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Dear Transplant, Don't believe what those mean internet boys are telling you. We never lied to you, the popular vote thing confused us. Oh, and never shake Pee Wee Herman's hand if you see him after a movie. Trust us---it has nothing to do with the Corona virus. Signed, The 2016 Pollsters

In the lead up to 2016 I'd watch Kornacki do his political analysis on NBC. He has, or had, this sort of awww shucks way about him and this odd habit of delivering his message point that "Trump can't win" and then hooking his thumb into the side of his dockers and nodding like a simpleton while the others on set acknowledged him for his clairvoyance. He was 100% wrong, of course, but that's TV for you.

The Germans have a pretty good track record though, so there’s that.

Ah, I see the confusion. You indicated you liked him even more because he dropped out, and as a conservative, I personally hope he drops out again in 2024 making you really really like him more, and so on. Second paragraph moved past that to PB and his future. Personally, I think he’s a pretty boring dude, but IF he’s to be successful in the future, he’s got to work on his charisma and find a way to appeal to black voters and a wider base of voters. If he can do that, and if he moves to the center to appeal to independents, he seems like a nice enough guy to draw in some voters and have a shot at it. As for his resume, it’s obviously pretty flimsy, which is problematic in general (unless you’re the heir apparent to the dems) and what’s on there now is decidedly unappealing to minority voters according to minority voters. so, to summarize: 1. Be less boring, like a LOT less boring (Get a tat, maybe play Mott the Hoople at campaign rallies?); 2. Gain experience beyond being assistant to the associate Tax Collector in Muncie, Indiana; 3. Find a way to be viewed as less of a bigot to minority communities; 4. Move to the middle; 5. Be less boring;

I’ll allow weird, but what’s contradictory about it?

Well, with luck you’ll really really like him when he drops out in 2024, really really really like him when he drops out in 2028, and so on, and so on. I watched some of his speeches and to me, it’s like watching chalk dry. He seems nice enough, honestly, and if he improves his resume, moves to the middle and finds a way to appeal to minorities, who knows.

I wish I had a punchable face that would land me $25m. Mine is good for a couple hot dogs from Ted's and a medium Loganberry at best.

When everyone is a bot, no one is really a bot. Geezer alert!! Geezer alert!!

But certainly you would acknowledge those that have died since 2016 are much, much deader than those who died before?

This is the starting point? Off the top of my head, there were 5 different brands of personal-use water bottles in the store today, plastic bottles with plastic caps and plastic labels, with plastic sign holders to tell me how much each plastic shrink-wrapped crate of 24 would cost. There was an extensive offering of non-water-flavored water as well. How impactful would a ban on plastic water bottles in NYS be in 2020? Between manufacture, shipping, recycling and repeating the cycle over and over the impact on the environment is staggering and dare I say, meaningful. Would anyone really be harmed if a meaningful ban like that was implemented? Would life be altered in any negative way? By the way, I don’t know anyone who thinks it’s the end of the world, quite the opposite. They see it a largely hollow and silly political stunt.

Bias is a natural part of life, it just is the way it is. If she was a Hospice nurse caring for an aging and sick loved one, showed compassion and grace in doing so, she would be perceived differently even with her boyish figure and voice that feels like a woodworker's chisel is being jammed into your brain stem. Some people won't vote for trump because hes from NYC, some didnt vote for BO because of his heritage, and some would pass on Mike B because he's not unshort. Besides, she has used the perception of bias (real or imagined) as a hammer for her entire political career, often bringing her great success. Sometimes she's bound to be on the wrong side of it.

Also, those weed-smokin hippies with their fancy non-plastic dog poop picker uppers represent a population nearly 7x larger than where I live in Albany, NY. That makes 'em 7x more pollutey than we are, and I don't feel the need to have to establish a logistics operation to ferry my items to my largely-plastic vehicle in 3 item shifts, with one party left at the counter to safeguard that which is temporarily left behind. Don't even get me started on the massive carbon footprint of having a sports franchise like the Portland Trail Blazers. Get rid of them, save the planet and give me my plastic bags back.

