If you have Amazon prime, watch Survivor 18 (Tocantins) and you'll understand.Yeah this doesn't really work with Soviet history since usually the charismatic guy is also the more intelligent guy and gets killed or purged fist.
If you have Amazon prime, watch Survivor 18 (Tocantins) and you'll understand.Yeah this doesn't really work with Soviet history since usually the charismatic guy is also the more intelligent guy and gets killed or purged fist.
I know people like to pretend Sanders is only popular because he was the only alternative to Clinton, but there's a reason Sanders didn't go the way of O'Malley (or basically any other primary-losing candidate in general) and nobody expected Sanders to blow up like he did when he announced his run (not even him). What he did was quite impressive for what it was, whether you like him or not.
But now more than ever, I don't think any president can do much without major majorities in both chambers. The incentives for compromise are just not there anymore -- republicans don't care if they lose seats because they're confident they can smear dems enough to win them again later.
He says trump hasn't delivered on the wall, defunding planned parenthood and getting rid of the ACA. He loves what trump is selling, he just thinks he's too stupid to get it done. This is hardly shocking.
Maybe it's just me but I like that he was just trying to wing his responses. That's how you get honest and sincere responses. Not responses prepared and carefully examined by a team of people.
I'm not a politician obviously - but a lot of that is experience not of policy, but of specific questions. If I'm on a media tour and I hear a new question, I answer it to the best of my ability - but I may be sort of diagraming information as I speak and talking around tricky aspects simply because I haven't had to elucidate them, rather than from not knowing the answer. By the end of a tour, I'll have the answer to that question down pat, and will start repeating it more succinctly and with better focus. Beto has moved into the national spotlight and so he's answering completely new questions about shit like foreign policy that a TX local rep would never have had to . So he's probably going through something similar.
If you have Amazon prime, watch Survivor 18 (Tocantins) and you'll understand.
It's a game show first and foremost, which is why it's stuck around.
Well sure, people don't like the truth when it makes them look bad :P
In general, I think "authenticity" in politics is usually more about how they talk about and express themselves + how consistent they are in their views (and if they change their views, how they walk that evolution) --- bonus points in authenticity for consistency in uncommon views: "he says it like it is" vs talking like a politician. And by talking like a politician, I mean being politically correct, but not just "not saying bigoted things" -- in a broader sense that can also include merely sticking with political orthodoxies (having "realistic" policy proposals and sounding like everything you say has been focus tested).
(Beto also had this sort of authenticity in his senate race)
Sounds like communism to meI am torn on this one.
Firstly, proper wages would end the conversation but absent that:
1. It's pretty normal - most business lounges I've been in don't have tip jars.
2. International guests find it confusing, uncomfortable and in some cases insulting.
3. No other employees have a tip jar.
4. Nobody is in the business lounge for fun.
Just pay them what you pay desk staff.
Yeah the problem is the employees are taking home less money. If you want to remove the jar, figure out the loss they are taking and compensate or raise prices.I am torn on this one.
Firstly, proper wages would end the conversation but absent that:
1. It's pretty normal - most business lounges I've been in don't have tip jars.
2. International guests find it confusing, uncomfortable and in some cases insulting.
3. No other employees have a tip jar.
4. Nobody is in the business lounge for fun.
Just pay them what you pay desk staff.
Prosecutor says the U.S. Border Patrol agent charged with capital murder hoped "to clean up the streets of Laredo by targeting this community of individuals who he perceived to be disposable."
Since it came up earlier, and of course speaking only for myself, it's not that I think Sanders is only popular because he was the only alternative to Clinton, rather that because he was able to establish a solid base of support, he eventually emerged as the only real alternative to Clinton. This means that there was a part of his coalition that voted for him more based on opposition to Clinton than on support for him, which you can see for example in exit polls where he often fared well among conservative Democrats (the most extreme case being that a large portion of WV Sanders primary voters said they'd vote for Trump in the general even if Sanders won the nomination). Likewise in Democratic primaries in 2017-2018 where there was a clear left-right (left-center if you prefer) divide, the precinct level results often looked very different from the Sanders-Clinton results. That's not to say his message didn't resonate with a lot of people (again, the only reason he could even emerge as Not-Clinton was to first build a strong base of support), just that he probably can't count on starting with all or almost all his 2016 voters as his base support.
