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Here at Top Comments we welcome longtime as well as brand new Daily Kos readers to join us at 10pm Eastern. We strive to nourish community by rounding ...
by Chitown Kev
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on Fri Mar 22, 2024 at 07:01 PM PDT
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If the Republican party’s strategy of exploiting fake issues keeps working, they’ll keep using it. If you know of anyone who has been falling for the right’s current demagoguery, show them the cartoon above.
by Perlinator
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on Fri Mar 08, 2024 at 08:19 PM PST
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Pardon me if I cannot remember which Republican strategist or Never Trumper on MSNBC said that Vivek Ramaswamy is a “big idea guy.”� But I have heard on more than one occasion�from some pundits ...
by Merlin196360
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on Wed Aug 09, 2023 at 05:00 AM PDT
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Gallup polling from the month of April got the answers above. I’ll do some interpreting if I may. They don’t say Joe Biden, they say government. I often hear the sentiment that government isn’t really working out for people, that the people in charge...
by Somchai
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on Thu May 04, 2023 at 12:59 PM PDT
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The R-MAGA Fascists seem to be singing the MASH song, “Suicide Is Painless!” For decades the Republicans ignored all of the polls indicating that a vast majority of the voters favored the Roe v. Wade decision. The reason why the Republicans did not pay...
by Steve McKeand
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on Tue Apr 11, 2023 at 11:25 AM PDT
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In thinking of all the bile and the depths to which our country has sunken to in politics, I just keep thinking about the quote from Golda Meir. Hers was about peace and education. Our country is not built upon extremism. Our country was supposed to be...
by iarnstein
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on Sat Nov 12, 2022 at 11:43 PM PST
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Welcome to � Nuts & Bolts , a guide to Democratic campaigns. I’ve helped write this series for years, using information from campaign managers, finance directors, field directors, trainers, and ...
by Christopher Reeves
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on Sun Sep 25, 2022 at 04:30 PM PDT
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Batwoman takes on such issues as: Policing Race Crime Privatize Prisons Healthcare treatment & cost Drug use Homophobia Racial bias and Profiling Homelessness Wrongful Convictions Systemic Racism in Media Implementing a Surveillance State Felons...
by Kaizar
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on Wed Feb 23, 2022 at 12:34 PM PST
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A “disclaimer of sorts” before beginning: I won’t be issuing more than one blog most days...or maybe ever again, and there will be days when I don’t post any. However, this is a fairly recent one that was posted on another site, but I thought it was...
by leftwisdom
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on Sat May 29, 2021 at 02:05 PM PDT
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I greatly admire people like Greta Thunberg. She is not only politically aware but she became politically active. More power to her. i first became aware of politics when I was 7 or so. I admit I did not know much, but I watched presidential election...
by BFSkinner
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on Thu Jul 16, 2020 at 09:35 PM PDT
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That is all.
by JamesC
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on Sat Mar 07, 2020 at 10:57 AM PST
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He’s not going to win any beauty contests. He’s not going to compete on America’s got Talent. He doesn’t dance. But he doesn’t need any of that. Why? Because he’s the only one left presenting Medicare for All, eliminating student debt, and so on, and...
by Ryan in FL
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on Wed Jan 22, 2020 at 01:02 PM PST
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The Congressman who voted NO. The NO votes against the working class citizens in #NC13 continue to rack up from Republican Rep. Ted Budd. Let's review the votes so far for 2020 Voted NO on HR-...
by HuffmanForNC
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on Tue Jan 21, 2020 at 05:00 AM PST
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What do you think would happen if you were discovered unconscious behind the wheel of your vehicle? Do you think you would be treated as a medical emergency or like a drunk driver? According to an ABC story this is how one department treated their...
by Michael Kal
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on Tue Dec 17, 2019 at 06:06 PM PST
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Here is a selection of some of the best lines from the debate tonight.
The Clorox moment.
Racism
Heath care is a right.
Hyde Amendment
Equal Pay
Climate Change
Mass Incarceration
Socialism
Health Insurance
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by AKALib
10 comments
on Wed Jul 31, 2019 at 08:18 PM PDT
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After watching the first debate, I went through all the missing issues that I wish the debates would have addressed and I know that there is another debate tomorrow but it is highly unlikely that any of these issues will be addressed there either....
by disoffshore
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on Wed Jul 31, 2019 at 11:41 AM PDT
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Yesterday, in reporting on the latest straw poll, Kos commented, “Pete Buttigieg is the opposite of Warren. He doesn’t even have an issues page on his website—still.” In what I’m sure is just a coincidence (Kos doesn’t have THAT much influence), I got...
by voomer
80 comments
on Thu May 16, 2019 at 05:20 PM PDT
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Greg Dworkin made me conscious of this more than anyone—the national media focus on the “horse race” among candidates, not on issues. That focus is debilitating, misleading, and useless!
On MSNBC a moment ago, the tiresome Andrea Mitchell was...
by Naxet
8 comments
on Tue Apr 23, 2019 at 09:46 AM PDT
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Obviously we need to protect our Democracy and restrain Donald Trump. Everybody knows that and it’s on-going. But, there are other issues which Democrats would like to tackle. In no particular order, though there are global, international, and national...
by SummerStorm
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on Sun Mar 17, 2019 at 01:14 PM PDT
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For some reason I missed how badly the previous version with the same name needed editing. I hope this is a bit more readable. Thank you for your kind indulgence...
As much as we are all transfixed by the phenomenon of a singularly unqualified,...
by Ebenezer
12 comments
on Thu Mar 14, 2019 at 02:08 AM PDT
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