Comments by "wvu05" (@wvu05) on "The Damage Report" channel.

  1. How many does this make? Didn't he try one back in February that was basically a glorified blog?
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  2. My conscience tells me that you are a sociopath if you refuse to stop a would-be fascist dictator who has already tried to destroy democracy once.
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  3. Oh, you are a joke, Marge. Just not a funny one.
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  4. Initial response. I'll see how accurate I was: 1) Medicare for All flip flop 2) Lying about Bernie 3) Going from "I have a plan for that" to "I have a vagina."
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  5. Funny how Marjorie Taylor Greene is so worried about pedophilia, but has no problem with Gym Jordan or Matt Gaetz.
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  6. And look at how mild her symptoms were.
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  7. I still can't understand how Log Cabin Republicans is a thing.
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  8. Actually, militias do exist. They're called the National Guard. As a former member of a real militia for six years, these cosplayers just need to play their games in the woods and leave everyone else alone.
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  9. Every veteran who was in theater has a little bit of PTSD. It's almost certainly why it is the one illness that the VA considers all or none. When I first got home, I changed lanes without even looking because I saw a bag of litter on the interstate, and even though I didn't see combat, it was drilled into my head that litter and roadkill were IEDs. There but for the grace of God, there was no one behind me. Anyone who wants to denigrate me for that can go take a long walk off a short pier.
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  10. Lobbyists have to have good relations with their former colleagues. She wants to be a talking head.
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  11. The fact that the people who are producing CP are being protected and not the children is obscene. Funny that Moms for Liberty is nowhere to be found on this one.
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  12. Michael, Ana, and John. A dream team!
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  13. Oh, they did that even before the election.
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  14. Yang blew the debate, plain and simple. He can complain about the mic all he wants, but he got a relative softball on Jose Diaz-Ballart (how are you going to implement your proposal?) and he didn't even seem ready for that.
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  15. Anyone think that, if it were up to Trump, that any of these terrorists would have been arrested? Didn't think so.
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  16. Maybe the problem is that he got everything he wanted his entire life. Even when he went bankrupt, he got to keep his toys. Congress not acquiescing to his will was probably the first time that ever happened, and losing re-election is the first time he ever faced consequences for his actions.
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  17. Today's Republican Party: heads, I win; tails, you cheated.
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  18. 5:02 I think Ben Carson prove once and for all that you don't have to be smart to be a doctor, or even a very good doctor.
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  19. "I like Ted Cruz more than just about anybody else in the Senate, and I hate Ted Cruz." Al Franken
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  20. So true about side effects versus the vaccine. My uncle was born in 1947 and got polio. He couldn't walk until he was five. I'm sure he would have rather dealt with side effects than dealing with polio. Heck, my daughter didn't have any side effects from the polio vaccine that I remember.
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  21. Fox has vaccine mandates. He just wants other people to die.
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  22. 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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  23. People like Tim Scott aren't there to convince black people to vote Republican. They are there to make white Republicans feel better about their racism.
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  24. When I was an undergrad, the College Republicans put out a newspaper complaining about not having a voice. Well, I was in Young Dems at the time, and we didn't have a printing press.
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  25. 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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  26. Actually, Trump said the thing about wondering if she'll get her mom's rack for one-year-old Tiffany.
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  27. He's gaslighting. "Christian Identity" is a white supremacist hate group, not a religious organization.
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  28. "Because science is a liar... sometimes." -Mac -Tim Pool
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  29. Some idiot tried to tell me that Jesus didn't use vaccines to heal people. Well, never mind that a lot more people wouldn't need to be healed if there were vaccines 2000 years ago, the point wasn't a systematic medical approach. When the Amish had a measles outbreak in 1979, they realized the error of their ways and everyone in the community got vaccinated. The outbreak ended, and we didn't have another one in the United States until Jenny McCarthy opened her dumb mouth.
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  30. 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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  31. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jennifer Granholm can't run because they aren't natural born citizens. Maxwell Frost can't run because he won't be 35 when the term starts. Clinton, Bush, and Obama can't run because they've already served two terms. And Der Orangefuhrer can't run because he participated in an insurrection after taking the oath of office. It's not complicated, no matter how much Republicans pretend it is.
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  32. Marge knows her dog whistles.
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  33. They don't get it because they hate the same people. "If you convince the poorest white man he's better than the best colored man, you don't have to pick his pockets. Hell, do that and he'll give you his money." Lyndon B. Johnson
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  34. I got my vaccine four months ago, and everything still functions normally.
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  35. I really wanted her to run in 2013 and '14. I think Bernie did, too, because I remember seeing him on The Ed Show saying that he would only run if no one would step up to take on the Wall Street establishment. At the time, she was the third most popular politician in America. Given how much Bernie rose, she would have won the nomination. Considering that she also had to be drafted into the Senate, I just don't think she really wanted it. Now, though, while I would enthusiastically support her if she won the nomination, I just see her as a weaker sauce than what we really need.
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  36. Warren is already backing away from Medicare for All. She is someone who had to be begged to run for every office. I want an actual fighter.
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  37. The way Jesus went to the Samaritans, who were the discriminated against people of their day, tells me what He thinks about Black Lives Matter.
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  38. In my neighborhood, there was definitely a drop in people wearing masks over the last month or so. People keep mentioning the protests, but the one I went to had almost everyone wearing masks.
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  39. "Conspiracy theorists simultaneously believe that the government is incompetent and can't do anything right, and that government is incredibly competent and able to keep things a secret." Richard Clarke, Against All Enemies
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  40. 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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  41. My theory is that "wifely duties" is a code for sex.
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  42. "The enemy is weak and strong at the same time." Umberto Eco describing fascists
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  43. Darn right!
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  44. This is how dictatorships start. You start by getting people used to the idea of overstaying your term, and then you never leave.
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  45. Manchin is leaving the Senate, anyway, because he knew he couldn't beat Justice.
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  46. Are we sure that Marjorie Traitor Greene graduated from high school, or did she also get what Chris Rock called the Good Enough Diploma like Boebert?
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  47. Remember to tip your waitresses.
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  48. The good people of Arizona definitely traded up when they got Gallego instead of this grifter.
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  49. Except for repealing the ACA, she never voted against party leadership when they needed her vote. As Barney Frank said 15 years ago before selling out to go work for a bank, "There is no such thing as a moderate Republican. 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 them."
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  50. I hate these poor little rich people! I remember this guy in college whose dad was a doctor who "only" made $250,000/year. Considering that if you took a zero off, that wouldn't have been too much lower than what my dad was making at the time (he once said that he got a $350/week allowance at school), I had no sympathy.
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  51.  @abrahamkandathil-6036  Are you a brainwashed Trump University grad? Herman Cain thought it was no big deal, too. He also thought he was getting better about three weeks before he died.
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  52. You're thinking of an Andy Griffith episode. Barney gives Goner a ticket for an illegal U-turn, and Gomer wants Barney to let him off because they're friends. Barney says that it is his job to enforce the law, and if someone sees him engaging in an illegal act, he'd expect that person to put him hnder citizens arrest. Barney makes a U-turn when pulling out, and Gomer yells, "Citizens Arrest!"
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  53. Let us not forget how quickly the GOP put Bush down the memory hole, and he won a second term. If you are seen as a failure, they will find some way to insist that part of the logical contradictions inherent in movement conservatism means that they didn't follow something that means that they somehow didn't count to discredit their movement. I, for one, am sick and tired of hearing that Trump isn't conservative. Yes, he is more anti-left than doctrinaire, but he is the logical conclusion of the past 60 years of the conservative movement and ideology.
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  54. "If Tucker Carlson were really a right-wing populist..." True, but there is no such thing.
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  55. In 2013 and '14, I really wanted Warren to run. I remember seeing Bernie on The Ed Show and saying that if no one would run who would fight Wall Street greed, he would, so it seemed to me like he did, too. Now that I've experienced the Bernie campaign, the promises of Warren just seem lacking.
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  56. Because anyone looking honestly at a candidate who, by his own admission, said that he got rid of a black police chief who was trying to expose racism on his force for fear that such an expose would "damage credibility of convictions" is going to find a lot wrong.
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  57. My preferred mockery of "a republic not a democracy" is pointing out that this is the equivalent of saying, "It's not a grape, it's purple."
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  58. I was at a school board meeting the other night because I felt that they were too eager to lift mask restrictions, and these idiots were saying some of the most ridiculous stuff. One got mad about posters that said "heroes wear masks," others were apparently unfamiliar with the idea that you can wipe glasses off when they get foggy, and others insisted that they should follow the science. The most annoying was saying "cases are going down," when the levels are still far above what they were during the Delta surge. It really makes you fear for humanity.
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  59. She needs to run in 2028 after eight years of President Bernie.
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  60. Bill O'Reilly Protege: You shouldn't trust the media. Also Bill O'Reilly Protege: Listen to me, a cable TV pundit.
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  61. His plan had long been to wait until closer to the actual voting to get more aggressive. Considering the timing of his rise, and the fact that candidates who relied on a sugar rush have either dropped to normal (Warren and Buttigieg) or came crashing down (Harris). As any distance runner can tell you, the goal is to be ahead in the last lap, not the first lap.
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  62. I'm 40, and to quote the great legal mind Vincent Gambini, "I got no more use for this guy."
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  63. Before he sold out and became a corporate lobbyist, Barney Frank spelled it out: there is no such thing as a moderate Republican in Congress. They say that they voted with the President 70% of the time, but they voted with him 100% of the time when he needed their vote.
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  64. Well, Protestants don't believe it's the literal body and blood of Christ. That being said, this guy's fake religiosity knows no bounds. Even if he doesn't know the words, you could at least look at the paper and pretend.
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  65. So, someone who gets in a fight and breaks someone's arm can't vote, but someone who pushes a button on a computer and steals $100MM can?
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  66. Exactly. My daughter asked me to take her to Disney World a couple of months ago. I politely told her that we didn't have the money, they were closed, and everyone I know who went there only got to ride five or six lines with the rest of the time waiting, because I am responsible. She was still upset, but I pointed out other things that we got to do. Surely, someone of his intellect could talk preteens down if I could talk down a five year old.
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  67. I don't think it's much of a secret at this point.
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  68. Not everyone has Internet. #ThisIsWhatPrivilegeLooksLike
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  69. My city is putting up some places to drop off mail in ballots early. I will definitely be going to drop it off.
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  70. That's a general election strategy. Would you rather Martha McSally be there to give control of the calendar to McConnell?
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  71. The rank and file, I don't understand, but he has given the fundamentalists just about everything they ever asked for, so they made a deal with the devil. Or maybe the Antichrist.
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  72.  @frankk8905  They are endangering others around them. We are not. That is the difference.
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  73. "The press is ridiculous. If we say '20 and 20 make 42,' and the Republicans say '20 and 20 make 42 million,' they say, 'Well, you're both wrong with the numbers.'" James Carville, "The War Room"
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  74. Agreed completely, except for the fact that Puerto Rico is a US territory.
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  75. All a republic means is that there is no monarch. "We're a republic, not a democracy" is the equivalent of saying, "It's not a grape, it's purple!"
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  76. I would call Turtle a POS, but manure is useful.
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  77. The instant he talks about how white somewhere was and then mentions how beautiful it was in the next sentence, that is clearly racism as well.
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  78. AOC 2028! Assuming Bernie wins next year, of course.
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  79. 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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  80. I'm up to $35.20. I donate whenever I have extra.
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  81.  @peterblood50  Well, how many can be the newsman his father was? I have no problem with someone being a conservative as long as that person does his/her level best to come at it through an honest place, although they do seem to support a conservatism that no longer exists, at least in large numbers in today's American right. He can better, but I will give him credit that he does seem to be speaking more truth to lying liars recently.
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  82. Italian used to be considered not white in America.
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  83. Delaney is defending the health insurance industry because he doesn't want his stock to go down.
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  84. 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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  85. Wake up you sleepy head. Close your eyes, get out of bed. Ding dong the wicked Don is gone!
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  86. The Fox personality apparently speaking from experience.
