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2020 U.S. Presidential Election - Took place November 3, 2020. Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden assumed office January 20, 2021.
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He looks like a fucking old ass Chuck E Cheese animatronic
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I am still dumbfounded to look at it, he opens with "Afghanistan veteran" like he wants to suggest he is some kind of badass but then he ends with his fucking tumblr pronouns. Meanwhile, I struggle to contort my face into an expression appropriate for the situation, and the muscle cramps are a strong indication that this is not a situation God ever intended the given facial structure of man be able to react to.
Take me now, God.
What in the fuck.
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It's working out really well for us in Europe. My best friend only has to wait a year until she gets the help she needs. Talk about luck!
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Not to mention the massive layoffs and shuttering of healthcare and healthcare adjacent jobs.
People talk about socialized healthcare and think the only job change will be doctors/nurses/clinical assistants getting paid by the government.
Well what about all the people in their billing/finance/durable equipment acquisition offices? Why would the government keep any of them? I mean sure some would transition but we know the government consolidates the jobs of many into the few in the name of "streamlining" where they can.
Or what about the billion dollars in EE payroll and fringe benefits. Payroll deductions for healthcare generates so much busines. Every company has EEs that just manage the benefit offerings for their company's health plans. When suddenly you only have pet insurance to offer employees why should these people keep their jobs.
That brings us to the broker and benefits admin companies that bridge the gap between companies and vendors (Aetna or BCBS?). There would be no reason for companies like this to even exist so why keep them open.
Same goes for insurers like Humana or Aetna. Sure their will still be some private offerings but you cant make billions on what is now a niche market for private healthcare. Good bye to all the jobs there.
Goodbye anyone who works with or for spending accounts (FSA or HSA) companies. Why need an HSA if the healthcare is free? Not to mention why would the government allow this to be a tax write off/tertiary retirement account. Get ready to liquidate any money you've been squirreling in your HSA... ..at a tax penalty.
Look I'm not saying the private system is perfect or we cant expand socialized safety nets, but going over night to a public system is like the healthcare equivalent of "The Great Leap Forward" yeah the ideologues will laud it as "the right thing to do on the right side of history" but any perceived future victories will be built on the backs of tens of million unemployed (and even some dead) Americans.
TLDR stay the fuck out of my industry Bernie or I will John Wilkes Booth your ass.
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Donald Trump is clearly going to win again. The dems are really quite the joke.
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Don't jinx it.
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I think one major reason for the downward spiral of the Dems is their inability to stop saying the quiet parts out loud.
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He really found a way to make this thing become a positive.
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President Trump raised some eyebrows on Monday night after he shared a clip from the HBO series "Curb Your Enthusiasm" featuring its star Larry David sporting a "Make America Great Again" hat.
In the topical season premiere of the long-running comedy that originally aired last month, David discovers that wearing the iconic "MAGA" hat is a great "people repellent" and starts to conveniently wear it around Los Angeles to avoid person-to-person contact.
The clip shared by the president features David driving a car and accidentally swerving into an angry biker.
"What the f--- are you doing?!?" the biker asks.
"I'm sorry, I didn't see you," David responded behind a closed window.
The two of them pause with the biker demanding the "Seinfeld" co-creator to get out of his car. David then puts on the "MAGA" hat and apologizes again, which drastically changes the biker's tune.
"Just be more careful next time, OK?" the calmed biker said.
"Will do, will do," David responded.
The president captioned the video, tweeting "TOUGH GUYS FOR TRUMP!"
Critics piled on the president, accusing him of not understanding that the HBO series was mocking the use of the famous pro-Trump gear.
"Curb Your Enthusiasm" executive producer Jeff Schaffer described David's use of the "MAGA" hat to The Hollywood Reporter last month.
"Larry in the hat is such a dissonant image. You realized when he put it on that you just never see a person in a MAGA hat in Los Angeles. It’s like spotting a double rainbow of intolerance," Schaffer quipped.
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“TOUGH GUYS FOR TRUMP!” the President tweeted with a short clip of Larry David in a “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) hat from his HBO hit show Curb Your Enthusiasm.
The clip features David, who plays a fictional version of himself in the series (a series I love, by the way), driving his electric minivan along a Los Angeles street. Lost in thought, he swerves into the next lane and almost takes out a rough-looking biker, who shouts a series of threats and F-bombs.
“What the fuck are you doing?” the biker yells. “Motherfucker! What the fuck? What are you trying to do, man?”
On the verge of panic, as they arrive at a stop, Larry comes up with an idea: he rolls down the window, dons his red MAGA hat, and apologizes.
“I’m sorry, I didn’t see you,” Larry says.
The hat changes everything. Spotting a kindred soul, the biker immediately cools off, “Just be more careful next time, OK?”
Trump loved the clip so much, he pinned it to the top of his Twitter feed.
Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty cool.
What the president is doing here is obvious to anyone with half a brain: it’s a lovely bit of trolling where he turns what many see as David’s ridicule of Trump supporters into a plus. Trump won’t allow David to ridicule his supporters, so he’s taking to Twitter to defend them as “tough guys.”
Trump’s got this exactly right.
And as much as I love Larry David, if he believes the portrayal of a badass biker raising hell with the clueless driver behind the wheel of an electric BMW who nearly killed him is a negative thing, maybe the real Larry David is as clueless as his character.
This entire episode (which aired a few weeks ago) is partly premised on the fictional David, a notorious misanthrope, discovering that the MAGA hat is a “great people repellent.” To ensure no one bothers him when he’s out and about, to keep people from sitting next to him, he dons the MAGA hat and enjoys the perfect solitude.
The thing about David is that he’s so brilliant, you never can really tell what he’s joking about.
