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@ILikePie5
Just so you can put it in perspective, Bloomberg spent in a 1/3 of a PRIMARY in a few days almost as much as Trump did for an entire presidential campaign. And got jack shit for his money.
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@ILikePie5
On the plus side, we can lay that "money controls politics" myth to bed.
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@Dr.Franklin
Nah, delegates are still close with Bernie sweeping California. This is as good as it gets for Biden who only does well in the South. Bernie will sweep most of the Coastal votes
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@zedvictor4
If by the system you mean personal agency, I agree.
We are headed for more bankruptcies on many levels as technology increases.
There will be a point where you will be one with the system and cease to be human, at which point money is irrelevant and none of your lifestyle choices matter anymore because you are either not allowed to make personal choices or those choices will be meaningless with zero consequences. No personal agency.
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
@ILikePie5
Just in case you were on the fence about medicare for ALL EARTHLINGS.
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@Imabench
Why on earth would Warren support Bernie after she called him a misogynist liar on National TV?
Most likely she will stay in the race to siphon votes till the end.
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@HistoryBuff
You say hilary questioning trump's validity is somehow a problem, but when Trump did it he's "only asking questions"? Do you hear your own hypocrisy?
Nope, I am questioning Obama's illegal actions as he failed to transfer power peacefully. I didn't even go into all the last-minute executive orders he signed to torpedo Trump.
Democrat party is toast because everything is fruit from a corrupt tree, and nobody cares about fixing it, except maybe Bernie, but the party will never allow him to peacefully have power. Party is toast.
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@HistoryBuff
Do you have any idea how many republicans (including trump) suggested that Obama wasn't a legitimate president? If that is the bar you want to set, then much of the republican party is guilty of that.
Trump only asked questions. He didn't have anyone illegally surveilled and did not imprison his political enemies. Trump didn't support impeachment against Bill Clinton and sympathized with Bill Clinton in an interview with Chris Matthews in 1998.
Massive apples and oranges.
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@ILikePie5
@HistoryBuff
Because in 2016 Obama started Crossfire Hurricane using illegal FISA investigations, a court originally created to investigate foreigners, to imprison political American citizens. That isn't handing over power peacefully.
Clinton delegitimized the election before Trump took the oath claiming Russia installed Trump as a puppet, so we shouldn't recognize Trump as a legitimate president.
If a Republican did any of this, the MSM would have it on 24/7 as an example of abuse of power and a failure to transfer power peacefully without all the banana republic BULLSHIT.
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@HistoryBuff
has any democrat ever refused to hand over power?
Umm...how about all the Congressional Dems save a few that voted for faux impeachment?
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@ILikePie5
It’s a hypothetical that I’m curious what your thoughts on it are.
Democrats don't know how to hand over the power rei(g)ns peacefully, which is why the party is doomed, whether Bernie wins the nomination or not.
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@zedvictor4
If by the system you mean personal agency, I agree.
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
talk about hitting the nail on the head, bankrupted or jailed.
And these socialists still want to pretend they are not Authoritarian...sheesh
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@HistoryBuff
You actually can't technically declare bankruptcy from the IRS like you can with medical bills. IRS will garnish your wages for life if they want to or you can go to debtors prison care of the IRS.
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@Swagnarok
@TheDredPriateRoberts
The irony of the entire virus event is that the well-known best defense against the flu besides basic hygiene is making sure your body is healthy and your immune system is ready.
By CHOOSING TO glue your fat nose to the TV screen and waste energy trembling in fear at the latest CNN "report", you are raising your cortisol and stress levels to a very unhealthy level, making yourself a prime candidate for a flu fatality.
TDS isn't just a fashion statement, it's actually physically detrimental to your body.
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@HistoryBuff
But they couldn't do any worse than the corrupt oligarchs that are bankrupting millions of people right now.
You have no clue how many people the IRS bankrupted, do you?
Gotta pay for your favorite fanclub D.C. oligarchs somehow, right?
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@HistoryBuff
I don't claim to have all the answers. But I do know that allowing the economy to be run by people whose primary goal is to squeeze as much wealth out of it as possible is not good for anyone (except for those tiny number of oligarchs)
If the Oligarchs in D.C. can't be trusted to manage Capitalism without succumbing to crony bribes, how on earth can the same people be trusted to manage Socialism? The Oligarchs in D.C. can just directly take a cut without any PAC middlemen under Socialism, no wonder politicians love the system.
It's almost as if the average voter doesn't give a fuck about government corruption, which is likely if most of the voter's basic needs are met.
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@bmdrocks21
And run for 4 terms like FDR.
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@ILikePie5
You mean we get to keep our constitutional rights?
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@Swagnarok
There's no payoff for Trump to have the country live in fear over things the government cannot control either.
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@bmdrocks21
Politicians are blatantly paid to destroy competition between insurance companies, so there is NO check on rising prices.
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@ILikePie5
All the world, not just Americans.
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@HistoryBuff
hehe. I put 500 dollars on Trump. will probably make an easy 350-400 dollars back.
