What have the Democrats done in the past Four years

[B-Man]

 

WELL! THE MASKS REALLY ARE COMING OFF:  

 

Democrats foolishly declaring war on single-family housing.

 

 

 

 

 

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[OldTimeAFLGuy]

....why would a political party advocate going from bad to worse?......their candidates are "fossil fuels"........their platform is NONE....and their only hat hook is impeachment?......in my 42 year business world, if a "salesman" uses his primary selling point as to how bad the competition is versus how good his  firm is, he's out the door in a nanosecond......

[B-Man]

 

 

 

 

anyone surprised ?

 

 

 

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2 hours ago, B-Man said:

 

 

 

 

anyone surprised ?

 

 

 

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Not me.

 

I saw that commercial when I was home for Thanksgiving and it felt phoney.

 

Also reminds me back in 2012 or 2014 I went on a date with a 30ish year old chick I met on PoF or OKCupid or someother website.

 

She was a hardcore Lib and had volunteered or interned for local Democrat candidates.  She got a little perturbed by my political deflections and when she figured out I wasn't a Peoples Party Member.

 

We obviously didn't click.  A few months later I saw her in TV as a "recent grad" who was concerned that one of the Republican Congresscritters didn't represent her values.  Dunno if she even lived in his district, but it was some serious bullschit parisan shill theatrics

 

[3rdnlng]

3 hours ago, B-Man said:

 

 

 

 

anyone surprised ?

 

 

 

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I've had numerous business dealings with him. The article mentions that Graham was a Ron DiNicola supporter who is a long term democrat, active in Erie area dem politics. 

[Deranged Rhino]

https://mobile.twitter.com/EddieDonovan/status/1210581699777716225

[B-Man]

BEAT THE DRUM, LIBERALS

Kevin Drum is a left-of-center writer who is worth reading at Mother Jones. He often departs from liberal orthodoxy, as we’ve noted here in the past.

 

To end this year, Drum offers “A Few Things Liberals Believe That They Shouldn’t.” Six, to be precise.

 

They are:

1. Head Start (and similar pre-K programs) raise student achievement.
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3. American health care is expensive because of private insurance.
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5. We have a retirement crisis.
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7. The black/white test score difference is all about test prep, biased tests, etc.
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9. The 1994 crime act was responsible for mass incarceration.
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11. Charter schools don’t work.

Read the whole thing—it’s a short piece—for the details and supporting evidence. It is points 4 & 5 that are most interesting. 

[Nanker]

On 12/25/2019 at 12:57 PM, B-Man said:

 

WELL! THE MASKS REALLY ARE COMING OFF:  

 

Democrats foolishly declaring war on single-family housing.

 

 

 

 

 

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Ja! Nothing says “there’s no place like home” better than a good old fashioned Internationalist style apartment complex!

 

 

#FORWARD!

[RochesterRob]

3 hours ago, Nanker said:

Ja! Nothing says “there’s no place like home” better than a good old fashioned Internationalist style apartment complex!

 

 

#FORWARD!

  Tiberius considers it a honor to have a Lenin portrait draped over his deck.  More trips to the doctor for ring worm.  Yeah!

[B-Man]

 

THE LEFT:  VICIOUS, NASTY FAKE-HISTORY IDIOTS.

 

 

 

 

Actually, while the ships weren’t owned by Jews, the slaves were sold by African blacks, and occasionally Arabs, and they still don’t feel guilty about it.

 

 

Meanwhile, here’s Karol’s column that inspired the text:  How liberals are allowing anti-Semitism to flourish.

 

Allowing, encouraging, whatever.

 

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[B-Man]

 

HARSH, BUT FAIR:  

 

Tulsi Gabbard: Democrats in Congress Preferred People Rotting in Prison to Giving Trump a Win.

 

“We were working on passage of the First Step Act,” she explained, which is “a criminal justice reform bill. It had support from very progressive members of Congress, people who call themselves progressives, people who call themselves conservatives. They’d reached a consensus, built a bill that wasn’t perfect, but it actually made progress towards prison reform and reducing high recidivism rates in prisons, helping people in their lives and also saving money in the process.”

 

But there was one major problem: prison reform was pushed by President Trump. “I’m not even kidding you,”

 

Gabbard went on to say. “There are leaders in the House and the Senate who came out in opposition to this bill because they did not want to deliver a political win to Donald Trump. They’d rather leave people rotting in prison than deliver a win to Donald Trump, give him something that he could say that he accomplished.”

 

 

They’re willing to sacrifice any interest or principle for power. See, e.g., the rehabilitation of Ralph Northam and Justin Fairfax.

 

 

 

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[B-Man]

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[B-Man]

 

 2019 Was the Year That Democrats Went Off the Rails.

 

 

 

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[B-Man]

STEVEN HAYWARD

GETTING POPULISM RIGHT

Modern democracies are said to be in the grip of “populism” that the dictionary defines as “a political approach that strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by established elite groups.”

 

Most of the learned commentary from academia and the news media describe populism as a harbinger of the apocalypse, a threat to democracy, and the second coming of fascism, all stemming from racism and xenophobia.

 

 

But just how is populism to be distinguished from the legitimate democratic voice of a sovereign people, like the large majority in Britain that voted in favor of Brexit and, lately, for a Tory landslide whose message was “and we really mean it”?

 

My definition is simple: For the media and academia, populism is when the “wrong” people win an election; democracy is when the “right” people win an election. It is about that simple.

 

(There’s a Yes, Prime Ministerscene on exactly this point that I highly recommend. Key line: “Bernard, if the right people don’t have power, do you know what happens? The wrongpeople get it!” In other words—the “deplorables.”)