Yes, in real life, he’s a die-hard Democrat and no fan of Trump or his supporters. Watch this…
But what I mean is this…
David is also an environmental extremist in real life, but if you watch Curb — which I recommend as highly as David’s first classic, Seinfeld, which he co-created with Jerry Seinfeld — Larry and his wife (now ex-wife Cheryl — played by Cheryl Hines) are heavy into environmental activism, total believers in the Global Warming Hoax, so you can never tell if he’s making fun of this part of himself or not.
All Larry and Cheryl do to “protect the environment” is lick envelopes, attend ritzy fundraisers, drive around in luxury electric vehicles (powered by electricity created by burning fossil fuels), live in large homes that must have a massive carbon footprint, and boycott things like AAA… To me, I always laugh at all of this because they both come across as clueless dilettantes; typical, super-wealthy elites sacrificing nothing while they lecture the rest of us.
For instance, are we supposed to laugh at Larry’s environmental hypocrisy when he complains to his girlfriend about not being able to sleep unless the air conditioning is turned down to 68 degrees?
You just don’t know. And if David is not making fun of this, it actually makes the show funnier.
Anyway, what is David doing here with the MAGA hat? Is he mocking Trump supporters, is he mocking the intolerance of his Brentwood and show business pals, or is he mocking both?
In the clip above, the visceral reaction Larry’s manager and best friend Jeff Greene (Jeff Garlin) has against the hat is not a clue. Jeff is likable but not always sympathetic.
To the surprise of no one, the reaction from the far-left media to Trump tweeting out the clip is typically clueless…
“Trump Apparently Thought a ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Insult Was a Compliment,” sniffs TheWrap:
Unfortunately for POTUS, the actual joke of the episode is that “Larry David” figures out how wearing the hat saves him from all manner of situations he wants no part of. Specifically, awful people are suddenly nice to him, and decent people he doesn’t want to deal with avoid him. Or as he sums it up later in the episode, “it’s a great people repellent.” And of course, it’s worth mentioning that the real Larry David is an outspoken critic of Trump.
The far-left Daily Beast is especially triggered:
But what the out-of-context clip fails to capture is the much larger joke of the episode. If Trump had watched the whole thing, he would realize that Larry is using the MAGA hat as a “great people repellent,” something to help him get out of lunch with a guy who annoys him or to make sure no one takes the seat next to him at the sushi bar.
The bit with the biker is actually the moment the joke gets flipped on its head. Not only does the hat repel most people in David’s Hollywood circle, it also attracts maniacs on motorcycles who would otherwise want to violently attack him.
You know, because only in the ether of dim-bulb celebrity is a biker angry over almost being killed “awful” or a “maniac.”
I honestly don’t know if Larry David gets his own MAGA hat joke about left-wing intolerance. As I explained above, part of his second-to-none genius are the layers behind his jokes. But Trump sees those layers and understands his audience, even if David and the bubbled media do not.
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The Democrats are such a mess at the start of their presidential primaries, experts say it's hard to find anyone offering the beleaguered political party safe harbor, even in its friendliest media ports.
The New York Times declared that the Iowa Caucuses were an “epic fiasco for Democrats” that “demoralized” the party. In a separate piece, Times columnist David Leonhardt admitted it was a “rough week for Democrats” when Trump was acquitted on the heels of the Iowa debacle.
Recent headlines published by the Washington Post opinion section include “Democrats might be undecided for a long time,” “Biden is the most electable candidate, just not right here or right now,” “Enough of the quadrennial bed-wetting, Democrats,” “There are two Joe Bidens, the wrong one is running for president” and “No, Pete Buttigieg and Joe Biden are not ‘centrists.’”
Meanwhile, MSNBC has been accused of favoring moderate candidates over Bernie Sanders and the ratings-challenged CNN has panned Biden’s struggling campaign.
DePauw University professor and media critic Jeffrey McCall said the function of journalism is to “provide news consumers with a picture of reality” but the current reality is loaded with various issues related to the stumbling Democratic Party.
“It would seem that some of the historically left-leaning mainstream media outlets have become more aggressive recently in their coverage of Democratic Party troubles. This has to be done for these media outlets to maintain any sense of credibility,” McCall told Fox News. “The news coverage just has to reflect the real struggles associated with the Iowa caucus counts, the relatively low debate ratings, confusion on debate rules, Biden's lackluster campaign, and so on.”
McCall said the aggressive posture on mainstream reporting of Democrat challenges “isn’t a reflection of an ideological shift,” but “rather just a reflection that they have to report what even casual news observers can see with their own eyes.”
The Hill media reporter Joe Concha told Fox News that the current landscape is like 2016 all over again because liberal outlets didn’t make necessary changes.
“Perhaps the New York Times — which hasn't endorsed a Republican presidential candidate since 1956, and the Washington Post — which has never endorsed a Republican presidential candidate ever — would have seen this coming if they actually had a few more columnists supportive of the president in their opinion sections... and a few more reporters who share less of their feelings and more of the facts on the ground from places outside of Washington, D.C.,” Concha said.
Conservative strategist Chris Barron says the “mainstream media will fall in line behind whichever candidate the Democrats nominate” but journalists and pundits will continue to favor their preferred candidates in the meantime.
“This is likely only going to get worse should Bernie Sanders win in New Hampshire tonight, The New York Times, CNN, MSNBC and the rest of the corporate media will unload a dump truck full of anti-Bernie material,” Barron told Fox News.
Media Research Center director of media analysis Tim Graham pointed out that “journalists overwhelmingly vote Democrat” so this is an “internal matter” to members of the mainstream media.
