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TheRock1525 posted...

Controversial opinion: Pacific Rim speech is better.

Jesus. Link me the speech at least so I can compare, but that seems hard to believe figuring I don't remember it from the movie.

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Whiskey_Nick posted...

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1261747580666552320

this is a thing that happened.

That was hilarious. I don't get why someone made the video, but it was funny.

That said, ID4 speech is probably top speech ever made from an american president in all of history.

I don't know most of those faces beyond Trump, Pence, and Cruz (Cruz was hilarious btw). But, I did find it funny the old drunk guy got to remain who he was at least lol.

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v_charon posted...

I would hazard to say that yes, the majority of people are not going to reach around someone in a store in a normal circumstance and especially if most every store has signs up everywhere imploring people to stay at least 6 feet away from the nearest person if they can help it. So yes, a logical conclusion is that a large majority of people won't do what they guy did with Nick. As suggested above, of course it happens. You however were excusing the guy without knowing much about the situation and then tossed in a backhanded comment which virtually dismissed Nick's story because you, personally, disagree with his stance on COVID-19. You almost always do that in fact, which is why I do it do you.

Any of these are far more likely than me walking up and unexpectedly reaching around the person without warning. And again, definitely not something that should be done in the current situation. It's completely uncalled for and irresponsible.

Nobody said everyone does it. I said it's a normal behavior. I have worked at a Walmart long enough to know this. That guy was an impatient, impolite person. Simple as that. He didn't do it because he felt he was invincible from wearing a mask.

I didn't do literally anything you said. I'm fact, it seems you saw what you wanted to and just ran with it.

Every day I have zero doubt people are flaunting 6 feet guidelines on a regular basis (not everyone). I have yet to be to a Walmart after they put one way aisles in that people have followed them. To the point that I think I might be the only one who does! Lol.

I said that if masks were worn properly that the guy likely didn't cause an increased risk, which is the point of wearing the masks!

It is possible that Nick may have increased his risk by not just ignoring the couple of seconds for the guy to grab his thing instead of confronting him about it, which at least caused face to face interaction from how it sounds. Though the masks shouldn't make that a worry either if used properly.

The point was that the guy didn't do it just because he had a mask on. He did it because he likely normally acts that way. He justified it because of having a mask on. He likely was fine. And, Nick arguably could have said to have overreacted by confronting the guy about it with the scenarios that could have branched off from it. He could have just moved away or not stood in front of items to the point someone tried to reach around them. Sure, Nick shouldn't have to adjust his behavior for impolite people. That's a given.

However, likely at the end of the day, there was no transmission issue absolutely because of the masks if worn properly. Some people don't even realize what they are doing because they normally act this way.

It is why I try to minimize the amount of time I am in stores period because people do act this way. I worked at a Walmart, so I understand this. So, I already know what to expect.


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So, in a actual coronavirus news, China should fall out of the top 15 in cases by the end of this week upcoming. Canada will likely pass it to take the 15th spot. Seems likely the epicenter is actually that low in cases.

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You aren't everybody. Lol.

I would be very surprised if the vast majority of people would not agree that in a normal day in a grocery store that people at some point reach around a slow person to get the item they want.

Like, it is so baffling to me that you are even arguing this point. I get that it is to deflect from what was being said that Nick is probably incorrect that the person only did it because they felt invincible because they had a mask on and moreso did it because it was their normal behavior.

Like, I truly understand it is just deflection. However, it is such an off the wall assertion that you are either trolling or just arguing to argue.

Of course this happens in stores. Of course not everyone does things the way you do things or I do things or so on. Like, just lol.

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Always can tell when someone is upset that what they said was debunked.

Lol oh boy. Some of you guys are a trip. Anyways...

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Vcharon, trying to argue to argue. Got it. All you had to say, bud. I won't waste my time on someone who just wants to argue about stuff.

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What you do has nothing to do with what other people normally do, vcharon.

If you are saying you have never been in a a store where someone is looking at items in an aisle and a person goes next to them and grabs their item they need that they were blocking, then I am honestly going to question what planet you are from.

Like, it happens all the time.

But, beyond that. The point is that Nick acted like the guy did it BECAUSE he had a mask on. When the guy did it likely because he would have normally done it in a regular scenario.

