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[Since I'm the mad scientist proclaimed by myself]

But these are actual human beings we are talking about, not political talking points. I'm not sure what the point is of making armchair sociological observations about where non-binary people exist, when it's much easier to just accept them as who they are. The harm done to them by not accepting them is far greater than the harm to society by upsetting Breitbart.

And stop bringing hoop earrings and dreadlocks into this; nobody in this thread mentioned them until you did.

[7,052,770]

OK let me break down all the stupidity in this post:

1-It was in response to a NYTimes story about officials of the Trump campaign meeting with a Kremlin-related lawyer. Not a DNC press release or statement by any Democratic politician. Thus making most of it a non-sequitur.
2-Bernie Sanders is an anti-Russia hardliner as well.
3-"The Democrats aren't attacking the Republicans on healthcare", OMG give me a f[inks]ing break.
4-It's impossible for Cory Booker to be Third Way, since he wasn't a politician when Third Way was even a thing. It's 2017, not during the Tony Blair or Bill Clinton administrations.
5-For that matter, this is what Cory Booker has said about healthcare and the minimum wage:
http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2017/05/sen_booker_rallies_for_newark_airport_workers_wage.html
https://www.booker.senate.gov/?p=issue&id=69
6-The entire premise is a logical fallacy that implies that it's impossible to both attack Trump for Russia connections and attack him on the issues that absolutely no Democrats are doing both.

[Donerail]

As I have explained over and over again, the mere existence of entitlements creates the need for them.  If we got rid of every last entitlement, people would have to adapt and the free market would do its magic.  I would actually perhaps consider banning all health insurance other than catastrophic coverage to actually set up a normal supply/demand system for health care.

Torn between putting this here and in the deluge, but the delusional belief here that markets have "magic" properties allowing them to do more than simply allocate capital is fundamental to a lot of contemporary US 'conservative' thought and this is a great example of that.

[Antonio the Sixth]

As I have explained over and over again, the mere existence of entitlements creates the need for them.  If we got rid of every last entitlement, people would have to adapt and the free market would do its magic.  I would actually perhaps consider banning all health insurance other than catastrophic coverage to actually set up a normal supply/demand system for health care.

Torn between putting this here and in the deluge, but the delusional belief here that markets have "magic" properties allowing them to do more than simply allocate capital is fundamental to a lot of contemporary US 'conservative' thought and this is a great example of that.

...that doesn't make it true.

[Santander]

Arkansas, the only one I haven't been to.

You'll fit in well with the rubes.

[Santander]

Kal, if you haven't been there like dull0 just don't comment

Commenting on things we know nothing about is a sacred Atlasian custom.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Yeah, Flynn and Manafort are most definitely getting indicted. Second runner up: the Kush (frontrunner for this position) or Don Jr.

Yep.
Now let's see .... how many jail cells do we need in a row.
First Flynn, then Manafort, then little jr .....

Not a one. The pardons will fly like confetti.

It would be the greatest humanitarian achievement in American history.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Context:

Averroes is a serious contender here. A brilliant guy, who wastes his time being bitter online.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

oakvale nails it.......

