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Post by LA_Randy on Jul 31, 2019 11:48:33 GMT -5
Trump said that he has stopped receiving intelligence briefings at the White House, arguing, “I can do my job without any intelligence whatsoever.” - Andy Borowitz
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Post by forgottenlord on Jul 31, 2019 11:59:45 GMT -5
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Post by foggyisback on Jul 31, 2019 12:05:29 GMT -5
Do they think the kids are dead or that they got away?
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Post by LA_Randy on Jul 31, 2019 12:05:40 GMT -5
John Delaney Goes On Fox To Complain About Warren’s ‘Lazy And Dishonest’ Dunk 2020 Democratic candidate John Delaney appeared on “Fox and Friends” Wednesday to lick his wounds after getting verbally smacked by 2020 rival Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) during Tuesday night’s debate. Delaney, a moderate former congressman currently polling at 1 percent, used the debate to position himself as the centrist response to Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) progressive policy proposals, including Medicare for All. However, a fed-up Warren dealt him a blow after he claimed she and Sanders were pushing “impossible promises” with a devastating retort: “I don’t understand why anybody goes to all the trouble of running for President of the United States just to talk about what we really can’t do and shouldn’t fight for.” During Delaney’s Fox interview Wednesday morning, co-host Ainsley Earhardt praised him as “being honest to the American people.” “I don’t understand why people run and promise stuff that never happens,” she told the candidate. Delaney claimed Warren’s comment was a response “when someone really can’t defend their plans” and that the Massachusetts senator was merely “saying something that’s lazy and dishonest.” Though liberals on Twitter didn’t seem particularly impressed with Delaney’s centrist proposals, Fox News hosts and conservatives have showered the former Maryland congressman with praise... talkingpointsmemo.com/news/john-delaney-fox-complain-warren-lazy-dishonest-comment
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Post by forgottenlord on Jul 31, 2019 12:16:09 GMT -5
Do they think the kids are dead or that they got away? Survivability probability is definitely decreasing. Escape is possible but there's not a versatile set of manmade routes out of the area (there's exactly one highway and I'm not sure whether the rail line from Churchill goes anywhere near there, not a good logging region) so... plausible to escape overland but boy would it be hard. There was also a report that some of the rumors about survival gear they supposedly possessed may have been overstated - two people unknowingly encountered them before the manhunt was launched (one by a local patrol officer who is required to do a search of all cars into his community as a way of controlling alcohol and drug imports so a bit more thorough review) and neither agreed with the survival gear claims. Also, it's been 10 days since they are last confirmed to have contact with civilization. There was a tip at a different town over the weekend but they seemed to discount it yesterday
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Post by forgottenlord on Jul 31, 2019 12:21:34 GMT -5
John Delaney Goes On Fox To Complain About Warren’s ‘Lazy And Dishonest’ Dunk 2020 Democratic candidate John Delaney appeared on “Fox and Friends” Wednesday to lick his wounds after getting verbally smacked by 2020 rival Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) during Tuesday night’s debate. Delaney, a moderate former congressman currently polling at 1 percent, used the debate to position himself as the centrist response to Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) progressive policy proposals, including Medicare for All. However, a fed-up Warren dealt him a blow after he claimed she and Sanders were pushing “impossible promises” with a devastating retort: “I don’t understand why anybody goes to all the trouble of running for President of the United States just to talk about what we really can’t do and shouldn’t fight for.” During Delaney’s Fox interview Wednesday morning, co-host Ainsley Earhardt praised him as “being honest to the American people.” “I don’t understand why people run and promise stuff that never happens,” she told the candidate. Delaney claimed Warren’s comment was a response “when someone really can’t defend their plans” and that the Massachusetts senator was merely “saying something that’s lazy and dishonest.” Though liberals on Twitter didn’t seem particularly impressed with Delaney’s centrist proposals, Fox News hosts and conservatives have showered the former Maryland congressman with praise... talkingpointsmemo.com/news/john-delaney-fox-complain-warren-lazy-dishonest-commentDear Delaney, Maybe Medicare for all isn't possible. There's a lot of skepticism even in the Democratic party. But you know what is possible? To negotiate from a position of strength. Maybe we end up closer to your ideas. Maybe we end up closer to Kamala Harris's ideas. But if we start from your position and the negotiate with Republicans, we don't get your policy, we get half of your policy. At best. And therein lies what you're missing
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Post by forgottenlord on Jul 31, 2019 12:54:09 GMT -5
Sitting in a company meeting, listening to the Chief of Staff detail what's happening Random thought: Chief of Staff seems like an executive secretary when a man is in the role Random thought: I wonder if there's been a female White House Chief of Staff Open wiki... Nope Hey... wiki says it was a continuation of "Secretary to the President" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_to_the_President_of_the_United_States
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Post by LA_Randy on Jul 31, 2019 13:11:36 GMT -5
Ohio editorial begs Trump fans not to embarrass state at tonight’s Trump rally On Wednesday, ahead of the third Democratic debate, President Donald Trump is expected to hold a rally in Cincinnati, Ohio. Focusing on Rust Best states appears to be a major part of Trump’s re-election campaign, as it was in 2016. Ahead of the event, the editorial board of the Cincinnati Enquirer pleaded with Trump’s fans to not heap shame upon the city by mirroring Trump’s racism, with chants like “Send her back!” in reference to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN). “Don’t take the bait. We’re asking you, Mr. President, your supporters and your detractors to set a new example for presidential visits. Setting an example not only includes people at the rally or protesting it, but those commenting about it on social media,” the board wrote... www.rawstory.com/2019/07/ohio-editorial-begs-trump-fans-not-to-embarrass-state-at-tonights-trump-rally/Fat chance? “New example”?
