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Posts posted by washparkhorn
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15 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:
Literally none of these things are true.
Cites for your conclusions? Thanks!
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2 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:
You’re still living in the December 2016 reality.
Ya willing to loan out your time machine?I could say the same of you. We do need to let it go, no? We have an election we can win - together. Correct?
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By percentage, Yang takes in more from small donors, but by the numbers, Bernie leads by a wide margin over Yang with Warren second in the Democratic Party. And if you add in transfers (from small donors as well (the yellow above), that number grows immensely.
https://www.opensecrets.org/2020-presidential-race/small-donors?curr=C&show=T
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40 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:
Does that surprise you? Plenty of Dems and disavowed 'pubs here on surly argued against impeachment, with the prevailing theory that there is no need to take a sure loss. It's a point. The counterpoint is "because it's the right thing to do".
You also left out the part where 10.2% of Republicans favor impeachment. That's not insignificant, either.
I think your analysis is 100% correct.
Is it brave or wise to vote for a process that will likely inflame the passions of Trump voters and, therefore, more likely lead to his reelection?
She hates Trump with a passion. She is anti-war. She is very socially liberal.
It is a sure loss in the Senate - if Nancy even sends it to the Senate. I am glad it is over and we can move on to the election - the best shot at replacing Trump we have.
But impeachment was important to Hilary wing of the Party, so that is done with only 2 voting against (1 of those becoming a Republican) and 1 abstaining because she favors impeachment through a more rigorous process. I hope it was cathartic for those who truly wanted and needed that symbolic act.
Time to stop infighting. Time to pick a candidate who can beat Trump.
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About 17% of Democrats do not favor impeachment.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/impeachment-polls/
That is not insignificant and there is a myriad of reasons for disfavoring it. I would suspect a love of Trump is less than 1/10 of 1%.
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1 minute ago, BrickHorn said:
Yeah, she basically said “Our house cannot be both a Criminal Autocracy and a Representative Democracy. So I just stood there with a dumb look on my face and sided with the former.”
I don't think that was her intention, but that is the takeaway.
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Just now, kevwun said:
I don't see how she avoids getting primaried.
She is not running again.
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7 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:
yeah, she is a coward
I don't think cowardice is correct. Cowardice would require her to go with the flow in spite of her principles. She is opening herself up to the hate machine (not here, of course, where it is merely reaction and analysis). Cowards back down from hate. She is attempting to bend the curve for a post-impeachment reality. It is not going to work in the present political environment.
Perhaps - betrayal is a better descriptor.
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2 hours ago, Fozzz said:
lol at Mayor Pete and Liz! supporters.
Surprised at this, a little.
The 12% of Buttigieg voters is in line with his Republican-lite/Never-Trumper messaging.
Biden's 9% is consistent with those who just want to go back to the good old days of Bush/Obama. Warren's number may bode well for her in a general election.
And Bernie with only 4% who would vote for Trump over a Biden or Warren - I think that speaks to the affinity they have towards Warren in general as an alternative to Bernie. And perhaps some overconfidence that Bernie would be able to secure the nomination despite the Establishment Democrats saying no way.
Interesting poll. Thanks.
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Rep. Gabbard on her vote:
"A house divided cannot stand. Sadly, our nation is terribly divided. My vote today is a vote for much needed reconciliation and hope that together we can heal our country to usher in a bright future for the American people, our country, and our nation."
The first line, of course, comes from Lincoln's House Divided Speech (and is a Bible verse, Mark 3:25). Here is the Lincoln text:
"A house divided against itself, cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South."
I don't think she understands the strength of the emotions attached to the impeachment vote and how attached the white suburban Democratic voter is to the idea of a symbolic vote in favor of impeachment. She is charging headfirst into the teeth of the zeitgeist. There are times where asking people to call on their better angels to pursue other goals (such as reconciliation and progress on social issues) will not get a hearing.
Politically, it was safer for her to vote in favor on impeachment. The subset of people in favor of reconciliation to pursue progressive goals is small and likely drowned out by those seeking vengeance, however impotent it is.
And now we will have Trump voters seeking vengeance in return for the impeachment vote. Escalation.
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She voted against the NDAA (the Defense Bill) as well. It appears she has had enough the Democratic Party and how it has treated her over the past year.
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10 minutes ago, triplehorn said:
you're a fake. prove me wrong.
Interesting coming from you - who told us about the frogmarch that would soon be coming out of the Bush II Oval Office.
Now Bush is Michelle O's favorite and he hob-nobs with Ellen Degeneres. Another one of your breathless hot takes I suppose.
You are not worth the effort.
And I wonder if you actually work for the Dirty Tricks department of the Republican Party - since you rally Republican support for odious Presidents so well.
Check yourself.
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We are sleepwalking into a Biden disaster in the 2020 election.
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/russiagate-is-wmd-times-a-million
There was never real gray area here. Either Trump is a compromised foreign agent, or he isn’t. If he isn’t, news outlets once again swallowed a massive disinformation campaign, only this error is many orders of magnitude more stupid than any in the recent past, WMD included. Honest reporters like ABC’s Terry Moran understand: Mueller coming back empty-handed on collusion means a “reckoning for the media.”
Of course, there won’t be such a reckoning. (There never is). But there should be. We broke every written and unwritten rule in pursuit of this story, starting with the prohibition on reporting things we can’t confirm.
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On 12/13/2019 at 6:08 AM, bernorange said:
So yesterday the Fed announced that they will be injecting ~$500B (yes, half a trillion US dollars) into the repo market over the next 30 days. I expected them to take some drastic action if necessary, but I expected them to be reactive and not proactive. They must know just how "healthy" the banking sector really is.
Bailouts for the wealthy; Austerity for the rest.
