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8 minutes ago, Muda69 said:

Yes, I have noticed.  It's nice to know I am such a treasured part of his daily routine.

 

Is he the guy who gave you the 1,000 unearned upvotes and now he’s taking them back? One vote at a time.

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Just now, gonzoron said:

Is he the guy who gave you the 1,000 unearned upvotes and now he’s taking them back? One vote at a time.

No.  And how exactly how are your upvotes 'earned' gonzo?  It's pretty clear you, Dante, and Night Hawk (aka BARRYOSAMA) have a nice little upvote/downvote circle-jerk troika going on.

And actually it's been a fairly quiet last 24 hours:

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2 minutes ago, Muda69 said:

No.  And how exactly how are your upvotes 'earned' gonzo?  It's pretty clear you, Dante, and Night Hawk (aka BARRYOSAMA) have a nice little upvote/downvote circle-jerk troika going on.

And actually it's been a fairly quiet last 24 hours:

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Seems like a few of you on here are obsessed with up/down votes.

 I’m glad my ego doesn’t require such affirmation that I’m liked.

You, Troj and Howard  should probably consider getting a life.

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1 hour ago, gonzoron said:

Seems like a few of you on here are obsessed with up/down votes.

 I’m glad my ego doesn’t require such affirmation that I’m liked.

You, Troj and Howard  should probably consider getting a life.

I don't like you.  

And I can assure you that my life is just fine, surely it is more interesting than your life of an octogenarian greedily counting his ill-gotten taxpayer's dollars.

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16 hours ago, swordfish said:

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Really? I mean he won the general election by less than 78,000 votes in 3 states and lost the popular vote.

He doesn't have a 9/11 to ride him into re election like Bush did. Hes arguably the least popular incumbent since Carter as well. 

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1 hour ago, TrojanDad said:

You take it however the heck you want it....trust me, if I intended to call you liar, I would use those exact words.  Calling out BS in my book doesn't mean labeling someone a liar.  But if it does in your world, I ain't going to talk you down from the ledge.

 

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8 hours ago, TrojanDad said:

You take it however the heck you want it....trust me, if I intended to call you liar, I would use those exact words.  Calling out BS in my book doesn't mean labeling someone a liar.  But if it does in your world, I ain't going to talk you down from the ledge.

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On 8/29/2019 at 10:51 PM, Ultimate Warrior said:

Really? I mean he won the general election by less than 78,000 votes in 3 states and lost the popular vote.

He doesn't have a 9/11 to ride him into re election like Bush did. Hes arguably the least popular incumbent since Carter as well. 

These people don’t like facts or statistics.

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We Need to Talk about Joe Biden: https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/09/joe-biden-unfit-for-presidency/

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There are two possible explanations of Joe Biden’s inability to tell the truth about things: One is that his mind is failing him, the other is that his honor is. In neither case is Biden fit to hold the office of president of the United States of America, and Democrats would discredit themselves and endanger the nation to nominate him.

Yes, yes, go ahead — “But, Trump!” etc. — and continue when you’ve completed the ritual of equivocation, and don’t think too hard about how far and in what direction that line of moral self-justification has carried the Republican party.

Joe Biden is a plagiarist and a liar, among other things. In the most recent example, detailed by the Washington Post, Biden made up a story in which he as vice president displayed personal courage and heroism in traveling to a dangerous war zone in order to recognize the service of an American soldier who had distinguished himself in a particularly dramatic way. It was a moving story. “This is the God’s truth,” he concluded. “My word as a Biden.”

But his word as a Biden isn’t worth squat, as the Post showed, reporting that “Biden got the time period, the location, the heroic act, the type of medal, the military branch and the rank of the recipient wrong, as well as his own role in the ceremony.” Which is a nice way of saying: Biden lied about an act of military heroism in order to aggrandize his own role in the story.

Like Hillary Rodham Clinton under fictitious sniper fire, Biden highlighted his own supposed courage in the face of physical danger: “We can lose a vice president. We can’t lose many more of these kids.”

If Biden here is lying with malice aforethought, then he ought to be considered morally disqualified for the office. If he is senescent, then he obviously is unable to perform the duties associated with the presidency, and asking him to do so would be indecent, dangerous, and unpatriotic.

The evidence points more toward moral disability than mental disability, inasmuch as Biden has a long career of lying about precisely this sort of thing.

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The United States has become an empire of lies. We are governed by liars chosen on the basis of lies, and the worst partisans have begun openly to admire the lies, so long as they are skillfully constructed and delivered. The lowest among us enjoy being lied to and celebrate it. Entire political careers are based on lies — and policy initiatives, too.

