Bernie!

[Sean Renaud]

Yes, the effect is the same but it matters sometimes when people are talking about nuance. You asked about the government making money and the government pretty much definition cannot make money because it always has exactly the amount it wants. If it has too much it doesn't spend money (which causes deflation or prevents inflation) when it doesn't have enough it magics up some more (causing inflation or preventing deflation.) At least at the federal level. States and other smaller entities have to play closer to the rules of you and I.

The circle jerk is "necessary" because we've been told it's necessary over the years. It makes people feel good but no it isn't the most efficient method, just the most efficient one people will likely stand for.

Oh, I have no argument that big pharma has more people addicted and that they are the biggest drug "cartel" on the planet. Nor of their methods. I assumed you didn't mean they shouldn't be regulated so I guess then my question would be what exactly about liquor do you think is over regulated? Aside from liquor licenses which strictly speaking aren't a regulation on liquor but on where they can be served and sold. (An important distinction because you can own a gun, you can't go set up a target at the end of your street and start firing at it and most of us agree that's with good reason.)

I 100% agree we'd cut crime by having drugs readily available at Wal-Mart. I also think them being regulated (which you did not say they shouldn't be) would make things safer as well. You'd know what you were getting (at least as much as you do now. I'm not going to lie and claim that I know what half the shit in M&Ms actually are but I could google it if I cared.) And there would be someone to take to court if you got a bad batch.

The Food Safety Modernization Act I've seen several versions of the story but not being a farmer of any sort it's difficult to parse out more than it sounds good, farmers sound mad and I was curious about your take on it.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Oh, I have no argument that big pharma has more people addicted and that they are the biggest drug "cartel" on the planet. Nor of their methods. I assumed you didn't mean they shouldn't be regulated so I guess then my question would be what exactly about liquor do you think is over regulated? Aside from liquor licenses which strictly speaking aren't a regulation on liquor but on where they can be served and sold. (An important distinction because you can own a gun, you can't go set up a target at the end of your street and start firing at it and most of us agree that's with good reason.)

I 100% agree we'd cut crime by having drugs readily available at Wal-Mart. I also think them being regulated (which you did not say they shouldn't be) would make things safer as well. You'd know what you were getting (at least as much as you do now. I'm not going to lie and claim that I know what half the shit in M&Ms actually are but I could google it if I cared.) And there would be someone to take to court if you got a bad batch.

Absolutely. My only beef with liquor/bar regulation is that some places limit the numbers. I think if you meet the zoning requirement and have 500 bucks or w/e you should be allowed to take your shot at getting a piece of the pie.

I think the consumers should tell us how many bars/clubs we need, not some dick bags on a city council.

The Food Safety Modernization Act I've seen several versions of the story but not being a farmer of any sort it's difficult to parse out more than it sounds good, farmers sound mad and I was curious about your take on it.

Oh yea they might start 1800 dollaring me to death even more. I'll pass the cost on until I can't sell it for what I need to sell it for and then I'll start growing something the government isn't trying to run out of the country. Shrubs and earthworms are next....until they find some dire need to regulate the fucking shit out of those. Then I'll find something else to cultivate.....

 

[about_average]

I think that's a symptom of prohibition.

I don't think as many people would be out killing each other over the shit if they could just go down to the store and buy some pills/herbs/drank or whatever the fuck they need to get in a civilized exchange. It would be a regular bidnizz .

Would people still commit crimes for them? Sure but I don't think any more than they rob liquor stores and shit now. So not a cure by any means but I believe it would be an improvement.

Exactly, though the crime would be a lot less. People don't lose their jobs for getting drunk on the weekend, so they still have their income for booze for the next weekend.

 

[JackLuis]

Bernie Sanders Jumps On ‘Don’t Be Schmucks To Foreigns’ Bandwagon

Bernie Sanders is not going to let Barack Obama get away with being the only guy condemning the wave of anti-refugee hysteria. He would like you all to know that he too has had it up to here with the paranoia and fear. Which you’d kind of expect from a guy whose father escaped to America from Poland (and who lost much of his family in the Holocaust); if anything, the surprise is that he hasn’t been saying it more loudly.

