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« Reply #58440 on: May 22, 2020, 03:39:45 PM »
Well if they're in his platform

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« Reply #58441 on: May 22, 2020, 03:40:48 PM »
ok, wait, hold on - these are all things that are literally already in Biden's platform. $10k student debt forgiveness, two years of free CC or technical training, and refunding Obamacare with a public option

kids, gather round while I tell you the tale of a thing called the US senate

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« Reply #58442 on: May 22, 2020, 03:42:43 PM »
We'll have a trifecta next year.

hell yeah can't wait for joe manchin to be the marginal vote on literally every piece of legislation

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« Reply #58443 on: May 22, 2020, 03:43:59 PM »
there's no way he doesn't do some kind of (student) debt forgiveness, halve the price of college, supercharge Obamacare, and so on.

Lol.

Edit: :bolo
ok, wait, hold on - these are all things that are literally already in Biden's platform. $10k student debt forgiveness, two years of free CC or technical training, and refunding Obamacare with a public option

At a certain point I have to wonder if you enjoy doing this to yourself

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« Reply #58444 on: May 22, 2020, 03:49:56 PM »
at least bernie only wrote about his rape fantasies, and not fulfilled them

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« Reply #58445 on: May 22, 2020, 03:52:39 PM »
I actually think there's more tolerance for big Keynesian spending in the Democratic party than people would care to admit.

But first assume zero Republican votes (despite what Biden says, I don't think he's going to charm them into working with him and I suspect Josh Hawley might not actually be a leftist). Even if you nuke the filibuster or abuse the hell out of reconciliation you need to get to 50 votes and I don't anticipate the Dems winning the Senate with much, if any, cushion. Shit gets very difficult when you need to hold together your entire caucus.

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« Reply #58446 on: May 22, 2020, 03:56:11 PM »
manchin in play for vp? if not, manchin 2024 baby! :klob
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« Reply #58447 on: May 22, 2020, 03:57:47 PM »
I actually think there's more tolerance for big Keynesian spending in the Democratic party than people would care to admit.

But first assume zero Republican votes (despite what Biden says, I don't think he's going to charm them into working with him and I suspect Josh Hawley might not actually be a leftist). Even if you nuke the filibuster or abuse the hell out of reconciliation you need to get to 50 votes and I don't anticipate the Dems winning the Senate with much, if any, cushion. Shit gets very difficult when you need to hold together your entire caucus.
If Trump loses, he will jump out of the burning husk of the GOP with a golden parachute and the entire house of cards collapses.
Republicans at that point will do whatever they can to cling to their remaining seats including giving Biden their support.
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« Reply #58448 on: May 22, 2020, 03:59:56 PM »
there's more tolerance in kenyansian spending in the republican party than there is in the democratic party!

democrats are pussies that buy into the "household budget" more than they should.

biden is going to give up so much money to red states  he'd make obama blush.


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« Reply #58449 on: May 22, 2020, 04:02:44 PM »
Biden's going to tax Amazon up to their eyeballs  :biden
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« Reply #58451 on: May 22, 2020, 04:06:52 PM »
https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1263917740273946624


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wise guys

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« Reply #58452 on: May 22, 2020, 04:08:40 PM »
noooo the screeching imbeciles got to Joe and he's going on an apology tour.

stick a fork in it friends, it's over.  :fbm
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« Reply #58453 on: May 22, 2020, 04:10:42 PM »
biden/warren 2020 "you're not a real black or native unless you vote for us!"  :lol
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« Reply #58454 on: May 22, 2020, 04:19:02 PM »
https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/1260316207368081410

I'm just saying.

Lol, this is some bullshit. Mnuchin was throwing out $6 trillion because he was including what the treasury could do on their own to prop up companies.

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« Reply #58455 on: May 22, 2020, 04:39:38 PM »
https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/1260316207368081410

I'm just saying.

