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"content": "Even conservatives arent that crazy",
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"content": "He lost me when he said states should be able to deny rights to citizens. ",
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"content": ">What went wrong?\n\nRepublicans prefer a less subtle approach to fascism.",
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"content": "True.",
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"content": "I'm glad I'm not the only one bringing the term fascism back to political debate. \n\nSeriously Trump is Hitler 2000 and people refuse to say it. ",
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"content": "I've been using it to refer to \"Libertarians\" for nearly a year now.\n\nPart of the problem is that we've been conditioned to believe that anyone who compares someone to Hitler, Nazis, or fascists has automatically lost the argument (much of the blame for this lies in misquoting of Godwin's law), which is bullshit.",
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"content": "I made the comment earlier that Trump puts the lie to Goodwin's law because he is literally endorsing the same polices as Hitler except replace Jew with Muslim ",
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"content": "The thing is that Godwin's law simply states \"As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1\". It has mutated and now most people don't know what it actually is.\n\nThe original law is not a judgment; it's merely an observation of human social behavior.",
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"content": "It's a bankrupt idea. That's what happened.",
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"content": "There's nothing wrong about him failing.",
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"content": "Honestly, I think Bernie Sanders happened. Even though they seemingly have drastically different ideologies, they are both outsiders (even though they are Senators). They both have a similar 'system is broken' message that usually speaks to young people more strongly than any particular policy. \n\nIf Bernie Sanders didn't come along and make thousands of first time voters socialists, I think Rand Paul would have been making them libertarians. ",
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"content": "He was a phony living off his father's coattails with no real political core. And even the most libertarian Americans saw right through it. ",
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"content": "And what are Democrats doing about it? Debbie Wasserman-Schultz has been a disastrous leader. Democrats are getting pounded on downstream races. How many people can name one thing Democrats stand for? The party platform is like trying to nail Jello to the wall. ",
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"content": "Don't really understand why you are being downvoted for stating the obvious about DWS.\n\nThis subreddit would get a lot more attention and users if it wasn't so interested in being the approved mouth piece of the DNC. ",
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"content": "It proves why the DNC is going nowhere as a party and is going to keep getting their ass kicked in downstream elections. ",
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"content": "Don't get your Democratic infrastructure mixed up. The DNC deals with Presidential level elections. The DCCC handles Congressional elections. The DSCC handles Senatorial elections. The state Democratic parties handle their state elections. The county parties handle the county elections.",
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"content": "Actually, DWS deserves some credit in helping to centralize the Democratic Party. As others have said, the DNC does not do much for local and state elections, nor does the RNC. Both parties are actively trying to change that without it being too overt, because the individual states and localities need to maintain independence.\n\nI mean, look at West Virginia and Kentucky. The Democratic Party cannot afford to be pegged to the DNC in states like that-- being framed as a part of the \"limousine liberal\" group in cahoots with Barack and Debbie are part of why the party has disintegrated there in the last three or so years.\n\nSo the balancing act is to get resources and infrastructure from the party at large into the states without stepping on any toes. Admittedly, the RNC is much, much better than we are at that, and I guess it makes sense, given the two parties' philosophies.",
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"content": "If she's doing such a great job, why are the Democrats getting their ass kicked at the sate level? \n\nMaybe because the problem is dictating the solution. ",
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"content": "I'm not saying she's the best. I don't really support her, myself. I'm just saying, before her there was an even worse situation with the DNC.",
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"content": "The downvotes are because DWS and the DNC isn't primarily in charge of the Congressional elections. That's the task of the DCCC and the state Democratic parties (state Dems do coordinate with the DNC in party building). \n\nDNC focuses much more on just the Presidential race than they do Congressional races.",
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"content": "So elect Bernie, not Hillary. NO one I repeat no one likes Hillary out side the democratic establishment. The base and independents wont come out for her. Yes the democrats will take back the senate its inevitable, but not much beyond that if Hillary gets the nomination. ",
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"content": "Bernie is almost certainly not an electable candidate nationwide. Talking like you are is what cost us the 2000 election, gave us eight years of George Bush, two wars, and massive deficits.\n\nI understand not liking Hillary, you're right that she isn't very personable, however, she is electable and infinitely better than any of the Republican candidates. Go ahead and vote for Bernie in the primaries but understand he's extremely unlikely to win. Please though, understand that by writing in Bernie in the general or voting for a third party as a protest you're doing the equivalent of voting for Ralph Nader in 2000. See my first paragraph for what that gave us.",
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"content": "So you're just going to ignore that every poll shows Bernie wins by wider margins, then Hillary. And no the 2000 election had nothing to do with people voting for Nader. It had to do with Jeb, the supreme court and the butterfly ballets.\n\nWhatever enjoy Romney of 2016.",
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"content": "Just as recently as 2014 she held favorability ratings as high as 70%. She attracts moderate Democrats and left-leaning independent voters, alike. Just because she's hitting (more appropriately, coming out of) a tough spell does not mean she cannot regain favor when she actually starts campaigning.\n\nIn my experience, political science circles peg her as the favorite for the left to make inroads into the middle again. Obama, for all of his strengths, has allowed the party to get dangerously weak at the state and local levels.",
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"content": "What we really need is Trump or Carson. They would insure dems win just about everything.",
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"content": ">H. A. Goodman ",
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"content": "Do you realize that you're attacks against the author don't address the arguments made in the article, and as such are a logical fallacy?\n\nIt would be much more effective if you could come up with some actual counterarguments.",
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"content": "1/3 of the vote is moderates.\n\nSo we alienate 33% to get 5% on board?",
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"content": "> Voters don't want their candidate to... much less discuss political matters with a person who isn't a government employee. \n\nReally? Do we not realize that maybe politicians have friends outside of work? \n\n> \"Having the right temperament.\"\n\nThat sounds like some dog whistle misogynism right there. We're talking about a person who has remained poised for hours in the face of exhausting GOP attacks and at the State Dept. and her temperament isn't \"right.\" But then Sanders' temperament is good because... he yells all the time? I don't get it.\n\nAll in all, this is such a slanted article, I question it's true value.\n\nYes, there will be some drop off from the most ardent Bernie Supporters but I question whether they would've voted if Bernie wasn't even in the race. \n\nAlso, might I add, I find it disgusting that Democratic voters are more willing to support a non-Democrat in the general than vote for who the party has nominated. This is the kind of voter immaturity that had allowed the GOP to win and hold state houses all around the country.",
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"content": "> \"Having the right temperament.\"\n> That sounds like some dog whistle misogynism right there. We're talking about a person who has remained poised for hours in the face of exhausting GOP attacks and at the State Dept. and her temperament isn't \"right.\" But then Sanders' temperament is good because... he yells all the time? I don't get it.\n\nDon't take things out of context. The article was discussing a series of polls in which Clinton comes across as less than admirable to the electorate. I feel as though your claims of \"dog whistle misogynism\" might be a bit of a stretch.\n\n>Also, look closer within polls stating Clinton leads Sanders and you'll find that voters don't admire Clinton. The same NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll in October showing Clinton with a commanding 31 point lead over Bernie Sanders also finds that many Democrats view Clinton in an unfavorable manner. In this poll, 26 percent of respondents gave Hillary Clinton a 1 out of 5 (the lowest rating, titled \"Very Poor Rating\") and 11 percent gave her a 2 out of 5 pertaining to \"Having the right temperament.\"",
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"content": "I'm not taking anything out of context. I think it's a \"dog whistle\" sort of question. \n\nAgain, we're talking about Hillary who's temperament has always been one of poise and seriousness and apparently people don't like that. But then Bernie comes out and is super serious and loud and suddenly he's an in-touch leader?\n\nI find it to be a double-edged sword for Hillary on this one.",
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"content": "First, you absolutely were taking the context away from the quote. That's why I provided the full quote. If you have an issue with the questions that pollsters are asking, or the results that they are getting, that is fine. There's a lot of historical precedent for questions of that nature to be asked. Which is why I find it odd that you consider it a \"dog whistle\" when it predates Clinton's candidacy.\n\n>Again, we're talking about Hillary who's temperament has always been one of poise and seriousness and apparently people don't like that.\n\nTo make the conclusions that you're making, you'd need to collect data more specific to what people meant when they answered that way. You're making assumptions based on information that doesn't exist.",
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"content": "If there's any assumption being made is that people see her as poised and serious and thus don't like it. What we know by what this poll states is that they don't like her temperament. What else is her temperament other than poised and serious? \n\nWell, for those on the right, it's one of a *stooped libtard willing to subject this country to identity politics.\" For those on the left it's one of *untrustworthy corporate hack who can't stand on her own two feet.\"\n\nThe fact is that history has shown neither of these to be the case and her temperament is one shared with massively successful leaders in the world. \n\nSo again, I'm lead to believe that this question sounds a dog whistle.",
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"content": "See, you're still making assumptions about people's motives based on a scale of 1-5 or whatever. Unless the poll explores that more, then you really don't have that information. You're literally just making things up and speculating.\n\nAdditionally, not liking the results of a question and not liking a question are not the same thing. So are you upset about the result or are you upset about the question?",
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"content": "I think the 1-5 scale is even worse and more of a dog whistle, if anything.\n\n> 1 = Very Poor Rating | 2= Not having the right temperament\n\nAs though those are the same in any way. That would be like asking what someone thinks about Obama's job in the Presidency: \"1 = Very Poor Rating | 2 = Has Acted Irresponsibly\"\n\nLet alone with the rest of the article that can't hold back any semblance of bias, which from HuffPo is expected, you also don't even get to understand what the other 63% of poll respondents answered. ",
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"content": "Except that's not actually how the question is written or stated. It's probably more along the lines of:\n\nWhat do you think of candidate X's temperament?\n1 Very Bad\n2 Bad\n3 Neutral\n4 Good\n5 Very Good\n\nAnd ... What you said is correct, you don't understand why anyone answered the way that they did. You only understand what the answer is. I think that you're outrage is misplaced. There's plenty of examples misogyny in the world, this poll question about temperament just isn't one of them.",
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"content": "> It's probably more along the lines of:\n\nIt's funny that you've been tearing into me for \"assumptions\" but now it's you who's assuming. Oh, well.\n\nTake a look at my original comment. You addressed one single point of about 3 that I made. I said that it sounded like dog whistle politics and thought it was odd that Hillary's temperament gets harped on but Sanders' gets a pass. \"I don't get it.\"\n\nI have no outrage other than to the article as a whole (generally don't see it as anything more than candidate bashing). I still think that the polls question tangentially scrapes the fringes of misogyny.\n\nBut the other 60% of my original comment goes completely ignored by you. Whatever, man.\n\n",
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"content": ">It's funny that you've been tearing into me for \"assumptions\" but now it's you who's assuming. Oh, well.\n\nIt's not an assumption anymore. [I clicked the link (provided in the article) and that's the methodology used](http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Sections/A_Politics/15463%20NBCWSJ%20Late%20October%20Poll%2011-3-15%20Release.pdf). It's not a fucking multiple choice question, it's a scale.\n\n>Take a look at my original comment. You addressed one single point of about 3 that I made.\n\nYeah, and I focused on the one point of what you were saying that I thought needed refuted.",
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"content": "Jeez, this made me feel like it's the article (more so than just the polls) that is the one sounding the dog whistle. Not quite sure if it's blowing the \"she's a corporate shill \" whistle or the \"but is *she* Presidential\" whistle. Sounds like it's trying a bit for both. \n\nThe article is flipping back and forth between reading the Democratic voter numbers and the overall numbers. \nThe NBC poll clearly shows that it's the Republican respondents who don't quite like her temperament. ",
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"content": "What a ridiculous assertion. Polls already show Republicans migrating to Clinton if Trump wins. ",
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"content": "Is that true? I would imagine something like that would simply lead Republicans staying at home.",
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"content": "It is hearsay, from a Facebook posted by former Labor Secretary Robert Reich. He claimed to speak to an unnamed Republican \"close friend\" who confessed this. Supposedly it comes from internal Republican polling.",
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"content": "Super interesting. I don't ever quite know what to expect from Reich, though (from the little I know) he's not generally a misinformed guy.",
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"content": "14% of democrats are idiots…the GOP is right.\n\nIf the left is too stupid to vote for Hillary, they *deserve* Donald Trump as a president. They really do. \n\nI've never heard a Hillary supporter say they wouldn't vote for Bernie, which is the distinct difference between Hillary supporters and Bernie Supporters. \n\nMyself? I'm impartial. I'm educated. I'm smart enough to support whoever gets the fucking nomination. \n\nSee how easy that is? \n\nI'm beginning to believe all the shit talking about Bernie supporters if this number is accurate. They're not different than the Tea Party, except they're not paid for by corporations. \n\nDoesn't really matter though does it…that difference…if they're just going to make sure that whoever gets the nomination on the right becomes the next president. Likely Trump.",
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"content": "Is it really surprising that voters willing to support someone who isn't part of the Democratic Party for the highest office in the land, aren't loyal to the Demcratic Party? \n\nFucking absolute drivel that Bernie supporters seem to think there's no difference between Hillary and the GOP, when in truth, it's the GOP who will not be able to stand someone as liberal as Hillary, let alone Bernie.",
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"content": "14% of Democrats should just give up... give all their money to the GOP ... let their employer fuck them and call themselves \"the ignorant fucktard\" party.",
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"content": "I firmly believe that every Republican candidate, and most of their supporters, share the same beliefs that Trump is espousing. The only difference is he has no problem publicly confirming those beliefs.",
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"content": "I don't quite agree with this. Kasich, Bush, ~~Ryan~~ Paul, Graham, and Pataki don't all share those same views. not even close. However, Cruz, Carson, Christie, and in some ways, Rubio, do share these views. \n\nTo me, it's Cruz that is the most worrying because I think he will actually win the nomination.\n\nEDIT: Apparently Rand shares some of Trump's views. The gist of my point still stands: not *all* Republican candidates share Trump's ideas.",
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"content": "I am not sure about the others, but I agree with you about Kasich. In the clip I heard from him about it he sounded disgusted that anyone would voice that kind of opinion.",
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"content": "Bush is pretty liberal regarding immigration as a whole and hasn't said anything about banning Muslims. Rand Paul (I said Ryan but got confused) is all about civil liberties so he hasn't sounded this trumpet. Graham went on air to lambast Trump. Pataki... well, he's probably the most liberal candidate so I'm mostly assuming with him.\n\nThat said, it doesn't take away from Hillary's point: many of the GOP candidates are pandering to an extreme faction of the worst parts of American society and it's unacceptable.\n\nI just wanted to point out that it's not quite \"all Republican candidates.\"",
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"content": "Rand has called for stopping/limiting immigration for countries that are known as terrorist hot spots. He also wants to implement a proper visa system for travel from Europe and probably everywhere else. ",
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"content": "Is that right? Okay, well, then the others still fit my point. Even if most of them didn't, Graham and Kasich have both publicly denounced Trump's comments. \n\nJust a bit of a hyperbolic statement from Hillary.",
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"content": "Rand's is a bit more logical than \"stop all Muslims\". The issue, though, is how to do you handle people who are actually needing to flee and not just people wanting to get out of the country to take advantage of the situation.",
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"content": "The thing is, is there really an issue of people simply wanting to \"take advantage of the situation\" from an immigration stand point? Pretty much at this point, everyone fleeing from Syria and Iraq are doing so because was has destroyed any semblance of a society. Their economic prospects are non-existent and their safety is in danger.\n\nCubans were afforded nearly limitless refugee status ever since the Revolution took hold. While Cubans were certainly persecuted based on their political beliefs and their human rights have been infringed, it was in no way at the level of what Syrians and Iraqis are now facing.\n\nWe extended that olive branch to Cuban refugees in part to our ideals as American and the belief to stand up for human rights. And yes, also because Cuba was a key chess piece in global Cold War politics. \n\nWith that said, the refugees of Syria and Iraq are central to our fight against ISIS. Play the wrong hand, and they'll have absolutely zero allegiance for the Western ideals we so quickly dismissed. Play it correctly, and suddenly the \"moderates\" that both Democrats and Republicans have called on to lead the fight against extremism will take up the fight willingly.",
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"content": "Take a look at Europe. Lots of immigrants coming who are chasing the social welfare. Then they complain about the lack of high speed internet, lack of cigarettes, etc. ",
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"content": "Is there a super-racist element to Republican constituency? Yes. Do they make up the majority of the party? No. I'm not a fan of this statement, and I feel like she's just trying to fear-monger in preparation for a moderate Republican in the general election.",
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"content": "Hillary and Trump seem to be on the same page when it comes to the Internet /r/privacy/comments/3vt9b0/hillary_clinton_doubles_down_her_attack_on/",
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"content": "nor are HRC's\n\nIraq, TPP, NSA spying, SOPA/PIPA/CISPA, TBTF...\n\neven though Hillary just got around to agreeing [its OK for gay people to get married](http://gawker.com/remember-when-hillary-clinton-was-against-gay-marriage-1714147439), Hillary's only real diff between her and R's is on social issues. Even Hilary's current preferred healthcare model was birthed at the Heritage Foundation.\n\nWould someone serious and sane about climate change try to sell other countries on fracking or wait until KeystoneXL wasn't economically profitable before \"being inclined against it\"? **ANNNNNND**, unlike every effing enviro org on the g-damn planet, [Hillary Clinton didn't say KeystoneXL was bad environmentally,](https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2015/09/22/hillary-clinton-says-she-opposes-construction-keystone-oil-pipeline/1grlWrfh1FzlaPlNAWHqaK/story.html) but \"a distraction from the larger climate change dialogue.\" (you know, Hillspeaeque)\n\nWould someone genuinely honest about the intersection of government and privacy say 3rd party access doesn't compromise encryption or infosec?\n\nHillary wants instability in the mid-east as much as any of the R's, she's just more measured and less frothy when she talks about it.\n\nHas any R, really talked honestly about ISIS origins? HRC **as well** has a certain vote and a support for a war she's never really acknowledged as a contributing factor.\n\nHistorically, \"cut it out\" and \"knock it off\" have been **republican** approaches to regulatory guidelines and enforcement.\n\nRepublican legislators and Hillary Clinton both love themselves some \"PATRIOT\" Act. Has Hillary Clinton **EVER** voted against an expansion of govt. power/intrusion? That doesn't sound a just a little republican-esque?\n\nThe entire GOP is in denial about anything race related. However, what, **exactly**, have Hillary's words been on the cop vs anyone-black fuckery since widespread availability of recording? I mean the exact words, not what some Hilletante has said the words mean. Read what exact words there are. What, precisely, has Hillary Clinton said about cop on black douchebaggery? What. Do. The. Words. Say.\n\nLike the overwhelming majority of Hillary Clinton's other statements, there's significantly more wiggle room to decide what a sentence meant in retrospect, than any actual **substance** of clearly defining a problem and requiring a specific stand.\n\nSure, on paper, Hillary Clinton doesn't seem like she considers blacks or hispanics chattel or awesome forced labor, but... lets talk about banks, mortgages and TBTF. Hillary Clinton's apparent lack of racism isn't about enlightenment. Hillary Clinton **has BECOME** as comfortable with oligarchy and feudalism as republicans, she just doesn't use skin-color to justify serfdom. \n\nHillary Clinton has no more character or courage than anyone in the republican field and significantly less consistency. How many issues are there where Hillary Clinton has done more than stand head and shoulders in the middle of the crowd? And why is it only when there's some sort of election or campaign involved, Hillary Clinton finally acquiesces to not just being pinned down on a moral issue but even \"fight\" with strong words for something justice-ish?\n\nHillary Clinton has wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy more commonalities with the \"conservative\" worldview than differences, and her **actual** accomplishments/achievements share more bonhomie of ethos with Hucklebee or Bush than FDR, his better half or MLK. Hillary Clinton shares the same narcissism as any of the R's and dangerous for the same reason: at some point, Hillary Clinton started buyin' the snake-oil she was sellin'.",
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"content": "Yeah and find her forgien policy and Wall St ties quite republican.",
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"content": "Good point.",
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"content": "keep the memes on fb plz",
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"content": "I thought we were above this. Leave it to Fox News to make all the ridiculous comparisons.",
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"content": "Better comparison would be to our treatment of the Japanese during World War II",
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"content": "please stop making radical comparisons. Hitler also promoted the abolition of firearms so...",
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"content": "Hitler: white\n\nTrump: orange",
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"content": "Keep these posts on Facebook.",
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"content": "https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law Godwin's Law",
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"content": "It's not Godwin's law when you propose the same polices as Hitler. ",
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"content": "No. Comparing Romney or McCain or Ron Paul to Hitler would be Godwins law, because their central platform wasn't ethnic cleansing.",
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"content": "It's Adolf, not Adolph. The correct spelling was in the picture, ffs. ",
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"content": "The only thing you have to look at are the lines at gun stores before and after every highly publicized criminal attack. That surge in gun sales is the people speaking.\n\nIgnore them at your own political peril. ",
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"content": "The surge in gun sales means they are stupid and paranoid. ",
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"content": "I won't challenge your opinion. I will say that I don't share it, and I will remind you that stupidity and paranoia don't strip a person of their right to vote. \n\nAgain, ignore the will of your constituents at your own political peril. ",
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"content": "Sometimes the constituents are wrong. That's why we have a representative form of government, to prevent mob rule of the stupid and paranoid.",
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"content": ">Sometimes the constituents are wrong. \n\nI think you phrased that pretty poorly. In the political context we are discussing, the constituents in a representative government are the ones with the power and responsibility for defining right and wrong.\n\nThose constituents are buying record numbers of guns and seeking record numbers of concealed carry licenses. There are now more concealed carry licenses in the US than there are hunting licenses. They're up from 1 million in the early 90's to around 15 million today. To put that into contrast, the NRA only has 5 million members.\n\nThese facts are all evidence of a simple political fact: The people of the United States are trending heavily pro-gun, and have been for two decades now. \n\nAgain, ignore them at your political peril. ",
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"content": "No, that's the reality. Sometimes the constituents are wrong. Paranoia and ignorance are dangerous in a political context. That's how we end up with people in internment camps for no good reason.\n\nAnd as far as the gun rights crowd goes, let's be honest. They're low information voters. They first have zero understanding of the system of government, the constitution, or even what gun control is. They deserve to be ignored.",
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"content": "You're looking at NRA voters. 5 million of them. I suggest you look at the nation's 15 million concealed carriers. I suggest you look at the 40% of Democratic households that have at least one gun.\n\nFor what it's worth, I agree: the NRA **is** losing its stranglehold on American gun politics, but only because its primary focus has been pro-republican, not pro-gun. ",
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"content": "Who cares?\n\nMore than 5 million people watch SpongeBob daily. \n\nThe majority of the country is who is supposed to set the agenda. ",
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"content": "Gun sales are setting record numbers, year after year. Concealed carry permits are being issued at record rates, year after year. In five states now, more than 10% of the adult population has one.\n\nIf it's all about the majority, why are you trying to buck the trend? \n\nAgain, ignore your constituents at your own political peril. ",
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"content": "Buck what trend? Paranoid fools? You can't buck that. ",
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"content": "No one said strip their voting rights. \n\nBut stupid paranoid people need to be marginalized when it comes to setting policy. ",
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"content": "As I said, I disagree with your opinion that they are stupid and paranoid.\n\nMy point is that concealed carry is up 15-fold in the past 20 years, from fewer than 1 million to around 15 million. There are now more concealed carriers than hunters in the US. My point is that gun sales are increasing, setting record numbers year after year. Both those facts lead to an unavoidable conclusion: the American public is trending more and more pro-gun, while some shortsighted nitwits are trying to push Democrats to be more and more anti-gun.\n\nYou can paint them as stupid and paranoid if you want. You can ignore that pro-gun trend; ignore the will of your constituents. But you do so at your own political peril. ",
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"content": "That doesn't prove jack squat except the same people are becoming more paranoid. \n\nPolls show Americans support common sense gun legislation. ",
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"content": "Yes, they do support common sense gun legislation. Trouble is that what Democratic leaders are proposing isn't common sense gun legislation. \n\nExpanding the no-fly list to no guns? Yeah, the no-fly list is already an unconstitutional nightmare; expanding it is ludicrous. Banning \"assault weapons?\" Yeah, *hammers* are used far more often. Banning semi-automatics? How fucking stupid do you have to be to support that? \"Universal\" background checks before I can trade guns with my shooting buddy of the past two decades? DO. NOT. WANT. \n\nNo, the proposals coming from Democratic candidates aren't the \"common sense\" gun legislation the people actually want. \n\nIgnore your constituents at your own political peril. ",
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"content": "Okay so what common sense gun control laws are Republicans proposing?",
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"content": "I'm not a republican, and I disagree with virtually their entire platform. \n\nThat being said, they have come up with a few good ones. Back around the time Michael Bloomberg was creaming his panties over Universal Backround Checks in the form of Manchin-Toomey, the Republicans managed to come up with a common sense gun control bill. Amazingly, it came, in part, from that otherwise contemptuous asshat, Ted Cruz. \n\nAs it was explained to me, the Grassley-Cruz plan would have provided private sellers and their buyers with reasonable, secure access to NICS, the same system that FFL dealers are required to use to conduct background checks on all purchases. This would have enabled private sellers to be even more responsible than they currently are.\n\nThe courts would have taken the provisions of this bill and would have said \"Oh, you sold to a felon? Before you had access to NICS, you could have argued that you simply didn't know, and couldn't reasonably know. But now that you do have access to NICS, you failed to perform your due diligence. You were willfully blind to his background, and, well, now you get to share a cell with him.\"\n\nAnd all it would have taken to make that happen would be a few Democratic legislators standing up and explaining why their colleagues should vote \"Yes\" on this bill. \n\nGrassley-Cruz would have been a win-win. Its passage would have made it easier for gun owners to be sure the guns they sold were going to responsible, law-abiding people. It would have made enforcement of several existing gun laws considerably easier. It would have made the people safer without placing ridiculous burdens on gun owners. \n\nDemocrats could have jumped on it. They should have jumped on it. Instead, they backed a plan explicitly designed to cast FUD on the idea of gun ownership. Democrats turned down sensible gun control legislation to push something they knew would piss off gun owners. They ignored the will of a large body of their constituents, and drove them straight back into the arms of the numbskull party. \n\n",
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"content": "But wait, the GOP has the Senate and Congress, so that means they are sending that bill to Obama's desk right? \n\n",
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"content": "And now you know why I'm not a Republican. \n\nAnd, now you know why I'm completely pissed at Democratic representatives who failed to take advantage of the situation when it presented itself. They could have used it to chip away at the Republican base, but chose instead to drive gun owners straight back to the right. ",
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"content": "Sorry, but I don't negotiate with terrorist shitheads.",
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"content": "Quiet. Adults are talking. ",
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"content": "Now if only they'd get off their butts and vote.",
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"content": "Nobody *has* to vote. Our political parties need to work to motivate us to vote.",
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"content": "I don't agree. I think it's the duty of every American citizen to vote in at LEAST the Presidential election if they are legally able to.",
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"content": "That's a matter of personal opinion. The way our system is currently set up, nobody *has* to vote.",
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"content": "Nobody has to vote. But if you don't vote, I feel like you can't complain about the president, which a lot of people that don't vote do. ",
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"content": "People need to be voting in every election. Your local school board has more power to fuck your life than El Presidente. \n\nBut saying \"should\" and \"need\" is about all we can do. That and \"Did you vote? STFU.\" I use that often in non-presidential years. \"You didn't like that state senator that got elected? Did you vote? No? Shut up.\"",
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"content": "We all have to live with the results whether we vote or not. ",
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"content": "Problem is that if some lose hope on the system (as many did in a census I participated in 2004), then there is little incentive to participate in a system you think you cannot change. And this phenomenon isn't exclusive to the US. \n\nThat is why there was some imperative to push the Rock the Vote for Millennial voting.",
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"content": "I fully disagree, people should only vote as long as they have thoroughly evaluated what he/she is voting for. ",
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"content": "I don't encourage people being glib with their right to vote but if you care about politics there's no better way to have your voice heard. ",
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"content": "I agree with that, but the idea that people should vote just because they can causes a lot more problems than if they didn't vote at all. People without an understanding of the votes they cast are likely to vote for things that will ultimately hurt them. ",
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"content": "2/3rds of registered voters don't vote because they think it won't make a difference. Two thirds!! ",
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"content": "Which is an issue, but people blindly casting ballots for things they don't follow is worse. For instance, if the news was pandering that refugees were hurting the nation and there was a vote on it a lot of uneducated people would likely decide to vote them out because of their lack of understanding of the issue. Voting is great, but there are times where it isn't appropriate without properly preparation.\n\n\nNOTE: I understand that isn't a real world scenario, but i feel it conveys my point enough for the discussion at hand. ",
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"content": "I already said I don't condone people voting blindly. I'm not disagreeing with you. I think people have an obligation to vote and to be informed voters, otherwise there's no point to our democracy. ",
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"content": "Everyone should vote. I vote every year. If I don't like a candidate, I write in a candidate. I do this just to let 'em know I didn't think too highly of the choices I was presented. ",
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"content": "I agree completely that everyone should vote--but I've always had difficulty responding to the, \"But what if they both/all suck?\" argument. Your method is perfect! :)",
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"content": "Just because you vote for someone doens't mean you give up the right to criticize them or you agree with them 100%. \n\nFar too many people think this is some kind of team sport. ",
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"content": "That's a terrible idea. Parties don't exist in order to convince us to vote. Voting is our right and our social responsibility. Parties exist to secure more votes than other parties, ideally, by offering a worthwhile platform but by other means when necessary. For example, one or more parties' strategy may be for some segment of the population to sit out. By not voting, you play into their strategy rather than exert your influence over it. ",
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"content": "It's not an idea, it's the system as it exists. If you want someone to vote, or more specifically to vote for your party, then you absolutely have to make that appeal to them. Which actually mirrors what you said (we're on the same page here).\n\nVoting, and not voting, are our legal rights. That voting, or not voting, is a social responsibility is (as I said earlier) a personal opinion.",
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"content": "Seems like motivated reasoning to me, evinced by the way you confound an important distinction. Parties don't just \"want someone to vote\". They want someone to either vote for them, or not vote. Either is acceptable. Someone sitting out stubbornly because a party didn't take the lead and offer them something they wanted isn't exercising their democratic power, they're absolving themselves of it. Parties don't care what non-voters want--only voters. Refusing to vote is like protesting McDonalds by boycotting food. ",
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"content": "You're capitalizing on the ambiguity of my language to make allegations about my assessment of the situation while simultaneously ignoring the context of the discussion. The wisdom espoused by Democratic leadership is that Republicans win when no one votes. As such, motivating elements of the electorate that are predisposed to liking our positions to utilize their vote is an important strategic step for the party. Part of the political game is motivating your own base.\n\nI suppose you are correct if the assumption is that conventional Democratic wisdom is untrue.",
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"content": "You have it backwards. We need to vote to motivate political change.",
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"content": "Which is why it's complete lunacy that when faced with two candidates, one who strongly out performs the other with millennials, the future of our party, the DNC is doubling down on a candidate that millennials have rejected for a full decade. ",
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"content": "It's not lunacy around r/Democrats. You get downvoted to filth for suggesting that the party should take any responsibility for increasing voter turnout or driving support for Democratic causes. A lot of people around here feel like the party doesn't owe it's constituency anything.",
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"content": "The constituency of are party are the people that actually vote? What is the point in creating a platform that caters to people that aren't going to vote?",
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"content": "[Remember the 2014 election cycle?](http://prospect.org/article/one-reason-democrats-lost-so-big-midterms-exceptionally-low-voter-turnout)",
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"content": "I'm not sure what you are trying to say here. Yes I remember the 2014 election cycle. I spent every Saturday for months pounding pavement and knocking on doors in the Las Vegas sun trying to get people to vote, and then I VOTED. If you are pissed about the direction the country or a party is going, but you didn't vote, IT IS YOUR FUCKING FAULT.",
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"content": "You're the one who said that the Democratic constituency shows up to vote. So, why didn't they vote?",
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"content": "Hey u/REXXT, why didn't the Democratic constituency vote in 2014?",
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"content": "The DNC isn't made of millenials. It's made of Boomers and Gen-Xers. Establishment all the way. Their interest is maintaining the Old Guard.\n\nIt's the grassroots campaign that's going to be what defeats them. The DNC is going to fight like hell for Hillary, but those who don't want her as the nominee can fight back just as hard.",
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"content": "I was talking purely about the political calculus of the future of the party.\n\nThere is an assload of research that shows that if you can get young people to vote for you in several elections they are reliable party members for life.\n\nWe are following Obama, who was immensely popular with young people, with Hillary clinton, who lost to Obama in part because of how unpopular she is with young people. \n\nWe have a candidate running who is as popular and perhaps even more popular than Obama was with millenials and nearly all the democratic establishment endorsements are for Hillary. \n\nWe have an entire party of political activists signaling they no longer care about growing the party. \n\nIf it wasn't so serious it would be a satirical comedy. We less than 8 years ago were making fun of republicans for chasing an older dying electorate and now our entire party administration is doubling down on the same strategy. ",
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"content": "That's what I mean though, the establishment and party leadership is focusing on maintaining *their* best interests. Not the best interests of the Party, theirs. Much like the GOP is going through a very serious metamorphisis (going hard core fascist because the establishment couldn't control the fires they started), the Democratic Party is doing the same thing, but the difference is The Party (you, me, everyone else) is fighting to modernize the party in the face of the entrenched establishment.\n\nHow this primary turns out will decide the future of the Democratic Party. If Bernie wins, the leadership is on it's head and heading out the door. If Hillary wins, a schism is going to happen.",
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"content": "Right and if you care about your power, as you posit these people do, and with which I agree, creating a shcizm in the party is complete lunacy and shortsighted at best. \n\nThey could even largely support Clinton while not providing the current image that they are all completely in the tank for her which I think would go a long way toward quelling criticisms from Sanders supporters about the modern democratic party.\n\nI agree with your overall assertion on their motivations I just still think that the decision they are making is a bad one and not rooted in any understanding of game theory. ",
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"content": "Oh, I agree, it is stupid and shortsighted. But people in power often give no fucks. The CEO who opts for 5 years of profits instead of being master at the helm of a company that is celebrating its bicentennial, for example.\n\nBut that's partly why millenials hate Hillary: she smugly believes the Presidency is hers, that she is owed the oval office.\n\nThe party membership has an opportunity to slap the leadership with their own hubris. We need to make it happen. And then when we're in the white house, hit them again, and again, and again, until Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the leadership either decide it's time to retire (and we find new, young blood) or they realize it's time to evolve.",
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"content": "Thank you u/sourbrew and u/GringodelRio for having the discussions that we need to be having! I have been trying and trying and trying to get people to understand that this election is so much bigger than the candidates and the Supreme court justices. It's about making sure we align our party with the future.",
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"content": "This election is once piece of that puzzle. Without re-taking Congress and the state legislatures, we're not going anywhere.\n\nThis election isn't just about the Party, it's about the future of the country. Because, damn it, I'm done with the status-quo, run-in-circles, establishment circle jerk. I'm done with trickle down economics, because all I've gotten is wet hair and the stench of piss. I'm done with not being able to take a bullet train from Denver to Chicago or Billings, MT or Santa Fe... but I can hop a flight to gorram China and go 300 MPH on the ground.\n\nI'm done with talking about American Exceptionalism, while standing in front of what has become a sad excuse for the western world. ",
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"content": "It's a cycle. Millenials don't vote in primaries, they get stuck with a sub-optimal candidate, they bitch about not being heard and don't vote in primaries (or generals)\n\nIf you don't vote in the primaries, don't bitch about getting Hillary.",
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"content": "This is such a dumb argument.\n\nIt is the parties job to GOTV, and democrats have done very little to combat republican attempts to restrict the vote. \n\nIt has in the last 10 years become harder to vote if you are young and brown or poor. \n\nGuess what, millenials are the first majority brown generation and we are still young and we are the poorest generation in nearly 100 years.\n\nBlaming millenials for failing to vote when the party is doing dick all to protect their voting rights is a self fulfilling prophecy. \n\nIf we really cared about an involved democracy we would be pushing legislation like vote by mail, national election holiday, and automatic voter registration similar to Oregon. \n\nA state that has nearly 80% participation in midterms, and we are a growing state because we are attracting thousands of millennials monthly. \n\nIt's a complete load of shit that millennials are not involved politically. What is true is that democrats have done precious little to address their interests. \n\nMarijuana reform? NO.\nSingle Payer? No, the ACA is a corporate insurance give away paid for by millenials, the brokist generation in modern history. \nCollege is more expensive largely because the US government runs a for profit loan center. \nWars that get fought by young people are ongoing and escalating. \n\nThe idea that there should just be blanket enthusiasm for voting in the face of so much fuckery aimed at the least enfranchised of us is ridiculous at best. \n\nMake it easy, free and reliable to vote and present solutions to problems facing people and watch voting participation rates climb. ",
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"content": "I'm saying that both sides share the blame. Millenials for not voting, Democrats for not getting them excited to vote. This creates a negative feedback loop that both need to take responsibility for.",
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"content": "Yeah that's stupid, and doesn't at all represent reality in other countries or even states where voter participation is high.\n\nAgain we have nearly 80% participation in Oregon and we have one of the fastest growing youth populations in the country. \n\nIt's not that Oregonian millennials are more politically involved it's that we've made it easy to vote here. \n\nYou get registered at 18 automatically and you get your ballot in the mail at your registered address a few weeks before the election. \n\nI would personally like to make it even easier by including postage for the return envelope as that is currently the only thing you have to do yourself to be able to vote in Oregon.\n\nContrast this with other states where if you are an out of state college student a republican legislature has likely removed your right to vote in the last 10 years. And if you are brown you likely have new requirements to get identification to vote, and if you are poor you probably can't take a day off from work to vote. \n\nWe keep erecting barriers that make it hard for young poor brown people to vote and then we point at their not voting as lack of political engagement and reason to ignore them. \n\nIt's a disastrous circle and toxic to the long term survival of the democratic party. ",
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"content": "I agree it's ridiculous. In fact I'm working on a website to help people figure out where they need to vote. But just sitting around saying \"this is how it should be\" doesn't help. You need to take the world as it is and figure out how to get your views represented and take action.",
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"content": "I was involved in getting Oregon voter registration to happen automatically. \n\nThe bus project, the group that pushed the bill is now taking the bill to other states. \n\nI am practicing what I am preaching. ",
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"content": "This is only remarkable because they have the easy ability to elect someone like Bernie Sanders but they're too busy staring into their phones and into mirrors to actually give a shit about what's going on around them.\n\nA generation of coddled, spoiled people who received trophies for losing, who never had to do without a single thing or want for any necessity cannot find it within themselves to actually give a *fuck* about anything other than themselves. \n\nAnd, as a result, we have a real contest on our hands in November. \n\nI guess they can continue to blog and whine about how they haven't had a \"fair shake\" and are the victims of their parents' greed. That's way easier than actually getting informed, being active, organizing and changing things.",
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"content": "Are you talking about the Baby Boomers, or the Millennials? Considering that the Millennials just aged into the voting majority, I'm guessing it's the Boomers.",
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"content": ">who never had to do without a single thing or want for any necessity cannot find it within themselves to actually give a fuck about anything other than themselves.\n\n\nThe Baby Boomers: Quite possibly the most entitled, selfish generation in the history of mankind. Everything was handed to you on a silver platter, and you shit all over it, and asked for more.\n\nWhich is why millennials hear this shit and laugh at you. Because you're a joke. You have absolutely **no** moral high ground, and we're intimately aware that *we* will be fixing *your* fuck-ups long after you're dead.\n\nI just wish your whole fucking generation kicked the bucket sooner, so we can get on with it.",
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"content": "More specifically: Millennials want Bernie Sanders in the White House. At least, according to the same poll.",
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"content": "Well yeah, though 41-35 isn't exactly a landslide.\n\nNot that I'm one to talk, we O'Malleyites are a merry band stuck under one percent.",
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"content": "Except, Clinton is winning by more than 20 points nationally. by almost all measures, she does have everything in the bag",
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"content": "Except in the mock polls (which are incredibly accurate) at several large universities and her unpopularity among the Millennial generation during a major demographic shift. If Bernie Sanders can inspire Millennials to get engage in the primaries, there's absolutely nothing Clinton can do to win the nomination.",
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"content": "those polls are actually known to be inaccurate....either way, clinton should easily win the nomination....right now the national polls are clintion 60%, sanders 30%.....it's december and there's already been 3 debates",
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"content": "The [model](http://wiumpe.com/) used by has accurately predicted every presidential election since 1975. Additionally, the only poll that matters is election day. If we could save all of the time and money of going through the process, we probably would.\n\nSo what are the inaccuracies that you mentioned. I'd love for you to point them out instead of just make them up.",
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"content": "*The model used by has accurately predicted every presidential election since (insert year)*....you can find tons of these type of \"models\"",
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"content": "I made it easy for you, I linked directly to the model. What's the matter? Can't critically analyze what I've provided?",
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"content": "Stick to the issues instead of insulting the sub or its users.",
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"content": "They will also fail to vote, as usual. ",
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"content": "This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](http://college.usatoday.com/2015/12/10/harvard-poll-millennials/) reduced by 80%. (I'm a bot)\n*****\n> Millennials have spoken - and a majority prefer that a Democrat lead the country, according to a national poll released Thursday by the Harvard Institute of Politics.\n\n> Young Democrats now give Bernie Sanders an edge over Hillary Clinton, while GOP Millennials have Ben Carson and Donald Trump in a statistical dead heat, with 20% of voters polled.\n\n> It's a huge jump for the self-described Democratic Socialist as just 1% of Millennial Democrats who said they're voting in the primary preferred Sanders in the April poll.\n\n\n*****\n[**Extended Summary**](http://np.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/3weosl/harvard_poll_millennials_want_a_democrat_in_the/) | [FAQ](http://np.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/31b9fm/faq_autotldr_bot/ \"Version 1.6, ~21197 tl;drs so far.\") | [Theory](http://np.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/31bfht/theory_autotldr_concept/) | [Feedback](http://np.reddit.com/message/compose?to=%23autotldr \"PMs and comment replies are read by the bot admin, constructive feedback is welcome.\") | *Top* *five* *keywords*: **poll**^#1 **Millennial**^#2 **Democrat**^#3 **Sanders**^#4 **prefer**^#5\n\nPost found in [/r/politics](http://np.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/3wahcg/harvard_poll_millennials_want_a_democrat_in_the/), [/r/lostgeneration](http://np.reddit.com/r/lostgeneration/comments/3welyl/harvard_poll_millennials_want_a_democrat_in_the/), [/r/democrats](http://np.reddit.com/r/democrats/comments/3waha5/harvard_poll_millennials_want_a_democrat_in_the/), [/r/NoShitSherlock](http://np.reddit.com/r/NoShitSherlock/comments/3wed7t/harvard_poll_millennials_want_a_democrat_in_the/) and [/r/news](http://np.reddit.com/r/news/comments/3wahaz/harvard_poll_millennials_want_a_democrat_in_the/).",
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"content": "Trump only exists because the GOP has been stoking the fires of xenophobia, ignorance, and the rest of the BS. It worked well for them: make their base angry as hell, not trust the \"establishment\", not trust the media...\n\nuntil, like fires often do, it gets out of control.\n\nThe GOP is trying to fight a forest fire with whatever they can piss.",
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"content": "except defining loser republicans.",
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"content": "A May, 2011 Hamilton College analysis of 26 politicians, journalists, and media commentators who made predictions in major newspaper columns or television news shows from September 2007 to December 2008 found that Krugman was the most accurate. Only nine of the prognosticators predicted more accurately than chance, two were significantly less accurate, and the remaining 14 were no better or worse than a coin flip. Krugman was correct in 15 out of 17 predictions, compared to 9 out of 11 for the next most accurate media figure, Maureen Dowd.[97] Krugman was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (informally the Nobel Prize in Economics), the sole recipient for 2008. Krugman earned his B.A. summa cum laude in economics from Yale University in 1974 and his PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1977 with a thesis titled Essays on flexible exchange rates. who you got thats better?",
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"content": "What were these predicitions on? Was it the economy or certain political races?",
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"content": "I really don't know, but his opinion on Trumps behavior is shared all over the political spectrum at this point. I like conservative op eds like George Will also. also Pat Buchanan.",
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"content": "You're just upset that Krugman is calling out your fellow fascists.\n\nAnd please provide evidence that Krugman said \"9/11 will be good for the economy\", because Google is not backing you up on that.",
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"content": "Thanks for confirming that, in addition to being a fascist piece of shit, you're also a liar.",
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"content": "There's no need to, fuckwit. You refuted yourself.",
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"content": "Maybe you should read the entire article, and this time turn off your \"right wing moron\" filter.",
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"content": "Jesus bro. Stating a fact, something true, something proven, makes him some liberal you shouldn't listen to? That's some interesting logic, ignoring people that state undeniable facts you don't like. ",
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"content": "They love to start these fights because their actual policies only help a very small percentage of Americans. This crap distracts the ignorant middle class bigots who then waste their votes thus enabling the right wing elitist party to continue to rape America.",
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"content": "> Spoken like a true Democrat.\n\nFalse.\n\nA True Democrat can proofread there open letters.\n\nCan't tell if I'm joking? [Here's a hint.](http://www.wikihow.com/Use-There,-Their-and-They're)\n\nBut seriously: man, that last paragraph is a train wreck. I feel sorry for the whole college.",
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"content": "~~there~~ their",
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"content": "Or their comments for possessive their instead of there?",
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"content": "Might as well Shillary is essentially a Nixon republican.She even has his shifty laying eyes.",
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"content": "well except for Nam and Watergate Nixon was not half bad. Far better than Regan or either Bush. In fact Nixon passed more liberal legislation than Johnson did, including the Clean Air and Water Bill. He also stated that America needed a national Health care Bill (single payer). Hillary looks like a frickin saint compared to every Republican in Washington. ",
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"content": "Well she has Iraq and white water",
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"content": "Iraq? when the whole government was snookered into voting for war or look stupid? Name a republican who voted against it? as for White Water nothing ever came of all that really, except the republicans taking it to the stupid extreme of illegally trapping Clinton. No for as long as she has been involved she more clean than anyone especially the republicans.",
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"content": "Or be a leader like Bernie and say No Mr. Bush. Not cast a vote for it with conviction and stand there 10 years later, that was a mistake, its not bring anyone back. She clearly hasn't learned her lesson she's just chomping at the bit to go to war in Syria. ",
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"content": "well Iraq was a totally fabricated war. All of it made up BS, whereas Syria is housing ISIS and has millions of refugees to prove it, along with even Russia joining in the fight. Fighting ISIS would not really be a war with Syria, per se, but this is why Russia has taken action, being an ally of Assad. And if you think any Republican wouldn't immediately engage in that war, well. As for Bernie, yes he voted against the war, but he doesn't have any solutions for Syria either. I like his talk but most of it is really \"pie in the sky\" wishing with little concrete plans to implement any of it, so far. But Bernies a good fella I agree.",
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"content": "I say let the Russians have the quagmire. More soldiers would die in a ground war then citizens they could kill in the US. ",
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"content": "I say we put more pressure on the other Arab nations like Saudi Arabia and Egypt etc to take control of those thugs. Americans will never actually win any war in any Arab country, unless it is to kick out an aggressor like Iraq invading Kuwait. ",
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"content": "Do you know what would really put the screws to they Arab nations? Voting for Bernie's energy plans and get away from their oil. ",
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"content": "YES! I have said for YEARS if I was President I would cut off all imports for that area. And somehow put presure on any allies doing business there too. We however, made a major agreement with Saudi Arabia when it was formed to buy a LOT of oil from them in exchange for them to buy...guess...weapons from us. Perhaps its time to release ourselves from that far too costly agreement. I would glady pay more for gas to get rid of that mid east headache once and for all. And think of how much self respect as a nation we would all enjoy! It reminds me of the saying that when you marry for money it always cost you too much!",
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"content": "Haha good point. That's what happened to Carter in '80 people got a little extra from tax cuts and cheap gas but boy are we paying for it now. It's too bad the American people have the patience of a two year old. If we would have stuck with Carter's plan we would be energy independent. Or in 2010 when the Republicans took over, I'm like really this has been the biggest economic meltdown since the great depression and you're mad he didn't fix it in a year and a half. So let's vote the people that made this mess back in.",
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"content": "[Let's see whom lies the most. We should back the Dem that lies the least.](http://i.imgur.com/0u9gE6N.jpg)",
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"content": "Why Bernie vote for $1.5 trillion F-35 failure? That would pay for many programs he says he wants. Why Bernie vote against Brady Bill? Why Bernie vote against assault weapon ban?\n\nWhitewater? You mean the waste of government money thanks to Republicans that came up with zero? Get out of here.",
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"content": "I really hate hearing this. Go be an Independent or some other party member! All the Republicans do by becoming Dems is to water down any good ideas or progressive movement we have going. They don't suddenly become aware because they are having a hissy fit!",
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"content": "Dr. Bornstein's letter for Trump: http://i.imgur.com/iLgx5e2.jpg\n\nCompare this with Dr. Bardack's letter for Clinton who is healthy: http://documents.gawker.com/hillary-rodham-clinton-letter-of-health-1743263067",
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"content": "So 39 years? So from 1980-2019?",
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"content": "You're a better fact-checker than The Daily Beast!",
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"content": "Why is a gastroenterologist giving him a physical or examining his blood work?",
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"content": "Ah...just seems weird that he would sign it that way then if his care wasn't in relation to his work with Lennox Hill Hospital. I imagine any liability regarding that letter or Trump's care would extend to the hospital if he holds himself out to be an agent of that hospital. But it makes sense I guess.",
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"content": "Well it's better than starting with \"This unfortunate individual\" as a lot of medical reports go. He's no Bob Dole. I think a psych eval would of been more helpful. ",
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"content": "There is only one explanation for the language of Trump and his circle: they are all on coke, and have been for so long they can no longer see through the cocaine induced miasma that surrounds them. This is cocaine thinking, 100%",
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"content": "> Trump's Medical Report is More Insane Than His Campaign\n\nYou're just saying that because you're a loser. You're fat. You're probably ugly. And sometimes, you could be a good person.",
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"content": "K",
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"content": "The joke may have sounded better in my head.",
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"content": "It did",
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"content": "Yup",
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"content": "I think you've confused a joke with insults. I rib my friends all the time, but it doesn't translate well to forums like this lol. Better luck next time!",
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"content": "I was \"quoting\" Trump. Hence why the joke sounded better in my head.",
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"content": "[You don't have to apologize or explain yourself. It was a joke, and it was funny.](http://cdn1.theodysseyonline.com/files/2015/07/21/635730890936014628-1574162531_funny.gif)",
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"content": "Hehehe",
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"content": "I actually thought it was pretty funny. I could imagine Trump saying that. ",
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"content": "That was my aim. Probably loses a bit of the tone on the internet.",
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"content": "It did",
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"content": "What the hell is going on in this country.... ",
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"content": "Donald is OK to be President.\n\nSigned; Donald's Mom\n\nThis guy is such an obvious phony in every thing he does. ",
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"content": "Perfect quote from a professor of ethics - \"Nonetheless, I will not accuse Dr. Bornstein of not writing his own letter.”\n\nWhat is the name of THAT linguistic construction, I wonder. ",
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"content": "Does sound like Trump rewrote the letter. ",
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"content": "Donald J. Trump clearly shares doctors with the Kim family of North Korea.",
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"content": "Trump and Kim Jong Un must got to the same Doctor. I wonder if trump has also shot a 32 in golf. ",
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"content": "Where does $8,000/year provide a habitable residence with functioning utilities?",
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"content": "20%-25% of the homeless population is mentally ill. \n\nhttp://www.nationalhomeless.org/factsheets/Mental_Illness.pdf",
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"content": "Buy/make them their own \"tiny house\". Problem solved, if they kill it, they can be homeless again. ",
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"content": "There are *plenty* of reasons why we don't put people in ~~sanatoriums~~ supervised mental facilities any more.",
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"content": "My brief sentence as a landlord involved cleaning up a home trashed by perfectly sane people who just didn't give a shit about the property.",
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"content": "I've never lived anywhere that was close to that expensive for a single person. What do you think about those \"tiny houses\"? ",
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"content": "I spend 7200 a year on a damn nice apartment.",
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"content": "Most places outside the Bay Area and other major city centers. Hell, that'll pay for a mortgage in a lot of places.",
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"content": "And?\n\nA person will need those things whether they have a home or not.\n\nWhat exactly is your point - that the homeless should remain so?",
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"content": "I suspect we agree with each other about a most of this. The image mentions housing costs vs. emergency services costs related to lack of housing. It doesn't say that the complete expense of care for the mentally ill vs. marginal emergency services costs.\n\n$8000 would indeed be a wholly unrealistic number for the costs of care for an indigent person, but that was never mentioned, nor suggested.",
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"content": "Anytime I see\n\n>And?\n\nI automatically assume that very brief and poorly reasoned rebuttal will follow. I think this is the first time I've been wrong and found a valid point following \"and?\" I agree with your comment, but the use of \"and?\" adds nothing.",
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"content": "Noted. It's so easy to slip into faceless keyboard brusqueness. ",
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"content": "I've lived in BFE for 20 years, and a single bedroom studio still runs $600/m before utilities.",
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"content": "Wat? Single bedrooms are not studios. Also I know places you can easily find 1 bedrooms for $450/m. ",
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"content": "Typo, meant to say \"or\". I'm sure there are places where you can find super cheap housing, but none anywhere near the areas where homelessness is most prevalent, and none with the ability or desire to finance such a program, much less to import thousands of vagrants. ",
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"content": "Well, it's not the only thing that really matters, but it has certainly been shown - [in Utah, of all places](http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-utah-housing-first-20150524-story.html) - that housing-first can be an effective approach to chronic homelessness.",
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"content": "Nice dig on Utah. Ever been? Beautiful place, nice people.\n\nThe key thing is \"...and social work...\" which is required in any event.\n\nYes, NYC or SF is more expensive. One thing to consider is that if we had decent housing for the indigent, there would be less incentive to migrate to major cities, where costs are higher. In particular, there would be less incentive to migrate to places with a mild climate.",
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"content": "The larger problem, from what I recall listening to the NPR bit on it the other day, is that SLC has just a small fraction of homeless people than a larger city like NYC or LA or Chicago have. There's also a vetting process that seems much easier in SLC, because the population of homeless is small enough that they get to know the people they're vetting, and can make a better decision on whether or not they feel the program will actually benefit them. I can't imagine that would be the case in a larger city, where you'd only be able to go off any medical/criminal record plus whatever sort of interviewing process they create.",
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"content": "Based on how many homeless people I still saw in SLC, over half the city must have been homeless at one point. ",
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"content": "NPR did a story about it. I was just fascinated listening to it. ",
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"content": "Jail = $35,000 year",
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"content": "Mike Rowe will fight you!",
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"content": "What is his position on this? ",
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"content": "When Bernie tweeted that college is cheaper than prison Mike went off on a tangent saying that Bernie was saying those are the only two options for young people and that Bernie is wrong because and a dangerous mindset because, etc. what he failed to acknowledge is that Bernie's pursuit of cheap/free education applies to all and that addressing the prison problem in America changes a lot more than the prison problem. Also, reading too much into a 140 character political tweet so much so that you write a three page rant about it may be taking it too far. I don't personally see all the implications in the tweet that Rowe did but maybe your experience will vary.\n\n\nTL;DR - Rowe went off on Bernie Sanders for suggesting prison was the only option for less-educated people though that suggestion was not made.",
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"content": "Why are we talking about giving any ethnic/cultural group special benefits here? ",
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"content": "$8000/yr = $670/mth. Are we not covering utilities, or is there a $400/mth housing boom I'm unaware of? Also, why does housing imply we wouldn't be paying for ambulances? Are you suggesting giving them a house means they can die without bothering anyone, so no need for ambulances? What is the rest of the etc. that magically disappears when they have a house? food? health care? medication? drugs?\n\nWhat condition do you expect these people to keep the house in? Most of them don't bathe on a regular basis, so I have a hard time believing domestic responsibilities like doing the dishes so rats and insects dont infect the place is very high on the priority list. It's not like the landlord can sue.\n\nWho wants to live next to a de-homeless'd person? Prejudice aside, that's a real concern for someone trying to fill up their units. So we either create a slum worse than we already have in the projects, or we throw them in the middle of suburbia as people are already proposing.\n\nThere are already plenty of housing assistance programs. Homeless people are the ones that didn't meet the bare minimum set there, or who simply didn't care enough to apply. Why do you think your proposal will magically make them viable?\n\nJust pretend I threw all of that on a picture of jackie chan because your proposal is so completely asinine.",
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"content": "Happy cakeday! And by the way, there are places where it can be that cheap, depending on your area. Texas, and the southwest is dirt cheap. The northeast, California, and Northwest can be pricier.\n",
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"content": "Ty!",
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"content": "The numbers come from when they did this for real in Utah (http://bit.ly/YLp9Tc). But it doesn't really matter, since in places where housing is more expensive, all that other stuff (hospital visits, shelters, etc) is more expensive too. A Colorado study found that the average homeless person cost the state $43k a year, while housing that person would cost just $17k.",
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"content": "But if we adequately provide them a real shot at life we can't shame them anymore or blame them for stuff when we need votes.",
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"content": "With 18-29 year olds. \n\nhttp://www.iop.harvard.edu/sites/default/files_new/fall%20poll%2014%20-%20topline.pdf\n\nMeanwhile,\n\n>Hillary Clinton continues to lead Bernie Sanders by 20 points: she receives 52 percent of Democratic primary voters' support, while Sanders gets 32 percent. Just 2 percent support Martin O'Malley.\n\nhttp://www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-donald-trump-top-ted-cruz-second-hillary-clinton-over-bernie-sanders/",
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"content": ">This poll was conducted by telephone December 4-8, 2015 among a random sample of 1,275 adults nationwide, including 1,053 registered voters.\n\nWow. I didn't realize that *Democratic primary voters* consisted of only 1,275 people, with only 1,053 of them being able to vote at this time.\n\n(I'll break it down for you: The article is stretching the poll to say more than the actual poll says. This doesn't mean the poll isn't correct or accurate, it only means that it doesn't show what the article claims.)",
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"content": ">The poll employed a random digit dial methodology. For the landline sample, a respondent was randomly selected from all adults in the household. For the cell sample, interviews were conducted with the person who answered the phone.",
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"content": "50% of the people polled were undecided...0ver 70% over the age of 45 ...this poll is useless. over 1/2 of the 1,275 were Republican...\n\nNational numbers are meaningless this early eve if this was a good poll. What is important is the numbers in Iowa and New Hampshire.",
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"content": "That's why the title starts with \"Harvard Poll of *Millennials*...\"",
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"content": "I don't buy the assumption that HRC has more experience than Sanders.",
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"content": "I don't see why you wouldn't. She has experience in every branch of government.\n\nShe was a lawyer. She was a senator. She lived in the white house and was a very active first lady. She was secretary of state and visited more foreign leaders than any other secretary of state before her. Obama basically had her go on a global tour to try to reclaim our broken reputation around the world. \n\nShe definitely has Sanders beat. \n\nThat's not necessarily saying Sanders doesn't also have an impressive resume. He does. But he's going up against probably one of the most experienced presidential candidates in history. ",
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"content": "She was a senator for about 12 minutes and being \nfirst lady is of questionable value. Being SecState is a big deal and I'm not discounting that; i'm not saying she's inexperienced, but Sanders has spent decades at the capitol, through Republican and Democratic administrations, on dozens of committees and subcommittees, etc. At best she's *differently experienced* than Sanders. But more experienced? This is not clear in the least.",
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"content": ">She was a senator for about 12 minutes\n\nMore like 8 years.\n\n>being first lady is of questionable value\n\nOn its own yes but not when combined with all her other experience. Being first lady gave her 8 years of living in the white house being exposed to the kind of job the president must do. That kind of experience is closer to being president than anything Sanders has experienced.\n\n>At best she's differently experienced than Sanders. But more experienced?\n\nYes. More experienced. Sanders has legislative experience. None of that experience helps him with foreign policy. Which is the main job of the president. Hillary Clinton has direct experience with exactly the kind of work a president has to do. Plus 8 years of legislative experience and practice as a lawyer to help with judicial.\n\nSanders only has legislative and a small bit of domestic executive experience. He's not at all prepared for foreign diplomacy. At least not in his resume.",
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"content": "> Being first lady gave her 8 years of living in the white house being exposed to the kind of job the president must do. That kind of experience is closer to being president than anything Sanders has experienced.\n\nOkay, let's get Barbara Bush a super-pac going. Or maybe you're just trying to take something of questionable value and cast it as a positive for your candidate while not others.\n\n> None of that experience helps him with foreign policy. Which is the main job of the president. \n\nAbsolute nonsense. Most of the president's agenda is domestic. Sanders has served on committees involved in virtually every major area of domestic policy. His legislative experience in both houses of Congress will be important, given the complexities and challenges of getting legislation passed. \n\n>He's not at all prepared for foreign diplomacy. At least not in his resume.\n\nNonsense. Few presidents were ever secretary of state. There is no evidence that presidents who were secretaries of state or served in other high-ranking diplomatic functions were any more effective in terms of foreign policy. \n\nBoth of these candidates are experienced. Differently. Whose experience is more important is a matter of considerable uncertainty. But you want to support your candidate so whatever. This is politics, not something where reality matters.",
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"content": "You have to look at the metrics of these polls here is the latest.\n\n\n\n>If 73% of voters are over the age of 45 Bernie will lose. So if you follow these metrics, this poll is accurate. ...I disagree about the likely voter model.\n\nhttp://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2015/PPP_Release_IA_121515.pdf",
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"content": "Except for the ones angry at Michael Moore, which Moore is probably smart enough to ignore after they reply to his every tweet: https://twitter.com/MMflint ",
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"content": ">Moore reminded Trump that America today is no longer a country of “angry white guys\"\n\nYeah, it is, really, because as more people of color become part of the population mix, the angrier the white guys get.",
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"content": "You're talking about a very specific demographic there: The undereducated southerners and the white males who are stupid enough to support a party that fights against their best interests every day.\n\nThose people are in the minority but they get a shit ton of media coverage and they are loud as fuck and angry as fuck.\n\nNothing creates outrage like irrational pride and irrational fear combined.",
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"content": "But the Republican base is. That's Trump's audience.",
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"content": "A base projected to become a minority in the coming decades. ",
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"content": "Ironic coming from an angry white guy. ",
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"content": "At least he's angry in defense of everybody except other angry white guys. ",
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"content": "It hasn't been that way for a looooooooooooooooooong time Mr. Moore.",
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"content": "Yeah, a lot were killed off in the Civil War. \n\nEdit: spelling",
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"content": "What the fuck is a \"Cival War\"",
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"content": "But isn't half of his campaign built around turning it back into one?",
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"content": "Sadly, we shall see in November 2016.",
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"content": "Nope can confirm. Most of my relatives over 60 classify as angry white people. At the minimum paranoid and scared all the time.",
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"content": "might as well do something.",
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"content": "Because he hasn't yet?",
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"content": "If Hillary did this, the Sanders cultists and the rest of the media would be calling Hillary \"entitled,\" \"presumptuous,\" attacking her for being the establishment's favorite, etc. ",
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"content": "Wah, wah, wah! ",
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"content": "We're crying all the way to the white house!",
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"content": "That'll be the day. ",
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"content": "I gotta think it's different when he's the underdog",
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"content": "I think that Trumka hit the nail on the head when he said that Hillary has to do A-level work in order to get a C. ",
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"content": "That seems a bit unreasonable...",
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"content": "Does it now? ",
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"content": "\"Inadvertent\": https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/677719799431102464",
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"content": "[**@BuzzFeedNews**](https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/)\r\n\r\n> [2015-12-18 05:19 UTC](https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/677719799431102464)\r\n\r\n> The DNC communications director described the breach as “inadvertent” http://www.buzzfeed.com/evanmcsan/bernie-sanders-campaign-accessed-confidential-clinton-data?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc \n\n>[[Attached pic]](http://pbs.twimg.com/media/CWe-SSVWwAA-94q.png) [[Imgur rehost]](http://i.imgur.com/ZTqxfFE.png)\r\n\r\n----\r\n\r\n^This ^message ^was ^created ^by ^a ^bot\r\n\r\n[^[Contact ^creator]](http://np.reddit.com/message/compose/?to=jasie3k&subject=TweetsInCommentsBot)[^[Source ^code]](https://github.com/janpetryk/reddit-bot)\r\n",
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"content": "Why isn't it the DNC, the tech vendor and/or each campaigns responsibility to keep their own information secure?",
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"content": "You would think that would be the official Clinton position given past server preferences. The number petitioning the DNC to undo the suspension has jumped in the last hour from 53,000 to over 80,0000: http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/debbie-wasserman-schultz-2",
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"content": "Now imagine if Hillary did this. The media would be calling for her to drop out. This is absolutely disgusting of the Sanders campaign.",
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"content": "[Most reports indicate that the breach was not the responsibility of the campaign, unintentional, and that no significant information was gathered.](http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/18/politics/sanders-dnc-data-breach-josh-uretsky/)",
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"content": "Yeah the Bernie campaign's national data guy had no idea what he was doing. Sure. He just took advantage of an opening to look at some of the Hillary campaign's most private data, and it was totally not his fault because the DNC tempted him.\n\nIf Hillary had spied on Bernie's data people would be furious, but Saint Bernie can do no harm.",
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"content": "Can you provide links to sources that indicate the scope of the data which you allege has been reviewed by the Sanders campaign?\n\nBut you're right. People give Bernie Sanders a lot of leeway because he doesn't have the smarmy personality or fuzzy ethics that Clinton has.",
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"content": "> Officials with the Democratic National Committee have accused the presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders of improperly accessing confidential voter information gathered by the rival campaign of Hillary Clinton, according to several party officials.\n\n> Jeff Weaver, the Vermont senator’s campaign manager, acknowledged that a staffer had viewed the information but blamed a software vendor hired by the DNC for a glitch that allowed access. Weaver said one Sanders staffer was fired over the incident.\n\nhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/dnc-sanders-campaign-improperly-accessed-clinton-voter-data/2015/12/17/a2e2e14e-a522-11e5-b53d-972e2751f433_story.html\n\nBernie's campaign's actions were disgusting. As someone who canvasses and phone banks for Democrats I am really appalled by this because the data I help to collect for my candidate shouldn't be going to their rival, especially under such shifty practices. ",
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"content": "I'm sorry. Could you be more specific about where this article indicates that a sizable amount of data was permanently retained? I must be missing it.",
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"content": "I never claimed that was the case.\n\nThat still hasn't been determined by the DNC's investigation. I'm just disgusted that they even accessed the data.",
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"content": "So then why was that post a response to my post asking you to indicate the scope of the data which you allege has been reviewed by the Sanders campaign?",
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"content": "You asked me to provide a source about the extent to which Bernie accessed data from Clinton's campaign. I provided a link which said that Bernie accessed confidential records of the Clinton campaign. Hence Bernie accessed confidential voter information of the Clinton campaign's.\n\nThen you implied I said that Bernie had retained a large amount of the data that the campaign improperly accessed. I never said he retained any such large amounts of data. You made that up.\n\nI'm not sure what you don't understand. ",
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"content": "Aw, the Bernie Sanders can do no wrong voters are out here again I see. Even reality doesn't faze them. He'll still be the nominee when he isn't.",
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"content": "Seriously? You've currently got +3 on this story despite it being the fifth instance of it on this sub. I'd say you're doing just fine. This intra-party bickering isn't working for the GOP. It would be wise for all of us regardless of who we support not to fall into the same trap. We're not only pushing for the same goal (a prosperous country), but also the same general ideology with which to accomplish that goal. The Sanders campaign has already been severely sanctioned for this at a critical time for them. I'd say this worked out well for your camp. Let's all tone the aggression down a notch. It's not productive. ",
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"content": "Actually I agree, it had been dv'ed to zero for awhile, but look at the last couple of days of posts. Getting a bit weary of it from user names like hillarycantbetrusted, etc. Enough is enough. They have been flooding the subedit so I am tired of it. Look at the other comment in here. Even that is not factually accurate. ",
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"content": "That's fair. It does get quite tiring. I apologize for it being so directed towards you. The statement on all of the bickering is and was more for the community at large. I didn't separate it from the rest of the post as well as I intended to. ",
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"content": "Note the dv'ing here and the other ones and the upvoting on Sanders campaign suing DNC (granted posted by me too). Talk about brigading by them here. I use to post pro Sanders articles too but gave up after they got buried in all the silly hero worshipping, Clinton slamming nonsense. ",
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"content": "To be fair, we also have posts by usernames such as neckbeards4bernie and such. Hillary Clinton's support online is just as crazed and idiotic in general as anyone else's. They're just less numerous.",
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"content": "Hillary can't be trusted is a perfectly legitimate argument against her and her campaign. She has changed her mind on several key issues i.e. the Keystone pipeline, and the Iraq war.",
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"content": "This has nothing to do with Hillary Clinton. Quit deflecting. ",
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"content": "You brought up Hillary with your \"Hilarycantbetrusted\" comment. Don't add something new to a conversation if you don't want it talked about.",
