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Todd Gack

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  1. In a Sanders presidency, the majority (bipartisan) vote against MFA is an absolute certainty. The question is how big of a movement do those corrupted votes elicit in response. I ultimately think it won't matter as the pull of corporate greed is too strong amongst too many politicians. Marching in your streets and calling your state reps will only serve to make them become hermits. They'll still vote to preserve the massive healthcare machine as-is. But the key question IMO is how many old guard dems are challenged by the future AOCs and Ro Khana's of the world. And how much awareness do the marches in the streets raise among the general population so that they will actually vote out these corporate dems.
  2. Maher is hit and miss, but this is spot on.
  3. r/gifsthatendtoosoon
  4. lol one of the comments... "I'm not convinced that Eric's father isn't Gary Busey."
  5. Anand rules. http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/is-bernie-sanders-electable-78226501865
  6. I very much believe this will happen and I also think that plutocrats will funnel absurd amounts of money into trump's campaign to wage an amplified fake news war on social media. Having said that, Bernie wins easily if young people vote because most of them at least can recognize bullshit on FB when they see it.
  7. I know we're all thinking it, but nobody is going to say it. So I will. Klobuchar is too ugly to be President. There.
  8. Why is physics in quotes? Does physics not explain how CO2 in the atmosphere traps heat and causes temperatures to rise? Or is that fake physics? Is your assertion that this energy absorbed into your super fancy "complex system" somehow avoids following the rules of physics and *doesn't* cause temperatures to rise? How can it take you 5 minutes to cook your grits when it takes the entire grit-eating world 20 minutes? So lets say the CO2 never *initiates* global temperature rise. We'll agree that those rises in temp are caused by orbital forcing (I don't know if that's completely true). The fact remains that warmer oceans release more CO2 into the atmosphere (there's that pesky physics again). And that causes further warming. Who gives a shit what started it? If us humans are pumping in greenhouse gases that are amplifying the warming that was initiated by something other than CO2, maybe we should figure out how to stop pumping so much shit into the atmosphere. Why does it matter that lighter fluid doesn't actually strike the match and produce the flame? If the forest floor has lit matches scattered around, it's always a bad idea to go around throwing half-empty bottles of lighter fluid into said forest.
  9. He's distracting too. Looks like a fat Peter Griffin.
  10. Does Gym own a tie in a color other than yellow? He's like the Dwight Schrute of Congress.
  11. You sure, bruh??
  12. Seconded. Weathered Souls has awesome stouts on occasion. Also hear really good things about Islla Street, but I've yet to try it. Freetail is above average beer w/ above average pizza and a lot of TVs.
  13. Curious about this as well. We have saltillo, so I can't imagine the havoc of trying to get all the mortar/grout off the concrete without dustless equipment.
  14. I'm curious as to what calling the bluff would look like. More unions? I agree on salary changes - I've long thought that my field (engineering) has been artificially inflated over the last 10 years or so. Never thought I would sniff 100k without a senior PM level title, but there are several co-workers w/ my experience level in the ~110-125k range. So if Liz gets the nom, I'll have to sell my summer house in the Hamptons after all...
  15. If I had to guess, I'd say this is exactly what would happen. Like, the day after she becomes the nominee. Corporate board members would immediately assemble and put together packages to release a certain percentage of employees as contractors with the only alternative being they get laid off completely. But if she somehow gets her numbers right and indeed passes this thing, it has to be considered next-level type legislative brilliance.
  16. Is there a better example of Dunning-Kruger on this board? I can't think of one...
  17. yep. Trump may have dictated that entire statement, so it's probably closer to a 4th grade writing level. https://www.newsweek.com/trump-fire-and-fury-smart-genius-obama-774169
  18. Take FWIW, but even a fox poll has Bernie beating trump. Not that polls are really trustworthy (link shows Biden beating him handily and I think trump would look like the stronger candidate in a debate), but I think Bernie brings back the voters who voted Obama and switched to trump. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_sanders-6250.html
  19. So uhh... Sondland's fucked now right? How does he not end up serving time?
  20. Give him the benefit of the doubt and say the 3 linebackers will hit the line right before the snap. So 7 vs 11. It's so genius, the Kansas OC will never see it coming.
  21. https://elizabethwarren.com/plans/health-care Her website says she hasn't flipped. I hope she continues to extend her middle finger to the media outlets asking a question they know the answer to at the direction of their advertisers.
  22. Did she not co-sponsor Bernie's bill? What am I missing here?
  23. It's really the only explanation that makes sense. If Liz and Bernie know that projections show M4A will actually save people money (as in the amount in additional taxes will be less than the current premiums/deductibles for the VAST majority of Americans), what other reason could they have for not articulating this to everyone watching these debates. Might it be that some dickface on the trump campaign will clip the soundbite and broadcast through every media outlet that the socialist dems will in FACT raise your taxes to pay for the healthcare of all the dirty mexicans crossing illegally? Remember the doctored clip of Jim Acosta "assaulting" the press room microphone lady? Or shit, Hillary's deplorable comment if we want to see how it plays during a campaign?
  24. So I think I get why dem candidates avoid talking about the additional costs/taxes to pay for M4A, but have any of them addressed the type of expansion to the infrastructure that will be needed? Additional staff, social security offices, a more robust cyber security system to avoid fraud to the system, etc. Seems as if there's an opportunity to say that some jobs (albeit federal jobs only) will be created to offset the loss of jobs in the private insurance sector. Unless the ratio of jobs lost to gained is ridiculously skewed like 50:1 or something. Plus it may play well with the average Joe to point out that all those insurance execs making millions per year on the backs of sick Americans will soon be unemployed and have to sell their beach houses.
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