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Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Wed Feb 26, 2020 11:11 amEveryone complains about Bernie (media/pundits), but no one is putting forward a viable alternative.

I think it's more that several people are putting forward viable alternatives, but no individual alternative is viable because there's several of them.

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https://twitter.com/drmistercody/status/1232037912444719104?s=19 Someone else tweeted this with a side-by-side of Pete's statements about Bernie and Cuba 20 years ago. Not surprisingly, Pete was singing a different tune then. (Though of course Pete was a teenager 20 years ago.) I admire Buttigieg's...

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Yeah, if Pete's a 0 there and Bernie is a 10, Warren seems a solid 7, higher before the recent blips. The funny thing is, I knocked on 97 doors this weekend for Warren. Talked to a bunch of people, at least 5 said they were nervous that she'd be too liberal to win in November. I'm curious where she...

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I think Warren went too far against the rich. If you're a billionaire, you're automatically evil. WTF has Bernie been doing?!?! EW is and always has been much more of a true capitalist. I think she is more of a capitalist as well, i mean she's totally abandoned medicare for all. The problem is, at ...

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Non-competes are almost entirely unenforceable. For you coastal elites, maybe. Us God-fearing folk in the West love "freedom of contract." They are rarely struck down. Really? Damn, that sucks. They are still very common, as people are scared off by the terms, even if they aren't enforcea...

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The Sybian wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2020 6:09 pmNon-competes are almost entirely unenforceable.

For you coastal elites, maybe. Us God-fearing folk in the West love "freedom of contract." They are rarely struck down.

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The industry I'm in doesn't have a lot of players and it just so happens that one of the newer ones is just down the road. It also was started by the guy who started this company. There has been a steady trickle of people who have left here, worked at another spot run by the CEO after the founder l...

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Jerloma wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2020 2:23 pmThat's probably why M4A would be done in 10 year increments.

Why do you want to murder sick people?

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Isn't socialism just basically taxing people in exchange for public services? Like, how are Bernie's policies any more socialist than any other candidates? Hell, how is universal healthcare any different than universal police, fire, military or school services? The funny thing is, that "social...

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I think it's more that Cubanos don't like socialism. Coincidentally, I just finished a battle with a former friend of Cubano descent, who is a blindly-loyal Republican. It stems from their horrific experiences their family had under Castro's regime. They were viciously oppressed, and they equate (j...

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it also should be taken in context with the other small sample size Wisconsin presidential polls because right now it looks like the outlier: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/wisconsin/ Yes. No single poll is that significant, unless it's one of those polls by maybe Pew ...

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Giff wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2020 11:28 am

What in the ever-loving fuck.

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The Sting is legitimately great. I've watched it with each of my sons in the last few years when they were about 16 or so and both loved it. So, it doesn't give off too much of an air of "old movie" even though it IS and old movie and it takes place several decades before it was filmed. T...

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brian wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2020 10:21 pm Honestly.

I think that’s just who she is. She’s honestly probably more “abrasive” than Hillary but doesn’t have the Clinton baggage.

I'm just imagining what Kamala would be doing to the guy. Holy shit.

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Pruitt wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2020 10:32 pm It is a great movie.

I saw it in the theatre when I was 9.

Now that is old.

You win. I was 8.

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You guys all suck.

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Holy shit, she is not letting up. Maybe she sees this as her way back in.

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Let's see, in the past three hours I've (i) appeared before a federal judge who's definitely and visibly younger than me, (ii) had a partner tell me she has never seen The Sting and doesn't really know what it's about, and (iii) forgot what the third thing was.

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That and the fact that I think she and Bernie probably legitimately dislike him and his policies. I think this is it. Maybe I'm naive, but I think she is more worried about what a Bloomberg nomination would mean for the country than what a Sanders nomination would mean. Just like I think she praise...

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So at this point, I’m willing to say that “candidate who gets the most votes” is a better predictor of electability than conventional wisdom about demographic and ideological preferences. To follow up on this, are you taking the position that the delegates to the Democratic Party Convention are *re...

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Grant Williams Can’t Get Celtics Players To Play This Weird Board Game It's Settlers of Catan. And that game isn't weird. Sidereal Confluence and Mysterium. Those can be weird. Yeah, that's a weird, oddly-unresearched take. Catan has sold 22 million copies worldwide. If it were an album, it would b...