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"content": "Remember when it came out that Hillary Clinton routed all of her government emails through unsecured private servers that also contained her personal emails?\n\nRemember when she personally oversaw the deletion of that server without an independent party reviewing what information was contained on it?\n\nWe gave Clinton plenty of time to explain why it was a non-issue. Why don't we give Sanders that same respect?",
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"content": "Jesus Christ, seriously.",
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"content": "He doesn't have a case, he's gonna lose.",
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"content": "He has a case, there seems to have been a precedent. A similar case happened in 2008, performed by Hillary Clinton staff, and no punishment was given.",
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"content": "No similar case happen in 2008. A similar case would be Watergate. Can you provide me a link saying otherwise. ",
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"content": "http://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000151-b72f-d1ae-add5-f76f14db0001\n\n\"Upon information and belief, a similar security incident arose with the NGP VAN software during the 2008 national presidential primaries, resulting in the unintentional \nCase 1:15-cv-02211 Document 1 Filed 12/18/15 Page 5 of 11\nNY_DOCS:607859.1 6\ntransmission of Confidential Information to the campaign of Democratic primary candidate Hillary Clinton (the “Prior Incident”).\"",
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"content": "So you want me to take the words of Sanders? Fat chance. I love how he thinks Clinton was the only candidate in 2008. Does the name Obama sound familiar? I can't find a single mention of the \"prior incident\" other than what the Bernie campaign is telling me. Maybe I'm not looking hard enough, wanna help?",
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"content": "Step away from the keyboard.",
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"content": "If I do that, how can I find the evidence that doesn't exist?",
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"content": "This is so entertaining. You actually think you're smart, don't you?",
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"content": "I think I know a fair bit about politics and the law. ",
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"content": "That's nice. The only problem is that what you think you know is completely irrelevant.",
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"content": "Let's see what happens. My prediction is either Bernie drops his stupid lawsuit or if he continues he'll lose in court. ",
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"content": "I'm of the impression that that by the time the suit is resolved, the primaries if not the general election will already be over. Alternatively, as you say, the DNC and Sanders campaign may reach a settlement out of court, or perhaps the campaign will drop it, I agree that that's certainly a possibility.",
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"content": "It doesn't matter if the general already occured. This isn't about the election or my support of Hillary. This is about the rules. Sanders violated DNC rules, that had nothing to do with my politics. ",
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"content": "And from what I have seen, he has made every effort to make up for it and show good faith that this was an isolated incident that will not recur.\n\nAlso, don't be daft, Sanders didn't do it, four individuals within his campaign did. They were fired as soon as they were discovered, the data was locked off from their network in encrypted storage, then they notified the DNC privately of the breach. Tell me how that kind of behavior is more shady than Hillary having the most donations from the arms and defense industries than any other candidate, when you consider her time as Secretary of State when she authorized arms sales to foreign armies at double the rate of the Bush years.",
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"content": "I don't care if he apologized. Saying sorry and trying to fix it means nothing to me. Nixon apologized, but he still needed to be punished. I'm not a fan of emotions in politics. \n\n\n\nI know Sanders didn't commit the violation, but he's responsible. Unless you think he's void of responsibility because he's special. That kind of thinking makes him in line with every other crooked politician whose existed and hasn't claimed responsibility. Chris Christie wasn't directly involved with bridgegate, it was his subordinates. But that doesn't excuse scrutiny to be placed on Chris Christie. A leader is responsible for the actions of their underlings. \n\n\n\nSo what? Those numbers on Hillary Clinton donors aren't impressive or cause a problem with me*. If you want to Scrutinize arms sales to foreign armies when she was Secretary of State. I have 2 questions for you. Why shouldn't we authorize arms sales to our Allies Canada and the UK? Why aren't you blaming Obama for those sales?\n\n\n\n* Actually, I couldn't find defense companies donating to her campaign. Maybe I miss it. Can you take a look. http://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/contrib.php?cycle=2016&id=N00000019&type=f",
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"content": "Okay, you need to learn the difference between Sanders the campaign and Sanders the man, is that clear? If you can't make that distinction, you have a serious problem.",
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"content": "I don't think you can make the distinction. The DNC isn't punishing Sanders the person; they are punishing Sanders the campaign. The campaign must be punished for violating the rules. Sanders the person didn't steal Clinton data, but his campaign did. Sanders is responsible for the actions of his campaign. If you don't think he is, then Sanders is no leader. Just imagine if Clinton campaign stole Sanders data, you'd call for to suspend her campaign. I'm not saying Sanders should drop out, but suspending his campaign's access to data is a slap on the wrist. ",
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"content": "You've been fun :) Have a good day, hillary bot",
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"content": "Have a good day. I'm sorry in the real world doesn't treat Bernie like the Messiah. ",
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"content": "Who said he was a Messiah? He's just significantly better than all competitors.\n\nEven if he gets elected, nothing changes if we don't mobilize and keep up the pressure on our own government to fall in line, and even then it might not work.\n\nThis election for me isn't about following someone I think is a magic solution to the world's problems. For me this is a last hope of avoiding either permanent corporate fascism or outright civil war.",
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"content": "Yup. Now I'm positive that you are confused about politics. Or maybe you're far too emotional for me. I don't like the emotions in politics. I think that removes the essence of what politics is. Especially since you believe that everyone should treat Bernie Sanders like he's special, and you think you deserve special treatment. Because he's \"our only hope\" and because he's superior to everyone else. I don't buy that argument.\n\nGood try though. ",
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"content": "I love the part where you back up your claims\n\n/bullshit",
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"content": "Twist!",
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"content": "The dying screens of a failing campaign.",
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"content": "The DNC did a shoddy job of partioning data and they are trying desperately to use that as an excuse to smear the Sanders campaign so they can have a coronation. This alone should make the blood of honest progressives boil. DNC are dishonest duopoly players who will stop at nothing to insure status quo BAU handpicked trough feeders like HRC don't face actual opposition. Defund DNC and their sister org the RNC.",
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"content": "So, hacking is now legal if you don't do good security? If you are a typical Sanders supporter, his campaign is already done.",
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"content": "Never mind Sanders. Watch the backlash take down the Clinton coronation and the DNC for running such a dishonest, immoral organization. This is a 100% DNC manufactured event and it needs to tear apart their own shitty organization. ",
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"content": "Source? The DNC made them download the data. Made them do it for the next 10 states. Made them pass around the login information. I see. It is their fault and Clinton's fault that happened. Got it. If Sanders farts during a speech that is their fault too?",
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"content": "Hi, guys. I'm a lifetime Democrat. \n\nI get all of the \"please give to the DNC\" emails.\n\nALL of them Hillary, Hillary, **WHEEEEEE** Hillary!\n\nI expect after the next Presidential election, I will be switching to Independent. A DNC that doesn't listen to a good portion of their voting group and acts as if a coronation for Hillary would be preferred over a fair election isn't an orgnization that I want to be involved with.\n\nIf this DNC bullshit continues; I'm out. Peace.",
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"content": "So Bernie steals millions of dollars worth of data from Hillary, but somehow it is the DNC's fault for punishing thieves? ",
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"content": "Hashtag reddit. Here's your complimentary bernie bumper sticker and lack of self awareness.",
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"content": "\"Steals\"? \"Millions of dollars worth\"? Mischaracterize much? ",
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"content": "Mook has said that it cost the Clinton millions of dollars and thousands of volunteers' hours to collect the data. Then the senior Sanders data guy searches Clinton data, and then proceeds to save it.\n\nSo yes it was theft of millions of dollars worth of information.",
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"content": "Except that's not what happened. You've made two claims. 1) That the Clinton campaign raised millions of dollars worth of data, and 2) That Sanders's people accessed all or at least a relevant portion of that data. \n\nBeyond that you're ignoring the fact that Bernie's data was also accessed. You're ignoring the fact that the Sanders For President campaign alerted the DNC about these problems weeks ago. \n",
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"content": "Except that is what happened and you are ignoring reality. There is no proof that Bernie's data was accessed. There is proof that the senior data guy with the Sanders campaign not only accessed Clinton's data but then saved it. 4 other individuals also accessed the data.\n\nAlso just because Sanders alerted the DNC of the problem doesn't excuse his campaign for then going ahead and snooping through private data, and then saving it.\n\nSanders has apologized for this now because he realizes he is in the wrong. His campaign inappropriately accessed and saved data that did not belong to him. ",
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"content": "Yeah, that's just like, um, your opinion, man. ",
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"content": "I'm not uh... sure what is happening now.",
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"content": "https://www.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident/comments/3xh4da/donald_j_trump_on_twitter_see_sanders_backed/cy4o6k7?context=1",
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"content": "So Bernie steals millions of dollars worth of campaign data, and then blames the DNC when there is repercussions to stealing?",
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"content": "Sanders' campaign stole and breached data. He can get the data after they conduct a full and independent investigation. ",
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"content": "Or perhaps when a federal court decides against the DNC.",
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"content": "Or maybe when the four Sanders workers are charged with a Federal crime which it is? Suing your own party? Sounds very Trump like btw.",
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"content": "I'm sorry, did you just compare Bernie Sanders to Donald Trump?",
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"content": "Threats and now actually suing his own party, yes.",
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"content": "Holy shit, you are ridiculous.",
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"content": "Whoa! Talk about a huge mischaracterization of the facts. ",
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"content": "What is a huge mischaracterization? I did engage in massive hyperbole on purpose because of the out of control hatred expressed by too many Sanders supporters here towards Hillary Clinton which should not be done in this subedit (and I hope will be addressed in the new year) while the same is not done by supporters of other Democratic candidates towards Sanders. Myself and others have grown tired of this childish behavior and I know it does not represent the view of all Sanders supporters and I hope it does not represent the majority view of his supporters. It should not represent the views of any of his supporters. This is not the Republican party. If you want to act like one, then expect to be treated like one.",
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"content": "Yeah, that's a bunch of bullshit. I see plenty of HRC supporters attacking, insulting, or dismissing Senator Sanders and other democratic candidates. Honestly, I'm surprised that you'd have the audacity to suggest otherwise. It's almost as if you think that anyone who disagrees with you is literally stupid. \n\nThe speech and opinions of supporters are not the responsibility of the candidates. If you disagree with what users say on this or any other sub then downvote and/or tell them that. Don't attribute their feelings or thoughts to the candidates themselves. \n\nYes, conversations about DNC candidates belong here. Whether you agree with the opinions expressed here is beside the point. ",
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"content": "I welcome you to prove me wrong with examples in this subedit. The reasons Republicans used to win is not speaking evil of each other. ",
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"content": "> The reasons Republicans used to win is not speaking evil of each other. \n\nSo, you want the DNC to go further down the road emulating the RNC and for blind loyalty to party to outweigh critical thinking? \n\n",
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"content": "Blind thinking? No. Dragging other Democrats through the mud with hate and vitriol? Unacceptable. And it wasn't just Clinton either. Sanders supporters in here acting like a bunch of children. \"And if he doesn't win, I'm going to either not vote, vote green party, vote Republican, etc.\" Do you think Sanders wants his supporters talking this way about his opponents and not supporting the eventual winner? Has he given any indication that this is the way to go?",
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"content": "Assumptions of coronations are unacceptable, as are calls for those opposed to them to leave. Both Sanders and Trump should run as independents and implode the ridiculous farce of the DNC/RNC duopoly. ",
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"content": "Take it elsewhere. This is /r/democrats. If both do it that would be fine. We already know that Trump has no morals. ",
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"content": ">I welcome you to prove me wrong with examples in this subedit. \n\nWhy should I waste my time to \"prove you wrong\" when anyone with equipped with basic literacy skills can see for themselves? I can understand why you're confused about this sub, /r/politics, /r/liberal, and /r/progressive if you weren't a frequent reader/contributor, but if you simply read you'll see how wrong your assertions really are. ",
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"content": "I'm talking about this sub. I have not seen it. I am willing to stand corrected. Evidently I am not to be. With luck, that shall be a thing of the past in the not too distant future here.",
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"content": "Yeah, I'm not going to bother reading through a bunch of submissions to satisfy you. \n\nBut if you're arguing that Democrats shouldn't be behaving like the GOP and attacking one another you need look no further than Debbie Wasserman Schultz's immediate reactionism in revoking access to the DNC voter database which Sanders for president had a contractual right to. Instead of calmly resolving to get to the bottom of this situation DWS immediately jumped at the chance to disable the Sanders campaign and help out her friend HRC. ",
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"content": "Sanders' children need to do the right thing. Sanders shouldn't have to apologize during the debate for their actions. I am for the best candidate. I am not blinded by loyalty to one and therefore want to deflect on who lacked morale judgement which was the four on the Sanders campaign. Any attempt to deny that is also a lack of morale judgement.",
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"content": "Explain. ",
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"content": "For the record, many of us have hated Hillary far longer than the Sanders campaign has existed. She is the very personification of what is wrong with the Democratic Party. She is not a progressive, but somehow her supporters consider her election an entitlement.",
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"content": "Leave the party. The reasons Republicans used to win is not speaking evil of each other. A diverse party is a strong party. Ideological purity is for Nazis and Communists.",
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"content": "I suppose my username is lost on you. You claim you want diversity and then hurl insults and names at the first divergence of opinion. ",
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"content": "Don't need vitriol and hate though.",
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"content": "> Don't need vitriol and hate though.\n\nThen quit spreading it.\n\n",
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"content": "Really? When did I do that?",
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"content": "https://www.reddit.com/r/democrats/comments/3xdl4r/the_dnc_needs_to_restore_bernie_sanders_access_to/cy4woo6",
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"content": "Missing a little context there? In reply to: \"For the record, many of us have hated Hillary far longer than the Sanders campaign has existed. She is the very personification of what is wrong with the Democratic Party. She is not a progressive, but somehow her supporters consider her election an entitlement.\"\n\n And there is not hate and vitriol directed to you personally that I can see.",
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"content": "Don't complain when the federal courts side with the DNC, and charges are brought up against those Sanders campaign staffers. This is the last straw. Bernie Sanders isn't the Messiah, he isn't special. He doesn't deserve special treatment.",
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"content": "This is the last straw? How does that work? What were the other \"straws\"? \n\nThe DNC fails to maintain its firewall and somehow that makes Sanders staffers criminals? How does that work? Also, if you're okay with pushing this issue, I wonder how you feel about Clinton's email problems? Would that count as a \"straw\"? ",
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"content": "This is the last straw of Sanders getting special treatment.\n\nYes go ahead and blame the DNC for having a weak firewall. But that is no excuse for rule breaking. If I don't have ADT on my house, and you broke into my house and took my stuff, you still committed a crime. Sanders staffers didn't break the law, they broke the rules of the DNC. And they are subject to the punishment of the DNC. \n\nWhen it comes to Clinton's emails, she didn't violate the law. The law does not prohibit what she did. Now you can debate that you violated the spirit of the law. But technicalities matter more than emotions. \n\nClinton didn't break the rules, the Bernie Sanders campaign dead. The Bernie Sanders campaign should be punished. I'm done with the internet and Bernie Sanders supporters thinking that Sanders is the Messiah, he is not special, and he does not deserve special treatment.",
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"content": "What about the fact that the Clinton campaign, chaired by Debbie Wasserman Schultz was guilty of similar actions during the 2008 campaign and wasn't sanctioned? \n\nWhat \"special treatment\" are you asserting that Senator Sanders has received? \n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "What was the previous actions? Where is your evidance? Bernie told you so, that's your evidance. I'll change my tune if presented with something that didn't come out of the Sanders campaign. Also, how cares that Wasserman Schultz was incharge of the Clinton campaign in 08. The the senior leadership of the DNC is split with Benrie, O'malley, and Clinton supporters, so it can be fair. ",
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"content": ">What was the previous actions? Where is your evidance? Bernie told you so, that's your evidance. I'll change my tune if presented with something that didn't come out of the Sanders campaign. Also, how cares that Wasserman Schultz was incharge of the Clinton campaign in 08. The the senior leadership of the DNC is split with Benrie, O'malley, and Clinton supporters, so it can be fair. \n\n\nDrinking in the middle of the day are we? ",
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"content": "So I'm guessing you have nothing. Thanks. I'm sorry I insulted your Lord Messiah Bernie Sanders. ",
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"content": "Cheers! ",
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"content": "Cheers! I'm so sorry that the facts don't fit your narrative. ",
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"content": "\"Stole\" is a bad word for what happened. \"Stealing\" implies that The person who previously owned the thing that no longer has possession of the thing. That is not true in this case. \nA single Bernie Sander's campaign staffer downloaded information that did not belong to the Bernie Sanders campaign. This information was not vital nor was it top-secret. Shutting down the Sanders campaign is a clear attack on Bernie Sanders by the DNC.\nThe party establishment does not want to be taken over by anti corporate democratic socialist. The problem is, it already has we just haven't had a voice until now.",
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"content": "The Bernie Sanders campaign stole information. Bernie Sanders himself fired the individuals responsible. I don't blame the DNC for not trusting the campaign. He doesn't deserve access to the voter data, if he's going to steal it from other candidates. Now he's disgracing the party, because of his campaign to share incompetence. That is not how a leader is supposed to work.",
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"content": "Go away.",
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"content": "We both know that isn't going to happen.\n",
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"content": "Bernie stole millions of dollars worth of data from the Clinton campaign and then tried to place the blame the DNC and Hillary.\n\nWhy do people think this is excusable? If Hillary did this people would be saying she has to drop out.",
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"content": "Its excusable because Sanders is incapable of doing wrong. Duh.",
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"content": "ITT: A bunch of Clinton supporters jumping the gun before the whole story is out. ",
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"content": "Except we have the logs of Bernie's staff stealing the data, but sure being condescending to try to excuse theft. ",
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"content": "https://www.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident/comments/3xh4da/donald_j_trump_on_twitter_see_sanders_backed/cy4o6k7?context=1",
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"content": "If I'm not mistaken, a representative of NGP VAN has just said that no data was printed or exported.",
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"content": "I'm not mistaken. From the [NGP VAN blog](http://blog.ngpvan.com/news/data-security-and-privacy):\n\n> On Wednesday morning, there was a release of VAN code. Unfortunately, it contained a bug. For a brief window, the voter data that is always searchable across campaigns in VoteBuilder included client scores it should not have, on a specific part of the VAN system. So for voters that a user already had access to, that user was able to search by and view (but not export or save or act on) some attributes that came from another campaign.",
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"content": "You are so mistaken. From your fellow Sanders can do know wrong Henrycorp post 5 hours ago, http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-12-18/sanders-campaign-fires-data-director-after-breach-of-clinton-files\n\n\"After one Sanders account gained access to the Clinton data, the audits show, that user began sharing permissions with other Sanders users. The staffers who secured access to the Clinton data included national data director Josh Uretsky, who was fired on Thursday, and his deputy, Russell Drapkin. The two other usernames that viewed Clinton information were “talani\" and \"csmith_bernie,\" created by Uretsky's account after the breach began.\n\nThough the Sanders campaign initially claimed that it had not saved Clinton data, the logs show that the Vermont senator’s team created at least 24 lists during the 40-minute breach, which started at 10:40 a.m., and saved those lists to their personal folders. The Sanders searches included New Hampshire lists related to likely voters, \"HFA Turnout 60-100\" and \"HFA Support 50-100,\" that were conducted and saved by Uretsky. Drapkin's account searched for and saved lists including less likely Clinton voters, \"HFA Support <30\" in Iowa, and \"HFA Turnout 30-70\"' in New Hampshire.\"\n\n",
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"content": "This information isn't something that I have put together, so I am actually not mistaken. The information comes from NGP VAN president. As with anything, it will be taken with a grain of salt.\n\nAdditionally, I believe you meant \"... Sanders can do **no** wrong ...\"",
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"content": "> “We want to make sure we’re not just taking our vendor’s word for it or the Sanders’ campaign,” she said.\n\n[Quoted from this article.](http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/dnc-data-breach-happened-means-bernie-sanders-campaign/story?id=35841222) What it looks like, given this quote, is that the Sanders campaign has been transparent and that NGP VAN agrees that no serious violations exist but DNC Chair DWS would like for violations to exist.",
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"content": "Downloading, sharing files of data is illegal. It is a violation of Federal law. Are you not aware of this? And I quote, \"NGP VAN CEO Stu Trevelyan denies the company ever received word of that breach\" from the Sanders campaign.",
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"content": "If that's all verifiably true, whatever files that need to be deleted are, and whoever fired, fired, and the DNC can give Sanders back his list, like they said they would. ",
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"content": "\"The DNC is even considering contracting an independent security firm to conduct an audit, a move that could further delay the campaign’s access to the voter file.\"",
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"content": "Why not audit seperately from them campaigning? Give them their list, this can effect the outcome of the presidency, and this stalling by the DNC is harming the democratic process more than whatever Sander's campaign could have accomplished. \n\n",
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"content": "I imagine they are not in a mood to spend time making that happen when his people have potentially violated a Federal law.",
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"content": "They've also shown good will by reporting the bug. ",
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"content": "That has not been provided with any sort of documentation to prove it yet.",
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"content": "*the previous bug.\n\nFor this one, the Sanders staffer knew he'd be traced. He has the background to understand the tech. ",
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"content": "He just wanted us to know it? Try that one in court. I hacked into the DoD website to show everyone how easy it was. You can't arrest me and convict me, right?",
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"content": "Actually people who do that impressive hacking sometimes get jobs at those organizations.\n\nThis staffer was fired as damage control for a potential false spin by the media. \n\nSander's campaign staffer didn't hack. All campaigns for a brief time had every campaign's info on voters they also contacted. The staffer, knowing beforehand he'd be traced for what he did, assumed the Clinton campaign had a similar issue on their system, so he highlighted problems with the system. \n\nThe statement by the system's company:\n\nhttp://blog.ngpvan.com/news/data-security-and-privacy",
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"content": "OK, let me get this straight. They only downloaded stuff so they could “document and understand the scope of the problem so that we could report it accurately.” Really, the Clinton campaign should be thanking him. If you are a typical Bernie supporter, you are either all on powerful drugs or this is that first step, denial.\n\nThe 4 of them broke the law. There is no false spin by the media. No one was highlighting anything. They copied and downloaded specific Clinton data sets for 10 early states. That is your Bernie denial any way you slice it. Have you seen the proof that the Sanders campaign presented this proof of a database problem earlier to the DNC? No? Why not? Do you think that stealing music and movies on the internet isn’t really stealing?",
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"content": "They didn't download anything. They couldn't. \n\nThey staffer knew everything he was doing was being watched, too. Do you think he'd try pulling a fast one when he knew he was being watched? His technological credentials show he was knowledgeable of the program's capabilities. \n\nAt least 3 of those accounts were of the one staffer, the one who got fired. If another staffer saw it, it still wasn't like he opened a file with \"Clinton\" on it. Seeing it would be like if someone put a page in front of you and you looked at it. Ngp van clearly says the information was impossible to export, and they said only one Sanders user did anything:\n\nThis is what everyone is talking about: \"a one page-style report containing summary data on a list was saved out of VoteBuilder by one Sanders user\" It's not a huge data set the media is making this out to be. \n\n> Have you seen the proof that the Sanders campaign presented this proof of a database problem earlier to the DNC?\n\nSander's campaign is on record many times saying they called in a downed firewall from October. It would be too stupid to make that up, because it's easy for the media to destroy Sanders campaign for lying about it. You have to think about *plausibility* of people's actions. ",
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"content": "Right, the media is conspiring with the DNC and Clinton to make Sanders look bad. Suing the DNC doesn't make Sanders look bad though. \n\nHow about some sources from you that are reliable versus from the Sanders campaign? Plenty have been posted in this subedit that say different, like:\nhttp://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/sanders-aides-clinton-voter-information\nhttp://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-12-18/sanders-campaign-fires-data-director-after-breach-of-clinton-files\n\n\"The logs show that the Vermont senator’s team created at least 24 lists during the 40-minute breach, which started at 10:40 a.m., and saved those lists to their personal folders. The Sanders searches included New Hampshire lists related to likely voters, \"HFA Turnout 60-100\" and \"HFA Support 50-100,\" that were conducted and saved by Uretsky. Drapkin's account searched for and saved lists including less likely Clinton voters, \"HFA Support <30\" in Iowa, and \"HFA Turnout 30-70\"' in New Hampshire.\nDespite audit logs, Weaver said at the news conference that NGP VAN has told the campaign that no Clinton data was printed or downloaded. \"\n\nWhat world are you living in?",
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"content": "They were saved onto the program. Nothing was taken off the program except that one page, says the organization which runs the program.\n\nThe staffer did searches, but outside of his memory he has but one page. And that was deleted on Thursday and proven to the DNC then. The staffer ran the searches, because he believed if he could find out each search for Clinton, they can find out about him. He was fired for that, because it wasn't as professional as the Sanders campaign functions. \n\nThe DNC is giving Sanders back his data tomorrow morning. So there ya go. \n\n",
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"content": "Once again, no matter how you guys try and spin it, \"According to two people briefed on the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a continuing review, four different user names associated with the Sanders campaign conducted 25 separate searches of the Clinton data. Audit trails of the logs show that people with the Sanders campaign searched and saved multiple files, creating new lists of their own.\"",
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"content": "Your using information contrary to what NGP VAN themselves say. I already linked to that.\n\nOne user on 4 accounts, one page \"taken.\" \n\nThe numerous \"saves\" are not the same as \"taking\" info for the Sanders campaign.\n\nThat page was destroyed on Thursday. The DNC already said Sander's campaign complied. \n\nNow, because the Sanders campaign brought the DNC to court, there will be an audit, including the correspondence between the DNC and NGP VAN. Should be interesting.",
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"content": "Saves are not the same as taking? Really? What are they then?",
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"content": "They didn't download large swaths of data. When he made \"saves\" multiple times, it was where the Clinton campaign would normally only see. The staffer said he made these saves to show where he was able to go. When the firewall was up, no one from the Sanders campaign would be able to see those saves.\n\nOk so now, a one-page style report was taken by the Sanders staffer, and that was destroyed the next day by the Sanders campaign, along with them firing that staffer: http://blog.ngpvan.com/news/data-security-and-privacy\n\nThe DNC was told the page was destroyed on Thursday. ",
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"content": "Sure, to see where he could go. ",
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"content": "He knew he'd be watched when using the program. He is knowledgeable enough of the technology that we can safely assume that, as a IT director of a campaign. Do you think he's retarded?\n\nThis is also a person who instantly reported it the last time the firewall went down. It was not the Clinton campaign to report the down firewall, which is part of the 3rd party investigation to come. He was seeing where the firewall was down, because you'd assume where you can see Clinton info, the Clinton campaign can see Sander's info, and he wanted the firewall fixed right. \n\nHe made saves where the Sanders campaign can't go once the firewall was fixed. The one, one-page summary he saved out of the system wasn't the lists. It wasn't pertinent information.",
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"content": "http://blog.ngpvan.com/news/data-security-and-privacy\n\nFrom the data organization itself: A one-page style summary was taken by the Sanders staffer.\n\nThe saves you're talking about were not accessible to the Sanders campaign outside of when the firewall would be down. This is what the staffer was talking about when he \"wrote a note that their door was open.\" He was showing where he was able to go. ",
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"content": "Irrelevant. They did the wrong thing. Their behavior was inexcusable. The candidate had to apologize on national TV during the debate. He should have nipped this in the bud earlier and it would have never gotten out of control. His judgement on this will now be questioned. Ms. Clinton could afford to be gracious and accept his apology because the damage is done.",
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"content": "> They did the wrong thing. Their behavior\n\nHuh? An individual staffer or two did the wrong thing, and he was fired as soon as possible, and the Sanders campaign is now putting themselves through a 3rd party investigation into seeing if any other staffers have anything to do with this, so they too can be fired, if any others exist. He said that during the debate, as well, friend. \n\n> He should have nipped this in the bud earlier and it would have never gotten out of control\n\nHe did. This all happened in less than 48 hours. Do you know that? \n\nActually, the first time there was a down firewall, it was the Sanders campaign that reported it, and the DNC thanked them. Part of the investigations to come is for the Clinton campaign as well, concerning if they have any of Sander's campaign's info, since that is a possibility since they did not report the downed firewall either times. \n\n> The candidate had to apologize on national TV during the debate.\n\nHe didn't legally have to, no. He has class. The DNC should now apologize for the problems of their vendor and the firewall going down twice, since it's the DNC's legal responsibility to keep it up. ",
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"content": ">A series of documents outlining an audit trail maintained by the database company, obtained and reviewed by NBC News, shows that the four individuals spent a total of about 40 minutes conducting searches of the Clinton data. Those searches included terms that point to Sanders' team gaining access to proprietary lists from more than 10 early voting states of Clinton's likely supporters as well as lists for Sanders backers. **That data was saved to personal folders.**\n\n>**It also appears that Drapkin \"suppressed\" two folders after the database company became aware of the breach.**\n\nhttp://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/bernie-sanders-campaign-penalized-dnc-after-improperly-accessing-clinton-voter-n482341",
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"content": "From the [NGP VAN blog](http://blog.ngpvan.com/news/data-security-and-privacy):\n\n> So for voters that a user already had access to, that user was able to search by and view (but not export or save or act on) some attributes that came from another campaign.",
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"content": "Yeah, but that could be Democratic voters that both campaigns had contacted and rated differently. Sanders and Clinton both have access to Voter A because A usually is a Democratic primary voter thus, both campaigns have approached Voter A.\n\nSanders' campaign has Voter A rated as a \"undecided -- October 15\" but Clinton's campaign has Voter A rated as a \"strong supporter -- November 30.\" This information is very valuable to Sanders because they will no longer waste time on Voter A since the voter's support has waned drastically. ",
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"content": "The key here being if they were able to export, save or act on the information they collected. We're not talking about just \"Voter A,\" we're talking about mass data. It would be unusable for them to just see information.",
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"content": "From the article cited above:\n\n> NBC News has not independently verified the documents in this unfolding story",
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"content": "Issues that have been brought to my attention recently:\n\n* **Editorialized headlines**\n\n* **Vote manipulation**\n\n* **User attacks**\n\n* **Posts spamming directly from candidate websites**\n\n* **Youtube videos**\n\n* **Candidate attacks**\n\n* **Candidate spammers**\n\n* **Stalking users you don't agree with**\n\n* **Removal of reposted articles**\n\n* **Removal of outdated articles**\n\n* **Prohibiting posting from certain websites**\n\n* **Hate Speech and Trolling**\n",
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"content": "\n>* **Editorialized headlines**\n\nAbsolutely this. People should stick with original headlines. Leave editorializing for the comments.",
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"content": "Headlines often are excessively short and lack subheadings so they need more added to be useful. That said, I think we agree this is unequivocal and obvious editorialization: https://www.reddit.com/r/democrats/comments/3xzvd1/bernie_admits_that_he_pees_too/\n\nMy rule would be no headline **spinning**.",
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"content": "> Youtube videos\n\nI'm not sure what's wrong with this, I mean attack ads or conspiracy theorists sure, but if it's say TYT or an interview shouldn't that be fair game?\n\n\n>Stalking users you don't agree with\n\nSeriously!? That's harassment and after a warning shouldn't they just be banned?\n\n>Editorialized headlines\n\nThis one aggravates me the most, I don't mind it so much over in /r/politics because due to the volume of posts they'll just get downvoted, but here, it can easily reach the front page with 2 or 3 upvotes.",
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"content": "Has anyone else noticed that half of the links in the new queue are about Bernie Sanders and they're all coming from two spammers?",
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"content": "\n* Promotion of third parties. \n* Promotion of anti-Democratic sites or sites setup specifically to promote another party.\n* Excess poll posts.\n* I don't want /r/democrats to turn into /r/politics where sites get banned as \"rehosted\".\n\nBy promotion I mean allowing links and text posts as opposed to removing them.",
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"content": "Thank you. These are all relevant and worthy of discussion.",
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"content": "Agreed. /r/politics has turned into a cesspool of rules lawyering to prohibit content the upper echelon of moderators don't like. The rule set is literally many thousands of words in length. Just rubbish. ",
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"content": "Just so long as valid criticisms can still be presented. If we can't be honest with ourselves, we are doomed to be an echo chamber. \n\nNot saying RWNJ attacks, but valid criticisms using well sourced citations. ",
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"content": "Certainly. As long as it is criticizing the issue. Not the OP.",
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"content": "* Disallow personal blogs and vlogs\n* Disallow soliciting (petitions)\n* Disallow posts from talk radio show websites",
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"content": "I agree with all three of your bullet points and would like to know the reasoning behind the downvotes you have received.\n\nSo next person to downvote, please also reply. I disagree with a lot of what progress18 has to say, but these are valid suggestions that should be discussed not buried",
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"content": "With the exception of bullet 2, these are subjective and ways for the corporate establishment media to control the submissions and avoid the middle and lower classes of the media.",
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"content": "This might be related to vote manipulation, but there seems to be a lot of misuse of the downvote button. As in, people downvoting posts less on merit and more because they don't like a candidate.",
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"content": "Agree. There appears to be a downvoting brigade, as well as an upvoting one, (assumed to be one & the same) pretty much annihilating this sub.",
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"content": "I'm assuming, based on my experiences posting in this sub, that there are two sets of brigades going on ...",
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"content": "I think that some of the moderators need to set a better example. I've seen several engaging in a few of the behaviors listed.\n\nAdditionally, I feel like we give a lot of leeway for people to post articles that focus entirely on the chaos and stupidity of the Republican party. We all know that they are crazy. Why do we have to focus on that at the cost of using up popular real estate that might otherwise be used for legitimate Democratic issues.",
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"content": "In the cases of moderators setting bad examples, please link to some examples. The more the better (although hopefully it's not that big of a problem). The point is you don't need to limit the number of examples provided.\n\nAs to the crazy/stupidty/chaos of Republicans, I'd definitely prefer limits too although highlighting key examples of it without being Trump's media echo chamber should definitely be supported as highlighting party differences.",
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"content": "Sadly, I've not got the time to moderate the moderators of r/democrats. I think that the main thing for **everyone** to keep in mind is that the existing rules and any new rules should be applied evenly across the board. With some of the comments made by a particular moderator in this thread alone, however, I think it is clear that that is not the intention behind this.",
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"content": "Thought I'd ask to see if you had any to add. I have my own growing list. If you do notice anything, be sure to message the mods too. One of the points, at least originally, of this whole open discussion is to put an end to personal attacks and trolling, whether on users or mods, and return to more discussion of the content.",
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"content": "Thanks. I'll be sure to keep on top of it. Especially as it seems it will be necessary.",
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"content": "I think limiting posts to one a day per user would go a long way toward limiting spamming of this subreddit. ",
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"content": "I love this idea.\n\nAlso, limiting people's ability to delete and repost articles when they don't get the upvotes they want.",
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"content": "This would also have the added benefit of limiting an individuals abilities to post six articles about the same speech or presentation or event in a 12 hour period.",
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"content": "Eliminate the poll reposts.",
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"content": "No site/domain only posts.",
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"content": "Many subedits don't allow user names that attack things the subedit stands for. I think that should be true here. You can't go into /r/republican with the handle /u/ronaldreaganwasamoron but we allow that here. Needs to stop now. They laugh about us allowing this over there.\n\nQuit attacking our candidates like children. The mindless attacks on Jim Webb by the Sanders crowd, a war hero who gave the Democrats a filibuster proof majority against all odds, by people that did not know the first thing about the man, sickened me. This is what Republicans used to not do but now do and look at that sad thing happening there. If you want to attack a candidate's previous votes, stated policies fine, but personal attacks like that belong in your candidate's subedit, /r/politics, /r/republican, etc. We should be discussing their issues and votes, not making fun of them and giving ammunition to the other side. \n\nFlooding this site with articles of meaningless so and so is supporting this candidate -- no one cares what rapper or actor or singer, or person running for state legislator is supporting a candidate. If it is a major union, a major politician, or something very unexpected, sure.\n\nWe should always remember that this subedit represents the Democratic Party on reddit to the world and when it is all over not be an embarrassment to the party. And when we slam the party and those who run it and those who run as candidates for it by calling them whores, prostitutes, bending over for big business, on their knees for big business, war pigs, etc., it is not a place that the Democratic Party will want representing them now or in the future. There are plenty other places to take this stuff, so why bring it here? ",
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"content": "I could not agree with you more. This is the problem that has arisen over the last several months. People behaved before. But this election it has gotten viscous. Many people are only coming to promote their candidate and care little what they do to the party. \n\nI am hoping we can establish some simple rules and guidelines to change this. Thank you for your well thought out suggestions.",
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"content": "If you believe in democracy, then being open to the idea that the DNC and the RNC need to be torn apart to facilitate democracy should come as no surprise. If, OTOH, you merely want an establishment echo chamber, keep up what you are doing. ",
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"content": "Tear it apart some place else. This is not /r/tearaparttheparty",
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"content": "No problem. Been sick with food poisoning then a cold or would have said more earlier. We should want the party to be able to point to this subedit with pride. Whomever comes out on top, I support. Don't want to hear that I will vote for Trump if Sanders doesn't win. I saw the results of Bush thanks to Ralph Nader. We invade Iraq, we now have ISIS and a terrible Supreme Court. The idea that there is no difference between the two parties is crazy. The differences are wider than ever now.",
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"content": "His entire post is a diatribe on how Sanders supporters stink and having you say you couldn't not agree with you more is a bit of an endorsement on that. As this is your subreddit you can do or say whatever you'd like, but at that point it's not longer being /r/democrats it's /r/hillaryclinton with a larger base.",
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"content": "So much for creating new rules in the interest of creating party unity. I think that the writing on the wall here at r/democrats is becoming clearer by the post.",
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"content": "I don't think that's a fair assessment without allowing for a rebuttal. Sometimes we only see something clearly after someone else points it out.",
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"content": "Anyone is free to reply and refute my opinion.",
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"content": "I'm also not interested in seeing /r/democrats hijacked because a small group can't turn /r/politics into a Hillary ad or get the substantive grassroots support that created /r/SandersForPresident.",
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"content": "Nonsense, people come in here with their anti Clinton user names, calling her a corporate whore, saying that they will either not vote or vote for Trump if she gets the nomination are not Democrats. I vote for whomever gets the nomination and I support all Democrats win or lose. We don't any hate this Democrat nonsense in here when the election is over and people look back at this. Take it elsewhere. Be positive about the all the candidates or only talk about the ones you can be positive about. Quit schilling for one. If you want to post articles on them from respected news sources that is fine, but I posting propaganda from people in their campaign does not belong here. Denying what Sander's campaign did with the DNC database after Sanders admits and apologizes is just childish. Stick to the facts as the news reports them. Don't be slamming the DNC here.",
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"content": "The DNC doesn't benefit from a lack of criticism. The DNC benefits from Democratic voters being vocal about what they want.",
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"content": "Criticism is fine. Calling candidates wall street whores is not criticism. That is what users such as Shill_of_Halliburton, HillarySoldout, etc. do.",
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"content": "I think that u/HillarySoldout and u/Shill_of_Halliburton have both contributed some pretty solid content here. Just because you don't like what their positions are doesn't mean they should be censored. Have you tried commenting on their posts and refuting the arguments made in the articles?",
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"content": "Hillary is a wall street whore that has sold out to them is not a position. They should be banned for posting anything like that. How can you even argue other wise?",
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"content": "You're not providing evidence that that was ever stated or posted in an article that lacked supporting arguments, and I'll not take your word on it.",
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"content": "Going back and pulling someone's previous comments is a bannable offense. You should know that.",
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"content": "Apparently \"user attacks\" is about to be against the rules as well. That hasn't stopped you from directly attacking the two. Why should the rules get in the way now?",
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"content": "I think this kind of post is the exact thing that you are complaining about. The entire post is basically a diatribe on how you dislike a certain group of Sanders' supporters.\n\nWe all have to remember that our thoughts on the Democratic party are not anyone else's. While I feel like the Democratic party has parted ways from me to shift right on fiscal issues, you might feel that the Democratic party has shifted left on social issues and is where it needs to be. We all have our idea on what it should be, none of us has an opinion that is \"correct\", that's politics.\n\nI'm not posting this to have an argument or discussion, just to lend an alternative viewpoint on why there are disagreements about the candidates in the current race, since I found yours just a bit offensive.\n\nOne more thing though, on the attacks of Jim Webb, outside of making fun of his debate performance about killing a man I haven't really seen much. So I'm a bit flabbergasted on that. Most of the crowd in /r/sandersforpresident seem to really like his gumption. Though he's a bit too moderate for most, as would be expected from supporters of a progressive politician. \n\nTL;DR I'm right, you're wrong ^^^^/s",
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"content": "I feel like eliminating people based on their username is a little ridiculous. That information helps people identify the position that the poster is taking early on, and allows them to consider the context of the post. If anything it is helpful.\n\nThe fact that people at r/republican or whatever sub thinks it's idiotic shouldn't matter for us. They will think we are idiotic no matter what we allow. Additionally, they are widely known for being heavily moderated and I don't know that that's the kind of community I want to participate in.",
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"content": "When someone in here is slamming a Democrat with their user name, then they are not a Democrat, they are a one trick pony. They can keep their comments and posts in /r/politics, /r/news/, /r/inthenews and /r/soandsoforpresident, etc. When someone is in here with a user name with someone that could very well be our candidate for president, it looks ridiculous. And let's call it like it is, Sanders people only. Shall we start having ones like /u/sanders_supports_are_dbs or worse? As a matter of interest, why is it only occurring with Sanders supporters? It seems to be correlated with ones that say they will either not vote if he doesn't win or vote for the Republican. That doesn't sound like a Democrat to me. ",
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"content": "Yeah, because someone whose username not-so-subtly implies that Sanders supporters are a bunch of \"neckbeards\" is totally a Sanders supporter themself. Take a look at the sub, people supporting all candidates and acting ridiculous are already here.\n\nBut you know what? At least they are up front about who they support. There are posters in this sub who moderate on a particular candidates sub. What's the difference? That they don't hide behind a username that \"sounds progressive.\"\n\nAnd let's be clear about one thing. You don't have to like every candidate to be a Democrat. I know it might surprise you, but you can even vote Republican and be a Democrat. Shocking, I know.\n\nBut now that you mention it, maybe we should have a definition for what constitutes a Democrat. Maybe we need to make a new rule about that? Some kind of test perhaps. We obviously need a new rule for that too. /S",
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"content": "No, it is the ones that slam Hillary Clinton that are the problem. Should I create a separate one that says Sandersisarapist?",
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"content": "There have been plenty of posts by the individual that I mentioned above, and plenty of \"slams\" against Sanders. Are you suggesting that we should be more critical of one candidate, or are you suggesting that we shouldn't allow criticism of any of the candidates?",
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"content": "You want to criticise, take it elsewhere. If you want to post positive stories on the them of factual stories from the NY Times, CNN, etc, fine. This opinion hit pieces from garbage sites like Salon should not be here. Might as well start posting from the Blaze or WND. Names like HillarySoldout don't belong here. Names like BerniethegunNut don't belong here either. If someone wants to debate the relative merits of their positions, that is all good. But Hillary is a corporate slut that has sold out to Wall Street so no matter what she says is a lie, is garbage for some place else.",
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"content": "So when people post an article, and discuss it in the comments you feel like they aren't making propositions based on the merits of the article and the candidates? I call bull shit on that. Especially since you are free to comment on anything that is posted and refute the claims in the article. You just don't like it that there is room for criticism that is well reasoned.",
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"content": "See response to your other comment.",
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"content": "I think that the Sanders v Clinton dynamic should be completely removed from this subreddit. I think that's also unreasonable as much of the focus of the Democratic party is on Third Way Democrats versus Progressives at the moment.\n\nPerhaps a mission statement from the subreddit, or a modification of the guidelines would be appropriate to focus more on promoting democratic articles rather than horse race focus. When I come to /r/democrats I feel like I'm in /r/politics/rising with Clinton and Sanders brigades causing a lot of comments to get that little red cross showing that it's controversial.",
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"content": "Banning of Rule Players. Namely, those playing the rules, digging up obscure reddit rules in order to censor otherwise great democratic content or a great contributor to /r/democrats.",
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"content": "The subsidized elephant in the room is which moderators do users prefer and are there any users you would like to see added as moderators?\n\n* /u/anutensil \n* /u/EvolutionTheory \n* /u/JohnnyBeagle \n* /u/backpackwayne \n* /u/slapchopsuey \n* /u/Carmac \n* /u/HenryCorp \n* /u/wenchette \n",
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"content": "This would make a good sticky. ",
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"content": "Yeah, if I can.",
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"content": "There should be an area that says \"sticky this post\" right above where you comment on this page. \n\nhttps://i.imgur.com/5EwBhcJ.png\n\nBetter screenshot:\n\nhttp://i.imgur.com/CP2zCIW.png\n\nThen: \n>sticky this? yes / no\n",
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"content": "I can't sticky it without removing backpack's. And, henry refuses to remove the move.on one that's been up for 24 days.",
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"content": "Really? It seems a little ridiculous to have a sticky up for more than 1-3 days, especially when there's a debate tonight. ",
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"content": "I just removed it. Traditionally, the mod who put it up is suppose to be the one to remove it. So much for tradition.\n\nOk. This one's stickied.",
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"content": "We should be able to have two stickies. It's weird that the other one is not showing as \"stuck.\"\n\nRegardless, We'll have the debate thread as the sticky for today and tomorrow, and then i will put the other one back up on Monday.",
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"content": "I just restuck it.\n\nI'm sorry, wayne. Didn't mean to cause confusion!\n\nI couldn't sticky my post because 2 were already up there. So, I removed Henry's & stuck mine up there under yours. I removed it because a really silly conversation started going on between Henry & me that had nothing at all to do with the subject of the post. I didn't want it do show a bunch of deletes. All's fine now, except I had to remove a post about the debate that Henry had just put up in order to get mine back up there.",
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"content": "Cool. I'll arrange it so yours is on top. Should be an interesting debate. I look forward to watching it. :D",
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"content": "At no point did I refuse. You asked for the first time this morning and some of us do sleep and otherwise disconnect from reddit.",
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"content": "We've discussed it before & you explained why you thought it should stay up. I apologize that I took your silence this time as a refusal. ",
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"content": "That must have been a \"we\" without me.",
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"content": "I asked you to remove it 14 hours ago, hardly just this morning. ",
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"content": "That's a technicality on a weekend night, much like a news release late Friday afternoon. It was the first request.",
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"content": "We can have two stickies. \n\nI'll take care of it. :D",
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"content": "Something useful: \n\n## [Find a debate party in your area via map or zip code](http://map.berniesanders.com/#zipcode=&distance=20&eventtype=O&eventtype=DWP&daterange=all-events&sort=distance).",
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"content": "Past debates/forums:\n\n* Debate 1:\n* Debate 2:\n* Forums: https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueProgressive/comments/3u7p2b/presidential_forums_bernie_omalley_and_carson/\n",
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"content": "This article was not written without bias. ",
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"content": "Incompetent puppet dictator running a city with a whimsical blue WMD. Yeah, that is a threat to America if the wind blows just a little differently. Best to be safe and get rid of it. ",
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"content": "The scarier part is that Americans are horrible at geography, regardless of political affiliation. While less Dems wanted to bomb the fictional city, I would be willing to wager that an equal number of Dems and GOPers believed it was a real city. ",
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"content": "The scarier part is that people support bombing and killing anything, having no idea what it is...",
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"content": "And 19% of Democrats.",
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"content": "Where'd you get that number? I'm curious to see a breakdown. ",
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"content": "Same poll. Google it. 40% of Trump supporters, 30% of Republicans, 19% of Democrats.",
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"content": "Idiots all around.",
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"content": "[Here's a source](http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/18/republican-voters-bomb-agrabah-disney-aladdin-donald-trump) that's less biased that the one OP posted",
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"content": "The poll with all of it's crosstabs is here: http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2015/PPP_Release_National_121715.pdf",
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"content": "More terrifying is the percent who wanted to build concentration camps for Muslims.",
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"content": "we could build it, but then put all those who wanted to build them there, that could work",
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"content": "I think the way the question is asked would likely influence the answers received. The vast majority of people don't know the geography of their own country, let alone know anything about cities that may be half a world away. \n\nI thought about this a little myself and even after knowing that Agrabah is fiction, I'd be perfectly fine with dropping a bomb or two on it just to make sure there wasn't a sequel to Aladdin. Although, to be honest, I don't know if there ever has been a sequel or talks of one. I just think we better stop those folks at Disney before that crap comes to a TV near me. ",
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"content": "This is what happens when over-confidence meets reality and can't handle it. Presto - victim complex.",
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"content": "No, this is what happens when the people support one candidate and wealth and corporations support another. \n\nThere's no victim complex here aside from that which resulted from HRC purposely leaving her data unsecured and waiting for someone to access it. ",
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"content": "The people support Clinton. That, at least, should be obvious to you. \n\nAnd handful of white boys support Sanders. Pretty much everyone else ignores him entirely.\n\nAnd there is no suggestion whatsoever that Clinton or her campaign had anything to do with this fiasco. Honestly, where do you get your information?",
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"content": "So rather than addressing my statements at their face value, you make baseless, racist comments. \n\nNo, Bernie is not being ignored by anyone, minorities included. Instead of trying to divide people with hateful rhetoric, maybe you should open a new tab to Google, pull your head out of your ass, and find your own damn information. Until then choke on your words and keep your uninformed and hateful thoughts to yourself. \n\nEdit: in case you're still confused, this [conversation might help.] (https://www.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident/comments/3xh4da/donald_j_trump_on_twitter_see_sanders_backed/cy4o6k7?context=1) ",
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"content": "Racist? Just when I though you couldn't be stupider. In what world is anything I said racist?\n\nBernie is not running for president. You are a dupe. Try reading from a source other than Salon or Huff Post.",
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"content": ">And handful of white boys support Sanders. Pretty much everyone else ignores him entirely.\n\n\nThis is a racist statement. \n\nBernie Sanders is the people's candidate. That goes for all people. \n\n",
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"content": "LOL! Holy Crap!\n\nThat is not a racist comment. That is a realistic appraisal of Bernie's demographic of support.\n\nBernie is not the people's candidate. Clinton is the people's candidate. Bernie Sanders' base of support is constructed almost entirely of young white males. And it is so small as to go unnoticed by pretty much everyone else.\n\nYou'd think he'd have to have the support of, you know, people, before anyone would make a comment about him being the \"people's candidate.\" So funny.\n\nLOL. I should have guessed that your complete failure to understand politics might spill over into other areas. Racist.\n\nYou are an idiot.",
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"content": "I still can't believe \"white boys\" can be construed as racist. In what world...?",
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"content": ">You're resulting to vulgar insults. Calling someone an idiot isn't remotely comparable to calling them a retard, and \"derp\" is analogous to Mencia's \"dee dee dee.\". \n\nLook, I don't know what you're talking about with Mencia. I don't care. The word idiot literally means imbecile or retard look it up, you ignorant asshole.\n\n>You continue to imply that calling people white is racist. You are one of the most ignorant people with whom I've ever communicated. \n\nNo, you're mischaracterizing my words. Hell, you could be HRC's offspring. Using the term \"white boys\" to describe millions of Americans who support Bernie Sanders is offensive. Calling voting age males boys is both unnecessary and offensive. There's no reason to ham handedly bring race into any conversation. \n\n>People like you are hurting the Sanders campaign. By being ignorant and vitriolic, you present an image of ignorance and hatred for your preferred candidate. \n\nKeep calling me ignorant. Go get a dictionary. Look up these big words we've been using tonight. \n\n>I find it very hard to believe that you're 35. I've met 12 year olds with twice your maturity. Your lack of tact reminds me of people with whom I've worked that have Asperger's or are somewhere on the autism spectrum, so \n\nAnd there we have it folks. It's one thing to call people names. It's an entirely different form of callousness that allows a person to use the disabled themselves as an insult. You've proven your maturity level right here. \n\n>I'm going to assume your ridiculous comments aren't entirely your fault; instead of allowing you to further embarrass yourself. \n\nNo, please go on. Do schizophrenics next. Ben Carson does a great bit on them. Maybe next you can rag on me using people with MS as a device to make fun of my typing. \n\nI take it back. You're not a fuckstick. You're a sniveling pool of dog puke that accuses someone of doing something and then does that exact thing in the next breath. Here is where I bid you adieu. I invite you to spend your holiday break fucking yourself with a rusty tree-trimmer. If you feel the need to respond, go do it in a trash can or something. The Internet doesn't need more of your garbage. \n\n",
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"content": ">That is not a racist comment. That is a realistic appraisal of Bernie's demographic of support.\n\nYeah, it's racist and disingenuous to call Bernie supporters \"white boys\". It's a mischaracterization that assumes the race of a huge group of people. The term \"white boy\" is just as offensive as \"black boy\" when applied to voting age adults. Words mean things asshole. \n\n>Bernie is not the people's candidate. Clinton is the people's candidate. Bernie Sanders' base of support is constructed almost entirely of young white males. And it is so small as to go unnoticed by pretty much everyone else.\n\nAnd you're basing your comments on what exactly? I mean, polls are one thing, I disagree that polling is a reliable source of data and especially not at this point in the race, but you're not even citing those. \n\n[Hillary Clinton's husband is personally responsible for one of, if not the largest increases in the rates of incarceration in human history.] (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/16/us/politics/bill-clinton-concedes-his-crime-law-jailed-too-many-for-too-long.html?_r=0) This increase has been especially destructive to young black people and black families. He was responsible for putting single mothers and poor families in distress by increasing the means tested requirements for welfare and assistance programs. By passing NAFTA he sold out working Americans and moved their jobs to Mexico and South America. Hillary supports these things. \n\n>You'd think he'd have to have the support of, you know, people, before anyone would make a comment about him being the \"people's candidate.\" So funny.\n\nHe does have the support of the people. You're the one making baseless claims here. Sure Hillary has a lead in the polls conducted by corporations who donate to her campaign, but let's ignore that part. Let's ignore that Sanders's campaign has been completely funded by small individual donations. Let's ignore all of the money that Clinton has received from large banks and Wallstreet investors. Let's ignore her enormous superPACs that fill over with wealthy and corporate donations. You're trying to paint her as \"the people's candidate\", you can't have facts getting in the way of your narrative. \n\n>LOL. I should have guessed that your complete failure to understand politics might spill over into other areas. Racist.\n\nWhat makes me a racist exactly? I'm pretty sure that you're the one that has brought hateful racist language into this conversation. \n\n>You are an idiot.\n\nYou'll forgive me if this means nothing to me coming from the likes of you. ",
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"content": "No. The usage of the word \"boy\" to refer to a Black man dates back to slavery. Your ignorance is palpable. ",
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"content": "My ignorance? I'm well aware of the pejorative connotations of that word. That's why I don't use it to describe adult males regardless of their background. It's condescending. \n\nMaybe instead of attacking me, you could try reading the comment and forming an opinion based on its content. \n\n",
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"content": "> The term \"white boy\" is just as offensive as \"black boy\" \n\nYeah. Your ignorance. It's unbelievable. ",
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"content": "It's offensive to refer to someone by their race in an obviously pejorative sense. \n\nI'm well aware of the history surrounding black folks and the word \"boy\". It's disgusting and morally reprehensible. \n\nBut regardless of that, It's not okay to treat anyone like that. ",
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"content": "How was it pejorative? He said they were white. He didn't say there was anything wrong with it. Stop trying to be oppressed, it looks ridiculous. \n\nSo how is \"white boy\" just as bad as \"black boy\"? What is the historical connection that makes \"white boy\" horribly offensive? Defend your statement or retract it. ",
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"content": "I'm not acting like I'm being oppressed because of my race. \n\nAn eighteen year old male is a \"man\", not a \"boy\". \n\nThere are literally millions of Sanders supporters who are women, Hispanic, Asian, African American, and otherwise. \n\nIs it worth noting that the majority of Clinton supporters are also white? ",
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"content": "An eighteen year old is an adult in the eyes of the law, but he's still a boy. Sorry. I hated hearing it when I was your age too, but it's the truth. \n\nHillary has more support from ethnic minorities than Sanders does, by a large margin. ",
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"content": "When were you last thirty-five? ",
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"content": "You're incredibly immature for 35. ",
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"content": "Thanks. You're an asshole. ",
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"content": "That's fine with me. At least I'm not ignorant. ",
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"content": "Ahh, but you are. \n\nYou think it's okay to call people names based on their race. \n\nYou'd vote for Hillary Clinton although her family is already responsible for the largest increase in black incarceration in human history. \n\nYou think she's anything other than an establishment candidate. You don't read comments before you respond. You make baseless assumptions about people rather than asking them in a civil manner. You haven't told me your age, but unlike you I wouldn't have the audacity to guess, because that's fucking ignorant. ",
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"content": "Calling someone white isn't calling them a name. \n\nJesus Christ, just shut up and stop whining already. ",
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"content": "Haven't we gone over this? \n\nIf he had said young white males or young white people/folks that would have been just fine. It would have been factually incorrect, but it wouldn't have been offensive. \n\nNo one voting in the presidential election is a boy. \n\nI voted for president Obama twice. But if I heard some nut job on fox news saying that only \"black boys and girls\" supported him, I would have been offended, as I'm often offended by that type of speech from that network. \n\nYou're advocating that we on the left use* the same kind of bigoted speech as a response to the right. Fuck that.",
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"content": "You still don't get why \"black boy\" is worse, and you're still taking issue with \"white boy\" like that's a racist term. \n\nWe're done here, troll. ",
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"content": "Yeah, fuck yourself, child. One day you'll realize that you aren't going to fix the problems in the world by attacking your allies just because they're the ones with open arms and spirits. We could all be addressing the actual issues at hand but instead we're arguing about this dumb shit. In the meanwhile, look forward to chaos and no results. ",
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"content": "Typical Sanders supporter. ",
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"content": "How's it? ",
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"content": "Calling people \"fuckstick\", telling them to go fuck themselves, making fun of people with disabilities(\"herp derp\" being analogous to Mencia's \"dee dee dee\"). Just vitriol, general meanness, and trolling. Typical. ",
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"content": "No, herp derp wasn't intended to make fun of folks with disabilities. \n\nEdit: directly comparing me to a person suffering from autism spectrum disorder was a deliberate attempt to make fun, light, or a rhetorical device of people suffering from that disease. ",
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"content": "Okay, what's it supposed to mean, then?",
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"content": "I wouldn't know. Being that I'm disabled. ",
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"content": "\"White boys\" is racist?",
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"content": "When describing voting age adults, yes. ",
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"content": "So you took issue with \"boys\"? That's the racist part?",
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"content": "I take offense with what was an obviously pejorative reference to the race, gender, and age of millions of voting American adults. ",
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"content": "How was it pejorative? ",
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"content": "Boy is disrespectful when used to refer to adults. \n\n\nI'm assuming that you're an adult. Do you like being called boy? To give you an example from my personal experience, have you ever had an employer who refused to learn your name and insisted upon calling you \"boy\"? As in \"Boy bust that table!\", \"Boy, get these pots!\"? Do you think that the fact that we were both white made that okay? I was an adult at the time. Obviously I have a name. \n\nBeyond that, there are millions of Sanders supporters who are women, Hispanic, Asian, African American, and otherwise. Do you think they would appreciate being referred to as \"white boys\"? ",
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"content": "Oh, I'm sorry. You're 18, I'm sure you're a \"man.\"\n\n**Again**, the other poster implied that most Sanders supporters are white males in their early twenties. Which is true. Most people that aren't in their twenties, refer to males in their early twenties as boys. If you don't like it, don't worry. These years will be gone before you know it. ",
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"content": ">Oh, I'm sorry. You're 18, I'm sure you're a \"man.\"\n\nI'm not eighteen. But an eighteen year old is a man. \n\n>**Again**, the other poster implied that most Sanders supporters are white males in their early twenties. Which is true. Most people that aren't in their twenties, refer to males in their early twenties as boys. If you don't like it, don't worry. These years will be gone before you know it. \n\nNo actually it's not true. For instance, recently [there was a study that suggested that a huge chunk of Asian Americans support Senator Sanders.](http://www.asamnews.com/2015/12/08/gallup-poll-shows-strong-support-for-bernie-sanders-from-asian-americans/)\n\nNow, why do you feel the need to attack me personally? You know nothing about me. ",
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"content": "Wanna link me to that study?\n\nHere's an article for you. \n\nhttp://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article50675390.html",
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"content": "I already added it. ",
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"content": "From the article: \n\n> \"Hillary Clinton is not far behind with a score of +21.\"\n\nHuge chunk?",
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"content": "Yeah, way to omit Sanders's number there. That's an ignorant thing to do. ",
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"content": "He's at +29. Feel better? You posted the link,why didn't you post his number?\n\nDo you even know what ignorance is...?",
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"content": "Herp-derp! No /u/cvillemade please tell me, what does ignorance mean to someone like you. Derp. ",
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"content": "Ah, now we're poking fun at people with mental retardation. Classy. ",
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"content": "No, not at all. I'm making fun of you, fuckstick. Stop assuming that your ignorant ass knows anything about me. \n\nSee, this is the thing. I am constantly looking at my speech to find what's hurtful to others and correcting myself. You have decided that there are groups whose feelings and perspectives aren't worthy of consideration and here we are. With hope, in time you'll learn that we're *all* in this together. This sort of divisiveness is nothing but destructive to *everyone*. ",
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"content": "> Derp\n\n> Fuckstick\n\nTypical Sanders supporter. I never said anyone's feelings or perspectives don't matter. I have no idea where you're getting that from. ",
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"content": "No, you have. \n\nYour friend (or alt account) called me an idiot which is just a different term for retard. You've made condescending assumptions about my age and race without asking me about them. You've insulted my intelligence several times. You've never addressed the fact that it's wrong to make comments like \"white boy\" when terms like young white men, white people, and white folks are readily available. When I pointed out that it's offensive to refer to people (a huge, diverse swath of people no less) as such you were completely dismissive. During this conversation (assuming this isn't an alt account) you've neglected to talk about either the Clinton campaign or the Sanders campaign, but rather focused your efforts on dismissing my opinion. \n\nTell me what about fuckstick hurt your feelings? \n\nEdit: Edit: directly comparing me to a person suffering from autism spectrum disorder was a deliberate attempt to make a rhetorical device of people suffering from that disease. ",
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"content": ">You're resulting to vulgar insults. Calling someone an idiot isn't remotely comparable to calling them a retard, and \"derp\" is analogous to Mencia's \"dee dee dee.\". \n\nLook, I don't know what you're talking about with Mencia. I don't care. The word idiot literally means imbecile or retard look it up, you ignorant asshole.\n\n>You continue to imply that calling people white is racist. You are one of the most ignorant people with whom I've ever communicated. \n\nNo, you're mischaracterizing my words. Hell, you could be HRC's offspring. Using the term \"white boys\" to describe millions of Americans who support Bernie Sanders is offensive. Calling voting age males boys is both unnecessary and offensive. There's no reason to ham handedly bring race into any conversation. \n\n>People like you are hurting the Sanders campaign. By being ignorant and vitriolic, you present an image of ignorance and hatred for your preferred candidate. \n\nKeep calling me ignorant. Go get a dictionary. Look up these big words we've been using tonight. \n\n>I find it very hard to believe that you're 35. I've met 12 year olds with twice your maturity. Your lack of tact reminds me of people with whom I've worked that have Asperger's or are somewhere on the autism spectrum, so \n\nAnd there we have it folks. It's one thing to call people names. It's an entirely different form of callousness that allows a person to use the disabled themselves as an insult. You've proven your maturity level right here. \n\n>I'm going to assume your ridiculous comments aren't entirely your fault; instead of allowing you to further embarrass yourself. \n\nNo, please go on. Do schizophrenics next. Ben Carson does a great bit on them. Maybe next you can rag on me using people with MS as a device to make fun of my typing. \n\nI take it back. You're not a fuckstick. You're a sniveling pool of dog puke that accuses someone of doing something and then does that exact thing in the next breath. Here is where I bid you adieu. I invite you to spend your holiday break fucking yourself with a rusty tree-trimmer. If you feel the need to respond, go do it in a trash can or something. The Internet doesn't need more of your garbage. \n\n",
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"content": "> I take it back. You're not a fuckstick. You're a sniveling pool of dog puke that accuses someone of doing something and then does that exact thing in the next breath. Here is where I bid you adieu. I invite you to spend your holiday break fucking yourself with a rusty tree-trimmer. If you feel the need to respond, go do it in a trash can or something. The Internet doesn't need more of your garbage.\n\nYou're not doing Bernie any favors, champ. ",
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"content": "I'm not sure what you're talking about Hillary? Why so serious? Don't you have some disabled people to mock? ",
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"content": "I wasn't the one using the term \"derp\", boss. Making fun of the disabled is kind of your thing. ",
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"content": "Lol. Are you sure that I can handle a concept like that? Being disabled and all? ",
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"content": "Get a life. ",
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"content": "I have a life. I have a loving wife and a beautiful daughter. My extended family loves me and they'll mostly be voting for assholes like Trump. \n\nI'm still curious about how it's okay for you to make fun of someone like me, who is disabled. Why is it alright to fuck with people about things they can't change? ",
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"content": "You tell me. You cornered the market on your \"derp\" bit. I never made fun of you for being disabled. You never said anything about having a disability. ",
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"content": "No. Derp doesn't mean anything in particular. \n\nYou compared me with autistic people you've worked with. \n\nYour priorities are all fucked up. ",
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"content": "Apparently you don't understand where \"derp\" originated. \n\nSo at first I was fucking with you about some disability you never even mentioned, but now I'm comparing you to people? Which is it?",
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"content": ">Apparently you don't understand where \"derp\" originated. \n\n>So at first I was fucking with you about some disability you never even mentioned, but now I'm comparing you to people? Which is it?\n\n\n>I find it very hard to believe that you're 35. I've met 12 year olds with twice your maturity. Your lack of tact reminds me of people with whom I've worked that have Asperger's or are somewhere on the autism spectrum, so I'm going to assume your ridiculous comments aren't entirely your fault; instead of allowing you to further embarrass yourself. \n\n\nAgain with the \"derp\". Maybe I don't understand the origins of the word \"derp\". \n\nAm I required to disclose my disability to everyone I speak with on the Internet? Does the fact that I didn't excuse your obviously insensitive comments? I'm not going to tell you what my disability is. First, it's none of your goddamn business, secondly you would only use it against me as you've clearly illustrated. \n\nHas it ever occurred to you that the people you've worked with are not objects to be used when it's politically expedient? \n\nEdit: Oh wait, you're a Hillary supporter. Right? How about judging people on their own merit rather than silly shit like political affiliation. ",
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"content": "Since I haven't made fun of any disability, I'm going to assume you're just making shit up. ",
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"content": "No you haven't made fun of disability, nor have I. \n\nWhat you did was to use disabled people from your life as a literary device to mock another person who you disagree with. Then you spent a considerable amount of time to defend your actions. ",
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"content": "Really? How did I do that?",
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"content": ">Really? How did I do that?\n\nHere. \n\n>I find it very hard to believe that you're 35. I've met 12 year olds with twice your maturity. Your lack of tact reminds me of people with whom I've worked that have Asperger's or are somewhere on the autism spectrum, so I'm going to assume your ridiculous comments aren't entirely your fault; instead of allowing you to further embarrass yourself. \n\n\n",
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"content": "> I find it very hard to believe that you're 35. I've met 12 year olds with twice your maturity. Your lack of tact **reminds** me of people with whom I've worked that have Asperger's or are somewhere on the autism spectrum, so I'm going to assume your ridiculous comments **aren't entirely your fault;** instead of allowing you to further embarrass yourself.\n\nHope that helps. Have a good night, boss. \n",
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"content": "You didn't change anything. ",
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"content": "That's kind of the point, bud. Read the highlighted parts. Have a good evening. I gotta go. ",
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"content": "The highlighted points don't change anything. Your words are insensitive and they objectify disabled people. In fact they objectify specific disabled people you've known for the sake of winning an Internet argument. \n\nI'm out. Have a nice portion of time. Don't forget to leave cookies out for Santa. ",
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"content": "They're actually the foundation for a hypothesis. Don't use big people words you don't understand. ",
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"content": "Have a nice holiday season. ",
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"content": "You too. ",
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"content": "That's not racist, that's an observation based on statistics. Stop playing the victim card. ",
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"content": "\"Boys\" don't vote in presidential elections. ",
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"content": "So you take issue with \"boys\"? Do you know what racism is?",
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"content": "Yeah, it's treating people differently because of their race. \n\nIn this case, the comment is racist because it assumes the race and gender of millions of Sanders supporters and it condescendingly refers to adult males of voting age as boys. ",
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"content": "That's not racist, that's a statistical observation. Most Sanders supporters are young white men. It would have been racist if he said \"dumb honkeys.\" \n\nPointing out that most of his supporters are white isn't racist. They are. That's just facts, guy. ",
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"content": ">That's not racist, that's a statistical observation. Most Sanders supporters are young white men. It would have been racist if he said \"dumb honkeys.\" \n\n>Pointing out that most of his supporters are white isn't racist. They are. That's just facts, guy. \n\nYeah, even it's true about a majority of Sanders supporters being young white men, it's racist and offensive to paint all Sanders supporters as \"white boys\" knowing damn well that there are millions of women, Hispanics, Asian Americans, African Americans, and others who are all of voting age and should never be referred to as \"boy\". \n\nIf OP wanted to make a point about the demographics of Sanders supporters, he could have done so using objective language. ",
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"content": "He didn't say all of them were white boys. He implied that most of them were. \n\nI think you're just mad that he made a good point, and you, being a white boy, got mad at being called out. ",
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"content": ">He didn't say all of them were white boys. He implied that most of them were. \n\n>And handful of white boys support Sanders. Pretty much everyone else ignores him entirely.\n\n\n\nThat's exactly what he said. \n\n>I think you're just mad that he made a good point, and you, being a white boy, got mad at being called out. \n\nI'm white, you got me there. I'm by no stretch of the imagination a \"boy\". I wouldn't agree that this user had a good point. Would I have a good point if I mentioned that the vast majority of Clinton supporters were white? ",
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"content": "Vast? Source?",
