Elizabeth Warren 2020

[Hugo Stiglitz 23,356]

52 minutes ago, Fozzz said:

lmao she's going to lose to Trump

 

Looks like Trump beats all of them or they all beat Trump if we’re incorporating the margin of error.  All this polls shows is that swing states are swingy and swingable. 

Edited November 4, 2019 by Hugo Stiglitz

[6th Street 6,354]

Warren is too anti-business to win the general election. She has plans to take down the insurance industry, oil and gas and it's entire supply chain, and break up FANG. That's well over 2M jobs collectively. The better strategy would be to focus on job creation instead of destruction. 

[bad_teammate 13,132]

The only two results outside of the individual state MOE is Trump beating Warren in Michigan and Biden beating Trump in Arizona.

It's important to not think Trump is a lock to lose. He can win this thing. There are very clear paths for him to win.

[bad_teammate 13,132]

Looks like Millenials need to learn some PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY and save 10% and everything will be fine!

 

[bad_teammate 13,132]

Double posting is an alpha move.

Edited November 4, 2019 by bad_teammate

[GSU&UT 1,798]

Yeah I'm struggling to rationalize how everyone can just magically save 10%. Do you know how many people are living paycheck to paycheck and just how much student debt Millennials and soon Zoomers will own?? This is leading down to some libertarian "what happened to personal responsibility" level of argument.

[HenryJames 65,884]

 

[Tom 2,959]

3 minutes ago, 6th Street said:

Warren is too anti-business to win the general election. She has plans to take down the insurance industry, oil and gas and it's entire supply chain, and break up FANG. That's well over 2M jobs collectively. The better strategy would be to focus on job creation instead of destruction. 

 

If being against corruption, monopolies, corporate welfare, and against companies running wild without rules and regulation or oversight equals anti-business, then I pray many more candidates come out as anti-business. 

[Tom 2,959]

50 minutes ago, Fozzz said:

A vote for Warren in the primary might as well be a vote for Trump in the general.  She needs to drop out immediately.  

 

If y'all are reckless and nominate Warren,  you're going to force Fozz to vote for Trump again and it will be ALL YOUR FAULT!!!

[6th Street 6,354]

4 minutes ago, Tom said:

 

If being against corruption, monopolies, corporate welfare, and against companies running wild without rules and regulation or oversight equals anti-business, then I pray many more candidates come out as anti-business. 

Putting people out of work and crushing our large companies is not a rational or well thought out plan. All it does is drive slowing GDP growth, higher unemployment, and lower innovation, and share loss to markets like Korea, Germany, and Taiwan. 

[Hugo Stiglitz 23,356]

Uh, it’s the large companies putting most people out of work and stifling innovation to protect status quoish profits.  

[tantric superman 4,667]

1 hour ago, bad_teammate said:

The 401(k) is a scam and we should not keep propping it up as if it is a means of attaining retirement that makes sense. The entire market is a scam designed to funnel wealth into the hands of a shrinking few.

You're making three propositions:

1) 401(k)s as a means of attaining retirement do not make sense.

2) The entire market is a scam

3) the market is designed to funnel wealth into the hands of the shrinking few.

Provide some back up for these propositions.

I'd propose that if the government placed mandatory taxes on folks and put their money into target date funds, required all companies to provide stocks to employees in additional funds, had more aggressive progressive tax rates (aggressive enough to increase revenue but not to stifle innovation) and have a similarly designed capital gains tax we'd solve concerns about 1 and 3.  I'm sure more fundamental changes would be needed for you not to consider the market as a scam.  To me, saying the market is a scam is like saying that money is a scam.  The market and money are ways to transact business and its up to regulation to handle inefficiencies and injustices in allocations. 

[DaysOff 7,843]

 

Damn. Dems got Mississippi in the bag. Put em in the calculator.

[ChiTownDoc 21,097]

1 hour ago, 6th Street said:

Warren is too anti-business to win the general election. She has plans to take down the insurance industry, oil and gas and it's entire supply chain, and break up FANG. That's well over 2M jobs collectively. The better strategy would be to focus on job creation instead of destruction. 

She will swing heavily to the middle in the general - or she will lose.  She’s not dumb.  

Edited November 4, 2019 by ChiTownDoc

[tantric superman 4,667]

1 hour ago, GSU&UT said:

Yeah I'm struggling to rationalize how everyone can just magically save 10%.

No one said everyone can do this.  Many people can do this.  The question is how many, and whether they will have a say in the election, and whether you want to propose policies that may cause those people to vote against you.