Lol, this is some bullshit. Mnuchin was throwing out $6 trillion because he was including what the treasury could do on their own to prop up companies.

Manchin and Mnuchin aren't the same person.
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« Reply #58456 on: May 22, 2020, 04:41:13 PM »
there's more tolerance in kenyansian spending in the republican party than there is in the democratic party!

democrats are pussies that buy into the "household budget" more than they should.

biden is going to give up so much money to red states  he'd make obama blush.

I think you are right about the politicians but mandark is right about the electorate. Even with Sanders, a lot of the people that don’t like him are more about how “realistic it is” or “I don’t like him personally” than actually having substantive disagreement on whether we collectively should pay more for health care with government $.

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« Reply #58457 on: May 22, 2020, 04:47:08 PM »
https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/1260316207368081410

I'm just saying.

Lol, this is some bullshit. Mnuchin was throwing out $6 trillion because he was including what the treasury could do on their own to prop up companies.

Manchin and Mnuchin aren't the same person.

Right, but Manchin definitely heard people throwing that sort of numbers around for months.

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« Reply #58458 on: May 22, 2020, 04:50:18 PM »
there's more tolerance in kenyansian spending in the republican party than there is in the democratic party!

democrats are pussies that buy into the "household budget" more than they should.

biden is going to give up so much money to red states  he'd make obama blush.

I think you are right about the politicians but mandark is right about the electorate. Even with Sanders, a lot of the people that don’t like him are more about how “realistic it is” or “I don’t like him personally” than actually having substantive disagreement on whether we collectively should pay more for health care with government $.

when did the people's opinion matter after the ballot box?


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« Reply #58460 on: May 22, 2020, 05:34:26 PM »
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« Reply #58461 on: May 22, 2020, 05:36:31 PM »
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1263942484863975426

charlamagne da gawd for vp  :thinking


https://twitter.com/jamie_agust/status/1263597281313357830

biden forced to pick a black vp now  :lol

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the hill just making up shit, and I know their game. pretend to stand up and then people fall


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« Reply #58464 on: May 22, 2020, 07:48:55 PM »
whats the fo shizzle thing?

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« Reply #58466 on: May 22, 2020, 08:05:48 PM »
From this point forward, Presidential candidate Joe Biden will only exchange letters from his basement.  :lol
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« Reply #58467 on: May 22, 2020, 09:12:09 PM »
https://twitter.com/SenCoryGardner/status/1263138698708889606

swing state incumbent being absolutely hung out to dry by his leadership

You know who is gonna be high on the "fuck you" list all year? Stacy Abrams and Beto. If they had done the logical thing, ie run for senate, they'd be leading or in contention right now, and we'd be looking at closer to 55-56 seats than 53-54.

For the life of me I can't understand what Abrams is doing. Whether Biden wins or loses, she's gonna be relegated to MSNBC appearances and a lackluster book tour. I of course am assuming there's no way in hell she gets VP.
Probably still in play for a cabinet level post. Maybe secretary of something or Chief of Staff or whatever.

Yeah, a black state congresswoman from Atlanta? I hope she likes being secretary of housing and urban development. A real Kickstarter for your future Presidential run. Just ask whichever Castro brother Obama hid there for 4 years

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« Reply #58469 on: May 22, 2020, 09:18:08 PM »
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wise guys

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Wow, imagine just throwing the entire Italian-American community under the bus like that.
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« Reply #58470 on: May 22, 2020, 09:25:28 PM »
Edit- Cockblocked by Esch :rage


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« Reply #58472 on: May 22, 2020, 09:30:20 PM »
Democrats go out of their way to propose and support specific proposals for all types of groups, especially Hispanics. You don't really see them throwing on sombreros and talking about Selena when they're reaching out to them. Yet with black people it's time to dance and start saying "ain't" like slayren. I'm voting for Biden. I have zero qualms with him, in part because my main interest is winning. But let's be real: black people literally saved his campaign from collapse, and while I'm sure he'll dole out money to HBCUs if he becomes president...we aren't going to see any real tangible effort to support black interests or businesses. Everyone else gets courted, yet with black people it's just an expectation you vote the right way.