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  87. There have to be some rules about hormones when it comes to competition. I read last year that the Boston Marathon was making no efforts to verify when MTF submitted their qualifying times. The big problem with this is that just barely qualifying is often not enough, because the field size is capped. That year, anyone who beat the qualifying time by less than 1:47 were removed from the list. Women of the same age get an extra half hour. Do I think that there are people unscrupulous enough to fake it to qualify? You bet, I do!
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  88.  @aliman6377  Well, the centrists are basically Republicans who don't like discrimination, and scared lefties (the kind who say things like, "I like Bernie, but I don't think he can win" or "we need to be practical and get what we can") and Obama nostalgia account for the rest.
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  89.  @aliman6377  Agreed. This is why we all need to work and work hard.
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  90. And then gives the same xenophobic rhetoric as her life insurance policy.
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  91. Don't insult the great comedic mastermind who brought joy to millions like that.
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  92. "When you have privilege, equality feels like oppression."
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  93.  @paulweaver7074  If you need a dollar, you don't start by asking for a quarter. This just shows that they won't fight even for their own half measures. If Bernie wins, he will do so with a multi-million person army behind him just ready to be mobilized on its behalf. Manchin says that he won't be pressured to adopt it? Well, he outspent his primary opponent by a 100:1 ratio, and she still got 30% of the vote. He won the general by three points and finished below 50% in a general election statewide for the first time ever. He will know which side his bread is buttered on.
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  94. Most people that rich get an increase in assets of more than 2% just by breathing. Even if we implement that tax, it will have no effect for them.
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  95. @DFV Louderilk Yeah, I've spent my whole life hearing you right wingers whining about how everything is against you: journalism, schools, bureaucracy, entertainment, etc. If you're not saying you're persecuted, you aren't talking.
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  96. The difference this time is that people know who Bernie is, and they like his policies, so they will be unsuccessful. The fact that Bernie already has more Congressional endorsements than in the entire 2016 cycle, despite other colleagues running this time, so some know which way the tide is going.
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  97. A Jewish fascist whose family lost people in the Holocaust. How much more ridiculous of a person could he possibly be?
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  98. A lot of senior citizens do get Medicaid, either as a supplement to pay for what Medicare doesn't, nursing home care, or simply to cover the Medicare Part B premium. They would care greatly about cuts to Medicaid.
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  99. Well, why do you think that he congratulated the second draft pick but not the first?
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  100. 3:08 Oh, she'll never become a lobbyist. Lobbyists have to actually work, and it requires knowledge on an issue and good relationships with Members of Congress, neither of which she possesses. She's much more likely to be a talking head: it's lucrative and easy. You don't even have to kmow what you're talking about.
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  101.  Debra Seitz  No, this is the American right.
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  102.  @frankk8905  Yeah, well, people can feel whatever they want, but my position is based in research and data. A friend from work was "hesitant," and she got coronavirus. As soon as she was allowed, she got the vaccine, because she didn't want to get it a second time. My uncle said that he didn't want to "be a Guinea pig," and now he has it. And HIPAA has nothing to do with telling others what medical procedures you have had. It is about medical providers not telling others your medical history.
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  103. Biden will restore democracy and have a real and effective response to coronavirus.
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  104. Who is the guest? I haven't seen her before, but she has some good takes.
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  105. Doncha know that racism has been solved, and the worst thing you can do is call a bigot a raciat?
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  106.  @shannonbloom4133  By that logic, black people were literally owned by strangers for 250 years in this country, so no black man should have ever been elected. Maybe waffling on the most important issue in the election and having horrible political judgment did her in far more.
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  107. Well, he did cheer them on when they stormed the Capitol.
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  108.  @suezbell1  They do the real cashing in after they leave. That's what made Hillary's corporate speeches so controversial.
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  109.  @iolitelight  If the rest of the world had their way, he'd already be in jail.
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  110.  @asazianonabsurdity  The question is not more or less government, but about the role of government. If you think the only role of government in economics is enforcing contracts and property rights (since a subset of the right is property rights uber alles), that is the government intervening to benefit those who already have the power. If you're going to use talking points, at least use honest ones.
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  111. As long as their instigator is still out there stirring stuff, they're still a threat.
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  112. How is this racist? Anyone who uses it gets suspended. If you want to complain that these rules are unfair, that is an argument to have, but the rules are there.
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  113. He had better writers.
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  114. Not if it gives Republicans control of the Senate. Do you want McConnell and Graham to block any and all judges?
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  115.  @stevencorey1278  While governor, Romney signed an individual mandate with subsidy that was the basis for the ACA. The proof? Several people who worked on the 2006 MA bill worked on the ACA. I could also point to the Heritage Foundation paper from 1989 advocating for the individual mandate.
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  116.  @stevencorey1278  It's not called Obamacare, it is called the Affordable Care Act. Tell me the substantive difference between the two. As far as "social plans not working," well, considering that we pay the most and get the least of any industrialized country, many of which have either single payer (Canada) or fully nationalized medicine (UK), your blanket statement is just as flimsy as your argument by what opponents call something.
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  117. Kidnapping, instruction of justice, witness tampering, bribery for starters.
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  118.  @chrisjackson5075  Yeah, no one can find anything, but multiple people have. Is dishonesty a requirement for defending Trump?
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  119. I love that Trump is wasting his money instead of trying to actually win people over.
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  120. "I don't wish Trump death. I wish him a lengthy recovery." Michael Che
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  121. He might not be great, but he was still better than Cruz. Just because he shouldn't be President doesn't mean he shouldn't be a Senator, either. I would never vote for Joe Manchin for President, but I sure defended his re-election effort after the primary was over.
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  122. Well, stupid is forever, but I don't think that works the way you think it does.
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  123. Emma, are you now prepared to admit that second place in this record is least bad? Also, Warren has been caught lying repeatedly. Why cling to the idea that she just misconstrued what he said. My guess? She asked if Trump would use her gender against her, and Bernie said yes, just like Trump would use everything that he thought he could to fight anyone who won the nomination.
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  124.  @thomass5169  When I had the flu, I stayed home so other people wouldn't get sick.
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  125. The things that Der Orangefuhrer admitted to are literally crimes.
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  126.  @nicolemccoy3436  Define "numerous." [citation needed]
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  127. Not necessarily the rest of our lives, just until Republicans abandon fascism and actively hurting people and killing the planet. If that lasts the rest of our lives, so be it.
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  128.  @CuriousKay-d7t  It's possible, but deep down, these people know how bad it looks when someone not from a friendly media source asks about January 6th, so it was probably a mixture of the two.
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  129. If a company wants to close for any reason or none at all, that's their right. If it's the only restaurant at a rest stop, then you can say not to renew the contract, but if a Jewish deli wants to close on Saturday (a grocery store I worked at had a contract with a company ran by Seventh-day Adventists, and they refused to make deliveries on Saturdays) or a Hilal restaurant wanted to close on Friday, I'd have no problem with that.
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  130. Only if enough of them get in that it splits their votes and keeps them below 15%.
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  131.  @ArtemisMS  That's the thing. She doesn't like politics. As you have said (and I agree), she is at her best holding crooked CEOs to task in committees. The best place for someone like that is the US Senate. I have run for office myself (2006 WV House of Delegates: won the primary unopposed, lost the general). I tried my hand at academia (but my difficulties with foreign languages halted my PhD progress), and I am more introverted, and I can tell you that it was an effort for me to knock on doors sometimes. The only person to win the White House who I can think of in modern times who was uncomfortable on the campaign trail is Nixon. She may surprise me by finding a reserve that didn't seem to exist after reading her memoirs, but something is to be said for having the courage to fight when no one else would.
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  132. His work on the coronavirus bill cut child poverty in half. You're welcome.
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  133. Increasing the minimum wage has far and away been the most popular ballot initiative in the United States. It has never lost, even in places like Florida where it takes 60% for ballot initiatives to pass. I seriously wish that someone would point that out to anyone who insists that this isn't popular.
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  134. She's not pretty, she has a good plastic surgeon.
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  135. The woman who has spent most of the last year sucking up to the hosts of Fox, initially applauded leaving Kurds to the slaughter, and between $50MM lawsuits managed to find time to make it back to Washington to vote No for Cowards on impeachment? Hard pass.
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  136. 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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  137. Never forget that Andrew Yang responded to a hate crime in 2018 by lamenting the notion of America becoming majority nonwhite and pitching his Freedom with 125 Strings Attached Dividend.
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  138.  @johnsonmax9865  Okay, let's look at red state data. My brother and his girlfriend both refused to get vaccinated and got it in West Virginia. They tested positive, but the hospital refused to test their daughter, despite her showing symptoms. So, there is definitely book cooking in red states. That, and there is also the fact that each wave has a predictable cycle. You sound like these people who insist that things are bad in places like New Zealand or Singapore because they are going up, but you conveniently ignore how low their baseline is as well as how high the baseline is for red state America. By population, the four states with the highest percentage of positive cases in the last two weeks votes for Trump. So, look a little deeper.
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  139. As I've noted many times when friends ask why I prefer liberal (it was good enough for FDR, so it's good enough for me), I have heard Hillary call herself a progressive many times, but I have never heard her call herself a liberal. Klobuchar is reinforcing that.
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  140. While first I'd like to make sure that we get enough hires because we've been on a skeleton crews for a while now, and I just don't want to be expected to do even more.
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  141. Actually, Bernie has fought for those things for over 50 years.
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  142. The results are legit, but most of the Bernie strongholds have the most precincts remaining. There is a reason why no one is putting a checkmark behind Mayor Cheat's name.
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  143. I'm late Generation X, but I spent a long time in grad school. If my student loans get ripped up, I could start saving for a house. There are a lot of people who can't buy a house because of their loans, so imagine the work that would be available if there were more people who could buy houses instead of being shackled by student loans into our 30s and 40s.
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  144. Yang has a pretty lengthy history of sucking up to the worst people. The day of the Tree of Life shooting, he responded by tweeting how bad it was that the country was going to be majority nonwhite within 27 years of the shooting. The only reason why Tulsi Gabbard hasn't had as toxic an influence on American culture as he has the last few years is that her followers haven't been nearly as vocal lately.
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  145.  @jamiechorley1674  Context doesn't help. Yes, there are degrees, but the guy who compared a black neighborhood to Planet of the Apes doesn't get bailed out by context.
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  146. How dare you! Did you know that John McCain was her father?
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  147.  @f_youtubecensorshipf_nazis  I think her cousin Melissa has definitely proven to be the best member of the family.
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  148.  @supertech20002  Congress doesn't get Secret Service protection.
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  149.  @jameswest9388  So, it's "level headed" to have a more expensive plan to not cover everyone all to prop up a middleman? As far as "problems universal care systems around the world experience," what are those? Do you think America has better plans than all those others?
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  150. She managed to graduate from high school, so Boebert may be dumber.
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  151. In 1958, after losing the Alabama gubernatorial run-off in an election where he refused to court the KKK and won the endorsement of the NAACP, George Wallace said privately, "He outn*****ed me. I'll never be outn*****ed again." Aapparently, after his whining that he wouldn't be there if not for corporate donors, Pete Buttigieg decided that no one would be a bigger corporate whore again.
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  152.  @chefbarona3052  1) Is this really the hill that you want to die on? 2) Okay, let's take that three gallons a year. The average bottle costs $14. There are about five bottles to the gallon, so even if that average is right, you are looking at an annual wine budget of $210. That would be like insisting that because some people buy an insane amount of running shoes that it is normal to spend thousands of dollars a year on running shoes. 3) Well, we've already established that her spending far exceeds the cost of the average wine consumer. Miles from Sideways probably didn't drop $1200 on wine for the entire trip. 4) I don't drink Starbucks or cocktails. Then again, I don't use ridiculous comparisons not to make the spending look so ridiculous. 5) I have no desire to be an oenophile, but if Marie Antoinette in Prada is going to do something ridiculous like go off on a massive wine spending spree while refusing to do her actual job and do everything in her power to add to the suffering of the poor, she deserves every bit of mockery she gets. I could get a million dollars tomorrow, and I still wouldn't use it to load up on wine, even "as an investment." 6) You can choose to defend an arrogant person all you want, but at a certain point, you start to sound like some multimillionaire talking about how he/she struggles to live off a six-figure salary.
