish state, so that's a bit harder to tell, but once it starts becoming things like "greedy" or "control the world," that is definitely anti-Semitic. For example, a lot (not all, but most) criticism of AIPAC is a dog whistle.
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  15341.  @briansimons9472  Karl Marx was Jewish, but didn't have anything nice to say about his own people. That kind of thing is what I mean when I say that some might. My point was and is that criticizing Israel is not inherently anti-Semitic, but the way it is criticized is usually a good indicator of whether or not it is an anti-Semitic dog whistle. I gave a couple examples of phrases that you may hear that would signify anti-Semitism.
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  15342.  @carywest9256  You should read the book. His research was phenomenal, and it is an interesting story. My favorite is what he was really doing in the picture where it looks like he was trying to mule kick the catcher.
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  15343. Because the Senate is 50/50 and you have two Democrats who refuse to do anything to make legislation any easier, so you have to pick your battles.
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  15344.  earth ocean  You clearly didn't watch the entire video. He said that his bigger fear is that she is the sacrificial lamb to get someone worse through with no problem.
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  15345. This explains so much!
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  15346.  @wizard1687  It looks like someone doesn't know how to wear one properly.
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  15347. I would say Trump is a piece of crap, but manure is useful.
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  15348. I get the feeling, since Iowa was never really close until 2016 (Obama won by seven, Kerry won by six, Gore won by 29, Harkin won by 72, Gephardt won by four, Mondale by 33, Carter won by 15 the first time and 28 the second time, and Muskie won by 13), close enough was all they thought they needed since the real vote was delegates to the county convention which came later. Not defending it at all, but this is an example of the margin of error exceeding the margin of victory, and you'd think they would have been ready, but you would be wrong.
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  15349.  @totlyepic  Look at the strategy of voting Green in hopes that it would pull the party left in 2000 and 2016. Did it work either time? Ironically, there was a candidate who did run to the left of his predecessor: Al Gore in 2000. Every time there has been a loss (or a stolen race like 2000), the next race has been someone to the right. Kerry was to the right of Gore, and Biden is to the right of Hillary. Hillary ran as the successor to Obama, but even she was willing to throw Bernie supporters a bone. Now, the logic is people scared of their own shadow who will take anyone who they think will win, but electability has been beaten into the heads of so many people like a battered spouse, that too many on the left are afraid to actually push for what they want in the primary.
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  15350. ​​ @brendatroth3860  Stormy Daniels didn't ignore a pandemic that killed over a million Americans and attempt to destroy democracy, so she wins.
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  15351. If you are a person of faith at all, pray for RBG and Breyer make it through the nightmare so we can get a sane replacement who doesn't want to empower the mad dictator.
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  15352. The NCAA is a huge racket. We need to get rid of shamateurism once and for all.
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  15353.  @FUKINGish  The point isn't how much a gold medalist wins after the fact. It's a matter of making sure that they have the money to survive so they can get there in the first place.
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  15354.  @filip8985  In some countries, you do get paid for university.
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  15355.  @thecapatalistpropagator_9470  If it's impossible in a country this size, why can China afford it?
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  15356.  @1984isnotamanual  If anything, libertarians are worse, because they want an existence that is cold, nasty, brutish, and short. If we followed what they want, they'd send us even farther into the abyss.
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  15357. Dave Chappelle is worse than Jerry Seinfeld on this one. Jerry Seinfeld just said that he won't go to college campuses anymore. It's not like he went to a school with children to harangue them for not recognizing his greatness.
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  15358.  Safir  Doesn't take away from the fact that she was right on this issue and Joe Biden was and continues to be wrong.
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  15359.  Safir  Well, if you try to increase the funding for the poor and minority school districts, the rich people in the white part of town (because of redlining) will say that it is unfair that their tax money goes toward other schools. Until you deal with those, integrating schools does not inherently cause "racial tension."
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  15360.  Safir  Which level of school? I have two master's degrees, and the school where I got the first one was majority black. Your argument is circular. There will always be people who don't get along in every circumstance. "Natural segregation" is not natural, nor good. We had the "separate but equal" doctrine for 58 years, and it just didn't work. School districts willfully ignored Brown for decades, and the charter schools are contributing to the regesgregation of public schools. If local schools ignore the Supreme Court and the federal government, what is the solution?
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  15361. @Nohely Devan She sure didn't seem superior when it came to her word salad on why she will or won't keep private insurance.
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  15362. I believe you're thinking of The Bachelor. Brewster's Millions had Richard Pryor needing to spend $30MM in 30 days in order to inherit a $300MM estate.
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  15363.  @nrsrymj  By definition, a UBI is cutting if there are people who get more now than what the UBI is going to be.
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  15364.  @mjchakos1  Still trolling to insist a Senator who is underwater while the junior Senator to her left is nearly +10 and to her left is the best that the people of Arizona can hope for?
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  15365.  @furiousmat  No, he hasn't. Russia tried to interfere in the elections using propaganda tactics, among others. To pretend otherwise is simply being a useful idiot.
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  15366.  @furiousmat  "If it's what you say it is, I love it! Especially in the fall." "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you find the e-mails." "You're going to find out something interesting about the e-mails very soon." Yeah, the Trump campaign didn't do anything to help that interference along. Or did you send that down the memory hole, too?
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  15367.  @johnmatthews3427  A big, beautiful wall. Given his choice of words, and his disparaging of the overweight not named Donald Trump, I wonder if there is something else that he is hiding that is seeping out.
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  15368.  @luchi.el.zorrito  If I invest 100 shares in Wal-Mart, I am part owner of the company and get something for it. If I buy an ounce of gold, it will always be an ounce of gold, so that is speculation. Forex trading is hoping that some country's currency will be worth more relative to another. At best, cryptocurrency is betting that your government will go bust and regular money will be worthless. At worst, it is hoping that some other sucker will get in after you so you can get higher shares. But the crypto advocates are making contradictory arguments at the same time. If it's this super-reliable way to store money, that's not an investment where you hope it will grow.
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  15369. The only reason I don't think Dear Leader is the Antichrist is because the Antichrist starts off doing good things to fool the people.
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  15370. Does anyone else think Biden looks like Bob Barker after he got that work done?
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  15371.  @bluecollarred6912  Would you rather get absolutely nothing and let Evil Turtle hold the Court open to make it 7-2? Shouldn't the last 12 years have shown why we never want to give any Republicans power? And, as frustrating as they can be, their voting record is actually to the left of every single Republican in Congress. If having to deal with these two because we underperformed in 2020 and didn't get a healthy margin of error, that is a small price to pay to give Bernie the gavel on the Budget Committee and the ability to craft legislation rather than respond to it.
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  15372. 11:31 Say it ain't so, Jamie! The actual Marxist on the show is still trying to hold onto some positive beliefs about Warren despite all evidence to the contrary. That is surprising.
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  15373.  @foolseekingwisdom  Among others who aren't on their side. Red/brown alliances never work out for the red part.
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  15374. Anyone else think that Mike Lindell is back on the pipe?
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  15375. I got a MyPillow about seven years ago, before realizing how crazy he was, and two or three years later, I got one for my young daughter, because she kept wanting to use mine. Howecer, it gets a lot flatter quicker than it used to. It's still under warranty, but I don't want him knowing my new address. It's a struggle between the not wanting waste money side or myself and the not wanting bombarded with stuff from a crazy rught winger (I wpuld fairly reguarly get mailers, maybe one or two at a month for a while, but then I got flooded in the fall of 2020). If he would have just not sold dangerous conspiracy theories, he probably would have been remembered as someone who turned his life around and hired local people, but his hubris did him in.
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  15376. I really don't care about why she is flipping, as long as she helps bring Der Orangefuhrer down.
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  15377.  @lottiea7  Not sure what happened to my original comment. I guess they're cracking down on providing links. I don't care who does it. That doesn't make it any less regressive a tax. Exempting certain staple goods can only make an inherently regressive tax less regressive. My adopted home state exempts staple goods such as groceries, clothing, medicine, and diapers from the sales tax, and the richest 20% still pay nearly ten times what the richest 1% do as a percentage of income. Source: Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, "Pennsylvania: Who Pays? 6th Edition"
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  15378.  @lottiea7  It is impossible to make a consumption tax progressive. It is the literal textbook example of a regressive tax. Seriously, Google regressive tax definition, and consumption taxes are almost always the first example that comes up. Fifty years ago, the effective tax rate was twice as high for the top 400 families. The difference? The IRS wasn't gutted and instructed to spend most of its time going after EITC filers. Letting some of the money slip through the cracks is a small price to pay in order to make sure that the poor don't have to bear the burden. You are working backwards to try to justify something rather than actually looking and admitting that, just maybe, consumption taxes are horrible, and we moved away from them as our primary revenue source for a reason.
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  15379.  @lottiea7  Study after study has shown that the costs get passed onto consumers for a VAT. The only functional difference between it and a sales tax is that it has more steps. Brookings did a study, and they found that all costs of a VAT are passed onto the consumer. This is not the case at all for corporate income taxes, where shareholders bear most of the cost.
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  15380. @verity simon [citation needed]
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  15381.  Ronie Lavon  The bank bailout came before the election.
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  15382.  @mimimarcus  The bank bailout was October 2016. The problem was that he let them keep their seven- and eight-figure bonuses, but told the UAW that they had to "make sacrifices" to keep the auto industry alive.
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  15383.  Ronie Lavon  Quantitive Easement wasn't a bailout to the banks. That was the Fed buying bonds to keep interest rates down. Yes, Obama and McCain supported it, but they didn't "bail out the banks." I'm not saying that there aren't things to criticize, but we shouldn't blame people for policies that others did.
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  15384.  Ronie Lavon  I did my homework, and it confirmed what I said. Also, you more than tripled the amount of quantitative easing: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/q/quantitative-easing As far as the complaint against "printing money," the economy was teetering on the brink of deflation in 2009. If you'd do your homework, you would know that the Great Depression (and every "panic" that you would have seen in your history books from 1837-1907 that seemed to come once every generation) were deflationary. Or, you could look at the "lost decade" in Japan.
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  15385.  Ronie Lavon  And I'm going to need a link for that accounting rule change.
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  15386.  Ronie Lavon  Are you trolling now? I'm the one who pointed out where the money went. I only went there because I actually care about being accurate rather than saying "I know better." Your complaint against research in the post before should have tipped me off.
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  15387.  Ronie Lavon  And you, you anti-Semite (don't think I didn't notice you calling someone Jewish like it was a bad thing earlier), maybe pick up a book and learn who Quantitive Easing is for. It is to make it easier to borrow, not to pad assets for banks, and you never showed the link that Obama changed the rules for accounting. I never said Obama didn't do Qunantative Easing, I pointed out that this is different from the bank bailouts. But, of course, you were there, so we should just trust you and then watch you get upset when others make sure that what they are saying is accurate.
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  15388.  Ronie Lavon  Yes, I am. My point is to blame him for what he actually did. What he did to benefit Wall Street was to let them keep their bonuses and not prosecute them. I wasn't trying at any point to say that he stood up to them. I just don't want to fall into the GOP trap of blaming what Bush did on Obama.
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  15389.  Ronie Lavon  That's what I do, but I don't blame them for things they didn't do. The things they did are plenty enough.
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  15390.  Ronie Lavon  I do apologize for the earlier remark. I didn't see what you were referring to, so I thought it was something that was denigrating someone for defending Jewish people. I do think some are too quick to paint that brush, but there is some criticism of Israel that sounds an awful lot like going after the Jewish people. (I'm not Jewish, but I don't like discrimination of any kind.) I am also quite critical of Netanyahu and Likud as it has manifested after they thought Sharon was too soft, but I do my best to make it clear that my criticism is not the people as a whole. What are some sources? Everything that I have read or studied about QE says that the goal is to reduce interest rates.
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  15391. 1) Bernie has a lot more programs that are a lot more substantial. 2) A UBI that is neither universal nor basic income will lead to a lot of poverty if Yang is right that there won't be any jobs left in the future and he gets rid of the existing social safety net. 3) Bernie also wants to put measures in place to build affordable housing and get rent control to keep rent down.
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  15392.  @tommydevine9993  True, but I guess for me, the foreign policy stuff was where she seemed to be staking the hardest claim that she really was one of us.
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  15393.  @beanabovethefrank1499  Thank you. I thought for sure there would be some sputtering attempt to argue those things didn't really happen ;-)
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  15394.  @beanabovethefrank1499  True, but going after one of the few things that they really care about like their divine right to power and judges usually gets a little bit more fight than that.
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  15395.  @beanabovethefrank1499  Indeed. Then again, how is that any different than what they're doing now? Jack Ciattarelli is already insisting that the election isn't over once it become obvious that Phil Murphy beats him. If he wants to wait until the certification to make a final statement, so be it, but this is usually how it starts. I get the pain of losing an election. I ran for a legislative seat 15 years ago and lost big. Admittedly, I knew when there were five precincts were left that the lead was insurmountable (there were 24 total in the district), and I told the press that I knew I lost, and I would formally concede after the final votes were in, but they understood, waited the 20 minutes or so until the last few precincts came in, let me privately congratulate my victorious opponent, and then I got to bow out with dignity. I didn't love saying that I lost, but I congratulated my opponent, wished him, the district, and the state all the best over the next two years because it was the right thing to do.
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  15396. I'm with you, Matt. I hope Biden wins, and I will vote for him, but he doesn't get my weekends like Bernie did.
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  15397. ​ @barbiquearea  That's because Jimmy Dore is actively harming everything that he claims to care about.
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  15398. Well, unless they're bots when you point out the flaws of Nerd Leader, sadly some do.
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  15399.  @jimgsewell  Sorry about that. I tagged the wrong person.
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  15400.  @fatbachelors3922  What are you talking about? He literally admitted it. Even if every word of his story is correct, he committed sexual harassment.
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  15401. I get the point that you're making, but it is so much lower than a living wage that we need to increase to a certain amount and then index for inflation.
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  15402.  @Atmost11  Someone clearly missed the plot.
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  15403.  @Atmost11  Herod: mass murder who married his sister and killed anyone he considered a threat. Caiphas: sold his people down the river to keep power Pilate: killed a man he knew to be innocent in order to placate an angry crowd, refused to accept responsibility for his actions Judas: stole from the group's funds, and wanted to force the hand of Jesus to bring about the violence that you claim he prevented Once again, you missed the plot.
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  15404.  @Atmost11  Oh, look, someone who thinks that by repeating nonsense that it's correct the second time.
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  15405.  @Atmost11  If that helps you sleep at night, troll.
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  15406. This is what a desperate campaign looks like. Is she trying to blame Bernie for Trump winning?
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  15407.  @D_isco_D_ancer  No, a dynasty would be Jane running next. You are talking about a realignment.
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  15408.  @argenys  As he told Dave Rubin, his goal is to get rid of those programs over time as more people take the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend where it would be feasible to do so. Or, as Grover Norquist put it, to shrink it to the size that it can be drowned in a bathtub.
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  15409.  @argenys  Well, I thought the whole reason why we needed it in the first place was that there aren't going to be any jobs left in the future. If that is the case, you are talking about a future with a few trillionaires and everyone else living below the poverty level. Okay, let's talk stigma. Some people are disabled in one way or another, and they can't work. And while Yang did say at one point that RSDI would not disqualify one for his proposal, when interviewed by "All Things Considered," he refused to say how people would be affected who are disabled. And another example? If you have a single parent with two kids in daycare, the average expense is over $1500/month. So, you want to deny that single parent some extra money? Way to go!
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  15410.  A Oh  So, people who have to give up their current benefits and pay a regressive tax benefit the most? That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works.
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  15411.  @bluesrockfan36  Okay, let's talk poverty. What is the biggest cause of bankruptcy in this country? Not having health insurance, or not having good insurance. Over half a million people go bankrupt every year because of that. Anything that lets private insurance exist in its current form is allowing this to continue. Where is Bernie? He is still opposed to regressive taxation, and he supports programs that in their entirety are worth far more than $1000/month.
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  15412.  A Oh  Okay, so you are calling Medicare for All "free stuff" and the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend isn't? You didn't really think that one through, did you?
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  15413.  A Oh  No, you didn't use those exact words, but this is what Yang is proposing. So, how will that help the poor the most?
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  15414.  A Oh  I did do research. At first, I liked the idea of what Yang was proposing, but the more I dug into it, the worse it was. Oh, and what happens to most people?
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  15415.  A Oh  Intwrviews, his website, studies about various UBI proposals, and his tax proposals. Of course you don't. Cultists usually do think that no reasonable people can disagree with the Leader.
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  15416.  A Oh  And if UBI really happens, I and others like me will make sure that it is not a techno-libertarian dream that hurts the poor and leads to a future with a few trillionaires and everyone else scraping by on less than the poverty level for one person.
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  15417.  A Oh  And as long as we are talking about personal experiences, my parents and my niece came to visit, and while here, we went on a couple of factory tours (Herr's Snack Factory and Tour in Nottingham, and the Martin Guitar Factory Tour and Museum in Nazareth), and in each case, human hands caused a bottleneck in production (finding rotten potatoes at the former, lacquering at the latter) where having a machine do it caused an increase in employment, and everyone in the lacquer department was retrained so no one lost a job. Automation can be done in a way to benefit the few, or the many, and giving up and just saying "take away all of our jobs and give us a little bit of money" is not going to benefit anyone.
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  15418.  @bluesrockfan36  "We progressives" don't support regressive taxation and a version of the UBI that was descended from Milton Friedman and Charles Murray that was designed to get rid of the existing social safety net. The difference between the two is that they wanted to get rid of it right away, which made it more obvious what they were doing, but Yang wants to do it gradually. Yes specifically told Dave Rubin that this was his ultimate goal. He told Ben Shapiro that he wouldn't increase it because "the magic of a thousand bucks a month is that it is below the poverty level for one person, which means that people have to work if they want any life of meaning" (emphasis added). Now, just like the other people who think they have crunched the numbers, you are forgetting one thing: a lot of poor and disabled people won't get jack squat. Here are some examples, based on the six programs of the 125 that Yang has mentioned that will force people to give up in order to get his money: 1) TANF in New Hampshire is over $1000 2) TANF in Alaska is $923 (and they don't forfeit their oil reserve fund, either), and it is over $700 in New York and California. Once you add SNAP, they are over $1000. And those families are probably also getting LIHEAP. 3) Daycare for two children in PA is over $1500/month, and those families will almost certainly get WIC. 4) Housing subsidies is well over $1000 in high rent areas. So, you want some poor single parent who is working to get nothing and then have to pay a VAT? That is the lefty objection to the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend. It doesn't help poor people, it hurts them. You think that techno-libertarian is a dog whistle? You're funny. It refers to a lot of Silicon Valley types who like to present themselves as lefties, but when you dig into their politics and their business practices, they are as libertarian as they come. So, what did you think I meant?
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  15419.  @argenys  Why do the poor have to choose between the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend and their current benefits while multimillionaires get to keep their mortgage interest deduction, which costs the Treasury far more than welfare for the poor? And if your hero "trusts people to make a decision," why does he refuse to provide a full list of the 125 programs that people forfeit if they take his money? There is no choice if people are not informed. Why does he refuse to say how long someone forfeits benefits under the current social safety net if he really believes in choice? Circumstances might change, especially if he is right about there being no jobs in the future.
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  15420.  A Oh  Again, people in Alaska can get TANF and the oil revenue, and it pays far less than $1000/month. They aren't remotely comparable.
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  15421.  @oshontheexperience6440  He never did. He always mentioned a public option, but now he doesn't even have that.
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  15422.  A Oh  Become a better person by fighting to make automation work for people instead of just a very few. A future with a few trillionaires and everyone else scraping by on less than the poverty level for one person is not a sustainable path, especially if the rest of the social safety net is now gone.
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  15423.  @jackilope  Thanks! I had heard of that song, but I never actually heard it.
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  15424.  @alexshih3747  For me, it's not just about Powell being relatively dovish for a conservative, but the fact that he has been leading the charge in saying that unemployment needs to go up in order to tame inflation. It almost feels like he's trying to do a solid for Trump by sabotaging the economy to get him back in office.
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  15425. 3:22 My job is far different from spmething that would be covered by WGA, but this definitely rings so very true. In my job, we have basically been having to do the work of two people lately with only the COLA and seniority bumps (which 2as a much better amount in 2019 before a lot of people left and higher inflation where the 18% we got in the contract with 17.7% over the four years of the contract). Now, in pur negotiations, we are pushing for much higher wages to acknowledge the reality of the increased workload and higher costs.
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  15426. Our generation got its name from a Billy Idol band ("as in fill in the blank") and a Douglas Copeland novel. That being said, did you notice that baby boomers wanted to name the following generations after them (they tried to name us baby bust, and the Millennials were the echo boom). Me generation, indeed!
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  15427.  @lawrencemckeon6802  I'd pay double for it.
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  15428. Crazy lady: Explain why the key sticks to me! Sane person: You're leaning back to make it stick, and it doesn't stay on your neck. Not since the bloody glove has someone tried so hard to manipulate a physical test.
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  15429. Maybe we could have that if we would learn from those who are getting things right instead of yelling "we're number one!"
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  15430.  @LurchFetterman  He was charged with election interference in Georgia, and interfering with the procedure in Washington. A lot of people went to jail for interrupting an official procedure, and some did for seditious conspiracy. The reason why it hasn't gone to trial yet is because Gsrland dragged his feet appointing a special prosecutor, self-proclaimed innocent man has been trying to get delays rather than exoneration, and the Supreme Court let him push the pause button.
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  15431.  @moonlightfishin4113  What do you call a failed coup attempt that isn't punished?
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  15432.  @moonlightfishin4113  You mean the Amendment that says "well regulated"? Hiss hiss!
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  15433.  @moonlightfishin4113  A) There were rules for those militias, B) the express purpose of a militia was to put down a rebellion (See: Article I, Section 8), C) not every able-bodied adult male was a member of the militia (see: Jefferson, Thomas). Bad history from a conservative. What a shock!
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  15434.  @I_Love_fent  Because he wanted to hold onto power, like a dictator... which he said he'd be if he took power again.
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  15435.  M B  If we are forced between the two, then worry about that. For now, try to get the best option you can. The primary is not the time to settle.
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  15436.  @adaminfinity1733  Assuming that is true, and it was his real doctor who said this rather than something like this unknown producer (when you've lied that often, I need third-party verification for pretty much anything you say), you emphasize how rare it is. You don't try to dissuade others from getting the vaccine.
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  15437.  @adaminfinity1733  Maybe it would have been if the idiots hadn't have ruled the roost and allowed more variants to develop.
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  15438.  @adaminfinity1733  Doesn't mean that this doctor saw him personally and can vouch for his side effects. It also doesn't mean that he isn't a quack, because those exist as well.
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  15439.  @adaminfinity1733  Just as I suspected: an anti-vaccine crank. It's like you're not even trying.
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  15440.  @adaminfinity1733  Your friend? So Jimmy Dore is your friend now? If he is taking the vaccine seriously, why does he keep touting the work of doctor whose videos about coronavirus denial and vaccine hysteria? Why did he say on more than one occasion that if he knew then what he knows now that he wouldn't get the vaccine? He is playing to the anti-vaccine crowd while trying to keep plausible deniability with the rest of us. Difference is that everyone can see both sets of appeals.
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  15441.  @jameswatson9338  Funny how his defenders who are appealing to the left never hear the obvious nods to the right that he makes.
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  15442.  @adaminfinity1733  My apologies. I did not see the reply that talked about your friend who literally got the thing that is a less than one in a million chance.
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  15443.  @adaminfinity1733  I am calling that doctor who Jimmy Dore cited an anti-vaccine crank, because all of his videos are about how bad the side effects are or how ineffective treatment is. And that particular anti-vaccine crank shows up in the comments of a lot of people who are anti-vaccine. No one actually admits to being anti-vaccine, just like how the hardcore conspiracy theorists never admit to pushing the theories, but insist that they are "just asking questions."
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  15444.  @adaminfinity1733  [citation needed]
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  15445.  @adaminfinity1733  Oh, yes. The "reasonable" anti-vaccine advocate. Solomon was right: there is nothing new under the sun.
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  15446.  @adaminfinity1733  I have seen his videos.
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  15447.  @adaminfinity1733  It's an imperfect process to remove everything. They didn't take down the video of Jimmy Dore purposely distorting an article to make the vaccine look ineffective. The anti-vaccine crowd has long figured out how to do a dog whistle to give them plausible deniability for those like you who insist that, no, they really aren't anti-vaccine.
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  15448.  @adaminfinity1733  Define their version of incredibly high. Of course, he's going to say it in every video, because he wants plausible deniability. If you spend a few seconds saying the vaccine is good and more people should get it compared to 10-20 minutes talking about how bad it is and how ineffective it is, what do you think that the net impact is going to be?
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  15449.  @adaminfinity1733  If you are really pro-vaccine, and the vast majority of your views are from the anti-vaccine crowd to bolster their arguments, you're doing it wrong.
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  15450.  @adaminfinity1733  As many videos as he has, he has to see the basic tenor of the comment section. So, either he is an incredibly poor communicator (and anyone using him to insist that Jimmy Dore really is pro-vaccine has to know that) or he knows exactly what he is doing and is continuing to spread vaccine panic for a little bit of money.
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  15451.  @danschneider8996  Well, person with weird kiddie foot fetish, she was not. Just because you want it to be doesn't make it so.
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  15452.  @danschneider8996  The prosecutor did such a bad job because the judge insisted that they couldn't do anything to actually show motive. Considering how much cases like these rely on motive, and the bad acting display was there for the killer to tell what his motives were, it seems to be an awfully odd thing to do for a fair trial. No, this would have never happened if Kyle Rittenhouse had stayed home instead of crossed state lines with an itchy trigger finger. And there was plenty if evidence both before and after of his white supremacist beliefs. Just because it doesn't fit your narrative doesn't make it so.
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  15453.  @danschneider8996  Yeah, I suppose those pictures of him hanging out and flashing signs were doctored, as was him was staged, as was his saying a week ahead of time that he wanted to shoot someone. The judge banned that because he wanted a result, and that's what happened. He could have saved all that money he spent on his defense since his best defense attorney sat on the bench.
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  15454.  @danschneider8996  I watched the trial, and you probably believed that fake crying. "The tears aren't coming! The tears aren't coming!" Gob Bluth
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  15455.  @danschneider8996  And context is everything. Who he did it with matters.
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  15456.  @danschneider8996  He was trying to whip up tears. Anyone who has seen small children trying to cry has seen it.
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  15457.  @pleaseenteraname1103  He didn't just randomly leave home. He crossed state lines carrying a weapon going to a violent situation. He went looking for trouble, and he found it. Now, he can go be a right-wing celebrity, because he got away with murder. I, for one, choose not to defend people who hang out with white supremacists and play vigilante.
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  15458.  @TTWGD3  And what would that left-wing party have accomplished? That 10-20% isn't going to when any seats, and it will throw elections to Republicans nationwide. Look up the 1912 election to see what happens when one of the major parties split, and what happens in the next cycle.
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  15459. Total case of "right, but for the wrong reason."
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  15460.  @highneedforcognition9660  Are you really going with "we really need to support her because Bernie will make her his Secretary of State"? Obviously, this assumes that she can withstand the scrutiny of the debate stage (assuming that she gets there, because so far she has not qualified), if she can't take someone who looks at her record and says, "I have serious problems with this," then she doesn't deserve such a prestigious position. And I will not blindly follow anyone just because someone else vouches for that person, even if it is Bernie. To suggest that anyone should is not a good look.
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  15461.  @highneedforcognition9660  If that is really what you want, then Secretary of State wouldn't be where you would hope she goes. That would be Secretary of Defense. Of course, she would have to get out of the military to do that, and given her statements on torture, I don't trust her with the Army Field Manual.
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  15462.  @highneedforcognition9660  Trump let us all down by abandoning his America First position? And you were upset that my statement that someone who supports torture loses his/her lefty card on foreign policy. I will check the link again to see if it works. If it works for me and not for you, I will find more evidence that she was one of only three to oppose a resolution condemning targeting of civilians in Syria, and I will find links to her tweets praising Putin for bombing Syria in 2015. Edit: paragraph removed because I didn't pick up on your sarcasm.
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  15463.  @highneedforcognition9660  Here is the corrected link: https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2019/01/tulsi-gabbards-record-syria-worse-think
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  15464.  @highneedforcognition9660  No evidence of Assad using chemical weapons? https://www.armscontrol.org/blog/2018-09-23/what-you-need-know-about-chemical-weapons-use-syria Here is the information about the massacre that Sisi led against the democratically elected President of Egypt, but because he was Muslim Brotherhood, that makes it "fighting terrorism" in Tulsi's eye: http://www.hrw.org/report/2014/08/12/all-according-plan/rba-massacre-and-mass-killings-protesters-egypt
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  15465.  @highneedforcognition9660  You think that this is flanking someone on the left? http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/trump-america-first/514037/ Ignoring human rights violations is not a leftist foreign policy. Isolationism is not a leftist foreign policy (see: Paul, Ron). If you honestly think that, based on this statement and the ones about human rights abuses and defending the apology for them, that tells me one of, or a combination of, one of the following: 1) You have decided to support whatever Tulsi Gabbard says no matter what, and you are trying to work backward to come to that conclusion; 2) You honestly don't know the difference between left and right in foreign policy, confusing it with isolationism vs. internationalism even though the former is almost always of the right and the latter has both a left and right version. 3) You're trolling.
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  15466. As someone who is theologically conservative but opposed to this incarnation of fundamentalism (someone in seminary actually told me that if he took what the Bible said about the poor as seriously as I did, he'd be a Democrat, too) is that if you break down evangelicals between white and non-white that you'll see a similar difference. That being said, there are several denominations (Baptists not of the SBC variety, Seventh-day Adventists, Mormons, Mennonites, etc.) who take separation of church and state very seriously. The first defense of it written in the English language was authored by the second Baptist ever, Thomas Helwys.
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  15467.  @melaniel.s8990  Do you like the fact that the Republican Party has funded them for 20 years, including a lawsuit that, if they had their way, would have disenfranchised overseas absentee voters because they were too incompetent to fill out a petition drive correctly and too lazy to fill out a form to fix it? https://www.peoplesworld.org/articles/republican-election-sabotage-scheme-using-wisconsin-green-party-fails/
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  15468. He's a flamer.
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  15469. Don't forget that a lot of these same Never Hillary idiots were the same people who voted for Nader. In large part thanks to them, four of the five who voted to overturn Roe, and five of six members of the right wing bloc, were put on the Supreme Court. Anyone who tells me that the Supreme Court doesn't matter or both parties would pick the same kind of Justice has officially demonstrated his/her stupidity and disqualification for talking intelligently about electoral politics.
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  15470.  @bradneubauer4694  Have you seen what is required to get an amendment passed? Even if you could, you would have a serious problem, because poll after poll shows three consistent things that a majority of Americans support: cutting taxes, increasing spending, balanced budgets. If you open it up to a direct vote, you are opening up a balanced budget amendment. Colorado nearly destroyed its university system because of a Taxpayer's Bill if Rights law. You also run the risk that people will be more tuned out once you get to the end of a ballot. If we are going to use the Herculean effort to change the Constitution, there are far more effective ways to do use that energy than ballot initiatives.
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  15471.  @bradneubauer4694  Well, there's your problem. Voting should be the beginning of your work, not the end. It's not set it and forget it. If you don't get in the ear of your elected officials, people who you don't want to do so will.
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  15472.  @thowl7065  So, you mean a literacy test? We tried that before, and it didn't go well.
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  15473.  @idiotidiot5821  It would absolutely require an amendment.
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  15474. So, people vote the way their sponsorship indicates, and the bill is 100 votes short, what is your step two? If you are too lazy to organize support for a bill, what makes anyone think that your side of this argument will have the discipline, the energy, and the infrastructure to take out 104 incumbents?
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  15475. ​ @cedricrust9953  Trump is more incompetent.
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  15476. This is what happens when someome has gotten away with pretty much every misdeed he ever committed for the first 75 years of his life without any repercussions.
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  15477. I was going to buy a new computer (my previous one was so old it's basically a word processor at this point) when I got my tax check. Not wanting to pay the tariff, I bought it last week.
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  15478.  @kaysealey2860  I think you need to go fix your programming so you can write something that resembles proper English, Kay-bot.
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  15479.  @Viroquan  Bernie lost the Kentucky primary by less than a point.
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  15480. So, Alexi McCammond was forced out for something ten years ago that she apologized for, but Joy Reid not only got to stay at MSNBC, but got a promotion, after her tweets were found from eight years earlier and she lied and said that she was hacked? Who does she have dirt on at MSNBC?
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  15481. "Trump created energy independence" We had energy independence at the tail end of the Obama years.
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  15482.  @luperamos7307  Yes, because millionaires taking advantage of decades of tax cuts and wealth inequality and looking for new ways to cash in is totally because poor people got some money. /s
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  15483.  @luperamos7307  Well, maybe try not using buzzwords of the right when you talk about what is happening. With no other context, given the kind of posts we see on a regular basis in places like this, what do you expect our interpretation to be?
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  15484.  @luperamos7307  The video talked about people who stay in trailers so they can rent out their houses to try to afford a mortgage. "Printing money" is something that the right tends to use when talking about social programs or the Fed deciding that just maybe economic collapse isn't good for anybody.
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  15485.  @luperamos7307  Selling a house at a profit isn't "money printing," it's basic capitalism.
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  15486.  @linuxrobotgeek  I even got an autographed copy of her book (before realizing it was a glorified transcript of the radars) and took a picture of her with me and my daughter when she came to Philadelphia in February. At first, I thought the criticism of the centrists was a function of talking about a primary. She fooled a lot of us.
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  15487.  @OscarLangleySoryu  That's the whole thing.
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  15488.  @jacobcohen9205  Who said it was focused on abortion? Republicans have been running away from the issue like mad. However, what I and others are pointing out is that literally every ad for Trump or the Republican US Senate candidate where we live has been about transgendered people. Every single one. I'm not counting Super PAC spending, but ads that say, "I'm Donald Trump and I approve this message," or "I'm Dave McCormick [or whatever state they're in], and I approve this message."
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  15489. @OscarLangleySoryu  My apologies. I guess Gestalt kicked in and I thought I said it but I didn't say the whole thing.
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  15490. Come on, Karen! I am 39, and if someone showed a picture of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, I would recognize it. That is roughly the equivalent. Would she even know who exclaimed Come On?
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  15491. ​​ @larrycarlston4044  Funny how the indices have all grown leaps and bounds under Biden and shrank under Trump, so something tells me you're lying. Or are you participating in that "let's pretend he didn't botch the pandemic" amnesia that his followers seem so adept at?
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  15492.  @lenas6246  Indeed. The other day, my dad was telling me that, instead of spending $1000-1500 on a family fun vacation, I should have saved that money to buy a house. I'm sorry, but if you bought a house in the 20th century or in an economically depressed area (he did both, but for an example of the latter, my brother bought a house for $25K and my aunt bought one for $20K in my hometown in the past few years), you really don't understand what people are up against. Quite frankly, if I want my daughter to get a decent education, because this country has the goofy notion of paying for education with property taxes and didn't see the vicious cycle that would so obviously cause once education became more important, that means that a sheriff's sale is probably the only way someone born after 1970 can afford a house in a place with quality schools. Heck, every time I turn around, I see a For Sale sign and a month or two later, it gets replaced with a For Rent sign and some obscene price tag that makes my obscene rent seem affordable and cheap by comparison.
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  15493. ​ @Hopeful_Libertarian  Indeed. Republicans trying to put an asterisk on Democratic Presidential wins is nothing new.
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  15494.  @pipz420  Are we playing a game where we say the opposite of what is true? If so, then RFK Jr. isn't a stalking horse for Trump and a crazy conspiracy theorist and anti-vaccine nut.
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  15495.  Meta Code  Regarding Adelson, do you honestly think that they came to him for support because they were worried about youth gambling? That would be the equivalent of a 1950s Congress going to the head of Phillip Morris as a concerned citizen about teen smoking. There is a long, long history of gambling magnates opposing others getting in the game (for example, one of the things that put Abramoff in jail was working with riverboat gaming to fight tribal casinos, and Atlantic City trying to keep laws on the books to ban casinos in north Jersey). The rich get elected officials to "ask for their support" as political kabuki. For British Nazis, not all, but more than you would think, including Edward VIII. If you find AOC courting wealthy donors and acting in their interest, then you can say that Bannon admiring her political skill is the same as saying that her agenda is the same as his on foreign policy.
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  15496. Sinema, yes. If you primary Manchin, you are guaranteed to lose the seat. Run a primary challenger to send a message, but if you hate Joe Manchin, have a look at Jim Justice.
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  15497. Pete Rose did not cheat! There was no evidence that he ever bet against the Reds. Not that it wasn't a scandal, but it was definitely not cheating.
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  15498.  @RLStupidityPerson  Cheating is gaining and unfair advantage or disadvantage, period. He didn't do eiher.
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  15499.  @yarweiss  Thank you, Ray! That is my personal wrong word pet peeve. I remember this guy who bragged about a University of Chicago education, and I literally never once saw him correctly spell "lose."
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  15500. I still think that the moment Obama lost the midterms in 2010 was when he said "contracts are sacred" in the spring of 2009 in response to a question about bonuses for executives after several TARP companies had these big retreats in Hawaii despite insisting that UAW members "make sacrifices" to keep the auto industry afloat. I'm 42, and it's sad to say, but no American President has been better for labor in my lifetime than Biden.
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  15501. I am still incredibly annoyed when Republicans talk about Dear Leader getting elected as "the will of the people." You can either defend the Electoral College, or you can defend popular will, but you can't do both.
