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thanks for posting it.

it would be kind of funny if Biden were ahead based on votes counted as of election night, and Trump had to argue that we should wait for the mail-ins to be counted in order to retain any claim to a win.  But I’m not sure even he has the balls to make that argument, after all his complaints about mail-ins.

So yeah, if it’s a close , I think…[Read more]

Until then, all you’re really talking about is campaign messaging.

Beyond, I doubt Biden’s got enough marbles left to think much of anything about economic matters.

that was part of what was so scandalous about it; it was about as close as you could get to admitting the decision was bad law without saying so in so many words.

Imho, Kavanaugh’s behavior during his confirmation should have brought into question his fitness to practice law, nevermind his fitness for the Supreme Court; and this reference to Bush…[Read more]

to me, this is getting into damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t territory.  Yes, words matter; but I can only keep up with so many ways of avoiding offense, especially when they seem to change every few years.  Isn’t the important thing really the intent, as manifested in actions?

you’ll find more of it on media they don’t control.

If you want info re- malfeasance re- Russian elites, you’ll find more if it on media they don’t control.

He’s offering to fulfill the minimum requirement.

are some of what the IRS should have been auditing instead of the middle and lower classes.

GO BERNIE!!!

Looking to see if it was recorded.

Biden is a Republican-Lite neoliberal and I’ll be shocked if his cabinet is any friendlier to the 99% than Obama’s was.

because I lived in a city with a legacy of socialism.  That city also had the best public highway and park systems of any place I’ve lived or visited.

Too much of that sort of thing has been dismantled through the myriad defundings that followed on Reagan’s successful appeal to individual, short-term greed.

The solution is not “choice” but a…[Read more]

I find it notable that Bernie’s been campaigning so hard for Biden while Obama’s done little or none – and notable that that’s been so little acknowledged in the media.

Wonder if they’ll have the gall to blame Bernie if Biden loses.

because we have a right to know about corruption on the part of our government.

I have to agree.  A lot of it has been either repetitive or speculative, and beyond getting accurate info, there’s not that much we can do about it.  And meanwhile, a host of other important issues have been ignored.

they should carry shotguns.

at this point, the problem is not some kind of naive, misplaced faith in the power of capitalism to solve problems; it’s the recognition that one way to get rich is to get the gov’t to give you money.

If R&D dollars are given to scientists who work for the gov’t, the recipients are at least indirectly accountable to the people.  If they’re given…[Read more]

Apart from that, note that the article doesn’t even try to consider the time and energy wasted by consumers in dealing with our chaotic system.  From the time I left my employer’s insurance until I qualified for Medicare, I estimate I spent several thousand hours analyzing and selecting plans, trying to find decent docs & other providers on my…[Read more]

The rest of us are not.

Rudy has been promising major revelations for months if not years, but they’ve yet to materialize.  I thought maybe he was holding back until closer to the election, but if that was the strategy, he may be waiting too long, given the volume of early voting.