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I know Biden is an old white man, so anything he has to say should be disregarded. (Sarcasm). But this old white women still thinks this makes sense.
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55 minutes ago, DRW50 said:
They've probably been waiting for the day they can move away from the US (I think she also mentioned the UK) and feel free to do what they want, knowing we will have less and less say in the world. And clearly that's what a lot of Americans want them to do, so I guess we brought it on ourselves.
The shame is, we'll never regain our former position of influence and respect. Wait until they decide to shift from the dollar as the universal currency. Many countries have long objected to the advantageousness of the arrangement for the U.S. But it's hard to change the status quo.
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1 hour ago, marceline said:
Bernie hates Democrats. He hates us more than Republicans. Now we're finding out that the murderer in Portland was a Bernie supporter who then flipped to Trump. We're going to see more and more of that. Google "horseshoe theory." The difference between the alt right and the alt left is negligible. In both cases it's feed by toxic masculinity and white supremacy.
Geez Marceline. This is so incredibly insulting.
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Very cool. One victory at a time.
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6 hours ago, DramatistDreamer said:
Either someone at FXNC grew a conscience or they realized they couldn't risk more derision from the public.
I want to see the retraction before I comment. Firing Hannity would be growing a conscience. Anything less is CYA.
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There should be some way to hold Hannity accountable.
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12 hours ago, marceline said:
"Former Ohio state Senator Nina Turner, who endorsed Sanders in 2016, was on hand to back Ellis, and said that California contest reflected the same divisions that roiled the party’s chairmanship battle at the national level.
She said Ellis garnered “the same energy that [Minnesota Rep.] Keith Ellison had until the establishment came in and choked the life out of people.’’ While Democratic leaders backed by big money interests “want to talk about Russia and Mr. Trump,’’ she said, they are ignoring “the movement of the people” on bedrock issues like health care."
I'm embarrassed that say that Nina Turner was my state senator. She had a fairly promising career before following Bernie into the void. The fact that these people can't see that getting rid of Trump is job one is an example of why they are so destructive.
They're right about the party elite. The current leadership just continues to compound past mistakes with their exclusiveness and $1000 soirées. If the Democrats weren't so blind, there would never have been an opening for a challenge. But it's business as usual.
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1 hour ago, Roman said:
Trump has been notified that articles of impeachment are being prepared against him before he left Friday.
????? Source
the Repugnants will not get him out of office until he's served two years. That way Pence can run two cycles.
says the lyingest orange liar who ever lied. America First my backside.
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59 minutes ago, DramatistDreamer said:
The issue of Net Neutrality is something that will affect all of us who comment on this board. If anyone wants to make their voices heard regarding the ominous changes that threaten to take place under Pai's regime, here is a link.
Welcome to the FCC’s Electronic Comment Filing System
Anyone who's not familiar with the proposed changes, it's really worth learning more about them because these changes potentially affect everyone who uses the Internet.
Absolutely. People's eyes glaze over when you mention net neutrality but few people understand what it really means and how losing it will affect their lives. Unless you're absolutely thrilled with your cable provider/ISP, please be informed. At the risk of sounding preachy or condescending, at its core, the issue is about whether or not ISPs are a utility. When you put it in that context, it becomes glaringly evident why it's such an important issue, and how far reaching the implications. Imagine if your electric company could charge you a basic rate for running your HVAC and refrigerator, but charged a premium for microwaves and cooking ranges or other electric devices. Another analogy I heard was imagine there's a toll road that charges different rates depending on the make of your vehicle -- lower rates for Mercedes or Lexus than for Ford and Chevy.
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7 hours ago, JaneAusten said:
Do men like Biden and Sanders really believe the way to the presidency is continuing to attack Hillary Clinton or prop themselves up as saviors?. Seriously. For people who want to move on, these white men can't stop talking about it. You know I was actually proud Obama stepped forward in 2014 and acknowledged women have a tougher time than men, over black men. Why do people like Biden want to take us back. I can respect his service and much of the heartache due to the tragedies in his life, I also remember he WROTE the disastrous Clinton Crime Bill. I also am old enough to remember how he along with the parade of white men in the senate, lambasted Anita Hill. Hearings that aired on TV and led to 6 women getting voted into the senate in 1992.
Lawd! I'm eternally grateful my first response to this post didn't post. This will be me, in my totally diplomatically challenged fashion explaining that Bernie didn't beat Hillary. And Biden can say whatever tf he wants. Who loses to Donald Freaking Trump? Russians/Comey or not? She was crippled by a decades long, entirely unfair persecution. But that was reality. It was a factor that the democratic establishment ignored and then engineered the party nomination for the one person almost half the country would refuse to vote for under any circumstances. Most of the country's voters bemoaned being forced to choose between the two candidates. It's time to get over it. We have more immediate concerns.
