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 Kevin De Leon: 54% Dianne Feinstein: 37% granny foiled by months-old tweet Willa Rogers fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Jul 14, 2018 |
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Jul 14, 2018 19:04
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nm, that was a pinned tweet from feb. 
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Jul 14, 2018 19:11
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etalian posted:In a short interview, Thompson said he would relish it if Estes and Republicans criticized him for campaigning with self-identified Democratic Socialists. "I welcome their socialism"
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Jul 15, 2018 03:14
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l looked up wasserman-schultz's book (2013) and drat, you know it's bad if publisher's weekly rips you this bad: quote:In this rote, camera-ready recitation of the party platform, Democratic National Committee Chair Wasserman Schultz hews close to official talking points. The youngest woman ever elected to the Florida State Legislature, only the third woman to head up the DNC, and a cancer survivor, Wasserman Schultz's personal story is an impressive one, but little of the will and power of the person appears on these pages. Instead, she and co-writer Fenster provide a run-down of last year's popular campaign issues, including immigration, women's rights, health-care, and, of course the economy, outlining the official Democratic position on each, while explaining how and why the Republican party is the wrong choice for America. The chapter on foreign policy neglects to mention the hugely unpopular drone program, and no reference to the Keystone XL pipeline sullies Wasserman Schultz's pristine take on the Democratic environmental platform. Anyone longing for a retread of last year's campaign will enjoy this defense of the winning position; however, political junkies and non-partisan observers will find nothing more than the status quo.
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Jul 15, 2018 03:24
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top-rated review of deb's book on amazon:quote:Ayn Rand is a terrible writer and failed philosopher. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is worse. This book is full of nauseating retreads of failed political ambitions. Her thought for "The Next Generation" are nothing short of reselling the failures of Reagan's Trickle Down Economics to the next generation in support of the dying Democratic Party. This book is not worth the electrons to download it let alone the insult to the environment to print it with ink on paper.
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Jul 15, 2018 03:27
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"For the Next Generation" is a matter-of-fact book that addresses national policy issues with the ultimate goal of making our nation stronger for the next generation. Congresswoman and chair of the Democratic National Committee, Debbie Wasserman Schultz provides the readers with an enlightening book on current issues and how to resolve them. The book is straightforward and you get enough of Wasserman's engaging personality to keep it from becoming a strictly political talking-points book. This informational 320-page book includes the following fourteen chapters: 1. Strengthening the Economy (So Our Children Don't Have To), 2. Safety Nets, Built to Last, 3. Health Care: A Right Worth Fighting For, 4. A Superpower for Peace, 5. We Know the Drill, 6. Infrastructure Powers Economic Growth, 7. Kids Learn Best When Parents Teach First, 8. Keeping Kids Healthy and Safe, 9. Putting the Fight Back in Women's Rights, 10. America's Promise to Immigrants, 11. Civil Rights: A March Without End, 12. Aiming for Sensible Policy on Guns, 13. Discourse, Not Discord, and 14. To Belong to Something.
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Jul 15, 2018 03:28
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translation: 1. austerity; catfood commision 2. more austerity 3. aca lol 4. bomb iran on behalf of israel 5. bomb bomb iran 6. public monies for private contractors 7. gently caress teachers' unions 8. weed prohibition 9. grrrlpower 10. lol, our promise to immigrants ain't poo poo 11. john lewis gets spit on (maybe) 12. my pollster told me to include this 13.  14. and by that, I mean "nothing"
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Jul 15, 2018 03:35
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same guy tweeted: The Big 5 [harris, biden, warren, booker & sanders] will have company: Deval & Landrieu forming federal pacs, Garcetti telling donors they should plan on him running, Gillibrand stepping up midterm travel & talking to Clinton advisers. so much succ... so little time.
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Jul 15, 2018 17:05
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I want nothing more than for sanders to run among this crew.
