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Someday I'll forgive the ignorant mofos who voted for anyone other than her during the primaries.  But that day is not gonna be anytime soon. 

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The Most Pampered Generation was gifted a cheap education.  Then they voted to dismantle the system that made their own success possible and compiled wealth from lower taxes due in part to reduced gov

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lol can't believe i missed this one.  fraud.

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But the executive said Warren’s made an effort to reach out to defense companies, including visits to Raytheon and General Dynamics facilities in her state, and that “there’s certainly not an impression that she’s adversarial” to big-name contracting firms. “The folks that work in our industry are just as much her constituents as anybody else is,” said the executive, who requested anonymity to speak candidly.

Raytheon, which is headquartered in Massachusetts, “has a positive relationship with Sen. Warren, and we interact with her and her staff regularly,” said company spokesman Michael Doble.

https://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/elizabeth-warren-defense-massachusetts-115157

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53 minutes ago, Patrick Bateman said:

More policy platforms.  Not anything groundbreaking here as most Dem candidates feel this way.... except maybe Joe.

 

Intravenously inject this plan into my veins.

https://medium.com/@teamwarren/ending-private-prisons-and-exploitation-for-profit-cb6dea67e913

 

Last month Caliburn International — a for-profit company whose subsidiary operates Homestead, the largest detention center for unaccompanied migrant children — 

hired John Kelly, Trump’s former chief of staff. Caliburn has profited directly off of the Trump administration’s inhumane immigration policies — while children at Homestead are reportedly kept in unsanitary, prison-like conditions, often for months. Now John Kelly is cashing in, too.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal and I have demanded answers. But this is just the latest example of private prison companies wringing billions out of federal taxpayers. I’ve been after these companies to come clean about their practices and human rights abuses. Every answer just raises more questions.

We didn’t get here by chance. Washington works hand-in-hand with private prison companies, who spend millions on lobbyists, campaign contributions, and revolving-door hires — all to turn our criminal and immigration policies into ones that prioritize making them rich instead of keeping us safe. From 2000 to 2016, the private prison population grew five times as quickly as the overall prison population. And the profiteers multiplied, too: today, nearly 4,000 corporations make money off mass incarceration.

President Obama took steps to lower the incarceration rate and wind down private prisons, but these companies got their biggest break yet when Donald Trump landed in the White House. With Trump, private prison companies saw their chance to run the same playbook for our immigration system. They poured money into lobbying for “alternatives” to ICE detention centers. And boy, did it pay off. Private detention centers have made millions implementing Trump’s cruel immigration policies, as the number of detained children quintupled in just a single year. Today 73% of detained immigrants are held in private detention facilities.

The companies running prisons and detention centers regularly sacrifice safety to boost their bottom line. Private facilities have higher ratesof assaults than federal prisons. They violatefederal rules by putting incarcerated people into solitary confinement to fit more bodies in the building. They impose forced labor on immigrants just to make a buck. Multiple detainees have committed suicide. And now, under Trump, babies are getting sick and dying from their detention centers.

The government has also stood silently by while private contractors providing services in both public and private centers come up with extortive schemes to make millions off of the backs of incarcerated people. Prison phone companies charge as much as $25 for a 15-minute call, forcing families into debt just to stay connected to loved ones. Commissary contractors mark up prices, and companies coercedetainees to work for as little as a dollar a day just to afford basic necessities like toothpaste.

While contractors getting paid taxpayer dollars cut corners to maximize margins, the government has turned a blind eye. Food companies make millions but serve bug-infested food to save cash. An investigation into a prison transport company that allowed at least five deaths and a sexual assault to occur under their watch has gone nowhere.

And today, the exploitation doesn’t end when individuals emerge from prison or detention. Current law pushes money into the hands of for-profit supervision companies, many of which are run by the same private prison corporations. These companies get rich by making people just getting out of prison — often with huge debts — pay outrageous fees for monitoring and supervision services like ankle monitors. Some have gone so far as to threaten individuals with reincarceration.

This is exploitation, plain and simple. Our criminal and immigration systems are tearing apartcommunities of color and devastating the poor, including children. Women — especially women of color — are particularly saddled with the financial burden. We need significant reform in both criminal justice and in immigration, to end mass incarceration and all of the unnecessary, cruel, and punitive forms of immigration detention that have taken root in the Trump Administration.

The first step is to end this private profiteering off cruelty.

The government has a basic responsibility to keep the people in its care safe — not to use their punishment as an opportunity for profit. That’s why today, I’m proposing my plan to root out once and for all the profit incentives perverting our criminal and immigration systems.

