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| Joe Biden, the Inappropriate Toucher |
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18 | 1.46% |
| Bernie Sanders, the Hand Flailer |
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665 | 54.11% |
| Elizabeth Warren, the Plan Maker |
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319 | 25.96% |
| Kamala Harris, the Cop Lord |
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26 | 2.12% |
| Cory Booker, the Super Hero Wannabe |
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5 | 0.41% |
| Julian Castro, the Twin |
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5 | 0.41% |
| Kirsten Gillibrand, the Franken Killer |
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5 | 0.41% |
| Pete Buttigieg, the Troop Sociopath |
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17 | 1.38% |
| Robert Francis O'Rourke, the Fake Latino |
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3 | 0.24% |
| Jay Inslee, the Climate Alarmist |
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8 | 0.65% |
| Marianne Williamson, the Crystal Queen |
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86 | 7.00% |
| Tulsi Gabbard, the Muslim Hater |
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23 | 1.87% |
| Andrew Yang, the $1000 Fool |
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32 | 2.60% |
| Eric Swalwell, the Insurance Wife Guy |
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2 | 0.16% |
| Amy Klobuchar, the Comb Enthusiast |
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1 | 0.08% |
| Bill de Blasio, the NYPD Most Hated |
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4 | 0.33% |
| Tim Ryan, the Dope Face |
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3 | 0.24% |
| John Hickenlooper, the Also Ran |
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7 | 0.57% |
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LISTEN: Biden Supported A Constitutional Amendment To End Mandated Busing In 1975 People say "YIKES" a lot these days, but when it really comes from the heart, y'know.....
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Helsing posted:The primary is far from over and we need to remember that going forward Harris will start to face a lot more scrutiny. Much like with Biden this is a painful but necessary part of the process: somebody has to actually go negative on Harris and start using her record against her. Arguably it is good that Biden is fading so fast that the real contest can begin, the one that pits woke washed neoliberal authoritarians against an insurgent social democratic grassroots movement. After all, it won't be enough for Bernie to win, he has to actually start salting the earth for future neoliberal candidates. The stretch goal here needs to be that whatever the outcome of the primary, the path to power for the Hillary and Biden style candidates is cut off permanently. Trump was polling at 1% by this time in 2015 for gently caress's sake.
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Jul 3, 2019 19:42
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Mellow Seas posted:Source? Considering we are post-escalator anniversary that seems way wrong to me. I remember him taking off pretty much immediately, and then everybody spent six months assuming he would collapse at some point. I could be wrong. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/2016_republican_presidential_nomination-3823.html Trump doesn't even break the top 5 until mid-month, but when he does he begins the Trump Train and you can visually see him wipe out Bush, Carson, Fiorina, Cruz, and Kaisch in turn. Majorian posted:And Friend Ben was in the lead around then too, IIRC. It was still Jeb! by this point but there was definitely a week apiece where people pretended to be extremely excited for friend ben, and for carly fiorina, and then a week or two where people were holding their noses for Cruz until new york city made fun of him so hard he dropped out. Majorian posted:A bit of an exaggeration, but not much of one actually. Trump was at 6% at the beginning of July 2015. He started spiking around the 15th. yeah I was still thinking of June numbers where he was definitely totally underwater, still.
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Jul 3, 2019 20:00
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AOC is a year-old freshman house rep in direct ideological conflict with both the current speaker as well as those for whom the speaker is carrying the water--who are, to be clear: armed and organized white nationalists. I do not stan her like some do, but there is a compelling case to be made for her eating the elephant one bite at a time.
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Jul 3, 2019 21:21
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Judakel posted:You only seem to point it out with the Berndawg, though. That's okay because I know you're a big supporter of his. in my city rent goes up by 10% per. loving. YEAR. yronic heroism posted:Oh no she wants people to save a giant percentage of income from their largest living expense. What a monster! not understanding basic poo poo is your only area of primacy, I'll grant you that. Willie Tomg fucked around with this message at 20:41 on Jul 5, 2019 |
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Jul 5, 2019 20:39
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ummel posted:Policy wonks: What can the feds actually do about rents? I've always viewed rent control as more of a local thing. Are we talking housing project construction? Rent reimbursement? Genuinely curious what options they'd even have. Expand and massively fund section 8 via HUD while prosecuting malfeasance. It won't control price but it could staunch the bleeding on a given household's income. Every growth city has seen what "incentives to increase supply" look like: handouts to developers to build high margin luxury units on a timeline of... well, about 10 years, she ain't lying about that.
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Jul 5, 2019 20:46
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yronic heroism posted:Actually plenty of housing regulation, for example single-family requirements, are terrible NIMBYism (racism). I too think mortgage regulations and local zoning are problematic in controlling *checks notes* federal rent programs wait NO! AW, gently caress
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Jul 5, 2019 21:21
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It is my RIGHT. As an AMERICAN. To sleep four to a bedroom, as rents go up and up and up because the equilibrium value is asymptotic to whatever money is left after food, utilities, transit, debt and health care. We need to focus on what's important. This is about justice.