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"content": "http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article50675390.html",
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"content": "\n>You're resulting to vulgar insults. Calling someone an idiot isn't remotely comparable to calling them a retard, and \"derp\" is analogous to Mencia's \"dee dee dee.\". \n\nLook, I don't know what you're talking about with Mencia. I don't care. The word idiot literally means imbecile or retard look it up, you ignorant asshole.\n\n>You continue to imply that calling people white is racist. You are one of the most ignorant people with whom I've ever communicated. \n\nNo, you're mischaracterizing my words. Hell, you could be HRC's offspring. Using the term \"white boys\" to describe millions of Americans who support Bernie Sanders is offensive. Calling voting age males boys is both unnecessary and offensive. There's no reason to ham handedly bring race into any conversation. \n\n>People like you are hurting the Sanders campaign. By being ignorant and vitriolic, you present an image of ignorance and hatred for your preferred candidate. \n\nKeep calling me ignorant. Go get a dictionary. Look up these big words we've been using tonight. \n\n>I find it very hard to believe that you're 35. I've met 12 year olds with twice your maturity. Your lack of tact reminds me of people with whom I've worked that have Asperger's or are somewhere on the autism spectrum, so \n\nAnd there we have it folks. It's one thing to call people names. It's an entirely different form of callousness that allows a person to use the disabled themselves as an insult. You've proven your maturity level right here. \n\n>I'm going to assume your ridiculous comments aren't entirely your fault; instead of allowing you to further embarrass yourself. \n\nNo, please go on. Do schizophrenics next. Ben Carson does a great bit on them. Maybe next you can rag on me using people with MS as a device to make fun of my typing. \n\nI take it back. You're not a fuckstick. You're a sniveling pool of dog puke that accuses someone of doing something and then does that exact thing in the next breath. Here is where I bid you adieu. I invite you to spend your holiday break fucking yourself with a rusty tree-trimmer. If you feel the need to respond, go do it in a trash can or something. The Internet doesn't need more of your garbage. \n\n\n",
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"content": "Wanna keep reposting that just a few more times?",
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"content": "I just wanted to to make your position clear. You pretend to stand for things but the reality is very different. ",
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"content": "Whatever you say, guy. Whatever you say. ",
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"content": "A \"handful of white boys\"? Really? ",
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"content": "Yes. Really. Young white males. That is basically it. This is not an argument. It is data.",
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"content": "This data you have shows that Sanders is only supported by a handful of white males. Ok. Sure. ",
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"content": "That is THE data. It's not the data I have. It is simply the reality. It has been so widely reported that only the willfully ignorant can deny it.",
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"content": "It's like saying only a bunch of middle-aged white ladies are voting for Hillary. ",
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"content": "The problem with that argument is that Clinton actually has a tremendously broad and diverse base of support. Sanders is a one-trick pony.",
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"content": "I respectively disagree. The nurses union, which is mostly made of women, are backing him and with everything that happened with BLM and the attention that got, I think black people gained more respect for him. \n\nConsidering that most people who are involved in politics are white, having more white supporters is true for most candidates. Basically, HRC is more popular with minority groups because she is more famous in general. Someone who doesn't know much about politics might still know who HRC is and support her for that reason. \n\n",
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"content": "I don't know what to tell you. This isn't an argument I am making. It is an established reality. ",
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"content": "I am aware it isn't an argument. I am stating facts too. ",
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"content": "Well - sort of. You have pointed out some things about comparative numbers in national polls, mostly party specific. Outside of context, I can understand why they might make Bernie look less \"fringe.\" But in context, the fringe is there. \n\nNationwide polls are predictive (taken in aggregate), but not for the general at this point, so cross-party comparisons based on party-specific polling is sketchy at best. \n\nBut even taking that into consideration, there are other metrics that are better predictors of performance, like money, endorsements, delegate support, statewide polling (which demonstrates the division of electors, rather than simple national opinion polling), prediction models (viewed in aggregate), etc. These measures are the context for those national poll numbers (in aggregate). \n\nI can tell you are a nice person. You are certainly respectful and I am being hard-headed. But I am right about this, so I don't feel like compromising on that point.",
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"content": "This whole post descended into madness rather quickly. There's only 1 root comment, and most of the 75 comments here are arguing over whether or not 'white boys' is offensive enough or not. Dear god, please somebody slap me and tell me this isn't really the party I'm wanting to vote alongside.\n\nI have thoughts on this, but I'm going to drop them in a separate comment. Please try to be a bit more respectful of one another, guys. Right now, you're behaving like Donald Trump; childish and immature.",
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"content": "So, my thoughts on the issues presented in the article here:\n\nI feel like the reaction by the DNC towards Bernie's campaign was a bit of an over-reaction. It made me angry when I first heard about it, but stepping back for a bit it's probably fine that it happened for the short timeframe which it did. It was, in the end, a harsh slap on the wrist.\n\nI do want to point out that the Sanders campaign reports that they pointed this flaw out to the DNC already months ago because they were concerned that others may be accessing their campaign data and proper measures were not taken to fix it. That does not justify the actions of Sanders' staff, but it indicates a flippant lack of concern for information security until something actually went wrong. I feel like this incident, in the end, will reflect poorly on ALL Democratic candidates. I predict we will hear arguments from Republicans along the lines of \"If you can't even protect your own campaign data, how will you protect national secrets?\"\n\nThoughts?",
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"content": "Since his staff notified the DNC about the issue months ago, I think it is too much of a coincidence that Sanders was penalized by them the day after winning the DFA'S support with 88% of the vote. I also think it is unfair that the major news sources are talking about Sanders NOW because of this. ",
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"content": "**Update: [Complete debate](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su9f3x_dtgw)**\n\nOn ABC and they say it will be livestreamed, but no dedicated link.\n\n# Time: 8pm East, 7pm Central, 6pm Mountain, 5pm West\n\n## [Find a debate party in your area via map or zip code](http://map.berniesanders.com/#zipcode=&distance=20&eventtype=O&eventtype=DWP&daterange=all-events&sort=distance).\n\n**Past debates/forums**:\n\n* [Debate 1](https://www.reddit.com/r/democrats/comments/3or7qt/watch_the_democrat_debate_in_its_entirety_truly/?ref=search_posts)\n* [Debate 2, Nov. 14](https://www.reddit.com/r/democrats/comments/3sxek0/postdebate_sources_for_the_full_democratic/?ref=search_posts)\n* [Forums](https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueProgressive/comments/3u7p2b/presidential_forums_bernie_omalley_and_carson/)\n",
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"content": "Thanks, Henry.",
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"content": "I'll edit as additional sources are found/provided.",
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"content": "Great!",
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"content": "#AWESOME!!!",
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"content": ";)",
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"content": "As you can see the downvoting army behavior. (haha)\n\n",
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"content": "An ever present festering.",
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"content": "Yes, how will I live going to bed tonight with 177.062 karma points instead 177,075 karma. What ever will I do? :D",
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"content": "Is anybody else having awful issues with ABC's stream? It's constantly freezing and skipping. \n\nComputer is still clocking over 50mbps so it's not my connection. \n\n",
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"content": "Here's a much more reliable stream:\n\nhttps://news.yahoo.com/video/abc-news-plus-special-report-220000361.html",
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"content": "Thanks, cz.",
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"content": "just another way they could make people not watch it.",
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"content": "To me Hillary showed her \"trumpness\" to any republicans watching by over speaking the moderators and other candidates constantly. I would like to see a break down of how much each candidate spoke. Now Sanders came off as having a clear difference between Hillary as far as health care, syria, and how to help the 'middle class.' He also had the more \"Democratic\" view. \n\nSide note: It was hard to watch. The terrible internet stream quality, the average gamer or periscoper could have done a better job. ",
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"content": "I was very upset that over half of it was on Daesh. The odds of Americans dying by them are less than getting killed by lightning, but I guess it's as important as every other issue combined.",
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"content": "I really don't see him getting through the primaries. ",
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"content": "I keep telling myself that, but he keeps getting stronger. I'm ready to build a bomb shelter.",
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"content": "With Republicans. He won't win over independents or blue dogs. ",
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"content": "I dont think the Trump will be stumped until he faces Bernie or Hillary in the general election, but for [now...](http://i.imgur.com/d1zrz3p.png)",
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"content": "Don't underestimate the draw of the politics of fear. Under the best of circumstances, the Democratic nominee is far from a shoe in.",
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"content": "Very true, but I think Trump turns a lot of people off and people will make sure they get out to vote against him",
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"content": "I agree with the sentiment but why not leave the memes to Facebook. \nThis should be an adult section where people speak with minds and facts rather than trying to communicate through grunts and photos, which has become the common language of Facebook. \n\nGet enough of it over there, don't really want to see it here.",
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"content": "I think this sub can handle all ideas and thought, even if simplistic.",
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"content": "The real problem is that Trump never said that, a 'spokesperson' (Katrina Pierson) did. Everyone knows Trump is surrounded by crazies but that's not the same as him stating it as the meme implies. ",
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"content": "A spokesman, by definition, speaks for the candidate. ",
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"content": "Let's wait for Trumps response. Let's see if he doubles down on stupid. And if I were you I wouldn't make any bets. ",
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"content": "I agree and enjoyed your post. Thanks for sharing.",
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"content": "I think this sub at times is driven by the simplistic. Both in content and in audience. Put out the simpleton honey, you'll absolutely get the simpleton flies. \n\nToo many regulars on this sub are no different than the republicans; they're just betting on different horses. \n\nThey are regularly attracted to the lowest common denominator and anything that actually makes them think or process reason or logic is out of reach. \n\n\"I'VE GOT IT. LET'S JUST POST PHOTOS WITH A HANDFUL OF WORDS BECAUSE READING AND REASONING ARE HARD WORK!\"\n\nJut dissolving important information down and distilling it so even the nitwits can get angry and strut around talking about the non-issues.",
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"content": "Honestly even if he said this he's not the type of person who you take everything he says seriously. Projecting that it should kind of makes you look a bit childish. Trump is a showman. Is there a element of seriousness there yes would he use nuclear weapons recklessly. This is a guy who learned that he sucked at real estate and reorged as a real estate brand. He's not stupid. No one blows it as many times as he did and comes back is stupid. ",
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"content": "What the President of the United States *says* matters in both an economic and geopolitical sense. Even if he's not serious, saying things like this is a serious issue.",
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"content": "George W. Bush was president for 8 years. It was the profligate nature of his actions that made him dangerous not the foolishness of his words.",
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"content": "That has nothing to do with what I said.",
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"content": "My point was that we've had it happen before. Reagan was president. Gw President. No one really took what they said seriously 100% of the time.",
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"content": "And yet his net worth is less than it would be if he had just made safe stock market investments. He's a blowhard. Even if he wouldn't seriously consider using nukes, this is hardly something a potential President's campaign should be stating with the world stage listening.\n/edit: He didn't actually say this, his spokesperson did.",
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"content": "He certainly had the ego to believe he could do it. He tried it he failed. He reframed and found it was easier to trade on his name. Its not the resume of a man known for making hard choices. Nor is it the resume of a fool. Its the resume of a man who cares more for the appearance of things than their reality. Trump's chickenshit. When the rubber meets the road he won't do a damn thing. Pretending that he will ever have the opportunity or the gumption serves no one.",
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"content": "Now Pakistan is saying, \"why have nuclear weapons if we are not going to use them?\"",
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"content": "I'm fairly unmoved because I know if Pakistan was going to use its nuclear weapons they would never give India any warning.",
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"content": "India isn't their only potential target.",
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"content": "Won't be the worst. Dubya set the bar so low. ",
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"content": "I don't know man, Trump's rhetoric is making Dubya look pretty damn tame.\n\nFor all his faults, Bush was at least one of the strongest voices *against* anti-muslim rhetoric after 9/11. He spoke at an Islamic Center days after 9/11, and regularly used the phrase \"Islam is Peace.\" Can you imagine *any* world where a Republican candidate would do that today?\n\nDon't get me wrong, I'm **far** from a Bush apologist/revisionist, he fucked up plenty. More what I'm saying is how much more radical the Republican Party has become in the last 8 years.",
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"content": "Oh God yes, the Republican party is far from the Bush years. You know that one uncle/aunt/sibling that is always talking about Guns and reverse racism? Yeah, they're in charge now.",
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"content": "w starts looking like a genius vs Trump. Scary. ",
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"content": "Bernie vs Trump 2016",
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"content": "Even if Hillary gets the nomination, Bernie will still get my vote",
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"content": "That is like voting for Trump or Cruz.",
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"content": "Oh ok thanks for down voting my opionions. Fuck off, you're probably payed by the dnc to be here ",
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"content": "He's got a point. If you don't vote for whoever is the DNC nomination you might as well throw your vote away. Hillary isn't the best candidate but she's miles ahead of Trump or Cruz. ",
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"content": "It's not the fact that you have an opinion that is stupid, it's the opinion itself. Don't waste your vote. You sound like a starving man that says if he doesn't get a perfectly cooked 36 ounce ribeye he will throw whatever meal is served in the trash. Just my opinion, but to me you sound like the right wing crazies that call Speaker Ryan a liberal.",
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"content": "Clinton's polliing numbers took about a five point bump following the second debate. She realized a somewhat larger bump following the first debate. Worth noticing that despite criticisms from the Sanders campaign that their campaign is hurt by Clinton and the DNC limiting debates, his campaign slips each time he takes the stage.\n\nClinton has picked up 3 additional endorsements in the past 16 days. Her lead by this metric is especially interesting because it functions both as a reliable indicator of future success, and as an actual base of support in the election (superdelegates).\n\nNew Hampshire has slipped back into the Sanders column this time. NH has been a ping-pong ball throughout, with the lead shifting regularly. No saying which way that state will go.\n\nClinton has moved up another step in aggregate prediction models. The change on this metric has been slow and consistent in Clinton's favor. Each day we move closer to the primary elections without some indication from the Sanders campaign that it intends to broaden its base of support seems to swing the election slightly in Clinton's favor.\n\nOne last thing - while nationwide polling for the general at this point is a dubious indicator, prediction models make an attempt to weigh predictors that do have value. Taken in aggregate, they are a valuable and a simple tool for anyone wanting to handicap the race. Since Trump started calling for anti-Constitutional restrictions on religion, the likelihood of a GOP win has fallen.\n\nAs of now, [Democrats chances at taking the white house are at 62% to 38%](http://predictwise.com/politics/2016-president-winner/). Worth noting that Clinton sits at a 58% likelihood of a win in the general. Sanders sits at 2%.",
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"content": ">Clinton's polliing numbers took about a five point bump following the second debate. She realized a somewhat larger bump following the first debate. Worth noticing that despite criticisms from the Sanders campaign that their campaign is hurt by Clinton and the DNC limiting debates, his campaign slips each time he takes the stage.\n>As of now, [Democrats chances at taking the white house are at 62% to 38%](http://predictwise.com/politics/2016-president-winner/). Worth noting that Clinton sits at a 58% likelihood of a win in the general. Sanders sits at 2%.\n\nWhat the hell is this garbage? What did your polls say about Barack Obama in December of '07?",
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"content": "I guess I should start by saying that no polls are \"my polls.\" What I presented was an aggregate view of all polls.\n \nSecond, I should probably point out that only some of what you quoted is supported by polling data. The other part is prediction models taken in aggregate.\n\n[Here is Nate Silver](http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/bernie-sanders-youre-no-barack-obama/) on your attempt to compare 2008 to 2016.\n\nSo, the data is the data. I'm sorry if things aren't going your way.",
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"content": "Things are going just fine. I'm sorry if you feel the need to muddy the waters with a bunch of unreliable, unobjective numbers. ",
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"content": "Are you really being serious?\n\nThis is just data. It doesn't have an agenda. It certainly isn't unreliable. Especially considering the way that various metrics reinforce one another with their findings. It clears the water.\n\nI you want to address my numbers, or the value of my sources, please do so directly and I will work to help you with your understanding.",
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"content": "I am being serious. I don't view current polling systems to be objective. Even if I did, Barack Obama was trailing in 2008 and HRC ended up coming in third. I'd be a fool to give up my vote based upon this data you've posted. \n\nLet me ask you something. Are you serious about democracy? Granted ours is a representative democracy, but we vote for our representatives and executive. We have primary elections and general elections in which the people decide who is the nominee and subsequently in this race, who gets to be the president. Why are you so eager to call this election when we haven't even started voting yet? ",
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"content": "I'm not certain what you think I am doing. \n\nLet me be clear. I'm providing this data as a public service. The metrics I've chosen to present are chosen because they are predictive of outcomes. They are not an argument that any one candidate SHOULD win. They just give anyone interested a sense of how things are going.\n\nKnowledge in no way undermines democracy.\n\n",
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"content": "You have an obvious agenda. You can claim that you're being neutral in posting this \"data\" , but that doesn't make it true. \n",
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"content": "What other data do you think would be a good idea to include - bearing in mind that I am not looking for punditry - just numbers.",
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"content": "It's not like it matters as this sub has unilaterally rejected your shit post, but maybe the specific numbers in critical states? Maybe one or multiple articles calling out the reliability of these polls? \n\nI mean, you're being pretty transparent in this post. I don't think any rational person would argue with me on this point. ",
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"content": "I did post the polls that have been taken in individual states. [Here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statewide_opinion_polling_for_the_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries,_2016) is the link again. Scroll down for polling data, or look at the map for an overview.\n\nI want to help. What data would you like me to include that I have not included yet.\n",
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"content": "Like I said. You post these numbers with no disclaimer about the reliability of their sources.\n\n",
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"content": "I asked you specifically if you had a problem with any of my sources or with the numbers I presented. And I indicated that I would be happy to address any specific concerns.\n\nIn response to your more general question, everything I have presented is really mainstream. I link Fivethirtyeight (Nate Silver) for the Endorsement Primary, Huffington Post's aggregate polling database, or Real Clear Politics' Aggregate polling database, whichever has been updated most recently. I link Wikipedia for the state by state data. And I link Predictwise for the aggregate prediction models.\n\nThank you for your input.",
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"content": "[How about this?] (http://www.midmoforbernie.org/bernies-only-5-points-behind-in-iowa-or-is-he/) ",
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"content": "I'm afraid that Mid Missorians For Bernie's site makes no attempt to be an unbiased source.\n\nStill - the article brings up an important observation about how polling is done. The national aggregate models I present average both types of polling. Nate Silver tends to prefer traditional polling, or at least to trust it more. But this article takes the opposite approach.\n\nIn any case, the polling data it discusses is all presented without punditry or comment in the state-by-state polling link I shared. Iowa is probably the single most heavily polled state. You can look at tons of data taken over the course of the past several months and draw your own conclusions - right from the source I posted.",
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"content": "A biased source or a reasonable criticism? ",
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"content": "My point is that I already included all the data presented in that article, but in a way that does not add argument. The source you linked is a Bernie election site. It's not appropriate to what I'm doing.",
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"content": ">It's not appropriate to what I'm doing.\n\nWhich is what? Chatting with a random stranger deep into the night? I don't know if you've noticed, but we're alone here. This post was downvoted out of sight hours ago. \n\n",
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"content": "Of course I know that. And I don't mind the discussion. But the point of State of the Race is to provide raw data from legitimate sources so that people can have a clear understanding of how things are going in the Democratic Primary. \n\nAs you can see, people who aren't happy with reality are quick to accuse me of bias. If I start including web sites that have a clear and demonstrated bias, things will only get worse. \n\nIn any case, maybe you were right above and people have chosen not to read these numbers from my post. That's okay. I'm doing this because I think it needs to be done. Either people will read it, or they won't.",
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"content": "[Clinton 46%, Sanders 30%, O'Malley 7%](http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2016/clinton_loses_ground_in_democratic_primary_race)",
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"content": "Yeah. That one would make the cut. Normally, I wouldn't post a single poll. But that Rasmussen is the first reported that was conducted entirely after the debate. Others were split, but this one, for now, is unique. So - if I were posting today, I would include it.\n\nBut, unique isn't great. For that reason, I wouldn't start counting my chickens just quite yet. Individual polls are rarely predictive with any accuracy. Polls should be read in aggregate for a higher predictive rate. So, in the next couple of days, the picture should be more clear.",
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"content": "-thats why they pretend they would vote for Sanders, only, they dont actually vote.",
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"content": "Except that they do vote in presidential elections. It's also worth noting that I'm a thirty-five year old Millennial so I wouldn't be so quick to characterize \"Millennials\" as being young. 1980 was a long time ago. \n\nEdit: downvoting facts? ",
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"content": "> [There are no precise dates when the generation starts and ends](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials); most researchers and commentators use birth years ranging from the early 1980s to the early 2000s.\n\n\nIt's almost like lumping people together across three decades of birth is clickbait bullshit.\n",
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"content": "Yeah, there's totally no one who researches this. Universities, large corporations, and even government entities and contractors totally don't pay to hold seminars on approaching generations as consumers and employees. Definitely click-bait.",
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"content": "Ageism and whining is what I got out of that.",
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"content": "Really? Ageists voting for a 74 year old candidate. Who would have thought it possible? Our country has come so far... \n\nEdit: Now this one I'm curious about. What's up with the downvotes? ",
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"content": "This is just more \"blame the boomers\" shit from Salon. Anybody who wants to actually be informed on progressive issues instead of blaming large groups of people should immediately delete it from their bookmarks.",
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"content": "There's a lot that can be said about the boomers that's worth considering. They systematically dismantled much of what their parents fought for. Shame on them. ",
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"content": "If you're the kind of person that blames the ills of society on all people born within an arbitrary range of dates.",
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"content": "Right. It's not important that events occur chronologically over time. In fact, we should blame Millennials for the gas shortages of the seventies. I heard that prices went over $.50 at points and they were just about to begin being born. \n\nAnd then their incessant whining and pooping forced their parents to vote for Reagan and allowed* the GOP to gerrymander our districts in order to dominate our state and national legislatures. \n\nHell some of them allowed Bill Clinton to put more people in prison than any time in human history by spilling juice in their daddy's new CD rewritable drive. \n\nYou're right, I'm not being fair with those fetuses, babies, toddlers, children, and preteens. What the hell were they thinking? It's time that they started pulling their weight... Oh wait... \n\nEdit: Let me ask you something? What is a vote? Is it a privilege? A right? Is it a responsibility? If I vote for someone like Donald Trump, Jeb Bush, or Ben Carson who I know would tank the economy and increase the deficit, would I be responsible for my actions? How about if I voted for HRC who I know will continue to give America to a few and ignore the millions of working people in this country, would I be responsible for what I've done? Is that why you begrudge those of us who would choose to do the right thing? Because you failed and misery loves company? ",
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"content": "It's not an arbitrary range of dates. Boomers are Boomers and Millennials are Millennials because they come of age during a set of conditions which, broadly speaking, foster different perspectives on the world and society. There is an actual logic to generational theory, which is supported by history and observation. It's not just made up.",
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"content": "What does a 34 year old have in common with a 15 year old?",
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"content": "Your framing of the question is meant to be combative and illustrate how ridiculous you find the theories to be, but it actually illustrates your lack of understanding of the theory. According to the theory of generational turnings, generations are transitional. So a young Millennial will have some aspects that more closely relate to the Homeland generation while an older Millennial will have some Gen X characteristics. \n\nSo what do they have in common? A set of beliefs and a worldview shaped by events such as September 11 and the financial collapse of 2008. September 11 caused an uptick in patriotism (generating a Millennial orientation toward civic engagement) and also marked a long-term engagement in the middle east that people, ages 15-34, have or will sacrifice their life because of. The financial collapse, which we are still recovering from, occurred at a time when Millennials were either trying to get their footing financially or about to start that process. All will likely be affected by the burden of student debt and the years of under-employment. There's actually a lot more that could be discussed, but I'm not sure you're really interested in that. [If you are interested, here's a link to the Wikipedia article which would be a great starting point for more exploration of the theory and research behind generations.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials)",
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"content": "Salon. Yea. Millennials don't vote",
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"content": "Well yeah. I'm very republican and I'M fucking appalled.",
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"content": "Considering Reagan is one of the most overrated presidents ever I don't think he would be. \n\n\n\"Hey lets triple defense spending in the worlds largest pissing contest, while not fighting for civil rights and simultaneously using scandals (like the Iran contra) to fund his war on drugs that so my big name buddies can get paid to buy private prisons by the US Gov.\" \n\nReagan was the perfect president for his time. Everything was going to shit but he just kept on smiling. ",
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"content": "Reagan was responsible for creating the concept of the welfare queen. He made poor people look like they were living the good life, driving Cadillacs and whatnot. ",
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"content": "He is also responsible of demolition of the marine barracks by suicide bomber. 250 marines dead. It happened because of the constant barrage of 18\" shells being fired by on of our battle ships. They aimed at the hills where innocent civilians were being litterally blown apart. Nice peace keeping mission Ronnie. Any way you can make new enemies.",
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"content": ">In an interview with me on SiriusXM Progress, Davis said her father ... would not be able to imagine today’s gun violence. \n\nGun violence rates in the US are, of course, lower today than at any point during the Reagan presidency, or even at any point during the man's entire life. ",
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"content": "Is that per capita? \n\nIt's worth mentioning [that whole lead thing.] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead) It seems disingenuous to attribute the decrease in crime rates to anything that Reagan did. Especially if you're a gun rights advocate. \n\n>Lead exposure affects the intelligence quotient (IQ) such that a blood lead level of 30 μg/dL is associated with a 6.9-point reduction of IQ, with most reduction (3.9 points) occurring below 10 μg/dL.[42]\n\n>Reduction in the average blood lead level is believed to have been a major cause for falling violent crime rates in the United States[43] and South Africa.[44] Researchers including Amherst College economist Jessica Wolpaw Reyes, Department of Housing and Urban Development consultant Rick Nevin, and Howard Mielke of Tulane University, say that declining exposure to lead is responsible for up to a 56% decline in crime from 1992 to 2002.[45] Including other factors that are believed to have increased crime rates over that period Reyes found that this led to an actual decline of 34% over that period.[46]",
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"content": ">Is that per capita?\n\nThe \"entire life\" comparison is based on per capita crime rates, yes. Our rapidly rising population has increased the total number of crimes today well beyond what they were at the dawn of the 20th century. But, the \"During the Reagan presidency\" claim refer to both per capita rates and total annual crime being lower now than they were then. I'm relying on figures published by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, including [this PDF](http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/htus8008.pdf)\n\n>It's worth mentioning that whole lead thing.\n\nIt certainly is, as is the whole cocaine thing that began driving up crime rates in the mid 1980s. \n\nThat being said, I didn't intend to suggest any sort of causal relationship whatsoever, let alone attribute the decline to Reagan-era policies. I merely wished to challenge the implication of Davis's statement that gun violence is out of control, or has risen to unbelievable levels. It hasn't. It's lower now than anyone currently alive has ever seen, and it is continuing to trend lower. \n\nSimultaneously to this dramatic decrease in crime, concealed carry rates have increased more than 1500% since Reagan was in office, from fewer than one million to approximately 15 million licensed carriers today. I say this not to imply a causal relationship between the two but to merely point out that increasing numbers of guns, gun ownership rates, and carry rates does not correspond to an increase in gun violence. ",
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"content": "His son said something similar not to long ago on 'Real Time'. \n\nSomething along the lines of he finds it creepy how Republicans \"fetishize\" his father.",
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"content": "Love how different his son is. ",
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"content": "Somewhat BS. Her father bred a whole new generation of crazies who blindly hate government without any rational thought. Now those crazies are voting for the current crop of candidates.",
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"content": "REGAN SMASH!",
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"content": "Obama is probably one of the best combinations of sincere and intelligent I've seen in a president in awhile. It's a shame he can't have a 3rd term. ",
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"content": "If you listen to right-wing talk radio, that will definitely happen, because right after the 2016 election, he will suspend the constitution, arrest all members of congress, impose martial law, seize all guns, and make himself President for Life.",
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"content": "I wish he would! Save us from these terrible candidates, Obama! (kidding of course)",
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"content": "I rememeber when they were saying the same exact things in the final months of Bill Clinton's second term.",
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"content": "See, that's something Millennials (hi, how ya doin'?) don't know or remember, because even our older members were mid-teenagers at the time. For someone who was 9/10 years old during the 2000 election cycle, I'm really not sure what I actually *remember* from that time, or what I *know* (viz. what I've learned in the 15 years since then about Clinton and his reign of liberal terror).\n\nWe don't remember it, and therefor can't engage in the conversations defending Obama as much as our elders can because we don't have the lived historical context. What was said about Bill Clinton at the time? What was used against him? How did he manage it?\n\nI know I remember Livin' la Vida Loca. Summer camp romance ain't something you forget, even when you were 10.",
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"content": "Lol! They said the same thing about Bill Clinton. ",
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"content": "Probably the best President of my life time but I am glad he has served his time and we're moving on.\n\nFor a Constituitional Law Professor he has a terrible human rights record and is willing to cut a deal with anyone.\n\nI've been pretty irritated with his actions since NDAA 2011, but it's been a net positive having him for a second term.",
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"content": "It's interesting to see so much support for him around here. Most of my peers collectively agree that Obama was a massive disappointment who may have had some positive changes under his belt, he really was just a continuation of Bush. ",
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"content": "I'm not that old so it's not a high bar w\n\nI think what you're saying is accurate if you mean Bush Sr. And not particularly talking about noneconomic, nonforeign policy issues.",
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"content": "I think your peers have an unjustifiably rosey picture of bush if they think Obama is even in the same league as him. Obama might not be the best president of all time, but gw is definitely top five or ten worst.",
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"content": "I don't understand how the drone strikes thing hasn't become a scandal or gotten more outcry.",
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"content": "Because pretty much every president ever has done foreign military operations. And the drones have been by far the most accurate and caused the least collateral damage. \n\nAnd really the only people who are upset about it are the people who think we shouldn't have any military operations in the middle east whatsoever. Which I don't think you'll find much support for in this country. \n\nI don't even think Bernie Sanders is that keen on ending the drone campaign against ISIS/Al Qaeda targets.",
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"content": "If we ever get a Republican president again you'll see a ton of Democrats become antiwar again. ",
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"content": "Because it's far better than a massive ground invasion of the middle east. Bush set the bar very low.",
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"content": "Even jetfuel can't melt those bars.",
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"content": "wew",
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"content": "Why should it when it's legal and all previous Presidents have done something of the sort?",
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"content": "Wow way to fucking jinx it. ",
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"content": "What were the other scandals exactly? Bill Clintons is obvious. But, what did Bush and Bush do? ",
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"content": "First one didn't have a second term, the second one had Iraq.",
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"content": "Iraq was first term and what is the \"Scandal.\" ",
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"content": "Yes, the war started in the first term, but it became (more of) a \"scandal\" as time went on and the American public started to view it as a mistake: http://www.pewresearch.org/2008/03/19/public-attitudes-toward-the-war-in-iraq-20032008/",
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"content": "How about torture, lying to Congress, the mismanagement of Hurricane Katrina disaster relief, and the financial crisis for starters? ",
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"content": "Firing all the US attorneys \nKatrina handling \nIraq war WMD lie \nIraq falling apart and needing a surge \nrendition \ntorture \nValerie Plame \n",
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"content": "Patriot Act",
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"content": "Plenty of Democrats voted for that.\n\nMismanagement of the DoJ, Katrina, and two major wars clearly fell on the executive branch though. ",
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"content": "I don't recall the DoJ scandals. I did know that they all threatened to walk after seeing no progress on the NSA domestic spying programs. Did he end up firing them all after that? ",
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"content": "Don't you think some of those are reaching a bit, as far as scandals go? \n",
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"content": "They used some of these in the article. This list is exactly the kind of stuff they meant.",
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"content": "I'm just saying that if you can include those things as scandals then you should probably be able to include NSA spying and civilian casualties from drone attacks on the Obama list.\n\n",
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"content": "> NSA spying and civilian casualties from drone attacks\n\nNeither of those hits our collective radar the way the handling of Katrina or the WMD lies or the pictures of torture did to erode support for Bush.",
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"content": "NSA mass surveillance and warrantless wiretaps began in the Bush administration, born out of a twisted legal interpretation of the Patriot Act",
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"content": "Bush Sr didn't have a second term. ",
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"content": "Well besides the fact that he's apparently black. \n\n",
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"content": "Don't jinx him",
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"content": "On top of that, we have 96 million american's not working - the most [since 1977!](http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/record-94031000-americans-not-labor-force-participation-rate-stuck-38-year) What I'm having trouble grasping, is why the blame doesn't fall on the current Administration. Congress seems to be giving the Administration all that it asked for (and more), and yet according to this article, 1/2 of America is living near the poverty line. Something doesn't add up.",
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"content": "Congress passes one bill (with treacherous riders attached) and suddenly you're* saying that they're giving the president everything he asks for? Suddenly we've forgotten all of that nonsense about shutting the government down and freezing our debt ceiling? The 71 attempts to repeal the ACA? Something doesn't add up... ",
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"content": "What are the treacherous riders that you're referring to? \n\nI think a government shutdown would do wonders in terms of separating the wheat from chaff. I'm rather curious to learn just what Federal services are actually critical, and what are superfluous. It's really an opportunity squandered. In any case, as far as I can tell it looks like the GOP just rolled over and gave the Administration everything it wanted - learning what riders you think are treacherous would be educational.",
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"content": "As a family starves because they can't get food and shivers because they can't pay the heating bill, you can stand there and point to them and say what? \"Hey, see! I told you this is essential!\"\n\nPeople don't need to suffer to prove a point. A shutdown denies services to people and causes unnecessary harm to your fellow citizen. Shame on you for viewing it as an opportunity.",
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"content": "So the Federal government is providing services that pay for citizen's food and heating? First, that kind of shocks me as I didn't know we had such a dependent class. Unless, of course, you're referring to social security and food stamps. It strikes me that, much like Military spending, emergency measures could have been voted in for certain fundamental services. Meanwhile, other, perhaps less critical services could have been allowed to lapse for a time. It seems to me that $106 Trillion in unfunded liabilities, and $19 trillion is debt - are pretty big problems, particularly for a nation not in the grips of a world war. \n\nSo yes, I consider it to be an opportunity squandered. And shame on you for not thinking of the unborn millions laden with the burdens we're creating.",
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"content": "21.3% of the US population depends on government assistance to make it month-to-month for bare necessities at any one time; this is not to say that 21.3% of the US population is a \"dependent class\", as you delicately put it. As a matter of fact, the majority of people who utilize these services are off of any form of government assistance within 48 months maximum, with a third off of assistance in less than 12 months and a third off of assistance within 24 months. \n\nFuel for heat, particularly in the north, is heavily subsidized during the winter through money funneled to be managed and distributed by the states. Food stamps is the same; it is managed and distributed by the states, but is a federally funded program. \n\nYou indicated in no way, shape, or form that you would be amenable to exemptions for a shutdown. You thumped your chest and declared that a shutdown would be good; you didn't provide any exception to that statement. Had you done so, I wouldn't have chastised you.\n\nMany of those trillions in debt go to two wars that had nothing to do with domestic policy nor with our citizenry other than in the most extreme contortions of relevancy, wars which I participated in and very well know the utter meaninglessness and futility of. Perhaps you should assign the blame for the debt where it should lie instead of blaming the poor, who in fact only make up 3 percent of the federal budget spending on welfare while corporate welfare makes up the other 5 percent for a total of 8 percent of the federal budget spent on welfare. ",
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"content": "Something doesn't add up... 21.3% (about 67 million) as a dependent class is a pretty big number. Not quite the 96 million that are currently jobless, but still... a whole lot by any measure. That doesn't reconcile with the 5.3% \"full-employment\" narrative. What am I missing?\n\nI do think a shutdown would be in the best interests of the country. If I need to beat my chest, as you put it, so be it. \n\nI don't know about the \"many trillions\" going to war debt. I've seen numbers that range from $2 - $6 trillion. There's a lot of trillions still left to account for. Congress approving $1.15 trillion in 2016 certainly doesn't help those numbers. \n\nI will fundamentally disagree though on the wars. The US presence in the middle east seems to have been the cure for domestic terrorism. Under Obama's foreign policy it seems we've had a resurgence in terrorism again - e.g. ISIS. ",
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"content": "So now we need to tell all of those freeloaders on social security, the retired and the disabled, to get off their asses and get a damn job or another job if they already have one. Who gives a fuck if they paid into it* or are physically or mentally incapable of working. This guy is tired of them getting a free lunch. \n\nThe combined costs of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars will be over ten trillion dollars. ",
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"content": "The thing is, 96 million is a big number... about 30% of the country is not working. I thought we already went over the fact that 96 million is more than at any point since 1977. You're telling me that 30% of the country is retired, or disabled? I don't buy it... if we're at full employment, more people should be working. \n\nIf you look at the [U-6 unemployment rate](http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/feb/8/editorial-obamas-unemployment-rate-lies-exposed-by/) the picture it paints seems a lot more realistic with [real unemployment at 9.9%](http://www.macrotrends.net/1377/u6-unemployment-rate). But that's much less rosy, and perhaps an indictment of current leadership, isn't it? \n\nAll that, an no one had to tell the folks on social security or disability that they need to start working. \n\nInteresting, isn't it?",
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"content": " They've shut the government down before. That's a ridiculous and haphazard method of assessing government programs and departments. Why don't we shut down all of your services in your house to see which ones you can't live without? \n\nAs far as riders go, CISA comes to mind. ",
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"content": "I just wish they would do it again. I continue to think it's a great way to figure out what you don't need, particularly if you use emergency measures for things like the military, social security, etc. The reality is that the GOP just didn't have that fortitude to do it in an election year. They should have.\n\nThe thing about my house, and why it's a poor analogy for ME... is that I know exactly what and WHY I'm spending money. But I don't think it's a bad idea... the average consumer would probably benefit from shutting it all off for a stint. In my case, I know when I converted from a heat pump to gas, and spent $X extra that my payback was about 4 years. I know that when I refinanced my 30-year fixed mortgage, then break-even was 3 years away. I know when I cut my Sports Package after March, that I save $81 per year on something I otherwise won't use. The difference on a national scale is that we're spending so much money on so many things, to the tune of inconceivable debts, and bankrupt entitlements like the current retirement age... shutting it all down might be a really really good thing. Remember that $800 million that just got committed to the UN as part of the Paris Climate talks... I'll happily take $4 back on my taxes, thanks. How many more programs could we do that for?\n\nAs far as CISA goes, I'd be interested to know how that got slipped it. You won't find it too popular among the real conservatives, or libertarian-leaning GOP membership. I wonder how it got slipped in? What else do you have?",
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"content": "Dems would like single payer health care, real stimulus, meaningful minimum wages and labor law reform, crack downs on various pro-wealth laws like the myriad sorts of corporate welfare, campaign finance reform, all sorts of things that haven't been done to bring us in line with the basic standards of the other advanced nations. The administration doesn't bother asking for that sort of stuff because it knows there isn't a prayer of passing any of that in a Republican majority legislature that opposes all that stuff. \n\nSure, the Administration is more moderate than many democrats, but it's not -that- moderate.\n",
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"content": "So, you're suggesting that it's Congress who is at fault for the failures of leadership that have marked the past 7 years under Obama? \n\nAnd who do you mean by \"Advanced nations\"? I'm just curious to see if you're comparing apples to apples, or what.",
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"content": "Why are you here exactly? You're obviously not a democrat (or, at least, an educated one) according to your posts in this thread because if you were, you'd know [that things are actually much better under Obama these days](http://www.factcheck.org/2015/07/obamas-numbers-july-2015-update/)",
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"content": "I'm here to figure out what I'm supposed to know going into an election cycle. \n\nThe article linked up is pretty laughable on the surface, because it certainly looks like the GOP gave away the store, and yet reading it, it certainly seems like the author is serious. From my perspective, I can't see how you objectively blame anyone for failed results but the Administration. \n\nBut to your specific questions... \n\nFrom the list of things you itemized as something that all advanced nations are doing... I'd like to figure out who those advanced nations are, and determine those countries are countries the US should aspire to be more like, or dread becoming more like.\n\nBased on the link you sent, I see an unemployment rate of 5.3%. That's essentially full employment. That looks pretty dang good. But on the other hand, I hear that we have more unemployment that at any time since 1977. Each of those facts, taken on their own, paint fundamentally different views of the current situation. Digging further into factcheck.org, I also see the number of people on foodstamps is 43% higher than when Obama took office. \n\nSomething doesn't add up. The economy can't be both fundamentally better and fundamentally worse at the same time. Where's the disconnect? \n\n",
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"content": "The President does not control some fundamental aspects of the economy that progressives are trying to fix such as the minimum wage, labor law, and single payer healthcare. All of these programs fall under the burden of the legislature, over which Obama has virtually no actual control over. President Obama has exercised a significant amount of his authority as President to implement what changes he does have some authority over, such as forcing federal contractors to pay a higher minimum wage and other initiatives. This is known popularly as \"governing by executive order\" because it implements changes to structures outside of legislation voted on by the legislature.\n\nUnder his administration, unemployment has gone down. This is not, in and of itself, solely nor primarily the result of his actions. Neither is the increase in the number of food stamp recipients, either. Both of these things are attributed to the President, as many other things are, that the President has very little actual influence on. \n\nHOWEVER, it is important to note that the President's initiatives and directives have influenced such programs in a positive manner, overall. Without the actions taken by the President early on in his first term, the economy could have taken much longer to recover. In essence, the actions taken by the Obama administration set the stage for the natural rebound to occur more easily and the market to recover with minimal impediment. To be fair, some actions the administration has taken have caused short burst of negative action as well; the overall positive changes to the economy and, most importantly, the rate of growth over the last two terms point to an overall net positive influence of the administration's policies and procedures, to the limit of executive authority.\n\nWithout positive *legislative* action and changes implemented through law, none of the executive actions taken by the Obama administration are lasting. The next President could undo all of them overnight simply by retracting the executive orders which have made such changes. This is why it is necessary to have a legislature which implements these changes in a positive and responsible manner.\n\nI am also not /u/law_student, so I didn't list anything that advanced nations are doing that we aren't. I'll leave that to him. The point I was trying to make is that overall the U.S. is in a better place than it was during the recession, but that lasting improvements to the system that will arrest and/or reverse the backslide the entire financial culture of the US has been on for 20 years have not been made and are the responsibility and authority of the legislature to make, not the President.",
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"content": "Thank you for the detailed response. \n\nI understand that legislature has the power of the purse, and that it's serves as a check against the executive branch. What I'm not seeing though, is how to to reconcile the 5.3% unemployment with the 96 million American's that aren't working. The foodstamp numbers point to a more fundamental problem than the 5.3% seems to suggest. Essentially, there's two fundamentally and irreconcilable different narratives at play here, and despite research, I've yet to find a way to get to the bottom of the situation.\n\n I agree that the economy is in a less precarious situation than in the immediate wake of the housing market collapse. In my mind, Bush and Paulson get some credit for keeping us out of the abyss, as well as for working on bringing the Obama administration up to speed. I also look at something like 7 years of 0% interest, which only now is raised to 0.25% ... it doesn't paint a picture of happy-days-are-here-again, as it were.\n\nAs far as single payer healthcare, minimum wage, and labor law - to me, these seem like topics of luxury that a good Foreign policy enables (or doesn't). Looking at the state of the world, I see an expansionist agendas at play in Russia, and China. The rise of ISIS. I see the Administration supporting Iran, at the expense of our relationship with Israel. The world seems fundamentally less safe under Obama than under Bush. And the progressive agenda doesn't seem to take any of this into account. In short, it doesn't seem like we can afford to spend a lot of time and money on these agenda items when our position in the world is less secure. \n\n(I also fundamentally don't understand what's going on with Obamacare - my rates have gone up more, and faster than ever before).",
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"content": "I thought we already went over the fact that your 96 million figure includes the retired and people who are unable to work for various medical reasons. ",
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"content": "That's a stupid news article for several reasons, first the population in 1977 was much smaller than it is now, second, its measuring labor force participation which includes people who can't work, are retired or don't wanna work. This is a terrible measurement of the labor market that's why the unemployment rate measures the amount of people who want a job but can't get one. If you aren't looking for a job because your retired or injured it doesn't mean our economy or the government is failing. Finally as mentioned before the measurement include people who are retired, the amount of people in the retirement age bracket is much higher than in 1977, everyone was young back the and could work, this is expected because of the baby boomer generation is finally getting old. If you look at real unemployment its been the lowest since before the recession. The real reason most Americans live in poverty is simple our minimum wage isn't liveable, and people can't afford then to get a better education which prevents them from moving up the economic ladder. ",
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"content": "I hear you saying \"look at the retirees\", but they don't add up to 30% of the population. I hear you saying that we're basically at \"full employment\", but I think your confusion may be that you're not actually looking at real unemployment... [real unemployment is closer to 10%](http://www.macrotrends.net/1377/u6-unemployment-rate). \n\nMost american's aren't living in poverty. Maybe 45 million are... and sure, [the number of people on Foodstamps rose by 70% under Obama](http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/mar/28/food-stamp-president-enrollment-70-percent-under-o/), and I think both numbers are too high, but I think it has very little to do with minimum wage laws. We could raise the minimum wage, and turn around and [start putting employers out of business](http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/03/16/we-are-seeing-the-effects-of-seattles-15-an-hour-minimum-wage/), but that certainly doesn't fix the problem. \n",
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"content": "If there was only some mechanism by which we could vote these people out of office.",
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"content": "Economic insecurity is debilitating and leads to extreme behaviors.",
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"content": "\"our congress should be ashamed.\"\n\nCan we quit with the false equivalence? I believe the democrats (for the most part) have been very active in trying to help the middle class, much to the chagrin and obstruction from the right.\n\nLet's be honest: With a GOP majority in both ends of congress, anything that gets done or doesn't get done (short of a presidential veto) is the result of that republican majority. \n\nAnd it was just as bad when they just had the majority in the House and spent every day trying to keep bills from passing to make it to the Senate. \n\nSo yeah…there are some people who should be ashamed. They're called republicans and they've been actively destroying the middle class since the very early 80s. That's the absolute truth.",
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"content": "Not really being covered by that liberal main stream media. I hope that people turn off the TV and phones long enough to vote before it's too late.",
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"content": "Oh now where would they find the time to report this? That would interrupt the non stop coverage of Trump saying sholnged",
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"content": "At least Kim Davis now has the religious freedom to not do her job.",
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"content": "If that is what it takes. I had no problem with the form as long as it is issued and legal. I think that was the small legal nail the right hung their hat on because they had no other.",
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"content": "i just bookmarked this in anticipation for the next idiot who says if Bernie doesn't get the nomination they are not going to vote.\n\n\n>In a dismally low-turnout election in November, Kentuckians elected Matt Bevin, a Republican Tea Party favorite, to the governor’s mansion, marking just the third time since World War II that the state has elected a Republican governor.\n\n\n I am a Bernie Supporter because his platform is the most authentic large D Democratic platform I have seen in my life. But if we can't get him nominated I will always chooses the Democrat over the Republican .\n\nAnd in 24 hours after taking office you get to see what not voting gets you.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutting_off_the_nose_to_spite_the_face\n\n",
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"content": "As a new Kentuckian from MI... let me tell you... I have deeply assessed my personal family situation and I can tell you that I am 100% fine with Trump having 4 years rather than Shillary with 8 years. I will be fine. I am fixed. I will never need an abortion. I want 100 grand-children so I don't want my children or their partners to have one. \n\nMy vote is my vote. It should not be taken for granted. It is not given. It is earned. I have voted since I was 18 for Bill Clinton in 1992. I was youthful, hopeful and disillusioned. Same with old \"Mr. Hope and Change\" in 2008. Fuck him. I did not get the President that I voted for. Then in 2012 it was \"the lessor of 2 evils bullshit\". Never again. The lessor of two evils is still fucking evil. I seen it on a FB post against Hillary... do I really want 86 lashes instead of 100? So fucking what at that point? \n\nOh and the supreme court non-issue. Another power play by the DNC. It's not my fucking fault that an 82 year old woman CHOSE TO NOT RETIRE WHEN SHE KNEW THERE WAS A DEM IN OFFICE... that's on her and my she feel the effects in the afterlife if a Republican replaces her. My vote will not be held hostage. \n\nI am 100% committed to not vote for Hillary no matter what the outcome and believe me when say that I will rail against her until the election as much as I would any other REPUBLICAN NOMINEE until the election. If I prayed, I would pray hard that HRC is not our first female President. She does not deserve the title... not that Barack deserved first (half) black President either. I am fucking sick of the DNC bullshit. I hope they are listening.",
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"content": "You are delusional. \n\nAnd my opinion not a Democrat.",
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"content": "I have been a REGISTERED DEM since I could vote in 1992-- but that's okay. I can have a \"change of heart\". Unlike Hillary Clinton, my \"change of hearts\" don't come with a big paycheck. I am educated. I have a BSW. I don't need a f-ing title. I am not a \"D\". There is more to life than a \"D\" or and \"R\". I am a voter and it's about f-ing time that the DNC respected that. If I need to spank them in the voting booth by voting 3rd party... I will. It's time that they know that not all votes= dollars. \n",
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"content": "Find a candidate...find a second choice....vote.\n\nhttps://www.isidewith.com/",
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"content": "Oh.. of course I am going to vote. Unlike most people coming from poor families, my poor family were adamant voters. There is zero way that I am not voting. I have never ever ever not voted in an election... even mid-terms. To not vote is silence. I am voting Green Party to send a message to Debbie WS and the DNC... the Green Party most represents my values if Bernie Sanders is not the nominee. ",
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"content": "Then you chose to use your vote as a protest and not have it have any weight beyond that..... because the candidate you vote for will not even make the paper the day after the election...let alone get elected.\n\nDon't get me wrong you have every right. I just think your choice is misplaced. If you want to protest there are a lot more effective ways...A letter...to the newspaper ..to the DNC...to Santa would gave more effect than a ballot cast in secrete...It is better to use that ballot as insurance against a lot of things that would surely happen with no Presidential veto to stop the agenda of Paul Ryan and Ted Cruz.",
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"content": "The DNC would wipe their ass with my letter. They get millions to sell all of our asses out. \n\nRead this and if you think it's even 1% true, it is so much more important than \"Bengazi\"... it just shows that Hillary can be bought. She doesn't have our country's bet intentions at heart... and I truly 100% believe that she is every bit as bad as even Donald Trump. \n\nIf she was running against Satan himself I would still vote 3rd Party there is nothing anyone can do or say to change my mind-- I am (f) by thee way, not that it matters, but everyone on Reddit assumes I am (M). \n\nhttp://www.ibtimes.com/clinton-foundation-donors-got-weapons-deals-hillary-clintons-state-department-1934187",
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"content": "Logic has no bearing on this I am done.",
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"content": "Exactly what would the DNC and HRC have to do to NOT get your vote? Do you think such BLIND ALLEGIANCE is a good thing? Would you go against your morals for your party? ",
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"content": "Be worse than than the Republican nominee. It sometimes come down to a choice between two evils....and not wanting it to be that doesn't change that fact you only have three choices.",
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"content": "Again... I have done a lot of soul searching. I have so many friends that rely on the \"Earned Income Tax Credit\" like it is their yearly lottery winnings. I have so many people I know who's families are on medicaid.... they never vote. I have always felt that up until this point that I was obligated to vote for their best interest. In 2016, I am voting for MY best interests and my families best interests. ",
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"content": "> I am voting for MY best interests and my families best interests. \n\nAnd you still only have 3 choices in November 2016.\n\ncandidate R.... candidate D....Or protest by choosing a candidate who has no chance or by not voting at all and making your vote not viable. \n\nIf you want to change politics on that level you need to start now for 20 18/20.\n\nYou still have time to make a few call in Iowa this year.\n\nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident/",
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"content": "There were some interviews of Kentucky residents posted after the GOP victory. One of the women interviewed benefited from the Medicaid expansion, said it was the first time in her life she had insurance. Then she said that she knew she would lose it, but it was worth voting for Bevin because he shares her convictions that homosexuality is a sin. She literally voted to screw herself so that the governor would also [want to] screw LGBT folks. I don't know how to even begin approaching such people. \n\n> It is a cruel irony that the 140,000 non-violent felons whom Bevin has prevented from receiving voting rights would have easily swayed the election in favor of Democrat Jack Conway had they been able to vote. \n\nWait, isn't this a mistake? They were eligible to vote until after Bevin won. Bevin was the one who eliminated their voting rights. Right? If I am not mistaken, this is even more ironic. They could have preserved their voting rights by showing up and voting, but most didn't bother.",
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"content": "The guy is running for president under a major political party. That's newsworthy. Especially when he says batshit insane things.\n\nI'd much rather everyone see how ugly the republican party has become to make this guy their front runner.",
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"content": "Have your candidate propose a solution to events like in San Bernidino because right now every time there is an attack he is seen as the only one willing to look like the bad guy to save lives. Which is the definition of leadership.\n\nWe need option A and B not option A and shut up racist.",
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"content": "What is his proposed solution? ",
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"content": "Anything that he has proposed would NOT have prevented an event like SB. \n\n\n",
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"content": "Really? Twenty people died of terrorism in the US this year (three of those were at the hands of a deranged Christian fundamentalist) and now you people want to throw the Constitution out the window and prohibit the free expression of religion? You're saying that's our only option? Try again. \n\n",
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"content": "Where do i sign that petition?",
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"content": "Why?, his poll numbers are better than Sanders' will ever be.",
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"content": "actually no, that is completely and utterly [false](http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/264023-in-blockbuster-poll-sanders-destroys-trump-by-13). Why you lyin' bro?",
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"content": "Sanders has a bigger lead in the Democratic race than Trump does in the Republican? Sanders has no lead in the Democratic race. Never has, never will.",
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"content": "His numbers in terms if percentage of support is bigger than Trump's though. \n\nIn his best polls, 6 out of 10 Republicans don't even want Trump. ",
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"content": "If 10M don't want to watch something and 5M want to watch then you show it. They show Trump until more people want to see something else. ",
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"content": "The irony. You want to reduce the publicity that Trump is getting, so you sign a petition that generates more publicity. How long until CNN & MSNBC report on this petition?",
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"content": "Noooooooo! Trump is the best thing that's happened for the Dems in as long as I can remember. Keep exposing the radicalism that infests the GOP and keep pushing it towards an unrelenting civil war, Mr. Trump - you glorious blowhard!",
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"content": "If you watch cable news as a primary news source, you're way too far gone to benefit from what this petition is suggesting.",
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"content": "Full article title: \"Clinton To Sanders Supporters: Don't Pass On Me Because I'm \"Not Pure Enough\"\"",
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"content": "Well, we'll see. If she happens to win the nomination (and I'm not too sure she will), I'll be voting for her over any Republican. I'm not going to throw my vote away on the Peace & Freedom Party or the Greens. I can tell you that much.",
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"content": "I genuinely hope Sanders supporters like myself will vote for her if she wins the nomination. Like she said, it beats the hell out of any of the republicans running. ",
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"content": "Don't pass me up because I'm not pure enough? For crying out loud Nixon and HW were purer then Hillary. No I'm passing you up because you are a corporate bought and paid for liar. ",
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"content": "Can you tell me when Hillary lied? ",
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"content": "She said one of her greatest accomplishments was making an enemy of the pharmaceutical industry, despite the fact that she has received more cash from companies in that industry than any other candidate, including Republicans.\n\nShe's also a social chameleon who changes positions at the drop of a hat. Four years ago she defended DOMA and during her last presidential bid she said that marriage was a sacred bond between one man and one woman. She puts on fake accents depending on her audience, because she really thinks you're that stupid.\n\nSo yeah, she's a liar; At least you don't seem to question or dispute that she's bought and paid for by her corporate masters.",
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"content": "Which is what she and the other parasites in the Democratic party are counting on. As long as they're only second worst in a *de facto* two party system, they can replace the Republicans to whore this country out to the highest bidder.",
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"content": "1. She doesn't or hasn't received donations from the pharmaceutical industry or at least none that I can find.(https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/candidate.php?id=N00000019)\n\n2. She didn't defend DOMA four years ago. She defended it as First Lady and Senator, but she and Bill both were reluctant to DOMA, and Bill even wanted to implement policy opposite to DADL, but both were strongarmed. Bernie's opinion on gay marriage has also evolved. (Sources can be provided upon request)\n\n3. Fake Accents? I don't care. ",
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"content": "1) If you click on the \"Industries\" tab you can see that pharmaceuticals donated over a million dollars actually, which as spookyjohnathan pointed out is, in fact, more than any Republican candidate. Not sure why they give her over $1,000,000 if she's their greatest enemy...\n\n2) Whatever name we want to call it (DOMA, etc.) fact is that in her 2008 run she (as a candidate and not FLOTUS of Senator) ran opposing gay marriage, and that position didn't fully evolve until relatively recently. You are right that Sanders had some reservation on the issue and put marriage equality aside for political expediency during his time as Mayor. He's been pretty consistent for a couple decades now though, as both your and my sources will show.\n\n3) I personally think rhetoric matters on top of issues, but that's a fair disagreement.\n\nReally trying my best not to be a Bernie shill, but I did feel the need to point out places where you were a bit off.",
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"content": "1. Well, thanks for that correct. But to be frankly honest, I don't care. I know people want to make her donors an issue, I couldn't care in the slightest. All that matters for me is policy. Her record for the past 30 on this is fine, and her plane is fine. (Record:http://www.ontheissues.org/celeb/Hillary_Clinton_Health_Care.htm) (Plan on Pharma: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/22/hillary-clinton-prescription-drug-plan-healthcare)\n\n2. So did Obama in '08. But I doubt that mattered then, to you, maybe it didn't, but you probably still voted for Obama. Also, I think your timeline of Sanders' support is off (http://www.salon.com/2015/10/27/rachel_maddow_confronts_bernie_sanders_over_past_opposition_to_marriage_equality_how_are_you_any_different_than_hillary_clinton/) He fought for gay rights, but not marriage until it was politically expedient.\n\n3. Rhetoric matters, but accents don't. It's the furthest thing from an issue. Thanks for pointing out some stuff, I've also pointed things out to you. This was a good exchange. Have a Merry Christmas.",
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"content": "Touche on point 2, you are correct and my timeline was off! Have a good one :)",
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"content": "Re: point 1: Donors matter, because donations impact policy, even if they don't impact rhetoric.\n\nThe only thing that would keep me from voting for a Dem would be if one campaign stole the nomination. [In 2008, when the Clinton campaign tried to get the delegates from Michigan and Florida seated](http://www.factcheck.org/2008/05/seating-floridas-and-michigans-delegates/) - that would count.\n\nI think the above incident speaks to a lack of fundamental ethics on Clinton's part, which might make her a better Washington denizen, but inclines me to vote for Senator Sanders.",
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"content": "If donors matter so much to Clinton, why has a bulk of her record remained constant? Her only major change or \"flip flops\" were\": gay marriage, Iraq, and Keystone. Changes that very single democrat made in one way or another. ",
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"content": "With respect, I think it is willful blindness to think politicians ignore their donors. Not all policies are made in public, and not all rhetoric reflects policy. \n\nI'll vote for Clinton if she wins the Dem nom, but in regards to pharma policy, I trust Sanders to look out for non-shareholders.",
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"content": "I'm not saying that she ignores her donors, but looking at her 25 year record ( which has supposedly been influenced by \"evil\" donors) I see consistent liberalism and progressivism that I support. I see that your crush Sander's policy more, but I would say that Hillary Clinton's Pharma policy has been the same for nearly all her public life. I'm looking at record ",
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"content": "Why insult my considered opinion as a \"crush?\"\n\nI've followed politics closely since 1988, and actively worked on campaigns since 1990. I majored in political science.\n\nDismissing people's choices as unthinking is a good way to make them ignore you.",
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"content": "I apologize if that upset you, and I admit it was a poor choice of words. \n",
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"content": ">She doesn't or hasn't received donations from the pharmaceutical industry...\n\nI'm afraid the folks at USNews are a little better at finding [information on Open Secrets](http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/10/14/hillary-takes-millions-in-campaign-cash-from-enemies) than you are.\n\n>...she and Bill both were reluctant to DOMA...\n\nShe doesn't seem too reluctant [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I1-r1YgK9I).\n\n>Fake Accents? I don't care.\n\n\"I know she's lying to me, but I trust her.\"",
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"content": "1. Okay. So what? Look at my other comment on this thread. \n\n2. That was after DOMA was passed, and Obama gave similar speeches. I don't think you know enough about the Clintons or Bill's administration. Maybe you do. Either way, you should watch this if you have the time (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxgo0XmrjTc) At least this will help you understand the Clinton White House. The Clintons never liked DOMA, but the stood by it because a majority of the country wanted it, they were also strongarmed into it. But we have to be fair here, Bernie didn't support gay marriage until 2009.\n\n3. Accents!? Really. This is an issue for you. That's, I'm sorry to say, a little sad. You still haven't given me an example where she has lied. Just because you don't like her doesn't maker her a liar. ",
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"content": "> Okay. So what? Look at my other comment on this thread.\n\nFeel free to link to anything you think I'll find relevant. I'm not really interested in combing through a stranger's reddit history to understand a point they're utterly failing to make.\n\nThe \"so what\" is that she's a lied about being enemies with an industry that funds her campaign.\n\n>That was after DOMA was passed, and Obama gave similar speeches.\n\nUtterly irrelevant. Her position was clear until a few years ago, and has only recently evolved. The remark about Obama seems doubly irrelevant. You seem to be operating off the assumption we support Obama and that makes us hypocrites for not supporting Clinton, but to a leftist, Obama and Hillary are in the same camp - most of us don't support either.\n\n>Accents!? Really. This is an issue for you. That's, I'm sorry to say, a little sad.\n\n*Fake* accents, because she's putting on a show. I don't care how someone speaks, your strawman aside, that isn't the issue - but I care when someone deliberately changes the way they speak to fool suckers like you. It's disingenuous and no matter how much you plug your ears and hum your tune or try to delude yourself into believing it isn't so, an example of a lie.\n\n> You still haven't given me an example where she has lied.\n\nIf nothing else her pretense of making enemies of the people funding her campaign is a lie.",
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"content": "1. I don't see how that is at all a lie. There is truth within its claim. Pharmaceutical companies attacks the Clintons in the 90s because of Hillarycare. They support her now because they support Obama (more or less) and the ACA. So if there is truth in it, but now pharma comoanies support her, that doesn't make her a liar, it makes her a politician. another note, I don't feel like linking anything for you. \n\n2. Im not saying leftist are hypocrites, but, who did you vote for in 2008 and 2012? I'm pointing outthat it is silly to say Clinton defended DOMA, and say that's a reason not to vote for her. But every single Democrat modified their view on gay marriage when it became politically acceptable. Including Obama, a person that leftists had no problem voting for twice. As for Sanders, Berney didn't support gay marriage until it became politically expedient, that's a fact. Don't pretend that you're on a high horse, when the horse doesn't even exist. \n\n3. I cannot believe that you base your vote off of accents. ",
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"content": ">I don't see how that is at all a lie.\n\nThey're not her enemies. They're her supporters. Maybe they once were her enemies, but not within nearly the past twenty years. Pretending they're her enemies when they support her is a lie.\n\n>who did you vote for in 2008 and 2012?\n\nNot Obama, as I explained already, so you can stop beating that dead horse.\n\n> Berney didn't support gay marriage until it became politically expedient...\n\nSanders is on record supporting gay rights as early as 1983, and probably sooner, and he voted against DOMA. If you're saying that Sanders only supported gay rights when it was politically acceptable to do so, and then use the same defense for Hillary only changing her position 33 years later, you're contradicting yourself. Either Sanders supported it long before it was acceptable, or Clinton *continued to oppose it* long after she could have - pick one.\n\n>I cannot believe that you base your vote off of accents.\n\nOnce again, this is a strawman, and a particularly ridiculous one. *Accents* are normal, and not the sort of thing you would judge a person for. Deliberately falsifying an accent to forge a persona is deceitful, and if a person is caught doing it, especially a politician doing it as a means to an end of fooling a gullible populace, it reflects poorly of their character, and reveals more than you probably wanted to know about how that person feels about you and the rest of their supporters.\n\n\"I can't believe you base your vote off someone trying to fool the American people and thinking they're stupid enough to fall for a fake accent\" is more like it, and saying as much makes you sound not only like a sucker, but a *willful* sucker.\n\nAlright, you haven't added any new information to the conversation, and you're just repeatedly butting your head against the same nonsense you have been for days now, so I don't think there's anything else to say here. Better luck next time. Bye.",
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"content": "1. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the question asking about who are the proudest enemies you have *made*. Which is makes her statement in line with facts. Now if you want to compare her to today and call her a liar, you are free. But I personally don't see the significance. There are too many variables that we aren't taking into account. One, new pharma companies. Two, new company CEO. Three, the some of the original companies still hate her. But what I think is interesting is my idea of how these donors are making their decision. I think they (rightly) see Mrs. Clinton as the next president and they want to shore up support from the next administration. But I doubt how that will change her policy further from her support of Obamacare or her desire to make Hillarycare 2.0. But if you want to call her a liar because of that *one* statement (and your only evidence for your contention), I concede. I will still sleep well at night, and I will still cast my vote for HRC over Sanders any day of the week.\n\n2. I stand by what I said. Sanders may have support gay rights, but not gay marriage; at least not until it became popular to his base and constituency. Here is Sanders' record (http://www.salon.com/2015/10/27/rachel_maddow_confronts_bernie_sanders_over_past_opposition_to_marriage_equality_how_are_you_any_different_than_hillary_clinton/) Here is Clinton's record (http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Hillary_Clinton_Civil_Rights.htm#Gay_Rights) \n\n3. I don't care about accents. It doesn't matter in the slightest. If you think that the tone of another person's voice is important, then you are free to think that. I personally don't care about how a person sounds. I only care about policy. \n\nI hope you take a look at the new information that I've already posted on Sanders' record on same-sex marriage. As for everything else I'm done. Your arguments are based off emotions and personal opinions, something I detest in political debates and something I see as very common amongst Sanders supporters. Maybe you don't fit the generalization, but you seem to care more about emotion than policy. Correct me if I'm wrong on that. Either way, have a happy New Year. ",
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"content": "> One, new pharma companies. Two, new company CEO.\n\nOh, these ones are the good guys, eh?\n\n>I stand by what I said.\n\nThen you're contradicting yourself.\n\n>I don't care about accents. \n\nMe neither, but we're not talking about accents. I've never seen anyone, even on reddit, harp about the same strawman for so long after being made aware of their mistake.\n\n>I hope you take a look at the new information...\n\nThis information doesn't contradict anything I've already said, and doesn't address Clinton's apparent 33 year lag or her open opposition to gay rights only a few years ago.",
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"content": "So I'm only addressing point 2.\n\n How am I contradicting myself? I didn't say anything about Hillary being on the moral high ground. She didn't support same-sex marriage until it became politically acceptable; so did most every democrat, that includes Bernie Sanders. What I', saying is don't but Sanders on a high horse on which he doesn't belong. \n\nOkay, I'll address 3. \n\nSorry, but I'm not understanding your claim about my laps in logical reasoning. How is me not caring about accents a strawman? You said that her use of other accents is an example of lying. So lay claim to this assertion because you think gullible people fall for these accents and that somehow influences their vote. I've never met a person who bases their opinion of an accent. Now, just because I've never met them doesn't mean they don't exist. However, I seriously doubt that people are that stupid. But I base my own political beliefs of policy for the manner that the policy statement means nothing to me. Now, if it does mean something to somebody, they I guess through some reasoning they can call it lying. Putting on a persona to deceive. But I could also argue that changing accents in new company is a form of flattery, trying to connect with the voters. Some might see it as insulting. My point is that it's entirely subjective. So when I say \"I don't care about accents\", I'm talking about myself, she isn't lying to me. \nMaybe I wasn't clear or maybe I just simply don't understand. \nEither way, have a good night. ",
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"content": "> She didn't support same-sex marriage until it became politically acceptable...\n\nA politician who doesn't stand for political issues until the battle's already been fought and won is useless.\n\n>...that includes Bernie Sanders.\n\nIf it was politically acceptable to support gay rights in 1983, when Sanders did, then Clinton *didn't* support it until 30 years or more after it became acceptable, and spent the interim actively opposing it.\n\nIf on the other hand gay rights only became politically acceptable to support in the past few years when Clinton changed her position, Sanders was far ahead of her and other Democrats.\n\nThese are two contradictory positions. You can't defend both.\n\n>...don't but Sanders on a high horse on which he doesn't belong.\n\nIt's a fact that Sanders' commitment to civil rights is unquestionable - he's been consistent about this topic for 30 years. Clinton on the other hand has only recently gone from actively opposing it to being apparently ambivalent after we fought and won the battle *in spite of her efforts*.\n\nShe can't fight for the other side all this time, lose the battle, and then pretend she was fighting along with us after all.\n\n>How is me not caring about accents a strawman?\n\nEquating a person's natural accent with a fake accent they cultivate to pretend to be something they aren't is a strawman.\n\n>I've never met a person who bases their opinion of an accent.\n\nMost people don't, but Clinton apparently believed they did, thus her fake Kentucky fried stage persona.\n\n>...have a good night.\n\nThanks, you too.",
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"content": "[Hillary's Lies from the first debate](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGC2vg27bFI)",
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"content": "hahaha",
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"content": "Actually it's \"Bernie or Bust\"... and I wouldn't vote for Shillary if she was running against Satan himself. She never had my vote and she never will. I have been a registered dem for 20+ years and if she is the nominee I am going Independent. \nFuck you Hillary.",
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"content": "They didn't endorse him. \n\nhttps://twitter.com/YourAnonNews/status/679743440763142144\n\nhttps://www.hackread.com/no-anonymous-is-not-supporting-bernie-sanders/",
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"content": "[**@YourAnonNews**](https://twitter.com/YourAnonNews/)\r\n\r\n> [2015-12-23 19:20 UTC](https://twitter.com/YourAnonNews/status/679743440763142144)\r\n\r\n> FYI: Anonymous endorses no one for president.\r\n\r\n----\r\n\r\n^This ^message ^was ^created ^by ^a ^bot\r\n\r\n[^[Contact ^creator]](http://np.reddit.com/message/compose/?to=jasie3k&amp;subject=TweetsInCommentsBot)[^[Source ^code]](https://github.com/janpetryk/reddit-bot)\r\n",
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"content": "Not on my follow list so probably not a legit source of anonymous.\n\nAlso: http://anonhq.com/43157-2/",
