If someone gave him a brickin’ early on in life, we wouldn’t be here. Just enough to slow home down a little, nothing grave, take a few points off his IQ
That’s too old testament for me. Specifically these instances. The author’s “explanation” at the end is way off, but it is a good collection otherwise.
Haha, no worries. It just sounded like something he said awhile back or would say and I wasn’t sure. It is nice though to see him popping up here though
New York City has a population of 8.8 million and from March 2020 to June 2021 they had an estimated 130k leave the city. 110k migrants isn’t nothing, but it’s not a city destroying burden and, if anything, might help reverse COVID-related losses. Mayor Cop Liar is playing to his centrist roots and scapegoating immigrants for pre-existing problems.
We do legitimately have a gerontocracy problem and this doesn’t help, but at the same time as long as she’s capable of doing the job I can’t in good conscience object either. The beauty of our system of government is anyone can run. You don’t like her, run against her or STFU and quit screaming at the clouds.
The beauty of our system of government is anyone can run. You don’t like her, run against her or STFU and quit screaming at the clouds.
You act like primaries are fair…
Even the DNC stopped doing that years ago, why do you still believe it?
The Court continued, “For their part, the DNC and Wasserman Schultz have characterized the DNC charter’s promise of ‘impartiality and evenhandedness’ as a mere political promise—political rhetoric that is not enforceable in federal courts. The Court does not accept this trivialization of the DNC’s governing principles. While it may be true in the abstract that the DNC has the right to have its delegates ‘go into back rooms like they used to and smoke cigars and pick the candidate that way,’ the DNC, through its charter, has committed itself to a higher principle.”
Shahid Buttar was a very good candidate running against Pelosi. DNC wasn’t happy and the idiot Dem voters from the District just fell in line behind the incumbent as both party’s voters tend to do. It’s just a fucked up, dysfunctional system we have going here.
Lookee there. The candidate didn’t get the support or votes and lost. Therefore it’s a dysfunctional system. If you added “and it must be destroyed” you could join the Republican party. Candidates lose. It happen every election.
It’s a dysfunctional system because of the way it is. If you can’t see it…well, I don’t know what to tell you. I would love to get a pair of those rose-tinted ignorance-is-bliss glasses.
if the dnc didn't like fucking up primaries, bernie's vp would be the front-runner in 2024. oh, and the country would be in a lot better shape than it is now, too.
i hope california can come up with a candidate that can challenge pelosi in the primaries.
The Court continued, “For their part, the DNC and Wasserman Schultz have characterized the DNC charter’s promise of ‘impartiality and evenhandedness’ as a mere political promise—political rhetoric that is not enforceable in federal courts. The Court does not accept this trivialization of the DNC’s governing principles. While it may be true in the abstract that the DNC has the right to have its delegates ‘go into back rooms like they used to and smoke cigars and pick the candidate that way,’ the DNC, through its charter, has committed itself to a higher principle.”
I’m not saying the DNC isn’t biased. But it looks like that was a legal arguments made by lawyers. Generally, they make every argument they can fit into their brief.
But you do live in the district? Excellent. Now get some support and raise some money. Make sure to talk to the party of choice. Get some petitions signed. You have to work to get on a ballot.
True, anyone can technically run. But in practice, a fresh-faced new candidate going up against a well-funded incumbent will very very rarely win. The few times it has happened the incumbent either didn’t take the threat seriously (AOC), or the incumbent was involved in a big scandal.
For your well-intentioned version of America to exist in reality, we’d need to do a few things: overturn Citizens United, require that all elections be fully publicly funded, ban private political donations, and stop letting elected officials draw their own maps. Until then, the gerontocracy will go on.
Democrats are a very frustrating party to be with. The alternative is 50 years out of date, racists, homophobic assholes, so you’re stuck with democrats. So they put up the worst fucking candidates and we’re just stuck with them because if we don’t vote for them it’s voting for some backwards asshole.
Worse is republicans think we love these people. No we fucking don’t, get these old people out and get me someone who represents me. They’re just the lesser of two evils
i would be elated by this, but events that wipe out the people who cant afford to bring people in to rebuild, means those properties will just be eaten up by the massively wealthy.
rinse, and repeat.
every time theres economic collapse or whatever, the wealthy can weather it, purchase all resources at rock-bottom prices, often with the governments assistance (theyre job creators!), and more wealth is migrated upwards.
but guess what, when the economy is great, who gets the benefit? giant tax breaks for rich people.
if we win, we lose. when we lose, we lose. the system is broke people, but yeah, at least you have your guns.
I understand your overall concept, for real, unpredictable one-in-a-million catastrophes.
But this is slightly different. So the wealthy swoop in, buy cheap, and renovate. GOOD. LET THEM. They will pay a lot of money to poor workers in need of jobs, pay INSANE costs to insure, if anyone will even insure them, and then climate change will wipe out their house too. Rinse repeat until everyone gets it through their thick skulls it’s a problem not to be fucked with.
Or said another way, if you want the government to support the poor people who lost their homes, do it by helping them relocate, not help them rebuild their castle so it can sink into the swamp again.
this isnt a once in a million catostrphic event. this is happening daily across the country in every town you can envision... this is at the core of the wealth migration for the past 40 years. every.single. downturn.... every. single. recession.... every.single. bust.
'job creator' is code for 'wealth migration upwards'.. its the mantra of the ignorant who still believe in trickle-down.. its a completely fabricated idea pushed by the rich to make us all believe theyre not in it for themselves.
I know I said it, but you’re focusing too much on my one-in-a-million comment, as if I was saying what you described isn’t happening. I know wealth consolidation is happening.
My point was that unlike the downturn, recession, busts, that cause what your describing, THIS type of climate related weather event is just going to keep happening to that same location. And that it’s better to help the poor that are impacted relocate where they won’t get hammered by the next hurricane.
And if the rich want to swoop in and build on that land that is now legit worthless they are welcome to. I believe they will regret it when Nature strikes again. They can’t gentrify against nature. And all their value will be wiped out each time.
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