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How many have to die before the other Trumptards stop thinking covid-19 is a Democratic/media/Chinese hoax? Is it only 50% or do all 210 of them have to die?Quote:
Originally posted by JO753:
A happy thot!Quote:Was that about the COVID reference? the partisanship? or the wishing death on people he disagrees with?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Wow. You too?
*sigh*
The death part... Always the death part.
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Quote:And mostly when he talks, he lies.
Originally posted by JO753:
Reading Obama'z book, A Promised Land.
Its pretty neat to be able to watch videoz uv stuff he toks about.
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THUGR posts about Putin so much, he must be in love.
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Quote:Up until then, JO had managed to avoid being a major asshole.
Originally posted by second:
How many have to die before the other Trumptards stop thinking covid-19 is a Democratic/media/Chinese hoax? Is it only 50% or do all 210 of them have to die?
JO753: A happy thot!
6IXSTRINGJACK: Wow. You too?
*sigh*
KIKI: Was that about the COVID reference? the partisanship? or the wishing death on people he disagrees with?
SIX: The death part... Always the death part.
JO, do you see any of "us" wishing death on you? Since when did you become so partisan that you became bad?
ALSO ... yeah, that comment about me posting a lot of stuff. How many MONTHS (years?) have you spent polishing your website? If you don't want to discuss your opinions, fine, but don't post them on A DISCUSSION FORUM, for god's sake.
I did you the courtesy of not only reading your post and thinking about it, and responding on point, I also did you the courtesy of looking over your website. Maybe you should return the courtesy.
If we can't extend that courtesy to each other on a discussion forum, where can we?
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Rep. Jamie Raskin, serving as the lead House impeachment manager, opened his argument with a video showing the events of the Capitol riot to help argue that the proceeding is constitutional. The video outlined shows footage of former President Trump's speech and of the actions of those who stormed the Capitol.
At least seven people lost their lives, more than 140 law enforcement officers suffered physical injuries, and many more have been severely impacted by their experiences that day.
In reply, Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump tweeted after the riot:
These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long. Go home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever!
6:01 PM • Jan 6, 2021
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Where were the words "PEACEFULLY AND PATRIOTICALLY"?
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Raskin did a great job today.
I think Trump's 1st lawyer studied Lionel Hutz in preparation for this.
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Even a Conservative Analysis Shows the $15 Minimum Wage Does More Good Than Harm
Democrats would need every one of their senators to back it, and West Virginia’s Joe Manchin has said he’s opposed. The numbers churned out by the budget office may not help its chances politically, given that the projection of job losses will give ammunition to the pay bump’s critics. But the overall finding that, on net, low-wage workers end up better off should strengthen the intellectual case for pushing the wage floor higher, especially given how it was produced.
When analysts try to estimate how many jobs will disappear if the minimum wage increases, their result depends almost entirely on the number they pick. In a stark and slightly suspicious failure of wonk transparency, the budget office did not actually state outright the number they chose to use anywhere in their report. But based on the results it published, other economists have concluded the budget office went with an elasticity of around -0.48, meaning that for every 10 percent increase in the minimum wage, employment would fall 4.8 percent among workers whose jobs were affected.
That’s a big, fat elasticity, and while some recent studies have suggested that the minimum wage could have an effect that large, they aren’t typical. Just last month, University of California Irvine Professor David Neumark, who is widely considered the dean of minimum-wage critics in academia, released a draft paper in which he compiled the results of three decades of papers in the field. He concluded that, in studies looking at workers directly impacted by minimum wage hikes, the median elasticity was -0.15, less than one third of what the CBO chose. The average was -0.31, only about two thirds of what the CBO ultimately went with.
More at https://web.archive.org/web/20210210070809/https://slate.com/business/
2021/02/minimum-wage-hikes-cbo-relief-bill-democrats.html
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This Is Not Representative Democracy. The American people overwhelmingly favor conviction, and there is no chance the Senate will convict.
