white sauce posted:

Clinton is a fascist in a clever disguise

EugeneJ posted:

https://twitter.com/kingkonggcash/status/913437204772507649

comedyblissoption posted:

bloomberg: More Americans Are Falling Behind on Student Loans, and Nobody Quite Knows Why

comedyblissoption posted:

bloomberg: More Americans Are Falling Behind on Student Loans, and Nobody Quite Knows Why

white sauce posted:

Clinton is a fascist in a clever disguise

punk rebel ecks posted:

How have the French avoided income inequality spiraling out of control after the 70s, like every other country did?

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

lol amateurs

https://twitter.com/pplpolicyproj/status/913115689090732033


(ya it’s wealth not income but w/e)

EugeneJ posted:

https://twitter.com/kingkonggcash/status/913437204772507649

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

lol amateurs

https://twitter.com/pplpolicyproj/status/913115689090732033


(ya it’s wealth not income but w/e)

EugeneJ posted:

https://twitter.com/kingkonggcash/status/913437204772507649

comedyblissoption posted:

bloomberg: More Americans Are Falling Behind on Student Loans, and Nobody Quite Knows Why

quote:

Under those income-based repayment plans, meant to help borrowers who can’t afford the typical monthly payment, even debtors with no income can remain in good standing on their loans, so long as they annually document their earnings. They’re why the Obama administration aimed for a “zero default rate," former Education Undersecretary Ted Mitchell said in 2015.

punk rebel ecks posted:

How have the French avoided income inequality spiraling out of control after the 70s, like every other country did?

comedyblissoption posted:

many americans do believe that the fundamental economic system of capitalism is an apolitical issue. to question it is a social taboo. it's an incredibly successful lobotomy.

Darkman Fanpage posted:

Willa Rogers posted:

other cutting-edge news from bloomberg


Cannabis has been shown to increase users’ appetite, sending many customers of legalized dispensaries to fast-food chains, according to a new study by Green Market Report and Consumer Research Around Cannabis.

Forty-three percent of legal-marijuana users ate at a McDonald’s restaurant in the past four weeks, the survey found. Eighteen percent ate at Taco Bell, while 17.8 percent went to Wendy’s. Those results were significantly higher than among respondents who hadn’t visited a dispensary.

Some 27,500 people responded to the online survey. Other restaurant chains that saw higher consumption from cannabis users included Burger King, KFC, Jack in the Box and Carl’s Jr., according to the study.

Frijolero posted:

This is still happening:
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/913226799647268864

docbeard posted:

I'm starting to think that Russia actually did something really clever. (I consider this marginally more likely than the supposed American Deep State doing something really clever.)

A few rumors here, a few transparent failed 'hacking' attempts there, a few twitterbots and facebook ads over here, and suddenly everyone is accusing everyone else of having been subverted by the Russian Cybermenace and they didn't actually have to do anything much at all.

They done Monsters On Maple Streeted us.

Willa Rogers posted:

other cutting-edge news from bloomberg


Cannabis has been shown to increase users’ appetite, sending many customers of legalized dispensaries to fast-food chains, according to a new study by Green Market Report and Consumer Research Around Cannabis.

Forty-three percent of legal-marijuana users ate at a McDonald’s restaurant in the past four weeks, the survey found. Eighteen percent ate at Taco Bell, while 17.8 percent went to Wendy’s. Those results were significantly higher than among respondents who hadn’t visited a dispensary.

Some 27,500 people responded to the online survey. Other restaurant chains that saw higher consumption from cannabis users included Burger King, KFC, Jack in the Box and Carl’s Jr., according to the study.

Willa Rogers posted:

other cutting-edge news from bloomberg


Cannabis has been shown to increase users’ appetite, sending many customers of legalized dispensaries to fast-food chains, according to a new study by Green Market Report and Consumer Research Around Cannabis.

Forty-three percent of legal-marijuana users ate at a McDonald’s restaurant in the past four weeks, the survey found. Eighteen percent ate at Taco Bell, while 17.8 percent went to Wendy’s. Those results were significantly higher than among respondents who hadn’t visited a dispensary.

