“Letting California and New York decide which Democrat is going to be president every four years is hardly better.”

“A lot” of American Jews are worried we’ll have a type of Corbynism here. The type they’re actually worried about (if by “Jews” you mean people under 50 who aren’t on the board of ZOA or subscribed to Tablet) is where a popular left figure gains some actual power and then is repeatedly attacked with mendacious claims…

I know, right? 18 year olds in the boom era before the greatest financial crash since in 1932 should have really known better. I mean, all those big finance guys saw it coming. That’s why we didn’t, as a country, have to bail all of those finance guys out like these idiot journalism majors who made a mistake (unlike…

I guess raising issues about a candidate in a political primary is “shitting” on them then. What do you want them to write? A hagiography? Robert O’Rourke has every other media outlet doing that for him already. This was a first person account of a campaign stop by a candidate who apparently doesn’t have any actual…

I know, right? Because 2008 and 2019 are exactly the same and we didn’t just spend a decade with the gop actively destroying the country rather than let a Democratic president get any bi-partisan legislative achievements! That’s why 2008 Obama and 2019 Robert O’Rourke’s bi-partisan platitudes should be treated exactly…

Exactly. The primary is not the time for people to be discussing what they want in a candidate for the general election. Everyone should just shut up and eat whatever shit those who know better deign to serve. Can you point out where the article said don’t vote for Robert O’Rourke if he is the Democratic candidate in…

Yeah, a “hit job”.

Hahaha. Totally. Like everyone criticizing Bernie has been saying, all those Bernie Bros just worship Bernie like it’s a cult of personality. Not like Beto with his completely real nick name given to him by actual Hispanic supporters and not his white, judge father. Combined with Beto’s long list of accomplishments…

He literally had a “town hall” on CNN with questions from the audience on February 25th, about a week after he announced his campaign.

You’ve apparently either heard nothing about the actual criticisms of Harris’ time as AG or you are purposefully obfuscating the criticisms behind “durr Kamala is a cop!” for political purposes. Because there has been a litany of articles about how Harris, to use your metaphor, not only didn’t try to turn the ship…

Jesus christ, are you serious? Wages aren’t “profit”. Profit is a return to capital owners of the capital receive for “risking” their capital in a venture. A teacher doesn’t make a “profit”. They get paid for their labor. A government provided service is literally “not for profit” in that there is no private capital…

Getting real salty now, you vacuous dickhead.

You don’t fail out of somewhere like USC if you at least attend class somewhat and take a stab at doing the course work. Failing out for bad grades only happens at big state universities. Not prestigious private schools.

It just shows how the difference between the top .01% and the .001% is becoming even bigger than the difference between the 1% and .o1%. Even the very rich are losing out under our zero sum system where wealth is the ticket to a good future.

Where would they leave to? There are no lower tax developed countries. And if they leave, fine. They can leave their money here. We let them make it so they can go make it with someone else’s help if they want to skedaddle. Capital mobility is a function of man made rules. Not some natural law like gravity.

“All the other countries have lower populations”

The amounts at issue were too small for the “donation” track. That costs millions and millions of dollars. Like how Jared Kushner got in to Harvard. These people were only giving up tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. They aren’t building a new dorm or lab or whatever in an expensive coastal city with that kind…

The more prestigious the university the harder it is to fail out. If you show up to class and at least attempt the work they’ll pass you. Some of the best schools dispense with grades entirely so you only know if someone is one of the best or just one of the rest. But among “the rest” there’s no way to differentiate…

The kids aren’t necessarily lazy. They just might be genuinely not smart enough. You can boost your scores with effort, but the effect isn’t infinite. These parents just happen to have the resources to overcome the hard edges of potential. 

We get “it” from what we already pay for health care. We already pay more for our current system than it would cost to implement a nationwide single payer model. So “the money” is already “there”. It’s just a matter of redirecting where it is paid to and who does the paying. Since there are tens of models available…