He didn't say, HAhaha I have a mask on! Time to reach around this dude to get my shit hahaha because I have a mask and am invincible!

For example, your normal is to say excuse me. My normal is to sit there patiently and wait for them to be done, in which a quarter of the time they turn around and ask if they are in my way or say "you could have said excuse me". Which I just reply, I can wait it's no big deal.

Lol. Your normal isn't everyone's normal. That was likely his normal behavior.

So, if Nick had a problem with it. He shouldn't frame it with a mask making the guy invincible argument, he should have framed that the guy was impatient or impolite by Nick's measures.

Got it?

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v_charon posted...

You're still supposed to practice proper social distancing even with the mask on. It doesn't give you a free pass to be all over someone else.

Difference between being all over someone and reaching around them. If both had masks, the normal every day thing in a store of reaching around someone who is in front of what you want, is likely not an issue assuming both are wearing masks properly.

He could have waited his turn. Sure. I doubt he reached around Nick BECAUSE he had a mask on. He probably did it because he normally would in a situation someone was taking too long in front of him. He likely just tried to calm Nick's fears by showing him he had a mask on so he didn't have to worry.

Point is that if they both were wearing masks properly, there is little reason to freak out in regards. That said, Nick has said he is a lockdown forever to vaccine because of his fear of it, so that likely lead to his reaction as well

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Wang is right. Most people don't understand how the mask recommendations for the public work.

There is absolutely zero intent for you to be 100% protected from viral load. The masks that are to accomplish that are n95 masks. The public is NOT recommended to wear those. The public is recommended to donate them to hospitals if they have them.

The masks the public are recommended to wear are simply to reduce your spread of virus in your droplets that you naturally have via talking, breathing, sneezing, and coughing.

This only works definitively to protect you if everyone is wearing their masks and following proper usage of them.

However, the mask you wear is to reduce how far your droplets spread from you. Not to protect you.

The guy who reached around Nick was likely doing relatively nothing wrong if wearing his mask properly.

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Voxwik posted...

No, because that didn't happen.

They warned without measures in place it would overwhelm hospitals. One of the worst things about this is people using evidence taking this serious helped as evidence it isn't serious.

That's incorrect. Cuomo on TV said they needed 30k. Berated the government for only sending 4k. And then when Trump said he didn't think they needed that many went off about it.

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Russia announced supersonic missiles at 17x the speed of sound last year or so.

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TheRock1525 posted...

Remember when the president told states to fend for themselves then just gave away ventilators to another country because they said nice things about him?

He is giving ventilators to other countries because it became apparent we didn't need the amount people panicked and said they needed. So, we produced for the panicked number and overproduced drastically. New York's 30k pleas obviously were the easiest to point to for not being realistic .

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

The hearing didn't move to trial because the Republicans didn't want it to move to trial. They specifically did not want one. Every second of the hearing was them wanting it over as fast as possible.

Hell, they did everything they could to stop them from doing and FBI investigation.

Nothing moved to a trial because a prosecutor never had a viable charge to take to court. Just like Reade doesn't with Biden.

You can try and figure out ways to support your side, but this is a bullshit attempt here.

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Inviso posted...

I mean, he said "wait until a trial" to make his decision. The Ford/Kavanaugh senate hearings are the closest thing to a trial we're going to get, and Kavanaugh came across as extremely guilty compared to Ford coming across as extremely credible, based on that trial.

Bullshit. That's moving goal posts. The alleged incident never could have moved to a trial due to a lack of evidence.

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Mr Lasastryke posted...

present the evidence that i didn't

Not even a topic ago said Kavanaugh was lying because he used calendars as a diary.

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Mr Lasastryke posted...

yes, that is, in fact, exactly what i did in the kavanaugh case.

once again, you're baselessly insulting me. you're a fucking dipshit.

No, you didn't.

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Mr Lasastryke posted...

or there's the third option of waiting until a trial until you make a judgment about who's telling the truth. that's what i'm doing with these reade accusations.

Cuz that's what you did with Ford, yes? Hypocrite.

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I am literally between hope my fiancee gets a job that covers our expense difference or cash out my 401k to pay my car off and live at a deficit every month until I can find a job that pays enough to make sense to get off unemployment or to wait for my job to restart.

