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Bernie never stood a chance in a general election, but deserved the chance to try.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Yes.
A public good became a money grab for a bunch of low capability administrators and their cronies.
Next question.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)On one level I’m a little sad for Bident that he couldn’t get more sympathy for his condition longer ago. I mean that sincerely, since he has to have been under treatment for it for a year or two, but couldn’t reveal it lest he be asked to step aside.
On second thought, it’s a real shame a guy can’t step aside when it’s time. The poor guy was addlebrained and cancer-ridden at the end. His friends and family are evil.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I have a hypothesis that there are good, centrist Democrats who are fully electable in a general election.
But…
They are totally ineligible due to the tendency of Democrat leaders (in ANY industry, btw) to exercise their ideological power over their practical power. They would rather RUN a nutjob leftist (or in industry HIRE a poorly qualified identity) than actually WIN.
You can’t tell me that Amy Klobuchar couldn’t have been a better candidate than Kamala. Same w/ Shapiro.
In the funny way that CNN is to blame for the rise of Trump the politician, the Democrats are to blame for re-electing Trump. They couldn’t get out of their own way.
Out of 50 nationally known Democrats, Kamala was probably the absolute worst option.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Something here for everyone to dislike.
I don’t like the idea of bringing consumer finance onto the government balance sheet any more than I liked brining student loans into it. Student loans became the next political patronage lever, imagine if every single consumer had government debt that politicians can play “vote buying” with
I want far fewer people dependent on the government for their financial well being, not far more!
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)We’ve become accustomed to debates where one side either acts or proposes to act and the other side just says “that’s retarded.” It’s totally unacceptable in real terms…you’d fire a guy who does that. But here we are.
The Democrats, by only advocating for the status quo, are advocating for economic Armageddon; just not on their watch.
So, what’s the alternative approach to re-setting the global trade unfavorably to the middle class American? What’s the alternative to the government led GDP lie we have been living? What’s the alternative to drowning in government debt?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)GR as usual gets it.
Gangs don’t fight fair. Gangs don’t do “human rights.” And yes, we have to be careful not to become the monster while fighting them, but there is a threshold at which we simply have to act.
I am unmoved by extreme action against organized criminals engaged in murder, human trafficking, drug trafficking, and intimidation. It’s really the only way. They have no shower and have to share a toilet at the same ratio as an airport? Dios mio. Shouldn’t have murdered that judge and pimped out an immigrant 13 year old
We are being destroyed by our own civility. Worse, we are letting communities that we don’t live in be destroyed by our own civility. Cheap virtue.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Next thing you know we will be ordering drone strikes on US citizens. Right?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)The framing that the “scientist” was “critical of trump” is new to me. Is there any publication of what was written?
I am seeing the topic for the first time but it appears to be treated fairly delicately. If, instead of an academic researcher who was critical of Trump’s cuts to research, it comes out that this is a Hamas sympathizer who wrote that the president needs to die, would that change the need for detention? I would give law enforcement (CBP) the benefit of the doubt.
Seems there might be more to the story. I’m not willing to jump to conclusions, but can assure you that the administration has far bigger things to do than to harass a random academic. Reframing the issue might prevent all the hysterics from being assumed as true.
Let’s put a pin in that one and come back to it as more is known.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I think I was more shocked when I read that she was good at the job.
She strikes me as a base opportunist.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)The strategic consequences of the U.S. pulling out of NATO are far more severe for everybody who is not the U.S.
the real question is what does NATO stand for? It was formed to keep the U.S. in, Germany down, and Russia out. What is it for now?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)It gonna hurt and everybody is going to hate Trump, but this is necessary. Unfortunately too many people don’t realize they live off of government spending and haven’t prepared for a rainy day.
PLENTY of people would rather just continue the charade and keep borrowing to support consumption. They are wrong.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Further? I guess we should have just given them nukes. That would have solved it, right?
I’m supportive of Ukraine’s fight for its sovereignty. I’m also supportive of actions that strengthen the U.S.’s position.
I’m not supportive of vast sums of U.S. tax dollars going to foreign governments.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)It’s Monday and I’m just now getting the Maine reference. I’m getting old in my middle age.
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