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AlmightyBender
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But they could certainly have been. Democratic party does not have monopoly on consisting of good people.
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US Election 2020 - Pt 2
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greg0205
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I mean I remember a prominent registered Democrat saying, "In many cases, I probably identify more as Democrat... It just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats than the Republicans. Now, it shouldn't be that way. But if you go back, I mean it just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats...But certainly we had some very good economies under Democrats, as well as Republicans. But we've had some pretty bad disaster under the Republicans" in the early 00s.
He turned out to be real garbage 'tho.
Think his name started with a "D"... Douglas, no... Donovan, no... Doug, no... Give me a minute, it'll come to me.
rietrot
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Lol does his amazing character make up for the lack of mind? Or how exactly does a battle of heart, mind and character work in this case.
Still wierd and cringe that supposed Republicans are basically campaign for the other side.
Oh please do elucidate me more on Bidens mental acuity, when you look at Trump's answer to Hannities question about what was in store for Trump's second term?
A complete word salad of rubbish, that has nothing to do with answering a simple straight forward question from his greatest fan.
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Opinion | The No Debate Democrats
Forty-five Senators block a police reform from hitting the floor.
www.wsj.com
For those who don't have access.
TysonRoux
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House passes wide-ranging Democratic police reform bill
The House approved a police reform bill proposed by Democrats on Thursday night, after Senate Democrats blocked a more modest proposal from moving forward in the Senate a day earlier. The bill passed with a vote of 236 to 181, with three Republicans — Representatives Brian Fitzpatrick, Will Hurd and Fred Upton — joining the Democrats to vote in favor.
"This year in Congress, the only way we can ensure that a policing reform bill is signed into law is by coming to the table with all parties, in good faith, to finally end this injustice," Fitzpatrick, a representative from Pennsylvania, said in a statement. The bill will now go to the Senate, where Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said it will not pass the Republican-held chamber.
The bill, titled the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, comes amid continuing protests against police brutality and racial violence that have rocked cities across the country. Floyd, a black man, was killed in May by a Minneapolis police officer who pinned his knee to his neck for nearly nine minutes.
"Today we have the opportunity and the obligation to ensure that his death and the death of so many others is not in vain," Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a press conference on the steps of the Capitol Thursday morning. Pelosi noted that Thursday marks exactly one month since Floyd was killed.
The legislation, spearheaded by Congressional Black Caucus Chairwoman Karen Bass, would ban chokeholds and no-knock warrants in drug cases and reform qualified immunity, making it easier to pursue claims against police officers in civil court.
"A profession where you have the power to kill should be a profession where you have highly trained officers who are accountable to the public," Bass said at the press conference.
House passes sweeping police reform bill
The vote on Democrats' bill comes one day after the Senate failed to advance a narrower GOP proposal.
www.politico.com
The House approved a police reform bill proposed by Democrats on Thursday night, after Senate Democrats blocked a more modest proposal from moving forward in the Senate a day earlier. The bill passed with a vote of 236 to 181, with three Republicans — Representatives Brian Fitzpatrick, Will Hurd and Fred Upton — joining the Democrats to vote in favor.
"This year in Congress, the only way we can ensure that a policing reform bill is signed into law is by coming to the table with all parties, in good faith, to finally end this injustice," Fitzpatrick, a representative from Pennsylvania, said in a statement. The bill will now go to the Senate, where Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said it will not pass the Republican-held chamber.
The bill, titled the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, comes amid continuing protests against police brutality and racial violence that have rocked cities across the country. Floyd, a black man, was killed in May by a Minneapolis police officer who pinned his knee to his neck for nearly nine minutes.
"Today we have the opportunity and the obligation to ensure that his death and the death of so many others is not in vain," Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a press conference on the steps of the Capitol Thursday morning. Pelosi noted that Thursday marks exactly one month since Floyd was killed.
The legislation, spearheaded by Congressional Black Caucus Chairwoman Karen Bass, would ban chokeholds and no-knock warrants in drug cases and reform qualified immunity, making it easier to pursue claims against police officers in civil court.
"A profession where you have the power to kill should be a profession where you have highly trained officers who are accountable to the public," Bass said at the press conference.
House passes sweeping police reform bill
The vote on Democrats' bill comes one day after the Senate failed to advance a narrower GOP proposal.
House passes sweeping police reform bill
The vote on Democrats' bill comes one day after the Senate failed to advance a narrower GOP proposal.
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Jabulani22
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People say it's fake , I say it's believable.
Fake news boet.
SoldierMan
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Oh ok, what makes it sad is that you could imagine her saying something like that. Didn't Bill Maher say that he hopes the economy tanks so that Trump will not get reelected. That's the kind of thing you expect from progressives.
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Running For Reelection, Trump Talks Like He’s Running For President Of The Confederacy
Why pander to the “heritage” of a rebellion started solely to defend the right to own Black people as slaves? Critics say it’s simple: He’s a racist.
www.huffpost.com
Donald Trump is running for a second term as president of the United States, but in recent weeks he’s spoken and written as if he wants to be the next president of the Confederacy.
