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Greger #294469 10/20/16 10:21 AM
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Originally Posted by Greger
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Massive tax cuts for the rich is the only thing he has actually said he will do. As if making rich people richer is somehow going to be a panacea for everything.

Rich people are already getting richer. So far it has fixed nothing.
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Nor will it ever fix anything, except maybe cause a revolt of the serfs.
Dems need to get their shyte together on this issue. So far, save for a few dissenting voices, that doesn't seem to be the case.


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Jeffery J. Haas #294470 10/20/16 10:25 AM
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Originally Posted by Jeffery J. Haas
Donald didn't even know what GDP was, he was referring to it in percentages.

Jeff, of course he knows what it means: "Grab Dat Pussy".


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Greger #294471 10/20/16 10:59 AM
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Talkin' bout a revolution:

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The United States is unique in many ways, but the most important is that we have had 240 years of uninterrupted peaceful, democratic transitions of power. The military follows civilian orders, so we’ve never had a coup. Presidents who are voted out leave office, so we’ve never had an armed revolution.

That he even thinks to defy this is a crime of lèse-majesté.

Mosul:

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He then claimed that the offensive to recapture Mosul was driven purely by a desire to help Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
Nothing compares to the hallucinations of an orange clown.

Wikileaks:

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There are many questions about how Wikileaks obtained emails from Clinton’s campaign chairman, and what it has done with them. But just because the emails may have been hacked by a foreign power does not mean Clinton should not have to answer for their contents.
Indeed. No free pass.

Abortion or C-section:

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Speaking about his opposition to abortion, Donald Trump baffled many listeners by appearing to confuse late-term abortion with a C-section.
ROTFMOL

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Here’s one thing you won’t see tonight: an in-depth discussion of racial justice and what it will take to make America a place where people of all backgrounds and treated fairly.

Racial justice where art thou?

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In the two prior presidential debates and one vice presidential debate, the closest we’ve seen was a question in the vice-presidential debate about “race relations” — specifically relationships between ethnic minorities and the police.

But the phrase “race relations” suggests that the root problem is a lack of comity between people of different racial backgrounds, rather than recognizing that the lack of comity is one symptom of a larger problem of racial inequalities and injustice.

Here’s some important facts about racial justice in America:

@ Nearly two out of every five black kids live in poverty, a rate three times as high as white kids.
@ White median household health is nearly 13 times higher than black household wealth, with Hispanics only slightly ahead of African Americans.
@ African Americans are incarcerated at six times the rate of white Americans.
@ Systemic inequalities that are often drawn along racial lines have created an immense human toll. The black homicide rate is almost seven times as high as the white homicide rate. In New Orleans, “54 percent of children ages 10 to 16 have had a close friend or relative murdered and nearly 40 percent have witnessed domestic violence.”


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Trump carried off a masterful 90 minute impression of Alec Baldwin lampooning Donald Trump.


You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
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Greger #294473 10/20/16 01:31 PM
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So I guess I have to change my online handle to Bad Hombre?


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Greger #294482 10/20/16 05:51 PM
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maybe people with small hands go for Bad Hombre .... people with large hands go for BababababaBad to the Bone [appropriate guitar riff goes here]


ignorance is the enemy
without equality there is no liberty
America can survive bad policy, but not destruction of our Democratic institutions



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Originally Posted by Ezekiel
Originally Posted by Greger
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Massive tax cuts for the rich is the only thing he has actually said he will do. As if making rich people richer is somehow going to be a panacea for everything.

Rich people are already getting richer. So far it has fixed nothing.
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Nor will it ever fix anything, except maybe cause a revolt of the serfs.
Dems need to get their shyte together on this issue. So far, save for a few dissenting voices, that doesn't seem to be the case.

Clinton has promised to "go where the money is" and increase taxes on the wealthy. When the likely next president of the United States is among the dissenting voices it bodes well for the future.
Yes, I am aware of her Wall Street ties and raising taxes, especially on the wealthy, is a difficult goal in an age where the wealthy have more and more control of legislation concerning the hoarding of their wealth.
Trump's promise to cut taxes and reduce revenue while implementing horribly expensive programs concerning immigration and huge investments in the military while hoping that somehow the wealthy will suddenly be inspired to raise wages, create more jobs and invest more deeply rather than to simply hoard even more wealth seems far pretty far fetched.


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Greger #294486 10/20/16 06:37 PM
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I don't think she's a dissenting voice. She will follow the neo liberal playbook. Warren and Sanders are probably the main dissenting voices. Question is: how much sway will they hold come January.
When the cabinet choices begin to surface we'll be better able to see just where it is going.


"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."
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"The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month."
Dostoevsky



Greger #294487 10/20/16 06:40 PM
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I guess Trump thinks the rich would all invest in vast ego-projects like him, if they just had more money. Is this the future of the American economy: Relatively few moguls building huge pyramids to house their remains and objects of wealth after they are gone? Is this his idea of infrastructure projects?

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This just in to News TEd One:

The Republican National Committee has revealed its new theme song for the rest of its existence.


Take the nacilbupeR pledge: I solemnly swear that I will help back out all Republicans at the next election.
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