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Post by LA_Randy on Jul 31, 2019 13:16:24 GMT -5
Covering for trump’s mismanagement? A major development in monetary policy The Federal Reserve cut interest rates for the first time in more than a decade, an effort to guard the record-long economic expansion against mounting global risks. The widely-expected quarter-point move, the Fed’s first since it cut rates to near zero in 2008, is meant to protect the economy against the potentially harmful effects of a growth slowdown in China and Europe and uncertainty from President Trump’s ongoing trade war. “In light of the implications of global developments for the economic outlook as well as muted inflation pressures, the Committee decided to lower the target range for the federal funds rate,” according to the Fed’s policy statement. Fed Cuts Interest Rates for First Time Since 2008 Crisis —The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2019/07/31/business/economy/federal-reserve-interest-rate-cut.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur
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Post by doddeb on Jul 31, 2019 13:23:42 GMT -5
Ohio editorial begs Trump fans not to embarrass state at tonight’s Trump rally On Wednesday, ahead of the third Democratic debate, President Donald Trump is expected to hold a rally in Cincinnati, Ohio. Focusing on Rust Best states appears to be a major part of Trump’s re-election campaign, as it was in 2016. Ahead of the event, the editorial board of the Cincinnati Enquirer pleaded with Trump’s fans to not heap shame upon the city by mirroring Trump’s racism, with chants like “Send her back!” in reference to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN). “Don’t take the bait. We’re asking you, Mr. President, your supporters and your detractors to set a new example for presidential visits. Setting an example not only includes people at the rally or protesting it, but those commenting about it on social media,” the board wrote... www.rawstory.com/2019/07/ohio-editorial-begs-trump-fans-not-to-embarrass-state-at-tonights-trump-rally/Fat chance? “New example”? Cincinnati is a small blue island in a sea of red in southern Ohio. I imagine the trumpers there will be just as badly behaved as elsewhere. Not to mention, right across the river from Kentucky. Anyway, Trump won the state. Can't get more embarrassing than that.
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Post by forgottenlord on Jul 31, 2019 13:33:07 GMT -5
Ohio editorial begs Trump fans not to embarrass state at tonight’s Trump rally On Wednesday, ahead of the third Democratic debate, President Donald Trump is expected to hold a rally in Cincinnati, Ohio. Focusing on Rust Best states appears to be a major part of Trump’s re-election campaign, as it was in 2016. Ahead of the event, the editorial board of the Cincinnati Enquirer pleaded with Trump’s fans to not heap shame upon the city by mirroring Trump’s racism, with chants like “Send her back!” in reference to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN). “Don’t take the bait. We’re asking you, Mr. President, your supporters and your detractors to set a new example for presidential visits. Setting an example not only includes people at the rally or protesting it, but those commenting about it on social media,” the board wrote... www.rawstory.com/2019/07/ohio-editorial-begs-trump-fans-not-to-embarrass-state-at-tonights-trump-rally/Fat chance? “New example”? Cincinnati is a small blue island in a sea of red in southern Ohio. I imagine the trumpers there will be just as badly behaved as elsewhere. Not to mention, right across the river from Kentucky. Anyway, Trump won the state. Can't get more embarrassing than that. Yes it can. In 2016, at least there might have been an ability to claim ignorance. Early analysis thinks he's likely to win Ohio in 2020
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Post by LA_Randy on Jul 31, 2019 13:42:26 GMT -5
Trump administration may end protected status for Syrians, leaving many fearing 'a death sentence' Monzer Shakally was 16 years old when he joined the protests in the streets of Damascus, was arrested and tortured by the Syrian government, and, once released, escaped to find safe haven in the U.S. Now 23, and entering his second year of dental school in Iowa City, Shakally must wait on edge as the Trump administration possibly terminates his legal status. The administration is considering ending legal status for Shakally and approximately 7,000 other Syrians living in the U.S. -- a move that would force them to find a new legal status, leave the U.S. or even face deportation to Syria... abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-administration-end-protected-status-syrians-leaving-fearing/story?id=64657962&cid=social_twitter_abcnpMore blood on trump’s hands.