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  153. Bernie condemned the shooter and all political violence. You didn't, Moscow Donald. That's the difference.
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  154. She voted against the 2017 tax cuts. She is vile, but let's keep our criticisms accurate so we don't look like a caricature.
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  155.  @oscarjones5297  Well, that would be up to the public, wouldn't it? Another way to address this is to reinstate postal banking.
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  156. It still affects policy today, so that's why they are covering it.
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  157. What about the innocent people they infect? My aunt got a pretty brutal breakthrough case a couple months ago because some idiot parent (she is a teacher's aide) sent her obviously sick child to school who wasn't wearing her mask or covering her mouth when she coughed. The doctor said that if she didn't get the vaccine, it would have killed her.
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  158.  @chukwudiilozue9171  True, but no one ever looks right when it's plastic.
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  159.  @michaelmartinez3674  That was a good one.
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  160. 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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  161.  Ace Saylor  What, you're mad that I was able to meet the challenge?
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  162.  @BigBismark  She won by two points. That's hardly "comfortable."
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  163.  @TheBohunk1212  She started off in the Green Party. They have benefited so much from Republican largesse that it is a collection of grifters and useful idiots. She was always about the money and focused on the long game.
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  164. You get Jesus out of your mouth, Marge!
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  165. 1:44 Well, she just barely won the last time, so maybe not.
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  166. Anyone who has the taint needs to go.
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  167. My idiot brother insisted that vaccines don't work because he got the mumps when he was two. He got coronavirus three times and his daughter got it twice. I still have my coronavirus V-card, as does my daughter, despite my ex-wife getting two breakthrough cases. Yet, despite him getting coronavirus three teams (and the second was really bad), he still insists that the vaccine doesn't work and that I only didn't get it because I work from home. This also ignores the fact that I was around my daughter, who was around my ex-wife, and she didn't get it or pass it on to me, either.
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  168.  @TheCrumb74  Fortunately, ue cannot.
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  169. So, let a country come into existence whose entire reason for being was the enslavement of another group of people who wrote it into their Constitution in a way to make abolition next to impossible, when that country had designs on invading Mexico and the Caribbean for even more slave labor had they won? I don't think so.
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  170.  @snowwhite5842  Yes, because medical quarantine is exactly the same as concentration camps or death camps. /s
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  171. Tennessee tried to pass a bill to completely get rid of the minimum age for marriage.
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  172.  Christopher Del Castillo  Never forget
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  173. You won the... C. Montgomery Burns Award... for Outstanding Achievement... in the Field... of Excellence. Don't I get a fancy award ceremony? Why... yes.
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  174. Geraldo is one of these people who surprisingly gives really good takes once in a great while. Not enough for the bad ones that you have to sift through, though.
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  175. As do I.
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  176. If you increase wages, you will also increase demand. Given the fact that wages have not kept up with productivity for 40 years, there's a lot of pent up demand if only working people get paid fairly.
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  177.  @stevenalleman9884  But these people are clearly threats.
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  178. Cory Booker is third last in my book, but he is trying to nudge past Harris to get that silver medal.
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  179.  @TheDradge  Are you really going to play the semantic argument? Race is a social construct, so by your logic, it's impossible to ever be racist.
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  180. Looking for some idiot to give them confirmation bias.
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  181. This man is a genius.
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  182.  @beachaddict7653  If she were to become a Republican, McConnell immediately gets control of the Senate. As frustrating as she may be (and believe you me, I eagerly await the day when I can throw a few dollars toward Gallego and possibly make some calls on his behalf), as long as we have a 50/50 Senate, we're stuck with her. Maybe we should have worked that much harder to elect Gideon and Cunningham so we wouldn't need her vote.
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  183. Yes, Yang is awful, but is more Asian hate really the answer?
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  184.  @Indyawillis85  That may be possible, but isn't dividing people the problem to begin with? Who stands to gain when the marginalized fight amongst themselves?
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  185.  @stevencorey1278  He takes credit for signing it, not for coming up with the idea, which Romney can't, either, because it was proposed by the Heritage Foundation in 1989 as a market-driven alternative to universal coverage, and it was the GOP alternative to the Clinton proposal in the 1990s. Obama even said in 2012 that the MA plan was a road map for the ACA, whereas Romney ended up offering flimsy excuse after flimsy excuse to differentiate, the only one remotely true being that one is federal and the other is state.
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  186.  @stevencorey1278  "God, you're stupid!" Charlie Kelly I typed "Barack Obama Mitt Romney health care" in YouTube. This was the first one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gON_XF4h_Ec and go to the 4:30 mark, and Obama said exactly what I said above. Checkmate.
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  187.  @humility1st  Thank you. Sometimes, it's too easy.
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  188.  @Iamheresometimes  Admittedly, the competition is not exactly strong, but they were the two who were actually respected by people who don't watch Fox. Now, Bret Baier is probably the least bad, but those two are actual journalists.
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  189. Ojeda is poison after he resigned his State Senate seat to run for President. He lost to Paula Jean Swearingen, who lost to Manchin by 39 in the 2018 primary and lost to Capito by 43 in the 2020 general. What makes you think that if he ran he would stand a remote chance of getting nominated in May and winning in November?
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  190. Welcome her the way Philadelphia fans will surely welcome Ben Simmons back the next time he misses a free throw or refuses to take a shot or dunk when literally two feet from the basket and wide open.
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  191.  @paigemprice  Note that the comment says "covering up." You can still cover up for things that predate your term in office.
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  192.  @moe6548  If her support drops below 60% among Democrats in Arizona, she is doomed. At the rate she is going, she'll wish she had 60% Democratic approval come 2024.
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  193.  @peterblood50  Cavuto would occasionally point out the obvious. Maybe with Chris Wallace getting the mantle of most honest Fox figure (which me be about like world's tallest midget), Cavuto decided that he wanted to jump off the sinking ship, too.
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  194. If you are looking for someone who will fall for Trump's needling and offend actual Native Americans in the process, then, she most certainly is the best option. 2016 proved that she wasn't a fighter. At the time, she was a popular figure, but she didn't have the guts to challenge Hillary.
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  195.  @ConstantChaos1  Well, Bernie leads in donors, volunteers, and does the best in polls of Obama to Trump counties. My point was not that you ignore Trump, but you don't let him fight where he wants to.
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  196. Someone married that ghoul? What kind if dirt did he have on her?
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  197.  @dianakristensen6630  It's possible. The reason why I lean towards sex is that it is after he talks about no love.
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  198. How is hiding behind someone's race to justify spreading nonsense because of some friend's cousin a valid response?
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  199. Let's hope not. To paraphrase Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder, they've gone full fascist. You never go full fascist. (Although the original quote works for Marjorie Taylor Greene as well.)
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  200. At the time, I said, "If you really support us, stop sending us to stupid wars."
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  201. When someone willfully participates in activities that make other people sick and die, and that person gets it himself, it sounds just about right.
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  202.  @thomass5169  The common cold kills over a million people? New Zealand took action, and they've practically eliminated it so they can live a normal life. South Korea got its first case the same day we did, and they have had less than 1% of the cases and deaths despite having 1/6 of the population and far more population density. It's only "inevitable" because people like you are psychopaths who refuse to do a thing to protect the people around you.
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  203.  Shade Bleu  So, you think that the candidate with the most donors, most volunteers, who has actually gotten 1MM doors knocked in Iowa as of last month and got 1.3MM calls to early states in ten days is really that far behind? If Warren was so popular, why isn't it showing on the ground?
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  204. People who take advantage of a divided electorate and know they don't have majority support. For union elections at my office, a candidate literally wrote down an opponent's name with 15 minutes left in the filing period. After that election was invalidated (due to other issues), we eventually had a vote where we approved ranked choice voting for the office.
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  205. Good. Now, I don't have to deal with these knobs for simply acknowledging that Caitlin Clark is a great player.
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  206. I dropped mine off at Roxborough High School in NW Philly yesterday. There were about a dozen people behind me after I got there. I didn't expect the line to be that big.
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  207. That would take a Constitutional Amendment, and the way Republicans are, I worry that they would use that to disqualify people they don't like. I am all for disclosing the results of such things, though.
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  208. People have gotten suspended for eating beef that had certain growth hormones. Every athlete at that level knows exactly what they are and are not allowed to consume.
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  209.  @brunoperrault604  He literally said it out of his own mouth. Just because you decided to follow the cult of a pathological liar and a fascist criminal doesn't make it any less true.
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  210. She meant the elected chambers of Congress (there are two) and POTUS. While inarticulate, it was obvious what she meant.
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  211. 6:27 No, don't be a fool! If we don't coalesce around one primary challenger, she can sneak in with about 30% of the vote. You've gotten so many good takes, but we need to understand simple math.
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  212. So, you think that some billionaire heiress Warren shill going on MSNBC and saying that anyone who opposes Bernie is a sexist is fair? I don't see Bernie supporters calling her an anti-Semite.
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  213. And they'll play it with Warren, too. Obama gave them the Republican alternative to Hillarycare, and they called it socialism. If this be treason, let us make the most of it.
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  214.  @angiebear8727  When you have a family who considers loyalty more than honesty, and one-way toward the patriarch at that, telling the truth is an act of radical betrayal.
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  215. 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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  216.  @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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  217.  @glideconsulting6797  There are 30-40K people who die from gunshots in the United States every year from all sources (the biggest is suicide). You get more than that in a month. Math is not your friend.
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  218. Tammy Baldwin
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  219.  @f_youtubecensorshipf_nazis  I have only had the first one so far (I get my second on the 12th), and other than the arm soreness that day and being a little bit tired, I hadn't had much yet. I would much rather deal with side effects than the disease. When I was 12, I got the measles because I needed a booster and (irony alert) was home sick from school when they were giving it out, but the doctor said that I would have gotten it much worse if I hadn't gotten the dose when I was younger. As bad as it was, I'd hate to imagine if I got full-blown measles.
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  220. It's not as weird as she wants to make it out to be. She just knows that she was struggling in an interview and wanted a way out.
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  221.  @pamelab8123  Jimmy Dore doesn't need a reason. The slightest thing, real or imagined, is all he needs to say that someone is a sellout traitor. If you want to see how stupid he really is, watch his 2016 debate with Sam Seder, where Sam repeatedly points to why Democrats would be unable to stop Moscow Donald from getting his SCOTUS pick, and Jimmy insists that they can filibuster, even though Sam tells him that the GOP can go nuclear and there's nothing Democrats could do to stop them.
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  222. John Kerry has a solid environmental record. Biden could have picked a lot worse, so I am going to see what kind of stuff comes out of this process.
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  223.  @mukelorata2100  Actually, the preferred nomenclature for places that call the game where you kick into a goal is "footballers," not football players.
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  224. Biden was a Senator in 2006.
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  225. The real fight in that district is the primary.
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  226.  @alvarez6744  It would be their right if they lived in isolation from everyone else and didn't affect anyone else with their stupidity. Just as your freedom to throw a punch ends at my nose, your freedom to spread germs ends at my respiratory system.
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  227. All it takes is getting to the general. Her district is so Democratic that no Republican will make the run-off, so I say support whichever of the two make it.
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  228. I remember before the 2008 election hearing someone say, "I hope Obama wins so I never have to hear about discrimination again." Only one person gets to be President at any time. What about everyone else?
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  229.  @bakaron7842  How old are you? Maybe you should be there.
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  230. I still think that the person who leaked it was probably a right winger who wanted to lock the five into the vote, and this happened because Roberts was trying to get one of the five to weaken rather than kill Roe.
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  231. They'd still have the majority, but it is a lot easier to get things done with a 51-49 majority than a 50-50 with a tiebreaker. Especially since 2024 will be a rough calendar with all three Democratic Senators in states Trump won up for re-election.
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  232. Source? I saw 40.
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  233.  @magicjack8335  I think this was justification for an awful performance. He knows how conspiratorial his followers are, so he played right into that so they wouldn't ask why he was unprepared when Jose Diaz-Ballart asked him how he would implement his plan (and even ignored that not everyone gets the money under his plan).
