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Voltaire2
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Voltaire2's Journal
February 6, 2019
Has Sanders photo bombed Abrams rebuttal yet?
January 11, 2019
All in all, it's just a stupid prick who wants his wall.
January 11, 2019
Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), a vocal Trump critic, finished at the bottom in his last quarter in office.
Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) was the most popular senator for the 11th time in a row.
Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) saw 10-point drops in their net approval, the worst in the chamber
The latest rankings based on surveys of 416,853 registered voters across the country conducted Oct. 1 through Dec. 31, 2018 (see methodology here) found McConnells net approval increased 10 percentage points since the third quarter of 2018, with 38 percent of Kentucky voters approving of his job performance and 47 percent disapproving. The fourth quarter marks McConnells best showing since the second quarter of 2017 as he prepares for an expected re-election campaign in 2020. (Net approval is the share of voters who approve of a senator minus the share of voters who disapprove. Approval and disapproval figures are rounded.)
America's Most and Least Popular Senators
https://morningconsult.com/2019/01/10/americas-most-and-least-popular-senators-q4-2018/Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), a vocal Trump critic, finished at the bottom in his last quarter in office.
Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) was the most popular senator for the 11th time in a row.
Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) saw 10-point drops in their net approval, the worst in the chamber
The latest rankings based on surveys of 416,853 registered voters across the country conducted Oct. 1 through Dec. 31, 2018 (see methodology here) found McConnells net approval increased 10 percentage points since the third quarter of 2018, with 38 percent of Kentucky voters approving of his job performance and 47 percent disapproving. The fourth quarter marks McConnells best showing since the second quarter of 2017 as he prepares for an expected re-election campaign in 2020. (Net approval is the share of voters who approve of a senator minus the share of voters who disapprove. Approval and disapproval figures are rounded.)
December 6, 2018
The word God is for me nothing but the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of venerable but still rather primitive legends.
No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change anything about this.
The God Letter. 1954.
Einstein's last words on gods.
The word God is for me nothing but the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of venerable but still rather primitive legends.
No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change anything about this.
The God Letter. 1954.
November 27, 2018
The technical legal term for Mannafort's situation
is totally and irrevocably fucked.
November 23, 2018
Specifically, during the first 100 days, Congress must pass a legislative agenda that includes:
Increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour and indexing it to median wage growth thereafter.
A path toward Medicare-for-all. The Medicare-for-all bill widely supported in the Senate has a four-year phase-in period on the way to guaranteeing health care for every man, woman and child. Over the first year, it would lower the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 55, cover dental, hearing and vision care for seniors, provide health care to every young person in the United States and lower the cost of prescription drugs.
Bold action to combat climate change.
Fixing our broken criminal-justice system.
Comprehensive immigration reform
Progressive tax reform
A $1 trillion infrastructure plan
Lowering the price of prescription drugs.
Making public colleges and universities tuition-free and substantially reducing student debt.
Expanding Social Security.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/democrats-need-a-bold-agenda-heres-what-they-should-do-in-the-first-100-days-of-congress/2018/11/21/dc80ddd6-ed07-11e8-96d4-0d23f2aaad09_story.html
Democrats need a bold agenda. Here's what they should do in the first 100 days of Congress.
Specifically, during the first 100 days, Congress must pass a legislative agenda that includes:
Increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour and indexing it to median wage growth thereafter.
A path toward Medicare-for-all. The Medicare-for-all bill widely supported in the Senate has a four-year phase-in period on the way to guaranteeing health care for every man, woman and child. Over the first year, it would lower the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 55, cover dental, hearing and vision care for seniors, provide health care to every young person in the United States and lower the cost of prescription drugs.
Bold action to combat climate change.
Fixing our broken criminal-justice system.
Comprehensive immigration reform
Progressive tax reform
A $1 trillion infrastructure plan
Lowering the price of prescription drugs.
Making public colleges and universities tuition-free and substantially reducing student debt.
Expanding Social Security.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/democrats-need-a-bold-agenda-heres-what-they-should-do-in-the-first-100-days-of-congress/2018/11/21/dc80ddd6-ed07-11e8-96d4-0d23f2aaad09_story.html
November 13, 2018
Do zombies have free will?
The literature for the philosophy of the mind is full of thought experiments involving zombies. These are not Walking Dead zombies, they are instead just like you and me with the one exception that they have no conscious experiences. In all other respects they are fully human.
Note that their unconscious or subconscious mind is fully functional and they are just as intelligent as we are.
There just isnt a chattering monkeybrain in there experiencing existence.
They make choices. They go to Starbucks and order chai lattes.
Do they have free will?
November 11, 2018
President Dipshit.
What sort of person cant bother to attend the 100th anniversary of the end of WWI because it was drizzling?
A fucking dipshit.
Thats our president.
November 10, 2018
Over the last four years, Republicans ruled Maine through control of its state Senate and governor, Paul LePage, who has described his style as Trump before there was Trump. Conflicts with the Democrat-controlled House and attorney general led to lawsuits flying nearly every month and, eventually, a government shutdown when there was no budget all amid LePages stream of provocative name-calling that garnered national headlines.
But on Tuesday, in the greatest shift in partisan makeup of a state government in the United States this year, voters chose Democrat Janet Mills to replace a term-limited LePage and gave her party control of both chambers.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/11/09/after-years-lepage-maine-went-very-blue-tuesday/5QhkH7mUFE2pcMoYKQocIN/story.html
No blue wave?
After years of LePage, Maine went very blue Tuesday
Over the last four years, Republicans ruled Maine through control of its state Senate and governor, Paul LePage, who has described his style as Trump before there was Trump. Conflicts with the Democrat-controlled House and attorney general led to lawsuits flying nearly every month and, eventually, a government shutdown when there was no budget all amid LePages stream of provocative name-calling that garnered national headlines.
But on Tuesday, in the greatest shift in partisan makeup of a state government in the United States this year, voters chose Democrat Janet Mills to replace a term-limited LePage and gave her party control of both chambers.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/11/09/after-years-lepage-maine-went-very-blue-tuesday/5QhkH7mUFE2pcMoYKQocIN/story.html
No blue wave?
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