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Post by doddeb on Jul 31, 2019 13:44:29 GMT -5
Cincinnati is a small blue island in a sea of red in southern Ohio. I imagine the trumpers there will be just as badly behaved as elsewhere. Not to mention, right across the river from Kentucky. Anyway, Trump won the state. Can't get more embarrassing than that. Yes it can. In 2016, at least there might have been an ability to claim ignorance. Early analysis thinks he's likely to win Ohio in 2020 True. I was talking about current embarrassment. We're always open to embarrassing ourselves in the future. 😉
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Post by LA_Randy on Jul 31, 2019 13:57:26 GMT -5
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Post by foggyisback on Jul 31, 2019 14:03:40 GMT -5
John Delaney Goes On Fox To Complain About Warren’s ‘Lazy And Dishonest’ Dunk 2020 Democratic candidate John Delaney appeared on “Fox and Friends” Wednesday to lick his wounds after getting verbally smacked by 2020 rival Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) during Tuesday night’s debate. Delaney, a moderate former congressman currently polling at 1 percent, used the debate to position himself as the centrist response to Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) progressive policy proposals, including Medicare for All. However, a fed-up Warren dealt him a blow after he claimed she and Sanders were pushing “impossible promises” with a devastating retort: “I don’t understand why anybody goes to all the trouble of running for President of the United States just to talk about what we really can’t do and shouldn’t fight for.” During Delaney’s Fox interview Wednesday morning, co-host Ainsley Earhardt praised him as “being honest to the American people.” “I don’t understand why people run and promise stuff that never happens,” she told the candidate. Delaney claimed Warren’s comment was a response “when someone really can’t defend their plans” and that the Massachusetts senator was merely “saying something that’s lazy and dishonest.” Though liberals on Twitter didn’t seem particularly impressed with Delaney’s centrist proposals, Fox News hosts and conservatives have showered the former Maryland congressman with praise... talkingpointsmemo.com/news/john-delaney-fox-complain-warren-lazy-dishonest-commentDear Delaney, Maybe Medicare for all isn't possible. There's a lot of skepticism even in the Democratic party. But you know what is possible? To negotiate from a position of strength. Maybe we end up closer to your ideas. Maybe we end up closer to Kamala Harris's ideas. But if we start from your position and the negotiate with Republicans, we don't get your policy, we get half of your policy. At best. And therein lies what you're missing Coming in 2021: "I didn't leave the party, the party left me." 😡
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Post by doddeb on Jul 31, 2019 15:05:24 GMT -5
😱😝😫
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Post by doddeb on Jul 31, 2019 15:16:45 GMT -5
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Post by foggyisback on Jul 31, 2019 15:36:40 GMT -5
What sense does this make other than he does Flox's bidding??
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Post by forgottenlord on Jul 31, 2019 15:50:51 GMT -5
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Post by Outsider on Jul 31, 2019 16:03:14 GMT -5
This is the second article i read about this - the other was on slate or salon. I'll find it and post it as well. Thoughts? CNN Tried to Derail Sanders and Warren Last Night. It Failed. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren embrace while smiling Tuesday night’s Democratic debate was a CNN-engineered center-right ambush of Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren that was so ham-fisted in its conception and execution, it could have been drawn up by Donald Trump himself. “Is Bernie Sanders Too Extreme?” was an actual discussion topic. Zero-polling candidates like Rep. John Delaney and Sen. Amy Klobuchar were encouraged to take swipes at Medicare for All, student debt forgiveness, and other big-box ideas put forth by the two progressive frontrunners. Many of the questions put forth by CNN were specifically engineered to allow the “moderate” low/no-polling candidates an opportunity to directly attack Warren and Sanders: “Senator Whoever, you once said that Bernie Sanders wants to roll into the future on rails lubricated with newborn kitten blood. Do you stand by that statement?” An exaggeration, but not by much. The stories you care about, right at your fingertips CNN gave Delaney an inordinate amount of time because he was the loudest and pushiest of the anti-progressives clustered on the debate stage. Hoping to make his mark early, Delaney threw Walter Mondale and Mike Dukakis in Sanders and Warren’s face with his opening statement. He was aggressively wrong from start to finish, the leader of the back of the pack for one night by dint of volume. In the end, however, all he and the others did was bait the bear. Sens. Warren and Sanders rose up righteous before every challenge and batted the “moderate” also-rans around the room. It did not take long for Sanders and Warren to figure out what they were up against. The prevailing “wisdom” among the pundits who populate networks like CNN is that these two will soon have to crawl into Thunderdome together and fight to the death. That was not last night. When Delaney went after Sanders by using right-wing arguments against Medicare for All, Warren came barreling to his defense. “We are the Democrats,” insisted Warren. “We are not about trying to take away health care from anyone. That’s what the Republicans are trying to do, and we should stop using Republican talking points in order to talk with each other about how to best provide that healthcare.” Delaney’s time in the butter churn did not end there. At one point, it was revealed that he is worth $65 million, putting him $15 million within the margin of Warren’s two-cents wealth tax plan. When Warren heard this, she smiled and rubbed her