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  15502. I call that thumb thing the Clinton Jeopardy buzzer, because he is the first one I saw do that. Then again, I was 12 at the time, so maybe he was just the first one I noticed.
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  15503.  @maryjaenicke102  I did not notice Poppy did that. I am easily old enough to remember Poppy, but I thought he pointed. Then again, maybe Bill just took the Jeopardy buzzer to new heights.
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  15504.  @maryjaenicke102  He definitely points in "read my lips," but Bill Clinton almost never pointed.
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  15505. Horrible. His campaign is now like Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense.
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  15506.  @BlueEyedBrunette  *79
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  15507. Isn't "egotistical billionaire" redundant?
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  15508. Yes! And fundamentalism can take many forms, including atheism. I personally would argue that is the greatest threat.
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  15509. Are these the ones who didn't resign?
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  15510. That's because workers getting more money means that his corporate overlords don't keep it all.
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  15511. Mr. Bernstein: That man was a fool! Mr. Thompson: Well, he made a lot of money. Mr. Bernstein: Making a lot of money is easy to do... if all you care about is making a lot of money. Citizen Kane (1941) As true today as it was when written.
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  15512.  @matthewdunham1689  What is why Democrats lose to Nazis? I'm confused.
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  15513.  @matthewdunham1689  Well, if it was like the 1960s with supermajorities in each House instead of with a four-seat majority in the House and a tie Senate, unforitbately, math says that you may well have little choice sometimes. Not the same as negotiating with yourself, though.
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  15514.  @SouthEastSD619  Did he change any of his views or see his audience vastly change once he got his money? Tell me when he gets a six-figure salary to post on a right-wing site like Rumble.
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  15515.  @matthewstone1362  The risk after vaccination is less than 0.01%.
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  15516.  @matthewstone1362  Re: Force the Vote, are you familiar with the concept of Catch and Release as a legislative strategy?
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  15517.  @matthewstone1362  I did answer. A less than 1 in 10,000 chance, or less than 0.01%.
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  15518.  @matthewstone1362  Catch and Release is a strategy pioneered by Tom DeLay in the 1990s when he became Majority Whip. The main philosophy behind the strategy is that the vote count does not matter nearly as much as the result. (This is why so many votes were so close during his leadership.) The way he used the strategy was to allow members to appear moderate by allowing them a certain rotation of No votes in order to make sure that he was able to get pretty much the entire agenda to pass (in his first Congress as Majority Whip, he was either 301-2 or 300-3 on votes). So, with this strategy in mind, and knowing that if the sponsor list is remotely accurate as an indicator of support we are at least 100 votes short, what would stop Pelosi from giving members in lefty districts a green light to vote for the bill knowing that it would fail to take the legs out of a primary challenge so they don't suffer the fact of Crowley or Engel knowing that they would never vote for the bill if it ever had a chance of passage?
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  15519.  @matthewstone1362  So, given the explanation of Catch and Release as a strategy, why does Force the Vote make any sense at all?
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  15520.  @integratedboxingsystem8827  He is speaking truth in a video where he was literally caught lying? The delusion is strong in this one.
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  15521. I can think of Jeff Conaway (from Taxi and Grease) and Mike Starr (original bass player for Alice in Chains) off the top of my head. I'm sure there are more.
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  15522. Der Orangefuhrer: The biggest liar ever. George Santos (if that is his real name): Wait 'til they get a load of me.
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  15523. Not if you are in a rural area.
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  15524.  @schumanhuman  If you are in a poor rural area, an LVT would hurt people who happen to have land you really can't do anything with. After high school, my brother bought a trailer that also came with 29 acres of land. The land is on a hill away from the main road, and includes a cemetery and a lot of land that people can't use. Punishing someone for not developing land that can't be developed will hurt the poor, and all but the most ideologically inclined can see that.
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  15525.  @schumanhuman  If you tax "undeveloped land" at a higher rate, that is exactly how it works. Every single advocate argues that this is how it should work, and when I give an example of why it would be terrible for those who have land that can't be developed, you seem to misunderstand how life is in poor rural areas, and you think that they won't suffer compared to someone living in NYC. A lot of people live in those poor rural areas because they are cheap and all they can afford. You are taking that away because it is "undeveloped."
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  15526.  @schumanhuman  Well, then, how come so many of its advocates say it will "solve the problem of unused land," and I've heard a lot insist that this is how it will work? Oh, and if you're going based on the property value, we already have that, and [in Homer Simpson whisper] it is the most unpopular tax and a major cause for widening inequality.
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  15527.  @schumanhuman  "'and everyone, including non-landlords, pay property tax.' "No, they don't!" You seriously don't think that landlords pass the cost onto the consumer?
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  15528.  @schumanhuman  That's the theory, but as much as you can argue that landlords charge the most that they can, people still have to find a way if the cost gets passed on. And Adam Smith understood a great many things, but he didn't live in a world where public education was such a large factor in people's housing choices and that said public education was paid for with property taxes, which causes ever greater demand on high-rent properties.
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  15529.  @schumanhuman  But a lot of land can't be developed. That is the point that you are missing about poor rural areas. And there are other kinds of rural besides farmland, which you seem not to grasp, given that all of the examples you've used are based on farming.
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  15530.  @schumanhuman  If it's based on market value, how is that any different than property tax? That's literally what it does.
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  15531.  @schumanhuman  "neither did Ricardo's law of rents change when people favoured locations near to public schools" Then, why does rent keep spiraling in other places when property taxes go up? I've literally had landlords say that they were passing on the cost when evaluating the rental cost for the next year? Admittedly, I was moving anyway, because it was my senior year in college, but that was the stated reason.
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  15532.  @schumanhuman  Oh, in other places that I've rented that had no rent control and prices went up, they made no such niceties. One of them even presented it as "exciting news." Exciting for them, maybe. Now, if you want to argue that there is a limit to just how much it can be passed onto the tenant, so be it, but you're arguing that there is no relationship at all.
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  15533.  @schumanhuman  "eventually landlords have to come to a more realistic rent based on the fundamentals of supply and tenants ability to pay" And that day clearly isn't happening in a lot of places. As long as propertied interests continue to pass properties to each other like a game of hot potato to artificially raise prices and reduce home ownership (and I have seen this happen several times within a block of my own apartment , because no one is that unenthusiastic about their houses that multiple houses go back up for sale within a year), the demand for rentals will be artificially increased. There are quite a few tricks up their sleeves.
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  15534.  @schumanhuman  And if you think rent keeps going up because it's too low in places like San Francisco or Marin County (where the latter got so out of hand that they got rent control), then you and I clearly have a different definition of "undercharging."
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  15535.  @schumanhuman  "San Francisco is home to Silicon Valley, big wages and lots of wealth" There are plenty of people who live in San Francisco who don't have a lot of either. And that is the thing that these 18th and 19th century people you quote never anticipated: just how highly concentrated certain things are, which leave huge swaths of the country out entirely. The fact that Smith didn't see that the inevitable result of the invisible hand was extreme concentration of wealth shows his limits. The fact that George thought that so much of wealth was based on property when intellectual property has been worth so much more shows the limitations of trying to use land as the main basis for taxation.
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  15536.  @insightfulhistorian1861  Krystal Ball. She literally set up a PAC that was supposed to help lefty candidates, and she put over eight times the money into her own pockets that she did all candidates combined.
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  15537.  @hitchchristophers6932  Indeed. Or the one in 2004 for that matter?
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  15538.  @lord6617  You don't want to work with anyone. You want to be above it all. The high water mark in this century for people trying things your way was 2.74%. If this were a parliamentary system, you wouldn't hold any seats that way, either.
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  15539. ​ @jezra4427  First of all, he has no beliefs, other than what will make him money. Second, they don't listen to Jimmy Dore to hear him praise lefty policies, they listen to hear him trash lefty politicians.
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  15540. Reich does not support an either/or version that uses a regressive tax to pay for it.
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  15541.  @Jcewazhere  Some people care more about feeling like they're on the right side of things than getting results. That is a side effect of social media "activism."
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  15542.  @kyleleehufnagel  When I say drop, I mean that it's still popular, but it peaked in 2019. Hearing 20 or so candidates (including those supposed to be on our side) lamenting the lack of "choice" shows that a lot of people are thinking different things when they talk Medicare for All.
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  15543.  @kyleleehufnagel  Not at all. If you're basing yours in fact, then show the data. Medicare for All did not gain in popularity, and if you asked follow up questions, it became more and more obvious that a lot of people who said they supported Medicare for All really want a public option. I don't like it, either, but I look at evidence and try to figure out why it ended up that way.
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  15544.  @kyleleehufnagel  That poll is eight months old. If you want to argue it's higher now, you should ne able to show one that's at least within a couple of months.
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  15545.  @kyleleehufnagel  I would love for the American people to support Medicare for All so strongly that such support is guaranteed and growing, but we haven't delivered that. If you look at a poll at the same time that asked the question several different ways, support for Medicare for All was 63%, but support for single payer was 49%. If you don't think weasels like Medicare for All Who Want It, Medicare for America, and Medicare Choice (from someone who claims to support Medicare for All but called the noncompete rules "un-American") didn't have an impact, you are engaging in wishful thinking: https://www.kff.org/slideshow/public-opinion-on-single-payer-national-health-plans-and-expanding-access-to-medicare-coverage/ Then again, I could see such things because I actually went out and knocked on doors to try to get support for Medicare for All and talked to people. What did you do to move the needle? EDIT: slide 14 shows the polls from October, and 53% support Medicare for All and 69% support a public option. Figure 11 is older, but it shows that most people think they'd keep private insurance. This is not the majority we would need to move Congress to act.
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  15546.  @kyleleehufnagel  I'm not saying that I want a public option. Funny that you didn't answer the question to what things you have actually done other than make comments on a YouTube video to actually do something to build that support for Medicare for All or what action you have taken to get the people who actually get to vote on it to vote in your favor. The whole point of the video is whether or not it makes sense to have a "statement vote" on Medicare for All. I think it is a bad idea for the following reasons: 1) if less than half of the cosponsors actually vote for it, the "message" will totally backfire, 2) it is not the guaranteed winner that the the proponents of this strategy think it is, 3) it will burn bridges for things that we can get, and 4) we need a grassroots army in place ready to drive this message home to bulldoze through the opposition. Maybe understanding questions farther in the poll makes it easier to understand why things went down the way they did in the primary. Just saying "it's popular" doesn't move the needle to "this is how we get people to vote to get it." Any bill will have to defeat the scare tactics, and seeing the difference between Medicare for All and single payer, as well as how many people wrongly think that private insurance will still be a thing means that we have work to do, so what are you doing?
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  15547.  @kyleleehufnagel  One thing that I have learned about public opinion about health care in this country is that people want everything to get better and nothing to change. That is the real reason why people are so susceptible to the propaganda. You see it any time you see wild swings in opinion. One seems to be people talking about what they like in the abstract, and the other is the fear talking. I'm not saying that it is unpopular. I am saying that it is far too easy to trigger the fear. That's why we have more work to do to educate the people.
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  15548.  @Sohbek  But what do you accomplish? It's far different for the dead enders in the Freedom Caucus to do stuff like that, because they only want to say no to everything. If you don't get close, you marginalize the issue and set it back for years.
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  15549.  @KingJT80  Some people think that you build a coalition by subtraction, and they wonder why we never get anything nice.
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  15550.  @atpnguyen1442  You seem to be under the mistaken notice that people who think that this strategy that is doomed to fail oppose Medicare for All, even though many of us have actually done the work.
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  15551.  @groundhogx2941  I read it in the voice of Mike Myers in The Spy Who Shagged Me.
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  15552.  @likeherod27x9  And the real Bobby Fischer lost his mind, too.
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  15553.  Illhan Omars brother's wife is Illhan Omar  Why can't you list the sanctions that Der Orangefuhrer didn't want in the first place, but he only went along with because they were veto-proof and he didn't even really enforce in the first place that Biden got rid of?
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  15554.  Illhan Omars brother's wife is Illhan Omar  So, you literally mention one sanction (that Germany specifically asked to lift at the time) while ignoring the numerous sanctions that have been imposed. Are you a farmer? Because you're doing a lot of cherry picking.
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  15555.  Illhan Omars brother's wife is Illhan Omar  You have "all the facts," but you keep clinging to one like Linus and his blanket.
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  15556. Sam's Generation X, too.
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  15557.  @ToutCQJM  Who is she?
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  15558. To a certain extent, I wonder how much of these numbers are affected by just how much stuff is made for right handed people and how many people have someone who tries to switch them. My cousin is five years older than me, and my aunt forced her to switch. Her son was a lefty and she told her mom not to dare try to switch him. A kindergarten teacher tried to force me to switch, but my mom wouldn't let her.
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  15559. @Nick Arjomand "your not stupid"? Here's a hint: if you are talking about stupidity, your os a possessive pronoun, and you're is a contraction for you are.
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  15560. @Nick Arjomand Yeah, he's not that moderate. In 1972, he said it himself: "Except for civil rights, I'm a conservative," but two years later, he was working with segregationists to oppose integration, something he even defended last year by using the states rights argument. He is a right winger by instinct. The mere fact that he threatened to veto Medicare for All (something even Hillary didn't do) shows that he is taking the left for granted. And that is how we lose. Hint: picking Elizabeth Warren to try to pacify the left won't work, because we know what a fake she is.
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  15561. @Nick Arjomand You only like him because you think he can win. That doesn't answer Amy's question. What about his politics or his character do you actually like?
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  15562.  @matsal3211  No, I mentioned getting rid of the cap. If you make less than $148,000, you pay the same amount of payroll tax. The status quo is that you stop paying after you hit the cap every year, but my proposal is that the highest 6% in income keep paying.
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  15563. Indeed. And speaking of which, did anyone else notice that the video got swarmed initially by Vivek supporters, but within a few hours or even a day, the tide turned? The irony is that fans of certain grifters on YouTube (such as Jimmy Dore or Dave Rubin) often come by much later when there is less interest. That strategy was so pernicious that YouTube stopped showing downvotes.
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  15564.  @fineilldoit  Asking the question of who won the election has a lot to do with Vivek. If Trump truly won, why run to take away what is rightfully his office? If he were to somehow win the nomination, would he concede if he lost the election fair and square, or does he believe that no Republican can lose fair and square? If he thinks that Biden did win, isn't it his responsibility as a candidate to correct the Big Lie?
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  15565. Before the general election, I thought Warnock had a much better chance than Ossoff of winning his respective run-off. However, Perdue seems to be doing his best to throw Ossoff a lifeline. Also, the other reason why Perdue skipped the debate is because of how much Ossoff spanked him in the last debate. He is a coward because he knew it was coming again, and he canceled another debate in October. Good on PBS for letting Ossoff debate the empty podium.
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  15566.  @luckyclick100mviews7  Yes and yes.
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  15567.  @harveymanfredsenjenson5417  You apparently missed the point. She actually got the rule changed that makes possible the multi-trillion dollar package that means that we'll get investment in people to better make society function. Instead, Jimmy Dore wanted to use that leverage for a bill that everyone knows will fail. If I want to engage in a self-indulgent activity that won't get anything done, I'll get some lube.
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  15568.  @luckyclick100mviews7  Wrong. There were zero Repbulivan votes for the coronavirus bill, and there were zero Republican votes to support the framework of the $3.5T bill that will pass through reconciliation.
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  15569. Bernie won't, but Nina Turner is backing this Cornel West nonsense, so I guess that was the next apple to fall.
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  15570. That's how I felt about Iraq 20 years ago. While I thought Saddam Hussein did have the weapons, I knew it would be a mistake to invade. Hundreds of thousands paid with their lives for that stupidity.
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  15571.  @JM-yn8mb  Because you are supposed to dispose of it as a biohazard so it doesn't go with general trash or end up in the water supply.
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  15572. And Gray and Ball
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  15573. I think I've seen this movie before.
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  15574.  @cyberpunkalphamale  Oh, yes, that is so different. Taking spoils is a war crime.
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  15575. ​ @utterlyviolet  Wrong state.
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  15576.  @armyboy0579  I remember a few years ago asking supporters of Der Orangefuhrer when America was great, and what it would take for them to say that America is great again. A few tried to engage, but I definitely got some weird non-seqiiturs from that one.
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  15577.  @armyboy0579  I tended to get stuff like "I don't know," or some clear cognitive dissonance where they didn't want to admit the logical implications of that slogan.
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  15578. ​ @popcultureprogrammer2171  Indeed. Vaush is right more often than not, but this is an example of not.
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  15579. Reagan and Poppy were racist because they opposed the Civil Rights Act and used dog whistles.
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  15580.  @germanvisitor2  And the Irish Republican Army.
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  15581.  @manholeeunuchsbane6197  I don't know. It seems like the right has gone so far over the edge that it's pretty hard to tell the difference between parody and actual Republican talking points.
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  15582. She is brave Sir Warren/Brave Sir Warren is she... Sorry, I watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail last night. I couldn't help myself ;-)
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  15583.  @barbiquearea  Yeah, that doesn't work, given how they automatically insist that any Democratic celebrity running for office is unqualified because he/she is a celebrity, but they rally behind any celebrity running as a Republican.
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  15584.  @janezimmerman7987  I'll raise. Tell me when letting Republicans run everything for spite because Democrats don't do enough for your liking will result in the Revolution happening. I've heard this accelerationist nonsense for all of my adult life, and all it did was.give us five of the six members of the right-wing bloc on the Supreme Court. Don't break things and do everything in your power to keep them broken, and then get mad that we can't fix it fast enough.
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  15585.  @Stargate2077  You mean the guy who called striking teachers "dumb bunnies"? By what objective metric is Justice to Manchin's left? Don't give me statements designed to twist the knife when everyone knows he wouldn't vote that way. What has he actually done to convince you of that? I guarantee that if Biden gets another SCOTUS pick in a year and a half, Justice is voting No. Everything we complain about with Manchin, Justice is worse.
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  15586.  @davidking4838  Indeed. You have a lot of dummies who think you can get to a majority only by getting purer than thou, but they don't realize that they are just the inverse of the right-wing nihilists they claim to despise.
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  15587.  First Last  Modi is literally a fascist, so if the show fits.
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  15588. Obama nostalgia
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  15589.  @tiapia1  If your entire field is founded in pseudoscience, and there are others who do "conservative, non-Invasive therapy," why go with the ones founded in quackery?
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  15590.  @tiapia1  I see that you're agreeing with the person with the username that is often used as a dog whistle for the anti-vaccine crowd. Not a good look if you want to argue that you're not advocating for quacks.
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  15591.  @tskjesusfreak  The Amish do take the vaccines. The last major measles outbreak in America before Andrew Wakefield and Jenny McCarthy was in an Amish community. They realized the error of their ways and got the vaccine. And what part of "no religious exemption" don't you understand?
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  15592. Pat! We've missed you oh so much.
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  15593.  paul osborne  Not talking about officials. I'm talking about people. Polish Catholics were on the list.
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  15594. In 2000, exit polls showed that Nader voters would have voted for Gore over Bush by a margin of 16-26% (37-21 or 43-17). If you add 16% of Nader's total in Florida to Gore, he wins by 15,050 votes, meaning Nader made it close enough to steal. No, it's not every vote, but it's far more than not.
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  15595.  @greatesttoysevermade3693  "Many" doesn't mean all. In 2000, exit polls showed that Gore would have won a net of 16% (37-21) to 26% (44-18) of Nader voters when asked who they'd vote for if he wasn't on the ballot. 16% of Nader's Florida total was 15,587. Add that to Gore's total, and he wins by 15,050, so the chicanery to throw it to Bush wouldn't have mattered. Nader also made states like Washington and Oregon a lot closer, meaning Gore had to otherwise use money there to play defense that could have been used elsewhere.
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  15596.  @ZachariahWiedeman  The coastal elite thing is ridiculous, but Obama did some things to screw workers over in office. After a bunch of Wall Street executives who took TARP money got these obscene bonuses, Obama said "contracts are sacred." However, when the auto industry was in trouble, Obama told the UAW they had to make sacrifices. I think you can trace the loss of the House and several governor's mansions in the Great Lakes area to that. He also offered up Social Security in 2011 as part of a "grand compromise" with Republicans on the budget. Obama did some good, but there were some parts of his record that were extremely problematic.
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  15597. "It looks like Cleopatra isn't the only queen of... denial." Stuart Smalley
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  15598. Well, the N95 shortage was Trump's fault, because he put Kushner in charge of it, and his response was to hoard equipment and start bidding wars with the states.
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  15599. When are people going to realize that using an atrocity to justify another atrocity only leads to more atrocities? I remrmher a Daily Show clip from about 2005 when Jon Stewart was talking about the latest but of news, which he said "was in response to [previous thing], which was in response to..." mentioning five or sic thibgs, with a dissolve to him with ling gray hair abd beard ssying "which was in respinse to Isaac and Ishmael." Long memories and a desire for revenge are a dangerous combination.
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  15600.  @davidbright6790  Tuberville called the plays. He wasn't the one getting his head bashed in dozens of times every game.
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  15601.  @blazedones  Gillet was a Republican. Why do so many of you keep repeating that he was a Democrat? And you can talk about leverage all you want, but if you ask for too much, you alienate people who just want to get to work. Do you want to work towards getting the gavel, or do you just want to be the reverse Freedom Caucus?
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  15602.  @aes0p895  Hence, "less bad." The Republican Party had mostly abandoned civil rights, and Harding was one of those six million. I didn't say Democrats were better, but that the 1920s GOP didn't earn the label of good.
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  15603.  Matthew C. King  1) It was paid for by a regressive tax. 2) It was an excuse to gut the existing social safety net. 3) It was presented to lefty audiences as helping transition to a post-work economy, but he told right-wing audiences that he made it below the poverty level in order to force people to work. 4) He refused to provide a full list of the 125 programs that were either/or. 5) He still wanted the richest people to control the automation and get all the profits, with $1000/month as a pittance to buy people off.
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  15604. When I hear people whine about waiting lines, I remember that they are really saying that they are just fine with people not getting any medical care so they can get it faster. Let us not forget that Delaney made his money as an insurance executive. Hence, the overly aggressive defense of private insurance.
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  15605.  @jocksharerock7318  Oh, okay. I thought she might have been the so-called Sane Progressive, who seemed to become more unglued by the day.
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  15606.  @Antonius17  FDR and LBJ both had massive majorities in each House. They also didn't have to deal with the silent filibuster, and one party that absolutely refused to play ball on pretty much everything. Even they couldn't have gotten nearly as much done with a 50-50 Senate and a fully nihilist Republican Party.
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  15607. "Why nit try the Green Party?" You mean the group that has never elected a statewide or Congressional candidate in 50 years of trying?
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  15608.  @michaelh9822  Not everyone gets the $1000/month. The poor and the disabled have to choose between their current benefits and his plan. And my state exempts staples goods such as groceries, clothing, medicine, and diapers, and we have similar excise taxes, and the poorest 20% pay nearly ten times what the richest 1% do as a percentage of income: https://itep.org/whopays/pennsylvania Consumption taxes such as a VAT are literally the textbook example of a regressive tax: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/regressivetax.asp So, the poor are excluded, making the benefits regressive, and he uses a regressive tax to pay for it. It is as regressive as it gets.
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  15609.  @alexnotes8239  He has said in I interviews that there are 125 programs that people have to choose. Even if everything you said was true, why do the poor have to choose when the rich get to keep both their mortgage interest deduction (which costs the Treasury far more than welfare for the poor) and their extra money?
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  15610.  @PassablyHuman  Letting people choose between employer plans and paying Medicare premiums is not a public option, and given the way employer based insurance works, it would defeat the whole purpose of keeping it in the first place.
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  15611.  @crazyviralvideos9299  Capital is profit. By definition, you cannot have capitalism without the profit motive.
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  15612.  @michaelh9822  So, poor disabled people have to choose, but those who get a little bit of disability have to give up a portion? Yeah, that's an improvement. At best, you are arguing that it hits the gas and the brakes at the same time. At worst, the poor and some disabled have to choose (in an interview on NPR yesterday, he talked at length about his autistic son, but he wouldn't say which programs for the disabled would be affected by the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend) between their current benefits and his plan. If you are better off now (example: single parent with two kids in daycare), you now have to pay a VAT. This applies to literally no one who is rich. Therefore, his program is regressive on both ends.
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  15613.  @michaelh9822  Okay, so something that is below the poverty level for one person, and people don't get when they are under 18, and uses a VAT which will increase the cost of living is going to eliminate poverty? #MATH
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  15614.  @michaelh9822  You cannot make a VAT progressive, you can only make is less regressive. My state exempts staple goods such as groceries, clothing, medicine, and diapers, and the poorest 20% pay nearly ten times what the richest 1% do as a percentage of income: https://itep.org/whopays/pennsylvania
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  15615.  @michaelh9822  Last but not least, I make the argument that a benefit that claims to be universal shouldn't force the poor to choose between their current benefits and his plan, and you take that to mean that I want them to end up better off than those who work? Logic is not on your side. It sounds like you stopped listening after "free money" and are trying to find ways to justify the giant asterisks.
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  15616.  @michaelh9822  If you structure it right, it won't happen. And one of the benefits we know about (since he has only bothered to list a few of the 125 that people have to forfeit if they take his money) is daycare subsidies. If you have two kids in daycare, that is worth more than $1000. So, you want to deny the money to a working single parent and then make him/her pay a vat for something that he/she will not get?
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  15617.  @michaelh9822  I guess you've never heard of single fathers or widows. Or of people who just disappear without a trace. Or of people who are trying to hide from an abusive ex and worried that if he/she finds them, that they will get abused or worse. Maybe instead of looking at the way things ought to be, look at the way things really are.
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  15618.  Mixed Economy  Well, it turns out that Yang doesn't even offer a public option once people dug deeper.
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  15619.  Neel Balam  Well, given how often he lies about basic elements of his policy, I don't think he is sincere. When I first heard him, I thought he was bringing up important issues about automation, but his solutions are just too restrained by his libertarian thinking.
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  15620.  jerry flounders  Then, why does Yang feel the need to use the phrase?
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  15621. My guess is that one of the conditions for the town hall was that they had to have a representative cross section in the audience.
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  15622. Even before the election, Tesla at price to earnings ratios several times higher than any other major auto company, none of which is over 10:1. P/E ratio is the biggest indicator of whether a company is overvalued or undervalued.
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  15623.  @SteveGellerMusic  Actually, a majority of state delegation is needed. If no one gets there by the Inauguration, the Senate decides between the top two candidates with each Senator getting one vote. If the House can't pick, the Vice President-Elect becomes President.
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  15624. Trump 2024... year sentence.
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  15625.  @gregorsamsa1364  So, a genre that heavily involves words, and he has no way with words? You're funny.
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  15626.  @FXDLS-ot1wq  And what you want is three people going to dinner and one lording over the two for the menu.
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  15627.  @FXDLS-ot1wq  And having a democracy with the protection of the Constitution guarantees that. Certainly far better than opposing democracy.
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  15628.  @FXDLS-ot1wq  And you could just as easily have a system where a majority gets to govern with basic rules requiring a supermajority to change those rules. You don't need a system of minority rule to do that.
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  15629.  @FXDLS-ot1wq  The system is not set up well, because one side can win without even trying to appeal to a majority, and the other side can't get what it wants even when it has the majority.
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  15630. He needs more eyeliner to really nail Vance, but other than that, spot on.
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  15631. "Primary Colors" put it best: they don't care about the people, only the prize (with as much disdain as you can squeeze out of that last word).
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  15632.  Lee Strickland  That's why I get so annoyed at the idea of someone who "looks Native American." When I first heard that she took the DNA test to "prove her heritage," I cringed because I knew of the issues with blood quantum, and it seemed silly that according to the federal government, my mom could claim NA status but I couldn't even though neither one of us has what you would call tribal affiliation. I knew that there was nothing to be gained because the skeptics would either never believe or mock how little exists, and it would deeply, deeply offend those for whom such questions mean so much more. I'm not saying this disqualifies her, but you would be blind to pretend that it wasn't a mistake.
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  15633.  @Ian-te2gn  He won zero. He even tested positive multiple times during his streak of fraud.
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  15634.  @Ian-te2gn  Here's a fact. He was stripped of all of his titles. Ben Johnson didn't win the 1988 Olympic 100m, either.
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  15635.  @Ian-te2gn  Here's another fact. He won zero.
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  15636.  @Ian-te2gn  He won nothing. He is not a champion. He is a psychopathic bully and cheater, and if you continue to defend him, that says more about you than it does about anyone else, unless given your tendency to repeat yourself, you are a bot that Asteriskstrong hired to defend himself.
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  15637.  @Ian-te2gn  And as far as EPO goes, less than 8% of samples outside of the Postal Service team were positive from 1999 when they were retroactively tested in 2005, but nearly all were in the first two weeks for Asteriskstrong. All he was was the greatest cheater. I suppose bribing the UCI and ratting out others doing the same thing he was doing is just more proof of his greatness in your mind. That only tells me that you're a psychopath wannabe bully, too.
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  15638.  @Ian-te2gn  Because you admire a psychopathic bully who just cheated better, and you want to be a psychopathic bully cheater who is (at least for a time) successful.
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  15639.  @Ian-te2gn  He won zero. Period. He was disqualified from every one and banned for life from every sport governed by WADA. (A few months after his ban, he tried to enter a swim meet, and the sport's governing body came down and said "What part of 'lifetime ban from every sport' don't you understand?") It doesn't take being a psychopath to be "competitive." If you have to do all of that stuff to "win," you clearly don't have the talent necessary to win. Therefore, you cannot be the greatest.
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  15640.  @Ian-te2gn  Not to the extent of Asteriskstrong, and the body reacts differently to PEDs, so there is no level playing field even if everyone is taking the same thing. He was only the best cheater, and the biggest psychopath (especially given the way he ratted out others who he deemed to be a threat), but he is no great athlete.
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  15641.  @Ian-te2gn  No, because even if that were true, different people respond differently to PEDs. He has won the Tour zero times. He is not the Tour de France champion, period. And no one doped to the extent he did. Tyler Hamilton was right: nobody knows how any doper would have performed based on talent once they took that first dose, because it changed everything. People have a right to their opinions, but not their own facts. My opinion is based on facts. Yours is based on rationalization and hero worship of a psychopath.
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  15642.  @Ian-te2gn  The facts are that he was able to afford the cutting edge of doping. The facts are that not everyone even on the Postal team doped. The facts are that Asteriskstrong never won the Tour. The fact is that you admire a psychopath, and you admire his psychopathic nature, and that's why it bothers you so much when you got called on it. The willingness to harm others in order to get what you want and having no conscience is the textbook example of psychopathic behavior. If that is what you admire, that's on you, and I feel sorry for everyone in your path.
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  15643. As a bureaucrat (albeit at the state level), I have never eaten caviar in my entire life. Even if such food sounded appealing to me, the fact that my income is pretty close one way or the other to the national average, I doubt that I could afford it, anyway.
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  15644.  BLAIR M Schirmer  There is a difference between political skills and governing skills. Obama had political skills, but they were largely wrapped up in his personality and had no coattails whatsoever.
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  15645.  @timn5008  What did you do to actually help Bernie try to win the nomination?
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  15646.  @timn5008  I'm just asking what you did. You're the one who implied that I was a Biden backer in the primary. And I didn't say "what did you give?" I said "what did you do?" I knocked on doors, made phone calls, served as a petition drive captain, and did a reading for a fundraiser. I will not have someone who doesn't understand how math works or building a majority works. And I work and am a single parent, and I managed to find the time to actually do things. Then again, I actually did those things because I supported Bernie, not because I opposed someone else, which sounds like what you did with your ageist remarks. Bernie did more for you than just about every other political figure in your life, and because he understands math and you don't, you have the nerve to call him weak? His slogan was "Not Me, Us" for a reason.
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  15647.  @timn5008  Clearly you don't understand howath works. If you are getting 30% of the vote in the early contests, it is very easy for others to get out and coalesce around your opponent. Bernie got lied about as bad or worse the first time around, and he got 44%. If you think someone was "an old fraud" (your exact words, since you want to play the semantics game), your support was clearly against others more than actual support. A lot of people cast a vote for Biden as a vote against Trump, and there's nothing wrong with that, but at least be honest about what it was.
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  15648.  @timn5008  So, you think Bernie should have just pulled a Trump? Do you think that it's illegal for people to rally around one candidate? If you are going to insist that something was "stolen," you need to understand the rules, which you clearly don't.
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  15649.  @timn5008  You're the one complaining that Bernie didn't fight hard enough, as though that would somehow have changed the math and gotten him over the top, so what level of "fight" should he have had once it became obvious that he wasn't going to win 2/3 of the remaining vote? His numbers were lower in 2020 because a) a lot of the 2016 support turned out to be more anti-Hillary than pro-Bernie, and b) people are far less willing to dare to dream when they just want the fascist gone. And, again, if the press can defeat a candidacy, it wasn't in a position to win in the first place. There was a Medicare for All initiative in Colorado that got 21% of the vote. Do you really think that kind of number is going to put the fear of God into opponents of the bill? Or is it more likely that they will see a lot of that support as soft? When you actually do the work, you see both the limits and potential of where the public stands. I talked to several people who pulled the whole "I want Medicare for All but nobody had better take away my private insurance." If you had seen that, you would know that we still have actual work to do.
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  15650. Part of the point is to show what appealed to people. This is Part 1.
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  15651.  @inorganicintelligence-IoI  A two-party system is the natural result of a first past the post system. You can complain about two parties all you want, but it will continue to be two. Multi-party systems aren't better. You still ultimately have to get a majority, so it just ends up being two coalitions. In Germany, it has become a question of who the CDU picks as a coalition partner, and in Israel, as extreme as Netanyahu is, he has to go to the really hard right in order to get 61 members, and even this time, he couldn't do that. (Maybe the left will finally get its act together and stop him in the do-over election, but that remains to be seen.) Is that better than what we have now?
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  15652. ​ @dirrdevil  Krystal Ball has been a grifter for a pretty long time. Between MSNBC and The Hill, she started a PAC that was supposed to help elect lefty candidates... but more than eight times the money went into her own pockets than all candidates combined. As far as Kyle Kulinski goes, I get the feeling like this was always a game to him. Anyone who wouldn't vote because "the polling place looked dirty" isn't serious.
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  15653. "The only non-white person in Siberia"? I'd hate to tell Coward Crowder, but Siberia is not a particularly white region. A lot of people there tend to look like Inuits.
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  15654.  @ashtonreason3444  Si, senor.
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  15655. What they mean is that it is harder to discriminate if you don't have power. In technical terms, what a lot of people refer to as racism is probably more accurately described as bigotry.
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  15656.  @mortyfromthed  What are you doing to help organize? And if you really think third party does anything, you clearly haven't been paying attention. Would four more years of Trump been preferable?
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  15657. ​ @derekwhite7972  If you're not a fan of such corporations buying up houses, why scapegoat brown people instead of leading with that?
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  15658. They're not.
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  15659. Oh, it's not latent. She went on Fox all the time to complain about Obama not saying "radical Islamic terror," and she supports Modi, who became famous in India as a provincial governor cracking down on Muslims and possibly having a role in a massacre. My only concern about him as a Cabinet official is that he is almost 90, so I'd have to see how the rigors of the campaign affect him.
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  15660. W got away with more bad stuff in foreign policy. Let us not forget that Trump was literally minutes from launching air strikes that would start a war with Iran.
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  15661.  NotJohn Brown  Do you think John Garner Nance would have done it? That's who it would have been in a Parliamentary system.
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  15662. Well, if he has the money, he'd better hurry, because the DA's going to take his toys on Monday if he doesn’t pay up. It's surely not like Donald Trump to lie about his assets to appear richer than he is. /s
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  15663. @adammartin2223  If that makes you sleep at night.
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  15664. Some people are weird about the guidelines, too. I know in my neighborhood that there are some people who are absolutely obsessive about the six foot rule, but they aren't wearing their masks when they complain about distance. I have also noticed that it seems like when people go outside that fewer are wearing masks in the neighborhood than before. Northwest Philadelphia is not Trump country at all (in fact, Republicans usually don't even bother to run district candidates for city council or state legislative seats here), so I'd hate to see how things look in other places where people are buying into the hoax stuff.
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  15665. Gallego for Senate 2024!
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  15666.  @gregwilde1119  Regular PACs have far stricter rules than SuperPACs do. For example, in my race, PACs were limited to $1000, the same limit for individual donors. Before McCain-Feingold was gutted, the limit was $5000. I have no problem with a group of like-minded individuals pooling their money together within very strict limits as long as we don't have public financing of campaigns.
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  15667.  @Mondegreen---SFW  Let's not bring populism into this. Populism is a left-wing ideology that wants to bring more democracy to the people. Taking a style and distorting it doesn't make it so. No real populist ever cut taxes for the rich.
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  15668.  @Mondegreen---SFW  Show me where Bernie Sanders used the people for his own end. Unless you are confusing a style for a philosophy, populism is left wing. And in its original form, it got the income tax, the primary over the smoke-filled room, and direct election of Senators. Many of the populists were also on board with women's suffrage. The blend of the populist and socialist movements is what led to the New Deal, and one of its acolytes gave the Great Society and the greatest civil rights legislation since the Civil War Amendments. Trump is not a populist, and Orban, Bolsanaro, Boris Johnson, Modi et al are not either.
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  15669.  @Mondegreen---SFW  We used the word "populist" first. It was the name for a party in the 1890s that was a collection of farmers and workers who fought for a 40-hour work week, fair wages, and greater democracy. Just because you messed up our word doesn't make it any less true. They might want to call themselves right-wing populists, but they are fascists, pure and simple.
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  15670.  @Mondegreen---SFW  It's not just semantics. It was a conscious effort to make the demands of common people trivial at best and evil at worst. It was an effort to concentrate even more power in the hands of the already rich and powerful. You can along with that if you want, but I never will.