I don't think "the millionaire next door" should define public policy, but there are large numbers of people who have saved, who are perhaps in government jobs with a pension, etc. who aren't billionaires but who nevertheless followed the proposed rules of the road and do have a nest egg.  I think the Dems, especially the progressives, need to be careful of messing with  those folks, because a whole lot of them are solid D voters.  Like the majority of people with DC government jobs.

[horncyclist 1,384]

6 minutes ago, ChiTownDoc said:

She I’ll swing heavily to the middle in the general - or she will lose.  She’s not dumb.  

Yes, she'll go hard on corruption and pushing reforms. Which are gating items for everything she wants to get done. Number one item for any President after Trump should be reforms that ensure that corruption on the level of what Trump has perpetrated never happens again. Warren is uniquely positioned to deliver this message in a general election.

Edited November 4, 2019 by horncyclist

[Pig Bellmont 8,691]

None of her policies will matter unless Dems also win the Senate and they kill the filibuster. 

[ChiTownDoc 21,097]

2 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:

None of her policies will matter unless Dems also win the Senate and they kill the filibuster. 

Actually she can reverse a ton of Trump’s executive decisions, like on climate.  Let’s be honest here - Trump taught many of us the president has more power than we thought.  Going forward he has set a terrible precedent.  

[TwiceHorn 31,240]

4 minutes ago, ChiTownDoc said:

Actually she can reverse a ton of Trump’s executive decisions, like on climate.  Let’s be honest here - Trump taught many of us the president has more power than we thought.  Going forward he has set a terrible precedent.  

This is true.  Presidents have been pushing executive power pretty hard going back to 41 (Cheney and his ilk were real big on it), and Obama was a user, as well.  However, most of them were subtle-ish about it.  I'd say Trump has set the cause of expansion of executive power back quite a bit.  He's actually established a few judicial limits on it and made it clear that it's a dangerous thing. 

[6th Street 6,354]

29 minutes ago, tantric superman said:

You're making three propositions:

1) 401(k)s as a means of attaining retirement do not make sense.

2) The entire market is a scam

3) the market is designed to funnel wealth into the hands of the shrinking few.

Provide some back up for these propositions.

I'd propose that if the government placed mandatory taxes on folks and put their money into target date funds, required all companies to provide stocks to employees in additional funds, had more aggressive progressive tax rates (aggressive enough to increase revenue but not to stifle innovation) and have a similarly designed capital gains tax we'd solve concerns about 1 and 3.  I'm sure more fundamental changes would be needed for you not to consider the market as a scam.  To me, saying the market is a scam is like saying that money is a scam.  The market and money are ways to transact business and its up to regulation to handle inefficiencies and injustices in allocations. 

Don't bother. He's obviously never taken an economics course. 

[Thrawn 538]

It seems like it wasn’t that long ago when people kept reminding me that Warren was a Republican well into her adult life and as a result was really some evil capitalist. Now I’m being told on a daily basis how fucking liberal she is and how the midwest  just won’t go along with that.
 

Frankly I’m ok with anyone but Biden in the primary. Although, even if he wins the primary I will still vote for him over the Dotard. At that time all that will matter is who can get the most people out to vote in those key states. No crystal ball is going to be able to predict that at this point in time.

[Incredulity 11,541]

18 minutes ago, ChiTownDoc said:

Actually she can reverse a ton of Trump’s executive decisions, like on climate.  Let’s be honest here - Trump taught many of us the president has more power than we thought.  Going forward he has set a terrible precedent.  

Pen and fucking phone dude. Pen and fucking phone.

[Fozzz 152]

14 minutes ago, ChiTownDoc said:

Actually she can reverse a ton of Trump’s executive decisions, like on climate.  Let’s be honest here - Trump taught many of us the president has more power than we thought.  Going forward he has set a terrible precedent.  

lol Liz! needs to win two out of MI, WI, and PA for her to do anything about Trump's executive decisions, and that shit ain't happening.

[ChiTownDoc 21,097]

12 minutes ago, 6th Street said:

Don't bother. He's obviously never taken an economics course. 

It’s worse than that.  He has zero common sense.  Arguing with people like that is a nonstarter for me.  

[henrygandorf 29,174]

1 hour ago, tantric superman said:

You're making three propositions:

1) 401(k)s as a means of attaining retirement do not make sense.

2) The entire market is a scam

3) the market is designed to funnel wealth into the hands of the shrinking few.

Provide some back up for these propositions.

I'd propose that if the government placed mandatory taxes on folks and put their money into target date funds, required all companies to provide stocks to employees in additional funds, had more aggressive progressive tax rates (aggressive enough to increase revenue but not to stifle innovation) and have a similarly designed capital gains tax we'd solve concerns about 1 and 3.  I'm sure more fundamental changes would be needed for you not to consider the market as a scam.  To me, saying the market is a scam is like saying that money is a scam.  The market and money are ways to transact business and its up to regulation to handle inefficiencies and injustices in allocations. 

the concept of the dollar is a giant pyramid scheme. 

solution?  invest in pesos. 

