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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who ran a surprisingly strong campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination last year, said he hasn’t made a decision whether to run. “But everything being equal, I think I probably will, yes,” Sanders added in a recent interview.

Spun Dog posted:

Right after the crash there were a ton of articles blaming loan recipients who "Should have known better." This sounds like just another scapegoat for the Wall St. fucks who did the real damage.

Spun Dog posted:

The common talking point at the time was that the market will only ever go up from here, so you can't possibly lose money.

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The motto in my office is this: "In God we trust. But for everyone else, show me the data"

There is no reasonable data that shows anything other than single-payer healthcare as the best method of managing healthcare costs and outcomes. Not a perfect method, but the best method.

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We need everyone in the healthcare system. Keeping illegal immigrants out of any new single-payer system is just politics. There is no reason to sort human beings into piles of those "deserving" healthcare and those that are "undeserving," except to play politics by preying on our basest instincts. There shouldn't be illegal immigrants. We need comprehensive immigration reform, but the "problem" of illegal immigrants' healthcare is an immigration problem and not a healthcare policy problem.

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I know you agree with me on this, because I listen to your podcast [laughs], but it's like our criminal justice system. We've become this retribution culture. And... I worry about this because, I've been involved for three years now trying to reform the criminal justice system, and what we all talk about is "non-violent offenders, non-violent offenders, non-violent offenders..." But, we as a country need to come to grips with the fact that there are a lot of people who are in jail for far too long that are violent offenders as well. But for some reason, that is something that you are not allowed to have a conversation about. There is almost a... sickness in the way we are encouraged to think about these people and the casualness with which we accept violence against their person. We as a country are often too obsessed with violence and retribution.

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Single-payer is the end of the road. The question is how we get there. I think that our political system and our employer-provided healthcare system will resist these changes, but they will come. The most likely outcome is probably going to be a "pincer maneuver" of Medicare or Medicaid; slowly decreasing the eligibility age down from 65 and up from children until we get everyone. That is probably the best way to do it. We will probably need to make sacrifices for the sake of political convenience or preserving the stability of people's plans to avoid spooking the general public. However, that doesn't mean that we accept half-measures on outcomes.

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In education, many countries are "Out-Americaning" us here in America. The decline in quality outcomes from the United States education system tracks, it's almost shocking how close it tracks, to the decline of public investment in our universities and our youth. You can look at the massive economic benefits, the dollars and cents, that come from investing in universal pre-school and funding our public universities. Funding our public universities means funding our general and non-specific, maybe even non-commercial, research. It also means funding options to reduce the debt burden our students are graduating with. Again, look at the data, students in the US with large debt loads are driven to certain careers or they slowly dig themselves out of their debt burden overtime. That's money they aren't spending on homes, food, or other more useful sectors of the American economy.

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I love Hillary Clinton and I think that a lot of the... can I just call it crap? I think so - that was said about her during the campaign was ridiculous. Before she even thought about politics, the first thing she did was get into law for poor children. The idea that she has always been on the lookout for only herself or her corporate donors denigrates the work she did for those kids. It also hurts because those organizations aren't acknowledged.

That said, there is one major thing that I think she did wrong in the campaign. And... and... I don't want to, uh, give a nod to Donald Trump, but we have a lot of work to do in getting the USA back on top of, not just economic but personal well-being, indices that matter. But somebody saying, "Let's make America great again" and the response being "America already is great!" is... I think mistaken. People don't feel connected to their country or their community. Life expectancy in our nation is declining, precipitously in some cases, in major sections of the population. Telling them that America already is great feels, to them, like you are invalidating their feelings. Beyond the fact that the data says that, in some areas and for some populations, that just isn't true.

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I've heard every politician I know, Republican and Democrat, talk about the middle class. But, even my good friend Elizabeth Warren, they don't really talk about the poor. When was the last time you heard a politician or a presidential speech that mentioned their new plan to help the poor? The people where I live, and I still live in the same house in Newark that I've been living in for 14 years, aren't kidding themselves about what class they belong to. And I... and I hear people say, "There aren't classes in America!" But tell that to people from Newark. Even their own schools were taken from them. I was the Mayor, the Mayor of a major US city, and I was elected with a - I'm gonna do Trump now - a huge percentage of the vote. But it was, mostly white, politicians in Trenton and Chris Christie who controlled their schools. They weren't kidding themselves. When they heard people talking about their new plans for students and the middle class, they knew that people weren't talking to them.