In a speech at Cleveland State University Monday, Sanders gave the Republicans the dope-slap they’ve been needing for all of their demagoguery on whether Syrian refugees are going to cut our throats in our sleep, or merely least poison us with their sharia law and enslave our women:

Thursday, it was Donald Trump’s turn to get called on his racist bullshit by Sanders, in a brief digression from his big speech at Georgetown on what it means to be Democratic Socialist:

"Let me just say a real word of concern to what I’ve been hearing from some of the Republican candidates for president. People can have honest disagreements about immigration or about anything else. That’s called democracy. But people should not be using the political process to inject racism into the debate. And if Donald Trump and others who refer to Latinos, to people from Mexico as criminals and rapists, if they want to open that door, our job is to shut that door and shut it tight! This country has gone too far, too many people have suffered, and too many people have died, for us to continue hearing racist words from major political leaders."

 

[KingOrfeo]

Sanders at Georgetown lays out, at length, exactly what he means by democratic socialism.

 

[BoyNextDoor]

Bernie Sanders Gets Electable By Beating Every Top Republican Candidate In New Poll

Feel the Bern!!

The Quinnipiac poll showed Sanders beating Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Ben Carson:

– Topping Trump 49 – 41 percent;
– Getting 44 percent to Rubio’s 43 percent;
– Beating Cruz 49 – 39 percent;
– Leading Carson 47 – 41 percent.

 

[BoyNextDoor]

And now the Bern is Time's person of the year.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Bernie Sanders Gets Electable By Beating Every Top Republican Candidate In New Poll

Feel the Bern!!

The Quinnipiac poll showed Sanders beating Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Ben Carson:

– Topping Trump 49 – 41 percent;
– Getting 44 percent to Rubio’s 43 percent;
– Beating Cruz 49 – 39 percent;
– Leading Carson 47 – 41 percent.

Dear Mrs. Clinton. . .if we promise to unthaw you in 2024 you think maybe you can take a dive?

Of course it's only one poll, shouldn't get too uppity.

 

[ToPleaseHim]

Western Illinois University has accurately predicted the President with their mock election every year since 1975. They elected Sanders for the upcoming election.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Western Illinois University has accurately predicted the President with their mock election every year since 1975. They elected Sanders for the upcoming election.

OOooh I'd like citation on this. Not that I would ultimately put any more stock in it than that octopus who can pick the World Cup winner (I think it's the World Cup, the important part is it's a octopus) but neat. Can't wait for the polls to start up so that Nate Silver can get on the scene.

 

[Boxlicker101]

And now the Bern is Time's person of the year.

That's untrue. http://news.yahoo.com/angela-merkel-named-times-person-124821986.html#

 

[browneyedbeauty003]

He's the man

 

[BoyNextDoor]

That's untrue. http://news.yahoo.com/angela-merkel-named-times-person-124821986.html#

Bernie Sanders Wins Readers’ Poll for TIME Person of the Year

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has won the online readers’ poll for TIME Person of the Year, topping some of the world’s best-known politicians, activists and cultural figures as the most influential person of 2015 among those who voted.

The Vermont Senator won with a little more than 10% of the vote when the poll closed Sunday at midnight. That’s well ahead of Pakistani girls’ education activist Malala Yousafzai, who was in second place at 5.2%, and Pope Francis, TIME’s 2013 Person of the Year, who finished third with 3.7%.

Sanders also placed far ahead President Obama (3.5%) and ahead other 2016 candidates, including Republican Donald Trump (1.8%) and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton (1.4%).

 

[JackLuis]

Fear not: More Americans support Bernie Sanders than Donald Trump — no matter what TV says

As the Donald Trump campaign turns from farce to tribulation, it’s worth noting that millions more Americans support Bernie Sanders than the Republican frontrunner.

Trump’s level of national support is 30.4 percent of GOP primary voters, according to the average calculated by Real Clear Politics, while Sanders remains in second place among Democratic primary voters with a 30.8 percent average level of support.

However, as the Philadelphia Daily News‘ Will Bunch points out — there are considerably more Democrats than Republicans.

The most recent Pew poll shows 32 percent of Americans identify themselves as Democrats, compared to 23 percent who describe themselves as Republicans — so that suggests far more people support Sanders than Trump, based on party identity and both candidates’ levels of national support.