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  234. Problem is that they can pass it to others. If they were just killing themselves with their stupidity, have at it, but they are not.
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  235.  @lucasharvey8990  Fair enough.
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  236.  @NoCultsPlease  I don't know, maybe I just see the evil.
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  237.  Guelaug543  Darn right! If they were only hurting themselves, it wouldn't be a problem, but some people can't get it due to age or other medical conditions such as allergies, so why should they suffer for others' stupidity?
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  238.  MarkWeiss  You're not a Democrat. You are a troll pretending to be one to hide your MAGA to make it sound bipartisan.
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  239.  MarkWeiss  You're a scientist, yet you are incapable of writing in complete sentences. Yeah, sure, and I am going to be the next NBA Slam Dunk Champion.
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  240. The idea is that the wages ro increase so that the overall pay stays constant.
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  241.  @hamiltoneuzarraga6546  "No germaphobe will raw dog a porn star." Tom Arnold
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  242.  @GodfreyOkafor  He specifically criticized Hannibal Burress for wearing his pants low, and he responded, "At least I didn't rape anybody." And Cosby himself admitted to giving Quaaludes to women, so that doesn't sound like "no evidence" to me.
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  243. Not in spite of Biden not being in, because Biden isn't in.
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  244. Because they ruin anything they touch, and if you want to appeal to advertisers (because his idiot plan to charge for the blue checkmark won't get him his money back), the rest of us want nothing to do with them. Let them go to Gab.
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  245. I work for the welfare department. Most of the applications I see are for people who work.
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  246. 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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  247. 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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  248.  Mighty Whitey335  For Mnuchin?
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  249.  @IAmValenwind  Well, I never said that it was an exact match, but the part of calling people to worship him seems like it is coming true, and I get the distinct feeling that there would be a lot of fundamentalists fooled if there was ever anything like the tribulation period given the way that they have corrupted everything about Jesus: after telling the Rich Young Ruler to give everything away to the poor, they instead take the Parable of the Talents literally and say that is justification for the rich getting richer. There have been churches where I, an actual veteran, get downright uncomfortable with the militarism on the Sunday closest to 11/11. A message of tolerance for the woman at the well becomes a message of exclusion. Jesus would weep, indeed, at what many do and claim to follow.
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  250. You mean where he immediately walked it back, and he refused to be photographed taking the vaccine? Some "imploring."
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  251. Call me country bumpkin, but I'm unfamiliar with this as a dog whistle. Can someone clue me in so I know if it's happening in the future?
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  252. Not counting the three candidates to insignificant to hate on, Beto ranks #7 in my book, and anyone outside the top five is someone I'd have to hold my nose on and the only finger I'd left to help him/her would be to push the button on my ballot.
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  253. Unless Collins supporters are still furious and stay home.
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  254. That doesn't mean what you think it means. It sounds like you're talking about cutting the staff salary.
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  255.  @ZooomaCW  I don't see how it happens, because Congress sets its own salaries. The only restriction is that changes cannot go into effect until the next Congress.
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  256. I think he should release them now to help build the pressure. He never questioned the right of millionaires to exist, he complained about their efforts to put their thumbs on the scales so no one else could climb the ladder.
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  257. Indeed. The version of the story I heard was a bus when the rain started, a rowboat, and a helicopter, but as many people as I have heard laugh at that joke in churches, far too many seem to miss the point of the joke.
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  258.  @morenitomoreno1282  Sadly, too many people believed that goofy Alyssa Milano thing.
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  259.  @earuption  Doesn't answer my question. Is it more divisive to oppose integration, or to point out that someone fought integration?
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  260.  @earuption  Well, maybe if local governments would have stopped redlining and keeping black kids in poor school districts due to funding via property tax then there wouldn't have been a push to bus it, and civil rights groups considered it a necessary action, so I wouldn't say "very few."
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  261.  Carl Helbert  I think you are missing my point. I am saying that, from a lefty perspective, Biden has admitted that things won't really change. From what we have seen from Trump, we know things will get worse, especially if he gets to blame the successor to RBG. Therefore, even if Biden is a huge disappointment, he is preferable to a fascist trying to establish a dictatorship.
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  262.  Carl Helbert  I thank you for that. It demonstrates your maturity and honesty. I am not a great Biden fan, but either he or Trump will be President, so he is my choice.
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  263. You mean the pills that were only off by one point nationally and only outside of the margin of error in one state (Wisconsin) and only had Hillary winning 272-266? Even if Trump wins every state within the margin of error, he still loses.
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  264.  @robertlincoln7312  Well, then, what point are you making? The polls in 2016 showed that it would be close, and it was. The polls this time show a chance of the biggest defeat of an incumbent President since either 1980 or 1932.
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  265.  kcotte59  You mean the man who compared himself to Captain Bligh and only knows about four or five adjectives is cognitively cogent?
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  266. Manchin also complained about money. Quite frankly, Sinema is far more likely to sabotage things. Manchin, like all centrists, operates on the principle of "do a little less of what you want," but Sinema is not a rational actor. You can deal with people you understand.
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  267. "The fault lies not in our stars, but in ourselves." In other words, as long as voters continue to reward them for their bad behavior, they'll continue doing it.
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  268. Before she got the plastic surgery, she was a pretty woman. Some people just didn't care about the ugly that came out of her mouth.
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  269. How are his ideas level headed? What little he has said, he is opposed to Medicare for All. He is opposed to free college tuition. He called Harvard students protesting for higher pay for janitors social justice warriors. He won't say what his policies are because he knows Democratic primary voters won't like them.
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  270.  @jameswest9388  What is so great about the private insurance companies? I hate mine. The premiums keep going up, and the coverage keeps going down. You know what both of those countries have in common? Better results, lower costs, longer life expectancy, and lower infant mortality than the United States. Give me those problems over ours any day of the week. As far as people liking their private insurance, the proof is in the pudding. The most popular health care in America? Medicare. Number two? The VA. At times, those were switched, but they have owned the top two for decades. It doesn't seem to me like people actually like their private insurance, but are comparing it with not having any at all.
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  271.  @jameswest9388  And another poll showed that support went up once people heard that under Bernie's plan they would pay no premiums, co-pays, or deductibles. Watch the Fox crowd. It wasn't all Bernie supporters in the room, and they were clearly on board even when Baier asked that very question.
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  272. 20 years before you were born? How old are you?
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  273.  @OriginalWarblade  True. I am 40, so I was a little shocked to hear something that would make him about the same age as Emma.
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  274. ... unless that Republican is late 70s/early 80s Bo Derek.
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  275.  @jessestoler2828  He was very good. Back when he was still calling himself a deist, I thought he had his funniest stuff on religion ("How did the Republicans get Jesus? We should be brothers, live in peace, turn the other cheek, that's a Democrat. God, the Father, that's a Republican!") and he was actually willing to pay taxes ("We call them [police, firefighters, teachers] our heroes, but maybe we like them because they work cheap... Don't worry, applause costs you nothing."), but somewhere along the way, it seems like he leaned in to the reactionary stuff.
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  276. You did a pretty good job of that your self, My Father.
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  277. So, Bernie needs to go? People age in different ways and at different rates.
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  278.  @marclawson2536  Except he didn't do that. He endorsed Hillary in the general.
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  279.  @tomvalveede6808  That word salad didn't really say anything. Was he right about the corrupting influence of money when he refused to take money from banks when running for state treasurer, or is he right to insist in taking money now? Was he right that Medicare for All is the compromise position, or is he right now in insisting that it is bad because it "eliminates choice," as though picking who will rob you is really a choice?
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  280.  @marclawson2536  [citation needed]
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  281.  @marclawson2536  How convenient.
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  282. If $1200 is a deal on wine, then that says a lot more about wine than the people criticizing her.
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  283.  @chefbarona3052  This was one trip to buy wine. Just because you don't like the fact that wine is often an elitist venture that costs way too much money doesn't make it any less so. And what does throwing the cost of Starbucks plus wine have to do with the question at hand.
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  284.  @johnmartin4641  If you don't care about race, then why do I keep hearing right wingers complaining about whatever they think CRT is on any given day? Why defend Confederate statues and leaders of the Confederacy? Why was Lee Atwater a thing? And Kevin Phillips before him? Why did Saint Ronnie open his 1980 campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi, and tout "states' rights"? Why did Supreme Court Justices appointed by Republicans gut the Voting Rights Act that Congressional Republicans refuse to reinstate? Why all the dog whistling about cities with majority black populations and accusing them of rigging the election? The only honest thing you said was not wanting to pay taxes..
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  285. Unfortunately, 22MM people follow her nonsense on Twitter, so the responsible people have to push back.
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  286.  @equalityforall8418  The ones in the cult are a lost cause. I'm thinking more about the people who actually look at what is happening, and I was pointing out that, when they said that senior citizens wouldn't care so much about Medicaid, there are a lot who would.
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  287.  @1RMDorey  It was a straight party line vote. It would have made the news if she voted for it.
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  288.  @1RMDorey  What numbers? I am just pointing out that she didn't vote for the Trump tax cuts.
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  289.  @worldgate989  The problem is that it's not just right wing idiots who are endangered. My mom can't take it due to allergies, and my daughter is five. Now, my uncle who got coronavirus after bragging that he wouldn't "be a Guinea pig"? I don't want him to suffer (because I'm not a sadist), but I have no sympathy, either.
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  290.  @oscarjones5297  Well, when I had to go to a local bank to cash a check, the line was almost out the door. In poorer areas, or places that are heavily rural, it's not an option. I want to give people options rather than make assumptions about what works best for them when it comes to finance.
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  291.  @turtlecat7856  Well, unfortunately, not of all of my family is. My idiot uncle bragged that he wouldn't "be a Guinea pig," and then he got it and wanted the much more experimental monoclonal antibodies. Needless to say, I have no sympathy for him in this situation. Unfortunately, it looks like these idiots have taken away our chance to be rid of this completely and given us a situation where endemic just may be the best case scenario.
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  292. As long as the Majority Leader controls the calendar, that is the case. Not sure how you would change it, though.
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  293.  @kalydoy1860  And how will that happen? The Constitution says that rules are determined by each House.
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  294. The thing that surprised me was that he is not the kind to bide his time with such remarks.
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  295.  @derkeheath5172  I only assume that if they're on the right given their love for Orwellian naming, but that steers you right far too often.
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  296. Senate looks good for Democrats. The House is the real danger zone.
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  297. Two most socially inept. Don't forget Zuckerberg.
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  298. More like talking head. Which Senator is going to take her calls when she comes calling for Big Business?
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  299. 74 years of borrowed time before it all comes home to roost.
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  300. Well, he is running for Senate rather than governor. I'm sure he'd be disqualified if he did. The sad thing? The Republican gubernatorial nominee is even worse, because he was the leader of the effort to steal the election here.
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  301. I worked cleaning the Charleston Civic Center at night for a couple months. There were times where people had events and we ate the untouched food. We never ate muffins that were sitting out for hours.
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  302.  @RK-jc8oe  Yeah, that's a nice theory... if we have the Republican Party that existed 50 years ago that could be moved on some key issues, as opposed to one party that has decided to literally block everything that the other wants. McConnell even refused to sign the power sharing agreement for weeks once Democrats won so Republicans could keep the gavel. One party has abandoned democracy, and you ignore that at all of our peril.
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  303.  @RK-jc8oe  If you have term limits, power shifts to unelected staffers who actually know how the legislative process works. How is that any better?
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  304. What law is there that a company has to be open? If the state decides that it doesn't want to renew the contract because they're open, fair enough, but you have to abide by the contract that you agreed to.
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  305. He's running for Senate. Hopefully, he loses his runoff.
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  306. 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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  307.  @reginalddunn6183  I never said otherwise. I said that most wait until they are out of electoral politics to cash in.
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  308. Can't recall a US Senator. She needs a solid primary challenge.
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  309.  @SA-bq1us  "What are you talking about?" Patrick Stewart
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  310.  @SA-bq1us  I got my shots months ago, and no one ever arrested me.
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  311.  @Tina-qn6pq  It happens to the best of us ;-)
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  312.  @evilintent6649  It says "places like Puerto Rico."
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  313.  @evilintent6649  It is his job to be President of the whole country.