hands together like a chef surveying a fine repast before laying out all the pro-people programs she could fund with a tiny slice of John Delaney’s fortune. “Is Bernie Sanders Too Extreme?” was an actual discussion topic. The towering moment of the night also came at Delaney’s expense. After he unspooled yet another ill-reasoned center-right argument, Warren gave it to him with hot mustard. “I don’t understand why anybody goes to all the trouble of running for president of the United States just to talk about what we really can’t do and shouldn’t fight for,” she proclaimed. The audience went wild as Delaney grinned sheepishly while blinking his unsettling eyes. Senator Sanders had his own battles to wage with CNN’s chosen trio of moderators, specifically Jake Tapper. When Tapper tried to frame Sanders’s Medicare for All plan as a giant tax increase, Sanders landed on him with both feet. “Jake, your question is a Republican talking point,” he clapped back. “And by the way, the health care industry will be advertising on this program with that talking point.” Zing. Sanders was not entirely sharp during the first debate in June, but last night, he gave one of his best performances out of both of his campaigns. After Rep. Tim Ryan, another member of last night’s “moderate” chorus, tried to tell Sanders he didn’t know what was in his own health care bill, Sanders delivered a line that will live on in Bernie lore right next to the bird that landed on his podium in 2016. “I do know it,” Sanders thundered. “I wrote the damn bill!” CNN spent the hours before the debate seeding the clouds with anti-progressive arguments. “When progressive ideas are cogently aired before millions of viewers,” I wrote last month, “the ‘centrist’ establishment and their ‘moderate’ mainstream media allies will rally furiously to try and convince everyone how terrifying those ideas are.” This was never more evident than last night. CNN spent the hours before the debate seeding the clouds with anti-progressive arguments that all boiled down to “these lefty ideas can’t win.” During the debate, the moderators allowed the “centrists” to run wild with a blizzard of damaging and discredited conservative myths and proposals. Over the course of the evening, Mayor Pete Buttigieg and several of his center-right cohorts came out against decriminalizing migration. Sen. Amy Klobuchar bragged about “bringing metro people with me,” which was strange Minnesota code for Black voters. All of them were given many long minutes to try to trash the Green New Deal while paying dusty lip service to the dangers of climate disruption. Ryan praised Trump’s ruinous China tariff policy. Delaney championed the ghastly Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal before offering kind words to Ronald Reagan. Gov. Steve Bullock managed to be smarmy even as he refused to take a first-strike nuclear attack by the U.S. “off the table.” CNN has not yet gotten the memo, but the senators from Massachusetts and Vermont clearly see how the failed “centrist” arguments of the past are a losing proposition in 2020. Yet even with the deck stacked and the utterly atrocious debate format, frontrunners Sanders and Warren showed why they have earned their frontrunner status. CNN has not yet gotten the memo, but the senators from Massachusetts and Vermont clearly see how the failed “centrist” arguments of the past are a losing proposition in 2020. They are not the only ones who see it. “Candidates who look like they are cautious, modulating, have their foot on the brake are missing the moment,” advises veteran Democratic poll guru Stan Greenberg. “The country is so far away from where it was under Bill Clinton. People are desperate for government to show it can do big things.” Greenberg made his bones in politics by practicing exactly this kind of tepid campaigning in Bill Clinton’s election war rooms. The fact that even he is now making this argument is very worthy of note. It was a surprisingly clarifying evening. CNN was looking to burn down the campaigns of frontrunners Warren and Sanders with a “Progressives v. Centrists” brawl, and tilted the table in favor of the “centrists” so severely it is a wonder the moderators’ microphones didn’t slide onto the floor. It did not work out the way they hoped. truthout.org/articles/cnn-tried-to-derail-sanders-and-warren-last-night-it-failed/
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Post by Outsider on Jul 31, 2019 16:11:13 GMT -5
CNN’s Debate Questions Were for Losers Highlights of an all-night attack ad. With 10 candidates on stage and Jake Tapper being bound by law to repeatedly scream “Senator” at intervals of 30 or 60 seconds, the format of the first night of the second round of Democratic debates was never exactly going to offer much in the way of substance. But CNN, being the enterprising cable network that it is, wasn’t about to let that stop it from actively making the night as dumb as humanly possible. And so the moderators peppered the candidates with questions that were evidently designed to produce bad answers in the short format. Question after question was framed up from the ideological perspective of a Heritage Foundation intern or otherwise crafted as a gotcha to generate a 15-second clip for Republican attack ads down the line. On the one hand, it was a gross display of cynical political theater that wasted everyone’s time. On the other, congratulations to CNN’s Chris Cillizza on what was undoubtedly a phenomenal night of stunted politics-like content. Here, straight from the screen, are the questions CNN decided America needed to hear. In this screengrab from CNN, Bernie Sanders prepares to answer a question during Tuesday night's debate. The banner reads: What is your response to Congressman Delaney who says "Medicare for All" is "political suicide"? Translation: Is “Medicare for All” too far left? In this screengrab from CNN, Bernie Sanders and Tom Delaney argue. The banner reads: “Do you believe ‘Medicare for All’ is ‘political suicide’ ?” Translation: Why do you insist on moving so far left? In this screengrab from CNN, Elizabeth Warren debates. The