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Splinty

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The Creepy Joe accusations we all knew would come out are going better than I thought they would.

I honestly think it'll all blow over within a few months.
Are you going to have a meltdown every time Buttigieg mentions the value of religion and Jesus' teachings? If so, I'm double sold.
 

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He is as annoyed as I am with the question and the tone in which it's asked lol


View: https://youtu.be/85MbBnq94NU
That B&B train!
But the Dems for right and wrong reasons are interested in a non white guy being on the ticket. So at the end of the day, you'll have to get one of the two and pick someone else.

Which do you pick? Who's a good match to a winning combo?

Buttgieg is an obvious smart VP given the traditional need for experience and not usually going mayor to Pres. But who would be his Prez?
Biden could bring along just about anyone and get elected this go around since Trump can't just let the market ride and he's playing angry candidate against himself.

I was on the Castro train as he was a very pragmatic smart mayor in San Antonio. But he's fallen into a parody of himself trying to get more attention than Beto:

Julián Castro’s endorsement blunder

Candidate Julian Castro Calls ‘Bullsh-t’ on Maher’s Defense of Biden – Rolling Stone


Spartacus has kept a low profile so far and I would be all for a Biden/Spartacus run.

Kamala Harris keeps making smart moves like the teacher push, but her past keeps coming back to haunt her and she's always on the defensive.
She is awesome when she gets to give her answers to a supportive audience...
Is America ready for an all-female 2020 ticket? Kamala Harris wants to find out. - CNNPolitics

Also, this guy's loaded question is the kind of stuff that will make the Dems lose as no normal person wants to be linked up with that guy. That guy got Trump elected.
 

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That B&B train!
But the Dems for right and wrong reasons are interested in a non white guy being on the ticket. So at the end of the day, you'll have to get one of the two and pick someone else.

Which do you pick? Who's a good match to a winning combo?

Buttgieg is an obvious smart VP given the traditional need for experience and not usually going mayor to Pres. But who would be his Prez?
Biden could bring along just about anyone and get elected this go around since Trump can't just let the market ride and he's playing angry candidate against himself.

I was on the Castro train as he was a very pragmatic smart mayor in San Antonio. But he's fallen into a parody of himself trying to get more attention than Beto:

Julián Castro’s endorsement blunder

Candidate Julian Castro Calls ‘Bullsh-t’ on Maher’s Defense of Biden – Rolling Stone


Spartacus has kept a low profile so far and I would be all for a Biden/Spartacus run.

Kamala Harris keeps making smart moves like the teacher push, but her past keeps coming back to haunt her and she's always on the defensive.
She is awesome when she gets to give her answers to a supportive audience...
Is America ready for an all-female 2020 ticket? Kamala Harris wants to find out. - CNNPolitics

Also, this guy's loaded question is the kind of stuff that will make the Dems lose as no normal person wants to be linked up with that guy. That guy got Trump elected.
LoL @ Julian Castro
Him and his nerd brother were so Mexican they had to buy Ingles Sin Barreras to learn Spanish. They're the Cain Velasquez of politics...

 

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The Border Is Broken. And There’s No Plan to Fix It.
http://archive.is/eMDGf

