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Quote:I have not watched any debates, but even I know about Elizabeth Warren’s ‘Big Fight’ Against Monopolies: Warren speaks to The Nation about power, markets, and breaking up corporate giants. Why does 6ix not know better?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I like smoking. I have zero plans on quitting.
I'm not missing the point. You just made it for me.
There isn't anybody on that Democrat debate stage that is going to do a goddamned thing about breaking up monopolies, so in light of the fact that Democrats are just awful in every other thing they say or do I'm going to be voting for Republicans.
Hopefully when they lose both the popular vote and the electoral college to Trump and get crushed in November, they'll start coming around and being a better party for the next cycle.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
www.thenation.com/article/archive/elizabeth-warrens-big-fight-against-
monopolies/
Republicans refuse to break monopolies. By the way, I know why the Federal government will have a very hard fight breaking up monopolies if Democrats are in charge: there are 3.5 million in the top 1%. We outnumber the Federal government's employees. And your average 1%er has far more motivation (it's about money as a motivator, you know) and firepower to fight a monopoly breakup than even the very best paid Federal employees will have. It will be a tough and slow fight for the Federal government.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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The Border Patrol Invited the Press to Watch It Blow Up a National Monument
https://theintercept.com/2020/02/27/border-wall-construction-organ-pip
e-explosion/
U.S. Army and Border Patrol officials hosted an unusual event in the Sonoran Desert on Wednesday, inviting members of the press to watch as they blew up a portion of a national monument in support of the president’s ongoing effort to wall off the United States from Mexico.
Presented as a run-of-the mill construction project, the explosives detonated on the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in southern Arizona went off just as the chair of the Tohono O’odham Nation — a Native American tribe with deep historic and cultural ties to the area — offered testimony in Washington, D.C. regarding the Trump administration’s desecration of O’odham lands.
Wednesday’s explosive event was an elaborate effort, with journalists invited to a trailer in a dirt lot that has served as a base of operations for the Organ Pipe project.
Taped to the walls inside the space were Google Earth-style images of the border with colored demarcations charting different portions of wall expansion and replacement. Sitting in plain view was a set of Department of Homeland Security blueprints — labeled “Wall Standard Details” — that showed a wall topped with spikes (while President Donald Trump has described his desire for a spiked border wall, the existing wall in Arizona currently lacks spikes). When asked why the wall had spikes, a Border Patrol agent examined the document for a moment, told us all of our questions would be answered, and then took the documents into another room and shut the door. James O’Loughlin, a contractor with the Logistics Management Institute and project manager for Customs and Border Protection-Pentagon projects, later told me that “there is no current plan for spikes on the wall” nor are there current plans to paint the wall black, which the president has also expressed interest in.
Soon after the blueprints disappeared, the day’s events began.
Having offered to pardon U.S. officials if they commit crimes in the process of building his border wall, Trump’s desire to make good on his core 2016 campaign promise ahead of the 2020 election is no secret.
More at https://theintercept.com/2020/02/27/border-wall-construction-organ-pip
e-explosion/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:Quote:I have not watched any debates, but even I know about Elizabeth Warren’s ‘Big Fight’ Against Monopolies: Warren speaks to The Nation about power, markets, and breaking up corporate giants. Why does 6ix not know better?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I like smoking. I have zero plans on quitting.
I'm not missing the point. You just made it for me.
There isn't anybody on that Democrat debate stage that is going to do a goddamned thing about breaking up monopolies, so in light of the fact that Democrats are just awful in every other thing they say or do I'm going to be voting for Republicans.
Hopefully when they lose both the popular vote and the electoral college to Trump and get crushed in November, they'll start coming around and being a better party for the next cycle.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Because she's full of shit.
We all hear her saying that, but she brought over 10 million dollars of big money donations from her previous Senate run while lying and saying she had no big donors for the primary.
We've gone over this months ago when I showed you the FEC receipts.
Go check it out yourself. I'm not doing the research twice for you.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:She has $10 million and Trump has $1,000 million. Trump gets his money directly from monopolies. Trump has and will go easy on monopolies.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
. . . she brought over 10 million dollars of big money donations from her previous Senate run while lying and saying she had no big donors for the primary.
Members of President Donald Trump’s re-election team and some of the GOP’s biggest fundraisers are discussing a new goal of raising an extra $1 billion, according to two bundlers who have been part of the discussions.
Trump’s campaign and the RNC have boasted about their strong fund-raising, regularly declaring record hauls and comparing their numbers to those of former President Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election.
Republicans will look to super-PAC donors to give more, raise more money at high-dollar events headlined by Trump, and expand other efforts to bring in additional money.
One way to match Bloomberg’s spending is to raise more money from a handful of billionaires, the people said. They speculated that casino owner Sheldon Adelson, Oracle Corp. co-founder Larry Ellison, Blackstone Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Stephen Schwarzman, and Continental Resources Inc. founder Harold Hamm could be asked to up their donations.