banner reads: "Do you agree with Sen. Sanders when it comes to raising taxes on the middle class to pay for 'Medicare for All'?" Translation: Why do you hate the middle class? In this screengrab from CNN, Amy Klobuchar debates. The banner reads: “Are you not willing to fight for 'Medicare for All' as Senator Warren has suggested?" Translation: Why are you a coward? In this screengrab from CNN, Bernie Sanders. The banner reads: "Can you guarantee benefits under "Medicare for all" will be as good as the benefits union members fought to negotiate?" Translation: Why are you betraying unions? In this screengrab from CNN, "Would you give health insurance to undocumented immigrants?" Translation: What words would you like Donald Trump to quote when he attacks you and immigrants in the same breath? In this screengrab from CNN, Bernie Sanders debates. The banner reads: "Do you believe guaranteeing more migrants free health care and college will encourage more illegal immigration?" Translation: Why do you want to flood our country with illegal immigrants? "Will Sen. Sanders' immigration proposals encourage more undocumented immigrants to come to the U.S.?" Translation: Why does Sen. Bernie Sanders want to flood our country with illegal immigrants? In this screengrab from CNN, John Hickenlooper debates. The banner reads: "Do you believe Sen. Sanders is too extreme to beat President Trump?" Translation: Is Sanders too far left? In this screengrab from CNN, Elizabeth Warren debates. The banner reads: "By calling yourself a capitalist, are you trying to convince voters you are a safer choice than Sen. Sanders?" Translation: Are you deceiving the public about the fact that you, like Sanders, are too far left? In this screengrab from CNN, Amy Klobuchar debates. The banner reads: “Sen. Klobuchar, who are you referring to when you say candidates are making promises just to get elected?” Translation: Which candidates do you think are too far left? In this screengrab from CNN, Tom Delaney debates. The banner reads: "Congressman Delaney, why do you believe the Green New Deal is not realistic?" Translation: Why is the Green New Deal too far left? In this screengrab from CNN, the banner reads: "Are you concerned about Sen. Sanders' plan to end new gas-powered car sales by 2040?" Translation: Is Sanders too far left? In this screengrab from CNN, Amy Klobuchar debates. The banner reads: “What do you say to Trump voters who prioritize the economy over the President's bigotry?” Translation: Would you say the racists have a point, or would you like to call them “deplorable” on camera right now? Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Beto O'Rourke are shown in this screengrab from CNN. The banner reads: "Should the U.S. be the 'policeman of the world'?" Translation: Are you too weak to do wars? In this screengrab from CNN, Elizabeth Warren debates. The banner reads: "Should the U.S. tie its own hands by having a policy not to use a nuclear weapon unless another country uses one first?" Translation: Are you too weak to do nuclear wars? In this screengrab from CNN, Pete Buttigieg debates while Bernie Sanders makes a concentrating expression. The banner reads: "Should voters consider age when choosing a President?" Translation: Are you too young, or is Bernie Sanders too old? slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/07/cnns-democratic-debate-questions-were-embarrassing.html
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2019 16:22:01 GMT -5
That's good. We don't need more moderates. There's plenty of those unfortunately.
Let's see how ti goes. Hopefully the DNC won't pull another sketchy move like last time.
Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, Marooned Together on Fantasy Island
These two progressives are in a bold — but awfully risky — place.
I’m no good at sartorial stuff, so I can’t describe how Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren were actually dressed. But I can tell you what they were effectively wearing: targets.
They came into the debate in Detroit on Tuesday night not just as the highest-polling candidates among the 10 on the stage, but also as the most ardent progressives, with plans more expansive and expensive than their rivals’. That gave those rivals both the motivation and the means to attack.
So they did, portraying Sanders and Warren as fantasists peddling policies — single-payer health care, the decriminalization of illegal border crossings, the elimination of all or most college debt — that were poorly conceived pipe dreams and, worse yet, recipes for President Trump’s re-election.
You were expecting the two of them to fight each other, because they have overlapping fan bases and because both of them want the progressive mantle? Hah. They were too busy doing battle with the candidates flanking them.
Those candidates — especially John Delaney, John Hickenlooper, Amy Klobuchar, Steve Bullock and Tim Ryan — portrayed Sanders and Warren as denizens of some lofty, lefty dreamland that would be unrecognizable and unappealing to swing voters between the coasts.
Sanders and Warren, in turn, cast their critics as merchants of nothing more than “small ideas and spinelessness,” as Warren put it. She didn’t match Sanders’s volume — who can and who would want to? — but her lines were as good or better.
Like this one: “I don’t understand why anybody goes to all the trouble of running for president of the United States just to talk about what we really can’t do and shouldn’t fight for.”
Or this: “Democrats win when we figure out what is right and we get out there and fight for it. I am not afraid. And for Democrats to win, you can’t be afraid either.” Fight, fight, fight, fight. There is no syllable more central to Warren’s campaign.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2019 16:23:12 GMT -5
The Opioid Crisis Is About More Than Corporate Greed
New documents show that Big Pharma isn’t the only culprit when it comes to getting people hooked on addictive drugs.
“Just like Doritos keep eating. We’ll make more.”
“It’s like people are addicted to these things or something. Oh, wait, people are...”