[bad_teammate 13,132]

2 hours ago, GSU&UT said:

Yeah I'm struggling to rationalize how everyone can just magically save 10%. Do you know how many people are living paycheck to paycheck and just how much student debt Millennials and soon Zoomers will own?? This is leading down to some libertarian "what happened to personal responsibility" level of argument.

It's not leading down to it, it's where these freaks already live.

1 hour ago, tantric superman said:

You're making three propositions:

1) 401(k)s as a means of attaining retirement do not make sense.

2) The entire market is a scam

3) the market is designed to funnel wealth into the hands of the shrinking few.

Provide some back up for these propositions.

Are you disputing them?

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I'd propose that if the government placed mandatory taxes on folks and put their money into target date funds, required all companies to provide stocks to employees in additional funds, had more aggressive progressive tax rates (aggressive enough to increase revenue but not to stifle innovation) and have a similarly designed capital gains tax we'd solve concerns about 1 and 3. 

Aggressive progressive income and capital gains taxes? Is that not "punishment"?

51 minutes ago, 6th Street said:

Don't bother. He's obviously never taken an economics course. 

Maybe your problem is that your economics courses instilled garbage, inhuman economic politics and led you to believe you're far smarter and more capable than you actually are. A McCombs byproduct.

[Message Board User 12,389]

Even if Warrens proposals were sensible (which they aren’t), she’s not anywhere near likable enough that the midwesterners  will listen to her.

The polls this morning rated Warren is much more unlikable than the other candidates and that’s a far more intractable problem for her than her idiotic and unserious policies.

[Thrawn 538]

I have to say that I am borderline shocked at the number of people in that poll that admitted they just don’t like women candidates. Fucking hell. It isn’t like they are the ones who have fucked things up before now.

[6th Street 6,354]

39 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:

It's not leading down to it, it's where these freaks already live.

Are you disputing them?

Aggressive progressive income and capital gains taxes? Is that not "punishment"?

Maybe your problem is that your economics courses instilled garbage, inhuman economic politics and led you to believe you're far smarter and more capable than you actually are. A McCombs byproduct.

Do you hide your money in a mattress? 

[bad_teammate 13,132]

Yes, now make a point.

[tantric superman 4,667]

43 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:

Are you disputing them?

I apologize for my lack of clarity.

Yes.  Kind of.

[ChiTownDoc 21,097]

1 hour ago, bad_teammate said:

A McCombs byproduct.

Lol, what if the dumb uneducated people were really the smart ones?!  Woahhhhhh

I got you BT, I went to OU and even I think you have zero clue.  

[Bozo_Casanova 26,271]

 

A tax on unrealized capital gains makes long term investing on fundamentals less likely and would likely increase speculation.

[bad_teammate 13,132]

29 minutes ago, ChiTownDoc said:

Lol, what if the dumb uneducated people were really the smart ones?!  Woahhhhhh

I got you BT, I went to OU and even I think you have zero clue.  

Dumb, uneducated... or someone with a master's from Cockrell. Engineers aren't known as people who think highly of the business guys. Maybe that's not how it was at OU since you guys had to all share the same chalkboard and feed bucket. More camaraderie there, I bet.

Edited November 4, 2019 by bad_teammate

[6th Street 6,354]

29 minutes ago, ChiTownDoc said:

Lol, what if the dumb uneducated people were really the smart ones?!  Woahhhhhh

I got you BT, I went to OU and even I think you have zero clue.  

There's too much learnin going on in them there schools!

[bad_teammate 13,132]

28 minutes ago, longhornmatt said:

1. People want their 401(k) to go away, because they really don’t like earning astronomically higher tax deferred returns on retirement savings than what Social Security would pay

Horseshit.

"astronomically" lol

24 minutes ago, longhornmatt said:

I know it’s fun to poke the bear, but just remember this guy argues for nationalizing the private sector, federal rent control (and even centrally planned housing assignments in one thread), and various totalitarian proposals.  

 

I'm for nationalizing some private sectors (health insurance, energy production and distribution, things required for humans to live should be under democratic control), but no interest in nationalizing luxuries/non-necessities.

100% fine with federal rent control and public housing. Everyone should have a home.

"Various totalitarian proposals" doing as much work as "astronomical" earlier in your post.

 

[henrygandorf 29,174]

aren't we nationalizing social media platforms too?

[bad_teammate 13,132]

7 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

aren't we nationalizing social media platforms too?

