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Maybe he wants the presidency because he has no real influence and getting into a position of political power would legitimise him,or he's so deluded he thinks it's expensive popularity contest that he only has to buy with the right number of millions to win
have a listen and have a link to my discord serverI should also point out that him taking issue with it is the absolute definition of fragility, and not in a good way.
"Oh no, someone called me a billionaire! I'm devastated! I'll make myself feel better by having a nice cry on top of my piles of money."
Edited by Draghinazzo on Feb 6th 2019 at 3:08:07 PM
I have seen no sign of leadership qualities from him or policies that would make him a good President.
So I imagine this is a stunt.
I mean, at least do free coffee for every American.
Edited by CharlesPhipps on Feb 6th 2019 at 11:09:22 AM
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Trump and his legal team have long harbored concerns that investigations by New York federal prosecutors — which could last throughout his presidency — may ultimately pose more danger to him, his family and his allies than the inquiry by special counsel Robert Mueller, according to people close to Trump. Prosecutors' recent interest in executives at Trump's family company may intensify those fears.
The specific inquiry or topics of interest by prosecutors in any interviews with Trump Organization executives wasn't immediately clear. The sources were not authorized to speak on the record. A spokesperson for the company didn't respond to a request for comment.
New York federal prosecutors in recent months have undertaken at least two investigations into Trump-related entities. The first one, which CNN has reported stemmed from the office's case against Trump's former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, is examining possible campaign-finance violations by executives at the Trump Organization during the company's effort to reimburse Cohen for hush-money payments he made or orchestrated to silence women who claimed affairs with Trump. Trump has denied those affairs.
In the Cohen probe, one Trump Organization executive, chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg, was granted immunity by federal prosecutors to provide information concerning Cohen, CNN has reported.
The second investigation concerns the Trump inaugural committee and possible financial abuses related to the more than $100 million in donations raised for his inauguration, CNN has reported. On Monday, prosecutors issued a sweeping subpoena to the committee, requesting documents related to virtually every donor or donation, attendee at a committee event, piece of paperwork related to the legal requirements attached to donations and even "the possibility of" donations made by foreign nationals.
The subpoena, a copy of which was reviewed by CNN, also disclosed that prosecutors are investigating an array of potential crimes, including conspiracy against the US, false statements, mail fraud, wire fraud, money laundering, inaugural committee disclosure violations, and violations of laws prohibiting contributions by foreign nations and contributions in the name of another person, also known as straw donors.
I remind you that the Russian propaganda included promoting Black Lives Matter and a bunch of other VERY good things. The thing about it was that they wanted people to become more entrenched in their opinions and divide the United States. It also did ridiculous shit like trolling THE LAST JEDI.
Yeah but... Bernie also keeps not supporting
Russian sanctions
which is really weird.
While yeah, Russian interference was very much a "sow chaos however you can" thing but there's reason to think they wanted Bernie in office, certainly more than Hilary.
Edited by Larkmarn on Feb 6th 2019 at 2:31:09 PM
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.Russian troll farms were pushing pro-Sanders and pro-Stein memes all over the social media space.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"To me, the most basic point is Sanders can't even properly support his own economic Single-Issue Wonk. Everything else is just confirmation he's better off ignored
You know, I was going to respond, but it's just Friendperson trolling again so not going to bother.
Anyhoo. Trump. Kong-Un. Vietnam. Three weeks. Going to be interesting. Unless bone spurs keep him out.
I hope it'll be in Hanoi, but it's looking like Danang.
Edited by Larkmarn on Feb 6th 2019 at 2:54:22 PM
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.If he was planning to run as a Democrat no one would really be worried about him; because he'd be eaten alive before the first actual vote. Him registering to be on the November ballot means that there's a (very, very tiny bordering on non-existent IMO) risk of him taking enough votes to make the difference in Trump's favor.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.I'm fairly sure Sanders economic policies are better than every single other Democratic ones except the ones which resemble his. More or less I kind of roll my eyes every time someone talks about how they won't work because it comes off as Republican talking points.
Again, because Hillary believed in them enough to adopt most of them so saying they won't work is bullshit.
I say this as someone who hopes for a candidate as far to the Left economically as Bernie but also supportive of minority rights/help.
Edited by CharlesPhipps on Feb 6th 2019 at 12:10:19 PM
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
I think you're failing to make a distinction between "this should be a thing" and "how do we actually make this a thing?"
