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US PoliEra 2019 |OT6| Have You Hurd About These GOP Retirements?
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That is unbelievable. If a student came to me with that many errors on an essay, we would have a serious talk at the least.
As a professional, I would hope the repercussions are more serious. That was shockingly poor form.
What's the thing with Trump and his whole refusal to say "democratic". It's the "democrat party".. the "Democrat primary"
Like normally when he's memeing I get what he's doing but ...I don't actually get it this time. He even said it's a way to delegitimize his opposition but.. how?
What does taking off the ic do? If you want to slander why not say DemoRat.. just take out one more C. At least that works
Like normally when he's memeing I get what he's doing but ...I don't actually get it this time. He even said it's a way to delegitimize his opposition but.. how?
What does taking off the ic do? If you want to slander why not say DemoRat.. just take out one more C. At least that works
To be fair, narcissistic personality disorder is well recognized in the DSM.
I remember being 13 during the 2000 election and realizing even at that age what a bunch of horseshit that phrase was.
I'm crying laughing but also stunned.
As a former Chicagoan, there aren't enough expletives in our known languages to capture my feeling on this.
OK it's late and I can't sleep so if you could wave a wand and add amendments to the constitution what would they be?
At bare minimum:
28th Amendment: Abolishment of the Electoral College; President determined by national popular vote
29th Amendment: Nationalized voting system which includes a paper trail and unlimited resources for election integrity and security; protections against egregious state laws and initiatives that depress voter turnout; US Presidential and Midterm Elections are declared as a national holiday
30th Amendment: Strict and defined limits on how much corporations, unions, non-profits and individuals can contribute to elections
31st Amendment: Nationalized Health Insurance Program for all citizens of the US
32nd Amendment: Full repeal of the 2nd Amendment; no citizens are permitted to own a firearm of any type
33rd Amendment: Protects a woman's right to choose
34th Amendment: Abolishment of slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime
35th Amendment: House terms increased from 2 years to 4 years
36th Amendment: Gerrymandering ban
37th Amendment: Fairness doctrine applies to all forms of news and news opinion media, be it in print, digital, televised, radio, etc.
38th Amendment: Marginal tax rate on the highest earners in the US (% is debatable but we need this)
39th Amendment: Taxation of religious institutions that engage in political activity
40th Amendment: Net Neutrality (but with restrictions for unlawful content, hate speech etc)
At bare minimum:
28th Amendment: Abolishment of the Electoral College; President determined by national popular vote
29th Amendment: Nationalized voting system which includes a paper trail and unlimited resources for election integrity and security; protections against egregious state laws and initiatives that depress voter turnout; US Presidential and Midterm Elections are declared as a national holiday
30th Amendment: Strict and defined limits on how much corporations, unions, non-profits and individuals can contribute to elections
31st Amendment: Nationalized Health Insurance Program for all citizens of the US
32nd Amendment: Full repeal of the 2nd Amendment; no citizens are permitted to own a firearm of any type
33rd Amendment: Protects a woman's right to choose
34th Amendment: Abolishment of slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime
35th Amendment: House terms increased from 2 years to 4 years
36th Amendment: Gerrymandering ban
37th Amendment: Fairness doctrine applies to all forms of news and news opinion media, be it in print, digital, televised, radio, etc.
38th Amendment: Marginal tax rate on the highest earners in the US (% is debatable but we need this)
39th Amendment: Taxation of religious institutions that engage in political activity
40th Amendment: Net Neutrality (but with restrictions for unlawful content, hate speech etc)
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Let's run Meat Loaf for Texas senate
I want to beat Cornyn
And beat Cruz
And to flip the stat against Trump and turn it blue
And I won't be sad, because two out of three wouldn't be bad
I want to beat Cornyn
And beat Cruz
And to flip the stat against Trump and turn it blue
And I won't be sad, because two out of three wouldn't be bad
I kinda doubt the guy who endorsed Romney in 2012, donated to McCain and Santorum in 08, and attended Bush 43's inauguration would flip the state the way you think.
I'd be all for it. It'll be the only way that America can truly be back to normal.
And also: Everyone who's running for president must have political experience.
And do a complete campaign finance reform.
I know he wouldn't and seems to be conservative but ran with the joke anyway
Bored and trying to think of celebrities born in Texas
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If Beto isn't gonna run might as well cut out the middle man and run him
No he isn't.
That's as wrong as the people claiming the Democrats are European centre-right.
Yeah, that doesn't surprise me at all, and LePen's party used to be out and out Neo-Nazi!
Really they missed out on a great photo with him giving the thumbs up or maybe two thumbs up as you recover in bed.