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  314.  @evilintent6649  Thank you for proving your username.
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  315. So, it was some grand conspiracy to make her mom call Larry King 27 years ago just to take down someone whose previous campaign went down in flames before the voting started?
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  316.  @KenS1267  I'm in a swing state, so I will vote for the Democratic nominee. However, I'm not going to pretend that Biden is a saint and that "believe women" turned out to be "believe women unless they are accusing someone I like." And you sound like these people who insist that we shouldn't listen to what the accuser has to say because it has been a while before he/she comes forward. There are plenty of other people who have started to back up her story, and Biden is trying like mad to throw people off the scent by saying to go to the National Archives, when any such papers would be in Delaware with the rest of his Senate papers, which he is zealously guarding. Enjoy tribalism over principles.
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  317.  @KenS1267  No, you wish there won't be any evidence. Just because it would be nice to imagine a general election that isn't between two incoherent septuagenarians who have problematic at best records on how they treat women doesn't make it so. I will vote for Biden if I have to, but I will not lie for him or twist myself into pretzels to defend him.
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  318.  @KenS1267  We shall see.
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  319. "Come on!" Gob Bluth
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  320. Because they only care about winning. It takes having principles to uphold them.
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  321. How would Democrats gain? This could very easily be done by a Republican who wanted to block Roberts from trying to persuade one of the others to soften their stance on full repeal.
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  322.  @lsingstock1646  Of course, it matters. My question was about how something would be gained by leaking it. Six months before an election is hardly the time to detonate such a bombshell. It benefits the anti-abortion zealots more because they can much more easily shame anyone considering changing his/her vote to stand firm. And these people think that their position is entirely reasonable and will be rewarded both near term (the 50-year mission is complete) and long-term, by history. If Roberts was trying to change someone's vote to weaken rather than kill Roe, how is this path still open?
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  323.  @lsingstock1646  It's almost certainly going to be released next month. This strikes me as mobilizing the Justices to get them to keep their vote. One thing Supreme Court Justices hate is the notion that they are influenced by anything, and responding to protesting with a switch in their vote is contrary to this, so they won't change now. If what you really care about is reproductive rights, you don't leak this ahead of time.
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  324.  @lsingstock1646  Well, I had the TV on while getting ready for work this morning, and I noticed that there was a story about an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal a couple days before the full text of the draft was released that showed a lot if details about the deliberations that were confirmed by the leak. So, a paper owned by Rupert Murdoch that has a right-wing opinion page ran a story that foreshadowed the draft leak? What does it sound like for motivation to you?
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  325. That big orange dummy used them all to keep the bubble going.
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  326. You don't want freedom, you want Thunderdome.
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  327. He offered Kasich the VP slot, saying that he would delegate foreign and domestic policy. When Kasich asked what that left, he said, "Making America Great Again." You can't make this stuff up.
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  328. In 1896, JD Rockefeller threatened to fire every worker who voted for William Jennings Bryan. Does that mean that they should have been denied the right to vote?
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  329. So, you like her invoking the 24 scenario on torture? Her voting with Republicans to make it more difficult for Syrian refugees to enter the United States? Her support for Modi and Sisi? Her doing the bidding of Sheldon Adelson to get rid of his competition? Her playing both siderism on the shutdown?
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  330.  @Blue-ke9fu  I am suspicious of Warren as well, but given just how awful Tulsi is on the one thing that she wants to emphasize in her campaign (ironically, Bernie was the one who actually took the lead on invoking the War Powers Act to rein in clandestine efforts in Yemen), I trust her even less.
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  331.  @Blue-ke9fu  Let's hope so. It's going to take knocking on doors, making calls, and talking to friends, but we can make it happen.
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  332. The minimum wage in WV is $8.75, so you are correct that it would be an increase. I think that Sinema may be worse, because as frustrating as Manchin is, I don't see how we get anyone better out of the Mountain State than him, but Arizona went D +0.3, while West Virginia went R +39. What is her excuse?
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  333. It takes a 2/3 vote. As long as Republicans have no standard and push towards fascism, there is no accountability.
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  334.  @stevenalleman9884  I get that it's not our call, but quite frankly, a lot of judges have given the seditionists a lot of slack. One got bail because she had a nonrefundable trip to Mexico.
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  335.  @abrahamkandathil-6036  If you are so biased that you can't see your own biases, then you must not he doing a very thorough job of fact checking.
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  336.  Lesley Wynter  Subhuman? It sure does make it a lot easier to do things to people when you think they are less than human. I remember a couple weeks ago someone was coming to these pages literally praising forced sterilization to reduce the immigrant population. Where were you standing up to that?
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  337.  @ladydeerheart1  How can you work with people who don't see you as legitimate? Quite frankly, at this point, I think that the country would be far better off if Republicans went the way of the Whigs, the Democratic Party got the centrists and reasonable Republicans, and Labor became the party of the left.
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  338.  @TheDradge  And if you have an EEOC complaint, they are well aware of how much these things overlap, and they aren't going to ignore someone were filing a complaint for using the "wrong" category. At a certain point, you risk sounding like those people who insist that adults having relations with teenagers isn't technically pedophilia.
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  339. If you have term limits, Bernie would also be forced out, and you'd get more people like Manchin, because they'd be far less likely to anger corporate interests.
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  340. He got suspended, too.
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  341. As Al Franken said in "Rush Limbaugh is a Big, Fat Idiot," "In all my years at Harvard, I never met a Lodge or a Cabot who said, 'Oh, I despise this terrible legacy policy! No one knows if I earned my place here."
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  342. Her net approval among Arizona Democrats is -46, so I don't think it's helping.
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  343. It used to be pretty common for businesses to be closed on weekends.
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  344.  @EP-ni6my  Plenty of businesses operate on public property. Like I said on other threads, if it's the only business there for people to use, that's totally different. However, by that logic, why stop at seven days a week? Why not make it 24/7? After all, why give employees any semblance of work/life balance?
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  345.  @EP-ni6my  Plenty of restaurants, or mostly convenience stores, which is a lot of what people complained about in the first place?
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  346.  @Species-yy5ng  Are you from West Virginia? Do live in West Virginia? I'm just trying to figure out if you are saying this from any base of knowledge about the state, or because you like him from seeing him online?
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  347.  @Philbert-s2c  And she beat him by 5 1/2 points, so what does that say about him? I know party people, activists, and rank and file voters, and just about everyone considers him resigning his State Senate seat to run for President, only to drop out a few weeks later, to be proof that he isn't serious and wants to be a celebrity. Someone in another thread said that he moved to North Carolina, anyway, and he basically burned all of his bridges after Paula Jean beat him, saying that he'll never run again because the people of West Virginia don't know what is good for them. So, is this comment based on living online, or is it based on understanding? If Ojeda changed his mind, Manchin could just (to the extent he acknowledges him at all) rub that stuff in his face, and it doesn't matter what Ojeda says. The fact that, like it or not, Manchin is a very good retail politician in a state that still values that and can call on 35 years of favors to fend off a challenge, tells me that he'll win. Any challenge has to be from someone who isn't tainted, and it will be done by people who know that it's like a dog chasing a tire. You want to scare the tire, you never want to catch it.
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  348.  @shelleythistleton4935  Are you serious? Is that the argument that you are trying to make? Trump's margin in West Virginia went from 42 to 39. Yes, things are totally different now. And Ojeda went from a rising star to a has-been in two years. West Virginians have a phrase for the Presidential run: he got too big for his britches. Do you really think that is a compliment?
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  349.  @Species-yy5ng  If all you want is a protest, have at it. I am all for that. However, I have seen a lot of people say that he can win, which is simply not the case. Also, wouldn't it be better if the messenger wasn't someone who was already widely disliked from all sides within the party?
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  350.  @Species-yy5ng  Did you not see what I said? I included party people, activists, and rank and file. He has burned bridge after bridge, and even if he were to move back to West Virginia, he'd be lucky to get what his 2010 primary opponent, the late, great Ken Hechler, did when he was trying to run solely to protest mountaintop removal.
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  351. SEIU 668 in Philadelphia for Bernie. Which side are you on? I'm on the side of the people.
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  352.  earth ocean  They didn't back Hillary in the primary. They did after it was over. Also, Ana looks like she has finally seen the light that Warren is not second best, but best of the worst.
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  353.  @DragonXflyer  Then, how was Nixon able to get a pardon when he didn't ever get charged?
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  354. Who's America's Dad now?!
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  355. No, because that Republican might be there for decades.
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  356.  @moe6548  Is that among Democrats, or overall? I've seen that she is still in a danger zone (under 70%), but not doomed.
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  357.  @MrManerd  We can have a better chance of getting rid of her in a primary. You can also ask whether it is better to get half of what you want or see the things you want set back for decades. Try to win the primary, but settle in the general if you must.
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  358.  @moe6548  Polls about her are all over the place, but they consistently show a likely one-term Senator.
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  359.  @MrManerd  Yeah, and he got more votes the second time around. Never give fascists a chance to get a foothold.
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  360.  @moe6548  If she gets a halfway decent opponent to her left, I'm sending a few dollars his/her way. If she loses, it needs to be in the primary, because we can't afford another fascist in the Senate.
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  361.  @moe6548  True, but the money goes farther in 2023 so the challenger can build a network.
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  362. The NRA turned on Manchin. His sugar daddy is King Coal.
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  363.  nicholasgreenlee4911  Less than that. I was just pointing out the irony that what the guest wanted used to be the case, but the desire at the time was to be considered White.
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  364.  @ConstantChaos1  I'm partially Native American, and I know not to check Native American on job applications, because I don't have those tribal relations. I also didn't contribute to a cookbook called Pow Wow Chow Down with a crab mayonnaise recipe, either. My larger point was that she let Trump get under her skin. If you want to lose to a bully or a troll, there isn't a more automatic way to do it.
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  365. It's the biggest, most beautiful bus you have ever seen.
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  366. Term limits would have gotten rid of Bernie before he had the chance to rise to prominence. If you don't like the awful people who get elected, a) look to the voters, and b) if you are able, do what you can to defeat them, and not just writing a check.
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  367. That is so unfair! The Three Stooges actually stuck it to the rich and provided entertainment to millions.
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  368. He thinks that fixing the problems he caused is an act worthy of praise, except I don't believe for a second if it were up to him that the terrorists would have been prosecuted.
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  369.  @ROZDAB  "That's all for me. Good night."
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  370. I thought that W giving Merkel a back rub would have been the worst I had seen, but Biden was far worse because he is such a repeat creep.
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  371. My dollar says you can count them on your fingers.
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  372.  @marshallsweatherhiking1820  It ended up being two.
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  373. That's the voter's job. I'm not giving up Bernie because of some arbitrary limit.
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  374.  @sunset_doom7804  So, what you're really complaining about is voters who keep sending idiots like this back in office. Do you really think they'll automatically elect someone better the next time, or someone just like her? In states that enacted legislative term limits, the power has shifted to unelected staffers (because no elected officials can stick around long enough to actually learn the ins and outs of procedures or how to write bills) and lobbyists. Literally everything people say they want to solve with term limits gets worse. I'm hanging onto the good ones who are truly generational instead of getting rid of them in hopes of getting rid of the bad ones who are easily replaced with someone just as bad. "The fault lies not in our stars, but within ourselves."
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  375.  @sunset_doom7804  And what's with your ageism? You know, unless you die early, it will happen to you, too.
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  376. He has forever ruined brain surgeon as the standard for being smart.
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  377.  merch marine  Using the example from my office, do you really think that it was "democracy" for an unpopular candidate to run am opponent against himself to split his opposition? Or, was it a completely obvious subversion of democracy to try to maintain power? Yeah, majority rule is so crazy.
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  378.  merch marine  It was his own handwriting that had the name of the third candidate. He couldn't get the support of a majority of the office, so he convinced someone to run as a candidate when that person initially denied running or having any interest. Considering the fact that multiple subsequent elections saw a more natural move to two candidates (one where a third candidate only received three votes and even acted as his observer in the count, another with only two candidates), the history was not borne out as paranoia. That being said, on a larger level, Maine adopted this system because the people decided that they didn't want a figure like LePage sneaking in with barely 40% of the vote in multi-member elections, and a majority twice confirmed that they don't want a plurality to decide, so that is why Ranked Choice is the will of the people.