“They have all the same freak-outs about who can beat Trump in November. Try to imagine them in the middle of an Iowa caucus location, debating who has the least flaws. That's how they sound on TV,” Graham told Fox News. “We definitely noticed when the Washington Post editorialized on Sunday that all of the current candidates are taking positions noticeably to the left of President Obama. In any election cycle, this is their nervous phase.”
Graham also predicted that networks and newspapers will “rally around the winner” once the Democratic electorate decides on a nominee, but liberal media-on-Democrat attacks typically slow down around this point.
“Usually, the toughest investigative journalism on Democrats is over by this time in the cycle. The roughest Hillary stories came before New Hampshire, the roughest Obama stories, too. Once someone proves themselves viable with Democrat primary voters, the scrutiny just magically seems to get softer,” Graham said.
Graham pointed out that NBC News’ Chuck Todd proved this theory on Monday by admitting that a current “B-level” candidate will “feel like an A-level person candidate at some point” despite the field having a lack of star power.
While many expect the mainstream media to eventually support whoever is on the ticket in order to help defeat President Trump, Concha doesn’t think civility will suddenly emerge overnight.
“Nothing has been learned by many in political media because, like most of the Democratic candidates themselves, emotion is clouding the reporting, the message,” Concha said. “It's a hot mess and will only get worse if it appears we're heading to a brokered convention, which will be even more revealing around who is rooting for and against whom.”
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Trump shares 'Curb' clip featuring Larry David wearing 'MAGA' hat
President Trump raised some eyebrows on Monday night after he shared a clip from the HBO series "Curb Your Enthusiasm" featuring its star Larry David sporting a "Make America Great Again" hat.
Trump shares 'Curb' clip featuring Larry David wearing 'MAGA' hat | F…
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President Trump raised some eyebrows on Monday night after he shared a clip from the HBO series "Curb Your Enthusiasm" featuring its star Larry David sporting a "Make America Great Again" hat.
In the topical season premiere of the long-running comedy that originally aired last month, David discovers that wearing the iconic "MAGA" hat is a great "people repellent" and starts to conveniently wear it around Los Angeles to avoid person-to-person contact.
The clip shared by the president features David driving a car and accidentally swerving into an angry biker.
"What the f--- are you doing?!?" the biker asks.
"I'm sorry, I didn't see you," David responded behind a closed window.
The two of them pause with the biker demanding the "Seinfeld" co-creator to get out of his car. David then puts on the "MAGA" hat and apologizes again, which drastically changes the biker's tune.
"Just be more careful next time, OK?" the calmed biker said.
"Will do, will do," David responded.
The president captioned the video, tweeting "TOUGH GUYS FOR TRUMP!"
Critics piled on the president, accusing him of not understanding that the HBO series was mocking the use of the famous pro-Trump gear.
"Curb Your Enthusiasm" executive producer Jeff Schaffer described David's use of the "MAGA" hat to The Hollywood Reporter last month.
"Larry in the hat is such a dissonant image. You realized when he put it on that you just never see a person in a MAGA hat in Los Angeles. It’s like spotting a double rainbow of intolerance," Schaffer quipped.
Nolte: Trump Tweets Video of Larry David in MAGA Hat
“TOUGH GUYS FOR TRUMP!” the President tweeted with a short clip of Larry David in a "Make America Great Again" (MAGA) hat
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“TOUGH GUYS FOR TRUMP!” the President tweeted with a short clip of Larry David in a “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) hat from his HBO hit show Curb Your Enthusiasm.
The clip features David, who plays a fictional version of himself in the series (a series I love, by the way), driving his electric minivan along a Los Angeles street. Lost in thought, he swerves into the next lane and almost takes out a rough-looking biker, who shouts a series of threats and F-bombs.
“What the fuck are you doing?” the biker yells. “Motherfucker! What the fuck? What are you trying to do, man?”
On the verge of panic, as they arrive at a stop, Larry comes up with an idea: he rolls down the window, dons his red MAGA hat, and apologizes.
“I’m sorry, I didn’t see you,” Larry says.
The hat changes everything. Spotting a kindred soul, the biker immediately cools off, “Just be more careful next time, OK?”
Trump loved the clip so much, he pinned it to the top of his Twitter feed.
Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty cool.
What the president is doing here is obvious to anyone with half a brain: it’s a lovely bit of trolling where he turns what many see as David’s ridicule of Trump supporters into a plus. Trump won’t allow David to ridicule his supporters, so he’s taking to Twitter to defend them as “tough guys.”
Trump’s got this exactly right.
And as much as I love Larry David, if he believes the portrayal of a badass biker raising hell with the clueless driver behind the wheel of an electric BMW who nearly killed him is a negative thing, maybe the real Larry David is as clueless as his character.
This entire episode (which aired a few weeks ago) is partly premised on the fictional David, a notorious misanthrope, discovering that the MAGA hat is a “great people repellent.” To ensure no one bothers him when he’s out and about, to keep people from sitting next to him, he dons the MAGA hat and enjoys the perfect solitude.
The thing about David is that he’s so brilliant, you never can really tell what he’s joking about.
Yes, in real life, he’s a die-hard Democrat and no fan of Trump or his supporters. Watch this…
But what I mean is this…
David is also an environmental extremist in real life, but if you watch Curb — which I recommend as highly as David’s first classic, Seinfeld, which he co-created with Jerry Seinfeld — Larry and his wife (now ex-wife Cheryl — played by Cheryl Hines) are heavy into environmental activism, total believers in the Global Warming Hoax, so you can never tell if he’s making fun of this part of himself or not.
All Larry and Cheryl do to “protect the environment” is lick envelopes, attend ritzy fundraisers, drive around in luxury electric vehicles (powered by electricity created by burning fossil fuels), live in large homes that must have a massive carbon footprint, and boycott things like AAA… To me, I always laugh at all of this because they both come across as clueless dilettantes; typical, super-wealthy elites sacrificing nothing while they lecture the rest of us.
