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[QUOTE=Tazirai;4916585]Let me ask you one. more. time.
Tell me Steel, what can voters expect once Democrats take power if they do. What are they going to do to help people?
We've had the house since 2018, and what have they actually done to help us? Had this virus not come along, we wouldn't have even gotten these crumbs.[/quote]
Intriguing. Rather than respond with a full throated robust argument about Sanders ideology with reasons why you think they're superior you doubled down on tearing the opposition down. They've been helping people since they got elected, but that comes with limitations since the GOP have more power than they do. Something you avoid acknowledging, as that weakens your context.
Are you even a socialist?
Your defence is that America is in a stronger position because of the coronavirus? Ok.
You'd be getting the least amount with Sanders, too, as I've explained. But we both know this would dilute your argument that Sanders is going to change the system by himself.
[quote]What do the American people have to look forward to?
Normalcy? Lol.[/QUOTE]
That you think this is a joke is very telling.
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[QUOTE=Tazirai;4916595]So when the Republicans didn't have any power and still got things done. What's your excuse about that?
When the Democrats had power and didn't get anything done, what's your excuse for that?
When Democrats aren't in the minority how can they say they'll do things, NEXT TIME over and over, and expect people to keep voting when they do nothing, when they have power?
Republicans are fighters, and Democrats are not.[/QUOTE]
Democrats aren’t a collective unit. The Republicans aren’t even a collective unit—Paul Ryan and John Boehner were actively fighting with the Tea Party quite often. Republicans, however, have been able to get stuff done because the Tea Party just wants MORE extreme things than standard Republicans want. But the Tea Party would never be able to successfully govern because it couldn’t get support from even intraparty forces. Progressives, I hate to say it, are more like the Tea Party than the Establishment Republicans. Progressives will support bread crumbs because bread crumbs are better than nothing. Moderates like Joseph Lieberman will only accept bread crumbs.
Democrats and Republicans are a lot alike in ideological structure. And Democrats [I]do[/I] get stuff done. You just find Republicans to accomplish goals that are anti-thetical to yours and I don’t think there is recognition of how much worse a Tea Party bill would be. And Republicans view moderate Democrat proposals in the same light—as only being different at the margins from Sanders’ proposals. In actuality, both are keeping their extremes pretty much at bay.
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[QUOTE=Tazirai;4916596]That's definitely not it. But keep trying.[/QUOTE]
Based on what? Internal party polling? The same polling that shows the guy Sanders wanted primaried in 2012 as the most unifyingly popular politician in the party by a wide margin?
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[QUOTE=KNIGHT OF THE LAKE;4916113]Honestly if anybody has expendable money they should buy right now. I’ve been on the phone with my broker all day. Look at cruise lines. They are at 30 year lows[/QUOTE]
I'd advise people to considering opening a ROTH IRA. Max it out if you have the disposable income.
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[QUOTE=ChadH;4916614]I'd advise people to considering opening a ROTH IRA. Max it out if you have the disposable income.[/QUOTE]
Man, wish I coiuld.
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[QUOTE=Tendrin;4916664]Man, wish I coiuld.[/QUOTE]
I barely have the disposable income for groceries, but it's good to know that the wealth gap will come through the apocalypse unscratched.
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[QUOTE=JCAll;4916670]I barely have the disposable income for groceries, but it's good to know that the wealth gap will come through the apocalypse unscratched.[/QUOTE]
If anything it'll be even worse.
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[QUOTE]Sen. Kelly Loeffler just disclosed more stock trades, including shares in retail companies she sold and ones she bought in Dupont, which makes medical supplies, The Atlanta-Journal Constitution reported.
After she attended a January 24 closed-door briefing on the COVID-19 outbreak, Loeffler dumped hundreds of thousands of dollars in stocks while also buying up shares in telecommuting software.
Loeffler and her representatives have rejected criticism that she used her position in the Senate and access to top information to dump stocks before the market plummeted, saying neither she nor her husband have direct control over their portfolios.[/QUOTE]
[url]https://www.yahoo.com/news/disclosure-reveals-sen-kelly-loeffler-165432001.html[/url]
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[URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/us/politics/joe-biden-fallon-democratic-convention.html"]Joe Biden calls for the Democratic Convention, currently scheduled to begin on July 13th, to be delayed until August.[/URL]
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[QUOTE=KNIGHT OF THE LAKE;4916113]Honestly if anybody has expendable money they should buy right now. I’ve been on the phone with my broker all day. Look at cruise lines. They are at 30 year lows[/QUOTE]
The cruise industry will never come back the way it used to be. They suffered the double whammy of being horrible for the environment and actually killing their customers.
I am willing to eat my words later if I turn out to be wrong, but I think investing in cruise lines would be a huge mistake.
