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elpablo21
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@maximus meridius....not sure if you reside in Virginia or not but if you do you have an excellent opportunity tomorrow to become politically aware and VOTE in the gubernatorial race.
Same goes for the any and all Virginia residents in here as well. Be sure to vote tomorrow if you are registered.
Same goes for the any and all Virginia residents in here as well. Be sure to vote tomorrow if you are registered.
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I think dude has said he lives in Howard County MD.
Rico gonna be coming though. Probably for the Dems too. He said he votes Dem locally
Rico gonna be coming though. Probably for the Dems too. He said he votes Dem locally
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No doubt. I wasn't quite certain where he stays at.
A lot of eyes and are going to be looking at the results in Virginia tomorrow and the national impact it could have for the midterms next year.
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Latest developments in the Catalonia crisis:
https://www.apnews.com/c70bb01b2171...sis-Belgium's-'nightmare,'-Spain-ties-at-risk
Catalan crisis Belgium’s ‘nightmare,’ Spain ties at risk
To be fair, Esteban Gonzalez Pons's comment about minister Jambon justifying nazi collaboration in WW2 isn't entirely fabricated. He never literally said such words but he did (rightfully in my opinion) face heavy criticism for his comments regarding nazi collaboration. What he said is "The people who collaborated with the Germans had their reasons. I didn't live in that period."
Those words should have never been said, period. There are still plenty of people who lived through WW2 and certainly people with family members who did. My uncle was captured and tortured by the nazis. There's a reason we have prosecuted nazi collaborators. While I don't think our Interior and National Security minister Jambon is a nazi by any means, at the very least he should have known better and kept his mouth firmly shut on any such matters.
That being said, I appreciate that our country is willing to call out Spain for some of their actions. The actions of the Spanish Guardia Civil police were out there for anyone to see. We saw police stomping middle aged and elderly people for absolutely no reason and then the refusal of the Spanish government to acknowledge any kind of wrongdoing.
https://www.apnews.com/c70bb01b2171...sis-Belgium's-'nightmare,'-Spain-ties-at-risk
Catalan crisis Belgium’s ‘nightmare,’ Spain ties at risk
To be fair, Esteban Gonzalez Pons's comment about minister Jambon justifying nazi collaboration in WW2 isn't entirely fabricated. He never literally said such words but he did (rightfully in my opinion) face heavy criticism for his comments regarding nazi collaboration. What he said is "The people who collaborated with the Germans had their reasons. I didn't live in that period."
Those words should have never been said, period. There are still plenty of people who lived through WW2 and certainly people with family members who did. My uncle was captured and tortured by the nazis. There's a reason we have prosecuted nazi collaborators. While I don't think our Interior and National Security minister Jambon is a nazi by any means, at the very least he should have known better and kept his mouth firmly shut on any such matters.
That being said, I appreciate that our country is willing to call out Spain for some of their actions. The actions of the Spanish Guardia Civil police were out there for anyone to see. We saw police stomping middle aged and elderly people for absolutely no reason and then the refusal of the Spanish government to acknowledge any kind of wrongdoing.
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Senator Lindsey Graham has called on Sessions to return to testify before the Judiciary Committee in his latest interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News.
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donnie jr gonna be washing some dudes draws
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How do we feel about Nike being named in the Paradise Papers?
Can't say, I'm shocked and awed.
Can't say, I'm shocked and awed.
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This Virginia governor's race is wild, I'm somewhat embarrassed that I didn't know much about it until last week. Now, I'm pretty well caught up on it and wow, it is microcosm of our National Politics. A Republican is energizing his base with white resentment and identity politics and that Republican is surging. Meanwhile, a DNC appointed dope is dropping in the polls, in large part; because, he, like many Democrats, has dyed in the wool professional class bias. This guy, the Democrat, Ralph Northam, repeated the debunked notion that there are millions of high paying jobs that go unfilled because workers are too dumb to do them.
All Dems, repeat after me "there is never such thing as a labor shortage, only miserly bosses." The bourgeois and managerial class demanded that workers work for less when market conditions dictated such back in 2009-2010. Now things have flipped and employers just don't understand that you need to pay people more money to get them to do certain jobsm, especially jobs that require specialized skills or are necessarily jobs that are less desirable.
Forget about converting the hard core conservatives who are white and working class. Dems, stop insulting the workers of color and the unemployed and under employed and underpaid recent graduates who live in Northern Virginia. You need those votes and gas lighting them about their employment situation and the economy is not a good way to drive turnout among the more marginal voters in your base.
All Dems, repeat after me "there is never such thing as a labor shortage, only miserly bosses." The bourgeois and managerial class demanded that workers work for less when market conditions dictated such back in 2009-2010. Now things have flipped and employers just don't understand that you need to pay people more money to get them to do certain jobsm, especially jobs that require specialized skills or are necessarily jobs that are less desirable.
Forget about converting the hard core conservatives who are white and working class. Dems, stop insulting the workers of color and the unemployed and under employed and underpaid recent graduates who live in Northern Virginia. You need those votes and gas lighting them about their employment situation and the economy is not a good way to drive turnout among the more marginal voters in your base.
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Rand Paul's neighbor beat him up?
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Wouldn't be surprised by any names in the paradise papers. I assume all people with large amounts of wealth hide it in offshore accounts.
Nike hiding billions in Bermuda.
But these are the kind of people that need more tax breaks according to the GOP and their followers
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expound.
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can can argue da confiscatory policies make people go overseas to stash their chips.
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Famb every four years the Virginia is a god damb **** show.
It is always the worst kind of Republican vs. a more centrist Dem. Progressives have a tough time finding their niche in VA.
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I know you used to live in the DMV area so you'd know better then me but I think that Northram will win. Unlike Hillary Clinton, he does not have to deal with an electoral college and his professional class pandering/talk of a "skills gap" plays well enough in the D.C. suburbs. I sometimes forget how popular hating on the lower middle class is among the upper middle class.
It's still discouraging to see this election polling so close and you know it is closer than the polls indicate because of the Bradley effect. I know you'd don't get down with the "skills gap"/anti worker buffonery so I'm not expecting you to defend it. I just really marvel at the way that Democrats have to antagonize part of their base close to elections. They either try to bait teachers by talking about school privatization or they engage in their "skill gap" dialectics which is guaranteed to alienate service and blue collar workers.
Republicans may be evil but they are smart enough to not **** talk evangelicals on the eve of every election. Even Donald Trump wasn't publicly calling evangelicals crazy snake handlers and homophobes in the public.
If you're a Democrat and you don't have anything nice to say about ordinary workers, don't way anything at all and keep your focus on the bigotry of whatever Republican it is that you are facing.
...So
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I swear there's a factory they build these centrist VA Dem. Politicians in. Nothing new from any of em.
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I'd be more surprised if Nike wasn't named
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Any other president could make that same statement and it'd be received as a joke and get laughed off, but I am really asking myself if it's possible Trump could list 15 country names at all
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I can actually empathize with Trump on this one. I remember opening up an atlas and being amazed at how many countries there are in the world. How some could be so big, and others so tiny. Like Africa has so many of them, that I thought I would never know half of them. I found it interesting that two countries could share the same small island; and how a group of many islands, most very tiny, could form one nation
But you guys wanna know the difference between me and Trump.
I was ******* 7 when it happened to me, not a grown *** man.
Da buffoonery
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I'm amazed a rich dude didnt know the differences between the two virgin islands
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He knows what Russia is doe
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