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Jul 15, 2018 17:05
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The Nastier Nate posted:I like warren for the most part but I don’t see her unseating trump trump would destroy "pocahontas" with his non-stop hounding her for a dna test.
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Jul 15, 2018 17:07
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Iron Twinkie posted:I still think Harris is still the most likely decorum standard bearer. She ticks all the right IDpol boxes, has the blessing of the Hampton donors already, and is a cop. Biden is probably still a strong contender though. His combination of bad politics, Obama nostalgia, being an old white sex pest, open contempt for the voters, and track record of lost presidential runs is going to be like loving catnip to these people. yah, agreed on harris and p. much agreed about biden. plus harris has that bad-dem attribute of appearing to be for nice things like medicare-for-all with that gushy centrism inside once you crack the shell. plus so little of a track record legislating will be seen as an advantage, as it was with obama when he ran for pres. To this day dnd'ers will claim "he voted against the iraq war" when he wasn't even in congress then (to which they'll reply: "but he would have voted against it if he'd had the chance!").
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Jul 15, 2018 19:34
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john brennan was an accessory to hillary's crime of killing vilerat.
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Jul 17, 2018 04:46
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Main Paineframe posted:"It's not just money that a job provides," said Obama. "It provides dignity and structure and a sense of place and a sense of purpose. So we're going to have to consider new ways of thinking about these problems, like a universal income, review of our workweek, how we retrain our young people, how we make everybody an entrepreneur at some level. But we're going have to worry about economics if we want to get democracy back on track." dude did that bolded part already when he bought into the gig economy + incentivized employers to classify workers as indy contractors so as to not have to pay for their health insurance. the "self-employed" grew at the rate of like 500,000/year under obama.
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Jul 17, 2018 23:01
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anime was right posted:its good enough. it needs to be in tatters for it to reflect poorly on trump. "it's not obamacare, it's trumpcare! if it hadn't been undermined by trump the aca would finally have succeeded by now, a full 8 years after it passed; the insurers would have their buttloads of government money and people would be compelled to buy private insurance beyond 2018."--every loving liberal I've seen talk about the aca
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Jul 20, 2018 01:27
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GalacticAcid posted:New Ides to Make Democrats the Party of the Future lol, trump's tax bill taking 20 percent off the top of profits for sole-proprietor and other pass-thru income does way more to "help small businesses" than "attracting investment capital" or bullshit loans. and dems have been talking about trade apprenticeships for at least the past three decades.
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Jul 20, 2018 18:31
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:i get that biden is polling highest right now but it seems insane to me that people think he’s actually realistically #1 right now given #metoo and the leftward swing it feels like we’re in at the beginning of 2003, joe lieberman was polling the highest among dem candidates. joe lieberman. who gore picked to be his running mate in 2000, lmao.
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Jul 20, 2018 18:33
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:lmao that’s amazing, is there polling collected somewhere of top presidential candidates 2+ years out? pollingreport.com keeps all their old polls, I think; they have a search feature, too.
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Jul 20, 2018 18:44
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Gio posted:https://twitter.com/gretchenwhitmer/status/1020482100837969920?s=21 Of course she doesn't; she was convinced to run & funded by Blue Cross, and her dad was CEO of Blue Cross Michigan from 1988 to 2006.
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Jul 21, 2018 22:57
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Ytlaya posted:This is why it's stupid when liberals like to bring up "but when you mention taxes people don't support MfA!" Like, no poo poo, the wording in those polls will imply to the average person that those taxes are on top of what they're currently spending. They're usually not going to put 2 and 2 together and realize that those taxes will be replacing an existing (usually much higher) payment. that's why ABDUL! is such a genius in creating this graphic, which bad-dems will studiously ignore (especially in a state in which the leading dem is a tool of blue cross):  from this excellent non-succ story
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Jul 22, 2018 18:16
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lol at the linked story: Third Way officials even attempted to remove the “moderate” moniker from the event, encouraging those in attendance to call themselves “opportunity Democrats.” (The event itself was labeled “Opportunity 2020.”)