Amid a national uproar over the recent killing of a Black man by a white Minneapolis police officer and an erosion in his own polling numbers, Trump has made the cornerstone of his response a vow to protect monuments and memorials to the leaders of the treasonous rebellion that cost 750,000 lives for the sole purpose of keeping Blacks enslaved.
In speeches, Trump has vowed to protect “our heritage” as protesters around the country call for the removal of memorials to Confederate leaders. He has even threatened to veto a major defense bill that includes a provision requiring renaming military bases that now honor Confederate commanders.
“These Monumental and very Powerful Bases have become part of a Great American Heritage,” Trump wrote in a June 10 statement he posted to Twitter.
Trump has even ordered Interior Secretary David Bernhardt to restore a statue of Confederate Gen. Albert Pike that had been torn down by protesters in Washington, D.C., according to NBC News.
“He obviously thinks it plays with his base,” said David Axelrod, the Democratic consultant who led the campaign of the first African American president, Barack Obama, in 2008.
In 2017, after neo-Nazis marched in Charlottesville, Virginia, and a counterprotester was killed when one of them drove his car into a crowd, Trump defended them for wanting to protect a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and said that there had been “very fine people on both sides” of the violent rally. In 2019, Trump called Lee a “great general.”
White House officials would not respond to HuffPost queries about Trump’s interest in the Confederacy’s heritage.
Why pander to the “heritage” of a rebellion started solely to defend the right to own Black people as slaves? Critics say it’s simple: He’s a racist.
Running For Reelection, Trump Talks Like He’s Running For President Of The Confederacy
Why pander to the "heritage" of a rebellion started solely to defend the right to own Black people as slaves? Critics say it’s simple: He’s a racist.
Donald Trump is running for a second term as president of the United States, but in recent weeks he’s spoken and written as if he wants to be the next president of the Confederacy.
Amid a national uproar over the recent killing of a Black man by a white Minneapolis police officer and an erosion in his own polling numbers, Trump has made the cornerstone of his response a vow to protect monuments and memorials to the leaders of the treasonous rebellion that cost 750,000 lives for the sole purpose of keeping Blacks enslaved.
In speeches, Trump has vowed to protect “our heritage” as protesters around the country call for the removal of memorials to Confederate leaders. He has even threatened to veto a major defense bill that includes a provision requiring renaming military bases that now honor Confederate commanders.
“These Monumental and very Powerful Bases have become part of a Great American Heritage,” Trump wrote in a June 10 statement he posted to Twitter.
Trump has even ordered Interior Secretary David Bernhardt to restore a statue of Confederate Gen. Albert Pike that had been torn down by protesters in Washington, D.C., according to NBC News.
“He obviously thinks it plays with his base,” said David Axelrod, the Democratic consultant who led the campaign of the first African American president, Barack Obama, in 2008.
In 2017, after neo-Nazis marched in Charlottesville, Virginia, and a counterprotester was killed when one of them drove his car into a crowd, Trump defended them for wanting to protect a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and said that there had been “very fine people on both sides” of the violent rally. In 2019, Trump called Lee a “great general.”
White House officials would not respond to HuffPost queries about Trump’s interest in the Confederacy’s heritage.
rietrot
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Whataboutism. How original.Oh please do elucidate me more on Bidens mental acuity, when you look at Trump's answer to Hannities question about what was in store for Trump's second term?
A complete word salad of rubbish, that has nothing to do with answering a simple straight forward question from his greatest fan.
Hamish McPanji
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I think it's weird and cringe that not enough republicans are campaigning for the other side.
TysonRoux
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Trump mocks 'basement' strategy but prudent approach pays off for Biden
www.theguardian.com
Unlike Trump, the Democratic candidate has been cautious about campaigning – and his strategy seems to be working
Joe Biden in Lancaster, Pennsylvania on Thursday. He and hie team have been far more cautious in following the guidelines of health professionals.
Joe Biden’s Republican opponents have gleefully mocked him for effectively hiding out in his basement rather than hitting the campaign trail over the past few months.
But an uncomfortable truth is now setting in for Biden’s critics: his low-key approach to campaigning is paying off.
A swath of new polls have shown Biden leading Donald Trump handsomely in key battleground states and nationally. That’s despite Trump’s eagerness to hit the campaign trail and hold rallies as if the country weren’t in the middle of a national pandemic.
Biden has physically left his basement and house to campaign (on Thursday, for instance, he delivered remarks in Lancaster, Pennsylvania) but he and his team have been far more cautious than the Trump campaign in following health recommendations. Mocking Biden and his “basement” strategy has become part of the larger strategy by Trump and his allies to frame the Democratic candidate as frail and afraid.
But that criticism hasn’t done much to boost Trump.
“Sometimes candidates have trouble getting out of their own way, and the president is a profound example of that,” said Jon-David Schlough, a Democratic strategist. Schlough described Trump as a “destabilizing force” and added: “I think Biden’s strategy is smart. He wants to be a steady hand to guide the country through multiple crises, in contrast to Trump’s recklessness.”
