Well, this tells me that he probably is running for President.Another Bear said:
Uncle Joe got the memo. Seems like a fair and reasonable explanation...unlike p&ssy grabbing, banging porn stars and drinking Russkie pee.
Another Bear said:
Yup, why jump through hoops for no reason. He's not my first choice (don't have one at this point) but I'll vote for him if he's the Dem nomination.
Anarchistbear said:
What could go wrong. They are both electable.
Actually now that I think of it, sure I'll vote for Trump. I'll also switch to being a registered Republican and attend Trump rallies. I'm also going to buy a rather large American flag and now only wrap myself in it, I'll dedicate myself to sleeping it, bathing it, going to the toilet. And yes, sex with Russian hookers while wrapped in the American flag.okaydo said:Another Bear said:
Yup, why jump through hoops for no reason. He's not my first choice (don't have one at this point) but I'll vote for him if he's the Dem nomination.
Really, you're not even going to consider Trump? You're just going to go with Biden?!?!
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-ryan/democratic-congressman-tim-ryan-of-ohio-enters-2020-white-house-race-idUSKCN1RG1ZRQuote:
U.S. Representative Tim Ryan, a moderate Ohio Democrat from a blue-collar district who has touted his appeal to the working-class voters who fled the party in 2016, said on Thursday he will enter the 2020 White House race.
Another Bear said:Actually now that I think of it, sure I'll vote for Trump. I'll also switch to being a registered Republican and attend Trump rallies. I'm also going to buy a rather large American flag and now only wrap myself in it, I'll dedicate myself to sleeping it, bathing it, going to the toilet. And yes, sex with Russian hookers while wrapped in the American flag.okaydo said:Another Bear said:
Yup, why jump through hoops for no reason. He's not my first choice (don't have one at this point) but I'll vote for him if he's the Dem nomination.
Really, you're not even going to consider Trump? You're just going to go with Biden?!?!
THEN I WILL SALUTE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WHILE I WEAR THE FLAG, so help me God.
The more I think about it...it doesn't matter if Trump wins in 2020. The system is broken so might as well push the sh*t heap over the cliff. I think Mueller report gets released or leaked before than and maybe he's gone but really, it doesn't matter.
Oh wait, today isn't April 1...no worries, lets roll with this anyway. Screw thE country. THIS IS ABOUT ME AND ONLY ME AND WHAT I WANT. SCREW THE FUTURE.
golden sloth said:
Congressman Tom Ryan joins the race.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-ryan/democratic-congressman-tim-ryan-of-ohio-enters-2020-white-house-race-idUSKCN1RG1ZRQuote:
U.S. Representative Tim Ryan, a moderate Ohio Democrat from a blue-collar district who has touted his appeal to the working-class voters who fled the party in 2016, said on Thursday he will enter the 2020 White House race.
I fear his policy is simply to return manufacturing jobs to the industrial midwest, when in actual fact, those jobs are gone and not coming back.
EDIT Unlike Obama, Kamala will have to defend her track record as DA and her escapades with Willie Brown (she blew her way to the top; not a strong Girl Power platform). Obama didn't have much of a track record to defend against.golden sloth said:
It should be noted, they voted for Obama.
There was some discussion around page 6. My personal take, is that he is too focused on one issue to win overall, but his one issue he is dead right about and it needs to be addressed. I said it before, and I'm going to say it again, I hope he stays until Super Tuesday just to keep his message in the public eye.Cal88 said:
So no love for Cal product Andrew Yang? His parents are Taiwanese immigrants who met as Cal grad students. I would bet they might have been I-House alums, a lot of marriages get formed there.
I like his depoliticized approach to politics, he comes in as a problem solver who is well-tuned to the modern economic challenges and a very well-defined platform compared to the field, most of which has been running on image and generalities (see Beto and Buttgieg).
Right now my ideal ticket is Tulsi-Yang, not necessarily in that order. They're the only true outsiders, and both advocate a non-interventionist foreign policy. Yang is calling for a large cut on the Pentagon budget.
https://www.yang2020.com/policies/
GBear4Life said:Unlike Obama, Kamala will have to defend her track record as DA and her escapades with Willie Brown. Obama didn't have much of a track record to defend against.golden sloth said:
It should be noted, they voted for Obama.
