I’m putting this in the Warren/AOC thread… hope you don’t mind!
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Exactly. UBI is right libertarian originated concept designed to a) maintain a minimum level of consumption in a future with 15% and up unemployment rates and b) smash the welfare state and replace it with a single program.
I also don’t think Andrew yang or anybody else hyped on it are being remotely honest about how much it costs…
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Any Washingtonians here with opinions on Inslee? Other than his (silly) complaint about not having a special climate debate, he hasn’t had much mention here. On paper he’s got pretty much the perfect experience (multi-term congressman and major-state governor), and while he was a blue-dog as congressman he seems to be pretty progressive on climate change, health care, and immigration, three rather pressing issues this cycle.
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I would vote for him but he is my governor so you know.
He has done good for the state. My only gripe is ‘yay another white male running for president’.
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Moderate “dark horse” governers have sneaked through the pack to win on a couple of other occasions where the field was pretty crowded (Carter and Clinton are the obvious examples), so he seems like someone to watch.
I don’t think that the nominee needs to be a white man. I also don’t think that the nominee needs to not be a white man. If minorities or women like Yang and Williamson rise to the top, it should be for their quality, as happened in the last 3 election cycles.
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In the interests of only talking about recent things, and not random stuff from decades ago…
Uh, Joe, there’s a very good reason he didn’t call you “boy” and it’s not the fact that he liked you.
Civility!
Also, lest I be accused of being cynical, I’m sure that the news out of yesterday’s fundraiser will do nothing to impact Biden’s newly-acquired “progressive” bona fides.
“No one’s standard of living would change” is exactly the kind of accidentally-too-honest campaigning I expect from a true champion of the middle class who’s 150% dedicated to tackling record income inequality and the looming disaster of climate change.
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If your lifestyle would fundamentally downgrade under the proposed plan of 70% on income over $10,000,000 then you need a change in lifestyle. I would pay 100% of my income over $10,000,00.
I can’t imagine how I would run out of money on $100,000 / year, let alone $10,000,000.
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Damn. I almost made it through that screed without puking. Almost. Along with this:
Biden should be done. I suspect he is not, but if there were any justice, he would be.
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Too late, they’ve already demonized themselves.
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It’s about time that an candidate made a attempt to land a punch on him
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Dig up, idiot.
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We can hope he will move on with his life’s work soon.
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That dude from At The Drive-In talked about touring with Beto
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“At the drive in”? That’s really not enough for me as far as political/punk cred. I at least need a reference from Krist Novoselic, Henry Rollins or Ian MacKay.
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NOT PUNK ENOUGH! Ari Up! Darby Crash! Black Randy! All need to weigh in!
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