These lines are from emails sent between opioid manufacturers and distributors, recently pried loose by attorneys general suing Big Pharma for its role in fueling a massive wave of overdose deaths. Similar to the damning internal memos revealing that Big Tobacco knew that cigarettes indeed caused cancer, these emails appear to show that Big Pharma knew that a significant share of their product was landing in the street, feeding addiction. And yet they kept shipping out obscene quantities to rural towns across America, creating even more demand.
Nearly every step of the pharmaceutical supply chain is implicated in the soaring death rate. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, prescription opioids killed 218,000 people from 1999 to 2017. Many of the companies—from Johnson & Johnson to obscure distributors like Cardinal Health—are listed as defendants in hundreds of lawsuits filed by nearly every state in the country. The government thinks these corporations should pay up and treat the addiction their products caused. But the companies claim to have been acting legally and in compliance with federal regulators like the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Was it all, technically, legal?
What the opioid crisis illustrates is not that there are a few bad apples in the pharmaceutical industry, but that the country’s entire health care system is driven by profit at the expense of public health and safety. Drug manufacturers, pharmacy chains, drug distributors, and insurance companies got rich while people, especially people lower down the income ladder, suffered—and the DEA, through neglect or incompetence or a mix of both, watched it all happen.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2019 16:24:43 GMT -5
This Is the Soul of the Democratic Party
Warren and Sanders easily countered attacks from desperate moderates at Tuesday's debate and delivered compelling visions for America.
Halfway through the Democratic presidential debate in Detroit on Tuesday night, there was an illuminating exchange between Senator Elizabeth Warren, who consistently polls in the double digits, and former Representative John Delaney, who does not. “I think Democrats win when we run on real solutions, not impossible promises, when we run on things that are workable, not fairy-tale economics,” he said, implicitly taking aim at Warren’s bold platform.
The Massachusetts senator often says on the campaign trail that she has “got a plan.” In Detroit, she also had a response to those, like Delaney, who knock her plans. “I don’t understand why anybody goes to all the trouble of running for president of the United States to talk about what we really can’t do and shouldn’t fight for,” she fired back. It was the line of the night. The audience cheered; Twitter pundits declared a TKO. Delaney eked out a rebuttal about Social Security and private pensions, but was unable to get up off the mat for the rest of the night.
This back-and-forth epitomized the debate as a whole, which, with a few exceptions, broke into two camps. On one side were centrists like Delaney, John Hickenlooper, Tim Ryan, and Steve Bullock, who tried to cast themselves as pragmatic progressives in a party that has shifted dramatically leftward. On the other were the two Democrats most responsible for that shift, Warren and Bernie Sanders, who spent the evening batting away moderate critiques of their wide-ranging plans.
The debate thus reflected a fundamental divide within the Democratic Party as a whole. Some describe it as a war for the soul of the party, one that began with Hillary Clinton’s defeat of Sanders in the 2016 party and only intensified with her loss to Donald Trump. If Tuesday night is any indication, it’s clear which side has the ideas, energy, and political mettle to win.
Warren set the tone for the night in stark terms. “We’re not going to solve the problems we face with small ideas and spinelessness,” she said in her opening statement. “We need to be the party of big, structural change. I understand what’s broken, I know how to fix it, and I’m willing to fight to make it happen.” Sanders, who played the bad cop to her good cop, reiterated that his goal was to “not only defeat Trump but to transform our economy and our government.”
Bullock, who only joined the race in mid-May and didn’t qualify for the previous debate, instead made a pseudo-populist appeal to Middle America. “I come from a state where a lot of people voted for Donald Trump,” the Montana governor said. “Let’s not kid ourselves. He will be hard to beat. Yet watching that last debate, folks seemed more concerned about scoring points or outdoing each other with wish-list economics, than making sure Americans know we hear their voices and will help their lives.”
