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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Yes, it's obviously Sanders' fault that Mello lost the mayoral race, not the voters'. I guess Osoff is doomed then and it'll probably also be Sanders' fault.
edited 10th May '17 3:57:06 AM by Grafite
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Trump OTOH seems to think he's Citizen Kane, while completely missing the point of the movie.
It does seem to fit a pattern of Sanders endorsed candidates mostly not winning. While it's probably not Sanders' fault per se, it does kind of imply that Sanders endorsements aren't quite as helpful as his more ardent fans believe they are.
OTOH, Sanders outright dismissing Ossof as "not progressive" before going back and endorsing him could potentially hurt his chances. Depends on how seriously people in the district take Sanders' opinion on anything.
edited 10th May '17 12:08:53 AM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprisedI'm never one of the posters that posts articles on here, but I found one that I wanted to share.
A Conversation with a Former Republican Who Could Have Died without Obamacare
A condensed conversation with a woman who got a health insurance plan after being diagnosed with thyroid cancer. She got an insurance plan due to the Affordable Care Act. She also had to go on disability and food stamps.
This is a very, very, very red state. All very Republican, all very conservative. My own parents are conservative. They have been tremendously supportive of me, personally, in my situation. But even my father told me he was happy that the bill had passed. I asked him if he understood what it could mean if I lost my health coverage, and he said that he still felt it was the right move for the country.
So this is the deputy attorney general's rationale for recommending Comey's firing
. It was not (so much) because Comey reopened the email investigation 11 days before the election, but because of the press conference in July. So yeah, not (really) a reason that would inspire confidence.
Since Republican congressmen are refusing to meet with their constituents
, Democrats next door are "adopting" the orphaned districts and hosting townhalls in place of the deadbeat Republicans.
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Oddly enough...it might be optimism. The belief that everything will turn out fine if we just work hard enough and if we didn't have the government breathing down our necks.
Hence why a father is able to support a bill that might deprive his ill daughter of healthcare. He doesn't think it'll get that bad and the tax cuts would make everything better.
Summed up by Marco Rubio once claiming that America is not a country of "haves" and "have-nots", but rather a country of "haves" and "soon-to-haves".
It's the American Dream.
edited 10th May '17 1:08:03 AM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprisedOr as Steinbeck apocryphally put it, millionaires and temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
And although I find that statement entirely applicable, the actual original quote is also revealing in a different way:
"I guess the trouble was that we didn't have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist. Maybe the Communists so closely questioned by the investigation committees were a danger to America, but the ones I knew—at least they claimed to be Communists—couldn't have disrupted a Sunday-school picnic. Besides they were too busy fighting among themselves."
("A Primer on the '30s." Esquire, June 1960: 85-93).
edited 10th May '17 1:19:25 AM by Eschaton
Any "dream," insofar as it's a statement of nation character, that places the acquisition of material wealth over helping one's fellow man, will inevitably lead to a corrosive, anti-intellectual, and corrupt culture.
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."Some local California news: Under-18 marriage ban weakened after ACLU opposes
. "Rendered useless" is probably a more correct formulation - even when they require court orders and parental consent, child marriages have caused a variety of problems.
It'd make more sense if ACLU were to try to get the subpoint a) of this law
removed. Most of the western world's anti-child sex laws (such as in Switzerland and if memory serves Canada) work fine without such a blanket clause that is an open invitation to abuse. The rest of that law may be a bit too liberal, but that is a trivial fix.
Reporter arrested after repeatedly questioning Health secretary
.
According to Heyman's account, he waited for Price to come into the building and then reached past those accompanying Price with his phone and repeatedly asked his healthcare questions, adding that a number of other reporters wanted to bring up the issue of preexisting conditions. He said capitol police at some point "decided I was just too persistent in asking this question and trying to do my job and so they arrested me."
He couldn't remember how many times he asked the question, he said, but he added that it is his job to ask questions, expressing disbelief that he was arrested.
"First time I've ever been arrested for asking a question. First time I've ever heard of someone getting arrested for asking a question," he said.
Heyman said he asked his questions in a public space and received no warnings that he was in the wrong place or doing other activities to warrant his arrest.
"No police officer told me 'you're in the wrong place,'" he said.
The police "put hands on me, although they didn't hurt me, certainly," he added.
Heyman asked them if he was under arrest, according to his version of events, and they said "yes." He also said he told the police he was a member of the press.
The police didn't immediately read him his Miranda Rights, he added, because they said were not asking him questions.
"It's dreadful. This is my job, this is what I'm supposed to do. I'm supposed to find out if someone is going to be affected by this healthcare law...I think it is a question that deserves to be answered," he added.
Heyman had to pay $5,000 bond and was charged with willful disruption of governmental processes, a misdemeanor.
edited 10th May '17 4:23:36 AM by KarkatTheDalek
Oh God! Natural light!Getting caught up and re: the Omaha mayoral race and one thing that caught my attention.
If accurate, it struck me utilizing Trump-hate would be potentially less effective the more local and far removed from the White House you get.
edited 10th May '17 5:22:52 AM by sgamer82
Trump criticizes outrage over Comey firing as partisan hypocrisy
http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/nation-world/national/article149656689.html
Y'know, despite the fact that it's Trump, I'm not convinced he's entirely wrong on this one.
Also, since it was there:
Analysis: Donald Trump takes a dictator’s stand against inquiry
http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/nation-world/article149632944.html
edited 10th May '17 5:59:16 AM by sgamer82
The problem with calling it "partisan hypocrisy" is twofold: 1) it's not a partisan issue, given that many Republicans are expressing concern as well as Democrats, and 2) it's not hypocritical to condemn Comey for his conduct during the election but still be alarmed at Trump firing him for a transparently false reason.
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.

Malia?
PS: A few pages ago someone commented on Trump's huge bigly fragile ego. I'd say Trump's ego is big enough to be its own planet.
PPS: Can't spell it "yuge" since that's how *I* pronounce it too.
edited 10th May '17 12:14:25 AM by Medinoc
"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."