You will have an oped comparing you to a nazi by weeks end.
NY Post not WaPo (took me a second too)
he's saying the times is worse than a trash tabloid.
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US PoliEra 2019 |OT7| It's happening
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he's saying the times is worse than a trash tabloid.
Warren is doing the best in the 'also considering' polling.
Warren is doing the best in the 'also considering' polling.
That's a crazy amount of supporters thinking of supporting either Biden or Warren mainly.
A random debate thought (well, not random since it's what all the podcasts I follow were talking about this week).
I thought that the ABC debate was overall the more tightly ran of the three we've had so far...but my God all three debates have been carbon copies of each other in terms of what gets brought up. Thinking about everything that didn't get talked about was depressing. We didn't talk about women's rights being under attack, we didn't talk about voter suppression, we didn't talk about SCOTUS, we talked about trade but barely mentioned the looming recession. I mean, the list.
If the October debate starts with a 45+ minute rambling, incoherent, and frankly unhelpful shouting match on incomplete healthcare plans, I'm probably going to change the channel.
I thought that the ABC debate was overall the more tightly ran of the three we've had so far...but my God all three debates have been carbon copies of each other in terms of what gets brought up. Thinking about everything that didn't get talked about was depressing. We didn't talk about women's rights being under attack, we didn't talk about voter suppression, we didn't talk about SCOTUS, we talked about trade but barely mentioned the looming recession. I mean, the list.
If the October debate starts with a 45+ minute rambling, incoherent, and frankly unhelpful shouting match on incomplete healthcare plans, I'm probably going to change the channel.
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The purpose of his presidency is to effectively be a third term of Obama. I don't think he has ever been subtle about this; he's been quite explicit that he is running to bring America back to what Obama left it as and then move from there. And I actually don't think Biden has said he is the only one who can win, just that he's best candidate to win, which of course every other person running for president would say too...
The furor over Kavanaugh was so incredibly partisan it's probably really easy for anyone to do the mental gymnastics of "anyone who hates him does so because they're a Democrat" or some shit like that.
tbh I would be perfectly fine if we never had another healthcare debate again.
The terrible corporate media didn't blast the Boston Herald poll everywhere that showed Birdie in first place in NH!!!
Need to leave it to the non-corporate progressive National Review! Bastion of liberal journalism.
Need to leave it to the non-corporate progressive National Review! Bastion of liberal journalism.
Economically illiterate? What do you expect the price mechanism to achieve in a crowded city - spur people to build more housing to meet demand? That only works if your city is allowing for new construction. Otherwise it's just a, well... rent, that landlords can extract. There's no economic activity there, there's no incentive to build or grow or innovate, there's just a fixed economic pie and arguments over who should get the biggest slice. I'm fine with that being tenants, even if getting rid of NIMBYs is my number one solution.
The thing the ironclad Dem issues that everyone from Pelosi to the Squad are fully behind is that the candidates barely differ on them. And no fireworks means people changing the channel. That's why a climate debate wouldn't have worked as well as people thought it would've. Healthcare is the only place these networks think there's any fireworks to be had.
The fact we haven't discussed SCOTUS court packing, Biden's spotty history on women's rights, and how the candidates plan on helping the black community beyond the reparations bill and the BAN PRIVATE PRISONS buzz phrase is a shame though.
So, two issues:
1) Who saw the NYT deleting their "correction" tweet? Because I just tried to show this whole thing to my wife, and it makes less sense now they've deleted not one but two tweets relating to this.
2) Just like with Biden's answers on race, at some point people have to accept that the NYT aren't making "mistakes" they're showing a pattern of how shitty they are. And it's not even like the excuse of "Opinion and investigative reporting are two separate parts of the same paper" can be applied here because from what I can tell, this should've been in the NYT proper, and the decision was made to place it as opinion?
HA! Is anybody else cackling at the DISSERTATION Mrs. King put on her twitter.
I mean, a 4th debate circling the drain on meandering and vague healthcare talk...
Yeah, this is clear. But I think the Dem debates, as a whole, will ultimately be a disservice to the business of informing the American public if they keep focusing on the same 2-3 top polling issues, and not talking about other issues that are pretty important even if they don't poll as high.
I mean, a 4th debate circling the drain on meandering and vague healthcare talk...
Clicked on a Lebron tweet and looked through the replies.. Yang gang everywhere...
Is this gonna be a problem 2020?
Is this gonna be a problem 2020?
Im still waiting on people to dig into his millions in paid-off debts but these seemingly endless examples of Kav-To-The-Naw-Naw being a violent choad keep popping up.
Join me, in a world where tastemakers ain't bone-headed goobers with less worldly smarts than your average 10th grader.
Seems like it.
Join me, in a world where tastemakers ain't bone-headed goobers with less worldly smarts than your average 10th grader.
Seems like it.
I hope so!
God the amount of people who go out there and do write ins or vote 3rd party...
I know we gotta vote with our hearts. But what a waste
God the amount of people who go out there and do write ins or vote 3rd party...
I know we gotta vote with our hearts. But what a waste
Depends on who they endorse
Tulsi has been on the Biden bandwagon this cycle
weird how The Only Anti-War Candidate has been cheerleading someone who happily voted for Iraq this much
I'm still confused by that Biden and Castro exchange on health care..