That's not to say democrats never do anything for black people. But a lot of the heavy lifting is done on the state and local level, especially in the south. Killer Mike tried to explain this to Bernie stans to no avail, but local democrats and orgs do a lot of civil rights work down there and deserve recognition. But on the national level? It's moreso...preventing worse shit from happening. IE defending the CRA, defending the VRA, nominating some decent judges here or there, etc. And lets not forget the ACA greatly helped a loooot of black people. I don't want to say nothing good is done but man. More could and SHOULD be done, given the level to which black people vote for these dudes. VS bending over backwards to appease a demographic that's a few years away from assimilation into whiteness, and already well versed in anti-black racism.
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« Reply #58473 on: May 22, 2020, 09:35:50 PM »
VS bending over backwards to appease a demographic that's a few years away from assimilation into whiteness, and already well versed in anti-black racism.
I liked most of your post but this was the wrong way to end it.

That's how I feel.
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« Reply #58474 on: May 22, 2020, 09:37:40 PM »
Biden's the same guy who said Daniel Patrick Moynihan Democrat Mitt Romney was going to "put ya'll back in chains"

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« Reply #58475 on: May 22, 2020, 09:38:46 PM »
Remember when Hillary said she carried around hot sauce and everyone roasted her for pandering but she just really did like hot sauce?

I think that was more unfair than the emails thing.

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« Reply #58476 on: May 22, 2020, 09:40:10 PM »
same state which destroyed benji's brain
MY governor is now unilaterally protecting me until June 12th, so you shut up now

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« Reply #58477 on: May 22, 2020, 09:41:50 PM »
maybe her adopting of accents is a better example of what PD mentions

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« Reply #58478 on: May 22, 2020, 09:52:43 PM »
I could say "maybe you're the one who's already well versed in a certain kind of racism" but I know it's not your fault; it's that damn state, Michigan.

Hey man/jack. I respect struggles and generally believe in solidarity. But this bothers me, a lot. And I say that as someone who will probably have a Hispanic wife+in laws in a year or two. It feels like the aesthetic of blackness is more valuable than actual black people, at least when it comes to political interests.

With respect to Hillary I never had an issue with the hot sauce thing, having known that she legitimately likes hot sauce. Not to mention she lived in Arkansas for years. No issues there from me. And frankly Hillary's 2016 platform on black issues wasn't bad.

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« Reply #58480 on: May 22, 2020, 10:05:32 PM »
There was an entire war on latinos declared five years ago and it resulted in over a year's worth of news coverage of quasi-internment camps, culminating in the longest government shutdown in American history. Also, the abject dereliction of Puerto Rico during a natural catastrophe. They're not "a few years away from being assimilated into whiteness", they're a brutalized minority living through an intensifying race war.
five years ago?

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« Reply #58481 on: May 22, 2020, 10:13:27 PM »
I was going for it being longer but well played, hoo-mun.

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« Reply #58482 on: May 22, 2020, 10:44:27 PM »
Politicians shouldn't be allowed to go on Power 105. There, I said it.

Maybe Hot97 would be better?

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« Reply #58483 on: May 22, 2020, 10:50:06 PM »
https://twitter.com/leslieleeiii/status/1263883055367958530


Gotta love watching these fools twist into pretzels trying to logic some dumb shit these peckerwoods say into being perfectly ok, and then the guy is like “nah, I shouldn’t have said that”.

Now we get to see it on both sides of the aisle.