Some 27,500 people responded to the online survey. Other restaurant chains that saw higher consumption from cannabis users included Burger King, KFC, Jack in the Box and Carl’s Jr., according to the study.

babypolis posted:

lol news media is such incredible trash

the best is when you see literally the same loving story, word for word, on multiple sites

ThndrShk2k posted:

Check to see if it's an AP story when you notice it, as it most likely it is.

white sauce posted:

Clinton is a fascist in a clever disguise

Darkman Fanpage posted:

etalian posted:

wish I had saved the Bernie version of this

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/pacelattin/status/913225324652933120

https://twitter.com/RukhnamaLives/status/913252908921163776

https://twitter.com/sarahkendzior/status/913352187434213377

Captain_Maclaine posted:

NPR had someone on this morning promoting a book he'd written on the history of American Capitalism and over and over he kept insisting that capitalism was best understood divorced from political ideology and purely as a disinterested economic system that just sorta functioned on its own and who's shortcomings were the responsibility of society to ameliorate (and which somehow were not inherent to its own model). I may have sworn a bunch while listening to it.

etalian posted:

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMa_YsoBIow

MaxxBot posted:

https://twitter.com/timkaine/status/912825440859049984

etalian posted:

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMa_YsoBIow

docbeard posted:

I'm starting to think that Russia actually did something really clever. (I consider this marginally more likely than the supposed American Deep State doing something really clever.)

A few rumors here, a few transparent failed 'hacking' attempts there, a few twitterbots and facebook ads over here, and suddenly everyone is accusing everyone else of having been subverted by the Russian Cybermenace and they didn't actually have to do anything much at all.

They done Monsters On Maple Streeted us.

loquacius posted:

at least one Seinfeld alum managed to have another successful project post-Seinfeld

Jerry has that thing where he rides in cars with other comedians and Kramer has that thing where he yells racial slurs but that's it

Nonsense posted:

https://twitter.com/NickAPappas/status/913142207900798976

quote:

The Democratic Party is making high-speed Internet access a new plank in its economic agenda as it tries to regain trust among middle-class Americans in the country's heartland.

Democratic lawmakers are calling for $40 billion in new federal funding for infrastructure projects for rural and tribal areas and other regions, whose access to fast, affordable broadband has lagged behind that of dense, urban areas. The proposal, unveiled Thursday, would have Internet providers compete for the right to build out the networks. Also local governments and cooperatives would be eligible for funding, according to a party white paper on the matter.

***

The effort suggests Democrats are seeking to turn Internet access into a campaign issue in upcoming midterm races. By incorporating rural broadband into the party's overarching “Better Deal” economic plan, the “digital divide” is gaining a prominence that has rarely been seen before in the party's platform.

***

But Democrats are likely to face competition for the mantle of Internet-access champion. Some Republicans have made spreading Internet access far and wide a key priority. Ajit Pai, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, undertook a multistate tour this year of areas that he said are in desperate need of connectivity.

“If you live in rural America, there’s a better than 1-in-4 chance that you lack access to fixed high-speed broadband at home, compared to a 1-in-50 probability in our cities,” Pai wrote in a reflection on his trip in the summer.

Although Pai is a political appointee, not an elected official, he has argued for the Trump administration to include broadband as part of the White House's infrastructure proposal — a commitment Trump vowed to make during a speech in July in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

quote:

Existing providers in unserved and underserved areas would be given the opportunity to use funds to upgrade their existing networks to provide high-speed internet at an affordable price for consumers and businesses.

Over Easy posted:

oh man this poo poo is great

"I am comfortable as poo poo and I can abstractly imagine myself as part of a continuum of humanity from the comfort of my bullshit nerfball life. Why you complaining poor?"

Vox Nihili posted:

Nah, fascists have principles.

Willa Rogers posted:

I looked up that hot new broadband plan that dems were touting yesterday and just lolol


I figured it wouldn't be as cool & good as, say, calling for free municipal wifi, but I didn't think it'd be as weaksauce as jumping on the trump train.

and yes, it'll be buckets full o' cash for telecoms, according to the white paper:


"given the opportunity to use funds" = here comes dat dnc-convention payday, comcast!