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Doesn't seem to be resigning yet. If he doesn't, that'll be one interesting and inevitable question to every Dem primary contender.

ChaddyP said:
Interesting that he doesn't want to say which one he is. Not sure which is worse
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I think even Megyn Kelly would blush about wearing a Klan outfit.
 
ChaddyP said:
Interesting that he doesn't want to say which one he is. Not sure which is worse
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They are both equally bad so either way he's in trouble. Just a shame this had to happen to a Democrat but with that said, the guy has got to go.
 
How can you tell that is him ,right?.That's what he's probably clinging on to.
 
Bit strange given his statement last night

 
I personally don't think he should resign. This was 35 years ago, he deserves a chance to explain himself and attempt to regain the trust of the voters. If he's lost that, he will lose out next election. This is different to the Kavanaugh situation though as this is not a crime, whereas (possible) sexual assault is.
 
Sigma said:
I personally don't think he should resign. This was 35 years ago, he deserves a chance to explain himself and attempt to regain the trust of the voters. If he's lost that, he will lose out next election. This is different to the Kavanaugh situation though as this is not a crime, whereas (possible) sexual assault is.
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He wasn't exactly that young at the time - if the dates match up he was either 24/25, and his background suggests he'd had plenty of interaction with black people and therefore can't use the excuse that he was a sheltered kid who didn't know any better.
 
Sigma said:
I personally don't think he should resign. This was 35 years ago, he deserves a chance to explain himself and attempt to regain the trust of the voters. If he's lost that, he will lose out next election. This is different to the Kavanaugh situation though as this is not a crime, whereas (possible) sexual assault is.
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You have to question whether he still has the legitimacy to govern after all of this. Even in the best of circumstances, he would be viewed as a lame duck going forward.
 
Some Democrats That Ran on Medicare for All Are Backing Away from It Now
By Eoin Higgins

Rouda, who asked his supporters to sign a petition supporting Medicare for All in October 2017, and reaffirmed his position the following spring during primary season, hedged his position in the general election, on his way to unseating Republican Dana Rohrabacher. By the time it hit his issues page, Rouda was talking about Medicare for All as a “long-term goal,” and pitching voters on the generic principle of making sure that “health care coverage is a right for all Americans.”
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Rouda is not alone — first-term Democrat representatives Katie Hill, Susan Wild, Colin Allred, Josh Harder, and Kim Schrier all flipped Republican seats and each indicated support for Medicare for All at least once while on the campaign trail. But today, all but Harder have either qualified or walked back their support for the policy.
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Central Washington’s Schrier supported Medicare for All as well — but her office said last fall that the “Medicare for All” Schrier supported was not the “Bernie Sanders plan.” “Kim has her own plan that is separate and distinct from Medicare for All,” Katie Rodihan, a Schrier spokesperson, told Politifact in October. Schrier, whose office would not provide comment for this article, apparently supports a Medicare buy-in.
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Wild, Hill’s fellow freshman who also caucuses with both the New Democrats and the CPC, tried to redefine the policy by borrowing the terminology without the ideology. While she initially promised to “passionately advocate for issues like Medicare for All,” she retreated from her stance two months later, saying instead that she supported a “Medicare for All–style plan that would ensure affordable coverage for all Americans.” Wild’s office declined multiple requests to comment for this article.
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Colin Allred, the new Democrat representative for Texas’s 32nd District, said via Twitter on January 27, 2018, that he was in favor of the policy. Six months later, during an interview with Evan Smith, CEO of the TexasTribune, Allred explained what he thought “Medicare for All” meant. According to Allred, the policy could mean many things and shouldn’t be interpreted to simply mean government health care. “It’s a Medicare buy-in,” Allred said. In a statement, Allred’s office hedged further on the meaning of the policy. “Congressman Allred has always supported a strong public option, like a Medicare buy-in, as a pathway to universal coverage,” said Allred’s communications director Josh Stewart.
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Hill, who joined both the New Democrat Coalition and the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said it was “time for universal health care” in a campaign ad and name-checked Medicare for All in a Facebook video. But since the election, Hill seems to have decided that the time for Medicare for All is, instead, at some unspecified point in the future. “Katie believes that Medicare for All is a system we should be striving towards,” said Kassie King, Hill’s communications director
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http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/do-democrats-really-want-medicare-for-all.html

im shocked shocked etc
 
On the outside looking in this whole Northam saga is so utterly bizarre I'm starting to question more and more if Elon Musk was right all along, and this world is in fact just one big simulation or something.
 