Is that Mitch McConnell in the back?
Probably one of those ironic assholes who walk around in punisher shirts.
Bipartisan AND from the same state? Would never, ever happen.How's a Sherrod/Kasich bipartisan independent ticket sound in the general? That would kinda mess up the math for Trump.
I'm gonna be posting this article more times than a switch port gets begged for ain't I. https://www.voterstudygroup.org/publications/2016-elections/political-divisions-in-2016-and-beyondBingo - yes, Sanders had a large core of actual support, obviously.
But, at the same time, in many states, he won voters who wanted the next Democratic nominee to be more conservative than Obama.
The areas where Bernie's support deviates significantly from Clinton/Obama are important.
Survivor 18 (and the follow ups 20 and 34) should be required political viewing for the "charismatic bullshitter" vs "nerd with brain" dynamic.
Basically, it was so hard to fire someone that way-higher-than-normal unemployment was a result because businesses were taking on so much implied risk each time they'd bring someone on. France had the "security" part of "flexicurity" in place w/ social safety nets, but the labor laws were done in such a way where it was great if you could get a job.... but actually getting one was extraordinarily difficult.
Yeah like the deplorables comment, I'd categorize that as "hard truth" and you're right -- the electorate doesn't like hard truths.I mostly agree with you, but the electorate does love its bullshit sometimes though. Remember Clinton's "we're going to put a lot of people out of work" comment? That was accurate, good policy, not politically correct (it wasn't focus-testy at all), and it went over like a lead balloon.
Again, in this discussion, I mostly agree with you, but I think there are exceptions where the electorate doesn't actually want honesty at all.
How would she get to the debate if she were stuck in traffic because of antifa protests?You know who would have been able to sweep the 2020 primaries?
That's right. Nana Ruth.
No problem. Its hard to overstate how much France is an insane outlier on this - this type of rightward movement in labor laws makes sense virtually nowhere else in the west.Okay, that makes sense. Thank you. I need to do more reading about these reforms, basically.
I mean yeah but also. Why don't you get them to pay fair wages without relying on citizens to fund private salaries first
Probably one of those ironic assholes who walk around in punisher shirts.
You know who would have been able to sweep the 2020 primaries?
That's right. Nana Ruth.
"That same year, she said, Mr. Trump had an outburst over some orange stains on the collar of his white golf shirt, which Ms. Diaz described as stubborn remnants of his makeup, which she had difficulty removing."
Hillary's FP knowledge probably doesn't make her any better than a standard Dem president.I actually did think Bernie would be a bad president in 2016, in no small part because he seemed genuinely ignorant on a lot of foreign policy issues. To his credit he seems to have sharpened up a lot on that front in the last two years though.
More Harris news (Kamala edition):
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/po...s-aide-resigns-harassment-20181206-story.html
Kamala Harris aide resigns after $400G harassment settlement revealed
did they accidently a word or am I just illiterate again.The Department of Justice "generally and specifically each and every allegation contained in the Complaint," according to the Bee, but settled with Hartley for $400,000 in May 2017 anyway.
If Kerry wouldn't be 77 in 2021 I'd say he should be a shoo-in for SoS again.Hillary's FP knowledge probably doesn't make her any better than a standard Dem president.
NC gonna get juicy. If blatent voter fraud occurred, they need to blast that shit all over TV, cause you know, ACTUAL VOTER FRAUD is the fucking GOP.
It's right next to the "Report" button for me.Can you not be authentically guarded?
I fake being sociable all the time. Is that authenticity?
Why is the edit post hidden behind a drop down?
I'll settle for REPUBLICANS CHEATED at the top of every article if they don't want to distinguish between the types of fraud.Just to be clear its ELECTION fraud, not voter fraud. No voter did anything wrong here. It seems nitpicky but I think its important to distinguish the two if we (us, the media, etc.) are going to be talking about this issue for a while.