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Old Freak Nasty

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  1. 3 minutes ago, Wanker Bob said:

    This is exactly the case. It's what this election is proving to be true. The battle may be won but the war is lost for good. America is also only getting dumber. Public education is getting worse by the year and proper higher education is getting further priced out from more citizens every year. 

    America's rapid decline from the 90s prosperity to now will only worsen and increase in rate as a full blown kleptocracy takes shape and further republican style propaganda fosters greater polarization and tribal politics to where policy no longer matters. Only propaganda and lies. Hell we are already there. 

    I think there is a lot of truth to this (especially the educational erosion which in turn limits personal mobility within the country), but the electoral college system exacerbates the perception of this divide.

    Give this moron 4 more years and he will work like hell to bring perception closer to reality.

  2. So if by dumb luck someone wants to hire Shaka from us because of this late run, would the hiring school be on the hook for any buyout?  I assume we would graciously waive such buyout, if it exists?  Alternative, could we pay a bonus (some number less than the remaining guarantee) to a school willing to take him?

  3. I think it's hard to see at the time that there was really no Warren/Sanders fight over voters.  Now that we see that Sanders has a cap to the percentage of support he has it's easy to say in hindsight.  The Bernie bloc is more a personality cult rather than voters who would deliberate over subtle policy nuances between the two of them.

    Warren obviously thought there was a significant section of those voters she could woo with her strategy since the campaign started.  And since she had a formidable organization I'm sure a lot of other intelligent people within thought it was the right plan.

    It turned out to be wrong.  I hope she's not too old to run in 2024 if disaster strikes and Trump is re-elected and makes to full term (death, impeachment, 25th amendment section 4).

  4. 6 minutes ago, GoldAppleCorps said:

    When this is all over in November, the Democratic Party needs to do an objective, full post-mortem on why Elizabeth Warren couldn't get more traction. She seemingly checked all the boxes. Name recognition, track record, debate performances, policies and platforms, and was arguably personable.

    I'm not saying she should have won. Votes are still subjective. However, I want to see if there was a better reason than "we really don't want a female to run for President". If that really is the underlying cause, I'm not looking for condemnation so much as I am recommendations to try and help correct that.

    My theory is pretty simple and sad.  I think Donald Trump and the Pocahontas moniker was a factor to a lot of voters when looked at in terms of elect-ability (the whole concept of which is actually total bullshit, but whatever) .  Her Medicare for All messaging was a fumble too but in post-mortem I think the orange shithead's branding of her had an affect.  I think she would have annihilated Trump in the election but Democrats are scared of Trump and it impacted our voting in the primaries.  It's resulted in Biden.

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