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  379.  merch marine  So, I take it that you oppose the Electoral College?
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  380.  merch marine  As far as your other question, I guess you don't understand how polarizing candidates work. Is it really democracy if one candidate gets 45% support but 55% absolutely do not want him/her, but that vote gets split? When you have a certain number of candidates, it dilutes the question. In 2004, the Republican gubernatorial nominee got 21% of the vote in a ten-way race. Judging by how poorly he did in the general election, I think it's safe to say that the vast majority of Republicans didn't want to enter that race with a slumlord at the top of their ticket.
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  381.  merch marine  Does that mean that you think Hillary should have won two years ago?
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  382.  merch marine  Ranked Choice was implemented when two votes of the people of Maine, with increasing majorities, said that someone unacceptable to the majority of voters should not hold office. It wasn't the legislature, it was the people who said that it will take a majority. Maybe you missed my question earlier, but in the 2004 GOP gubernatorial primary in WV, the nominee won a ten-way race with only 21% of the vote. If you asked most of the other 79%, they would have said Monty Warner was unacceptable. Is that democracy, or would democracy have been someone acceptable to a majority winning the nomination been the more democratic option? A majority threshold has long been a principle of democracy, or do you think MS violated democracy by having another vote?
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  383.  merch marine  I didn't know Democrats made up an absolute majority of voters in Maine. It wasn't just Democrats embarrassed by LePage.
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  384.  merch marine  I think you misunderstand my point. Given Maine's independent streak, I was simply pointing out that Democratic voters were not enough to implement Ranked Choice Voting.
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  385.  merch marine  I have asked you this several times, and you keep avoiding the question. In 2004, West Virginia Republicans nominated a highly unpopular candidate with 21% of the vote in a ten-way race. Which is a greater statement of democracy, "he got 21% of the vote which was higher than anyone else," or "79% of the voters were horrified by the candidate, so there should be an absolute threshold a candidate must cross to win"?
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  386.  merch marine  How does Ranked Choice Voting violate that? That is like saying, "I won't eat steak because I hate broccoli." Answer the question using the example above. Which outweighs, the 21% who like him, or the 79% who say he sucks? Are Louisiana, Mississippi, and Georgia wrong for demanding a majority to win?
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  387.  merch marine  You keep using that phrase, but you still haven't explained how having a threshold violates that principle.
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  388. As someone who is the same height as George Stephanopoulos, I have noticed a lot of people who are physically large try to use tactics like this when having a discussion to overpower you. One time, I was sitting down, and a guy over six feet tall suddenly got up and stood real close to me while I was sitting down, and I said to him, "I know you are taller than me." Totally stopped his argument in his tracks. Some people just have that bully mindset.
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  389. Do you agree with Bernard Shaw asking Michael Dukakis if he would support the death penalty if someone raped and murdered hos wife?
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  390. Agreed. I think part of it is that some people don't do a good job of pointing out the class issues that exist in this country.
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  391.  @brunoperrault604  Admitted to undervaluing assets when paying taxes and overvaluing assets to banks.
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  392.  @brunoperrault604  Oh, and the algorithm thanks you for directing people to see a list of the crimes of Der Orangefuhrer.
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  393. It's something to do with vocal chord paralysis. It's always been bad, but it's gotten a lot worse over the last few years.
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  394.  @richardowens9061  He's running third party. Nobody runs third party thinking he/she actually has a chance of winning. You run third party to play spoiler.
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  395. That doesn't make a lick of sense. I've seen goofy things he's said about Tulsi really having more support that she is getting in the polls, but let's just say that she really does have more support than less than 1%. Call it 10, even. Do you know what happens to those votes? They don't do anyone a bit of good, because anyone who is below 15% gets nothing, and the delegates are awarded proportionally among those who qualify. If she gets 10% that would have otherwise gone to Bernie, that hurts his chances.
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  396.  @katieleinster179  But, as of right now, only three people are above 15%: Bernie, Biden, and (sometimes) Harris. If someone is below 15%, those votes go into the ether. Let's say that Biden flames out early (which has long been my theory), and in, say, Oklahoma, the breakdown is Bernie 40, Harris 30, Tulsi 10, other 20. Bernie would get 57% of the delegates. If she is out of the picture, and Bernie gets those votes, he gets 62.5% of the delegates. Any fake lefty who gets votes draws from Bernie, period. If Tulsi really wanted Bernie to win, she would be doing what Nina Turner is doing.
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  397.  @katieleinster179  Again, if you don't get 15%, you get nothing if Booker gets 2%, he gets zero delegates. If Harris gets 14.99%, she gets zero delegates. They can't do anything one way or the other in the convention with those votes. You can't win the game if you don't know the rules.
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  398.  @katieleinster179  Well, there is a lot of evidence that Warren won't make it to MA, because she is getting numbers so low in New Hampshire that if those hold (I think she's at 7), her campaign will be over before it gets to MA regardless. Gillibrand is so far behind that she'll be out of the race long before it gets to NY. Harris is the one who I think will be the last opponent standing, so that is moot. I think most on the left see Beto for who he really is and only liked him when the alternative was Ted Cruz. If anything, he would he taking votes from Harris, so him staying in is a good thing. If no one gets an absolute majority, my understanding is that it will go to superdelegates, and the delegates are bound by the vote in the state for the first two rounds. So, if she does get delegates, Tulsi would make it harder for Bernie to win if you believe that it has to be round one or else. If you want Bernie Sanders to win the Democratic nomination, there is exactly one way to do so: support Bernie Sanders. Tulsi Gabbard is not doing that, so she is hurting his campaign.
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  399.  @katieleinster179  It's not that they can call it, that is the threshold. If no one gets the number needed to win the first round, there is a second round, and superdelegates start to count. That being said, the last time the first round wasn't enough to settle things was in 1952, long before the McGovern Commission instituted the presidential primary as we know it today. The last race that was in doubt before the convention was the 1976 Republican convention, because there were a handful of Uncommitted that Ford needed to get over the top. You won't have a 15-20 candidate field next year. The best chance for Bernie to win is to get the double. No candidate who has won Iowa and New Hampshire has ever lost the nomination, but Bernie narrowly missed it the last time. If the left coalesces around him early enough, it is a done deal, and momentum will carry him to the nomination like it did Kerry in 2004.
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  400.  @katieleinster179  They can try all they want, but it would actually be counterproductive. Quite frankly, there are only two people running who are elected officials (Warren and Tulsi) who I think would see their support go to Bernie in the event of their campaign's demise, and those are the people who will hurt Bernie if they stay in once their campaign is already dead. That is why I don't particularly think that Niko House is particularly accurate in his view of things: he doesn't seem to understand the rules. Tulsi doesn't help Bernie by staying in, and I really don't understand where that argument comes from. If Klobuchar or Booker want to stay in and take votes from Harris, more power to them.
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  401.  @katieleinster179  On the debate stage, yes, but not the ballot. Unless Tulsi is going to take out Harris, I don't see her really doing a lot of heavy lifting for Bernie. Then again, I think there is a lot that is problematic about her record and public statements that I have long suspected that she is a wolf in sheep's clothing.
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  402.  @scott2228  Not if the "moderate" is moderating between "steer this boat to safety" and "steer harder into the abyss."
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  403. ​ @yaboidre5672  I think it's pretty obvious that this didn't mean."slavery is bad" shouldn't be taught.
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  404. So, the woman who courted Sheldon Adelson and did his bidding to try to get rid of his competition in the form of online gambling is somehow not a corporatist?
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  405.  Youdontneedto Seemyidentification  I didn't say that I wouldn't vote for the nominee, but all that stuff about Bernie weakening Hillary is nonsense. Do you think no one would have picked up on any criticism of she got the coronation Debbie Wasserman Schultz wanted? In the general election, 12% of Bernie voters went for Trump, which sounds bad until you realize that 25% of Hillary supporters went for McCain in 2008, a race where she stayed in long after it was obvious she lost. I disagree with his vote on the gun manufacturer lawsuit, but I understand his rationale. Still, if you want to pretend like someone with a lifetime rating of D- from the NRA (lower than any statewide elected official in Vermont, btw) is Ted Nugent, we can kiss rural America good-bye, and make it next to impossible to get to 270.
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  406.  Youdontneedto Seemyidentification  Why do you keep comparing Bernie to Nader? Did Nader campaign 43 times for Gore (more than Hillary did for Obama) including states that Gore needed to win but neglected? Bernie was the FIRST candidate to pledge to support the eventual nominee. And he will actually get things done, because the American people want them to get done. How did voting in centrists into the White House work out the last 30 years? Hundreds of Democratic officeholders voted out and Republican control. Maybe those of us who look at history don't want to repeat the same mistakes.
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  407.  Youdontneedto Seemyidentification  Again, fewer Bernie supporters went Trump in 2016 than Hillary supporters went McCain in 2008. At this point, it is obvious that nothing is getting through since you just keep repeating yourself over and over again.
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  408.  Youdontneedto Seemyidentification  Oh, so you like Bernie's ideas, but you're scared to push for them? Don't you get that this is WHY we keep losing even though people agree with us? Study after study, looking at the US, the UK, and France have shown that rural voters (the very people we need to win) tend to be to the left on economics and the right socially. If the left doesn't give any reason for rural voters to vote for them, such as a full-throttled economic message, those people will go right, even hard right, every single time. Dukakis in 1988 won more counties than Obama in 2012. If we push someone who fights for working people, that person will get support. As Bill Clinton famously (and accurately) said in 2002, "Strong and wrong beats weak and right every time." Maybe we need to practice being strong and right.
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  409.  @angiebear8727  When those people literally tried to destroy democracy for their personal gain and to avoid accountability for their crimes, sympathy goes out the window.
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  410. Well, he's already killed over 200,000 Americans, so it's not just hypothetical.
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  411. She could have said "This is an active case" instead of storming out, or maybe not consented to the interview in the first place. Don't lawyers usually advice their clients not to talk to the press?
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  412. I don't care about them. I care about the innocent people they infect.
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  413.  @gregnz1  So, small children should just move out?
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  414.  @elvangulley3210  That will really make West Virginia voters like you better and swing left again. Here's a hint: the absolute worst thing that you can call someone from West Virginia is inbred because we know that far too many people aren't joking when they say it.
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  415.  @alainsavard3680  Manchin is literally to the left of every Republican in the Senate. He has been for the entirety of his 10 years in the Senate. The last Democratic Senator to the right of a Republican was Ben Nelson compared to Olympia Snowe in 2007-08. Nebraska was R+33, and no one ever gave him grief even though there were literally Republicans better than him. Manchin is in a state that is R+39. If you think there is no difference, look up Jim Justice, because he would be the most likely to hold the seat if Manchin didn't.
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  416.  @trueXMotionFitness  Indeed. I know no longer live in my native state, but I learned a long time ago that Manchin is going to disappoint me quite a bit, but given the alternative, sometimes you have to take that half loaf.
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  417. There won't be a return to normalcy, but he is saying that it won't be Trump himself. That may very well be true if the contact is broken by the cult.
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  418.  @LoboPreto  That will be true for some, but not all. Going out getting a veto overridden and a threatened veto sneered at is not a way to keep support among people who like you because of your perceived strength.
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  419.  @LoboPreto  There are two groups: the True Believers, and the suck ups. I am not talking about the former. I am talking about the latter.
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  420. Indeed. This does seem to be a case where it seems very easy for CFA to win. It's not like they kept it a secret that they're closed on Sundays to get the contract. I even remember a FB group called, "I'd like to order Chick-Fil-A, but it's Sunday."
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  421. Even if there is a 5% chance of getting most of the things Bernie wants, that certainly beats zero chance.
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  422. "Why do I always hear about the superiority of the white race from people who disprove the theory?" John Fugelsang
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  423. Someone told Dumb Donald that turnout was going to be low, so he decided to distance himself from it ahead of time.