PhazonLink posted:

So NYC is having a primary voting today.


LOL if DeBlassio loses because whites got their feefees hurt.

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Extreme heat, drenched in sweat, with no air movement, scores of angry men, snoring and other bad, unpleasant sounds—I remember moaning to myself, ‘How the “f” did I end up here? What happened?

Maybe I had too much pride. I know I could’ve been more humble. I could’ve been less combative. I still believe, ultimately, we’ll prevail.

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He said his time behind bars “has put me closer to God.”

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His lawyers argued that his stint as the singer of the Jailhouse Rockers was evidence of his changed character. The band had a 21-song setlist, according to the AP, and broke up because the guitarist was released.

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“When I first came to prison, there was a notoriety to me,” Blagojevich says. His soon-to-be fellow inmates watched his arrival live on CNN. In the cash-free economy of prison, Blagojevich’s celebrity was currency. During his first few weeks, his ID card kept getting stolen. “They thought they could sell ’em for something, but it was loving worthless.” Blagojevich says.

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A reporter asked him to describe his experience in federal prison. "There’s lots of room for shenanigans,” he says.

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My jurisdiction was once all of the State of Illinois. Now I’ve got two hallways to clean,” he says. “I feel like I was a very good governor, and now I feel like I’m doing a pretty good job on those floors.” He recalls that his first job, at age 9, was as a shoeshine boy. “I was making more money then than I’m making as a 60-year-old former governor with a college degree and a law degree. Does that make any sense?"

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In one of our phone calls, Blagojevich tells me how a correctional officer had chewed him out a few days earlier in the prison gym: “I was wearing a cutoff T-shirt, you know, like one of those muscle shirts, and he yelled at me, ‘You can’t wear that! Get out of here!’ And I said, ‘I’m in the gym.’ He said, ‘Get out of here!’ And I just walked away, but I muttered to myself, ‘Boy, if I ever get that power back …’ Then I caught myself, and I was like, ‘No, there’s no lesson in that. The guy’s doing his job.’ ”

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Blagojevich has come to savor the small acts of kindness. On his first day, he tells me, a group of inmates presented him with the big-house version of a welcome basket. “They took up a collection and put together a gift bag and gave me a whole bunch of different stuff that I would need before I had a chance to go to the commissary.” Among the items were coffee, a couple of plastic mugs, and a toothbrush. “It was really kind of touching. You know, these are big, tough guys, drug dealers and gangbangers and bank robbers—they have so little, right?—and it’s kind of a sweet thing that they did, welcoming you to their world. I've always been blessed to have that effect on people."

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“I’ve had a chance in prison over these many years to get closer, stronger in my faith,” says Blagojevich, once an altar boy at his Serbian Orthodox church. “The lessons from the Bible and scripture have been very helpful to me. It’s strengthened my strength."

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In prison, nearly everyone has a nickname. “In my housing unit alone,” Blagojevich says, “there was Smelly, Socks, Sharkey, V, Mr. B, and Boo.” Blagojevich’s nickname? Gov, naturally.

Lote posted:

Looks kinda like John Oliver

Lote posted:

That is hilarious. This is a plot line out of Parks and Rec.

Ague Proof posted:

You know when people say Clinton was impeached for lying to the American people - "depends on what Is means" - do they ever bring up Reagan's best quote?

Pembroke Fuse posted:

Racism is a boring thing that white people love? :p

Polygynous posted:

stockholder lives(???) matter

Jaxyon posted:

Also I'd like to add that the idea that black folks are any more homophobic than any other group is a racist myth.

PerniciousKnid posted:

http://www.pewforum.org/fact-sheet/changing-attitudes-on-gay-marriage/

If you look at the breakdown by religion, black Protestants now as always fall between white "mainline" and "Evangelical" Protestants, which is about what I would've naively expected based on my limited knowledge of Protestants.

What I don't see, interestingly, is any apparent "Obama effect" on black Protestants.

PerniciousKnid posted:

There is, but my point was to explore religiosity as an explanation and show that black and white religious had comparable support.

With more time I'd look for religious/non-religious breakdowns by race, I was just making a point that minorities are not universally as liberal as the left-most wing of whites.

