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#281101: May 18th 2019 at 2:48:37 PM

Broken Clock Syndrome. Trump doesn't actually want to go to war with Iran because even he remembers quagmires in the Middle East are unpopular no matter how much Bolton and Pompeo crave war.

It's not a Broken Clock, Trump doesn't get points for opposing the awfulness that his appointed cabinet members support.

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#281102: May 18th 2019 at 3:30:56 PM

Most of the negativity I've seen towards Warren from the left are from the kind of far-leftists who kneejerk hate her because she still identifies as a capitalist, even though her platform is among the closest to bringing about the kinds of policies they want out of any of the remotely viable candidates. Then again they see all social democrat types as the enemy. Nobody aside from Sanders would ever qualify in their eyes.

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#281103: May 18th 2019 at 3:34:26 PM

Gotta love the purity squad sometimes.

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DeathorCake Since: Mar, 2016
#281104: May 18th 2019 at 4:01:37 PM

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That's not a completely unreasonable critique from that perspective, though. If you're on the radical left and you want an improvement in the terms of the class struggle at present you're probably better off voting for someone who doesn't publicly stand in solidarity with the system but just thinks it needs some tweaking if there are more radical options. This is a primary, even in standard liberal electoral terms this is when people are meant to be being picky.

There's a not inconsiderable ideological difference between social democracy and democratic socialist politics even if the short to medium term policies look very similar.

Edited by DeathorCake on May 18th 2019 at 11:05:28 AM

CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#281105: May 18th 2019 at 4:49:15 PM

The communist party of the United States was notably against the New Deal. They believed that the attempts to reform capitalism would result in the system remaining intact far longer than if the Great Depression dragged on and on to cause a worker's revolution. Notably, this combined with the fact they threw racial equality under the bus and repeatedly shifted positions on intervening in Europe against the Nazis based on what Moscow indicated is what actually caused the collapse of the US communist movement BEFORE the Red Scare.

Mind you, it was always threatened because the United States is probably the most religious Western nation.

Edited by CharlesPhipps on May 18th 2019 at 4:56:13 AM

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#281106: May 18th 2019 at 4:51:45 PM

Communists engaging in boneheaded accelerationism?

What a surprise

Oh really when?
CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#281107: May 18th 2019 at 4:57:04 PM

Anyone familiar with the Business Man's Plot?

It pretty much shows American democracy has always been more fragile than people think.

Mind you, the government denies it happened now despite having hearings and testimony on it.

Edited by CharlesPhipps on May 18th 2019 at 4:57:33 AM

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#281108: May 18th 2019 at 4:59:56 PM

Urbandictionary has a name for the concentration camps: Trumpcamps.

Trump is a narcissist, so maybe making sure his name is on this thing will help, like with Hoover. Or maybe it won't but it can't hurt.

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#281109: May 18th 2019 at 5:38:24 PM

GOP Rep: 'President Trump Has Engaged in Impeachable Conduct'

I guess it shouldn't be that surprise that at least one of them is saying that, but it still kind of is.

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#281110: May 18th 2019 at 5:44:01 PM

I'm surprised, but I don't know if his stating such will accomplish anything unless other Republicans diverting from the Trump Hive Mind feel encouraged to express their misgivings as well.

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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#281111: May 18th 2019 at 5:58:06 PM

Unlikely though it may be, it may well be the first pebble in the avalanche.

CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#281112: May 18th 2019 at 6:01:25 PM

Pelosi has started rolling back her statements about impeachment.

https://www.newsweek.com/nancy-pelosi-trump-impeach-president-stonewall-congress-1427996?utm_source=MSN&utm_medium=Feed&utm_campaign=Partnerships_related

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#281113: May 18th 2019 at 6:01:48 PM

Apparently this guy is a frequent Trump critic, so I doubt his colleagues will give him much attention.

He mentions that he doesn’t think most of Congress has read the report. I feel this is a good time to mention that Warren read aloud a big chunk of it in the Senate and House Democrats had a marathon live reading a few days ago as well. If Republicans haven’t read the report yet, then they have really gone out of their way not to.

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#281114: May 18th 2019 at 6:16:38 PM

Maybe.

Edited by CharlesPhipps on May 18th 2019 at 6:16:56 AM

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#281115: May 18th 2019 at 6:23:01 PM

Reading about him on his Wikipedia page he's a Libertarian Republican who has never missed a vote and is apparently a stickler for the rules.

Sounds like he's a true believer who is one of the few Tea Partiers to actually believe the Freedom(TM) Ideology they espouse, instead of it just being a useful cover for right-wing authoritarianism and White Supremacy.

I highly doubt his stance means anything in the broad scheme of things. Still, it's good he's getting recognition for his decision to stand by his principals.

Edited by Fourthspartan56 on May 18th 2019 at 6:24:00 AM

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#281116: May 18th 2019 at 6:26:53 PM

I didn't see anything in there that constituted a rolling back of her position.

Prompted whether the party was prepared to justify their demands for documents and testimony by telling a court that the party is prepared to seek impeachment, Pelosi said, “We hope we don't have to do that. We hope that they would respect their oath of office and respect this separation of powers.”

That's the House's game plan to make Trump and his cronies start behaving appropriately: that faerie wishes and unicorn farts will suddenly change the direction of the wind.

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#281117: May 18th 2019 at 6:28:51 PM

Let’s not go down this road again, please. There’s no reason to expect it to go down any differently than the previous times.

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CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#281118: May 18th 2019 at 9:14:33 PM

https://kutv.com/news/local/utah-insurer-plans-to-send-patients-to-mexico-for-cheaper-medicine

A Utah insurer has a new solution to help cut costs for prescription drugs. PEHP Health and Benefits provides insurance to 170,000 of Utah’s public employees. The company now plans to send willing patients across the border into Mexico to get cheaper medication. “We’re trying to be part of the solution in health care,” said Chet Loftis, Managing Director of PEHP.

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#281119: May 18th 2019 at 9:25:05 PM

Sooo....spend MORE money to send people across the border (or have the patients pay the trip themselves) to save a few pennies on medical procedures. Yep. Sounds about right.

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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#281120: May 18th 2019 at 9:30:47 PM

Wasn't part of the whole point of medical reform like the ACA to remove the necessity of having to do that?

Edited by sgamer82 on May 18th 2019 at 10:30:57 AM

CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#281121: May 18th 2019 at 9:36:51 PM

Yes, which is a good reason to remove it.

Think how many US businesses are losing money or poor people staying alive because of this.

Sooo....spend MORE money to send people across the border (or have the patients pay the trip themselves) to save a few pennies on medical procedures. Yep. Sounds about right.

In Mexico, it can be the difference between 70 dollars a pill and 5.

Now multiply that by 30 for one prescription.

It might well be far far cheaper.

Edited by CharlesPhipps on May 18th 2019 at 9:38:14 AM

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#281122: May 19th 2019 at 3:28:44 AM

Sybrina Fulton, Trayvon Martin's mother, has announced a run for Miami-Dade County Commissioner District 1.

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#281124: May 19th 2019 at 10:03:25 AM

@Charles: For the same link you shared, the Bussiness Plot is just a Conspiracy Theory. Once with a hilarious lack of credibility, with hilarious stuff as the one marine that "revealed it" being a leftist.

Because the Fascist Corporates decided to Trust into someone who had being very critical of them.

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#281125: May 19th 2019 at 11:29:07 AM

Wikipedia's take is a lot more nuanced.

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