No Atlasians included on mine (I made this November 2016 )
POTUS (Not me, but who ideally I'd want as Pres) Bernie Sanders
VP: Tulsi Gabbard
Sec. of Agriculture: Cyndy Coppola (non-politician: she's an independent farmer from IA who's against DAPL)
Sec. of Defense: John McCain
HUD Sec: Cornel West
Treaury Dept: Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Analysis: Jeb! Bush
Treasury Dept: Undersecretary for Financial Institutions: Alan Greenspan
Homeland Security: Undersecretary for Science and Technology: Stephen Hawking
Commerce Sec: Nina Turner
NASA Admin: Neil deGrasse Tyson
Energy: Undersecretary of the Environment: Jill Stein
National Park Service Director: Winona LaDuke
Sec. of the Interior: Chase Iron Eyes
EPA Admin: Al Gore
HHS Sec: RoseAnn DeMoro
Sec. of Homeland Security: Raúl Grijalva
Treasury Sec: Ralph Nader
Treasury: Undersecretary for Economic Policy: Jeffrey Sachs
U.S. Trade Representative: Jimmy Carter
SoS: Susan Sarandon
State: Undersecretary for Arms Control and International Security Affairs: Danny Glover
State: Undersecretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights: Rosario Dawson
State: Undersecretary for Political Affairs: Dick van Dyke
State: Undersecretary for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor: Ajamu Baraka
State: Undersecretary for Political-Military Affairs: Chelsea Manning
State: Undersecretary for Population, Refugee, and Migration: Noam Chomsky
State: Ambassador at-Large and Coordinator for Counterterrorism: John Kasich
State: Ambassador-at-Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons: Sarah Silverman
State: Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom: Danny DeVito
US Ambassador to China: Barbara Bush
US Ambassador to Germany: Susan Collins
US Ambassador to Israel: Mary Robinson
US Ambassador to Russia: Amy Goodman
US Ambassador to United Kingdom: Larry Sanders
US Ambassador to NATO: Nikki Haley
US Ambassador to UN Human Rights Council: Harry Belafonte
US Ambassador to Global Women's Issues: Cecile Richards
Advisor to the President: Edward Snowden
Education Sec: June Atkinson
Labor Sec: Robert Reich
Commissioner of Administration for Native Americans: Josh Hutcherson
Attorney General: Roy Cooper
Assistant Attorney General – Civil Rights Division: Josh Stein
Assistant Attorney General – Criminal Division: Dan Blue III
Assistant Attorney General – Tax Division: Beth Wood
Director of Office of Violence Against Women: Linda Coleman
Small Business Administration: Rand Paul
Veterans' Affairs Sec: John McNeil
Labor: Director of the Women's Bureau: Deborah Ross
SCOTUS: Larry Lessig, G.K. Butterfield, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, Patrick Leahy, Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen Breyer, Michael Moore, Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Chief Justice)
Senate Majority/Minority Leader: Elizabeth Warren
Senate Majority/Minority Whip: Jeff Merkley
DNC Chair: Keith Ellison
Democratic Leader in the House: Donna Edwards
Democratic Whip in the House: Alma Adams
Speaker (if majority party) of the House: Peter Welch
Chair of the Progressive Caucus: Patricia Schroeder
Chair of ‘Our Revolution’: Zephyr Teachout
Very rough draft

Congratulations you may have literally designed the worst single list of people since the Nuremberg defendants.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

This place was really a Hillary echo chamber last year.

Definitely was. I was relentlessly attacked constantly

Of course, I agree. As I have said many times, this site is nothing but a Borg Collective.

[Crumpets]

Is this turning out to be some "Mission Accomplished banner" deal?

Remember, this is only a Motion to Proceed vote.
The vote in the future to a complete repeal of ObamaCare, or to repeal and replace, will be MUCH MORE DIFFICULT TO PASS.

So, this is EXACTLY a "Mission Accomplished" moment.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Context:

Can we all stop talking about her? She's the least interesting person in the world, perhaps in history. She's like one of those kids that regurgitates what they've heard but doesn't quite understand what they're saying. She hasn't thought anything through and she hasn't processed it.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Context:

Can we all stop talking about her? She's the least interesting person in the world, perhaps in history. She's like one of those kids that regurgitates what they've heard but doesn't quite understand what they're saying. She hasn't thought anything through and she hasn't processed it.

Not to mention her whole brand is based on sex appeal and angry speeches about how great the troops are (she's not exactly wrong, but do teh libtards really hate the army? Come on!) or how Godless we are as a country apparently. She was hired directly out of an internship, probably by some Walmart brand Roger Ailes who's still bragging about it in the control room.

[Santander]

Context:

Can we all stop talking about her? She's the least interesting person in the world, perhaps in history. She's like one of those kids that regurgitates what they've heard but doesn't quite understand what they're saying. She hasn't thought anything through and she hasn't processed it.