But if not the serial liar Joe Biden, then whom will the Democrats choose? Elizabeth Warren, who has misrepresented her supposed Native American ancestry? Kamala Harris, who has lied about murder in order to serve her own political ends? Robert Francis O’Rourke, who cannot tell the truth for five minutes about basic and fundamental questions of public policy?

The Democrats are ready to go into November with nothing better to say for themselves than, “Our liar is better than their liar!” It is doubtful they will even be morally conflicted about that. But the nation will be worse off for it, inasmuch as democratic assumptions built on a foundation of lies must necessarily be unstable.

Joe Biden has exhausted whatever presumption of goodwill or benefit of the doubt we might have extended to him for the past 46 years. He has had his chance to show that he is a man capable of honor, integrity, and honesty — and he has failed that test at every turn. If there ever was a time for him, that time has passed. The last thing this country needs is another pathological liar in its highest office. He is unfit for the presidency in every way, and Democrats owe the country better than to nominate him in the pursuit of their own selfish partisan interests.

 

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Bernie Sanders Leads the Anti-Charter School Charge https://reason.com/2019/09/03/bernie-sanders-leads-the-anti-charter-school-charge/

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"I believe in public education, and I believe in public charter schools," explained Sen. Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.) at a CNN town hall in March. What the candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination doesn't believe in, he said, are "privately controlled charter schools."

The problem with that distinction is that all charters are privately controlled to some degree. They are also all public schools, funded with taxpayer money. That dual nature is what distinguishes charter schools from every other kind.

Sanders clarified his stance when he released an education plan in May. While he wants more "accountability" for nonprofit charters, he would entirely ban their for-profit counterparts.

According to data obtained from the National Alliance for Charter Schools, schools run by for-profit companies make up roughly 12 percent of charters nationwide. One of the goals of these schools—at least on paper—is to make money. Regardless of what they do for their students, that makes for-profit charters a perfect target in the eyes of democratic socialists like Sanders.

How well they serve students matters, however. Such charters exist because parents prefer them to the state-run alternative. "Charter schools are held accountable by parents, who can choose or not choose to enroll their children there," says Lindsey Burke, the Will Skillman Fellow in Education at the Heritage Foundation. "Charters only receive [public] funding if families are selecting into them."

By contrast, Burke says, "public schools are in the position of near-monopolies that receive students—and funding—regardless of how poorly they perform. Those interested in 'accountability' should start by turning a critical eye toward the traditional public school system, where fraud and financial mismanagement is, unfortunately, a reality for districts across the country."

Sanders would likely counter that for-profit charters are partially responsible for low student achievement. Online charter schools, in particular, present a conundrum for charter devotees: Studies show that those students exhibit weaker academic performance in both reading and math.

But even that model has its place, argues Burke. "Online charters are serving the needs of students who in some cases cannot attend a brick-and-mortar school, or who want to try an individual course, or who have been completely left behind by the traditional public school system," she says. "In some cases, online options are providing important credit recovery options and drop-out prevention tools."

These educational alternatives have become scapegoats for poor outcomes in traditional public schools, from whom charters supposedly siphon difference-making dollars. But charter schools collect just 64 percent of the funds that traditional public schools receive. Students enrolled in the latter cost an average of $13,764 in state funding per year, or nearly $170,000 for each individual who receives a K–12 education. Yet only one-third of high schoolers are able to read proficiently.

Good old Bernie, shilling for the NEA and ISTA member votes.

 

 

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Elizabeth Warren proposes major expansion of Social Security: https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/12/politics/elizabeth-warren-social-security-expansion-plan/index.html

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Thursday unveiled a proposal to overhaul and expand Social Security, beefing up benefits with a hike in payroll and investment incomes taxes on some of the country's wealthiest households.

The Massachusetts Democrat's plan would make major changes to the popular entitlement program, which currently provides monthly payments to roughly 64 million Americans.
Most significantly, it would immediately boost benefits by $200 a month for every Social Security recipient. If the plan were implemented next year, the typical beneficiary would receive $1,595 a month, rather than $1,395. It would also increase monthly payments by $200 for certain Supplemental Security Income recipients, who are low-income seniors or people with disabilities.
The plan fits into the presidential candidate's broader message demanding "big, structural change" to large parts of the American economy and would take significant steps in an attempt to address a legacy of inequality that, she said in a Medium post, has hit older women and people of color the hardest.
 