 

Hence it is refreshing to come across an academic look at the subject that departs from the party line, and such is National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy by Roger Eatwell and Matthew Goodwin. 

 

 

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[IDBillzFan]

On 12/30/2019 at 7:08 AM, B-Man said:

 

HARSH, BUT FAIR:  

 

Tulsi Gabbard: Democrats in Congress Preferred People Rotting in Prison to Giving Trump a Win.

 

“We were working on passage of the First Step Act,” she explained, which is “a criminal justice reform bill. It had support from very progressive members of Congress, people who call themselves progressives, people who call themselves conservatives. They’d reached a consensus, built a bill that wasn’t perfect, but it actually made progress towards prison reform and reducing high recidivism rates in prisons, helping people in their lives and also saving money in the process.”

 

But there was one major problem: prison reform was pushed by President Trump. “I’m not even kidding you,”

 

Gabbard went on to say. “There are leaders in the House and the Senate who came out in opposition to this bill because they did not want to deliver a political win to Donald Trump. They’d rather leave people rotting in prison than deliver a win to Donald Trump, give him something that he could say that he accomplished.”

 

 

They’re willing to sacrifice any interest or principle for power. See, e.g., the rehabilitation of Ralph Northam and Justin Fairfax.

 

 

 

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Good for Tulsi, but bad for Tulsi because now she'll be relegated to cleaning toilets in the basement.

 

It's become clear over the past few years that the leaders of the Tibs and Garys of the world only care about obstructing Trump. To find out they'd rather leave people rotting in prison should surprise no one.

 

Not sure how much they plan to schitt their pants when Trump wins 2020. But I suspect it will be another spectacular schittshow brought to you by the oldest, angriest people ever to rule Washington.

[Buffalo_Gal]

Just now, IDBillzFan said:

 

Good for Tulsi, but bad for Tulsi because now she'll be relegated to cleaning toilets in the basement.

 

It's become clear over the past few years that the leaders of the Tibs and Garys of the world only care about obstructing Trump. To find out they'd rather leave people rotting in prison should surprise no one.

 

Not sure how much they plan to schitt their pants when Trump wins 2020. But I suspect it will be another spectacular schittshow brought to you by the oldest, angriest people ever to rule Washington.

I have not understood why the average schmo roots for Trump to not succeed.  DNC officials? Sure. The people who have their hand in the graft-cookie-jar who were also a part of the current money-laundering scandal? Absolutely get those people.  Federal employees afraid of downsizing? Yup, I get it. But the average person on the street having a meltdown because they have a job, the economy is good, their investments are doing well? Why would they want their President to do poorly? 

 

[SoCal Deek]

20 minutes ago, Buffalo_Gal said:

I have not understood why the average schmo roots for Trump to not succeed.  DNC officials? Sure. The people who have their hand in the graft-cookie-jar who were also a part of the current money-laundering scandal? Absolutely get those people.  Federal employees afraid of downsizing? Yup, I get it. But the average person on the street having a meltdown because they have a job, the economy is good, their investments are doing well? Why would they want their President to do poorly? 

 

Here’s a hint....they don’t! He’s going to win in a landslide. 

[Koko78]

2 hours ago, Buffalo_Gal said:

I have not understood why the average schmo roots for Trump to not succeed.  DNC officials? Sure. The people who have their hand in the graft-cookie-jar who were also a part of the current money-laundering scandal? Absolutely get those people.  Federal employees afraid of downsizing? Yup, I get it. But the average person on the street having a meltdown because they have a job, the economy is good, their investments are doing well? Why would they want their President to do poorly?

 

I suspect that, for some, #OrangeManBad is so ingrained into their psyche that they cannot possibly come to terms with the positives going on around them. They'd rather see the world burn around them than to accept that their views are wrong.

[Doc Brown]

13 hours ago, Buffalo_Gal said:

I have not understood why the average schmo roots for Trump to not succeed.  DNC officials? Sure. The people who have their hand in the graft-cookie-jar who were also a part of the current money-laundering scandal? Absolutely get those people.  Federal employees afraid of downsizing? Yup, I get it. But the average person on the street having a meltdown because they have a job, the economy is good, their investments are doing well? Why would they want their President to do poorly? 

If you're talking on an ideology level..... Rush Limbaugh said it best when he said he hopes Obama fails.  Both sides believe that their policies are best for this country in the long term even if the country is doing well now.  

 

If you're talking on a personal level..... Trump rubs a lot of people the wrong way and when you despise somebody it's natural to root for them to fail.  These people were pry fine economically before and after Trump became president.

[3rdnlng]

1 hour ago, Doc Brown said:

If you're talking on an ideology level..... Rush Limbaugh said it best when he said he hopes Obama fails.  Both sides believe that their policies are best for this country in the long term even if the country is doing well now.  

 

If you're talking on a personal level..... Trump rubs a lot of people the wrong way and when you despise somebody it's natural to root for them to fail.  These people were pry fine economically before and after Trump became president.

Rush Limbaugh said in regards to Obama's statement that he "wanted to fundamentally change America" that he hoped Obama fails. Obama's goals were to turn us into a socialistic state and Limbaugh had every right to object to that. Stating simply that Rush wanted Obama to fail is not only disingenuous but flat out twisting his words.

 

"These people were probably fine economically" before the economy improved? I see, the dramatic reduction in unemployment and the subsequent rise in wages are no big deal, eh? Why don't you just come right out and say: "let them eat cake"?