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  15671.  @DireAvenger001  And when did she actually confirm that she would vote No?
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  15672.  @DireAvenger001  On October 1st, she said that she would meet with Amy Coney Barrett. (Thus, after she said that the nomination shouldn't go forward.) She did no such thing when Merrick Garland was the nominee. If McConnell would have needed her vote, she would have given it. Other than the vote to repeal the ACA, how many other times has she cast a vote in a way that defied party leadership and made sure that it didn't get what it wanted? The second impeachment doesn't count, because it still fell ten votes short.
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  15673.  @DireAvenger001  She violated the "principle" because the instant she refused to meet with Garland, she showed that she was not even going to give him a chance. When she offered to meet with Barrett, she proved that she was open to voting Yes. So, other than repealing the ACA, when did she vote against leadership in a way that they didn't get what they wanted? Barney Frank was right that moderate Republicans are an illusion.
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  15674.  @Kefka.  Do you honestly think that she would have "upheld the standard" if she was the 50th vote? It's the same reason why she waited on Murkowski to make her decision before she said she would vote for Kavanaugh. Tom DeLay was a pioneer of the tactic which he called catch and release that basically allowed the "moderates" to rotate while giving leadership everything they wanted.
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  15675.  @catherinepraus8635  They show reruns on MeTV.
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  15676. So, you voted for him because you trusted him, but you ignored everything he said about mass deportation? #DoYourHomework #YouBroughtThisOnYourself
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  15677. [Citation needed]
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  15678.  @creaturecore13  Not for a quorum. Pence can't help meet it. There have to be 51 Senators to do business on the floor. As of right now, there are three Republicans who have coronavirus. Murkowski and Collins said that there should be no vote until after the election. It takes a Democrat to voice the objection. It doesn't matter which one. So, at least until the ones with coronavirus get the all clear, Democratic Senators can rotate in and out, but Republicans have no margin for error at this point. Every one has to be counted as Present or else there is no quorum and the Senate cannot conduct business. Also, the Congressional term ends at noon on January 3rd. If Democrats win the Senate, they certainly won't give Trump a nominee in 17 days.
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  15679.  @eldridgedavis  Can't do it. A majority have to be present for Senate business to proceed.
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  15680. And more
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  15681. Manchin has been to the left of every Senate Republican during his entire tenure in the Senate.
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  15682. I saw her weeks into her channel. I was concerned with her Electoral College argument, but I left and never came back when she defended David Duke to defend Tulsi.
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  15683.  @carcillian  That is so unfair! Ron Popeil actually made one or two good things.
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  15684. You don't have a right to lie when there are specific protocols for those who were not vaccinated and you expose people to the virus because you are lying about your vacation status and only reveal the truth once you get caught.
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  15685. I guess Dave Rubin has surrendered in the battle of i-DEE-uhs.
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  15686. The highest bracket on Bernie's wealth tax is 8% on assets over $10B. The average growth of the S&P 500 Since 1929 is over 9%. The practical effect of a tax like this is slowing the rate of growth down, and that fills them with terror? How pathetic can you be?
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  15687.  @donblack1571  That is no excuse. There are absentee ballots, mail-in ballots, and early voting.
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  15688. PA is definitely awful when it comes to college. Tuition alone is nearly $19,000/year at Penn State. When I was an undergrad, a lot of people came from PA to WVU because out-of-state tuition there was lower than in-state tuition in PA. When I graduated, tuition was $3600/year. Even now, in-state tuition for WVU is less than $8000, so despite the GOP takeover of the state, it's probably still cheaper for out-of-state tuition there than in-state tuition here.
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  15689.  @NotaPizzaGRL  He bet on the Reds to win. There was an argument, however, that if he bet in select games that it would have negatively affected the team when he didn't have bets.
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  15690.  @beef88  He was also a notorious cheapskate. Some people get money and just refuse to pay their bills.
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  15691.  Tattletale RED  You mean the woman who courted the favor of Sheldon Adelson and did his bidding to try to get rid of his competition?
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  15692. I guess Aaron has decided to add another alias.
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  15693.  @BittersweetDuality  The media coverage would have been about how the left wasted everyone's time on a bill that fell 100 votes short. Either that, or it would have led to several people in lefty districts voting for it knowing it would fail and neutralized any opposition, only for them to back away if it ever had any chance of success (See also: Gabbard, Tulsi, and her sponsorship of a bill that she told Anderson Cooper was "un-American." Twice.)
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  15694.  @fredsanford1437  Tell me how FTV would have actually gotten your bills lower, dummy. As the pandemic was starting to get to its worst, Biden said he wouldn't sign it, and it didn't cost him any votes. So, what is the next step?
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  15695.  @fredsanford1437  "considering 70% of people want Medicare for All" Read farther down the poll. That same poll showed that majorities wanted to keep their own private insurance. Those polls were basically statements supporting the general idea of universal coverage, but the public is probably closer to a public option at this point. I've knocked on plenty of doors of people who said they supported Medicare for All, but started going on and on about how no one should have to change their insurance. Harry and Louise would wreck Medicare for All in the womb. You have to do the hard work first.
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  15696.  @taranullius9221  Indeed. There's a reason why the terminally online thought it was a great idea, and those who did actual grassroots organizing knew that it wouldn't.
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  15697.  @taranullius9221  And, considering that there was a coup attempt three days later, how would not having a Speaker have helped with fighting that? Then again, considering that the anti-anti-Trump crowd was the one that pushed this, maybe that's what they really wanted all along.
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  15698. @Trent Boyer So, you want to hold up $1400 to every man, woman, and child to get a vote on something that is guaranteed to fail. You don't want to govern, you want to have a tantrum. Oh, and we wouldn't get to have a President, either, because the election had to be ratified before the inauguration.
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  15699.  @benallen6888  Biden literally said in the last primary debate that he wouldn't sign Medicare for All. Did it cost him? And that wasn't something that was a year and a half out, either. Are you familiar with the legislative strategy of catch and release? Apparently not, because you would know that the main thing is the result, not the final vote, and someone in a lefty district would easily vote for it since they know it would fail and it would neutralize opposition. So, you are empowering a cynical move to empower the people you claim to hate.
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  15700.  @BelowMeGoggle  First of all, not everyone had anything that they called Medicare for All or something similar. Second, if you actually looked at the details, no one else actually had Medicare for All. Yang's wasn't even a public option. Beto and Mayo Pete used similar names for confusion, Harris was basically Medicare Advantage for All, and Warren had a Rube Goldberg contraption to try to get hers. Oh, and Tulsi called hers Medicare Choice, it was a public option, and she called Bernie's plan un-American.
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  15701.  @BelowMeGoggle  What have you actually done to move the needle, since people like you are at the vanguard of getting things done? And remember, YouTube comments don't count. PS Wanna know a secret? Women's suffrage and the abolition of slavery both took decades of grassroots organizing to become a thing.
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  15702.  @BelowMeGoggle  "and electronic vote totals" Oh, okay, so you don't actually want to learn and improve. You want to play conspiracy theory and use that as a crutch instead of learning how to get better or strive to do more. And you want to know a secret about the support for Medicare for All? A lot of people use it to mean universal health care, rather than a specific one. I remember talking to a Warren supporter who said she liked Medicare for All, and even signed my petition, but she kept saying that "you can't take away what people already have." I've done the work to try to point out why it would be better, so I know the obstacles, and I know the dangers if relying on a poll to think that you have to do nothing. That is at the heart of every FTV advocate.
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  15703. ​ googlenazicompany5935  I am on the e-mail list of both Bernie Sanders and Marianne Williamson (I gave her a dollar to help her get on stage in 2019). Bernie has continually engaged in activism, including down ballot candidates and issues. Williamson basically disappeared for for three years between campaigns.
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  15704.  @f58534  Compare what the two have accomplished, and tell me which was the better move. Or are you one of those immature people who think that because you didn't win everything that you won nothing?
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  15705.  @f58534  Oh, look, the person who doesn't understand how math works. Two-party vs. multi-party is a distinction without a difference. In pretty much every multi-party system, there are always two that get the vast majority of support (Liberal and Conservative in Canada, Labour and Conservative in the UK, SPD and CDU in Germany, Labor and and Liberal in Australia, etc.) and actually have a chance of governing. Both rely on coalitions to govern, but a two-party system has the voters make the coalition before the election, whereas a multi-party system is decided after the election by parties.
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  15706.  @f58534  Well, let's see... the first time ever that a President stood on a picket line, record funding for switching to renewable energy with a goal of clean energy for households by 2035, after years of hearing about Infrastructure Week, we finally got the infrastructure bill passed, record federal court appointments, and Ketanji Brown Jackson on the Supreme Court. I'd say that's quite a lot.
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  15707.  @f58534  No, there's democracy, just people who understand math and people who don't. The latter think that they should just get their way with their 1% of the vote.
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  15708. When I was a kid, I didn't get a chickenpox vaccine because it didn't exist until I was 20. You know what I got that my daughter didn't? Chickenpox, and the possibility of getting shingles later.
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  15709.  @coreysaylor4736  Yeah, that happened in 2000 and 2016. How did that work out? The only way that these sort of things work is to take over from the inside. People who make that argument seem to forget that, looking at the last realignment that took place, establishment Republicans won in 1968 and '72 and had a narrow miss in '76. Instead of taking our ball and going home, which only makes the establishment more hostile to us and leading too many voters to be so worried about who is there that they don't dare to dream, we need to run down ballot. People need to run for school board, city council, state legislature, and state and local party committees. This way, we get to take over from the establishment. Otherwise, you have to start over from scratch on hostile territory every time.
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  15710.  @whyamimrpink78  Oh, you mean the "good reason" that the Electoral College helps your side?
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  15711. Well, the Republicans might think that this is their chance if he sticks around.
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  15712. At this point, I think that the best thing for America would be for the Republican Party to go the way of the Whigs, the Democratic Party to become a sane party of the right akin to the Christian Democrats of Germany or Mexico, and have a new party on the left. Whether or not this will happen depends on whether 45% of the population will literally vote for anyone with an R behind their names.
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  15713. As a renter, I get that there are people who are in a more short-term situation who might need to rent (if you want to argue that I am renting so that my daughter gets to go to a good school, that's a fair point, but I am also having to deal with the albatross of massive student loan debt), but when my rent gets jacked up 6%, I'm not exactly grateful for spending thousands of dollars every year with nothing to show for it.
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  15714. Why blur out some toys but not others? Is it because of how phallic they were?
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  15715.  @TheFunGun5  No, I expect to show that the troll has no answer.
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  15716.  @francoisschneegans8881  Apparently, you don't understand what it means to give a source. If you are making a bold claim, it is your responsibility. Don't like that I said that you don't know the definition of bankruptcy? Well, here it is: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bankruptcy.asp So, which countries are trying to settle their debt? The only industrialized country that I remember actually going bankrupt in this century was Iceland, and they actually recovered relatively quickly.
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  15717.  @francoisschneegans8881  Devaluation of currency is not bankruptcy. Maybe you should be I Tokyo, because that is some Olympic-caliber mental gymnastics.
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  15718.  @francoisschneegans8881  Are you unfamiliar with colloquial expressions? Apparently so. This is something that bots typically have trouble with.
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  15719.  @francoisschneegans8881  Oh, and the Roman Empire didn't collapse in this century, which I mentioned as the timeframe. Your software had me going for a while. I really thought that you were just a troll rather than a bot.
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  15720.  @darrylhaynes9208  Speaking of which, we should all start calling bowel movements "trumps." Forever tarnish his name throughout history.
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  15721. Isn't Ryan the worst at sales? There was a clip where Pam brags about doubling her numbers for the month which she says with pride in the interview was doubling from two to four. Did Ryan ever make a sale?
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  15722. Good on you, David! I remember a conversation a couple years ago with some Hill Shills during the primary season, and I mentioned the "bring them to heel" comments about "superpredators." One of the people in the conversation was black, and I got accused of "whitesplaining." I got so mad at that point that I told them that they were rightly critical of Ron Paul for saying similar things at the time, and btw, if you push white men away, you won't be able to win an election. Yes, LBJ was the last Democratic nominee to win a majority of white votes, but Obama's 45% made a big difference compared to Hillary's 41%. Not only is such language wrong, bit it is also self-defeating.
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  15723. Clinton cut taxes on capital gains in his second term. In his first term, he raised taxes on the wealthy.
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  15724.  @buddygrimfield7954  I've run for office, knocked on door for good candidates in the primary, phonebanking, served as a petition drive captain for Bernie and did a reading at a fundraiser. No, you want the moral superiority with your "I'm not part of the problem" (and funny how you changed the timeframe where it hasn't worked like the price of Gob's suit). Voting third party accomplishes nothing except for helping elect the greater evil while the people who do so think they are superior because they're "not part of the problem."
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  15725.  @buddygrimfield7954  Never mind the original. I replied in the wrong thread.
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  15726.  @buddygrimfield7954  There has always been some impediment to things getting better, and there's always something that people can do. You could always make calls or actually talk to your neighbors about it. And do you know why things have gotten so much worse this century? Well, it doesn't take a genius to see when five of the six members of the right-wing bloc of the Supreme Court were put their by people who lost the popular vote who narrowly won (or were awarded before a count could be finish) votes in the right states with a plurality what happened. The problem isn't that people "have voted for the lesser of two evils for 50 years," the problem is that too many people stopped and allowed the greater evil to take power. If you don't understand that Garland > Kavanaugh or Jackson > Barrett, you've already lost the plot.
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  15727.  @buddygrimfield7954  And you live in a state that is now a swing state, so there you go. Yes, it does tell me something. We need to be wooed because too many are full of ego, whereas Republicans always show up to vote. And then we wonder why we can't get anything done. Republicans and the right get what they want because they always show up. Too many on our side don't. The idea that they can take us for granted has it all backwards. If you're not a reliable voter, you get ignored, and when you brag about not voting, that reinforces it. Re: swing states, there is always some race somewhere on the ballot with something on the line.
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  15728.  @buddygrimfield7954  When was this supermajority? Are you talking about the whole seven months when Democrats held 60 Senate seats and one of those Senators was very sick and could only come to the floor when his vote was essential to the result? Because before that, you have to go all the way back to the Johnson Administration to see at least 60 Democratic Senators and unified control of elected government. "Most (I would think) people consider it crazy to vote only against people rather than for them." Well, other than those who insist on the wooing and wondering why they get nothing, that's a pretty common thing, and ignoring it can have tragic consequences. Imagine how world history would have changed if the DKP and the SPD agreed to form a coalition in 1933 rather than the former insisting that the Nazzty threat was a temporary one. The only thing Blue and White could agree on was that Netanyahu had to go. To see the difference in your strategy vs. the one that I advocate, look at the Green Party vs. the religious right. Which group actually got any of the things that it wanted this century, the group that said it was above it all and that people shouldn't vote for the lesser evil, or the people who complained about several of their nominees but who always showed up to vote? They didn't gain that control because they sat back and whined about how much they hated the Rockefeller Republicans. They did the grassroots organizing, took over school boards, took over local parties, and by the time they were ready to flex their muscles, they dominated American politics for a generation. The left atrophied in the 1970s and 80s to the point where you had people trying to do something, anything, to win. And then, by the turn of the century, you had the people who decided that they were above it all and didn't want to get their hands dirty wondering why they always lost. The candidates I have worked or volunteered for over the years may have a record that would get a coach fired, but at least I am fighting and trying to move that Overton Window over. And, yes, a lot of those candidates lose, but sometimes it's like a vending machine. You can't knock it over with one push. You have to keep going. It took the Socialists and the Populists 40 years to see many of their ideas come to fruition with FDR. If they're willing to fight, who are we to give up?
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  15729.  discorperted  I didn't say otherwise. My point was that you can't say "the American people elected" anyone when that candidate was not preferred by the actual American people. Learn vocabulary.
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  15730.  discorperted  Oh, you really got me good. You can't invoke the will of the people if you defend a system that thwarts it.
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  15731. The best student loan debt forgiveness plan of all is by Wayne Messam. I am Bernie all the way, but I gave Messam (mayor of a town bigger than South Bend without a history of gentrification or covering up for racist cops) my dollar. He wants complete and total debt forgiveness within three years (direct loans first, and then tracking down the private loans). I don't agree with him on everything, but I want to see him on that stage.
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  15732.  @reptomicus  Indeed. It seems like people tuned out with two weeks left and didn't notice the race getting closer.
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  15733. I'm late Generation X, and we also got quite the screwing. We aren't even old enough to remember a time when things worked for working people in this country.
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  15734. I don't know which state she lives in, but she can always apply for Medicaid, and the state will often pay for the Medicare Part B premium, and may provide Medicaid to fill any gaps in coverage.
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  15735.  @vibefrequencyable  Well, Tulsi has already said that she won't drop out no matter what, so how does that really help Bernie?
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  15736.  @vibefrequencyable  Ah, but she did support the War in Iraq. I don't care about someone's judgment in retrospect, I care about the ability to get it right the first time, and the Iran nuclear deal proves that she lacks that ability.
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  15737.  @foroozaparvin5144  "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you find the e-mails." "If it's what you say it is, I love it! Especially later in the summer." "Expect a big announcement about the e-mails." That's not even counting the convictions and guilty pleas. But, it's all totally fake.
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  15738.  @foroozaparvin5144  "Gabbard excels in open primary states." Show me any poll anywhere that actually asks voters in a scientific sample (online viewer polls don't count) that shows her getting 15%. Even her own Congressional district only has her at 13%. If she is not viable, and you are right that those are votes that would otherwise go to Bernie, then all that happens is that votes that would otherwise go to Bernie disappear into the ether, thus doing Biden a huge favor. It is a lot like when Fred Thompson ran for President in 2008. It really didn't make a lot of sense as far as someone trying to win the nomination, but it sure did after it ended: Thompson took far more votes from Huckabee than he did McCain, his best friend in the Senate. After McCain won South Carolina in no small part because of Thompson splitting the vote with Huckabee, Thompson dropped out. Given that Biden is the only one Tulsi hasn't gone against, it looks more and more like that is why she is staying in despite being a distant 8th or 9th place.
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  15739.  @vibefrequencyable  Everyone knew that Bernie was going to run again. To pretend otherwise is intellectually dishonest. She only supported Bernie in order to fend off a challenger to her left in the primary by supporting a popular candidate in her state. The media has mostly decided to ignore Bernie, so even if your punching bag theory is true, that still hurts Bernie, because for a lot of people, if you're not on the news, your campaign doesn't exist.
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  15740.  @foroozaparvin5144  Amazing how people will bend over backwards to try to keep their positions. No matter you are here defending Tulsi and Dore.
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  15741.  @vibefrequencyable  In the national polling average, she is eighth. In no early state is she higher than fifth or sixth. Quite frankly, if you look at actual polls, Bernie was not the beneficiary of the Harris attack, it was Warren. But in a deeper sense, the bigger beneficiary was and continues to be Biden, because he was the one getting attacked when Tulsi decided to change the subject. She defended Biden on busing and Iraq. The latter should prove once and for all that she isn't the peace candidate she claims to be. How much more evidence do you need that she is helping Biden? She isn't viable anywhere, so if her votes would have otherwise gone to Bernie, that hurts him. If you argue that you want to see her in the debate, so be it, but if you didn't notice, her attack on Buttigieg totally backfired. She is losing her mojo.
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  15742.  @vibefrequencyable  And if you want to argue that this is irrelevant because the vote is a series of state races, Buttigieg also went up in Iowa and New Hampshire, while Tulsi went down in the former. Any more "damage" like that and people will be begging for Tulsi to take a shot at them if she gets on any more campaign stages.
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  15743.  @vibefrequencyable  Does that change the fact that it backfired? There was a lot of spin trying to save Harris, and that didn't work. Why are you having so much difficulty just admitting that Mayo Pete actually ended up in a better place after Tulsi put him in her crosshairs? She tried in the fourth debate, too, and Mayo Pete started the night at 5.2%. I would hardly argue that someone doubling his polling after she went after him counts as Tulsi DESTROYS Mayo Pete.
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  15744.  @vibefrequencyable  So, supporting a war crime is the equivalent of supporting a bill that he admitted did some bad things but that he voted for specifically because it included efforts for family courts, the Violence Against Women Act, and the assault weapons ban? The torture remark wasn't bundled with something else. Neither was her vote to make it more difficult for Syrian refugees to enter the United States. Her foreign policy is Ron Paul and the America First Committee. Saying that there is a difference between isolation and peace, and then pointing out how that difference plays out is not nitpicking. Pointing out the serious hole in saying that someone who is not polling high enough to win delegates will somehow give those non-existent delegates to Bernie is hardly nitpicking.
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  15745.  @vibefrequencyable  My point is that people want to credit Tulsi for taking down Harris. Well, if she were such an expert at taking people out, her latest target wouldn't have had such an increase in the polls. And actually, Mayo Pete had been stagnant in the polls for months by that point. I am not saying that he rose in the polls only because Tulsi went after him, but if people saw him as coming out the better of the two in the exchange, it only helps. And if someone starts to get a reputation as someone who is going in there to wreak havoc on other candidates, there comes a point where it becomes so expected that it makes it much more difficult to actually accomplish anything. Most people don't want kamikaze pilots as President.
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  15746.  @vibefrequencyable  And Harris was never at 25%. Her polling average peaked at 15.2. And Ryan never averaged higher than 1%, so it was hardly a case of taking down a giant.
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  15747. Objection! Vinny is short, and it is very difficult for someone 5'6 or less to find a lot of suits that fit, especially in rural places where there aren't many shops.
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  15748. There are a lot of people who badmouth Nickelback these days, but in 2001 and '02, there were a lot of people who liked it and won't admit it.
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  15749. They're bringing in a disease that has been completely eradicated for over 40 years? How diabolical!
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  15750. So right about Arnold. His ideology is much closer to the CDU than the Republican Party. If he came to the US later, I get the feeling that he probably would have been a Democrat.
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  15751.  @davidwilliams6966  Not CNN. This was on a website on a news feed. I think it was Inside or Insider or Business Insider. Something like that.
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  15752.  @davidwilliams6966  This was a website a day later.
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  15753. ​ @jtrockr91  Nobody's stopping you from a life of voluntary simplicity. If Ted Kaczynski didn't decide to start trying to blow people up, he could have lived his life in peace without ever paying a penny in taxes.
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  15754.  @timreed402  I responded to your comment. Your accusation is your confession.
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  15755.  @2727rogers  You really think that California or New York is going to see a takeover that is going to lead to single payer? Most of the dominant Democrats in the state focus on social issues and are fiscal moderates at best who aren't going to alienate their corporate masters. That was a good one.
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  15756.  @notjustklownin9506  That's assuming that what he said was even true. Even if she was wearing a skirt and a thong, sometimes people don't know the point where if they bend over people can see things. Making suggestive comments about people's clothing is harassment. Read an employee handbook.
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  15757.  @NeilAcharya156  If that makes you feel better.
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  15758.  @kvseverallevels6928  I think it can be justified if you agree with the idea that you have to get something done in order to fight the opposing forces.
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  15759.  @YoungFlyFlashy318  Except doing it unethically and "giving away all the money" isn't really solving it. It also perpetuates the systemic injustice that OP opposes.
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  15760.  @bl1398  Bernie actually has three. One where he lives (Vermont), one where he works (Washington), and one that is a family vacation home that was willed to his wife that the extended family still uses. Hardly an audacious display of wealth.
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  15761.  @sandrahunter5904  Battered Spouse Syndrome
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  15762. He couldn't get a bulk buy? He really does have no power.
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  15763. ​ @Don-md6wn  I think it was five episodes.
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  15764. Caller: Ayn Rand said there is nothing wrong with taking Social Security and Medicare benefits that money was stolen for her. [Checks notes] Ayn Rand, even if she maxes out her Medicare payroll tax paid less than $2000 over her lifetime, and she took it under an assumed name. I'm pretty sure that even in 1971, oncology would have cost waaaaay more than $2000.
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  15765. ​ @franknowak9305  Addressed, yes, but Yang had the solution for none of those things . The real problem isn't AI, but who controls AI. Yang wants to keep that power fundamentally unchanged. If done the right way, AI can make our lives easier. I remember the Yang Gang bangers insisting that he is just starting with $1000 "to get his feet in the door," but he told Ben Shapiro that that amount is "magical" and that there won't be pressure to increase it "because it is below the poverty level for one person, so people will still need to work to live any life of meaning" (emphasis in original), so if he's right about automation, his solution would lead to a world of a few trillionaires and everyone else scraping by on less than the poverty level.
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  15766.  @alienzenx  So, you think Trump did not commit crimes? That is the only way that those who voted to give him a pass will be vindicated.
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  15767.  @alienzenx  Bill Clinton was impeached, but he was not removed from office. If you want to talk about this, maybe brush up on Article I so you can make informed comments. Three Presidents have been impeached (Andrew Johnson, Clinton, Trump), but none have been removed. Nixon resigned before he could be impeached, because Barry Goldwater told him that there were enough votes to remove him. And, again, if you think that violating the Emoluments Clause is not a crime, you are woefully uneducated. If you want me to comment further, show that you actually understand basic terms.
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  15768. Indeed. Some things are purely for amusement, and some are for information. The Jimmy Dore stuff, as much some think it's primarily about entertainment, still serves a purpose in helping people learn how to spot a grifter. Dunking on Rubin definitely makes a bad day better ;-)
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  15769. Let this moment remind you that Mittens being right about Trump is an example of being right about one thing that happens to be one of the most important of the day. He is a modern-day Stephen Douglas.
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  15770.  @NewNormalWorldOrder  Who do you think makes the monoclonal antibodies? They make more money from that than the vaccine.
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  15771.  @NewNormalWorldOrder  So, you don't want the preventative, and you don't want the treatment. So, do you just want millions more to die?
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  15772. ​ @nimrodery  "And stop using 'literally' when you mean 'figuratively' because it literally makes me want to bash in your stupid head." Weird Al, "Word Crimes"
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  15773.  TradingKid1998  Are you sure that it's not 5? I didn't even think she was in the millions. Bernie raised over $18MM for the first quarter, and that was way more than anyone else.
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  15774.    Or an idea that falls apart under such slight scrutiny that it constantly changes, which the most brainwashed say is because "he's a tech guy, and they update things all the time," even though that ONE IDEA is the only reason he is running.
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  15775. Well, he is right that there is a battle between those who love America and those who hate it, but we're the ones who love America. Fascists, by definition, hate everything that America stands for.
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  15776.  @uncletom356  I think it's a rule that it is now and forever "Jeb!"
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  15777. ​ @justicematters5447  It's not like it started out that way.
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  15778.  @justicematters5447  "[I]f your only option for a job is a chopped up pillow company your [sic] worse shape than you realize. Might want to find a new place to live." Yes, because it is just so easy to move. If these arguments aren't cool when right wingers to use against workers, why are they cool on the left?
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  15779.  @buysjproperties  Oh, yes. It was a total joke. New Jersey didn't go from one of the hardest hit states early on to one of the states that has done the best in containing the spread and getting people vaccinated.
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  15780.  @MrRavmoor  They are being facetious. You really need to watch the movie "Judgment at Nuremberg." There is a season where Ernst Jamming asks the question whether what they did was acceptable because they thought they were killing in the hundreds instead of the millions. The instant you cross over into defending war crimes, it becomes that much easier to defend torture in the future. It is an insult to the hundreds of thousands who never did.
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  15781.  @SaveTheTrees333  There were other reports that said the same thing. The Army Field Manual prohibited it. So did the Geneva Conventions. There was no reason for her to be ignorant, but even her "clarification" has nothing to do with "it is a war crime and wrong in every circumstance" and only "it is ineffective." If she thought it was effective, how can we be assured that she wouldn't do it?
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  15782.  @valentinigarageworks  I don't think she means it when she invokes those of us who served or do serve in order to justify every bad thing. The instant that I heard her invoke being in the military to justify torture was the biggest insult to my military service ever. During my tour, I dealt with POWs on a few occasions, and I did the right thing. This insulted every single one of us who did, and it was a disgrace to the uniform.
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  15783.  @aprilk141  I'll bet you my biggest debt versus yours that one of them will win. Ignoring the very real differences guarantees the candidate who you say that you disagree with more. Great plan! What did you actually do to help Bernie win?
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  15784.  @intuitionz1198  With attitudes like yours, no wonder Bernie lost. You sound like someone who never tried and never realized how strong you really were. No one knocks the machine over on the first try, and few do on the second, but it takes actual work. Anyone can stand back and claim to be above it all.
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  15785.  @TighelanderII  After she got fired from MSNBC, she started a PAC that was supposed to help lefty candidates. She paid herself 39% of the money raised, and her ED got over 30%. The candidates? Less than 5% combined. Making someone who lost the plot years ago look bad isn't an act of great courage.
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  15786. MAGA Congressman: I'm a doctor, so I know a few things. Also MAGA Congressman: Can't tell the difference between "duplicate" and "duplicitous."
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  15787.  @kait2972  In the debate, Sharpton was refuting the argument that many of the New Atheists made at the time (that still pops up from time to time) that religion is inherently violent and leads to religious wars. I would have liked to have seen Sharpton ask him about the fact that more Christians were killed in the 20th century (mostly by communists) in the name of their faith than the previous 19 combined. The question that Hitchens refused to answer was one that was directly related to an argument that was being made by him and his ilk, so I'd argue that fits the notion of refuting his argument.
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  15788.  @kait2972  I do not, but if that question arises from one of his elemental theses, that certainly shows a weakness in the argument.
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  15789.  Flightof2Owls  Yes, you are getting at something that has bothered a lot of people on both sides of the theism/atheism debate: the fallacy that all who believe in a religion must subscribe to the strict fundamentalist understanding ("Religiulous" is a prominent example of this). Would those same people argue that abolitionists who used the Bible to argue against slavery were not real Christians because they didn't use the textualist arguments that allowed slavery? The irony being that fundamentalism itself is a response to modernity, not the traditional understanding of religion. (On a related note, many argue that Westboro violates the spirit of the faith because they violate the understanding of the value of the person, which is the same argument abolitionists made 150 years ago.)
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  15790. @Solstice of Snow I said they never would have, not that they never could have. The reason why is because the costs are prohibitive unless it is something purely for their benefit. If Company A builds the roads, Company B will have a huge competitive advantage, because it won't have to bear the costs of something that makes its supply chain operate. So, in order to counteract this, Company A will charge a lot of money for tolls, which will either be so prohibitive that all but a few of the biggest competitors can afford it, or it won't be efficient for anyone but Company A based on its own supply chain.
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  15791. @Solstice of Snow It doesn't decrease revenue. Not only that, but every single major tax cut has led to not only big deficits, but end up costing more than originally expected. Example: the Bush tax cuts were supposed to cost a combined $2T, but they came in at nearly three when calculated at decade's end. Saint Ronnie ended up raising taxes several times in order to deal with the deficits his plan caused. The only balanced budgets of the last 50 years were after Clinton raised taxes on the rich. Just like every supply sider, you can't argue in reality, because your entire philosophy is based on fantasy. Question: if supply side is so great, why did the economy grow faster, the debt to GDP ratio plummet, and more people benefit in the 35 years after WWII while the last 40 have seen stagnant wages and crumbling infrastructure?
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  15792. Mail-in ballots won't be opened for a week.
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  15793.  @MrBreeze66  If one side is making it harder to actually vote, voting rights bills are necessary. And I guess you missed the part where the Georgia Legislature gave itself the power to overturn election results.
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  15794. Yes, you should.
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  15795. ​ @johnedwards1968  And the people who sell picks and shovels.
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  15796. 9:10 "Your black voice is more offensive than blackface." Ronald "Mac" McDonald, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
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  15797.  @timmarshall7292  They have done wrong by our veterans because too many people complain about paying too much in taxes, even though it's the rich who get their taxes cut with crumbs to the rest to try to appease us.
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  15798.  @timmarshall7292  While I have trouble with corporate welfare, I also realize that no one starts a business with the goal of trying to hire people, but to make a profit. This is why stocks tend to go up after layoffs. The simple truth is that it is demand, not supply, that causes businesses to grow and people to get hired. As far as "coming by their income honestly," how do you define "honestly"? If there is anything good that has come out of the last few years, it's that people are realizing just how much crime and trickery the richest among us get away with. Less accountability, more corporate corruption!
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  15799.  @timmarshall7292  Yes, there are corporate Democrats, but there are more non-corporate Democrats than non-corporate Republicans in the halls of power. As far as the Ten Commandments, it's interesting that you bring that up, because I saw two reports yesterday that bring into question their adherence to the Eighth Commandment. First was that the net worth of all billionaires increased by a total of $12 trillion last year, while the poorest 3.8 billion lost $11 trillion. Another stated that the richest 26 people in the world have more money than the poorest 3.8 billion combined. Even without the question of how certain industries use and exploit natural resources, this doesn't seem to me like benevolent action helping all.
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  15800.  @timmarshall7292  But that misses the question. Those people literally got money from the poorest 60% of the world. Would you consider that honest means? What do you consider wealth gained through honest means? You have mentioned that several times, and I have countered with arguments why a lot of said gains are not being gained via honest means. If someone makes more in a day than the average employee (without whom his/her wealth would be impossible) in a year, and that worker makes so little that he/she requires public assistance to avoid starvation, how is that not theft? Theft can come in many forms, and that is what I see as the main flaw in many libertarian arguments: morality and liberty are extremely narrowly defined, and there are a lot of things that many libertarians want to impose when it comes to both (i.e., the libertarian version of the non-aggression principle).
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  15801.  @timmarshall7292  You keep avoiding my fundamental questions with buzzwords. I'm asking you, in plain English, to tell me what you consider honest means. Do they have to pay fair wages? Protect the environment? Not practice corporate espionage? Not profit off the misery of others? If you can't answer these, "through honest means" is just words.
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  15802.  @timmarshall7292  I only saw the second response, so it makes more sense to answer the first. That's why I deleted it, because I came to realize that it was a response to something different entirely. As far as the Democratic Party solving all of society's ills, I don't think any individual or any party can do that. However, I think that, on the whole, the Democratic Party is the better of the two major parties in terms of its goals and what has happened when it has been the dominant party. I think it's interesting that you keep referring to "30-40 years," because that has been a time of dominance of the right. Yes, it is good business to do right by employees, but there is a lot of evidence that some cheaters do prosper, especially when given a free rein as they have been for decades. Watch what happens to a company's stock when it announces layoffs or outsourcing: prices go up, because it is seen as cutting expenses. There are a lot of members of the Fortune 500 that rely on sweatshop labor. As far as "make yourself more valuable," there is nothing in any job that makes its value inherent now and for always. At the turn of the 20th century, factories had some of the lowest pay rates and worst working conditions in the world. When it became unionized, those became the best jobs for blue-collar workers. As far as worshipping the King of Kings, did He not say that you cannot worship both God and Money? And, just to clarify, I'm not a socialist. Probably, the closest to my economic beliefs would be an updated version of Populism, the real kind, not this fake right-wing version that tries to divide and belittle workers. That, and a healthy mix of Keynes, the only economic theorist I've ever seen to actually to try to look at the real world instead of his ivory tower when formulating his ideas, and when we were closer to them, the economy grew faster and more people reaped those benefits than when we went to laissez faire.
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  15803. By the logic of that stupid question, why not just refuse to do anything to aid human progress? After all, people retired before Social Security was a thing, so would that have been unfair? I don't know which is worse, the stupidity or the cruelty behind that argument.
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  15804.  @archologyzero  Because the Speaker controls the calendar. It takes 218 members to sign a discharge petition to force a vote.
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  15805.  @archologyzero  You can file a bill, but it doesn't mean a thing if the Speaker sits on it.
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  15806.  @archologyzero  No, your sentence construction made no sense. Then again, in another thread, you proved yourself to be a right-wing troll posing as anti-anti-Trump, so I guess wearing the mask got to you.
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  15807.  @archologyzero  So, what is your argument? I know what mine is. Do you know what yours is? Is it from the left or right?
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  15808. Who is going to say it? What outlet is going to pick it up?
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  15809.  @douglasmennella4525  People have told Manchin. Did you not see the kayak event? Like it or not, this is what happens with a 50/50 Senate and the other side refusing to play ball. The things that we celebrate all came with supermajorities.
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  15810.  @douglasmennella4525  Agreed that you need to push back, and that I didn't expect nearly as much from Biden, either. Personally, I think that the people who live so much online that they aren't in the real world are making it easy by insisting that the CPC should turn down anything short of our wish list. It looks like Jimmy Dore has succeeded with his message of destruction.
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  15811. Putin doesn't just want the "ethnically Russian" areas of Ukraine. He wants the whole thing.
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  15812.  @richardjones2455  Oh, he definitely got it. No way that a strongman would go to the hospital with a life-threatening condition that took $100,000 worth of medical treatment if it wasn't true.
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  15813.  @mmpw5775  Nothing is a guarantee, but if enough people get the vaccine, there isn't a fertile ground to transmit the disease, and it will die out.
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  15814.  @Mcdonalotto  I took my daughter to Lancaster County on Saturday. Some of the things were on back roads. I never saw a single Hillary sign west of King of Prussia four years ago, but the Biden and Trump signs in Lancaster County (which Trump needs to win big) were just about even. When driving through other places I central PA, there were far fewer Trump signs than four years ago. Don't get complacent, but don't think that Trump is a lock, either.
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  15815. EDIT: Sorry, wrong Matt.
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  15816. This looks like an ad that they cut at the beginning of the campaign assuming that they would win the nomination, and all people really want is to go to the Before Time. Maybe I'm Not Trump will be good enough if things are really bad, but it shouldn't come down to that.
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  15817. ​ @martingrey2231  Sometimes, you give them enough rope.