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Jul 22, 2018 22:52
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Crowsbeak posted:HELL YEAH! love how he ignores that state-based single-payer has failed because elected dems + their healthcare donors opposehd it (as did non-establishment planned parenthood) and also his claim that all dumbos who don't or can't attend college are trump voters.
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Jul 23, 2018 18:16
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loquacius posted:Every party leader who happens to be an old white man with perfectly-coiffed white hair and a face that looks like somebody took a hair-dryer to a wax model of themselves and whose plans for the party's future involve the word "entrepreneurship" should lose their seat to a dynamic young socialist immediately TIA
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Jul 24, 2018 16:52
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:i posted this yesterday but since matty is bringing it up again, the boomer corps already exists I clicked on the section titled "senior corps & health benefits" bc I was thinking "olds already get medicare so wtf" and it's actually the results of one survey that says "volunteering makes you healthier" lolol.
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Jul 26, 2018 16:59
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Contributing to a growing conversation around the health benefits of volunteering, particularly for older adults, the Corporation for National and Community Service launched two longitudinal studies in 2015 to assess the impact of service on Foster Grandparent and Senior Companion volunteers and the caregivers of Senior Companion clients. New data from the first year of the study shows Senior Corps volunteers report improved health after just one year of service. Volunteers reported decreased anxiety and depression, decreased loneliness and social isolation, enhanced physical capacity, and higher life satisfaction.
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Jul 26, 2018 17:00
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zegermans posted:https://m.riverfronttimes.com/newsblog/2018/07/26/joe-biden-was-everywhere-in-st-louis-yesterday-and-it-was-everything I love how liberals affectionately refer to him as Uncle Joe, as this writer does, and are totally oblivious to the urge for most people to mentally insert "creepy" before "uncle."
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Jul 26, 2018 22:37
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that whole story is one barfy graf after another Photographer Ed Aller (of Allernothing.com) was at the Arch for the event. He remarked on Biden's realness in a public Facebook post: "I heard Joe Biden say to a wounded Veteran 'Aw hell man, I'd love to give ya a push if that's okay.' You can tell by this man's expression that this was a very special moment for him and it's moments like this that I'm honored to be a part of while 'working.'" *** After that, the Biden trail goes cold, but who knows? Did Uncle Joe end up at the racetrack betting on the horses? Singing karaoke at Talayna's? Perhaps even sitting on Mark Dew's piano at the Hideaway a la Lauren Bacall and Harry S Truman? Who knows? He's a friendly guy, and we may be hearing about Biden sightings for days to come. Incidentally, Biden's visit to St. Louis came at the same time as a major story out of D.C. suggesting he's the guy President Trump fears most in 2020 — and that Pennsylvania is the state he's most anxious will flip. Judging by the outsized reaction his interactions drew in St. Louis, could it be Trump should also be sweating Missouri? trump is prolly coming up with Creepy Uncle Joe tweets while counting how many points he'll beat him by if it's head-to-head in 2020.
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Jul 26, 2018 22:41
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it's not unionization, but a lil credit goes to bernie imo Disneyland Resort workers approve contract that raises the minimum hourly wage to $15 by next year edit: wait, they're union workers Unions representing nearly 10,000 workers at the Disneyland Resort ended a months-long labor dispute by voting Thursday in favor of a three-year contract that raises hourly wages by as much as 20% immediately and an additional 13% in January. The employees — including candy makers, custodians, retail workers, attraction operators and others — voted by secret ballot throughout the day at Disneyland’s Lincoln Theater in favor of an offer that raises the minimum hourly rate of $11 to $13.25 immediately and to $15 starting in January, three years before California’s minimum wage is scheduled to reach that level. An increase to $15.50 an hour is slated for June 2020. Resort employees with higher salaries, such as truck drivers, would get more modest wage increases, with workers who earn $20 an hour receiving a raise of 60 cents an hour immediately and an additional 75 cents in January. Hourly pay would increase to $21.99 in June 2020. All workers will get a retroactive pay increase of either 3% or 50 cents an hour, whichever is greater, back to June 17, 2018.
