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November 5, 2019

New polling shows this: inverse relationship btwn college education and trump-voter

white Non-college men are the most likely to vote for trump - still.

The GOP knows this. That is why they have no interest in making it easier for this group to go to college (excluding their OWN children, of course).

This pushes me toward free college, free community college, all manner of assistance with any type of post-high school training or education. It lifts people away from ignorant trump-like beliefs.

November 4, 2019

The Dem nominee should tell trump: "No debates until you release your taxes."

This is a winner for several reasons:

1. If TRUMP was going to ditch the debates and say "F U" to Dems and laugh about it -- now he looks like he's doing it because he's hiding his taxes and he's chickening out.

2. It is not possible to have a Debate with trump.
He will NOT follow rules -- of course. And certainly he will not prepare! He's not there to talk policy. He's there to give his "slop the MAGA hogs" stump speech. HE'S BAD FAITH ALL THE WAY. We saw how he behaved in the 2016 debates. Blatant lying. Slander. Snorting. Breathing. Distracting. Bullshitting. Stalking. Chair-humping. Continuous interruption. Insults. Threats. YOU CAN'T EXPECT TO GET INFO OUT TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THIS WAY. Futile. Pointless. What are the moderators going to do - spank him? There's nothing they can do to keep him in line. And this bullying bullshit performance will just be praised and hooted by his goon followers. It is a no-win situation.

3. I support Biden but no - I don't want to see him in a debate. Good news. Not necessary. Don't bother. Spend your prep time campaigning in swing states instead.

4. Could you imagine if Warren is the nominee and he calls her Pocahontas to her face? You know he would. It would be a total media shit show. It would obliterate any discussion of anything else for days and any policy that may have been discussed would be wiped out.

5. Trump might release his taxes. (LOL)

October 30, 2019

Senator Burr: Black elite athletes should pay taxes, lazy white Rich Kids of Instagram should not

Racist Senator Burr says BLACK college athletes who have WORKED & EARNED their college athletics money (merit-based wealth, self-funded their own years of training, equipment, time, sweat, "productive" ) should pay taxes,

but WHITE Rich Kids of Instagram, useless lazy ungrateful brats, skipped college or cheated their way in, should NOT have to pay estate taxes on the windfall dumped in their laps and spent on clubbing and bling (not merit-based wealth).

(Remember - he's against affirmative action because it is - according to him - not "merit based".)

@SenatorBurr

October 30, 2019

Malcolm Nance said US soldiers are guarding Syrian oil fields for Russia

they are too small to be financially feasible for any US producer

from Steph Miller show this morning

October 30, 2019

You know who else was born in the Soviet Union? RWNJ Boris Epshteyn.


Boris Epshteyn

Boris Alexandrovich Epshteyn (Russian: Бори́с Алекса́ндрович Эпштейн; born August 14, 1982) is a Russian-born American Republican political strategist, investment banker, and attorney. He is currently the Chief Political Analyst at Sinclair Broadcast Group. He was a senior advisor to Donald Trump's 2016 campaign for President of the United States, and previously worked on the McCain-Palin campaign. Following Trump's election, he was named director of communications for the Presidential Inaugural Committee,[1] and then assistant communications director for surrogate operations in the administration, until he resigned in March 2017.

Epshteyn was born in 1982 in Moscow, Soviet Union, the son of Anna Shulkina and Aleksandr Epshteyn. His family is Russian Jewish.[2] In 1993, he immigrated as a refugee with his family to Plainsboro Township, New Jersey under the Lautenberg amendment of 1990.[3]



In September 2016, the media watchdog organization Media Matters for America criticized CNN, Fox News, and PBS for failing to disclose Epshteyn's "financial ties to the former Soviet Union, which include consulting through Strategy International LLC for 'entities doing business in Eastern Europe' and moderating a Russian-sponsored conference on 'investment opportunities in Moscow.'"[11]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Epshteyn

now at Sinclair
October 28, 2019

Who remembers GW Bush's "Bring It On" speech?

Did Bush's "Bring it On" Bravado Bring On the Haditha Massacre: Iraq's My Lai? via @commondreams

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2006/05/29/did-bushs-bring-it-bravado-bring-haditha-massacre-iraqs-my-lai

In a rather subdued effort to rally support for their war of choice as questions arise about their continued tenures in office, a somewhat contrite and stammering President George W. Bush and his war weary, but ever slick talking side-kick, Prime Minister Tony Blair held a joint White House press conference Thursday evening. Due to the increasingly virulent insurgency that has turned their Iraq War game into a costly debacle, their once cocky cheer-leadership is now critically challenged by a credibility crunch with the voters of the U.S. and the U.K.

When asked if they had made any mistakes in the Iraq War, Bush twisted his head, stretched his neck and looked up and away from the eyes of the press corps who have heard so many previous denials of responsibility for his costly miscalculations. Then our self-described, God directed, great decider actually admitted that he had acted like a "cowboy" when he laid down the gauntlet to Iraq insurgents in 2003 to "bring it on". He added it was also a mistake for him to have repeatedly railed that he wanted to get Osama bin Laden "dead or alive". Commenting on the prisoner torture scandal at Abu Ghraib, Bush said it was, "the biggest mistake that's happened so far, at least from our country's involvement in Iraq." Bush said "I learned some lessons about expressing myself maybe in a little more sophisticated manner", and it was "kind of tough talk, you know, that sent the wrong signal to people."

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