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You're not from the US, but a big problem here occurs when Congresspeople come from out of the area, don't care about the local district, and run either as a vanity project or a stepping stone to higher office.Quote:
Originally Posted by MrTickle
American presidents are famously not vain at allQuote:
Originally Posted by Dan Druff
The local area gets screwed when this happens, as they count on their local Congressperson to represent their interests.
Oh, you mean like John McCain, who moved from Florida to Arizona in the 1980s in order to run for Congress in a district in which a long-time incumbent was retiring?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dan DruffYou're not from the US, but a big problem here occurs when Congresspeople come from out of the area, don't care about the local district, and run either as a vanity project or a stepping stone to higher office.Quote:
Originally Posted by MrTickle
The local area gets screwed when this happens, as they count on their local Congressperson to represent their interests.
Oh, and Dick Cheney, who was a longtime resident of Texas in the years leading up to 2000 when George W. Bush took him on to vet VP picks for him after he locked up the GOP nomination, but Cheney instead moved his legal domicile to Wyoming in order to be able to qualify as being from a different state than the presidential candidate on the same ticket.
Yeah, they were total carpetbaggers!
Cenk has over 2200 volunteers working on his campaign. And one of his opponents has dropped out and endorsed Cenk.
https://youtu.be/hOXgVvlIdn0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g93YGdtEy98
Cenk the union buster
Why does Crowder repeatedly call Cenk Uygar “CHenk WEE-ger”? Is that part of his shtick? Because he actually pronounced Cenk’s first name correctly at one point (“Jenk”), then goes back to mispronouncing it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dan Druff
Also, gotta love Crowder’s clever conflating big businesses with small ones, and his vacuous “unions served a purpose at one time” argument.
But, if true, this is a blind spot for Uygar. And it’s a valid reason for Crowder to “crow” about the matter. But if Crowder’s reporting is slanted, perhaps he should get a new logo for his show and people should call it “Low-der with Crow-der”.
Because it’s curious that this particular union also supports Cenk’s main opponent in this Dem primary.
More from that twitter thread.
And speaking to Crowder disingenuously conflating small and big businesses...
Good try, Druff. But your failure to research this matter more rigorously than posting this comedian’s slanted take on the matter has shown again how you simply parrot right wing propaganda.
still not reading mumbles’ posts but Uygur admitted the report that he told the staff at TYT not to unionize is true, saying a “unionized workforce would bring new legal and bureaucratic coats that TYT can’t sustain.”
lol mumbles
So you waste more time than you do on Fox "news"/Hannity, by watching another SETHRICHer?
A Trump guy asked me how I know what is fake or not, (after trying to show me a Charlie Kirk video)
I said I don;t, I believe everyone, but you aren't going to get me twice,
you RW trump fans, why do you get news from people who have straight up lied to you?
is just baffling to me. Is it just so you don't have to face the fact that Trump lies?
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Originally Posted by Dan Druff
Not going to answer Jimmy's usual Trump Derangement Syndrome post which manages to seep into EVERY POST HE MAKES on this forum. This isn't about Trump. It's about Cenk Uygur.
Mumbles, I will admit I didn't research this Cenk situation. I just posted the video. To Crowder's credit, he does mention at the beginning that some of the accusers are on the other side of a political race against him, but he "doesn't care". This is because Crowder has a long-running feud with Cenk and just enjoys bashing him.
I knew there was likely more to the story. Maybe I'll look into it later, maybe I won't. However, you taking TYT's statement on the matter as gospel is equally problematic as taking Crowder's assessment as a full explanation.
Look at the diseases we get from eating animals, I can’t imagine what’s going to happen when we regularly fuck them.
Find me a tweet from the twitter account for the union organizers at TYT, @TYTunion, where they say they have accepted TYT’s offer to have a secret ballot, and preferably one that also doesn’t include management employees and is independently run, instead of using a “card check” and I’ll agree that TYT’s responses would be questionable.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dan Druff
this turkey is getting smoked
well, cenk is getting annihilated.
there is literally nothing that mumbles touches that does well.
Darn! Would have loved to see Cenk on the floor of the House calling out the establishment Dems out for their corrupt fealty to corporate and wealthy donors. Oh, well...Quote:
Originally Posted by blake
Wait, we're allowed to start threads about people who get 5% in congressional districts now?
LOL, Trump Derangement Syndrome? You Fox "news" guys don't even think for yourselves anymore.
What is deranged about me not wanting a criminal in the white house? FTR (I'd be rooting for him if he was on Mott Street or something, not in the WH)
Well it didn't go good for Cenk, but don't think tying your name to Trump will work, either
Papdaupalis did worse than him.
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Originally Posted by Dan Druff
BUMP
Frequent Young Turks contributor Michael Brooks died on July 20 at the age of 36. Unlike most deaths at that age, it was not due to an accident, violence, or drugs.
Brooks just got really really unlucky, had a sudden blood clot in his throat, and it killed him. While I know that COVID-19 deaths are sometimes due to blood clots, it's not reported that he was COVID-19 positive.
Anyway, I didn't agree with the guy's politics at all, but it's sad when someone that young gets struck down through no fault of their own.
Krystal Ball, co-host of The Hill’s “Rising” show, paid him a great tribute that is IMO worth watching regardless of someone political bent:Quote:
Originally Posted by Dan Druff
https://youtu.be/w4OgouMLc5Y