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« Reply #58484 on: May 22, 2020, 10:50:17 PM »
Maybe Hot97 would be better?
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« Reply #58485 on: May 22, 2020, 10:54:35 PM »
Chris Wallace embarrassing himself again just to please his lieberal friends:

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“I’ve done some deep dive into it, there really is no record of massive fraud or even serious fraud from mail-in voting,” the Fox News anchor said on America’s Newsroom. “It’s being carried out in Republican states, it’s being carried out in Democratic states, there is no indication that mail-in voting as opposed to in person voting tends to favor one party over another.”

After explaining that the practice of mailing in votes may even tend to favor Republicans since elderly voters have historically voted most often by mail, Wallace also mentioned that the most famous case of fraudulent “ballot harvesting” involved a Republican in North Carolina.

“But when people get their ballots and mail them in themselves, no history of fraud at all,” Wallace added.

America’s Newsroom anchor Ed Henry, meanwhile, brought up Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s concerns about mail-in voting, bringing up the Republican official’s hypothetical situation about mail and “Amazon packages” being swiped from front porches.

“If I am in the election office in Washington, D.C., and I am mailing a voting ballot, how do we know that you’ve actually received that and someone else didn’t swipe it and then send it in?” Henry wondered aloud.

“What he saying is you can’t trust the U.S. mail,” Wallace reacted. “I don’t know, that strikes me as kind of a reach here, and the history is that mail-in ballots are honest, and there was very little indication of fraud.”
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« Reply #58486 on: May 22, 2020, 10:55:29 PM »
VS bending over backwards to appease a demographic that's a few years away from assimilation into whiteness, and already well versed in anti-black racism.

lmao

Imagine spending any time in the southwest and believing something this dumb

Also we were subject to multiple candidates showcasing their high-school Spanish in the debates, Abuela Hillary, Elena Klobuchar, me llamo Tim Kaine...and that's not pandering to latinos?
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« Reply #58487 on: May 22, 2020, 11:02:06 PM »
With respect to Hillary I never had an issue with the hot sauce thing, having known that she legitimately likes hot sauce.
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« Reply #58488 on: May 22, 2020, 11:04:17 PM »
Elena Klobuchar
look, she couldn't roll her r's okay :karen

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« Reply #58489 on: May 22, 2020, 11:08:51 PM »
Who was the Dem candidate who pronounced Italian as "eye-talian" and then Republicans said he was being racist?

It was like Mondale or Carter or Dukakis.

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« Reply #58490 on: May 22, 2020, 11:16:07 PM »
Who was the Dem candidate who pronounced Italian as "eye-talian" and then Republicans said he was being racist?

It was like Mondale or Carter or Dukakis.

It was Carter, and Buddy Cianci went on TV to act offended by it.

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« Reply #58491 on: May 22, 2020, 11:16:10 PM »
You guys are talking about these things as they may have been in the past, PD is talking about how they are now that we have Vice President-elect Elena Klobuchar in office.

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« Reply #58492 on: May 22, 2020, 11:25:34 PM »
I just looked up this Elena thing and now I know for sure that I'm living in the worst of all possible worlds.
you just made the list too buster :karen

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« Reply #58493 on: May 22, 2020, 11:27:19 PM »
It was Carter, and Buddy Cianci went on TV to act offended by it.
Wow, you remember that from your childhood?
no from my early 40's

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« Reply #58494 on: May 22, 2020, 11:27:22 PM »
It was Carter, and Buddy Cianci went on TV to act offended by it.
Wow, you remember that from your childhood?
No, it was the same year he spent in college because of that horse.

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« Reply #58495 on: May 22, 2020, 11:30:25 PM »
It was Carter, and Buddy Cianci went on TV to act offended by it.
Wow, you remember that from your childhood?
No, it was the same year he spent in college because of that horse.
Giving this a like because you're referencing an actual comedian instead of something Red Eye related.

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« Reply #58496 on: May 22, 2020, 11:32:10 PM »
don't explain likes, it ruins the mystery

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« Reply #58497 on: May 22, 2020, 11:35:44 PM »
Guys I just found out that Nathan Robinson wrote a self-insert fanfic about the US going socdem.

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