"The president is here"
"Is it Obama !?"
"No trump"
"Oh fuck that wake me when carter comes"
You're missing a couple.
41st Amendment: Full disclosure of monetary assets and tax records by all political candidates. You want to run? You better disclose everything and be ready for your finances to be examined with a fine tooth comb.
42nd Amendment: Full divestment from business ties by all political and government officials
43rd Amendment: At minimum a five year waiting period before former government officials can act as lobbyists
44th Amendment: An outright ban on lobbyists being able to hold office.
Do you like your primaries voting system ?
It sounds... complicated ? If I got this right there are bigger and bigger conventions with fewer and fewer voters to nominate the candidate.
In France it's generally pretty simple, a two-round system on a national level and that's it. Obviously we are a way smaller, non-federal State, but it *seems* way more fair.
That said we always end up with joke candidates so I'm not sure.
It sounds... complicated ? If I got this right there are bigger and bigger conventions with fewer and fewer voters to nominate the candidate.
In France it's generally pretty simple, a two-round system on a national level and that's it. Obviously we are a way smaller, non-federal State, but it *seems* way more fair.
That said we always end up with joke candidates so I'm not sure.
It is obscenely complicated, but it's what happens when there's no official head of the political party not in power. That sort of thing goes on behind the scenes in most countries. The difference here is that there's no national primary day, and each state votes ... at whatever arbitrary time they've decided they want to vote. It's horribly convoluted.
You can think of our primary system being a loose equivalent of our lousy electoral college, just within each party + states vote across several months. It's long, exhausting, and expensive. One vague benefit of this is that the eventual nominee can end up using the infrastructure they built in each state for the primary in the general election later, as in they have resources and staff, etc. The unique format does result in some awesome political drama though! Obama vs Clinton 2008 was quite the show.
It's cheaper for campaigns to do it state by state instead of nationally. If it were national, you'd have to rely on name recognition, resume, and very spread out ad campaigns. With it in just one state, your on foot campaigning goes a lot further, and allows people to have a better sense what you're like.
It's like the only thing in our entire system that favors the underdog.
Jennifer Jacobs @JenniferJJacobs
Melania Trump, returning to the White House at 11:30p—after a day that could have been about a president focusing on gun violence victims and those who aided them, but was instead about a president heckling his detractors—wore dark sunglasses.
(AP photo)
5:41 AM - Aug 8, 2019
Melania Trump, returning to the White House at 11:30p—after a day that could have been about a president focusing on gun violence victims and those who aided them, but was instead about a president heckling his detractors—wore dark sunglasses.
(AP photo)
5:41 AM - Aug 8, 2019
<3<3
It was literally a blur yall.
"I'm not a racist, I'm just a soulless grifter with no empathy!"
1000%.
These people are fucking sadists. All of these people should be in jail.
The balls of steel on these survivors. Bless them.
Jesus Christ he looks horrible in this pic.
The only reason people "like" their employer's health insurance because they're insured and won't be penalized while filing taxes. I don't because I don't get the same benefits as a part timer.
Even then if I was insured I would still pay over $700 in my medical bill because the insurance my job offer would only cover 75% of it. Me being just paying over $1000 on bills a month, that's not gonna fly for me.
With Bernie, his plan will cover more than what Canada and UK offers eliminating the need for private insurance.
That doesn't matter. People don't like sudden change and they certainly won't like the *massive* increase in payroll taxes needed to finance these plans. I pay upwards of 45% in tax on an average salary for all my social benefits here and I still get private insurance benefits on top.
People don't think long term. You're not going to get day-1 buy-in.
Even if you're going to eliminate private insurance, do it when in office, don't campaign on it.
Edit: also Bernie offering more than Canada and the UK should be setting off alarm bells.
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Eliminating private insurance is a sure way to lose in 2020. A public option that proves itself to be better than private will starve private in a (hopefully) short term as people increasingly switch over. Employers would also gladly ditch their offerings as well, I imagine most don't like dealing with it.
Trump and the Republicans campaigned on repealing and replacing the ACA. And their voters, didn't believe that and look what happened.
Bernie is campaigning on expanding medicare coverage to everyone while the Media and Biden are painting him as a Republican.
...what? What media is smearing Bernie as a republican?
And Bernie will need to massively raise taxes, he can't dodge that question. I'm not even sure what you're arguing, that Bernie voters don't believe he'd actually repeal private insurance?
Lol, are you serious??
The "republican talking points" dodge is used most often in defense of M4A against the most basic of questions.
Somebody in here yesterday said this was exactly what happened because of how Trump always projects in his tweets.
I don't remember who it was, but well done.
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