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  15818. Does that mean that two cents will be the winning bid?
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  15819.  @robinlillian9471  I'm not saying not to vote for her if she wins. I am saying prepared to be disappointed if she does. I would rather be disappointed than destroyed. However, that doesn't mean that I will be using a lot of my free time to get disappointed the way I would if it were for a chance to finally right this ship.
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  15820. Hopefully, they won't go from 1% to 2% (Aziz Ansari as Bobby Jindal: "Correction: I was at 1%, and now I'm at 2%. Have you ever had 1% milk? 2% is the real taste. Jindal 2016: Taste the fat!") and we never have to see them again for any reason.
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  15821. Jimmy Dore fans, this is what going to Fox to challenge them rather than reinforce their narrative looks like.
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  15822. If he had never come back, there would be no reason for anyone to start digging again. The moment I thought something was up was reading that he ran the NYC Marathon in 2:59:36 and was reduced to a mess at the end. For the average person, that is definitely a respectable time, but an elite endurance athlete should easily be able to break 2:30 in the marathon with the most rudimentary of training.
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  15823.  @thebreakerofwalls9036  Do anti-war candidates have interviews where they invoke a scenario straight out of 24 to justify torture? Even Biden does that.
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  15824.  @worldunited4903  Was Ron Paul anti-war, or was he isolationist? Because that is who Tulsi is the spiritual successor to on foreign policy.
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  15825.  @Schmidty1  Who said that I advocate "regime change wars"? You didn't actually provide any evidence to counter my point. She defends Assad. She praises Modi and Sisi. She praised Putin for bombing civilians in Syria. If that is peace, I'd hate to see a warmonger.
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  15826.  @Schmidty1  Did Assad gas his own people? Apparently, Tulsi can't make up her mind. That doesn't even get in to her troubling statement on torture. Also, if she went for "diplomacy" (even though it was "fact finding" when it was first revealed), why not visit rebel strongholds? Why then say that Assad has the broad support of the Syrian people. My remark about not understanding the difference between the two was referring to her many online fans who call her the peace candidate. On another thread, someone literally told me that the two were the same thing.
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  15827.  @Schmidty1  Well, then, if it is supposedly fake, why did Tulsi say it was real on The View? I am aware that you can't just go anywhere in a foreign country, but if your trip is for "fact finding," and you are only getting a tour of the places they want you to go, a lot of things can be hidden. If the mission is "diplomacy," how can you practice diplomacy by only talking to one side? Regarding his popular support, you don't know what is legitimate and what isn't in a brutal dictatorship. Saddam Hussein got 100% of the vote in 2002. And you don't know how much "popular support" now is "we tried, but we lost. Please, don't kill us!"
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  15828.  @Schmidty1  Is North Korea in the middle of a civil war? That is the difference. How can there be a peaceful resolution to a war of any kind if only one side is negotiating, unless that is because your idea of peace is clamping down on the rebels? Given her praise for Putin on that front, that's certainly what it sounds like, which is not a peaceful resolution.
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  15829.  @Schmidty1  She did praise Putin. She praised him for "getting tough on terror when Obama won't" when he bombed Syria. You are being incredibly inconsistent in your argument. You said that she was there to encourage a diplomatic resolution, but the instant that I point out that no such thing can be had with only one side, then you say, "Well, she's not Secretary of State." Then, other than giving good publicity to Assad, what was she there for? You seem to have given up the ghost on the original stated reason (fact finding). Maybe it's not that I am reaching to "smear" her, or The Nation, Jacobin, Rolling Stone, Michael Brooks, Sam Seder, David Pakman, et al, but looking at the actual evidence, and seeing that maybe people like Steve Bannon, David Duke, and Ron Paul like her for a reason, which isn't what any lefty would see and say, "Yes, I like what I am seeing."
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  15830.  @Schmidty1  Using a Jimmy Dore video to "prove" that Assad didn't gas his own people doesn't help your argument. And even if you believe that video, it's not that Tulsi is wrong, but that she is pandering. She is either pandering to the conspiracy minded, or she is pandering to those who are not. Because she has been incredibly inconsistent in her answer to that question.
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  15831.  @Schmidty1  Ron Paul is terrible on foreign policy. He wants to have nothing to do with actual diplomatic efforts. Especially given his stance on efforts to fight the climate crisis, he is literally content to watch the whole world burn in the hopes that we don't get crispy. Even the Syrian government (which had incentive not to do so) admitted that Russia attacked and killed civilians: http://www.dw.com/en/syria-dozens-of-civilians-killed-in-suspected-russian-airstrikes/a-42031407/
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  15832.  @Schmidty1  Maybe someone who is a reckless conspiracist with a long track record of supporting ridiculous ideas in that realm (9/11, Seth Rich, Hillary has Parkinson's, etc.) has zero credibility. He has cried wolf too many times, and he is not a trustworthy source. If the evidence is so solid, then why not produce evidence from credible sources rather than the Alex Jones of the left?
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  15833. Economically, I admit that I have mostly been unaffected by the coronavirus because I have been able to telecommute. That being said, if I got the stimulus, I'd probably use a big chunk of it to pay down my credit card... so if I get to the point where I get it paid off completely, that saves me hundreds of dollars a month that can go to other things which stimulates the economy. Someone using it to pay off debt or make delayed purchases is a good thing.
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  15834. For someone saying that Biden didn't have it mentally, what does it say about you if he repeatedly outmaneuvered you, Kevin?
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  15835. One of my ex-wife's friend's dad paid his down payment for him, but he insisted that he bought the house because he made the mortgage payments. The down payment is the biggest part! I know of people who said that their mortgage payment was substantially lower than the rent they were paying before. This person also ended up with no student loan debt despite only getting a partial scholarship to a school with higher tuition than most people make in a year. Gee, I wonder why he was able to pull it off.
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  15836. To modernize William Jennings Bryan, you could get rid of the rich and keep the workers, and wealth will srpout up again as if by magic. Keep the rich and get rid of the workers, and the wealth will run dry.
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  15837.  @Will_Salcedo  The Senate doesn't impeach. The House impeaches, and the Senate votes on removal. Pelosi wouldn't have had that big announcement if she didn't think that it was a matter of time before the count got to 218, and she didn't want to look like the caucus is bossing her.
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  15838.  @belasgirl6  I'm not disagreeing. My point is that fear won the day.
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  15839. 0:45 "He did try to frame me for armed robbery, but man, am I aching for that upper-class tax cut." Krusty the Clown
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  15840.  @TheJaiNetwork  Okay, let's follow your logic. Let's say that Bernie runs as an Independent just to "teach them a lesson." He would have had to win 270 electoral votes. Given that Trump's support is locked in, what states would Bernie actually win to get to 270? If he doesn't, the best he could hope for is that no one else does, and it goes to the House... where it gets decided by Democrats and Republicans. Great plan! Bernie is an actual adult.
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  15841. I don't care about being excited, because I am an adult, and I will make sure that my daughter does not grow up in a fascist dictatorship.
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  15842.  @carlive9532  Your wording is misleading. Yes, Republican proposals still include progressive income taxes, but Biden specifically wants to raise the top bracket and he wants to donut hole the Social Security tax, bringing it back in at $400K while slowly closing it as the cap increases. I personally think that the donut hole is a stupid concession to this weird notion that being in the 98th percentile is "middle class," but it's better than nothing. The one proposal Biden had that I was truly excited to see that would actually address wealth inequality is getting rid of the unrealized capital gains on estates. (Basically, Bill Gates could die tomorrow and his kids could cash out their Microsoft stock tax free forever. Biden's proposal would have them pay the tax based on the original price.) He probably doesn't emphasize it because everyone is still spooked after Mondale in 1984. Doesn't mean that the proposals aren't there, though.
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  15843.  @Atmost11  That guy doesn't even understand politics in his own country, let alone ours.
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  15844.  @2727rogers  Ghosting? Is there anything you understand? Ghosting means you disappear from a conversation. And you can brag about civic involvement, but you keep getting basic things about the American political structure and the history of Medicare in Canada completely wrong.
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  15845.  @JustClaude13  Please start a third party. If you are so right that this will happen, you should be pushing for it.
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  15846. ​ @wisconsin2012able You know what isn't the answer? Pretending that the anti-vaccine crowd are equal to actual scientists on the subject.
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  15847.  @zealot256  You really want two different things rather than a subset to show how stupid their argument is.
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  15848. ​ @raphael3666  If he really wants cap and trade, why doesn't he just say so? My hypothesis:.he knows that right wingers don't want cap and trade, because they see that as an evil tax and just as top down, because "the government is limiting how much carbon I get to use."
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  15849.  @raphael3666  People know what cap and trade means. It doesn't take a dissertation. As far as "corporations bearing all the cost," the whole problem with a strictly "free market solution" is that it doesn't actually address external costs.
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  15850.  @raphael3666  What reason has he given in the past 10 years to take him at his word? If "government control" is no good, and "cap and trade" is much easier to say than "free market solutions." He has shredded every bit of good will he has earned in the last few years with saying that vaccines are worse than the Holocaust because Anne Frank could at least hide in the attic, attending events with Nazis and child predators, and singing off that right-wing hymnal. I've seen this movie before many times. If his name was Robert Francis, and not Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., with his accomplishments, no one would take his campaign seriously.
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  15851.  @raphael3666  Well, which is it? You insist to several of us that "free market solutions mean cap and trade," but then you tell someone else that "cap and trade is not the free market." You can't have it both ways.
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  15852.  @Dss902  He was an environmentalist. Now, the crazy conspiracy addled part of his brain has taken over and sucked up all the oxygen.
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  15853.  @j0j0dartiste21  The person saying he's right about coronavirus just let his power level slip.
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  15854.  @raphael3666  But yet you have convinced yourself that he will do the exact opposite of what he said he would when it comes to the climate crisis. There ultimately comes a point where people become the wolf that they feed. He stopped feeding at the environmental trough a long time ago and has put the vast majority of his time and effort to conspiracy and dog whistles. Even if he still had a great environmental position, at this point, it's the equivalent of propping up Liz Cheney because she opposed Trump. Then again, he is so addled by paranoia that he won't even say that Biden won in 2020, so maybe it's worse.
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  15855.  @jasonuerkvitz3756  So, what's your solution?
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  15856.  @RichRich1955  Did humanity suddenly change in 1964 and realize that it was a bad decision to segregate businesses, or did government force them to integrate and eventually segregation largely fell out of favor?
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  15857.  CenkUygursIguana  If I challenge Ben Shapiro to a debate, is he a chicken for realizing that I have no following and it is a waste of time? An elected official debating a YouTube celebrity is punching down.
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  15858.  @tjk9263  Well, I would say Thom Hartmann is smarter, but he is largely content to do his own thing.
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  15859.  @jeffpro8  What are his good points? Especially if they are ones that are his unique insight rather than standard among other YouTube lefties?
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  15860.  The Ghey Mantis  I don't remember seeing those "fine people" on that side not chanting "Jews will not replace us."
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  15861. ​ @CanItAlready  There's another video from a few years ago when Sam first got it.
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  15862. In the sense that January 6th failed, yes. In the sense of whether or not we're out of the water yet, absolutely not. We must defeat the Republican Party and so discredit them in the eyes of voters by exposing the truth about them that they go the way of the Whigs. Then, either worst-case scenario, we end up with Eisenhower and Rockefeller Republicans, and best-case scenario, the Democratic Party becomes the right-wing party (without shifting farther right) and we get the Labor Party or something else.
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  15863.  @jakefrith133  It was in the movie Superbad that I am quoting.
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  15864.  @MichaelAronson  Some people need to listen to the wisdom of Weird Al: "Don't say you could care less/Because that means you do care/At least a little." "Weird Al" Yankovic, "Word Crimes"
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  15865. Well, so much for all of these arguments that David was in the tank for Biden.
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  15866.  @artbyjoshua7850  Nope. Not a definition. What is socialism? "Things I don't like" or "evil" aren't definitions.
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  15867.  @jimsavely1104  What specifically has Walz proposed that is Marxist? Have you read either The Communist Manifesto or Das Kapital to show some examples?
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  15868. It's not often you get a second chance on a once in a lifetime candidate. We can't blow it this time!
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  15869. The funniest part of all is the way he first tried to pretend it was a matter of being pressed for time before losing his top once he realized that this veteran was going against his paranoia.
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  15870. ​ @johnandrews2768  Who will be the ones who did what we did with Germany to return to democracy? Democratic norms don't so easily return, so we should never be flippant about it.
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  15871.  @octavius9685  The best answer I can think of comes from LBJ describing the divide and conquer of Jim Crow: if you convince the worst white man that he's better than the best black man, you don't have to pick his pockets. He'll gladly give you his wallet.
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  15872.  monokhem  I think we can all agree that there are legitimate questions about consent given the power dynamics.
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  15873.  monokhem  So, if someone literally owns another person, that person can freely say no? I think there is a huge difference between a boss and a slaveowner in terms of the power differential.
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  15874.  monokhem  Saying that someone gets more respect than Melania gets from Donald is like saying that someone is taller than a chihuahua. It might be true, but that isn't saying anything.
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  15875.  monokhem  When have you ever seen Trump respect Melania?
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  15876.  @ThePanMan11  Okay. I'll ask you a question. As a libertarian socialist, if you think that private property should be abolished, and you get rid of all of it in one generation, what will keep the next generation from accruing private property again?
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  15877. If it were anyone else, I would say that they probably just forgot to turn off the timer of a post that was prepared a long time ago, but with Santos (if that is his real name), no one can be sure.
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  15878. I'm late Gen X (39), and I got them all.
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  15879. Somewhere, Vincent Tan is having a good laugh. (If you don't know who that is, Google Vincent Tan Cardiff City.)
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  15880. She's always been a fascist. She just hid it better in 2015-16.
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  15881.  @gravecode  Maybe if he wouldn't have told Rubin that he wanted to gut the existing social safety net, they wouldn't be using it.
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  15882. ​ @antimediaman9354  If by "defending the Constitution," you mean sucking up to rich potential clients and selling his integrity to the highest bidder, yeah, sure.
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  15883. Make your bed? Why? Nobody's going to see it, and it's easier to just have it where you left it when you woke up so you just need to pull the sheet over you at bedtime.
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  15884. Barry: It would really help if you showed up, like a loving supportive family. Michael: For how long? Barry: Ten minutes, tops. Lucille: See if you could get it down to five.
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  15885. Make no mistake, Ken Buck is no milquetoast moderate. He's about as far right wing as you go in most circumstances, so this says something.
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  15886. My family did not have health insurance until my dad got a union job as a saw mill worker when I was 16. When I was in fifth grade, my brother broke his arm, and we got harassed every day for months right at dinner time because the hospital felt that he wasn't paying the bill quickly enough (even though Democrats were still in charge in WV at the time, and it was the law that hospitals had to take any payment no matter how small, as long as you were making an effort to pay). Three weeks later, my mom was told that she needed her gallbladder removed. No hospital would do it without a down payment. Finally, eight months later, she got her surgery, but the gallbladder had become gangrenous. By the grace of God, she is still here. No 11 year old should ever have to worry about his mom dying, and no mother should have to worry about leaving a widower with an 11- and 9-year-old because of a lack of health insurance. This is why I straight up loathe anyone who talks so blithely about how either the free market doesn't kill people who aren't covered or pretend that it is trivial. It's not trivial when it's your family.
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  15887. Even better, just go back to El Paso and help Sema Hernandez win the seat.
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  15888.  @thesilvershining  Excellent summary. I had also heard someone else argue (I don't want to steal someone else's thunder, but I honestly don't remember the source) who said that a lot stemmed from his parents changing his name when he was six because he wasn't worthy. Do you think this might be the Why for the What we saw for seven seasons?
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  15889. ​ @indianajones4321  They're doing Korea, too? What's it called?
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  15890.  @cycleforwardtime  This is the logical extension of what Republicans have been doing for 50 years: worshipping wealth, achieving power by any way possible, scapegoating people who look different. Whether the people you knew were aware of it or not, this is the conservative project.
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  15891. Kasich: Biden needs to listen to Republicans. You mean the people who said that they wanted to keep the would-be fascist dictator? I don't think so.
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  15892. It does not. It says that it is our duty to vote them out, or if someone is engaging in malfeasance, for Congress to kick then out.
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  15893.  @adotjon78  Sorry, I did not see this, but it's obvious that your anti-anti-Trump mask is slipping. Trump is objectively worse on the economy. Biden saw a record number of new jobs, a higher increase in GDP in his first year than any of Trump's four (and Obama outpaced Trump, even if you exclude 2020). Trump being in office meant that we had half the country who would ignore the best evidence for coronavirus, and a third who wouldn't get the vaccine no matter what. And that's not counting his all-out assault on democracy or his embrace of dictators. What happened last week in Ukraine is impossible without Trump sticking his head so far up Putin's butt that you couldn't tell where his butt ended and Trump's neck began.
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  15894.  @Buzzcook  No, but Bernie wants one bill for Medicare for All, and Warren wants immigration reform first. Bernie's doesn't need it.
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  15895.  @Buzzcook  The latter. When Warren talked about paying for it, she mentioned immigration reform and cutting Defense spending, the latter of which is especially ridiculous given her voting record.
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  15896.  @geekylove3603  Then, why do you keep spamming with the same thing over and over again?
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  15897.  @texajp1946  You mean plenty of videos by the Russian government to deflect from their war crimes. And why would they lie?
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  15898.  @johnnyjones7442  Norway, Finland, France, Chile before Nixon "[made] their economy scream."
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  15899.  @johnnyjones7442  Does the police department work? The fire department? The post office? Public libraries? Highways? The best economies have always been mixed, but some of you are so scared by tactics from 65 years ago that you can't see that.
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  15900. This weird alliance between a viable and non-viable candidate has always struck me as odd. Yes, I gave a dollar to Williamson to get her on the early debate stages, but I did nothing whatsoever to try to support her in hopes of getting her votes and his votes in some odd alliance.
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  15901. So, do you think that if Alison Lundegran Grimes had explained to people that Kynect and ACA were the same thing that fewer people would have signed up? From a distance, letting Moscow Mitch say that he wouldn't mess with Kynect just seemed like the political malfeasance of the decade.
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  15902.  @mysticmarble94  It refers to the one that must be believed in order to make everything else possible. It has its reference from the 1930s. After all, if you believe that the election was stolen, it does not violate democracy to have an attempted coup. You are just "restoring democracy."
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  15903. Everyone has their blind spots, including the secular. The real problem is confirmation bias, because you also see things like the Natural is Always Better Fallacy.
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  15904.  @47_the_boss  There have been multiple summaries of what is in the bill. Just because you are too lazy to read them isn't our fault.
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  15905.  @RakaZet  Do you still think that China is paying for the tariffs?
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  15906. How is she working with Bernie? If she wanted him to win, she would be doing what Nina Turner and To Khanna are doing.
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  15907. ​ @MrEboxez  Indeed. A few years ago, some guys at work asked me why I cared so much about universal health care. I told them about growing up without health insurance until I was 16, and the time I was in fifth grade and my brother was in third, and he broke his arm (two days before my dad got paid so he could get the insurance that covered us on school property), and how we got harassed by creditors for months because they felt that he wasn't paying them fast enough. Then, I told them how a few weeks later, my mom found out that she needed her gallbladder removed, but no hospital would do so for months while my dad tried to get the money together for a down payment on the surgery. In the seven months that it took for him to succeed (he literally had to get a bank loan), her gallbladder became gangrenous, and there but for the grace of God she didn't became a statistic, and they responded with silence. None of them ever did change their position on the issue to my knowledge.
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  15908.  @benevolentautore4463  Then, show us anywhere she criticized Modi. If you want to play the context game, it is your job to provide it.
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  15909.  @benevolentautore4463  As with above, show the evidence. We like Bernie because he has the best policies and a fighting spirit to make things happen. Full stop.
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  15910.  @benevolentautore4463  His actions in Kashmir, his role in the massacre for starters.
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  15911.  @RationalMinded  Well, the Yang Gang bangers do it, too.
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  15912.  @benevolentautore4463  Yes, because setting up a tribunal that handles the initial investigation with one of your cronies working alone really guarantees that incriminating evidence will he found. Still doesn't change his actions in Kashmir or appealing to anti-Islamic bigotry to hold power. And Tulsi still won't criticize him.
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  15913.  @DaemonJax  The Supreme Court struck down term limits for Congress when Arkansas tried it in the 1990s. The only way to remove members of Congress is expulsion. Quite frankly, given the clown show that is the recall process in California, do you really want to see every state do this when some member of Congress does something unpopular whether it's good or bad?
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  15914.  Alabama Man 2.0  Can't win re-election as a Democrat if Democrats won't vote for you in the primary.
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  15915.  @robertnicholls9917  Gallego is already doing the work lining up support. He'll have the grassroots on his side. She is toast. To put her numbers in perspective, when Rod Blagojevich was removed from office, his approval was 13%.
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  15916. If there is a vacancy, members of the House of Representatives have to have a special election. And 2/3 is the threshold for expulsion, so if every Democrat votes to get rid of him, it would take 77 Republicans to vote to remove him.
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  15917. If Biden and his team want to win, they'll pick Tammy Baldwin or someone like her. (I don't see them picking Barbara Lee because, other than questions of ideology, she is 74, and it'll be someone younger.) If the Biden team decides to make the same mistake Hillary did and take the left flank for granted, it will be Klobuchar or Harris.
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  15918.  @Chazreal  I'm using 2020 as the dividing line. Before then, find any instance in ten years in the Senate where Manchin provided the deciding vote to give Republicans a win or Democrats a defeat. Yes, he voted for Kavanaugh, but not until Collins said that she would, meaning that his vote was a bonus. BBB was a huge break from that pattern. When he went along with Republicans, it was because they had already won. In his first four years in the Senate, when Democrats had control, he never went against them unless Reid either already had the votes or was already defeated.
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  15919.  @TerrariaGolem  Well, saying that someone wants to means test something that is already means tested isn't a unique example of awfulness. SSI is for those who are disabled but either didn't work 40 quarters or can't claim survivor's benefits from someone who did. As another poster mentioned below. RSDI stands for Retirement, Survivor's, and Disability Insurance, which is what most people think of as "Social Security." It is a horrible position to take, but we need to make sure to accurately represent it.
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  15920.  @Ghs--173  Once brain cells are dead, they're dead.
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  15921.  @davidgarland2533  It used to be on the other side.
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  15922.  @davidgarland2533  And it also used to be whiter.
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  15923. ​ @luke_skywanker7643  Not when you have enough money to surround yourself with sycophants.
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  15924. ​ @marymccluer1630  So, the votes of millions of primary voters should be ignored because you're nervous?
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  15925.  @xyzsame4081  Trump probably would have won without coronavirus, but 306 electoral votes (possibly 321 depending on how many ballots get to North Carolina by 11/12) and a wider popular vote margin than Obama beat Romney is not "narrow." Don't be fooled by the red mirage slow walk. We continue to fight to get down ballot races and party committees. Instead of complaining about the establishment, replace the establishment.
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  15926.  @randompseudonym4519  Oh, so you're one of these people who wanted Biden to lose because four years of Trump just weren't bad enough! I'll make this as simple as possible: Biden wants to go down as a top President. He can talk a good game about reaching across the aisle, but he knows that Mitch McConnell isn't going to give him a $15/hour minimum wage. There are some things that need the left flank to actually get things done. Your myopic focus on the Presidency is part of the reason why we are in such a weak position.
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  15927.  @randompseudonym4519  People tried it your way in 2000 and 2016. How did that work out?
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  15928.  @randompseudonym4519  Apparently, you understand neither the strategy that you advocate nor the point that I am making about its futility. I am talking about the idea advocated by people like you that if the left just lets the Republicans win that the establishment will come crawling on their knees and give in to our demands. So, how did that work out? Bernie did worse this time around. If you are really too stupid to understand that coalescing around one candidate is just smart politics (for a counterexample, See: MA-4 primary), then maybe you don't reach the level needed to win. And this idea that "caving reduces power" also ignores history. Let's look at the most recent group to succeed in leading a political realignment. The Reagan era didn't just arise out of thin air in 1980 after a lengthy period in the wilderness. Republicans won in 1968 and '72 with a narrow loss in '76. By the time of that narrow loss, the right had taken places at the local level and the party committees, so by 1980 they were unstoppable. Your way only engenders bad will toward the left and no power. So, this leads me to ask the key question: do you really want to see things get better, or do you just want to complain about how bad they are?
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  15929. He made it obvious this is what he would have done. My only regret as a Pennsylvanian is that I don't get to vote him out in two years.
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  15930.  @TheJohnnyonthespot1  The 60th vote was Joe Lieberman... who endorsed McCain in 2020.
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  15931. Heck, no! Remember how Corey Feldman kept ending up in the news every few months by saying that he's going to release a documentary exposing the people who molested him as a child actor?
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  15932. Having Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon on your staff and saying that others hire fascists is some amazing lack of self-awareness.
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  15933.  @giolacca  My niece got put on CBD oil for a while to try to treat her mood swings, and it just made her mean. Truth be told, I've always been skeptical of a lot of the claims of the medical marijuana crowd, because there was hardly anything they said that it wouldn't treat.
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  15934. A certain "tech savvy" candidate (who I will not name to avoid Beetlejuice syndrome) was implying that breaking up Facebook would be like forcing people to join MySpace. There is absolutely no reason for Facebook to own Instagram, WhatsApp, or any number of things they have acquired over the years.
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  15935.  @icin4d  "Could you say that again, Candy?"
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  15936.  @markzuckergecko621  You're the one who wants to restrict bodily autonomy because of your beliefs. I'm not the one who wants to make women nearly die of an ectopic pregnancy before they can end it or turn every miscarriage into a criminal investigation.
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  15937.  @simmo1024  Stars are made of gas and so far away that no one cpuld get to another solar system in a single lifetime.
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  15938.  @WL1264  You mean when they wouldn't go along with his dictatorial whims?
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  15939.  @TheBigGuys10percent  For someone "not anti-vaccine," you sure are singing off their hymnal. Well, I got measles as a kid because (irony alert) I was home sick from school when the doctors realized that my year had a weak batch. The doctor told my mom that things would have been far worse if I hadn't taken the vaccine when I was younger. And the reason why people still have to take the vaccine if it's not 100% effective is because no vaccine is 100% effective, but if enough people take it, the virus won't have a sufficient host to live on. Also, if you do have a breakthrough case, it often means that things won't be nearly as bad. So, the mild symptoms would have otherwise sent someone to the hospital, ornthe person who had to go to the hospital would have otherwise been killed. You have to take it because we are living in a society. If you don't want to take it, go be a hermit somewhere.
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  15940.  @dogsenseforu301  If they have to spend that much time in their districts rather than working, you make it so all but those who can afford to buy plane tickets every week get priced out. I'm all for politicians being responsive to their constituents, but making a hard and fast rule often is the equivalent of trying to kill a fly with a sledgehammer.
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  15941.  @MarkChilcote  Yang supports whatever the audience he is speaking to at any given time wants to hear. He also said he supported Medicare for All only to one paragraph later make it obvious that he didn't.
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  15942.  @dogsenseforu301  It adds up if you are on the West Coast and not close to a major airport.
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  15943. "Republicans are busy looking for converts. Democrats are busy looking for heretics." Chris Matthews Something we seriously need to remedy. I'm not saying that we fund grifters, but maybe understand that conversion is rarely full and immediate and give a soft landing space for the sincere.
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  15944.  @imnotmike  Really? I did not know either part. I guess it's like when Fox dropped "fair and balanced," but the slogan became so ironic and famous that nobody really noticed.
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  15945. And that his first appearance in the New York Times involved him getting sued for housing discrimination.
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  15946. All a republic means is that there is monarch. Never mind the fact that Der Orangestraflingfuhrer is calling himself a king, "republic, not a democracy" makes about as much sense as saying, "It's not a grape, it's purple!"
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  15947. Where were you on the deficit when the tax cuts came up, Son of Ron?
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  15948.  @truth_focus  That is so unfair! Neville Chamberlain thought he was producing peace and didn't have the obvious counterexample Der Orangestraflingfuhrer does to learn from.
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  15949.  @deancj1  No, it can be done if we get Supreme Court Justices who understand that bribery is a thing. That being said, a Constitutional amendment to void corporate personhood would be a good idea.
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  15950. I can understand the logic that people who are vaccinated don't need to wear masks, but the real problem is that there is no way of knowing whether the other person who isn't wearing one is vaccinated and responding to the new CDC rules or some mask-hole who never wore one in the first place.
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  15951.  D2 E2  The Green Party was never on the ballot. The elections board decided that they did not meet the requirements for the petition drive. The Green Party sued to get on the ballot. Is it just impossible for Green stans to make an argument without saying things that aren't true?
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  15952. How did voting for Nader work out in 2000 or Stein in 2016? What makes you think it would be any different this time?
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  15953.  @whome3940  I think Michael said that he wouldn't, but only because he lives in a safe state. If he lived in a swing state, he would.
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  15954.  @joesnake100  Was she to Warren's left when she slammed the door in the face of refugees? How about when she blamed both sides for the shutdown? Or did Sheldon Adelson's bidding on casinos? Or defending torture? Yeah, she's real consistent on issues when she has evolved more than the turtles on the Galapagos.
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  15955.  @joesnake100  She said that she opposed the Muslim ban in 2017, but she voted to make it more difficult for Syrian refugees to enter the United States in 2016, so my point still stands. Warren stayed neutral in the primary and endorsed after. She didn't back Hillary. As far as Pelosi and Schumer, the question at hand was the shutdown based on wall funding. At one point in 2018, they offered Trump $25B for the wall in exchange for DACA but he refused it. When Democrats took the House, they said no wall without DACA funding. What was the middle ground? That is total both siderism. And she didn't just "take a picture with" Sheldon Adelson, she went to a fundraiser, she was the lead Democratic sponsor on a bill to ban online gambling that Adelson wanted because he didn't want the competition, and she asked him to speak in favor of it. No, she did his bidding plain and simple.
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  15956.  @joesnake100  And you're the one talking about left credentials, after accusing refugees of being terrorists? If memory serves me right, Adelson also opposed the Iran nuclear deal, and the hard right in Israel argued that it was going to lead to a nuclear Iran, so that doesn't hold up, either. How could they have "ended the shutdown earlier by being tough"? Trump had the Senate and the votes to sustain the veto in the House. What would you consider the middle ground that they were supposed to offer?
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  15957.  @joesnake100  You know who else supported Hillary Clinton after the primary? Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard. Nice try.
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  15958.  @joesnake100  You said that immigrants are terrorists when you said, "So if Tulsi doesn't want Daesh terrorists in the USA, she is a hawk now? Who wants ISIS terrorists here?" Also, Tulsi opposed the Iran nuclear deal. Oh, she talks a good game now, but maybe this is just another example of her "evolution." As much grief as people give Gillibrand for her shift, Tulsi made hers far more recently and has done less to back it up. If Charles Darwin were alive today, he wouldn't need to go to islands off the coasts of South America to develop his theories. He could have just watched Tulsi.
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  15959.  @joesnake100  The primaries were over on June 7th. If you read Our Revolution, you would know that Bernie knew that he was defeated at that point, but he spent that month not trying to win over superdelegates, but to negotiate the terms of his endorsement. It is true that Tulsi resigned as DNC vice chair, but if she was really being loyal to Bernie, she would have waited to see what he was going to do before announcing her own run. Even Lieberman provided Gore that courtesy.
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  15960.  @joesnake100  Bernie was already negotiating his endorsement by June 10. Again, this argument doesn't work. Tulsi endorsed Hillary in the end, too. As far as Assange, if you want to defend an entitled POS who wipes it on the embassy that let him hang out for seven years in order to avoid rape charges all while knowing that Seth Rich didn't give him the e-mails and dragging hos name through the mud despite his family's wishes, you go right ahead. Also, this is a democracy. We don't have queens or kings.
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  15961.  @joesnake100  What would Bernie's argument have been? He got fewer votes and got 44% of the pledged delegates. The superdelegates were overwhelmingly against him, and there was no way that they would go for him to overturn the vote. The superdelegates are elected officials and DNC members, so how was that going to work? Conspiracism can help you feel better, but that doesn't actually explain anything. Even if you say that the primary was so rigged against Bernie, do you honestly think that the people who did the rigging would suddenly feel guilty like Claude Rains in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington? And how do you know that Bernie didn't tell Warren behind closed doors that he knew it was over and he lost?
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  15962.  @joesnake100  Oh, and you never backed down from conflating refugees with terrorists.
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  15963.  @joesnake100  And you keep saying that you know where Tulsi's heart is despite her numerous examples of flip flopping and evolution, and you insist that she is the pro-peace candidate. Well, when I hear someone praise Russia for bombing civilians in Syria, I know that her heart is not with peace. When I hear her praise a brutal dictator who overthrew a democratically elected government (Sisi) and someone who constantly goes after religious minorities and let a massacre happen as provincial governor (Modi), I know where her heart is, and it's not with the people.
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  15964.  @joesnake100  Tulsi's own House website heeps praise on Sisi for his "courage stand" against terrorists, never mind that a lot of people who Sisi said were terrorists were the legitimately elected leaders of Egypt. Modi is her longest and most lasting relationship with a foreign leader. She is the one who went to bat for him to get his ban lifted because of his role in the provincial government. When Putin bombed Syrian civilians, not only did she praise Putin, but she criticized Obama for not doing it. Again, another example of her "evolution." I am not saying that Warren is the ideal candidate at all. My response was to the notion that a young, female version of Ron Paul on foreign policy is some leftist hero for peace. She's not.
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  15965.  @joesnake100  I meant that she is the female Ron Paul on foreign policy. Look at the context of my statement. The comparison is perfectly valid. And that "one issue" happens to be the main thrust of her campaign. That would be like me defending Bernie by saying that the political revolution is "only one issue."
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  15966.  @joesnake100  She was the lead sponsor in the House to do so. She was the first person Modi visited. That seems pretty close to me. The fact that you have to play whataboutism on Modi shows that you know that her support of him is bad.
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  15967.  @joesnake100  And if it is the most important issue, you can't dismiss it as "only one." How we get out or stay out matters. If we do it in a way that emboldens and enables the worst actors on the global stage, that is not peace, that is isolation. There's a reason why the America First Committee was a creature of the right.
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  15968.  @joesnake100  Except the false things against Bernie were easily proven, and those of us who support him don't have to contort ourselves into pretzels to defend his record. As far as Tulsi not being friendly to advertisers, see her political courtship of Sheldon Adelson. The last time I checked, I see plenty of ads for casinos on TV. You can "choose to believe" all you want, but when it results in putting your fingers in your ears and singing loudly just because you have a good feeling about her, all while ignoring the massive criticism on the left and massive love on the right, you won't be effective for your candidate. As far as it "helping Tulsi because people don't see through it," she never gets above 2%, and is often under 1. At this point, I'll be shocked if she gets a single pledged delegates. As far as trying to bring her down in a corporate conspiracy, so The Nation, the Guardian, Jacobin, the Intercept, etc., are all a part of a centrist plot? Look up a David Pakman video that explains the difference between conspiracy theories and conspiracism.
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  15969.  @joesnake100  The polls said that the numbers were tightening before the election, and they were within the margin of error at the national level (3.5% polling average lead vs. 2.1% popular vote win). They were only outside of the margin error in two states (PA & WI), the latter which didn't get polled after September. Accepting nothing is a gullibility all its own. It is your responsibility to say what evidence you have that the polls are wrong for Tulsi, and considering that Biden is starting to come back down to earth, that can easily be attributed to a polling bounce and Obama nostalgia. Is she bringing in thousands to rallies? Does she have a staff of hundreds in early states? A six-figure volunteer army? Just saying "she really is doing better than 1 or 2%" doesn't make it so.
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  15970.  @joesnake100  And once again, Joe Rogan, the gateway to the alt right, endorsed. You're not helping your "she is the candidate of the left" argument at all.
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  15971.  @joesnake100  Again, you need evidence. Wanting it to be doesn't make it so. Unless there is actual data to back up that she will win over a specific bloc on the right, rather than just getting alt right support that will stay with Trump, won't cut it.
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  15972.  @joesnake100  He brings Dore on to take a dump on the left, so tjat doesn't count. When was the last time he brought Kyle Kulinski on? And you don't beat Trump by taking his voters. You get them by getting people on the left to show up. Your left credentials are getting more and more tarnished the more you type.
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  15973.  @joesnake100  If you think Pakman is a Biden supporter, you are ripping away any shred of any intellectual credibility. I specifically mentioned a video about conspiracism which is a frame of mind where one makes assertions without evidence. This is different from conspiracy theories, because at least their advocates try to look at data and evidence. Speaking of which, you never did explain how Bernie was supposed to win over a group of people who didn't like him and would sooner have held out for a long deadlock to give a new candidate the nomination than give it to someone who got fewer pledged delegates. You keep saying that Tulsi is opposed to corporations while ignoring her servitude to a casino magnate. You insist that she is far more popular than 1-2% in the polls even though she didn't get to the fundraising debate threshold until nearly three months after she announced even though Bernie pulled it off in eight hours. Yeah, people like you bombard YouTube comments, but her view counts and subscriber totals are quite low, or is that a conspiracy, too? You look at politics like a fundamentalist looks at religion. Evidence doesn't matter and the troubling aspects or paradoxes get ignored. You insist that she is the candidate of the left, but you talk about her appeal to the right. Well, the right doesn't cast very many votes, and courting the support of Sheldon Adelson, Steve Bannon, Joe Rogan, and Ron Paul won't help her get the nomination one bit.
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  15974.  @joesnake100  No, Dore goes after anyone who made the actual vote in November that could have stopped Trump. He ignored the fact that Republicans would take away the filibuster, and people will suffer for decades with Gorsuch and Kavanaugh. Give it a few years, and he'll go down the HA Goodman route.
