The problem with claims white supremacy, racism, etc. are in the fact that the people who are a 6 on the racism scale get to define it. (1 being MLK and 10 being David Duke, Dylan Roof, etc.)

Slightly off topic- but I’m trying to compare the approx 11k per year in health care costs (which is about average) to what it would cost in additional taxes under a medicare for all (or similar) plan and I’m unable to find any reasonable consensus.

I think this is dehumanizing to anyone, but at best this is tone-deaf and at worst, this is straight up racist.

Anytime someone says, “I’m the least racist person,” “I don’t see color,” “I have black friends,” etc. it triggers the opposite reaction from me.  They’re racist, but don’t want to admit it.  They not KKK racist, more like Tea Party Uncle racist.

I struggle with bigotry and racism and I’m working to be less so. I don’t…

She perfectly represented our ambivalent, contradictory, and troubled history on race. Sadly, given our backslide, her early novels are as prescient now as her later novels.

In Trump’s defense (barf), the U6 rate is supposed to measure under-employment, discouraged workers, etc. It’s not the most accurate thing, but it is an indicator. U6 unemployment has dropped under Trump, but it was on a downward trend for a while and it didn’t massively accelerate under Trump. So, he likely did very…

A few problems:

I agree that the impact of any domestic terrorism laws or structures you put in place under Republicans will turned on its head and they’ll and go after Antifa, BLM, Acorn (even though it’s long dead) and any other group conservatives don’t like.

Or (to borrow from MLK) those 2X% who just want “order.”

The general polls still have him at the top. He’s living nostalgia for the Clinton and Obama years, even though his policies were some of the major weaknesses in those years.  

Maybe he’ll get a pension for killing him. This cop killed an unarmed kid and then claimed PTSD for killing him and got a medical pension.

I’m sure some 3%/Promise Keeper police force in upstate will be happy to hire him, just to troll the libs.

While this is probably an easy pickup for the House, unless we get the Senate back, Moscow Mitch can approve judges and block gerrymandering, election security, etc. 

To echo Samantha Bee- many of these people would make great senators or governors (I know, some already are), where we need Dems the most.

Despite his mediocre performance, the media has described him as “holding his own.”

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I think the fact that employees are often locked into a healthcare plan (instead of the quality of the job), employers use it as a part of total compensation, etc. is exactly why major companies remain on the sidelines during this debate.

Sadly- Trump’s campaign is probably correct. The requirements to be president are fairly narrow and submitting taxes isn’t one of the pre-requisites. It’s likely the same thing that saved Obama from all sorts of Birth Certificate bills (in addition to being a natural born citizen in Hawaii). 

They don’t need hospitals- I’m sure their Bibles, hatred of brown people, and guns will cure their Type 2 Diabetes and crumbling L3 and L4. 

1. For every rags to riches story there are far more Upper middle class+ to riches stories, and all the public and private help they get as a result.