Dont scare me like this yo i saw the tweet loading and thought he said "racism doesnt exist" or smth like thst
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2020 Democratic Presidential Primary | OT | Hickenlooper makes it to the debate
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Dont scare me like this yo i saw the tweet loading and thought he said "racism doesnt exist" or smth like thst
lol, sorry. I guess it is a time where that's a concern about almost anyone. I'll add a little more context.
Kamala should go on Hot Ones.
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She seems to be getting a warm reception in the cold weather.
This is great to hear.
Honestly, I'm just now getting caught up on the last few days of stuff around here, and I had no idea that ketchup and eggs were a thing.
If eggs couldn't stand on their with some salt and pepper, you added butter, if that wasn't enough you added a hot sauce. I love Louisiana hot sauce. Pairs perfectly with fried, scrambled, poached, and boiled eggs. (and so much more!)
In my mostly white family this was the norm. Some of my friends tossed ketchup on their eggs but all I thought was "That's weird."
I didn't realize this wasn't a universal thing until 2016 when Hillary was accused of pandering.
I'm guessing it's something adopted when my family was almost exclusively race mixing in the sixties, seventies, and eighties. So it was just the norm to me. Then again my family through that era was very weird for Kansas. Not only is a good chunk of my family mixed raced, we had quite a few openly gay and trans men in the family in the eighties. We've never been comfortable with the status quo lol.
Generally, aside from one branch in particular, my family tends to have males that are... at least bisexual. Out of the males directly from my grandmother Marjorie, there are three males who have shown no homosexual interests, and at least 10 (including me) that are at the min bisexual.
My family history apparently isn't the norm for most white people.
What's sad is that this isn't even a rare thing. The continued appropriation of black culture by white people is sometimes frustrating. Other times it's just cringey
Military funds go to much more than missles and bombers. It includes increasing telecommunications systems and infrastructure. There is a 5G rollout this next year. Not doubt some of this funding is going to this. In addition, expect some of this money to be funneled into next gen systems.
Catching up on the thread, reading this for the first time, and I feel like Kamala Harris' entire childhood just flashed before my eyes.
Her father putting out this statement somehow makes me like her more. Parental disapproval*: I can relate.
*especially the extra-dramatic kind that invokes dead ancestors and whatnot.
FWIW, Warren's not proposing to divert military funding for this.
She's already proposed a wealth tax that would raise about $275 billion / year, so she's got the childcare program costs covered via that.
This would be such a boon to so many working families. I don't have a child, will never have a child, and am at a loss for conceiving of rational arguments against such a program.
No I wasn't claiming there was an issue with Warrens plan. I think it's a fine idea. I would vote for Warren given the chance. I was dismissing the notion that defense funding was entirely flippant as the tweet was implying.
I don't think it's implying that it's flippant, just that we don't see as "how do we pay for it" as much in regards to military spending compared to initiatives like this or Medicare For All.
The point of that tweet was how we give the military a bigger budget even when they arent even asking for it without question, but that is never the case for social programs that would help Americans. There is always the "how can we afford/pay for this?" Question bought up to squash even the consideration for debate.
Not sure if certain people were not paying attention or don't remember but the context is that Trump sent this tweet calling defense spending levels "crazy":
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1069584730880974849
Keep in mind he's taking about a defense spending bill HE SIGNED.
Just a few days later...
Trump reverses course, tells Pentagon to boost budget request to $750 billion
He signed $716B the previous year and then called it crazy, said he wanted to decrease it to $700B in line with % cuts elsewhere... the military proposed $733B... and Trump gave them $750B...
And of course it passed easily, with hardly any opposition or even discussion.
Of course plenty of other agencies DID get their budgets cut significantly...
That increase was not based on any request for infrastructure or "5G rollout" or anything, it was Trump picking a random number out of thin air as a negotiating tactic, and then getting it when no one opposed:
Not sure how any of that is relevant here, but just thought I'd clear up the speculation...
