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bonnieblue

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  1. Agreed on both counts - I just thought it was funny. Also, even though Pete annoys me, I would run through a brick wall for him if he's the nominee.
  2. Men who refer to women as "females" are usually (not always) pretty terrible on any issue that involves women.
  3. My mom's side of the family are all Klobuchar --> Warren --> Bloomberg people that hate Biden. People are weird.
  4. I'm completely in favor of the two pronged approach of: (i) one-time student debt forgiveness, and (ii) taking measures to drastically decrease public tuition prices/make them free for all. I say this as someone who (i) had a middle-class mom who did everything "responsible" or "right" (saved a full Texas Tomorrow Fund for undergrad, I ended up getting a large private scholarship to cover the delta for the remainder of my undergrad costs), and (ii) already aggressively paid off my $90K law school loans in 4 years (thereby missing out on all of the tremendous market gains during those years). It may not be "fair" that we did everything right and I won't get a check for anything, but I would still get the benefit of: (i) a stimulated economy, (ii) a more-educated populace, (iii) a more happy, less-stressed populace (both the parents saving and the kids themselves), (iv) more intelligent people going into fields that serve the public good or bring new creative solutions to problems (smart middle/lower middle-class kids won't have to go work for McKinsey or Goldman just to start back at zero), and (v) countless other intangible benefits.
  5. The irresponsibility lies with the various factions that allowed for education costs to exponentially balloon far beyond the measure that most middle-class parents could reasonably be prepared to shell out, especially given the huge increases in the price of housing and stagnant wages over the past few decades. Why does "being responsible" always fall on average people and never the government, corporations, the very wealthy, etc.
  6. SMU is the 2nd best TX law school for the Dallas market and (from what I hear) UH is the 2nd best TX law school for the Houston market. Baylor may be slightly higher ranked than both now, but unless the recruiting committee is filled with Baylor grads, I don't know anyone who would rate it over say SMU/UH in the Dallas/Houston markets. In the Austin market, I don't think we even recruit from SMU/UH/Baylor anymore, so just get into UT.
  7. If someone needed to vindicate that NYT endorsement, this thread should serve as Exhibit A. Sheesh, men are apparently way too fucking emotional. Pull up your big boy briefs, vote for your candidate, and support the eventual nominee.
  8. Warren and Bern are looking really sharp tonight. Love Warren making her responses more direct than in prior debates and Bernie is doing really well with his humor and pivoting from disingenuous questions.
  9. They went too heavy on the eyebrow pencil as well. They are waaay darker than normal.
  10. I think he would finally gain ground with black voters if he cut out the "debate competition" voice. I have nothing to back that up, but will someone please send that to his campaign manager. It's killing me
  11. I loathe these overly-dramatized personal anecdotes.
  12. Regardless of the merits of executive v legislative etc., most of the Senators still had full careers doing something for quite a while prior to becoming Senators and were often at the top of their fields (Kamala - AG; Warren - bankruptcy expert etc.) in those prior careers. Pete's experience consists of: small-town mayor for a few years and the equivalent of a like a 3rd year associate at a BigLaw firm.
  13. Agreed. I don't blame him in the slightest for his timeline as that shit is hard, but I also understand that the experience wouldn't necessarily resonate with others in the community.
  14. But he is cisgendered? I think the perception may be that he went directly from the closet to the national spotlight, where he is now a darling to the dem circles of the wealthy/powerful. Although he almost certainly dealt with a lot internally, he likely wasn't subject to the same level of outward discrimination or consequences that perhaps your average LGBT person would endure throughout their lifetime. Coupled with all of his discussions on religion, it's not super surprising that the LGBT community wouldn't necessarily rally around him as their champion, although I think some certainly do.
  15. Why is it always the case where people who are radically anti-tax (excepting the wealthy), never seem to understand taxes?
  16. [youtube] Not the best, but I always loved this bananas movie
  17. This (to both). He doesn't need to be the most progressive to ever progressive or anything, but there is nothing particularly novel about his views or approaches. Hell, Yang (and I can't stand him) appears to bring more to the table than he does. Pete is an inexperienced, but smart guy with pretty rhetoric and standard dem party views, nothing more.
  18. He's the Ted Cruz of Joe Bidens
  19. I love my peloton, but the wife's eyes kind of give her a "Get Out" vibe, which is a puzzling choice for an exercise bike commercial.
  20. When you means test something, the easier it is to demonize and eliminate. Also, plenty of "rich" parents don't pay their children's way through college or use the threat of withholding tuition as tool to get them to fall in line with the hopes, dreams etc. of the parents. We're supposed to be the gold-standard of the world and want a highly-educated populace. Public tuition should be free or extremely reduced for all students regardless of parental income.
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