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get fucked, Democratic party. You misspelled "minorities and women and immigrants and gays and people needing health care and refugees and people concerned about pollution and people whose kids are losing sleep over climate change. Total non-sequitor here. Sanders polls better than any other c...

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Steve, my response to your premises is that “electability” is much harder to gauge then you think. Our last two presidents are (1) a black guy with a Muslim-sounding name who hung out with Bill Ayers and a scary black pastor; and (2) an irredeemably vile and ignorant reality TV character who is a w...

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get fucked, Democratic party. You misspelled "minorities and women and immigrants and gays and people needing health care and refugees and people concerned about pollution and people whose kids are losing sleep over climate change." Seriously, this is the problem that really worries me. W...

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Seems like this should be getting more play and totally mirrors my worry from a few days ago. https://twitter.com/KyleKulinski/status/1230339087862829057?s=19 This mirrors my worry also. This notion that if a candidate is rejected by a majority of the party's voters, he has a right to that party's ...

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Seems like this should be getting more play and totally mirrors my worry from a few days ago. https://twitter.com/KyleKulinski/status/1230339087862829057?s=19 This mirrors my worry also. This notion that if a candidate is rejected by a majority of the party's voters, he has a right to that party's ...

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Part of the way the Democrats are fucking things up so badly. That's one of the problems that the Dems do not have a strong "establishment" that can call the shots. You have individuals on every level making individual decisions. Candidates, top-level campaign staff, grunt-level campaign ...

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Pruitt wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2020 2:13 pm My Son's Latest Article - About the Corvette

That's pretty cool.

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I've been hearing for the past few years that Illinois was on the verge of being really good. They appear to be on the edge this year - but are they going to be getting better or worse the next year or two with graduations etc.?

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But if you assume that a Biden/Bloomberg/Klobuchar voter would prefer Buttigieg, he's really at 98%. I get the sense I'm supposed to feel mocked by these posts. Is it for believing that 27% isn't a majority? Is it for being concerned that someone who's too liberal to even get half the Democratic Pa...

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Thanks Donald!

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Just in the past couple of days, Buttigieg landed the endorsement of the Salt Lake City mayor, Salt Lake County mayor, and Salt Lake County Attorney (DA). (As well as that coveted endorsement of my Rockefeller Republican sister.) Well of course. I don't know the actual affiliation of these politici...

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mister d wrote: ↑Tue Feb 18, 2020 9:43 pm BECAUSE HE FACTUALLY IS!!!!!!!

Yes. Of course he is. And Rachel described him the way he factually is. Which I was led to believe people like her were refusing to do.

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Yeah, I see what you mean about how the press is so bad to Bernie. Especially MSNBC and the likes of Rachel Maddow. She just called Sanders - and I shit you not - the “clear and overwhelming favorite” for the nomination.

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A_B wrote: ↑Tue Feb 18, 2020 8:36 pm Not to mention bob fucking seger

Fuck yes. (I checked; Wiki says he was born in Detroit. That's good enough for me.)

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But if you assume that a Biden/Bloomberg/Klobuchar voter would prefer Buttigieg, he's really at 98%. I get the sense I'm supposed to feel mocked by these posts. Is it for believing that 27% isn't a majority? Is it for being concerned that someone who's too liberal to even get half the Democratic Pa...

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That is pretty random. I guess I just assumed that even the Motown folks and others who made Detroit such a big deal were not actually born there. Just like all the Chicago Blues stars came from the south.

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If you're writing those "vs Trump" polls off as inside the margin of error and you're ignoring Dem polls with Sanders leading, what are you basing any of this on? Just a gut feel that someone bland is the way to go, despite bland Dems failing over and over in recent history? Yup. While Be...

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If you're writing those "vs Trump" polls off as inside the margin of error and you're ignoring Dem polls with Sanders leading, what are you basing any of this on? Just a gut feel that someone bland is the way to go, despite bland Dems failing over and over in recent history? I'm not ignor...

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Maybe give them a chance versus saying the front-runner needs to drop out so a less popular centrist can take over? Unless I'm misunderstanding you, giving them a chance means seeing how they vote in November. At which point it will be too late and millions of people will be fucked. I'm not willing...

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