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ABM said:
This is from The Dispatch.....

2020 Watch: Tom Steyer, Odd Man … In?

With the fifth Democratic debate just weeks away, those 2020 Democratic hopefuls vying to remain on the fringe of relevance are racing to qualify. Of the 12 who made the stage in October, three—Tulsi Gabbard, Beto O’Rourke, and Julian Castro—have yet to meet the debate’s polling threshold.

One candidate who has made the cut may surprise you: Tom Steyer, the hedge fund billionaire who built a #Resistance political brand in 2017 by starting a campaign to get President Trump impeached and who hopped into the 2020 race this past July. Steyer failed to make enough of a splash to qualify for any of the debates before October’s, but has now already punched his ticket for November’s. Even more remarkable, while he has yet to qualify for December’s debate, he’s already closer to doing so than a whole assortment of the cohort’s B-tier pols, including Cory Booker, Amy Klobuchar, and Andrew Yang.

Why the modest breakthrough? His campaign would tell you it’s because his outsider message is just getting through to people: “Tom has picked up momentum because his message is resonating,” Steyer spokesman Alberto Lammers told The Dispatch. As president, he would “end the corporate stranglehold on our government and return power to the American people.”

And hey—maybe there’s something to that. But there’s also this: Steyer is pouring an extraordinary amount of his own money into the race, flooding the airwaves of crucial early primary states like South Carolina with ads touting his feel-good biography and slightly lemony smile. The Steyer campaign spent an eye-popping $47 million during this year’s third quarter, more than double the $21 million shelled out by the race’s next-biggest spender, Bernie Sanders.

For some on the left, this makes Steyer a bit of a thorny subject. Longtime Democratic strategist Max Burns told The Dispatch that the billionaire is “showing how easily money can corrupt the process even when the party is purportedly guarding against it.”

“This to me is another example of Howard Schultz syndrome,” Burns said. “You get very successful in one thing, people stop telling you ‘no,’ people start giving you awards just because you’re a valuable draw for their events, and suddenly you start thinking, ‘How hard can this be?’

“He’s seeking the nomination of a party that at least superficially believes money should not buy you the presidency. And yet that is his sole strategy.”

Steyer’s case is interesting because it simultaneously shows the power and the limitations of big-dollar campaigning. In a crowded field where plenty of established and successful politicians are struggling just to get a seat at the table, Steyer has been able to separate from the pack simply by hammering his name into voters’ heads with a wad of cash.

But while infinite funds can certainly help a candidate get voters’ attention, odds are he’ll need to do more more to keep it. After powering his way onto the debate stage in October, Steyer turned in a snoozer of a performance in which his most notable moment was using the word “frenemies” to describe working with hostile nations to combat climate change. If he can’t use the November and December debates to better effect, all that money will have gone to waste. And the grumbling will grow louder among Democrats who believe that his money would have been better spent funding down-ballot candidates than a presidential ego trip.

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What should Tom Steyer have spent $47 million on instead of running for president?

  • Buying every single ticket in the stadium to three straight 49ers home games

  • Procuring a second tie

  • Supplying 470 million meals to the hungry through Feeding America

  • Producing a show on Netflix and casting himself as the president

  • Buying a pastoral English village or two

  • Seriously, a second tie
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Those three plus Tom are not going to make the final cut. Not this time and for two of them not ever.

What should Tom do with his money? Not for me to say.
 
EL PRESIDENTE said:
Beto O'Rourke is done. Now he can go back to torturing stuffed animals.
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I'll have to admit I thought Beto would run a better campaign, but perhaps he lost his balance when you called him Beta.

I think he'll make the eventual winner a good Secretary of Labor or whatever.

barfo
 
barfo said:
I'll have to admit I thought Beto would run a better campaign, but perhaps he lost his balance when you called him Beta.

I think he'll make the eventual winner a good Secretary of Labor or whatever.

barfo
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I doubt Trump would consider him.
 
EL PRESIDENTE said:
Lol good luck with that
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Don't look at me, I've got nothing to do with it.
The New York attorney general seems to think he can charge Trump and I'm betting he knows more about New York law than you, I and the entire Trump clan. I doubt if he feels there's much luck involved.
 
riverman said:
I heard the Venezuelan embassy in N Korea doesn't want Trump to have any company except for Dennis Rodman and conjugal visits from Kellyanne
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I thought you were gonna say conjugal visits from Dennis Rodman. That's the kind of living hell he deserves.
 
Pennsylvania Democrat apologizes for calling early miscarriages ‘just some mess on a napkin’

This kind of comment is worse than some of Trumps whacky comments, this one is very sad.
 
Hoopguru said:
Pennsylvania Democrat apologizes for calling early miscarriages ‘just some mess on a napkin’

This kind of comment is worse than some of Trumps whacky comments, this one is very sad.
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Not a good thing to say, but it doesn't compare to the congressman who claimed women should just lay back and enjoy being raped.
 
CupWizier said:
Not a good thing to say, but it doesn't compare to the congressman who claimed women should just lay back and enjoy being raped.
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Many politicians think they can say whatever they want, but it defiantly exposes what their ideology is in respect to values and beliefs. Its like you got to be a hard liner one way or the other now.
 
Hoopguru said:
Many politicians think they can say whatever they want, but it defiantly exposes what their ideology is in respect to values and beliefs. Its like you got to be a hard liner one way or the other now.
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I just happened to come across the context for this comment - apparently Pennslyvania is trying to legislate that women must give their miscarriages funerals.