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[QUOTE=TheDarman;4916466]Maybe it’s because people like the message, but not the messenger.[/QUOTE]
He really could smile a little more.
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[QUOTE=Gray Lensman;4916472]I can say that Sanders didn't have the hurdle of a 20+ year smear campaign against him, but conversely he had the hurdle of 'Socialism'. I don't know if the fact that anything that either helps people or the Republicans don't like gets tarred as 'socialism' has finally deadened people to the attack outside of the younger, less reliable voters. In 2 more election cycles I doubt the word will affect anyone who wasn't already voting Republican anyways, but for now it still has at least some effect on swing voters. So maybe it's a wash?[/QUOTE]
Socialism was never the only strike against him. There was SO much material Cambridge Analytica could have weaponized:
- the fact that he never passed any bills other than naming 2 post offices
- him literally being a career politician (unlike Trump) who never had a job outside politics
- voting against the Brady Bill repeatedly, basically being the NRA's favorite socialist
- dumping nuclear waste on disadvantaged hispanics
- voting for the crime bill and using the vote to campaign on how he is "tough on crime" for years later
- being for the crime bill by being against it, a Schroedinger's flip-flop
- honeymooning in the Soviet Union
- support for ruthless dictaroships
- being a deadbeat dad
- palling around with gun-toting, anti-establishment drug producers until they kicked him out for being lazy
- rape fantasy essay
- thinking all drug dealers are black
- his wife's shady financing scandals
- his plans to primary the first black President
- the Kibbutz he attended literally having Stalinist roots.
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That is all just off the top of my head, without using google.
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[QUOTE=SquirrelMan;4916775]Socialism was never the only strike against him. There was SO much material Cambridge Analytica could have weaponized:
- the fact that he never passed any bills other than naming 2 post offices
- him literally being a career politician (unlike Trump) who never had a job outside politics
- voting against the Brady Bill repeatedly, basically being the NRA's favorite socialist
- dumping nuclear waste on disadvantaged hispanics
- voting for the crime bill and using the vote to campaign on how he is "tough on crime" for years later
- being for the crime bill by being against it, a Schroedinger's flip-flop
- honeymooning in the Soviet Union
- support for ruthless dictaroships
- being a deadbeat dad
- palling around with gun-toting, anti-establishment drug producers until they kicked him out for being lazy
- rape fantasy essay
- thinking all drug dealers are black
- his wife's shady financing scandals
- his plans to primary the first black President
- the Kibbutz he attended literally having Stalinist roots.
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That is all just off the top of my head, without using google.[/QUOTE]
And whilst some of it may have more context (such as how the crime bill was asked for by majority of black community leaders) you know it'll be presented as black and white
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[QUOTE=Tendrin;4916689][url]https://www.yahoo.com/news/disclosure-reveals-sen-kelly-loeffler-165432001.html[/url][/QUOTE]
Wow, I had totally forgotten about the insider trading scandal. When was that, 4 months ago? 40?
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[URL="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/new-york-coronavirus-cases-doubled_n_5e8549c3c5b692780507363d"]Coronavirus Deaths Mount In New York[/URL]
The statewide death toll from the coronavirus doubled in 72 hours to more than 1,900.
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[URL="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-coronavirus-drug-cartels_n_5e851871c5b6927805071358"]Trump Spends First Half Of Coronavirus Briefing Discussing War On Drugs[/URL]
The president warned that drug cartels were working to “exploit” the country as officials said more than 4,000 people had been killed by COVID-19. It's no secret Trump is using these daily virus pressers as a substitute for his moronic rallies, so I'm not surprised he works in nonsensical stuff here and there.
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[URL="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/************governor-stay-home-orders_n_5e851140c5b692780507080b"]California Governor Urges Other States To Issue Coronavirus Stay-At-Home Orders
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“What are you waiting for?” Gavin Newsom said, as more than a dozen states still lack stay-at-home orders amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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[URL="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/infant-coronavirus-death-connecticut_n_5e851c54c5b692780507154b"]Newborn With Coronavirus Dies In Connecticut
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The 6-week-old infant is thought to be one of the world’s youngest to die from COVID-19.
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[URL="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-we-waited-take-coronavirus-seriously_n_5e826facc5b62dd9f5d467a9"]Why We Waited So Long To Take The Coronavirus Seriously[/URL]
A psychologist explains why people spilled onto bar patios when they should have been inside.
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[URL="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/*********state-senator-bruce-thompson-coronavirus-st-george-island-florida_n_5e84e13ac5b6927805068192"]Georgia Senator Hospitalized For COVID-19 Went To Florida Beach House To Recover[/URL]
State Sen. Bruce Thompson, who vowed to stay home after testing positive for the coronavirus, ignored orders to stay away, Franklin County’s sheriff said. Assclowns like him (a Republican of course) need to be arrested for that fool stunt!