Kamala will, just like any other Dem candidate, toe the line on the core issues: vague support for abortion rights, tax cuts for middle class, free(r) higher education. medicare for all, effusive praise of immigration and "diversity", vague support of "pay equality", paying lip service to climate change.
Only with a dumb**it electorate who laps up the wrong kinda stuff and is deaf and blind to what's right.okaydo said:Anarchistbear said:
What could go wrong. They are both electable.
Man, Biden is going to be a disaster. Hillary was around for 24 years, but it became "30 years" thanks to Trump. Then Obama repeated the false "30 years" thing. Then Hillary repeated it. (For the record: Hillary wasn't known 30 years before the 2016 election.)
Biden has been around Washington since Beto was a baby. And he's gaffe-prone. A longtime Washington insider who's gaffe-prone has all the makings of everything going awry.
I would slash the hell out of the defense budget.Cal88 said:
So no love for Cal product Andrew Yang? His parents are Taiwanese immigrants who met as Cal grad students. I would bet they might have been I-House alums, a lot of marriages get formed there.
I like his depoliticized approach to politics, he comes in as a problem solver who is well-tuned to the modern economic challenges and a very well-defined platform compared to the field, most of which has been running on image and generalities (see Beto and Buttgieg).
Right now my ideal ticket is Tulsi-Yang, not necessarily in that order. They're the only true outsiders, and both advocate a non-interventionist foreign policy. Yang is calling for a large cut on the Pentagon budget.
https://www.yang2020.com/policies/
The US is doomed when interest rates rise.Cal88 said:
Agreed. Furthermore, a substantial share of the debt servicing is due to recent military expenditure, close to 40%. As well the military budget posted above does not include the dark budget/intelligence agencies spending. The Pentagon's missing trillions give you an indication of the scale of that dark budget.
Yang mentioned a figure of $200 billion for a military budget cut.
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He began to question that presumption even as he noticed that it was echoed everywhereamong politicians, and even among friends of his who were once activists. Yet to Giridharadas, it was not that obvious anymore that the same corporations focused on turning profits are best equipped to decide what the public needs and how to provide it, or that their CEOs know what's right for society and should be revered as "thought leaders."
The problem came into sharp relief in 2013 at a fellows meeting. During lunch, sponsored by Goldman Sachs, representatives of the financial institution trumpeted all they'd done for female entrepreneurs through their global 10,000 Women initiative. During the question session, Giridharadas remarked, "I find it strange that no one here has mentioned Goldman's role in the financial crisis." He'd finally had had enough of "robber barons lecturing on social justice," he says. His criticism was well-received by some in the room.
Yes. The term is used disingenuously on both sides of the ideological paradigm.concordtom said:
Socialism is classically defined by a central government owning the means of production.
We don't want that, need that. It doesn't work.
Democratic socialism, as I understand it, is different from the fear mongering "socialism" which trump and the right want to sell to everyone.
It is an unfortunate confusion of language that Bernie Sanders has been using the socialism term. If he were to use a different term, he would take away the ability of the right to confuse everyone.
A perfect combination of virtue signaling, ignorance, bigotry. Only someone who spent a lot of time on a college campus is capable of saying something that vapid.concordtom said:agree strongly with all, except the first bold. There are NO valid reasons for having voted for trump.ducky23 said:
Sure I get that. And I hate stereotyping. And I get that there may had been "some" valid reasons to vote for trump and not Hillary. But it's just very very difficult for me to give the benefit of the doubt to any state that voted for trump.
Being a red state is fine (such as a state who may have voted for a McCain or Romney or even bush), but to be a trump state? I have zero confidence that such a state can vote for a trump one year and then a black woman 4 years later.
I'd love to be wrong though
When he announced, I said it was a joke, and nothing during his campaign or presidency has contradicted that.
If you voted for trump, you should forever hang your head in shame.
Don't tell your grandchildren. You will go down in the family history book as that idiot who did so, similar to those who shamefully have ancestors who had slaves, or Germans who were nazis.
Shame, shame!
