stewie3128

The Democrats need to do a better job at giving people the money they need to get what they need, and controlling the out-of-control plutocrats wringing every last bit of spare change from the rest of us.

"Ok GOP, we'll cut our yearly deficit by 60% just by only giving the welfare queen confederate states $1 back for every dollar they contribute in taxes, instead of the $6 that South Carolina gets. Pull yourselves up by your bootstraps and start turning a profit."

"Hey, Joe Manchin: if you don't offer your full-throated support to Build Back Better, we're cutting off all Federal aid and investment in West Virginia, and we're going to run nonstop ads telling your constituents why. Also, we're going to break up your daughter's pharma company."

Time for some LBJ shit. But they'll never do it, because they're actually conservatives too.

I'm voting D too for the time being, but the Dems are never going to give us those things either.

The best Dems will offer is BS like means-tested limited family leave if you work for 3 years in an underprivileged school district first and then apply for a special program that will offset 25.7% of your lost wages via tax credits that can only be applied to the first $34,000 of income including HSA contributions but crediting back via deduction the first $500 spent on diapers as long as the diapers were 70% manufactured in the US blah blah blah

This Democratic party does not want universal healthcare. At best, they will grudgingly support universal "access" to healthcare. They do not want universal free college, nor free PTO, because that runs counter to the interests of their largest donors.

The best we can say about the current Democratic party is that they will, at times, pause the active arson that the GOP is inflicting on this country... maybe, sort of. They could have added DC and PR as states in the 2021-2022 session and given themselves a fighting chance in the Senate, but I guess they just kinda forgot to get around to it.

They exist to be a placeholder for whenever the GOP loses power, and a continuous fundraising lifestyle brand the rest of the time.

Mutual funds generally underperform the SP500 as a whole, as well as most broad-spectrum ETFs, and carry an expense ratio 5x higher than VG/Schwab ETFs just for fun. And that's not even accounting for the class-A shares that a lot of financial advisors steer their retail clients into.

No, the "average" person should be putting whatever retirement money they can scrape together into index funds via Roth and/or traditional IRA, then regular retirement investments. But most "average" people can't afford to even sock away 6 months' worth of expenses in an emergency fund because healthcare costs and anything associated with raising kids has gone up a gazillion percent in the last 40 years while real wages have stayed stagnant.

Oh, also try buying a house while facing all of that AND student loans that Republicans are too pig-headed to let the government forgive even a fraction of.

"Financial illiteracy" isn't the problem here, reality is.

He promised to pick a woman, not specifically a black woman. That's why there are still unsubstantiated rumors that he/his team had settled on Klobuchar until George Floyd happened. That would clarify how they got Klobuchar to step out of the race so easily, too. If Biden promised Buttigieg a vague cabinet position, and Amy the VP... the two of them dropping out at just the right time makes complete sense.

Harris "represents" her surface-level demographic, but in her time in Oakland, she rolled back the practices of her predecessor Terence Hallinan, who was possibly the most progressive DA in the country. During his two terms, violent crime dropped by 60%, and he was an outspoken advocate for weed legalization. He said sex work was a public health issue and not a criminal one, and worked to steer as many non-violent cases into diversion/rehab and away from jail time as possible.

All of this, of course, pissed off the cops to no end. So Harris cozied up to the police and big money donors, and ran the now-typical "tough on crime" candidacy.... And, well, you can see what has happened to San Francisco between when she was elected in 2003 and now.

I know we have outposts in Israel keeping an eye on - as an example - Iran and shit, but why do we have to be enemies with Iran in the first place? Our situation with Israel just seems like a pointless one-way relationship that only serves to further alienate the rest of the middle east from us.

"I have decided that Marbury v Madison is no longer binding precedent, and therefore SCOTUS has no constitutionally-derived right of judicial review."

President could do this. In fact, I'll bet $100 in a GOP president doing this in the next 20 years.

The US doesn't have any strategic benefit in propping up Israel other than doing so being weirdly important to white voters.

Non-random survival of randomly varying replicators, according to Richard Dawkins.

A lot of these anti-vaxxers would be fine with not educating their kids.

OTOH, a bunch of them would just want to educate them at some sort of vaccine-free school or something, which they would presume would get government money. As long as they don't get money....

I live in SoCal and love it, and do not intend to have kids, but it really seems like you'd be struggling to raise 3 kids around here on less than $150k (2 cars, rent/mortgage, etc).

Obviously many people manage it somehow, but it must be incredibly stressful. I have no idea how most of them do it.

Hillary's plan was being developed and debated in '93-94, Romneycare in Massachusetts happened in 2006.

I've taken to publically shaming my maga family members into temporary Facebook silence. It's cathartic after a particularly frustrating work day.

They always bounce back to their old form after not-too-long, which just provides another opportunity to catharticallly wail on them.