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"content": "> http://anonhq.com/43157-2/\n\n\nThat unreliable website only has *24,100 followers* on Twitter and almost *no one* retweets them.\n\nhttps://twitter.com/AnonymousNewsHQ\n\nhttps://twitter.com/YourAnonNews/ has **1.6 million followers**.\n\n",
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"content": "It's impossible for all of anonymous to endorse any candidate. It's done in groups and clusters and anonymously. If we want to let twitter decide: https://twitter.com/search?q=anonymous%20bernie%20sanders&src=typd ",
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"content": "So you're admitting it's a completely misleading headline?",
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"content": "If twitter is your reliable source:\n\n* http://imgur.com/a/Bp4cB \n* https://twitter.com/gov/status/678426890432937984 \n* https://twitter.com/gov/status/676961905114746880?s=09 ",
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"content": "[**@gov**](https://twitter.com/gov/)\r\n\r\n> [2015-12-16 03:07 UTC](https://twitter.com/gov/status/676961905114746880)\r\n\r\n> Follower growth (all cands) in \\#GOPDebate 1st hour:\n\n> \n\n> 1. @realDonaldTrump\n\n> 2. @BernieSanders\n\n> 3. @RealBenCarson\n\n> 4. @marcorubio\n\n> 5. @tedcruz\r\n\r\n----\r\n\r\n^This ^message ^was ^created ^by ^a ^bot\r\n\r\n[^[Contact ^creator]](http://np.reddit.com/message/compose/?to=jasie3k&amp;subject=TweetsInCommentsBot)[^[Source ^code]](https://github.com/janpetryk/reddit-bot)\r\n",
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"content": "Don't forget https://twitter.com/gov/status/678426890432937984 ",
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"content": "[**@gov**](https://twitter.com/gov/)\r\n\r\n> [2015-12-20 04:09 UTC](https://twitter.com/gov/status/678426890432937984)\r\n\r\n> Largest follower growth (all cands) in \\#DemDebate:\n\n> \n\n> 1. @BernieSanders\n\n> 2. @RealDonaldTrump\n\n> 3. @HillaryClinton\n\n> 4. @MartinOMalley\n\n> 5. @TedCruz\r\n\r\n----\r\n\r\n^This ^message ^was ^created ^by ^a ^bot\r\n\r\n[^[Contact ^creator]](http://np.reddit.com/message/compose/?to=jasie3k&amp;subject=TweetsInCommentsBot)[^[Source ^code]](https://github.com/janpetryk/reddit-bot)\r\n",
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"content": "You're deflecting. \n\nAre you admitting the headline is completely misleading? ",
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"content": "How can anonymous endorse anyone? Sanders followers have gotten to the point of insanity to post this here. Mods should just remove this nonsense before Republicans see it and start passing it around. What an embarrassment. ",
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"content": "I'll be excited to see this if it comes to Kansas City.",
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"content": "\"many on the left vote against the right, not for anything\" \n\nGood point, the left needs to get their shit together.",
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"content": "And not just in the US, either. The UK's Labour Party has a similar problem. It's been \"appease, compromise\" from the left while the right isn't compromising. It's shifted politics so far to the right.",
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"content": "I don't see how he can make this movie and still in good conscience think that Hillary Clinton is even a consideration for President... but he thinks Sanders is \"grouchy\" and Clinton has a \"sense of humor and is basically a good person\". That's where we disagree. I don't find her funny and I don't think she is a good person. In fact, I think she is a really bad person and a war hawk. ",
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"content": "Seriously we need a president that can handle Putin. The guy is a madman.",
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"content": "I don't see that he is much worse than a lot of the Republicans. I have ZERO fear of Putin.. unless WE start shit with him. I am not afraid of \"terrorists\" or \"Muslims\". In my life in rural KY I am much more likely to get mistakenly shot and killed by the police than anything. ",
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"content": "And don't forget that today's Hillary Clinton is as good as it gets. Bernie Sanders has forced her to take a stance farther to the left in order to try to win over supporters. She's a center-right Third Way candidate and that isn't what the country needs. ",
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"content": "INB4 everyone shits all over Moore. At some point several years ago the anti-Moore propaganda reached a point where virtually every liberal I knew denounced Moore for his style of filmmaking. Each and every one would parrot something they heard on cable news. I really hope we've moved past that, because I think we're collectively throwing the baby out with the bath water on that one. He may deserve criticism for some of this methods in the past, but he's also been an extremely rare counter-point to corporate media. \n\nEven if, as another comment suggests, he supports Clinton (an ironic mistake considering his push to avoid simply voting against the right), I would imagine there's quite a bit of valuable information in this new film. ",
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"content": "But his style hasn't really changed. It's not that he doesn't make some valid points...but it's still slimy propaganda pretending to be a documentary.\n\nHe was on Colbert's show a short time ago, and Colbert even called him out a little, saying something like, \"You say we should adopt all these things from Europe, but they also have a lot of problems and you don't talk about those.\" And Moore just brushed off the criticism by saying, \"Yeah, well, when you make a film about iPhones, you don't talk about how great other phones are.\"\n\nOk, fair point...but you could talk about problems iPhones have...like how iPhones have to deal with millions of refugees straining their social programs.\n\nI guess neither Moore nor myself know how metaphors work...",
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"content": "I'm by no means a Moore fanboy, but his films are definitely not propaganda by any stretch of the imagination. He may occasionally support the odd Clinton, but he's mostly a corpotation's worst nightmare. He has a viewpoint that he doesn't always portray in the most balanced, honest way, but that viewpoint is mostly that of a well-meaning populist, and I for one find his socialist-leaning views much more reasonable than the radical right-wing, anti-populist, rich old white dude club politics that dominates the US lately.",
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"content": "The problem is he portrays himself as a truth teller and journalist. I'm as liberal ad they come but can't stand Moore and wish he would go away. \n\nYou see the issue with lying or misleading people to make your point (outside of ethical considerations) is that when people find out you lied they won't believe anything else you say. He does more harm than good. He gives the right an easy target to poke holes into and hold it up as evidence the left is wrong. \n\nIf Moore had ethics I'd be fine with him. As is I want him to shut the fuck up. ",
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"content": "Just because it's anti-corporation or populist doesn't mean it's not propaganda. Not portraying a subject in a balanced and honest way to further a political viewpoint is the definition of propaganda.\n\nThe guy flew down to Cuba to show how much better the Cuban healthcare system is than the US. He focussed on facts like how Cuba has a very low infant mortality rate and how their average lifespan is 77years, but of course he never mentioned facts like how they have shortages of medicine, or how doctors only get paid $50/month from the government or the long wait lines for basic care.\n\nYou may agree with him, and you may think these other points are irrelevant, but that's only because you share his bias, not because he's unbiased.",
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"content": "I can't wait to hear from the anti Moore trolls about how wrong he was about Iraq. That worked out great, didn't it guys? Guys?",
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"content": "Can we stop pretending that the word \"revolution\" has anything to do with electoral politics? Revolution is not electing a different president and congress. Revolution is the overthrow of an entire government, often by force, and replacing it with another, changing not just who's in charge, but also the workings of the institutions they operate in. I think electing Bernie Sanders is a step in the right direction for this country but I'm angry at him for redefining the words \"revolution\" and \"socialism\" just to get himself elected.",
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"content": "Where will we be able to view this film?",
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"content": "I don't believe this is credible whatsoever.",
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"content": "Why? If it's methodology, fine. If it's because you don't like her personally, well congrats on finding out one of your prejudices. ",
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"content": "I don't believe the is credible because if you took the time to read the article you would find it very very peculiar with who is in the top 5 and at what place. I adamantly dislike Hillary.\nWyatt specifically threw me off was that president Obama is in first place as well. I don't have any problem with him but I don't believe the American puerile would think he's in first place",
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"content": "I don't think its peculiar. Who has bigger name recognition than the people on that list?",
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"content": "It's very credible. It's largely based on name recognition, and they only need a plurality, not a majority.",
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"content": "I don't really understand that. Dan you clarify? Like where does it get its infornation from, im familiar with name recognition though . And I'm fuzzy on what plurality means",
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"content": "It means they got more votes than anyone else (in this case because of name recognition) but still far less than half the total. Hillary got 13%. The runners-up were Malala (5%), Oprah (4%), and Michelle Obama (4%). That's not surprising.\n\nFor most admired man, Barack Obama led with 17%, followed by the Pope and Donald Trump at 5% each.",
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"content": "Thank you",
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"content": "I don't admire Liars ......\n\nSpoken by a Democrat",
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"content": "Well seeing as Hillary is just as truthful as Bernie, than you should have no problem admiring her.\n\nSource: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/opinion/campaign-stops/all-politicians-lie-some-lie-more-than-others.html",
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"content": "Would this score not depend heavily on what statements they choose to fact check? ",
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"content": "I guess it would, although Hillary was fact checked on over 100 more instances I believe. Probably has to do with the fact that she campaigns publicly more than Sanders.",
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"content": "She belongs in jail.",
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"content": "Nothing surprising here. Small minorities of people, unaware or uninterested in things like war crimes, dwindling civil liberties, and increasing corporate influence in politics, pick names they've heard of that they can feel better about themselves for having picked. This is the same surface-level awareness these ethics-free politicians rely on to get elected despite their unabashed loyalty to corporate interests.",
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"content": "Or, they didn't ask people who are constantly whining about Clinton. ",
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"content": "Sweet burn. I'm such a pussy for wanting civil liberties and not wanting my president to be a war criminal owned by lobbyists.\n\nYou can down vote my comment, you can feel superior for backing a more electable candidate, but characterizing my viewpoint as whiny only demonstrates that you're a morally bankrupt asshole. Now go jerk off to a hospital bombing or whatever people like you enjoy.",
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"content": "Literally everyone who supports Hillary enjoys masturbating to hospitals being bombed. ",
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"content": "Literally everyone who supports Hillary in the voting booth will be complicit in her inevitable war crimes. You can razz be good on the interwebs, but at least I'll never have live with having voted for a corporatist murderer. ",
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"content": "2edgy4me",
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"content": "Why don't you go bounce a ball and let the big kids talk if this is too edgy for you.",
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"content": "What you are describing is the furthest thing from adult conversation. We get it, you're too \"informed\" for mainstream candidates. #FeeltheBernof14TrillionDollarsInNewSpending",
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"content": "I can't find a Hillary supporter to have an adult conversation with, because they refuse to discuss what her administration's policy will look like. They don't want to talk about war crimes, or civil liberties, or healthcare, or corporatism, or anything substantive. They consider someone with interest in these, the central issues of the election, \"whiny\". \n\nSo, if someone is upset by bringing up the issues surrounding the election, they shouldn't participate in the discussion. I'm only giving back the snark I received, and conceding the other side's inability to have a conversation.",
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"content": "If you precede your conversation by calling the opposing candidate a war criminal don't expect anyone to want to have an \"adult conversation\" with.",
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"content": "Ok, so I should ignore possibly the most important difference between candidates because it's somehow rude? American presidents have a history of committing war crimes in recent history. How is it reasonable to ignore this?",
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"content": "Because Hillary is not a war criminal.",
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"content": "There is no credible reason to think she will end secret prisons, double-tapping, or any other foreign policies which are *unequivocally* war crimes. These policies are, to me, the most important in determining a new president, and the idea that we should pretend her administration will magically abandon these policies, or that they don't exist, is outrageous.\n\nEDIT: clarity",
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"content": "Are you referring to black sites? Obama closed those back in 2009. Not sure what double-tapping is. What other \"foreign policies\" are you referring to that Hillary supports?",
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"content": "The imprisonment of foreign nationals without declaration of war, without the filing of charges, etc., is a war crime. This occurs at GITMO and other secret prisons or \"black sites\". A simple google search would have lead you to the Wikipedia page on \"black sites\", the fourth paragraph of which states:\n\n>In January 2012, Poland's Prosecutor General's office initiated investigative proceedings against Zbigniew Siemiątkowski, the former Polish intelligence chief. Siemiątkowski is charged with facilitating the alleged CIA detention operation in Poland, where foreign suspects may have been tortured in the context of the War on Terror. The possible involvement of Leszek Miller, Poland's Prime Minister in 2001-2004, is also considered.[9][10]\n\nI didn't need to look that up. The fact that a corporatist administration would have no moral obligation to follow through with ending that particular violation of international law is blatantly obvious to those that bother to pay attention. \n\nAs for double-tapping, it's the practice of attacking non-combatants collecting their dead. It's a practice which the Obama administration presides over as part of drone strikes, and like secret prisons, it is *unequivocally* a violation of international law, and a war crime. While we're at it, let's not forget the Obama administration has openly had US citizens murdered without trial. Modern democrat presidents aren't just expected to commit war crimes abroad. The Obama administration has also had [US citizens murdered without trial/due process/habeas corpus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki). These are indisputable references to war crimes and violations of the constitution that I argue are guaranteed under the corporatist administrations of Clinton, Bush, and any other tangentially \"electable\" candidates. \n\nEDIT: I'd just like to note that at no point has u/Spiffy10 or anyone else attempted to refute my assertions re:war crimes, or my argument that such policies will continue under a similar corporatist Democrat like Clinton. This isn't fun stuff, and I'd like to down vote what I'm saying too, but unfortunately it's true, and even if they wanted to bet a Clinton administration would deviate from these practices, the odds would be against them.",
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"content": "Says who? I didn't even see where to vote for this ",
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"content": "Congratulations. Join the club. :D",
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"content": "Can't we all just get along?\n\nSubscribed to /r/democrats now. Please don't ban me.",
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"content": "Awe..., don't worry. We'll keep you. :D\n\nP.S. I was banned years ago over there when attempted to debate using only facts. They don't like facts over there.",
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"content": "Reality has a liberal bias.",
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"content": "It sure does. ",
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"content": "Only in the sense that liberalism promotes entropy.",
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"content": "Don't ban this guy either.",
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"content": "Unless you start spamming designer knockoff handbag sites or v!@gra knockoff sites, you should be okay here.",
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"content": "I've always wondered what would happen if Fox gnus went off the air for a month. (Not talking about suppressing free speech here, so chill.) I wonder if all the zombies would emerge from their houses blinking and asking what happened. ",
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"content": "It makes it easier to sleep at night considering most of those threads have zero or only one comments",
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"content": "Weird, you're right. Never saw that before, but very few of the posts over there have any discussion at all. Perhaps one in ten. That's really really strange.",
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"content": "Eh, most of my (few) conservative friends don't reddit. I feel it's because common sense & reason gets upvoted, and that often doesn't jive with their perspective. That and the regular Bernie posts.",
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"content": "You are trying to use logic and fact with a group that prides itself on being redneck gun toting \"Obhamer hatin'\" \"Ben Gazhi feller\" types.\n\nYou'd have better luck banging two skillets together and jumping up and down \"They terk our gurns!\" than expecting them to actually objectively read what you have to contribute to the conversation",
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"content": "I get that. I was surprised because I wasn't even trying to compare the American right wing to Islamic extremists, and was just pointing out the definition. *They* assumed I was, and it took me off guard. \n\nName calling insult = okay. \n\nCopy/pasting from Wikipedia = BANNED!\n\nIt seems so incredibly bizarre. No response from the mod either after asking him why I was banned.",
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"content": "Maybe you tried to took their guns? :D",
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"content": "There's a reason Trump is their #1 candidate",
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"content": "Yep, me too. I was so impertinent as to remind the thread how many days since Hannity said he would be water boarded. \n\nIf any of them are watching, id hope they would pass along that its been 2442 days please. ",
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"content": "I got banned from /r/Conservative after being labeled as a Bernie Brigader. IIRC I was only trying to check my own echo chamber by wading into a discussion. Nope. Not allowed. Is there /r/BannedBy/r/Conservative for us?",
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"content": "You ran afoul of a very familiar pattern. Bring up factual information that causes someone cognitive dissonance and they react aggressively to silence the source of dissonance. \n\nIt takes a lot of education and introspection to get over the programmed human tendency to react that way, and many people just never get there. They don't see any reason to bother when their beliefs are comforting during those times they aren't being questioned.",
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"content": "I'm willing to bet there are more people banned than subscribed.",
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"content": "LOL. true. ",
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"content": "Seems like this story is a pretty good illustration of far right conservatism.",
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"content": "I just copied your shit and posted in there and down voted all their posts fucked them and they can ban me who cares ",
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"content": "LOL. welcome to the club. Many of us left the Idiot Party. ",
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"content": "I was banned for saying my father was a minister.\n\nWho knows what that sub is thinking.",
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"content": "The amusing thing about this is that you aren't banned from /r/conservatives and never were. ...but one of the posters who admitted to downvoting all the posts there in response to your post here now is.\n\nI suspect you posted to and were banned from /r/conservative.",
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"content": ">I suspect you posted to and were banned from /r/conservative.\n\nAnd you are correct sir. I will edit my links to reflect that, and apologize for sullying the name of your sub.",
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"content": "No worries. \n\nIn fact, with one (old) exception that I reversed because I couldn't find a good reason for it in their post or comment history, nobody currently in this thread except the fellow who decided it would be a good idea to downvote everything there is banned on /r/conservatives.",
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"content": "Seems like everything that comes out of his mouth is wrong. ",
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"content": "Quit trolling and go back to your own party at /r/republican.",
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"content": "TIL: Thinking Trump is wrong about everything makes one a Republican. ",
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"content": "Idk i think people read your comment too fast",
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"content": "May be true, but your comment could be easily edited for clarity and others could then be deleted, dv's could be changed to uv's, etc.",
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"content": "My comment was perfectly clear and quite succinct: Trump is wrong on pretty much everything, and Hillary wouldn't be a great president. Better than the Donald, but mediocre at best. ",
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"content": "And my response was right on then.",
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"content": "TIL: Real Democrats support only Hillary. Supporting anyone but Hillary makes one a Republican. ",
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"content": "No, real Democrats don't bash each other in /r/democrats. Something Republicans used to know when they didn't speak ill of each other and knew how to win the White House. Why the hell do you think the three Democrats don't tear apart each other like wild weasels as the Republicans now do during their debates? Because they have discipline to want to win now. You should try it. As new rules are put in place, I am going back to my old rules, only positive here, and I will support whomever wins. Period (unless it is about a Republican of course).",
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"content": ">No, real Democrats don't bash each other in /r/democrats. Something Republicans used to know when they didn't speak ill of each other and knew how to win the White House. Why the hell do you think the three Democrats don't tear apart each other like wild weasels as the Republicans now do during their debates? Because they have discipline to want to win now. You should try it. As new rules are put in place, I am going back to my old rules, only positive here, and I will support whomever wins. Period (unless it is about a Republican of course).\n\nQFT",
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"content": "Do you really think tired talking points and a hashtag \"#FeeltheBern\" is helping your candidate? Like, do you think you're going to annoy people into voting for him? You and people like you are turning your candidate into a joke. Stop it. ",
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"content": "Weird enough, it is a real political theory. When a person gets angry at a canvasser and says never to call again, you should call one more time. This ensures that when the person makes it to the polls, the only name they can remember is your candidate, and will vote for him.",
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"content": "Feel the /r/republican for you troller.",
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"content": "TIL: Pro-Bernie Sanders = Pro-Republican. \n\n",
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"content": "Act like one, get treated like one.",
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"content": "Well in a roundabout way you would be helping a republican candidate into the white house.",
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"content": "Bernie's polling against republican candidates is better than Hillary's, so... No?",
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"content": "What hasn't come out or won't come out of his mouth?",
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"content": "Can't trust him.",
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"content": "Do we really want a Trump-endorsed candidate running the country?",
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"content": "Much like most Huffington Post articles, there's far more to the story than what they let on. I think the biggest thing going in defense of the cops who shot the kid, is that [this was the gun he was pointing at people.](http://static1.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2132916.1425158245!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_635/cleveland-police-shoot-boy.jpg) And [here is a video of him actually pointing it](http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2014/nov/26/cleveland-video-tamir-rice-shooting-police).\n\nSo, no, this isn't a case of \"they should have known it was just a pellet gun\" or \"they should have taken cover and waited for him to shoot the gun so they'd know if it was real or not\" like the article says. There was no way they could have known it was just a pellet gun. It was *designed* to look like a real gun.\n\nIt's an extremely sad situation, a 12 year old kid ended up dead, and I'm sure no one involved wanted it that way, but can you really convict people of murder when they were up against a weapon that was completely indistinguishable from a real gun? And certainly, you don't want the policy to be that cops have to wait until the guy with the gun shoots someone before they can take him down.",
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"content": "Thats a fair point but how can anyone think that racing up to someone armed and leaving the car next to the suspect as the officers did is a sane course of action?",
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"content": "My guess is they saw someone with a gun and felt they had to do something about it. It's not like they can just sit in the car and wait for him to do whatever it was he was intending on doing.\n\nIt's a very complex situation. In hindsight, now, knowing that it was a pellet gun, it's easy to say something like that... but what if it was a real gun and he had actually shot someone, the question would have been \"why were they just waiting in the car while that kid was shooting the gun?\"",
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"content": "If they thought he was armed and dangerous why would anyone place themselves in that much danger? They opened the door to exit the car directly in front of him. \n\nWhy wouldnt the cops stop a distance away and draw their weapons? This would give them the opportunity to resolve the situation peacefully. The was no word of an active shooter situation.\n\nThe police response make absolutely no sense to me.",
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"content": "> If they thought he was armed and dangerous why would anyone place themselves in that much danger?\n\nThere was a doctrine for dealing with armed threats that was widespread up until the mid 90s or so. Threats would be approached with an abundance of caution. The first cops arriving on a scene would be expected to begin establishing a perimeter to contain the threat, and hostage negotiators and/or heavily armed and armored SWAT teams would engage. \n\nThe net effect? Too many people died. Justice department studies showed that there was a direct correlation between the amount of time a gunman was active and the total number of deaths and injuries. They found that active shooters faced with rapid opposition - even ineffectual opposition - resulted in fewer casualties than any sort of delayed opposition. \n\nColumbine was a real turning point in active shooter doctrine: There, police managed to contain the school, but in doing so, they trapped a large number of students in the same areas as the shooters while they waited on negotiators and SWAT teams to resolve the situation. The shooters had the run of the school for most of an hour, and the death toll soared. As soon as the shooters were faced with significant opposition, they killed themselves, ending the threat. \n\nLaw enforcement active shooter doctrine quickly changed from \"contain and wait\" to \"immediate action\" because immediate action saves lives. Now, responding officers are trained to immediately confront shooters with overwhelming force, not wait around giving them a chance to kill anyone they want.\n\nSomehow, Tamir Rice didn't realize that pointing a gun at someone invited deadly force in response. That's a tragedy, to be sure. But in preventing that tragedy in the future, should we ask our police to restrain themselves even when they and other innocent people are faced with deadly force? Or should we teach our kids not to point guns at people?\n\nThe officers put themselves in that much danger because immediate force against a credible threat, although dangerous for the cops, is far safer for anyone else in the area. ",
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"content": "Thanks for the great reply.",
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"content": "Short answer, I want law enforcement to assess and confirm the threat before they start shooting kids with toy guns. If he had a real gun pointing it at people that's a whole different story. If he was giving the opportunity to disarm before they executed him, different story.\n\nI did CPS in a very bad city. I didn't have anything. My life was in danger any time I went in to a person's home, by myself to investigate abuse or neglect. I went in to drug houses with out so much as a can of pepper spray, because that was the job. If they don't like the job or the risk they shouldn't do it. \n\nWe aren't talking about a school shooting. We are talking about a kid in a playground with a TOY GUN. Isn't that an open carry State? People got to schools, parks and rallies with REAL GUNS and aren't killed by police. Of course they are white, and tea partiers. \n\nI just don't see how anyone can try to blame the kid in this situation. A pretty screwed up Country with screwed up priorities. Blame the victim. ",
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"content": "> Short answer, I want law enforcement to assess and confirm the threat before they start shooting kids with toy guns\n\nWhat you want will result in more civilian fatalities as was explained in the comment you replied to. Luckily you don't make the rules, guys who are more concerned with saving lives than you make the rules. That's a good thing.",
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"content": "We're talking about a device specifically designed and manufactured to look like a lethal weapon. We're not talking about a \"toy gun\". We're talking about a \"replica firearm.\" Ohio law refers to such a device as an \"object indistinguishable from firearm\", and treats such a device as a firearm itself. \n\n> Isn't that an open carry State?\n\nYes it is, however, \"Brandishing\" != \"Carrying\". Under Ohio carry law, even allowing the fingers to come into contact with a handgun while being approached by a law enforcement officer is a criminal offense. \n\nA handgun is carried in a holster or pocket, or waistband, or some other sort of container. A handgun in a person's hands is not being carried, it's being used. And **that** is the difference between the people carrying the guns in the parks and rallies and what Tamir Rice was doing. (Except for LEOs, Ohioans can't carry in schools, so you're wrong on that particular point.)\n\n>I just don't see how anyone can try to blame the kid in this situation.\n\nHe was brandishing a firearm. Yes, a firearm: Ohio law treats an object \"indistinguishable from a firearm\" as a firearm itself. He was causing reasonable people to believe that there was a credible, criminal, imminent, threat of death or grievous bodily harm. **People were calling 911 because they thought he was going to kill someone.** The kid was breaking the fucking law, but worse than that, he made people think he was a deadly threat. He's not the victim. He's the perpetrator. \n\nBut, yeah, he's 12. He's a kid. So it's not really his fault. He's supposed to be supervised, protected from danger. He's supposed to be taught right from wrong. He's supposed to be taught how to responsibly react to firearms: what happened to \"don't touch it and tell an adult?\" \n\nSo no, it wasn't his fault that he either didn't know or didn't care that he was committing a very serious offense. He didn't know or didn't care that any reasonable person who perceived a threat from his actions was fully justified in using lethal force to stop that threat. And he obviously wasn't adequately supervised. By all means, blame his parents and teachers for their complete failures if you want to assume he's completely and totally innocent, but his actions were completely unacceptable, completely intolerable. If it wasn't the cops doing the shooting, it would be someone else, and he'd be just as dead. \n\n>I did CPS in a very bad city.\n\nThen you know better than most what would have happened if he hadn't been shot: He would have been charged with some crime or another simply to ensure juvenile court intervention. A case would have been opened and his parents/guardians would have been investigated for their abject failures. You seem astonished that anyone could have the audacity to \"blame the victim\", yet you and I both know we'd certainly blame him for his own actions in any other circumstances. ",
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"content": "While this is true we're talking about a gun man that hasn't yet fired a shot and hasn't made any actual threat or demand towards anyone. That should say something to the approaching officer. Even if you assume this person is an adult he doesn't seem to actually be causing any harm and taking the Rambo approach probably wasn't necessary. \n\nI would agree if he was actually shooting people and threatening people then he should be brought down fast and hard. But we're not talking about a shooter. We're talking about a kid with a toy gun who hadn't hurt a single person yet.\n\nA whole lot more assessment of the situation could have been done. ",
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"content": "Is it acceptable for someone to walk onto a playground and point a gun at someone? Is it acceptable to cause someone to fear for their lives, and the lives of others in the area? \n\nThese sound like rhetorical questions, but I actually do want an answer. Your arguments are valid only if you actually believe it's OK to threaten lives, so long as you don't intend to pull the trigger. Society doesn't agree with you. The law doesn't agree with you. I don't agree with you. And a grand jury comprised of our peers doesn't agree with you. ",
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"content": ">Is it acceptable for someone to walk onto a playground and point a gun at someone? Is it acceptable to cause someone to fear for their lives, and the lives of others in the area? \n\nNo it's not. It's also not acceptable for a 12 year old to die because of this. This was a complete failure of the community and the cops to assess the situation. Someone should absolutely be charged for the negligence that led to this child's death.",
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"content": "The laws governing the use of lethal force in self defense and defense of others require four criteria. There must be a 1. credible, 2. criminal, 3. imminent, 4. threat of death or grievous bodily harm.\n\nIf you want to say that it was improper to shoot Tamir Rice, you have to show that his actions didn't meet at least one of those four requirements. Which requirement do you think wasn't met? \n\n",
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"content": "1. No credible threat:\nNo one was in the area when the cop arrived and no shots had been fired at all.\n\n2. Criminal\nNo one witnessed a crime being committed. The cop didn't even know at the time that the kid was pointing a gun at anyone since at the time the kid's hands were in his pocket. \n\n3. imminent\nNo one was in the area for him to attack.\n\n4. Threat of death.\nYou need people in the area to die for there to be a threat of death.",
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"content": "1. Who called 911?\n\n2. Who called 911?\n\n3. Who called 911?\n\n4. Who called 911?\n\nThe answers to those questions demonstrate that someone reasonably believed they - and others - were in mortal danger. Handgun bullets can kill people more than a mile away. Police had reason to believe numerous people were in danger, including themselves. \n\n",
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"content": "What does that have anything to do with it? The person who called 9-11 wasn't in the area. He wasn't under attack. He was relatively calm on the phone. It's an officer's job to assess the credibility of the 9-11 call when they arrive on the scene. It's acceptable for a citizen to be scared of a 12 year old with a toy gun. It's not acceptable for a professionally trained LEO. 2 seconds of staying in his car and saying \"PUT YOUR HANDS UP\" over the speaker would have fixed the situation and prevented a death. There was no one in the area for the person to shoot so there was no danger. ",
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"content": "Son, if you're close enough to observe a person wielding a handgun in a playground, you're close enough to get shot by said person. Handgun bullets can penetrate exterior walls and kill people on the other side. I'm sorry, but your claim that there was nobody around is demonstrably false. \n\n\n\nDoing as you suggest would have likely resulted in a person armed with a real gun either running away with the gun, to threaten anyone he might see, or shooting back at the cops. Either way, your response is far more dangerous for innocent people. Too many innocent people were killed doing exactly what you suggest, which is why active shooter doctrine changed in the post-Columbine era. \n\nYou keep pretending he had a toy. He did not. His weapon was an \"object indistinguishable from a firearm\", and must be treated as a firearm itself. ",
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"content": "If he runs you give chase. If he raises the gun and points it at someone you shoot. Lethal force is a last resort. In this case it was the first resort. And it wound up getting a 12 year old killed.",
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"content": "I've got a better idea: Teach your kids that pointing a gun at someone without a damn good reason is very likely to get them killed. Teach your kids that violent criminals can be shot on sight by anyone who wants to shoot them, and teach them that there are 1.5 million cops and 15 million concealed carriers ready willing and able to respond to violence with gunfire. \n\n",
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"content": "Because kids always do what you tell them to do. I hold higher standards for adults than I do kids. And I hold higher standards for trained law enforcement officers than I do civilians. ",
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"content": "If you're not willing to train your kids to realize they shouldn't threaten people with a gun, and you're not willing to supervise them with replica weapons, you should be jailed for neglect and endangerment, and your kids placed in state custody, to be raised by people who might actually care about them. I'm not exaggerating in the slightest.\n\nThis isn't a difficult concept. \"Kids will be kids\" is an unacceptable attitude when they are committing violent crimes like brandishing firearms. 12 years old is entirely too old for a kid to still not be aware that this sort of action has deadly consequences. ",
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"content": "Bullshit. I couldn't disagree with you more. They are Law Enforcement. If they were that \"scared for their lives\" why did they pull up directly next to the kid and execute him? It's now \"shoot first, ask questions later\"? Exactly who would the kid have shot if they took 2 seconds to say \"Stop, drop your gun\"... and then give him the opportunity to follow the commands? \n\nObviously, it was a toy gun, so the answer is, no one would have got shot if they hadn't executed him-- but even if it was a real gun and the Officers lives were in danger--- that is their F-ing job. To put their lives on the line in case of danger. To fully assess the situation, and to lose their lives if necessary.\n\nSo actually I want the police to take the time to assess if it is a toy or a real gun before they become judge, jury and executioner. I can't believe that people haven't compared it to the Walmart shooting a few years back. A BLACK guy picks up a BB gun aimlessly. He is walking around the store talking on the phone. Not paying attention to the \"distressed white people\" around him. Some dumb-ass calls the cops and they executed him. Again, did not even give him orders or the chance to respond to orders.\n\nTo me, every one of those Officers involved should spend at least a decade in prison to think about their actions as well as put a healthy dose of hesitation in Law Enforcement. \n\nI don't care if it leads to more cop deaths. Rather 10 cops die, than them kill an innocent person or worse a child. \n\nIf they don't like the risk they shouldn't do the job. Period. Though most love their job because where else could you control and assault people and not get in trouble for it? What other position is so \"above the law?\" ",
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"content": ">I want the police to take the time to assess if it is a toy or a real gun before they become judge, jury and executioner.\n\n[I'll forward you to this guy's comment which addresses and answers every single one of your concerns](https://www.reddit.com/r/democrats/comments/3ypzy3/how_a_prosecutor_managed_to_blame_a_12yearold_for/cyfuqc1), and explains how what you want will actually result in more civilian fatalities. ",
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"content": "I read that and I still don't care. It was NOT a \"Columbine\" situation It was a kid on a playground. That's the damned difference and there WAS an unnecessary civilian fatality.... that would be Tamar Rice. Cops can't go around killing innocents for no reason in the name of saving innocents just in case. It makes no sense. That is some warped thinking right there. \n\nThey should always give the \"potential assailant\" the opportunity to drop their f-ing weapon before opening fire. End of story. There is no other justification or excuses. Just like shooting to kill instead of shooting to disable and unloading a clip in to a person even after they are down. \n\nSUCH BULLSHIT. Like Tamar Rice..... were the cops f-ing retarded? Even after they must have realized with in SECONDS that it was a toy guy...I would hope for Christ Sake, they made no attempts to HELP THE CHILD THEY GUNNED DOWN LIKE A DOG IN THE PARK--- nor would they even let his sister console him in his last moments. \n\nThat's justice to you? Maybe you should switch sides. It seems awful Republican of you. \n\n",
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"content": ">It was NOT a \"Columbine\" situation It was a kid on a playground.\n\nYou know that now. How could they have known that when the decision had to be made?\n\n>Cops can't go around killing innocents for no reason\n\nThe simple fact is that Tamir Rice was **not** an innocent. Unlike Ronald Ritchie's false report to Beavercreek police that got John Crawford killed, the 911 report about Tamir Rice was reasonably accurate: Rice was brandishing (an object indistinguishable from) a lethal weapon. People believed someone was going to get killed. Tamir Rice's actions made people fear that lives were about to be lost. There is a reason why an \"object indistinguishable from a firearm\" is treated the same as \"a firearm\" under Ohio law. \n\nRice's death was surely a preventable tragedy. The trouble is that the person in the best position to prevent it was Rice himself, and he either didn't know or didn't care about the danger he created for himself. There are several people responsible for teaching him right from wrong. Those people failed to impress upon him the dangers of waving a replica firearm around in a public park. You don't have to blame Rice: he was a 12-year-old child, and our society largely hold children harmless for their own actios. But children are supposed to be supervised and taught proper behavior. Rice wasn't. You don't get to blame the cops for the failings of his parents and teachers. ",
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"content": ">You know that now. How could they have known that when the decision had to be made?\n\nBy spending 2 seconds assessing the situation. Literally that's all it would have taken. Police should be held to a higher standard than this. A 12 year old is dead because no one bothered to even figure out what the hell was happening. No one was shot. No one was hurt. Even if this were an adult man roaming around the park with a gun, if no shots had been fired yet there is no reason to charge in rambo-like and kill him before the situation has been assessed. There was no immediate danger. ",
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"content": "A 12 year old is dead because he pointed a gun at people. \n\nThe presence of a handgun in a person's hands constitutes immediate danger. ",
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"content": "No. It doesn't. Not when no one else was in the area at the time the cop arrived. Not when no one even bothered to check if the subject was even intentionally threatening people. He's not the first kid to play in the park with a toy gun and he won't be the last. This sort of situation assessment should be in their basic police training. \n\nAssessing the situation should be the very first thing a cop should do upon arriving on a scene. Even an ounce of observation would have prevented this death.",
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"content": "Wow, a meme. Well I'm convinced. Surely this is the exact same situation. Those kids were waving those guns around in a public park and someone called the cops on them, and they didn't do anything because they're white.",
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"content": "Bill Clinton is no longer President. Therefore, House and Senate Republicans have no legal standing to institute any kind of action against him.",
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"content": "Can they not just subpoena HRC to investigate her \"perjury\"? \"What did she know, and when did she know it? \n\nIt does not have to make sense, it just has to be legal. Look at Benghazi.",
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"content": "> It does not have to make sense, it just has to be legal. Look at Benghazi.\n\n\"Legal standing\" is a matter of law. Congress lacks standing with Bill Clinton because he's no longer President. So it isn't \"legal\" to use your term.\n\nBenghazi involved the current administration. Hillary Clinton was called as a witness; she was not facing Congressional prosecution, as Bill Clinton did when impeached. Yes, the GOP tried to use Benghazi as a stick to beat her with, but they had a legal framework to do so -- they claimed they were investigating the Benghazi *incident*, not Hillary Clinton per se.\n\nIf Hillary Clinton is sworn into President in January 2017 and if either/both the House and/or Senate is in GOP control, they will focus on issues involving her presidency. They'll try to gin anything and everything up to a controversy and then witch-hunt accordingly. They won't waste time with past issues from her husband's presidency.\n\nAs their handling of Benghazi proved, however, if you have to have an actual scandal and controversy before people get angry. Trying to create one wholecloth, as they attempted to do with Benghazi, badly burned them. Hillary Clinton's day-long testimony was a disaster for the GOP and a positive for her; if they have any sense, they'll realize that they may be their own worst enemy during a Hillary Clinton presidency.\n",
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"content": "What you say seems to make sense to me, but can you point me (admittedly ignorant) to evidence that the the Repubs, and especially the Cruz-level crazies, see Benghazi as a loss? They successfully burned up huge amounts of her energy and time, and as you can see from another dipshit comment here, some people still think there was something non-artificial there. \n[edit - typo]",
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"content": "> to evidence that the the Repubs, and especially the Cruz-level crazies, see Benghazi as a loss?\n\nThat's a subjective conclusion so there is no evidence per se. However, the GOP's reaction after the Benghazi hearing, with some members admitting it was a mistake to hold a public hearing, etc., plus Clinton's spike in the polls immediately after the hearing are good indicates they realized they had made a mistake.\n\n>some people still think there was some non-artificial there.\n\nThe only people who have ever really cared about Benghazi are people who would never vote for a Democrat no matter what. It's a dogwhistle issue. They think it's an issue, but the majority of the country, as evidenced by polls, think the whole Benghazi thing was politicization by the GOP.",
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"content": "Hillary has enough to worry about with her failures and malfeasance over the last 7 years from using a private server for public business to what happened in Benghazi. If Hillary were to win (doubtful) but she will have many more legal problems to worry about. ",
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"content": "Yeah, Donald Trump is squeaky clean. Riiiight.....",
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"content": "Donald Trump won't win the Republican nomination so is a moot point.",
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"content": "I don't see how you're response refutes what u/BitcoinPatriot is saying above.",
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"content": "I won't waste arguing facts with a true believer",
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"content": "I'm not a \"true believer\" and would like to know what your counterargument is.",
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"content": ">\"what happened in Benghazi\" \nI did not see an argument, so I am done with you both.",
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"content": "Regardless of your opinion or not, Benghazi has proven to be a strong point of contention for some. But that's really beside the point, because it's not really the meat of the conversation. With her tumultuous and scandal ridden history, it's would be easy for the political right to attack Hillary Clinton.\n\nThat's a very valid response to your original question.",
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"content": "Should Hillary be elected, it is likely she will face all kinds of opposition from congressional Republicans. They won't go that far back though, it's too easy to scandalize her in the present.",
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"content": "Yes",
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"content": "I'll vote for her but I won't support her and I'll talk bad about her at every turn. I also won't tell others to vote for her. ",
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"content": "That's cool. :D",
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"content": "Be grudgingly why I cry over our moral and honest bernie sanders because of her superior political skills... she also didn't support gay marriage at first. That's fucked. Still better than republican supreme justices though...",
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"content": "If you're going to hate everyone that didn't support gay marriage pre 1995, be prepared to hate a lot of your fellow Americans. ",
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"content": "Even if they support it now, apparently it doesn't matter because they didn't always support it, so it's a farce. \n\nThat's such a ridiculous assertion it doesn't even make sense. A minority supported gay marriage 10 years ago. Now a majority support it. Are they under the impression all those people are lying and no one has changed their opinion? They're just pretending to support it? ",
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"content": "I...think you're agreeing with me? Did you use the quote block thing right? ",
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"content": "Yes, I was agreeing with you.",
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"content": ">If you're going to hate everyone that didn't support gay marriage pre 1995, be prepared to hate a lot of your fellow Americans.\n\nI disliked people who were opposed to gay rights before 1995 *in* 1995. I was only 15, and even then it seemed like a non-issue to me and most of my friends/liberal family. \n\nI think that people who openly opposed it at any time in the not-too-distant past should be held accountable to answer for those opinions. If it's something you fought to prevent, you don't wake up one day and say \"Never mind, I love gay people now.\" Obama included. Playing politics with citizens rights is and always has been despicable. ",
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"content": "Well that's great for you, but most of us were raised in families that heavily looked down on that sort of thing. My parents have mostly come around but, c'mon, that shit wasn't easy to see in the early 90's. \n\nAnd frankly, yes, you do wake up one day and say \"damn, I was wrong\". I'm glad you've never had to do that, that your opinions have never needed to b updated. How's it feel to have been nothing but right for 30 years? ",
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"content": "I'm sorry, I wasn't referring to you personally or trying to attack your comment. Bad choice of phrasing on my part. \n\nI know that it was somewhat of a taboo subject in the early 90's and prior to that. I grew up in the suburbs of a major south eastern city, so I knew *a lot* of people who were opposed to it, and I still encounter people on a regular basis that don't accept it. \n\nMy family were (and still are) fairly progressive counter-culture hippies, so growing up it's safe to say that I had a completely different upbringing than those around me who attended church every Sunday & voted republican. In middle school & high school I found myself hanging out with the artists, weirdos and odd people, quite a few of whom ended up coming out once society became a little more accepting to it. \n\nSo, yes, I feel lucky that I was raised the way that I was, and it feels weird to think that it could have been the complete opposite had I been born to another family. But that's not to say I've always been right about everything or that my personal beliefs haven't evolved with the times. If I refused to evolve along with societal changes, I'd be no better off than many of my neighbors here in the south.\n\nBeing a progressive thinker here is like living on a tiny island.",
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"content": "Hello fellow blue dot. I'm in Mississippi with Hillary sticker and openly voted for Obama. I don't regret my upbringing, even if it was wrong on gay people. I think the new generation should be as patient with the old, as the old is as open to the new. ",
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"content": "I do... ",
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"content": "Well, sorry for not being a perfect moral creature at birth. ",
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"content": "Nobody supported gay marriage back then. About 10 percent maybe?\n\nAnd it is nice that Bernie did, but what has he achieved in the world of mainstream politics? It is easy to be small time nobody and have outlier opinions. \n\nBut when you are in top dc politics, you have to say a lot of things you don't necessarily agree with or care much about... if Bernie was running for president in 95' would he be able to support gay marriage and make it? No chance.",
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"content": "What if he tried to deny super pacs in 2016? ",
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"content": "No. She is part of the problem. Bernie on the other hand ",
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"content": "I believe you're part of the problem.",
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"content": "That is what my mother said when I was born.",
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"content": "Interesting I just came across this http://news.groopspeak.com/this-billionaires-comment-about-hillary-shows-why-bernie-deserves-your-vote/ This is why I say she is part of the problem",
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"content": "Once the candidate pool is culled down to two options between \"bad\" and \"worse\", I will be compelled by rational self interest to choose \"bad\".\n\nSo, yes.",
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"content": "Pretty much sums it up. Hillary has a lot of baggage but every one of the repubtards is bat-shit crazy. Hillary is at least unlikely to start a nuclear war.",
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"content": "Im rallying all my posting power behind ditto-ing this",
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"content": "Of course. Anyone who doesn't is a fool and is just helping the republicans elect Trump or Cruz. It boils down to that…and ignorant pride of the Bernie supporters kicking, screaming and crying because \"their\" candidate didn't get the nod.\n\nAnd yes, I would prefer Bernie to get the nomination but for fuck's sake…I have an education and a brain. And I'm old enough to remember when very similar situations (a splitting of the party vote) helped get the other party elected. \n\nAnd FYI, this is exactly why Bernie is running on the democratic ticket instead of an independent and why he will not continue to run if he doesn't get the nomination. \n\nAs I said, anyone who plans on writing him in during the general election if he doesn't get the nomination is an absolute fool. \n\n\"BUT LOOK! I SHOWED EVERYONE HOW I AM FOR DEMOCRACY! MY VOTE COUNTS TOO!\"\n\nYes, your vote counts for Trump if you write in Sanders. I hope his supporters aren't that stupid. I really do. That could be way more a determining factor in which party wins than anything else in this election (other than the fact that many of the rabid Bernie fans won't even bother to get up and go vote at all and likely 60% of young Americans (18-40) cannot be bothered to vote…which is a HUGE boon for the GOP.\n\nIf young voters were smart enough to vote, would sit their phones down for 10 minutes and get off of their oft-overweight asses to go down to the polls, Bernie WOULD get the nomination. \n\nThey won't, however, and *he* won't get the nomination as a result. \n\nSo take what you can get. Vote for Sanders after he doesn't get the nomination and you're basically allowing the GOP to install up to 3 supreme court judges. You think Citizens United was bad?\n\nJust you wait. Just you wait.",
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"content": "I was with you till you talked about the young's \"oft overweight asses\". \n\nI'm overweight, have a solid voting record, and will vote for Clinton in the primary and probably general election as well. ",
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"content": "You are honestly the first person I've seen so has said they want to vote for hillary, can I ask why? I'm genuinely curious. \n\nI know she is ahead in polls, but I don't see it. Maybe it's my area, but I have seen 0 people vocalize support for her. ",
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"content": "I'm a moderate liberal. I think she's tough, and I think she knows how to play the game of politics very well. Example: Republicans have a popular stand with \"keep Muslim refugees out\". Obviously, this is fucked up bigotry. The alternative message is simply \"NO! that's wrong\" except that message is losing. Clinton says:\"Ok the men we will screen more and be more slow to process. Women and children and old people can go in fine.\" Is that perfect? No, but it's damn smooth. \n\nI want someone who can negotiate and out-maneuver Republicans. I like pragmatism over ideology. I like her liberal track record and her prominence over the past 25 years. She has been a Democratic stalwart for all that time. \n\nBasically, I want my politicians to be good at being politicians. I'm not looking for some idealistic \"aw shucks\" hero to bring purity and simplicity to the white house: They will get eaten alive. Politics is chess, not checkers. ",
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"content": "Ah, looking for permission to lie, cheat, and use every back handed trick in the book.\n\nFuck off. Not going to happen now.\n\nNot after the DNC went \"Oh, we've had a security breach -- better send all the logs to Hillary!\"",
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"content": "Lesser of two evils.",
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"content": "As a Bernie supporter for a number of years now, I say yes, and here's why...\n\nYou can say all you want how \"Hillary is part of the problem\" and as much as that may be true, the one lasting thing a president can do is nominate Supreme Court justices. Pretty much every other decision can be undone by a president's successor. It's extremely important to keep Democrats in the presidency to make sure that the Supreme Court doesn't become even more conservative and roll back what progress has been made and to slow down/reverse what regressions have already begun (for example, citizens united). Now is not the time for metaphorical chest thumping by voting for someone who isn't running; instead, we coalesce behind the nominee and get out the vote. That's how we ensure a victory, that's how we ensure a future worth having for our children, and that's how we ensure an America worthy of the name.",
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"content": "> That's how we ensure a victory, that's how we ensure a future worth having for our children, and that's how we ensure an America worthy of the name.\n\nI think that this is how we ensure a surveillance state that is utterly controlled by the banks for our children. Hillary's track record and methods of operating are clear. Considering the way the DNC has handled this primary, Hillary's nomination will stink of illegitimacy on top of it all. I think that we need to pay the price now to destroy the DNC and work towards giving a respectable party to our children. Sometimes things have got to get worse to get better.",
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"content": "\"Sometimes things have got to get worse to get better\"\n\nTell that to the 1,20,000+ civilians killed in the Iraq war.",
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"content": "You are making my point for me. Hillary was a huge proponent of the Iraq war. It is one of the many reasons I would never vote for her.",
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"content": "No, my point is, in our system of democracy, most of the times you have to vote against a candidate, and not for one.\n\nYou are not voting Hillary, you are voting against Trump/Rubio/Cruz...",
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"content": "I am just not voting Hillary at all. From my perspective, 4 years of Hillary, then no DNC primary in 2020 is worse than 4 years of Trump. The worst thing that could happen would be 8 years of Hillary and then a future DNC that acts like it does now. Hillary is as bad as any NeoCon when it comes to endless wars, a government that serves banks at the expense of the middle class and the loss of privacy for everyone. The next 4 years of Trump will be awful, but not as awful as 12-16 years of a Clinton controlled DNC.",
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"content": "That's also how we get money out of politics and end laws designed to lower voter turnout. Politics isn't a game where you win and call it a day. It's an ongoing fight, and the best you can do is turn the ratchet towards progress.\n\nGetting someone whose legacy relies on implementing progressive friendly policies in to office, even if they aren't willing to go as far as we may like, is the best way to make it easier to get the more progressive candidates elected in the future.\n\nPlus, I honestly don't know if the Republican party can handle another loss. It seems likely to me that it will result in a civil war between the establishment and the far-right social conservatives. That could result in a huge lurch forward for progressive causes.",
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"content": "Depends on the republican counterpart; if it's Rubio, Bush or Trump, no, if it's Cruz, Carson, or Christie, yes. If Clinton does win the primary I'll probably give up on the party as a whole as its just too far right for me.\n\nBackground, I voted party line democrat in three of the last four presidential elections. Was too young to vote before '00.",
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"content": "Party is too right, therefore I will passively or actively support the party even further to the right. Makes sense. ",
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"content": "How far does the party need to go before you stop supporting them? If people continue to vote for them no matter how far right they move, they have no reason to move to where the population is. If enough people vote green party a change in the democratic party might just happen so I can justify supporting them.",
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"content": "If they lose to a candidate that is very conservative, they could take that as a sign that they need to move farther right. ",
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"content": "Did you and everyone upvoting you not read my comment?\n\n>If enough people vote green party...\n\nIf you guys believe losing votes to a leftist party would cause them to go further right without collapsing the party as a whole, which it is dangerously close to already with the third way democrats being in power I just don't know what to say.",
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"content": "I agree with you so much about the party moving too far right and up until recently, I thought there was nothing we could do about it.\n\nBut the Tea Part exists because a bunch of right wing nut-jobs thought the GOP wasn't conservative enough and now they have become huge spoilers if not actual contenders. We need a left-wing uprising in the same manner, though hopefully without looking like complete idiots to some of the left-leaning moderates.\n\nThe pain, though, comes in the interim while we build that up. We have to either talk out if both sides of our mouth by supporting the DNC candidate while working behind the scenes to take them down, or stuck to our guns, support our candidates all the while knowing it's like handing the election to something much, much worse.",
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"content": "Considering I support her now, gonna go with yes.",
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"content": "Absolutely.",
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"content": "NO\n",
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"content": "Voting for Bernie (assuming he's not the nominee) in the general is the same as voting for the Republican. Grit your teeth and protest all you want but turn up and pull the lever for Hillary in November.",
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"content": "Of course, while I believe in some of what Bernie is saying, the fact is he won't be able to do literally any of it with this congress. Hillary could be better but at this point I'd take Hillary even if she was another George W Bush when I think about how horrible the current Republican field is.",
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"content": "Absolutely, I'm already supporting her in the Primary. That being said, I will support whomever become the democratic nominee, and I'll do it with energy and enthusiasm. ",
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"content": "Yes. Even though I don't think she's great, she's still far superior to anyone in the republican field.",
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"content": "I have been waiting for a very long time to see Clinton win the White House. I can't wait to vote for her again.",
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"content": "Nope. Jill Stein.",
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"content": "You may as well write in Deez Nuts. I take that back. Deez Nuts has a better chance of winning.",
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"content": "Who said she had a chance of winning?",
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"content": "If Sanders is the nominee, I'm voting for Sanders. If Clinton is the nominee, I'm voting for Not Trump.",
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"content": "THANK YOU!",
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"content": "I'm well informed, presumably free of misinformation, and am voting for Hillary Clinton. The Clintons do what I want Democrats to do: win. Democrats love to be martyrs, fighting heroically and losing heroically. Then republicans run everything while we comfort ourselves with \"if only more people voted\" and \"if the youth vote comes out....\" \n\n",
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"content": "I will vote against the Republicans without fail.",
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"content": "Absolutely.",
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"content": "No. sorry. \nShe doesn't represent me at all. She's to hawkish on war. She changes stances all the time. She has huge amounts of corporate sponsors and old friends on Wall Street.",
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"content": "Yes, and I will be voting for her in the Primary election. Conversely, in the event Bernie is the candidate I will be voting for him in November.",
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"content": "No matter who, vote blue\n\nStill prefer Bernie and wish he would get publicity",
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"content": "Why isn't there a choice for, \"Yes, I'm a Clinton supporter\"?",
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"content": "It's a flawed survey.",
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"content": "This survey was in all likelihood directed at the Bernie supporters, but it never specifically called that out. I suppose it could be directed at Martin O'Malley's family as well; does anyone know if he has any supporters outside of his social circle?",
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"content": ">I suppose it could be directed at Martin O'Malley's family as well; does anyone know if he has any supporters outside of his social circle?\n\nThere's a few of us. We're a rare breed that's only going to get rarer as the O'Malley campaign does things like not even get on the ballot in Ohio.",
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"content": "begrudgingly I will. She's a corporate approved candidate, but you know what shes a much better option than any of the Republicans running",
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"content": "Since I'm voting for her in the primary, yasss.",
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"content": "Holy shit. People actually support Clinton in a manner other than, \"I'll vote for her over the R?\"\n\nYou must've thought iraq was a great idea, a no fly zone in Syria would be tits, domestic spying isn't big enough, homosexuals don't deserve marriage rights, the drug war is winnable and big banks will regulate themselves huh? \n\nI always find it weird that people will support a known shill for the oligarchy being as poor as they are. \n\nMaybe you're rich as fuck though, which would explain it. ",
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"content": "You forgot to add [\"wake up, sheeple!\"](http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/wake_up_sheeple.png)",
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"content": "[Original Source](http://xkcd.com/1013/)\n\n**Title:** Wake Up Sheeple\n\n**Title-text:** You will be led to judgement like lambs to the slaughter--a simile whose existence, I might add, will not do your species any favors.\n\n[Comic Explanation](http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1013#Explanation)\n\n**Stats:** This comic has been referenced 1724 times, representing 1.8275% of referenced xkcds.\n\n---\n^[xkcd.com](http://www.xkcd.com) ^| ^[xkcd sub](http://www.reddit.com/r/xkcd/) ^| ^[Problems/Bugs?](http://www.reddit.com/r/xkcd_transcriber/) ^| ^[Statistics](http://xkcdref.info/statistics/) ^| ^[Stop Replying](http://reddit.com/message/compose/?to=xkcd_transcriber&subject=ignore%20me&message=ignore%20me) ^| ^[Delete](http://reddit.com/message/compose/?to=xkcd_transcriber&subject=delete&message=delete%20t1_cykvpi8)",
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"content": "How lonely life must be out on that grassy knoll. You know what moment I'll enjoy most? It's not Bernie's concession speech, or even Hillary's inauguration. It'll be when he endorses her and snuffs out whatever tiny bit of bitter hope remains in the bern or buster's shriveled hearts as they sink back into an irrelevancy they never really left.",
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"content": "> reddiquette\n\n",
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"content": "Yes, unless her corruption and the DNC piss me off enough. I'm already pretty pissed.",
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"content": "I'll only vote for her to prevent the rest of the US from going down the same road as Kansas. ",
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"content": "Yes. Why yes, I will.",
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"content": "I think she's a better candidate than literally anyone on the Republican side. I'd rather have another Clinton in the White House than another Bush (or god forbid, Trump).",
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"content": "Begrudgingly. The dnc lays me to support who ever is the nominee. \n\nHeres my issue. She isnt going to overturn citizens united. Chances are she doesnt care about protecting gay marriage until it helps her in the polls. I just dont see what shes going to protect in the supreme court. Her first job was for a republican senator that OPPOSED the civil rights act of 1965.\n\nWhat is she going to protect that I support? ",
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"content": "I will vote for her only if she is the Dem nominee. Bernie Sanders is my first choice.",
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"content": "I will campaign for Sanders and believe he will win but if that doesn't happen I will support Hillary.",
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"content": "Yes. You are not voting just for the candidate, you are voting for the party to control a branch of government. I would vote for a monkey if he were the democratic nominee.",
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"content": "Only if the monkey selects another monkey for VP. Republicans thought they were doing that with Bush and realized too late that the chimp was subterfuge for Cheney.",
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"content": "This comment coupled with your username is gold. Thanks for giving me a laugh! ",
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"content": "Of course and I'd also vote for Sanders. ",
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"content": "Nope. 30 years of Bush/Clinton is quite enough, thank you. ",
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"content": "I'm liking Bernie more but I would have to support Hillary just because of the non-sense coming out of the right wing establishment and ALL of their candidates.",
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"content": " #FollowTheBern I'll follow the lead of Bernie Sanders and do what he does.",
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"content": "No. If it's a choice between Republican and Republican-lite, I'll take a pass.",
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"content": "I have zero sympathy for the Rust Belt right now. The Rust Belt's problems are 100% of the Rust Belts fault. You made your bed Michigan now sleep in it. They screwed up because they. \n\nRoad high off the hog of the auto industry. They thought that the good times would never end. They never bothered to invest in diversifying their economy when the times were good. The area should have had a plan so that they weren't just dependent on the auto industry. \n\nThey wanted low taxes and bootstraps when they had the high paying factory job. When other people fell on misfortune they told them bootstraps and praying. Now that the shoes on the other foot, there surprised that there isn't a robust social safety net. Bob from Michigan voted down every economic progressive reform because that meant he would have to pay $100 more a year in taxes. He called the group a bunch of socialists when he had money. Bob constantly complained about any progressive programs at city council meetings because he didn't want to pay a few dollars more in taxes. \n\nThey wanted to live in a screw you I have mine world. When they were a have they championed this view. They didn't want to help the less fortunate when they had there's. They decried those people as lazy moochers. Now that things have changed they expect a handout from the government in the form of a manufacturing job. These people will call students wanting tuition free college moochers. Newsflash if you expect the government to save your manufacturing job you want a handout as well. If they keep your job you just received welfare. \n\n I m going to tell all these people what they told me. You should have made better choices in the 1960-1970's. You should have diversified your economy when times were still good. You can't have your cake and eat it too. You can't live in a world where the Government only cares about people like you and no one else. You didn't vote for Trump because you had \"economic anxiety.\" You voted for Trump because you were afraid of people different from you moving into your Neighborhood. You get nervous when you see someone of a different skin color than you. It had nothing to do with economics. ",
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"content": "It did have to do with economics in the Midwest, because they voted for Obama. You underestimate how stupid these individuals are. We have to appeal to them with strong, progressive economic messages.",
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"content": "Liberal stalwarts Ted Strickland and Russ Feingold lost by bigger margins than Hillary Clinton. Wisconsin decided the rich plastics manufacturer was more likely to look out for the little guy than Feingold. The Midwest needs to come to grips that they can't have their cake and eat it too. You can't have an economy where the government only helps you and no one else. Demanding an auto bailout while complaining about tuition free college. They don't want to pay for anyone else but have no problem taking bailout money when they need it.",
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"content": "They will be forced to learn as the GOP eviscerates everything they care about.",
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"content": "They wont though. These people will keep voting these clowns in as long as they screw over other people that aren't them. ",
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"content": "No the rust belt voters were not racist, they were just on the crap end of the capitalist system. Plus, these people in Michigan don't hate higher taxes and progressive reform; Bernie Sanders won that state.",
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"content": "Voters preferred Hillary Clinton on the economy \n\nhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/12/02/in-nearly-every-swing-state-voters-preferred-hillary-clinton-on-the-economy/?utm_term=.a8f51e69144d\n\nthey were just on the crap end of the capitalist system.\n\nThese people voted for Rick Snyder and Scott Walker multiple times. They voted for Ron Johnson and Ron Portman over Russ Feingold and Ted Strickland. Scott Walker decimated workers rights in his state and they still voted for him for a second term. If the economy was such a motivating factor, they've a shitty job of showing it. I m sure the multimillionaire plastics manufacturer is going to care about the little guy more than progressive stalwart Russ Feingold. How does that work exactly? I m sure Snyder and Walker will raise the minimum wage despite performing actions that promote the exact opposite. Clinton won those states by larger margins than Feingold and Strickland. If it was about the economy, Strickland and Feingold should have won. \n\nThese people voted down every progressive reform that was proposed over the last few decades. We can't tuition free college because Bob from Ohio would have to pay a few more dollars in taxes. There was a town hall in the rust belt where someone gave Sanders shit for wanting tuition free college. The odd thing being that she failed to mention anything about the auto bailout. These people love economic progressive reforms as long as people like them are the main beneficiaries. They want the government to help them but no one else. They want people to care about their livelihood while not caring about other peoples. \n\nI m sure the multimillionaire businessman from New York will care about the little guy. Its why he pays all his workers a living wage right? Oh wait he doesn't pay them a living wage. ",
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"content": "People like you are literally the liberal elite that people in the rust belt hate. Voters tend to elect people who at least mention that they care about their citizens. Bernie definitely did that, and won Michigan. Trump said how much he cared about bringing jobs back ( this may be untrue in practice.). Hillary talked about how much she cared about the LGBT community and minorities, but hardly mentioned anything about helping out those in bad situations.",
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"content": "Hillary talked about how much she cared about the LGBT community and minorities, but hardly mentioned anything about helping out those in bad situations.\n\nA part of fighting for the average person is fighting for everyone. We fight for LGBT and minorities rights as much as we fight for workers rights. We don't just fight for the white working class alone. Also if Democrats want to win they must drive up minority turnout. Clinton actually did mention jobs many times during her campaign. \n\nI sympathize with the rust belt workers that remained loyal Democrats and wanted a strong social safety net. These workers wanted to live in a society that looked after everyone. These workers didn't mind paying more taxes to help people in need. They are currently struggling as well. These people have my sympathy and empathy. They fought for other groups besides themselves. \n\nHowever, there's a certain segment of the rust belt that I have no sympathy for. I don't feel sorry for the ones that wanted to live a screw you I have mine world. Now that things have changed they want everyone to help them. The ones that wanted low taxes and bootstraps when they had a good paying job. These same workers told the less fortunate that it was their own fault that they were poor. They complained at every town hall that they didn't want their tax dollars going for tuition free college and other programs that would help people. They voted down every progressive reform that was on the ballot because bootstraps. These people were apathetic towards other peoples problems. Now that things have changed these workers suddenly \"feel forgotten.\" If you don't care about others you can't expect them to care about you. You can't be apathetic towards college students and then turn around and expect them to care about you. This group of workers told college students to deal with it themselves. Now they expect this same group to care about them. That's not how it works in the world. This same group didn't want to deal with the consequences of everyone out for themselves. As the old saying goes. \n\nFirst they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—\nBecause I was not a Socialist.\n\nThen they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—\nBecause I was not a Trade Unionist.\n\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\nBecause I was not a Jew.\n\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me. ",
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"content": "Right now, workers only see a party with a neoliberal foreign policy, welfare state positions, and no real permanent solutions. Y'all need to stop grouping all trump supporters into one group.",
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"content": "Like it or not manufacturing jobs aren't coming back in large numbers. In its heyday the GM plant in Flint Michigan employed about 80,000 people. Today that number is down to about 7500. The days of a high school kid walking down to the Ford Plant and getting a job the same day are long gone. The rust belt needs to come to terms with this. \n\nwelfare state positions,\n\nIf you expect the government to give you a manufacturing job, you expect a handout. If the government saves your manufacturing job, you just received a handout. I have no problem with saving these jobs but lets call a spade a spade. \n\n Y'all need to stop grouping all trump supporters into one group.\n\nTrump supporters voted a candidate that was endorsed by the KKK. Yes I can lump them into one group. \n\nWe aren't going to start burning coal in large amounts because Earl Ray doesn't want to learn a new skill. Coal is on its way out and isn't coming back. We shouldn't try to save coal because those people don't want to learn new skills. The environment is much more important than Earl Rays measly coal job. ",
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"content": "If we cannot help these people find a job, we should just let them starve? Good thinking.\n\nThere are plenty of jobs that need to be done in the US. I think we should definitely invest more in public energy options.\n\nYou really think half the country is racist? Trump provided false hope, but at least that was better than no hope for some people.",
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"content": "No we should definitely help them find a job. However, they need to drop the paradigm that coal can come back. We aren't keeping coal around because they refuse to learn a new skill. Also the days of one Ford plant employing 80,000 people are long gone.\n\nIf you voted for a man that called Mexicans rapists you might have racist tendencies. These people had the resources to fact check Trumps claims.",
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"content": "Jesus Christ not everyone who voted for Trump is a racist! If the democrat party keeps saying that, you're never going to win back their votes",
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"content": "Sure. But it's not true about all of them being racist...",
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"content": "Honestly I have the most contempt for the BernieBros who didn't vote for Hillary. They are the utter scum of the earth. I have a BernieBro cousin who voted for Trump out of spite. I have totally disowned him, and I wouldn't shed a tear if he is killed by a cop in a protest. \n Next are the 30ish% of Trump voters who thought he was unqualified to be President, but voted for him anyway. ",
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"content": "I enjoyed Steve's speech. But I'm a Kentuckian and I like when we're represented. I agree it wasn't as \"savage\" as Bernie's response, but it was nice. It was a good way of showing the other side that Democrats aren't some kind of three headed monster who want to ruin America. I give it a 4.5/5. \n\nNote: \nJust to be clear, I'm using savage in the teenage slang connotation and not in any other way. ",
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"content": "> It was a good way of showing the other side that Democrats aren't some kind of three headed monster who want to ruin America.\n\nExactly. But if you make this argument with the assumption that the best person to deliver it is an old white man from a non-threatening Southern state, you concede that all those scary young people/blacks/Muslims/gays/whatever are the three-headed monsters trying to ruin America.",
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"content": "I didn't mean to insinuate that at all. I have friends from all of the groups you mentioned and I love them very much. But you're right, I guess I did make it seem like I'm a bigot. I'm not, but I should have made myself more clear. I'm sorry. ",
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"content": "Never thought you were. Either way, you're not the one who made the call for the party. ",
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"content": "It was absolutely terrible. I was embarrassed to watch it. They had a golden opportunity to strike back and they blew it. They could have put Kirsten Gillibrand up there, or Elizabeth Warren, or Bernie Sanders, or Gavin Newsom, or even Cory Booker. It was fucking cowardly, you're right. Absolutely spineless, and then they worry about why they routinely get their asses kicked. If that's the best they can do, they are not going to take back the Congress in 2018 and we are truly fucked beyond all hope.",
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"content": "Bernie gave a pretty good speech on Facebook, but the party's commitment to disappearing him and his wing of the party remains ironclad. \n\nIf they wanted to play it safe by having a white guy from a Trump state give the rebuttal, why not get that Buttegig guy that ran for chair?",
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"content": "I saw Bernie's response on Facebook and I agree, I thought it was excellent and hit on all the right points.",
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"content": "Bernie gave a response that approx. 73k saw. This is why post-SOTU or Joint Session Speech responses don't matter. No one watches them.",
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"content": "why did Schumer give Bernie a leadership role, endorsed Ellison for Chairman if the party is committed to disappearing progressives? ",
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"content": "That Schumer is even still in a leadership position is part of the problem. He entered Congress when Nixon was in office, and is one of Wall Street's pet senators. He and Pelosi should get out of the way, as they haven't done any good for the party in a long, long time.\n\nDespite Sanders, Warren, and Ellison being named to support positions, I didn't hear their voice in the official response, or in much of the party's messaging since the election. As such, I am forced to doubt the party's sincerity when it says these people will be major players.",
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"content": "It's a speech that no one by diehards watched and the person giving it gets savaged. Rarely does the opposition response to the POTUS go well. Ask Bobby Jindal and Marco Rubio how their responses went. So it makes sense the Dems utilized a boring red-state Democratic governor since it's an easy bone to throw and it keeps rising stars away from hurting their rise.\n\nAnyone who is serious about leading this party or running in 2020 should stay far away from the response",
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"content": "And yet they still vote to hide Trump's tax returns - the most basic thing they could do to demonstrate even the slightest loyalty to country and law.\n\nRepublicans are evil garbage.",
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"content": "Well, Scarborough isn't in Congress anymore...",
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"content": "Hey, the autopsy said she wasn't murdered. It didn't say what happened.",
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"content": "Great. Thanks Joe. To bad your show gave him a recurring platform to get his message out, and you tried to briefly make nice before the election with Trump.",
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"content": "Can we not rag on Joe for trying to be impartial, he gave the benefit of the doubt more than he should have but it gave him bipartisan credibility and he isn't someone that can be easily dismissed as biased by reasonable conservatives",
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"content": "1) Quoting a gawker article? cmon.\n\n2) From the article:\n\n>Let’s get one thing clear: There is zero evidence to suggest that Joe Scarborough had anything to do with the death of Lori Klausutis.\n",
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"content": "No they didn't. Stop listening to dumb right wing scandal rags and grow up.",
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"content": "They did though, he made a whole explanation/apology. Whether you believe his apology or not, the fact is the WSJ took parts of videos that were unrelated to make him look like anti-Semitic. ",
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"content": "At the absolute least, they sensationalized the article and didn't give proper context. ",