I'm afraid you're gonna have to dive into details for clarity sake if you wanted me to understand what the heck you are talking about. Thanks.GBear4Life said:A perfect combination of virtue signaling, ignorance, bigotry. Only someone who spent a lot of time on a college campus is capable of saying something that vapid.concordtom said:agree strongly with all, except the first bold. There are NO valid reasons for having voted for trump.ducky23 said:
Sure I get that. And I hate stereotyping. And I get that there may had been "some" valid reasons to vote for trump and not Hillary. But it's just very very difficult for me to give the benefit of the doubt to any state that voted for trump.
Being a red state is fine (such as a state who may have voted for a McCain or Romney or even bush), but to be a trump state? I have zero confidence that such a state can vote for a trump one year and then a black woman 4 years later.
I'd love to be wrong though
When he announced, I said it was a joke, and nothing during his campaign or presidency has contradicted that.
If you voted for trump, you should forever hang your head in shame.
Don't tell your grandchildren. You will go down in the family history book as that idiot who did so, similar to those who shamefully have ancestors who had slaves, or Germans who were nazis.
Shame, shame!
Totally.GBear4Life said:Yes. The term is used disingenuously on both sides of the ideological paradigm.concordtom said:
Socialism is classically defined by a central government owning the means of production.
We don't want that, need that. It doesn't work.
Democratic socialism, as I understand it, is different from the fear mongering "socialism" which trump and the right want to sell to everyone.
It is an unfortunate confusion of language that Bernie Sanders has been using the socialism term. If he were to use a different term, he would take away the ability of the right to confuse everyone.
All western capitalist economies are forms of democratic socialism. The problem is neither side can acknowledge that we already have democratic socialism and that it is necessary to provide stability
The other problem is neither side articulates what is the appropriate level of progressive-tax-supported programs is appropriate. They won't because it's often not politically expedient, they can't because they are ideologues. Ideologues can't address specific problems because that's not what ideologies are meant to do.
There's a case to be made for more/less and different arenas to tax and spend money. We also pretend like there are no public benefits if you're not rich.
-Medicaid
-Free k-12 ed
-Food stamps
-Cash aid
-Housing subsidies
-Guaranteed financing for Higher Ed
-Grants for higher Ed
-Free/subsidized public transportation
-50% state/fed income tax rates top bracket
-NEGATIVE effective tax rates for the poor
I'm sure I'm forgetting some.
I'm for universal health care (and private insurance for those that want it), but the narrative that we don't already have a substantial safety net and public resourced network of resources for the poor is disingenuous.
That we can do more or allocate funds differently is a different topic.
I'm not sure the argument is that we have NO public safety net, more that it's not as good and/or affordable as it used to be. In the case of education that seems pretty clearly true, and also for much of the other stuff on that list. This also feeds into the question about the top tax rate: people know that it used to be much steeper, so seeing it at 50% seems comparatively unfair.GBear4Life said:Yes. The term is used disingenuously on both sides of the ideological paradigm.concordtom said:
Socialism is classically defined by a central government owning the means of production.
We don't want that, need that. It doesn't work.
Democratic socialism, as I understand it, is different from the fear mongering "socialism" which trump and the right want to sell to everyone.
It is an unfortunate confusion of language that Bernie Sanders has been using the socialism term. If he were to use a different term, he would take away the ability of the right to confuse everyone.
All western capitalist economies are forms of democratic socialism. The problem is neither side can acknowledge that we already have democratic socialism and that it is necessary to provide stability
The other problem is neither side articulates what is the appropriate level of progressive-tax-supported programs is appropriate. They won't because it's often not politically expedient, they can't because they are ideologues. Ideologues can't address specific problems because that's not what ideologies are meant to do.
There's a case to be made for more/less and different arenas to tax and spend money. We also pretend like there are no public benefits if you're not rich.
-Medicaid
-Free k-12 ed
-Food stamps
-Cash aid
-Housing subsidies
-Guaranteed financing for Higher Ed
-Grants for higher Ed
-Free/subsidized public transportation
-50% state/fed income tax rates top bracket
-NEGATIVE effective tax rates for the poor
I'm sure I'm forgetting some.
I'm for universal health care (and private insurance for those that want it), but the narrative that we don't already have a substantial safety net and public resourced network of resources for the poor is disingenuous.
That we can do more or allocate funds differently is a different topic.