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  15975.  @joesnake100  Lots of people are saying that they will vote for Biden if he wins the nomination. A lot of those people also don't want him to get the nomination. That's because at that point (if Biden were to become the nominee) either Joe Biden or Donald Trump will be elected. If you go honestly believe anyone other than the Democraitc nominee or the Republican nominee will win the Presidency, I can get you a good deal on the Brooklyn Bridge.
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  15976.  @joesnake100  Again, Bernie won 44% of the pledged delegates. Hillary won 56%. Bernie would have had to have convinced over 3/4 of the superdelegates to vote for him. What makes you think that they would have done So? All three times prior that a candidate had a majority of pledged delegates but not total delegates (1984, 1988, 2008), the superdelegates ratified what the voters did. You can be a conspiracist all you want, but you have never provided evidence that they would have done so, or that the Hillary backers wouldn't have mutinied and voted Trump or stayed home if she would have been denied the nomination after winning the popular vote and the majority of pledged delegates. That's because you are living in a fantasy land.
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  15977.  @joesnake100  If you want Bernie to run as a third-party candidate, then your political understanding is as poor as Dore. If Bernie does, and Trump wins a second term, Bernie would go back to the Senate... and go from being the amendment king to being a pariah. He can kiss his seniority in committees good bye, and he can forget about the sponsors that he has for Medicare for All or $15 minimum wage, or anything else. Oh, and he will get a primary challenger and probably lose his seat in 2024. It is laughable that the "queen of the left" is victim of a conspiracy by all if these leftist sources while right wingers are propping her up. I don't know what you are on, but you need to get some detox if you think that. Once again, you keep asserting things without evidence. Because you have none.
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  15978.  @joesnake100  So, let me get this straight. Joe Rogan, David Duke, Steve Bannon, and Ron Paul are on the left, and people with a long track record of supporting Medicare for All, a living wage, civil rights, voting rights, women's rights, gay rights, and workers rights are really on the right? You are either a troll or the dumbest person on the internet.
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  15979.  @joesnake100  This is what cult thinking looks like. Bernie and Tulsi will win, but even if they don't, no big deal. Yes, because apparently, they are going to take support equally from Biden and Trump instead of Trump's cult of 40% staying steadfast with the 5% who are not part of the cult but will never vote for anyone to the left of Goldwater will suddenly vote for Bernie Sanders. And, then, let's hypothetically say that they do get some traction rather than mostly take from one side (Google 1912 presidential election), and they get a decent amount of electoral votes, even the most. But they don't get to 270, so it gets decided in the House... where it gets decided by Democrats and Republicans. And if you think there is no difference at all between Biden and Trump, I have two words for you: Supreme Court. But then again, you don't engage or listen to actual evidence, and I am done wasting my time dealing with someone so fundamentally dishonest.
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  15980.  @jessestreet2549  Your previous statement isn't showing up. The one that I responded to seemed to imply that this would be the thing that would finally break the dam.
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  15981.  @rs72098  What does the House have to do with the Supreme Court? And a state-by-state look at the Senate races suggests that I wouldn't get ahead of myself on pronouncing Evil Turtle the new Majority Leader.
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  15982.  @jessestreet2549  It shows up sometimes and not others. The First Amendment has nothing to do with private companies. Now, you can argue whether or not it favors a free exchange of ideas, but multibillion dollar companies will always have TOS, and sometimes things just happen. It's not always malicious. Sometimes, it's just something that happens on something its size. There is no rhyme nor reason to what doesn't show up in my experience.
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  15983.  @jessestreet2549  I've gotten those warnings as well, but the comment made it up unedited. What I think is probably the biggest cause for such things is a combination of factors: 1) algorithms do weird stuff sometimes, 2) a lot more right wingers come to lefty channels to troll than vice versa, and 3) a lot of them probably report people for no good reason. I have seen perfectly mild things disappear, so I think that some of it is random. It's happened to me, and I've had paranoid people accuse me of reporting their comments when they have disappeared.
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  15984. If she really loved him for him, and he really believed it, he wouldn't have made such an ironclad pre-nup.
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  15985. Of course, they're going after Dixon instead of Bloomberg. Ben Dixon isn't giving them tens of millions of dollars in ad revenue.
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  15986. To point it out to voters in South Carolina and hope that enough people in his state realize that he will sell them down the river, too.
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  15987.  @cqtaylor  She formed a PAC that was supposed to elect lefty candidates and ended up enriching herself and stiffing the candidates. She wrote a book arguing for a red/brown alliance that argued that Bernie and Trump had more in common than the "establishment." In 2020. She laughed off the coup attempt. With friends like her, who needs enemies?
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  15988. She didn't even remember that well. You can see her script at the bottom of the screen.
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  15989. Because judges below the Supreme Court level are bound by precedent, and Supreme Court Justices aren't except for their judicial philosophies.
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  15990. If Trump wins, I know we'll get nothing. If Biden wins, we might get something. Not a lot, but something is better than nothing.
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  15991. If he was funded by the Koch Brothers he wouldn't have H&M underwear? Mine is Fruit of the Loom! I have never heard of not rich people using H&M as their brand.
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  15992.  @Johnny-h7v1f  Rubin literally said that he didn't predict a red wave when there is video of him not only doing so, but predicting the defeat of AOC.
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  15993.  @Johnny-h7v1f  Never said "couldn't." If you believe that, you've been watching too much Dave Rubin. Let me explain how this works: if you get the vaccine, you are a) less likely to get the virus, and b) will spread it to fewer people with a breakthrough case. Both of these things mean you are far less likely to pass it to other people. The claim was never zero. Too many anti-vaccine idiots made that impossible.
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  15994.  @Johnny-h7v1f  "Elitest wannabes" You mean people who want to be the most elite?
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  15995.  @Johnny-h7v1f  Date of show and timestamps. You know why? Because there are these things called variations, and the vaccine was so effective against the original virus and the early mutations that, had people have gotten the vaccine in late 2020 and early 2021 and taken it seriously for just a few more months, the virus would have never mutated, and Delta would have never become a thing. As a matter of fact, the original, the Alpha, and the Beta variants? They're pretty much gone. Maddow never said it would happen, she said it could happen, and that was the case before the anti-vaccine crowd insisted on endangering themselves and others. You see, in science, there are these things called data points, and when they change, often the conclusions change as well. A third of the population refusing to get vaccinated or practice any mitigation factors? "Watch me spread and change!"
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  15996.  @stillwill2215  Obama was proof of a dealignment, which is ironically what Nixon turned out to be on the right. He was proof that the Republican majority was no more, but he didn't have it in him to move the needle. Bernie does.
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  15997. Probably because he was her boyfriend at the time and mostly just sat in the background.
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  15998.  @anarchsnark  Pun intended?
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  15999.  @ingridschmid1709  He has been more lowkey in milking his infamy.
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  16000. As the father of a six-year-old girl who is an aspiring theater kid, sometimes people really are that way. I think maybe some people are so used to him doing it in a way that seems insincere that it's hard to tell when it's genuine.
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  16001. ​ @richardowens9061  The shooter and one other person died.
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  16002.  @richardowens9061  Well, either you are spreading misinformation, or you don't know. I, for one, prefer not to willfully spread false stories.
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  16003.  @sooperheep  Agreed. I am against unnecessary suffering, but humans are built to eat meat. Not that we should be full-on carnivores, but that is how we are made. I don't eat a lot of red meat, but I know that my seasonal affective disorder is a lot worse if I don't eat a burger at least once every other week. Another absurdity is the vegans who either let their children or pets die because they are so morally opposed to the consumption of animal products that they force it on beings that needs those proteins. I have no patience for absolutists.
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  16004.  @eddiefinlaw8045  Especially one who has called three or four times before.
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  16005. Even the per capita argument is ridiculous on its face, because we are ninth. We're not "way down here."
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  16006.  @XHALE303  How is that for the Democrats? The incubator lie helped push Poppy's war.
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  16007. That would be a terrible way to do it, because of the viability standard. In a sense, what helps someone like Biden with a big field is that it is much easier for him to hide. In terms of math, if establishment candidates whose voters would otherwise go to Biden take a point here and there, this helps Bernie.
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  16008.  @BobbyU808  Yeah, because punishing the DNC and the country as a whole to help throw the election to Trump really convinced them to pick a true blue lefty, just like it worked when Nader tried it. You sound like the left version of Republicans who insist that Cuba is about ready to crack and overthrow the Castro regime if only we keep the sanctions going a little while longer. Meanwhile, over a million Americans may very well die because the idiot who won decided to get rid of the pandemic response unit. Great strategy!
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  16009.  @BobbyU808  What are you talking about? My comments on this thread are internally consistent. I'm not pilloring someone as a fake pretending to fight the establishment (which is especially ironic considering what your candidate is doing now, his efforts to push Bernie out the door, and the actions of your second choice candidate) and then saying that you are said that he is gone. My point was simple: either you keep your principles by deciding that you pick the better or less bad candidate based on who actually has a nonzero chance of winning the election so you can pull that person your way, or you take your ball and go home while pretending that your actions have no impact whatsoever. Bernie maintained his principles and fought for better things. By the logic in your first post, Bernie should have fought the ACA instead of realizing it was the best that could be done at the time, learning the lesson of EMK who long said his biggest mistake was killing the Nixon health care plan because he thought he could get something better. The implication that he "kinda pulled an Alyssa Milano" for his 2016 endorsement and subsequent shock when people called you out on such ridiculous notions shows that either you are really bad at expressing yourself or you are trolling.
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  16010. Ruben Gallego is a very good Congressman, and he would be a massive improvement. My only fear is that a bunch of people smell blood in the water, and she sneaks through the primary with a third of the vote.
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  16011.  @Jkon1993  And I just noticed how you slipped in the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend. So, a program that the poor and disabled won't get the full benefit of and uses regressive tax to pay for it is suddenly going to make everything better?
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  16012.  @w.iraheta3769  Yang's signature proposal is the Freedom with 125 Strings Attached Dividend, not Democracy Dollars.
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  16013.  @MsDesignDiva  I saw the Unsolved Mysteries rerun about this case the other day, and the update was that police suspected homicide because she overheard a drug deal, but they weren't able to find a suspect.
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  16014. The "it's still Medicare" hit its peak in 2011, with Politifact, to their eternal shame, saying "Paul Ryan will end Medicare as we know it" was the Lie of the Year.
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  16015.  @xyzsame4081  Hence why it was so absolutely ridiculous to call it a lie when that's what he wanted to do.
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  16016. Me, too. I think that's a lot of us.
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  16017.  @akraidiant4078  Brain cells? He has more than one?
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  16018.  @SJNaka101  So, your answer is to force the people who are on the social safety net to choose between their current benefits and his plan?
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  16019.  @Murmurrr  I don't know about him, but for me it started when I heard him slamming Bernie's idea for free tuition and making a ridiculous proposal for paying off student loan debt (10% of income with no deduction). Then, I knew that he was a bad candidate when I found out that he is forcing people to choose between their current benefits and his plan, and he uses a regressive tax to pay for it. Add to that that he opposes increasing the minimum wage, will do nothing to make it easier for workers to organize, and he will do nothing to address tech monopolies, and I realized that he is a libertarian wolf in leftist clothing.
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  16020. Debates with hate mongers are rarely, if ever, about converting the Nazis. They are pretty much a lost cause. The real purpose is to show the audience how vile and toxic this ideology is so that the fence sitters never cross over to that side. For this reason, I would never do a private debate with any of them.
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  16021.  @ashlomen8432  If we enter directly, it becomes something different entirely. Zelenskyy knows that the only way to truly win is if they win completely.
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  16022. You mean the guy who supports the AfD gave a Hitler salute? No!
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  16023. If Der Orangefuhrer said the sky is blue, I'd look out my window to see if we didn't have that weird orange sky like we did last summer for a few days.
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  16024. It should have been obvious when she spent the summer of 2020 pushing a Project Veritas lie that Ilhan Omar was buying votes and using it to try to ban "ballot harvesting," or what non-fascists call letting someone drop off the ballot for someone who is unable to do so personally, such as the elderly, infirm, or disabled.
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  16025. "Member of Face-Eating Leopard Party Suprirsed That Leopard Ate His Face"
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  16026.  @acetate909  Why should we get rid of good people in Congress with expertise to get rid of some bad ones? We have term limits. They are called elections. If the problem is who gets elected, maybe the real problem is who votes for them. The fault lies not in our stars.
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  16027.  @sleepyhead8681  Indeed. Maybe instead of spending so much time complaining about the establishment, maybe understand that these people are popular among average party voters and not being sore losers insisting that coalescing around one candidate isn't "stealing the nomination." That, and maybe try the "slay the dragon of fascism first" analogy instead ;-)
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  16028.  @sleepyhead8681  I was talking about the crowd that does stupid stuff like that and never accepts a loss which makes it impossible to learn any lessons from the defeat to do better the next time. I apologize if I made it seem like I was referring to you.
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  16029.  @sleepyhead8681  I don't disagree. The popular ones that I'm referring to are the national leaders. Also, knowing where to pick your battles and how to target your pitch based on your audience. Emphasizing social issues won't work in places that are socially conservative but open to a lefty economic message, for example. What I meant was maybe spend a little more time complaining about Republicans and a little less time complaining about Biden in these primaries.
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  16030.  @sleepyhead8681  Indeed. He is the eighth President of my lifetime, and so far, he is getting off to a very good start. I have definitely been pleasantly surprised. You are so right about the people who forget that the fascists are the real enemy. I call them anti-anti-Trump.
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  16031.  @cul8terworld  People who knew better than us gave us nonsense like the Electoral College and the Three Fifths Compromise. If you want to abandon your responsibility as a citizen because you aren't knowledgeable, then no one is stopping you from not voting, but you're not going to stop me.
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  16032.  @cul8terworld  Well, if you think you are knowledgeable, you would know that the two aren't mutually exclusive. It's like the people who think that emphasizing republic means that it isn't a democracy who don't understand the fact that a republic simply means that there isn't a monarchy. Most republics (but not all [see: China, Cuba, USSR]) are democracies.
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  16033. @Dan Wruck Thank you. I do try my best.
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  16034.  @titaniumismagical8643  True. It's part of why places that have a monarch and a democracy are usually called constitutional monarchies. It's pretty obvious though that Republicans know that they can't win in a fair national election any longer, which is why they want to sever the cord with democracy.
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  16035. We're out there, but too many want to pretend we're not, so the loud voices of hate get the attention.
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  16036. Not voted out per se, but Johnson was pretty much forced out of the 1968 campaign over Vietnam, and Truman was forced out in 1952 in part because of Korea.
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  16037. 14:50 I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that no incumbent has ever done a primary debate in the modern era (1972 for Democrats, 1980 for Republicans). Carter didn't debate Kennedy, and Poppy didn't debate Buchanan. Reagan, Clinton, W, and Obama had no major primary challenge, and pretty much every primary challenge died in the crib against Der Orangefuhrer.
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  16038. These executives need their ivory backscratchers.
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  16039.  @DNomadRichG  Even in a capitalist system, we had one that worked much better for more people in the 35 years after WWII. If we did it before, we can do it again.
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  16040.  @DNomadRichG  I'll take "consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds for $200, Alex." First, you complain about the idea of paying off someone else's debt. Then, you say this is the best you can hope for under crony capitalism. Then, when I point out that we don't have to use crony capitalism, you say that it's dead. Which is it? If you really want change, there are more of us than there are of them, so we just have to keep fighting. If you are concern trolling, then I would rather not waste my time.
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  16041.  @DNomadRichG  So, you are trolling. Good to know.
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  16042.  @EchoBravo370  If we don't make the argument, tens of thousands of people will continue to die every year because they don't have health insurance, or the insurance company finds some excuse to deny coverage. Sometimes, you have to be bold and do the right thing no matter what.
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  16043.  @kemienanstad8170  I am union, and I almost never hear people say, "Please, force me to pay more for private insurance." Most people hate the shrinking networks and the increased costs.
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  16044.  @koushiro86  Hence, why I don't think it's going to happen.
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  16045.  @jiggerypokery3761  Indeed. I remember going to Lancaster County in September to do some fun stuff with my daughter. We went to a mini-golf/petting zoo place, and there was a family from Delaware with Trump masks. My thought was that I would rather see Trump masks than Trump shirts with no masks.
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  16046.  @sylviaseri4235  I think she probably would have lost regardless, but that killed her last hope.
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  16047. By this guy's logic, everyone who ever gets interviewed by a media outlet should get paid. Yeah, that'll work.
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  16048. ​ @MrJaaaaake  Sorry for taking so very long to reply, but I never got the alert way back then. It is a call in show, and nobody forced the caller to make the call. It is also considered to be a breach of journalistic ethics to pay for a source. Now, if you want to argue wny that's wrong, have at it, but at no point did anything approaching a business relationship get entered.
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  16049. ​ @billboyd4051  He literally invented none of those things that you attribute to genius. His "genius" was putting his money somewhere and taking credit later. He is actually running Twitter the way he wanted to, though, and has exposed himself.
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  16050. Actually, Marge, the Constitution doesn't require you to swear on anything. In fact, there have been Presidents who refused to swear, but affirmed instead, in part becaude of their understanding of the Sermon on the Mount.
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  16051.  @itsajob12  He probably knew this guy mainly from when he was a talking head talking about veterans issues, and didn't think that he would get someone who would just shout over him.
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  16052.  @jocksharerock7318  The problem isn't that Paul Reikhoff disagrees with us. The problem is that he keeps contradicting himself, yells over Sam for minutes and a time and then says "Let me finish!" while constantly interrupting when Sam tried to talk. It was like watching the Walter Block debate.
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  16053.  @michaelrexrode3759  Because people aren't talking about how great of a candidate Warren is, but how messed up the process was.
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  16054. She was a nurse, not a combat MOS, and she resigned her commission when she thought she could be President three years ago. She was up to 16 or 17 years in, so showing her impeccable timing, she blew her chance at a pension.
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  16055. Are you ready to concede the point now, or like your hero Jimmy Dore, are you going to dig deeper?
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  16056.  @augustcoolidge2475  Productivity has doubled in the last 40 years, but workers never got to share in the gains. The way I see it, there is a lot of catching up to do.
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  16057.  @augustcoolidge2475  SuperPAC contributions are unlimited, and depending on the form it takes, secretive.
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  16058. What was Hoover's total? Surely, there were more jobs lost then. Der Orangefuhrer was definitely a disaster for jobs and the economy.
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  16059.  @bobdob6612  So, how far does that "support" extend? And there's a difference between saying "I'm proud that someone from the same descent as me invented the radio" and "I only want to be with people of the same group or people who will make me look open minded because we share the same prejudices."
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  16060. Emma: Pause it! Sam: One of us, one of us.
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  16061.  @fahimp3  Especially if you live in a swing state. If you're in California, have at it, but not if you live in a state that is remotely close.
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  16062. Remember when coronavirus deniers insisted that Florida was a beacon of what could work because they had a lower death total than New York? Well, that is no longer the case.
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  16063.  Nalidus  15 years earlier, they decried the health care plan they opposed as Hillarycare. Do you honestly believe that they wouldn't have done the same thing if she took another shot at health care? I didn't say that racism wasn't a part of it. I am saying that I think that tribalism is the greater motivating factor.
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  16064.  @dashx1103  CHIP was passed during the Clinton years. Yes, Nixon had his health plan, but it wasn't CHIP.
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  16065.    Well, it is in this election (unless Biden really does push for a real public option) and the Supreme Court case Trump is pushing. So, which would you prefer?
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  16066.  Scorpio Way  There were literally people who were in the Senate in 1993 pushing their bill who sued the Obama Administration in 2010 saying that the individual mandate was unconstitutional. A friend of mine from my college days who devolved a bit into GOP apologist said that they didn't really think of the implications since they were in the minority and knew it wouldn't pass. And you think this helps your argument? He was a smart guy, but not in this instance.
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  16067.  Scorpio Way  I was agreeing with your point, dummy, and adding to it. Some people don't get when someone is trying to back them up. I guess you joined that club.
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  16068.  Scorpio Way  Someone has issues. Considering that you thought that I was being critical when I wasn't, and your insecurities about your intelligence, that says more about you than it does about me.
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  16069.  @TTTzzzz  The Green Party has been funded by Republicans since at least the second Nader run in 2000. They are there to siphon votes to help Republicans. Why else would Howie Hawkins get a Republican law firm to try to get back on the ballot in Wisconsin because his party was too incompetent to get the right address for his running mate and too lazy to sign an affidavit to clear it up, only to wait until right before the deadline to mail ballots out knowing that mail-in ballots have to be received by Election Day in the Badger State?
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  16070.  @resourcedragon  Yes, the vaccinated are less likely, but the young, the allergic, and the immunocompromised should not have to suffer because of the stupidity of others.
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  16071. You really wanna have some fun? When a winger says, "When did a poor person ever hire you?" ask that person how many rich people ever built a product all alone, set up the infrastructure, and created a market for a product without any help. One of these days, we might see heads explode over that one.
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  16072. "I hope you all kill each other!" Dr. Bob Kelso I am here for Republicans going after each other in such brutal and factual ways.
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  16073. This is an interesting theory, but one thing that bothers me is the idea that "Jordan saved the league" that they keep coming back to. Jordan did not save the league; Magic and Bird saved the league. Jordan brought it to new levels, but he was not the most dominant player in the 1980s at all.
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  16074. You don't know his head or his heart, but you know he doesn't have courage? Have you also recently watched The Wizard of Oz? ;-)
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  16075.  @malikmuhammad102  Oh, I totally agree. My 3 1/2 daughter wanted to watch The Wizard of Oz four times in the last two weeks, so I was just amused by the three examples Cenk listed.
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  16076. "A big portion of America is united"... against him. He forgot to finish the sentence.
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  16077. At 8:17, what does this guy think would be appropriate to ban from the curriculum?
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  16078. As a government worker who hopes to collect my pension in about 15 years, thank you, Joe Biden!
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  16079. Those who know they can't win keep insisting the system is rigged against them.
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  16080. Indeed. I remember seeing prices go up at my local gas station a couple weeks ago after the price of oil had dropped.
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  16081. The Biden campaign needs to run ad after ad with Der Orangefuhrer saying "wages are too high in America."
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  16082.  @ricardocabeza6006  Show me any time that a right was ever taken away by the Supreme Court.
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  16083.  @ricardocabeza6006  1) Doesn't say that guns are individual rights. That was invented in the Heller case. Before then, the Court always took the first part of that run on sentence as the most important. And the Heller case allows that there can be restrictions on said right. 2) The Roe decision is based on the right to privacy. 3) The Necessary and Proper Clause is a thing. 4) The Constitution never directly.says that people have the right to vote, either. Doesn't mean that it isn't there.
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  16084.  @ricardocabeza6006  1) That punctuation is not a semicolon. Try going to a basic grammar class and constructing a sentence in a similar way. The 1936 case that Heller overturned explicitly stated that it was not an individual right, and no case has ever ruled that it is unlimited, in no small part because of that pesky "well regulated" part. 2) Right to privacy results in a right to abortion because of what it would mean to enforce a ban on abortion. If the fetus becomes a person, literally every miscarriage in this country becomes a criminal investigation (there was a proposed law in Kansas that tried to do just that). 3) The irony of complaining about "legislating from the bench" from someone defending a group that has done plenty of it. Where was your outrage over Citizens United or Shelby v. Holder? 4) Voting is mentioned, but the individual right to vote is not. (Mostly, it lists the categories that can't be use to prohibit voting.) This fact has been used by courts many times to justify restrictions on voting. If you go by what is expressly stated as a right as your theory that is all that is allowed, then you would technically be fine with any restriction not explicitly based on race, gender, or an age limit above 18.
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  16085.  @ricardocabeza6006  1) Oh, look. Someone who doesn't understand what a militia is. What a shock! The militia is now known as the National Guard. Article I, Section 8 says that one of the purposes of a militia is to put down rebellion. Article II says that the President is Commander in Chief of "the Army and Navy of the United States and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States." So, when would those LARPers out in the woods be called into service? And anyone who has the paperwork when he/she enlisted in the National Guard can tell you that the oath is to the Governor before the President. 2) A fetus is not the same as a five year old. Ironically, the people who claim to care about life care far more about the former than they do the latter. 3) There are plenty of things in the Constitution that don't have to be explicitly spelled out to be a right therein. One of the initial arguments against the Bill of Rights was to say that some would say that if a right wasn't explicitly spelled out in the Bill of Rights that meant that such a right didn't exist. Considering the people who insist that there is no right to privacy or to vote, their fears were not entirely unwarranted. 4) And you have proven the fault in your own logic. While you insist that the right to vote is there, you clearly support making it more difficult to vote. People who live in cities are far less likely to have such paperwork. Ditto the poor and the elderly. When Pennsylvania tried to enact a poll tax, I mean voter ID bill, the state Supreme Court struck it down because a) even its proponents conceded that they could find no examples of impersonation voter fraud in the state, and b) people in Philadelphia were literally twice as likely as the rest of the state to not have such ID. It also didn't help that the House Majority Leader at the time was caught bragging that such a move was explicitly done to throw the election one way. Now, there was a compromise that Manchin offered last year to the Voting Rights Bill that I thought was interesting, because it expanded the list of acceptable identification to include things like utility bills and leases in order to try to solve that problem. Of course, these voter restrictions aren't about election integrity nearly as much as they are about trying to distort the electorate. Speaking of which, the Constitution doesn't spell out that those who don't own property can vote. Would you support a return to that standard? After all, it's what the Founders wanted.
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  16086.  @ricardocabeza6006  1) For someone who claims to know the definition, you show no understanding of how these things work. How are those LARPers going to get called into service? 2) So, I take it that you are also a pacifist and opposed to the death penalty? And you don't think that policies that literally increase poverty and make life more difficult for the poor don't end human life? 3) And, yet, here you are making the argument that unless a right is specifically spelled out, it is "legislating from the bench." 4) Re: I-9 forms, it is entirely possible to meet the qualifications without having a photo ID. Therefore, having an ID is not the same thing as having one that is required to vote for those who advocate poll taxes. I even remember what may have been the most ridiculous part of the PA law that got stricken: if someone requested a mail-in ballot, that person had to literally go to the county courthouse to present an ID in order to be allowed to vote. Good luck getting invalids there, especially if they had breathing machines. I did an internship at a nursing home, and a lot of those people would have been denied their right to vote. It's not about proving the person is who he/she claims to be. For example, Texas allows hunting licenses as acceptable ID, but not student IDs. My veteran's ID card wasn't considered valid under the PA law because it doesn't have an expiration date. I oppose any voter ID law that makes it harder for people to vote in order to correct a nonexistent problem, regardless of where it happens. However, because there are only so many hours in a day, I focus my attention on the most egregious examples.
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  16087.  @YandereDevSings  I doubt he's ever been there, unless as a segment or something.
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  16088.  @TheRavensOmen  If that helps you sleep at night.
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  16089.  @TheRavensOmen  Yeah, as opposed to the person defending Tucker Carlson.
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  16090.  @PavelLisov  Okay, let's grant that M&M Mars uses a Russian subsidiary to make Snickers bars sold in Russia. Whose recipe are they using and which name is the one that people find so appealing?
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  16091.  @bccbaron12  Indeed. I personally think that was probably Jamie's finest moment on the show.
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  16092.  @carloshectorbanez6652  Because Mueller was constrained by a DOJ policy, he cannot indict.
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  16093.  @carloshectorbanez6652  And your point being? Mueller explicitly stayed why he couldn't indict, and he said it was up to Congress to impeach.
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  16094.  @carloshectorbanez6652  Really? Do you not understand how this sort of thing works? Even Ken Starr didn't recommend impeachment. There is a process. There have literally been dozens of indictments, and so far there have been eight convictions or guilty pleas. Every legal scholar says that "high crimes and misdemeanors" is pretty much whatever Congress says it is. A special counsel is a DOJ employee. He can only offer evidence and findings.
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  16095. "Every idea should be on the table," but he focuses on earned benefits (let's stop calling them "entitlements," because that gets the wrong message out) instead of corporate welfare and a bloated Defense budget that even the Pentagon doesn't want can't be touched.
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  16096. "Andrew Yang loves the letter." Well, he's a fake lefty, so what did you expect?
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  16097. He's a ladder puller!
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  16098.  @a_random_voice_in_the_void  Bernie Sanders has been the de facto Democratic candidate in Vermont ever since his first Congressional victory in 1990. He narrowly lost in 1988 because he and the Democratic nominee split the votes. So, in 1990, the Democratic Party put up a sacrificial lamb. He has rarely had a Democratic opponent since, and when he did, that person lost the Democratic primary to Bernie. Therefore, he is the exception that proves the rule. Riddle me this, Batman. How many Greens have been elected to Congress? How many Libertarians (and Ron Paul doesn't count, because he got elected as a Republican)? How many Constitution Party? How long since there was a Socialist?
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  16099.  @a_random_voice_in_the_void  And Angus King is rich. That proves my point that without a party structure, the only people who will win are people rich enough to fund their own campaigns. The Founders hated parties, but it only took them three years after the Constitution to start forming them. Why do you think that is?
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  16100.  @a_random_voice_in_the_void  AOC ran as a Democrat. You find two examples, and they are either a) someone who became the de facto candidate of a major party, and b) someone with a lot of money to fund his own campaign. If you really think that AOC proves your point, then all you have proven is that you are an ideologue who doesn't understand how your examples work.
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  16101.  @a_random_voice_in_the_void  No, she ran as a Democrat in the primary. And, you don't understand my argument at all. It is that you have to be rich to win with no formal structure to run for major office. And it's never about raising the most, but you do have to raise enough. If AOC had decided to run as an independent, do you honestly think that the grassroots groups that did help her win would have done so? Some of them had "taking over the Democratic Party" as their whole raison d'etre. And again, Bernie didn't win a statewide election until he became the de facto Democrat in 1990. When he tried to run statewide as an independent against both parties, he got crushed until he was in a close race that he lost in 1988, and the Democratic Party decided not to try the next time so he could win. I could also point to the fact that Joe Lieberman won re-election in 2006 after losing the nomination because he became the de facto Republican candidate in the race (and he still pulled nearly a third of Democratic voters). You are so caught up with the label that you don't even notice the on the ground situation.
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  16102.  Steve Austin  Have you read the Constitution? Impeachment and removal are not the same thing. The House impeaches, and the Senate conducts the trial with the Chief Justice presiding.
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  16103. It was a blockbuster TV show decades before it was a hit movie.
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  16104. So, five years to realize that right-wing populism is fake? Better late than never, I suppose.
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  16105. And the lines. The lines! Lines, lines, lines!
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  16106.  @suzanne9150  And Bernie for using the HELP Committee to put the screws on the pharmaceutical companies.
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  16107. If Tim Pool is in the Eastern Panhandle, he can be as little as 50 miles from Washington, DC.
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  16108.  @thegrandwombat8797  Right wing populism is fake. You make great points, but it is nothing more than misdirection, so we need to stop maligning the proud history of populism with this disgusting mess.
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  16109.  @plawson8577  I don't know where you're getting those numbers. The top rate on income in the Bush years was 35%, and the capital gains rate was 15%. It is true that the richest 400 families now pay less than the average family as an effective rate. That is in large part due to how capital gains is treated.
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  16110.  @DavidHeffron78  He has none in terms of getting rid of a Senate rule.
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  16111. Der Orangestraflingfuhrer once bragged about finding an excuse to barge into the dressing rooms of the Miss Teen USA pageant in order to try to catch some of the contestants undressed. Never forget.
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  16112. No minimum wage increase has ever failed in the polls. It's even more popular than drug legalization.
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  16113. ​ @statik4961  And how did he do in Game Seven?
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  16114. If Brian Kilmeade comes off sounding smarter than you, you know you've stepped in it.
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  16115. Sean Hannity while Roe was in effect: Democrats want to kill babies! Sean Hannity today: Democrats say Republicans don't want any legal abortions. It's unfair!
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  16116.  @Bernacide  It's still made by pharmaceutical companies. Go play with Bunny Lebowski some more.
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  16117. The only reason why I think that he's not is because the Antichrist is supposed to start by doing good things to fool people, but Trump has been pure evil from the start and never bothered to hide it.
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  16118. 16:11 I wonder what this guy would say if someone played him a recording of Nina Simone or Brian Aubert from Silversun Pickups singing, or Sade speaking.
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  16119. The reason why so many ask about the incremental approach is because they always want to go so slowly that it won't affect their gravy train. After all, a lot of insurance companies advertise on the news.
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  16120.  @andersondalmeus1406  He's only seven years younger than Olbermann. He just seems older because he's been around forever.
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  16121. Oh, look, the libertarian chorus right on time.
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  16122. He picked the CEO of ExxonMobil for Secretary of State the first time around. How is any of this shocking to these people?
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  16123.  @christinalaw6367  [citation needed]
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  16124. Ladies and gentlemen, the woman who thought it was a good idea to go to a Mexican restaurant after stories broke of her boss ordering the kidnapping of children at the border.
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  16125. Let's hope these dummies remember this when it comes time to vote again.
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  16126. Probably because he isn't as familiar with American media outlets and wants to get his message out wherever he can.
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  16127.  @paulmccarter908  Well, there is never a shortage of money for people who want corporations to run roughshod over workers.
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  16128. This is the same guy who once said "If the didn't watch us on Wednesdays, I don't want them watching us on Thursdays" when Seinfeld got a plum spot after Cheers. Does anyone think that Larry David is worried about MAGAts getting offended at him making fun of the hat?
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  16129.  @JordanAF808  Dore cultists think very highly of themselves. I've heard several compare themselves to King and Parks. Then again, King and Parks did actual work, and they understood that #HashtagActivismIsNotActivism
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  16130.  @andrewkoster6506  Nicki Minaj went right wing?
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  16131.  @phiscz  I've never heard Benny Boy's rapping, but if it's anywhere near as bad as his recitation of WAP, it's horrible. You'd think she'd see the Kanye endgame and stay away.
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  16132. Except she very rarely does it when her vote is decisive. In all honesty, the real wild card with keeping the ACA was McCain flipping his vote, because nobody expected that to happen. If he doesn't do that, Mike Pence kills it.
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  16133. Because Republicans won't go for it. They'll stick behind Der Orangefuhrer. Maybe we lose because our people have zero sense of strategy.
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  16134. ​ @firstlast9916  Insurance companies do save, because they don't have to pay for something much more expensive down the road. For example: if you pay $50/month for contraception, you'll save tens of thousands of dollars in not having to pay for childbirth at a hospital.
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  16135.  @firstlast9916  Last time I checked, Peter Thiel isn't an actuary. It doesn't take a PhD to figure out that not having to pay for a five-figure childbirth every couple of years and cover the extra children who are born costs a company a lot less than covering the pill.
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  16136.  @firstlast9916  Because they nickel and dime and fight every single expenditure.
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  16137.  @umairh7737  Yes! She is living proof of the difference between isolation and peace.
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  16138. Is that Ryan O'Neal saying that love is the most ridiculous thing he ever heard at 11:40? If so, as close as it was to Love Story, that is beautiful. I watched that movie one time being bored, and I couldn't help but laugh when he lifted his hand to Oliver III and repeated the line.
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  16139. ​@BraceStarm She has definitely shown that the Trump Town Hall was an aberration where she got forced into allowing softballs. Good on her for making sure that never happens to her again.
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  16140.  @amyh3873  Actually, Ivy League schools aren't allowed to give out athletic scholarships. Oh, it wouldn't surprise me if some nominally qualified people get academic scholarships who happen to play football, but it is strictly speaking not for football.
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  16141.  @amyh3873  That's part of it. I've known quite a few Ivy Leaguers who weren't jocks, and I honestly don't know how they got in. One is a friend who went to Wharton and came to me (whose degree is in religious studies) for help on his tax return. Not exactly the best advertisement.
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  16142.  @amyh3873  I know he wasn't a legacy. I never really asked how he got in, because I figured that would sound mean, aside from the ribbing that i gave him on the fact that he was asking me for tax advice. Everything that I've heard from people who went is that Ivy League schools are hard to get into, but pretty easy to pass once you're there.
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  16143.  Nigel Henry  I didn't say that it was always the case. I said very rare. Abigail Disney thus far seems to be the one. That being said, if you read Winners Take All by Anand Giharardis (sp?), it goes into painstaking detail about how those who get that kind of money almost always do it by hurting other people, and they then seek damage control by pretending to fix the problem that they create.
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  16144.  @Xpistos510  Okay, what are the other ways to build that kind of wealth that don't involve those four?
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  16145.  @jlord9638  JK Rowling isn't a billionaire anymore, and do we know how George Lucas treated workers when building that name that could be sold to Disney?
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  16146.  @T0MNOOK  There are examples, but the burden of proof is on the person profiting to show that he/she supports workers. It just seems odd to me to suggest, for example, that someone who invested in fossil fuels is credible on environmental issues rather than trying to assuage guilt.
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  16147. "You don't get that kind of money without crushing some dreams." Tim Black
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  16148.  @icemanvamp7433  Well, if you hang around with right-wing types who don't understand the fact that there was a pent-up demand, as well as corporations gouging customers (they are on tape saying that they won't give the lower prices back), then of course you'll think that "printing money" is what caused inflation.
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  16149. A lot of this reminds me of the time that the UK chart had a blank spot for the #1 single because they didn't want "God Save the Queen" to take that position during the Jubilee.
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  16150.  @unevilGenius  The Supreme Court, whether or not Trump would be a real threat, 9/11 truth, Seth Rich, Hillary has Parkinson's, Assad, Tulsi, Medicare expansion, and Force the Vote.
