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was that your #1?
Yes it is.
was that your #1?
I don't think we'll be hearing much about AOC in another 2 years. She's upsetting a lot of people, which would be fine if she were dignified and logical like Tulsi, but she's not. The leadership in her own party doesn't want her around. Their probably letting her take herself out with her own words.
Nonsense. Washington was part of the ultra rich class. Learn your history. Labels do not change anything, Norway is a socialist nation, owning the primary sources of income, both the oil industry and the fishing industry. Your labeling of the "mega rich" is in itself a lie when claiming it is class with unlimited power to influence politics. Even the most wealthy have limitations. The aristocracy of this nation is the over compensate athletes and entertainers, and they are too busy loving themselves to say more than glancing phrase toward politics.
You are being dishonest with yourself. You are equating "economic standing" with morality.
Not only YES, but H-E Double Hockey Sticks YES!!!
I would love to see the exploded heads and crapped knockers of Right Wing Nuts if on some early November election night AOC would be declared our "president elect".
Have no clue haw she might be at being president, but the scene of Right Wing defeat to that socialist would be true poetry!
I'm aware that George Washington was very wealthy. My point is that just because Washington was rich and was a good citizen doesn't mean that all rich people are going to be good citizens. Also, Norway still isn't a socialist state. According to the most recent report on the "ease of doing business," Norway actually has a freer economy than the United States (source). Also, the rich can, in fact, be a threat to democracy. Have you heard of the robber barons?
Perhaps my point was put forth in a clunky manner. I wasn't trying to say all rich folk are morally depraved. As I mentioned elsewhere in my post, some donate generously to charities. Anybody of any economic standing can be vile and anybody of any economic standing can be virtuous.
First, he's a drooling idiot. He's also a bigoted, racist liar, a shyster, and possibly a criminal. He is a dull, amoral scumbag, as well. Finally, I disagree with him passionately on multiple issues, and I find his cult annoying at best.
So no, I won't be voting for Tweety. Ever.
Yes, she is of age (in this hypothetical). This is a generic question. No opponents are named. This is just a question of would you ever vote her president or not.
So dismissing what you call the 'random' racist that exists here or there is your answer. And just like it's not the job of the GOP to forward a social issue, it's not my job to try to please your demands. After all, I'm a crazy liberal, nothing I say would convince you racism is alive and well in america.
You might want to learn the English language first if you think I’m projecting. I don’t look at women as just baby ovens and agree a woman has the right to choose what she does with her body unlike you anti choice fake freedom fascists.
You want to argue WHY - I am not going to argue WHY. I simply recognize reality and history.
Once upon a time - perhaps you could hide the great disparity of wealth - but today, with mass media and mass communications and education and information - it cannot be hidden any longer. But even in places like France in the late 1700's - revolution hit and hit hard. Let them eat cake was not a good solution to the problem of income inequality.
I happen to love this country and its people and I do not want to see ripped apart in the pursuit of far right wing beliefs that do not serve the great numbers of the American people.
And I really do not think people object to riches. What they object to is somebody having a vast mountain of riches while so many else have relatively nothing.
We need to cut out the extremes and bring the sides closer. I do not object when somebody earns tens of millions a year and enjoys their hard work and the fruits of it. I do think billions a year - mostly making money from money - is what people object to and want curbed and controlled.
That's fine, I totally understand because that is basically how felt/feel about Obama.
Isn't it great we live in a country were we have the freedom to vote however we feel. eace
That's not crazy. That is a valid question. In response to a foreign policy person telling you that you can't use them. The correct response is why can't we use them. If your enemy knows you won't use them, then what good are they as a threat? That correct stance is what got the NK missiles to stop flying over our allies heads. Your stance that we won't use them is the reason they were flying in the first place. NK knew Obama wouldn't do jack squat except draw another red line.Yes it is.
Thank you for running away and proving my usual assumptions correct on the matter.
First, I am not dismissing the act of some random person, who most likely did as such in that bathroom as a childish stunt. Or the white nationalist in Charlottesville, or what was said concerning DeSantis (that you chose not to cite). I'm acknowledging that there are stupid people all over, though not in the numbers that account for the entire populace. I'm not the one trying to make a case that everyone is racist, simply because of a few outliers.
I gave you a chance to prove something, anything for that matter. But I knew you couldn't do it. I hoped for a moment that you would, though that same hope has been dashed more times than not in the past.
I'll just go ahead and say that I'm done with you now. Because it's obvious that you're not going to supply anything but your own version of reality on this matter.
I suspect his policies are far more the motivation for your dislike.
No not at a federal level, but 29 states control the vote. Secondly where did I say electorals HAD to vote a certain way? Please cite my post.
Hey guys...we found someone who self-identified.
Disparities in wealth and circumstances are not an evil to be solved by the socialist government. Even if disparities in wealth were an evil the government could not eliminate it without making everybody poor. It cannot make everybody rich and it cannot stop poor people from envying the rich.
Oh hey, look. This sounds exactly like the Trump people.
Nope. Your sentiment and intent matches theirs exactly. Only the tribal Jersey is changed.Except for the fact I full well know my vote would be premeditated and fired for effect.
Most Trump voters aka Trump people are totally clueless why they do the things they do or have done.
Big difference there, big, big difference,
Can you please be done with me forever and just skip over anything from me? Please.
Nope. Your sentiment and intent matches theirs exactly. Only the tribal Jersey is changed.
That's not crazy. That is a valid question. In response to a foreign policy person telling you that you can't use them. The correct response is why can't we use them. If your enemy knows you won't use them, then what good are they as a threat? That correct stance is what got the NK missiles to stop flying over our allies heads. Your stance that we won't use them is the reason they were flying in the first place. NK knew Obama wouldn't do jack squat except draw another red line.
Washington grew hemp. Not marijuana.Our wealthiest president was George Washington, and he turned down a king ship so he could sit on his porch smoking pipes of pot.
The wealthy often store their capital in ways that do not, in fact, generate further economic activity.Money that sits diminishes in value, purchasing power. The wealthy do not sit on their money, they invest it to make more money, the capitalization of businesses that earn profits. Businesses create jobs....
lol... No, inheritance isn't earned by the inheritor. How silly.People have to earn their wealth, even those who inherit. For those who inherit, they must either learn to invest and earn increased wealth or watch that wealth dissipate.
The problem with the "philanthropy" argument is that the wealthy are getting wealthier that before, because of tax cuts. Instead of the public having some input on how we allocate resources to public goods, it's controlled by a small group who got wealthy, in no small part, because they figured out how to manipulate and alter the tax code to their advantage.It is still the wealthy who compete to underwrite the philanthropies of this nation for the public good. It is still the wealthy who supply the majority of tax revenues.
sighNo one is responsible for your lack of wealth other than you, and your failures give you no right to steal from those who have accumulated wealth.