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mister d wrote: ↑Wed Apr 15, 2020 1:38 pm
sancarlos wrote: ↑Wed Apr 15, 2020 1:35 pm That's background stuff, as I said. His words speak for themselves.

We’re talking about political argumentation. His words *are* his actions.

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Johnnie wrote: ↑Wed Apr 15, 2020 12:54 pm He's being insulated by Republicans. Trump was always going to be the eventuality for a political party that vilifies the non Christian non white non male.

At any point they could have thrown his ass out via the 25th. They haven't.

Oh yes. No disagreement here.

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brian wrote: ↑Wed Apr 15, 2020 12:38 pm Just found out a friend of mine is hospitalized with COVID-19 here in Las Vegas. He has an 8-year-old son. Ugh.

Fuuuuuck.

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Trump is just doing everything a generic Republican would do, but be extra extra asshole about it while using 3rd grade speech patterns. I don't think so. I am not aware of too many generic Republicans explicitly endorsing ethnic cleansing. He has committed government resources specifically to comp...

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Or is he serving as hollow performative resistance where, by example, at the end of the day everything isn't all that bad because they're still together? No, because this isn't about George Conway. It's about what he is doing. When he creates a thread listing the symptoms of Malignant Narcissistic ...

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- MLB The Show - 18 year old no pop Left Fielder/1B through 46 games in AA Ball with the Tulsa Drillers (LAD Affiliate) .256/.258/.35/.616, 2 hr, 19 rbi, 10 sb Despite that line, Bull Durham was inexplicably called up to OKC. AAA Stats (8 Games) .437/.437/.531/.969, 0 HR, 2 RBI, 3 SB Maybe those sc...

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Have any of you folks read One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts ? It's one of the few short stories I read in school that I actually remembered. I think that's what's going on with the Conways. But here's the thing - it doesn't fucking matter if this is all an act . It doesn't matter whether George Conway...

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Please. “Kamala Harris is a cop” is a positive in the general election. Stories like “County Prosecutor enforced law!” may have hurt her among the Left in pre-primary debates, but they won’t hurt now. I swear you're somehow now arguing three different sides. "Harris will get votes because she'...

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Part of why Harris’ presidential campaign flopped so badly was because it was impossible to tell what, if anything, she actually stood for. Personal and professional gain? Yup. Harris had no coherent response to Gabbard's criticism of her prosecutorial record because Harris came from a political ge...

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Harris was polling below 5% nationally when she dropped out. I think Warren is an asset because it already seems clear that Covid will cause the biggest economic downturn since the Great Depression. Unemployment has already skyrocketed, lots of small businesses will go bust, many workers lucky enou...

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As long as I don't use my banking password for my Zoom account, what is the real risk in having my Zoom account hacked?

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Is there really a large demo of voters who plan on sitting this out but would come back around if Harris got the VP nod? I just don't see it. Abrams, yes. Harris underperformed so badly in the primary campaign that I really don't see her as much of an asset. Also, I think this election, like 2016, ...

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NJ/NY/PA/DE/CT (and now MA!) have formed some sort of regional council, too. These seems like a monumental break from our federal system of governance. I see it is a bold move on the part of these Governors to refuse to follow the advice or guidance from the President and his team. While it got att...

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This is why I think Warren would be the best VP pick but unfortunately it seems like Klobuchar is the frontrunner. I dunno. I don't think "pick a 73-year-old northeastern white woman to run with the 78-year-old northeastern white man" is the best way to reach out to anyone, let alone youn...

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Update on this: against any and all good judgement we decided to book a bunch of stuff for this trip for the middle two weeks of September. Of course we expanded it to a 16 day/five country jaunt going in and out of Budapest including Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro and Bosnia. We didn't book anythin...

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My wife and I have been enjoying Berlin Station. It's available on Epix on-demand, not sure if it's available anywhere else. (We didn't have Epix on our system when the show came out in 2016, but it's on there now.)

It's a Euro-spy-suspense series, like Homeland or MI-5. We eat that shit up.

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My daughter’s wife’s mother is on a ventilator as of last night at 11:00 pm. She was sick about a week ago, all the symptoms, but couldn’t be tested because she’s 59 and was told protocol in her area is 60. She lives in Lynchburg. She was feeling better in last 48 hours but it all crashed last nigh...

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Hydra.

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Do you think the sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh are more or less serious than the ones against Biden? I don't know enough to judge. I think the allegations against Kavanaugh were credible because they were presented in a way that was not public and could not really affect anything bey...

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DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2020 10:39 amHe did the album cover for one of my favorites...The Bears (Adrian Belew's band in the late 80's) first album.

OMG that's awesome.