Yeah. That was the full measure of my diplomacy. I know it sucks. I accept my limitations. Fire away.
2 hours ago, Khan said:Let's put it this way: the WH maid doesn't do windows, but she DOES do gossip.
According to Jon Favreau and Jon Lovett, there was a huge yelling match about the highly classified info 45 shared with Russians. It happened within earshot of White House press. So not only did 45 "leak" info to the Russians, but then proceeded to scream much of the same classified info where the press would hear.
I just offer a prayer for the poor Israeli who is currently undercover with ISIS who's been identified as A source for threats against the US.
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On 5/18/2017 at 3:02 PM, Fevuh said:
He is just so gross. He'd probably think he could land his helecopter on the Parthenon if it had a roof.
I'm surprised he doesn't want to land the chopper on the Vatican.
Btw. I took an unofficial wholly unscientific poll. When asked how would you prefer to die? A) after a prolonged battle with cancer that bankrupted your family and could've been prevented were you provided with access to affordable healthcare or
beheading.
Beheading was the overwhelming champion.
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3 hours ago, marceline said:
Back during the Jowars I could never have imagined the day I would like something you wrote as much as I love this post. This just makes me want to meet you at Rodi's for an O'Douls or maybe we could share a flan in Angel Square.
Lol. I've loved you for years. Your Bernie hate made me temporarily reconsider, but I remembered that such differences are temporary. You're good people.
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4 hours ago, JaneAusten said:
I appreciate you sharing this. I am going to have to put him on my podcast list. That second half on voter ID laws, voter suppression, and such was excellent and really good contributors. I've already subscribed to the Brennan center newsletter after listening. There are some very sobering facts but also some reason for optimism if people keep working and paying attention to these things and actually show up to vote. There is a great organization out there also called Voter Riders which is a national group organized to help people get the documentation they need to register and to vote.
One of the best things I learned from the podcast was even assbackward West Virginia has auto voter registration as do 38 states/and a commonwealth or two. Such a simple and reasonable solution for so much.
Im thinking of just going to churches and nursing homes and personally volunteering to drive registered voters to early voting sites. I always try to vote early in West Virginia. But I have to drive to my county seat, which is cross county. Even worse. To renew my driver's license I have to drive 45 miles. Life in rural America. I can only imagine how daunting that must be for some people. It's just inconvenient for me. It's a Herculean task for some.
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1 hour ago, Roman said:
don't forget Sally too.
My dream scenario involves Comey and Yates testifying side by side and fist bumping with a flourish after every response to a question.
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Deray McKesson podsave the people. Discussion regarding voter suppression. Very informative and really great guests.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/pod-save-the-people/id1230148653?mt=2&i=1000385501882
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I'm very afraid we will get Trey Gowdy as our new Director of the FBI.
There are some Republicans who are supporting and independent investigation into the Russian hack.
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I don’t know – it’s hard for me to see any U.S. ties to Russia…except for the Flynn thing and the Manafort thing
and the Tillerson thing
and the Sessions thing
and the Kushner thing
and the Carter Page thing
and the Roger Stone thing
and the Felix Sater thing
and the Boris Ephsteyn thing
and the Rosneft thing
and the Gazprom thing
and the Sergey Gorkov banker thing
and the Azerbajain thing
and the “I love Putin” thing
and the Donald Trump, Jr. thing
and the Sergey Kislyak thing
and the Russian Affiliated Interests thing
and the Russian Business Interests thing
and the Emoluments Clause thing
and the Alex Schnaider thing
and the hack of the DNC thing
and the Guccifer 2.0 thing
and the Mike Pence “I don’t know anything” thing
and the Russians mysteriously dying thing
and Trump’s public request to Russia to hack Hillary’s email thing
and the Trump house sale for $100 million at the bottom of the housing bust to the Russian fertilizer king thing
and the Russian fertilizer king’s plane showing up in Concord, NC during Trump rally campaign thing
and the Nunes sudden flight to the White House in the night thing
and the Nunes personal investments in the Russian winery thing
and the Cyprus bank thing
and Trump not releasing his tax returns thing
and the Republican Party’s rejection of an amendment to require Trump to show his taxes thing
and the election hacking thing
and the GOP platform change to the Ukraine thing
and the Steele Dossier thing
and the Leninist Bannon thing
and the Sally Yates can’t testify thing
and the intelligence community’s investigative reports thing
and the Trump reassurance that the Russian connection is all “fake news” thing
and the Spicer’s Russian Dressing “nothing’s wrong” thing
and the Chaffetz not willing to start an investigation thing
and the Chaffetz suddenly deciding to go back to private life in the middle of an investigation thing
and the The Lead DOJ Investigator Mary McCord SUDDENLY in the middle of the investigation decides to resign thing
and the appointment of Pam Bondi who was bribed by trump in the trump university scandal appointed to head the investigation thing