Sanders seemingly had much of the former, but didn't care for the latter. Where as Hillary, was very big on going into specifics of how to make her proposals actually feasible.
If that strikes you as something Republicans do, well...
Edited by LSBK on Feb 6th 2019 at 2:11:41 PM
Welp... At least he admits it.
Virginia Attorney General Says He Also Dressed in Blackface
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/06/us/politics/virginia-blackface-mark-herring.html
Mr. Herring released a statement saying that he dressed like the rapper Kurtis Blow, an acknowledgment that instantly deepened a crisis in the state’s Democratic Party. The governor, Ralph Northam, under siege over a racist photo in his medical school yearbook, admitted last week that he once blackened his face as part of a Michael Jackson costume. Just two days later, Lt. Gov. Justin E. Fairfax, the other one of Virginia’s three statewide officials, faced an allegation of sexual assault, which he denied.
"Because of our ignorance and glib attitudes — and because we did not have an appreciation for the experiences and perspectives of others — we dressed up and put on wigs and brown makeup," Mr. Herring said in a statement on Wednesday.
Alluding to the image from Mr. Northam’s yearbook that has engulfed the governor in turmoil, Mr. Herring added: "That I have contributed to the pain Virginians have felt this week is the greatest shame I have ever felt." He said he was "deeply, deeply sorry" but did not indicate if he would remain in office.
Mr. Herring resigned Wednesday as the co-chairman of the Democratic Attorneys General Association.
Just hours after Mr. Herring’s statement, Mr. Fairfax’s accuser, Vanessa Tyson, went public with her claims that Mr. Fairfax had assaulted her at the 2004 Democratic convention in Boston.
"What began as consensual kissing quickly turned into a sexual assault," Ms. Tyson said in a statement released by a law firm, adding: "Mr. Fairfax forced me to perform oral sex on him. I cannot believe, given my obvious distress, that Mr. Fairfax thought this forced sexual act was consensual. To be very clear, I did not want to engage in oral sex with Mr. Fairfax and I never gave any form of consent."
Also, I remembered I had a question for Charles. So, IIRC one of his favorite of the Presidential candidates (besides Bernie?) was I think Warren. Correct me if I'm wrong here. And I definitely get that.
But the other one is Biden, which I don't get based on your stated policy preferences. While everyone loves "Uncle Joe", myself included, and I thought he was a very good Vice President, I don't really have any sense that he's any more economically left wing than any of the other candidates. Quite the opposite from my understanding. Or at the very least, I'd say that he has typical (i.e. good) positions on economics as well as on various other issues, but not what I'd consider to be strikingly different or better than any other Dem running.
And he has a kind of bad history on "social issues", including being on the wrong side of Anita Hill's accusations/ the Clarence Thomas hearings, and he's boasted up until very recently about support for various "tough on crime" legislation.
I'm not sure of a better way of putting it, but like is it a "white working class thing" (and the fact that he's less "socially liberal") that's the appeal?
Edited by Hodor2 on Feb 6th 2019 at 2:38:27 PM
My main issue with Biden is that I think his time has passed. Given his apparent history of being too grabby with women, I also wouldn't be surprised if there were some very credible sexual harrassment allegations to be launched against him if he runs. That's the last thing we need.
Edited by Draghinazzo on Feb 6th 2019 at 4:40:39 PM
@LSBK, sgamer82 and Alley Oop:
https://live-berniesanders-com.pantheonsite.io/issues/medicare-for-all/
Look under "The Plan Would Be Fully Paid For By"
Edited by SandersSupporter on Feb 6th 2019 at 12:41:23 PM

I could argue that the term "male" does too. I could easily make the argument that "male" carries a connotation of someone whose only emotion is anger and solve all his problems with violence, and therefore I should be called a "single X-chromosome person".
You might be thinking "well that sounds completely stupid". Yeah. It does. And that's why I'm calling him a billionaire whether he likes it or not.
A billionaire is someone who has at least one billion dollars. Howard Schultz has at least one billion dollars. He doesn't get to opt-out of a term that describes him because he doesn't like how people use it.
And I better not see anyone trying to make false equivalences to actual slurs. At that point, I'll assume you're acting in bad faith and leave someone else to deal with you.
Also Schultz didn't even answer the question he was asked.
Edited by PhysicalStamina on Feb 6th 2019 at 11:01:53 AM
i'm tired, my friend