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Do you think it was unreasonable for Democrats to argue that a 30 year old allegation should have disqualified a guy with otherwise solid SCOTUS credentials? I don't see any similarity between that situation and the process of choosing between four years of a Biden Presidency and another four years...

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Let me pose my question more directly: Do you think it is it unreasonable for a voter to take the position that they will not vote, under any circumstances , for a presidential candidate who they think committed sexual assault? Yes or no. Yes. "I'm sorry you're getting deported from the only c...

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If I wanted to pay that much to walk on a golf course, I’d take up golf Honestly, it seems dumb to close golf courses down. Just take out the flags and make people play solo. Shit, I'd say easily half the time I golf it's by myself (my family doesn't play, so when I vacation I'll rent clubs and pla...

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IT'S NOT LESSER EVIL. IT'S LITERAL EVIL VS. I WISH HE WAS A MORE LIBERAL. GOD DAMMIT. Well said. The only way you can really say "they're basically the same but one is just a little less bad" is if you have a privileged, hyper-narrow focus on economic socialism and you totally disregard i...

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I think people are going to see this as "surviving the quarantine", not COVID-19, since everyone was affected to some degree or another. And you'll be like "its so fucking good to be back at restaurants", because it will be, but I'm (now) concerned those who lost will feel forgo...

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I'm sorry, AB.

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So, tomorrow I turn fifty. Fitty. Now, normally, I don't think too much about my age. I usually still feel like the young guy! But I was just thinking about how clearly I can remember turning 30. I had bought my current house about a year earlier. My first son was born almost exactly one year later...

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Not sure the right place, so I'll put it here and know its not a fully formed thought at all right now: There's something, albeit unintentionally ... short-sighted/selfish ... about the messaging of "this is temporary" or "when this is over" that I fear is going to leave the peo...

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That's not what he asked, he asked "what's a reason to vote for Biden that isn't he's not Trump". Biden isn't some unique anti-ethnic cleansing politician. Why does it matter if Biden is unique? I dunno. I think some of you are ascribing some mystical significance to voting that I just do...

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What reason does a progressive have to vote for Biden that isn't summed by "not Trump?" To put a stop to overt ethnic cleansing? If that isn't enough, there's health care, abortion rights, gay marriage, trans rights, regulation of air and water pollution, carbon emissions, labor standards...

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I think another problem with the Democrats is that they expect there will be working across the aisle after four years of Trump on top of eight years of openly working to not let Obama get anything done on top of eight years of Bush. I do not believe that any appreciable number of Democrats actuall...

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But I don't think they had as many people on private insurance. Have to wonder how much longer this path to rejection will hold. That's a really good point. If the pandemic had hit a few months earlier, Sanders would have had a better shot at winning the nomination and the general election. Yeah, t...

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Your perpetual logic is "we can't worry about equity because of finances". Its not a perfect analogy, but its closer than you'd like it to be. First off, it's not my logic. We're talking about the views of the vast majority of the American electorate. You asked whether single payer is a &...

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I think another problem with the Democrats is that they expect there will be working across the aisle after four years of Trump on top of eight years of openly working to not let Obama get anything done on top of eight years of Bush. I do not believe that any appreciable number of Democrats actuall...

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mister d wrote: ↑Thu Apr 09, 2020 1:43 pm
Steve of phpBB wrote: ↑Thu Apr 09, 2020 1:40 pmBut I don't think they had as many people on private insurance.
Have to wonder how much longer this path to rejection will hold.

That's a really good point. If the pandemic had hit a few months earlier, Sanders would have had a better shot at winning the nomination and the general election.

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Did other countries just go from pay your Dr. directly to government covered health care, and skip the insurance step entirely? As far as I know, yes. Other countries never had widespread employer-paid health insurance. That system came into being in the US during WW II, when there were limitations...

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mister d wrote: ↑Thu Apr 09, 2020 1:41 pm "No country has ever transitioned from black people providing free labor. The economic disruption would simply be too great."

Yes! Because providing universal coverage by building on the current system is exactly like slavery!

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Is single-payer a moderate stance? Single payer supported by an additional $3 trillion of taxes per year on pretty much everyone? No. Edit: And also a single payer that requires 150 million people to give up the insurance they've been relying on in favor of an entirely new program? Also no. I don't...

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mister d wrote: ↑Thu Apr 09, 2020 1:14 pm Is single-payer a moderate stance?

Single payer supported by an additional $3 trillion of taxes per year on pretty much everyone? No.

Edit: And also a single payer that requires 150 million people to give up the insurance they've been relying on in favor of an entirely new program? Also no.

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I think another problem with the Democrats is that they expect there will be working across the aisle after four years of Trump on top of eight years of openly working to not let Obama get anything done on top of eight years of Bush. I do not believe that any appreciable number of Democrats actuall...

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