January 30, 2020

A friend who's for Sanders just told me "I'm only Bernie or bust for the primaries"

I love this! I think that's how 99% of Berners are. We've seen too much hair rending over whether any Democrat will failed to show up in November. Regardless of the nominee, it's our job to make the case that this is how we save democracy. It's not forces outside of our control that will divide the forces against Trump

I wasn't particularly fond of Biden or Bernie as a nominee when this campaign started. But honestly, I've warmed up to both of them. Whoever we nominate, I will joyfully support.

(Maybe you don't know it yet, but you will too)

January 26, 2020

You know that Twilight Zone alien from "To Serve Man"?

If the Democrats nominated him, I'd vote for him. I mean sure, he'd eat a few of us, maybe send a few more of us to his home planet to broil up for Festivus dinner. At the end of the day, he's just a farmer and a farmer wants his livestock to thrive.

By any objective measure, he'd be a better president than Donald Trump



So shut up with your "I can't vote for Bernie" or "I can't vote for Biden" cause if you think that way, either you don't belong on DU or you don't even realize yet you're full of shit.

January 25, 2020

Mutant goat born with human face worshipped as a divine avarar

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/mutant-goat-born-human-face-21326501

At least in India they didn't elect it president

January 20, 2020

poor Dmitry Medvedev

15 years as Putin's whipping boy -- Vladimir even let him play president once -- and now nothing to show for it. Why do bad things have to happen to good lickspittles?

January 17, 2020

I took a candidate matching quiz online and I agree with Donald Trump...

...on 9% of the issues, according to ISideWith.com.

Ahead of him I matched with
Buttigieg (95%)
Sanders (94%)
Klobuchar (94%)
Warren (93%)
Steyer (89%)
Yang (89%)
Biden (88%)
Gabbard (86%)
Bloomberg (83%)
Delaney (75%)

It's strange that Bloomberg was the lowest scoring mainstream Dem for me on this survey, as he was in a four-way tie for 2nd place on the WaPo site's matching quiz. There, I agreed most with...
(12) Steyer
(11) Biden - Bloomberg - Buttigieg - Klobuchar (so basically the ones who have a B in their last name and don't worship dictators)
(10) Yang
(9) (!!) Warren
(7) Sanders
(4) Gabbard
(1) whoever decided reality shows should replace sitcoms
(-3) Barney the Dinosaur
(-8) Adolf Hitler
(-11) Adolf Hitler's evil twin
(-17) Donald Trump

(NB: a few of those scores I had to interpolate from external data sources)

In other words, these online assessments are enlightening, helpful in focusing on what issues are most important to me, and not reliable for matching you with a candidate. But the bottom line is that I'm above 75% as a match with any given Democrat. I can comfortably support whoever our nominee is.

There's reasons to argue and debate, but not really all that much worth becoming angry about before August. I'll be content with whoever our nominee is.

January 2, 2020

Is it just me, or does Rod Blagojevich look like the lost Monkee?

Hey hey... !!!

December 22, 2019

I have four (4) serious complaints about the impeachment and removal of Trump

1) the Democrats are going too fast!
2) the Democrats are delaying the process!!
3) the Democrats didn't call enough fact witnesses in the House!!!!
4) the Democrats are trying to call in all these witnesses to the Senate trial!!!!1!!!11!

Why cant' theese far libtards stop there rash behaviore adn take actshon all ready?!1

December 19, 2019

What books have helped you understand history?

Although I've always loved history, it was after I took a deep dive with the Washington and Adams administrations in The Age of Federalism by Eric McKitrick and Stanley Elkins that I began to get a feel for how deep the historical record runs, and how these mythical figures were just people doing their best, and cutting expedient political compromises even in a high-minded age like the Enlightenment.

https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Age_of_Federalism.html?id=9RyG29bER3QC

What books have framed your understanding of history?

December 9, 2019

Interesting: Go to news.google.com and search for "The Case Against Impeaching Trump"

if you get the same results as I did, share a rofl

December 5, 2019

Median Household income is not keeping pace with GDP growth

This is perhaps the best simple summary of the collapse of the middle class. The amount of wealth being created by the American people isn't going to the American people. Not all of us, anyway.


Please note that in the second half of the 1990s, the median income starts to match the growth of GDP. Question 1: Who was setting federal fiscal policy from 1993-2000?

Also note that after a sharp decline in the early 21st C, from the mid 2010s income again began to catch up to overall GDP growth. Question 2: Who was setting federal fiscal policy from 2010-2015?

(sadly, I cannot put these questions on my Econ final)



of course this problem can only be fixed by a huge tax break to our heroic job creators