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uncurable mlady posted:i would wear this after he loses the primary Do you even liberty, bro?
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George Pataki addresses the press at the SC Freedom Summit.
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Concerned Citizen posted:Again, this is a very broad sector. Not all finance was involved in subprime loans. In fact, most weren't. Apparently I was misremembering, PAC donations are the ones that are declared, not individual. Hoisted by my own petard. Also noted about the FEC thing. Apparently I've forgotten more about the 2008 campaign than I thought. quote:Wong page. These are the PAC contributions in 2008. You'll notice that FIRE is in fourth. Behind "ideological" (mostly leadership PACs and groups like EMILY's List), lawyers, and labor. You are looking at her 2003-2008 Senator election donations, I was looking at the Presidential donations. Mild mix-up. Actually, most interesting is that during her Senate career she recieved more labor donations than Wall Street ones. She receives a similar number of labor money in the presidential campaign, its just that it's completely overwhelmed by business money. quote:I don't disagree that money in politics has a corrupting effect. Research has shown that donors get preferential treatment. This is very clear, and that's why I support restrictive campaign finance laws. But it's also easy to overstate what that money buys you. In our modern primary system, candidates collect as much money as humanly possible. Hillary was a NY-based politician, and she went where the money was: there's a lot of easy campaign cash for a NY politician in Wall Street. That doesn't mean thee was a quid pro quo, or that she is Wall Street's candidate: maybe it just means a lot of people on Wall Street support her? Not surprisingly, they're not all Republicans. There are actually a ton of wealthy center-left donors there. I suppose I am more cynical than you on the motivations of donors? I imagine some of them are concerned of about standard democrat party positions but I doubt many want to reduce their income. Anyway, I'm emphasizing this donor stuff because Hillary's stated campaign positions for 2016 will be fairly leftwing, so there isn't really any other way to determine what she'll do if she wins beyond taking her at her word.
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Rand is at an event in San Francisco today called #DisruptingDemocracy.
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Joementum posted:Rand is at an event in San Francisco today called #DisruptingDemocracy. As a Bay Area native u I die a little inside every time I see the word "disrupt"
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May 10, 2015 00:21
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FAUXTON posted:It's breaded chicken with a pickle on a bun. i get mine without the pickle op
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:As a Bay Area native u "Disrupt" the residents of this apartment by raising the rent and forcing them out.
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Joementum posted:Rand is at an event in San Francisco today called #DisruptingDemocracy. Pictured: "libertarians" learning about Rand's stances on social issues.
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Joementum posted:George Pataki addresses the press at the SC Freedom Summit. So did Team Pataki believe the press was going to show up so much they helpfully provided tripods, or did someone leave that there for the next scheduled speaker?
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forbidden lesbian posted:i get mine without the pickle op the gently caress!?
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Vox Nihili posted:Pictured: "libertarians" learning about Rand's stances on social issues. There was a pretty good thread in GBS making GBS threads on the tech bubble geeks; a particularly chilling note was an email from one of these godawful nerds emailing some guru and asking him things like "We always hear about programmers working for hours on end, but our guys all clock out on time. Do we have to pay overtime if we make them stay?"
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Gyges posted:So did Team Pataki believe the press was going to show up so much they helpfully provided tripods, or did someone leave that there for the next scheduled speaker? That was the press pen at the South Carolina Freedom Summit today. Nobody wanted to talk to Pataki. 
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Demon Of The Fall posted:the gently caress!? i dont like pickles, hosed up but true
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forbidden lesbian posted:i dont like pickles, hosed up but true agreed, i hate them
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Joementum posted:Rand is at an event in San Francisco today called #DisruptingDemocracy. Does rand always wear the same terrible suit combination
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The question remains which candidate will capture the coveted "pickle-hater" demographic.
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joeburz posted:Does rand always wear the same terrible suit combination No. Sometimes he wears jeans and cowboy boots instead of khaki slacks. Though the reporter for the SF Chronicle noted his socks and shoelaces matched today. 
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Marco Rubio's campaign wants you to know he has a very particular set of skills.
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Joementum posted:Marco Rubio's campaign wants you to know he has a very particular set of skills. That's Liam Neeson you can't fool me Marco Rubio.
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Joementum posted:Marco Rubio's campaign wants you to know he has a very particular set of skills. So much for the first amendment 
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Joementum posted:Sanders campaign event about to kick off at Syracuse. In 2008 when I was all-in for Obama I went to an Obama rally in Savannah, GA where the keynote speaker was Tim Kaine himself. There were maybe 10 people there in the crowd. In Savannah loving Georgia. During the height of Obama's primary mania. So I wouldn't read too much into this, if it's true.
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Joementum posted:Marco Rubio's campaign wants you to know he has a very particular set of skills. But angry Neeson specifically goes after Europeans and never even ruffles the coat of a Muslim. Which is aside from claiming to be an Irishman when trying to run for President of the US.
