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Alice11111

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21. We need to talk small business, because the Repubs are

Thu Jun 22, 2017, 06:40 PM

Jun 2017

BIG business
Obamacare was a lifeline to small business, who do pay major taxes because the corporations finagle their way out of it. Small business is the backbone of the country, and almost everything the Repubs do hurts small businesses, who are usually struggling.

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Here is the Democratic "brand" plain and simple that every Dem can run on: [View all] LBM20 Jun 2017 OP

Women (who are the base) don't even figure into it for you. FUCK THAT, NOPE!! bettyellen Jun 2017 #1

How the hell do women not fit into the middle class American dream? Please, enough of that nonsense. LBM20 Jun 2017 #5

lol, "identiy politics" Skittles Jun 2017 #14

You seem completely unaware or unconcerned about the ongoing erosion of my rights. bettyellen Jun 2017 #20

I can guarantee you gun rights means more than women's rights to that one Skittles Jun 2017 #30

He's got a sick idea about "everybody", doesn't he? It's actually "me first" and that's bettyellen Jun 2017 #38

It needs to be done without attacking the rich too. I've Alice11111 Jun 2017 #2

Notice I didn't attack the rich. BUT, the rich need to pay their fair share. Easy. LBM20 Jun 2017 #6

Strongly agree, but it does come off as Dems hating the rich Alice11111 Jun 2017 #16

Considering what they have done to the US by buying out our democracy from under us FiveGoodMen Jun 2017 #36

And then there were FDR & JFK & LBJ BumRushDaShow Jun 2017 #41

& Bill Gates, George Soros, Warren Buffett and hundreds Alice11111 Jun 2017 #43

But to drive home the point BumRushDaShow Jun 2017 #44

Interesting photos. FDR started many social programs, LBJ Alice11111 Jun 2017 #45

I agree 100% BumRushDaShow Jun 2017 #46

You make a special place for guns while throwing women and POC under your bus. No fuckig way. bettyellen Jun 2017 #22

that is what repukes do Skittles Jun 2017 #39

"Finally, we can not be a party just about government programs." BumRushDaShow Jun 2017 #3

Dems have done a SHITTY job SAYING they are not just about government programs. So this COUNTERS LBM20 Jun 2017 #7

WTF? BumRushDaShow Jun 2017 #15

Dems do a SHITTY job framing and sticking to one powerful collective message, and that is just the LBM20 Jun 2017 #19

You want one message that you think is "collective" and it is not. nt BumRushDaShow Jun 2017 #35

Dems used to be better. The Repubs watched, copied, Alice11111 Jun 2017 #47

We need to talk small business, because the Repubs are Alice11111 Jun 2017 #21

pro gun Skittles Jun 2017 #4

Please, enough of the extremism. It means favoring safe legal hunting, sport shooting, and self LBM20 Jun 2017 #8

enough with the extreme? Skittles Jun 2017 #11

No, idiots unsafe with guns who allow kids to access them kill them. I am damn talking about LBM20 Jun 2017 #28

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Skittles Jun 2017 #32

Yeah, we have to be realistic. I grew up partly on my grand Alice11111 Jun 2017 #42

Yaeh, because corporate donors and people with money are ALL bad right? They didn't help us win nikibatts Jun 2017 #9

Do you want to be a progressive populist brand or do you want to be a second Wall Street brand? Your LBM20 Jun 2017 #12

We have some core values and one of them is to be INCLUSIVE! nikibatts Jun 2017 #18

But but but.... his paycheck! bettyellen Jun 2017 #24

!!! Alice11111 Jun 2017 #25

It is not either or. At least half of Wall Street voted Hillary, Alice11111 Jun 2017 #33

For sure. I've been trying to make this point too Alice11111 Jun 2017 #29

well glad you fixed that problem for us. so long as no one actually asks a question on abortion La Lioness Priyanka Jun 2017 #10

ALL lives matter, and some Dems can disagree on social issues and still be Dems. Or we LOSE. LBM20 Jun 2017 #13

i would not vote for someone who in this day and age and after 2016 La Lioness Priyanka Jun 2017 #17

So who, then will women of color turn out for that will actually benefit them? The women of color I nikibatts Jun 2017 #23

democrats won't be dumb enough to depend on WOC and run away from them La Lioness Priyanka Jun 2017 #26

So guns matter more than women's lives? Your paycheck more than Justice for POC.? Nope.... bettyellen Jun 2017 #27

You just put a "litmus test" on a wing of the party BumRushDaShow Jun 2017 #34

Call us the Bourgeous party? bresue Jun 2017 #31

I still don't know what or who corporate Democrats are. betsuni Jun 2017 #37

by the way Skittles Jun 2017 #40

Republicans squeeze every last advantage Awsi Dooger Jun 2017 #48

I guess I just do not fall for slick shit Skittles Jun 2017 #49