For instance, are we supposed to laugh at Larry’s environmental hypocrisy when he complains to his girlfriend about not being able to sleep unless the air conditioning is turned down to 68 degrees?
You just don’t know. And if David is not making fun of this, it actually makes the show funnier.
Anyway, what is David doing here with the MAGA hat? Is he mocking Trump supporters, is he mocking the intolerance of his Brentwood and show business pals, or is he mocking both?
In the clip above, the visceral reaction Larry’s manager and best friend Jeff Greene (Jeff Garlin) has against the hat is not a clue. Jeff is likable but not always sympathetic.
To the surprise of no one, the reaction from the far-left media to Trump tweeting out the clip is typically clueless…
“Trump Apparently Thought a ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Insult Was a Compliment,” sniffs TheWrap:
Unfortunately for POTUS, the actual joke of the episode is that “Larry David” figures out how wearing the hat saves him from all manner of situations he wants no part of. Specifically, awful people are suddenly nice to him, and decent people he doesn’t want to deal with avoid him. Or as he sums it up later in the episode, “it’s a great people repellent.” And of course, it’s worth mentioning that the real Larry David is an outspoken critic of Trump.
The far-left Daily Beast is especially triggered:
But what the out-of-context clip fails to capture is the much larger joke of the episode. If Trump had watched the whole thing, he would realize that Larry is using the MAGA hat as a “great people repellent,” something to help him get out of lunch with a guy who annoys him or to make sure no one takes the seat next to him at the sushi bar.
The bit with the biker is actually the moment the joke gets flipped on its head. Not only does the hat repel most people in David’s Hollywood circle, it also attracts maniacs on motorcycles who would otherwise want to violently attack him.
You know, because only in the ether of dim-bulb celebrity is a biker angry over almost being killed “awful” or a “maniac.”
I honestly don’t know if Larry David gets his own MAGA hat joke about left-wing intolerance. As I explained above, part of his second-to-none genius are the layers behind his jokes. But Trump sees those layers and understands his audience, even if David and the bubbled media do not.
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Democrats' go-to mainstream media outlets having a hard time saying anything nice
The mainstream media has cannibalized itself amid a rough stretch for Democrats and some experts thinks they’re simply doing whatever is necessary to appear credible, while others expect the liberal media to support whoever emerges from the cloudy Democratic primary.
Democrats' go-to mainstream media outlets having a hard time saying a…
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The Democrats are such a mess at the start of their presidential primaries, experts say it's hard to find anyone offering the beleaguered political party safe harbor, even in its friendliest media ports.
The New York Times declared that the Iowa Caucuses were an “epic fiasco for Democrats” that “demoralized” the party. In a separate piece, Times columnist David Leonhardt admitted it was a “rough week for Democrats” when Trump was acquitted on the heels of the Iowa debacle.
Recent headlines published by the Washington Post opinion section include “Democrats might be undecided for a long time,” “Biden is the most electable candidate, just not right here or right now,” “Enough of the quadrennial bed-wetting, Democrats,” “There are two Joe Bidens, the wrong one is running for president” and “No, Pete Buttigieg and Joe Biden are not ‘centrists.’”
Meanwhile, MSNBC has been accused of favoring moderate candidates over Bernie Sanders and the ratings-challenged CNN has panned Biden’s struggling campaign.
DePauw University professor and media critic Jeffrey McCall said the function of journalism is to “provide news consumers with a picture of reality” but the current reality is loaded with various issues related to the stumbling Democratic Party.
“It would seem that some of the historically left-leaning mainstream media outlets have become more aggressive recently in their coverage of Democratic Party troubles. This has to be done for these media outlets to maintain any sense of credibility,” McCall told Fox News. “The news coverage just has to reflect the real struggles associated with the Iowa caucus counts, the relatively low debate ratings, confusion on debate rules, Biden's lackluster campaign, and so on.”
McCall said the aggressive posture on mainstream reporting of Democrat challenges “isn’t a reflection of an ideological shift,” but “rather just a reflection that they have to report what even casual news observers can see with their own eyes.”
The Hill media reporter Joe Concha told Fox News that the current landscape is like 2016 all over again because liberal outlets didn’t make necessary changes.
“Perhaps the New York Times — which hasn't endorsed a Republican presidential candidate since 1956, and the Washington Post — which has never endorsed a Republican presidential candidate ever — would have seen this coming if they actually had a few more columnists supportive of the president in their opinion sections... and a few more reporters who share less of their feelings and more of the facts on the ground from places outside of Washington, D.C.,” Concha said.
Conservative strategist Chris Barron says the “mainstream media will fall in line behind whichever candidate the Democrats nominate” but journalists and pundits will continue to favor their preferred candidates in the meantime.
“This is likely only going to get worse should Bernie Sanders win in New Hampshire tonight, The New York Times, CNN, MSNBC and the rest of the corporate media will unload a dump truck full of anti-Bernie material,” Barron told Fox News.
Media Research Center director of media analysis Tim Graham pointed out that “journalists overwhelmingly vote Democrat” so this is an “internal matter” to members of the mainstream media.
“They have all the same freak-outs about who can beat Trump in November. Try to imagine them in the middle of an Iowa caucus location, debating who has the least flaws. That's how they sound on TV,” Graham told Fox News. “We definitely noticed when the Washington Post editorialized on Sunday that all of the current candidates are taking positions noticeably to the left of President Obama. In any election cycle, this is their nervous phase.”
Graham also predicted that networks and newspapers will “rally around the winner” once the Democratic electorate decides on a nominee, but liberal media-on-Democrat attacks typically slow down around this point.
