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Chris Cuomo has the best show on US CNN. They might as well cancel Don Lemon, Anderson Cooper, Brooke Baldwin and the others and just have Chris Cuomo on for 5 hours a day. His show is almost always quite good.

Don Lemon is the worst presenter in the history of television in the world.
 
berbatrick said:
I'd seen that segment before. Bread and butter for Bernie. I think that title is a little weird given that he answered many of the same questions debating Cruz (also on CNN).
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Oh yeah, there are loads of channels on Youtube that have these biased titles for their uploads. I look for the content of the video rather than what the title says.
 
@fishfingers15
There are 2 ways to see the rise of the right, and both are true.
You take the starting point as the new, labour-friendly Democratic party of FDR in the 30s.

1. There's the southern strategy racism after the 60s. You go from
FDR-FDR-FDR-FDR-Truman-Eisenhower-Eisenhower-JFK-LBJ to
Nixon-Nixon/Ford-Carter-Reagan-Reagan-Bush-Clinton-Clinton-Bush-Bush-Obama-Obama-Trump.
(shading by party and how committed they were economically to their parties' traditional policies).
The reason is clear.

2. The neoliberalism/unions explanation:
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From 1932-1994, the Dems controlled the House for 58 out of 62 years, right through Nixon and Reagan. This control persisted unbeaten through the Southern strategy and the switch of racist voters to the GOP. It broke in 1994, 2 years after Clinton got elected. By this time, union density, falling since the 80s, was terminally low, and that reduced the effectiveness of the party machine. NAFTA was unpopular, as was the (worthwhile) healthcare bill which was defeated by an insurance industry campaign.

I don't see how you stop people being racist. But you *can* offer redistributive politics which appeal to the vast majority of people.
 
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Nikhil said:
Simi Valley is just a short drive from LA right. It's a racist place?!?
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"Go to Simi Valley and surely
somebody knows the address of the jury, pay a little visit, who is it? Yo it's Ice Cube, can I talk to the Grand Wizard, then BOOM!"
 
Nikhil said:
Chris Cuomo has the best show on US CNN. They might as well cancel Don Lemon, Anderson Cooper, Brooke Baldwin and the others and just have Chris Cuomo on for 5 hours a day. His show is almost always quite good.

Don Lemon is the worst presenter in the history of television in the world.
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I actually like Lemon. He gets so emotional and doesn't hide his disgust. Entertaining.
 
There is little convincing justification for Crowley’s association with the Blackstone Group, just as there was little convincing justification for Clinton when she gave highly paid speeches to Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street firms in advance of her second Presidential bid. To position itself as a truly populist force, Ocasio-Cortez says, the Democratic Party must make a decisive leap from the standard methods of financing campaigns through corporate-money politics—and from the conflicts of interest that come with them. “Once we break free from that system [and] start to finance our campaigns with grassroots donations, we are able to speak more directly to the needs of the American people,” she told Greenwald.

With the Democratic Party preparing to fight elections against opponents financed by the likes of Sheldon Adelson and the Koch brothers, many more seasoned Democrats would say (at least in private) that Ocasio-Cortez is being unrealistic, that the Party has no choice but to accept big donations from people like Tom Steyer, George Soros, and Michael Bloomberg. With so much depending on depriving Republicans of control of Congress, it is easy to sympathize with this argument. Ultimately, however, it is unpersuasive.

With phony demagogues like Trump busy claiming the mantle of populism, progressive parties need to offer voters the real thing. That’s bottom-up, participatory politics—or people power. If sympathetic billionaires wish to align themselves with such a movement, that is all very well (at least until campaign-finance laws are fixed). But if the interests and policy preferences of the wealthy take precedence over those of the average citizen, that is the politics of plutocracy, not populism.
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https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-...casio-cortezs-message-to-the-democratic-party
 


What a world we live in when I’m more surprised that he did come out and say this than if he’d have kept his mouth shut and not got involved.
 
I'm sure if this guy (hypothetically) got elected Cruz would probably be very angry while doing nothing about it. Although at least he's saying outright people should vote Dem.
 
Eboue said:


:lol: democrats are such fecking losers
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If memory serves the dems were in control of the senate for Kennedy's appointment. Even though he was unanimously confirmed by the Senate it must be noted that the Senate voted down his first nomination Robert Bork who they saw as too Conservative. They forced Reagan to choose a more moderate justice. That justice has been a champion for left social issues and liberties
 
Susan Collins has said she would not back an anti abortion SCOTUS pick.
Won't matter as I expect a couple of Dems to vote in favour. Useless party
 
DavidDeSchmikes said:
Here a brief account from both people in this photo
http://www.foxla.com/news/local-new...al-story-behind-photo-of-woman-yelling-at-boy
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So it was someone behind er rather than her who said it:
Both he and his mom say there were rude people saying ugly things like the teen would be the first to be deported. For the record, he was born and raised in this part of Southern California and he didn’t like that. But, he says, what you see in the photo isn't a confrontation but a conversation.

La Liberte says, I never said anything disparaging. I never did.”
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This is amazing, in the worst way possible (thought I'd posted this a few days back but couldn't find it):
The lawmakers advanced legislation under duress that would ban localities from establishing taxes on soda or sugary drinks for the next 12 years.

The soda companies were pleased enough with this ransom note that they pulled an initiative off this fall’s ballot that would have required a two-thirds supermajority across California for all local tax increases.

The new legislation frees localities to continue to set their own tax policy democratically — just not on soda products until 2030.

Gov. Jerry Brown, after signing the soda tax ban, wrote in a statement that the proposed ballot initiative — the bomb threat — was “far-reaching” and “an abomination.” He added that mayors across that state had called him to voice their alarm, putting pressure on him to prevent detonation. “For these reasons, I believe AB1838 is in the public interest and must be signed,” he said.
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https://theintercept.com/2018/07/02/soda-tax-ban-california/


I don't know if there's a more textbook example of how capitalism subverts democracy.
 
Something something the law in its majestic equality

U.S. Court: Detroit students have no right to access to literacy



The lawsuit took pains to illustrate how Detroit's schools — run under a state-appointed emergency manager — were a welter of dysfunction: overcrowded classrooms, lack of textbooks and basic materials, unqualified staff, leaking roofs, broken windows, black mold, contaminated drinking water, rodents, no pens, no paper, no toilet paper, and unsafe temperatures that had classes canceled due to 90-degree heat or classrooms so cold students could see their breath.

At times, without teachers or instructional materials, students were simply herded into rooms and asked to watch videos. One student claimed to have learned all the words to the film Frozen in high school. The lawsuit even mentions one eighth grade student who "taught" a seventh and eighth grade math class for a month because no teacher could be found.
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Then, last week, U.S. District Judge Stephen Murphy III agreed with the state.

Literacy is important, the judge noted. But students enjoy no right to access to being taught literacy. All the state has to do is make sure schools run. If they are unable to educate their students, that's a shame, but court rulings have not established that "access to literacy" is "a fundamental right."
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https://m.metrotimes.com/news-hits/...-students-have-no-right-to-access-to-literacy
 
Grinner said:
Christ they don't ever stand a chance, do they?
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It's just depressing. I'm sure legally it's correct but this line got me mad:
All the state has to do is make sure schools run. If they are unable to educate their students, that's a shame, but court rulings have not established that "access to literacy" is "a fundamental right."
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