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Jul 5, 2019 21:48
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Willie Tomg posted:AOC is a year-old freshman house rep in direct ideological conflict with both the current speaker as well as those for whom the speaker is carrying the water--who are, to be clear: armed and organized white nationalists. I do not stan her like some do, but there is a compelling case to be made for her eating the elephant one bite at a time. hey speaking of ^^^^ this https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1147668951834476545 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avcS0aYJ2a8
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Jul 7, 2019 01:59
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Sanguinia posted:I will if it's against any candidate who publicly promises to immediately close the camps and doesn't backpeddle. Because if Trump wins they're not going anywhere, and they're not going anywhere until Trump loses, and we all know it. That these facilities were opened during the Bush and Obama administrations is a nontrivial detail, here.
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Jul 7, 2019 08:08
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BrandorKP posted:Further in the post, To reclarify: the initiating event of this was the impunity of the South Bend cops and Pete Buttegeig blowing off that community until it became politically inconvenient. A liberalism that hems and haws about police transparently brutalizing outgroups as happens across the US is nothing but despotism with a marketing budget. Mayor Pete has a problem where South Bend cops are savage toward their citizenry. His solution as president is that once you've been brutalized on the local and state level, and you see fit to give him the highest office in the land, the feds at least won't hit you with simple possession. That maybe, while inside, you will be spared the NutraLoaf--although we wouldn't want to deny officials' Freedom to apply it punitively! And a handful of tax credits and Opportunity Zones, themselves gamed to the dime and square foot respectively, to season the gruel. Meanwhile in motherfucking Real America that matters a hell of a lot more than South Bend, the police are in organized gangs like The Reapers, The Regulators, and The Banditos who defend each other if citizens raise a complaint: https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-fbi-investigating-sheriff-20190711-story.html And the only reason the FBI is looking into them is because they savage rookies with naive consciences who do not join one of them. The only reason The Reapers aren't in South Bend is because nobody gives a gently caress about South Bend. so: gently caress liberals. gently caress anyone who sees this state of affairs and declares themselves moderate in relation to it. That it's basically fine minus some tax credits to take the heat off the day and an exploratory commission to fact-find about the police killing five years ago. They are the enemy as surely as 3%'ers. They're worse. I would take a grain of an earnest Oathkeeper's opposition over a sackful of a liberal's false sympathy. They both lead to the same place, and the leaner meat makes me fart less.
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Jul 11, 2019 23:53
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If I meditated for a week on how to best inflame the most organized and militant sects of the american right wing while doing nothing whatsoever to empower the people who'd necessarily resist them I sincerely could not do better than "Opportunity Grants for black entrepreneurs as a response to police brutality"
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Jul 12, 2019 00:01
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Cerebral Bore posted:This might be the lowest point of your already abysmal level of reading comprehension. Congrats, I guess? Sure, because words meant things in the written form of communication prior to liberalism 
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Jul 12, 2019 00:20
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I thought it was pretty rich when the first round debates turned into a referendum on forced bussing with a cop acting the face for a few days before her heel turn, but now we're at Slavery? Pobody's Nerfect! Liberalism is a developmental disability and if its adherents cannot be whipped into place then the fascists deserve their win by TKO.
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Jul 12, 2019 01:16
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Skex posted:I don't understand why it is that "leftists" don't seem to grasp that there is a force in human motive that has consistently been opposed to any change no matter how good it is and that short of just straight murdering them all I mean...
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Jul 12, 2019 01:22
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BrandorKP posted:Yes he has hosed up pretty bad on this. I thought he'd break in the other direction. He may yet, but it's not going to happen in this primary. This is a bizarre, asserted, just-so conception of socialism as distinct from democracy that does not actually exist. Weimar Germany is an interesting time period though, refresh my memory: who was it made the government with the Nazis in order to shut the left out of power in the Reichstag? I would otherwise generally reiterate Ytlaya's point and I do wonder how often a materialistic conception of political economy needs to be validated again and again and again before a broad acceptance takes hold that things keep happening in observable, repeated, and predictable patterns for fairly reasons.
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Jul 12, 2019 16:09
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Pembroke Fuse posted:KPD collaborated with the NSDAP against the SPD (as did the USSR in general). Its not that clear-cut, which is why a simplified one-size model of politics and society is not that useful. The materialistic argument would be a very big part of a much larger and more complex model (human brains and their flaws are also material in nature). Crucially, if we were to get in the weeds about it (not that I massively disagree with the details you've added) we'd be talking about a series of events that happened, which were documented in a way and could be discussed. That alone would be a step up. We would not be microwaving TobleroneTriangular's gimmick with a twist of The Gap In Pre-Freedom History.
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Jul 12, 2019 17:09
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Honestly I'd be 100% cool with a hypothetical Williamson administration that didn't try to gently caress around with the CDC and NIH, even if her equally hypothetical nomination would be a total poo poo show with most of America not having been inured as I was with a hippified upbringing to the Crystals and Woo Aesthetic.