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1069584730880974849
Keep in mind he's taking about a defense spending bill HE SIGNED.
Just a few days later...
Trump reverses course, tells Pentagon to boost budget request to $750 billion
That would dwarf the $733 billion budget proposal Mattis and other top military leaders have been fighting to preserve and would represent a stunning about-face for a president who recently called the fiscal 2019 top line of $716 billion for defense spending "crazy." In October, Trump said the defense figure for 2020 would be $700 billion
He signed $716B the previous year and then called it crazy, said he wanted to decrease it to $700B in line with % cuts elsewhere... the military proposed $733B... and Trump gave them $750B...
Trump committed to a fiscal 2020 defense budget of at least $750 billion, a nearly 5 percent increase instead of a 2 percent cut.
And of course it passed easily, with hardly any opposition or even discussion.
Of course plenty of other agencies DID get their budgets cut significantly...
That increase was not based on any request for infrastructure or "5G rollout" or anything, it was Trump picking a random number out of thin air as a negotiating tactic, and then getting it when no one opposed:
Trump suggested the new $750 billion number during the Tuesday meeting as a "negotiating tactic" to ensure that Democratic opposition does not push the eventual defense budget below the $733 billion that Mattis, Inhofe and Thornberry were pursuing
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"There was a discussion with POTUS about how to get $733 billion, and POTUS suggested that if the position is $733 billion, then we should submit a budget at $750 billion as a negotiating tactic," the second source said. "That said, the president changes his mind constantly."
Not sure how any of that is relevant here, but just thought I'd clear up the speculation...
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I had read before that Kamala did not have a good relationship with her father, that he never really was there for her growing up. So him being a selfish ass really isn't that surprising sadly.
Man it's a huge pet peeves of mine to see wackass parents airing grievances with their kid in public. And his statement leaves room for his grandfathers and their siblings, and other family members to being smokers.
I'm sure Kamala Harris' father will be a minor celebrity on the right, at least for a few months while he's useful... sort of like Obama's half-brother who was pro-Trump.
Definitely not the same thing, but it makes me think of Obama's brother. That guy...
Last time we saw this people were like "Oh poor Aaron Rodgers family how can he not talk to them" and were then provided with mountains of receipts on them being right-wing conservative religious zealots.
Especially when from what has been said before he was a absent father and not really involved in her life closely. Dude is a loser who wants attention.
I'm glad he's not nuttin on em
Kamala Harris' father is a Marxist.
Kamala Harris' father is a Marxist.
I have no idea about Harris' father's politics, nor do I really care, but if he's publicly criticizing Harris the right wing media will eat it up even if he's personally erecting statues of Stalin in his spare time.
Not by choice. Her mom got custody and moved to Canada.
I'm not 100% on the validity of the statement. Strange I haven't seen any secondary sources confirming or denying it yet.
Her mom got 100% custody, if her dad wanted to be involved in her life he would have been. She was only 7 at the time. The fact he wasn't involved in her life growing up makes anything he says pretty much useless if this indeed him. Unless we want to start listening to what Malik has to say about Barack lol.
It's not even confirmed that he wrote that. The only place that brought this up is a nothing site created 4 months ago called jamaica global.
That's sad. I didn't know that it was bad like that between them. I thought it might've been a fluke eccentric statement. At first, it almost came off comical to me because it was a father putting pride of national ancestry over paternal bonds - which is absurd all on its own. Then, he was so extra about it. His statement was so over the top. But now that I think about it more carefully, something like that could only happen if relations were strained between them.
Is it well documented that he wasn't involved at all? Being in another country makes it a lot tougher to meet more than a few times a year, especially if employment opportunities aren't there.
I'm not comfortable with people smearing the guy when we don't know if it's even authentic.
Just a clarification, but the site was registered 12 months ago, with postings from at least 10 months ago. This doesn't mean it's authentic or not.
Jamaica Global is a well known news site in Jamaica. my dad reads it pretty often.
Of course the old man would announce on the old people's network
God damn it!
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