By supplementing and growing the program, Warren is also making another play to increase her support among older voters -- the Americans who most reliably go to the polls on election days. The plan arrives just hours before Thursday night's Democratic presidential debate in Houston, which could spur more in-depth discussions before a national audience.
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Well we now know who some on this forum on going to vote for for POTUS in 2020.

 

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Houston Hatefest: Dems Go Nasty: https://spectator.org/hatefest-in-houston/

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Democrats onstage in Houston aspire not so much to govern America as to punish it.

Former Congressman Beto O’Rourke called racism not only “endemic” to America but “foundational.” He explained, “We can mark the creation of this country not at the Fourth of July, 1776, but August 20, 1619, when the first kidnapped African was brought to this country against his will and in bondage and as a slave built the greatness, and the success, and the wealth that neither he nor his descendants would ever be able to participate in or enjoy.”

The villains in the Democratic Party story of America do not remain hundreds of years beyond our reach. Cops, gun owners, factory farmers, employees of insurance and pharmaceutical companies, Wall Street speculators, the oil industry, Republicans, and so many others who, together, constitute the majority of the nation: our Houston Dems do not look to them as fellow countrymen but as impediments, evil impediments in some cases, to realizing their ideological vision. And if that message did not come across in English, several candidates speaking Spanish not comprehended by most viewers nevertheless did not get lost in translation.

That ideological vision includes a doubly unconstitutional confiscation of weapons through executive fiat endorsed by Sen. Kamala Harris and O’Rourke (“Hell, yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47”), abolition of private health insurance in a bill sponsored by Sens. Sanders and Warren, former Vice President Joe Biden’s insistence that “nobody should be in jail for a nonviolent crime,” reparations for slavery supported by O’Rourke, a wealth tax proposed by Warren, Sen. Cory Booker’s call to “create an office in the White House to deal with the problem of white supremacy and hate crimes,” Harris demanding that government “de-incarcerate women and children” (even ones who murder?), Andrew Yang wanting to “give every American 100 democracy dollars that you only give to candidates and causes you like,” and the entire stage endorsing open borders, if in muted terms during this debate, and amnesty for illegal immigrants.

A telling moment, displaying the rudeness and indecency of the activist wing of the party, came when protesters shouted over Joe Biden as he began to tell the story of his greatest setbacks, which involved the deaths of his wife and daughter in a car crash and later of his son from cancer. “Losing him was like losing part of my soul,” Biden confessed in the strongest, most emotionally compelling moment of the night. He talked of faith lost and regained and how “finding purpose” helped him to rise from life’s knockdowns. He came across as a human being.

Other strong moments came from Booker, perhaps the most eloquent speaker in the race, in counseling, “We cannot sacrifice progress on the altar of purity”; Mayor Pete Buttigieg when he countered Sanders’ “Medicare for All” prohibition of private insurance by explaining, “I trust the American people to make the right choice for them. Why don’t you?”; Sen. Amy Klobuchar in reaching across the aisle by announcing, “I don’t want to be the president of half of America, I want to be the president of all of America”; and Biden by lecturing Harris about gun confiscation by executive order, “Let’s be constitutional.”

A too-strong moment came from Julián Castro, who not-so-subtly invoked the former vice president’s age when he repeatedly asked, “Are you forgetting already what you said two minutes ago?” Andrew Yang provided the Marianne Williamson moment of the night. He strangely offered a $1,000-a-month “freedom dividend” to 10 lucky Americans who go to his website, effectively taking the Santa Claus politics exhibited by his competitors in Houston to its reductio ad absurdum in overtly bribing primary and caucus participants in a tacky cash-for-votes scheme.

Lost in what the candidates said was what the candidates left out. They said little about the economy and nothing about the $23 trillion debt. The moderators, to their discredit, made political points masked as questions, ones that almost uniformly bought into the ideological premises of the candidates. The crowd, at least that portion of it prone to outbursts, embarrassed itself in its incivility.

And for conservatives who remain puzzled about the forces that pushed the Democratic Party so far left in so short a time, they look in the wrong direction when they look at that stage in Houston for answers. The candidates, facing shiny-eyed hecklers in the audience and aggressive activists portraying journalists at the press table, possess a better perspective.

 

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https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/12/joe-biden-debate-nonviolent-crime-1493732

“The fact of the matter is that what's happened is that we're in a situation now where there are so many people who are in jail and shouldn't be in jail. The whole means by which this should change is to — the model has to change,” he said, adding: “Nobody should be in jail for a nonviolent crime.”

Ok then........😵

 

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