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David Dennison

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  1. 1 minute ago, Captainant said:

    They literally told me they can't and won't listen to my opinion, as I am not a constituent. And your response to that is to continue trying an avenue that I've been directly told isn't being considered. 

    Fuck you, I do try. I do my fucking part to contact my representatives every week and share my views and attempt to get accountability. How about you stop justifying her negligence behind the weakest, most feckless excuse of "well it's not explicitly required in the Constitution so we won't do it". That's the same fucking answer that Ted fucking Cruz gives me. 

    Cut. From. The. Same. Cloth. 

    You haven't contacted the Office of the Speaker of the House. Call the House switchboard. Ask to be transferred.

    Or fill out the form on the website. 

    Nancy Pelosi isn't moving forward with impeachment because she feels like it's not politically advantageous to do so. That's politics. 

     

  2. Just now, Captainant said:

    Just so you know, when you call or contact her office, they ignore you if you aren't one of her constituents. I know this because I just called her DC office and was told that by one of her staffers. 

    So what I'm saying is, you're full of shit. Nancy is gonna do what she wants, consensus be damned. 

    That's why you call the Speaker's office. 

     

  3. 11 minutes ago, Bruh Man said:

    The fact that the richest country in the world cannot afford the price tag for reparations is proof in of itself how much reparations are deserved. 

    We find a way to not blink an eye when we increase the military budget or give the wealthy tax breaks...we can find a way to do this. Maybe not trillions of dollars but a smaller amount + housing programs is doable. 

    It's absolutely doable. White people just aren't having it. That's that.

  4. 25 minutes ago, Voldemort86 said:

    What’s the consensus here?

    I think the democrats should be favorites to keep the house. Democrat turnout is always highest in presidential election years. The house hasn’t flipped in a presidential year since the 1950’s.

    as long as the Dems hold onto the house, they should be in good shape. I recall after the anger filled tea party wave of 2010, republicans got to control more maps than ever. Some of those gerrymanders won’t be as extreme this time around because we’ve won some governorships. I doubt the map in 2020 could possibly be as bad for Dems as the 2010 decade was.

    That is an outstanding bit of political history. I did not know that.

  5. 1 minute ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

    And when the debate switches to the other forms you will rail against them too because, “muh taxes”.

    Other forms like affirmative action, which inevitably turns into, "muh reverse racism."

     

  6. 5 minutes ago, retread said:

    Nancy's had several good jumping off points, and yet she hasn't moved. The release of the report, Barr's phony summary, the endless waiting game for the unredacted report, Barr lying to Congress, etc.

    It's mainly cover for her members. She's protecting them and taking the heat for their unwillingness to impeach. She doesn't have the votes and doesn't want to whip her members over impeachment.

    For now.

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  7. 9 minutes ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

    Trust me, "the liberal media" will. This is exactly the kind of poison pill issue they like to taint Democrats with to maintain the status quo. 

    The great thing about the the status quo is that it will inevitably change. 

    There will be a reckoning one day in this country. If not, it means the United States of America no longer exists as a nation state.

  8. 3 minutes ago, Blotto said:

    If I'm the GOP, I can think of no other issue I would rather see take center stage in 2020 than reparations. It will rabidly motivate about 99% of their base, while discourage a large number of democratic voters. The chance of thoughtful policy discussions coming from our politicians is basically zero. It will be a shitshow. 

    Well, we certainly don't want to upset white people. They've been through so much.

  9. 1 minute ago, NowThis said:

    so much of this is real estate passed on from grandma onwards.  Whites have the best real estate which swells in value, blacks have negative growth real estate I guess. Whites also own their shit free and clear, blacks probably don't and if so, it's worth nothing. 

    How many stories do you know where people inherited their family homes? An uncle who never married, no kids, dies and leaves his $700k home to the nephew in his will  - (actual story of a friend, the nephew). 

    Yep. Housing discrimination and racism has done wonders for white real property values.

  10. Just now, GSU&UT said:

    Holy fuck David, maybe everyone else noticed this before me but you are the biggest party over country Democrat here. Just fuck off with every single retort of "that's how Washington works" garbage.

    Just a cynic and a realist. 

    You can't do anything without power. Party gets you power. That's the way it is and it's never going to change.

  11. 3 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    Oh sorry, how is Nancy trying to make money off this? That's what it's all about, right? Not doing the right thing, just getting more dolla dolla bills y'all. Its how you get elected, I hear

    Mick Mulvaney sees this as an opportunity to get rid of someone who isn't conservative enough for his taste. He can't fire him, though. Donald Trump has to do that. This is a pretext for getting someone else in at labor who will deregulate faster.

    Morality has nothing to do with it.

  12. 2 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

    wtf is the deal with home depot?  I guess I failed to login to liberal.com today.  I have no idea what the orange dumbshit is talking about. 

    It's always something with conservative snowflakes. 

  13. 9 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

    wtf is this "becky" shit.  I didn't get the memo.   Is it like "barbie" for uglier women?

    It's what black women call white women. Lots of Becky talk on black twitter and The Root.

    I think they should just call them all honky because honky is hilarious.

  14. 1 minute ago, TornACL said:

    I've never been a big supporter of reparations, because it's another example of treating the symptoms and not the illness. What's the point of making reparations if you're still putting people in shitty schools and letting policemen shoot them for driving on an expired license?  It's just bullshit window dressing.

    That said, at this point I'm in favor of anything that causes outrage among uptight conservative racist assholes.

    How bout this. 

    No white people on juries anymore.

    Ever.

    Kidding.

    Sorta.

  15. Just now, TwiceHorn said:

    You're right that the administrative burdens and the shitshow that would produce pretty much outweigh any moral justification and are a manifestation of the attenuation of the whole thing.  It's too damned late, basically.

    There is no country on earth that lacks a history of discrimination against some group.  Is there a precedent for reparations somewhere?

    The Holocaust.

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  16. Just now, Mojo Hand said:

    For.  Not cutting checks per se, but targeted government investments to remediate the continuing effects of slavery and the Jim Crow era on people today.   One example might be addressing the racial gap in home ownership through special mortgage tax credits, or down payment assistance, or something else along those lines. 

    Other examples:

    Disparity in incarceration rates, unemployment rates, education rates, mortality, infant mortality, poverty, hunger, etc., etc.

     

  17. 33 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

    Agin it.

     

    Tex archer spells it out pretty well. If we're going to give black folks money then logically the native Americans are due a shit load as well, if not more. Our gov't genocided them out of existence in some cases.

    Honkies have a lot to answer for.

  18. 17 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    Yes. The most invasive of surveillance operations against US citizens need to abide by the policies and procedures that are intended to protect 4th amendment rights.  That is apparently an extreme minority viewpoint on the surly these days. 

    That's why the FISA warrant process is so exhaustive.

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