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  16151.  @unevilGenius  They did get concessions. The most relevant one is the loophole to the Paygo rules that makes any big bill even possible. Why was it a stupid idea? We already have a sponsor list, and are you familiar with the idea of catch and release? As far as some of the others, he has repeatedly tried to convince people that Trump isn't that bad and that it won't matter if he gets multiple Supreme Court picks. He is a 9/11 Truther, he pushed the Seth Rich conspiracy, and pretty much everything he told Sam Seder in 2016 was proven wrong. And Tulsi has taken off any vestiges of her lefty mask that should have been totally obvious by 2019.
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  16152.  @unevilGenius  Okay. You didn't answer the question about Catch and Release. It was a tactic pioneered by Tom DeLay. It involves making sure that you get the desired result while allowing members a chance to keep up appearances. In his case, it was about letting "moderate" members appear to be. Barney Frank famously described it as "There is no such thing is a moderate Republican. They might say that they vote with the President [Bush at the time] 70% of the time, but they vote with the President 100% of the time when he needs their votes." So, there are one of exactly three possible results relative to the sponsor list. 1) The sponsor list is accurate, and the bill falls 100 votes short, killing any possible momentum. 2) The Soft Yes members become Hard No, and now you're even farther away than when you started (considering that at least one sponsor in the 116th who is still in the House isn't on the list in the 117th, this may have already happened). 3) Pelosi uses Catch and Release to let a few members in lefty districts to vote Yes in order to avoid another AOC/Bowman, so you have deflated the momentum against someone like Hakeem Jefferies, and now you have someone who'll never vote Yes if it really is possible. Tell me, please, how any of these are good if your goal is to actually get to 218 votes in the House?
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  16153. If it was Trump's call, there is no doubt in my mind that he would have let the terrorists proceed.
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  16154.  @missgemini6973  Then, you don't really understand the purpose. The purpose is to try to tell the white supremacists that this is a fight for them while hoping that everyone else misses that point, but it was too obvious.
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  16155.  @missgemini6973  I didn't say they were confused. I said that they want to know that someone is one of them.
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  16156.  @glennjohn3824  I am talking about the net worth of your Dear Leader. The context clues should have been obvious. Are you telling me that you try to pass yourself off as a billionaire?
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  16157.  @greg5326  Was she right about allowing superspreader events in her state? Even she knows the answer to that given the fact that she is now on commercials insisting that South Dakota is taking coronavirus seriously now.
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  16158.  @glennjohn3824  Well, you need to take responsibility for your reading comprehension.
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  16159. ​ @robbyrodriguez7099  Except they can't really break it up into smaller parts, because if you look at the map of the Republic of Texas, it's already been split up into parts of like eight states.
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  16160.  @zgjfinance2796  Because he got people $600/week in extra unemployment. That was his amendment. Maybe stop listening to grifters like Jimmy Dore and Krystal "The Squad are Sellouts for Passing the CARES Act but Pelosi Should Take McConnell's Deal to Sell Workers Down the River" Ball.
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  16161.  @karl2229  Well, Bernie actually got things for workers in that bill. The amendment king had the most effective part of all, by getting the $600/week in additional unemployment. That alone kept tens of millions out of poverty.
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  16162. When there was a talking filibuster, there was usually only about one per decade. If someone wants to keep talking, that person can try, but if the rule is changed from 3/5 of all Senators to 3/5 of voting Senators, that makes 41 Senators stand by for a vote. Let us not forget that the longest filibuster ever ultimately failed, because the Civil Rights Act of 1957 passed despite Thurmond talking for 24 1/2 hours.
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  16163. Which side are you on? Which side are you on?
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  16164.  James Gray  So, you'd rather people not get the supplemental unemployment?
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  16165.  @Dan0TheMano  So, the concession is to force a vote that you know will fail miserably just to give Pelosi another chance to say it's a dead end and kill it for a generation? Like AOC said, what is step two?
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  16166.  @curiouscat3384  Bernie's 79. Should have have been put out to pasture instead of being allowed to run for Senate?
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  16167.  James Gray  Nothing's wrong with me. I don't listen to idiots like Jimmy Dore or grifters like Krystal Ball. There was one bill in March 2020: the CARES Act. It had the votes to pass regardless of what people like Bernie or AOC did. So, they decided to try to make it better. Bernie in particular got an amendment to add $600/week to unemployment. So, the choice was a) "show a backbone" and get nothing in unemployment or stimulus checks to the people, or b) use their heads and make sure that the things that they saw as important got added to the bill. The choice was clear to anyone with a brain.
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  16168.  James Gray  Bernie literally wrote the amendment, oh wise one. The fact that you didn't know that tells me that you had your head too far up the butts of Dore and Ball to know what was actually going on.
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  16169. You are correct, sir or madam!
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  16170.  @justsomeguy6474  That's not how that works. It means that you can't use a pardon to avoid an impeachment.
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  16171.  @justsomeguy6474  [citation needed]
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  16172. Quite frankly, Bernie understands the basic rules and the system in ways that some of his supposed supporters do not. You don't get the title Amendment King by refusing to negotiate or "fighting harder" (looking at you, TYT and Kyle Kulinski), you get it by taking what you can and then fighting another day for the rest of the loaf.
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  16173.  @soblakismyself  There is a limit. Ads can spin things, but they can be pulled for saying things that are willfully false. If someone runs an ad saying, "Party A votes the day after the election," that will be pulled. I once saw where ads got pulled where a candidate accused a coal baron of saying that a mining accident was "statistically insignificant," as though the "rare and" before that completely changed it.
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  16174.  @ShermThursby  Well, a vet against wars she didn't like, but understood. She fooled a lot of people in 2016.
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  16175.  @CSGraves  I think GI Joe definitely aged the worst. Admittedly, as a boy, I didn't think anything of it one way or another, but I probably watched all of those shows at one time or the other regardless of the target audience. With that few channels (we didn't really start going past 2-13 until after I started kindergarten), stuff had to have crossover appeal.
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  16176.  @justicewalking  So, we should wait for all of the evidence on Russia even though plenty exists, but it is just fine to run a story so ridiculous that even Fox wouldn't touch it? The anti-anti-Trump crowd doesn't know who its real enemy is.
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  16177.  @NikoHL  Last I checked, only one party tried a violent overthrow of American government. Both sides are not equally bad, and saying so is the height of laziness and/or dishonesty.
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  16178. @Jason Johnson Pretty much everyone did at that point.
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  16179.  @ephemer1125  There's one called LOL Surprise.
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  16180.  @getschwifty7413  Effective and natural aren't the same thing. Women rarely shaved their legs and armpits until King Gillette (I'm not being sarcastic, that was literally his name) convinced a fashion designer selling sleeveless dresses to have the models shave and then not only did he double the market, but women's razors tend to cost more than men's razors do.
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  16181.  @ephemer1125  I think you replied to the wrong person. I'm in agreement that this latest culture war thing is stupid. My point was that there is no such thing as a toy that is inherently for boys or girls.
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  16182.  @getschwifty7413  Why don't they enforce it on smaller businesses? Because a mom and pop toy store probably only has a few aisles in which to put up its merchandise, but the kind of store that has plenty of room can easily make sure that it has one section that doesn't label toys as strictly for girls or for boys. And the greater irony of all is that, just maybe, some of the gender dysphoria that these people are so repulsed by is caused by having such a rigid notion of gender that if people weren't forced to believe that there was something wrong with them if they picked up "the wrong toy" might cause a lot less harm later on down the road.
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  16183.  @getschwifty7413  To the extent that society is succeeding in that, you have people like Benny Boy making it out to be the biggest threat to the nation since the Soviets got the bomb.
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  16184.  @getschwifty7413  You've never seen people do that to kids? What a wonderful bubble you must live in!
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  16185.  @ephemer1125  Indeed. When I was in kindergarten, I had a teacher who tried to switch me to being right-handed. My cousin who is five years older than me said that my aunt forced her to write with her right. When she had a son, she got pressure to make him write with his right, but she refused because of what happened to her. If people still aren't over the idea that some people write with their left hand, what makes the head in the sand crowd think that those people are fine with boys playing with Barbies?
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  16186.  @ephemer1125  It's all right. It happens to the best of us.
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  16187.  @getschwifty7413  It was in response to the way Benny Boy said other Jewish people who didn't practice their faith in the same way he does (including Sam) isn't really Jewish, and given the history of anti-Semitic persecution that uses that very same line of attack, Shapiro gets all the crap he gets from it. And see my response a few above where I talk about how people are still trying to change lefties to this day and tell me if there isn't a sizable portion of the population wouldn't get up in arms about boys playing with My Little Pony.
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  16188.  @getschwifty7413  I'm pretty sure there is at least one video from TMR that shows him making this exact argument, insisting that some people are "only culturally Jewish," and basically they have to agree with him on the social issues to take their Judaism seriously.
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  16189.  @getschwifty7413  Some Orthodox are very weird about such things. For that matter, I once heard someone who was a practicing member of Conservative Judaism joke that his Reform girlfriend wasn't "really practicing, just going through the motions."
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  16190.  @ameliadelcastillo5424  She was a great Speaker, but she has moved significantly to the right over the last few years.
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  16191.  @Bolts_Films  I think that Ben had a psychological break once he lost everything except the Great Northern and Horne's Department Store. There are times where he talks about the difficulty of choosing to do good, which at first had me worried that BOB would inhabit him next. So, I think it's mostly being punished for his more untoward activities and wanting to right the ship to rebuild rather than a shift of conscience, which I think is even more compelling.
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  16192.  @alaric49  And apparently a lot of people are ignoring the fact that David spelled out why Tulsi Gabbard is not who people think she is. Continuing to focus on her is something that I'm guessing he would see as piling on at this point.
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  16193. ​ @colewarner4954  Insurance companies get rich by delaying payment or refusing to pay out whenever possible.
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  16194. Her hero Der Orangefuhrer killed hundreds of thousands of Americans. Even if you only count servicemembers, no President since Carter has seen a lower number than 13. (His only fatalities were from the helicopters crashing together on the aborted Iranian rescue mission.)
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  16195. The only positive thing I can say about him is that he's 78, has a poor diet, and doesn't exercise, so maybe he won't be around much longer to make the world a worse place.
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  16196. ​ @superb9151 You mean people like Bernie? Or do you mean "fighters" like Jimmy Dore who supported the candidate who called Medicare for All "un-American" in the primaries and praised her for her brilliant tactics?
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  16197.  @firstnamelastname6699  To be fair, the landlord drives up the price of property, which makes it much harder for said low income people to afford to buy a house. If your rent is $850/month (which is a steal in most major metropolitan areas, which is where the jobs are), within ten years, you will have paid over $100,000 with nothing to show for it, and the landlord sees all of the increases in the value of the property that you have paid for. I think that a lot more people would be able to afford to buy if rent wasn't so jacked up.
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  16198.  @cartman19892  His idea was some Rube Goldberg contraption that would have made no sense at all.
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  16199.  @TheWolfCub71  I don't think it would. A role like that hinges on relationships, and I just don't think "mid-city mayor" really hits the spot. He would be best for something analytical, but where he couldn't use his analytics to look for "efficiency" that would hurt people.
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  16200.  @ortegazs  Agreed about the former, not so sure about the latter given things like defending torture and courting of Sheldon Adelson and did his bidding to try to get rid of his competition, among others.
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  16201.  @ortegazs  Yes, she is. That being said, if she's taking down the worst of the bunch, I'm not going to stop her.
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  16202.  @maxlu9573  White flight had gone on long before busing. Levittown came long before 1973, and they only allowed white families in.
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  16203. When I hear that nonsense about unemployment being too generous, I say that this is really an indictment of companies that pay so little that unemployment looks like a better option. If someone hasn't gone too far deep and remembers being screwed over by a boss, this is a jumping off point.
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  16204. 1:38 The correct answer is and always will be Luna Lovegood.
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  16205. Indeed. This is not "understandable reaction to horrible treatment." Defending Hamas is not defending the Palestinian people, and purposely targeting civilians is reprehensible.
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  16206. Even if Trump didn't know, Miller did. Jesus said "Forgive them, for they know not what they do?" but what do we do with the people who know exactly what they are doing?
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  16207. I think they are there to a) run for VP, b) increase their profiles, c) split the anti-Trump vote. Of course, they can't disagree with Der Orangefuhrer.
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  16208. High-load mutual funds are a worse investment than whole life insurance.
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  16209.  chris younts  Indeed. However, the John Birch Society was a whole other level, saying that Eisenhower was a commie, and they're the ones who started the fluoride panic.
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  16210. ​ @betterthanyesterday3912  Biden can pick up a water glass with one hand.
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  16211. Actually, they used fully automatic weapons when shooting back.
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  16212. Jimmy Dore is the Underpants Gnomes of pundits. What is the next step? Literally anyone not named Tulsi Gabbard who actually accomplishes things or wins is branded a sellout. Then again, Tulsi didn't win and she retired because she knew that her district had enough of her, so maybe that's why he picked one of the most starboard candidates as the One True Lefty.
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  16213. It depends on what he is convicted for. If it's something related to January 6th, he can't, but most others he still can. Eugene Debs ran for President in 1920 from prison on Espionage Act charges (except unlike Trump, his was for making a speech against WWI).
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  16214.  @capricornblack3450  What lies for Afghanistan?
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  16215.  @waynechapman9823  LBJ never made loose talk about using nuclear weapons. In fact, he warned about an opponent who advocated it. (To the day I die, I will argue that the Daisy ad was completely fair, because Barry Goldwater did advocate "limited tactical nuclear weapons," which isn't a thing, so this was the end result of his policy.)
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  16216.  @waynechapman9823  Okay, I'm going to have to say [citation needed] for a bunch of this stuff. The only times we didn't see war is because someone convinced Trump to back off at the last minute, and both his usage of the mother of all bombs (the largest conventional bomb ever made) and his acceleration of drone strikes killed a lot of people.
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  16217.  @dnate697  Indeed. Definitely a lot better than that goofy idea by Mayo Pete (he's a good communicator, but man, is he awful at his job!) of five Republicans, five Democrats, and five independents on the Court. I know some people are talking about giving up after Bernie lost, but he's still in a position to do a lot of good. (Given how much Manchin and Sinema are sabotaging Biden, I'd hate to see what they'd do to Bernie out of spite.) In a sense, he was our Moses leading us through the wilderness, so who will be the Joshua to actually get us to the promised land?
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  16218. ​ @52flyingbicycles  Whatever happened to the $7MM Stein raised in 2016 for the recount in Wisconsin? Being a grifter isn't about the number, but what you do.
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  16219. Not quite right. Roy was meant to live for four years. His incept date was Jan. 8, 2016, so the story takes place over two months, and Roy dies in early 2020.
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  16220. ​ @mariannejackson6020  Indeed. In my church, we've been praying for healing in Springfield and for the people spreading this vicious lie to stop.
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  16221.  @Vanderearden  After mentioning Medicare for All, five of the next six things that I mentioned preceded her announcement for President. So, you're saying that Tulsi called out Harris for the exact same thing that she did? And in that moment that the tulcels love to point to in order to try to play up her lefty credentials, she was changing the subject when three other candidates were going after Biden. For someone who likes to play the Context card, this is a huge own goal. And show me where Bernie and anyone else on the actual left dog whistled Medicare for All and called it "un-American."
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  16222.  @Vanderearden  Apparently, you have never seen the sponsorship list nor understand the stakes and the amount of money geared up to fight against it. Through actual actions in Philadelphia (I did mine through Philly DSA and Philly Neighborhood Networks, but other groups such as Health Care 4 All PA played a role), we got a member of Congress (Brendan Boyle) to sign on to the bill. When this pandemic ends or the worst is over, we'll go back to the grassroots to add to that. Until then, we'll make phone calls and pressure members who aren't on that list, and once we get to 218 & 50, we'll make sure those are Hard Yes. Since you care so much about actions, what have you actually done?
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  16223. Does Baby Donny need a blankie?
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  16224.  @frankdayton731  Which party tried to overturn an election that had the highest turnout in 120 years again?
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  16225. I'm not surprised he didn't testify. I am surprised the defense only called two witnesses, and one of them was just there to explain a document.
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  16226. @studio732jrl2 Let me break it down for you, white knight wannabe. Jada Pinkett Smith is a celebrity. At awards shows, jokes are told about celebrities. If you want to make your personal business known to the whole world, you invite this sort of thing. If you think that violence is an acceptable response to words, then you are a toxic individual.
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  16227. In fairness, America did not vote for a mafioso President. If the people had our choice in the 2016 general election, Hillary Clinton would have won. It was the Electoral College that saddled us with that idiot.
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  16228. She got some things the first time around, but this is like watching Willie Mays with the Mets.
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  16229.  @tuffy135ify  The original version the House passed had a public option. When Scott Brown was elected, and the Senate had to go with budget reconciliation, there was no choice but to accept the Senate version.
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  16230.  @peperlover99  In the Senate, yes, but the House had passed a bill with it and the Senate passed one without it in 2009. Based on the reconciliation rules, instead of going to conference, the House had to accept the Senate version. It was the election of Scott Brown that convinced all sides to take the Senate version because it was better to pass something than go through all that for nothing (as the White House was ready to do).
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  16231.  @georgekraft1401  Ojeda is a state senator.
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  16232.  @sharmakeaden392  Workplace Democracy that will require employers to pass on the savings from Medicare for All to the worker, and to let workers share in the fruits of our labor.
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  16233. I doubt El Classico gets that many viewers. The North American audience alone was 130MM. I've seen that the worldwide audience is usually about 300MM, so that would mean more than a billion people watch a league game. The World Cup draws 3.5B, and it has no competition with dozens of other leagues. But Sam said "one of the most watched," and I think over a quarter of a billion qualifies.
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  16234. As to your second point, you are absolutely correct. Nick DiPaolo isn't funny. I don't think I laughed at him once on Tough Crowd, any of the roasts, etc.
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  16235.  @massivepassive  I was being sarcastic.
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  16236.  @treedillinger5801  That was the exception. The cultists for Moscow Donald didn't care one way or the other. Anything short of him pulling his pants down and taking a giant dump on stage would have been seen as "beating expectations."
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  16237.  @fuzicast  Well, it is a flat out lie when he keeps saying everyone gets it, as he does in every interview, and he didn't correct Jose Diaz-Balart when he said "no exceptions." I have tried several times, and I can't find the list of 125 programs where he forces people to choose between their current benefits and his plan.
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  16238.  @sidku9246  I looked for the list. It is either not there or buried where no reasonable person would look. It would have taken more than ten seconds to say that people currently receiving benefits have to choose between their current benefits and his plan? Instead, he let the lie stand. Then again, maybe if he wasn't passing off his right-wing proposal as a left-wing one, we wouldn't be having this discussion.
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  16239. There is no floor to their depravity.
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  16240. So, Martin Luther King was luring people in?
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  16241. There was a 2015 interview with Fortune where Mayo Pete literally compared being mayor to a real-life Sims game. He is just awful.
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  16242. There have been military vaccination requirements in the United States since 1777 when Washington required smallpox vaccines.
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  16243.  @waterfrodo4304  The vast majority of the time, it is totally irrelevant.
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  16244. The battle for the Speaker is a fight between nihilists and fascists, and I am loving watching them destroy each other.
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  16245.  @theworkethic  It's a Portlandia reference. Look up the song. It is hilarious.
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  16246. Candidates who are trying to win the Presidency at the ballot box don't spend the past few days going to states that aren't remotely competitive. The only thing that makes sense to me is the Thom Hartmann argument that Der Orangestraflingfuhrer is focused more on House races, especially now that he's talking about his "little secret" with Johnson.
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  16247.  @jonv1776  He has also changed on Medicare for All, saying that he supports a public option.
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  16248.  @nomercy4521  I'm pretty confident that I am right. Look up the Medicare for All plan by Bernie, and his answer on private insurance. Even Kamala Harris agrees with that. Also, look up Medicare Buy-in. That is the public option.
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  16249. What were some of his funny bits? Not his guests, but Dore himself.
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  16250. There is a difference between being stupid and mentally disabled. I suspect that Dave Rubin is the former.
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  16251.  @fattonyd232  First of all, the point about the mystery producer is that the only credited producer on his show is his wife. So, either he made up a producer the way teenage boys make up girls they met from out of state over the summer (which is dishonorable because it is making a false scapegoat and having no accountability) or it means that someone isn't getting paid for his/her contributions to the show, which is hardly the lefty thing to do. Why is Sam so mad at Jimmy Dore? Because he regularly pushes lies and false conspiracy theories, and what few lefties who actually still watch his show get steered in unproductive directions that help the right. Jimmy Dore is so far to the left that he wanted Democrats to take the deal McConnell offered in the fall for stimulus money in exchange for forcing people back to work and not allowing them to sue if they get sick because their employers refused to sanitize their work environment. He is so far to the left that he continued to support a candidate who called Medicare for All un-American in the 2020 Presidential primary. He so far to the left that he mostly kept his mouth shut about Trump for four years. He is so far to the left that he thought it would be no big deal if Trump got three Supreme Court appointments. He is so far to the left that he tries to convince people that literal fascists like Tucker Carlson and the Proud Boys are good people. With friends like him, who needs enemies? And that is just his ideological heresies, not even a deeper dive into his stupidity.
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  16252.  @fattonyd232  9/11 Truth, Seth Rich, Hillary has Parkinson's, Syria (which he got paid by the Syrian government to espouse), Las Vegas Shooting (at an event called Tin Foil Hat Comedy, no less), etc.
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  16253.  @fattonyd232  Do you believe the 911 Truther conspiracy theories? Among others, he believes the standard "inside job," "can't melt steel" (ignoring that it can weaken steel), Tower 7 was a controlled demo, etc.
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  16254.  @afrodinho  Why not look at what their record actually is? Their high is better than our low. The point of the article was not Vaccine Bad, but Vaccine Has Limits, and Restrictions Were Lifted at the Same Time as the Vaccine.
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  16255.  @afrodinho  The reason why no one gets polio is because everyone has to take the vaccine. When we've got so many dummies yelling Muh Free-dumb, of course it won't be as effective. Polio also doesn't mutate as quickly as coronavirus.
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  16256.  @afrodinho  So, you're just sharing the same debunked point and thinking that it proves a viable defense for Dore? Self-awareness is clearly not your strong suit.
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  16257.  @afrodinho  At some point, you have to understand that you're not special, and the second-option bias usually leads to fallacies.
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  16258.  @fattonyd232  How do you know it was who your conspiracy-addled brain thinks it is? The proof is on you.
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  16259.  @afrodinho  No, Jimmy Dore is trying to scare people out of taking the vaccine. After all, if it really does have such terrible side effects (all I had was a runny nose and headaches for a couple days and was tired the second say after) and doesn't really stop you from getting it anyway, what is the point? That is why he distorted the Fortune article to make it look like the vaccine wasn't doing any good in Singapore.
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  16260.  @afrodinho  Polio vaccines were well received because people knew what they knew and more importantly what they didn't know, and they weren't reading e-mail chains from their idiot uncles. There have always been pockets of anti-vaccine nonsense for the 300 years of its existence. The difference is that we are spending far more time giving credence to the ones who don't have science or the best interests of their fellow human beings at heart.
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  16261.  @afrodinho  It's called trying to have it both ways. He learned that trick from Trump after defending him or minimizing the threat all these years. You sound like the Trump defenders who say that he really does support the vaccine, but his followers shouted him down.
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  16262.  @fattonyd232  Oh, but you are doing the conspiracy theorist dodge of "just asking questions." You're defending the person making the claims that it was an inside job, and insisting that you aren't making any counterargument but "just asking questions." Bin Laden took credit for the attack on multiple occasions, and it was consistent with the documents and the research found by every serious investigation. If you want me to play your game, then you can start by actually being honest. You bristled at the notion that Jimmy Dore is a conspiracy theorist, and then you play the "well, maybe he's right" card. The burden of proof is on you, not me. I gave the examples of his conspiracy theories, so if you don't like the characterization, you prove to me why the examples that I gave aren't examples of him being a conspiracy theorist.
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  16263.  @afrodinho  If you think the real problem is Democrats and not Trump, not only are you minimizing Trump, but you are actively helping Trump. Like it or not, there is literally zero chance that anyone other than the Democratic nominee or the Republican nominee will become President. He spent months in 2016 trying to convince lefties that a Trump Presidency was preferable to a Hillary Presidency. The three Supreme Court picks he got alone makes that demonstrably false. If you still follow Jimmy Dore now, you are either a right winger trying to sew chaos or enjoying watching someone "on the left attack his own" a la Dave Rubin, or you are a useful idiot.
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  16264.  @afrodinho  And there is the rub. You are saying that he says vulnerable people should get vaccinated. When it comes to coronavirus, everyone is vulnerable. Making that qualifier implies that some people aren't, which is the same lie Joe Rogan was peddling last year before going full-on anti-vaccine.
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  16265. Bernie is giving her exactly the same amount of support that she gave him when he looked at national office, so that seems about right.
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  16266. One time at work, a woman yelled so loudly that I could hear both sides of the conversation even though the person on my end had the phone to his ear. Not just that I could hear the woman he was talking to: I could hear every single word. It is more than possible.
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  16267.  just saying  Bernie did pay them a living wage. He wanted them not to work overtime instead of 70-80 hour weeks so they could actually have some leisure time, and they were making $34K a year with free health care, as was negotiated for every full time worker making $36K or less. The horror!
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  16268. I don't think it's Obama nostalgia as much as it is that he has largely stayed away from the fray, similar to how Hillary was the most popular politician in America from 2013-2015. The instant he gets in, people will remember why neither of his Presidential candidacies went anywhere.
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  16269. "Can I take a guess? Did it have a shaft, balls, maybe some hair? Was I close?" Dave Chapelle
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  16270. If you have term limits, a lot of the power goes to the unelected staffers (look at every state that enacted it fir their legislatures) and you actually make the problem of selling out worse, because people will want a soft place to land if they know they need to find a new job in six years instead of having a chance of winning. Besides, we already have term limits; they are called elections. What makes you think the voters will pick someone better?
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  16271.  @indigotaylor-noguera7119  Indeed. Public financing of campaigns is the reform to make all other reforms possible.
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  16272.  @Damacles9  Well, Yang still gives a terrible answer for that: getting rid of the social safety net, and a regressive tax.
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  16273.  @3natey  The discussion was about their followers, and they are far more alike than they are different.
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  16274.  @jamesortega8923  He didn't answer questions. He just kept repeating the same talking point and didn't understand how to engage.
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  16275.  @Bluebelle51  Like it or not, there are degrees of bad. If Trump is President, I know that we'll get nothing and his Supreme Court will mean no nice things for decades. Even if I get a tiny sliver of what I want under Biden, that is still better than what I will get under Trump.
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  16276.  @dvdv8197  It's getting to the point where I honestly can't tell the difference between people on the hard left with no sense of strategy and right-wing trolls pretending to be left to try to depress turnout.
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  16277.  @Bluebelle51  Garland or better > Garland or worse Don't quit your day job.
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  16278.  @Bluebelle51  I was not okay with Garland, but Garland was and is infinitely preferable to Scalia and Gorsuch. If you really think that Sotomayor for Souter or Kagan for Stevens sent the court farther to the right than Kavanaugh for Kennedy, Alito for O'Connor, Roberts for Rehnquist, Thomas for Marshall, or Rehnquist for Berger, then you are either lying or incredibly ignorant. So, are you a liar or just not very knowledgeable when it comes to the Supreme Court?
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  16279.  @ericvulgate  Ask Joe Crowley and Lacy Clay how much leverage we have.
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  16280.  @Bluebelle51  Do you think that Garland would have been to the right of Scalia? The question wasn't whether or not they moved the court to the right. The question was whether or not Biden's picks would be preferable to Trump's. Considering that Biden voted against elevating Rehnquist to Chief Justice (he wasn't there when Rehnquist got on the Court), and putting Bork, Thomas, Roberts, and Alito on it in the first place, I think that we know the answer to that question. The only real question is who is intellectually honest enough to admit it. And you really think that RBG was to the right of White? That is one example that didn't move the court to the right, and another that would have moved it to the left.
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  16281.  @KaiserMattTygore927  You accelerationists said in 2000 and 2016 that throwing the election to Republicans would wake people up, and we would get the things we wanted. How did that work out? Garland would have been a replacement for Scalia. Four of the five Justices on the Supreme Court who are trying to take America back to the 19th century are there in part because people like you helped get them there despite most people opposing them. You know what you don't get if you refuse to take the lesser evil? Greater evil. Great plan!
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  16282.  @interdimensionalsteve8172  Indeed. Sometimes, people who claim to be on the left just want to think that you can just have good policy and it will come to be. We will have to use every legal weapon in our legislative arsenal to get to where we need to be.
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  16283.  @interdimensionalsteve8172  I'm referring to a subset that thought "We'll just propose good policy and look at top line polls that show that it is at least superficially popular and think I don't need to do anything to get anything accomplished." I saw that time and time again with the Force the Vote crowd. Eventually, it got to the point where I started asking its adherents what they had done to build support for the bill. Other than the people who thought YouTube comments counted as activism or the total marks who counted giving money to Jimmy Dore, only one person had actually done real world organizing. More than one literally said, "It has 2/3 approval, so why should I need to do anything?" Well, if you don't do the work to get it to 218 & 50 where it counts, it doesn't matter if it has 99% approval. There is also the crowd that think that turning the screws a little is just too mean. I'm not saying that Congressional Democrats are savvy at using the levers of power at all. (It seems like a classic case of Battered Spouse Syndrome, which will hopefully go away when the crowd that was there for the Reagan years goes away.) I'm saying it's about time they started
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  16284.  @interdimensionalsteve8172  I think I was probably closer to Sam from the beginning that I thought that leverage would have been better served going for something like a committee seat instead of a doomed vote, but it took me a while to realize just how toxic the movement was. We have the dual threat of lazy lefties and scared centrists.
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  16285.  @TheHuxleyAgnostic  These people work backwards. They see someone they don't like, and rather than getting better at campaigning to defeat them, they want to change the rules. It is anti-democratic. They might be thinking Trump, but they're also pushing out people like Bernie and Barbara Lee.
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  16286.  @TheHuxleyAgnostic  An age limit would have also prevented Bernie from running and captivating the country with his message.
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  16287.  @donnewton7858  Yeah, how has that worked at the state level? Every state that has found it saw that power shifts from elected officials to unelected staffers, and people are even less likely to offend their corporate overlords since they want a soft place to land when their time is up. Presidential term limits would have kept FDR out of the White House during WWII.
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  16288.  @donnewton7858  No, I don't mean age limits. He was 50 when he first got elected. His second term ended on Jan. 20, 1941. Therefore, he couldn't have served as President during WWII. So, you want to talk about the present? Bernie would have been forced out in Jan. 2019 (after being forced out of the House in Jan. 2003). AOC would be forced out at the age of 41. Barbara Lee would have been forced out in Jan. 2011. Every member of the House that you like in his/her seventh term or more, and ecery Senator you like in his/her third term would be gone. Those people who you don't like would, if anything, be replaced by someone even worse. The people who you like wouldn't be replaced by someone as good, because they are going to be looking for a soft place to land after their term expires, so they will be even more beholden to corporations, because they won't be nearly as a accountable to the people, and the power will shift to unelected staffers who we can't vote out. Is that really what you want, or do you just support term limits because it sounds good?
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  16289.  @TheHuxleyAgnostic  Most jobs don't have a mandatory retirement age. That is discrimination and against the law. My office has a retirement age, but that just means that we won't get a penalty for taking our pensions early after that point. We had someone in our office who was just shy of 80 when he transferred to a different office, and he worked there for some time as well. Yes, you can argue that having a minimum age is anti-democratic, but the bigger violation is trying to force people to pasture. Do you think that Bernie should have been allowed to run for President either time (he would have started his term at the age of 75 if he had won the first time) or run for the Senate in 2018, knowing that he would be 83 when his term ended?
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  16290.  @TheHuxleyAgnostic  Your problem then is with the voters. Well, like it or not, the best thing about a democracy is that the people get the government they want, and the worst thing about democracy is that people get the government they want. It doesn't mean that you abandon the concept just because you don't like the results.
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  16291.  @donnewton7858  No, my point is that he would have been forced to retire from the Senate in 2019. If you want to respond to my objection, at least understand what that objection is. The fact that I mentioned when people would hit their Congressional term limit of 12 years should have made it obvious.
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  16292.  @donnewton7858  The question is not about whether or not he would he a great President. If Bernie was elected President, he probably wouldn't have had a Republican Congress, at least in the beginning, but he may very well have been sabotaged from the beginning. The point was that an age limit would have prevented him from running and spreading his ideas. All you are saying is that you would be fine with making the age limit higher, but you still miss the larger point.
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  16293.  @TheHuxleyAgnostic  Yeah, and I don't like age limits for judges, either. When it was put to the voters of PA five years ago to increase the age limit, I supported it. I would have rather eliminated it altogether, but sometimes you take what you can get. And looking at the Bernie example, he ran for office for the first time at the age of 31, got elected for the first time five months before his 40th birthday, and got elected to Congres at the age of 49. Your "maybe he would have gotten started quicker" counterfactual is ridiculous on the face of it. If you insist on both age limits and candidates with relevant experience, you'll get the worst kind of careerism, because the only people who can get through the gauntlet are people who have never done anything else or tried anything else in their lives. I don't want people to be denied the chance just because they didn't decide to seek higher office as soon as they turned 18. I want people with a wide variety of experiences in the public sphere. If you are talking about cognitive tests where the results are publicized, I am all for it, but I am not and will never be for ageism.
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  16294.  @donnewton7858  And how well did he do at spreading those ideas before he ran for President? In the first polls, his name ID was around the margin of error.
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  16295.  @patchandy  It depends on what you are talking about the government doing. Less taxes? No.
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  16296.  @nomercy4521  So, you are describing hitting the gas and the brakes at the same time. Still doesn't work because people who already get other benefits either have to give them up or lose the $1000/month.
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  16297.  @nomercy4521  Yang tells people on 125 programs that he refuses to provide a full list of that they either forfeit their current benefits or get nothing. Therefore, they don't get the whole "yeah, they pay more in taxes, but they get more money" aspect. As far as the gas and the brakes at the same time, everybody doesn't get a thousand bucks a month with no strings attached, and it's not tax free. If there is any stimulative effect from the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend, it will be largely offset by the fact that taxes will go up, which will increase costs. Hence, gas and brakes.
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  16298.  @nomercy4521  Daycare subsidies with multiple children is over $1000. You don't get TANF if you don't have children, and he has already specified that one. Ditto WIC. I don't care about averages, I care about whether or not people are negatively affected, and there are a lot of people who are. And those who are are the most vulnerable in society, which is repulsive.
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  16299.  @nomercy4521  Did you not watch the video? You either get the benefits you get now or the fredome with 125 strings attached dividend. Anyone who keeps their existing benefits now has to pay a VAT. Therefore, they will be harmed.
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  16300.  @nomercy4521  I take it that you didn't actually read the link to the study.
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  16301. @K T Tankies are any authoritarian communists who look the other way at human rights atrocities. Defending China falls under that umbrella.
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  16302.  @elchapojunior3091  "Showing progress toward it"? They are galloping away from it.
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  16303. @K T Terms expand and change all the time. "Progressive" in a lot of its iterations referred to good government Republicans. When Bernie decided to name the caucus in 1991, it still referred to center for more often than it did left.
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  16304. @K T The term expanded as more apologists for genocide started rearing their ugly heads.
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  16305. @K T So, you bristle at the label tankie based on a game of semantics, and you demonstrate the Stalin apologia that originally inspired the term? Brilliant.
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  16306. @K T Oh, yes, the Soviet Union was totally innocent and never willfully withheld food from anyone while its leaders lived in extravagance.
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  16307.  @DbD285  Which party keeps cutting taxes for the rich once they get in office, again?
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  16308.  @DbD285  Actually, the top marginal rate has stayed in that range since 1993. Reagan cut it to 50 in 1981 and 28 in 1986. Poppy increased it to 31 in 1990. Clinton increased it to 39.6 in 1993, W reduced it to 35 in 2001 (after trying but failing to get it to 33), Obama increased it back to the Clinton rate, and Trump cut it to 37, focusing most of his effort on slashing the corporate tax rate. You can't even get your both siderism right. Well, no surprise considering that it is the refuge of the lazy.
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  16309.  @chopped_charlie  We'll take Candace Owens, and Jesse Lee Peterson, but you have to take OJ back.
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  16310.  @seanshameless0  It would take agreement from every state to get a unicameral legislature. A Constitutional Convention means everything is up for grabs, and do you really trust Republicans to allow anything like the First, Thirteenth, or Fourteenth Amendment?
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  16311.  @FXDLS-ot1wq  The Electoral College doesn't "protect minorities," it provides a tyranny of the minority. As long as we have the rural/urban divide, one side needs to win 52% of the vote in order to win national elections and the other only needs 48, how is that fair?
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  16312.  @FXDLS-ot1wq  As opposed to the 48% that is already imposing its will on the 52% in totalitarian ways?
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  16313.  @FXDLS-ot1wq  It happens now. What are you talking about?
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  16314.  @FXDLS-ot1wq  The entire Trump Presidency.
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  16315.  @FXDLS-ot1wq  And for good measure, Democratic Senators represent 41MM more people than Senate Republicans, who can get their way with the filibuster. Also, three of the nine Supreme Court Justices were put their directly by a President who lost the popular vote, and two more were put there by someone who lost the first time around according to the well of the people.
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  16316.  @FXDLS-ot1wq  The mere fact of a Trump Presidency is an example. Three million more people supported the other candidate, and he got to be President. If by "stopping the majority from invoking their will," you mean requiring supermajorities to get any legislation passed in a way counter to the Constitution, then, sure, I guess the majority can't get living wages or health care.
