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capital_sniff ,

Until we actually remove republicans and republican lites from the legislature I highly doubt we'll see any progressive tax reforms, like actually taxing the rich. You could probably find more support for expanding house buying programs. Stuff like lowering the down payment requirements, and or give a large grant for a portion of the house value if it is high and it could be clawed back at sale.

capital_sniff ,

I down voted for the deep state comment and the general both sides nature of your comments.

capital_sniff ,

I feel about the same about Biden as I did before. A guy driven by ego and past glory who saw an opportunity to regain the spotlight and he took it. The less cynical take is Biden actually believes he is the best candidate for the job of "saving democracy."

If I had my way we wouldn't be fielding any of these geriatric candidates, not because they lack experience or ability, but because we've already been doing their shtick for the last six decades and I'm tired of it.

capital_sniff ,

This is so confusing. I thought the DOJ due to the existence of a memo would not charge a sitting president with a crime, period. So why are these republicans wasting tax payer bucks on these investigations?

As far as releasing the tape, just do what they did with the Mueller report and lock it in a tiny room with severely restricted access. The republicans can have a cassette tape of the interview and a record player to listen, but they only get 3 minutes, and no phones or any other recording devices.

capital_sniff ,

You left out the forced rounded corners.

Uncommitted voters are not apathetic. The Democratic party is ( www.theguardian.com )

What happens in November is up to Biden – it will not be the fault of the protest voter if Trump is elected. The questions remain: does the Democratic party fear Trump as much as we do? And does it value its voters enough to shift away from an approach to the onslaught in Gaza that a majority of Democratic voters are against?

capital_sniff ,

I guess if you live in an already decided stronghold state then go vote for whatever you want. Otherwise, don't let a fantasy get in the way of the only obvious option if you like democracy.

capital_sniff ,

Does this site have chats now? I thought it was just posts like an old school forum from like the 90s.

capital_sniff ,

We have an over emphasis on finance in our system. After off shoring everything for decades we got cheaper goods for a while and with the dollar as the world's currency we got to export a lot of our inflation. On the shorter time frame we've pumped a ton of money into the system. The powers that be could've put that money to work building out manufacturing instead the money went into assets and now stocks and houses are really expensive. So basic inflation is going on too much money chasing too few goods and it is because the big inflation has been going on in assets. And the deflation from technology has about run its course, everyone has a smart phone and a flat screen TV.

This is the end result of 40+ years of pushing the tax burden onto the middle class all in a massive transfer of wealth from the public to the private. The elites have captured the political system to benefit themselves and the rest of us just watch as our institutions are slowly dismantled. Meanwhile what are we investing in actually building? Infrastructure... not really. Better social safety nets... hell no. We are investing in making more weapons... because this is what happens when a small group of elites has too much control in a system we the little guys end up fighting their stupid wars.

sorry for the long essay.

capital_sniff ,

The American fascist party isn't even trying to hide it anymore.

capital_sniff ,

It also didn't get that dark here I went out around 2 and it was dim at best.

capital_sniff ,

There was a brief record scratch moment when the abortion ban stuff happened, but the trumpers I know got right back on the bandwagon and are now talking "white replacement theory."

capital_sniff ,

I'm not against liberals picking up a few guns and gun related skills, but the wars of the present and near future will be fought with drones.

capital_sniff ,

This sucks for the kids that were already going to fight in the water wars of the 2030s and WWIII, because why not add a new christian crusade to the list.

capital_sniff ,

I disagree. Those clowns are a major part of the reason we are in this mess in the first place. They had plenty of time and opportunities to stop this nonsense and they decided to be spineless wimps. What we needed at minimum were the congress members that got on the phone with Nixon and told his ass to resign. At the very least they had respect for their positions and some respect for the rule of law.

The current batch are trash, the party owns them. And their constituents and oath of office fall somewhere 6 feet below Cancun.

The House GOP just gave Biden’s campaign a huge gift: Roughly 80 percent of House Republicans just lined up behind a plan to cut Social Security and ban all abortions ( www.vox.com )

Donald Trump would be on track to win a historic landslide in November — if so many US voters didn’t find him personally repugnant....

capital_sniff ,

Politics explained simply is about who gets what and when they get it.

capital_sniff ,

Or the little twerp could've followed the law and not be out past curfew brandishing a firearm.

capital_sniff ,

Polling this far out is going to be bad. As election day gets closer more and more of this information will trickle down to the low information voters.

capital_sniff ,

I don't disagree and on a fundamental level this is a disaster. The fact that this election is close and represents a choice between a right wing authoritarian and Joe Biden is absolutely ridiculous. I'm just hoping the undecided voters make the right decision this November.

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