At the current pace of nearly 100,000 migrants each month, officials say more than a million will have tried to cross the border in a 12-month period — the equivalent of 1 percent of the population of Guatemala and Honduras.
. The smugglers have told them they will be quickly released, as long as they bring a child, and that they will be allowed to remain in the United States for years while they pursue their asylum cases.
Yet, perversely, the president’s own anti-immigrant rhetoric has helped supercharge the pipeline of migrants from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. Smugglers lately have been buying radio ads in Central America, warning that Mr. Trump is about to shut down all immigration. If you ever want to go to the United States, they say, go now!
“They said they would take us by bus. We would be safe,” said Jeremias Pascoal, 16, who crossed into Texas earlier this month after paying $3,200 for a “guide” who showed his group to a road where he said they could surrender to the Border Patrol.
Experts say the president is not wrong when he says that “legal loopholes” in America’s immigration system are partly responsible for encouraging migrants to bring children like Jeremias on a dangerous journey that in some cases ends in tragedy.
Blanca Vasquez, who fled Honduras after gangs killed her husband and torched their home, passed a credible fear interview at the border in 2013. She was released and settled in northern Texas, where she got a janitorial job and waited for her day in court. About a year later, she said, she unintentionally missed her first hearing and was most likely ordered deported for failing to appear.
She’s not sure, because she stopped going to court at all. “I got confused,” she said. “I ask God to look after me. There are too many problems in my country; I want to stay here.”
Maria Perez, a Honduran who joined a caravan with her 8-year-old son, Yunior, in November, waited two months in Tijuana for the chance to apply for asylum after her son’s father was killed by a man who continued to threaten her family. When her number — 1,506 — was finally called, she and her son were soon released to await their court hearings under the juvenile protection laws. She lives now with a friend in Northern California, but she does not have a lawyer and isn’t sure how to proceed with her case.
What's the larger Dem plan for immigration?

A large quantity of those people do and do not meet asylum requirements. It is ostensibly immigration that elected Trump, Brexit, etc. It is a moral failure to solve the problem half in/half out as we have done for 30 years.
So what's the counter to Trump?
 

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Castro
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...bd41a2ce4d5_story.html?utm_term=.588fb954175d

Castro says his plan is premised on the idea that the southern border is more secure than it has been in decades. The former head of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and mayor of San Antonio would end border wall construction, allow deported veterans who honorably served to return to the United States, increase refugee quotas and make it easier for family members to be reunited with relatives who are U.S. residents. He would ask Congress to provide a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants living in the United States, including young people who received protections under the Obama administration and those covered by the Temporary Protected Status program.

He said he would also create a “21st-century Marshall Plan” for Central America to attack the woeful conditions there, seen as the root cause of the recent increase in asylum seekers. For those who reach the country’s interior, he would reconstitute the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, or ICE, by reassigning its interior enforcement functions to other agencies, including the Justice Department. He would also re-prioritize Customs and Border Protection efforts to focus on drug and human trafficking instead of interior law enforcement.

By repealing the criminal code that allows the Trump administration to prosecute people who enter the country, Castro would remove the mechanism that previously allowed the administration to separate asylum-seeking parents and children after detention. Trump has since stopped those prosecutions, though single adults continue to face criminal penalties. Castro said he would impose a civil legal process for sorting out refugee applications and deportations, with an emphasis on jailing and removing only those with criminal records.
Revoke all of Trump's moves + essentially remove ICE from the border + asylum + DACA + remove criminal penalties + increase family sponsorship and make it easier and faster.



Dead on arrival.
 

Freeloading Rusty

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Bernie Sanders and Beto O'Rourke release their tax returns – as it happened
 

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If these people would talk to a VA doc they would RUN from any govt. run healthcare. Anyone who thinks this is a good idea you have no clue what you are talking about. I could spend the entire day telling horror stories on the way it's run and patient care. The nurses are a union. They won't go to the pharmacy for injection meds a doc needs to give to his patient. They say it's not their job. This kind of thing goes on all day every day. Their system is still DOS based. Nurses won't assist docs for procedures. They have vertical management so the docs can't supervise a nurse. They don't have enough derms so pics are sent out to residents. 50% just based on pics are misdiagnosed. Not really the residents fault because you have to see a patient. It's the system that's the problem. You think a system with 100's of millions more people will be run better? No thanks.
 

Freeloading Rusty

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Bernie ran that Fox News Town Hall.

Bernie owned that female host in a respectful way. She looked silly numerous times.
 

Freeloading Rusty

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These fucks thinking they are owning Bernie by pointing out he doesnt donate his earnings based off his proposed tax brackets. Funny shit. The guy is clearly aware he will have to do the same if everyone has to do so.