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"content": "And got Pewdiepie fired from Disney and his youtube red show shut down(which a hundred people were working on, all now fired), as well as attempted to un-monetize his youtube channel. More like a personal attack than an article really. ",
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"content": "You don't think many democrats know who Steve Bannon is??",
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"content": ">Where do I use the word \"Democrats\" I said people.\n\nYou are in /r/democrats...",
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"content": "I think this guy is mostly talking about western history, and specifically people in control of global superpowers, so not like North Korea or iran ",
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"content": "\"This guy is the most villainous person this side of Hilter or Stalin! Worse than Mussolini! Worse than Anders Brevik! Worse than the head of the WBC! Worse than David Duke! So so bad! Just the worst, for really reals!\"",
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"content": "He just said \"villainious\". Doesnt say he has done more evil things than anyone else. I would say Bannon has created a dark cloud around him through the tone of his propaganda and his influence over the policies of the white house. Anders Brevik was just some psycho and David Duke--the leader of the mostly flaccid KKK organization--is no big villain. Bannon talks about an inevitable war with china, his worldview is frighteningly bleak.",
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"content": "I don't think the issue he's trying to illustrate has anything to do with culture or geography, but severity. Basically he's pointing out that while bannon has odious political views, it's a stretch to compare him to people who have carried out some of the worst atrocities in modern history.",
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"content": "“I’m a Leninist,” Bannon proudly proclaimed.\nShocked, I asked him what he meant.\n“Lenin,” he answered, “wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment.” Bannon was employing Lenin’s strategy for Tea Party populist goals. He included in that group the Republican and Democratic Parties, as well as the traditional conservative press.\n\nhttp://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/22/steve-bannon-trump-s-top-guy-told-me-he-was-a-leninist.html\n",
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"content": "Not even remotely. \n\nLeninisim:\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leninism\n\nBernie on democratic socialisim: http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/presidential-campaign/271652-what-does-sanders-mean-by-democratic-socialism\n\nI hope that helps clear things up for you.",
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"content": "Also different forms of Leninism are pretty Democratic Socialism. Most people think Leninism = Stalinism, but it's not true. ",
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"content": "Indeed, there are MANY variations on both Leninism and on the other end, democratic socialism, that's why I tried to refer as directly as I could to the most correct definitions I could find. This is also why I did not link directly to Bernie's explanations of democratic socialism, but rather to a reporter's discussion on what Bernie appears to really support.",
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"content": "Do you ever think before you type? In what timeline is Bernie Sanders an ancap?",
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"content": "Bannon is also an alt- Right god. He is, by definition, a violent anti-Semite. He owns Breitbart. All that vile hate-mongering? Milo Yiannopoulous, nee Hanrahan; all of that is Bannon. He's a Tea Party propagandist of the strangest kind. He's like some kind of codger Edgelord. He also seems to hate Muslims. Bannon is blamed for the botched Muslim ban, a lot of the rise in hate crimes, and the weird \"Nationalist\" streak. Bannon also seems to think that only white men have rights. Even the good things Trump has done--signing legislation to promote women in business and in STEM careers, is kind of 1950's. ",
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"content": ">\"the most villainous historical figure this side of Stalin or Hitler.\" \n \nOr Dick Cheney, but without the years of experience.",
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"content": "Oh come on, you think running Breitbart wasn't years of experience? Some of the most vile shit on the planet came out of that outlet.",
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"content": "We are working now. Every senate seat will be a slog for the Republicans. Every state, county, city and township will have challengers. \n\nWe are using the TEA party's own playbook against them. And there are a **lot** more of us than the TEA party. We are organizing. We are fundraising. We are protesting. We will persist. We will resist. And we will win. \n\nAnd you Republican hypocrites are going to be harshly punished for aligning yourselves with Russia. And if you aren't american, well I hope we retaliate. Strikes against information a psychological warfare centers. \n\nDon't worry. Yoy won't feel a thing.",
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"content": "He's right. There are more of us. And we're smarter than you. And we're really pissed. ",
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"content": "You couldn't even win the pop vote, son. ",
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"content": "I thought you were organizing, fundraising, etc before the election too? Why didn't you win then?",
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"content": "Good. He is truly Trump's brain. Get rid of him and things would get a lot less crazy. ",
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"content": "Awww. Come on. We like kicking Bannon. Then we can have the coolest historical discussions, including the ones about how various Nazi leaders met their ends. ",
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"content": "This is what happens when you put carnival barkers on the board of directors.",
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"content": "An editorial...seriously? Can we step out of this echo chamber for 5 minutes?\n\nMedia: want to prove to the people that Trump's claims of FAKE NEWS! are wrong? Then dig deep and find the dirt on these people. Find the shit that sticks. No one's getting crucified over editorials about shit we already think about these people.\n\nIn short: Do some old-school investigative journalism instead of the soundbite journalism modern media's become.",
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"content": "That doesn't really apply when you're talking about legitimate neo-nazis",
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"content": "But remember: liberals are just screeching autists... ",
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"content": "Anyone willing to bet Trump will be impeached within the year?",
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"content": "I used to think Pence would be worse but now, no way pence can be worse then trump.",
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"content": "Pence is a right-wing ideologue with terrible ideas, but I'm reasonably certain that there at least would be a country left after his term. ",
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"content": "that's basically my opinion. the GOP agenda does actually involve loyalty to Americans and America. I disagree with most of it. ",
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"content": "I agree with this. Trump is so uniquely bad that he poses an existential threat to the country. Pence's bad legislation can be changed. Trump insulting our allies, pullingus out of NATO, etc. is a lot harder to remedy.",
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"content": "Pence would actually be able to work with Congressional Gopers to pass his platforms and make Dems look bad for standing in the way.",
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"content": "Pence would be harder to reverse when he was removed from office. Trump's path is kind of advancing to the point we might be able to have a denazification period when we get rid of him. ",
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"content": "I hope not. I don't want Mike Pence to be President.",
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"content": "That's silly. Trump is a huge ball of chaos and instability putting us at huge risk. \n\nIt's not like Trump is protecting LGBT+ people from Pence or something; he's already thrown them under the bus and will offer them no protections. \n\nPence and Trump are both horrible in terms of conservative policies, but at least Pence won't feel insulted by a tweet and start a random war or something. ",
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"content": "We need Trump to be President in order to energize the Democratic base for sufficient turnout in the 2017 and 2018 elections.",
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"content": "I think the embarrassing impeachment of a Republican president would help with that too. ",
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"content": "Who would impeach Donald Trump, the Republicans? Impossible.",
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"content": "They quite likely could. They want Pence over Trump. They are concerned about losing their jobs and they see his poll numbers dropping, that were already low. They would do it in a heartbeat to try to save themselves and their party. ",
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"content": "You'll be wanting Pence over Trump when the next natural disaster happens.",
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"content": "Why? Both of them don't believe in climate change.",
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"content": "Because you want the competent guy in charge of emergency management. It isn't rocket science.",
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"content": "No, I would rather capitalize on Donald Trump's unpopularity in the 2017, 2018, and 2019 elections.",
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"content": "I would rather people not die in a hurricane, but I guess we all have our priorities.",
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"content": "We need to ungerrymander the map. That is our #2 priority, besides preventing a Republican supermajority.",
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"content": "On what grounds would Trump be impeached?",
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"content": "I mean since firing Yates we've kind of been in Watergate mode. \n\nSo, \n\n* Obstruction of justice for trying to interfere with FBI investigations isn't unlikely. \n\n* There's even possible obstruction grounds already happened with Yates given that he ignored her advice about Flynn nearly 3 weeks before he resigned. \n\n* It wouldn't be surprising if one of Trump's cronies who already have or are shortly likely to be caught up in a Russia scandal wind up facing criminal charges and flipping to save their own asses, giving up names that lead to him. That could be Flynn, Page, Manafort, Sessions now. It's not like we're talking a few \n\n* And maybe Congress won't investigate. They obviously should, but there is a Writ of Mandamus docketed at SCOTUS to compel an investigation. \n\nLet's not forget Bill Clinton was impeached (though not removed from office) for lying one time about having an affair. Even with a favorable House and Senate, Trump's criminality is a lot more pervasive and overt. Really the only thing we're waiting for is something so grotesque and public it can't be ignored, or for Trump to alienate enough republicans that they flip. ",
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"content": "I agree with you. \n\nEdit: I think many people resonated with him because he came across as \"not a politician\" and \"real\". Interestingly, Bernie often had that too...\n\nTalking points that resonated were that he would drain the swamp and end incompetence and corruption, and \"being a successful businessman\" he could cut through dysfunction in DC. At least that's what I recall hearing in various places during and after...but interestingly, what polling and evidence is there to back up all of what any of us are saying? I'll have to have a fish around in my spare time...\n\nI'm nearly certain that Hillary's untrustworthy numbers were not because she was under sexist attack - they were because she had years of DC political experience of saying one thing and doing another, and scandals such as email server. ",
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"content": "I think sexism played a part. People HATE her and their reasons are ridiculous.",
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"content": "I'm sure it played some part, but I don't like how it's being framed by some to be *the* reason she lost. It's okay to recognise the problem just as long as it doesn't prevent us from trying to fix problems in the party. That and I imagine that most people unwilling to vote for a women are unlikely to vote democrat in the first place. ",
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"content": "It may not be THE reason, but we have to acknowledge its existence. Calling people sexist though is going too far because this is one of those subconscious things where people have no idea it is affecting them. Because of that, it might be better to avoid labelling a group as sexist, because all that will do is alienate them.",
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"content": "This. There were many reasons and sexism was there for only some. Hillary was flawed, and tied in many polls with Trump. Many candidates polled higher than Trump. Ignoring those flaws was a mistake because they were enough for Trump to win.\n\nIn my own discussions with conservatives and independents who didn't like Clinton, labeling a person a sexist, a racist, or ignorant and therefore a hateful person in your own head or explicitly to their face because they supported Trump is going to get them defensive and unwilling to listen to you. If you see them as \"a deplorable\" you will find it harder to get them to listen to anything else you say. You will respond from your own emotional viewpoint of hate and judgement. \n\nHowever if you see them as someone trying to be the best they are with the highest viewpoint they have at that time (no matter how flawed), as ignorant, uninformed, misguided but trying to be moral and decent, your emotional energy in relationship to them could be of invitation and \"I'm supporting you to come to your own conclusions\", rather than \"you are wrong and I will convert you\" - inherently the latter is about your selfish need to change them rather than their right to choose their own path in life. For some Trump resonates and ignoring that is unwise, compared to acknowledging they have reasons they themselves think are moral and right. Trump will highly likely not deliver much at all for the working and middle class - this will become more apparent over time.\n\nSome may be ignorant, or even a bigot but if I approach with energy if conversion, they will sense my ego and resist me - how is it in their interest to blindly bend to my will, compared to learning and choosing their own path and choices for their own highest good?",
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"content": "This. But not having a press conference in 6 months couldn't have helped",
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"content": "> Hillary was flawed\n\nThat's sexism. Because of course she was flawed; every person is, every candidate is. Trump is flawed. Obama was flawed. Nobody has ever ran a perfect campaign, win or lose. No winning or losing candidate has ever been perfect or without flaws. So why on earth did every single person in existence have to say \"I like Hillary (but of course she's flawed) but I still like her\" or \"Hillary accomplished this (yes we know she isn't perfect) but she accomplished this...\" Nobody went around saying \"I like Bernie for this reason (yes I know he's flawed)\" or \"Obama has accomplished this (yes I know he isn't perfect).\" \n\n>In my own discussions with conservatives and independents who didn't like Clinton, labeling a person a sexist, a racist, or ignorant and therefore a hateful person in your own head or explicitly to their face because they supported Trump is going to get them defensive and unwilling to listen to you.\n\nGenerally I'm not even talking about conservatives when I talk about sexism; I'm talking about those on the left who didn't rally around her and turn out the vote for her enough. I don't expect to win over conservatives; I do expect Democrats to vote for the Democratic presidential candidate. ",
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"content": "No, I'm saying the narrative of the election that saw even Clinton supporters feeling the need to give a \"she's not perfect\" disclaimer anytime they talked about her was sexism. ",
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"content": "Enough of this. Nobody has ever said \"Hillary lost because of sexism, PERIOD, and nothing else.\" Hillary did not lose because of any one single reason. She lost because of a combination of reasons, and sexism is one of them. Stop exaggerating the argument. ",
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"content": "I completely agree with the anti-Bernie attitude in here becoming old. It's one thing to disagree, but there's *some* outright hate for him and his supporters in here. People keep shouting 'unify' without wanting to address the problems in the party or make any meaningful compromise. I can understand this attitude in specifically pro candidate x subreddits, but this sub is meant to be for the Democratic party as a whole and both sides should be respectful of each other. \n\nI also agree that the party hasn't correctly identified why they lost. Relying on Trump to destroy himself is lazy and the country deserves a better opposition. \n\n ",
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"content": "Tbh I think your first post veers too close to 'class only' for my tastes, but it wish there were a place to have that discussion properly, it wouldn't get anywhere here, you'd just be met with cries of berniebro and buried at the bottom of the thread, or have your thread vanished.\n\nIs there a proper neutral ground Democrat sub? I could really use one.",
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"content": "There are well off women and minorities who nonetheless suffer from systematic inequality and discrimination. Trump is not checking how much Muslims earn when he stops them at the border.\n\nPretending it is a choice between one or the other is a fool's errand, it is entirely possible, and indeed necessary, to care about both.",
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"content": ">Who ever said it was a choice between one or the other. \n\nYour first post implied it, and I criticised that, and you reacted by saying \"most social inequality stems from economic inequality\".\n\nAll I was saying is I try to avoid even accidental 'class only' phrasing because there are a handful of cranks on the left who actually do think like that, and they're assholes. You don't have to go over the whole Sanders vs Clinton thing with me.",
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"content": "At this point democrats should start filibustering until there are committees I place to remove anyone with ties to Russia (tillerson, Sessions, Ross) or who have commit perjury (pruitt, Sessions, mnuchin)\n\nWe all should protest this weekend demanding removal or any official who has commit perjury or has ties to Russia, I will be going in New Haven.",
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"content": "I dont know if this is the right place to ask this. As a democrat, I feel that Trump is a problem, but i feel that theres an even bigger problem and likely the reason that Trump and people who support him exist. I feel like a hypocrite saying this because ive criticized Trump attacking the media, but to me the biggest threat to our democracy really is the media (Fox news). The news they report on is mostly fine, but the biggest problem is when their pundits spin everything, meanwhile viewers think their opinions are news. How can we make this stop across the board? Honestly speaking, i agree about the fake news thing but for completely different reasons.",
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"content": "I would stop calling it \"the media\" that's the problem and be specific instead. Because the media is the vital 4th branch of government, the watchdog, and we shouldn't slander it and contribute to the distrust of it. When there are critiques to be had, and there are, be specific and list out exactly what the critique is (such as \"pundits spin everything, meanwhile viewers think their opinions are news\" and \"FOX News spreads GOP talking point propaganda\") rather than just saying \"the media sucks\" or whatever. ",
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"content": "In my opinion, probably like many people in this sub, I've always felt that most mainstream media had a center-right bias (CNN, Reuters, NBC, even MSNBC). Particularly in *what* they choose to cover and not cover, rather than how they cover it.\n\nHowever, I've never been very bothered by this, because I just chalked it up to the fact that not everyone agrees with me, and that news stations are not trying to push an agenda, just get views by catering to the majority viewpoint (which, unfortunately, is an irrational fear of terrorism and petty crime and an irrational ignorance of and complacence toward climate change and other things people like me care about). In other words, what I have (and what nationalists, by their own account, apparently don't have) is the humility to discriminate between \"lying fake news\" and \"honestly disagrees with my personal opinions\".\n\nBut now nationalists are throwing around accusations that the very same media has a left-wing bias. To me, it seems clear that this is an attempt to normalize far-right viewpoints and discredit centrist viewpoints by making them look extreme. They are basically trying to shift the entire frame of discourse. And moreover, it puts pressure on center-left people like myself to endorse mainstream news organizations which I was previously critical of, to overlook the right wing biases because \"at least it's not propaganda straight from the trump administration\".\n\nAnd that's not even considering Fox and right-wing talkshows, which even by themselves are actually very popular and are pretty much \"mainstream\" themselves. And unlike the center-right news, these ones, especially the talk-shows, *do* try to push an agenda even at the cost of alienating certain viewers. Which means the people who do take them seriously just get completely fucked over because they are being fed complete bullshit and trust it.\n\nSo we have a situation where maybe as much as 40% of the American population is just totally disconnected from reality. But the only existing counterweight to the nationalist delusions are center-right mainstream media, and endorsing them will be conceding to the nationalists a shift of the overton window. So maybe what we need is to spread awareness of things like [indymedia](https://www.indymedia.org/or/index.shtml) and commondreams, which are basically the left-wing equivalent of right-wing talkshows, but they are just much less popular. But on the other hand, insulating ourselves in our own echo chambers might make us become as delusional as the nationalists. But like I said, our only other option is to embrace the center-right mainstream media.\n\nSo basically, we're in a lot of trouble and I don't know what we could even start to do about it.\n\nIt seems like the only way out of this particular mess, would be something like a general solution to the age-old philosophical problems of journalism, news, and being a properly-informed citizen.",
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"content": "There's a documentary on Amazon called \"the brainwashing of my dad\" who went from loyal democrat to devout republican after getting a trucking job and listening to nothing but Rush Limbaugh and Fox News. Essentially, the \"vast right wing conspiracy\" that Hillary mentioned in the 90s is real and exists in the misinformation spread by right-wing news sources, and the echo chamber createdby exclusively reading or listening to them.",
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"content": "I came to the same conclusions on my own. I never heard such a documentary or even known that Hillary mentioned that. I am speaking at least anecdotally based on what I'm seeing in family members, friends, co-workers, and even in myself lately (I've been reading topics and conspiracy theories on the right wing subreddits.) I see a certain group of citizens in this country that votes based on their ideas of \"morality\" and they ignore anything negative that comes from those politicians, because of the ideals of their party, which the elected officials don't have to hold themselves. It really hurts to see this happening and knowing there's nothing more I can do but to try and stop our demonizing them and trying to make their anger, hatred and lack of independent thought stop. What can be done?",
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"content": "> How can we make this stop across the board?\n\nWell, the way I see it, there are two avenues:\n\n1. We take the bottom-up approach. We stop giving views and clicks to media groups that are biased, use spin tactics, and force-feed opinions via pundits.\n\n2. We take the top-down approach, either with regulations on the media, or with a government/independent group that investigates media groups for bias, etc.\n\nPersonally I think (1) is much safer. (2) could pave the way for government-manipulated media, which already exists to an extent and I think is a mouthpiece enjoyed by both parties, but could potentially get much worse, especially in times of war. Really I think we can just start by coming up with a list of totally solid news sources, spreading that list around, and not accepting anything else. NPR, The Atlantic, Associated Press, 538, NYT. That's where I'd start. Bonus points for subscribing/donating to sources of good journalism. Let them know you appreciate their work.\n\nShifting gears away from your question a bit, but something I notice a lot: Shitty news sources tend to tell you how to feel about something by manipulating the headline. Or they try to make every story sound like a revelation. You see these all the time on reddit. Check out /r/politics. You almost never see anything from the Atlantic because they have titles like *Where Trump's Popularity Matters—and Where It Doesn't* and that's just not going to get the same kind of clicks as The Week's *President Trump's popularity is 'sinking like a rock,' new poll shows*. People want their biases confirmed, and they want to be told how to feel in a world where bad news is emotionally overwhelming. So, on a personal level, I'd say that the first step would be to limit your news intake. If you go directly to The Atlantic for your news and actually read the articles (you'll get bored quick if you're a headline skimmer... don't be a headline skimmer), you're going to be A) more informed and B) less overwhelmed. Don't go to reddit for news. Or if you do because you enjoy the discussion, then read the articles and compare it to related articles from your list (NPR, AP, NYT, etc.). Also stay away from op-eds unless they're from people who have some authority on the subject (senators, police officers, etc.), or have a unique perspective (campaign staffers, ex-Nazis, etc.).\n\nAnyway. It's too bad that Trump is such a narcissistic demagogue, because if he really cared about the media reporting the truth, he'd offer a solution. But it's pretty clear that he's completely content making the media a convenient enemy.",
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"content": "Yeah I agree, I think pundit news is terrible, Fox and MSNBC. When it's being presented as news, and viewers believe it's news but it has opinion injected throughout it and it is biased. I think the other problem is that contributors, pundits etc have major conflicts of interest and that's why they are pushing narratives or opinions. These aren't disclosed either. A large number have contracts with the parties, they are consulting, lobbyists etc. as well as being paid by the media company. Self censorship is also a problem within the media, they are less likely to cover stories involving an advertiser for example. How close they are to the people they are meant to be covering also raises problems, they don't want to give bad coverage to a friend, or they want access. ",
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"content": "I'm a trump supporter trying to have a civil political conversation. AMA",
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"content": "I didn't know who to choose. I wanted a principled man like Huckabee but I knew he would not make a great president. It was not an easy choice ",
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"content": "I would say so. ",
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"content": "I would say that it's misunderstood. I believe in the concept and the implementation, but I think that the media played it off to sound like something it is not. ",
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"content": "And what about the courts that have blocked the ban? Do you think their rulings which are based on the EO's and Trump's own words are playing it off to sound like it's not?",
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"content": "What about all his lying and refusal to accept responsibility?\n\nOr do you think that's inaccurate?",
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"content": "I don't know what you are trying to allude to. Could you please clarify. ",
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"content": "His lying about wiretapping, crowd sizes, voter fraud, birtherism, etc?",
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"content": "Actions speak louder than words. I think that he says some stuff that he shouldn't say but I don't think we should focus on what he says but rather the actions that he takes",
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"content": "Do his words have an effect as President?\n\n",
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"content": "I don't think so. ",
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"content": "You're saying a POTUS words have no effect?\n\n",
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"content": "I'm saying they only have as much effect as you give them.",
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"content": "So a President's words have zero effect besides what people give them?\n\nSo if he was a raging racist who threw slurs around, it would be okay as long as he supported your policies?\n",
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"content": "Yeah. He's entitled to speak freely. Doesn't mean it's right but he has the right to say those things. His actions are what counts.",
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"content": "Okay, so racism would be fine. Gotcha. ",
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"content": "Racism is not fine. It should be discouraged, but you can't ban it. The Constitution protects free speech, even racist speech, it does not support racist actions. There is a difference ",
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"content": "That's not what I asked. Sorry, but you are moving goalposts. I didn't say illegal, did I? \n\nI asked you were you fine with it and you confirmed yes, a racist President is fine with you as long as you like his policies.",
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"content": "So you don't have any problem with his actions of intentionally misleading and lying to the public? ",
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"content": "Flynn agrees to testify in exchange for immunity!!!!\n\nIt's happening..... ",
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"content": "Wtf I love Obama now",
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"content": "That $9 trillion is wrong, it's closer to $1 trillion; the computation is flawed because it is too simplistic and doesn't account for real world factors (he didn't set the agenda/budget his first year that was set the previous year Bush/GOP budget for 2009, he/Dems inherited the 2008 great recession created by GOP deregulation, 6 years of his 8 years (2011-2016) were under a GOP Congress, etc.) You have to calculate based on how much HIS/DEM policies increased the deficit ($983 billion). Source: Ezra Klein, \"Doing the Math on Obama's Deficits,\" The Wall Street Journal, January 31, 2014.\n\nEdit: words",
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"content": "Nice way to counter facts with facts. ^/s",
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"content": "Is right! We should totally hail glorious leader. Is undemocratic to be criticizink.",
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"content": "You uh, you do know what happened the last time we had a President who ran on wanting to run the country like a business, right? Do you happen to recall who was President during [these great run the government like a business times](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_crisis_of_2007%E2%80%932008)? Perhaps you even recall what that President's party affiliation was?",
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"content": "Ah, see, now we know... insulting Trump's business abilities triggers his trolls. ",
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"content": "They've been crawling all over this place, it's barely usable. If they're not outright trolling they're JAQing off and playing dumb like we'll think they're cute or something.",
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"content": "I was worried you guys were getting annoyed, I've submitted like a dozen reports today",
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"content": "Not a bad idea. It's akin to the co-chair system the DNC has used before, where one person focuses on the details of party operations and the other does public relations.",
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"content": "If two co-chairs got into a disagreement, how was it resolved? If Perez and Ellison diverge on something, is Ellison just going to be out of a job, or what?",
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"content": "I imagine they would work something out if it was serious enough. I have faith that they can work together to bring unity to the party. \n\nThere is absolutely some division in the party but that won't go away overnight because it doesn't come from just one place. And I hope Keith can reach out to the extreme left groups that are talking about primaring \"moderate\" Dems because that won't help. ",
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"content": "I think they're as well equipped as anyone to do that right now. At the end of the day, I don't hate Perez or have that much bad to say about him. However, some of his supporters are the most unethical and vicious members of our party and I'm really disappointed to see that he was willing to work with them. I also really, really, really wish we could have found someone who at least didn't endorse Hillary in the primary so \"party unity\" could stop being such a \"progressives, stfu\" code word.\n\nAnyway, I hope that Perez can reach out to \"moderate\" Democrats and convince them to step aside or find ways to start relinquishing some of their authority to more progressive members. After everything that's happened, I can't trust \"moderates\" to stand up for my interests when the pressure's on.",
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"content": ">If two co-chairs got into a disagreement, how was it resolved?\n\nNo idea. The system was only used in the mid to late nineties, and I don't know of any major disagreements during that time.\n\n>If Perez and Ellison diverge on something, is Ellison just going to be out of a job, or what? \n\nThey seem genuinely to like each other, so I agree with the other commenter that they would figure something out. ",
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"content": "Has the position of deputy chair been added to the dnc website yet? I've heard concerns about it not being there from people",
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"content": ">Has the position of deputy chair been added to the dnc website yet? I've heard concerns about it not being there from people \n\n[Looks like it has](https://www.democrats.org/about/our-leaders) ",
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"content": "thats good, i know some people were talking about it and i just figured the website needed updating ",
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"content": ">In an interview Sunday, Perez said he had big plans for Ellison as his deputy, including **letting him run point on the party's grass-roots organizing efforts.**\n\nGood. At the end of the day this was what I wanted most from Keith.",
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"content": "I hope he's just being nice.",
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"content": "He is because that's the pragmatic thing to do for now. We'll have more opportunities to fight for the soul of our party another day, there's a country to worry about now.",
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"content": "This feels like the best possible outcome, both of them can do what they do best and no one is left out.",
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"content": "Not really arguing for or against Ellison or Perez. But a lot of assumptions and conclusions in this article are simply wrong. It's just not a greatly written article.",
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"content": "I'm really getting tired of this \"Perez is very progressive\" argument. That doesn't pacify me. Someone can be socially progressive without being economically progressive. If an article said \"Perez is very *economically* progressive,\" maybe I'd be a little happier. Right now it just seems like they're trying to artfully lie to us about Perez's populist bonafides.",
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"content": "What do you consider economically conservative?",
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"content": "Austerity, deregulation, 'welfare reform', 'free trade', corporate welfare, PAYGO...",
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"content": "To chime in as a somewhere between an economically moderate-conservative liberal. I think it's more allowing businesses to fail, free trade, lower subsidies, fewer regulations(in some regards, for example do you know how many hoops you have to jump through to install a solar panel on the roof of your house), defense cuts, too much government on drug enforcement.\n\nI'm content with my tax money going to infrastructure, schools, technology, helping people find homes and food and healthcare. Beyond energy, water, and telecom companies I don't think the government should help established companies who are not at the front of innovation. \n\nI don't think the rich should feel bad for being rich, if they earned it they shouldn't be blamed for the ills of society. Making sure that those opportunities to achieve that life are available to everyone is what I believe in. When they have to pick between their medication for the month or try to save up enough to open their own business hurts us all .",
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"content": "Objectively speaking, what's your ideal liberal economic scenario for you?\n\nIs it massive domestic spending, large tax increases, larger social programs? \n\nWill a majority of voters vote for a candidate who wants to double their tax rates in the time span of one year.\n\nMost American are somewhere in the middle with a slight lean one way or the other. You want an far left or far right candidate you won't be able to win the moderates. \n\nTrump was an anomaly. His supporters all voted. People were apathetic to Hilary so turn out was lower for her. \n\nTrump won those rural areas, trying to sell those people on Bernie progressivism is an uphill battle. \n\nMake incremental progress. Take a step back and realize it's going to be a slow process. Don't quit because you didn't ge what you want. Even baby steps work better than whining. ",
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"content": "Ideally that's what I want, but I recognize that's not realistic. In the short term, though, I would like a politician that doesn't make decisions that are in favor of big businesses at the expense of the people. I'm suspicious of any politician that takes significant money from corporations, banks, or other, similar moneyed interests. \n\nLook; I know my preferred policies need to be implemented gradually: I get that. I'm not an idiot. But, when a politician selects to grant waivers to a bank that violates tax law, im suspicious. When a politician gets hundreds of thousands of dollars from a corporate lobby then votes against a popular amendment that would've harmed that corporation but benefitted the average person, I'm unhappy. \n\nIs that unfair?",
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"content": "Thats 100% fair. And it's why most people despise politicians with just a few exceptions. They're supposed to represent the people not special interests. We've lost sight of that and lost our way. I'm an optimist and hope it changes, I'm not holding my breath though.\n\nIn my eyes, we have to play by these rules for the moment and play better than the other side while still remembering that when the opportunity is presented we change the rules back to the core of our system of government. We can't lose sight of that though, despite winning on their terms, we have to make the rules ,ore fair and honor the people first. ",
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"content": "I just hope they let us change the rules. It looks like they're resisting every attempt we make to try to change them. And, even when the Democrats get back into power, I don't trust that they'll want to change the rules - many politicians are making too much money from corporate lobbyists.",
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"content": ">Objectively speaking, what's your ideal liberal economic scenario for you?\n>Is it massive domestic spending, large tax increases, larger social programs? \n>Will a majority of voters vote for a candidate who wants to double their tax rates in the time span of one year.\n>Most American are somewhere in the middle with a slight lean one way or the other. You want an far left or far right candidate you won't be able to win the moderates. \n>Trump was an anomaly. His supporters all voted. People were apathetic to Hilary so turn out was lower for her. \n>Trump won those rural areas, trying to sell those people on Bernie progressivism is an uphill battle. \n>Make incremental progress. Take a step back and realize it's going to be a slow process.\n\nThank you for asking me questions and not being combative. That's how we work together to find common ground.\n\n>Don't quit because you didn't ge what you want. Even baby steps work better than whining. \n\nNever mind.\n\nEDIT: Seriously? Downvoting for this? Do people just troll this sub and downvote everyone who isn't a moderate? Some can accuse me of \"whining\" and that's fine. But I call him out on it and say we need to work together, and that gets downvoted? This is why there's a split in the party! People don't respect one another. I may disagree with the other side, but I respect them. But, if I can't get respect in return, I don't know why I even bother trying.",
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"content": "I think I worded that poorly when I said whining. You wanted the more progressive candidate and you should continue to push for a more progressive agenda if that's where your beliefs lie. Whining was a poor choice of words, I'm content with Perez and Ellison gets the deputy chair without having to give up his seat in the house. By all accounts it sounds like they get along and are both moving in the same direction. There should be some solace in that, Perez worked under Obama who may be one of the best of all time at organizing and making sure the message they want to send was spread effectively. \n\nMy interpretation of your posts were that you dislike the establishment, run of the mill, chair with connections to corporations. That's understandable and I can empathize with that opinion. In the current political climate though, big money is needed for campaigns as well as well connected people spread throughout the country. Moderates are feeling alienated and politics is getting too partisan and too chaotic. Since the economic policies you're in favor of are going to have to happen at an incremental pace whether it's Perez or Ellison they pace and direction is going to stay same. This is probably 5-10 years down the line at the earliest. \n\nThere's also a lot to be optimistic about, Perez knows the game, they're looking to reach out to millennials and connect to the people Hilary glossed over. So I think the differences between Ellison and Perez are overblown at the moment. They share a similar vision of how to win back seats, considering we really don't have much to influence or power right now the primary focus should be on winning these 2018 midterms. \n\nI apologize if I came off as attacking you or snarky. Poor wording on my part. ",
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"content": "I completely understand what you are saying. I don't fully agree, but I understand your points. I understand the point of money in politics, but I think that the DNC needs to take some legitimate and strong steps to curb the *influence* of money in politics. If they don't, there are many progressives they won't win back.\n\n> Moderates are feeling alienated and politics is getting too partisan and too chaotic.\n\nThe problem is, many Progressive Democrats are feeling alienated too. It feels like our ideas are overlooked, and (at best) given lip-service. Ellison is in a position that, until proven otherwise, appears to be powerless. All of positions *elected* by the DNC earlier this week went to establishment candidates. And, to top it off, there are many moderates who make fun of us - who tell us we're being babies and throwing tantrums because we didn't get everything we wanted. To be honest, it's less about not getting what we want, it's more about the other side getting most if not all of what they want (maybe making a few concessions that didn't really matter that much), and then telling us to \"unify.\" It's kind of insulting. And then to be *actually* insulted on top of that, it makes us feel left out.\n\nTake a look at this sub and (for a slightly more extreme example) r/BlueMidterm2018 . If you try to post anything remotely critical of the way the party is being run, you're downvoted. You're told \"bye Felicia.\" You're called \"stupid\" or \"baby.\" It's said that you only vote how Bernie tells you and that you can't think for yourself. Now, I'm not saying that Bernie-supporters are angels - many of them are just as bad. But they're not \"sore winners\" either.\n\nBut, it's the same people making fun of the Progressives that are calling for unity. Or, more accurately, telling us to \"get in line.\" Regardless of what the DNC is doing, I want to be united with other Democrats. Maybe I'm angry with the way the DNC is handling things, but I want to work with my colleagues. However, I feel like I can't even do that anymore.\n\nThank you for trying to work with the other side. I want to work with moderates. I want to compromise. But we can't do that unless we [talk with one another](https://www.reddit.com/r/BlueMidterm2018/comments/5vyb3b/coming_together/).\n\nEDIT: Seriously, look at the [comments on this same article](https://www.reddit.com/r/hillaryclinton/comments/5x02mb/the_dnc_got_it_right/) posted in r/hillaryclinton . Apparently, everyone who's upset with this decision is \"alt-left,\" a \"Russian Internet Troll,\" \"angry,\" and \"bitter.\" Yet their tagline is \"Stronger Together.\"",
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"content": "> the media once again allowed this race to serve as a Bernie vs. Hillary proxy war.\n\nHow does the media \"allow\" anything. If it's interference or bias be specific.",
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"content": "> The progressive vs. moderate war simply isn’t based in reality.\n\nWhat does this comment mean? I don't understand... there is definitely a disagreement, a very heated and vocal disagreement, and perhaps \"war\" is hyperbole or not represented in a majority of both sides. That said, [TYT and Justice Democrats are pretty energized](https://youtu.be/squdPZyk7b4) and seeking change..they have or are claiming to fielding 3000 candidates to primary establishment (taking corporate donations) democrats. \n\nEdit: ",
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"content": "Wow! There are so many downvotes to comments in this thread. But no real negative comments. It makes me think that simply saying anything along the lines of \"I feel disillusioned,\" or \"I'm not happy with this turn of events,\" or \"I don't agree that we're all united,\" really pisses people off. Note to the downvoters: you're pushing people away from the party by dismissing their opinions instead of listening to them. If you want to come together, you have to actually try to understand the other side.",
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"content": "The PUMA mentality never left.",
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"content": "I'm sure that the Attorney General will make investigation of this a top priority!",
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"content": "Oh I ... hope so?",
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"content": "It's a joke. We need a Special Prosecutor.",
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"content": "Of course. ",
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"content": "im sure trump will pick somebody for the job. ",
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"content": "Putin",
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"content": "We need an independent commission. \n\nThe guy Gingrich suggested for special prosecutor was super connected to Giuliani",
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"content": "At his Jan. 10 Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing, Sessions was asked by Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) what he would do if he learned of any evidence that anyone affiliated with the Trump campaign communicated with the Russian government in the course of the 2016 campaign.\n\n“I’m not aware of any of those activities,” he responded. He added: “I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign and I did not have communications with the Russians.”\n\nJust to be clear, Sessions very explicitly perjured himself to Congress. As you might have guessed, that's punishable by jail time. ",
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"content": "I believe the dodge here is that, as a US Senator, he *can* speak to officials of foreign governments and his response to the committee was in the *context* as a Trump surrogate, not a Senator. ",
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"content": "He's just lying. Game over. ",
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"content": "It's the dodge he will use, but the question referred to \"anyone affiliated with the Trump campaign\". That \"anyone\" means Senators too. He lied so there would not be further suspician and questioning during the Judicial hearing. Once confirmed and sworn-in, he knew it would be much harder to get him out.",
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"content": "I doubt the GOP controlled Congress is going to even acknowledge this. ",
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"content": "I assure you that sort of \"dodge\" would not hold up in front of a jury or judge. It's the equivalent of saying \"I had my fingers crossed behind my back so the lie was okay.\" \n\nMost people view liars who knowingly use \"technicalities\" as even worse than stupid liars.",
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"content": "> Most people view liars who knowingly use \"technicalities\"\n\nas lawyers. And Sessions is one.",
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"content": "Right. People hate those kind of lawyers. ",
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"content": "> People hate ~~those~~ any kind of lawyers. \n\nFTFY\n\n",
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"content": "Well that depends on what the meaning of \"is\" is. ",
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"content": "That's the one the_Donald is going for",
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"content": "That's the one most Republicans are going for.",
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"content": "The Attorney General of the United States perjured himself during congressional confirmation hearings. Just let that sink in. ",
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"content": "\"I misspoke\" - Sessions later, probably ",
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"content": "Which is fine, people forget things, sure. But this was *weeks* ago. He has a staff that keep all of his appointments on record. Someone should've mentioned to him that he did, in fact, meet with the Russian ambassador, go back on record, state that he *did* meet with them and *then* he can say \"I misspoke, and my meeting was as a result of my position on the Armed Forces Committee. Nothing about the campaign was discussed during that meeting.\"\n\nBam, end of story. But either his staff is so incompetent that they don't keep records, or they're so incompetent that they didn't remind him, or they *did* remind him and *he's* so incompetent (at best) that he didn't feel it was necessary to go back on record and clear up his misstatement. At the very least he needs to recuse himself from any further investigations.",
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"content": "They are under oath. ",
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"content": "[looks like it was](http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/313469-live-coverage-of-sessions-confirmation-hearing) -go to 37:00",
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"content": "Remember how Bill Clinton got impeach for lying under oath? So much for the memory of elephants, I guess.",
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"content": "Well no, I do remember an acquittal. I understand and agree about the double standard of course.",
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"content": "He was impeached but not removed.",
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"content": "Oh you are right. I started a game of squabbling over minutia and lost immediately.",
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"content": "Under. Fucking. Oath. He is the law of the land and lied under fucking oath.",
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"content": "Keep trying",
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"content": "And yet you are still here crying. Your boy is a Russian stooge. How much evidence do you need? Lol\n\nWant some tissues?",
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"content": ">How much evidence do you need?\n\nA conviction would be nice. Evidence in this day and age really doesn't mean shit. \n\nI've watched politicians slither out of investigations and charges for 30 years now, and be considered suitable for President. \n\nIf 3 million more people were okay with a criminal being their President, I'm okay with this administration. \n\n",
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"content": "That's your defense?\n\nPretty pathetic. \n",
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"content": "Let me go with a defense that has worked well for 36 years on your side. \n\n\"I don't recall. Anything. Ever.\" ",
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"content": "Strawman alert!\n",
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"content": "I have no recollection of that straw man. ",
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"content": "That was never what we claimed for 36 fucking years. ",
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"content": "What are you even talking about?\n",
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"content": "I suggest you learn a thing or two about why Washington enjoys these types of hearings. ",
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"content": "More deflection.\n\nHow much more evidence do you need? Video of Trump blowing Putin?",
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"content": "Like, any evidence, at all would be a good start. Everything you keep touting is all circumstantial. Sad really. ",
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"content": "What about consistent lying from them about it?\n\nFace reality. ",
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"content": "Politicians lying? Shocker. I hope you are building a bigger case than that. ",
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"content": "Oh now comes to shill false equivalency. \n\n\"Herr durr... Politicians lie so it's okay the dim-witted POTUS is a Russian stooge.\"",
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"content": "Keep trying. The most pathetic first 30 days in Presidential history. \n\nEven the guy who died right after being elected did a better job. ",
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"content": "He is a citizen too? That doesn't surprise me. \n\nI am sure his followers are defending their messiah on that as well. \n\n",
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"content": "He drinks piss off a hooker's ass too, right? \n\nThat's what people are saying. ",
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"content": "Yeah, but he was a birther. So all we need is at least the same amount of evidence against him. \n\nSo he drinks piss, using his own standards. \n\nGo ahead. Say it. \n\n\n\n",
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"content": "But you do know he drinks hooker piss right?\n\nJust say it. Maybe that's his secret and all his biggest supporters will start to follow suit. \n",
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"content": "Well I wouldn't doubt. He made assaulting women okay to a lot of voters. Drinking piss shouldn't be too far from that neighborhood of deplorable. ",
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"content": "No he was asked what he would do if he became aware that people in the trump campaign were in communication with Russia, and stated that he had never been in contact with Russia during the campaign. he wasn't asked if he was in contact with Russia at all. He volunteered that information on his own free will, and now its come out that it was a lie. This is absolutely perjury. ",
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"content": "Yes the line of questioning was designed to give sessions and opportunity to explain how he would react if the ever increasing possibility arose that he would have to investigate his own administration. He volunteered information to make himself more credible, and that information turned out to be a lie. ",
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"content": "But he wasn't asked about his involvement with Russia.",
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"content": "I read the transcript and its pretty clear that he was asked about his capacity to prosecute the administration if it ever came to that, not about his ties to Russia. \n\n",
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"content": "yes that's what I've been saying this whole time.",
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"content": "by referring to the transcript",
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"content": "Bullshit. He lied. ",
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"content": "You are the one crying all over this sub, snowflake. \n\nCarry that water for your Dear Leader. ",
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"content": "Yeah, let's forget about context. Let that sink in. ",
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"content": "Bullshit. Who are you to say?",
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"content": "Don't flatter yourself. This is the Dem sub. \n\nNot fellate orange_turnip sub. ",
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"content": "This is also a **VERY** important piece of information from Steven Ginsberg on twitter:\n\n> [**No one else on the Senate Armed Services Committee said they met with Kislyak last year.**](https://twitter.com/stevenjay/status/837137691724640256)",
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"content": "....that were willing to admit it. Something tells me the Russian influence goes deeper into the GOP and Dems, and if airing this laundry risks a constitutional, economic or social crisis I wouldn't be surprised if we're fed an 'alternative' story to keep the peace/system in place. Unfortunately meeting the issue head-on could cause more damage than most would like to admit.",
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"content": "Redditor for 9 months, and you just started commenting 12 hours ago. \n\nGo back to your troll hole. ",
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"content": "EVERYONE in Trump's campaign spoke with Russians. Let that sink in for a moment. He would not have won without their help.",
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"content": "LOCK HIM UP!",
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"content": "I agree with you, but the dodge is that he spoke with the Russians in his capacity as a Senator, and he was testifying about his actions as a Trump surrogate.\n\nIt's flimsy, but that's their defense.",
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"content": "\"Flismy\" is an understatement. He is an attorney trained to carefully chose his words and he never said \"I never spoke to them as a Trump supporter\". He said he never spoke to them. And he said it after emphasizing his ties to the Trump campaign. \n\n",
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"content": "The only way to get Sessions out now is lots and lots of heat on Trump until he fires him. Don't see that happening though because both the media and congress have conceded to Trump on almost all matters from fear. Congress for fear of loosing votes and the media for fear of loosing revenue.",
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"content": "Anyone know why all Jeff Sessions posts re this issue cannot be found when searched for within the last 24 hours? Just spent 10 minutes repeating the search modes for 'day' and cannot find anything....7 hours ago it was the top post front page. Not to suggesting conspiritards had anything to do with it, just trying to find a megathread or equivalent.",
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"content": "Then he should have said that. ",
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"content": "And he says that's *why* he didn't mention the meetings with the Ambassador. The meeting was in the context of his role as a Senator.\n\nIt's a steaming pile of flaming horse dung, but it is his defense.",
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"content": "He didn't commit perjury; the question and answer were both vague enough to preclude that. He should definitely recuse (something he's all but said he's going to do), but the Dems are going to look really stupid by pushing for his resignation in 3...2...1.\n\nAm I the only one who's pissed off that the Dems aren't trying to beat Donald and the GOP to the punch on infrastructure, immigration reform, ACA reform, etc. etc.?",
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"content": "The question may have been vague, but his answer an unambiguous lie. ",
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"content": "Please. Here's the transcript:\n\n> FRANKEN: CNN just published a story alleging that the intelligence community provided documents to the president-elect last week, that included information that “Russian operatives claim to have compromising personal and financial information about Mr. Trump.” These documents also allegedly say “there was a continuing exchange of information during the campaign between Trump surrogates and intermediaries for the Russian government.” Again, I’m telling you this as it’s coming out, so, you know.\n\n>But if it’s true, it’s obviously extremely serious, and if there is any evidence that anyone affiliated with the Trump campaign communicated with the Russian government in the course of this campaign, what will you do?\n\n> SESSIONS: Senator Franken, I’m not aware of any of those activities. I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign and I did not have communications with the Russians, and I’m unable to comment on it.\n\n> FRANKEN: Very well.\n\nThe question is vague because Franken, sloppily, laid the foundation himself, asked a question on top of that foundation, and didn't clarify once Sessions responded. It's not an unambiguous lie because the question was not unambiguous. You don't get to say \"ignore the ambiguity in my foundation and just look at my question\" in order to charge someone with perjury.\n\nI can't tell you how many lawyers have had their cases fall apart because they don't ask clear questions in depositions; this is exactly what happened here. Franken should have asked the pointed question: \"Just so we're clear: you have not had any communication in any form, in any capacity with any representative of the Russian government?\" He didn't and that's why the Dems are going to look really stupid here.",
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"content": "Thank you for providing the transcript, but I think it makes my point stronger. Sessions emphasizes his ties to the campaign and then states unambiguously \"I did not have communications with the Russians\". Franken's question may have been sloppy, but Session's answer was not. \n\nIf I asked in a sworn deposition \"What is your favorite color?\" (and we make some simplifying assumptions so that I'm allowed to ask that) and you answer \"I did not have communications with the Russians\" the fact that my question was bad doesn't bear on the question of perjury. \n\nTwo republican senators and the republican house majority leader have already publicly agreed with me here. ",
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"content": "No, it doesn't. First and foremost, you need to re-read those GOP statements. They are calling for his RECUSAL (which is proper), not his resignation/impeachment (which is not). \n\nSecond, it's clear he's not commenting on any work with the administration (as he hasn't even joined it yet), but with the CAMPAIGN. In the same sentence, he's saying he's a surrogate for the campaign and he didn't have any communications with the Russians. That's open to reasonable doubt (or below clear and convincing evidence) as to whether he's talking about in any capacity, or just as his capacity with the Trump campaign. ",
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"content": ">No, it doesn't. First and foremost, you need to re-read those GOP statements. They are calling for his RECUSAL (which is proper), not his resignation/impeachment (which is not).\n\nI agree that they are calling for his recusal. I never claimed otherwise. If he didn't lie under oath, there would no need to call for his recusal. \n\n>Second, it's clear he's not commenting on any work with the administration (as he hasn't even joined it yet), but with the CAMPAIGN. \n\nThis was a typo that I edited out well before you responded. I apologize for the miscommunication. (Something we will never hear from Sessions, lol). \n\n>In the same sentence, he's saying he's a surrogate for the campaign and he didn't have any communications with the Russians.\n\nTrue, but again that only supports the idea that he lied.\n\n>That's open to reasonable doubt (or below clear and convincing evidence) as to whether he's talking about in any capacity, or just as his capacity with the Trump campaign. \n\nI don't think a jury would agree. I don't see how you get below 99% certainty that he was lying. \n\nMost of the time people make arguments this strained to defend the Trump administration, they are closeted Trump supporters. You seem like you are *not* a closeted Trump supporter, so I don't understand why you are doing this.",
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"content": "You're saying that Sessions committed perjury, and that the GOPers agree with you. But they're not saying that he did it. They're saying it looks bad. That's what recusal is for. Impeachment is \"you committed perjury.\" They aren't calling for that.\n\nI'm not a Trump supporter, closeted or otherwise. I'm a long-time independent who worked presidential campaigns going back to 2004. I've seen my former volunteers wearing those fucking hats because the Dems sold them out, either purposefully or by their own inefficacy. \n\nI want to win, and as long as Dems are shrugging their shoulders and saying \"well we would do things, but the GOP congress won't let us,\" they're going to keep losing. And when the GOP does beat them to the punch on everything, they're going to keep their gains, get more in the 2020 census, and it'll be one giant, multi-decade circle jerk, AT BEST.\n\nOn top of that, I'm a civil rights attorney who holds due process and equal protection in high regard. Because there will be Dems looking down the barrel of Congressional wrath, too.",
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"content": ">You're saying that Sessions committed perjury, and that the GOPers agree with you. But they're not saying that he did it. They're saying it looks bad. That's what recusal is for. Impeachment is \"you committed perjury.\" They aren't calling for that.\n\nI am not *necessarily* saying he committed perjury, but that is only because I don't know all the elements of perjury. He clearly lied under oath. If lying under oath is all you need for perjury, then I am saying he committed perjury. \n\nAt least some of the GOP congresspeople agree with me that he lied under oath and are asking him to recuse himself on those grounds. It might also be the case that some of them just find his comments to be suspicious and want him to recuse himself even if those comments don't rise to the level of perjury.\n\n>I'm not a Trump supporter, closeted or otherwise. I'm a long-time independent who worked presidential campaigns going back to 2004. I've seen my former volunteers wearing those fucking hats because the Dems sold them out, either purposefully or by their own inefficacy. \n\nI 100% believe that you are not a Trump supporter. Their post histories are usually almost entirely trolling and The_Donald posts. You are making well supported and polite arguments. However, I disagree that the Dems have sold anybody out.\n\n>I want to win, and as long as Dems are shrugging their shoulders and saying \"well we would do things, but the GOP congress won't let us,\" they're going to keep losing. And when the GOP does beat them to the punch on everything, they're going to keep their gains, get more in the 2020 census, and it'll be one giant, multi-decade circle jerk, AT BEST.\n\nI can't disagree with anything here.\n\n>On top of that, I'm a civil rights attorney who holds due process and equal protection in high regard. Because there will be Dems looking down the barrel of Congressional wrath, too. \n\nI appreciate the work you do even if we read Sessions's comments very differently. ",
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"content": "Yeah, I wish the dems would put forth a bill to repeal the ACA and replace it with single-payer. Since the GOP can't come up with anything this would allow us to put the healthcare it back on our terms and raise the question of a single-payer system again",
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"content": "It's okay guys, he's innocent...\n\n>“I'm not aware of any of those activities,” Sessions replied. “I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign, and I [didn't have — did not have](http://s3cf.recapguide.com/img/tv/49/7x1/The-Office-US-Season-7-Episode-1-21-1ea4.jpg) communications with the Russians.”\n\nSee?? He didn't did not have communications. What a trickster! ",
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"content": "It's a start. Next step is getting rid of him entirely.",
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"content": "Okay let's be honest though Reddit has a huge left leaning bias, in both its users and the admins. Kinda crazy to suggest otherwise",
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"content": "Can we get rid of him too?",
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"content": "Why do I keep reading this as \"rescues\" himself?! \n\n*argh*",
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"content": "How about he recuses himself from the position of Attorney General? ",
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"content": "Recusal would've been fine *before* the whole perjury/treason issue came to light. Now Sessions has to go bye bye.",
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"content": "I fear nothing is below this government anymore. Not even the AG lying under oath about treasonous actions. \n\nWe are in massive systemic trouble. ",
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"content": "The only way to stop them is with violence, and the Republicans know that we won't go that far, so they'll keep breaking the law, and committing fraud and treason for as long as WE let them.",
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"content": "I honestly don't think violence would do much good, anyway. Unless things get so bad that the police and/or military turn against the government, (and we're still a *long* way from that level of breakdown) regular citizens are no match for them. ",
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"content": "Trump has a 40-something approval rating. The support among Republicans is still high. They think that's enough to keep it afloat. With no shortage of scandals, I wonder what strategies are the best to tank his approval rating. If he gets lower 20's, I bet even GOP congress will try to get ride of his administration as soon as possible. ",
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"content": "> I don't think you people will be satisfied until Trump and his entire cabinet are put to the guillotine\n\nOn the National Mall, on live television. With Bush and Cheney thrown in.\n\nRemember, compassion is for conservatives. ",
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"content": "Wrong sub.",
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"content": "Happiness will come when the last grease fire sputters form the burning bodies.",
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"content": "> I don't think you people will be satisfied until Trump and his entire cabinet are put to the guillotine.\n\nYour idea, not mine.",
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"content": "Like a celebrity volunteering to go to rehab instead of jail after some drugged out incident.",
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"content": "Well that's very decent of a lying liar.",
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"content": "His attempt to dodge the bullet. We won't let him.\n\nRESIGNATION and INVESTIGATION. ",
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"content": "\"Oh, *those* Russians, the *Russian* Russians. Those guys. I thought you meant the... Never mind, I know who you mean now. Oh, yeah, I talked to them a lot.\n\nIs that a problem?\"",
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"content": " \"He said he had not met with 'the Russians.' And of course, the Russian Ambassador is Russian.\" ",
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"content": "He meant a person whose name is \"The Russians\", he never talked to them.",
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"content": "Exactly. A Russian. He said he didn't talk toTHE Russians. Plural. He talked to a Russian. Big dam dfference.!",
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"content": "\"It depends on what your definition of 'the' is.\"",
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"content": "Clearly he thought the question was about the Belorussians, or as they are known colloquially in the Senate, the 'Russians. All just a mix up!\n\nLet's get back to destroying voting rights, everybody!",
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"content": "He won't need to recuse himself after he damn resigns.",
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"content": "Attorney General Jeff Sessions needs to be prosecuted for perjury before the congress. \n\nThis is the same man that wanted to prosecute Clinton for perjury over a blowjob, he is is intimately familiar with what perjury is. ",
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"content": "Less than 100 days in and the government has turned into a total shitshow. They clearly all have no clue what they are doing.",
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"content": "Ehhh no. They knew exactly what they were doing. They conspired with the Russians; Trump likely agreed to lift sanctions if Putin helped him get elected. They just didn't think they would get caught because they are old men who don't understand technology.",
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"content": "I mean they did a crappy job thinking this stunt would go under the radar. ",
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"content": "Remember how yesterday all the news was about how \"Presidential\" the cheetoh in a toupee sounded?\n\nSo much for that post-speech bump.",
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"content": "Tomorrow's headline: Russian Intelligence Agent to take command of presidential probe",
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"content": "I wish news articles would explain better what recuse means. Had to google it. ",
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"content": "For others: Recuse: challenge ( a judge , prosecutor , or juror ) as unqualified to perform legal duties because of a possible conflict of interest or lack of impartiality",
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"content": "Nobody cares that he recused himself. We'll care when he's fired.",
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"content": "When's trump locking her up again? ",
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"content": "\"Deep State\"\n\nThis isn't Turkey where the military is tasked with overthrowing leaders to preserve Ataturk's vision.\n\nThis is Intel folks drip-drip-dripping stories regarding Russian connections with Trump administration.\n\nThey aren't assassinating or committing a Coup, they are simply sharing information.",
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"content": "I would love for Hillary start hard trolling Trump. ",
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"content": "The Trumpstains and BernOuts get so triggered by Tom Perez it's cute when they brigade any mention of him",
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"content": "Strange, I've only been downvoted on this sub for pointing how that moderate/establishment Democrats are killing the party.\n\nI'm not even that big of a Bernie fan, but we can't pretend that this party has no problems and that everything is fine.",
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"content": "Who are establishment Democrats? Keith Ellison is a sitting Congressman who was endorsed by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is he establishment? Bernie Sanders has been an elected official for the past 40ish years is he establishment? What makes one \"establishment\"?\n\nBy the way couldn't one say the ultra progressive/far left are killing the Party since they're the ones who creates groups like Just Us Democrats to primary out moderate Democrats?",
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"content": "Keep fighting the left and republicans will continue to win. ",
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"content": "Keep fighting the left of center and center and Republicans will continue to win",
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"content": "Huh? Do you understand how far right Dems have moved over the years? I don't understand how anyone can be a moderate dem. Moderates want money in politics. Moderates like lobbyists just as much as center republicans and far right republicans do. ",
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"content": "The Dems look like they've moved right because they stayed relatively left of center while the GOP took a hard right turn swaying perception of where the Obama/Clinton wing truly is. Moderates believe in a federal minimum wage of $12 and encouraging big cities to make their min wage >$15. Moderates believe in strengthening Obamacare and improving health care within that system. Moderates believe in lowering debt for college while still requiring some money to be paid in tuition. Moderates believe in money in politics so far that politics costs money and until Citizens United is overturned it seems silly to forgo money that the other side will use against you. \n\nEdit: Also do you understand how far left the Sanders wing have moved over the years?",
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"content": "You've proved my points exactly. Moderates don't understand how to negotiate where the left fully understands. By asking for what we are asking we will end up where moderates want to be. But by asking for what you are asking for you are likely to get next to nothing. A compromise is to be had but let's have a fair compromise... Seems you guys are compromising from the start. You don't start salary negotiations at the minimum salary you're willing to work at, you ask for way over and then meet in the middle... Republicans shoot extremely far right and we keep meeting them in the middle. They get it! Moderates are the only ones blind to this. ",
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"content": "The thing is the far left won't compromise",
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"content": "HA. Try giving them a chance. You truly believe the left would shut down the government if they don't get their way? The left is more than willing to compromise, it just has to be a fair compromise. Seems moderates are too willing to compromise with republicans on awful policies. Any reason why Bernies bill on shipping in pharmaceuticals did not get passed? If we had all Dems vote for it it would have passed. What the hell?!",
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"content": "I truly believe the far left will withhold their votes because purity. The Klobucher Amendment that Sanders helped write was a NON-BINDING amendment that no one had time to read. The actual binding pharmaceutical amendment Sen. Wyden wrote went down 52-48. All Dems voted for the one that had teeth",
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"content": "This belongs on r/nottheonion. Also, he would.",
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"content": "It's not illegal according to Indiana state law though. What's the point of this article?",
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"content": "http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN16A03O\n\n\nIndiana law does not prohibit public officials from using personal email accounts, the Star said. \n\n",
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"content": "Makes sense, Pence handles slightly less classified info than a Secretary of State.",
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"content": "Yeah, but it's important to show why it's non-news instead of just calling it that. If your provide concise and clear evidence they can't deny the truth.",
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"content": "Agreed. Here was a relevant excerpt from the Star:\n\n> Pence's office in Washington said in a written statement Thursday: \"Similar to previous governors, during his time as Governor of Indiana, Mike Pence maintained a state email account and a personal email account. As Governor, Mr. Pence fully complied with Indiana law regarding email use and retention. Government emails involving his state and personal accounts are being archived by the state consistent with Indiana law, and are being managed according to Indiana’s Access to Public Records Act.”\n\nhttp://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2017/03/02/pence-used-personal-email-state-business----and-hacked/98604904/",
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"content": "That's where the lines get kind of blurry. He could have done work from his personal account and deleted it, do we know he kept all the emails from both accounts? \n\nIt's just an easy line to blur. I would be willing to bet a large majority of government employees do these things. It was completely over exaggerated regarding Hilary but now we just see how much personal and professional life's are intertwined and impossible to maintain security and keep personal and business separated. ",
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"content": "The big deal with Hillary was that she ran it on a personal server, kept private and personal all in the same account, and after her tenure decided which was which in an opaque fashion.\n\nEven looking past how/where she kept her server, is there anything showing pence was sending classified info on his personal email?",
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"content": "They're not identical situations. Different levels of information. I just see how these things get messy quick. \n\nA glossed over part in the article was that Pence's accounts got hacked and they tried to blackmail him. Hilary's never got breached, that guy who said he did not come off as truthful and credible. \n\nIt's not a big deal for Pence,at the same time Hilary's was much more questionable and concerning but pretty much carelessness. Hilary wanting a private server makes so much sense to me too, her whole like has been dissected 59 different ways at every glimpse. She's high profile, using a standard web server would leave her kind vulnerable. I can understand the desire for a semblance of privacy. ",
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"content": "How Pence isn't even cool enough for Gmail.",
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"content": "\"Cybersecurity experts say the emails raise concerns about whether such sensitive information was adequately protected from hackers, given that personal accounts like Pence's are typically less secure than government email accounts. In fact, Pence's personal account was hacked last summer.\"",
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"content": "It's like s=super unimportant just like c=cookie.",
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"content": "Yeah, it looks like just noise to me. \n\nEyes on the prize.",
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"content": "no it is illegal he didnt maintain the records. Actually, what he did was infinitely worse than what Clinton did. The private server angle was stupid it was for the Clinton foundation and she set up her email on it. But she turned over all of FOIA related documents with her lawyer's consent. Also unlike Hillary, he actually DID talk about classified information with DHS on his private email. ",
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"content": "Who the fuck uses AOL anymore? Did he use dialup as well?",
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"content": "I could peg Trump as an AOL user. But Pence is 57. He has no excuse to still be using AOL. \n\nAlso you'd think all these Republicans ranting about Hillary might take a moment mid-rant to question their own data security. Or some aide or intern would have said something like \"Governor Pence, XxNoHomosxX@aol.com isn't really a professional email address\" at one point.",
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"content": "Yes, and keeping standards for clean air and water will be thanks enough.",
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"content": "It's funny that you think these choices are intended to help poor and minority students.\n\nIt's depressing.",
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"content": "Yeah! then they can get some of that good, old-fashioned, god-fearing, rural education!!\n",
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"content": "I agree, if Hillary was investigated they should be too. But they need to be let off like her too",
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"content": "Depends on where an investigation goes. \n\nClinton's went nowhere. ",
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"content": "Nope. \n\nNot a single shred of that. The FBI and several investigations proved that.\n\nIt's time phony progressives and orange acolytes got off that horseshit. \n",
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"content": "You are absolutely insane if you believe that lying under oath isn't a crime.",
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"content": "She didn't lie under oath. You'd have to prove intent. \n\nWhereas, Sessions didn't misremember. He omittedz ",
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"content": "If the FBI wasn't going to ever prosecute Clinton they never would have investigated. If they said she isn't guilty then she isn't.",
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"content": "They have to claim they're investigating to give the illusion that they're not complacent.\n\n>If they said she isn't guilty then she isn't.\n\nYou're not familiar with the concept of lying, are you?",
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"content": "If they were complacent they would have never mentioned it. You can strap on your tin foil and imagine this grand conspiracy where the entirety of the FBI investigated Clinton to cover for her... or don't be deranged and realize that nothing illegal or malicious was found.",
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"content": "\"Charles McCullough, told Congress she had sent at least four messages that contained information derived from classified material. A month later, Mr McCullough revealed that two of the emails contained information deemed \"top secret\" - the highest classification level\"-BBC\n\nIt was a simple mistake of a lie, however... ",
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"content": "Just a simple mistake. It could happen to anyone!",
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"content": "Will you make an action post about this, and write a call script for calling our Senator? House Rep? The FBI? ",
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"content": "YOU thinking a person is guilty does not mean they were found guilty. vOv",
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"content": "Where was she found guilty, you worthless fucking troll?",
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"content": "There is a difference between being found guilty & being tried on the internet. ",
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"content": "Why though? No one was ever going to prosecute Clinton and they won't in this instance either. ",
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"content": "Because she wasn't found guilty of a crime.",
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"content": "well, not a crime that's illegal, however a crime within the workplace that would've gotten her blackmarked for all future government positions had she been found out while still on the job.",
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"content": "She was guilty of breaking the rules at her job, not a crime.",
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"content": "Intention is a factor in what makes it a crime. If you can't show she clearly intended to have the information end up in the wrong hands, you can't say she was clearly guilty of the crime.",
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"content": "I didn't say anything about ignorance of the law, I said she had no intent to harm national security. [Here's an article that goes into why the Espionage Act is interpreted to require intent](https://warontherocks.com/2016/07/why-intent-not-gross-negligence-is-the-standard-in-clinton-case/). I'm not familiar with the site, but the argument is sound and the writer is cited as \"a former military prosecutor and a current reserve U.S. Army Judge Advocate. He now practices law in California.\" ",
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"content": "Criminal negligence under what statute? As far as I can tell the question was always in reference to 18 U.S.C. § 793(f), which is what was addressed above.",
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"content": "She did act with negligence. Just not \"criminal negligence.\" And the statute is interpreted by the court in a way that \"gross negligence\" doesn't mean exactly what it would in normal conversation. If you don't agree, just look up Comey's statement where he specifically said she was negligent but not in a criminal way.\n\nI mean, I can give you more sources. The whole point is that negligence in this case isn't \"criminal negligence.\" I can't dispute it harder than that unless you give me a more specific definition. That blog has the most thorough analysis I saw with a few minutes googling of why negligence isn't the standard the courts use for that statute and he cites multiple cases for how the precedent was established.",
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"content": "That doesn't classify as criminal negligence. The only reason it would have been tagged as a crime is if she was handing over classified info to someone who shouldn't have it.",
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"content": "Well fortunately for her they went by the US's laws and not yours or the rest of T_D's special set of laws that apply to only democrats.",
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"content": "Not to mention she wasn't investigated because she used a private email.\n\n\nAnyone that actually thinks that was the issue has no idea what they're talking about. Obviously a state government employee is a little different from the secretary of state for the United States. The chief diplomat that deals with classified information of the highest levels. \n\nIs that really comparable to the AG for Oklahoma?",
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"content": "This investigation wouldn't be for using a private email either. It would be for lying to Congress. You know, the same thing they impeached the other Clinton for.",
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"content": "Which is incredibly petty and desperate in this situation as it was when Clinton was in office. \n\n\nAlso, lying is intentionally deceiving someone/s. There is a huge difference between saying something wrong and lying. It seems anytime someone says something that isn't correct people are calling it lying. That is not in anyway the proper way to label anytime someone says something wrong. \n\n\nAlso, anyone know where I can find a copy of this questionnaire that Scott Pruitt was responding to? [Found it](https://www.epw.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/6d95005c-bd1a-4779-af7e-be831db6866a/scott-pruitt-qfr-responses-01.18.2017.pdf)",
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"content": "Demanding that government officials not lie under oath to cover their asses is petty? If he had answered truthfully it probably wouldn't have been a big deal. If he's willing to lie about that, how can we trust him on topics that are deal breakers?\n\n>FTA: A Feb. 17 investigation by Oklahoma City’s Fox 25 news station revealed that Pruitt used a private email account to coordinate strategy and talking points with fossil fuel companies to oppose environmental rules, among other things. And a subsequent review of more than 7,500 emails by the Associated Press showed that Pruitt used his private email to conduct official business, including communicating with staff and lobbyists.\n\n>That directly contradicts what Pruitt told Congress in January. In Pruitt’s pre-confirmation questionnaire, Senator Cory Booker asked, “Have you ever conducted business using your personal email accounts, nonofficial Oklahoma attorney general email accounts, text messages, instant messenger, voicemails, or any other medium?”\n\n>Pruitt’s responded: “I use only my official OAG [Office of the Attorney General] email address and government-issued phone to conduct official business.”\n\nDoes that sound like he forgot to you? Sometimes people are mistaken. This doesn't look like one of those times.",