God Tulsi endorsing Biden would make the dirtbag left"s brains explode
Did you forget it is that why you're confused? Did you forget? Spx54 forgot.
yeah Castro was a bit of a dick. still didn't deserve the media pile on. Gotta respect the hustle, he knows this isn't a game.
a bunch of fact checkers said Castro was in the wrong, but I've rewatched it a few times and it seems like he was right, but idk.....very confusing exchange over what amounts to a technicality
When your wife is dragging you as a negligent husband and self-deluded organizer, just to DEFEND you?
Then clearly those accusations that you exploited a ton of people are true, and your wife is a bad defender.
The moderators work for tv channels that want ratings and as long as they think healthcare is where the spicy back and forths are going to be found, they're going to keep trying to create drama on healthcare.
We've had three debates that were largely focused on healthcare and I still don't really know exactly why full M4A is supposed to be better than a public option. Particularly, why is it better enough to worth the electability risk. Why is it important for people to not have the option etc? I would like to this answered a lot more from Warren in the future, if this is going to be her position in the GE.
I'm not really strongly for or against either plan on merit, but I do want to hear why doing/running on M4A is so important since it's clearly the less popular plan. For example: Why is better than Pete's plan which, theoretically, gets us to the same place over time, building off of the public option?
I'm not really strongly for or against either plan on merit, but I do want to hear why doing/running on M4A is so important since it's clearly the less popular plan. For example: Why is better than Pete's plan which, theoretically, gets us to the same place over time, building off of the public option?
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Medicare for All is just a brand that people put whatever meaning they want onto lbr.
In terms of what Sanders is proposing in his Bill, it would dramatically expand Medicare from its current coverage to things it doesn't cover, eliminate copays and deductibles, and institute an income based premium. Hospitals would still be reimbursed but instead by Medicare, I don't know if this would be at current or higher rates. As part of this he would bar private insurance for equivalent services.
The House bill goes further and rather than per item reimbursement, it would use global budgets.
It's plausible to expand Medicare coverage and still allow private competition for elective medical procedures. But that would be different to a public option as well. That is basically Harris' plan.
This is a bit of a primer on a public option.
The debates are really a terrible format to cover the complexity.
Yes, he is economically illiterate. Want more housing available at cheaper prices? You. Build. More. Fucking. Housing.
Rent control DECREASES THE AMOUNT OF AVAILABLE HOUSING. This is not some right-wing conspiratorial view, it is literally the outcome of the policy that both the economic theory predicts and that literally study after study finds happening in the real world!
What Rent Control does is subsidize existing residents at the expense of literally everyone else, which includes anyone who ever wants to move there in the future. It is not a solution to anything, it's a self-inflicted septic wound. There are all sorts of renter protections that you can implement that aren't that.
Don't fucking do Rent Control. That's already a better idea. It's not on me to make Bernie's policy for him when he's outsourcing it to lefties who think there's some imaginary surplus of housing the evil landlords and foreigners are keeping out of the hands of the proletariat.
Don't believe me?
Here's a survey of economists on the topic: http://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/rent-control
Here's the notably right-wing Brookings on the topic: https://www.brookings.edu/research/...ce-tell-us-about-the-effects-of-rent-control/
You should both read the Brookings piece. It goes into great detail in how the negative side effects end up massively destructive relative to the subsidized minority in the rent controlled housing.
Here's the conclusion:
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She's been good at being evasive on this, lol.
She's just straight up running the best campaign and no on else is close.
Oh yeah, the taxes! The finger thing means the taxes!
Pretty good article. Journalists are beyond complicit in the status quo. Surprising if you see who rules vast media empires, eh.
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It would violate the First Amendment for the Justice Department to try to stop newspapers from publishing articles on any topic.
It would violate the First Amendment for the Justice Department to try to stop newspapers from publishing articles on any topic.
Brett Kavanaugh should start suing people for liable, or the Justice Department should come to his rescue. The lies being told about him are unbelievable. False Accusations without recrimination. When does it stop? They are trying to influence his opinions. Can't let that happen!
9:09 AM - Sep 15, 2019southpaw@nycsouthpaw
The problem w quote-tweeting this deeply authoritarian assault on press freedom is that it contains an embarrassing typo—"liable" rather than "libel." That means when Dan Scavino wakes up and sufficiently clears his head, he's going to delete it and repost a cleaned up version.
9:23 AM - Sep 15, 2019
The problem w quote-tweeting this deeply authoritarian assault on press freedom is that it contains an embarrassing typo—"liable" rather than "libel." That means when Dan Scavino wakes up and sufficiently clears his head, he's going to delete it and repost a cleaned up version.
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No idea but he's right about the GOP. They're going to make Beto the AOC-SOCIALISM of gun-grabbing. Everyone who stood on stage with him is coming for granny's blunderbuss.
Cold dead hands election. Even if every single dem disavows his statements - that will be the narrative. Black helicopters coming to take away .22s and Swiss ARMY knives.
I'm glad he said something and that we're finally having the right conversation but it will be a net drag. I'll bet my account on it.
Yeah, maybe, but the main people who seem terrified about it are NeverTrumpers. At this point, mandatory buybacks are beating M4All ("no private option" made explicit) and Decriminalizing Illegal Border crossing in polling across all parties. And impeachment. It's climbed ten points in a month. Gun control has even been polled as the dem top issue, beating healthcare and climate. I think the issue should be pushed.
You say this like they don't go "SOCIALIST COASTAL ELITE GUN GRABBING SOCIALIST" about every Dem candidate of every race.
There's no difference. If there wasn't a clip they'd edit together one out of nothing.
How. The. Fuck. Is this still the state of public opinion in the US?
So weird.
??? Half your country is pretty much irredeemably abhorrent.
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