Here’s what I’ll do:

  • Ban private prisons and detention facilities. There should be no place in America for profiting off putting more people behind bars or in detention. That’s why I will shut down the use of federal private detention facilities by ending all contracts that the Bureau of Prisons, ICE, and the U.S. Marshals Service have with private detention providers. And I will extend these bans to states and localities by conditioning their receipt of federal public safety funding on their use of public facilities.
  • Stop contractors from charging service fees for essential services. Companies shouldn’t be able to treat incarcerated individuals as captive profit centers. We should prohibit contractors from charging incarcerated and detained people for basic services they need, like phone calls, bank transfers, and healthcare. I’ll also keep contractors from imposing exploitative price markups on other services they provide, like commissaryor package services. And I’ll prohibit companies from charging for re-entry, supervision, and probation services, too — because no one should have to pay for their own incarceration, whether it’s inside a facility or outside of one.
  • Hold contractors accountable by expanding oversight, transparency and enforcement. It’s time to shine sunlight on the black box of private services that receive taxpayer dollars. I’ll close the ridiculous FOIA loophole that lets private prison subcontractors operate in the shadows. I will put in place an independent Prison Conditions Monitor within the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General. The Monitor will keep contractors from cutting corners to make a quick buck by setting enforceable quality standards, regularly auditing and investigating contractors, and terminating their contracts if they fall short. I’ll direct the Department of Justice to prosecute companies that blatantly violate the law. And I’ll make sure companies are held accountable no matter who’s in the White House by allowing people to bring a lawsuit against abusive contractors who violate their rights.

Washington hands billions over to corporations profiting off of inhumane detention and incarceration policies while ignoring the families that are destroyed in the process. We need to call that out for what it is: corruption. Incarcerating and detaining millions for profit doesn’t keep us safe. It’s time to do better.

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1 hour ago, retread said:

McConnell is pure evil

 

Favorite part:  

“You said a sitting Senator is a disgrace to the department of justice.”

Elizabeth Warren: “Um, I believe that may have been Senator Kennedy but I’d be glad to repeat it again in my own words.”

 

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Bernie should be flattered Elizabeth Warren is fighting for his ideas.  She’s really good at it.  Maybe she can fight for Bernie’s other ideas too, like healthcare.  Or would the Bernie bros accuse her of stealing Bernie’s idea? 

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This micro-targeting shit is fucking stupid and none of it will ever become actual policy.  Transfers should always be universal. Don’t go out of your way to create fissures within your own coalition. The Republicans are good enough at creating them without your help, dumbass Liz. 

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Warren’s Twitter sound bites of policy proposals on cancellation of student debt, free college, and now gay reparations will permanently lose a significant chunk of the independent vote. I’m going to assume that the actual proposals themselves will be reasonable well thought out policy, but because it all comes across as a giant give away, it’s going to scare a lot of people and they will just vote for someone else. She and Bernie really come across as dangerous and I know that is what this board wants, but all it will mean is Biden gets the nomination because Democrats want to vote for who beats Trump.

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Warren’s Twitter sound bites of policy proposals on cancellation of student debt, free college, and now gay reparations will permanently lose a significant chunk of the independent vote. I’m going to assume that the actual proposals themselves will be reasonable well thought out policy, but because it all comes across as a giant give away, it’s going to scare a lot of people and they will just vote for someone else. She and Bernie really come across as dangerous and I know that is what this board wants, but all it will mean is Biden gets the nomination because Democrats want to vote for who beats Trump.

Amazing that independents aren’t turned off by big government BILLION dollar hand outs to defense contractors, concentration camps, and the big banks that finance both.  

Independents are fucking stupid when it comes to how they evaluate politics and I say that as an independent.

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Can you imagine how bad turnout will be if Biden is nominated?  Who wants to vote for someone who has already promised those who matter that nothing is going to change?  The dude is also as racist as Trump and can’t keep himself from fondling children while campaigning. 

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Can you imagine how bad turnout will be if Biden is nominated?  Who wants to vote for someone who has already promised those who matter that nothing is going to change?  The dude is also as racist as Trump and can’t keep himself from fondling children while campaigning. 

Who will you vote for if Biden is the nominee?

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1 minute ago, Fozzz said:

And voting for Biden will accomplish what exactly?  He’s already promised donors nothing is going to change. 

That's silly. He's a Democrat. That means every judge, cabinet member, and presidential appointment will be a Democrat. You know, not a Republican.

That matters.

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21 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

That's silly. He's a Democrat. That means every judge, cabinet member, and presidential appointment will be a Democrat. You know, not a Republican.

That matters.

I feel like I’ve heard this one before. 

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3 hours ago, bad_teammate said:

The pro-Warren mass media blitz continues. If the establishment powers have settled on her as the compromise candidate, she can build some very-difficult-to-beat momentum.

Wait. How come I haven't heard that Biden, Beto, Pete, and Kamala all dropped out of the race?

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9 hours ago, berlinerbaer said:

Wait. How come I haven't heard that Biden, Beto, Pete, and Kamala all dropped out of the race?

Pete, Beto and Kamala aren't compromises, those are just desirable centrist candidates. Warren isn't what the left wants (but they like), and she's not what the centrists want (but they like). Everyone sacrifices... compromise.

Also...

Biden is disgusting and embarrassing. He is NOT rich-white-person woke.

Beto and Kamala are way behind.

Pete is... well... he's having a hard time right now. (Also, they did their HUGE Pete-boosting blitz a month ago and he got a rise but he couldn't get into the Top 3.)

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