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  424.  @AdamBladeTaylor  Except the contract didn't say that. If they want to make it a new rule when they renew the contract, they are free to do so, but you can't change it in the middle of a contract, especially when a company famously closes. If they tried to change it midstream, they'd lose and probably lose a lot in damages.
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  425.  @AdamBladeTaylor  Everything I've seen about it says that the proposal is for future contracts.
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  426.  @AdamBladeTaylor  So, if the bill will make it a legal requirement, it clearly isn't one now.
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  427.  @AdamBladeTaylor  You already said that. For someone accusing a company that you don't like of lying, it looks like you got caught in one, because in an earlier reply, you said that this is already what the contract says, but Chick-Fil-A is violating it. If it's not the law yet, then it clearly isn't in the existing contract. Now, it wouldn't surprise me if they sue if it becomes law, but it clearly isn't the law now or part of the current contract. If it was, the state wouldn't have given the lease to a company that is famous for closing one day of the week.
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  428. 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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  429. "Punching above my weight" is not nearly the same as "we leave Iowa victorious."
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  430. No, we are pointing out why Biden will be the worst candidate if he wins the nomination, and we want a fighter, not someone who is saying that things are just fine.
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  431.  @maunaowakea777  True, but I think that once people start to hear his own ideas, they will realize that he is not Barack Obama's third term. That is when his numbers will drop.
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  432.  @paulstallings1177  Taking artificial hormones for performance enhancement is already prohibited. Did you see me say that there should be rules against tall athletes? For the longest time, running (the example I used above) made an effort to determine at what point competitive advantage for things like going through male puberty is gone. At that point, an athlete is allowed to compete as a woman if she so desires. I have no problem with that. My only point is that there has to be a standard. Considering the percentage of elite athletes who use PEDs, I don't put it past someone to try to do the same for athletic scholarships or races that involve qualifying time. If there is no effort to police it at all (as Boston is saying is the case), what would stop some unscrupulous people from faking it in order to gain a spot in the race with an extra half hour to qualify?
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  433.  @peterbrandt7911  Well, Mao also deserves a place in that group of infamy.
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  434. Lots of people still got it despite being cautious.
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  435. Cretin comes from the Isle of Crete.
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  436.  @aaronkuntze7494  Because someone from the island of Crete would have gotten that name long before Christianity existed. Therefore, the etymology is clearly wrong.
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  437.  @aaronkuntze7494  Okay, do you want to go down that route? Let's look at the Greek, then. Christos means "anointed one." Christian is "follower of Christos." Now, what in the world does that have to do with a Greek island whose etymology has nothing to do with anointing and was in existence for over 1000 years before Christians were a thing?
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  438.  @lilesmw  The people rejected Trump both times. There is no Electoral College to save Sinema.
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  439.  Dana Chapin  I don't know if you remember the show Daria, but she sounds just like Tiffany from the Fashion Club, except she talks a little faster.
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  440. 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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  441.  @edwardhill9620  Well, I live in the swing state of Pennsylvania, and I think Bernie makes a good point. Not that I don't get that it is a position that can easily be vilified, but if anyone is worried about prisoners being enough to swing an election, doesn't that say more about how many people get locked up in this country?
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  442. Did you vote for Sarah Palin for VP in 2008?
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  443.  @pangyau1  Heck no, but you don't see me making an argument purely on identity. So, I ask again, since you want to see females in the Presidency or VP slot, did you vote for Sarah Palin for VP?
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  444.  @pangyau1  In 2008, she was John McCain's running mate. So, did you vote for her? You said you like women as Presidential or VP candidates. Well, there have only ever been three on a major party ticket (Ferraro, VP 1984; Palin, VP 2008; Clinton, President 2008). Unless you are in your mid-50s or above, you have only had the opportunity to vote for a woman on a national ticket twice. So, did you?
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  445.  @pangyau1  I don't know where your ballot is, but literally every general election ballot that I have seen in my lifetime includes both. Your statement above clearly indicates that either you have short-term memory loss, or you got the point that I was making that a woman for a woman's sake doesn't improve anything and don't want to admit it.
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  446. He's been fighting it for over 50 years. Given the date of his work with CORE as a student in Chicago, I'd say for at least 57-58 years.
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  447. He probably hopes to learn by osmosis.
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  448.  @bakaron7842  If he did the right thing, then you should be over there instead of talking tough on a keyboard.
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  449. And if you are in Pennsylvania, I cannot emphasize this enough, put your ballot in the security envelope before sealing it, and sign everything that needs to be signed.
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  450. Are you serious? We are a nation of laws. If you don't like who is elected, do the actual work instead of imagining yourself as some revolutionary keyboard warrior.
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  451. Torture alone makes that statement accurate.
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  452.  @alstevens7060  Here's how he tanked: JDB: Mr. Yang, you want to give $1000 a month to every adult American, no exceptions [sic]. How do you plan on doing that? AY: I'm sorry? That is the sound of a campaign crashing on the runway.
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  453. An inmate in New Hampshire once ran for office. I don't remember how many votes he got, but I remember hearing about it in poli sci.
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  454.  @machsimillian14  Manchin will never defect. Quite frankly, as incredibly frustrating as he is, he is the best you can do in a state where Trump won by 42 and 39 points. However, if he were to run in a Republican primary, the fact that he voted twice to convict Dear Leader, voted to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson, and votes with Democratic leadership about half the time would doom him in a Republican primary. Not to mention the fact that he is a third generation Democratic elected official, and that is another reason why it won't happen. The real problem is that until 2020, his vote was rarely the deciding factor, and now it is. However, it's funny how no one seems to get mad at the "moderate" Republicans who never stray from the party line when their vote is needed. And don't give me the vote to repeal the ACA, because everyone thought they had the votes to repeal with Pence as the tiebreaker until McCain switched sides at the last minute.
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  455. 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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  456. Unless deep down she realizes that he got VD and didn't want to tell her where he got it.
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  457. He might not be trying to hurt other people, but he is.
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  458.  @lucasharvey8990  Well, it sounds like trying to mitigate the damage of his stupidity.
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  459. Sometimes, it takes one to be the first who is willing to stick his/her head out, and Justin Amash has done that. Ultimately, the real question isn't about party politics, but about the right thing for our country. If Moscow Donald hasn't committed an impeachable offense, who has? What ever could qualify? Nixon was popular until he wasn't, and his popularity sank like a rock. Impeachment didn't hurt Clinton because he was popular, but it didn't help him, either.
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  460.  @xadam2dudex  Did I say that it would? No, I said that the dam of support might break. That being said, even if impeachment fails, it will not help a corrupt and unpopular candidate win a second term, but it will show that there is a line. I will ask again, if he didn't commit an impeachable offense, what is one in your opinion?
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  461.  @southside333  Bernie has been a Democrat in all but name since 1991. He endorsed Democratic Presidential candidates as early as 1984. He is a member of the Senate leadership, and he went to a lot of red areas to fight for Democratic candidates. Howard Schultz is trying to blackmail the party into not raising his taxes or give everyone health care. To say the two are equivalent is libel.
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  462.  @WitlessSod  She turned on him because she wanted him to do more awful things. Other than totally evil people, it seems like the threshold is when something hits close to home. See: Nancy Reagan supporting stem cell research and Dick Cheney fighting efforts to ban gay marriage.
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  463.  @WitlessSod  Agreed. It's just like how Trump didn't start to see approval drop in red areas until coronavirus started hitting red areas. Otherwise, they are content to support awful things to stick it to the libs.
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  464.  @johnsonmax9865  Because you are using misleading data. It's like the Office episode where Pam brags about doubling her sales the previous month only to admit that it was from two to four.
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  465.  @johnsonmax9865  Doesn't matter where you got it. The point is the analysis. If they are still higher, the fact that they are dropping doesn't mean that they have suddenly started handling the cases better. It means that there is a cycle to each wave, but the overall numbers show that red states have lower vaccination rates and higher infection, hospitalization, and death rates.
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  466.  MarkWeiss  What good reason, making yourself look like a disjointed conspiracy theorist? The only thing that you are missing is typing in all caps. You didn't give facts. Literally everything you have stated is either stating something that we just have to take your word for about yourself, or your opinion. A scientist should be able to tell the difference between fact and opinion.
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  467.  MarkWeiss  Everything you said was an opinion without evidence. You cited no link or other lists of documents. Scientists are supposed to show their work and know the difference between opinion and fact.
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  468.  MarkWeiss  Are you a child? Do you think that someone is so focused on his/her phone that every response can be made within minutes?
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  469.  MarkWeiss  You're the one still confusing opinion for fact and not providing any evidence for the things that you claim to be 100% true. Just because you're mad that your trolling has been exposed doesn't make anything you say any more true.
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  470.  MarkWeiss  Are you serious right now? You count it is "the fifth time you're asking" seven minutes after the first one? Not all of us have time to sit on YouTube all day. You will get both the complete list of things that you stated were fact but were opinions, and things you stated as fact without evidence in due time. Then again, you literally provided zero evidence for anything at all.
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  471.  MarkWeiss  For someone who claims to be calm, you keep responding with name calling an awful lot. And your "sixth request" is a dishonest tactic used by you in order to try to make it look line someone is stalling, when you literally put most of them overnight or less than ten minutes apart. That proves what a dishonest actor you really are. I will expose your dishonesty, and then I'm done.
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  472.  MarkWeiss  Where do you get that "AOC scares 70% of Americans"?
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  473.  MarkWeiss  Pelosi lost six of nine, not seven of nine, and Democrats are heavily favored to maintain or gain House seats in this election. If you want to declare yourself "a scientist" who is about "100% fact," it's pretty odd that the first factual claim you give is incorrect.
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  474.  MarkWeiss  "worse [sic] record ever." You are aware that Democrats held the House for 40 years, right? And that Republicans held the House for lengthy periods after the Civil War? Not doing good for your record of "100% fact."
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  475.  MarkWeiss  Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz are "good men"? By definition, this is an opinion, and one that doesn't bode well for your claims that you are a Democrat.
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  476.  MarkWeiss  Your praise of Buttigieg is opinion, and you provided no evidence that 60-65% "hate Biden/Harris/Warren policies."
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  477.  MarkWeiss  Yeah, by definition if you think that a sizable portion of Democratic voters don't have "pro-American policies," you are not a Democrat and probably a Republican.
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  478.  MarkWeiss  And the Supreme Court deciding is another matter of opinion. Even if there is something to it, the Supreme Court deciding does not mean that Republican policies are popular and Democratic policies are not. That means that only an anti-democratic push can give the election to Trump.
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  479.  MarkWeiss  Seriously? You are aware that Democrats already have the majority, and gaining seats means that it is a win, right? I thought scientists had to know how math works. Democrats won the majority in 2006 and 2018, retained it in 2008, and are heavily favored to hold it in 2020. Even as Dems go, Pelosi doesn't even have the worst record of the last 30 years. That distinction goes to Gephardt. Oh, and Gephardt was still Leader in 2002 (and he was 0-4) so Pelosi has only had eight as Democratic leader, not nine. This is number nine. All you had to do is just admit that you were wrong. Apparently, you also never heard of Sam Rayburn or Joe Cannon.
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  480.  MarkWeiss  Okay, since you are a scientist who apparently researches everything and only gives 100% fact, you aren't even doing simple counting right, and your error rubbed off on me because I made the mistake of not thinking through your overall count. Here goes. Here is simple math. Pelosi was named Democratic leader after the 2002 elections, meaning that 2004 was her first election as leader. Democrats held the majority after three (2006, 2008, 2018) and the minority after five (2004, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016). I hope you're not a chemist, because you'll end up blowing up your neighborhood.
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  481.  MarkWeiss  I thought scientists a) provided evidence, and b) admitted when they were wrong. Saying "Pew polls" isn't providing evidence.
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  482.  MarkWeiss  What does Olbermann have to do with anything? Now, your clunky writing style looks like someone who can't manage a train of thought. I asked you for examples, and the only thing I saw was you saying "Pew poll" without providing evidence of the specific poll. The more you talk, the more unhinged you reveal yourself to be. If you aren't willing to provide links to your evidence, or the name and source of the study, I don't have time for this.
