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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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Join Date: Mar 2006
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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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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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Snowflake
Join Date: Mar 2006
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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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still says videotape
Join Date: Feb 2001
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I hear ya.
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Read? I only know how to write.
Join Date: Jan 2001
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Most of us do not grasp or demand details (always demand numbers). Most of us only hear soundbytes that also proved cigarette improve health and that Saddam has WMDs to threaten America. In both cases, only a minority (the educated) knew otherwise. |
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