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gradenko_2000 posted:Right. You don't have to be capable of writing in "legalese" to be a representative of the people, because that's what your staff is for. my question there is how do you then pay that staff
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lawyers do what you pay them to do, it wouldn't be hard to find a team to work out the details the only reason progressive legislation is seen as impractical is because raising taxes has become this impossible hurdle thanks to generations of republican propaganda, actually it's a really easy thing to do. Tax the rich, bing bong.
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Mister Fister posted:Hillary was correct but stupid enough to say something like that publicly. It was her version of 47% or whatever that dumb thing Romney said. If Romney's 47% of people who were dependent on government included corporate welfare, subsidies and ridiculous carve outs for the rich I might have agreed with him.
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lol "staff" its 2018 jist gets a think tank to write all your legislature for you
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rudatron posted:lawyers do what you pay them to do, it wouldn't be hard to find a team to work out the details Or just deficit spend like we do for everything else.
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Serf posted:my question there is how do you then pay that staff A US House of Representative has a salary of 174,000 / year. By my extremely rough stupid calculations, that's enough for five people including yourself.
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gradenko_2000 posted:A US House of Representative has a salary of 174,000 / year. By my extremely rough stupid calculations, that's enough for five people including yourself. true. drat we pay them a lot
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Jun 28, 2018 16:55
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"raise taxes"? what? what is that? is that some kind of tax credit...? or is it...some defense project?...I don't *falls to the ground* it doesn't compute! it's impossible!
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Serf posted:true. drat we pay them a lot they're comfortable where they are so why would they introduce bills to tax themselves
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CountFosco posted:The various Caribbean tax-shelters will be easy to bring under control, but Switzerland will have to be let alone. A) it's in the middle of the EU and B) it's mountainous terrain and highly-armed and very healthy populace would make for a terrible guerrilla war. One step at a time. Give me 1000 powerful warriors and I can take switzerland in a week
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As long as you get into close melee range the swiss pikemen will be at s disadvantage Also autocorrect corrects pikemen to pokemon, which is sad
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Calibanibal posted:As long as you get into close melee range the swiss pikemen will be at s disadvantage you'd be cut down by their arbalestoises before you even got close
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GalacticAcid posted:what institutions are producing people ready to do quality staff work for left wing officeholders? what ivy league should i send my extremely white son to in order to foster a true spirit of #allyship
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ElNarez posted:basket #1 and basket #3 were actually the same exact basket, also Not necessarily -- my dad is absolutely basket #1 because he was a Massachusetts Republican until the Tea Party became a thing and drove him off (he hasn't voted for a Republican President since 2004), but not basket #3. He's one of those Panera moderates Robby Mook thought he could nab, and in 2016 he left the President box blank. One of the main reasons Operation Panera failed is that they forgot a lot of those suburban Republicans were in box #1 and would write in Mickey Mouse (while voting straight R in downticket)
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my grandpa voted obama (and hillary) because the republicans destroyed the stock market which is where all his money was lol
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mormonpartyboat posted:what ivy league should i send my extremely white son to in order to foster a true spirit of #allyship Absolutely Brown He'll get laughed out of all the unpaid-lanyard-intern parties if he's not from Harvard, Yale, or Princeton though The problem is, they still think this poo poo is a game
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Frijolero posted:The main attack against AOC will continue to be that "she doesn't know how to do the things she promises." You can't just Build Libraries!
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Third wayism can suck my drat balls
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Again, this is either 1) Weakness and stupidity 2) Controlled opposition Regardless, get them the gently caress out of there.
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thank you Senator Tester for taking the high road
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i really like that people are suddenly saying aoc only won because shes latina -- to them, does that mean hillary didnt rightfully earn her primary win because the voting democratic populace is primarily women?
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logikv9 posted:they heard "racist, sexist, xenophobic" and they thought they fit right in “For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin. Oh and also there's a multiplier effect when we insult them in such a broadly generalized way that all of them with even the mildest bias will be predisposed to take offense, or ideally, embrace it!" It's pretty dumb to insult voters likely only to vote against you, no matter the truth there is to it. It's mind-bogglingly idiotic if your politics and your electoral strategy is to court them. They boosted Trump as the unpalatable, unelectable wedge that would force republicans over into the centrist fever-dream landslide... Gosh imagine being such an historically lovely candidate that you can manage to aptly condemn racist, sexist, and xenophobic opponents and really shoot yourself in the foot in so doing.
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anime was right posted:i really like that people are suddenly saying aoc only won because shes latina -- to them, does that mean hillary didnt rightfully earn her primary win because the voting democratic populace is primarily women? she didnt earn it because she ran unopposed
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I still think the divide between the GOP is between the white moderates and the White Citizen Council types, like MLK wrote about.
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mormonpartyboat posted:she didnt earn it because she ran unopposed im not talking about objective reality, im talking about their point of view which is to say, nothing matter
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Al! posted:you'd be cut down by their arbalestoises before you even got close All I have to do is survive the first Volley. I'll have plenty of time to close the distance then
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hobotrashcanfires posted:“For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin. You know, the Dem strategy of moving ever rightward on the economy and crime to attract upper-middle/lower-upper-class white Republican women in the suburbs might actually work if Roe is overturned. Tump is about to step into a trap that establishment Dems have been setting for decades. Suck it, Bernailures!
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The Little Kielbasa posted:You know, the Dem strategy of moving ever rightward on the economy and crime to attract upper-middle/lower-upper-class white Republican women in the suburbs might actually work if Roe is overturned.
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The Little Kielbasa posted:You know, the Dem strategy of moving ever rightward on the economy and crime to attract upper-middle/lower-upper-class white Republican women in the suburbs might actually work if Roe is overturned. Nah if Roe gets overturned they will just plan a trip up to Canada if their teenage daughter has an oopsie
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Zurich is on a flat plain and Geneva is basically dependent on France not blockading it. The swiss only like to pretend Hitler was scared because the truth makes them look bad.
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rudatron posted:lawyers do what you pay them to do, it wouldn't be hard to find a team to work out the details It hurts the job creators. You know.the guys that are bringing back all the manufacturing after the 1.5 trillion tax cut.
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Feldegast42 posted:Nah if Roe gets overturned they will just plan a trip up to Canada if their teenage daughter has an oopsie if roe v wade is overturned, you can probably still get an abortion but only in specific states my guess is they will take a case that bans abortion outright if they want to
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Why did no one primary him 3 weeks ago?
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Without democrats caving pre-emptively it would be as easy as three republican senators not being able to make it to the senate for a couple months
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Gregoriev posted:Why did no one primary him 3 weeks ago? montana
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