Todd Gack

sold out at 10:08 for SA show.. as I was zooming into map to pick seats. fuck me

Leon from Curb savage

Still would.

I think it's Dutch.

1000 pages, here we come!

Collins, hopefully.

F Fucking duct tape. Perfect.

FYI Candidates who have qualified for the September debates in both polling and fundraising: Former Vice President Joe Biden New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker Mayor Pete Buttigieg California Sen. Kamala Harris Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren Businessman Andrew Yang There are now 11 Democrats who say they received contributions from at least 130,000 individuals, coming from at least 400 unique donors in 20 or more states. Former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii have reached their fundraising threshold, but still need to hit their polling minimum to qualify. Castro and billionaire Tom Steyer have each received three of their four necessary polls. Gabbard and former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper each have one. All other candidates haven't reached above 2% in any qualifying polls. The DNC requires that all polls be conducted by an approved pollster, released between June 28 and August 28, 2019, conducted nationally or in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and/or Nevada, and fit a certain question structure. The candidate must get above 2% support in four or more polls of this nature, and they cannot be conducted by the same pollster in the same region. There is still a month for candidates who have not yet hit the polling threshold to do so.

"In an email sent to campaigns by the DNC on Tuesday that was obtained by The Hill, the committee argued that a July 11 poll from NBC and The Wall Street Journal and a July 19 poll by NBC and SurveyMonkey, would only count as one poll because they were conducted by the same sponsor — NBC." https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/455337-exclusive-dnc-rejects-yang-poll-leaving-him-off-september-debate-stage

I think she focused on the Trump administration's support of al-qaeda, but yeah that was good stuff. Haven't heard her address the bloat/corruption of the MIC... not sure if anyone touched on it last night.

This is a really good interview. Yang is forced to go more in-depth on his UBI plan, stutters thought a couple answers, but he concedes that some tweaking will be necessary for it to work for (almost) all citizens. Good back and forth.

I think this is the disconnect b/t you and slorch. Only one of you views these people as having equal humanity to yourselves. It would appear that the first step in the condoning of torture and other human rights abuses has been successfully implemented - that being the dehumanization of the 'others'. Hypothetically, if say, Louisiana closed its borders, started detaining all Texans who tried to cross, and treated them the way our govt is treating the migrants, I bet slorch would be condemning the absence of compassion and human decency similar to that which is occurring at the border.

The election is next year, do you know something that we don't? Haven't you heard, we're in the greatest economy in the history of ever. #tiredofwinning

yep. sounded old too. reminded me of Lee Corso trying to get through a two-sentence thought coherently.

Points well taken. Hard to call something universal if it excludes any significant portion of the population. Not sure I agree on the idea of the poor funding it in any meaningful way. It's a shitload of cash to distribute and a large portion will come from a value added tax on the biggest tech companies. Can't imagine the poor will have any tax increase at all as a result of UBI. And I agree on engaging in the conversation - I hope some of these issues are raised on the debate stage.

So the objection is that it doesn't address extreme poverty and I would agree. Those families receiving 2k, 3k, whatever per month in food stamps and housing stipends will be unaffected, but I don't think the point of his UBI is to fix that. I imagine the very poor on the fringes will need more fundamental changes to our education, housing, and prison systems. Real reform that will likely happen only when our current environment of scarcity is less of a factor on people's lives. I think Yang's idea is a great start. He won't win, but starting the conversation and doing so in good faith is what has endeared him to so many people.

Can you elaborate on this? I've heard him say there is no means testing and it's a universal dividend for all above 18. The only catch is for those already receiving govt assistance, in that they won't have the 1K on top of their current govt check. They'll need to choose to stand pat with what they've got or opt in and get the 1k unconditional with no oversight or income verification. And the super rich can check a box and choose to donate their check to a charity.

So, what's the story here? Congress renews the Act for 5 years at a time, and makes the first responders show up in year 4 to inform them that, surprise surprise, their cancer isn't cured yet and they still need health care? seriously wtf?!

Has to be a troll, right? Maybe not from his toddler mind personally, but from someone close to him. Kind of a way to control another news cycle... I dunno, I'm honestly dumbfounded as to how a functioning adult would think people would believe such nonsense.

Fake news. Here's the real one.

Wow, is this actually true? I thought Manafort was in serious debt...

This has been the position of others in the past, but Yang has said that UBI will make up the difference for someone receiving less than $1k in governmental assistance. So anyone getting $1001 would be SOL unless they opted in to UBI and forfeited their previous assistance.

I know jack shit about religion so mea culpa on that one. However, he has stated that he thinks homosexuality is a sin and that he would never attend a gay wedding. Or even a jew/non-jew wedding, apparently that's a sin too. Weird little fellow, he is.

The last 3-4 minutes of that song are genius, IMO. I'll often play "try and find the beat" when the riff around 6:45 kicks in... still haven't found it. But when Danny rolls back in time w/ Adam, it's total eargasm. I don't know shit about time signatures, but I can't imagine that the drums and guitar are playing in the same one during that part of the song.