Red Mosquito

I've been thinkin about youuuuuu



she's like the anti-hillary

doesn't take money from Oman

actually won elections on her own

likes blacks

I've never been one to be like 'oh we need a black president' or ' oh we need a woman president' ... instead just wanting us to have the best candidate for the job

but i gotta say

with how bad DJT and co have made the public discourse around sexual harassment / the right to be a chauvinist / Roe v Wade / bullying / rape rage

we basically need a woman POTUS now to restore balance to the universe

Hatfield wrote:

The Argonaut wrote:The Dems will be putting up two women. Warren or Harris at the top. Harris, Gillibrand, Klobuchar, or Napolitano in the VP slot. My money's on Harris-Napolitano

I worry that you are right.

We need a Joe Biden type. We need a charismatic moderate. People aren't ready to hear about tax hikes and intense regulation. We need build back trust in the government before we nominate someone like Warren.

You mean Obama?

doug rr wrote:don't worry team. i'm voting for the first time ever this year..i got this

haven't californians done enough damage?

tragabigzanda wrote: I'm sorry I called you and idiot.

No worries. I don't (usually) take N&D personally - we're just exchanging ideas!

It beats being called a racist or misogynist, which is the usual castigation my sort faces these days.

tragabigzanda wrote: Pushing the $15 MW narrative is rife with problems, but I can see why the populists candidates may want to campaign on it. In practice, I hope that such a measure would be subject to scrutiny and regulation across various industries/locations....

...Letting employees elect 40% of a BoD sounds like a bad idea to me; I would be more comfortable with something more like 20%, essentially 1-3 people acting on behalf of the employees within an otherwise more conventional (profit-driven) board. I DO like the idea of shareholders signing off on political spending and a corporate charter.

Tying interest rates on student loans to the federal funds rate. I dislike this for the simple reason that as a borrower, the idea of a variable interest rate is terrifying, regardless of what it may be tied to. It'd be a bitch to plan for upward mobility without a fixed student loan rate. But I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on this topic.

The larger point I'd make is that it isn't enough for a candidate to campaign as a "champion of the working class" if the actual consequences of his or her policy prescriptions make exactly that constituency worse off than in the presence of an alternate policy (or no policy at all). In my estimation, price and wage controls are bad. Heavy-handed regulation is bad (though not all regulation is). Both prevent the kind of socioeconomic mobility that should be the end when pursuing policy to improve outcomes for the working poor. The most persuasive argument for freedom generally - and market freedom specifically - is as an economic means, not a philosophical end.

What matters when it comes to policy are outcomes, not intentions. And how they're packaged on the campaign trail is altogether irrelevant, at least for me. Part of the reason discourse is so uncivil right now is the unwillingness (inability?) to focus on substantive policy disagreements, instead choosing to get wrapped around the axle of what someone said or posted or tweeted. Everyone is so caught up in the noise that the signal is lost altogether.

I'm not even sure any of those thoughts were related to your response. I just wanted to post them.

--- wrote:Leaving aside her appalling willingness to trade on fraudulent Indian heritage claims, she's a populist know-nothing of the Bernie Sanders sort. There is nothing new in the majority of her bad ideas.

But being a female is qualification enough these days, I suppose.

How'd this work out for you?

1/512th Native American.

bada wrote:1/512th Native American.

Anyone who can trace their family lineage to Oklahoma at the the turn of the century probably has Indian blood.

Love watching goalposts move.

tragabigzanda wrote:

It's called a land bridge!

I can't believe this is a real thing.

Also, it's 2018 so I can't believe I can't believe this is a real thing.

tragabigzanda wrote:Warren could have cleared this up so easily like a year ago: "It was wrong of me to claim a heritage which, despite what I may have been told or may be reflected in a DNA test, in fact has had no bearing on my lifestyle or cultural upbringing."

Yes, that would be a good way to rationally respond to what has, from day one, been a legitimate complaint made in absolute good fai-

She certainly did better than my wife's family. They claimed Native American Heritage did the tests and got.........zero.....point.....zero.

bada wrote:She certainly did better than my wife's family. They claimed Native American Heritage did the tests and got.........zero.....point.....zero.

“How much Sioux/Lakota/etc are you” is a conversation every Plains state white kid has a hundred times before they graduate, even though the answer is secretly almost always zero.

McParadigm wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:Warren could have cleared this up so easily like a year ago: "It was wrong of me to claim a heritage which, despite what I may have been told or may be reflected in a DNA test, in fact has had no bearing on my lifestyle or cultural upbringing."

Yes, that would be a good way to rationally respond to what has, from day one, been a legitimate complaint made in absolute good fai-

Jarheads. Ugh.