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Joementum posted:Marco Rubio's campaign wants you to know he has a very particular set of skills. Image macros as foreign policy statements What an age we live in 
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Ted Cruz actually said this today "We need to abolish the IRS, pad lock the door and put all 90,000 employees on the Southern Border"
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Ted Cruz actually said this today https://www.google.com/search?q=%22...sm=122&ie=UTF-8 Weltlich fucked around with this message at 03:59 on May 10, 2015 |
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Ted Cruz actually said this today when the Revolution comes, there will be no need for the IRS as the people will have seized the means of production and will be self sufficient. there will be, however, need for greeters and welcome parties for the newly unlimited immigration from Latin America A Good Statement
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Full Battle Rattle posted:There was a pretty good thread in GBS making GBS threads on the tech bubble geeks; a particularly chilling note was an email from one of these godawful nerds emailing some guru and asking him things like "We always hear about programmers working for hours on end, but our guys all clock out on time. Do we have to pay overtime if we make them stay?" As someone running one of those companies, except even more next generation and next wave, with, er, a sort of socialist and collective directive stolen partially from Proctor and Gamble, I have to see this. What was the answer, by the way? (I know the answer is yes unless over a certain wage, etc, etc and you just salary them and then they're exempt, blah blah. I want to see the answer given.)
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Full Battle Rattle posted:There was a pretty good thread in GBS Ha ha.
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Warcabbit posted:As someone running one of those companies, except even more next generation and next wave, with, er, a sort of socialist and collective directive stolen partially from Proctor and Gamble, I have to see this. What was the answer, by the way? I'm guessing that same sort of person asked this: 
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Ted Cruz actually said this today Yeah, I'm surprised he still has it in there, too, since when somebody asked him who would collect taxes, his reply was that he would create an agency within the treasury department to do it. I guess maybe his problem isn't with collecting taxes per se, but he thinks that the 90,000 IRS people all suck at their jobs. Which is probably true, so what good will they do on the southern border? Especially since ths real threat to America came from the north. And is here already...
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sullat posted:Yeah, I'm surprised he still has it in there, too, since when somebody asked him who would collect taxes, his reply was that he would create an agency within the treasury department to do it. I guess maybe his problem isn't with collecting taxes per se, but he thinks that the 90,000 IRS people all suck at their jobs. Which is probably true, so what good will they do on the southern border? Especially since ths real threat to America came from the north. And is here already...
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sullat posted:Yeah, I'm surprised he still has it in there, too, since when somebody asked him who would collect taxes, his reply was that he would create an agency within the treasury department to do it. I guess maybe his problem isn't with collecting taxes per se, but he thinks that the 90,000 IRS people all suck at their jobs. Which is probably true, so what good will they do on the southern border? Especially since ths real threat to America came from the north. And is here already... He probably wants to use them as bait for the animalistic, thuggish Mexicans trying to sneak across the border so Our Brave Boys in far-right militias and terror groups can gun them down
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Glenn Zimmerman posted:You are looking at her 2003-2008 Senator election donations, I was looking at the Presidential donations. Mild mix-up. Actually, most interesting is that during her Senate career she recieved more labor donations than Wall Street ones. She receives a similar number of labor money in the presidential campaign, its just that it's completely overwhelmed by business money. True, you're right. I did link to the Senate page by mistake. For whatever reason, OpenSecrets doesn't seem to have a similar PAC page on the Presidential level - the one you linked is PAC + individual donors, which isn't as strictly relevant. (Nobody blinks an eye at Microsoft being a top contributor, for example - they're just a big corporation with a lot of wealthy progressives on payroll!) quote:I suppose I am more cynical than you on the motivations of donors? I imagine some of them are concerned of about standard democrat party positions but I doubt many want to reduce their income. I work professionally on Dem campaigns, so I have some experience with donors (although I do not work in finance). They have all sorts of motivations. On a Presidential scale, the vast majority of donors never even meet the candidate - even those that max out. They donate through bundlers or online. Some will go to fundraisers where they may get (brief) access to the candidate. Most of these people just want them to win - when they do get a chance to talk to the candidate, they mainly just suggest strategy ideas ("you should run a commercial where you talk directly into the camera about Medicare!"). You can work on Wall Street and think cops are racist, or that SNAP should be expanded. Heck, you can work on Wall Street and think Wall Street needs more regulation - a ton of people in that sector aren't Ayn Rand acolytes who want an anything-goes crazy town market. Most donors are really just content to have a candidate sit there and entertain their great "ideas" for slogans or state programs. They just want to feel important, basically. Of course, some donors *do* expect (and get) a level of access and power in exchange for their contributions. That's a thing that exists, and it's total bullshit. I think it's much less of a thing on a presidential level, where candidate or senior staff time is at an absolute premium, than on a Congressional level, and especially on state legislature level. But it's a thing.
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Nonsense posted:When is Bernie going to Austin or Liberal Beacon San Antonio? Sanders had a town meeting in Austin on March 31.
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