I don’t agree. Private insurance is fine, as long as there’s no reduction in their contributions or a tax deduction for people who choose to go private.  You pay for M4A, and if you want to pay more to get platinum treatment, great.

And if you offered a $15 minimum, more aggressive OSHA standards, overtime pay for more categories of workers, parental leave, sick pay, etc. I’d be fine with the reduced need for unions. Unions serve as a counterbalance to employers who wish to exploit workers. If you end all exploitation of workers, I don’t mind if…

I’m waiting for a “Stand by Me” moment where an armed patriot views another armed patriot as a threat, and shoots them, which causes other armed patriots to shoot other armed patriots they believe to be a threat.

A friend once posted on FB about whether to order Veuve Clicquot or (some other fancy champagne) and added the hashtag #whitepeopleproblems. I don’t think he meant it to be racist, but it was because he did associate whiteness and wealth.

Uncle Joe is just that- he’s that racist uncle that a lot of white people have. Sometimes he’s MAGA-level racist and sometimes he’s well meaning, but still kinda racist. Uncle Joe seems to closer to the well meaning, but still kinda racist category.

Remember that black guy who was killed while walking around a Wal-Mart(?) with an airsoft rifle while talking on the phone? Weird huh?

Jesse Jackson lost most of his credibility as a civil rights leader long ago. He’s now just another old-school Chicago politician who are looking to protect themselves.  His son was convicted of misuse of campaign funds.  In short, he wants people to go light on those convicted of corruption. 

Much of this article feels like a Perfect Solution Fallacy.

I don’t like the surveillance state implications either. However, if the end result is that a person gets his guns taken away temporarily, I don’t find that as nearly as objectionable than being arrested in advance.

Blago is also a Chicago Democrat who can be used to continue to sh*t on the legacy of Obama and other Democrats because he’s ‘one of them.’

Exactly. 600 arrests? You meaning the hiring managers, executives, etc. we[re] bamboozled 600+ times with perfectly forged documentation?

St Louis had approx. 20 shootings over the same weekend with a population that’s about 10x smaller.

Usually not.  In a typical M&A deal, the sellers have a non-compete that can last years. 

At least they spent some money on a defender.   I just assumed they’d overpay for yet another forward.

I guess if they’re retired or “self-employed,” nothing.  If they work for a company, I might think about boycotting them. If they are senior within a company, I will try to boycott them. 

A few observations:

You need to differentiate those who attacked because of their beliefs, rather than crazies that just happened to be political.

Example: Dylan Roof explicitly killed over his right wing beliefs- he published it. Hodgkinson attacked over his left wing beliefs.

It’s not fiscally liberal, it’s fiscally populist.  You’d think you’d be liberal, but nah.  Koch is doing the same thing by acknowledging that income inequality is a problem, but saying the solutions are lower taxes and fewer regulations. 

Ivanka and Breitbart are doing their best with “Chicago.” Did you know St Louis, Birmingham, Memphis, Kansas City, etc. all have higher gun violence rates than Chicago?  I wonder why they chose Chicago?

Racism isn’t a problem, but Democrats are the real racists, and then it is a real problem.