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Post by newhivemaster on Jul 31, 2019 16:28:31 GMT -5
CNN’s Debate Questions Were for Losers Highlights of an all-night attack ad. With 10 candidates on stage and Jake Tapper being bound by law to repeatedly scream “Senator” at intervals of 30 or 60 seconds, the format of the first night of the second round of Democratic debates was never exactly going to offer much in the way of substance. But CNN, being the enterprising cable network that it is, wasn’t about to let that stop it from actively making the night as dumb as humanly possible. And so the moderators peppered the candidates with questions that were evidently designed to produce bad answers in the short format. Question after question was framed up from the ideological perspective of a Heritage Foundation intern or otherwise crafted as a gotcha to generate a 15-second clip for Republican attack ads down the line. On the one hand, it was a gross display of cynical political theater that wasted everyone’s time. On the other, congratulations to CNN’s Chris Cillizza on what was undoubtedly a phenomenal night of stunted politics-like content. Here, straight from the screen, are the questions CNN decided America needed to hear. In this screengrab from CNN, Bernie Sanders prepares to answer a question during Tuesday night's debate. The banner reads: What is your response to Congressman Delaney who says "Medicare for All" is "political suicide"? Translation: Is “Medicare for All” too far left? In this screengrab from CNN, Bernie Sanders and Tom Delaney argue. The banner reads: “Do you believe ‘Medicare for All’ is ‘political suicide’ ?” Translation: Why do you insist on moving so far left? In this screengrab from CNN, Elizabeth Warren debates. The banner reads: "Do you agree with Sen. Sanders when it comes to raising taxes on the middle class to pay for 'Medicare for All'?" Translation: Why do you hate the middle class? In this screengrab from CNN, Amy Klobuchar debates. The banner reads: “Are you not willing to fight for 'Medicare for All' as Senator Warren has suggested?" Translation: Why are you a coward? In this screengrab from CNN, Bernie Sanders. The banner reads: "Can you guarantee benefits under "Medicare for all" will be as good as the benefits union members fought to negotiate?" Translation: Why are you betraying unions? In this screengrab from CNN, "Would you give health insurance to undocumented immigrants?" Translation: What words would you like Donald Trump to quote when he attacks you and immigrants in the same breath? In this screengrab from CNN, Bernie Sanders debates. The banner reads: "Do you believe guaranteeing more migrants free health care and college will encourage more illegal immigration?" Translation: Why do you want to flood our country with illegal immigrants? "Will Sen. Sanders' immigration proposals encourage more undocumented immigrants to come to the U.S.?" Translation: Why does Sen. Bernie Sanders want to flood our country with illegal immigrants? In this screengrab from CNN, John Hickenlooper debates. The banner reads: "Do you believe Sen. Sanders is too extreme to beat President Trump?" Translation: Is Sanders too far left? In this screengrab from CNN, Elizabeth Warren debates. The banner reads: "By calling yourself a capitalist, are you trying to convince voters you are a safer choice than Sen. Sanders?" Translation: Are you deceiving the public about the fact that you, like Sanders, are too far left? In this screengrab from CNN, Amy Klobuchar debates. The banner reads: “Sen. Klobuchar, who are you referring to when you say candidates are making promises just to get elected?” Translation: Which candidates do you think are too far left? In this screengrab from CNN, Tom Delaney debates. The banner reads: "Congressman Delaney, why do you believe the Green New Deal is not realistic?" Translation: Why is the Green New Deal too far left? In this screengrab from CNN, the banner reads: "Are you concerned about Sen. Sanders' plan to end new gas-powered car sales by 2040?" Translation: Is Sanders too far left? In this screengrab from CNN, Amy Klobuchar debates. The banner reads: “What do you say to Trump voters who prioritize the economy over the President's bigotry?” Translation: Would you say the racists have a point, or would you like to call them “deplorable” on camera right now? Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Beto O'Rourke are shown in this screengrab from CNN. The banner reads: "Should the U.S. be the 'policeman of the world'?" Translation: Are you too weak to do wars? In this screengrab from CNN, Elizabeth Warren debates. The banner reads: "Should the U.S. tie its own hands by having a policy not to use a nuclear weapon unless another country uses one first?" Translation: Are you too weak to do nuclear wars? In this screengrab from CNN, Pete Buttigieg debates while Bernie Sanders makes a concentrating expression. The banner reads: "Should voters consider age when choosing a President?" Translation: Are you too young, or is Bernie Sanders too old? slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/07/cnns-democratic-debate-questions-were-embarrassing.htmlCNN is cutting their own throats. Like FOX, they're pandering to a dying generation. The kids who are politically active don't care about CNN, and likely don't, and won't ever watch it, and as someone posted here recently, there are more millenials of voting age then there are living Boomers. The only thing they see are the biased banners and evidence of slanted coverage via social media. CNN apparently doesn't realize that their coverage doesn't set the tone any more. People critique it, and pick it apart on social media, something that never happened 20 years ago.