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Jul 27, 2018 18:15
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mila kunis posted:yo willa, since you're here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3819657&pagenumber=229#post486520999 lol 18 million people have enrolled in medicaid since the expansion passed so that's actually p. good news for single-payer (which you'll never hear a lanyard admit). sucks for everyone else, though.
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Jul 27, 2018 21:18
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VR Native American posted:http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/399350-dccc-says-it-will-pay-interns-after-protests-by-interns "stipends" lol. I looked up the dnc's new payment policy on internships and their stipends work out to about $6.50/hour, below both the minimum wage and the federal poverty level. gotta save that phat cash for the consultants.
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Jul 28, 2018 20:48
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while bernie is racing around the country canvassing for non-succ dems, single-payer & living wages, clinton is attending high-priced broadway shows and literalizing the meme "and then everyone stood up and clapped"
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Jul 29, 2018 18:34
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Agean90 posted:when's the next round of primaries michigan's is a week from today. I know the blue cross owned-and-operated whitmer will prolly win the gubernatorial primary, but my heart sings out for ABDUL!
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Jul 31, 2018 18:14
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Nichael posted:carper is only at 51% versus a still basically unknown candidate in a two way race further down that thread  
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Aug 1, 2018 04:55
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how brave of him to endorse the dem slate in illinois that was nominated several months ago.
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Aug 1, 2018 22:05
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mastershakeman posted:At least he didn't endorse lipinski he prolly will in his second-round endorsements.
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Aug 1, 2018 22:33
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Fleetwood posted:Worth noting that Gilibrand's top contributor, Boies Schiller Flexner, is litigating against Iranian state assets in the UK for 9/11 attack damages. but cc has reassured us she's the most progressive who ever progressived.
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Aug 2, 2018 00:22
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Phone posted:is ezra klein or matty the patron saint of d&d? neera tanden
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Aug 2, 2018 03:03
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at least matty and once in a blue moon ezra show a hint of changing for the better but neera? pure unadulterated succ.
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Aug 2, 2018 03:04
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The Kingfish posted:I don’t think Biden sweeps the South like HRC did. Maybe if he gets an Obama endorsement, but that probably won’t come except as a last-ditch effort to stop Bernie. biden has run for pres about a hundred times, and every time he manages to cock something up, whether it's plagiarized speeches or imitating a convenience-store-owning indian. and that was back in the mostly pre-social-media days, when most journos were happy to go along with his hagiography. If he runs in 2020 social media's gonna be all over that poo poo from his past like opposing school integration and "context" won't matter.
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Aug 2, 2018 22:55
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The Muppets On PCP posted:they frontloaded the primary schedule pretty heavily this is another reason I'm predicting at least a couple of announced candidates before the end of 2018. the only reason clinton waited on announcing in 2015 was bc she had to pull in her last load of $ from paid speeches, which I think ended almost exactly a month before she announced. plus, she figured there was no rush bc she was a lock to get the nomination. With a truly open field, the dnc's not being in a particular candidate's pocket, the front-loaded primaries, and the looming threat of bernie jumping in, the 2020 race is gonna start by the end of this year imo.
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Aug 3, 2018 03:05
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Vox Nihili posted:The Teamsters have very bad, very Trumpy leadership. Their base isn't really the problem (though they are still Trumpier than most unions). yep, and that's true for a lot of union leadership (randi weingarten, I'm looking at you). when the afl-cio held its national convention in 2009 its member delegates voted unanimously for single-payer healthcare/medicare-for-all. Trumka went on to sell out his members not only on that when it came to his "seat at the table" for legislative input on ACA but in urging passage of the ACA after it included the "cadillac tax," which penalized union workers who'd traded wage concessions for stellar healthcare benefits for the prior two decades.
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Aug 3, 2018 03:11
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