Not to mention her whole brand is based on sex appeal and angry speeches about how great the troops are (she's not exactly wrong, but do teh libtards really hate the army? Come on!) or how Godless we are as a country apparently. She was hired directly out of an internship, probably by some Walmart brand Roger Ailes who's still bragging about it in the control room.

Actually, she was never even an intern. She applied for an internship and got her own show.

[Mr. Reactionary]

Context:

Can we all stop talking about her? She's the least interesting person in the world, perhaps in history. She's like one of those kids that regurgitates what they've heard but doesn't quite understand what they're saying. She hasn't thought anything through and she hasn't processed it.

Not to mention her whole brand is based on sex appeal and angry speeches about how great the troops are (she's not exactly wrong, but do teh libtards really hate the army? Come on!) or how Godless we are as a country apparently. She was hired directly out of an internship, probably by some Walmart brand Roger Ailes who's still bragging about it in the control room.

Actually, she was never even an intern. She applied for an internship and got her own show.

Damn Male privilege.

[Since I'm the mad scientist proclaimed by myself]

Context:

Can we all stop talking about her? She's the least interesting person in the world, perhaps in history. She's like one of those kids that regurgitates what they've heard but doesn't quite understand what they're saying. She hasn't thought anything through and she hasn't processed it.

Not to mention her whole brand is based on sex appeal and angry speeches about how great the troops are (she's not exactly wrong, but do teh libtards really hate the army? Come on!) or how Godless we are as a country apparently. She was hired directly out of an internship, probably by some Walmart brand Roger Ailes who's still bragging about it in the control room.

Actually, she was never even an intern. She applied for an internship and got her own show.

Damn Male privilege.

One woman getting a job easy magically invalidates all societal biases.

[Badger]

Context:

Can we all stop talking about her? She's the least interesting person in the world, perhaps in history. She's like one of those kids that regurgitates what they've heard but doesn't quite understand what they're saying. She hasn't thought anything through and she hasn't processed it.

Not to mention her whole brand is based on sex appeal and angry speeches about how great the troops are (she's not exactly wrong, but do teh libtards really hate the army? Come on!) or how Godless we are as a country apparently. She was hired directly out of an internship, probably by some Walmart brand Roger Ailes who's still bragging about it in the control room.

Actually, she was never even an intern. She applied for an internship and got her own show.

Damn Male privilege.

One woman getting a job easy magically invalidates all societal biases.

And if she looked like Kathy Bates, the men running the network would have never given her a show.

[Santander]

Is there anything wrong with beauty being important in the entertainment industry?

[Badger]

Is there anything wrong with beauty being important in the entertainment industry?

There's nothing wrong with beauty being important in the entertainment industry

There is a sh**tload wrong with good looks being a prerequisite in so-called journalism

[Santander]

Is there anything wrong with beauty being important in the entertainment industry?

There's nothing wrong with beauty being important in the entertainment industry

There is a sh**tload wrong with good looks being a prerequisite in so-called journalism

She was hired to do a commentary show, which is entertainment. If she was made a political correspondent, that would be a journalism job.

[heatcharger]

I have yet to see a smart political observation that contains the phrase SJW.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

I appreciate it but we didn't really need another thread. The anti-immigration side won the debate in that other thread hands down. That's why Jacobin American had to shut it down like a little baby, because he had no actual rebuttal other than "hur hur you hate browns" and "I don't think your views should even be allowed to be said".

[Santander]

Get back on topic please.

You geniuses let Krazen and MAGA2020 endlessly troll, the former after bei,g let back after a year because " he'd change", let Stormfront lite posts flourish, and THIS is where you draw the line?

Develop some perspective

Get over yourself.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

On Korea:

Also, what's the point of preventing a refugee crisis by absorbing all of the refugees into your country? That would be like the US annexing Mexico to prevent illegal border crossings.

[Since I'm the mad scientist proclaimed by myself]

Someone should let Dave know he can't stop people from posting hardcore pornography over the forum per the Constitution.

Also in Atlas hilarity.