That's pretty fucking stupid, pardon my American. And way worse than what you quoted someone saying in response.

barfo
 
barfo said:
I just happened to come across the context for this comment - apparently Pennslyvania is trying to legislate that women must give their miscarriages funerals.

That's pretty fucking stupid, pardon my American. And way worse than what you quoted someone saying in response.

barfo
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Both seem pretty stupid.
 
barfo said:
I just happened to come across the context for this comment - apparently Pennslyvania is trying to legislate that women must give their miscarriages funerals.

That's pretty fucking stupid, pardon my American. And way worse than what you quoted someone saying in response.

barfo
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I don't agree with any law like that either but her comment was crude disrespectful to life. imo
Kind of like Trump gets with his lose mouth.
 
Hoopguru said:
I don't agree with any law like that either but her comment was crude disrespectful to life. imo
Kind of like Trump gets with his lose mouth.
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Well at least she apologized as that's really all you can do after the fact. Have you ever heard trump ever apologize for many of his crude and uncalled for insults and attacks? I certainly haven't. He's in a league of his own (well except for several republican politicians such as these below.

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never heard an apology from these ass clowns.
 
CupWizier said:
Well at least she apologized as that's really all you can do after the fact. Have you ever heard trump ever apologize for many of his crude and uncalled for insults and attacks? I certainly haven't. He's in a league of his own (well except for several republican politicians such as these below.

rapequotes.jpg


never heard an apology from these ass clowns.
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Geez! You ought to ask for those minutes of your life back. Who the hell would look all that shit up?
 
MarAzul said:
Geez! You ought to ask for those minutes of your life back. Who the hell would look all that shit up?
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Pretty sick people aren't they. Makes me wonder why you would support their party.
 
CupWizier said:
Pretty sick people aren't they. Makes me wonder why you would support their party.
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When it comes to politics right now I am struggling to find where I fit. I keep thinking of this quote from JRR Tolkien, “Side? I am on no one’s side, because no one is on my side.”
 
Millennial Wishes There Were Some Historical Examples Of Socialism We Could Study To Have Some Idea How It Might Turn Out
November 5th, 2019
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PORTLAND, OR—Local socialist millennial man Matthew Hatter lamented Monday that there are no concrete examples of socialism he can point to in order to have some kind of idea how it would turn out

"If only there were other countries that have tried socialism before," Hatter said to a friend at an ethical coffee shop, Commiebrews, Monday afternoon, after he finished his paper route. "Then, we could see if there are any pitfalls."

Hatter said it'd be nice if there were books that covered things like world history and economics that we could read. If that were the case, Hatter said, we could abandon socialism if it looked dangerous or proceed with socialism if every country that implemented it were incredibly successful.

"Like, say some countries in South America tried socialism before and everybody starved to death," he said. "Or if there were major superpowers who implemented socialism and then, like, 100 million people died---that would be really bad. We could look to these 'books of history' and decide that wouldn't be the route for us."

"Alas, sadly, this isn't the case, so the country will just have to be pioneers and try socialism to see what it's like."

Hatter said he's just glad that if socialism turns out to be terrible, no other country would be dumb enough to follow in our footsteps.

https://babylonbee.com/news/millenn...EZUMn-Y0jDH6y80g-86gDPSsbvDFZphQKPVWwawWFS6ZE
 
MARIS61 said:
Millennial Wishes There Were Some Historical Examples Of Socialism We Could Study To Have Some Idea How It Might Turn Out
November 5th, 2019
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PORTLAND, OR—Local socialist millennial man Matthew Hatter lamented Monday that there are no concrete examples of socialism he can point to in order to have some kind of idea how it would turn out

"If only there were other countries that have tried socialism before," Hatter said to a friend at an ethical coffee shop, Commiebrews, Monday afternoon, after he finished his paper route. "Then, we could see if there are any pitfalls."

Hatter said it'd be nice if there were books that covered things like world history and economics that we could read. If that were the case, Hatter said, we could abandon socialism if it looked dangerous or proceed with socialism if every country that implemented it were incredibly successful.

"Like, say some countries in South America tried socialism before and everybody starved to death," he said. "Or if there were major superpowers who implemented socialism and then, like, 100 million people died---that would be really bad. We could look to these 'books of history' and decide that wouldn't be the route for us."

"Alas, sadly, this isn't the case, so the country will just have to be pioneers and try socialism to see what it's like."

Hatter said he's just glad that if socialism turns out to be terrible, no other country would be dumb enough to follow in our footsteps.

https://babylonbee.com/news/millenn...EZUMn-Y0jDH6y80g-86gDPSsbvDFZphQKPVWwawWFS6ZE
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So two dudes are at a coffee shop having a conversation and someone was there to write an article about it?
 
CupWizier said:
Well at least she apologized as that's really all you can do after the fact. Have you ever heard trump ever apologize for many of his crude and uncalled for insults and attacks? I certainly haven't. He's in a league of his own (well except for several republican politicians such as these below.

rapequotes.jpg


never heard an apology from these ass clowns.
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"It wasn't "rape-rape"". - Whoopie Goldberg (defending Roman Polanski's rape and sodomy of a 13 year old)
 
MARIS61 said:
"It wasn't "rape-rape"". - Whoopie Goldberg (defending Roman Polanski's rape and sodomy of a 13 year old)
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That must go back a long long time. However did you dig that up?
 
MARIS61 said:
"It wasn't "rape-rape"". - Whoopie Goldberg (defending Roman Polanski's rape and sodomy of a 13 year old)
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WTF???? Are you really that desperate to dig up a Polansky story from 100 years ago and has nothing to do with politics or the thread? You need to worry about your boy as evidence is mounting.
 
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