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democrat/republican.. We are united.. We are one!
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, the controversial Arizona Democrat who threatens to derail President Biden's legislative agenda, received more than $750,000 in donations from the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. After that, she announced her opposition to a Democratic plan to lower prescription drug costs.
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Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.
-- Woody Allen
(Score: 2) by drussell on Thursday September 23 2021, @07:39PM (26 children)
You're correct that most politicians are fully on-board with the usual "corporatist" agenda and essentially do whatever the largest of their donors wan,t because yes, they're that far down that rabbit hole...
What does that have to do with "party label," though? That's seemingly much more of a "big money in politics" issue, isn't it? "Citizens United?" and all those LOLs...
Besides, I guess I can't think of a single principled politician remaining anywhere, at all, on the right-side/GOP in the US, whereas the few politicians that are actually somewhere over there, on the consituent-principled, non-corporate agenda side of the continuum like, for example, the Bernie Sanders of the world or perhaps an AOC or whatever, are seemingly all on only one side of the aisle, so I guess there's that... but I don't really see that being a party issue...
(Score: 2, Interesting) by fustakrakich on Thursday September 23 2021, @08:03PM (1 child)
Yes, the Party. If you are in the Party, you are automatically put on the ballot. All others have to petition. This is just one of the issues that keep the incumbency at 95%, with Party (DNC/GOP) candidates getting 98% of the vote. We have to remove the advantage of incumbency, make everybody who wants to be on the ballot petition to do so, for starters... Then we gotta kill the 501c deductions, that will take care of the money issue
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by cmdrklarg on Thursday September 23 2021, @08:48PM
Now THIS makes a whole lotta sense.
Answer now is don't give in; aim for a new tomorrow.
(Score: 5, Funny) by cmdrklarg on Thursday September 23 2021, @08:47PM (9 children)
It's Fusty's tired mantra of "both sides are the same", which is a variation of "that side is just as bad as the other side".
The Democrats certainly aren't going to save us all, but they clearly aren't the raging dumpster fire that is the GOP.
Answer now is don't give in; aim for a new tomorrow.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday September 23 2021, @10:27PM (2 children)
:-) Still believing in the theatrical opposition, eh? Not about being the same, it is an alliance, a coalition for reelection.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 24 2021, @05:56AM (1 child)
And YOU are a Russian petaQ, pretending to be unbiased while posting the right wing propaganda your handlers feed you.
(Score: 4, Funny) by DeathMonkey on Friday September 24 2021, @04:02PM
Personally I think he's a true believer.
But that only negates the first 6 words in your sentence!
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 24 2021, @12:42AM
He is on the spectrum and has some OCD issues, his previous favored topic was "a series of contracts will fix everything." Nuance and details are beneath him, he just wants to constantly harp on the obvious to maintain his feelings of control and superiority.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday September 24 2021, @02:32AM (3 children)
Of course not. The Dems want to throw a bunch of people under the bus, to make the bus riders happy. Sure, it makes for a bumpy ride, but smooth rides are boooooring!
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday September 24 2021, @03:51PM (2 children)
Gotta love that sleepy guy with dementia who is strong enough to shake a bus and smart enough to take all your guns away.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Friday September 24 2021, @06:24PM (1 child)
He's not so smart as you think. Chipman's nomination was squashed. See my latest journal entry. 🤠
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 24 2021, @07:19PM
Big phat wooooooosh right there ;^D Makes me wish we had a video chatroom we could meet up in just to see the sideways glances when you say shit like this. "Did he just say that? Wait, his brain might catch up in a sec. Oh man he's running with it! Doh, fell apart in some unrelated whataboutism."
(Score: 1, Troll) by shortscreen on Friday September 24 2021, @02:51AM
"That which isn't a raging dumpster fire today, remains as volatile fuel for tomorrow."
- Samuel Clemens
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Thursday September 23 2021, @10:05PM (5 children)
Definitely an issue of them having more of a common goal [freakonomics.com] than party labels, really.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday September 23 2021, @10:29PM (4 children)
The party labels are used to get the voters "shooting" at each other. There is none of that in their closed door meetings.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 5, Touché) by DeathMonkey on Friday September 24 2021, @03:56PM (3 children)
Provide the list of all the leftwing terrorist mass shooting that have occurred recently.
There were 41 rightwing domestic terror attacks in 2020. [theguardian.com]
Since both sides are the exact same I expect a list of 41 leftwing terrorist attacks.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday September 24 2021, @07:04PM (2 children)
:-) Wake me when your dems start to oppose the republicans. They are throwing the election, again... Put the squeeze on the dems before bitching about people that today have no power in congress other than what the dems give. You are running out of time to squander with all your high drama.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 24 2021, @07:23PM (1 child)
I don't even have to read more than the first few words of fusty posts now, such simple patterns of shallow bullshit, no wonder he gets into long arguments with khallow.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday September 24 2021, @09:09PM
Your need to respond intrigues (and amuses) me
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 24 2021, @12:25AM (7 children)
She's running for re-election. And she's an adventur-o-sexual in a conservative state. She's surprisingly independent. Maybe part of where she is, and having been elected in an actual, genuine, non-stuffed election.