The 401k is a nuclear option route I don't wanna take. How can I spend a stimulus in that scenario. It would require me to be a person with poor money skills.

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https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/14/white-house-would-likely-support-a-new-round-of-stimulus-checks-sources-say.html

If this is the same as last time then it is pointless. It is supposed to be a stimulus to stimulate the economy, and I cannot spend it at all because I saw the writing on the wall with the automakers and had to hoard it.

Pretty much everyone has to hoard them while there is too much job uncertainty. They are pointless for their purpose unless shoring up other avenues.

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There is plenty of ways to make viable alternatives. The problem is, they are questioning the need for it at all instead of giving ideas towards it.

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red sox 777 posted...

Not slightly larger. A lot larger. You'll end up paying exactly what you are supposed to pay, the withholding changes exactly zero.

You said they would be getting up to an extra 22% a month and threw out those numbers on the extra they are getting a month. Which is 100% false.

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red sox 777 posted...

Not slightly larger. A lot larger. You'll end up paying exactly what you are supposed to pay, the withholding changes exactly zero.

It would be 37% of 14,950 that you already paid and can't get until tax return time of the following year, when you needed it now.

Obviously the example seems more ridiculous using a millionaire salary, but apply it to someone in the 22% tax bracket. I mean, fuck, I barely ever hit the 22% tax bracket myself.

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red sox 777 posted...

No, it isn't. My stance is we should encourage the country to reopen. Corrik previously identified some issue with the $600/week not being capped by someone's previous income so someone would have to take a paycut to resume work. You could solve that by shifting it after 3 months to be capped at 100% of previous income.

But anyways, this conversation is sort of tiresome since people keep misconstruing what I'm saying. Let's make this easier:

Please leave the economic policy to Mitch McConnell, who knows far better than you what's good for the country.

I have said very clearly for the start that if Republicans cannot find a viable alternative to the Democrats plan, then by default you have to support the Democrats here. As of now, the Republicans are saying "over my dead body" "we don't know if we need any more assistance", "dead on arrival", and "veto".

That's not an alternative.

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red sox 777 posted...

Corrik, I have no idea what you are talking about. I said I was talking about taxes. Not withholding. Your taxable income is your taxable income, whenever you pay it.

Your taxed in your brackets every paycheck, redsox. They don't add up your income made throughout the year and tax you more the more your yearly income adds up.

Let's try and make this example easier...

Let's say you made 1 million in the first 6 months of the year. And you made max PA unemployment the last 6 months. Your unemployment is not 37% tax rate.

1,000,000 divided by 26 is 38,461.54 a week.

Your first $189.90 of your weekly paycheck was taxed 10% on your withhold.

771.63-189.90= 581.73

Your next $581.73 was taxed 12% on your withhold.

1,644.71 - 771.63 = Your next 873.08 is taxed at 22%

3,140.38 - 1,644.71 = 1,495.67.

Your next 1,495.67 was taxed at 24%

3,987.50 - 3,140.38 = 847.12

Your next 847.12 is taxed at 32%.

9,969.23 - 3,987.50 = 5,981.73

Your next 5,981.73 is taxed at 35%.

38,461.54 - 9,969.23 = 28,492.31

Your last 28,492.31 is taxed at 37%.

This is all out of your weekly paycheck. (This only moves a little bit due to how you claim on your w4. But this is the basics.).

The paychecks are taxed as if they assume this is your 52 weeks every week. So anything that ends up being higher than normal is overtaxed.

So, sure. Anything you on top is in the 37% tax bracket, but you have already overpaid your taxes now because you didn't make as much as estimated by your weekly withholds already. Your unemployment withholds are still going to be 10%. Which means you are only getting an extra 10% on your income. You might get a slightly bigger return since you are taking another 14,950 off your income which makes your return larger, but you can't get that money now when you need it.


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red sox 777 posted...

I'm not talking about withholding, I'm talking about the tax that's ultimately due. Whether or not it's withheld, it'll still come due and have to be paid.

If you knew how withholding worked, you would understand why you don't make sense. Under your thinking, you make more money at the beginning of the year than the end of the year which is really dumb.

Like, what you are suggesting speaks to the fact that you astronomically don't know how withholding works.