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Post by foggyisback on Jul 31, 2019 17:09:28 GMT -5
CNN’s Debate Questions Were for Losers Highlights of an all-night attack ad. With 10 candidates on stage and Jake Tapper being bound by law to repeatedly scream “Senator” at intervals of 30 or 60 seconds, the format of the first night of the second round of Democratic debates was never exactly going to offer much in the way of substance. But CNN, being the enterprising cable network that it is, wasn’t about to let that stop it from actively making the night as dumb as humanly possible. And so the moderators peppered the candidates with questions that were evidently designed to produce bad answers in the short format. Question after question was framed up from the ideological perspective of a Heritage Foundation intern or otherwise crafted as a gotcha to generate a 15-second clip for Republican attack ads down the line. On the one hand, it was a gross display of cynical political theater that wasted everyone’s time. On the other, congratulations to CNN’s Chris Cillizza on what was undoubtedly a phenomenal night of stunted politics-like content. Here, straight from the screen, are the questions CNN decided America needed to hear. In this screengrab from CNN, Bernie Sanders prepares to answer a question during Tuesday night's debate. The banner reads: What is your response to Congressman Delaney who says "Medicare for All" is "political suicide"? Translation: Is “Medicare for All” too far left? In this screengrab from CNN, Bernie Sanders and Tom Delaney argue. The banner reads: “Do you believe ‘Medicare for All’ is ‘political suicide’ ?” Translation: Why do you insist on moving so far left? In this screengrab from CNN, Elizabeth Warren debates. The banner reads: "Do you agree with Sen. Sanders when it comes to raising taxes on the middle class to pay for 'Medicare for All'?" Translation: Why do you hate the middle class? In this screengrab from CNN, Amy Klobuchar debates. The banner reads: “Are you not willing to fight for 'Medicare for All' as Senator Warren has suggested?" Translation: Why are you a coward? In this screengrab from CNN, Bernie Sanders. The banner reads: "Can you guarantee benefits under "Medicare for all" will be as good as the benefits union members fought to negotiate?" Translation: Why are you betraying unions? In this screengrab from CNN, "Would you give health insurance to undocumented immigrants?" Translation: What words would you like Donald Trump to quote when he attacks you and immigrants in the same breath? In this screengrab from CNN, Bernie Sanders debates. The banner reads: "Do you believe guaranteeing more migrants free health care and college will encourage more illegal immigration?" Translation: Why do you want to flood our country with illegal immigrants? "Will Sen. Sanders' immigration proposals encourage more undocumented immigrants to come to the U.S.?" Translation: Why does Sen. Bernie Sanders want to flood our country with illegal immigrants? In this screengrab from CNN, John Hickenlooper debates. The banner reads: "Do you believe Sen. Sanders is too extreme to beat President Trump?" Translation: Is Sanders too far left? In this screengrab from CNN, Elizabeth Warren debates. The banner reads: "By calling yourself a capitalist, are you trying to convince voters you are a safer choice than Sen. Sanders?" Translation: Are you deceiving the public about the fact that you, like Sanders, are too far left? In this screengrab from CNN, Amy Klobuchar debates. The banner reads: “Sen. Klobuchar, who are you referring to when you say candidates are making promises just to get elected?” Translation: Which candidates do you think are too far left? In this screengrab from CNN, Tom Delaney debates. The banner reads: "Congressman Delaney, why do you believe the Green New Deal is not realistic?" Translation: Why is the Green New Deal too far left? In this screengrab from CNN, the banner reads: "Are you concerned about Sen. Sanders' plan to end new gas-powered car sales by 2040?" Translation: Is Sanders too far left? In this screengrab from CNN, Amy Klobuchar debates. The banner reads: “What do you say to Trump voters who prioritize the economy over the President's bigotry?” Translation: Would you say the racists have a point, or would you like to call them “deplorable” on camera right now? Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Beto O'Rourke are shown in this screengrab from CNN. The banner reads: "Should the U.S. be the 'policeman of the world'?" Translation: Are you too weak to do wars? In this screengrab from CNN, Elizabeth Warren debates. The banner reads: "Should the U.S. tie its own hands by having a policy not to use a nuclear weapon unless another country uses one first?" Translation: Are you too weak to do nuclear wars? In this screengrab from CNN, Pete Buttigieg debates while Bernie Sanders makes a concentrating expression. The banner reads: "Should voters consider age when choosing a President?" Translation: Are you too young, or is Bernie Sanders too old? slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/07/cnns-democratic-debate-questions-were-embarrassing.htmlCNN is cutting their own throats. Like FOX, they're pandering to a dying generation. The kids who are politically active don't care about CNN, and likely don't, and won't ever watch it, and as someone posted here recently, there are more millenials of voting age then there are living Boomers. The only thing they see are the biased banners and evidence of slanted coverage via social media. CNN apparently doesn't realize that their coverage doesn't set the tone any more. People critique it, and pick it apart on social media, something that never happened 20 years ago. You must admit that MSNBC wasn't much better when it came to questioning. What I don't like is that MSM ask Q's of Dems to, for the sake of ratings, create rifts within instead of analyzing what's said. Think back to four years ago: they tried the same thing with the 14 R's and they all fell in line, but milked the Hil/Bernie race (and Hil/BO before it) for all it was worth.
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Post by doddeb on Jul 31, 2019 17:17:30 GMT -5
Yeah, cause no Senator from Kentucky will look into it, that's for sure.
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Post by doddeb on Jul 31, 2019 17:18:42 GMT -5
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Post by doddeb on Jul 31, 2019 18:04:32 GMT -5
CNN is cutting their own throats. Like FOX, they're pandering to a dying generation. The kids who are politically active don't care about CNN, and likely don't, and won't ever watch it, and as someone posted here recently, there are more millenials of voting age then there are living Boomers. The only thing they see are the biased banners and evidence of slanted coverage via social media. CNN apparently doesn't realize that their coverage doesn't set the tone any more. People critique it, and pick it apart on social media, something that never happened 20 years ago. You must admit that MSNBC wasn't much better when it came to questioning. What I don't like is that MSM ask Q's of Dems to, for the sake of ratings, create rifts within instead of analyzing what's said. Think back to four years ago: they tried the same thing with the 14 R's and they all fell in line, but milked the Hil/Bernie race (and Hil/BO before it) for all it was worth. Chris Matthews, Claire McCaskill and Brian Williams were horrible. I won't bother with the post-debate commentary tonight.
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Post by doddeb on Jul 31, 2019 18:07:46 GMT -5
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