“Usually, the toughest investigative journalism on Democrats is over by this time in the cycle. The roughest Hillary stories came before New Hampshire, the roughest Obama stories, too. Once someone proves themselves viable with Democrat primary voters, the scrutiny just magically seems to get softer,” Graham said.
Graham pointed out that NBC News’ Chuck Todd proved this theory on Monday by admitting that a current “B-level” candidate will “feel like an A-level person candidate at some point” despite the field having a lack of star power.
While many expect the mainstream media to eventually support whoever is on the ticket in order to help defeat President Trump, Concha doesn’t think civility will suddenly emerge overnight.
“Nothing has been learned by many in political media because, like most of the Democratic candidates themselves, emotion is clouding the reporting, the message,” Concha said. “It's a hot mess and will only get worse if it appears we're heading to a brokered convention, which will be even more revealing around who is rooting for and against whom.”
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Deval Patrick drops out of presidential race
Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick ended his long-shot White House bid on Wednesday, one day after a dismal showing in New Hampshire presidential primary.
uhhh, you shall be missed? im amazed he made it this far in the race before calling it quits
8 democrats left
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This asshole gets to hang on, maybe cause his a high yellow brother, but Tulsi gets run out on a rail.Deval Patrick drops out of presidential race
Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick ended his long-shot White House bid on Wednesday, one day after a dismal showing in New Hampshire presidential primary.
uhhh, you shall be missed? im amazed he made it this far in the race before calling it quits
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Who’s next to drop? I’m leaning to Tulsi for dropping.
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I think she'll have one more stunt in her to raise her profile before returning to waiting for 2024. Steyer drops next.
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Does this shitpost has any truth to it? I haven't been sold on the universal health care thing yet. Can someone explain to me how it works and why its good or bad.
Well, if you get in a car crash or something else that you weren't at fault for but got grievously injured in, you won't also be fucked over financially. A quick Google search said this is how it works
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Credit to @HK-47 for telling me about this:
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President Trump’s campaign is seizing on newly surfaced audio from 2015 in which former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg can be heard defending the controversial policing policy known as “stop and frisk.”
Trump's campaign manager, Brad Parscale, tweeted Tuesday that the audio shows that Bloomberg, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, is a “complete racist.”
Bloomberg can be heard in the audio defending stop and frisk, a policing practice used during his tenure as mayor that involves law enforcement temporarily questioning and searching a suspect for weapons on the street. Critics say the searches lack proper probable cause and are flatly unconstitutional.
The Trump campaign also promoted a second clip of Bloomberg defending stop and frisk during a radio interview that aired in June 2013.
In November, Bloomberg apologized for the controversial policy, which contributed to a disproportionate number of stops of minorities across the city over his tenure.
“Ninety-five percent of your murders — murderers and murder victims — fit one M.O. You can just take the description, Xerox it and pass it out to all the cops. They are male, minorities, 16 to 25. That’s true in New York, it’s true in virtually every city,” Bloomberg is heard saying in the recording.
“And that’s where the real crime is. You’ve got to get the guns out of the hands of the people that are getting killed. You want to spend the money on a lot of cops in the streets, put those cops where the crime is, which means in minority neighborhoods,” he said.
Trump on Tuesday also shared and then deleted a tweet with the audio that included the caption, “WOW, BLOOMBERG IS A TOTAL RACIST.” It was not immediately clear why the president deleted the message.
The president himself has at times advocated for stop and frisk, including during remarks at a 2018 police convention in Orlando as he discussed how to curb gun violence in Chicago.
In a statement, Bloomberg said that Trump’s deleted tweet represents “the latest example of his endless efforts to divide Americans.”
“I have taken responsibility for taking too long to understand the impact [stop-and-frisk] had on Black and Latino communities,” Bloomberg said. “But this issue and my comments about it do not reflect my commitment to criminal justice reform and racial equity.”
“The President’s attack on me clearly reflects his fear over the growing strength of my campaign,” he continued. “Make no mistake Mr. President: I am not afraid of you and I will not let you bully me or anyone else in America. Between now and November, I will do everything I can to defeat you whether I am on the ballot or not.”
Some quotes from Bloomberg’s 2015 remarks at the Aspen Institute were reported at the time, but this appears to be the first instance of audio of the remarks being shared widely.
The Aspen Times reported in February 2015 that Bloomberg’s representatives had asked the Aspen Institute to block footage of his appearance there. The audio of the event was shared Monday by podcast host Benjamin Dixon.
Bloomberg apologized for the policing policy during a speech before he announced he would run for the Democratic presidential nomination, saying, “I can't change history, however today I want you to know that I realize back then I was wrong and I'm sorry.”
Parscale on Tuesday tweeted a handful of times about the audio, at one point sharing a hashtag #BloombergIsARacist. Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh also shared the audio and highlighted quotes from it.
“Bloomberg’s recent apology for ‘stop and frisk’ is fake and hollow and was only given because he’s in the Democrat primary,” Murtaugh tweeted.
The Republican National Committee, meanwhile, sought to highlight the audio in an email Tuesday morning, seeking to contrast it with Trump’s own economic policies and work on criminal justice reform.
Nina Turner, the co-chair of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) presidential campaign, also tweeted out the audio but did not offer commentary on it.
The president later shared a tweet from another user that used the hashtag #BloombergIsRacist and included a photo of Trump and the former mayor golfing. In his own message, Trump mocked Bloomberg as “Mini Mike” and criticized his golf game. Trump has periodically attacked Bloomberg and other candidates in the race during the primary, often using nicknames to refer to them.
The audio was leaked on the eve of the first-in-the-nation primary in New Hampshire. Bloomberg, who entered the presidential contest late, is skipping the early contests in Iowa and New Hampshire to focus on “Super Tuesday” states.