and the The White House going into full-on cover-up mode, refusing to turn over the documents related to the hiring and subsequent firing of Flynn thing
and the Chaffetz and White House blaming the poor vetting of Flynn on Obama thing
and the Poland and British intelligence gave information regarding the hacking back in 2015 to Paul Ryan and he didn't do anything thing
and the Agent M16 following the money thing
And now the trump team KNEW about Flynn's involvement but hired him anyway thing
and The Corey Lewendowski thing
and the Preet Bharara firing thing but before he left he transferred evidence against trump to a state level Schneiderman thing
And the Betsy Devos' Brother thing
And the Sebastian Gorka thing
And the Greg Gianforte from Montana thing
And the pence actually was warned about Flynn before he was hired thing
and the Pence and Manafort connection thing
And the 7 Allies coming forward with audio where trump was picked up in incidental wire tapping thing
and the carter Page defying the Senate's order to hand over his Russian contact list
and the trump wants to VETO Sally Yates' testimony thing
and the trump trying to discredit Yates thing
and NOW the Obama told trump personally about Flynn thing and NOW THE COMEY THING!SO yeah there’s probably nothing there!
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6 hours ago, marceline said:
There's no such thing as a moderate Republican anymore. They got drummed out of the party years ago.
Raises hand.
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On 5/5/2017 at 6:16 PM, Wales2004 said:
I hope you won't feel as if this is putting you on the spot but I've come to realize that people don't always mean the same thing when using the same phrases/terms, and I am really curious what "white privilege" means to people. I know that some people take it literally and refute having any sort of advantage at all.
One of our family friends was born and raised in Compton, CA and she happens to be white. She is annoyed by people claiming she had any sort of advantages growing up since her family was poor and struggled. She's probably in her late fifties-early sixties and still doesn't see herself as having any sort of a racial advantage. It wouldn't be her fault if someone favored her over another person because of some sort of racial bias. That's not something over which she has control. What she can control are her own biases and whether or not she is complicit in the unfair treatment of other people.
I was certainly not poor. Although wealth status is a subjective thing.
I take a very very broad definition of white privilege. Most people don't have much awareness of systemic segregation and the lasting harmful effects. Not just the personal prejudices of individuals. But Government policies. Richard Rothstein just wrote a book about the housing policies following the depression openly discriminated against African Americans, and how that impacted their long term wealth. I know that the war on drugs was another means whereby white men in power kept their heels on the throats of black people. I know mass incarceration and police brutality and the entire justice system has been part of a long standing conspiracy to deny black people equality.
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https://www.google.com/amp/www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/08/how-trump-could-get-fired/amp
Haven't read this but listened to an interview with the author on NPR. My take is if we want a real investigation into Mike Flynn and Paul Manefort's Russia connections, or anything else, we have to take back the House. Need 23 seats. Historically, in an election following a term where one party controls all branches of government, the incumbent party has lost 30+ seats in the House. So it can be done.
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57 minutes ago, JaneAusten said:
Eisenhower and Nixon would both be considered Democrats today.
Aint that the truth?!
I've reluctantly admitted that I voted Republican most of my life. I'm ashamed of that in part because the destruction of the party and its transition to some Christian variation of the Taliban began with Reagan and the Moral Majority and although I voted for Ford in my first presidential election, I voted for Reagan twice, and H. W. Bush twice. It really wasn't until W ran for President that I finally couldn't do it anymore. That tipped the balance. In hindsight I do realize white privilege played a huge role in my resistance to accepting how much the party had changed. Oddly, when I first became politically aware, most people in my circle were Democrats, but they were that "good ol'" southern democrat variety.
Anyway, back to your original point, my positions have definitely shifted significantly since I turned 18. But not nearly as dramatically as the GOP. If Newt Gingrich and the Tea Party and now The Freedom Caucus had not shifted the party so vehemently to the right I might still be a "moderate" Republican. There is no moderation in the GOP anymore. They're soulless bastards lacking any shred of human decency and apparently incapable of informed decision making.
The healthcare industry is 1/6 of the U.S. Economy. These wastes of human flesh just passed bill that the CBO had not reviewed, and that most members of the House admit they did not read! And on closer inspection is so much worse than most people could imagine.
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Interesting take on how much people who earn more than $75,000 a year cost taxpayers (in subsidized healthcare, mortgaged subsidies, etc.)
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well apparently they're bringing a vote on the new healthcare act tomorrow.
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beheading.
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