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Hey, if everybody is going to die anyway, you guys don't mind if we just loot the country right? $500B buys a LOT of beach front property in hell.

Yeah, I have to admit all the business emails with their carefully curated caring make me want to puke. I used to write that shit for a living, so I know desperate attempts at relevancy when I see them. Just shut up and go away. Come back when things change and it's time to re-engage. Nobody needs to hear from you right now.

I think he's more popular because he isn't a woman.

Actual real prosecutors said there was no case against Hillary. This has no resemblance whatsoever to the senate republicans declining to act against Trump. Hell a good number of them said he was guilty, they just didn't care.

I tried to care about this controversy but just can't. Somebody did something shitty on the internet, episode about 16 trillion, for those still trying to keep count.

You assert personal knowledge of the criminality of someone who has been investigated repeatedly to no effect. Why would you not think that people doubt you?

Forgive us if we don't believe you, some random poster on an internet forum, has the magic smoking gun of evil that Hillary has hid from all the republican investigators to date. Well except for your all knowing self. I'm sure you keep that proof right next to your deed to the brooklyn bridge.

If Hillary is a crook, I'm really sad she isn't president. Because apparently she's such an amazingly good crook that despite endless investigations by the republicans attacking her, THEY NEVER FOUND ANYTHING.

Haven't we all forgotten him yet?

I would have voted for Warren in the primary. I won't vote in the primary now, since I'm not a fan of biden or sanders. Whichever one wins the nomination will get my vote in november, but I'm going to focus my giving on senate races.

Ok, that was an image I did not need in my head! First guy is super hot too, but the man bun isn't adding to that, at least to me. Long hair can be hot, but just not the bun. I'm old enough that it just conjures images of school cafeteria lady.

Now that is an excellent view!

Welcome. I was never banned, just decided the signal to noise ratio wasn't working for me and left. My suggestion is to just let it go, and don't look back. I'm not a man bun fan, but you're super hot, so please keep posting!

One of my great annoyances with internet culture is the obsession with having and expressing uniformed opinions. Some of the jurors gave interviews on why they convicted. I found their logic sound. Nobody here, to my knowledge, sat through the entire trial and then deliberated and then had 12 people agree that a crime had occurred. But, hey, let's trash their efforts to achieve justice because we have opinions.

Ha! I had the exact same experience with our President botching a speech I wrote and the CEO calling him on it. The place was kinda fucked up, but they paid a ton, and the work was easy.

As someone who has written a fair number of speeches, this is a common problem. Speakers often think that once they have the speech they're done, and they don't practice at all. Very few are good enough to get away with that. Most of the rest end up feeling like they're reading it, not giving it.

I sat at a table with a bunch of 80 year olds not long ago in Florida. To a one, they all wanted to vote for Biden, including my mother. He does have a demographic.

Great. We're going to have to choose between two old white guys... again.

I just hope the fight is mano a mano. Up close and personal.

Yeah, that worked out so well historically. I guess you think we should have just kept denying black folks voting rights until us whities decided that we loved them enough to share, huh? I do not think your arguments are well considered. We can get better healthcare, cheaper with single payer. I spent my entire career working for corporations. They have one single motive. To make money. If people died in ditches while they profited, they wouldn't care except that such a thing might impact their ability to continue making money. Corporations are soulless profit machines. That's not bad really, but it really does mean that you have to give them strict rules to live within, because they will happily do horribly things to make money. Corporations are very efficient at making a profit. That's their sole purpose. But you really need to ask yourself if making a profit should be the purpose of healthcare, or whether it's to make people better...

I don't think you're thinking this through. If spreading the risk is what insurance is all about, then what better way to manage risk than to make universal healthcare? The insurance companies naturally say, "Give us more customers and profits, yeah, that's the answer!" but think about this practically. Why should we as a society use a more expensive, less efficient model to deliver something essential just so companies can profit. Compare the other 'socialist' institutions of police and fire. Does it make any sense to have people individually sign up for police protection and pay 'police insurance'? Ditto for the fire department? No, it doesn't. As a society we all benefit when the police try to protect everyone and enforce the law on everyone. Ditto for trying to stop stuff from burning down. Because in both cases, failure to protect everyone has costs for everyone. When people get sick who don't have insurance, guess what, when they show up at an emergency room they have to be treated. Guess who pays for that. All of us who pay for our insurance. The simple and direct answer that pretty much every other civilized nation has come up with is to provide care for everyone that everyone pays for.

My father was a physician who consulted all over the US and world on building healthcare systems and ensuring quality care. He was very clear that single payer healthcare systems provided better care that was far cheaper. There is plenty of empirical research to back up this position for those who care to actually inform themselves. I am also a bit baffled why this has become a party divide issue. When I worked in a start up, one of the top three issues of pretty much every company was how to get healthcare for employees. The lack of universal healthcare that is portable and dependable negatively impacts startups and new business activity all over the country. It is part of the essential safety net that people need to step out and try new stuff. I guess telling women what to do with their bodies is more important than making sure they and we have them.

It is unlikely. But my point is that THAT is the kind of socialism that Bernie wants. It isn't scary. Our European friends do quite well with it.

If we get socialism like Europe has it, I would be very happy. Our healthcare system is awful. It costs much more and produces worse results. But, hey, insurance companies are making bank so go capitalism!

The food pyramid and the like certainly impacted what I ate because my mother paid attention to it. See my previous comments about how she's still obsessed with low fat, but thinks carbs are great. It may not have impacted your family, but it was an enabler for a lot of diabetics. That is not to say that personal responsibility isn't key. It is. But it is harder when you are given bad information.