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"content": "Is this under oath though? Its a response to a questionnaire that he was given. \n\n\nI don't know how that works but it wasn't something he said in the actual hearing. \n\n\n\nYou're also asking someone to remember every e-mail or communication they ever sent and the contents of those. ",
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"content": "That's basically the question the second half of the article examines. Can we at least agree that oath or not, it looks like a lie?",
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"content": "I'll agree that it was a statement made without much thought put into it. I'm not going to agree that he made the statement to intentionally deceive someone. I'd also bet he knows that these communications legally have to be public record. \n\n\n From an objective standpoint why does it even matter? ",
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"content": "From an objective standpoint it doesn't matter because trustworthiness is subjective. From a moralistic standpoint I can't stand how everyone with an R after their name gets the benefit of the doubt every single time despite the crippling hysteria and conspiracy theories around Democrats.",
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"content": "They get the benefit of the doubt mostly from their own party just like the Democrats do. They both attack and condemn each other all the time. I'm not sure why you would feel like Republicans get the benefit of the doubt more often. \n\n\nIs there a specific instance in which you are referring to? ",
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"content": "Everything since November? If you want some specifics I'd start with how we still need to see Trump's tax returns. Or his grossly unqualified cabinet picks, or how hard it was to get Jeff Sessions to recuse himself from investigating the campaign he worked on.\n\nI'm not just referring to the benefit of the doubt from other politicians, but from the public too. Look at how careful everyone is about whether each statement is technically a lie or just a \"falsehood.\" It's a tough comparison to pin down though- at least from my POV Democrats don't pull anywhere near as many ridiculous stunts.",
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"content": ">If you want some specifics I'd start with how we still need to see Trump's tax returns.\n\n\nI'm all for releasing them, but a lot of people seem convinced that they are going to find out something from them that you just wouldn't from tax returns. Hes also been audited every year for like a decade.\n\n\n> how hard it was to get Jeff Sessions to recuse himself from investigating the campaign he worked on.\n\n\nI don't know what was hard about it? He recused himself pretty quickly and supposedly was already considering it. Several on the left are calling for him to resign. \n\n\n>I'm not just referring to the benefit of the doubt from other politicians, but from the public too.\n\n\nI don't get that impression at all. It seems like the complete opposite from what I've seen. Lots of people want Trump removed from office already. The majority of media outlets out there have been trashing him since he announced. Even Fox is being critical of him. \n\n\n> Look at how careful everyone is about whether each statement is technically a lie or just a \"falsehood.\"\n\n\nWell that issue comes from people saying it was definitely a lie first. Its okay to not make a determination if we aren't sure. Its not a good idea to make a claim and then have to take it back once the truth comes out. If I called you a liar and it turns out you just didn't know the truth that makes me look bad because I'm jumping to conclusions. \n\n\n It also is a problem when people are getting upset over things that don't really matter or that have nothing at all to do with governing. If left leaning people are going to criticize every single thing anyone on the right ever does then people are going to stop listening to you. They are going to start giving them the benefit of the doubt because the left are making 100 different claims and just hoping at least one of them sticks. \n\nLike the the whole trans bathroom thing. Headlines come out saying things like \"TRUMP HATES LGBT PEOPLE\" when the reality is that the order had been blocked by the courts and never in effect to begin with. Literally nothing changed from how things used to be. The same goes for the whole dumping toxic waste in rivers. You can argue he should have challenged it in court or something, but you can't argue that hes done something to purposely and negatively impact whatever in comparison to how things were. Very little has actually changed since Obama left office other than who is in what position. \n\n\nMaking accusations without context or details of the whole situation is just going to lead to people not trusting anything you say. Either have all the facts together so you're sure of misconduct or don't make accusations just hoping it leads somewhere. \n\n\n\nObviously the right does this stuff too, but no one benefits from both parties constantly trying to stick it to each other. ",
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"content": "Those going after Clinton admitted it was to affect the election, period. They didn't really give a damn about the issue itself, because it wasn't a big deal. Emails by their very nature are a post-card. Only when both ends of the email are encrypted is that not true.\n\nSince they accomplished the mission of winning the election, nothing about email servers or use will get any attention by Republican lawmakers. \n\nOr, to put it another way, they admitted when they were prosecuting Clinton they were hypocrites. ",
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"content": "Who said this? \n\nYou realize nobody would say that, because it would publicly make them look like liars and cheats. No one would do that. Are you making this up? Do you have a source? ",
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"content": "Kevin McCarthy. It stomped his political career, too.\n\nThe quote:\n\n>“Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping. Why? Because she’s untrustable. But no one would have known any of that had happened, had we not fought.” \n\nSources:\n\nhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/kevin-mccarthys-truthful-gaffe/2015/09/30/f12a9fac-67a8-11e5-8325-a42b5a459b1e_story.html?utm_term=.900082afa42d\n\nhttp://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/9/30/1426210/-Top-Republican-admits-Benghazi-Committee-is-all-about-attacking-Hillary-Clinton\n\nJust search for his name. You'll be able to fill the day with reading articles about it. ",
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"content": "One of those articles is an opinion piece, the other is a source I've never heard of, and the quote you put up doesn't really seem damning, considering context.\n\nBut I trust you",
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"content": "> Crowd: \"Lock her up! Lock her up!\"\n\n> Trump: \"That plays great before the election -- now we don't care, right?\"\n\n[\nSource](http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/09/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-lock-her-up-chant/index.html?sr=twCNN121016http://cnn.it/2gmAtlz0325AMVODtopVideo&linkId=32175485)",
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"content": "So, just to be clear, if you didn't think it was a big deal for Clinton (it was) you kind of have no credibility to go after these Republican clowns on the same issue.\n\nYou guys get that, right?\n\nIt's important to value governmental transparency, the rule of law, and national security no matter whether which letter the politician has next to their name. We can't let Clinton do whatever she wants, making toothless excuses for her all the way, and then get upset when Republicans engage in the same corruption.\n\nI would urge everyone here to be prepared, in the future, to hold our leaders in the Democratic party to a higher standard.\n\nWe can be better than the Republicans. We have to be. We should be. \n\n",
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"content": "I'm not going after the Republican clowns. I've just stated what I think the pragmatic reality is. \n\nIt was stupid to go after Clinton about emails that went over the open internet, but that strategy worked, sadly. \n\nAnd it's stupid to still try to stick Republicans with it, because it's a stupid issue in the first place, and they don't give a flying fuck about being openly hypocritical. (See that poor excuse for a scrotum support system: Mitch McConnell.) It only worked on the fucktards who don't understand what email is and wanted any excuse to pin yet another fake scandal on Clinton. ",
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"content": "sigh\n\nWe should be going after these Republican clowns if we value transparency and the informed consent of the governed as important principles of a free democracy.\n\nI guess you don't. I do, for a variety of reasons. I think all.Democrats should.\n\nWhat a pity you don't share those basic American values. ",
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"content": "We should go after them over real issues, not tissue-paper ones like which machine sent their email. So, you can stop accusing me of not caring or not having American values, fuck you very much.\n\nThey do plenty of immoral and illegal shit that's substantial and truly against the law that should be used, not email. (Again, Clinton's email server wasn't against the law, it was against policy, which was put in place after her server went up. And what these ass-clowns are doing with email isn't against the law either, just against policy.)\n\nFor example, hasn't Sessions essentially committed treason?",
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"content": "Jesus, at least you're consistent.\n\nI doubt what Sessions has done amounts to treason, as defined in the constitution, but it's certainly illegal and he should certainly resign or be forced to resign immediately, if not prosecuted.",
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"content": "And don't call me Jesus either! ;)\n\nHey, we disagree on the small things. So what.",
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"content": "Lmao sounds like someone doesn't understand the concept of hypocrisy...\n\n",
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"content": "While the Republicans were acting like it's the end of the world. So the only hypocrites are the Republicans, the Democrats are the ones wanting them to keep the playing field level by judging their guy like they judged Clinton. ",
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"content": "I'm sure James \"Clinton Cash\" Comey will get right on that.",
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"content": "Lying to congress is a crime. Talking to Russians isn't, unless you talk about very specific things. ",
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"content": "Sessions did lie to Congress. \n\nSo he should resign then?",
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"content": "I think so, yes. I don't think he *will* but I think he *should.*",
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"content": "When did he lie to congress?",
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"content": "He said he had no contact with the Russian ambassador.\n\nDon't play dumb. ",
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"content": "http://www.snopes.com/hillary-clinton-uranium-russia-deal/\n\nquick! deflect from the liars! i know, let's tell another lie",
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"content": "You got rekt. \n",
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"content": "If one speech is all it takes to convince you of someone's worth, well I'm sure I understand more clearly why you al admire Hitler so much.",
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"content": "What speech was that?\n\nHe only did okay compared to his usual speeches where he sounds stupid. \n\n",
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"content": "No, counting on people to notice the \"lying\" part. \n\nBecause that means those emails should be handed over. ",
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"content": "Is there reason to believe classified information was transmitted using the private email address?",
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"content": "All politicians lie. If lying will get you fired, then we should send them all home. If lying will get you fired, I have a feeling a lot of us would be unemployed. The liars in the Senate accusing the liars in the Administration being arbitrated by the liars on the Supreme Court is kind of a farce.",
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"content": "Are you saying politicians should be able to lie?\n\nCan I ask why you believe that, if we're trying to create the most efficient government for the people?\n\nIf politicians are able to lie, doesn't t hat upset the balance and cause inequalities within it, which create more issues and less efficiency?\n\nWhy do you want lies in politics?",
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"content": "I'm not saying politicians should be able to lie. I'm saying politicians DO lie as do most all humans. In a utopia there would be no liars, but we can't hold our politicians to a higher standard than ourselves. They are us. This is what humans do.",
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"content": ">but we can't hold our politicians to a higher standard than ourselves.\n\nYES WE CAN. That's the whole fucking point of appointing them. They are held to higher standards.\n\nWhat do you think the military is? They're all held to higher standards than civilians.\n\n\nEdit: I think there's a serious fucking problem with the way you see government. You see it as a platform to promote your own interests. I see it as a platform for compromise between all groups.\n\nWhat you are advocating for will bring us closer to civil war.",
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"content": "I don't appreciate your use of the word \"fucking\" Good day.",
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"content": "Well, overpopulation is the largest issue in the world that is the easiest to solve. Solving it would also solve almost every other issue we're having in the world.",
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"content": "Do not use Hillary as a lynch pin for justice. Use the law.",
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"content": "Yeah, and like Hillary, he should be absolved of anything despite the evidence. ",
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"content": "Hillary was absolved after dozens of investigations. ",
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"content": "dozens! literally dozens!",
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"content": "Yes, because it was nearly all bullshit. ",
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"content": "what exactly are you arguing? that she didn't use a private email server to conduct government business as SOS? that she didn't get hacked?",
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"content": "Arguing she was cleared. This guy has not been. So don't make a false comparison. ",
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"content": "Cleared of what? Lying? Because using a private server as governor is not illegal. ",
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"content": "Guys there are laws. It isn't against the law to use a private email address in that position, plz don't present the left as this stupid and out of touch.",
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"content": "It is if you lied, sparky, ",
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"content": "That's fucking bullshit. Thanks",
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"content": "Wow this Russian conspiracy sounds like more and more of a witch hunt every day! Even if you hate Trump, he says a lot of things that are true. ",
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"content": "Only absolute stains on society talk like you do. The world is not left vs right. It never has been. It never will.",
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"content": "Was it illegal for Pruitt to do so? (IDK) I would venture to guess it was illegal for Pence since he was discussing homeland security. He AND HRC should be behind bars.",
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"content": "Terrible article full of cliched slurs against the left. For example, it talks about the \"dude-bros\" of the left, a cringeworthy attempt at an insult with no connection to reality. Just lowbrow mudslinging.",
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"content": "And your wing didn't do the same? \n\nCalling people *who are on your side* shills, neoliberals, Corporate Democratic whores, Low information voters and vagina voters wasn't mudslinging?",
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"content": "I note that you did not attempt to defend the article, just attack unspecified others instead.",
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"content": "Because the attacks were justified. Idk why that faction of the party expected to slander people for months and act shocked when you got some back in return. ",
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"content": "And yet you did not attempt to justify them, you just point to (still unspecified) bad behaviour that you say excuses writing an article that is nothing but mudslinging.\n\nThe only slander I see here is in the linked article, which is sadly rather common from a certain strand of aggressive centrist, who have indeed been slandering the left for months. But it's okay because unspecified others said unspecified bad things, so really they're the divisive ones.",
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"content": "Well then you're being willfully ignorant about how Clinton supporters have been treated this election cycle. \n\n[Death threats in Nevada](https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/17/us/politics/bernie-sanders-supporters-nevada.html?_r=0)\n\n[WayofTheBern calling POC low information](https://np.reddit.com/r/WayOfTheBern/comments/5ufn8d/why_i_believe_bernie_sanders_is_more_electable/)\n\n[Thread with Bernie supporters trashing BLM for protesting](https://np.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/3gb7mg/black_lives_matter_protester_yells_at_bernie/?sort=top)\n\nBut just continue to play dumb and act like these counter punches came out of nowhere.",
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"content": "So to be clear, your argument is that because some anonymous Sanders supporters were rude on Reddit, it is okay for Clinton supporters to slander the entire left in the pages of Vanity Fair (or the New York Times, or Salon or any number of mainstream media outlets)?\n\nSurely you can see the massive power imbalance there? Even if both sides are just as bad, if one has vastly more power, then surely that side can (and does) cause vastly more damage? I don't think it's a 'counterpunch' when the people who set the news agenda try and make everyone to their left pay for the sins of some anonymous redditors. I think it's just a punch.\n\nAnd fyi, Clinton supporters were just as rude when BLM disrupted her. There is plenty of bigotry in the alt center.\n\nOh and you still haven't justified the article itself. You seem to be saying it's okay to print smears about people you don't like, which I don't think is right, even if I did agree that your reasons for not liking them were legitimate.",
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"content": "My point is that the far left is no victim when there were tons of articles/video full of slander that came from the far left. This wasn't a vocal minority on reddit. This was BAU for the entire election cycle. To act as if the progressive wing was an innocent dove is disingenuous at best. We saw this from phone bankers, advocates on tv and even the Senator himself to a small extent. It's been a 2 front war fighting deplorables that those that wanted chaos \"to teach a lesson\".\n\nYou really going to pretend that progressive networks like TYT didn't go out of their way to trash Clinton supporters? You don't think they went of of their way to paint her as some Jim Crow that's no better than the Cheeto in office? \n\nThe article accurately pictured how the far left treated people. It wasn't a smear....it's exactly what I and many other Clinton voters were on the receiving end for the past year and I've had enough of it months ago. I'm not going to apologize for not being civil when so called \"allies\" gloat after Trump won.\n\n",
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"content": "And yet all you've managed to come up with is some Reddit threads. Indeed none of the people or outlets you've mentioned have the reach or influence of Vanity Fair. Power imbalance.\n\nOh and fyi almost no-one mentioned in that article is an accelerationist, which is part of why it is unreasonable, it is demonstrably factually incorrect. That's why I posted this [New York Magazine Rebuttal](http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/03/why-the-alt-center-is-a-problem-too.html).\n\nThis is in fact exactly what I'm talking about, at no point have I said the Sanders wing is entirely innocent and every leftist is unfailingly polite, yet you have claimed I did. Much as claims of wanting a Trump win or believing there was no difference between the candidates is wildly exaggerated. There's no interest in truth here, there is a pre-constructed image of the straw Bernie supporter and people will be forced into it regardless of their actual actions. Some of the people called out in this article aren't even lefties. It's a failure of journalism.\n\nSanders supporters have also been in the receiving end of attacks for a year, from far more powerful sources, even after Clinton had already won, and quite frankly they have had enough of it as well. Just last week a guy told me that all Sanders supporters are Assad apologists that want to murder gays. I don't hold you responsible for that, so it would be nice if you extended me the same courtesy.",
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"content": "That is a tu quoque not an argument ",
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"content": "I have yet to meet these people I go to an extremely liberal university.",
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"content": "These folks certainly showed up to my caucus last spring. Speech after speech about how how Hillary was the most gay-hating racist in history. It was bizarre. \n\nAs much as they're *noisy*, though, I suspect there are far, far fewer of them. (Also, they're much more prone to faction and infighting than their equivalents on the right, which defangs them a lot.)",
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"content": "America has a problem with idiots of ALL political extremes.",
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"content": "Of all political stripes, not merely 'extremes' the center contains its own share of cranks.",
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"content": "Can we agree that people are lunatics all over, then?",
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"content": "I'd prefer not to use that word. Being an asshole is not a mental illness.",
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"content": "Awful article, but a very good example of a particular kind of centrist who is more interested in dividing the party with deliberate, targeted smears than actually winning anything ever again. One might call them the alt-centre.\n\nA [good rebuttal](http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/03/why-the-alt-center-is-a-problem-too.html) from New York Magazine.",
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"content": "Yes and it's not for you. It's for his followers.\n\nHe is feeding their victim complex to increase his support. Be wary of these sorts of tactics. Fact-checking him does zero; his supporters aren't listening to anyone but him.",
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"content": "It's hard to know what to do in fact when he has their full trust and he casts us as villains.",
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"content": "First realize that you can't change that casting. Focus your energy on getting out the vote from reachable, reasonable people who generally don't bother to vote instead of trying to change the mind of someone who is utterly unmovable. Protest, donate to orgs that are fighting for change, vote, get out the vote, volunteer, contact representatives -do all you can but don't waste your time and breath trying to change the minds of those who refuse to even hear you.",
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"content": "Other than the ACLU which I already donate to, what are good organizations out there?",
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"content": "http://www.advocate.com/politics/2016/11/29/24-trump-fighting-charities-need-your-dollars",
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"content": "He pretty much has, the Media is the enemy of the people and talking to any trump supporters, if you criticize any aspect of him, they'll label you a liberal and ignore everything you have to say.",
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"content": "His supporters don't care about anyone except their own loyalty or pacifying antifascist and resistance movements that make safe activism possible. We need to fight their pseudo intellectualism. ",
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"content": "To whom, though? To the uninformed and the fence sitters? Sure. To trump's supporters? They already know. They're not wrong, they're *lying.* There's a difference. Trump didnt claim Obama wiretapped him because he doesn't know it's untrue; he lied to distract you from his own crimes. His supporters know Hillary wasn't corrupt. Trump is corrupt. They love him. Corruption doesnt bother them. They know everything they say to you is bullshit. It's just lies to try and win the argument. You won't reach them with facts.",
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"content": "But..., but..., but...,\n\nDamn it, you're right.",
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"content": "It's awful but it's true. It's our inclination to educate but you cannot educate the unwilling. If we want to survive, we need to educate those who have not already abandoned reason for conservatism and increase our support. But the more we wrangle with the right, the more they keep standing still, just arguing.",
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"content": "When they deflect wrong-doing by trying to point out someone else did something similar, the thing to do is say okay..., let's investigate them too. I have no problem with that. America has to wise up and not be fooled and distracted by these childish tactics. This is grade school stuff. ",
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"content": "Of course, I'm not saying we use facts(of course we do, but that's besides the point), we don't need facts. We need to get out the vote and rebuild our tattered and broken coalition. If we loose state legislation we risk the very real possibility of the Republicans being able to amend the constitution. We need a unifying message, and we need one from the people that isn't from outsiders, or wealthy business men. We need one from the people of the party. A message that represents everyone, not a select few. To do that, you need to fight their pseudo intellectualism within our own ranks. We need to prevent our party from bleeding more, or let this party die and form a new one. It's not to educate them, it's to educate our own. We are just as guilty as promoting this insanity based off of some alternate reality which we as Democrats like to live in. We need to recognize our majority and use that. ",
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"content": "See, the problem I have is this oft-repeated message. It comes in many forms but it's always the same notion; the Dems ignored people. We never ever did. Obama didn't fix Bush's crashed economy only for gays and blacks. Obama didn't push hard to create jobs for 8 years only for rich elites. You know who ignored them? The GOP that blocked every jobs, infrastructure, and economic repair bill that crossed their desks for 8 years so they could win elections. They forgot the working class, not the lone democrat in power for the last 6 years.\n\nBut you're right, the tact we have to take with Republican voters is very different. They won this election by spreading fake news and lies and bullying and witch hunts and hacking and name calling. Talking sense them to won't work. \n\n",
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"content": "I didn't mean to come off that we ignored people, you put that better than I did but new tactics are needed to fight this fake religion of pseudo intellectualism. Agreed. ",
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"content": "My fear is that the best choice is to fight fire with fire. I don't want us to become that but we may have to. ",
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"content": "It will be bad for a few years, but the fight as always is within our own coalition. We waste time by spreading our message to the Republicans, that's why they won, and we didn't we tried to play the middle ground to much.",
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"content": "That I completely agree with; but with some provisos.\n\nIt's not that we usually have a rift within the coalition. We generally have been fine. This election was different, though. I have never witnessed so large a chunk of the Democratic youth vote just refuse to vote for the democrat when SO much was on the line. I get that they wanted Sanders -so did I -but I didn't lose my mind and throw the nation to the worst collection of corrupt Republicans I have personally witnessed. I'm not sure how you fix that. The only answer seems to be 'run a far left candidate' but A) none seem to have emerged and B) then you'd alienate the other half of the party who want liberalism but not blatant socialism.\n\nWe also have to realize that there were literally buildings of paid shills on the internet sowing dissent on purpose. How do you unite the party when people posing as members of the party stir up crazy nonsense?\n\nI really think the best way to convince the public, from any party, is to do nothing right now but let Trump and the GOP fuck up their lives. Trump and the GOP run the entire government now; they have no one to blame it on if they fuck up the country. THEN we have a starting point. When people's lives suck, they turn away from their politicians to those who offer something better. That's when we spread our message. [Right now, they aren't listening.](https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2017-02-27/majority-of-americans-think-press-has-been-too-critical-of-trump-poll-finds)",
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"content": "I am beginning to think there aren't any real fence-sitters left.",
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"content": "Honestly, talking to some of his supporters, even friends of mine, I feel like they are brainwashed. I don't know fully where they get their info, if i had to guess itd be from echochambering on FB, but they parrot Trump's talking points all the time. ",
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"content": "Perhaps nominating a bunch of lying Russian puppets that are susceptible to blackmail is a factor that is holding up some of the nominees appointments?",
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"content": "It is odd that Fox News is willing to go to such lengths to keep the truth from America. Partisanship is one thing, but treason is a bit too far. They're in a position to open people's eyes to the mistake they made last year.",
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"content": "But what the Republicans don't understand it that it is really Donald Trumps fault. The orange marmite reptile. ",
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"content": "Remember that time they delayed a Supreme Court nomination for months?",
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"content": "This is the one talent he has: finding someone or something to blame. I bet he will still be blaming others in 2020.",
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"content": "The question, I think, is will they be allowed to?\n\nThe mentions of turnout are as predictable as they are tiresome. Obviously the old will always vote more, voting is habit forming, once you've done it once you're more likely to do it again, that naturally favours the older, who are also more likely to stay in one place and not have to re-register. Indeed I often think this is one of those reasons that \"young people don't vote in non Presidential elections\", when you move around a lot, you don't really care all that much about local politics. That's why it's important to connect local and national politics, to explain why winning a state helps you win Congress helps you win the Presidency.\n\nWhich is the second part of \"will they be allowed to\"? Will millennials be given the chance to contribute to the party, to execute this kind of outreach, or will they be told to shut up and obey their elders? The jury is still out on that one.\n\nFinally it is worth pointing out that young people are more vulnerable to voter suppression than old people. They might lack ID, they might move around a lot and subsequently get purged from registers, especially students, who are vulnerable to the \"this person was registered in two states!\" headline. And of course young people these days are generally poorer than their forebears, with all the compounded disadvantages that come with that.",
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"content": "> The question, I think, is will they be allowed to?\n\nI agree.\n\nThe article's analysis only discussed Millenials' views on issues related to racism and other forms of bigotry.\n\nWhile those are important, who can ignore the relevance of economic issues, like low-paying jobs with crappy benefits, crippling student debt, and wealth inequality to Millennials? \n\nSanders got more Millennial votes in the primaries than Trump and Hillary combined. The article mentions the massive Millennial turnout for Obama in 2008 without recalling that Obama ran a quasi-populist left campaign that year, one that argued healthcare should be a right, not a privilege, and called for limiting the influence of lobbyists (\"they will not fund my campaign and they will not fund my party!\").\n\nEconomic populism, defined simply as standing for the economic interests of workers and consumers, is crucial for effectively appealing to Millennials. \n\nThe Democrats have convinced everyone that they are anti-racist, anti-sexist, pro-LGBT, etc. No one doubts our commitment to those issues. What we need to work on is our commitment to economic justice, workers' rights, and limiting the role of corporate lobbyists and big donors in policy decisions.\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "Yeah, it's well documented that Millienials lean left and are far more comfortable with socialism. If you want to turn them out, you want to tack left. It's really that simple.",
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"content": "They kinda shut us out with denying Mayor Pete his chance, so probably not. :/",
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"content": "If we could get some goddamn protests going",
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"content": "If more of us vote in every election, then sure. We'll gain influence both within the party and in the nation as a whole.\n\nBut if we continue to sit out unless someone perfect is on the ballot, we'll never amount to anything as a bloc.",
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"content": "Uh... only if they actually vote. \n\nVote. Not protest. Vote. Every year. \n\nIf you already do that then find other people your age who would not vote otherwise. \n\nIt's called math, \n",
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"content": "It's called alienation. Most millenials I know that didn't vote did it because they've lost faith and confidence in the party. And why not? The primaries scandal, the constant corporate money, broken promises, constant demands on the progressive wing to comply instead of compromising some things and then talking about party unity. I've been a lifelong democrat, but boy do they look weak now and apparently not learning any of the lessons that lost them this election, and now they expect millenials, blue collared midwesterners, and various other groups they need to just fall in line simply because they're not Trump's party. Hell no, change or die. Stop expecting victories without putting in the effort to build support or get crushed by the most unpopular president and congress in history.",
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"content": "I'm sorry who are we talking about here? I've campaigned for them for over a decade now, and it's always the same thing. Compliance, not compromise, even to those who have been loyal. And now they can't even win elections on that platform anymore so, keep telling yourself that and see where it gets us.",
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"content": "WOW. Over a decade. /s\n\nYou are not special and are not entitled to anything. \n\nIt's a joint effort. \n",
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"content": "Can't he just site some \"Unamed Member of the Intelligence Community\" like every time CNN tries to tie him to some stupid Russian Conspiracy Theory.",
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"content": "The funny thing is that [Fuckface von Clownstick](http://images.gawker.com/18mkkhj03te6pjpg/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.jpg) says the media should **not** be allowed to use anonymous sources....\n\nand then the White House gives reporters briefings \"on background\", which means the reporters aren't allowed to name the person giving them the information, just calling them \"an unnamed administration official\" (or something similar).\n\nSo not only is he fucking stupid, he's a fucking hypocrite as well. ",
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"content": "How many of his people lied about connections to Russia again? I mean they DO make up a good portion of his portfolio.",
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"content": "> It’s certainly ironic that the Trump White House — which has heavily criticized articles relying on anonymous sources — now relies on articles based on anonymous sources that cite information that has not been confirmed by any U.S. news organization. It would be amusing if it were not so sad.\n\n> After all, Clapper, who presumably would be aware of a FISA court order, has issued an on-the-record denial.\n\n> Even if these media reports are accepted as accurate, neither back up Trump’s claims that Obama ordered the tapping of his phone calls. Moreover, they also do not back up the administration’s revised claim of politically motivated investigations.\n\nSource: WaPo article above",
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"content": "Can we give it a fifth on account of just how fucking stupid this idea is?",
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"content": "Think of it as an honorary Pinocchio, for excellence in extreme idiocy.",
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"content": "Trying to distract from the fact his campaign coordinated with a hostile foreign intelligence service. ",
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"content": "Or any of the policies he's enacting.\n\nhttp://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2017/03/here_are_42_of_president_donal.html",
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"content": "I'd just like to point out just how many \"pants on fires\" this man earned before the election and how little good it apparently did.\n\nAgain, his message was NOT for you. He knows he's lying, your fact checking is pointless. It was for his zombies.\n\nHe is rallying them.",
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"content": "That may be true but it's important to say it anyway. Journalism is the first draft of history.",
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"content": "Thank you for sharing that quote. I'd never heard it before, and digging into its origins provides a fascinating history on news publication in the US. Cheers!",
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"content": "Give the guy a break, he's a great role model for all the compulsive liars out there, they too can be president.\n\n",
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"content": "Which? Comey didn't ask, or there was never a wiretap?",
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"content": "On what do you base this, considering not only does the article I posted claimed that he has, but [this one does as well](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/05/us/politics/trump-seeks-inquiry-into-allegations-that-obama-tapped-his-phones.html)?\n\n ",
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"content": "Send Trump to The Hague!",
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"content": "Are you even having the same conversation the OP is having with you?? ",
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"content": "He's not even in the same reality as OP. ",
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"content": "It's like he read it, couldn't understand it, then decided it must be pro-trump. I can't wrap my mind around how short sighted most alt right are.",
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"content": "Your reading comprehension is very poor. But trump says he likes the poorly educated. Sad!",
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"content": "Laughing in the face of defeat might see you through. I foresee lots of \"haha's\" in your future.",
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"content": "Funny to watch you guys twist into pretzels defending your Dear Leader. \n\nLap up that orange smegma. ",
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"content": "Prove it, Trumpcake. ",
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"content": "Got that proof yet, orange boy?\n\n",
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"content": "We're waiting. Hurry up. \n\nProvide that evidence for stupid birtherism, 5 million illegal votes, and inauguration crowd sizes, too.\n\nMove it. ",
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"content": "Your guy can't even spell, let alone repeal Obamacare. \n\n",
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"content": "Miserable Anglo Groper Administration?",
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"content": "Must suck to see a POTUS imploding after six weeks. ",
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"content": "Can't agree. Mike Pence is hateful, but he's an ordinary politician -- and conventionally sane. Trump is so mentally unstable that we cannot be sure he won't start a nuclear war at 5 AM tomorrow. I want the nuclear codes out of his hands by any means necessary.",
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"content": "I want to capitalize on his unpopularity in the 2018 midterm elections.",
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"content": "How many lives are you willing to risk for that political advantage?\n\nI think an impeached President is damaging enough to Republicans. And I think if it is perceived that the Democrats could've impeached Trump but didn't, they will be damaged immensely.",
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"content": "We need to win big in the 2018 gubernatorial races to prevent Republican gerrymandering over the next decade.",
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"content": "I'm actually starting to wonder how deep all of this goes. If Trump gets tossed, I wonder if he'll take the whole crew down with him. \nWe could be looking at third or fourth in line. ",
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"content": "I would hate to have Speaker of the House Paul Ryan or President Pro Tempore Orrin Hatch as President of the United States.",
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"content": "I think pence is smart enough to keep his nose clean. But who really knows?",
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"content": "If trump colluded with Russia to win the election, we must demand new elections. \n",
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"content": "Here's the reason you impeach and remove. Regardless of who is next, Pence or Ryan, Trump poses a very different thing. He will rubber stamp everything Pence, Ryan and the republicans come up with. The biggest reason you impeach is to fight what he represents and his precedent. We need to reject as a nation everything Trump is and impeachment is the way you do that. All his hate and what he represents we reject. Right now, everything Trump does is precedent. When he doesn't release his taxes, that opens it up for the next guy to say Trump never released his taxes. When he goes after the press, calls them fake news, bars them from briefings, that's precedent for the next guy to do the same. When he publishes the names of crimes committed by immigrants, is hateful, racist, sexist, when he goes on twitter tantrums, when he gets away with sexual assault and bragging about it, when he calls names, tries to discredit a branch of government in the judicial branch, is a crybaby, all of that is precedent. Unless we impeach. It is necessary for the survival of our democracy that we impeach so that none of this is precedent for the next guy. No one should be able to say \"Well Trump in 2017 did X, so whats the big deal here?\" It's bigger than party politics, it's bigger than what's going on right now. Unless we impeach, this could put politics down a very dangerous road.\n\nNot to mention Trump poses a national security threat that Pence or Ryan doesn't, with his volatility and complete lack of understanding of government and foreign relations. His Russian ties pose an immediate threat to Europe. NATO is the only thing that keeps Russia from picking off the Baltics and invading free democracies in Europe and he's threatening to pull out. He cozies to Russia enough and Russia gets the green light to take over Europe and start world war III. They've already taken the rhineland, I mean Crimea.\n",
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"content": "Here's the thing about Pence, yeah he's a horrible individual but he's easily beatable in a general election. He doesn't have the charisma that is required of a POTUS. So if the GOP impeaches Trump (and that's the only way he gets impeached) it will because Trump became too toxic for the party and they're willing to cede the 2020 election. Now if Trump somehow wins re-election in 2020, then it might be possible Trump would quit before 2024 as he doesn't want to be called a lame-duck.",
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"content": "I think [this](http://theweek.com/articles/680944/what-happens-when-president-trump-faces-genuine-emergency) is a strong counterpoint. To wit, there are aspects of a President's job which simply require competence, in such moments Pence is preferable.\n\nThink about Katrina, think about what happens if there's an earthquake or a hurricane or a viral epidemic on Trump's watch. The results are not pretty. Real lives will be lost if Trump is in charge of a major emergency situation.\n\nMoreover I do not believe there is any hateful law Pence will pass that Trump would not. Trump talks a better game on LGBTQ issues, but we all know he's a huge liar, and he's already made moves against them.",
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"content": "\"The implantation of Executive Order 13769 has been delayed by litigation.\" \n\nSo if the law doesn't want to ban people... Maybe don't ban people.",
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"content": "So they're taking Iraq off the list, the only place we're actively fighting a war, because...I dunno, they're too lazy to write loopholes for Iraqis that work with the military? \n\nNone of this makes sense. ",
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"content": "> None of this makes sense\n\nAre you surprised by this?",
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"content": "No, but it's important to keep saying it so it doesn't get normalized. ",
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"content": "Because this order is about fighting terrorists, which is why Saudia.....oh wait.",
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"content": "Pakistan is missing too.",
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"content": "The problem with the new ban and why it will probably stand up is they exempt current visa holders. This means there is probably no one with standing to sue over it.",
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"content": "I would suspect that they \"fixed\" all of the mistakes in the previous version, unless they are more comically inept than it already seems.\n\nI would imagine that opponents of the ban have been formulating a way to attack it that includes finding someone of standing. \n\nI expect a fight that goes all the way to the Supreme Court, but the beauty of the battle is that it will solidify in the public's mind the punitive racism/bigotry of the GOP. ",
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"content": "Wasn't part of the case from WA on behalf of companies and/or universities who will have a harder time recruiting talent? That could still apply.",
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"content": "That is interesting, the 9th Circuit's TRO states that the harm on residents (i.e. current visa holders) is the primary reason they have standing and that the recruiting and outreach missions of universities and companies (as well as the states' tax revenue from bringing in foreign employees) is also a harm.\n\nThe question then is the second harm seems a lot weaker than the first. But hopefully the 9th circuit will rule again in the favor of WA and MN who are likely to sue again.",
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"content": "> a Muslim ban\n\nFor the sake of brevity, I used that in the headline. \n\nHowever, this was the ostensible reason that the 9th Circuit shot the first proposal down. \n\n> I thought it was a ban of specific countries, rather than a ban on religion\n\nIt depends on which side of the fence you're on, but it is very easy to make the case that [Fuckface von Clownstick](http://images.gawker.com/18mkkhj03te6pjpg/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.jpg) wanted to follow through on his campaign promise:\n\n*von Clownstick (edit is mine) is calling for a complete and total shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on.*\n\nAnd the first proposal was the result.",
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"content": "**If you had read the very next comment in this thread, you would have found this:**\n\n> a Muslim ban\n\nFor the sake of brevity, I used that in the headline. \n\nHowever, this was the ostensible reason that the 9th Circuit shot the first proposal down. \n\n> I thought it was a ban of specific countries, rather than a ban on religion\n\nIt depends on which side of the fence you're on, but it is very easy to make the case that [Fuckface von Clownstick](http://images.gawker.com/18mkkhj03te6pjpg/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.jpg) wanted to follow through on his campaign promise:\n\n*von Clownstick (edit is mine) is calling for a complete and total shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on.*\n\nAnd the first proposal was the result.",
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"content": "The left is hardly monolithic.\n\nMy own take: if the weapon can be used to kill 30 kindergartners in 30 seconds, it's a military weapon and needs to be banned.\n\nIf you need an AR-15 to kill an opossum, you don't need a bigger clip, you need to practice your skills.",
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"content": "I'm with you. I try not to think of this issue as a \"need\" argument (although it can definitely be rephrased that way), but more along the lines of your first point. It's a perfect offensive weapon. Unfortunately, it's also a perfect defensive weapon.\n\nIt's hard to make the need argument when there are examples abound of multiple-perp home invasion robberies. If you have two guys guys armed with the most popular handgun on the market, they can fire 32 rounds before having to reload. Under those circumstances, it's hard to say there isn't a purpose for an AR.\n\nSadly, the gun market has become something of an arms race. But IMO, just because an AR ban and a 10 round clip capacity isn't a practical reality doesn't excuse shoddy gun control legislation that doesn't actually do anything (and may actually be counterproductive). \n\nI know the left isn't all on the same page on this, but I also think they don't grasp the extent to which the right IS. You hear the statistics of 70+% in support of sensible gun control, but it's a lot more complex than that. There is incredibly widespread paranoia on the right, and that's always going to get in the way of common sense. What bugs me is when I go to my gun-owning friends and say \"relax, nothing's going to happen to your guns,\" and then one of our party's reps puts forward this garbage.",
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"content": "Don't get so upset.\n\nIf you live an urban area, the proliferation of all forms of guns and gun violence is an obvious idiocy and travesty. It's not hard to see this.\n\nI'll accept an AR-15 is arguably better than an automatic shotgun to protect yourself from multiple people attacking your home in the middle with automatic weapons.\n\nThe situation you describe is not impossible. But it's pretty implausble, yes? Like, unless you are a drug dealer or gold merchant, approaching .0000000001 percent.\n\nSo why the fear of a home invasion so deep in the American psyche? E.g, my uncle keeps a loaded .45 by his bedside to protect against nighttime intruders. \n\nIf you are interested, the NRA switch from an sportsman/hunting advocacy group to whatever it is that you want to call it now, occurred at the same time (1972 or so) as the Black Panthers began to openly parade long barrel guns. I don't think its a coincidence.\n\n\n ",
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"content": "1) Unlikely, but no, the chance of being the victim of a home invasion in this state senator's district (Miami) is not one in 10 million.\n\n2) There's nothing wrong with wanting to have the means to defend one's self in situations where the police will never be able to respond in time. \n\n3) The crux of my post is that my Democratic state senator introduced a bill which injects the state into the doctor patient relationship with virtually no proven upside. The press release stated that it is targeting mass shootings and domestic gun violence, neither of which are evidenced to be affected by concealed carry restrictions. \n\nEDIT: As for your discussion about types of firearms. I didn't mention anything about automatic weapons. I referred to the Glock 19, which has a capacity of 16 9mm rounds. 2 people, 2 Glocks, 32 rounds. That's not a fanciful scenario; it's typical. ",
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"content": "3). I agree with you, the State Senators proposal sounds stupid. But neither of us live in the State Senator's district. If I lived in poor, urban Miami, or a well to do neighborhood that wasn't worried about night time invasion. \n\nIf the mental health certification is required to purchase a military style weapon, then I think it is a good idea. The instrusion into your constitutional rights and needs is minimal compared to the damage mentally ill people with military weapons have done to America in the recent past. \n\n1. I think your are incorrect. Home invasions are hardly random events. Gangs of home invaders don't just drive around and pick a house. They are after something specific in the house -- cash, drugs, diamonds, etc.\n\nThe situation you are worried about -- home invaders who randomly pick your house, are way more than 1 in 10,000,000. It's meteor on the head.\n\n",
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"content": "I live there. That's why I've been saying MY state senator. \n\nI'm glad you think I'm incorrect, but I think it's on you to come up with something beyond pure speculation. \n\nI'm not sure how your discussion of home invasion relates to the question posed in my original post. But you're flat wrong. My neighborhood of 800 households logs approximately 4 robberies or burglaries per month. In 2 years, more or less (allowing for repeats), one living in my neighborhood has a 1 in 8 chance of being a robbery/burglary victim. \n\nStop. Breathe. Think for a second. Understand that the person you're talking to might deal with violent crime as an occupation. And he or she might know more than you do. ",
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"content": "I can't come up with something beyond speculation because Congress refuses to fund scientific research regarding gun violence.\n\nIf you are telling me you are police, that's fine. You will greater access and interest to data than I do. ",
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"content": "Really, typical?\n\nHome invasion robberies and murders often happen in random homes, or happen where the invaders are after something valuable?\n\nI can't give you a precise statistic. But if there is a home invasion with a kidnapping and murder of ordinary people, it is generally national news. \n\nThe odds of what you fear are astronomical, I think. Unless you have a safe with jewels inside it, or a pound of blow. \n\nEDIT: I misunderstood. A Glock 19 is an automatic handgun, correct? And yes, I agree that would be typical.",
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"content": "No, it is a semi automatic handgun. It's funny you bring up kidnapping; my neighbor would have a good story for you. They held him and his family at gunpoint, took all his shit, them forced him, again at gunpoint, to drive to the ATM and max out his debit card limits. That was just a couple months ago. ",
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"content": "You are right. \n\nCan you point to the news article regarding your neighbor?",
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"content": "http://www.local10.com/news/crime/man-forces-victim-into-miami-shores-home-before-forcing-him-to-drive-to-atm-police-say",
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"content": "That is a guy riding a bicycle past an open garage in which the home owner is working out. \n\nThat's really not what we are talking about, I think. We are talking about, I think, multiple people breaking into your house at night. ",
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"content": "I don't know what YOU'RE taking about. I was asking about Democratic positions on gun control and, more to the point, concealed carry. You're not just out of the ballpark, you're on another planet.",
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"content": "We were talking about home invasions and the usefulness of AR-15s.\n\nI said such invasions rarely happened in the absence of something valuable being inside.\n\nYou said no, they happen regularly, and referred to an article about a guy working out in his garage with the door open as an example.\n\nI said that is pretty poor example of a home invasion.\n\nYou said I am on another planet.",
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"content": "A bus could. \nSo could a rope with the right prep. \nAlso a bottle of bleach and a bottle of ammonia mixed together. \nAn airplane crash also. \nAre all those things \"military weapons\"? \nEdit: AR-15s don't use clips.",
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"content": "Have their been a lot of bus attacks recently? Disco mass killings with ropes?\n\nNo? Have we had a number of these attacks with AR-15's, yes.\n\nAnother point re your argument -- Because we could all die in a different way, doesn't mean anything goes. You can't have a nuke in your garage, because it is possible I could be struck by lightening. Right? \n",
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"content": "Now you're moving goalposts. \nYour *only* criteria was how quickly the \"weapon\" could kill kindergartners. \nMy point is that a more logical yardstick than KPS should be applied (kindergartners per second). ",
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"content": "You brought up death by blimps, soda cans, and rope.\n\nI am not moving anything.\n\nKPS is an excellent measure of the dangerousness and cost of allowing a military weapon to freely circulate among civilians.",
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"content": "And this is why reasonable gun laws will never pass. \nA shared reality is needed for any laws to be agreed upon and moved forward. \nAn appeal to emotion is what you are currently using. \nIn my opinion an appeal to logic is much more likely to gain footing.",
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"content": "Whatever.",
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"content": "Yeah you're appealing to emotion too, not logic, when you say a rope can kill 30 kindergarteners just as easily as an AR so that's why we can never get gun laws. ",
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"content": "No, I'm pointing out the ridiculous nature of appealing to emotion. \nThat was the point, that KPS was not an acceptable unit of measurement. \nI think you need to reread the comment string because you don't seem to understand what was going on there.",
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"content": "He just needs to shut up and go away",
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"content": "Wait, so are you saying all slaves were natives? I recall hearing stories in grade school about slaves arriving by boatloads to be sold to the highest bidder upon landing in America. Did my public schooling fail me?",
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"content": "The answer to your last question is yes",
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"content": "Ah, the token black Republican strikes again. I'm a middle eastern us immigrant with a law degree, wonder if they need one of those? I'm sure i could milk their donors for a few million $$ in book sales and speaking fees. ",
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"content": "When I clicked the link, I thought the title had to be an exaggeration. ",
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"content": "The thing I don't understand, is *even from the GOP perspective* Ben Carson seems like a bad pick for this job. Like, if I *wanted* to hurt poor people and dismantle the government, I wouldn't pick Ben Carson to do it.\n\nPaul Ryan is pretty good at it. The key is to *say* stuff that *sounds* good for poor people, but then *do* stuff in a boring and not flashy way that hurts poor people.\n\nSame with Betsy DeVos. Like, if you wanted to undo public schools, seems like there are plenty of people that are more qualified for that job, that aren't going to make a fool of themselves.\n\nIt's not like you can just put an idiot in charge and then expect them to drive the branch of government in to a tree, on accident/purpose.\n\nBranches of government have lots of moving parts, thousands of people that work in them and believe in government, and pages and pages of rules and regulations. It's hard to turn the ship.\n\nI mean, thank god, Trump didn't understand any of that and we got Ben Carson and Betsy Devos instead of people that could have done damage much quicker and more efficiently.\n\nAnd, I mean, Carson and Devos are going to do real damage, and peoples lives are going to be ruined, but better people could have done even more damage and hurt even more people.",
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"content": "> It's not like you can just put an idiot in charge and then expect them to drive the branch of government in to a tree, on accident/purpose.\n\nJust watch them try.",
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"content": ">It's not like you can just put an idiot in charge and then expect them to drive the branch of government in to a tree, on accident/purpose.\n\nYep",
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"content": "Aaaaaaand that's the end of his career. Wow.",
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"content": "Please, Rs likely don't agree with the presentation of this narrative but nonetheless believe its tenants, that minorities/poors should be grateful their white betters brought them to be exploited in exceptional America. ",
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"content": "As is tradition.",
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"content": "How does the WWC let them get away with fucking them over TIME AND TIME AGAIN?",
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"content": "Racism, guns, misogyny. ",
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"content": "They dont care how badly they get fucked as long as brown people get fucked more ",
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"content": "This. Exactly this. Trump supporters just care about being \"allowed\" to be racists now...the details of any of his policies escape their limited understanding of how anything in the government actually works...",
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"content": "What do we call this? Trumpcare or Republicare? ",
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"content": "Republicare. Make them own it- don't let them use Trump as a shield to hide behind. ",
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"content": "I was thinking the same thing. Make the whole party pay for this disaster. ",
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"content": "The republican agenda in a nutshell.",
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"content": "But remember both sides are the same/s",
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"content": "Republicunts:\n\nOpenly stealing from the poor, and handing it to the rich.\n\nFuck them all.",
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"content": "These GOP assholes are wasting their time with this when they should be putting aside their partisan nonsense to bring down their President, who's increasingly becoming a threat to America with each passing day.",
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"content": "I see a sudden heart attack in the ambassador's immediate future. ",
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"content": "My money's on a well-placed banana peel.",
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"content": "I'm not sure if this is sketchy or normal. Do candidates normally meet with ambassadors?",
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"content": "If they have pee pee pictures of them, then yes.",
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"content": "Cover up could be worse than the crime in this case. Or, perhaps the crime is bad too :P",
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"content": "idk, are there any historical examples of presidential candidates meeting with foreign diplomats? Trump wasn't even the nominee at this point yet. Perhaps this is when Russia decided to throw its support behind Trump?",
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"content": "No, not unless their existing job is one that normally meets with ambassadors. For example, if Clinton had still been Secretary of State it would have been expected. ",
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"content": "It wouldn't be surprising if candidates met with Ambassdors. Especially in the type of \"meeting\" reported here where it was nothing more than a handshake and a hello. ",
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"content": "But you're totally cool with an open liar for a president? Like you still trust him?",
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"content": "Do you trust this one to look out for your best interest?",
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"content": "So wtf are you doing on this sub, which is not only devoted to American politics, but specifically devoted to American *voting*? Get out. Stay out.",
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"content": "I take it they heeded your words. They removed whatever it was they said. I guess it was getting downvoted too much ",
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"content": "So we should look out for our own best interests by totally ignoring blatant problems with the president, who explicitly doesn't care about us? Makes sense to me.",
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"content": "If there is no special prosecutor put in after this, the GOP really puts party before country",
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"content": "Is there really any doubt left at this point?",
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"content": "They're wasting their time finding new ways to fuck over Americans when they should've filed the impeachment papers for Trump a long time ago.",
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"content": "\"Ooooh you meant Russian when you said Russian? Oh ok I see.... Well, YOURE DEVISIVE AND FAKE NEWS!\" Trump staff for the 300th time ",
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"content": "Ha, and he said no one, to the best of his knowledge, met with any Russians during his campaign to the press. \nI'd only we could question him under oath, Trump would probably lie within seconds. ",
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"content": "Honest question: is thinkprogress a highly reliable source? Aka should I expect to see this on the front page of the New York Times later?",
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"content": "No it isn't. It doesn't even claim that he met with the ambassador in the article either just that the ambassador was at a speech that Trump gave. Misleading headline. ",
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"content": ">A few minutes before he made those remarks, Mr. Trump met at a VIP reception with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Ivanovich Kislyak. Mr. Trump warmly greeted Mr. Kislyak and three other foreign ambassadors who came to the reception.\n\nFrom the middle of the article. I don't know of the reputability of Think Progress but following the links leads to a WSJ story on the same thing, and it's generally agreed upon that WSJ is considered highly reputable.",
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"content": "Again just at a reception where the ambassador I'm sure met many other people. This isn't some clandestine meeting between the two should we not discuss the fact this was in April before he was running for President?",
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"content": "I agree with you: if it was some kind of clandestine meeting, then that's a big problem. What is described so far is pretty mild stuff. Even so, if someone asks you if you ever met with Russian officials, come on: the answer is \"yes\". You might qualify it with something like \"All we did was say hello and shake hands before the public speech\", but the answer is *YES*. It's like Jeff Sessions. Probably an innocuous meeting with the ambassador as for many senators, but if someone asks you a plain question under oath about whether you met with Russian officials, the answer is obviously \"YES\".\n\nI mean, I get that Trump often has difficulty with plain English and manages to contradict himself all the time (e.g., did he meet with Putin or not -- a long and confusing history there), but the answer should have been \"Yes, I met the Russian ambassador to the US during the campaign but it was in public and all we did was greet each other\". How hard would that be if it was the case? Instead we get these adamant denials and then evidence that contadicts it.\n\nThat kind of (to be kind) error of memory or of comprehension is more problematic than what probably happened (a handshake). It naturally leads to wondering about whether there is more to it or if he would tell you if there was.",
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"content": "No. That's why you preface your comment with \"I'm not sure, because I meet many people and don't always keep track whether they happen to be Russian officials, but as far as I can remember...\" Rather than implying your memory is perfect by using an unconditional and adamant \"No\".\n\nI'll put it this way: mistakes happen, everyone has memory lapses. That's fine. If so you correct them, like Sessions has or will be doing with Congress. Unfortunately Trump has a real problem with acknowledging simple errors. Again, witness the history of his claims over many months about whether or not he met Putin, alternating between bragging about how close they were versus \"never having met the guy\", acknowledging the smaller size of his inauguration crowd, etc.\n\nI know it may seem like people are holding him to an impossible standard, but, really, some of these things aren't hard to settle, and acknowledging that he is a human that can make mistakes would be better than dragging out the process. It's part of being honest with yourself and others.",
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"content": "LMAO... come on. He is in the middle of a scandal that is threatening to undermine his entire presidency. He has dozens upon dozens of staff members who are responsible for tracking and accounting for his movements. His staff has given out specific numbers on how many foreign officials every high ranking official in his administration has met with. \n\nIn the midst of this scandal, with this information right at his staff's finger tips, they are going to, not once but literally dozens of times, deny that he met with the Russian Ambassador? They never bothered to check? Administrations keep clip books (not actual books these days) but they are catalogs of every single press clipping related to the administration and a given subject. They are easily searchable. With allegations this serious, you are telling me that not a single time did they bother to check his schedule? Nor did they bother to check the clip book? \n\nSo, either his staff has lied about it (hoping that, if they get caught in the lie they can just lie their way out of that or just fain ignorance) or he has the most incompetent staff I have ever seen at any level of politics. Both could be entirely true.\n\nI guess I could buy this argument if this was the only lie. But, every single time they get caught in another lie about meeting with Russia, they swear up and down no one else met with them. \"Yeah, Carter Page met with the Russians. But he was a private citizen and no one else in the campaign met with him. Oh, except Michael Flynn talked to him and met with him. But no one else. We swear. No one else. Except Jeff Sessions. But that was him as a Senator even though he paid for the trip with campaign funds. But no one else. Not anyone. Well, except that time Kushner met with them. But the important thing is that Trump himself never met with him. Not ever. Except that one time that he did.\"\n\nAt what point do they stop and try to get their story straight? Do they just have that much disdain for giving out accurate information that they don't care?\n\nAnd look, I honestly don't care if they met with the Russian Ambassador. The Flynn stuff stinks to high hell but it isn't unusual for campaign staff to meet with foreign ambassadors. Nor do I think Russia needed to coordinate the release of information with the campaign. I mean, why would they? If the administration had lied once about it, okay. I could give them a pass despite their constant lies about everything else. But it keeps happening. Over and over. If there is nothing to hide, why are they so damn cagey about it? It is the strangest strategy I have ever seen and it is super concerning.",
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"content": "April 2016 was right in the middle of the Republican primary... He was certainly running for President at the time.",
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"content": "I used to think the WSJ was reputable until they started calling Pewdiepie a nazi.",
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"content": "So... you didn't read the article?",
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"content": "I did read the article and it just mentions that they met at a convention that Trump made a speech. I'm sure the ambassador met with many other people should we add them to the list too? Should we mention that this happened in April before Trump announced his run for President in June?",
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"content": "So then when you said that the article \"didn't even mention them meeting,\" what exactly did you mean, considering it specifically mentioned that they met?\n\nI mean, you just contradicted yourself, so... As for meeting other people, only those that specifically said they never met any Russians should be added to the list.\n\nAlso, now you're just flat out making shit up. Trump announced his run in 2015, this meeting happened in 2016. Jesus dude, get some reading glasses.",
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"content": "I should be clear. The headline makes it out to be a \"meeting\" in the sense they met formally, set a date, had an agenda to discuss, etc. which it wasn't just by reading the article. The ambassador and Trump were essentially in the same room and greeted each other, that is all that happened by the content of this article. \n\nMy mistake about his presidential run, my google-fu was weak and quick and I thought I read June 26, 2016. \n\nI don't wear glasses but need them. ",
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"content": "The headline didn't imply in the slightest, it states what literary happened. You're simply inferring something that isn't being said nor implied. ",
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"content": "So has Trump 'personally met' everybody he's ever shaken hands with? ",
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"content": "Yes, that's called human interaction.",
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"content": "Interaction is different than a meeting, which is what the title of the article implies",
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"content": "It doesn't imply that, it's a literal title that doesn't embellish anything. You're simply inferring that, and I don't know why. In fact, it says nothing about a meeting. A meeting isn't \"meeting someone.\" Basic English seems to be a big problem with people lately...",
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"content": "We are doing that because that's what this article is doing. It is taking Trumps statements of having no contact with Russian officials, taking this story that was published already a while ago, and spinning it. If you're going to challenge Trumps statements and language he uses you should hold yourself to the same standard you think he should as well. ",
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"content": "What spin? It's just a clear example where he did in fact talk with a Russian, nothing more.",
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"content": "Maybe in a vacuum. But this title deliberately plays off of the 'Trump-Russia secret meetings' theme, when the interaction is much more plain. ",
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"content": "It doesn't play off anything, it's a literal title. Now the article itself, sure I can see that. But it is another example of his lies.",
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"content": "The articles headline with the language it uses infers he \"personally met\" which quite literally, when you use those words, insinuates he setup a meeting and met with the ambassador. He didn't do this though. They were in the same place at the same time and for all we know shook hands, said hello, and went about his business. The article is going to lengths to paint it as a childish gotcha moment. ",
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"content": "You're reaching too far, it's a literal title- btw you infer, the title would \"imply,\" if that were the case, which it isn't. And it is a gotcha moment, because it's just another example of his outright lies. There's nothing wrong with meeting him, but lying about? Sad.",
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"content": "I would call you a trump shill, but at least you said that the Hillary KKK picture was a photoshop even though you got downvoted for it on cheeto_mussolini. But seriously. Stop spreading lies. This is from the WSJ originally and ThinkProg was re-publishing. ",
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"content": "Pretty weird you'd go through my comment history before engaging with me. Not a way to have a genuine interaction but I guess this is the Internet. By all accounts Trump is a shit heel but I am really sick of the hysteria. \n\nEdit: I meant the Sessions photo was a shop but the Hilary/Sessions one is legit for all I know. ",
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"content": "Pretty funny you deleted the comment. But all I did was scroll through your history for 20 seconds for context. \n\nAlso, it had nothing to do with Sessions. It was about Senator Byrd. \n\nThis picture here: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ch8RrwmUUAEexvu.jpg\n\nIs a photoshop: http://i.imgur.com/uht8fJH.png\n\nAnd you were saying that. ",
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"content": "It's a highly biased source similar to huffington post. It skews the news and sometimes makes mountains out of molehills....but it doesn't invent news. ",
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"content": "This is originally from the WSJ, which is more conservative and highly reputable. Think Prog was basically just republishing the story for attention. ",
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"content": "This is a bit of a stretch. Did I miss something (quick read), or does the link say the Russian ambassador sat in the front Row at a speech Trump gave on foreign policy. If that's it, I don't know if I'd count that as a \"meeting\" even if they technically met. ",
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"content": "As someone else already pointed out in another thread...\n\n>A few minutes before he made those remarks, Mr. Trump met at a VIP reception with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Ivanovich Kislyak. Mr. Trump warmly greeted Mr. Kislyak and three other foreign ambassadors who came to the reception.\n\nWhich is a direct quote from the following Wall Street Journal article:\n\nDonald Trump Goes His Own Way With Vladimir Putin; Warm words and push to improve ties with Moscow aren't shared by Barack Obama, Republican presidential rivals\nPaletta, Damian. Wall Street Journal (Online); New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y] 13 May 2016",
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"content": "No one cares. ",
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"content": "Do you suppose the House leadership delayed an investigation because they knew Trump met with the Russians just do he wouldn't perjure himself?",
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"content": "They met in his tenth chin.",
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"content": "This post was purged from all subreddits earlier today. I watched it happen as I refreshed. They all made it to page 2 before they were deleted. ",
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"content": "Impeach.",
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"content": "The point is not that he met with a top Russian spy-recruiter, the point is that he lied about it. In this environment, it must have been pretty damned important to him to keep this a secret and THIS implies that it is just the tip of the iceberg. ",
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"content": "Hyperventilating is the best word for what they did. I'm using it from now on.",
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"content": "In the long run, we'll pay. Make America Sick Again!",
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"content": "They blocked all of what was great about the original bill. They WANTED it to fail.\n\nNow, even in its battle scared skin it still works better than the old way of business and they are forced to live up to their claim that they can fix everything. Good luck assholes. I genuinely hope you succeed. \n\n",
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"content": "My brother refuses to believe that and claims Democrats made the bill exactly as it is from the start. It's infuriating, and he constantly uses the word Lieberal. Any good resources on the history of the affordable care act to show how it was initially planned and how the Repubicans screwed it?",
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"content": "Source for what they blocked?",
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"content": "A public option and the ability for Medicaid to negotiate drug prices, IIRC ",
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"content": "Seven years. And they have only delivered part 1 of 3.\n\nSo they only need another 14 years to get it all together.",
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"content": "They don't.",
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"content": "Exactly. The plan is to make it fail so they can state \"see, told you so\" and remove it completely.",
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"content": "This is \"starve the beast\". Basically, you create a financial emergency, then you use the financial emergency you created as a pretext to cut things you don't like. \"The government is bankrupt, we can't afford Medicare, social security, welfare, etc.\" Basically anything except farm subsidies and defense will be cut.",
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"content": "Which will still inflate the deficit and drive public debt even higher...",
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"content": "And then blame Obama.",
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"content": "Which their gullible base will believe.",
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"content": "Republicans only care about paying for things when Democrats are in power. Running up the debt and blaming Democrats is their specialty. ",
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"content": "Are they paying the price tho?",
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"content": "Has any interviewer yet had the balls to ask them, \"we see in your 127 page replacement law that nowhere did you remove the 'Death panels.' Is the Republican party now committed to death panels or did you forget about it, leaving millions of Americans to die\" just to see how bad they shit themselves trying to think up a lie to cover their old, forgotten lies.",
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"content": "Overpromising health care reform is the new millennium's Afghanistan where senate majorities go to die...",
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"content": "Both the AMA (American Medical Association) and the AARP oppose Republicare. Those are huge, well-respected organizations. It doesn't even have full support within the GOP.\n\nI really don't see how this actually passes.",
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"content": "AHA and ANA, too! Waiting on AHIP to weigh in to see if we could get a full sweep. ",
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"content": "Sorry, no refunds.\n\n-trump \n\nr/globalterrorism ",
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"content": "Thanks but no thanks Tea party! YOU caused this mess in the first place!\n\nNow they are blaming Trump? Is that all they know how to do? When you oppose someone's plan, at least give an alternative. What they did to oppose the ACA was disgusting!",
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"content": "It's okay, when the new plan doesn't go through they'll just let ACA fail then blame the dems. They have a contingency plan in place. ",
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"content": "Their alternative is nothing at all.",
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"content": "As the Republican Party would be quick to point out - this is FAKE NEWS - it'll only skyrocket for those with an income under $500,000/year. ",
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"content": "Those pesky peasants want everything!",
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"content": "To be somewhat fair the current bill is likely to change a lot before it actually gets passed. ",
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"content": "> an income under $500,000/year.\n\nAKA: real Americans.",
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"content": "I know you're probably joking, but it's things like this that liberals jump all over conservatives for doing.\n\nI hope that we on the left can be appalled by all gatekeeping; ideas like that it's possible to be too wealthy to be \"real Americans\" are as dangerous as it being possible to not be white enough to be a \"real American\".",
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"content": "The TEA party was clearly a front for big insurance. This was so predictable it may as well have been in the script.",
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"content": "Meh, doubtful. Businesses want someone competent in charge, and the Tea Party clearly lacks that when it comes to actual policy making.",
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"content": "No, businesses want all impediments to greed knocked down, and the TEA party and the GOP excel at that.",
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"content": "But do they? Poor governance is itself an impediment to businesses. The Tea Party led government shutdown caused billions of dollars of lost revenue. Surely a smart business would be less than thrilled about having those sorts of people in power.",
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"content": ">But do they?\n\nDon't you pay any attention at all? \n\n[Time Magazine: The Secret Origins of the Tea Party](http://time.com/secret-origins-of-the-tea-party/)",
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"content": "Meanwhile, the US Chamber of Commerce (traditionally strongly supportive of Republicans) is funding opposition to the Tea Party, including some Democrats.",
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"content": "Source?",
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"content": "http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/lobbying-world/311188-us-chamber-of-commerce-the-big-loser-of-presidential\n\nThere's more if you do a search for: US Chamber of Commerce Tea Party. They are clearly opposed.",
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"content": "The Republican plan.\n\nThis isn't Trump's. This belongs to the whole party. Hold them all accountable for it.",
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"content": "Literally came here to say exactly this. \n\nYou said it first though, so you get a sweet sweet upvote. ",
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"content": "and the chain of upvotes continues!",
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"content": "Yeah you are right he only enabled it by his lack of cahones",
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"content": "Republicare",
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"content": "Trepumplicare. Let's hang em all with it. ",
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"content": "It's almost as if a group of extremists who sit outside a political party and attack their own side over pet issues like repealing one law (Obamacare) for 8 years aren't helping.\n\nMaybe these tea party driven messes will be dysfunctional enough so that the dems can regroup more easily.",
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"content": "But we have BernieBros(TM) so it balances out.",
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"content": "Bernie bros are the best asset the Republicans have right now.",
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"content": "Remind me again which candidate's inability to campaign or avoid scandal caused her to lose to Donald Fucking Trump?",
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"content": "[Thank god we don't have any scandals.](http://i.imgur.com/ltpN9mu.gifv)",
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"content": "People are mean, and can rationalize a gross bully. Corruption and the appearance of corruption are harder to shake. The party ignored the public' perception of Clinton, and we're all paying for it. ",
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"content": "The public's perception was stupid, and now they pay for it. \n\n",
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"content": "Meanwhile she's the odds on favorite for 2020",
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"content": "8 years of tears and they've got no plan when the ball gets passed ",
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"content": "So the ACA wich people still can't afford is going to exclude even more people?",
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"content": "The ACA, which some people can't afford because their state legislatures refuse to expand Medicaid, would be gutted by the AHCA, compounding its issues. Not quite the picture you're painting. ",
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"content": "They refuse to expand Medicaid because it just means taxes go up, quality of service goes down, and Medicaid has issues paying doctors the right price or at all. ",
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"content": "Expanding Medicaid is covered entirely by the federal government for the first few years, and costs increased at a slower rate in states that expanded than those that didn't. The US has extremely high quality care across the board, assume one can access and afford it. \n\nYou are, objectively, wrong. ",
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"content": "To say it is covered entirely by the federal government does not mean there is no cost to everyone. The government has to recoup the money from somewhere. Taxes increase or assets are seized. \n\nMedicaid patients spend have 4x the amount of hospital stays as independently insured patients, have lower quality of health, Medicaid pays on average $2,000 less than the average cost of service while also costing the service providers $3,000 more than independently insured patients. \n\nStudies have shown that Medicaid increases show that hospitals stays are longer, more frequent, but ultimately do nothing to improve physical health. It does however changes people's attitude in showing slightly lower percentages of depression and people reporting their physical condition as \"better\" because they're covered.\n\nEdit: let's not forget too the ethical dilemma of governments role in healthcare. ",
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"content": ">To say it is covered entirely by the federal government does not mean there is no cost to everyone. The government has to recoup the money from somewhere. Taxes increase or assets are seized. \n\nThe taxes to cover the ACA are already being collected. The states that chose not to expand Medicaid chose to give up that money rather than spend it to care for their poor. \n\n>Medicaid patients spend have 4x the amount of hospital stays as independently insured patients, have lower quality of health, Medicaid pays on average $2,000 less than the average cost of service while also costing the service providers $3,000 more than independently insured patients. \n\nYes, because being poor will negatively impact your health and healthcare costs are vastly inflated in the US. \n\n>Studies have shown that Medicaid increases show that hospitals stays are longer, more frequent, but ultimately do nothing to improve physical health. It does however changes people's attitude in showing slightly lower percentages of depression and people reporting their physical condition as \"better\" because they're covered.\n\n\"More people have access to healthcare they previously couldn't afford and have fewer mental illnesses. Basically no benefit!\" \n\n>Edit: let's not forget too the ethical dilemma of governments role in healthcare. \n\nThe only ethical dilemma is that the state doesn't guarantee healthcare as a right in the US. ",
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"content": "Why doesn't she or the article explain WHY healthcare costs will skyrocket? Does anyone here know?",
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"content": "This guy is the worst",