A Quinnipiac University poll released on Monday showed Bloomberg placing third in the primary contest nationally with 15 percent support, trailing Sanders and former Vice President Joe Biden.
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Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg defended his record on race relations as President Trump and his campaign highlighted the former mayor's defense of the controversial “stop-and-frisk” practice.
"President Trump’s deleted tweet is the latest example of his endless efforts to divide Americans. I inherited the police practice of stop-and-frisk, and as part of our effort to stop gun violence it was overused,” Bloomberg said in a statement.
“By the time I left office, I cut it back by 95%, but I should've done it faster and sooner. I regret that and I have apologized — and I have taken responsibility for taking too long to understand the impact it had on Black and Latino communities.”
Both Trump and his campaign manager, Brad Parscale, on Tuesday highlighted an unearthed clip of the former mayor defending the policy, saying, “Ninety-five percent of your murders — murderers and murder victims — fit one M.O. You can just take the description, Xerox it and pass it out to all the cops. They are male, minorities, 16 to 25. That’s true in New York, it’s true in virtually every city.”
Trump, who has himself defended the practice and called for it to be applied nationwide, saying it “worked incredibly well” in New York in 2016, called Bloomberg a “TOTAL RACIST” in a since-deleted tweet.
In his statement released by his presidential campaign, Bloomberg appeared to backtrack on the comments he made in the clip, noting that he has been committed to racial justice and combatting racial inequality. He also cited his work with former President Obama.
“This issue and my comments about it do not reflect my commitment to criminal justice reform and racial equity. I believe we need to end mass incarceration and during my tenure we reduced incarceration by 40% and juvenile confinement by more than 60%" the statement read.
"We created the Young Men's Initiative to help young men of color stay on track for success, which President Obama built on to create My Brother's Keeper. And we overhauled a school system that had been neglecting and underfunding schools in Black and Latino communities for too long,” the former mayor continued.
Bloomberg then went on to criticize Trump and the tenure of his presidency.
"In contrast, President Trump inherited a country marching towards greater equality and divided us with racist appeals and hateful rhetoric," Bloomberg added. "The challenge of the moment is clear: we must confront this President and do everything we can to defeat him."
A federal judge ruled the "stop-and-frisk" policy in practice was racially discriminatory in 2013, the last year of Bloomberg’s term. Bloomberg has since defended the practice, but he formally apologized shortly after announcing his presidential campaign in November.
Benjamin Dixon on Twitter
“Audio of @MikeBloomberg’s 2015 @AspenInstitute speech where he explains that “you can just Xerox (copy)” the description of male, minorities 16-25 and hand to cops. Bloomberg had video of speech blocked. Perhaps because of the problematic explanation he gives for #StopAndFrisk...
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Trump campaign seizes on audio of Bloomberg defending 'stop and frisk'
President Trump’s campaign is seizing on newly surfaced audio from 2015 in which former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg can be heard defending the controversial policing policy known as “stop and frisk.”
President Trump’s campaign is seizing on newly surfaced audio from 2015 in which former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg can be heard defending the controversial policing policy known as “stop and frisk.”
Trump's campaign manager, Brad Parscale, tweeted Tuesday that the audio shows that Bloomberg, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, is a “complete racist.”
Bloomberg can be heard in the audio defending stop and frisk, a policing practice used during his tenure as mayor that involves law enforcement temporarily questioning and searching a suspect for weapons on the street. Critics say the searches lack proper probable cause and are flatly unconstitutional.
The Trump campaign also promoted a second clip of Bloomberg defending stop and frisk during a radio interview that aired in June 2013.
In November, Bloomberg apologized for the controversial policy, which contributed to a disproportionate number of stops of minorities across the city over his tenure.
“Ninety-five percent of your murders — murderers and murder victims — fit one M.O. You can just take the description, Xerox it and pass it out to all the cops. They are male, minorities, 16 to 25. That’s true in New York, it’s true in virtually every city,” Bloomberg is heard saying in the recording.
“And that’s where the real crime is. You’ve got to get the guns out of the hands of the people that are getting killed. You want to spend the money on a lot of cops in the streets, put those cops where the crime is, which means in minority neighborhoods,” he said.
Trump on Tuesday also shared and then deleted a tweet with the audio that included the caption, “WOW, BLOOMBERG IS A TOTAL RACIST.” It was not immediately clear why the president deleted the message.
The president himself has at times advocated for stop and frisk, including during remarks at a 2018 police convention in Orlando as he discussed how to curb gun violence in Chicago.
In a statement, Bloomberg said that Trump’s deleted tweet represents “the latest example of his endless efforts to divide Americans.”
“I have taken responsibility for taking too long to understand the impact [stop-and-frisk] had on Black and Latino communities,” Bloomberg said. “But this issue and my comments about it do not reflect my commitment to criminal justice reform and racial equity.”
“The President’s attack on me clearly reflects his fear over the growing strength of my campaign,” he continued. “Make no mistake Mr. President: I am not afraid of you and I will not let you bully me or anyone else in America. Between now and November, I will do everything I can to defeat you whether I am on the ballot or not.”
Some quotes from Bloomberg’s 2015 remarks at the Aspen Institute were reported at the time, but this appears to be the first instance of audio of the remarks being shared widely.
The Aspen Times reported in February 2015 that Bloomberg’s representatives had asked the Aspen Institute to block footage of his appearance there. The audio of the event was shared Monday by podcast host Benjamin Dixon.
Bloomberg apologized for the policing policy during a speech before he announced he would run for the Democratic presidential nomination, saying, “I can't change history, however today I want you to know that I realize back then I was wrong and I'm sorry.”
Parscale on Tuesday tweeted a handful of times about the audio, at one point sharing a hashtag #BloombergIsARacist. Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh also shared the audio and highlighted quotes from it.