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  16317.  @FXDLS-ot1wq  He won because the system gives a voter in Wyoming 23 times what a voter in California gets. 66>63. You can try to dress it up however you want, but any system where a minority of voters gets to lord over the majority is tyranny of the minority. Therefore, you are defending a system where three people want to go out to eat and the two have the third dictate their options.
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  16318.  @FXDLS-ot1wq  What would you do with the bigger number who voted for Gore and Clinton? You don't take turns. If we had a more democratic system for electing the President, and one party went decades without winning, it would respond to the people in ways that mean actually having appeal. You want people to take their ball and go home. I want people to reach out to the people instead of making it harder for people to vote.
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  16319.  @FXDLS-ot1wq  English translation: you ultimately want a civil war. Got it.
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  16320. ​ @eternalgamer2521  That's why the most baffling thing I saw in the exit poll was that people by a 50-48 margin thought that big orange dummy would be better in a crisis... after he already botched one and killed a million people.
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  16321.  @johnnyscarecrow71  That's a pretty big overlap in the Venn diagram.
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  16322.  @lbriley7426  Doesn't change that position, does it?
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  16323.  @lbriley7426  Or just not spend all your time praising right wingers and lying that Der Orangefuhrer was the "peace candidate."
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  16324. Cosmetic surgery is not your friend. It looks like he had one eye job too many.
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  16325.  @deathking1019  True. He definitely has that obesity squint going on. I still don't get the idea of cosmetic surgery, though. It never looks right.
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  16326. The notion of how onerous the conditions of Versailles is German propaganda. What the Allies demanded of Germany in Versailles pales in comparison to what Germany demanded of Russia in Brest-Litovsk.
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  16327. If Bernie doesn't run, he has my vote.
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  16328. Did you know that John McCain was her father?
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  16329.  @El4-p1c  What in particular about Kamala Harris's policies are reminiscent of Castro?
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  16330.  @DrHuxley-  So, you think people from Mexico didn't come here legally? Way to expose yourself. It never takes long.
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  16331.  @DrHuxley-  You clearly inferred it, because you pointed to Cubans and Venezuela and said, "Those who came here legally." I get that it must be difficult to hide your true self. That being said, Cubans don't have the same process as others in Latin America. All they have to do to "get here legally" is make it to dry ground, which means that complaints that "I got here legally" clearly miss the point.
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  16332.  @DrHuxley-  If you're going to insult, you clearly don't know the difference between reading and reading comprehension.
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  16333.  @DrHuxley-  Oh, I know what you meant to say, but you didn't say it. And I'm not the one who equated two groups of Hispanic immigrants with "those who come here legally," you did.
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  16334.  @DrHuxley-  You said he's getting the votes of "anyone who came here legally." Unless you are just using hyperbole for support for Dear Leader, immigrants who didn't come here legally can't vote. Those who imply otherwise are echoing the Great Replacement Theory. Always amusing when the people who support the racist don't like when they use a dog whistle and someone notices and they invariably go, "No, you're the racist."
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  16335.  @albertoromero9915  David is 40, but I remember a woman who worked in my office before we went virtual. I thought she was late 20s or early 30s, and I was shocked to find out that she was just shy of turning 40.
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  16336. @TheEvolver311  Farmers have gotten subsidies for decades. The scope of the payment at the time us what was so much more than usual.
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  16337. "He could remember 50 years ago like it was yesterday." "The problem is that he can't remember yesterday like it was yesterday." Folks
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  16338. While I hate cul-de-sacs and T intersections, at least I now understand that there is some reason why they exist. Thank you!
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  16339.  @alistairmackintosh9412  No, it was like those goofy billboards of Bush 12 years ago.
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  16340. I'll give Lindsey and Trump as much mercy as they gave to the American people over the last four years: none.
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  16341. Fun fact: in case you wonder how they got guests on the show, the person who was about to have a secret unveiled to was given a list of about a dozen possible show topics (including the real one) with one or two positive ones mixed in (they also didn't necessarily know who the person revealing the secret was). I guess some people are just natural optimists.
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  16342.  @apollodionysus2194  That was part of it. It was also the fact that slumlords offer a lot of cash to get people out of rent-controlled apartments so they can jack up the rates for the next people. Yang is dangling money in their faces and telling them that they can never go back, so that those programs are gone. In that way, he is acting like a slumlord.
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  16343. Yang is being extremely dishonest about Bernie's idea for free tuition. Bernie includes vocational and trade school. Either that, or he is extremely misinformed, but I don't know which is worse.
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  16344. @Patrick Parcivel Because there is one argument that any UBI program has to actually be big enough to live on, so it will have to wait until automation is farther along. I don't know if that is his argument, or a different one.
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  16345. @Patrick Parcivel Well, that depends on what the purpose for UBI is. What do you see it as doing?
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  16346. @Patrick Parcivel If it's an income supplement to allow you to reduce the stress of paying bills and getting a chance to save, why make the poor choose between existing benefits and taking this money? Why should it be a supplement for you and a replacement for them?
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  16347. @Patrick Parcivel That does not answer my question. You are just repeating the talking point. So, I will ask again. Why should it be a supplement for you and a replacement for the poor? That won't help them take a load off their mind.
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  16348.  @robm6645  And I have said several times that there is a whole spectrum. We have laws against murder, but people still get killed. You want to get precrime in order to 100% guarantee an action will be successful, or else you will insist that the only real option is total inaction. Funny how right wingers who are tough on crime fail to see this hole in their logic with gun laws and tankies and the tankie adjacent fail to see it when it comes to allowing empires that they like to spread.
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  16349.  @robm6645  "you don't really care about Ukraine" Says the person defending the side of people who insist that the Ukrainian people should be a "buffer." The Ukrainian President was saying one thing publicly and another privately in order to steel his people's resolve. It doesn't take Nostradamus to figure out that a country that invaded eight years earlier and decided to amass forces on the border even when he says otherwise is clearly up to something. You just don't want to admit that you are wrong.
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  16350.  @robm6645  And now Russia is shelling Eastern Ukraine. But, yeah, just keep telling yourself that you were right. Even if taking the stance of not engaging is right 90% of the time, that 10% that you are wrong ends up pretty bad. And, again, engaging does not mean total war.
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  16351.  @drewjohnson9498  What are you talking about?
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  16352.  @drewjohnson9498  You don't seem to understand how analogies work at all, do you? I compared your response of "'tankie' is meaningless" to right wingers saying that "'fascism' is meaningless." Whatever your sexual identity is has nothing to do with your strategy of denialism.
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  16353.  @drewjohnson9498  Thank you for clarifying. That's a lot more obvious than your first post.
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  16354.  @robm6645  I have condemned both. I don't need to resort to both siderism when I am proven wrong.
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  16355. I have no sympathy for Trump voters. They were warned, and they knew what they were doing. It's too bad that the rest of us have to suffer for their stupidity.
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  16356.  @SimplyJorgasmic  Yes, because ignoring a large section of the voting population due to demographics is a great way to win!
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  16357.  @baph0met  Libertarians are people who pretend that human nature is whatever they need it to be for their particular argument, ignore evidence to the contrary, and when asked a follow up question about how something will work that violates their assumptions either melt down and say that you're trying to distract from (their very limited notion of) freedom, or they end up making a proposal that looks exactly like the war of all against all that was described by Hobbs in Leviathan.
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  16358.  @baph0met  1) So, what makes this distinctly libertarian? 2) The whole idea that smaller companies will come to the rescue just isn't borne out by fact. The least regulated business sector is tech, and it has the most monopolies of them all. We have seen challengers to Facebook for years, even something as massive as Google couldn't defeat it. Most people don't really like Facebook, but as big as it is, that is why it wins. You can also block suppliers from giving to those other companies, or just go full vertical integration. What reined this in was actually enforcing antitrust laws. So, let me just get this straight: you started by insisting that yours is the only ideology that is based in understanding human nature, but you admit that your desired reality is impossible? Do you not see what a massive contradiction that is?
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  16359.  @baph0met  "Natural monopolies are good" Not if they are completely unregulated and only exist to enrich the person who holds the natural monopoly. Re: why do people not like "freedom"? People who oppose libertarianism don't "oppose freedom," we oppose a very limited version of freedom that only exists for a very few people, and pretty much without fail sides with the wealthy and the powerful when two competing claims of freedom and rights exist. It's why libertarians tend to oppose civil rights legislation because it infringes upon the "freedom" of the business owner to discriminate while never thinking of the freedom of the traveler being discriminated against who can't get a hotel room. It's the "freedom" of business owners to build trusts and monopolies but considers the right of workers to peaceably assemble and petition to be a grave threat to freedom. The way it expresses itself is a thinly veiled feudalism.
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  16360.  @baph0met  1) Define "free market." 2) "Sign or starve" is hardly consensual. And since you think that monopolies are good, how can someone just sign elsewhere if that is what their training is for? 3) If you have no problems with those, you are in the minority among libertarians I have dealt with. 4) You are aware that when you are driving that there are often situations where there is no alternative, right? And part of the reason why businesses like hotels were covered in the Civil Rights Act and why it survived scrutiny under the Interstate Commerce Clause was because on rural roads as people traveled, segregated hotels were literally the only game in town. And the whole "businesses wouldn't discriminate, because it wouldn't be in their interest" has been proven wrong time and time again. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a thing because the majority of bus riders were discriminated against. There are plenty of occasions where the discriminatory have profited.
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  16361.  @baph0met  1) If you aren't opposed to regulation, what makes competition "unrestricted"? What crosses the line? 2) Even Milton Friedman said that natural monopolies needed to be heavily regulated. Utilities are an example of a natural monopoly (in fact, it's usually the textbook example). Do you really think "they don't last long"? Based on what? 3) Do you know why "segregated hotels are rare nowadays"? Because the Civil Rights Act of 1964 made them illegal. I could say the same about gas stations. When I visited my cousin in North Dakota a while back, she warned me to fill up when my gas tank was half full because there were stretches where you could easily go 50-100 miles between exits. I'd hate to imagine how many people would be stranded if gas station owners were still allowed to segregate. "You can always sleep in your car or on a bench." And there it is. That famous libertarian empathy that we have heard so much about. Because why let the evil government force some poor hotel owner to integrate a hotel like it did in 1964 (and ignore the fact that it took government law to end the practice of hotel segregation) when people can just sleep on a bench? And are you really thinking that a business surrounded by enough local people who would boycott if they integrated would worry about losing the business from someone they'd possibly never see again? And the fact that you seem to think segregated buses is a selling point shows just how far you are removed from reality and being "the only ideology that acknowledges human nature"? And before you say that I am "cherry picking," I'm not the one envisioning a future of segregated bus lines as the answer to bigotry.
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  16362.  @turanamo  Or if you actively defend the grifters.
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  16363.  @emblemedfate4270  What context makes saying that Tucker Carlson is a socialist acceptable?
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  16364.  @eddietheberniebro5503  Bernie didn't have the votes. I did what I could to try to help him get the votes, but if all it takes is the third and fourth place candidates dropping out while the fifth place candidate stays in to beat you, that is not a solid lead. Everything else is irrelevant, and it distracts from actually learning so we can know how to build for the next time. No security blanket for me.
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  16365. And, in the full context, he didn't mean dirty as in "done wrong," he meant that the polling place looked unclean. So, your non-sequitir is irrelevant, and you completely missed the point.
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  16366.  @emblemedfate4270  Even your callback makes no logical sense. I get that it has something to do with Tulsi Gabbard sharing the libel of Project Veritas in order to work in their common goal of making it harder for the elderly and disabled to vote, but I honestly do not understand the point that you are trying to make.
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  16367.  @emblemedfate4270  Clean solid work record? You mean like trying to spread a story that was too ridiculous for Fox and the Wall Street Journal? And then whining and having a hissy fit after pretending that editorial standards don't apply to him and pretending that his free speech is being violated? So, let's look at this allegation. He thinks that Hunter Biden, who lives in California, dropped his laptop off to be repaired in Delaware, never bothered to pick it up, and that it had an incriminating file that was the equivalent of "criminal stuff: do not open," that he just happened to come in while the security camera was in the middle of changing tapes so that he wasn't on camera, but the owner of the shop (who is legally blind) recognized him. Yeah, that makes sense.
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  16368.  @emblemedfate4270  If it was me, I honestly don't remember. As far as the question of Project Veritas vs. The Lincoln Project, there is a difference between having ideological disagreements and a group that puts out false information to try to discredit anyone remotely left at all. They have done enough to discredit themselves over the last 12 years that any self-respecting person who is not hard right wouldn't touch them with a ten-foot pole.
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  16369.  @emblemedfate4270  I'm not defending Hunter Biden. My point is that it is obvious to anyone that this story is false. One story being false doesn't absolve someone of everything that person is accused of, but if you are going to quit your job over something that a first grader could figure out doesn't hold up, then that says everything about you. Then again, you go based on tribalism rather than fact. And before you try to say that I am being tribalistic when it comes to Project Veritas, if someone else isn't backing it up, a group that is famous for doctoring its evidence is far different. Pointing out that Fox has a quality polling organization is not the same thing as a group like that posting something false that happens to go along with someone's hatred of Muslims and desire to make it harder for the elderly and disabled to vote.
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  16370.  @emblemedfate4270  Because Project Veritas has the goal of misinformation. Your statement is about the ideology of people rather than their content.
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  16371.  @emblemedfate4270  I laid out exactly why I think that the story about the computer is false. At this point, I don't know if it is a cognitive problem (and if so, I apologize for mocking the disabled) or a dishonesty problem. So, I will give it one last chance, because I don't waste my time with liars online. In order to believe that the Hunter Biden laptop story is true, you would have to believe that he traveled nearly 3000 miles to drop off his computer for repairs, that he had no intention of collecting, and that the security camera was changing tapes when he came in so there is no documentation of him coming into the store, but the man who ran the store was certain it was him, even though he is legally blind. What else he did is irrelevant to the question of whether or not he dropped off an incriminating laptop.
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  16372.  @emblemedfate4270  That you think that everything that Glenn Greenwald says is true, and that everything people you don't like is false. Oh, sure, you claim to hate Project Veritas, but you gave no evidence of their broken clock effect.
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  16373.  @emblemedfate4270  Tulsi didn't go anywhere hosted by Project Veritas to spread her message. She used other sources to spread the message of Project Veritas. Good-bye.
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  16374.  @standupguy12  Incredible as in "cannot be believed." It is one of the least comprehensive plans, and when actual adults were having a discussion on the need to act in the second debate, Yang said that it is too late and people should just take money and move to higher ground. That isn't leadership, that is surrender.
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  16375. In fairness, he was already a total moron. She just did a great job of showing that to the world.
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  16376.  transylvanian  Well, from what I have seen, the idea is that the establishment thinks it can co-opt anyone. After all, appointments are key. And his analysis was so wrong on the Supreme Court that it would be impossible to understate how ridiculous it was not to see that McConnell wouldn't let a filibuster stand, and that mistake will haunt us for decades to come.
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  16377. I just got done dealing with one of them who admitted that he didn't care about voting rights and was rolling in dough in the finance industry.
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  16378.  @MatthiasVargas  The OP is talking about voting third party. Voting third party is the equivalent of sitting it out.
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  16379.  @Chazreal  You have no point. Bragging about your ignorance and being too lazy to do anything about it is, in the words of John Lydon, demanding to be ignored.
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  16380. Did anyone else notice that Doocy used the correct term at 0:46 and then "corrected" himself once he realized what he did? Stupid troll.
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  16381.  @Candyliz2003  No, at most what you have described is social democracy, not democratic socialism. If you get wildly rich from a business that isn't a co-op where your workers also get rich, you are a capitalist. As far as his position on Stalin, he repeatedly opposed any efforts to contain or condemn Stalin. He was, however, ultimately seen as betraying his supporters when he supported the Korean War in 1950, but that's not the position we're talking about, because he was largely irrelevant by then.
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  16382.  @Candyliz2003  If you are thinking of his support of the New Deal, how would him getting pushed put play out? Truman also supported and extended the New Deal, so it's not like getting stuck with President Nance had he remained FDR's number two the whole time. I do enjoy the back and forth and working to get to the bottom of things.
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  16383. If Biden wins and Democrats win the Senate, who controls the Senate Budget Committee and the HELP Subcommittee on Health? It looks like your Underpants Gnomes strategy isn't very well thought out.
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  16384. Yeah, because the guy who moved the embassy to Jerusalem and recognized Israel taking the Golan Heights was going to be sympathetic to the plight of the Palestinian people. #BelieveThemTheFirstTime
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  16385. 14:24 It's about 40 pages. I haven't read Das Kapital, either, but I don't debate it and pretend to be a public intellectual.
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  16386. ​ @roughhabit6496  Just because someone has money in a fund doesn't mean that person doesn't have a King history of refusing to pay for things. His campaign has stiffed cities to the tune of tens of millions of dollars for security at events. So much for backing the blue.
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  16387. This reminds me of those videos of lung cancer patients smoking out of a tracheotomy ring.
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  16388. Why, so it can fail miserably and take time away from things we can actually accomplish?
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  16389. My uncle was born eight years before the polio vaccine, and he got polio. He couldn't walk until he was five and had health problems all his life until his premature death at the age of 46. When I hear these anti-vaccine nut jobs go after polio vaccines, I am infuriated.
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  16390.  @Diseaseisreversible  Got Barr to block a fair sentence for his henchman.
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  16391.  @Diseaseisreversible  No. Not even close. The Secret Service hotel bills to Trump properties are six figures every time. Any extra money that Obama made during his Presidency was book royalties. Even if book royalties did outstrip hotel fees, Obama didn't force anybody to buy his book. The Secret Service literally had no choice but to go to Trump properties, because that is where their charge insisted on going. If he would have comped the rooms, that would have been acceptable, but he didn't.
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  16392.  @Diseaseisreversible  The problem isn't that he is personally spending money, the problem is that he is forcing the Secret Service to spend money at his properties. If he comped the rooms, that would be a different story, but he gets the equivalent of his annual salary every month or two from those hotel rooms.
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  16393.  @Diseaseisreversible  Among other things. You cannot use the power of the office for personal gain or the smiting of enemies.
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  16394.  @Diseaseisreversible  You are welcome. I think that some people may just feel burned from people who sarcastically say they are just curious, and I do apologize that you are dealing with the blowback from that. There are some people who are into being on the right team (which I saw when someone who wanted Nina Turner as Bernie's potential VP accused me of disloyalty for wanting Tammy Baldwin as a running mate instead because she isn't "one of us"). I have met plenty on the left and the right who I think are decent people whom I just happen to disagree with. When someone defends the worst behavior, I have no time for that, regardless of what side of the aisle. If someone legitimately wants to engage in discussion, I am more than happy to do so.
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  16395.  @MichaelOnines  The convention is "alleged victims."
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  16396.  @MichaelOnines  You are aware that you aren't allowed to appeal an acquittal in this country, right? The reason for not using the word "victim" is to avoid loaded language. How is that word prejudicial and "rioters" isn't?
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  16397.  @MichaelOnines  Once someone is acquitted, that's the ball game. The judge also said that the prosecution can't show the video of Rittenhouse saying a week before the shooting that he wanted to shoot people. At this point, he isn't just putting his thumb on the scale, he's putting his whole arm.
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  16398. @Salmon If they live in one of the states that decide it, they may even be worse, because the Trump people actually think they are helping make America better, but those people are actively hoping to inflict harm through a Trump Presidency. I was at a Bernie event at Philadelphia City Hall last year, and some dead ender chained himself to the stage (and as slow as he was approaching the stage and getting things out of his bag, I don't know what took the police so long in stopping him) and claiming that Bernie was an awful sell out. Those people make the real left look bad.
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  16399. @Salmon Some do, but I don't think that is everyone. However, I heard a lot of Never Hillary types actually talk about how bad they wanted things to get because they didn't get their way. My thinking is that I vote for the best in the primary, and if I have to settle in November, so be it, but the people who are really suffering from the Trump Administration aren't the Democratic establishment.
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  16400.  Dennis Young  A relative once told me that he didn't want to increase the minimum wage because he liked the idea of making twice as much as somebody else. It's like Lyndon Johnson said, put someone on the second rung of the ladder, and he will defend it harder than anyone else and not notice what the person at the top is doing to him.
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  16401. ​ @feverflav1972  When his legacy stops damaging America, I'll stop caring.
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  16402.  MidScream1  How do you define socialism?
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  16403. That's what I was thinking. In all honesty, in 2013, I expected him to be the Republican nominee. Shows how far off my predictive powers can be sometimes (although I did accurately predict Lieberman, Edwards, Biden, and Ryan as running mates, though).
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  16404.  @BroncosXNumberX1  And she praised Sisi for killing protesters in Egypt. What a free speech titan!
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  16405. The spiritual predecessors of those who won't pay for the union which represents them is the scab. Undercutting workers who actually care about the people coming up behind them because of a few cheap bucks.
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  16406. You can't even get your country right, so what makes you think you understand ours?
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  16407.  @2727rogers  What I mean is that you keep copying and pasting the same comment that gets the history of single payer completely wrong. Since you said Canada has #1 quality of life, I'm sure if I look it up, that will either be wrong or outdated, because you haven't gotten anything right yet, so why start now?
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  16408. Tough hits are part of the game, but not cheap shots when someone isn't looking and the ball is out of bounds.
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  16409.  @guitarandrums  More people voted for her than said orange game show host.
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  16410.  @KS-cl8br  But Bernie starts with everyone under 25 in year one. He also reduces the Medicare age to 55 that year.
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  16411.  @KS-cl8br  I thought it was 25, but I could be wrong.
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  16412.  @benstromback5809  Pledge of Allegiance was written in 1892 and that phrase was added in 1954. That's more sloppy than Michele Bachman saying that the Founders fought tirelessly to end slavery, and then used John Quincy Adams as her example, who was all of 14 when Cornwallis surrendered.
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  16413.  Ernestine  The first time separation of church and state was laid on in English was Thomas Helwys in 1612. The first modern defense in Europe was the Anabaptists. Maybe the reason why they emphasized it was because people were being killed by the government because of their religious beliefs. It is true that beliefs and practice rarely matched, but they clearly laid out the idea of a neutral government when it came to religion. There are literally only two possible conclusions if you take the First Amendment seriously: no preference or wall of separation.
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  16414.  @GabiGhita  True. That's ultimately why the "Tea Party of the Left" idea was always doomed to failure. The Tea Party (and its numerous rebranding attempts over the pre decade) never had a positive idea to do anything. It was always about stopping things. The left actually wants to do things, so that is why The Squad was never going to be obstructionist. There were some who wanted them to vote No on the coronavirus bill to block it because the stimulus payment was $1400 instead of $2000. However, if that happened, people would have gotten nothing. Does anyone honestly think that AOC wanted to be the reason why suffering people got nothing when they could have gotten something? Then again, when you hear Kyle Kulinski talk to Joe Rogan about why he didn't vote at all, it's pretty obvious that this whole thing is a game to him.
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  16415. In America, you don't really learn much about WWI, either, probably because of too many egocentric textbook writers who overlook it because we only entered with a year and a half left.
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  16416.  craigbowers4016  Definitely. The answer is more democratic engsgement. Like I keep hearing people talk about term limits and say, "Don't you think Mitch McConnell should be forced to retire?" as though the people of Kentucky wouldn't end up electing someone just as bad. I'm not getting rid of good ones like Bernie to try to get rid of bad ones and make a like-for-like switch that's even worse because a) without the chance of being a career politician, you just end up speeding up the K Street pipeline; and b) unelected staffers get more power because they actually understand the legislative process.
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  16417. The candidates are trying to stay in as long as possible in hopes that the convention deadlocks, but what they don't realize is that they get nothing if they don't get to 15% in a state or Congressional district. This will only backfire, as Bernie looks to have a big night, and most people will resent the idea of someone running to take their vote away, so Bernie will get stronger and stronger, and we'll only see two or three candidates left on March 4th.
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  16418.  Spic Olé  You wingers are such whiners. Here's a hint: there is not one person who comments on here who can honestly say that none of their comments ever got lost.
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  16419.  @RobTaylor-ry2fk  If you don't like them, vote them out. Why should we get rid of someone that people like because of some arbitrary limit? And why would the people vote for someone that different if you forced someone out for being there too long?
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  16420.  @RobTaylor-ry2fk  It's not their money they spend. As to the point about rich people, arguably nobody has done more for poor people than FDR, and he was born into a very rich family. Nobody currently has done more for or fought for more people than Bernie Sanders, and he's been in Congress for 33 years (16 House, 17 Senate). I don't want to get rid of him because of some arbitrary term limits.
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  16421. "That was beautiful, man!" Willam Black, Clerks
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  16422. ​ @JoePackJoeNC  Russia already invaded once before in 2014. Maybe if Putin would stop trying to invade his neighbors, NATO membership wouldn't be so attractive.
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  16423.  @SmilingNinja  And the first two didn't join until after the Ukraine invasion. It's almost like a defensive alliance is much more attractive when one's neighbors are invading other countries.
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  16424. Nixon had enough shame to know to hide what he did. (I do think there is a lot of truth in Kevin Bacon's line in "Frost/Nixon" that "60% of the time, he was right, and 30% of the time, he thought he was right," and that Moscow Donald "does wrong and knows he's doing wrong" far more than 10% of the time.) Moscow Donald has no shame. Also, I may have been born after Nixon left office, but I don't ever remember him kissing up to a foreign power the way Moscow Donald does to Putin or his "new love" Kim.
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  16425.  @thechairman1318  Two years. There were 26 months between the break in and the resignation.
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  16426.  @jeremiasrobinson  Again, not the country I was thinking of. I think it was a Scandinavian country or the Netherlands.
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  16427.  @john.premose  Your replying to someone who was quoting Monty Python and the Hoky Grail.
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  16428. "Record minority support"? Trump got 13% among black voters. Nixon got 32% in 1960. Republicans won a majority of black votes in every election through 1928. Well, these were same people saying the inflation of 2021-22 waa a "record level," completely ignoring the double digit inflation and interest rates of the 1970s, so I can't say I'm surprised at their poor grasp of history.
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  16429.  @virganiel6720  She was 19 when she was a junior in high school. They never had a relationship of any kind until Mia asked him to start picking her up from school.
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  16430.  @bobsands3557  True, he had a business model, but it did involve going behind the true founders' backs and making his real money from real estate, and then breaking a royalty promise to the McDonald brothers that would have been worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
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  16431.  @barbarjinx3802  You seriously think that Tesla has the highest profit margin? That's hilarious. If it wasn't for government subsidies and people buying overpriced stock, Tesla would have died years ago. And here's a dirty little secret: once other bigger companies scale up electric cars, their ability to build to scale will completely destroy Tesla. A company with literally less than 5% of the market is not "the biggest." The Musk fanboys get more ridiculous by the day.
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  16432.  @barbarjinx3802  If Tesla makes 28% per car sold, then why have they been in the red so many times without them? And again, as the bigger manufacturers start building more electric cars, that margin simply cannot last, because they'll have to drop their prices to compete.
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  16433.  @sk-sm9sh  English translation: you want an amoral world where businesses can do anything that is profitable, regardless of who or what they harm, as long as it turns a quick buck. If you were alive at the turn of the 20th century, your biggest outrage with The Jungle wouldn't have been that people who fell into the grinders were sold and customers were unwittingly turned into cannibals, but that Upton Sinclair was trying to tell businesses how to operate.
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  16434.  @barbarjinx3802  "Where did I say biggest ever?" You: "turned it into the biggest car company in the world" So, unless your beef is with me saying ever instead of right now, my point about your statement stands.
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  16435.  @sk-sm9sh  Here, Wendy's is roughly the same price, and Burger King is a little bit more expensive, but it is more beef instead of more bun.
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  16436.  @barbarjinx3802  You literally called Tesla "the biggest car company in the world."
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  16437.  @sk-sm9sh  "their system wasn't that unique" It was literally the first time that anyone ever applied assembly line principles to food production. If something wasn't so innovative, why did would-be restauranteurs come from all over the country to see just how they did it? Kentucky Fried Chicken and Taco Bell got their start by learning at the feet of the masters. Who built a restaurant from scratch studying at the feet of Ray Kroc?
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  16438.  @miker.1804  It was already profitable. The question wasn't about profitability, but about quality control. In 1955, Ray Kroc said a McDonald's hamburger was the greatest he ever ate. Nowadays, terrible low-wage employment is a McJob, McDonald's routinely ranks at the bottom in quality of any national burger chain, and it is all about churning out product. The seven McDonald's franchises that existed before Ray Kroc were doing just fine, and Dick and Mac McDonald showed the founders of KFC and Taco Bell how to make their visions work.
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  16439. For the fans of entomology, the word tantalize comes from Tantalus, who in Greek mythology was punished by being frozen below the neck with food just outside of his reach.
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  16440. We Protestants celebrate it, too. Orthodox Christians do as well, but they do it much later because they're on the Julian calendar instead of the Gregorian.
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  16441.  @trajan74  Oh, okay. I guess the difference between legit or not is more of a leap in my thinking, but certifying himself is a step down, so I see what you mean now.
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  16442. I think that some of Bernie's support last time was the group of people who just didn't want to vote for Hillary (in my experience, given how he was treated after the primary and with people I talked to, "Bernie or Bust" was really "Anyone But Hillary"), but I think that Bernie rightfully got credit for having the guts to stand up to what was at the time the biggest machine in Democratic Party. I was one of the Draft Warren people in 2013 and '14, but her candidacy feels like weak sauce now.
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  16443. They mean a percentage of the vote. Romney got 47%, and Trump got 46%.
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  16444.  @AnotherAlec  Any time. The raw number tends to have a recency bias. The record for total votes was Obama in 2008, but the biggest votes as a percentage since states went to a popular vote were LBJ and Nixon.
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  16445. Well, if he's mad that people like Weiselberg didn't testify, why didn't the defense team call them?
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  16446. Yes, Sinema can brag about her support among Republicans, but does anyone honestly believe that any of them will vote for her?
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  16447. Yeah, because sucking up to a casino magnate is so much better.
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  16448. I have no problem with his death wish. My problem is that he endangers others with his death wish.
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  16449. As far as this nonsense about people needing to work, I am a state worker and process Medicaid applications every day. Most of those applications are from people who work. If you want the private sector to cover people, maybe, just maybe, you need to tell corporate America to stop being freeloaders and expecting the government to make up the difference.
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  16450.  @aliceputt3133  Where are you getting this evidence that Swearingen (who lost by 43 points in the general election) would have beaten Manchin, or that Pelosi gave him millions? It was a surprise that she only lost by 40 points.
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  16451.  @leealexander3507  Democrats have a much better chance in the Senate. The House is doomed, though, barring a miracle.
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  16452. By all accounts, the amount of doping Asteriskstrong did and the degree of cover-up involved are unprecedented in any sport. This is someone who tested positive himself multiple times, got retroactive exemptions, and ratted out competitors who he felt were threats, such as Tyler Hamilton in 2004, who beat him in a stage race in the build-up to the 2000 Tour de France despite being very reluctant to take the lead.
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  16453. In his memoir written in 1972, Albert Gore said that the Confederacy wasn't truly born until Appomattox. It sounds pretty accurate to me.
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  16454. Agreed. I think it was because it wasn't funny. You can make edgy humor if it's funny, but this was just lame.
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  16455.  @jaysontadlock1871  Somalia has devolved to feudalism, and they haven't has a working state for decades. In the places where feudalism and the state existed, the latter was very weak.
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  16456.  @Db8nIsStupid  I didn't mention his campaign funding proposal. I personally prefer the Clean Campaign model to Democracy Dollars, because his assumes that corporations won't just escalate. You specifically said "UBI + VAT," and you sidestepped the question about the VAT. His version of UBI is horrible, and his funding proposal is even worse.
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  16457.  @Db8nIsStupid  The Clean Campaign model was what was used in several states (Maine and Arizona went first in the 1990s). I'm not sure if the Roberts Court undermined in its effort to gut campaign finance laws. The way it worked was that there was a public fund. If a candidate agreed to only collect money from the fund except for possibly a small loan of less than $1000 for seed money to build a campaign apparatus, candidates had to collect a certain amount of five dollar donations (say, 100 for a state legislative race) in order to demonstrate viability. If they did that, they would get a campaign chest comparable to winning campaigns. If an opponent opted out and raised more money than the threshold, the clean candidates would get matching funds. That way, next to no time spent dialing for dollars and being more responsive to constituents.
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  16458. Two things can be true at the same time. However awful Likud is dosen't change the fact that Hamas is a terrorist organization devoted to the destruction of the Jewish people.
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  16459. The others are like New Coke. I want the original.
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  16460. "That was beautiful, man!" Willam Black, Clerks
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  16461. It seems like a lot of people on air have been critical of this ridiculous move. I was shocked that Chuck Todd, of all people, went first to point out what a bad decision it was.
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  16462. Just one thing: technically speaking Burr did not finish second in 1800. After seeing Jefferson sabotage Adams, both parties had unofficial pairs so the President and Vice President would be in the same party. However, this meant that Burr tied with Jefferson. What enraged Jefferson is that Burr didn't want to step out of the way, even though everyone knew Jefferson was supposed to be President. Because Federalists still controlled Congress (before the Twentieth Amendment, Congress and the President began their terms on March 4th, so the old Congress settled the election), Burr was hopeful that they hated Jefferson more. It took over 30 ballots for Jefferson to get nine states in the House to win.
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  16463. ​ @iyamwhatiyam547  Well, I don't hate Mitt, but McConnell was the biggest enabler of Der Orangefuhrer in Congress. He broke the system to stack the deck with judges, and those judges will cause problems for decades to come. He has been a textbook example of tyranny of the minority.
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  16464. @Jonathan Banner Who? Not that I thought Crist was a good candidate, but unless you have someone specific in mind, that's Underpants Gnomes territory. The last Democratic to win a Florida gubernatorial election was Lawton Chiles in 1994. If Voldemort could win two terms as governor and beat Bill Nelson for Senate, Florida has basically become what Missouri was 10-15 years ago: Democrats can get close, but not quite seal the deal.
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  16465. I am against quotas (they are often applied in racist ways to keep out people from brown countries), but I think that there should be some sort of system to determine who is here and check for any crimes or other reason why someone shouldn't reasonably be admitted. Of course, to the right, anything short of Fortress America is "open borders" these days.
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  16466. Do you honestly think that they'll keep the filibuster? They have abandoned democracy at this point, and [in Homer Simpson whisper] if we get rid of or severely change the filibuster, we can get the For the People Act passed so that states can't keep doing the voter suppression bills.
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  16467.  @CharlieTWilbury  No majority lasts forever, but if you don't do anything with it, that cuts down an awful lot on its shelf life.
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  16468.  @bhunji1850  I never saw combat, either. Most veterans don't. There are so many other things that we can go after this phony on besides trying to make an issue of him not seeing combat. It's not like he constantly talks about his time in theater like someone else who shall remain nameless.
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  16469. The one time they tried, when they invoked the War Powers Act to rein Trump in on Yemen, Trump vetoed it. In some ways, the fact that it takes a 2/3 vote from each House of Congress to actually be effective in taking that power away is a much higher hurdle.
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  16470. Tim Pool: I want to fix our roads. Also Tim Pool: I will oppose the President who got the bill passed that actually fixed the roads.
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  16471.  @eagle-wingedturtle201  You mean like the Green Party using Republican money to try to thwart democracy because they were too incompetent to fill out a petition right and too lazy to fill out an affidavit to correct it? If they succeeded, they would have disenfranchised thousands of Wisconsinites.
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  16472.  @rjkmusicmedia  You mean "pro-freedom modern Republicans" like Ron DeSantis who is banning books and banning discussions of history that he finds uncomfortable? Or like Greg Abbott who signed a law turning people into bounty hunters for abortion? Or the numerous Republicans who pushed bills to rape women with a transvaginal probe in order to try to talk them out of an abortion? Or the ones who really don't like the right to peaceably assemble when it's workers doing it? Yeah, a real "freedom loving" bunch.
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  16473.  @rjkmusicmedia  "Harmful content" like the fact that slavery was bad and caused long lasting effects? You're the monster. And apparently, you are just fine with sticking something in a woman's vagina to get her to do what you want her to do. Great job, rape defender. So, people can "peaceably assemble," but when that peaceable assembly involves workers wanting better pay and working conditions, it is a violation of "freedom."
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  16474.  @rjkmusicmedia  What do you call the state requiring a woman to stick a probe in her vagina in order to get an ultrasound when a regular trans-abdominal ultrasound would do just fine? (My former governor's response to such a thing being invasive was "they don't have to look.")
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  16475.  @rjkmusicmedia  You're the one insisting that today's Republican Party is pro-freedom. So, unless they have suddenly changed their tune about trying to undercut union activity at every turn, that is who you are defending.
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  16476.  @rjkmusicmedia  Cleopatra isn't the only queen of denial. In several states in the last decade, Republicans in several states made laws that any woman considering an abortion must get a transvaginal ultrasound. Virginia was the first. That means sticking a probe in the woman's vagina. You can deny it all you want, but it is a thing, and it was applauded by the anti-abortion groups at the time.
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  16477.  @Commander_ZiN  Oh, how I envy you not knowing who Jimmy Dore is!
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  16478.  @Commander_ZiN  At one point, he started threatening libel after calling people groomers. Some people just really have no self-awareness.
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  16479.  @larryo6874  The Supreme Court already ruled that a President can be subject to civil lawsuits while in office. Yes, there is always the possibility of political prosecutions, but remember that federal officials tend to be appointed by the President, so it has to be pretty bad for something to get to the level where prosecution is a real possibility.
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  16480. Doesn't his "friend" Ben Shapiro also continue to make videos where he claims to "DESTROY with Facts and Logic"?