In spite of the certainty with which I can predict that Trump won’t be convicted, recent polling shows that the majority of Americans want to see him convicted. ABC polling released on Sunday shows 56 percent of Americans saying that Trump should be convicted and barred from holding office again. Only 43 percent say he should not be. That means that most Americans watching any part of the impeachment trial could reasonably ask themselves why, yet again, 56 percent of the country is held hostage to a 43 percent minority. This is not representative democracy working well.
But this isn’t just about minority rule. Because beyond possibly reconsidering the archaic constitutional strictures that require a two-thirds majority to convict the president, Americans might reasonably look at the disastrously malapportioned United States Senate and try to understand why this sober, deliberative body intentionally distorts the will of the people even as it purports to represent the will of the people. And that means those same people who might scratch their heads in an effort to understand how the Republican Party has morphed from the Party of Lincoln to the Party of Space Lasers could also reasonably wonder why it is that views that don’t command even a minority of the minority views of most Republicans seem to be privileged on the Senate floor over the rational conservative values they themselves espouse. They might, for instance, wonder why the GOP is condemning Liz Cheney while offering a standing ovation to Marjorie Taylor Greene. And they wouldn’t be totally insane if they then started to think about what minority-rule structures and incentive systems have brought them here.
In short, in addition to using this impeachment trial to create a historical record of four years of GOP support for a president who tried to violently overturn an election, this impeachment can also stand as a record of how staggeringly broken electoral politics are when the preferences of the clear majority of Americans are being subordinated by the very systems of government itself. The GOP isn’t just committed to ignoring the insurrection at the Capitol this week. It’s also increasingly committed to ignoring the majority of Americans who found the insurrection abhorrent. This, then, is what minority rule looks like in political theater form: a Senate trial in which the clear will of the people can be sidelined because the clear will of the people does not determine who governs, or what those who govern must do.
https://attentiontotheunseen.com/2021/02/09/this-is-not-representative
-democracy/
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Originally posted by second:
The American people overwhelmingly favor conviction,
No they don't.
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and there is no chance the Senate will convict.
You're right about that though.
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In spite of the certainty with which I can predict that Trump won’t be convicted, recent polling shows that the majority of Americans want to see him convicted. ABC polling released on Sunday shows 56 percent of Americans saying that Trump should be convicted and barred from holding office again. Only 43 percent say he should not be. That means that most Americans watching any part of the impeachment trial could reasonably ask themselves why, yet again, 56 percent of the country is held hostage to a 43 percent minority. This is not representative democracy working well.
56 to 43 is not even close to something you could call overwhelming... and that's based off of a single bullshit ABC poll that comically look EXACTLY like Trump's approval rating for a majority of is presidency.
NOTE: The rest of this post was edited after I looked at the exact poll used in the story and posted it here.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210210005657/https://www.ipsos.com/en-us
/news-polls/abc-news-coronavirus-aid-package-020721
This question was asked of 508 people, out of roughly 330 MILLION people.
Outside of the actual number of people, the methodology section just gives you a few paragraphs of meaningless gobbledygook so you can't actually know anything about who was actually polled.
Funny enough though, the part of the poll in question doesn't use the word OVERWHELMING majority.
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A slight majority (56%) of Americans support the Senate convicting Donald Trump and barring him from office in the future. However, this falls strongly along party lines with over 9 in 10 Democrats supporting and over 8 in 10 Republicans opposing.
SLIGHT majority.
Also, it solidifies my own earlier comment that this falls strongly among party lines (when I said it comically looks EXACTLY like Trump's approval ratings for a majority of his presidency).
If California falls into the ocean tomorrow you'd see what an overwhelming majority looked like. The other way.
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The trial is about Republicans and their unwillingness to cut loose the twisted and violent conspiracy theories that are the heart of Trumpism.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210209145630/https://slate.com/news-and-
politics/2021/02/impeachment-stakes-not-conviction-senate.html
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