Trump mocks 'basement' strategy but prudent approach pays off for Biden
Unlike Trump, the Democratic candidate has been cautious about campaigning – and his strategy seems to be working
www.theguardian.com
Unlike Trump, the Democratic candidate has been cautious about campaigning – and his strategy seems to be working
Joe Biden in Lancaster, Pennsylvania on Thursday. He and hie team have been far more cautious in following the guidelines of health professionals.
Joe Biden’s Republican opponents have gleefully mocked him for effectively hiding out in his basement rather than hitting the campaign trail over the past few months.
But an uncomfortable truth is now setting in for Biden’s critics: his low-key approach to campaigning is paying off.
A swath of new polls have shown Biden leading Donald Trump handsomely in key battleground states and nationally. That’s despite Trump’s eagerness to hit the campaign trail and hold rallies as if the country weren’t in the middle of a national pandemic.
Biden has physically left his basement and house to campaign (on Thursday, for instance, he delivered remarks in Lancaster, Pennsylvania) but he and his team have been far more cautious than the Trump campaign in following health recommendations. Mocking Biden and his “basement” strategy has become part of the larger strategy by Trump and his allies to frame the Democratic candidate as frail and afraid.
But that criticism hasn’t done much to boost Trump.
“Sometimes candidates have trouble getting out of their own way, and the president is a profound example of that,” said Jon-David Schlough, a Democratic strategist. Schlough described Trump as a “destabilizing force” and added: “I think Biden’s strategy is smart. He wants to be a steady hand to guide the country through multiple crises, in contrast to Trump’s recklessness.”
Trump is the president and should be able to answer basic questions.
AlmightyBender
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Wow. I didn't even realise that. But it illustrates EXACTLY what I'm saying.
konfab
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You should be careful not to let it rot yours as well.
Would be interesting to see how that is distributed geographically though. Remember economies are not homogenous things, especially in a big country like the US.
A big chunk of the Democrat/Republican divide is an urban/rural divide. Urban areas have higher density, so they will get hit harder than rural areas.
If you are asking someone about the general condition of the economy, they are going to be biased towards their local economies. If you are a farmer in the middle of Alabama, the lockdown and related effects are not really going to affect your daily life. Whereas if you are a barista in NYC, your life has probably been turned upside down.
There are also some secondary factors like the recent protests.
If you are in NYC or some other Democrat hellhole with half the shops being boarded up because of peaceful protesting, it would be understandable that things would look bad.
greg0205
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Hell, just this week we had Ruben Diaz running in a primary.
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Trump Overhaul of Campus Sex Assault Rules Wins Surprising Support
http://archive.is/IAzDP
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/us/college-sex-assault-rules.html
http://archive.is/IAzDP
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/us/college-sex-assault-rules.html
Vorastra
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lmao, CNN trying so hard to make Texas and Florida COVID case spike seem worse than California.
They shet on Texas and Florida, and then conveniently talk about how Californian cities are encouraging people to wear masks and so on.
That's some Grade A misleading journalism right there.
They shet on Texas and Florida, and then conveniently talk about how Californian cities are encouraging people to wear masks and so on.
That's some Grade A misleading journalism right there.
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Jim Carrey Paints A Morbid Picture Of Donald Trump’s MAGA Rallies
The president’s “Reckless Endangerment Tour” of pandemic campaign rallies is featured in the “Kidding” actor’s new cartoon.
www.huffpost.com
President Donald Trump delivers a rally speech to headstones in a graveyard in actor Jim Carrey’s new artwork.
The “Kidding” star joined the chorus of criticism being hurled at the president for pressing ahead with 2020 campaign events amid the coronavirus pandemic in his latest anti-Trump piece shared online Thursday.
Carrey called it the “Reckless Endangerment Tour.”
Multiple states this week saw record surges in confirmed cases of COVID-19 and some, including Texas and Florida, have paused plans to further loosen lockdown restrictions.
The president’s “Reckless Endangerment Tour” of pandemic campaign rallies is featured in the “Kidding” actor’s new cartoon.
Jim Carrey Paints A Morbid Picture Of Trump’s MAGA Rallies
The president's "Reckless Endangerment Tour" of pandemic campaign rallies is featured in the "Kidding" actor's new cartoon.
President Donald Trump delivers a rally speech to headstones in a graveyard in actor Jim Carrey’s new artwork.
The “Kidding” star joined the chorus of criticism being hurled at the president for pressing ahead with 2020 campaign events amid the coronavirus pandemic in his latest anti-Trump piece shared online Thursday.
Carrey called it the “Reckless Endangerment Tour.”
Trump, ignoring admonitions from public health experts, spoke at indoor rallies in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday, and in Phoenix on Tuesday.
Multiple states this week saw record surges in confirmed cases of COVID-19 and some, including Texas and Florida, have paused plans to further loosen lockdown restrictions.
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