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(I’m hoping that President Biden’s speech this morning marks a turning point with respect to this problem. Nonetheless, this problem has been so long-standing, and so deep-seated, that such hopes must be tempered with realism. Even the capture of the...
by AndySchmookler
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on Thu Jan 06, 2022 at 07:12 AM PST
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Look. I’m as big a supporter of the #MeToo movement as anybody, being a survivor of so many workplace situations, the worst of which resulting in a violent assault that has given me PTSD to this day. Women in my age group — I was born in 1950 — could...
by Colorado Blue
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on Sat May 02, 2020 at 10:55 AM PDT
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I’m poking my head out from my typical lurking because of a new article in the New York Times. The headline: Examining Tara Reade’s Sexual Assault Allegation Against Joe Biden. This is not what I was expecting to see in the Times on Easter morning....
by etotoucan
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on Sun Apr 12, 2020 at 10:46 AM PDT
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Re this post from Hunter, Fascism: Hours after Biden wins, Senate Republicans relaunch Biden Probe. It isn't even the slightest bit surprising that the very moment Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden leapt back into frontrunner status,...
by xaxnar
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on Wed Mar 04, 2020 at 02:09 PM PST
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That Elizabeth Warren pregnancy discrimination story has any legs show press' institutional misogyny There is absolutely no doubt that there was pregnancy discrimination in 1971. There was pregnancy discrimination in 1991 when my wife was harassed out of here position at six months. There is pregnancy discrimination today. There are absolutely no...
by wilbur
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on Tue Oct 08, 2019 at 11:40 AM PDT
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Lies not immediately refuted become the audience’s truth.
The longer propaganda is perceived as the truth the harder it is to contradict even when the target audience is exposed to an opposing true message. [1]
Refutations must be simple,...
by George Paine
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on Thu May 09, 2019 at 05:00 AM PDT
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Surprised no one has mentioned this, but we have yet more evidence that the Republican Party is now the Party of Trump. The Republican National Committee’s official Twitter feed decided to echo Trump’s shameful attack on Admiral William McRaven.
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by Darrell Lucus
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on Mon Nov 19, 2018 at 05:14 PM PST
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To my ear, Hillary is clearly saying “we aren’t going to raise taxes on the middle class.” But here, listen for yourself:
We’ll probably be hearing this for at least a few days, and of course forever from the most rabid and delusional anti-Clinton...
by Seele00TextOnly
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on Fri Aug 05, 2016 at 03:46 AM PDT
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I recommend you watch this video in its entirety. It was released in 1991 and it is more revealing than many of the current news, because it reveals a pattern! A scary pattern. I found it very disturbing and had this realization that we are dealing...
by healthy
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on Wed Jul 13, 2016 at 02:52 PM PDT
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All good Democrats should join this important petition to INSIST that Bernie Sanders rein in his (private citizen supporters not working for the campaign) who, in ADDITION to throwing chairs at Chairs, violently insulting elected entitled public...
by Diane Reynolds
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on Fri May 20, 2016 at 12:34 PM PDT
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Edit: Bernie Sanders has released an official statement on the Nevada Democratic State Convention, you can view both parts of it in the pictures on this diary.
Robert Reich: "Debbie Wasserman Schultz, doesn’t care if she alienates Bernie...
by Toby Ziegler
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on Tue May 17, 2016 at 08:49 AM PDT
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“Once is happenstance.
Twice is coincidence.
Three times is enemy action”
It just keeps on happening:
1. The Clinton campaign and/or its supporters make well publicized attacks against Bernie.
2. Then subsequent...
by xynz
33 comments
on Sat Apr 16, 2016 at 06:34 AM PDT
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Bernie has been a staunch supporter of civil rights for most of his life. He was on the ground floor in Chicago. Hilary Clinton not so much. We even have the quotes from random people of the time,
by Istillhope
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on Wed Feb 17, 2016 at 07:21 AM PST
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Like weeds overrunning a garden, the political landscape is being taken over by political weeds. These political weeds include voter suppression, wealthy individuals donating large sums of money to p
by melshim
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on Thu Feb 11, 2016 at 04:41 AM PST
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Professional gutter dweller and head of Hillary's largest SuperPAC, David Brock, today unveiled his latest swift boating attempt against Democratic Presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders, accus
by Bad Cog
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on Fri Jan 22, 2016 at 03:30 PM PST
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I don’t want to sound like a prophet of gloom and doom, but there are some ominous things going on in America and they warrant serious attention. I am not talking about the frequent cases of mass sho
by melshim
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on Wed Jan 20, 2016 at 02:40 AM PST
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Remember the organization “Swift Boat Veterans for Truth” and its smear campaign against 2004 presidential candidate John Kerry? Named after the group, the discredited, Republican-funded ...
by stonehenge
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on Tue Sep 22, 2015 at 03:22 PM PDT
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As the old saying goes, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
There are a lot of issues and past votes to disagree with Hillary about but the latest chapter in the ongoing 20 year old Clinton family ...
by certainot
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on Sat Aug 22, 2015 at 01:46 PM PDT
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With the kerfluffle over Shaun King, I am really heartened by the overall support that this community has shown , ...
by pierre9045
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on Thu Aug 20, 2015 at 07:27 AM PDT
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You've had your fun trying to form your narrative about Sanders having a "race problem," and attempting to paint him as "tone deaf." When his record on civil rights is unassailable, I get that's ...
by angel d
810 comments
on Mon Aug 17, 2015 at 10:28 PM PDT
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