Sincerely, why lend to a risky bank when the Fed will just let the banks sit their cash for 1.55%. The Fed created this damn issue and now the banks are hooked on the heroin - err, free money. What a racket.
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The States were designed to be laboratory experiments in democracy.
California is doing its thing. Colorado is doing its thing. Texas is doing its thing. . . .Some are doing it better than others, especially in the (. . .) states.
California saw a problem. Not only with lack of healthcare, but the general unique nature of the gig jobs. These employers can be a drain on the economy and rely on public subsidies for their bare-market employment opportunities. They are protecting their labor from exploitation, requiring employers to cover the externalities of their business operations, and saving Californians tax dollars. The flip side is whether that will cost jobs.
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5 hours ago, workswithseed said:
Are you that retarded kid?
We used to say ignore the troll. But, I suppose we need to understand more. Because there lies the possibility that Hayduke will contribute, whatever his perspective. Information is strength. So with all humility, let me try to reword your pointed but direct question in response to Hayduke's contribution thus far.
GW Hayduke - Are you having difficulty understanding the flow of this discussion?
If yes, go back to the release of the Inspector General Report that found 17 significant errors when the FBI prepared its FISA warrant application for a U.S. Citizen with full Fourth Amendment rights.
This is a secret process to surveil American Citizens amended after the 9/11 attacks under the Patriot Act.
We have been assured by Congress this process would use foolproof safeguards to protect U.S. Citizens from Fourth Amendment violations.
The FBI/DOJ in this one known instance used methods that violated those standards. This is the first FISA Warrant Application to be publicly reviewed, so it is signifiant to Fourth Amendment jurisprudence.
More importantly, in this one case, the application for the FISA warrant with the errors was filed with a Federal Court with exclusive jurisdiction to issue these warrants.
That Court has ordered the FBI/DOJ to explain how this happened and to fashion remedies to correct this error, including new procedures to ensure the accuracy of such warrant applications in the future.
The Inspector General will now review FISA Warrant Applications submitted in other cases.
Bigger picture - This matter falls within the scope of a broader now-criminal investigation by U.S. Attorney for Connecticut John Durham.
Durham is tasked with investigating US Government and foreign governments investigating and gathering intelligence in 2016 directed at associates of the Trump Presidential Campaign. See, June 10, 2109 DOJ letter to Rep. Nadler re scope of investigation at http://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2019/images/06/10/2019-6-10.doj.review.of.intelligence.activities.-.nadler.pdf.
Great Britain, Australia (both Five Eyes nations) and Turkey are the most likely foreign governments.
As part of the warrant application for surveilling Carter Page (a known FBI/CIA informant on Russia at the time), the Federal Court was given information from the Steele Dossier, a document produced by C. Steele.
Mr. Steele is cooperating with the Durham investigation.
I hope that helps, sincerely, and would love your perspective. Every perspective is a data point and I doubt you have an "outlier perspective." There is a broad swath of Americans with very little information on the subject. That lack of information falls under a broader failure by media providers both in the run-up to the 2016 Election and beyond.
btw, I don't think you are that kid.
Cheers.
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It would be refreshing if he just came out and said,
"Hey guys, I was just kidding when I said I care about you. I don't. Ya see, Billionaires support me. My old job put me up as an empty suit so I could make sure those billionaires become godzillionaires! Isn't that great? Yarrrgh! I have no fucking clue what I am doing. I am a meat puppet. Thanks, Thanks - I love the BUUUU, BUUUUS - my last name is difficult to say, so "BUUUU" is GREAT! Yarrrgh! See ya!"
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2 minutes ago, freyguy said:
Hey, it's Finland. What do they really do anyway?
Well - hopefully the new PM doesn't invade Estonia.
QuoteEstonia's nationalist interior minister has narrowly survived a confidence vote triggered by uproar in the Baltic country after he mocked the new prime minister of Finland and her Social Democratic party.
On Tuesday, members of the 101-seat Riigikogu, Estonia's parliament, voted 44-42 to remove Mart Helme from his post.
However, the motion failed to receive the absolute majority of 51 required for passage.
In an interview with an Estonian radio talk show on Sunday, Mr Helme, 70, took a swipe at Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin, 34, saying 'a cashier' was now leading Estonia's close neighbour. This was an apparent reference to Ms Marin's past, when she worked at a department store.
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1994 - Sonic Youth - Bull in the Heather (with the fantastic Kathleen Hanna of Bikini Kill performing in the video)
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21 hours ago, immortal13 said:
Glitter dust is the fucking worst
Avatar checks out.
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Damn - taking the Limp Bizkit game to an even more bizarre place than it was already.
Fred Durst lives on in demented minds.
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11 hours ago, TexasHooch said:
Good version, but Is it a cover if you wrote it?
You are right. From what I understand - Bruce wrote the music but couldn't come up with the lyrics. Patti got a demo tape of Bruce and penned the lyrics. Great song. And for Patti - the punk rock poet laureate - her only hit - not that it matters.
And I love Natalie Merchant's voice . . .
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14 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:
Not all progressives subscribe to MMT but it is tolerated in the progressive movement.
100% accurate Hugo. Bernie and ACO are leading that charge - with Ph.D's in tow.
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Progressives fighting Progressives is not helpful at this point. I like Liz - always have. Don't like what Obama and Dodd-Frank did to her with CFPB.
The Neoliberals are going after the Progressives. I hope they stand tall together.
A repeat of 2016 would be catastrophic to the Democratic Party. Establishment Democrats cannot beat Trump. And frankly, I think most Democrats prefer progress rather than a re-entrenchment of the Republican-lite policies of the past. It is time to move forward.
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Tulsi Gabbard
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Let me help you research, WC09:
https://www.tulsigabbard.org