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Jul 12, 2019 19:08
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Condiv posted:https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1149654663773343744 Stretching a dollar is the only thing the DNC seems to be good at anymore. TBH a lot of DCCC resentment toward the Justice Dems makes a lot more sense when you realize each of the freshmen represent an opportunity cost of wealthy potential donors untapped and phones unbanked, leaving the grift coffers that much more empty. IMO Pelosi's statements about naivety aren't even about policy or tone so much as frustration that the freshman reps are doing politics instead of fundraising as would be good and proper for their first two terms.
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Jul 12, 2019 19:12
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Ytlaya posted:I wouldn't, because I'm pretty sure she'd just end up doing things in the same way as usual. She's made comments on issues like Israel/Palestine that make me think, if actually in power, that she'd just listen to the advisors/etc. Her advisors would be the most dovish in the USA in the last 70 years, but also as gentiles take Kabbalah 1000% seriously and earnestly inadvertently start WW3 because of it. I know these people. I know Williamson's people like the Bedouin know sand.
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Jul 13, 2019 02:17
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mcmagic posted:Everything you learn about a candidate from a debate is performative. You are still responding to Diet Getfiscal in earnest. User loses posting privileges for six months of Forensic Psychiatry.
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Jul 13, 2019 02:19
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Cerebral Bore posted:Can't wait to see the bazillion thinkpieces about how attracting new voters is actually bad and racist somehow. The DNC and RNC have a rationally vested interest in voter suppression. 
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Jul 13, 2019 22:44
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Main Paineframe posted:Or turning on a TV to CNN, but who the gently caress has cable these days? The people who answer strange numbers on their landline, lmao
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Aug 1, 2019 01:00
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AsInHowe posted:Kamala wants to be Hillary, but she seems more like a Jeb. there are no nonJebs in attendance. everyone's on quaaludes.
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Aug 1, 2019 01:33
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im just glad that people who love their health insurance are represented, at last. its been a long road to get here.
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Aug 1, 2019 01:42
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Punk da Bundo posted:Lmao why does Kamala Harris get every question . This is so biased . It’s a pathetic attempt at Harris vs Biden taken entirely at face value and reading no subtext in his words, trump is about 80% factually correct in his disparagement of CNN.
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Aug 1, 2019 01:43
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they do wall street math in new york, joe. sanders is going to tax the people who do wall street math at a rate which is outlined to the ten-thousandth percentage point in his place which he has and you do not as yet.
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Aug 1, 2019 01:52
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is anyone actually dumb enough to fall for the "public option" bait and switch again?
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Aug 1, 2019 01:53
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i support the audience protesters for gestalt hivemind president in 2020
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Aug 1, 2019 01:57
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man the protesters really shot their wad too early, considering this tangent with booker
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Aug 1, 2019 02:16
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sexpig by night posted:I didn't watch, are they really going in on Biden? SO HARD. It's a feeding frenzy.
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Aug 1, 2019 02:49
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if you need to chat to me, joe biden, my eye see queue number is eight five six nine five four three three or aim, lowercase ecks uppercase ecks underscore joey underscore katana nine zero one five underscore uppercase ecks lowercase ecks
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Aug 1, 2019 03:52
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HannibalBarca posted:haahahahahah 30303030303 wer're so hosed four more years, folks. four. more. years.
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Aug 1, 2019 03:53
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Just so I can keep score accurately --eating from the garbage: good, admirable, relatable today and throughout history, my not doing so yet is an area for future personal improvement --raising one's voice when bad things happen: please do not, it gives people panic attacks.
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Aug 2, 2019 01:24
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FlamingLiberal posted:Don't forget that- Well hold on, that's all a value judgment. Maybe that's the case and maybe not, but we can get there in time. I would first like to clear up the apparent referendum about Trash Eating vs. Talking Loud which is normal and not loving weird as hell, in the shift-key politics forum.
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Aug 2, 2019 03:17
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Jaxyon posted:I'm not trying to wield it as a cudgel. It's really wierd that you treat disagreement this way. It is truly unfortunate you have a post history on somethingawful. Nevertheless,
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Aug 2, 2019 03:23
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Helsing posted:Great, now you made me google "political ASMR" out of morbid curiosity and now I know that this exists bro you haven't even begun to gaze into the ASMR abyss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4Jf1QDAAbg
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Aug 2, 2019 03:25
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Jaxyon posted:Yes, it is I, the secret Delaney-stan Ironically--perhaps appropriately?--you have failed the literacy test for posting. It was a bullshit criterion at the time, but your weakness has grown into it. Jaxyon posted:I didn't even say How about instead of saying what you didn't say, you say what you say. Free bonus: when you say what you say, you already said it and when you quote yourself saying it later it makes your argument for you.
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Aug 2, 2019 04:16
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Jaxyon posted:I've been a Sanders fan since before most people here could vote. Okay, no, but for real: are you seriously talking about politicians in terms of fandoms reserved for fictional characters?!?!
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Aug 2, 2019 04:19
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Midgetskydiver posted:The Bernie interview on JRE was really good. He comes across so much better in a relaxed setting where he can actually give a bit of nuance to his proposals and doesn't have to worry about someone trying to bait him into a stupid loving zinger or whatever. Opening them with the national anthem and a color guard gives away the game too much that the news networks are going for a sportscast feel.
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