“Bloomberg’s recent apology for ‘stop and frisk’ is fake and hollow and was only given because he’s in the Democrat primary,” Murtaugh tweeted.
The Republican National Committee, meanwhile, sought to highlight the audio in an email Tuesday morning, seeking to contrast it with Trump’s own economic policies and work on criminal justice reform.
Nina Turner, the co-chair of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) presidential campaign, also tweeted out the audio but did not offer commentary on it.
The president later shared a tweet from another user that used the hashtag #BloombergIsRacist and included a photo of Trump and the former mayor golfing. In his own message, Trump mocked Bloomberg as “Mini Mike” and criticized his golf game. Trump has periodically attacked Bloomberg and other candidates in the race during the primary, often using nicknames to refer to them.
The audio was leaked on the eve of the first-in-the-nation primary in New Hampshire. Bloomberg, who entered the presidential contest late, is skipping the early contests in Iowa and New Hampshire to focus on “Super Tuesday” states.
A Quinnipiac University poll released on Monday showed Bloomberg placing third in the primary contest nationally with 15 percent support, trailing Sanders and former Vice President Joe Biden.
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Bloomberg defends record on race, blasts Trump
Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg defended his record on race relations as President Trump and his campaign highlighted the former mayor's defense of the controversial “stop-and-frisk” practice.
Bloomberg defends record on race, blasts Trump | TheHill
archived 11 Feb 2020 17:25:53 UTC
Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg defended his record on race relations as President Trump and his campaign highlighted the former mayor's defense of the controversial “stop-and-frisk” practice.
"President Trump’s deleted tweet is the latest example of his endless efforts to divide Americans. I inherited the police practice of stop-and-frisk, and as part of our effort to stop gun violence it was overused,” Bloomberg said in a statement.
“By the time I left office, I cut it back by 95%, but I should've done it faster and sooner. I regret that and I have apologized — and I have taken responsibility for taking too long to understand the impact it had on Black and Latino communities.”
Both Trump and his campaign manager, Brad Parscale, on Tuesday highlighted an unearthed clip of the former mayor defending the policy, saying, “Ninety-five percent of your murders — murderers and murder victims — fit one M.O. You can just take the description, Xerox it and pass it out to all the cops. They are male, minorities, 16 to 25. That’s true in New York, it’s true in virtually every city.”
Trump, who has himself defended the practice and called for it to be applied nationwide, saying it “worked incredibly well” in New York in 2016, called Bloomberg a “TOTAL RACIST” in a since-deleted tweet.
In his statement released by his presidential campaign, Bloomberg appeared to backtrack on the comments he made in the clip, noting that he has been committed to racial justice and combatting racial inequality. He also cited his work with former President Obama.
“This issue and my comments about it do not reflect my commitment to criminal justice reform and racial equity. I believe we need to end mass incarceration and during my tenure we reduced incarceration by 40% and juvenile confinement by more than 60%" the statement read.
"We created the Young Men's Initiative to help young men of color stay on track for success, which President Obama built on to create My Brother's Keeper. And we overhauled a school system that had been neglecting and underfunding schools in Black and Latino communities for too long,” the former mayor continued.
Bloomberg then went on to criticize Trump and the tenure of his presidency.
"In contrast, President Trump inherited a country marching towards greater equality and divided us with racist appeals and hateful rhetoric," Bloomberg added. "The challenge of the moment is clear: we must confront this President and do everything we can to defeat him."
A federal judge ruled the "stop-and-frisk" policy in practice was racially discriminatory in 2013, the last year of Bloomberg’s term. Bloomberg has since defended the practice, but he formally apologized shortly after announcing his presidential campaign in November.
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As far as I understand it's like trains where it works kinda okay when you're a fraction of the size of the USA.
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Man I know Trump has to use the tired "Democrats are the real racists" trope but to be honest Bloomberg is right about minorities and crime.
Shit I remember a pre 2016 tweet where he said basically the same thing as Bloomberg but I can't find it.
Shit I remember a pre 2016 tweet where he said basically the same thing as Bloomberg but I can't find it.
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Credit to @HK-47 for telling me about this:
Benjamin Dixon on Twitter
“Audio of @MikeBloomberg’s 2015 @AspenInstitute speech where he explains that “you can just Xerox (copy)” the description of male, minorities 16-25 and hand to cops. Bloomberg had video of speech blocked. Perhaps because of the problematic explanation he gives for #StopAndFrisk...
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Trump campaign seizes on audio of Bloomberg defending 'stop and frisk'
President Trump’s campaign is seizing on newly surfaced audio from 2015 in which former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg can be heard defending the controversial policing policy known as “stop and frisk.”
President Trump’s campaign is seizing on newly surfaced audio from 2015 in which former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg can be heard defending the controversial policing policy known as “stop and frisk.”
Trump's campaign manager, Brad Parscale, tweeted Tuesday that the audio shows that Bloomberg, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, is a “complete racist.”
Bloomberg can be heard in the audio defending stop and frisk, a policing practice used during his tenure as mayor that involves law enforcement temporarily questioning and searching a suspect for weapons on the street. Critics say the searches lack proper probable cause and are flatly unconstitutional.
The Trump campaign also promoted a second clip of Bloomberg defending stop and frisk during a radio interview that aired in June 2013.
In November, Bloomberg apologized for the controversial policy, which contributed to a disproportionate number of stops of minorities across the city over his tenure.
“Ninety-five percent of your murders — murderers and murder victims — fit one M.O. You can just take the description, Xerox it and pass it out to all the cops. They are male, minorities, 16 to 25. That’s true in New York, it’s true in virtually every city,” Bloomberg is heard saying in the recording.