You are never going to owe 22% on the unemployment you got. Because if you earned enough prior or after in the year, the weeks you earned enough to project you into the higher bracket FOR THAT WEEK has had that portion already taxed at the higher bracket FOR THOSE WEEKS.

What you are suggesting is that at tax time you should get a bigger return because instead of adding a 10% tax bracket income in for all those weeks you got unemployment, you add 0% and the money you paid prior becomes a bigger return because it overestimated you based on your weekly amounts taxed for the entire year.

Which defeats the purpose of your argument. Because, it didn't increase how much you got per month past 10% for the unemployment and keeps the same numbers I gave a range for. It increased what you would get on your tax return in March slightly. That doesn't help people now. At all.

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red sox 777 posted...

I am assuming the person is working the rest of the year and their regular income has already put them into the 22% bracket.

That is not how withholding works at all...

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red sox 777 posted...

I'm figuring $2,000 a month unemployment. There's a 22% tax rate, so that's $440. If the $600/week is taxable too, that's another $2,600 or so a month of taxable income. So about $600. Now we're at over $1,000 in income tax on unemployment per month.

You just said you are basically against extending the $600 a week. So that ends the $2400 there (no idea where you are getting $2600 unless you are accounting some months have an extra pay week or something).

And, the tax withhold on unemployment is 10%. Not 22%. Why would it even be 22%?

PA Unemployment is 575 a week. That is 29,900 a year. The 22% tax bracket doesn't come in until $40,126 for single filers. $80,251 for married filers.

So, why would you be acting like a 22% bracket tax would ever matter. At most a portion would be 12%.

At 2,300 a month in PA, you are getting 230 withheld for taxes.

In states such as Mississippi the max is $235 a week. For a whopping $940 a month, and a $94 benefit.

And, this is assuming maximum rates, which some probably don't qualify for and why I have it as a low as a $20 benefit in my above estimate. Hell, with the standard deduction, some may not even have a tax liability at all.

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red sox 777 posted...

It can be more like $400. Add in the federal $2600/month and that's another $600 or so for a total of around $1,000 per month.

I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.

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HeroicCrono posted...

Yeah, so get rid of the income tax on it.

Do you even pay income tax on the federal boost?

If you mean get rid of the income tax on regular unemployment you are talking about $20-$200 a month. That's a far cry from $2400.

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red sox 777 posted...

People who are unemployed are already getting extra UE benefits. But sure, let's make those nontaxable too so everyone benefits.

Uh, you don't pay payroll tax on unemployment.

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Also, their way of giving out a stimulus check is superior to the one that happened into cares which literally meant $1700 was supposed to cover 4 people in my house because dependents were left to the wayside.

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red sox 777 posted...

Corrik, what do you like about the Heroes Act? I just read through an article about it and I can't see what's good about it. It sounds like an enormously expensive giveaway to groups favored by Democrats, with a one-time payment of $1,200 to everyone else to appease them.

It extends the unemployment boost that is broken to January 1st (possibly thru March in ways I can't figure out). After the broken system that Mnuchin negotiated in cost people their jobs, it would be bullshit to take it away from the people it caused to lose their jobs when it finally affected them down supply.


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Mitch should be focused on passing the heroes act or a viable alternative and not wasting his time on dumb petty stuff.

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HashtagSEP posted...

What was the actual claim?

Using a calendar to keep track of daily events isn't weird at all.
Using a calendar to write personal details on is very weird.

I don't recall what the actual claim was, though.

He claimed he uses calendars as his diaries. Diaries are a collection of daily events and/or experiences.

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Mr Lasastryke posted...

lol, i'd love to know about this culture where people do something as inane as using a calendar as a diary.

did this "culture" never leave the kavanaugh househould?

There are tons of different "cultures" for things that you wouldn't ever expect. It doesn't have to be a culture in the way you would normally expect it to be. In our Teaching in a multicultural society, we had 60 students do presentations on subcultures from things such as gamers to knitters to scrapbookers, etc.

You should be celebrating diversity in society and also not falling into toxic stereotypes for behaviors of people based upon their sex. Your way of thinking is outdated in an increasingly progressive society and should be stereotypes and expectations you should shed as you become more enlightened in life.

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Yeah, both of you are making regrettable posts right now that lack an open-mind. I empathize for you both though. It is difficult to understand that other people have cultures and livelihoods that differ than the norm that you are accustomed to.