If you want to see a party lackey, look at Mark Kelly... party line, all the way. I expect that we'll hear about his future tomorrow, when the new&improved AZ election results are revealed.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 24 2021, @05:22AM (6 children)
And, I should've added, until Martha McSally replaces Kelly, she's alone in preserving the filibuster.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 24 2021, @05:52AM (5 children)
Who is paying you to post this bullshit?
Even the bogus audit isn't going to claim that Trump won Arizona. In fact, Biden picked up votes in the bogus audit: https://news.yahoo.com/leaked-documents-show-cyber-ninjas-035732726.html [yahoo.com].
But here you are still posting your fantasies that Trump won Arizona and that Kelly's win was illegitimate. Who is paying you to post the idiocy that you're spewing?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 24 2021, @06:59AM (3 children)
It doesn't say much for the competence of a security firm that they have leaks.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday September 24 2021, @03:59PM
Doesn't say much for the competence of the people who hired a 'security team' that has never done any security work before.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 24 2021, @05:40PM (1 child)
Doesn't say much for the confidence in the process, if you have to hire a security team to protect the integrity of the election from rampaging democrats.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 24 2021, @06:15PM
Loving you triggered magas, your tantrums over being unpopular losers is sweet screeching. Like the Three Stooges meet a skit with someone tied to railroad tracks.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 24 2021, @09:36PM
AHA! PROOF that the "audit" was bogus! We must audit the audit!
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 24 2021, @04:11AM
ICFI/SEP/IWA-RFC: America’s deadliest pandemic: COVID-19 eclipses the Spanish flu [wsws.org] - Two months into school reopenings in the US: a balance sheet [wsws.org]
K-12 schools caused more than half of all COVID-19 outbreaks in Michigan last week [wsws.org]
Pennsylvania COVID-19 cases and deaths up tenfold after full reopening of schools [wsws.org]
Alberta’s overwhelmed hospitals on verge of leaving patients to die as Canada’s fourth pandemic wave accelerates [wsws.org]
French universities reopen for in-person learning amid COVID-19 pandemic [wsws.org]
Faculty at University of Delaware describes unsafe conditions on campus [wsws.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 24 2021, @01:33PM (11 children)
Politician bought by deep pocket donor....
This is nothing new. If you were to dig into any of the members of the House or Senate (except, maybe, Bernie) you'll find ample evidence of this pattern:
And, if you dug long enough, you'd likely find this pattern from many more than a few of them:
They are all guilty of the first list, and a subset of all are guilty of the steps in the second list. This is what happens when things like "Citizen's United" allowed corporations unfettered donation ability. The politicians are simply for sale to the highest bidder (donor).
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday September 24 2021, @04:07PM
And of course don't forget that it's only "lobbying" if you disagree with it.
A liberal voter sees a donation from the ACLU, yay!
A conservative sees a donation from a Pro Life group, yay!
Swap those then it's OMG THE LOBBYING!!!!
(Score: 2, Disagree) by fustakrakich on Friday September 24 2021, @07:15PM (9 children)
Quit yer bellyachin' about "Citizens United", it's a bullshit distraction. You will not fix the money issue until you eliminate the 501c tax deductions.. It's just a giant money laundering scheme.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 24 2021, @07:33PM (8 children)
https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=45110&page=1&cid=1181209#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]
We've hit peak fusty!
"Quit yer bellyachin'
- Yes, please quit fusty
"it's a bullshit distraction"
- Yes you are
"You will not fix the money issue until you eliminate the 501c tax deductions"
- lawl ok little buddy, not that your point has NO value, just more bullshit distractions from actually fixing problems
"It's just a giant money laundering scheme"
- Which is why we can't fix Citizen's United? You make less sense every day, that is unless one assumes that your goal is distraction and chaos instead of solving problems. Because then the vague nature and lack of constructive thought makes perfect sense.
(Score: -1, Troll) by fustakrakich on Friday September 24 2021, @09:22PM (7 children)
Ah cool! We found the corporate shill, wearing a "liberal" dress! Completely waving off the only real, even partial solution to the single biggest cause of political corruption in the USA. Your "Citizens United" shtick is nothing but a censorship crusade.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 24 2021, @11:12PM (1 child)
Cowardly shill has to downmod... standard operating procedure
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 25 2021, @05:50AM
Troll
Just more cowardice from the little shill
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 25 2021, @07:13PM (4 children)
Troll! again!
Shills are definitely doubling down... cowards... fools...
Eh, this is all they got, they are denied the words
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 25 2021, @09:05PM (3 children)
"Ah cool! We found the corporate shill, wearing a "liberal" dress! Completely waving off the only real, even partial solution to the single biggest cause of political corruption in the USA. Your "Citizens United" shtick is nothing but a censorship crusade."
If you don't see the trollish nonsense in there then your brain is swiss cheese.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 26 2021, @12:17AM (2 children)
Harsh, not troll, and all true. The mod squad is just doing their regular little circle jerk here.. whatever
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 26 2021, @06:30PM (1 child)
Your need to respond, and whine, intrigues (and amuses) us!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 26 2021, @10:40PM
I exist to serve... you are welcome