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Equifax had patch 2 months before hack and didn’t install it, security group says

Hackers took advantage of an Equifax security vulnerability two months after an industry group discovered the coding flaw and shared a fix for it, raising questions about why Equifax didn't update its software successfully when the danger became known.
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Installing the patch would have required rebooting the machine to apply it. Equifax declined to do so and records indicate that the machine had not been rebooted for 83 consecutive days. Federal regulators are now investigating whether Equifax is at fault. The Federal Trade Commission and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have said they've opened probes into the hack.

moostaffa posted:

Equifax needs to stop existing as a company. Corporate death penalty with mandatory jail time for executives is the way to solve this loving problem.

Democrazy posted:

Woah, talk about corporations as people.

WampaLord posted:

Never post again.

Accretionist posted:

Man, are you really mocking the concept of Victim Blaming?

WampaLord posted:

Swing and a miss, dipshit. Just post like a person, no lovely gimmick.

A lovely Reporter posted:

See, this is why I had that bit in the Trump Thread OP warning about Leon's fakeposting.

Javes posted:

https://twitter.com/bradheath/status/908709196358660097

Facebook is basically a law enforcement tool with the side feature of being a social network.

Ogmius815 posted:

How on earth is what he posted off topic? You're being unreasonable.

WampaLord posted:

Crowsbeak posted:

Could they still charge him with tampering with evidence?

Caros posted:

Eh, I've seem prosecutors get away with that.

If police can convict a man of murder for lending his car to someone who had been found innocent of the murder, they could convict this gut for planting evidence.

I mean, they won't.

PhazonLink posted:

Didn't a colorado city also fix it's homelessness problem by going "Hey we have all those empty apartments from the housing bubble and homeless people. lets put them together."

Relentlessboredomm posted:

Is there a major American city not in the midst of a housing crisis?

Relentlessboredomm posted:

Not a major city: Des Moines is not a major city, neither is Fargo, Columbus, or Boise.

Relentlessboredomm posted:

Oh cool, I wasn't sure about Wilmington and Salt Lake. I can go ahead and toss them into the not a city category.

Columbus has a million people? Where the gently caress do they live? That city is rinky dink as gently caress. Freaking Tucson seems bigger.

Definitely didn't say that. I was pointing out why they haven't yet gotten a housing crisis. They've moved out rather than up but even that has its limits.


Why don't you just use this list so we don't have to argue between city and metro region.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Largest_metropolitan_areas_of_the_United_States

Which of those doesn't have a housing crisis?

Detroit and St Louis are smoking craters, the rest are in the midst or on the verge with the notable exception of the Twin Cities.

Relentlessboredomm posted:

1. that list has Washington Dc on it so it's completely invalid.

2. I said *major* American city. We can quibble about that or not.


It was a mildly hyperbolic comment about the sheer unaffordability of much of the places in this country with actual decent jobs.

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Rolling Stone, rock'n'roll magazine turned liberal cheerleader, bankrupt and seeking a buyer

It is the magazine that described investment bank Goldman Sachs as “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity”, George W Bush as the “worst president in history” and featured a photo of a naked John Lennon curled around Yoko Ono on its front page.

But after almost 50 years of seminal covers and epoch-shifting articles, the owners of Rolling Stone have put the title up for sale amid financial difficulties.

Founded by Jann Wenner in 1967 when he was a 21-year-old hippie student in California, Wenner now runs the rock’n’roll magazine turned liberal cheerleader with his son Gus, the president of the family publishing company.

On Sunday, the pair announced they were planning to sell their remaining stake in the title that has both ruthlessly skewered public figures, and helped to launch the careers of such influential creatives as photographer Annie Leibovitz and the gonzo journalist Hunter S Thompson.

The pressure on the publishing industry from the rise of the internet, a costly libel battle, and financial deals that with the benefit of hindsight look like unwise have combined to prompt the Wenners to consider their options.

Enigma89 posted:

A $3 million settlement was all it took to bring this magazine down?

Is it really dead? That article seemed like the owners just wants some liquidity not necessarily that it is about to die or am I totally wrong?

The Muppets On PCP posted:

the brand is worth enough someone will keep it alive

newsweek's still lurching around for example

BlueberryCanary posted:

So what is the timeline like for the Graham-Cassidy bill in the senate? Does anyone even know?