It is hard for someone to understand that using a calendar as a diary can be acceptable to someone and may be something they grew up with as a normal thing. Or just was an interest or quirk that is a part of their life.

It is also hard to understand that expecting masculinity centerfold, instead of letting males express themselves in ways that are sensitive and showing themselves as vulnerable, does not have to be the way we pidgeon-hole the males in our society. We should be welcoming expression and feelings. Not making people of either gender feel lesser for showing true feelings.


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Does this vote even matter? It likely won't pass the house.

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They weren't close to eradicating it. What you should be glistening from this is that there is no eradicating it due to the worldwide spread. Even when they think they have eradicated it, there is likely people running around asymptomatically somewhere.

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-14/asia-s-virus-taming-stars-disappointed-by-resurgence-of-cases?sref=TBDibEcD


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LordoftheMorons posted...

A lot of people need to be infected before herd immunity has an appreciable effect. Remember that you just get a multiplier of 1-f, where f is the fraction who are immune. For an R of 1.1 to fall to an effective R of 1, you need 1-1/1.1 ~ = 9% of the population to be infected (which is a lot!). Given that we are not much below 1 now, going back to "mostly normal" is very likely not going to just bring us up to 1.01 or even 1.1. We certainly cannot sustain being at an R of like 1.3 or something for very long before cases will blow up again.

We are likely at over 1% of the population infected as is or close to it.

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LordoftheMorons posted...

If you can keep R exactly at 1 with a low enough baseline that's potentially not disastrous (but you don't have super precise control anyway). The point is that R > 1 is exponential growth and R < 1 is exponential decay. If cases are growing exponentially, they will eventually get to an unsustainable level.

This is incorrect though. If r = 1.1 it doesn't stay that way indefinitely. As more get infected, the uninfected to spread decreases and the r0 can fall on its own.

Again, why is r < 1 so important. Keeping it not dramatic is important but ebb and flow around 1 when we aren't stressed seems quite smart even. The point of locking Down is to keep the hospitals not as breaking points, which we should have increased those levels from where they were already anyways.

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pyresword posted...

Does there have to be a central database? Why can't each phone just store the list of messages they've received and sent locally?

Not everyone has a cell phone.

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If Republicans think the everyone go back to work strategy is simply going to work with 25 million unemployed, they are going to get massacred, Suprak. It is a circumstance you aren't accounting for.

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Why is r < 1 so important to you? If our healthcare system isn't even at 50% stress then r = 1 or even slight ebbs and flows up and down shouldn't matter.

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Social media is a disaster. Every idiot from this coast to that coast is a fucking genius and spouting their nonsense and sharing memes that are garbage.

I swear nothing makes me not want to a support a political side more than seeing idiots repost propaganda memes that are clearly fake as truth over and over.

Whether it is Occupy Democrats or Breitbart or whatever. It just makes me ashamed to be considered in the same group as either.


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Suprak the Stud posted...

Still don't think Biden takes Wisconsin.

Fear is a powerful drug, and Democrats have it firmly in their corner.

Unless Trump proves those fears unfounded, he might lose by double digits in the big three battlegrounds.

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Jakyl25 posted...

Their purpose is profit though

Then they shouldn't exist. If the argument to not government run media is for fair reporting, then it should exist. If it is going to be sensationalist, we might as well just have it government ran at that point. At least then we can be all brainwashed onto a similar course instead of having a country divided at it's seams due to sensationalism.

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Cyrlous posted...

Ok, I won't try to ruin your optimism. But just don't get too carried away with it. I have a number of friends who were completely crushed when Hillary lost in 2016 even though I had been telling them to expect it.

Trump can only win if reopening works. He had the golden ticket economy. That is in shambles. Now it is a gamble. One I hope that is a gamble based on data for Americans sakes.

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Kinglicious posted...

also i'm confused by this dem turn.
you switched teams, corrik?

As of now, Republicans have cost me my job while Democrats want to ease the pain the job loss has caused. One is looking out for my family while the other isn't. That is more important than policy at the granular level as of now. Policy-wise, Republicans are more on point. However, Obama and Biden are much further to the right than say a Bernie is anyways and Biden seems to actually want my vote more than he cares about the progressive left he takes for granted.

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