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Bernie will crush trump
You can triple your money there right now.
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@ILikePie5
Trump asked his crowd at his SC rally who they wanted to see as his opponent, and the crowd picked Bernie 2 to 1 over sleepy Joe.
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@ILikePie5
Sanders MIGHT have won 4 years ago with the crappy state of the economy in 2016...absolutely no chance Americans are going to roll the dice in this economy.
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@ILikePie5
The "right side of history" is inevitably rewritten by the cabal of academic elites.
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@Christen
Increase the supply of jobs by not price-fixing wages and not unfairly taxing people with capital to supply those jobs.
Increase the supply of housing by allowing free competition for housing construction and not price-fixing rents.
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@HistoryBuff
He wasn't a socialist until the point he lied 50 plus times about keeping your healthcare if you like it.
Authoritative Obamacare destroyed choices and American Liberty.
The democratic party does not stand for personal liberty anymore.
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@zedvictor4
Perhaps a war on greed would be more pertinent.
Well said. The poor should STFU and be glad of their peasant status.
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@HistoryBuff
It wasn't a policy about confiscating guns.
Trump ordered his people at his SC rally to vote for Bernie.
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@HistoryBuff
So what? my point stands.
Confiscating guns isn't a far-right policy.
Bloomberg is so bad both parties hate him.
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@n8nrgmi
while outlawing all other health insurance.
Why is this necessary? Can't we have private health insurance for day to day visits and universal catastrophic coverage together? This was the reason why Obamacare was so unpopular. People really like customizable private healthcare plans as a choice.
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@HistoryBuff
Confiscating guns isn't a far-right policy.
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He pushed stop and frisk, that kind of tough on crime bullshit is as republican as it comes.
He confiscated more guns than any Republican or Democrat ever.
Question: What do the National Rifle Association and the American Civil Liberties Union have in common? Answer: The determination to stop New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg from having his way with guns. The NRA defends the Second Amendment's right to bear arms. The ACLU defends the Fourth Amendment's constraints on "stop and frisk." Between the two, guns will remain on the street and more people will die.
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@ethang5
So there are no honest powerful people?
It's rare, which is why the founding fathers created a presidency and Judicial branch to keep a corrupt Congress in check.
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@ethang5
You're a little pessimistic. Most of the Nordic countries went through a bankruptcy cycle on socialism before realizing they couldn't exist without free-market capitalism and government free education. Look at the reforms Sweden went through, they used to be terribly socialist.
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@ILikePie5
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This is silly anyway. Hillary outspent Trump 2 to 1 and lost. None of the Billionaires are getting any support and all the paid media looks like Russian bots to the average voter.
Money hasn't decided elections since 2016, so what's the point in restricting wealth?
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
I love how the party that advocates for complete government control still wears the mask of "liberalism"
Words mean nothing these days.
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
You can't tax jobs that do not exist anymore due to wage fixing.
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
Also, America is more culturally diverse than any other nation on the planet. Getting your neighbor to give up his wealth to take care of you is going to be hard if you are not a member of their cultural group.
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@HistoryBuff
Democratic Capitalism.
/snicker
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@ethang5
I found Sotomayer and Ginsberg's comments suggesting the judicial branch should regulate immigration instead of the executive branch utterly disgusting. These people are destroying the necessary function of the SCOTUS by delegitimizing it through political squabbles.
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@ethang5
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When has the government ever controlled how much wealth people can have?
There are hard caps on how much welfare you can receive state by state. The only way a poor person can break the cycle of inequality using welfare is to defraud the system.
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@HistoryBuff
wealth gaps are growing..
Wealth gaps were higher under Obama when there was much more unemployment. Why was that?
Simple. You can only go so far up the ladder when the government controls how much wealth you can have with welfare.
Trump instead gave Americans a job and the freedom to invest in yourself and learn more job skills. That's when upward mobility actually happens as it has under Trump with record job opportunities for poor Americans and minorities.
Also, a corresponding drop in welfare participation rates shatters the ceiling the government places on the poor to keep them in their place.
jobs, jobs, jobs.
Now here comes Bernie with his authoritarian schemes about to price fix labor wages so he can destroy all those jobs created and get the poor back on the welfare rolls where they belong. That's the elites kicking the fingers of the poor as they climb the opportunity ladder.
Breadlines are a good thing, Mr. Sanders. Da Komrade. Da.
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@zedvictor4
Are you trying to say that U.S. citizens are forced to sit on their backsides all day and stuff their faces with pizzas, burgers and fizzy drinks.
No. It's freedom baby.
The price of not living in a nanny state is the freedom to die fat, dumb, and happy.
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You will probably spin yourself another rationalization (that will also contradict reality) to explain why you were so wrong about Sanders and what Americans want. But you will have 4 years to mull over it.
Americans want freedom. Bernie isn't a freedom lover.
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@n8nrgmi
Most of these countries don't have an obesity problem due to an authoritarian state.
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