The Tyndall Report, which tracks coverage on nightly network newscasts, found that Trump has hogged more than a quarter of all presidential race coverage — and more than the entire Democratic field combined.

Hillary Clinton — who enjoys the most voter support, by far, of any candidate in either party — had received the second-most network news coverage.

Sanders, who is supported by more voters than Trump, has received just 10 minutes of network airtime throughout the entire campaign — which translates to 1/23 of Trump’s campaign coverage.

That has distorted perceptions about Trump’s true level of support, which Silver has estimated as 6 percent to 8 percent of the electorate — or roughly “the same share of people who think the Apollo moon landings were faked,” the pollster said.

Stay strong Bernie Supporters, we may prevail over the Establishment Shills at long last!

 

[JackLuis]

‘F*ck Trump’: Bernie Sanders and Killer Mike talk about Republican racism in the 2016 campaign

https://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Killer-Mike-and-Bernie-Sanders-talk-politics-at-the-barber-shop-via-screencap-300x161.png​

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) sat down with rapper Killer Mike of Run the Jewels for an hour-long conversation covering topics from the 2016 presidential race to economic and social justice to the way some Republican candidates are using racism to advance their campaigns.

Rolling Stone reported that Killer Mike got particularly heated when discussing GOP frontrunner and real estate mogul Donald Trump.

“I played Mexico City yesterday…and I yelled, ‘Fuck Trump!’ and basically 20,000 Mexican citizens repeated it,” the rapper said. “I feel like that in my heart. I’d even tell that to Jesus Christ.”

 

[Hard_Rom]

Is Bernie further left and more liberal than Billy's wife?

 

[JackLuis]

Is Bernie further left and more liberal than Billy's wife?

If you mean Hillary, yes, IMO, I believe he is. Hillary is more is a shill for the establishment than a progressive.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Bernie Sanders Wins Readers’ Poll for TIME Person of the Year

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has won the online readers’ poll for TIME Person of the Year, topping some of the world’s best-known politicians, activists and cultural figures as the most influential person of 2015 among those who voted.

The Vermont Senator won with a little more than 10% of the vote when the poll closed Sunday at midnight. That’s well ahead of Pakistani girls’ education activist Malala Yousafzai, who was in second place at 5.2%, and Pope Francis, TIME’s 2013 Person of the Year, who finished third with 3.7%.

Sanders also placed far ahead President Obama (3.5%) and ahead other 2016 candidates, including Republican Donald Trump (1.8%) and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton (1.4%).

BFD. Bernie won a popularity contest. He does have a small, determined cadre of followers, and I suppose some of them got together and decided to vote for him to win this award nobody ever heard of, probably stuffing the ballot box to do it.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Bernie! Bernie! Bernie!

 

[Sean Renaud]

BFD. Bernie won a popularity contest. He does have a small, determined cadre of followers, and I suppose some of them got together and decided to vote for him to win this award nobody ever heard of, probably stuffing the ballot box to do it.

What do you think an election is?

Don't get me wrong. Bernie isn't getting past Hillary and if he does he better hope the Republicans drop the ball and let him fight Trump or he'll lose there but that's a rather silly argument to make.

 

[Iceprincess12]

What do you think an election is?

Don't get me wrong. Bernie isn't getting past Hillary and if he does he better hope the Republicans drop the ball and let him fight Trump or he'll lose there but that's a rather silly argument to make.

I don't watch tv and don't know Bernie but his makes me think of chicken, yum

http://i.imgur.com/cIU8qPP.jpg

This tastes much better than chicken!!

 

[about_average]

....

It's generally bad form to repeat snippets when they are devoid of context.

 

[Sean Renaud]

*Blink* I'm filing that under shit he didn't say or context was important. That's of the charts stupid if true.

 

[JackLuis]

Maybe he was describing some of the stories on Lit, as a prognostication?

 

[Boxlicker101]

Apparently, it was quoted from an essay he wrote comparing men's and women's sexual fantasies. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/29/sanders-women-fantasize-about-being-raped-3-men-si/
It doesn't seem like a big deal to me. If I vote against Bernie, it will be because of the way he wants to ruin the economy, not something risqué he wrote over forty years ago.