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"content": "Based on video, he doesnt want to give actionable steps, why do you think that is?",
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"content": "Perez believes that Dems needs to keep shouting the same wrong message only louder\n\nHe's a bubble guy, regardless of his good intentions. He grew up wealthy. Private schools all the way through. Ivy Leagues. Never lived outside a big East Coast city. No real election experience. No campaign experience. No town hall experience. Tom Perez is the kind of guy who thinks poor is driving a BMW 5 Series instead of a 7 Series...he's never experienced anything different. \n",
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"content": "Of course someone from WayOfTheBern would hate someone who is successful",
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"content": "Out of touch. \n\nHe grew up rich and has always lived in extremely liberal east coast cities. That is not the reality of most Democrats. ",
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"content": "He's the DNC chair. Who the fuck cares if he's in touch? All the people he helped as a civil rights lawyer probably think he's in touch with regular people. Members of unions likely think he's in touch with the common man.\n\nyou realize his job is to raise enough money to win races and fully fund all 50 state parties. He's not making policy. ",
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"content": "Jimmy Bore is the worst. I agree",
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"content": "What kind of actionable steps does the DNC stand for?\n\n If tom perez knew, why isnt he saying them?\n\nWhat does the host have to do with tom perez- the leader of the DNC?",
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"content": "Using a Jimmy Bore clip shows your bias and disqualifies any statement you might want to make. It's like posting a Michael Savage clip",
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"content": "Youre right. I should have just linked the video itself of tom without jimmy. \n\nDo you think its concerning the leader of the DNC doesnt know how to make actionable steps to improve workers lives? Maybe their plan is a secret?\n\nIm not saying any person or party is bad, just the leadership style and culture of DNC is objectively the complete opposite of what the voters stand for. A party is just a Name, the IDEAS and Actionable steps are whats important- based on his response he wants to keep the status quo. \n\nDo you disagree?\n",
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"content": "I disagree that a person who posts at Hillary For Prison cares about the DNC or Democrats.\n\nAlso the sole job of Tom Perez is not to make policy it's to raise as much money as humanly possible for state parties and all Democratic candidates. He can believe that workers should have to work while hopping on one leg for all I care. If he can raise a bunch of money that's all I care about. Let Chuck Schumer care about policy.",
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"content": "Do you think the money they raise from people with special interests compromises them? Makes the democratic party have a bias? They want to keep getting money so they appease the corporate donors. Whats stopping DNC from playing lip service to the public then do the exact opposite?\n\nI care about the ideas and principles of the democratic party. If democrats act exactly how republicans stereotypicaly act and do not have ideas contrasting the RNC are they still democrats? No, they're republicans posing as democrats.\n\nIts just a name game. Hillary as well takes money from special interest groups, do you think she wants to end the gravy train by going against the donors?\n\n>lso the sole job of Tom Perez is not to make policy it's to raise as much money as humanly possible for state parties and all Democratic candidates\n\nWhat good is the money if they're not going to use it congruent to the voters desires? They love having the money stream, they dont want to lose the money stream.\n\nWhy did the DNC leadership purposfully make sure bernie wasnt goin to win the primary?\n\nWere his ideas not what the DNC stands for? \n\nWas hillary going to best support the 99%? \n\nWould Bernie have ended the DNC gravy train of bringing in corporate donors? ",
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"content": "Bernie wasn't going to win the primary because he didn't compete in the South. The DNC didn't rig the primary against him and there's been no actual proof other than emails AFTER the New York primary that said he should drop out.\n\nActually some of his ideas are farther left than what the DNC stands for\n\nYes Hillary would've better supported the 99%\n\nNo Bernie wouldn't have ended corporate donor ship because he used them as well.",
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"content": "Imagine in 30, 40 years, being able to tell your grandkids that you saw a presidency brought down because of tweets.",
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"content": "Two problems with that scenario:\n\n1) This isn't a presidency. It's an insurrectionist occupation by a fascist traitor.\n\n2) It ain't coming down. Not until Americans are fighting a civil war street-to-street to regain our freedom. Republicans are saying a few rhetorical criticisms to dodge some of the heat, but they are still 100% behind this maniac. They voted unanimously to keep his tax returns secret. \n\nAnd there is no way they're going to allow a real election in 2018 or 2020. It's going to be a very Russian joke.",
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"content": "Main problem with that scenario: GOP congressmen and women will sell their souls to keep their jobs. If their jobs are threatened in 2018 because impeachment is in high demand, they'll do it themselves. If they lose the House, Trump's tax returns are reviewed (at least in private), and instant impeachment by the new majority. FiveThirtyEight had a recent article discussing the correlation between presidential approval rating and congressional midterms, and conclusion is that Dems should win back the House with a sub-40% presidential approval. With an impeachment, subpoenas will fly, illegalities will be found, and in the face of public pressure, the Senate will have no choice but to convict. It's either that, or Dems wipe the floor with the GOP in every election for the next two decades as we become Bernie's Progressive paradise.",
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"content": "They will ask you what the written word was, and tell you to get out of the way of their screen.",
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"content": "Or that a president got elected by some American right wing nationalists and some American left wing socialists, both being supported and targeted by a Russian information warfare operation. The GOP couldn't win it so the Russians had to steal it for them.",
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"content": "Stone is a greazy pervert.",
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"content": "I get really tired of clickbait articles completely based on what some anonymous source supposedly said.\n\nWith this administration, unless you can print ironclad flaming evidence, don't bother writing an article.",
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"content": "You do realise that journalism has operated on anonymous sources for decades. If they outed their source, no one would share information anymore. It's the trade off you get.",
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"content": "Stone reminds me of this sweet old granny who brought her grandkids over to me and my 70-year-old friend at a Count the Vote rally back in 2000. She turned to the kids and said \"That woman is a whore,\" then turned and walked away in a very self-satisfied manner.\n\nWe were too stunned to come up with a retort.\n",
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"content": "Just shows that the \"wise elders\" trope is a bit more complicated. Time doesn't turn a lump of shit into a brain.\n\nIf someone is smart, then they'll grow wise with age. If they aren't, they'll just sound more ridiculous when they shit out their mouth.",
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"content": "It's kind of sickening that this entire article is based on a \"source\" which is never really explained, yet it is presented as absolute fact. This is why fake news runs rampant on both sides ",
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"content": "Please don't do the false equivalency. \"Fake news on both sides\".\n\nTrazis manufacture fake news (i.e., lying propaganda) as an industrial commodity because they're liars. \n\nAnd if I had to guess, I'd say most of the much smaller quantity of fake news that shows up on our side is made by them too to discredit us so they can pretend we're like them.\n\nThis does not appear to be an example of that though.",
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"content": "They see none of the rules applying to them.\n\nJust another sideshow to distract from the Plan.\n\nDems need to stop biting on the little things.\n\nThat is their intent.",
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"content": "The House Oversight Committee figuring out the legal limits of the presidency is a little thing?\n\nNo, this is setting the trap.",
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"content": "I would think all they need to have all objections on the record. The media can let little things slide. The government cannot.",
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"content": "I'm a liberal and I was stating what they think.\n\n",
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"content": "You stated an opinion of how you believe they think, then you crapped on Cummings and Democrats for three sentences. I can see what you said right above, and your attempt to explain yourself isn't truthful.\n\nYour intent appears to be to want to drag the conversation down. I reject your analysis of the situation. I suggest you read to understand the most upvoted response to your comment. ",
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"content": "Let me repeat:\n\nI am a liberal Democrat.\n\nI was stating what the Trump admin thinks applies to them.\n\nWhat is your problem?\n\nI didn't attack Cummings or the Dems!\n\nPut your spork away and save it for a Deplorable, not one of your own.\n\nHigh horse much?",
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"content": "And don't you tell me what is truthful.\n\nI have been WOKE for 40 years.\n\nWhat about you?",
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"content": "I suggest YOU read before you go on your next screed.",
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"content": "I feel like it's a disingenuous question because obviously the answer is, all of them.",
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"content": "But then you have them on the record saying that. I think that is the intention here. Get them to admit it.",
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"content": "Does he think they will respond? Are they obligated to in any way?",
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"content": "I can't image a world where they would go on the record about this. There is no legal way to force this answer, AFAIK. ",
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"content": "Yeah, so while I appreciate the gesture, I think it's just theater. Which is fine, though. Anything that distracts their attention from the destruction of the USA even for a second is helpful.",
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"content": "I do no think this is the case. \n\nI believe that Trump is doing the country a favor, in the worst way possible, by showing how ineffective \"traditions\" are when someone does not have to follow them. If these things were illegal, as they should be, he would not be able to get away with them. This should benefit the county in the long term if this causes change.",
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"content": "Trump has and will continue to get away with countless illegal activities. ",
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"content": "He hoping they are stupid enough to respond and say \"all. Of them\" ",
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"content": "They already went on the record with this",
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"content": "It's as if Trump declared himself the winner of Jeopardy without having to respond to any of the questions posed by Alex Trebek.",
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"content": "#\"What 'ethics rules'?\" ",
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"content": "Jesus Christ, Cummings of all fucking people asking this is the definition of the pot calling the kettle black",
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"content": "How so? Sorry for my ignorance, I'm in his district so I'm curious. ",
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"content": "He let his daughter drive for lyft with what was essentially a govt car. Congressional plates and everything. ",
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"content": "OMG! lock him up!!!\n\n\nThat's much worse than being a stooge for a foreign power and violating the Constitution!!!\n",
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"content": "I see someone is unhinged. I'm not making any comparisons, just stating fact. Whatever bullshit Herr Donald and the funky bunch are doing has no bearing on your precious jackasses.",
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"content": "\"Looked at\"\n\nLmao\n\nCry some more",
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"content": "This news is not present on TD-occupied r/news for some *mysterious reason* (LOL), although they are carrying a story reporting the Trump regime's Soviet-crop-report-style jobs numbers claiming a massive increase in employment.\n\n",
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"content": "From the article:\n\n> Flores noted that action is not unusual. The Clinton administration, for instance, had taken a similar step at the start of its presidency. Sessions himself was asked to resign as the U.S. attorney in Alabama in March, 1993 by Clinton’s Attorney General Janet Reno.",
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"content": "A \"similar action.\" No, he didn't. Specific Attorneys were asked to resign, particularly when they were disgusting criminals like Sessions - there wasn't a fucking political purge.",
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"content": "There are only 93 US Attorneys *in total*, so either you're lying or repeating a lie.",
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"content": "LOL, way to double down. \n\nI see you frequent TD. Interesting.\n\n(And now his fellow TD trolls come out of the woodwork to brigade my comments, as per standard operating procedure.)",
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"content": "I'm happy for you. But TD is a troll madrasa.",
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"content": "Kindof a defensive reaction to him merely copying and pasting a paragraph verbatim from the article *you* posted, dont you think?",
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"content": "It was a *quote* of someone making an inaccurate statement. That was pointed out and now he's doubling down.",
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"content": "If it was a quote, it would be in quotations. And I don't see him doubling down anywhere. ",
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"content": "When someone points out a factual problem with a claim, and the person just changes the details while sticking to the claim, that's doubling down.\n\nThey're trained in trolling at TD. It's a school for fucking with people and spamming bullshit.",
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"content": "Great. I'm a strong supporter of this sub's mod team. They do a great job.",
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"content": "Bummer that all this was removed. It was comedy gold.",
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"content": "I didn't find it funny. People who take misunderstandings to unnecessary and uncivil places are just wasting themselves.",
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"content": "People like you hurt our party.",
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"content": "Just so you know, I'm not the same person as the Trump supporter you're currently arguing with (and I'm not even a Trump supporter.) I just posted that quote from the article because I thought it was relevant.",
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"content": "That is misleading when you leave out the sentence before it. It makes it look like that paragraph is responding to the headline when actually it is not:\n\n>Sessions’s action comes a few days after the attorney general sent a memo to all his prosecutors telling them to use every tool they have to combat violent crime, one of his top priorities.\n\n>Flores noted that action is not unusual. The Clinton administration, for instance, had taken a similar step at the start of its presidency. Sessions himself was asked to resign as the U.S. attorney in Alabama in March, 1993 by Clinton’s Attorney General Janet Reno.\n\n",
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"content": "...it is responding to the headline. those are different paragraphs, different subjects. ",
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"content": "They can't force people to resign. \n\nThey just know that the only way they can get their illegal actions to not be overturned is if they have all sympathetic attorneys. ",
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"content": "I certainly hope they can't.\n\nBut given who we're dealing with, we can expect every type of pressure to be applied - threats of future career sabotage, threats of the most unhinged personal slander one could imagine, hinted threats of physical violence, probably some bribes if they think someone might be amenable.",
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"content": "To be fair, these are political appointees hired by Obama, and they would've been out of a job during Trumps term anyway. The real story is that Trump didn't know these people were still hanging around until Hannity pointed it out on fox... so it's less about outrage at Trump fucking with Obama's legacy than his complete and total incompetence.",
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"content": "How was this not obvious from day 1?",
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"content": "For most in the democratic party it was, although people created their own echo chamber and it got hard to talk about. For me it became personal and angering after my state's primary, NY, where one day later RT was pushing blatantly incorrect information about how the primary was rigged. It unnerved me so much that a foreign power where journalists can't speak their mind was making those claims against us. Unfortunately though Bernie wasn't going to help his followers, or put together a united left, or even back off the extremely negative tone he had put on going into NY which had failed to win him votes. Instead he cried rigged and asked the DNC to overturn the results of the votes.",
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"content": "Editorialised title is inaccurate. The article is actually named \"Bernie Sanders’ Campaign Faced A Fake News Tsunami. Where Did It Come From?\" and contains no evidence Sanders voters were 'fooled' by this, indeed they seem to be the ones noticing it and pointing it out.",
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"content": "Baloney. You are the only ones who still don't see it. You guys were so easy to manipulate. \n\nI'll admit I thought it was the republicans doing it. I was a bit surprised it was the Russians. But it was obvious someone was intentionally splitting the party. I mean when Bernie sites were practically quoting Breitbart word-for-word, it did't take a genius to see it.",
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"content": "I don't know anyone that went from bernie to trump. I can't think of any fake news I read and believed. Point out some of the fake news bernie people were fooled with? ",
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"content": "Plenty just didn't vote. And so many Bernie folks did Trump's job for him. They discredited Hillary. They made her out like the daughter of Satan. ",
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"content": "Yes your probably right. But to say that the Russians did it with fake news is bs. She wasn't a well liked candidate by independents now general. ",
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"content": "I don't know who did it, but it was obvious someone did. I was saying this six months ago. It was obvious the democrats were being split. It was the only possible way to beat them was to divide them. Someone played us big time.",
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"content": "> I don't know who did it, but it was obvious someone did. I was saying this six months ago. It was obvious the democrats were being split. It was the only possible way to beat them was to divide them. Someone played us big time.\n\nYeah--the party played itself. Big time. You and people like you are the only ones who still don't see it.",
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"content": "not this Sanders-supporter. I knew that I didn't like Clinton, mainly because of the bullshit she pulled and the challenge she made to Obama's nomination for a second term, which is customarily always given to the incumbent president, but I knew that she'd be a damn sight better than the Cheeto Benito.",
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"content": "..............you know that sanders said multiple times that he wanted someone to primary against obamas 2nd term, right?\n\nBut it's okay when bernie does the things you accuse Hillary of. Because he is your messiah. \n\nhttp://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/nov/10/martin-omalley/fact-checking-martin-omalleys-claim-bernie-sanders/",
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"content": "Why shouldn't competition be encouraged? The willing submission to hegemony is the problem. It has nothing to do with people being \"fooled\" unless your consultants are unqualified for their own jobs. (Which, given the ongoing alienation, they may well be unqualified.)",
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"content": "This has no sense of logic and I suspect that you did not read your comment twice before posting it.",
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"content": "Well, it was really Sanders who was most guilty of fooling Sanders supporters, who, let's face it, weren't the most discerning bunch.\n\n",
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"content": "The primaries are over, and the accusation is fatuous.\n\nGrim and Cherkis have been engaged in damage control since November. They should just leave the field altogether; they are part of the problem.\n\nEdit: why are the moderators not enforcing their own rules with respect to this post and the comments reinforcing it? The primaries are over.",
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"content": "It's so disruptive to actual justice to do this. When they say this is the most corrupt administration in the history of our country, they are really not kidding!",
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"content": "It's standard protocol to get rid of everyone *once you have replacements ready*. Also Trump told Preet he would be allowed to stay on. Liar! Sad!",
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"content": "Not this way, no. \n\nThey let people finish investigations and have qualified people ready to replace them.",
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"content": "Lol, our God, Obama. If that ain't the pot calling the kettle black. ",
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"content": "Maybe someone can explain this to me, since I haven't studied governmental structure since high school. How is he allowed to fire a US attorney? Are they under his executive branch?",
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"content": "Yes, this thing actually happens with each president and they shuffle some out to replace them that fit their judicial policy. What is surprising here is that Preet Bharara is widely respected by both Democrats and Republicans as someone who really goes after corruption.",
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"content": "They also didn't have a replacement ready.",
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"content": "I don't have time to list everything Trump has done wrong.",
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"content": "Much like the ACA.",
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"content": "Yes and no. Bush did this too; he fired 7 attorneys.\n\nTrump fired 46 of them.\n\nThat's not exactly shuffling some out. This was unprecedented.",
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"content": "Don't check how many Bill Clinton fired.",
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"content": "A) If you have the answer, supply it\n\nB) Just because Bill Clinton does something doesn't make it suddenly OK",
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"content": "Yes, it's an attorney, not a judge. Basically these are the people whose job it is to represent the executive branch in court where the judicial branch makes the decision.",
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"content": "That makes a lot more sense, thank you ",
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"content": "How is this any different than when Preet Bharara was under Obama? ex: \"US Attorney Preet Bharara was investigating Fox News during presidential campaign\" , which would imply Obama was using his authority to biased investigate a news organization that affiliated with the opposite party",
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"content": "DOJ isn't commanded by POTUS. While part of the executive branch, great pains are normally made to keep the DOJ independent.\n\nPOTUS gets to direct DOJ in some situations regarding priorities, but not regarding specific investigations. It's not a political tool on such a micro-level. That's the House Oversight Committee.",
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"content": "Seeing as administrations tend to clean out the us attorneys I don't really have a problem with these firings by trump (even if they were a little sudden) but I think US attorneys are supposed to be independent enough of the president that it was on his own accord that he investigated Fox News. I could be wrong but this doesn't seem like an example of corruption to me.",
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"content": "They don't tend to fire 46 of them.",
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"content": "From what I understand bill clinton fired 90 or so attorneys.",
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"content": "Source? Not saying you're wrong, just couldnt find it myself.",
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"content": "\"Former acting attorney general Stuart Gerson, meanwhile, wrote that it \"is customary for a President to replace U.S. Attorneys at the beginning of a term. Ronald Reagan replaced every sitting U.S. Attorney when he appointed his first Attorney General. President Clinton, acting through me as Acting AG, did the same thing, even with few permanent candidates in mind.\" (Hat tip on this and the Post piece to TPM.)\"- http://www.cbsnews.com/news/so-is-this-us-attorney-purge-unprecedented-or-not/\n\nThis article is actually from 2007, but it's cbs news. All the recent articles on it are from breitbart and the like so I hesitated to cite them but it seems like breitbart is actually accurate on this claim this time around.\n\n",
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"content": "Is it possible FOX did something worthy of being investigated? Why must it be \"Obama spied on them through the microwave to swing the election!\"",
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"content": "In 1993, shortly after she was installed as attorney general, Janet Reno sent an unmistakable signal that her Justice Department would primarily serve the political ends of Bill Clinton rather than the ends of justice. At once, she fired all 93 of the country's United States attorneys. According to no less an authority than Ted Olson, President George Bush's chief post-election attorney, Reno's move was extreme and unprecedented. \"In order to maintain continuity in thousands of pending prosecutions, and as a statement to the public that elections do not influence routine law enforcement, the nation's top prosecutors are traditionally replaced only after their successors have been located, appointed, and confirmed by the Senate. On instructions from the White House (she claimed it was a 'joint' decision; no one believes that), Reno ordered all 93 to leave in ten days. ",
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"content": ">WND (WorldNetDaily) is a politically conservative American news and opinion website and online news aggregator. The website has garnered much controversy for promoting conspiracy theories, which have led some journalists to label it a far-right fringe website.\n\nYou're just copying and pasting from a conspiracy-theory website. Go back to your garbage island.\n\n",
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"content": "So you insult me because you don't like my source, still, it did happen, and there were pending investigations going on when it happened, the Clintons being one of them. where you just as outraged then? ",
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"content": "I wonder when your lot are going to realize that \"but Clinton!\" is not a good way to support an argument.",
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"content": "And Deutsche Bank, which Trump has ties to.",
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"content": "And also Deutshe Bank which is guilty of money laundering for Trump and all of his best friends.",
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"content": "Can someone explain how they got the estimates? The site's sources didn't really say much.",
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"content": "ThinkProgress has most of the calculations. \n\"Fourteen million divided by 830 equals 16,867 people potentially sentenced to die by Trumpcare.\"\nTake the 16,867 deaths-per-year, divide it into seconds, you get 0.00053... deaths-per-second. From there it's just multiplying by number of seconds since [X date]. In the case of the website, they list January 21st 2017 as the reference point.",
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"content": "I understood that part but where did the 14 million come from?",
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"content": "CBO estimate. ",
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"content": "How are there already dead people when it's not law?\n\nPeople having heart attacks reading it?",
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"content": "It's an estimate of deaths that *would have* happened so far, had the bill gone into action on Trump's inauguration day.",
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"content": "how can u have .779 dead ppl?",
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"content": "does the primarily republican congress need any democratic votes to pass their agendas? ",
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"content": "They're gonna need sixty votes in the senate to get this passed. They only have 52 right now. They have enough representatives in the house to get through there though",
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"content": "I thought because of the way the bill was being written that they only needed a simple majority and that it couldn't be filibustered? ",
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"content": "I could be wrong about this, keep that in mind. My understanding is that they can repeal the ACA through budget reconciliation which needs a simple majority. To get their bill passed as a replacement they would need 60 in the senate.",
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"content": "TYT coverage of the CBO Report- [Trump Cares This Much About The 24 Million Losing Healthcare...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZtlRjyPcOM)\n\nTheir source is http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/03/13/cbo-trumpcare-would-wipe-out-coverage-24-million-people",
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"content": "No!",
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"content": "Oh my god, really? She has gotten the dirt on him so far. This ought to be good.",
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"content": "So what did they show???",
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"content": "OMG I DON'T KNOW!!!!!",
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"content": ">What we've got is from 2005... the President's 1040 form... details to come tonight 9PM ET, MSNBC.\n\nhttps://twitter.com/maddow/status/841807273513107456",
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"content": "Tax Returns show clear ties to Russia. Get your popcorn ready guys and gals.",
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"content": "They don't show that at all... That whole intro about Russia was about reasons why we *should* see the full returns. \n\nMaddow's info showed that he made 150M and paid 38M.\n\nI'm pissed too but let's be realistic here.",
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"content": "Shhh we need to keep pushing the Russian narrative, because Russia is our enemy. /s",
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"content": "Russia *is* an enemy. It wasn't more than a few years ago that they forcefully annexed a territory of another independent European state. They also absolutely influenced the election. ",
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"content": ">Russia is an enemy.\n\nSure if you go by what the media pushes out there. They use Russia over and over again, because they know it scares people.\n\nI just want to say as a Russian and in my culture we are highly advised to question our government and media.\n\nI would do the same if you think every news source out there has solid evidence that Russia was controlling the election. I honestly would say that Russia had more control over Obama's election, because the government was able to get 20% of US uranium production.\n\nIt's basically the red scare tactic all over again.\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "17 of our 17 intelligence agencies agreed that Russia intentionally influenced the election in favor of Trump.\n\n>I just want to say as a Russian and in my culture we are highly advised to question our government and media.\n\nYour largest media source is RT, state run propaganda. Putin, an obscenely wealthy autocrat who has spit in the face of your democratic process, has an approval rating of 83%, according to the Washington Post. If questioning your government and media is in your culture, you're not doing a great job.\n\nIt's sad because I don't view the Russian people as enemies. They deserve an honest, truly representative federal government. But that's not going to happen until they take the country back from the plutocratic oligarchs.",
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"content": "As is the case in almost every conflict, our enemy is not the Russian people - far from it. We support you, we want you to have a better government. But Putin is a *de facto* dictator, and that's a problem.",
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"content": "How did that work out? Start asking the right questions. Namely, how will people cope with the destruction of medicaid and the ACA exchanges?",
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"content": "This whole thing is just a planted distraction from Trumpcare!",
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"content": "And he still paid $40,000,000 in taxes, which equates to 25% of his income. Bare in mind, during the same year, Bernie Sanders only paid 13.5% of his income, and significantly less total.",
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"content": "Maybe if Bernie would at least release his tax returns like he promised ",
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"content": "[He did.](http://www.motherjones.com/documents/2804313-Bernie-Sanders-Just-Released-His-Tax-Returns)",
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"content": "Trump supporters are the best. SAD!",
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"content": "Except Bernie never released 2015 like he promised",
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"content": "Not his 2015 taxes which he promised he would numerous times ",
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"content": "1. Bernie Sanders is not POTUS\n\n2. orange boy said he would release them. ",
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"content": "1) I know, he lost.\n\n2) he said he'd release them when he wasn't being audited, and at this point what does Donald Trump have to gain by releasing anything? People will whine if he does and people will whine if he doesn't, and seeing how this has been ongoing since the election it's probably wisest of him to not stir the pot. We already know he's incredibly wealthy, and we know he uses the tax code to his advantage just as every other businessman in similar standing to him does. Maddow waving around a 12 year old return showing that he paid 25% in taxes and that he legally wrote off losses proves nothing new.",
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"content": "You are making excuses. \n\nAudits don't last two years.\n\nHe's lying. Stpp being such a shill. \n\nTax returns could prove a violation of the law or his Russia ties, son.\n\n",
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"content": "Being audited does not prevent you from releasing tax returns. Every tax expert I've heard has said it's bullshit. Trump has said \"that's just what my lawyers tell me!\" That's not an adequate defense. The only reason to not release them is if he has something to hide.",
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"content": "You're right, he is not the president ",
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"content": "So why are the orange smegma drinkers always crying about Obama, Clinton and Sanders when none of them are POTUS?\n\nIs it because their cheeto messiah already has a failed Presidency and their snowflake egos can't deal?\n\nHow do you explain why they are such delusional ignorant people?\n",
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"content": "Any answer yet?",
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"content": "M8, get your head checked.",
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"content": "Who are you?",
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"content": "Just a humble patriot who wants to make America great again. ",
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"content": "Oh a fascist. Nevermind. ",
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"content": "Incredibly original. *yawn*",
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"content": "It doesn't matter if you think you are an incredibly original fascist. ",
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"content": "Sanders isn't president. Clinton isn't president. Stop deflecting. ",
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"content": "That's only because Sanders had a $400k mortgage whose interest he could write off against his proportionally much smaller income. ",
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"content": "But, he is such a GREAT business man, how can he lose $100 million?",
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"content": "It's not abnormal for the size of the company. ",
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"content": "According to who?",
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"content": "Come join us at r/accounting",
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"content": "If Trump is going to be a loser, he's got to be the best loser. No one is a loser like Donald Trump. ",
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"content": "I don't understand why this is significant ",
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"content": "But dems are still supposed to compromise. Fuck him. Fuck the republican party.",
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"content": "so much for the tolerant left\n\n^^^^/s",
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"content": "If you won't tolerate intolerance, how can you call yourself tolerant?",
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"content": "Was that directed at the person yelling \"You represent your constituents in Texas!\"? If so that is ~~the most~~ extremely idiotic thing he could have done.",
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"content": "So if you're a Democratic senator and you win the state let's say by a landslide of 70 to 30%. Then when you have your town hall meetings a large group of Republicans shows up to your meetings making a scene and demanding that you vote in accordance with their wishes rather than the wishes of those who voted you into office. What do you do?",
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"content": "Representatives are supposed to not violate the constitution or civil rights no matter what the majority of their constituents want. That's literally why we have representatives instead of direct democracy: to protect the minority from the tyranny of the majority. In theory our representatives were *supposed* to be respectable people who would protect the minorities in their district while still enacting the views favored by the majorities in their district. \n\nAnd in that scenario, no matter which side is which, this sort of mass protest doesn't happen every day. It only happens once in a while when shit is hitting the fan. So the representative is supposed to listen and address their concerns. Not tell them to shut up. ",
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"content": "Commend them on their solid organization, step up your game, and try to contain them to the best of your ability- i.e., not create scenes that make the news.",
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"content": "You seem to think Senators are only there to represent the people that voted for them. \n\nThat's not true.",
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"content": "They aren't used to being called out. They don't like it. They're buckling under the pressure. We have to keep it up! Keep hounding them! Our calls and emails and attending town halls and protests are working! ",
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"content": "\"It's an issue for the states\" was always their go-to answer to duck controversy on shitty votes. It sounds good because local control makes a sort of intuitive sense, but of course there *are* right answers to a lot of things that should apply to *all states*.\n\nPeople are finally starting to call them out for using that line.",
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"content": "Why not just outlaw violence against everyone? Equal rights am I not correct? I am sick and tired of people trying to cause divide instead of uniting together for the greater good. We don't need more pointless laws, if violence against everyone is illegal then why do we need a special law to specifically include a certain label of people. Lets just protect all people with the same set of rules, that would seem equal, less complicated and I don't see how someone could argue with that but if I am wrong please educate me. Thanks",
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"content": "In a perfect world, this would work, but it is not a perfect world. I don't know the specifics of the legislation being discussed in this video, but if we acknowledge that violence against women is statistically more common than violence against men in the same context (say, spousal abuse), then we have a specific problem that calls for a specific solution.",
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"content": "Is domestic violence against women more common? I wasn't sure, so I looked at [NCADV's stats](http://ncadv.org/learn-more/statistics) and they seem to indicate that men and women are victims of domestic violence in roughly equal terms.\n\n>1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men have been victims of [some form of] physical violence by an intimate partner within their lifetime.\n\n>1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men have been victims of severe physical violence by an intimate partner in their lifetime.\n\nThere's a small difference there, but we're not talking about a hugely unequal level of victimization. I seem to recall a study indicating that domestic abuse also tends to be reciprocal.",
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"content": "1/3 and 1/4 = 8.33% difference, or women are 4/3 (133.33%) as likely as men to be victims\n\n1/4 and 1/7 = 10.71% difference, or women are 7/4 (175%) as likely as men to be victims\n\nI'd say these look like pretty statistically significant differences worth considering and perhaps addressing, assuming the sample size was reasonable.\n\nThey look smaller when you use the 1 in X format but keep in mind that (1/N - 1/(N+1)) doesn't scale linearly as a function of N.",
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"content": "I can think of a number of reasons why that difference might exist, such as women being more likely to report DV than men. I guess my question is, does that ~10% difference in DV victimization justify creating special protections for women? Are those special protections going to make a difference, or will we just feel better about the situation thinking we've done something?\n\nWould it not be preferable to try to reduce DV in general by trying to address the issues that cause it in the first place? I just looked up that study I mentioned in my prior comment, and [their results are enlightening](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1854883/):\n\n> Almost 24% of all relationships had some violence, and half (49.7%) of those were reciprocally violent. In nonreciprocally violent relationships, women were the perpetrators in more than 70% of the cases. Reciprocity was associated with more frequent violence among women (adjusted odds ratio [AOR]=2.3; 95% confidence interval [CI]=1.9, 2.8), but not men (AOR=1.26; 95% CI=0.9, 1.7). Regarding injury, men were more likely to inflict injury than were women (AOR=1.3; 95% CI=1.1, 1.5), and reciprocal intimate partner violence was associated with greater injury than was nonreciprocal intimate partner violence regardless of the gender of the perpetrator (AOR=4.4; 95% CI=3.6, 5.5).\n\nAccording to this study, reciprocal violence makes up half of all DV, and women are disproportionately the perpetrators, especially when it's reciprocal. By addressing that women can be abusers too, we might curb DV in general.",
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"content": "> I guess my question is, does that ~10% difference in DV victimization justify creating special protections for women?\n\n~10% difference or 1.3x-2x ratio. Not really here to talk policy, so that call's up to you, but we do have special policies in place to target groups that are 1.3x-2x as likely as the general population to have certain issues, especially when such policies require relatively little investment.\n\n> Would it not be preferable to try to reduce DV in general by trying to address the issues that cause it in the first place?\n\nWe could do both- investigate and tackle any group-specific issues with DV, and also curb DV rates in general. All comes down to what's on the table, what works, and what the costs are. If we get a better reduction in overall DV (or whatever metric we care about) by just targeting men-on-women DV, we should do that; if the optimal policy targets DV in general and successfully lowers it across the board, then yeah that's preferable.\n\nHard to really tackle this issue in terms of hypotheticals without knowing the parameters and having policies on the table. But \"just\" a 10% difference is not sufficient to warrant scrapping targeted policies in favor of more generalized ones. This becomes easier to understand if you look at it in terms of the numbers:\n\nIf there are *p* people in the population, then approximately *p*/2 are men and *p*/2 are women; for ease, let's just call that *n*. Using the stats above:\n\n- .25*n* + .33*n* = .58*n* people are victims of physical DV\n\n- .14*n* + .25*n* = .39*n* people are victims of severe physical DV\n\n(sidenote- it's pretty interesting that female victims of DV have about a 75% chance of being victims of severe DV vs. just 56% among male victims)\n\nLet's simplify this in terms of two policies:\n\n- **Policy A** reduces domestic violence *that targets women* by (100 * *a*)%\n\n- **Policy B** reduces domestic violence *in general* by (100 * *b*)%\n\nSo, with A, the number of victims becomes (.58 - .33*a*)*n*; with B, the number of victims becomes (.58 - .58*b*)*n*.\n\nIn order for B to be more effective than A in terms of reducing the overall # of victims (which might not necessarily be the optimal metric, since inequalities are also worth considering), (.58 - .58*b*)*n* must be less than (.58 - .33*a*)*n*. Do a little math and it works out that *b* must be at least approximately .57*a* - i.e., the rate by which Policy B decreases DV in general must be at least 57% as high as the rate by which Policy A decreases DV amongst women. Or Policy A must be just about 1.75x as effective women as Policy B is over the general population.\n\nWhich- to my non-policymaker eyes- looks like something feasible. But obviously it all comes down to the circumstances.\n\nI'm just saying it's not worthwhile to dismiss potentially optimal policies solely on the basis of speculation and a few cursory readings of research studies. Sure, lots of hypotheses and adjustments and whatever *could* explain away the disparity, but when it comes to effective policymaking I'd rather rely on concrete analysis.",
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"content": "You fuckin liberals with your math and facts.",
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"content": "I too am unaware of the contents of said law but if something is already illegal then why make it more illegal? That is just plain stupid and only provides extra protection to a certain \"type\" of person which is even more appalling. Special laws for special people means the non special people get fucked over. For example your spousal abuse example, a special law protecting just women will make it more difficult for the men who are abused to be taken seriously or helped. It is like taking a step backwards and segregating everything based on race, religion or sex. Just causing more divide imo.",
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"content": "Yeah, they were shouting him down when he was answering their question. They didn't like his answer, but he was answering them politely. Dude did need to shut up.",
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"content": "Agreed. The congressman definitely should not have said it so bluntly though.\nEither way I am worried many Dems are becoming the obnoxious, mindless, rhetoric shouting type that I despise in the Republican Party. No problem with protesting and stuff but you asked the man a damn question and don't want to hear his answer?",
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"content": "> Either way I am worried many Dems are becoming the obnoxious, mindless, rhetoric shouting type that I despise in the Republican Party.\n\nThis has been troubling me as well.",
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"content": "We need a few Democrats with stones.",
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"content": "We could do with that, too.",
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"content": "Yeah, Barton could have handled that way better, but I can understand his frustration. He was trying to respond to an important question, but couldn't. Has Texas become a place where people become incensed and clutch their pearls when they hear the phrase \"shut up\"?",
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"content": "There's a right way and a wrong way to deal with that type of person.\n\n[Watch Justin Trudeau do it the right way](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97r4rQkW20Y)",
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"content": "Wow. That is amazing. I hate political theater, it's amazing to watch a politician candidly and humanly handle it.",
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"content": "this is what people voted for so i don't feel sorry for them. until shit hits YOU and YOURS, maybe that's when people will wake up. ",
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"content": "I doubt the people in the video voted for him",
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"content": "I don't know if is more common, but since men are typically more muscular than women and, in traditional families, men are more likely to play the breadwinner role, they are therefore better able to coerce and control a woman.\n\nHowever, domestic violence against men is a serious issue that needs more attention. Abused men face their own unique problems, such as less sympathy and fewer resources.",
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"content": "OK, so they were both wrong.\nBoth should be chastised for it.\n\nUnless you arguing that because someone else did it, it's now the norm and should be tolerated. ",
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"content": "I'm not sure this l what this whataboutism is supposed to contribute. Democrats overwhelmingly rejected Sanders, in part because of his inability to control himself.",
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"content": "Whataboutism is when you say, \"look at this thing someone else did\" instead of arguing the topic.\n\nIt was you who presented no argument until pressed. If your argument was \"telling constituents to shut up isn't news.\" You should have led with that.\n ",
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"content": "Your point was \"this is not news\"\n\nYou should have stated that in your post instead of saying \"look at this other guy who did that, what about him?\"",
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"content": "My first post was to understand why you thought it mattered enough to post it. \n\nI dislike Sanders as much as I do the Republicans. You've stated your point now. I don't know why you didn't do it to start.",
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"content": "Wouldn't surprise me if they're scared of becoming a swing state. \n\nThey lost their largest city, Houston, in 2016, when Dems won every county-level race in Harris County. Harris County has more people in it than 25 states (individually, not together). Hillary won the county by 160,000 votes, and the mayor of Houston was already an Obama-endorsed Democrat.\n\nAustin, the state capitol, has long been liberal.\n\nEl Paso and San Antonio are Democratic.\n\nFort Worth and Dallas (our rival city) might still be Republican, but if so, they're barely Republican. I know Fort Worth was one of 2 or 3 cities Romney won in 2012, with the other definite Romney win being Salt Lake City in Utah.\n\nTrump is turning Texas's relatively conservative Hispanic population away from the GOP, and California is our biggest source of new Texans. We have a higher proportion of educated whites then any other GOP state. And a federal court just ordered Texas to redraw three racially-gerrymandered House districts.",
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"content": "Me in Southtown San Antonio and my fellow constituents on the east side of Austin are shocked at these gerrymandering claims. We meet each week to discuss it. 40 min drive for both of us going 80 mph (legal speed) to meet in the middle. ",
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"content": "Joe Barton is a nasty, little pig.\n\nHe reflects poorly on the people of Texas.",
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"content": "A list of my favorite options:\nSherrod Brown\nKristen Gillabrand \nMark Cuban\nSeth Moulton (listen to the newest Pod Save America, the guy's amazing.)\nPete Buttigieg\n",
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"content": "I 100,000,000% agree that Seth Moulton and Pete Buttigieg have a bright future for themselves. I have been a fan of Pete's since he became Mayor. I also think Svante Myrick has a very bright future in the state of New York. ",
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"content": "My favorite option is any of the last 3 on the list with either of the top 2 on my list as VP. Something like Cuban/Gillibrand or Moulton or Pete/Brown sounds great. One without a ton of experience, and a counterbalance with experience. Just like Obama/Biden. ",
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"content": "Cuban is essentially a libertarian. Just because he was strong against Trump doesn't mean he is automatically going to be a good president. Unless you are a libertarian yourself I guess...then int makes sense, althoug you also like Sherrod Brown so....",
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"content": "He came out last week for single payer. He said he's middle of the road for most other economic issues, and he's Libertarian on social issues. I can't see anything wrong with any of that.",
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"content": "Here is his view on net neutrality (http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/25/7280353/mark-cubans-net-neutrality-fast-lanes-hypocrite).\n\nHere's his view on how to fix student debt (http://www.inc.com/graham-winfrey/mark-cuban-on-his-plan-to-fix-the-economy.html). \n\nHere's him talking about wanting to join the Republican party (http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-cuban-politics-philosophy-2015-8)\n\nHere's a quote on cutting gov't program: \"\"You can't cure every ill with a government program. I literally would rather write a check: Take whatever money is in a given department in the government, take 25% off the top, put it back in the taxpayers' pockets, and then just give cash to people, right? Because it'll be more effective in how it's used and help the economy at the same time,\" he said.\"\n\nHere's his view on how to create jobs: http://blogmaverick.com/2011/08/10/an-idea-for-the-economy-that-will-freak-out-a-lot-of-people-but-could-be-fun-to-discuss/\n\nAre you in agreement with him on most or any of those views?",
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"content": "Well, I didn't know all of that! Thanks! And thanks to op for starting this topic that let me learn something I needed to know. ",
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"content": "2017 special and gubernatorial elections, 2018 state, senate, and congress elections, 2019 gubernatorial elections....all more important and pressing matters than 2020....2020 is far away and speculation on this is pointless.",
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"content": "I realize that. Doesn't mean you can't speculate for fun. ",
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"content": "People get weird about this. Like you were advocating us all to forget to vote next year because we're so excited about 2020.",
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"content": "Because this sub, like most others, talks about 2020 candidates every couple days, and like most subs, has a a very lack of activism push towards things you can be doing right now, which is why I think posts like this are pointless.",
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"content": "\nCory Booker\n\nJohn Hickenlooper\n\nAl Franken\n\nTammy Duckworth\n\nTim Ryan\n\nMaggie Hassan",
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"content": "Cory Booker, Martin O'Malley, and Andrew Cuomo seem like the most likely contenders to me. I think Kirsten Gilibrand, who'd I personally support over the other 3 even though I like them as well, might run as she has proven to be firmly anti-Trump, which could help her if his ratings drop tremendously by 2020. Lots of people want Elizabeth Warren to run, but I have a feeling she doesn't want to. Lots of people, including myself, like Kamala Harris; I do see her becoming a presidential hopeful one day, but I have a feeling she won't run in 2020 as she just became a senator (although Obama was a one-term senator so you never know). \n\nI think that a businessperson might try to run as a Democrat, but I don't think they would be very successful. Businesspeople and people who aren't \"career politicians\" have a better chance as a Republican than a Democrat (George Bush Jr and Sr both had business backgrounds before entering politics, and of course there's former actor Ronald Reagan). \n\nOne name to look out for that could be a strong wild card candidate is Joseph Kennedy III. He has a recognizable name as he's part of the Kennedy family and is slowly raising his profile by fighting the ACHA in Congress, plus, he's only 36 years old and has a long career ahead of him. He's a U.S. Rep right now and will probably become a Senator before moving on to anything else, but I think he could absolutely win in 2020. Whether or not he decides to run then (which is highly unlikely), I do think he's a future President in the making. \n\nMy way too early 2020 Democratic predictions would have to be:\nBooker\nO'Malley\nCuomo\nGilibrand\nJohn Hickenlooper\n\n\n-With Warren and Harris as *maybes* and Joe Kennedy as a wild-card. There might be a businessperson too but I don't know who it would be and I don't think they would do well anyway. ",
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"content": "But is the multitude of anti-science members of Congress not reflective of an anti-science electorate? As a STEM major myself I support getting more scientists into Congress as the next reasonable person, but if the people voting don't care about science then I fear this may be a vain effort (especially in rural areas).",
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"content": "That same electorate is also generally against very wealthy people who screw over the middle class and the poor, but often proceed to elect wealthy people who screw over the middle class and the poor.\n\n(The point being that we can definitely convince an anti-science electorate to elect scientists if we sing the right tunes.)",
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"content": "\"The study my opponent is referring to was NOT peer reviewed and lacks replicability. SAD!\"",
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"content": "\"Just look at his h-index. Never seen anything so low. We have the highest impact. It will be great!\"",
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"content": "I'm not sure the electorate is against wealthy people screwing poor people. Most dumb Americans think they are smart and most of them think they will be rich someday. They look out for the wealthy because they expect to be one someday. ",
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"content": "Exactly. The \"Temporarily Embarrassed Millionaire\" Syndrome is very strong in a lot o the white middle class.\n\nMy parents lived it my entire childhood despite things slipping further and further. Even when we hit the point where we qualified for WIC and free school lunches, my Mom was still insistent that we'd be rich some day.",
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"content": "I'm just more supportive of getting people in Congress who understand science, and who are open minded enough to believe the research and the opinions of experts throughout different fields.\n\nJust because someone is a scientist doesn't mean they are necessarily fit to be a Congressman or a governing figure.",
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"content": "See: Dr. Ben Carson",
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"content": "Not a scientist.",
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"content": "Medical science isn't science?",
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"content": "You're objectively wrong.",
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"content": "I mean, he is a scientist - while an MD is a professional (not a scientific) degree, he has absolutely spent s career performing science. That said, his qualifications are below that of what we would consider a 'standard' scientist - that is, he does not have a PhD-level degree.",
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"content": "He pioneered surgical techniques, I think he deserves to be called a scientist. But that doesn't mean he isnt clueless outside of neurosurgery. ",
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"content": "You could also say just because someone is a reality show host, doesn't mean they are necessarily fit to be a congressman or governing figure, but we vote for idiots like this anyways. ",
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"content": "[Yeah, reminds me of this classic SBMC comic.](http://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20100129.gif)",
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"content": "Which is why we have to get more people who care to start voting. Now.",
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"content": "The electorate mostly just re-elects whatever asshole already has the seat. Scientists absolutely have to run for office. Please, folks.",
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"content": "People need to be taught that science isn't demonic, sure...we have New York and California and a few other states that are blue strongholds, for now. However as long as people see science a product of the devil, and an affront to their beliefs nothing will change. We have to convince them that it's no different than Engineering and Math, because apparently there's a discrepancy were people think that Engineering and Math aren't sciences. ",
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"content": " You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does. You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does. You and I don't write the tax code. Congress does. You and I don't set fiscal policy. Congress does. You and I don't control monetary policy. The Federal Reserve Bank does.\n\nOne hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president and nine Supreme Court justices - 545 human beings out of the 235 million - are directly, legally, morally and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.\n\nI excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered but private central bank.\n\nI excluded all but the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it.\n\nNo matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislation's responsibility to determine how he votes.\n\nIt's amazing how you can't ensure 545 people are not corrupt, 545 people responsible for the joke the US has become and you lot don't seem to realize that's all it takes to make your country great again.\n\n\n",
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"content": "Which is why the House needs to be expanded (and probabley the Senate too). Sure you can't ensure 545 people are not corrupt but 545 is way too few to ensure the corrupt elements can't be drowned out in the noise.",
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"content": "That isn't actually a bad idea, I like your style of thinking! It's a shame more people don't think like you. ",
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"content": "A congress of scientists is *probably* better than what we have, but that too would likely create problems. I think it's pretty valid that there are people in congress with law backgrounds if they're going to be ... making laws. I think it's valid that there are people in congress with military/intelligence backgrounds if they're going to be making decisions about that domain. I think it's valid that there are people in congress with business or governmental executive backgrounds. In the end, we don't want congress dominated by any one background. We want a congress with a very diverse intellectual background so that, collectively, they can understand a very diverse amount of problems and populations.",
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"content": "https://www.senate.gov/CRSpubs/c527ba93-dd4a-4ad6-b79d-b1c9865ca076.pdf - professions of Congress starting on page 2.\n\nYou're not wrong, but the weight of Congress is lawyers, businesspeople, and professional politicians (staffers, held lower offices, etc). According to the report one of these identifiers was used by a Congressperson 800 times. There are currently 3 scientists.\n\nA strong swing in the opposite direction is necessary.",
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"content": "I didn't say anything about the existing makeup of congress. I just said that, even though *more* scientists would be an improvement, a shift to all/mostly scientists wouldn't be ideal either.",
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"content": "I don't think this is being heavily advocated for though.",
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"content": "I don't necessarily think it is either, but I think it's relevant to this post. I think some people just run with these ideas.",
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"content": "As a life long left leaning independent, the Dems should have done this before they sold fracking to the rest of the world. Too little, too late in my book. ",
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"content": "\"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.\"",
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"content": "Some times call for a while new kind of forrest. The problem is who is paying for the trees. The banks? Exxon? Big pharma? ",
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"content": "Uh, banks aren't evil. \n\nGo ahead and give up. ",
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"content": "Give up what? What do you think caused the 2008 recession? The ability of investment and commercial banks to merge. Yeah, that was banks, and they are pushing for more of that same. ",
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"content": "Again, banks aren't evil. They need restraint not demonization that makes us look like we don't know how finance works.\n",
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"content": "Yet they are the ones financing the Dem party. You know, the people that are suppose to regulate them. How has that worked out for us little folks? Oh yeah, it hasn't. ",
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"content": "\"They\" are just people. Just like the Americans who use them. \n\nStop creating boogeymen. All you need is for people to get off their asses. It's not some monolith's fault people are lazy and need boogeymen to motivate them. \n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "Strawman alert!\n\nThis is why progressives fail. ",
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"content": "The dems representing the people's will, that's why they have lost almost every state, why the house, congress, and President are GOP. ",
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"content": "No, dems lose when voters get lazy and treat their vote like a xmas card. \n\nObama won, and he didn't have to anti-bank circle jerk in order to do it. \n",
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"content": "Bullshit. He ran on the promise to reel in banking practices, public option for healthcare, etc... most of his fucking platform (publicly anyways) had to do with banking and elites draining out system. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/rulings/promise-broken/",
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"content": "Yes, and he tried to do that and passed Dodd Frank.\n\nShow me where he treated them evil?\n\nHe raised more money from them than anyone. Because he's not a fool. \n",
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"content": "And why people like me that know he failed us on that front will not vote for more of that. Because people are poorer now than they were when he took over. Almost all jobs created under his leadership were low paying, service, part time jobs. The wealth of the elites grew tremendously under his watch, while the rest of us are worse off. \nMaybe instead of insulting me, you should try to figure out why the Dems lost almost every state government in the nation under Debbie's watch, and why the American people here then so much. I'm a side note, why is Bernie Sanders the most popular politician in the nation? ",
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"content": "Uh, no one failed \"people\", except themselves.\n\nWhere were they in 2010? That's when we could have moved even more progressive. \n\nUntil phonies start realizing that politics is voters failing, you will keep seeing whiners complaining about how some party or person couldn't motivate them off their asses to act in their own interest.\n\nObama didn't fail. He won. \n\nYou failed. You. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "Their job, as a political party, is literally only one thing, to get people to vote for them. Period. Until you understand that, every statement you make is irrelevent. The dems are not entitled to one fucking vote, it needs to be earned. If they can't do that, then they aren't doing their job. ",
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"content": "Then Sanders is a failure, as he couldn't even win most open primary states.\n\nNow I'll wait when you twist into a pretzel trying to explain how not getting enough votes was not his fault. \n\nGo ahead. \n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "I'm not going to defend Sanders on that. Nice of you to make assumptions though. Pretty typical for a loyalist to a party that could give 2 shits about you. Sanders lost, you are correct. Then, he did not make a good enough case to talk me into voting for the weakest candidate the Dems put forward since Walter Mondale. \nFace it, she ran a shit campaign, and assumed people would vote her on name recognition alone. She had bad policies, and even worse less charisma than a sloth. ",
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"content": "The weakest candidate then was Sanders, since he got blown out, \n\nKeep trying to find some excuse as to why you need to be convinced to defend policies you supposedly care about. When it's really that you want your ego satisfied. \n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "Yeah, the dems are in the fucking toilet, yet you blame everyone but the dems themselves. I never claimed that the candidate I wanted was going to win, nor did I claim he was owed those votes, that is typical party loyalist bullshit. And the fact that you have taken hours out of your day to argue with me about it instead of trying to convince me to move back to the Dems is why you fucking lost, and will continue to lose. \nWith regards to Sanders, I will say this. He was an absolute unknown, yet received more donations from individuals on a massive scale and had more volunteers, and more energetic base than Clinton ever had. Keep insulting us though, that'll work one day, I promise. Fucking idiots. ",
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"content": "\"the dems themselves\" are the voters, dude.\n\nGet it through your thick skull. It's up to the voters. \n\n",
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"content": "^ irony\n\nYou are still trying to find someone to blame, while you sit there and do NOTHING. \n\nLmao. \n\nSelf-entiitlement. You're soaking in it. ",
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"content": ">the ability of investment and commercial banks to merge.\n\nWrong. It was a housing bubble plus collateralized debt obligations being rated incorrectly by the ratings agencies, often missing the probability of foreclosure by a factor of 200,000. Investors (including banks like AIG) trusted the ratings agencies and bought too many of the CBOs.\n\n",
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"content": "I think there's a decent contingent of scientists who are supportive of fracking.",
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"content": "https://www.google.com/amp/s/thinkprogress.org/amp/p/4e1c391b63f5",
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"content": "we follow the scientific method and we're doing this!",
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"content": "It's not anti science as much as it is intricate lobbying to profit certain groups. ",
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"content": "Can scientists make good politicians, though? How many of them have difficulty communicating ideas verbally? What type of scientist do we need?",
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"content": "Angela Merkel was a chemist!",
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"content": "Any scientist with clout got that way *because* they are good at communicating ideas, on top of their scientific achievements.",
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"content": "Just as being a politician give you **zero** authority to challenge (read: deny) scientific data because it doesn't fit your political agenda - wouldn't you agree?",
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"content": "Explicitly stating climate change is a lie and a grand conspiracy is not taking the stance of defending factories & mining. Denying that there is a problem to solve doesn't make the problem go away. Denying reality will not save you..\n\nNow, if they'd like to have a conversation about policy of how we can improve manufacturing output while also growing jobs but also to define and adhere to rules that will create a sustainable economic model - I'm all fucking for it. \n\nBut to deny the facts and the data overwhelmingly supporting the fact that global warming is real and it is not a problem we can put off any longer... that's simply non-starter. Either accept reality or get out of the way so we can have a political, policy-centric debate on the data, logic, reason and a mutual respect and understanding for both each other's positions and the reality of the problem we are trying to solve. ",
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"content": "> Scientific data stating something is happening is not jurisdiction to creating policy a certain way. \n\nI mean... wow. If you don't think that policies should be determined by facts then what exactly should we base them on? And before you disagree with my use of \"facts\" let me just remind you that scientific data is not produced out of thin air and is supported by evidence. \n\n >Politicians can not say \"Shut down factories and manufacturing plants everyone! Global Warming is melting an ice cap!\" It's absurd how democrats say defending manufacturing and industrial plants is \"Challenging\" science.\n\nIt's easy to understand your kind thinking if you reduce the issue especially in such a disingenous manner. Democrats have never called for shutting down factories because of global warming. Calling for regulations is very different to what you're describing. Defending industrial plants is not considered as challenging science. Regulating the way they operate is finding a compromise. \n\nDo you know what happens when regulation of industrial plants fails? The Flint Water Crisis.\n\nScience shouldn't be politics. ",
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"content": ">See: Coal, fracking.\n\nYes the coal industry is in decline but when or how exactly did the democrats call for the factories to be shut down as you claim? Also, citing the coal industry as an example is not really applicable because it's the energy industry which will obviously be affected by the EPA and rightly so. Regardless, the coal industry's decline is inevitable - global demand for coal is decreasing and it makes sense to switch to natural gas which is cheaper and will not contribute to the depletion of our fossil fuel resources. It's just one of those industries that can't keep up with modern times.\n\nAnyway, let's go back to your claim that democrats called for manufacturing plants to be shut down because of global warming... I would surprised if you can back this up.\n\n>Making it more expensive to compete with deregulated plants in Mexico and China, successfully outsourcing the majority of our industrial, textile, and manufacturing companies in a single generation! Meanwhile for every factory that shuts its doors in America, two more go up in China so you see there is no compromise for stopping \"Global Warming\".\n\nEither you yourself are severely misinformed or you think you can mislead me with false facts. Firstly, plants in Mexico are not deregulated as you claim. Factories in Mexico have to comply with environmental regulations set by the government. And yes, China has been lax in the past but they've implemented strict regulations recently and even collaborating with the EPA. \n\nAnyway, regardless of the facts, you're implying that our industries have been outsourced because of environmental policies which is false. Cheap labor is the main reason. So yes, there is a compromise for fighting climate change when other countries are also implementing regulations.\n\n>Bullshit if the government had allowed private water utility companies to compete with the state one, Flint Michigan would have had more than one alternative and access to higher quality water. Instead, the state lied and people are suffering-- which to mention further got absolutely no support from Obama. Instead of sending aid through executive order he gave a 400M money transfer to Iran.\n\nBullshit? Really? Yet again you're trying to pass of bullshit statements as facts - the government in no way prevented private companies from competing. If you knew the facts then you'd know that it was the people who were against privatization. \n\nAnd that had nothing to do with the crisis. The fact remains that the water from the Flint River which should be a natural resource for the city was contaminated and unfit for consumption because the State did not follow EPA regulations. \n\nAnd they got no support from Obama? How about when he declared a state of emergency and directed FEMA to distribute millions of litres of water and filter. Or how about when he expanded medicaid? \n\nBut hey, you go ahead and try to connect a payment to Iran to this... please don't let facts get in the way of your delusions.\n\n\nI'll say it again... if you're going to take a position against something like science and the EPA then you should at least know what you're talking about. 90% of your statements are just blatantly false despite your best efforts to pass them off as facts.\n\n",
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"content": "Most Democrats who call healthcare a \"right\" are using the term colloquially. They mean we as a society should do everything we can to give people healthcare.",
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"content": "I use a slightly different phrasing myself: Americans have the right to affordable health care. Likewise, we have the right to affordable college.\n\nWith both issues, I think those with the lowest incomes should have the entire cost covered by government. Others would pay a share proportional to their income. That's why I'm not a huge fan of single-payer or \"free college for all.\"",
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"content": "College and health care are not at all the same. \n\nHealth care is along the lines of fire, police, military. College is optional. The lack of college is not a death sentence. ",
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"content": ">College and health care are not at all the same.\n\nI know, and perhaps introducing that into the discussion wasn't helpful.\n\nNevertheless, I still believe that with health care, people should pay what they can afford, and the government should find a way to cover the rest. Throw in a public option and I think the ACA does the trick.",
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"content": "> Nevertheless, I still believe that with health care, people should pay what they can afford\n\nWhy? If we fund this though a progressive tax, wealthy people will pay more. Is that not good enough? \n\n",
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"content": "I have yet to see a single-payer proposal that makes economic sense or has much political support, so I'm fine with a market-based solution.",
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"content": "Are you unfamiliar with Medicare and the single payer systems that are in use throughout the developed nations of the world? \n\nMarkets are great doe answering wants, not so much with needs. ",
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"content": ">Are you unfamiliar with Medicare and the single payer systems that are in use throughout the developed nations of the world?\n\nYes, I'm familiar with them. But I've yet to see a proposal to cover every American that isn't ridiculously expensive or based on faulty assumptions. Crack that nut and maybe I could be persuaded.",
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"content": ">I've yet to see a proposal to cover every American that isn't ridiculously expensive or based on faulty assumptions.\n\nMedicare for all. Or, simply copy Canada or Germany, or a number of nations that have much less expensive medical costs with equal or better results than ours. ",
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"content": "There are no rights, except legally protected ones. ",
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"content": "Which means what relative to health care as a right and the right to vote and the right to speak freely and....?",
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"content": "That moment when people protested their vote. ",
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"content": "Meals on wheels is a state funded program and wouldn't be effected by his budget",
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"content": "http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017",
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"content": "Fail",
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"content": "I believe some of the funding the states use is provided by a program called Community Development Block Grants under the Department of Housing and Urban Development as part of Lyndon B. Johnson's Older Americans Act of 1965.",
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"content": "www.forbes.com/sites/eriksherman/2017/03/16/liberals-stop-saying-that-trump-will-kill-meals-on-wheels/amp/",
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"content": "Anyways, the crux of the argument that Meals on Wheels doesn't need federal funding is that it doesn't exist completely on the aid, infact Meals on Wheels said themselves this week that they only get 1/3 of their budget from the Fed.\n\nAren't programs with low overhead that are able to effectively use Federal money and get private donations to match the Federal funds 2:1 the ones we should be pushing to maintain funding for? \n\nI don't care if they get .0001% of their funding from the Fed if that money actually helps people the discussion should be why aren't we giving them more.\n\n",
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"content": "Because taxation is theft. If you want to give more you are more than able too. Cutting 3.3% out of the 35% the government provides is not a big deal hence my original comment on your post. I dislike when people try to spread a false narrative through misinformation. It's coming time in America for the people to take back control of their money and privately fund the programs that are needed to help the unfortunate or sick. The government does a much worse job with our money than we would collectively.\n\nTo your military comment. I don't really support funding our allies military as much as I support getting our military capabilities back where they need to be. Trumps budget still had military spending at the 3rd lowest it's been in the last 10 years. It bothers me when I hear things like \"Russia and China have a missile that can go faster than the speed of sound and the US doesnt\". Who's to say how far we have truly fallen beind with all the military cuts over the course of Obamas presidency? One of the government's actual duties is to protect us. If all the military generals say we need more money to do that; who am I to say they don't?",
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"content": "Lol, taxation is theft? You want to talk about theft - come back when the military conducts an audit and can tell us where that $6.5 trillion went in 2015. \n\nMilitary is important, but again: 2 minutes and 29 seconds vs a year. That is an over 210,000 fold increase. That $6.5 trillion the military misplaced would have sustained the funding for Meals on Wheels for *2,166,667* years.\n\nOn a side note: 3.3% is a big deal to the people who would have been fed by it.",
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"content": "I'm sure it's been covered by the increase in donations lol. And I 100% agree with you on the trillions that went missing on Obama's watch",
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"content": "Right, blame Obama, fix nothing, wave flag.\n\nIn terms you might appreciate more that's funding for 2,166,667 Patriot missiles the MILITARY misplaced. \n\nYou really think raw funding is the issue with the military? You think just throwing more money at them is going to fix it now that Obama is gone? If you are upset that were are losing our technological edge what do you think of the massive defunding of STEM under the new budget?",
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"content": "It couldn't have gone \"misplaced\" without every major player knowing about it. I think being smart with the money will fix it.\n\nI feel like I've made my opinion known on government run programs. Private citizens will be able to do more with less because the government won't be stealing any off the top. You should be on board with that since, as you said with their military waste, they are terrible with managing our money.",
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"content": "Right, just like they did in the 20's and 30's before these programs. \n\nWhat a great time for poor people.\n\nAnyways, seems pretty obvious we're not going to come to any sort of agreement. I wish you well.",
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"content": "I feel like you are trying to over simply events leading to the great depression. But I will say that the wealth gap and nations debt has only gotten worse since that period of time.\n\nI feel like we have actually agreed on a few things. Always enjoy exchanging thoughts with people of different views. It was a pleasure ",
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"content": "Need anymore?\n\nhttp://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/03/18/meal-on-wheels-trump-budget-proposal-cuts/99308928/\n",
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"content": "You're mincing over minor details. So Meals on Wheels only gets part of it's funding from the Federal Government (according to them a third)? So not all of that money goes to MoW, but to other programs that are similar? Doesn't diminish that the money is helping the elderly in some fashion.\n\nEither way, you are missing the point of my OP. The point is they talking about austerity measures and completely cutting federal funding for things like MoW, NEA, NEH, and the Chesapeake Bay Clean up or gutting biomedical research, energy research, education while we talk about increasing military spending by exponentially more than what we would save in these cuts. *These cuts are akin to telling your kids they need to skip dinner so you can afford to get your new Ferrari waxed or your grandma you can't spare her any asprin because you need to buy an extra $100,000 worth of guns to improve your $1,000,000 collection.*\n\nThe military is giving $3 million dollar patriot missiles to allies to shoot down $200 Amazon drones. Is it worth giving up the cultural programs, medical research and cutting what little aid we give to the elderly so we can give them a $3.3 million dollar missile instead? I mean, they still can't account for the $6.5 trillion dollars they lost - why take their word they need increased funding before an audit?\n\nTrump may not \"kill\" Meals on Wheels, but he is certainly proposing we defund programs that help Americans. Why not get the same amount of money from Trump skipping one of his weekly $3 million dollar vacations? Why save the same amount of money by asking Mrs. Trump to live with her husband for 4 days? It'd be great PR!",
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"content": "Priorities, lol.",
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"content": "Why Eric Holder? He is divisive. \n\nGet some fucking young blood up in there. ",
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"content": "Uhhhh, he's an attorney. When it comes to a court battle over gerrymandering, you don't look for fresh faces for the hell of it. You look for experience",
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"content": "What the hell are you even talking about? What do the greens have to do with anything?",
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"content": "What the hell does that have to do with districting reform?\n\nThis is some of the dumbest whataboutism",
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"content": "Eric Holder the savior of Wall Street!",
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"content": "Most Americans have investments in Wall Street, son. ",
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"content": "I actually agree Wall Street didn't do anything illegal, thanks.",
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"content": "Well, that's debatable as well. \n\nSince fraud is illegal.\n\nThe issue is whether you have a case. ",
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"content": "And I do not have confidence that Holder would make a compelling case against Wall Street. \n\nBut this is all opinion, have a nice day!",
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"content": "Holder is a beast who put terrorists, drug gangs and mafia in prison. ",
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"content": "Of course they had a case!!!!!!!!!! Are you kidding me!!!!\n\nHe said they were \"too big too fail.\" Of course, thats what happens when allow Citibank to pick your AG. ",
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"content": "Uh, no. \n\nProve they had a case but did not take it. \n\nToo big too fail has nothing to do with filing charges.\n\nsmh\n\n",
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"content": "What does any of this have to do with gerrymandering?",
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"content": "Everything if he is the one in charge?\n\nEric Holder pardoned FALN terrorists and refused to arrest the people accountable for the market crash. He's a pawn of the corporate government. ",
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"content": "You're fucking stupid, you know that right?\n\nWhat you're talking about is not related to the matter at hand.\n\nPlease, by all means, fundraiser your own effort then you can hire whichever attorney you like.",
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"content": "How is the person in charge of the best chance we have at gerrymander reform not related? If this attempt blows up it could set back this debate a long time. This is important.\n\nEdit: I'm also sorry my stupidity is causing you aggravation enough to insult me.",
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"content": "I'm sorry for insulting you. That was inappropriate and wrong.\n\nHowever, I don't see the relationship between disagreeing with him politically and his efficacy as an attorney.",
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"content": "No problem!\n\nI'm just worried that his past controversies might hurt the progress of this important measure.",
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"content": "How dare he not prosecute them for allowing congress to gut wall street regulations.",
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"content": "\"Kill The Poor, It's for their own good.\"\n\n- Trump Admin's Budget Subtitle",
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"content": "\"I just believe he has my best interest at heart\" - Rural Trump voter",
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"content": "\"He tells it like it is.\"",
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"content": "\"It's a mercy, it'll mean freedom and liberty\". ",