I'm standing in line at a Walmart, among the aisles and aisle and aisles of plastic...plastic bottles plastic jugs plastic wrappers plastic water bottles plastic sleeves over plastic goods...all loaded into a shopping cart with plastic bumpers and plastic advertising sleeves... thinking that had this ban never be implemented, life would have gone on as well. Agreed, amazing.

tibs is a war monger and clearly a major player in the military industrial complex. He also prefers a Holiday Inn Express over a stay Mar-A-Lago, mostly because he likes making his own waffles at breakfast.

Completely understandable. When I was a younger man, many woman stopped me from moving where I wanted to go, and I always considered myself arrested. I guess in retrospect, I wasn't arrested arrested, I was stopped. The good news is that while these really nice young ladies stopped me from moving where I personally wanted to go, some really nice friendships bloomed.

i remember this guy. bit of an edge, willing to say the hard things that needed to be said. nice.

Pursuing litigation seems not at all unAmerican, not sure why anyone would have an issue with an aggrieved party (from his perspective) seeking their day in court. If it’s frivolous it will be tossed.

Hmmmm...Son 30+...Hubby presumed to like Disney+...Are you, or have you ever been, accused and/or been described as, a “cougar”? I’d like to insert a cool new @Foxx animated emoji but lack the talent and hipsterness to do so this will have to do. ?

I think you play the game the way the game is played if for no other reason than your opponent will play as such. Sanders would cut the throat of anyone close to one of his opponents and leave them bleeding in the shadows to improve his standing, it just is what it is. The house issue is fair game. $500,000+ cash would pay for a lot of late term abortions for his constituents. The rape story is what it is, and up to the voter to decide as to whether or not it's relevant to them in 2020.

Nearly 250 years in the making...

Well, in the context of Sanders using a complex legal tactic to protect himself from personal liability, to avoid the unfortunate consequences of punitive taxation, and to allow his heirs the benefit of skirting financial obligations while allowing them to keep the roughly 600 feet of prime lake front, it’s something that rightly should be addressed. Hard core leftists will indeed flock to follow him, every cult needs a messiah figure regardless of his own personal fiscal fetishes. The goal is simply to cut him down, piece by piece, to expose him as the hypocrite that he is, and to associate him with the vision that the USA can look like Cuba and Venezuela if you you just rally behind Sanders. In fact, one must wonder if these mega-wealthy individuals weren’t working so damn hard to avoid paying taxes and shielding assets from Medicare to begin with, if the Medicare crisis would be a crisis to begin with. Socialism is profoundly lucrative for the few.

Irv Crankstein.

Teddy Musolini near as I can tell. Your talk is traitorous.

Nice post. Here’s the deal, with few exceptions, it’s not “owners” v “players”, it’s haves and haves less. Patrick Mahommes likely cares less about the overall compensation to players as a whole than he does what he makes. Jerry Jones holds the same philosophy as it relates to Terry and Kim Pegula or Patrick Mahommes, and I’m sure Travis Kelce doesn’t spend much time worrying about how much Dawson Knox will make in future contracts. Every party necessarily looks out for themselves. They’ll work it out—but let’s focus on the real problem: those mysterious black suited Spider-Man-refs who&$@@ over the Bills of Buffalo!

One more point, certainly understood by most on this board. It's easy for people to rage against a "system", but by system, I actually mean "people". Hatred, division, and aggression against those who do not kneel at Greta's infamous wall must, by extension, be marginalized, beaten into submission or worse. Sanders needs his people to rage against people, and just moves the goalposts as necessary. Btw the jamoke who pointed out snopes review of the Sanders 52% tax plan missed the pointing about Sanders banging those at 250,000k + at 40% or higher. Sure, it makes perfect sense to become successful, invest in yourself and you dreams to earn $300k and work until April 23 for the feds skim before you're free of that debt, at which time you can consider the obligation to your state govt for another 30 days or so and by maybe mid-June start putting something aside for yourself.