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  483.  MarkWeiss  I know what Pew Research is. They do lots of polls, so show the polls that say that 65% "oppose Biden/Harris/Warren policies" and "70% are scared by AOC." You're the one reduced to incoherent bullet points that seem like they're cut off halfway through, not me. It should be easy to do if the evidence is there, because they post their findings online.
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  484.  @count783  In this field, second beat is really best of the worst.
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  485. Katie Hobbs was the actual winner. Autocorrect could lead people to the wrong conclusion.
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  486.  @waltergrimminger6191  Darn right! I remember glancing on a book at the store about 12-15 years ago where someone said, "The Republicans have slandered the word liberal, but we'll take it back and start using it again some day!" as a defense for "progressive." Needless to say, I didn't buy that book. In the 20th century, three of the four major progressive movements (TR, LaFollette, and the DLC) were centrist or good government movements rather than a full throttled lefty movement (Wallace). I think that Bernie could make a case for left of liberal use of the term, but mostly it's centrists and scared liberals who took up the word, and seem shocked that now the right is saying, "Progress to what?"
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  487. And what would the end result have been? There was no other option. Republicans controlled Congress and the governor's office. Who was going to sign off to make him President? This revisionist history is getting ridiculous.
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  488.  @intuitionz1198  My point was that, no matter what Al Gore did after the 2000 election, the levers to power were blocked. Once the Supreme Court decided the way it did, the race was over. I'm not saying Bush won. I'm saying that there was no remedy.
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  489. She met the threshold, so why shouldn't she have been allowed? That's why you have rules.
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  490. And some of the staff don't seem to be informing them of much beyond the title.
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  491.  @3rdrick  "calling insurrection"? I'm assuming that you mean "culling." That being said, show me where Trump has been vocal about any right wing terrorists being brought to justice in a positive way. Anything at all.
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  492.  @samuraisorrow465  "Everything is permissible, but not everything is beneficial." Since Twitter is a private company, they are fully aware that the bigots tend to take over because no one wants to deal with them. Why have TOS if you won't enforce them?
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  493. They literally get a million dollars a year to hire staff. They could literally use some of that money to hire one person whose sole job it is to keep track of the bills in the committees they sit on, read those bills, and summarize them. Even if they cannot personally read everything that comes across the desk, they should know what comes across their desks.
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  494.  @nonyabizness.original  I remember a book from 15 years ago called Take the Rich Off Welfare. At the time, it showed that welfare for the rich costs four times welfare for the poor. I'm guessing it's only gotten worse since.
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  495.  @Bran_Flakesx7  Why not go back to Aristotle while you're at it? I guess you're not familiar with the idea of learning and verifying evidence.
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  496.  @IAmValenwind  I read it, and I remember the part about the Antichrist, so since Moscow Donald is saying he is the Second Coming, he just may be the Antichrist.
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  497. I think Jefferson Davis still holds that distinction, but yes, they are awful.
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  498. I think that what he is arguing against is tariff wars, because all they do is raise prices. In isolation, tariffs are ineffective, because the other country can always retaliate.
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  499. The longer this process continues, the more that people will remember why Biden never made it past Iowa in his previous two campaigns.
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  500. "That was beautiful, man!" Willam Black, Clerks
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  501. Didn't she abandon her allies first?
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  502.  @paulweaver7074  Thereis a sufficient tax base through payroll. Lying to say that Medicare for All will cut Social Security is a particularly awful way to try to defend a system that lets tens of thousands die every year and over half a million to go bankrupt due to lack of health care. And no one is saying "overnight." There is a transition period for every real Medicare for All proposal.
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  503.  @paulweaver7074  The plan is quite specific. An employer payroll tax of 7%, and an employee payroll tax of 4% on income over $29,000 in addition to current taxes. And the reason why it will provide cost savings is because 1) the overhead alone will provide massive savings; 2) an insurer that covers 350MM people and is the only game in town can negotiate from a place if strength. The only people who are saying that it won't are "experts" hired to defend the status quo. And, yes, there may be compromise, but in order to get something good, you don't negotiate with yourself. If anything, maybe Bernie should be asking for something akin to NHS so we can "settle" for Medicare for All.
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  504. I'd honestly be shocked if he runs again in 2024. He will be 77 at the end of his term, and he barely survived in 2018, winning by three points against a candidate devoid of charisma whose wife was a lobbyist for the leading manufacturer of Oxycontin. If you look at the previous two Democratic Senators in West Virginia, both decided to make a huge shift when they knew they wouldn't run for re-election. Byrd and Rockefeller both condemned mountaintop removal. Manchin had a tendency to go just far enough to the left to avoid completely alienating Democratic voters. (This is why a lot of observers, me included, thought that he would ultimately come to Yes on a watered-down BBB.) Once Manchin decided that he'd no longer appease the left, that looked like his version of letting it fly at the end of his career, because he decided to cash in.
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  505. ​ @paulherring8959  Indeed. In a state where Trump won by 42 and 39 points, it was miraculous to get any Democrat elected. The problem came when Manchin became the 50th vote. Then, he couldn't play monkey in the middle without serious ramifications. Sinema will be replaced with someone better, but Jim Justice will make people wish Manchin was still there. The solution to Blue Dogs in red states is to get big enough majorities that they're not needed for every vote.
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  506.  @bngltinkerbell  But someone who steals $100MM should be able to? Why is that preferable in your opinion?
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  507.  @ZooomaCW  I looked it up. What people were calling pay increases were putting things in place so they could telecommute. When they do bad things, we should call them out, but we should make sure it is accurate.
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  508.  @SpinDoc420  I said telecommuting, so it was to set up Zoom and similar apps. Like it or not, Congress does deal with sensitive information sometimes that can't go out over an app you'll find in the Play Store or App Store.
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  509.  @SpinDoc420  Yes, because Zoom can be trusted with classified information.
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  510.  @SpinDoc420  Again, not all of it was on Zoom, because you can't put classified information on it. To quote Charlie Brown, don't you know sarcasm when you hear it?
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  511. What about the candidate who courted the support of Sheldon Adelson and did his bidding to try to get rid of his competition?
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  512.  @Nickydafish  And at their age (with him making six figures for nearly 30 years), it is only natural that there is some accumulation.
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  513.  @Nickydafish  Oh, I agree. The sad thing is that, because so much of the press does have a bit of money, they act like the only people who can talk about poverty or the excesses of the wealthy can be dirt poor. After all, who did more for poor people in this country than FDR, a very rich man.
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  514. @Robert David Because I was pursuing my PhD and didn't get it. Had I done so, my earning power in that field would have been far more significant. Regardless, you are demonstrating something that a sociology professor observed: the rich are allowed to make mistakes. If a poor person makes one mistake (attempted business that didn't work out, trying to pay for college, etc.), you pay for life. There is absolutely zero reason why we should be forced to pay to try to better our situation and make ourselves more productive citizens when even 50 years ago, tuition was zero or virtually zero in many states.
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  515. @Robert David And you started "networking"? Well, that isn't something that is available to most of us. And if you were able to pay your college in full, that tells me that you didn't have a scholarship, so someone paid your way, but you're right, you made it through and got a nice job all on your own with no help.
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  516. @Robert David You're not allowed to discharge student loan debt via bankruptcy. Even if you could, I have a 790 credit score, and I'm not throwing it away, especially since I don't own a house.
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  517. @Robert David I don't know when you did, but such a thing is simply not possible today, when you look at tuition alone easily costing $20-30K a year even in state schools. The point is that no one should have to go through that. I am in a loan forgiveness program, but you could also point out that means that I am taking a job that pays less than what I might be making otherwise to qualify. As far as networking 101, what about social workers? You need a master's to get your foot in the door, and it is not going to pay a lot of money. Ditto librarians. Should the high education, low pay jobs that help society be off limits to the poor?
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  518. His average contribution was $200. That's not coming from rank and file.
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  519.  @thelinedrive  Possible, but likely?
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  520.  @thelinedrive  What does ICE have to do with fossil fuels? The question was his being the second-largest recipient of oil and gas money during the 2018 cycle. Would you say that Obama getting so much money had no effect on his decision not to prosecute anyone? There is a huge connection between donor preference and actual policy. Not positions, but policy.
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  521.  @thelinedrive  I misread your reply initially, so I deleted my response.
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  522.  @thelinedrive  How do you know that a majority of his supporters want ICE abolished. Unless polling has moved a lot in the last couple of months, even a majority of Democrats would prefer to reform it rather than abolish it. I've run for office. Donors don't give you money because they expect you to double cross them. They are giving it to you because they think you agree with them and will be sympathetic to their arguments. That is why money in politics is so pernicious, and that is why in other places I have called public financing "the reform that makes all other reforms possible." His corporate PAC stance is no different than that of Harris, Gillibrand, or Booker. It is about marketing, nothing more. It is not about a deep-seated opposition to money in politics (they also take a lot of money from the individuals instead of the PACs they normally say they avoid). He's not a lefty hero. Good for Texas, but not good for America (see: Manchin, Joe).
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  523.  @thelinedrive  How many Democratic officeholders actually support that position? It is not a majority position, even among the left of the party. Just because a dozen or two support it doesn't help your position, and one is deBlasio, who can't do a thing about it. You're not helping your argument by pointing to some majority position in the Democratic Party (both voters and officials) that Beto O'Rourke has as proof that he's not beholden to donors.
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  524.  @jamiechorley1674  That's not what I said. I said that the context of Rogan using it doesn't make him look any better. If he wants to show that he was truly changed, maybe he needs to stop inviting "race realists" and others who peddle white supremacy or denigrate minorities onto his show, especially if he won't push back against them.
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  525. Velshi, Hayes, and Melber are good. When Maddow stays focused, she can go a deep dive like few can (her podcast on Agnew was riveting).
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  526. He doesn't see race, but he believes he's white because he can drive his fancy car without being pulled over.
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  527.  @rosairedubrule60  All term limits do is speed up the Capitol Hill to K Street pipeline and transfer power from elected officials to unelected staffers who actually know how the process works.
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  528.  @earuption  So, it's worse for someone to point out that someone fought integration than for that person to have fought integration while working with some of the most vile people in Senate history and thinking that position was right 44 years later?
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  529.  @TrixiePixie2  She didn't accept his apology, she said it was clearly timed with his run. Any statement on voting for him was clearly in the context of him being the nominee. It was not an endorsement by any stretch of the imagination.
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  530.  @dscully1808  Actually, in this case, we facto segregation referred not to "self segregation," but practices like redlining to keep black people out of white neighborhoods.
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  531.  @dscully1808  Wrong. It was an informal agreement among lenders and real estate companies, so it was not de jure.
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  532. Things will stay the same under Biden. They will get worse under Trump. Not worse is preferable to worse.
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  533.  Carl Helbert  I think that most people are ready to get rid of Trump. That doesn't mean that we don't ask for more from Biden. If that is the case, he might as well just resign right after he takes the oath of office and say, "My work here is done." I want Biden in office in January, and that is what I made pretty obvious. If you understood what I said, you wouldn't have implied that I said there was no difference between the two.
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  534.  @chrishakala528  In fairness, a lot of what Jesus said wasn't meant to be taken literally, but figuratively. A sizable portion of John involves Jesus using a metaphor and people taking getting confused when they take it literally (the most famous example being when telling Nicodemus "you must be born again"). This wasn't a question of germ theory, but a question of ritualistic cleaning. I seriously doubt that they were using hot water and antibacterial soap to wash their hands.
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  535.  @robertlincoln7312  Rallies do not equal support. The polls were pretty accurate in 2016, but it was a close election. Your initial statement was "the polls were wrong in 2016." When I pointed out that they weren't that far off, then you misdirect and point to crowd size. Are you objectively looking at information, or is it wishful thinking? The numbers would have to be off in a way that we have never seen before for Trump to even have a chance, and don't give me 1948, because most polling agencies stopped polling weeks in advance.
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  536.  @robertlincoln7312  If you don't like self-important narcissists, then why do you like Trump? That is even ignoring his penchant for fascism, cult of personality, and saying that he isn't going to leave. I don't think that American democracy can survive four more years.
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  537. 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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  538. Who would have thought #BernieMadeMeWhite was a high point in the discussion of race and Bernie support in the MSM?
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