BrianMcClair'sBarnet said:

The ol'classic.
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If anything, doesn't this, like, literally make it worse?:lol:

If he was an embarrassed young kid from the deep south who'd grown up among racists and had grown out of it upon making African American friends then it'd perhaps be forgivable, and a sign of a man who'd grown past old prejudices. Instead he comes across as someone who should've clearly known better.
 
On a positive note

LA Teachers Didn’t Just Win Their Strike—They Beat Back School Privatizers
"L.A. is the biggest USA school district with an elected school board. (The biggest district, New York City, and third-biggest, Chicago, are both governed by mayoral appointees.)

Year after year, its school board elections have broken spending records. Corporate education reformers spent $13 million in the last election, most of it coming from the foundations of the Walton family (the owners of Walmart) and Eli Broad, two of the biggest spenders nationally in support of charter schools, vouchers, and privatization.

That money was enough to win them a majority of the seats on the school board. And after the previous superintendent resigned early last year for health reasons, that majority handpicked a superintendent, Beutner.

But as it turned out, a bought and paid for board and superintendent weren’t as powerful as a good old-fashioned strike.

Readers who work in education or the public sector will be familiar with the claim that “the money just isn’t there.” UTLA refused to buy into it, and named the privatization schemes behind it. Rather than retreat or get cautious in the face of corporate attacks, the union went on offense, demanded fully funded public schools, and did the organizing to back up its demands with action.

The teachers won big—and provided us all a model for how to fight back."

http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/21711/los_angeles_teachers_strike_education_privatization
 
Sigma said:
I personally don't think he should resign. This was 35 years ago, he deserves a chance to explain himself and attempt to regain the trust of the voters. If he's lost that, he will lose out next election. This is different to the Kavanaugh situation though as this is not a crime, whereas (possible) sexual assault is.
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Obviously in 1984 or whenever it was dressing up in this way was seemingly acceptable, or it wouldn’t have been published in the yearbook. Today though it isn’t acceptable. Many of us on this forum may well be doing things today which are perfectly acceptable now but in 35 years they may not be so acceptable. Would we want to be called out on them 35 years later? I doubt it.

When I was a kid people were always going to fancy dress parties as Hitler, mainly because it was easy (just slick back your hair and fix a square moustache above your top lip). It was just a laugh at the time but now you just can’t do that sort of thing. What I’m saying is that standards change and if it was deemed ok in the US 35 years ago when it occurred then he can’t really be called out on it now.

Saying that he has made an almighty mess of dealing with this situation.
 
Eboue said:


at least there some epic sunglasses memes
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Fecking lying scumbag moldy pile of dog shit.

This fecker is actively trying to circumvent and manipulate what his base wants and what is empirically proven to be the best solution just to placate these immoral greedy low lifes that have bought and paid for the Democrat leadership shills. Everything he said is a flat out lie (or he is dumber than Trump which is a strong possibility after I read these guys crap).

“Monies are needed for other priorities”

Exactly you thick cnut. That is why spending 32 trillion on health care per year is far, far better than spending 50 trillion so inefficient profiteers can steal a living at the expense of the poorest millions

“Stakeholders are against; Creates winners and losers”

If by stakeholders you mean greedy profiteering entities like big pharmaceuticals and for profit health maintenance companies then they can go feck themselves at the bottom of the ocean

Stakeholders should only mean the patients (who are going bankrupt, getting savaged by privatized inefficiencies, afraid to switch jobs for losing health insurance, etc) and the patient-doctor relationship. Those are the only stakeholders that should matter and should be in the room. For-profit entities should feck off out of the room.

"implementation challenges."

Another lie. If I can come up with implementation that is logical with a libertarian then this is just a flat out lie. I hope this Wendell cnut metaphorically dies in a fire.
 

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I don't know what the rest of the ad is like because I collpased laughing when she broke that wall at the start.
 
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