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  16481. Actually, for as much as they screw everything else up, Fox has a history of fairly accurate reporting. I read that it's because they have multiple firms that worked with both parties, so they're decent at getting a representative picture. Everything else they do (outside of hiring Jessica Tarlov and Marie Harnff [sp?]) is trash, but they're polls are good.
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  16482.  @HesderOleh  His grift is saying that he is anti-Trump while spending more of his time talking about how the left sucks. In other words, it is the same grift Krystal Ball is running.
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  16483. ​ @turretplug6858  The highest per capita murder rate in the country is Bakersfield... the home of Kevin McCarthy.
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  16484.  John Barron  But in a hearing of an appellate style, where the jurors get to ask questions of the lawyers, you don't get to narrowly frame it however you want.
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  16485.  @klardfarkus3891  Have you not seen who is defending the cops killing people and sending stormtroopers into American cities? I don't know what switch your talking about. It's not Republicans talking about cutting police funding.
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  16486.  @klardfarkus3891  You are saying so much, but you're not saying anything at all. And, if you haven't noticed, the reason why the Democratic Party has lined up behind Biden/Harris is because the alternative is (at least) four more years of Trump/Pence. Just because you prefer a ticket to the alternative doesn't mean that you are saying that you agree with everything that they did. After all, the same day that Biden picked Harris, Omar won her primary by 18 points. Again, which party tends to support Black Lives Matter, and which party tends to respond All Lives Matter? Which party has supported cutting police funding? Which party has taken the lead in arguing against private prisons? There is no "switch" on crime. If anything, there has been a divergence from the consensus of the 1990s on the issue.
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  16487.  @klardfarkus3891  Many do, but the real problem is that when someone so bad is in office, people will go safe to try to get rid of them, not realizing that this is the best chance to get the change. Still doesn't mean that Republicans are now the party of criminal justice reform, though.
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  16488.  @AdultThirdCultureKid1971  For the people who pushed that narrative, it was never about policy at all. These are the same idiots who insist that right wing populism is a thing.
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  16489.  @acetate909  Where did I say that Kamala was great or that I even liked her. Her one great political skill is doing questions during hearings, and she can't do that anymore.
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  16490.  @acetate909  My apologies. Sometimes, I do miss sarcasm. I guess years of dealing with tulcels can put you on edge ;-)
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  16491. The latest poll for the Republican primary shows Oz leading McCormick 16-15 :-P Fetterman is definitely in a good place if they can't coalesce around the winner.
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  16492.  @whyamimrpink78  Yeah, and Steve Jobs really did only get a dollar a year from Apple. Nice work of ignoring the stock options that make up the vast majority of his income. If it's "not liquid," he certainly wouldn't have had the money to buy a $175MM house. Do you get paid to spout this propaganda, or are you really that willfully blind?
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  16493.  @Ludumm  He's one of the most persistent and annoying trolls out there. The only reason why I bother to respond is because someone else might read his stupidity unchallenged and not realize that this is the case.
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  16494. Since the McGovern Commission modernized the primary system, there have been three candidates to win the double in an open race (Carter in 1976, Gore in 2000, and Kerry in 2004, with Romney being 12 votes away from getting the double in 2012 as the closest a Republican has ever gotten). All three won the nomination. If Bernie wins Iowa, he will almost certainly win New Hampshire. We can make it happen!
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  16495.  @TysonHook-22-  Because forcing the vote is like taking a car out for a drive. Doing it when the support isn't there is like trying to drive a car with no engine.
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  16496.  @TysonHook-22-  "I live in Canada, so I've got mine" And you didn't get yours by symbolic votes doomed to fail. You got it by taking over a province and proving that it worked.
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  16497.  @Hairbrain  Except that's not what happened. The first two times, it had majority support but not the supermajority required. That being said, show me any time where a health care bill failed where we got something better. The ACA was literally the Republican alternative to Hillarycare that Bill threatened to veto because it didn't go far enough.
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  16498.  @francolegacyspanishmiracle4798  Completely irrelevant to the point. This was during the insurrection against Assad. Putin bombed civilians, and not only did Tulsi praise him for doing so (under the pretense of "fighting terrorism"), but she complained that Obama didn't.
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  16499. I really don't get the logic. How does putting the guy on the stand who thinks the DA didn't go far enough help Der Orangefuhrer prove that he is being unfairly prosecuted?
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  16500. ​ @seanking1775  So, it's all about me, me, me for you? The women who have to sit in a hospital parking lot wearing a diaper waiting until they hemorrhage enough for their life to be sufficiently endangered in order to be allowed to terminate a pregnancy? The 10-year-old who was raped in Ohio who drove to Indiana to get an abortion means nothing to you? The people who have to wait eight hours to vote because John Roberts thinks that racism is over? The six on the Supreme Court who have always sided with business against labor in every single case where there is a dispute between the two? What a real humanitarian you are!
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  16501.  @dogfacedponysoldier6040  Or maybe understand that pretending like both sides are equally bad leads to laziness and the greater evil. Do you like lower taxes on corporations? Do you like pulling out of environmental protection deals? Do you like ignoring a pandemic that is killing thousands by the day? Only one party is doing those things, and to pretend that both are equally bad is enabling the worst actors of them all.
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  16502.  @dogfacedponysoldier6040  Nothing will fundamentally change > Things will get much worse. It's not complicated. Re: Pelosi and corporate taxes, [citation needed].
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  16503.  NNA S  Oh, the word association when someone says "common knowledge" on this channel! Bernie had long knew that he was mainly running to raise issues. Looking back, his aides admitted that the big mistake was realizing too late that he had a chance of victory and not running As someone more than a protest candidate. I don't fault someone for thinking someone who wasn't thinking he could win and not running as someone trying to win wasn't going to pull it off. The public endorsement never came until after the race was over.
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  16504. Who is blocking the bill? We're only waiting on two people to greenlight this whole thing, but they're the ones intent on sabotaging the Biden agenda: one because he thinks he needs to win, and the other is doing it for some strange, unknown reason because this is the first time in her life she has been in the majority party and doesn't know how to govern.
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  16505. Sometimes, I wonder if Republicans live in an alternate universe where cameras record things for posterity, because I remember that it was because the dog couldn't be trained.
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  16506. Agreed. It is true that Biden is not great, but the only one that is remotely comparable in terms of consequences of the result was 1864. If McClellan had one, he was literally ready to let the traitorous states go. In that election, the only correct vote was for the Republican. In this one, the only correct vote is for the Democrat.
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  16507.  @elp2tlh  So, you would rather have someone who never votes with you than someone who votes with you half the time? Every year Manchin has been in the Senate, he has been to the left of every Republican. Great strategy. No wonder we can't win. If Justice wins, the seat is his as long as he wants it. I remember in 2010 that people sat on their hands when Oliverio beat Mollohan with the thought "it's only two years." How did that work out?
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  16508.  @elp2tlh  Manchin is not up in 2022. Demings doesn't have a prayer. So, you are one of these people who would rather get nothing if you can't get anything. People like you are ehy we can't have nice things. Like it or not, refusing the half a loaf usually means that the loaf gets even smaller the next time. What "values" did Manchin betray? He has been a conservative Democrat for his entire 30+ year public career.
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  16509.  @etee7114  He couldn't even beat Swearingen in the primary, and she lost to Capito by 43 points. He pretty much destroyed all of his credibility in the state when he resigned his state senate seat to run for President only to drop out a month or two later.
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  16510.  @TS-bj8my  Look at the voting record. As frustrating as he is (and, believe me, I know), on the whole it is better than that of any Republican in the Senate, let alone the kind of Republicans you'll get out of West Virginia. (He got the seat in a 2010 special election where his Republican opponent wanted to abolish Social Security, Medicare, and the minimum wage.) The moral of the story is to build the party to the point where you don't have to rely on someone in an R+39 state as the deciding vote.
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  16511.  @cliffroebuck2277  The Republican Party hates his guts, because they know that he is the only thing keeping them from that seat.
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  16512.  @cliffroebuck2277  National Republicans might like him, but local Republicans don't. The mere fact that he voted to convict Der Orangefuhrer twice would make him persona non grata.
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  16513.  @cliffroebuck2277  And that is part of why he survives in a state where Trump won by 42 and 39 points. Doug Jones had barely half those headwinds, and it took finding out that his opponent was a pedophile for him to get elected once, let alone three times. Like it or not, we aren't going to everything we want from a Senator in a state that red. At this point, you aren't getting anyone better. That frustrates every lefty I know in WV, and he has often frustrated me as well, but I am well aware of the alternative. Unlike when Sinema stans talk about how nominating someone to her left is a bad November calculation, it is a certainty that no one else is winning the state to his left.
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  16514.  @e-spy  I can hope for a lot of things, but I also acknowledge reality. It will take a lot of organizing to rebuild those atrophied muscles, so you do the best that you can in the meanwhile.
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  16515.  @xpsxps1339  I mentioned a breakdown of party success in previous replies in the thread. The state has gone so far to the right as to be unrecognizable from even ten years ago. There is very little organization on the left, and there really isn't much of a bench because of that. You can't just wish a winning lefty into existence. You don't see people complaining that Liz Cheney is the best that Wyoming can do, because you know what kind of state it is.
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  16516. 2:12 What happened to the days when they were skilled enough in theor Orwellianism to the point that they wrote the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act?
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  16517. This one seems pretty obvious to me: 1) Moscow Donald wants to get rid of Sessions after the midterm 2) Graham is sucking up big time to angle for the job 3) Haley is from the same state. She wants to be available to take the Senate seat, considering that no incumbent has lost a US Senate race in SC in decades (At least before Thurmond), she figures she'd be set for life.
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  16518. @Red Leader I'm guessing you've never actually run for office or worked for a campaign that has attempted to get on the ballot. Either that, or you think that the rules apply to everyone else except for you. Campaigning 101 says that ballot access laws, regardless of party, are very strict, and you need to follow them to the letter. The Greens didn't do that. They were given a chance to file an affidavit to clarify the error. They didn't do that. Instead, they waited two weeks, until ballots were printed at no small expense and ready to be mailed, to file a lawsuit. If they had gotten their way, there was a real chance that overseas military voters wouldn't have gotten their ballots in time. So, who's undemocratic again?
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  16519. @Red Leader Go get any book on running for office. Talk to any veteran of campaigns, and they will tell you that you have to follow the law to the letter. Major parties have had candidates thrown off the ballot for not following the rules. Howie Hawkins had plenty of chances to do it the right way and didn't do it, so what makes him so special?
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  16520. @Red Leader PS If you have run for office or worked on a campaign's effort to get on the ballot and I got it wrong, I apologize. I should have known that ignorance wasn't the only possible explanation for this take, and I should have considered dishonesty was also a possibility.
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  16521. @Red Leader Okay, now you have just shown what a liar you really are. I don't care if his running mate moved four houses down the road, the rules say that all information has to be accurate on the form. Someone noticed the address discrepancy and Wisconsin sent the Green Party an affidavit they could fill out to correct the error. They didn't do it, so the Elections Board proceeded without the Hawkins/Walker ticket. Municipal clerks did their jobs and went forward with the full list. Then, two weeks later, the Wisconsin Green Party files a lawsuit. They only wanted to gum up the works, and you present this as onerous. Andrew Yang got kicked off the ballot in the Ohio primary because his campaign didn't bother to include a page saying what office he was running for in his petition. Like you, his campaign went on and on about what an affront to democracy this was, but those rules hadn't changed at all. They were there for all to see. If you are that incompetent, that proves that you are not ready to be President. If you want to defend such stupidity, that's your business, but the fact that you feel the need to lie about it shows who you really are.
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  16522. Right-wing populism is fake populism. No one is a populist who supports tax cuts for the rich. There is an anti-populist bias in academia going back to Hofstadter who hated the Populist movement but loved the Progressive Era, because it was largely led by the business interests, especially if you look at the way they both treated labor.
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  16523.  @BillyBagOdonuts  I do. Apparently, you don't. Gerrymandering is drawing artificial political lines in a way to maximize representation. State lines are not, by definition, gerrymandering.
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  16524.  @mythserene  Indeed. You see a little bit of Ryan thinking he is above everyone else before that (before starting the fire, he says that he doesn't want to have a thing and he just wants to slip out unremembered), but you are right that this is the beginning of a steep decline.
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  16525. With a face that small, you need to grow your hair out more.
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  16526. Between my employer share and my share, 32.01% of my income (27.6% employer, 4.41% employee) goes to health insurance, and I still have to pay co-pays. Bernie's proposal would reduce that to 11% (7% employer, 4% employee), and I wouldn't have to pay out of pocket. Maybe my union could use the fact that to get me a raise at the next contract. So, yeah, this would make a huge difference in people's pockets.
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  16527.  @samgomez2064  Since the infamous one is already Jr., does this make Peanut Butter Judge Joe Biden III? ;-)
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  16528. Did tjis guy call in before? He sounds a lot like the 31 year old who called a few years ago to say that if you exercised you wouldn't have heart problems?
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  16529.  @whyamimrpink78  A libertarian complaining that Bernie is too radical? That's a good one.
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  16530.  @whyamimrpink78  Unless it was a different person with your username, I remember seeing you defend a lot of libertarians on The Majority Report comment section.
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  16531.  @bryonmyers1058  So, we should all aspire to talk about how important it is to vote down ballot, but insist that you don't need to vote because your state is solid in the Presidential election despite several key legislative races all because it looked "dirty"? Yeah, that's who we should aspire to be.
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  16532.  @bryonmyers1058  I guess you missed the part where I pointed out that he didn't vote at all, and that there were some key legislative races in his state. Would it kill the defenders of dishonest people to be honest once in a while? He lived in a safe state (which was part of his justification for not voting for Biden). The not voting for a major-party candidate if you live in a safe state is one thing, but "blame me if Trump wins" is another.
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  16533.  @SMP1993  If his first month has been a PR disaster, why are his approval ratings so high? You've got to get out of the bubble. Most of the news has been about him having a competent response to containing the spread of coronavirus and getting the vaccine channels sped up.
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  16534.  @SMP1993  Well, which is it, that he has been bad at PR, or he has been benefiting from good PR? I think you need to convince yourself before you can convince others. Maybe if you would get out of your bubble more, you wouldn't be caught blindsided when trying to win over hearts and minds, or are you just looking for heretics?
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  16535.  @SMP1993  The evidence of Sinema's bad PR is in the fact that her numbers have dropped. Biden's numbers are still high. Just because you have been used to a personality cult doesn't mean that Biden has gotten mostly good press and his approval ratings show it. Bush never got 60% until after 9/11. Obama had it but lost it almost right away. Ditto Clinton. In this day and age, to go up in approval ratings after a month is very rare.
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  16536.  @SMP1993  I'm saying the group that expects nothing but positive coverage all the time. Biden has gotten good and bad. And where is this evidence that Bush was at 60% that early. I remember him hovering around 50 through most of the first eight months of his term.
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  16537.  @SMP1993  Thank you for giving me the information. I honestly didn't remember. Why I think that this time will be remembered positively is because people will remember that the coronavirus was brought under control, and once that happens, the pent-up demand is going to see rapid improvement in the economy. I'm not saying that we will get everything we wanted, but what the average person will see. Yes, Democrats will almost certainly lose the House. The majority is narrow, and redistricting will sting. That doesn't mean that we are headed for a Trump restoration.
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  16538. Keep Kid Rock and Ted Nugent. The irony is that they actually hate the few good conservative rockers they have (Alice Cooper, Dave Mustaine, Maureen Tucker).
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  16539.  @sobdjs  Doesn't change the fact that she had such colossal bad judgment in the first place. In many ways, diplomacy is like pawn moves in chess: you don't get a do-over.
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  16540.  @sobdjs  What was this vote that I keep hearing about? I have looked for it, and I have asked for the roll call, and couldn't find it anywhere. That being said, given the fact that she suddenly pretended to be the peace person after endorsing Bernie, and now she is reverting to type by defending Biden on busing and Iraq, her defense of the deal isn't nearly as important as the damage she caused after it was made. I want someone who can get it right the first time, and her instincts are terrible.
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  16541.  @sobdjs  I have a problem with her reverting back to type. Even after her supposed rebirth, she played conspiracy theorist on Syria, played both siderism on the shutdown and the wall, defended Biden on busing and Iraq, and continues to defend Modi. Oh, and she still defends all of the bad things she did on foreign policy and in working with Sheldon Adelson. There was no conversion. There was a fake to avoid heat from her left, but that's about it. She was willing to apologize for her previous stances on social issues, so why not this thing that is her supposed lefty calling card?
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  16542. Sometimes, I think they realize that they created a monster, but they are scared to death of that nutjob's followers, so that's why they don't, in the words of Sam Kinison in "Back to School," "Say it, say it!"
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  16543.  @mbelma6329  What media did you watch? The investigation was clearly stated, many times, to cover "interference with the 2016 election, obstruction, and any other issues that may be revealed in the due process of the investigation." You would also know that several things did get sent to other federal prosecutors, such as the Southern District of New York, because Mueller found things that were beyond his jurisdiction.
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  16544.  @mbelma6329  What "media"? You do realize that media is plural, right? That's because there is not one monolithic thing known as media, so that's why I ask "what media?"
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  16545.  @johnmartin4641  No. You're the one who said that $95,000/year was "just the basics," not me.
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  16546.  @johnmartin4641  Someone saying that having more money makes him smarter than anyone else. What a shock!
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  16547.  @SilverLakeKingdom  Or, many of us are poor because it's a rigged game that only a few can ever win.
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  16548.  @Here4TheHeckOfIt  You may be right. I'd heard the number about a decade ago.
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  16549. The lack of self-awareness in this one is astounding.
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  16550. Actually, Big Boy, there was never a vote to certify the election in 2001, because no Senator agreed to sign the petition.
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  16551.  @3ld919  I get the concern about in fighting, but it is a legitimate question that I have asked more than once: Why do you think that Wall Street has suddenly softened their views on Elizabeth Warren? If it's not because they think that she will turn, what do you think it is?
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  16552. Actually, Bork got blocked in 1987, but 1988. Kennedy was nominated in 1988, though.
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  16553.  @groooah  Any time. I guess it was serendipity that I was already looking for another response.
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  16554. He has to go make his money making corporate speeches now, so he'll never tell the truth. That is why Carter wrote books to make money after he left the White House.
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  16555.  @exiledfrommyself  Because it is tax deductible.
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  16556. So, you wanted Bernie and EMK kicked out against the will of the voters of their state?
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  16557.  @jonathansmith4968  If you really believe in "protected human rights," why does it seem like every time there is a conflict between individual rights over the wealthy or the propertied interest that the latter always wins? Any "rights" that you believe in are subservient. And if you really believe in building roads, you need to tell that to some of your candidates.
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  16558.  @jonathansmith4968  By definition, libertarians do not believe "you have the right to possess the fruit of your labor." The profit motive, and libertarian hostility to organized labor, pretty much disproves that. How does Jeff Bezos trample the rights of others? Well, you might not consider sweatshop labor to be problematic, but I do.
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  16559.  @jonathansmith4968  You can't? Roads have already been privatized in Indiana, and a lot of libertarians praise that model. Private corporations also took over parking meters in Chicago. Maybe you need to pay attention if you really think that is the case.
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  16560.  @jonathansmith4968  Ron Paul literally said that labor "destroys freedom." I don't really care what your friends have to say. I care about what libertarian voters keep saying that they want by who they pick.
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  16561.  @jonathansmith4968  Look at Indiana for your "increased efficiencies." A libertarian is someone who believes the same thing on Wednesday that he did on Monday regardless of what happened on Tuesday.
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  16562.  @jonathansmith4968  The labor contracts are things where it was literally tried your way, and it doesn't work. I really don't care what your theory says when actual evidence proves the theory wrong.
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  16563.  @jonathansmith4968  Your "the Almighty Market will solve" ignores the fact of economy of scale. It's like the game Monopoly: the ultimate trend is for fewer people to get more, and when we got a glimpse if what you wanted, this is exactly what happened.
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  16564. In American history, the only time that the same third-party candidate or third party got 5% or more in consecutive Presidential elections was Ross Perot in 1992 and 1996 (the next closest was the Socialist Party, which went from 6% in 1912 to 4.9% in 1916). When he had no matching funds, he got 19%. When he got them, he fell to 8.5%. The fact that third parties are obsessed with getting matching funds instead of building the party down ballot shows that they don't actually care about winning, but are a coalition of grifters and dupes.
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  16565.  @spaceynb  The reason why third parties don't build is inherent in the nature of the political system. Even in multi-party systems, there are two major parties, and if something proves successful with a third party, the major parties will adopt it. And in our system, third parties aren't even trying to win. (If they say they are, they're either lying or delusional, because unless they can get to 270, the best they can hope for is throwing the election to the House... where it will be decided by Democrats and Republicans.) The problem is that if we just take a wait and see attitude and hope that gravity ceases to become a thing, you run the risk of throwing things to a fascist dictator who isn't even hiding it anymore.
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  16566.  @trondyne3513  If your vote doesn't matter, then why try to talk those of us in swing states into ignoring the consequences of the election? Then again, maybe you should spend less time on your high horse and more time trying to get rid of the Electoral College and replacing it with Ranked Choice Voting.
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  16567. "Taking zero precautions" I'm guessing that he is so isolated that the precautions were taken for him.
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  16568.  @sweetpremiumwine  If a child gave change to help out during a disaster, and I was running a disaster organization, I would say "thank you" and add it to a collection of all the other change to make for a few meals for people. If I were collecting masks that people donated, I wouldn't ruin them for a mural. I would set up a collection point so that people could get them until there were none left. See, that actually helps people.
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  16569.  @Fidhife  I would feel awful, and I wouldn't give another penny. Have you noticed that there sure are an awful lot of Cuomo defenders in the comment section today.
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  16570.  @latinreuben  How do you know they weren't sealed when they were sent, and you are aware that there are literal disinfectants that can be used on masks, right? I am not in NY, but I have seen many of Cuomo's events since either a) MSM is desperately looking for an anti-Trump, or b) there is an infatuation. However, just like another former NY figure who used a tragedy to catapult into the national spotlight, if it wasn't for Cuomo ignoring the warning signs in the first place, as well as cutting funding for hospitals in NY, maybe NYC wouldn't be the biggest coronavirus hot spot on the face of the planet.
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  16571.  @latinreuben  Who said that money was used as a mask? I was responding to someone saying that using the masks as a mural was a "nice gesture" because it meant that the masks that couldn't be used in hospitals still served some "purpose" and compared it to children giving change. My point was that if I were running some sort of collection, I would thank the donor and add it to the collection to get things people can use. The fact that you thought that I meant "a mask made of coins" shows that you are merely a blind defender of the apple that rolled pretty far from the tree.
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  16572. For my money, Larry Summers is the worst contribution Bill Clinton made to the public sphere as President.
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  16573.  @soulknife20  Actually, it was Wayne LaPierre that led to the decline and fall of the NRA. It was long gone before Charlton Heston became president.
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  16574.  @CaptainStupendous  I heard that argument 11 years ago for the public option. I'm sorry, but I don't trust that because if the starting point is less than the best, the compromise might just be tightening up the ACA a little. I would rather start bold and compromise down if necessary.
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  16575.  @CaptainStupendous  Actually, no. The point is that programs don't get better in the process if you want a more expansive program to help people, so you don't start with the watered down version. That was Obama's mistake in 2009, and Yang wants to repeat it.
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  16576. Actually, Seth, hunters have to wear blaze orange in many states to make sure that other hunters don't shoot them. One time, when running in the woods for cross country practice in high school, we had to wear our uniforms because they had orange on them and it was in the middle of hunting season.
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  16577.  @drkspawn32  Because other people can't get it and the morons who don't want to are making everyone else more vulnerable. Funny how the vaccine is supposedly ineffective and the virus is supposedly harmless, but contraction and deaths have shrunk dramatically in the places where vaccines are most heavily taken.
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  16578.  @Casual-Enthusiast  [citation needed]
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  16579.  @professorXcross  "to be frank"
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  16580.  @WitchDoctor87  If you consider someone who has spent most of her decades in public life fighting for universal health care and education "centrist," then you won't win anything.
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  16581.  @WitchDoctor87  You didn't answer my question. If Nina's fight is enough, why did she lose when she ran for Congress and Ohio Secretary of State?
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  16582.  @WitchDoctor87  And you are showing that you are not informed, because Biden signed onto a $15/hour minimum wage and getting rid of the unrealized capital gains loophole. He got "at least one."
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  16583.  @WitchDoctor87  I am well aware of how many times Bernie lost before he won. He also had a record of success in his city that convinced people to give him a statewide office. Nina Turner hasn't held elective office for six years, so what will make going for President different than a Congressional campaign? You honestly think that the forces that combined to defeat Bernie will disappear for someone who endorsed Jill Stein in 2016?
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  16584. @Abe Tsenoh And how is that evidence that she will win? Not that you like her or it makes you feel good, but that she will win the nomination in a party that will remind people that she endorsed the Green Party candidate in 2016.
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  16585.  @adamwhittaker9620  Where are you getting that nonsense from?
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  16586.  @WitchDoctor87  She endorsed after the primary was over. You honestly think that endorsing a candidate who got 1% of the vote that members of the party she would use as a vehicle for the nomination hates with a passion would help her? Yeah, that makes sense.
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  16587.  @WitchDoctor87  Well, it is clear why your theory of the case that you just want to feel good rather than actually win. I actually did the work to try to help Bernie win, but a lot of the reason that he lost is that the infrastructure just wasn't there. The fact that he went from 44% in 2016 to around 30% in 2020 proves that a substantial amount of 2016 voters were voting against Hillary rather than for Bernie. The fact that you think that burning bridges is how you win a national campaign shows a total lack of strategy and understanding just what the numbers really say.
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  16588.  @WitchDoctor87  Trump was the logical conclusion of everything the establishment had argued for 50 years at that point. Wealth and celebrity had been seen as the ultimate goal, and he was the embodiment of that to many people. The fact that Democratic voters responded to someone with no experience by picking someone with 44 years in federal office tells me that the idea of a former state senator as President is a leap that most don't want to take. The evidence that Democrats want such a takeover is severely lacking.
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  16589.  @FlipjevanTiel  Youbare proving my point. I am not saying that Bernie is bad or unpopular. What I am saying is that a former state senator who hasn't won an election in ten years is not going to be able to overcome what someone who is actually popular and well known couldn't. If that same person endorsed a national ticket that is hated by a lot of members of the party, that is not "an advantage," that is an albatross.
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  16590.  @FlipjevanTiel  Where did I say that Biden was popular? Bernie is clearly the popular candidate I was talking about.
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  16591.  @FlipjevanTiel  I'm saying that if someone who had been elected to statewide office 11 times can't get passed the gauntlet that the establishment has built, someone who has never been elected to an office higher than state senate certainly won't, and that we need to a) work on grassroots organizing to win at the state and local level to get rid of the establishment, and b) that we need to pick candidates who can actually win rather than someone who appeals to a very narrow base online. Ask President Ron Paul how that works.
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  16592.  @FlipjevanTiel  That would be Nina Turner. I like Nina Turner, and I think that she can do great things, but her electoral record does not inspire confidence. I mentioned Ron Paul because he is someone who had an absolutely fervent online base of support, but it was mostly limited to the internet. I haven't heard a single person tell me Nina should be the successor outside of YouTube. I never heard ot from Democratic party people, I never heard it from Bernie people, and I never heard it from DSA people. She is miles better than he is, but their bases tend to the inch wide and a mile deep kind you tend to see online.
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  16593.  @FlipjevanTiel  The other thing that we are forgetting about Trump is that his base was primed for someone like him for 50 years. The worship of wealth (or extravagant spending masquerading as wealth) and celebrity made Trump possible. The Democratic base is extremely wary of that now.
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  16594.  @FlipjevanTiel  The media won't question an establishment candidate on credentials? If I had a dollar for every time I heard Buttigieg be (rightly) criticized for never holding an office higher than mid-sized city mayor. Making Nina Turner "famous" won't change that. I looked way back, and I could never find anyone who won the Democratic Party nomination who wasn't either a general, a cabinet official, held statewide office, or served in Congress. You are saying that a party that has never nominated someone without that level of experience in 57 attempts is going to suddenly do so for someone who supported a candidate in the general election in a party that a lot of Democratic voters hate because of its 20 year history of being useful idiots and grifters for the Republican Party. I just don't see that happening. If Bernie couldn't do it, there is no way Nina will pull it off.
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  16595.  @arthurzhao8476  Apparently, you are that part of the online left that doesn't know how to count to 218 & 50, and just wants to say No if you don't get everything you want, instead of using your brains and comparing legislation to the status quo rather than some ideal version of what it should be.
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  16596.  @ToxicAudri  You mean with a population where a majority consistently wants tax cuts, increased spending, and a balanced budget? TABOR almost killed Colorado higher education in 2005.
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  16597. Let's hope they remember this the next time it's time to vote
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  16598. Similarly, you can look at his trip to Falwell U for a forum and trace a direct line to his win in Michigan, because there is a huge religious right (Zondervan Publishing, the makers of Our Daily Bread) and the religious left (Mars Hill) in Grand Rapids, where Bernie dominated.
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  16599.  @SpirosPagiatakis  I never do, but in what particular way do you think that I might be doing so?
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  16600. I thought that guy sounded familiar! The famous one us called "Stupid Man Calls in to Argue About 'The Bell Curve' with Sam Seder." As Michael said, "You are great in all these ways that you don't understand."
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  16601. ​ @lisareed6299  His voting registration has been released.
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  16602.  @grinch30  They did, but you know what they say about how more people see the error than the retraction.
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  16603.  @bigbopper6434  I debunk nonsense on the right and the left when I see it, and I called out the idiots who said it was faked. Then again, I care about truth, not tribalism.
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  16604.  @bigbopper6434  It's not my fault your defense mechanism crumbled like a cookie.
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  16605.  @bigbopper6434  Alex Cole did a screenshot that shows a man with the same name on the voter rolls in Pittsburgh. The donation came from Pittsburgh, not Bethel Park.
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  16606.  @bigbopper6434  A reporter who did the same sleuthing as those who found the donation in the first place, but he dug deeper.
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  16607. Which one?
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  16608. Funny how many of this people claim to be against war or genocide, but they have no problem with a candidate so cozy with Putin, a war criminal attempting just that in Ukraine.
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  16609. "71% of all Americans want a third party" And polls also say that the vast majority of Americans eat all their vegetables. People might like the idea of a third party, but in American history, only once has a third party gotten 5% of the vote in consecutive elections (Perot in 1992 and 1996, with the Socialists just barely missing 5% in 1916 after getting 6% in 1912), and he got less than half what he did the first time. The reason third parties don't have lasting appeal? Because every third party that has appeal is either based on personality or addressing an issue that one or both of the major parties co-opt.
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  16610. In 2016, I lived in the most left-leaning neighborhood in the most left-leaning city in the state that decided the election (PA). I only ever saw three people put trying to get the word out for Hillary, and they were all over 60. That is not the level of enthusiasm we need. Maybe things will go downhill to the point where any Not Trump will do, but this is not the level of excitement that we need to win the election.
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  16611.  @PBDNR  But the person who reads the results will be Harris. If Trump wins again, he can't run in 2028. The real concern would be if he were somehow able to either suspend elections or get blue/swing states with unified Republican control to move the vote for electors to state legislators.
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  16612. A comment just disappeared. I'm not sure if that was intentional or not, but I don't want to reply to something that isn't there.
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  16613. This is the real Glenn Greenwald. He started out using First Amendment grounds to defend white nationalists beating people. Like Tulsi Gabbard, his real grift was pretending to be a lefty.
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  16614. Getting rid of the debt ceiling is definitely a case of doing the right thing but for the wrong reason. Since Der Orangestraflingfuhrer and Congressional Republicans are allergic to do the right thing, they're not even trying to eliminate the debt ceiling, but to suspend it, only for it to come rearing back when that big orange dummy is gone.
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  16615. I don't care, because I'm Jim Halpert. Look at me flipping my hair.
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  16616. No Labels pops up its head every few years to tut-tut the two-party system, raise an obscene amount of money, and not field a candidate. Lather, rinse, repeat.
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  16617.  @ReubenWalton  That is his pet name for his wife.
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  16618.  @miapdx503  "They'll look at me, and they'll know I'm harmless. I won't even swat that fly. Then, they'll know, 'Why, she wouldn't even harm a fly.'"
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  16619.  @dianna1976  Sometimes, I think that they think the red letters mean Stop.
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  16620. I don't really care if they are thinking about it. I care if they'll show a spine for the first time in years.
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  16621.  @galactick3816  Well, never mind the question of whether or not student loans should even be a thing, I was also pointing out that those are trying to climb higher get pulled down harder.
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  16622.  @alabamaman5994  Because you're so obviously lying and pretending that your life is far grander than it really is.
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  16623. The real problem with their being so many candidates onstage is that it is far easier for a candidate to hide and say nothing with nearly a dozen candidates on stage. I would be fine with any candidate who is on the ballot in enough states to theoretically win the Electoral College to be on the debate in the fall, but ultimately, we have a two-party system because of math and our rules. If you want multiple parties, you either need ranked choice or promotional representation.
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  16624. Can't say I'm surprised that a reformer won a democratic election after the old guard refused. It's almost like they care more about their power than what the workers want. If only my union could win the right for democracy above the state level.
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  16625.  @standupguy12  Except Yang refuses to provide a full list of the programs that people have to forfeit if they take his money. He has listed a few (TANF, SNAP, WIC, LIHEAP, daycare subsidies, housing subsidies). Based on what we know, there are already people who get more than $1000/month: 1) TANF in New Hampshire is over $1000. In Alaska, it is $923, and New York and California are over $700. With SNAP maxing out for two people above $350, people in those states get more on those programs alone, and they will almost certainly get LIHEAP, too. 2) Housing subsidies 3) Daycare subsidies with multiple children in daycare (and they are probably getting WIC, too) Those people pay VAT on dollar one, so they will be worse off.
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  16626.  @standupguy12  It is not $1000 per person, it is $1000 per adult. The poverty level for one person is higher. There are people who already get more than $1000, so they get nothing, they have to pay a VAT, and their rent goes up. He is making life worse for the most vulnerable in society.
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  16627.  @standupguy12  Yes, there are winners and losers in everything government does, but the losers should not be the most vulnerable in society. What does Bernie actually do for people? 1) Medicare for All so people don't have to worry about whether or not their doctors are in network and they have no point of service costs. 2) The Federal Jobs Guarantee to address the things that actually need done in society. 3) The Green New Deal and then some, which includes building millions of houses that are retrofitted, and less pollution means a healthier population. 4) Affordable housing and rent control 5) Increased Social Security including for parents who stay home with children. These are just a few of the things that Bernie offers that actually helps people that Yang doesn't. And the losers are the people who can actually afford it. And he actually pays for things with progressive taxation.
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  16628.  @standupguy12  *This offer does not apply to the poor who don't get it and have to pay more in taxes. There, I fixed it for you by putting the asterisk that Yang Gang bangers so conveniently forget. Oh, yes, the Almighty Market will reduce rental costs. Other than a depressed economy, when has the Almighty Market EVER seen an overall reduction in rent? Rent will go up, not by the full thousand, but it will go up. When it does, people won't be able to save for their down payment, and if Yang is right that there won't be any jobs left, and no one can get other benefits, you are creating a world with a few trillionaires and everyone else scraping by on $12,000/year. The reason why I can't go by what you Yang Gang bangers mean is because you support someone who is so fundamentally dishonest that I have no way of knowing whether or not you really think that or just conveniently always phrase things in a way that makes it sound more generous than it is, like your initial assertion that people have to spend $120K to lose out, even though there are people who won't see any extra money at all and now have to pay a tax.
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  16629.  @standupguy12  Oh, my God! Are you incapable of getting a basic point? The total benefits of Bernie's plan are more. Here is how, as simply as I can possibly make it: 1) Bernie is not taking any benefits away from anyone. Yang is. 2) Bernie is using a progressive tax rather than a consumption tax, meaning that people who can't work (unless they are retired and very rich) won't pay any taxes. People who can't work still need to buy things. 3) Cost savings from Medicare for All come about because you have 330MM in one pool. As the last three years have shown, private insurance will get loopholes and weakened regulation as soon as a Republican gets control. 4) I can't say for each individual, because Social Security payout is based on the individual, but the average is $250/month. 5) "Here is an affordable house or rent" is a bigger net positive than "Yes, you bought a house on low elevations, so here is a thousand bucks a month to eventually move to higher ground." The total benefits aren't even close.
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  16630.  @standupguy12  I asked about rent, and you never provided an example of rent going down. So, let's look at your argument that the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend will let people be mobile. Never mind the inherent contradiction of pimping the extended family in order to make the benefits look more generous, or moving in with friends (which only sounds like a good idea to a poor college student), yes, some people who are close to retirement will be able to move to cheaper land and retire. In my native state, a lot of people from the DC area started to realize how much cheaper the Eastern Panhandle was than the inner metro area and moved out there. End result? Yes, there was economic growth, but rent skyrocketed and homeless tripled from 1980-2005. So, when people have tried your theory, it didn't work. Your candidate opposes rent control, so rural homelessness will increase. It takes a far smaller influx of people to drive up housing costs in a down of two thousand than in a city of two million.
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  16631.  @standupguy12  It's simple math that ignores the simple truth that there are people who either get nothing or have to give up what they currently get in order to get the money, so they don't get the full thousand. The cutoff line for who benefits is still dishonest.
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  16632.  @standupguy12  Yang never says when he wants to transition, and he says Medicare for All is too disruptive. Either you are being dishonest, or you are believing contradictory things from a dishonest actor. I don't know which is which.
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