For me? It was Option 3 behind regulation and breaking up. I'd like to try those first.

[gmr548 16,482]

 

The fuck happened in Mississippi?

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[Hugo Stiglitz 23,356]

New Plan:

This starts with care in how we deploy our forces. Decades of wars have sapped our strength, and the burden has fallen primarily on military personnel and their families. It's not fair to ask them to solve problems that don’t have a military solution.

We can honor our veterans by ending endless wars, reining in our bloated defense budget and reducing the influence of defense contractors at the Pentagon, and bringing our troops home responsibly—and then providing our veterans with the benefits they’ve earned.

Our all-volunteer military has struggled to attract and retain sufficient personnel. A Warren administration will preserve best-in-class benefits for military personnel, and ensure we honor our commitments to those who have served.

Military families are the backbone of our armed forces, but they face unique challenges. I'll prioritize military spouse employment, ensure families have high-quality child care and education, provide safe and affordable housing, and protect wounded warriors and their caregivers.

We must ensure the safety of those who serve or have served in uniform. I'll fight to eliminate military sexual assault, expand mental health services and work to end military and veteran suicide, and treat the opioid and addiction crisis.

A Warren administration will protect the rights of LGBTQ+, women, Black, and Latinx service members. I'll reverse Trump's shameful ban on trans service members on Day One. My administration will protect veterans and family members of serving military personnel from deportation.

My administration will ease the transition of veterans leaving military service and help prepare them to return to civilian life. We’ll create a seamless transition from the DOD to the VA, eliminate the benefits backlog, and expand career opportunities for our vets.

Finally, my administration will invest in the VA and reject attempts to privatize it. Under #MedicareForAll, veterans will also have the option to get high-quality health care from non-VA doctors and hospitals at no additional cost.

As Commander-in-Chief, I will lead our armed forces with awareness of the unique challenges service members, veterans, and military families face. I’ll honor our troops by not only executing sound military strategy, but also caring for them after they take off the uniform.

[Fozzz 152]

5 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

We can honor our veterans by ending endless wars, reining in our bloated defense budget and reducing the influence of defense contractors at the Pentagon, and bringing our troops home responsibly—and then providing our veterans with the benefits they’ve earned.

Uh, someone want to alert Liz! that she voted to increase Trump's defense budget by $80 billion in 2017?  

[Hugo Stiglitz 23,356]

Just now, Fozzz said:

Uh, someone want to alert Liz! that she voted to increase Trump's defense budget by $80 billion in 2017?  

This is a popular talking point of the Berners.  It’s a weird flex because like Bernie voting for Biden’s oppressive crime or Bernie staning for the $1.5 trillion Lockheed Martin F-35 project because it brought good jobs to Vermont, Liz was able to get provisions in the defense bill for her constituents with her vote.

"The final bill also includes many important provisions for Massachusetts, including fully funding family housing, safety upgrades, and other critical military construction at our military installations; providing increased funding and authority for the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental; and ensuring our National Guard is fully equipped to defend Massachusetts and the nation," 

Senator Warren said.   

"I do not support everything in this defense bill. I'm concerned about the funding level, which would provide nearly $700 billion to the Pentagon at a time when this Administration is proposing to slash funding for critical domestic priorities like education, healthcare, and infrastructure," said the senator. "I am disappointed that the final bill does not include an amendment I cosponsored with Senator Joni Ernst that would have helped ensure servicemembers receive the pay raises they are entitled to. And I am deeply worried about provisions in the bill that would authorize a research and development program for a new intermediate-range Ground Launched Cruise Missile, which would open the door to America's exit from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, one of the foundational nonproliferation treaties of the 20th century."

"On balance, I believe this bill will have a direct and positive impact on the lives of our men and women in uniform, and that it will do a lot of good for Massachusetts and for our nation," Senator

 

 

[Fozzz 152]

lmao

[InkaUtexas 25,486]

51 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

National Guard is fully equipped to defend Massachusetts and the nation,

[tantric superman 4,667]

Okay, I'm ready for Warren to pass the mantle of "policy proposals that will doom the Democratic presidential candidate" to AOC, and her crew. and fade away.

[Pig Bellmont 8,691]

 

[tantric superman 4,667]

Reality>Warren>>>GOP>>>>>>>>>>>>>Trump

[Hank Kingsley 20,676]

She's got to get much better at answering these questions. 

 

[tantric superman 4,667]

The gloss of electing your mother's really odd but really smart sister who travels a lot and teaches at Amherst is starting to wear off.

[Fozzz 152]

This column is really something.  Apparently it's Bernie's fault that Liz! came out with a shitty plan for financing M4A.