“And that’s where the real crime is. You’ve got to get the guns out of the hands of the people that are getting killed. You want to spend the money on a lot of cops in the streets, put those cops where the crime is, which means in minority neighborhoods,” he said.
Trump on Tuesday also shared and then deleted a tweet with the audio that included the caption, “WOW, BLOOMBERG IS A TOTAL RACIST.” It was not immediately clear why the president deleted the message.
The president himself has at times advocated for stop and frisk, including during remarks at a 2018 police convention in Orlando as he discussed how to curb gun violence in Chicago.
In a statement, Bloomberg said that Trump’s deleted tweet represents “the latest example of his endless efforts to divide Americans.”
“I have taken responsibility for taking too long to understand the impact [stop-and-frisk] had on Black and Latino communities,” Bloomberg said. “But this issue and my comments about it do not reflect my commitment to criminal justice reform and racial equity.”
“The President’s attack on me clearly reflects his fear over the growing strength of my campaign,” he continued. “Make no mistake Mr. President: I am not afraid of you and I will not let you bully me or anyone else in America. Between now and November, I will do everything I can to defeat you whether I am on the ballot or not.”
Some quotes from Bloomberg’s 2015 remarks at the Aspen Institute were reported at the time, but this appears to be the first instance of audio of the remarks being shared widely.
The Aspen Times reported in February 2015 that Bloomberg’s representatives had asked the Aspen Institute to block footage of his appearance there. The audio of the event was shared Monday by podcast host Benjamin Dixon.
Bloomberg apologized for the policing policy during a speech before he announced he would run for the Democratic presidential nomination, saying, “I can't change history, however today I want you to know that I realize back then I was wrong and I'm sorry.”
Parscale on Tuesday tweeted a handful of times about the audio, at one point sharing a hashtag #BloombergIsARacist. Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh also shared the audio and highlighted quotes from it.
“Bloomberg’s recent apology for ‘stop and frisk’ is fake and hollow and was only given because he’s in the Democrat primary,” Murtaugh tweeted.
The Republican National Committee, meanwhile, sought to highlight the audio in an email Tuesday morning, seeking to contrast it with Trump’s own economic policies and work on criminal justice reform.
Nina Turner, the co-chair of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) presidential campaign, also tweeted out the audio but did not offer commentary on it.
The president later shared a tweet from another user that used the hashtag #BloombergIsRacist and included a photo of Trump and the former mayor golfing. In his own message, Trump mocked Bloomberg as “Mini Mike” and criticized his golf game. Trump has periodically attacked Bloomberg and other candidates in the race during the primary, often using nicknames to refer to them.
The audio was leaked on the eve of the first-in-the-nation primary in New Hampshire. Bloomberg, who entered the presidential contest late, is skipping the early contests in Iowa and New Hampshire to focus on “Super Tuesday” states.
A Quinnipiac University poll released on Monday showed Bloomberg placing third in the primary contest nationally with 15 percent support, trailing Sanders and former Vice President Joe Biden.
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Bloomberg defends record on race, blasts Trump
Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg defended his record on race relations as President Trump and his campaign highlighted the former mayor's defense of the controversial “stop-and-frisk” practice.
Bloomberg defends record on race, blasts Trump | TheHill
archived 11 Feb 2020 17:25:53 UTC
Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg defended his record on race relations as President Trump and his campaign highlighted the former mayor's defense of the controversial “stop-and-frisk” practice.
"President Trump’s deleted tweet is the latest example of his endless efforts to divide Americans. I inherited the police practice of stop-and-frisk, and as part of our effort to stop gun violence it was overused,” Bloomberg said in a statement.
“By the time I left office, I cut it back by 95%, but I should've done it faster and sooner. I regret that and I have apologized — and I have taken responsibility for taking too long to understand the impact it had on Black and Latino communities.”
Both Trump and his campaign manager, Brad Parscale, on Tuesday highlighted an unearthed clip of the former mayor defending the policy, saying, “Ninety-five percent of your murders — murderers and murder victims — fit one M.O. You can just take the description, Xerox it and pass it out to all the cops. They are male, minorities, 16 to 25. That’s true in New York, it’s true in virtually every city.”
Trump, who has himself defended the practice and called for it to be applied nationwide, saying it “worked incredibly well” in New York in 2016, called Bloomberg a “TOTAL RACIST” in a since-deleted tweet.
In his statement released by his presidential campaign, Bloomberg appeared to backtrack on the comments he made in the clip, noting that he has been committed to racial justice and combatting racial inequality. He also cited his work with former President Obama.
“This issue and my comments about it do not reflect my commitment to criminal justice reform and racial equity. I believe we need to end mass incarceration and during my tenure we reduced incarceration by 40% and juvenile confinement by more than 60%" the statement read.
"We created the Young Men's Initiative to help young men of color stay on track for success, which President Obama built on to create My Brother's Keeper. And we overhauled a school system that had been neglecting and underfunding schools in Black and Latino communities for too long,” the former mayor continued.
Bloomberg then went on to criticize Trump and the tenure of his presidency.
"In contrast, President Trump inherited a country marching towards greater equality and divided us with racist appeals and hateful rhetoric," Bloomberg added. "The challenge of the moment is clear: we must confront this President and do everything we can to defeat him."
A federal judge ruled the "stop-and-frisk" policy in practice was racially discriminatory in 2013, the last year of Bloomberg’s term. Bloomberg has since defended the practice, but he formally apologized shortly after announcing his presidential campaign in November.
So what I see here is that this is going to create more in-fighting among the Democrats.
Also ... Is Bloomberg going to even qualify for the debate(s) before Super Tuesday? I know that there was some rule that was up in the air about it. Let's just say that it might benefit Bloomberg's campaign more if he doesn't qualify because of this leaked audio.
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