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Here is why I'm stuck between two parties.

 

I can't be a part of a party that doesn't care about healthcare, environment, raising the level of equality....or that they think crap like constitutional amendments against gay marriage are the most important issue in the world when we are fighting 3 wars...etc.

 

I can't be a part of a party that believes those evil corporations and rich people are doing nothing but raping and pillaging Americans and we need to either punish them or make them pay for everything.

 

I'm stuck being pissed at everyone.

i agree. the democratic and republican parties have both gone so far to the left and right and so far from the middle ground that neither party deserves any support anymore. f#*k the liberals and the conservatives...get some damn moderates who can work together in office and get america united again.

It's fairly telling about the state of the Democratic Party that the most traffic this thread has gotten is a tangent about economic policy.

 

There really isn't anything to say about the Democrats, is there?

do the democrats have to do much besides watch trump captain the titanic towards the iceberg?

i am sure that if he tries his secret service protection will likely be challenged a time or 2

judging from this past election.....dems need to find someone immature and get out there and start some rebel rousing if they want to get back in power.

the mean ole press went and hurt our snowflake in chiefs feelings.

congrats brandon

what position? doesn't matter i guess...congrats tommy

congrats terrell

good luck Dylan.

looks like he's sticking with red!

 

congrats alonzo

grats and good luck to cethan

op link isn't working

wonder how many huskers will sign FA contracts?

carter, westerkamp, i think are certain

who else?

 

Walk me thru that Red ... when I read through your comments they seem to align to the fact that a President should not speak to a group of individuals that they potentially could help in their role as POTUS (i.e. pay for play - totally understand and agree with this). Nor should they speak after their presidency to any groups that they helped or may have "helped" (or perceived to have helped) during their time in office. After 8 years in that prime leadership position, touching all that they do wouldn't that pretty much mean they couldn't speak to any group?

It's not the speaking - it's the payment.

 

If I'm understanding correctly, the argument is entirely that perhaps Obama is collecting his reward for not going after bankers harder during his presidency.

Yes, but it's broader than that. Consider these thought experiments that are also unethical:

1) Trump builds a border wall. After his presidency he gets paid to give speeches to the trade association Border Walls 'R Us, whose members include companies that profited from the border wall.

2) Alternate universe where Bernie Sanders won the presidency and passes a law that makes unions powerful. After his presidency, he gets paid by the trade unions to give speeches.

 

Also consider the slippery slope that Obama getting money creates. Even if it wasn't a pay-for-play in Obama's case, it's an incentive for other political figures to do pay-for-play and allows industry figures to induce them to do so. For example, the firm that is paying Obama for a speech could go to Trump and intimate that he could get the same treatment if he treats them favorably.

 

trump would laugh at them if all they offer is $400,000. he is milking the taxpayers for millions now

he tries to drive the divide in our nation wider and wider with everything he does. not even giving fake words about unity. we need to get all the democrats and republicans out of office and replace them with a moderate party that wants to unite the nation and lead all of us instead of just the people with an R or a D by their names while running their brand of kleptocracy.

Brief But Revealing Conversations With People Who Emailed Me To Say ESPN Is Failing Because It's Liberal

 

ESPN is hemorrhaging money and laying off employees. This is because it is having trouble paying billions of dollars in rights fees while also losing millions of subscribers to cord-cutting. People cancel their cable subscriptions because advances in technology have allowed them to consume all the TV, movies, and sports they want without paying for cable, but a lot of morons out there want you to believe that people are cutting the cord because they have been alienated by ESPN’s supposedly liberal politics. Some of those morons emailed me.

 

holy chit.....those are some extreme far right nut jobs. i am amazed that they managed to find their way out of the birth canal.

seems that there might be a chance

is 1 of you who keeps bumping this thread actually Randy Gregory?

his career has gone up in smoke

damn...another thread devolved into beating that dead horse again

the walgreens on the corner on main street in fargo added a stock boy job....trump is bringing back jobs!!!

growth is slowest in 3 years....it's obamas fault!!!

 

 

Wait......

 

Fox does know that her own father thinks she's a good piece of ass and would love to have sex with her.....if he wasn't her father.....right????

 

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/857787981058461696

That is terrible for anyone to say. Messed up you would even think about saying something like that.

 

It's not terrible to say if it's true.

 

there is a right time and a right place to say things like that....on the evening news is neither the right time nor the right place. especially if your network is trying to recover from a sexual harassment case or 2.

thanks Obama