Trump’s re-election committees and the Republican National Committee said they have combined to raise $525 million so far in the election cycle, and ended January with more than $200 million cash on hand.
www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-18/trump-backers-want-extra-bi
llion-to-counter-bloomberg-spending
If Elizabeth Warren has $10 million and Trump has $200 million in his checking account with more coming in every day, who do you think is working for the monopolies?
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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I'v reseeved 10$ so far.
That wuz in 2017.
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DUZ XaT SEM RiT TQ YQ? - Jubal Early
http://www.7532020.com .
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Star Trek has a lesson for Bernie: We're Not Ready For First Contact
www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/02/29/star-trek-first-contact-bern
ie-sanders-democratic-primary-column/4913386002/
In one episode, the crew of the Enterprise is instructed to make “first contact” with a new world, let them know that aliens exist and invite them to join The Federation. The chancellor of the planet’s government is thrilled with the idea but a traditionalist member of his cabinet is completely opposed, convinced that making this information public will destroy their culture. At the end, the traditionalist leader tries to force the chancellor to reject The Federation by attempting to kill himself and frame a member of the crew for his murder.
When he eventually regains consciousness, he grabs the Chancellor’s arm and says, “Chancellor, you must not do this!” The Chancellor responds, “I know, old friend, I know.” He then explains to the Enterprise crew that, as much as he wants to take this step, it is too soon. His people just are not ready for it and that trying to do so prematurely would tear his planet apart. Someday, hopefully soon, his people would be ready for what The Federation has to offer. But not today.
The Bernie Sanders campaign is based on an idea that the data just does not support, that voters will rise up and throw Donald Trump out of office. The reality is that Presidential Candidate Sanders would present voters in critical, must-win states like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Florida and Michigan with the question of who terrifies them less. And it is by no means certain that they will conclude that a committed socialist, even a democratic one, is the lesser of two evils.
But suppose Bernie did win the presidency. What then? If there is no evidence that millions of previously-unseen voters will flock to his banner, there is massive, irrefutable evidence that huge swaths of America absolutely will not. We all saw the debate and the extreme discomfort that even many Democrats have with many of Bernie’s ideas. Imagine how Independents and Republicans feel.
Even if having Senator Sanders at the top of the ticket did not put at risk the moderate Democrats who won in 2018 and return the House to Republican control, no one can possibly imagine that Bernie’s laundry list of socialist plans and government giveaways will sweep away powerful opposition once Bernie is sitting in the Oval Office. On the contrary, America is still fighting bitterly over Obamacare, a minor — at least compared to Bernie’s plans — tweak of the healthcare system that was based on what was originally a Republican idea.
Electing Bernie Sanders as president would mean committed activists on both sides fighting to the (hopefully metaphorical) death with a lot of us trapped in no-man’s land and taking fire from both camps. A vote for Bernie Sanders isn’t a vote for a return to honest government and peace, it’s a vote for war.
Many of Sanders’ most committed supporters think that’s exactly what America needs and that the only way to save America is a revolution. But none of us should be comfortable with the idea of destroying America in order to save it.
If you are a progressive activist and a Sanders supporter, I understand that you yearn for President Sanders and his re-making of America with all your heart. But most of us are not ready for what Sanders would bring. After four years of Donald Trump’s efforts to fray the bonds that bind us together, we need a period of peace and healing, not a new period of even more intensive conflict. Over the next four years, we need to recapture our common ground, not seize the high ground and use our advantage to batter our enemies. Doing so would damage this country and our institutions on a scale that would dwarf what Donald Trump has done.
Even if blue America is ready for Bernie Sanders, red America is not. Purple America is not. Most of the country is not there and trying to drag it there will tear it apart. Someday, perhaps, America will be ready for what Bernie Sanders and his
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Quote:
Originally posted by JO753:
I'v reseeved 10$ so far.
That wuz in 2017.
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DUZ XaT SEM RiT TQ YQ? - Jubal Early
http://www.7532020.com .
Good thing you don't smoke man. You can't even buy a pack of cigarettes in your county with that budget pool.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Watch Trump Kiss and Caress an American Flag: “I Love You, Baby.”
And he is still bitter that climate activist Greta Thunberg was named Time's "Person of the Year" instead of him.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/03/watch-trump-kiss-caress-am
erican-flag-cpac-love-you-baby.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Greta who?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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The fate of Obamacare is in the Supreme Court’s hands yet again
The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will hear California v. Texas and United States House of Representatives v. Texas, two consolidated cases that represent an existential threat to Obamacare, and that were brought by a coalition of Republican-governed states. For the third time since President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act in 2010, the justices will hear a lawsuit seeking to eviscerate the legislation.
www.vox.com/2020/3/2/21147037/obamacare-supreme-court-texas-john-rober
ts
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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