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JOE BIDEN BRUSHES OFF SANDERS’ CRITICISM OVER IRAQ WAR: ‘BERNIE’S GOT ENOUGH BAGGAGE’
I dont think that will work well in a debate…
I have to say that the more I hear Biden, the less I like him. He’s really dropped his jovial, nice, guy mask.
“Lyin’ dog-faced pony show” – is that how Biden prefaced his reponse? What??
I mean, the young man did ask him if he’d lied (harsh), but…really?
https://twitter.com/BetaODork/status/1213603561222869004
The stain of “you have to pass it to see what’s in it” was a Dem mistake that will live with them until M4A is the law of the land.
intervention.
i don’t know this reporter, but let’s call it war.
Ocasio-Cortez Says Trump Is a ‘Monster’ for ‘Threatening to Target and Kill Innocent Families, Women, and Children’ in Iran
The orange misshapened blob is so stupid. He’s crazy, too. How does this human garbage always end up on top???? T and R, LD!!
Soleimani’s Assassination: The Mafia Would Have Been Proud
and Americans are in more danger. it’s a rule in life—someone has to stand up to the bully. and this may be the biggest bully of a regime that we’ve had. gd it
in a long line of more clever, more subtle bullies.
The Mainstream Media Is a Cheerleader for War With Iran
i love stories of minds changed. i get the stink eye or ears plugged lalalala.
Tech Companies Owe Us Billions of Dollars
Jagmeet Singh Uses AOC, Bernie Sanders To Explain The NDP To Americans
My SIL up in Toronto thinks AOC is too left. I was surprised when she said that tbh (and I’m sure that my face gave me away, which is fine, I hope my surprised face got stored in her memory). SIL would probably be the equivalent here of today’s ‘liberal’, somewhat moderate, Democrat.
These words from Jagmeet make me understand my SIL better because the Liberal Party in Canada, and their supporters, often look down on the NDP, sort of the equivalent of how the comfortable liberals in the Dem party look on their left wing. And if Jagmeet is going around comparing NDP to AOC and Bernie then many Canadian Liberals would then assume that AOC and Bernie are too left for them, even without having any real reasons to think that way. They get brainwashed up there too.
what if, just what if, the democratic party had paid attention to voting?
both factions are still thinking about playing games to ensure their margins
of course dems are better, but they have not made it a fundamental issue
it is in HB1, but the dems have not been raising hell that it has not passed the senate
they don’t want it, they’re installing new, hackable voting machines as we speak, too.
Take it from your fellow Floridian political junkie: 2 Reasons why Gore lost FL. Number 1–Bush (jeb!) Crime Family machinations. Number 2–(equally important) Ralph Nader’s ego. Nader refused point-blank to drop out even when his own staff begged him to do so. They knew the Bush crooks were cooking the votes. In general though, Gore was not a good candidate. The 2000 POTUS turnout was abysmal. Gore did not carry his own state, TN.
didn’t realize this about going to Gang of 8
so, when W Bush’s office went to them and told them about torture, they couldn’t speak up because that was classified info
but, since Gang of 8 not briefed before killing Iran general, there are no NATIONAL SECURITY secrets that they have to hide
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this in no way takes Nancy Pelosi off the hook for not impeaching W Bush for war in Iraq
it was “off the table”
the table of the neo liberals
importance of transcendence
for centuries it was Religion in its various forms was transcendent across cultures
then The Enlightenment and to this day, Science has been transcendent (how can you argue with a fact) and there was an essential need to be able to stand up to religious wars, so secularism, states and science were invented in the 1600’s . And Science for most was separate from politics, and our founding fathers were products of The Enlightenment and used thoughts from their time that included facts and truth with the ultimate source being science.
power of science now clipped by politics and religion, especially by climate deniers who claim that scientists are another form of politicians
politics has been squashed since Plato, and who doesn’t know the secret that politicians suck (look at how smart I am that I know some special esoteric knowledge that kids learn by kindergarten)
religion and other ignored modes of being need to be brought into the collective as earthbounds (former humans) deal with the anthropocene and Gaia
for many fundamentalists, religion has always been transcendent, and politicians are masters at using religion to divide collectives
all three, religion, science and politics need to be brought back to earth to face Gaia before “rational” humans destroy their own race
meanwhile, here on earth
Thanks Trump.
USA has become transcendent!!!
Fleeing offshore to not be bound by the earth, or Gaia
(offshore in sense of oligarchs sending their money offshore, moving to New Zealand, or even the fantasy of going to Mars)
the article in the tweet
As Sanders and Warren Vow to Block War With Iran, Biden and Buttigieg Offer Better-Run Wars
Max Blumenthal at an anti war protest outside White House yesterday
a terrific speech
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I have been following Matt Stoller on twitter for several months. He tweets a lot.
In the last couple of days, stopped following Matt who spends almost all the time on economics and monopoly. And am now following Max Blumenthal on twitter