Comments by RandomMember (page 40)

@MicroDong: "And the left just keeps running the hate card, as if that will work. Stupid fucks." ______________ Literally don't know what you're talking about. Can you be any less specific?

Bloomberg has the best chance of keeping the Democratic base and getting moderates Republicans and independents. Despite yesterday's Quinnipiac polls, I'm willing to bet that Bloomberg has a far better chance of beating Trump than Sanders. I also like the way Bloomberg bitch-slaps Trump and the way it clearly annoys Trump; Bloomberg's a real CEO, not a fake reality TV star who inherited his wealth. Bloomberg's also on the right side of many issues like incremental improvements to the healthcare system, tax reform (in the other direction), climate change, etc... We don't have campaign finance reform yet and we don't have the luxury of worrying about the role of money in politics. Getting rid of Trump is a national emergency.

@Skibum: "We can cure climate change by making sure only those who contribute survive. " ________________ What a strange troll...

"...no health insurance unless you pay for it" ______________ Let me correct that for you: if the challenge to the ACA goes through the courts successfully there's no health insurance if you have a pre-existing condition."

Super-delegates aren't allowed to vote on the first ballot anymore. The rules were changed in 2018.

As I write this, Nate Silver's simulations give Sanders a 37% chance of winning and the odds of brokered convention at 34%: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-primary-forecast/ So a brokered convention looks pretty likely now -- and based on statistics (not Dugan's goofy paranoia). I can't believe how poorly Biden and Warren did last night...

^^^ As if someone with username "MisterOrange" could have an objective opinion about the general election. Buttigieg is considered a moderate on important policy areas like healthcare and fiscal responsibility. He happens to be gay and brilliant.

Latest Quinnipiac poll. Just came out today: THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION Among all registered voters, Democratic candidates lead President Trump in general election matchups by between 4 and 9 percentage points, with Bloomberg claiming the biggest numerical lead against Trump: Bloomberg tops Trump 51 - 42 percent; Sanders defeats Trump 51 - 43 percent; Biden beats Trump 50 - 43 percent; Klobuchar defeats Trump 49 - 43 percent; Warren wins narrowly over Trump 48 - 44 percent; Buttigieg is also slightly ahead of Trump 47 - 43 percent.

*your not you're in my post above

Sanders has always been famous for dreamlike, pie-in-the-sky, policies that can't be paid for. He has zero chance of winning in a general election. So you're long-winded post is wrong as usual, @CC. But the president doesn't craft policy -- he's just there at the end of the chain to sign bills into law -- and something like the UK government-run healthcare system could never occur here even if the Dems controlled all three branches. So in a practical sense, the Dems should support whoever is nominated. My guess is that Trump will be re-elected. I don't follow Butigieg that closely, but he seems extremely bright (he probably has 30 IQ points on Trump) and he also has the right temperament. He doesn't have support from black voters and I can't see Americans supporting a gay man -- even if he's perfectly qualified in every other way. I'm a big Warren fan, especially considering that she understands the 2008 financial crisis better than any other candidate. HER CFPB is also a great achievement. I posted this Liz Warren clip before of her takedown of Wells CEO Timothy Sloan. Sloan's a low-IQ dipshit who grew up on a farm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyVr4qcn8EM LOL, it was amazing to see the TUSCL response when I posted the clip last time. Warren's not a socialist; her opinion is that the free-market works fine for most things, but areas like healthcare, finance, and environmental protection need government regulation. I agree.

Vindman, a purple-heart recipient, was ousted for telling the truth. Vindman's twin brother is a lawyer -- also a decorated war veteran-- and was ousted for doing...well ...nothing. @Juice: "Don't fuck with the first dictagor of America." Some people I follow are comparing Trump to Viktor Orban of Hungary and we have a pretty good chance of a similar slide into authoritarianism , where congress and the judiciary are aligned with Trump. So it's not all that far-fetched juiceman. Jonathan Chait is one of my favorites: "Trump's dream is to become America's Viktor Orban" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/president-trumps-dream-is-to-become-americas-viktor-orban.html

@Founder's reaction time is inversely proportional to the post's stupidity. ...don't take it personally.

Trump’s SOTU was (as usual) riddled with exaggerations and lies. The lying should bother you a lot more than the page-ripping (and the OP’s thread is dripping with kind of over-emotional angst that he’s accusing Pelosi of). Most galling lie during the SOTU was Trump’s assertion that he’s committed to protecting those with pre-existing conditions. That’s a bald-faced lie. Let me say that again: it’s a bald-faced lie. We came within one vote of repealing the ACA in 2017 and it survives only because of John McCain. The repeal failed in congress, and it’s being challenged in the courts with a lawsuit that just about everyone thinks is nonsense. Before the ACA there were 50M who couldn’t buy insurance and another 70M who would pay much more. White men with less than a high-school education voted for the GOP by an added 24% after the Obama years. These are the people who will be hurt the most by the ACA repeal and the end of Medicaid expansion. Side note, I can think of a few Republicans and ex-republicans I admire: McCain, Romney, Steve Schmidt, Ben Bernanke. Props to Romney for his courage.

"...but, that's what initial-meets are for. ------------------- Ditto -- but at Starbucks, not a 5-star restaurant. It's not all that complicated...

... incident as in train wreck.

The kind of person who can actually afford to piss away $10K without thinking is someone like Bob Kraft. But he prefers $140 AMP workers.

^^^ Dugan suffers from textbook narcissism. He probably annoys everyone he comes in contact with. Try to ignore him; that's what truly annoys narcissists.

Well, @CrazyJoe, it might be racist if not for the fact that my post was obvious sarcasm. Maybe this will help: /Sarcasm /Sarcasm /Sarcasm /Sarcasm

@Relkin: " If a guy can spend 10k like you spend 200 and not feel the pinch" _______________ That's not how the @OP phrased the scenario. He said that $10K was 1% of the customer's net worth. Someone in that category will end up eating cat-food in retirement if he does it on a regular basis.

Maybe @GammaNu can come up with a blackface or porch-monkey character so that we can add to our repulsive set racial stereotype trolls.

I admit I don't know much about football, but wanted to chime in about Trump's latest Tweet: “Congratulations to the Kansas City Chiefs on a great game, and a fantastic comeback, under immense pressure. You represented the Great State of Kansas and, in fact, the entire USA, so very well. Our Country is PROUD OF YOU,” LOL! Congrats to the great state of Kansas!

Yes, spending 1% of your net worth on a sex-worker (who probably won't remember you 2hrs later) is pathetic beyond belief. There might be rare exceptions: for example, you've been diagnosed with stage-4 prostate cancer and you don't have any kids.

CrimsonCaravan: "I didn't post this as a way of fishing for attention." _______________ You didn't violate any rules of the board and you were looking for empathy and support. Instead you were attacked by some of the most repulsive and unhappy losers on the board, who could have simply put the thread on ignore. It's the other way around; your attackers were looking for attention.

^^ ahh...that explains everything