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"content": "http://i.imgur.com/GX2YiHk.gif",
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"content": "And the worst/best part of it all? These will be people who probably overwhelmingly voted Trump. The Republican Party is in for such a shit storm.",
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"content": "Nope. The Republican Party will blame Obama and the Democrats and rural people will actually believe it and continue voting Republican for the remainder of their lives. ",
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"content": "~~lives~~ *short brutal lives* - ftfy",
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"content": "Yep because the Democrats are absolutely terrible at reaching out to these people and playing the same game republicans do.\n\nIt's nice to be the \"bigger man\" but it does no good when being the bigger man caused you to lose so much support and hurt the country. I was hoping that Bernie would change that and give us a voice, but I am weary as to if it will happen or not.",
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"content": "One of the main reasons is that fear mongering works so well on rural America. People were terrified of death panels when the ACA came out, and even the whole FEMA camps thing was a huge schtick. Now it's the terrorists and Mexicans. And abortion banning, that's a bigger hitter for the gop right now.",
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"content": "That is changing however slowly. North Carolina has some all white NAACP chapters to gain solidarity on health care reform.",
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"content": "At this point, who gives a shit?\n\nIt's their own fault.",
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"content": "It's bittersweet, as a Democrat, I believe my taxes should help the overall community... but the GOP has done this to themselves. \nI only hope we can recover with the next administration. \nHopefully we'll at least get healthcare fixed in my lifetime.",
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"content": "They voted for him, they get the brunt of his policies. Seems fair. ",
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"content": "OK? They voted for no more black lung coverage or coal miner retraining funding so they should get it. I'm not even being factitious, it would be unethical for Republicans to lie to them by continuing these programs and if they wanted these services they in theory would have voted Democrat. \n\nWhile there may be some (massive) cognitive dissonance, it's healthier for the democracy if people get what they vote for. ",
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"content": "WHAT A FUCKING SHOCK THANKS AGAIN POOR WHITE RURAL AMERICA.",
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"content": "That's ok.\n\nPoor and destitute can be ignored when you got freedom!!!!!!",
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"content": "Well, we can help speed them along to obscurity by helping starve them out: those ['we produce your food and energy' states? OBSOLETE.](http://www.clevescene.com/cleveland/worker-owned-green-city-growers-is-on-the-path-to-profits-while-giving-refugees-and-ex-cons-gainful-employment/Content?oid=5740258)",
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"content": "I may be reading too much into body language, but it looks like Trump was expecting to dominate this meeting and Merkel let him know that wasn't going to happen.",
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"content": "It's almost like she showed him a video on her phone which happened to be named *\"Russischen Intelligenz Film von Prostituierten Urinieren auf den Präsidenten der Vereinigten Staaten.\"* \n",
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"content": "[Here's the clip](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/17/donald-trump-meet-angela-merkel-white-house-make-break-meeting/) of him refusing to shake Merkel's hand or even look at her when she asks. Yeah, she dominated that meeting.",
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"content": "Yep thats Trump alright. ",
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"content": "Why must you lie, Trumpkin?\n\n",
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"content": "No offense but calling Merkel \"leader of the free world\" is stretching it.",
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"content": "I'm really looking forward to an explanation on this one.",
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"content": "Uh, not true. ",
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"content": "✋🏻stop. Have you been there? Do you know anyone who is from Germany? Speak German? Because you're wrong, wherever you heard that from is spinning a load of shit meant to scare Americans. Of course it works because the vast majority of our countrymen are low-information voters who don't really know how to find accurate information. \n\nSource: Spent more than 4 months of my life in Germany, I speak German, married to a German, actually know what's going on there because I talk to real Germans.",
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"content": "I'm really looking forward to an explanation on why you think she's the leader of the free world.",
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"content": "LOL. ",
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"content": "It's very clear that she's the dominant one in this picture. Trump looks like a 5-year old that just got lectured at by his mom.\n\nSource: was once a 5-year old that got lectured at (a lot) by my mom.",
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"content": "Angela looks like she said what she came to say. ",
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"content": "You could at least link the article \n\nhttp://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/the-leader-of-the-free-world-meets-donald-trump-214924",
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"content": "Nope, was my original idea. And to be honest, I've hear this kind of expression before, just not too sure where. Good to see I'm not the only one with original/funny ideas 😏🤘🏻",
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"content": "Where's the POTUS? I don't see one anywhere in that picture.",
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"content": "Neither Merkel nor Trump are the leader of the free world.",
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"content": "Kind of a strange thing to assert with no other arguments presented but ok.",
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"content": "Kinda strange to assert the affirmative (that Merkel is the leader of the free world) with no other arguments presented but ok.",
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"content": "It's like a meme. The title is meant to be satirical. Maybe you don't understand that format. In any case, it is not a valid answer to simply parrot what I said back to me. You're 0-2 rn. ",
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"content": "I understand the format, I disagree with the premise/claim.\n\nAlso, this isn't a sports match. ",
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"content": "You still haven't presented an argument for why neither are \"leader of the free world\". At this point I think it's clear you just don't have a good one. ",
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"content": "You still haven't presented an argument for why Merkel is \"the leader of the free world\".",
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"content": "Arguing with you is completely exhausting. You opened this debate by challenging the premise, therefore it is your burden to present an opening argument, not my burden to defend my claim against any trolling thing that stops on by. \n\n0-4 in your chances to not look like a troll, by my count. ",
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"content": "No, you first made the affirmative claim that Merkel is the leader of the free world. It is up to you to back it up.\n\nJust because someone disagrees with you, doesn't mean they're a troll. ",
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"content": "Bye Felicia.",
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"content": "Look, if this is just a funny meme that you wanted to post, why the hell do you care so much that I disagree with you that Merkel is the leader of the free world? ",
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"content": "What are some things that Merkel has done to earn the \"leader of the free world\" moniker away from Trump?",
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"content": "Well, for one, the western world has been shaped in the ideological tradition of classical liberalism. She is not only one of the most reliable practitioners of classical liberalism, but she is it's greatest champion internationally. I wouldn't say that she has wrested it away from Trump because he simply never had the title. That is because he never really was a leader of any great repute or ideologically sound in any way. \n\nAdditionally, a man who is hostile to the pillars of a free society (freedom of press, freedom of speech, freedom of movement), cannot, by definition, lead one. ",
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"content": "So. As a bit of food for thought. I'd be curious what the general thoughts are, about this article.",
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"content": "Yes especially republicans. He has divided the once untied democratic party. He basically won the election for them.",
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"content": "Love it how you still quote stuff right off Breitbart.com. The republican strategy was to split the democratic vote. Congratulations.You fell for it all hook, line and sinker. You let them screw you and don't even know they did it. And then ask for more. You elected Donald Trump.",
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"content": "The downvotes only prove the point",
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"content": "What are democratic principles? List these and let's compare who represents these",
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"content": "I, for one, would *not* like to see the Democratic party become just the party of following the popularity of a 70 year old man. One individual old man who won't be around for more than 20 years is not the answer. One individual person is never the answer, and it scares me when people get more excited over a person than over ideas and over desire to improve communities. ",
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"content": "There are definitely others that don't like him lol. Having said that, the party does need to be more willing to compromise with him. \n\nSince there's a lot of news around him I can appreciate how opponents in the party may find that an unreasonable statement. There's a lot of momentum and vocal support behind Bernie so I can imagine his opponents feel his supporters are represented more than enough. The thing is there's not really been much compromise within the party itself. Party officials haven't adopted much of, if any of his message and I haven't seen any enthusiasm behind any of Bernie's policies since the election. \n\nIronically Hillary and her platform probably compromised more than Democrats have since the election. Getting behind the repeal of Citizens united made me feel a lot better about supporting Hillary in the general and helped persuade a couple of my more centrist friends. Putting personalities aside, I'd like to see the Democrats unite against money in politics and corruption. As someone who values this issue greatly, I'm more than happy to compromise with the rest of the party on plenty of other issues if we firmly got behind this. ",
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"content": "We are more than willing to compromise, as you mentioned in Clinton's platform. Is he willing to do the same? ",
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"content": "I hope so. He got behind Hillary after the convention. Other than that there's not really been an instance where he's held enough power in the party to compromise so I can't claim to know. \n\nAs for myself and the Bernie supporters I know, we'd be more than content if the party just adopted the money in politics issue. Not only are many Bernie supporters passionate about the issue, but given the current political climate in America and the west in general, I think a refusal to enthusiastically adopt the issue will cripple the Democrats going forward. \n\nFrom what I know of Bernie, I think he'd be very willing to compromise and work with the Democratic party in a more genuine, friendly manner if they joined us on this issue. Even if he doesn't though, his influence comes from his supporters and I believe many of us would be content with such a compromise.",
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"content": "> He got behind Hillary after the convention\n\nThat was too late. He had every right to run, but when the writing was on the wall (Super Tuesday), he should have called off his dogs instead of going scorched earth. \n\n>As for myself and the Bernie supporters I know, we'd be more than content if the party just adopted the money in politics issue. Not only are many Bernie supporters passionate about the issue, but given the current political climate in America and the west in general, I think a refusal to enthusiastically adopt the issue will cripple the Democrats going forward. \n\nThis issue has been adopted well before Bernie. Implying that Clinton and other democrats aren't for this is just disingenuous. She made it clear that her SCOTUS picks would overturn Citizens United. \n\n\n\n",
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"content": "It's pretty arbitrary to say when he 'should of dropped out'. He had the right to stay until the convention as Hillary did in 08 imo. I also don't think anyone really voted based on when Bernie dropped out. This doesn't address my original point though. Regardless of when he dropped out, he showed he was willing to compromise by supporting Clinton in the general. \n\nCitizens united is only one part of money in politics but if Democrats were are on board with over turning it before Bernie, then I'm glad. However, it was portrayed as a compromise with Bernie supporters regarding the 2016 Democratic platform. If this would have been the case anyway then that's great but from what I read it seemed the Hillary camp was happy with this being seen as a token of good will towards Sanders' supporters. \n\nCitizens united isn't the only issue though. I want Democrats to get behind getting big money out of politics completely. If individual Democrats are already for this issue, then they should bloody well brag about it. Being against corruption is a winning stance so if Democrats are against it, as I hope they all are, then they should enthusiastically talk about it. ",
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"content": "It's either should **HAVE** or should**'VE**, but never should **OF**. \n\n See [Grammar Errors](http://www.grammarerrors.com/grammar/could-of-would-of-should-of/) for more information.",
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"content": "I will say the same thing i said on /r/p:\n\nWho said that?\n\nJust because he got less votes?\n\nGet over it. Sanders is beloved but he was not an answer. The answer is people doing something. Don't place your faith in one person. That is what the righties did. \n",
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"content": "Annnnnd every singe one of them applies to a certain someone. Awesome.",
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"content": ">controlled mass media\n\nDo you really think Trump has control of the media? If anything Obama did. Dont get me wrong, im a die hard liberal, but the media dies not favor Trump whatsoever.",
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"content": "He doesn't control it, but does control the narrative to his followers that any media against him is telling lies, etc. So he is attempting to control our perception of the media, and his followers eat up every word ",
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"content": "He calls stuff he doesn't like fake news \n\nThe Nazis did the same thing, they called it Lügenpresse aka lying press. ",
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"content": "Trump supporters only hear one point of the view because they refuse to leave the cultural bubble created by Fox \"News\", Breitbart, WND, Infowars, their pastor, etc. For them the media landscape is nothing but pro-Trump propaganda. It doesn't matter that it's not under the direct control of Trump. The effect is the same.",
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"content": "He's certainly working on it. The surveys he already had about media accountability...what do you think those are designed to lead up to? His assault on the First Amendment hasn't exactly been subtle.",
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"content": "Oh well 12 of 14, nothing to worry about then. And is not like he attacks the media all the time. ",
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"content": "> Do you really think Drumpf has control of the media? \n\n[OOoooohhhee He's Trying!](https://youtu.be/T200b1EquG0?t=13)",
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"content": "*museum gift shop. Hints the $10 sticker. ",
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"content": "Pressing.",
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"content": "\"Religion and government intertwined\"\nInteresting, because one aspect of fascism is the discouragement of religion. Kinda seems to me that the maker of this sign heavily based it on the negative traits of a certain someone, even though they don't even necessarily have anything to do with fascism. It's just fun to worry that we're somehow going to slip into a fascist dictatorship",
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"content": "Yes, the guy who came up with this list surely had A Certain Someone in mind [14 years ago.](https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/fasci14chars.html)",
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"content": "Oh, whoops. Had no idea this was a thing outside of this gift shop knicknack, thanks",
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"content": "> do not run again\n\nstfu with all nonsense. She not going to, but don't degrade her. She is the most intelligent person in the entire democratic party. ",
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"content": "Name one other person with the intensive policy knowledge. Name one.",
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"content": "Do you have an intimate knowledge of how much every Democratic Party member knows? Or even her for that matter?",
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"content": "> Do you have an intimate knowledge of how much every Democratic Party member knows? \n\nOnly the \"public\" officials. From Hillary to the State Chair in New Mexico. ",
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"content": "She's not even the politician in her house.",
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"content": "And she still knows more about policy that Bill, and always has.",
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"content": "> She is the most intelligent person in the entire democratic party\n\nCounterfactual; you absolutely don't have data on it.\n",
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"content": "Your point? ",
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"content": "Why not? She won. I hope she runs in 2020.",
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"content": "Hate to break the news. She did not win, Trump is president.",
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"content": "She's been out of the woods for a long time. She's been giving speeches since the inauguration. I so sick of the insurgent leftist smearing this good woman's name. ",
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"content": ">She's been giving speeches since the inauguration \n\nWhere? What were they about? How many attended? I've heard literally nothing about this. But I do think it's incredibly self destructive to insult progressives like that, we are the ones in the trenches fighting hand to hand against Trump's brownshirts. ",
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"content": ">Where? What were they about? \n\n[Here](https://hillaryspeeches.com/speech-archive/2017-2/)\n\n>How many attended? I've heard literally nothing about this\n\nNot thousands of people. You haven't heard because of the real Media black out against Hillary. \n\n>But I do think it's incredibly self destructive to insult progressives like that\n\nThere's a difference between progressives and insurgents that have no place in the party. \n\n>we are the ones in the trenches fighting hand to hand against Trump's brownshirts.\n\nI'm here too, and I don't boost about it.",
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"content": "How bout you go back to apathy?",
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"content": "How is one's opinion of Hillary Clinton in any way indicative of one's proclivity to apathy? ",
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"content": "It's not. But someone's post history is.",
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"content": "Creeper. ",
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"content": "Lol 😜",
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"content": "I would love for her to start hard trolling Trump. Someone should give her a TV show where she plays the president.",
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"content": ">A Quinnipiac University poll from January found that Clinton would beat current New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) if she ran as an independent. \n\nUm, what? Not to bring up old wounds, but wasn't that one of the main things her strongest supporters attacked Bernie Sanders for? In fact, I still hear this daily about how he's supposedly a bad guy because he's \"not a Democrat\". ",
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"content": "Surprising nobody that's paid any attention over the last 40 years.",
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"content": "Shocking, isn't it? May as well read, \"Republicans do exactly what we fucking told you they would do.\"",
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"content": "Alas, it still doesnt seem to be the in thing.",
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"content": "They're so used to lies about how bad Obama was they caent comprehend that somebody might actually be bad. ",
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"content": "But I thought both sides were just as bad ",
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"content": "Literally the same!",
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"content": "Well I can't work because I am sick and I can't get better because I don't have insurance and I can't get insurance because I can't work because I'm sick",
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"content": "You should have thought about that before your parents had sex. ",
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"content": "Bad serf. If you can't work for the wealthy for a pittance, it's time to take advantage of part two of the Republican Care Plan: Die Quickly.",
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"content": "But not on your own terms. You have to let nature take its course.",
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"content": "Exactly right. The party of Personal Responsibility only as long as the GOP approves of your decision.",
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"content": "It's your fault for getting sick....",
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"content": "Isn't this against the hippocratic oath?",
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"content": "We're talking about Republicans here. It's the Hypocritical Oath.",
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"content": "This will work especially well during an economic downturn or recession, when there are no jobs to be found.",
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"content": "Good. I hope all those rural right-wing fuck heads who voted for these shit stains get hit the hardest. Since they are to stupid anyway to hold an actual job that isn't being shipped overseas it's just going to effect them more. But hopefully there is enough meth and opioids around to take it off their mind.\n\nNot like they fucking care anyway, they will still blame it on Obama or all of those scary Muslims.",
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"content": "Why do poor white people vote Republican? I don't understand and never will",
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"content": "White identity Politics is one of the most powerful forces in politics. ",
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"content": "Yet it's the Democrats who get accused of losing the election because of playing identity politics",
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"content": "In a way they're right. \n\nWe lose because they beat us at the identity politics game ",
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"content": "Yes they will always project their faults on you. ",
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"content": "It's not profitable to inform them that their lives could and should be better.",
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"content": "They don't see themselves as the same. I'm being completely honest, they view that they are some sort of exemption. ",
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"content": "So...Where are the unemployed Republicans decrying this?",
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"content": "I may actually leave the work force next year to go back to school for about year or year and half dunno what's gonna happen with healthcare ",
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"content": "Remember, the GOP does not want voters, they want serfs.",
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"content": "Awesome. Maybe now she'll take off the focus group/ poll oriented gloves and come out swinging. ",
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"content": "This makes me nervous. ",
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"content": "I doubt she's running for POTUS. I'd imagine she's considering running for NYC mayor. That would still suck. ",
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"content": "lol I just can't imagine a scenario in which she returns in a way that actually helps the democrat's cause unless she quietly sits behind the scenes crafting bills or something. She's a policy wonk and damn good at policy work but her public image is just so bad right now",
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"content": "Exactly. I'm someone who REALLY likes her. I think she could have been a great President, and if I'm done with her she should hang it up. ",
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"content": "That's a good way to put it. Her name is tired. She needs to go spend time with her grandkids. ",
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"content": "She's already done so much. I'm sure she's ready to take it easy.",
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"content": "I'd still prefer her over Warren. But no, I don't think she's running again...even though I agree, she would have been a good president. I think she means making her voice heard in other ways. ",
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"content": "I think she's not the type who can hang it up. She's probably just going to start looking for ways to help women and children improve their lives without relying on government funds to do so. Or maybe she'll move to Vermont and run for Senate (I kid, I kid)",
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"content": "Well that sounds great. I guess when I say \"hang it up\" I mean, not running for office. I'm sure she'll still be involved.",
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"content": "What are you talking about? Her public image is great right now. She gets cheers and standing ovations wherever she goes. \n\nI firmly believe part of the reason she lost is because even those who supported her or are fans of her still give into her opponents' narrative about her being unliked. We all are way too easily convinced of negatives about her way more than we are with other candidates. \n\nFor example, Clinton decisively beat Bernie, yet Clinton fans give into the narrative about her bit being liked and allow Bernie fans to create the narrative. ",
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"content": "Lazy low energy POS",
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"content": "Low energy? Golf is a strenuous game and requires a lot of energy! /s",
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"content": "He doesn't even walk. You aren't golfing if you're not walking.",
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"content": "who's unsurprised the administration is lying (badly)? \nme. ",
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"content": "Yeah but when you go on camera saying youd never have time for golf if you were president its a tiny bit hypocrytical. Especially considering how much shit he gave Obama for playing. ",
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"content": "[No harm, eh?](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/03/17/how-much-is-donald-trumps-travel-and-protection-costing-anyway/) ",
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"content": "I don't know call me crazy but I think serious meetings should be held in a meeting room of some sort. ",
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"content": "You're right. I think the issue is the frequency and the lying. Also the unnecessary expense to tax payers ",
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"content": "If I remember correctly, he got plenty from republicans. Also, weren't those golf meetings with Boehner to help grease the wheels of congress?\n\nEdit: also, if we admit they're both wrong, can we do something about it now?",
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"content": "1. Are you saying that because Obama did it then it's ok for Trump to do it? \n2. Not sure, but I think the celebrity golf outings were during his vacations. Trying to google it but only found one article that goes into specifics",
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"content": "Because Obama actually helped run our country in between golf trips. Trump has done nothing to help anybody but himself and his cronies, and you know it. \n\nEdit: and didn't take his first \"presidential outing\" until April. You know, when golf season starts? Trump has gone 10 times since taking office?",
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"content": "Obama did not golf 11 times in his first two months in office, or anywhere close to that. Also, the [hypocrisy is stunning](https://twitter.com/LyssAnthrope/status/843234064719106048/).",
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"content": "You just helped me realise something. Trump has golfed 10 times already, and so people defend him by saying Obama did it 11 times. That is so uncreative.",
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"content": "You might want to consider your alleged sources for your misinformation and do something about that, stat.\n\nPresident Obama didn't hit the links until April, after being in office three months, and didn't lie to the public about it. Trump has been golfing **TEN** times in his first eight weeks, so often he lies about it. Do understand the sheer magnitude of the difference here? Trump has spent about as much taxpayer money on vacations in his first month than President Obama did in a *year*.\n\nWhy aren't you outraged by this? \n",
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"content": "Yeah, OK. That's why his administration tried to lie about where he was, right? Must've been some super secret business.",
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"content": "I agree. However, it's one thing to play on the secure course owned by the government (such as at camp David or a military base). It's entirely another to only play on the courses of your personal business interests which create a huge cost burden to secure.\n\n\nIt's the difference between a meeting and an advertisement.",
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"content": "So you're completely fine with being lied to repeatedly? ",
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"content": "He's probably got big important meetings of state on the golf course. Not like obummer who never did anything and at the same time worked so hard to ruin our country that he's not from!\n\n/s in case that's not obvious ",
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"content": "Thought the_d was leaking over. ",
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"content": "/s for safety!\nBut yeah they're leaking their swamp gas everywhere.",
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"content": "he lies for fun\n",
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"content": "Bernie can still win!",
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"content": "A lot of bushiness is handled on the course. jus saying...",
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"content": "See the photo of Pussy-grabber in the golf cart? I doubt he does much walking.",
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"content": "You're right, I apologize. I forgot you couldn't talk when you're both in the same golf cart right next to each other.\n",
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"content": "Neither of the two people you responded to have stated, at any point, that they can't or didn't talk but made a (admittedly pretty lame) joke about him not walking much. \n\n",
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"content": "I have no idea what you're on, to me it's pretty obvious that they're making a bad joke about Trump being out of shape and not much of a walking guy. \n\nI don't see how they have to reference your point about them talking to be \"valid\" comments instead of \"attempting to shift the conversation away\". Sometimes a bad joke is just a bad joke and not some 'subtle' way of controlling the discussion. ",
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"content": "Yes, these two guys responding to you are obviously subtle masterminds that attempt to control the conversation on this subreddit. It is impossible that they just wanted to make a bad joke without some sort of evil masterplan. \n\nA circle jerk is not controlling or shifting the discussion away it's just literally a circle jerk. And anything Trump related will be a circle jerk in both directions for a long time - dude is a polarising person that is relatively regularly stating very polarising things. \n\nMaybe you should take this less serious instead of replying with some passive aggressive \"sorry, it's obviously impossible to talk while driving\" stuff. Makes you seem petty too. ",
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"content": "Not that I disagree with you that it would be better to have some form of serious discourse here but it's reddit and, again, Trump is a polarising person. You're not going to get objective discussions on him for quite a bit of time.\n\nIn the meantime accusing people of steering the discussion is not going to help you anyways, especially if it's just the usual \"Trump sucks\" circle jerk... Although complaining about the circle jerk is also not going to help, honestly. \n\nAnd I'm not sure if this sub is supposed to be neutral or if it's clearly intended to be left leaning and as a result will complain about Trump a lot ",
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"content": "Wow, what a conversation! It doesn't seem like a puppet at all. \n\nJust kidding. It seems exactly like a couple Trumptard puppets. ",
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"content": "Good riddance to right wing rubbish. \n\nCan't help noticing you don't even try to deny it. Ha, you guys are so weak with this shit. \n\nEDIT: HA, this sack of shit deleted his comments to try to hide it. These lying Trump supporters are just as honorless and shitty as Trump. One is /u/jiratoo, checking his account will find more puppet/vote manipulation assholery. /u/water_from_hell was the other one that sounded exactly the same and pretended to be someone else. Trump classiness right here. ",
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"content": "you're takin a joke way too seriously man. relax ",
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"content": "That was not his point. His point was trump is in a golf cart, not walking.",
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"content": "Hell, just look at his shape. That will tell you that he doesn't do much walking.",
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"content": "I don't think Trump walks.",
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"content": "That wasn't my point but ok.",
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"content": "Why not? He insults virtually everyone else - except Putin, of course. And if he isn't willing to show any degree of respect for the position he holds, why should anyone else? ",
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"content": "It's not an argument. Nobody is making an argument other than you. Not everything has to be a fucking debate. They're making fun of him for being fat - it's a low effort joke. It's not pushing a political agenda.",
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"content": "Yeah pretty much.",
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"content": "Why wouldn't they just say that he was golfing then? They told the press he was unavailable because he was in meetings and on phone calls. I don't know about you, but if I told my boss I was busy in meetings and he found me on the golf course I'd be fired. \n\nBesides, the picture about him golfing is with a chef and a former Romney aide. What kind of important business is he discussing with them? ",
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"content": "Golf carts and waiting. There's actually quite a lot of downtime to chat. Especially if you're any good and catch up to a slower group ahead of you.\n\nHowever, them lying about it is dumb. They should have just came out and said he was having a golf meeting...\n\nEDIT: I'm confused now. I went back to the page and hovering over the photograph, it says \"2015\" from \"SCOTLAND\". Is this fake?\n\nEDIT #2: YEP! 100% fake BS again... UGH!!!! So sick of this crap getting to my /r/ALL!\nTrump Turnberry -> Address: Turnberry, Ayrshire KA26 9LT, United Kingdom",
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"content": "well 2 things. First off, if you played golf you realize aside from putting and teeing off, there isn't much walking next to someone else and time between shots isn't that much. The main talking with golf is after golf when you are at the club house. \n\nSecondly, according to Trump you can't. Remember when he talked about Obama constantly golfing. Fox and the right wasn't trying to say that it was okay (even though bush jr said it was good). ",
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"content": "Billionaire doing business on the golf course. Being a multi tasker is one of the traits of successful people. \n\nNothing to see here. ",
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"content": "So is honestly, intelligence, integrity, listening to smart people etc. Those are reasons why Trump is a bad businessman, and could only sell his name to rubes.",
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"content": "Are you really surprised? What are you going to do about it? ",
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"content": "Lol. You don't care.",
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"content": "Well bust out the big box of crayons and color me shocked.",
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"content": "This just in, Donald Trump is lying sack of shit; details at 11.",
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"content": "Dailykos guys? The first line calls an inanimate object racist.. there are so many things wrong with Trump, this is all you've got?",
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"content": "Nothing's keeping you from going to Voat, you know.",
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"content": "You do realize that most people have never played golf (other than the putt putt variety) and when they think of golf, they think of a leisure sports activity, not meetings. I completely understand if they're having a meeting while playing golf, but for most people, it feels like something only rich people get to do, so yeah, they make a snap judgement. ",
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"content": "That shit eating grin on his mug... lord.",
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"content": "I don't mind him playing golf. It keeps him away from the nuclear codes. ",
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"content": "No it doesn't. The football must be withing a few metres of the POTUS at all times AFAIK. ",
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"content": "A lot of deals can take place on the golf course and their is nothing wrong in that, to the people complaining about the post, the problem is not that Trump is playing gold, the problem is the fact that white house representatives lied. Why the lie? ",
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"content": "I'm an independent who saw this on /r/all. I'm usually on the fence politically and just want what's best for our country. I'm rooting on President Trump to succeed, since he's in charge. I don't like or hate him.\n\nHowever, this is ridiculous. Why lie about golf? They could have said he was having a golf meeting. I've done it. Plenty of business owners do it. How dumb...\n\nEDIT: I'm confused now. I went back to the page and hovering over the photograph, it says \"2015\" from \"SCOTLAND\". Is this fake? \n\nEDIT #2: YEP! 100% fake BS again... UGH!!!! So sick of this crap getting to my /r/ALL!\n\nTrump Turnberry -> Address: Turnberry, Ayrshire KA26 9LT, United Kingdom",
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"content": "This needs to happen, but I'm sure the Russian Republican party won't have any of this.",
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"content": "Euphoric ",
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"content": "His plan was to bring down a president and be remembered for eternity as the reason why a us president was impeached. \n\nMy theory here is that he's a narcissist. \n\nWhy else would he doom us by enabling Trumps victory. ",
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"content": "Still scared of HRC over at T_D I see? You guys can't seem to stop talking about her. ",
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"content": "Why would anyone be scared of Hillary now?\n\nShe is so hated, she lost to pathologically lying, orange, buffoon.\n\nEven in the face of a Trump presidency the nation stayed home and decided not to vote for her. Historically blue states turned red in response to the possibility of a Hillary Clinton presidency. There is no reason for anyone to be scared of Hillary at this point.\n\nT_D is scared of Bernie and rightfully so.",
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"content": "For not being scared of her, they still make sure to bring her up as much as possible, even though she's not relevant. They rarely bring up Bernie, and that's because they love him. His followers are keeping the democratic party splintered. ",
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"content": "No, democrats are keeping the democratic party splintered.\n\nHillary will be talked about for the foreseeable future for one reason. Hillary symbolizes everything that is wrong with the party. Hillary's career **might** be over at this point, but the machine that propped her up is still very much intact and in control.\n\nUntil that changes, there will be a splintered party. Until that changes, the other side will exploit those divisions.",
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"content": "Muh bullshit excuses make meez feelz superior!!",
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"content": "is it too much to ask that you speak english?",
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"content": "Was he investigating Trump at the same time he was publicly commenting on investigating Clinton?",
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"content": "Yes. He stated at the hearing that the investigation of Russian interference and the possible collusion of the Trump campaign started in July. He sent that fucking letter that turned out to be nothing when he knew Russians were trying to help Trump. ",
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"content": "The GOP will force him to resign rather than impeach. And President Pence will then pardon tRump.",
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"content": "> he GOP will force him to resign rather than impeach.\n\nThat made me curious what the formal resignation process is. He would just need to send a letter of resignation to the Secretary of State who would \"accept\" and sign it. \n\nSo really, Trump is just one signature on a document he didn't read away from resignation at any moment if ever his puppet master wants him gone. ",
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"content": "*Later on Twitter...*\n\n\"Sources on FOX say Obama tricked me into signing my resignation. Very sad (or bad) guy!\"",
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"content": "> And President Pence will then pardon tRump.\n\nSadly you're probably right. The GOP hates Trump but he probably knows enough to do a lot of damage if he was forced to testify.",
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"content": "Ah hold it right there, folks. Trump wouldn't be resigning because he stole the white house silver. He'd be resigning because we caught him colluding with foreign agents to influence the election.\n\nWe then demand a new election, we do not just hand it over to pence and say, \"well, you prolly didn't know so, OK your party can remain in the positions they obtained illegally by influencing the election.\" Oh no, no way. We demand a new election.",
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"content": "And by the time that demand works it's way thru the Fed courts, the 1st term would be over.",
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"content": "We'll have to wait and see. You know, if we prove this, Trump won't be going down alone. Unfortunately for him, he has employed many of his campaign staffers in the white house and they'd be getting investigated and tried too -and who knows who they will throw under the bus for a plea deal? Mr Pence may not get far. Also, I trust we'll be getting the vote out a bit better for the midterms and neither Pence nor Trump may be able to do much with that term. I know I certainly wouldn't let them do more than open envelopes if all this turns out the way we expect.",
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"content": "If we're holding a new election let's not nominate another neoliberal.",
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"content": "And we should educate them on when to worry about purity tests and when to defend the country. I'll take a ham sandwich over the party of Russian puppets. You may as well say ISIS. Would things change in your mind if Trump's staff had gotten the payoffs from ISIS that they got from Russia? I'm sorry but the princess-and-the-pea act with Hillary while lunatic Russian operatives take control of the government [with literally the stated intention of burning it down](http://www.gq.com/story/steve-bannon-shadow-president) has worn a bit thin, don't you think?",
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"content": "We'll let the voters decide that, thanks. ",
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"content": "I imagine his resignation will be accompanied by a lot of temper tantrum tweets and completely made up, nonsensical blame passing.",
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"content": "And he'll stir his base to violence. He's been laying the groundwork all along. That's who his tweets of wild accusations are for, not us. It's for his supporters so they see him as a victim of the evil deep obama govuhmint.",
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"content": "Yep! We're going to be a long time stuffing all the crazies back in the Pandora's box Trump opened.",
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"content": "If that's even possible now.",
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"content": "Well...I assume a lot of them will just die off first, but I have hope that eventually we will come to a place where Nazi's and Bigots are at least afraid to spew their hatred in public and where history students look back at our time and say \"How on earth could that have happened?\"",
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"content": "I hope but I'm not optimistic, honestly. Those moral lines seem suddenly blurred to an awful lot of people. ",
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"content": "Nice! Let's fucking do this! I want to go Tombstone on these troll traitor piles of shit! \n\nWyatt Earp: \n\"The Cowboys are finished, you understand? I see a red sash, I kill the man wearin' it! \"\n[lets Trump up to run for his life] ",
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"content": "Fact is, we can imagine that he was shocked when he won and he had to actually deliver on all those promises he made to the Russians.\n\nAs long as he was a candidate, it wasn't treason. Now that he's POTUS? The abandon NATO thing? The let Russia have the Crimea thing? They all become kind of felonious. Resignation is his only way to stay out of prison. Maybe.",
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"content": "Heres hoping they find something.",
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"content": "lol\n",
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"content": "Nervous laughter? Alex said he had a direct line to the president and BB well that's potus life blood.",
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"content": "Well i thought it funny that your hope is that America has been had. Wishing misfortune on others just so they can go away.",
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"content": "One company supports white supremacy while the other takes advantage of the mentally ill by selling them snake oil.\n\nNothing of value would be lost if they went under.",
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"content": "your response was to directly connect them to President Trump. while what you say concerning your feeling about the companies is probably sincere dont pretend that the implication of our president is not your primary interest",
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"content": "Go on?",
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"content": "^ not an American. \n",
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"content": "Breitbart, Infowars, and their respective writers and readers deserve zero sympathies. And their ties to our \"president\" are well-documented. No one is going out on a whim when they make the logical connections.",
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"content": "As opposed to you, who lauds Breitbart and our preident's lies? Yeah, what you're doing is worse. ",
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"content": "Rand Paul has been writing columns at Brietbart recently if there is any connections between brietbart and Russia then John McCain is vindicated ",
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"content": "he has?? I'm no fan of his but I am taken aback at that.",
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"content": "His father is a known Russian spy.",
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"content": "Thats one tall accusation of a former congressman. Do you have anything to back this up?",
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"content": "Well Breitbart is being investigated so there's definitely smoke. ",
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"content": "Republican justice department and Republican congress investigating Republican president. Not looking good. ",
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"content": "Yes, orange boy and his apologists are pretty sad. ",
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"content": "I dealt with some of these Russian trolls over twitter until I figured out how to spot them I was getting really scared for my family. They made some really fucked up death threats. I was actually thinking about buying a gun because of them. Then I started spotting patterns in there behavior. I am really glad I didn't buy a gun. I have bipolar so it was not a fun thing to have to deal with.",
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"content": "Interesting bit of trivia: Adam Schiff first made a name for himself in the US Attorney's office prosecuting Richard Miller, the first FBI agent in history convicted of spying for the Russians.",
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"content": "I thought it was serving as NY County DA in Law and Order.\n",
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"content": "He's pretty awesome. ",
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"content": "We don't need stars.\n\nWe need people to get to work. ",
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"content": "In politics, it's beneficial to have someone to rally around. \n\"Stars\" have their purpose.",
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"content": "I understand that, but people need to stand on their own feet. Then we can nuture stars. Instead of trying the other way around.",
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"content": "I think people *are* standing. \nEveryone stood up the moment President Fuckstick was sworn in. \nNow we need rally points.",
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"content": "Good. It's promising. \n\nI'm a liberal cynic, though.\n\nSo I am not impressed until I see some big results. \n",
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"content": "I gotta disagree. When you have to look way down the pipeline to try to try and find someone that looks like they could take lead of the Democratic Party. The Republicans on the other hand have a slew of characters that they run each cycle.",
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"content": "We had a woman who wanted to get to work, she lost because the other side had a \"star\"",
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"content": "I think \"people\" means \"democratic members/voters,\" not just candidates. There was a serious enthusiasm problem and a serious division among liberals in 2016.",
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"content": ">There was a serious enthusiasm problem and a serious division among liberals in 2016.\n\nThere really wasn't. If a candidate won the primaries by over 3 million votes that's not a sign of a serious division. If the candidate won the popular vote by almost 3 million then it's not a sign of enthusiasm. ",
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"content": "Yeah, right now, he and Al Franken feel the entire party.",
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"content": "Please no",
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"content": "she's too polarizing",
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"content": "No. Stop.",
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"content": "Uuhhhh, no....just no",
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"content": "What she needs to do is fuck off and retire. She lost to an opponent that nearly any other Democrat could have one against.",
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"content": "No fucking way. Ever.",
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"content": "He's gonna blow! Hoping it's only him that gets hurt.",
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"content": "I'm hoping his sycophants get hurt too.",
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"content": "I dont these people have been suckered. He used the same psychology as get rich quick schemes. I know it is going to take them a long time to come to grips with what happened to them. I know some of them are just racist disgusting dirt bags, but many are just people in desperate situations. I wish them the best, and I hope they learn from this experience.",
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"content": "I meant the sycophants he surrounds himself with.",
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"content": "I agree I'm hopeful that criminal charges are coming for some of them.",
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"content": "But among Republicans, he still has an [86%](http://www.gallup.com/interactives/185273/presidential-job-approval-center.aspx?g_source=WWWV7HP&g_medium=topic&g_campaign=tiles) approval rating. I simply cannot understand how someone can look at that POS and think \"yeah, he's done a great job.\"",
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"content": "They don't. They don't hear the same news we do - to them all the facts are just \"the democrats version of fake news\" ",
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"content": "> They don't hear the same news we do\n\nThey really don't. That's the problem. If you just forced these people to read the NY Times, WaPo, NPR, BBC for a month, they'd have a much different perspective. When you live in an echo chamber of right wing propaganda - FOX News, Breitbart, InfoWars, your Facebook feed, etc. it's easy to be deluded.\n",
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"content": "What was need are older plain talking people like a Jimmy Breslin type or similar in style to Sanders when talking about complex matters to regular people. We need people like that talking to them.",
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"content": "Is there a reputable source with that number? I am a former Republican, and I disapprove of Trump so much that not only did I not vote for him, but I left the party as I could never support the people who enabled him again. Obviously I have a microscopic sample size, but a load of friends I had both in high school and college were all Republicans and I don't know a single one who either voted for him or approves of him now.\n\nObviously, tons of people did or we wouldn't be in this situation, and also perhaps some did vote for him but were too ashamed to admit it. But still, just making discussion.",
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"content": "It's a Gallup poll, so you'll have to make your own conclusions about the quality of their data. You can drill into the data using the filters under the chart. If the link wasn't obvious:\n\nhttp://www.gallup.com/interactives/185273/presidential-job-approval-center.aspx?g_source=WWWV7HP&g_medium=topic&g_campaign=tiles",
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"content": ">Trump continues to vaguely believe that what he tweeted will somehow be validated later, at least in some form. \n\nMalignant Narcissists believe that they actually define reality for everyone around them. When they say something, it becomes by definition true - therefore they can never be lying. \n\nTrump is truly mentally ill.\n\n",
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"content": "Poor bastard. Had he only known they were lies when he tweeted them, he wouldn't be in such trouble new.",
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"content": "Sorry, don't have any sympathy for that S.O.B.",
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"content": "No worries, neither have I. The irony is running strong in my blood. The perspectives of 4 years with him as First Tweeter scares me, and I don't even live in America. What frightens me even more is the vast amount of people supporting him, partly because they hate the elitism in American politics but also because they can't see that they chose him on false grounds. \n\n\nWhenever someone said \"wiki-leaks\" every word was elevated from questionable to something that came directly from the tablets of stone. The ignorance scares the shit out of me.\n\n\nCheers",
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"content": "I want to see him implode. I want to see him suffer and finally feel the shame and humiliation that he should be feeling. I know he's incapable of those feelings as a narcissist, but maybe it's actually that he's incapable of feeling them in small doses - it's either all or nothing. Right now it's nothing, and soon it will flip to all, and he will destroy himself. ",
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"content": "I'm pretty sure Barry has double the followers Donnie has.... and I hope that pisses Donnie right off.",
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"content": "Oh you know it drives him crazy.",
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"content": "86 million to 27 million. ",
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"content": "Wow! Make sure he knows that, and Spicer.",
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"content": "This could totally work but I don't know... This would be fighting in trump's comfort zone. To beat trump at this game would require an 'all in' strategy and trump has no qualms about fighting dirty. For it to work, Obama would likely have to sink to trump's level which would mostly just look bad on Obama. I like the idea to fight trump on twitter, but we need someone that we are ok with if they get a little dirty.",
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"content": "Jon Stewart? Satire is the best foil to his style IMHO.",
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"content": "He could make Trump look bad without sinking to any level.\n\nTake a page from Schwarzenegger and be cheeky about it.",
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"content": "There was an article about releasing Joe Biden and letting him tweet in response to 45, I don't think he would not mind getting his hands dirty.",
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"content": "The dirtier he fights, the filthier he looks. No one said McFaul has to attack trump with dirty tactics and if Trump does then he's the one who looks...to coin a phrase... SAD!",
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"content": "By saying nothing, he's defeating Trump at his own game. \n\nThe second he says anything at all, Trump wins. ",
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"content": "He doesn't need to \"fight\" or talk to Trump at all. He just needs to use his platform to mobilize and bring a call to action to his followers. That's all.",
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"content": "Which he did. As trump points out. And look where we are. Obama did what he had to when he had to. He even put it in his farewell address. America wasn't listening.\n\nI think Obama should speak up. But now isn't the time. Let the Journalists do their jobs. Obama can speak when there's an actual impact to be made.",
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"content": "I'd be curious to find out how many DJT's followers only follow him to laugh at his idoicy, rather than actually support him.",
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"content": "I'm one of them! Makes it better to know his followers aren't all true ones! I doubt Obama haters follow him for similar reasons since Obama doesn't act like a fucking baby in front of millions of people 24/7.",
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"content": "I have an account on Reddit that I use to spout the most ignorant bullshit pretending to be a Trump supporter and it's given me more entertainment than I could have ever imagined.",
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"content": "It was this type of satire that confused voters, you know? Haven't you read the article about the fake news guy who pretty much tipped the election in trump's favor albeit accidentally?",
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"content": "No, and I don't care. Idiots voted for Trump. Fake news or real news wasn't going to help any of them.",
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"content": "It won't reeeeeeealy matter. He just needs to pander to his bubble-base of trumpeters. They aren't going to change their mind, no matter what happens.",
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"content": "That's a truly terrible idea, second only to Hillary Clinton getting involved.",
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"content": "Obama actually won.",
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"content": "There is a long-standing tradition of ex-presidents giving their successor a long time to establish themselves without being heckled or second-guessed by their predecessor. I think Obama is right to observe this custom.",
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"content": "I think given what is in the news, the odds of this president making it to the end of the year are approaching zero and he and a good part of his administration are clearly compromised by the Russians, that the rules cannot apply in this case. We have never had a president under investigation for collaboration with a hostile foreign power. Given Flynn, Manafort, Page, Sessions, Cohen, and Stone, I believe the odds are in favor of his guilt.",
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"content": "I think we have to proceed on the idea that Trump will not be impeached, the economy will not tank, there will not be disasters that make it obvious what a lousy president he is, and that Trump will gradually become accepted and perhaps even popular. Then, as Democrats, we have sharpen our ideas and what we say to the public.\n\nI watched the GOP bank on Obama being Jimmy Carter. They were convinced he was going to be in over his head, he was going to embarrass himself, he was both a weakling and a sleeper agent, the works. They believed this so deeply they couldn't believe that voters wouldn't reject him resoundingly in 2012. They were dumbfounded that he was re-elected. \n\nWe don't want to be in the same boat. We have to build a case, not pray for a windfall from a disaster.",
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"content": " I agree with you. The quicker we stop believing that Trump will be impeached, the better off we will be. We look really childish to the other side and that's not good, when our goal is to stop allowing people like Trump to win elections. ",
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"content": "Shortly after trump's election I participated in a huge conference call Obama held with former campaign staffers. He promised that after a well-earned vacation, he would jump back into the fight. I hope and trust that he will keep his promise.",
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"content": "there are many ways to fight and i suspect obama will do most of his behind the scenes. \n\nedit: idk why i'm getting downvoted; obama has been on vacation for a couple months now and he hasn't been out there with a bullhorn once. but my understanding is that he lobbied really hard behind the scenes for tom perez in the dnc chair race. so he's back in the fight just not publicly. ",
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"content": "He absolutely earned the nickname \"no drama Obama.\"",
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"content": "idk, Trump has been attacking Obama, accusing him of wiretaps and what not, I think it would be fair of him to break this tradition. But I think he's still on vacation.",
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"content": "What's the % of bots on each side though.",
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"content": "Research shows that it is on Trump's account. Russian made of course.",
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"content": "Everyone, just follow Barack Obama on Twitter to get his numbers a bit higher, just to piss off the Cheeto Bandito",
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"content": "Wasn't the biggest Obama supporter but I'd have to say that I think he has too much class to get into a \"Twitter war\"; especially with someone as delusional and ego driven as Trump. It would be like arguing with a child. Obama would make a coherent well thought out statement and well, you know the rest.",
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"content": "What is your support for Obama now that trump is in office? I wasn't too involved myself--but in retrospect, compared to trump at least, he was a really good President.",
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"content": "I really think he tried his best and ultimately wants the best for all Americans. I think his terms showed how hard it is for someone to \"fix\" things in our current system. In contrast to our current President's term thus far, both Obama and Bush look good to me. ",
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"content": "I'm with you on Bush. During the election I was informing people that Bush was leagues better than trump--and I really, really didn't like Bush.",
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"content": "It's natural to miss the warmth and comfort of the sun after dark, but the stars cannot shine until it sets.",
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"content": "True. That was a mistake of Hillary's. People would say she never went away. Granted Obama isn't running for any other office--I think. But there's a beauty in going away--that's for sure. Wish trump took from that playbook.",
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"content": "Maybe he should have listened to what T was saying at those rallies and applied some critical thought rather than just following him as if he was the messiah and could make everything magically good with the wave of his hand.\n\nI'm really running out of sympathy for these people. They made bad decisions that are going to hurt us all *even after we warned them* but **nooooooooo**, they couldn't listen to us \"coastal urban elites\" because we didn't \"understand their way of life\". The only thing Trump understood about their way of life was that they were hateful, ignorant and gullible and he played them like a fucking fiddle.\n\nReconstruction ended far too soon & the poison that started the Civil War was never flushed from the body of this country. The dominance of the GOP & Trump's presidency proves it. Poor rural people have been suckered into serving the people who want to hurt them for the over 150 years by simply being promised \"at least you're gonna be better off than the blacks\".",
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"content": "> I'm really running out of sympathy for these people\n\nI deal with a lot of them every day, some of them are quite racist and vulgar. But the majority of them are good-willed people, despite being ignorant most of them still have the \"best of intentions.\" \n\nSo while it may be infuriating, let's welcome those who show some ability to apply critical thinking. Unless we do that we're going to end up with a deeper divide. Whether we like it or not, we have to work with those people to keep this country moving forward beyond Trump ",
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"content": "This.\n\nThough I enjoy their misery.",
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"content": "One can only forget being stabbed in the back so many times before saying enough is enough.\n\nLet's be honest here. This 'Troubadour' will just hop on the next republican bandwagon to roll up and throw all of his fellow Americans under the bus again.\n\nIt is the textbook definition of insanity. Trump v2 will show up, he'll do exactly the same thing again, lodge himself deep in a pit of despair when he realizes how much of a fool he was, and then expect everyone else to show him pity... At least until Trump v3 arrives.",
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"content": "> But the majority of them are good-willed people, despite being ignorant most of them still have the \"best of intentions.\"\n\nlolno\n\nEven if a particular Orange Hitler-supporting moral degenerate wasn't motivated by hatred for everyone who's not a cishet white guy, they still thought that fucking over everyone who's not a cishet white guy was an acceptable means/trade-off/side effect for getting whatever it was they did want.",
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"content": "\"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.\" ",
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"content": "The many I know basically want sympathy because they knew he'd fuck people over they just didn't know he'd fuck THEM over.",
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"content": ">Reconstruction ended far too soon \n\nAmen to that.",
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"content": "It is difficult to have sympathy considering that Trump's own horrible behavior and ideas were never a secret. They embraced him when he was openly hostile to so many others, and they didn't care about the victims. Hell, that seems to have been part of the appeal.\n\nNow that they are victims of Trump, my sympathy well is dry.",
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"content": "Oops. I bet he practices more self aware critical thought now. So thank you Donny, for at least this one good. ",
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"content": ">I bet he practices more self aware critical thought now.\n\nI have a bridge for sale for cheap. You'll make a fortune.",
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"content": "My MIL excuses my FIL for voting for tRUMP by saying \"Who could have known he'd be like this?\". SERIOUSLY? Who could NOT have known? Oh yeah, the type of people who voted for him.",
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"content": "He needs to consider the memory of the honor of his son's military service, every combat vet needs to consider the honor of their service before continuing to stand by Trump. ",
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"content": "1st response: how delicious\n\n2nd response: how do we win him over to our side in the face of this betrayl?",
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"content": "There's no nice way to say it, Trumpetts who ignored all the warnings and voted against their own self interest are nothing but fools.\n\nToo bad the damage Trump is doing can't be limited to Trump supporters alone.",
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"content": "Good, GOP's crappy behavior shouldn't be rewarded and should be fought against to the bitter end",
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"content": "This could very well backfire, they can easily change it to only 51 votes needed, which would make everything else easier for the next few years too.\n\nAlso, the next candidate could be much worse, I think Gorsuch will rule against the right at times.",
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"content": ">This could very well backfire, they can easily change it to only 51 votes needed, which would make everything else easier for the next few years too.\n\nI fully expect that the nuclear option will be invoked sooner or later. Might as well call the Republicans' bluff now.",
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"content": "Yes. Tell them please that this isn't pattycake. ",
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"content": "If we use that logic when does it end? There can always be a wise bill or a worse _____ to vote on. What's the point of being an opposition party if you never oppose? Furthermore what could they possibly want to save the filibuster for if they're not going to use it for this?",
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"content": "So you don't think the long term \"what's actually best for the coutnry\" view should be considered? Just throw a fit for the sake of throwing a fit? I think this is a \"cutting off the nose to spite the face\" type deal, and will only help the republicans long term. ",
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"content": "Who says?\n\nThe nuke option will be pulled anyways. \n\nBetter to call a bluff than live under threat. \n",
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"content": "To what end? What is your goal, and how will this help us get there?\n\nI don't see the advantage here, aside from stopping to their level. ",
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"content": "- it would galvanize their base\n\n- the gop has pretty much said do it or else. \n\n- you can't live under the threat of a bully\n\n- it's calls a bluff which is standing on your feet\n\n- once the precedent is set the same applies when Dems are in power\n\n- it's evitable at this point\n\n- the pick is from a president who is under criminal investigation\n\n- the pick was Obama's pick\n\n\n",
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"content": "Everything seems to help the Republicans long term. They throw fit after fit, ask like assholes and they are never punished for it. We are constantly trying to the \"right\" thing, and we get punished. I say we fight fire with fire. ",
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"content": "Yes, I am sure Republicans mantra of \"what's best for country\" explains their electoral success.\n\nBut no, I am sure voters will reward Democrats for doing what Republicans want all the time. Isn't that why people vote Dem?",
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"content": "> Yes, I am sure Republicans mantra of \"what's best for country\" explains their electoral success.\n\nActing like a child works for the GOP because the GOP base is a bunch of blithering idiots with the intellectual and emotional maturity of children.\n\nIt won't work for the Democrats, because we're the party of adults. Acting like a child is off-putting.",
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"content": "Funny. The GOP says the same thing about us: saying we have the naivete of children and just want free stuff from daddy government. Even if we act like adults, it doesn't matter.",
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"content": "> \"what's actually best for the coutnry\"\n\nWhat's best for the country is absolutely not the Democrats allowing the Republicans to destroy our institutions. Fight the fuck back, that's what's best for the country. Having one party in power give-in completely to the other and let the other destroy this nation is not best for the country in the long run. ",
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"content": "Yep just like it backfired for the Republicans....oh wait it didn't.\n\nAs much as it pains me to say this but you have to play that game in the current US government. The democrats haven't and it cost them big, now they need to catch up.",
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"content": "> Yep just like it backfired for the Republicans....oh wait it didn't.\n\nActing like a child works for the GOP because the GOP base is a bunch of blithering idiots with the intellectual and emotional maturity of children.\n\nIt won't work for the Democrats, because we're the party of adults. Acting like a child is off-putting.",
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"content": "Democrats are losing. They are losing everywhere. Maybe they need to learn how to play the fucking game.",
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"content": "Personally Id say Id filibuster him for as long as they filibustered Garland. That way you protest, but putting a time limit on it doesnt give cover for the nuke. Letting them go nuclear on Gorsuch isnt the best high ground and could backfire since he isnt seen as an ideologue. Its also so far from elections it wont be in peoples mind by then and would clear the way for a crazy right wing justice. ",
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"content": "As long as they filibustered Garland was until they got their party in the Whitehouse. That is how long the Dems should filibuster Gorsuch.\n\nI get that this isn't in the spirit of your proposal, but if you think the Republicans won't deploy the nuke without cover, or that doing so will harm them, then you haven't been paying much attention for the last decade or so. They were supposed to be doomed for shutting down the government. They were supposed to be doomed for filibustering Garland. They were supposed to be doomed for ignoring demographic shifts in the electorate. They were supposed to be doomed for nominating Trump. Now look where they are today. They have swept the Democrats at every level nationally.\n\nThe Democrats have to stop trying to campaign against how bad the Republicans are, and start campaigning on how they are going to fix a broken system. Anger about and distrust of powerful multinational corporations is the one issue that the American people are overwhelmingly unified on. The Dems need to break their corporate chains and become the party of the people, or the Republicans will just keep profiting from their bad behavior.",
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"content": "They never actually filibustered Garland. They didn't even give him a hearing so there was nothing to filibuster. If the Dems had control of the Senate, I would expect Gorsuch to get the Garland treatment",
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"content": "I say, \"Fuck the high ground.\" Keep any and all schmucks that Orange Fucktard nominates from being approved. Anyone being investigated for treasonous acts shouldn't be making lifetime appointments to such powerful positions. Buy as much time as possible. Who knows where this investigation will take us? But if it happens to get impeachment/incarceration ugly, Republicans shouldn't be rewarded for (1) dereliction of duty for refusing to hold hearings on Obama's nomination and (2) treasonously cheating in the election.\n\nAlso, Dems always have the high ground compared to the Republicans. I mean, *always*. The high ground should so not be a priority for the Dems at this point. Right now it's all about preventing the Republicans from doing irreparable harm to our country and to the most vulnerable citizens. Republicans fight dirty as hell to do deplorable things. Dems need to also to do good. Again, fuck the high ground.\n\nI agree that they shouldn't take it too far though. If they completely let go of their integrity, they'll be no better than the Republicans.",
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"content": "I don't think this SCROTUS deserves the right to nominate anyone. ",
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"content": "Good. They should hold the Rs to their \"rule\" that a President doesn't get to nominate a SC justice in his final year.",
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"content": "> a President doesn't get to nominate a SC justice in his final year.\n\nLOL <3",
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"content": "For those saying this could backfire, what is there to be gained by going along with the nomination? No compromise pledge from the GOP is ever going to be honored. Everyone knows this is a stolen seat and bringing that to light only hurts the GOP. Make them nuke the filibuster. They would for the second nominee anyway.",
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"content": "> For those saying this could backfire, what is there to be gained by going along with the nomination?\n\nHaving an actual functioning government.",
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"content": "What an incredibly fucking stupid idea. Save it for the second opening, the one that can change the pre-Scalia's death balance.",
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"content": "Yeah... Gorsuch isn't the right candidate to let the GOP nuke the filibuster on. This makes the Democrats look unreasonable, gives them cover to nuke it, then appoint someone like Cruz when Kennedy retires or Ginsburg shuffles off this mortal coil.",
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"content": "Save it? Can it not be done as many times as wanted?",
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"content": "As soon as it gets used, it's almost certain that Senate Republicans will pass a rule change eliminating it.",
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"content": "Gorsuch is fine. We shouldn't play the petty game we should just be glad Andrew napaltino wasn't nominated. That guy is way more conservative than he likes to admit I'm cool with gorsuch I think Dems were cool with him 2006 so we should be cool with him now. We can't let republican pettiness affect the way we do stuff. If we do such a thing it won't help in midterms but getting stuff done shows democrats won't stoop low level pettiness like the GOP did last year ",
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"content": "Huh, it looks like some people over at r/Republican/ have some thoughts on the exact same article ^(or whatever) [Check out what the *other side* has to say](/r/both_sides/comments/61tvdi/rdemocrats_vs_rrepublican_republican_schumer/)",
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"content": "Why aren't the Democrats on the news every night calling for a revolution? If this was Hillary, there would be pickup trucks full of highly armed rednecks all over town. \n\nIf this doesn't get Dems off the dime nothing will. ",
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"content": "An armed revolution would be the worst possible outcome. In highly militarized America, it'd be a bloodbath. Especially with political/social tensions right now.\n\nSo, let's not.",
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"content": "Not what they were suggesting. \nThey said if it were the *other side* people would be talking about armed revolution. ",
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"content": "Revolution doesn't have to be armed, you're the one who brought that up. \n\nThe alternative, which you seem to be supporting, is to just keep taking the abuse. ",
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"content": "But, we're upvoting, liking, and sharing as hard as we can! What else do you want from us?! ",
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"content": "Pretty much what I have been asking for the past 5 years. Think they would have learned what works to get the point across by now.",
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"content": "I keep messaging them, tweeting them, looking for Meetup\n\nFor fucks sake I ever. Did s Craigslist asking for a protest \n\nWhy the fuck can't dems lead ",
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"content": "If even part of what we now know had been alleged about Clinton, the Republicans would have shut down the government and declared martial law.\n\nTrump is an illegitimate and treasonous office holders and nothing short of a new election can fix this situation.",
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"content": "Welcome to the republican party of 2008!!! Enjoy your stay ; ^ )",
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"content": "> Welcome to the republican party of 2008!!! Enjoy your stay ; ^ )\n\nI have no idea what this means. But the problems in both parties began long before 2008.\n\nBut if you are in any way referencing Obama, that is telling in and of itself.",
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"content": "I'm referencing how the republicans felt since 2008... Same cries, different reasons, and the results will likely be the same. The point is your time is better spent preparing for the next election, rather than dwelling on the previous... At least then you might accomplish something. \n\nWhat, pray tell, is it telling of? ",
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"content": "> What, pray tell, is it telling of? \n\nThanks for clarifying your position.\n\nThe problem with the referent point is that the single greatest driver of Republicans for the past 8 years has been overt racism. So this is a horrible analogy. It appears that evidence shows the current President may be guilty of treason and the 2016 election compromised by a foreign dictator who uses murder as state policy.\n\nThis isn't 2008 nor is it 1938, it is uncharted territory. Any future election will only be meaningful once the past election has been corrected. The only other alternative is violence and once that begins the nation ends.",
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"content": "Lol you genuinely can't see the parallels can you? I'm not being condescending, I truly want to know. \n\nSecondarily, are you inferring that I am a racist?!? No one gives a shit that Obama is black. Well, I guess people who like to play the race card over and over and over and over and over and over and over probably care, but if I handed you a list of accomplishments and failures, without telling you which president we were evaluating, you'd probably be sickened by the losses this country has suffered....The bald face lies, the corruption, the cronyism that most democrats claim to despise nowadays, etc, etc. \n And lastly violence would probably be very short lived, extremely bloody, and would push things even further to the right, you can at least see that, right? You know, the right and its propensity for guns and all....\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "> No one gives a shit that Obama is black. \n\nExcept the Republican Party for the last 8 years and Donald Trump who financed the birther campaign. The entire basis of the Tea Party and the rise of white nationalism in the Trump Administration has been driven by one single factor. The race of the 44th President.\n\nI am sure you remember more than a few public officials embarrassed by their \"chimp\" references and \"nose-bone Kenyan\" emails.\n\n> You know, the right and its propensity for guns and all....\n\nNothing in the US is really between the \"right\" and the \"left\" this is a false narrative. The danger is in the class war started by the 1% which they can no longer control. The self-described \"patriotic\" right is entirely posers and weekend pretenders. The various Mormon/militia anti-government groups (Bundy, et al) have exposed these clowns. No one thinks the guns of the \"right\" mean anything in political context anymore than the guns of the government mean anything.\n\nI will give you the benefit of the doubt in your response, but note that words like \"race card\" are themselves racist dog whistles.\n\nAlso note that by any objective measure of success, the administration of Obama was an overwhelming success. I have many policy disagreements with him and the Democrats, but the objective truth by standard metrics is that Obama was a good President. ",
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"content": "I recognize now that this is an exercise in futility but.....God, I wish I had your worldview.... I've debated how to answer this and I don't know how to without sounding condescending other than to ask what your \"standard metrics\" are. The only good thing I'm aware of that can be attributed to Obama is the legalization of gay marriage. I'll leave it at that and wait for your definition of standard metrics. ",
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"content": "> definition of standard metrics. \n\nWhile Presidents get credit for lots of things they can't control and likewise the blame, Obama was not horrible.\n\nThe positive: job growth, subsequently unemployment, stock market growth, middle-class income taxes are down, domestic energy production up, Federal deficit growth down and probably a few more things related to the economy. Health insurance coverage is at a historical high. The US isn't in a active war.\n\nThe negative: GDP growth has been less than historically indicated, productivity has peaked and post 2009 recovery has been slower that historical trends. Job participation rate is down as indicated by an aging population. Killing civilians with drones. And Obama set in motion Trump's deportation storm trooper force and likewise the militarized police state.\n\nSocial aspects like marriage equality and expanded cannabis legalization happened under his Presidency, but Obama can hardly be given credit or blame. But he didn't freak out about it like the Republicans seem to have.\n\nThis isn't rocket science. Look up the numbers and make up your own mind. \n\nObama wasn't a bad President so says the math.\n\nBut he will continue to be vilified as long as the Republicans need a scapegoat.\n",
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"content": "Sorry, some of us actually care about this country.",
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"content": ">Then why are you trying to destroy it? \n\nLOL, my side's policies built the 20th Century. Progressives made America what Trump voters fondly remember as \"Great\". We're working to avoid bringing Red State failure to the entire country: \n\nhttp://prospect.org/article/high-road-wins\n\nhttp://cepr.net/blogs/cepr-blog/wisconsin-vs-minnesota-what-the-data-show\n\nhttp://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/02/teen-pregnancy-higher-red-states-blue-states\n\nhttp://www.alternet.org/story/150846/do_red_state_republicans_want_more_divorces,_stds_and_abortions_their_policies_suggest_%22yes%22\n\n\n*For 3 decades the Right has claimed the Left is treasonous*. Cheap manipulation for their base. Desperate for power they can't hold without lies, fake media, and name calling, they went so far as to choose treason this election. Nice dodge, typical really, bringing up Russian citizens suffering under Putin when the issue is Putin & his manipulation of \"President\" Trump and his voters. *And those facts will never change.* \n\n30 years of abusing the term \"UnAmerican\" against the rest of America...only to end up with a failed leadership which turned to foreign entanglements to gain power. From now on the Republicans can rightfully be called the *Party of Treason* until sane leadership returns.",
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"content": "The rebels are certainly not ISIS. How about we stop playing in the middle East altogether? Also ISIS only happened as a direct result of the Iraq war. Looking at Obama is absolutely insane.\n\nAs far as Trump is concerned, how do you justify all the golf he is playing? All the traveling to mar a lago? His wife wasting millions staying in New York? ",
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"content": "I agree we should get out of the middle east. I would guarantee you they are; the're fighting the same people and our government has been dropping pallets of weapons for them. \nhttps://youtu.be/SOGK57xs5Ro?t=21 <- John Mccain saying it himself.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8t0gccRx9U <- U.S. Weapons Airdropped Over Syria Were Seized By ISIS\n\nI don't even see playing golf as a factor since all presidents have done it. How is it wasting millions being in newyork? secret service was going to follow her around if she was in DC or NY; so the money was going to be spent anyways. ",
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"content": "It's called containment. Russia's leaders don't like it psychologically, but maybe if they stopped killing political opponents & interfering with elections in Australia, Germany, USA, Canada, Austria, Great Britain, France, Germany, Finland, etc...\n\n>Just look at facts, we used drones to help kill Muammar Gaddafi that is what started the whole ISIS problem we have now.\n\nAnd we're done here. You believe fantasies. ISIS is responsible for ISIS and Bush is responsible for ISIS's expansion after getting us kicked out of Iraq. End.Of.Story. That's the Pentagon's conclusions (3 major factors total: Bush, the 5 year drought and the economic collapse). *We get it...the Right will do anything to avoid responsibility. It's a big part of why Trump was elected. It doesn't change the FACTS*. Y'all made terrorism worse AND let the global economy collapse. *If I was that guilty & as devoid of good character as the Right's leaders are, I'd double down on stupid too.**\n\n*This would never happen actually. I love my country more than my party or my ego.",
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"content": "Thank God Democrats finally getting the balls to use the \"I\" word, *illegitimate*.\n\nThis has been a National Emergency from Day One and they've been treating these raving lunatic criminal traitors as if they were a government. They are not one.\n\nAll Executive functions other than the most ordinary and mechanistic must be suspended.",
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