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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
I'm dying to hear what gems Williamson has got in store for everyone this time. Will she top the call to New Zealand? Seriously though, looking forward to the September debate much more, with 10 candidates max, since that's when things start to get serious and heat up.
Life is unfair...True, but what’s going unmentioned in a lot of places is that portions of Baltimore only makes up part of Cummings' district, as he also represents some very upscale suburbs surrounding Baltimore where the average income is about $110,000, at least as per some 2014 figures cited on Wikipedia.
Of course for those paying attention and with a good memory, this will seem very similar to Trump’s attack on John Lewis and his district, something Trump did not long after taking office. Much like Cummings, Trump ignored the fact that Lewis has a huge district, (covering most of Atlanta) with an enormous variety of neighborhoods in various conditions.
Cause in Trumps mind, black rep = majority black district = poor & high crime. Facts, as always, are incidental at best.
And I believe fruitpork probably has Booker confused with someone else. Pretty sure Booker was a teenager in the 80s and wasn’t at the forefront with King and the Civil Rights movement in the 50s and 60s.
Edited by TheWanderer on Jul 30th 2019 at 3:37:18 PM
| Wandering, but not lost. | If people bring so much courage to this world...◊ |Not true. There's been a number of times Trump announced something - criminal justice reform, a promise to protect Dreamers, infrastructure, spending bills - that Democratic leadership has praised publicly.
That he usually goes back on those announcements is probably why the general party membership is never enthusiastic about them, but that's still far from praising cancer.
One of the key differences between Democrats and Republicans, at least in our current climate, is that Democrats do not adopt the position that anything Republicans want is evil or wrong on its face. They are willing to work with their opposition to accomplish goals that are mutually agreed upon, almost as if that's how our democracy is supposed to function.
The major shift in U.S. politics, starting in the mid-1990s with the Clinton presidency, has been the Republican Party taking a position of vehement opposition to all things Democrats want, regardless of their merit. This corresponds with the political messaging that Democrats are "socialists", "liberals", "atheists", or whatever the pejorative of the day is, with that messaging used in a very intentional way to isolate and separate the GOP voting base. The right is always "under attack" from the left.
It is reflected in the fact that there is a news network that exclusively broadcasts Republican propaganda, with additional radio, TV, and Internet media that exclusively plays to Republican ideology. It's all part of a pattern: "frighten the voters and isolate them so they believe only what we tell them."
Edited by Fighteer on Jul 30th 2019 at 4:06:42 AM
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"@Soban
That analogy isn't apt, as Democrats have cheered Trump before and, as I mentioned on a previous page, the issue here is less what is being said (Baltimore having myriad issues) as why it's being said.
To reiterate, when Sanders criticized Baltimore, it was from a position of "The people here need our help" - when Trump did so, it was from the position of "This guy has no right to talk about me with his District like this! Hell, he's probably skimming from the till!"
And yes, that last bit is just a light paraphrasing: Why is so much money sent to the Elijah Cummings district when it is considered the worst run and most dangerous anywhere in the United States. No human being would want to live there. Where is all this money going? How much is stolen? Investigate this corrupt mess immediately!
That's the tweet verbatim - can you see the issue now?
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"Just as a reminder that the ACA/Obamacare originally was a Heritage Foundation's (conservative think tank) idea for universal healthcare in order to counter Hillary's idea when she was still First-Lady and was used as a basis for Massachusetts healthcare when Romney was governor, and Obama brought it on because he thought Republicans would be fine with it.
And look where that turned out.
Edited by tclittle on Jul 30th 2019 at 3:12:22 AM
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."People just have to accept that we're in a real life Black-and-White Morality situation, or at the very least Black and a very light shade of Gray, with the Republicans being the Black (ironically). No amount of bothsiderism is going to change that. Democrats are willing to compromise and accept good ideas from the Republicans, Republicans would deny their own platforms and policies if they were presented by Democrats.
@Fighteer: True. When Obama wanted to launch missiles at Syria, 37 percent of democrats and 22 percent of republicans agreed. When Trump did, the same 37 percent, including me, supported it, but now 86 percent of republicans were behind the president.
Edited by Grafite on Jul 30th 2019 at 10:05:54 AM
Life is unfair...Put another way, Democrats cheer when a politician does things they perceive as good and boos when a politician does things they perceive as bad.
Republicans cheer when Republicans do things, and boo when Democrats do things.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"When climate change became difficult to continue denying, the Republicans just changed tactics to, yes it's happening, and not only that but it's good that it's happening, we're now going to start cheering for it as karmic justice on the supposedly ungrateful younger generations, because doing anything to oppose climate change is exclusively for Democrats. That's how stubborn they are.
Edited by AlleyOop on Jul 30th 2019 at 5:11:37 AM
Do you have any examples of important democrats turning against proposals because Trump came out in support of them? Because I’m aware of zero instances and I feel like our conversations here should be grounded in facts rather than an emotional dislike of a particular political party.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranWhen it comes to Trump's rat comments what some people don't seem to understand is that regardless of how many rats there are or aren't that doesn't really matter when it comes to the well-deserved outrage and anger.
Trump was not making a well-considered point about the proliferation of certain kinds of pests in the Baltimore area, he was launching a racially coded attack at innocent people just because they 1) were not white and 2) their rep had the audacity of criticizing Trump's policies and investigating Trump's family.
So no, I don't give a flying fuck how many rats Baltimore does or doesn't have. Trump's attack was vile and a sign of his complete inadequacy as a P Resident and as a human being.
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji YangIs there anyone who doesn't understand Trump is:
- A racist
- Openly proud about it
?
I mean all of his defenders have to know they're lying that he meant something not-racist.
Edited by CharlesPhipps on Jul 30th 2019 at 2:35:15 AM
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How old is Booker? Because I was under the impression that he's still in his 40s.
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"