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|  04-19-2016, 04:00 PM | #1 | 
| Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia 
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				Politics is a thing.
			 
			
			People can talk about politics for a long time, and the issue never gets quite settled. Once upon a time... people wrote a 47-page thread about Mitt Romney. A couple of years later, they haven't posted the words "Bernie Sanders" in over a month. Are there any people at this place anymore? I heard a rumor that the New York primaries are on this very day. Has anyone else heard about that? 
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|  04-19-2016, 04:20 PM | #2 | 
| I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 
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			My son's girlfriend shook Bernie's hand a couple weeks ago.  You want me to see if she'll send you a picture of her hand?
		 
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|  04-19-2016, 04:25 PM | #3 | 
| Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia 
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			Yes, but not for that reason.
		 
				__________________ ****************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio | 
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|  04-19-2016, 04:25 PM | #4 | 
| I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 
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				 |  OMG! She did it! Just for you! I'm so happy for you! 
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|  04-19-2016, 04:31 PM | #5 | |
| The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is 
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  "You got a purty hand."[/carlchilders] 
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|  04-19-2016, 08:01 PM | #6 | |
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 Other Ferd Sheed: Some question. It's supposed to generate discussion. Ferd Sheed: I'm not gonna answer it--you answer it. Other Ferd Sheed: Let's get tw! Ferd Sheed: Yeah. Other Ferd Sheed: He won't ignore it ... he answers everything. | |
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|  04-19-2016, 08:41 PM | #7 | 
| UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX 
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			My brother is a big Bernie fan, and is living in NY right now. But he also won't go volunteer or do anything about it except argue with people on Facebook about how awful Hillary is.  Me, I care, but I live in a shitty state that won't matter in the general. I voted for Bernie in the Dem primary, that's the most I could do. | 
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|  04-19-2016, 08:49 PM | #8 | 
| The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 
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			I'm afraid Bernie would be another Jimmy Carter. I'm also afraid trump would be another Richard Nixon.    
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|  04-19-2016, 09:24 PM | #9 | 
| barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 
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			For the first time in my life, I don't think I'm gonna vote.  The stage is set.  The game is fixed.  Hillary was chosen back when she through her support behind a young black upstart.  Heck, Ferd Sheed or Rint Flice could have beaten any R running in '08.  The elites need the Clinton machine now far more than they did then.
		 
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|  04-19-2016, 09:48 PM | #10 | 
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			Bernie for Vice President?
		 
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|  04-20-2016, 06:33 AM | #11 | 
| still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 
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			He needs to be back in the Senate holding their feet to the fire. We're looking at a failed Presidency and I wonder about a failed state eventually. We become assholes when we talk about politics, almost by design. We're going to have to all start engaging with our government. Find a policy area you care about and work the system.  Otherwise It's beginning to look a lot like Russia, everywhere you go. Take a look in the Wally World, selling throw away crap to plebes With Chinese pants and toxic treats aglow. It's beginning to look a lot like Russia, prisons from coast to coast, lighting up criminals like toast, street cameras to record your every flaw The thieving oligarchs large and in charge. messy but you get the point 
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|  04-20-2016, 01:48 PM | #12 | 
| Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia 
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			What if any reasonable proposal in congress would result in gridlock, anyway? Could someone making an attempt to nudge American politics a few degrees back from the far-right leaning course it's been on since the 1980s possibly make more of a contribution to society by having a national spotlight to change the dialogue? Doesn't Bernie need to hold the Executive Branch's feet to the fire, so that all of the left-leaning concessions Clinton has made as campaign promises (and we all know the value of those) might actually continue forward as ideas that are being talked about, past the primary season? 
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|  04-20-2016, 08:24 PM | #13 | 
| still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 
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			Maybe so but people tend to disappear in the Vice Presidency. I don't suspect HRC will be listening to her Vice President in any case.
		 
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|  04-20-2016, 08:29 PM | #14 | 
| Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia 
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			Yes, but he'd have access to TV cameras, and maybe, just maybe he could maintain people's interest, that he's been able to generate for the lifelong issues he's been advocating. Man, it's all wishful thinking at this point.
		 
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|  04-20-2016, 08:33 PM | #15 | 
| still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 
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			I hear ya.
		 
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