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cutuphalfdead wrote:
Green Habit wrote:
meatwad wrote:So it's come out that Bernie is officially a member of the millionaire's club.
Bernie Sanders wrote:I wrote a best-selling book. If you write a best-selling book, you can be a millionaire, too.
Yawn. This should not be a big deal at all.

And this is a good sign that the left needs to slow their roll on trying to establish a norm of making politicians make their tax returns public. They're going to end up disappointed.
Wasn't that norm established through 40 years of precedent?
I only remember it becoming an issue in 2012 when Romney got pestered about it.

In any case, I really don't give a flying fuck how much wealth any politician has.
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Politicians are not your friends nor your comrades.
VinylGuy wrote:its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
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Green Habit wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:
Green Habit wrote:
meatwad wrote:So it's come out that Bernie is officially a member of the millionaire's club.
Bernie Sanders wrote:I wrote a best-selling book. If you write a best-selling book, you can be a millionaire, too.
Yawn. This should not be a big deal at all.

And this is a good sign that the left needs to slow their roll on trying to establish a norm of making politicians make their tax returns public. They're going to end up disappointed.
Wasn't that norm established through 40 years of precedent?
I only remember it becoming an issue in 2012 when Romney got pestered about it.

In any case, I really don't give a flying fuck how much wealth any politician has.
I do, especially when being a politician seems to be the source of much of that wealth *cough*MitchMcConnell*cough*
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meatwad wrote:
Green Habit wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:
Green Habit wrote:
meatwad wrote:So it's come out that Bernie is officially a member of the millionaire's club.
Bernie Sanders wrote:I wrote a best-selling book. If you write a best-selling book, you can be a millionaire, too.
Yawn. This should not be a big deal at all.

And this is a good sign that the left needs to slow their roll on trying to establish a norm of making politicians make their tax returns public. They're going to end up disappointed.
Wasn't that norm established through 40 years of precedent?
I only remember it becoming an issue in 2012 when Romney got pestered about it.

In any case, I really don't give a flying fuck how much wealth any politician has.
I do, especially when being a politician seems to be the source of much of that wealth *cough*MitchMcConnell*cough*
How dare you try to dispell the claim that Cocaine Mitch made his money the honest way - off of cocaine trafficing.
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Green Habit wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:
Green Habit wrote:
meatwad wrote:So it's come out that Bernie is officially a member of the millionaire's club.
Bernie Sanders wrote:I wrote a best-selling book. If you write a best-selling book, you can be a millionaire, too.
Yawn. This should not be a big deal at all.

And this is a good sign that the left needs to slow their roll on trying to establish a norm of making politicians make their tax returns public. They're going to end up disappointed.
Wasn't that norm established through 40 years of precedent?
I only remember it becoming an issue in 2012 when Romney got pestered about it.

In any case, I really don't give a flying fuck how much wealth any politician has.
Nor do I. It's not really about that, though.
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Obama’s 2007 quarter 1 donors list: 104k individuals

Not a single other candidate in either party had more than 100,000 donors by quarter 2, 2007.

2019 quarter 1 figures for...

...Sanders: 525K
...O'Rourke: 163K
...Buttigieg: 159K
...Harris: 138K
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Mayor Pete raising mad funds!
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bada wrote:Mayor Pete raising mad funds!
And playing some Spoon on the piano. :heartbeat:

https://www.facebook.com/spoontheband/v ... 343611141/
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Playing a Spoon song on piano should be the only legal requirement for president
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McParadigm wrote:Playing a Spoon song on piano should be the only legal requirement for president
"You've mentioned Girls Can Tell, you've been talking about how it's your favorite album; and you said, I think last night in Iowa, and some people are surprised that you say that. I'm wondering what one or two of your most favorite Spoon songs are and why?"

"Well, I wouldn't want to get into it, because to me that's very personal, you know, when I talk about Girls Can Tell, it's very personal, so I don't want to get into verses---"

"There's no song that means a lot to you that you think about or cite?"

"Girls Can Tell means a lot to me, but I don't want to get into specifics."

"Even to cite a song that you like?"

"No, I don't want to do that."

"Are you a Kill the Moonlight guy or a Gimme Fiction guy?"

"Uh....probably...equal. I think it's just an incredible...the whole...band...is an incredible...I joke, very much so, they always hold up Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, I say, 'My second favorite album of all time.'"
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the wife's been keen on going to mayor pete's rally in south bend today, but out of nowhere it's snowing like a sonofabitch.
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spike wrote:the wife's been keen on going to mayor pete's rally in south bend today, but out of nowhere it's snowing like a sonofabitch.
“They say that all the snowflakes came out to see him. Every last one.”
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McParadigm wrote:
spike wrote:the wife's been keen on going to mayor pete's rally in south bend today, but out of nowhere it's snowing like a sonofabitch.
“They say that all the snowflakes came out to see him. Every last one.”
:haha:
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Jesus, guys. Think of what your pre-2016 selves would think of that joke.
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i was appreciating mcp's sharp wit there. agreed he's a monster.
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Mayor Pete got my first $20 of the election season.
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meatwad wrote:Mayor Pete got my first $20 of the election season.
He’s the breakout candidate Beto wanted to be. Every other candidate in the field right now should at least be thinking about him as a Vice President.
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Well I for one like her. she has zero chance of winning.
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BurtReynolds wrote:Well I for one like her. she has zero chance of winning.
Saying Trump is al-qaeda’s big brother is as stupid as Trump saying Obama was the founder of ISIS. I’m hoping to elect a grown up next time around.
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