If by "rigged" you mean Hillary was better prepared, more organized, understood party rules, had an actual plan, and had the support of high ranking party members who weren't bound by primary results, then yes the primary was rigged.
plus, you know, got more votes
i think superdelegates are a dumb idea and the whole "bernie doesn't have a chance because of them" definitely stifled a lot of momentum going into the later stages of the primaries
i also think people would be a lot more against them if they hadn't benefited hillary but not like it matters now anyway. Hillary is the best candidate and will win and people will handwave away anything against her because at least she's not trump
or maybe trump will win. You never know. I didn't think Brexit would happen and here we are. Politics is awful and i hate it but american politics is totally unavoidable
Bernie never had a chance because he failed to pitch to anyone other than college students and aggrieved white voters.
One of those groups is literally fucking the GOP right now. well technically both, but for different reasons.
"Momentum" is a bullshit narrative term. we have math that tells us how these things will turn out once we actually start collecting samples.
Bernie did fine, just too many people like Hillary too much
Also momentum wasn't a bullshit narrative when people were complaining about Bernie not pulling out and ruining Hillary's chances.
That was a bit of a clown move, but not for momentum reasons, and he worked pretty hard to make up for it once he dropped out.
-get rid of caucuses, bring back open primaries (meaning you don't need to affiliate with a party to vote in them)
-increase taxes on cigarettes by $1.75 per pack, using the proceeds for roughly half health expenses brought on by smoking and tobacco education/outreach for youth, and roughly half various good causes (veteran re-integration, more mental health services for the underprivileged etc)
-an amendment to the state constitution that would, in effect, make it harder to alter the constitution
-limited euthanasia (from none at all)
-a mostly symbolic thing that involves a mention of slavery and indentured servitude in the constitution, and that some people say could eventually impact prison work programs
-minimum wage increase
-tax hike to fund UHC for the state
-a low threshold ($6,000) exemption for possessory for certain property-driven incomes
and then locally for me:
-.25 percent tax increase to fund treatment for mental health and substance addiction in the county
-giving the county/city permission to explore fiber internet as a utility eee
-a small (tenth of a cent) tax increase to provide general funding to non profits- culture, arts, animal welfare etc- in the county
and then two real-fucking-long ballot measures about the local school district jfc if i were a parent maybe i would bother trying to parse these impossibly long and complex debt/tax questions about schools
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I am honestly not much of a steak fan so this would basically be for burgers and chicken breasts.
The 31605 is perfect for that. I've been using mine for more than 5 years now. I use it for burgers even in summer when I could use my gas grill outside 15 feet away.
-get rid of caucuses, bring back open primaries (meaning you don't need to affiliate with a party to vote in them)
-increase taxes on cigarettes by $1.75 per pack, using the proceeds for roughly half health expenses brought on by smoking and tobacco education/outreach for youth, and roughly half various good causes (veteran re-integration, more mental health services for the underprivileged etc)
-an amendment to the state constitution that would, in effect, make it harder to alter the constitution
-limited euthanasia (from none at all)
-a mostly symbolic thing that involves a mention of slavery and indentured servitude in the constitution, and that some people say could eventually impact prison work programs
-minimum wage increase
-tax hike to fund UHC for the state
-a low threshold ($6,000) exemption for possessory for certain property-driven incomes
and then locally for me:
-.25 percent tax increase to fund treatment for mental health and substance addiction in the county
-giving the county/city permission to explore fiber internet as a utility eee
-a small (tenth of a cent) tax increase to provide general funding to non profits- culture, arts, animal welfare etc- in the county
and then two real-fucking-long ballot measures about the local school district jfc if i were a parent maybe i would bother trying to parse these impossibly long and complex debt/tax questions about schools
Ugh your stuff is mostly cool and interesting.
Washington's proposals are all mostly sucky.
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
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Oh god
Fucking Netflix changed the color of my profile pic from cyan to shit green
Omgggggg going through the old poetry booklets my gf's high school published and her contributions (they're so bad and all about nature and being a hippy and painfully earnest and she is red as a tomato)
And I stumbled on a hilariously good one some other kid wrote
-get rid of caucuses, bring back open primaries (meaning you don't need to affiliate with a party to vote in them)
-increase taxes on cigarettes by $1.75 per pack, using the proceeds for roughly half health expenses brought on by smoking and tobacco education/outreach for youth, and roughly half various good causes (veteran re-integration, more mental health services for the underprivileged etc)
-an amendment to the state constitution that would, in effect, make it harder to alter the constitution
-limited euthanasia (from none at all)
-a mostly symbolic thing that involves a mention of slavery and indentured servitude in the constitution, and that some people say could eventually impact prison work programs
-minimum wage increase
-tax hike to fund UHC for the state
-a low threshold ($6,000) exemption for possessory for certain property-driven incomes
and then locally for me:
-.25 percent tax increase to fund treatment for mental health and substance addiction in the county
-giving the county/city permission to explore fiber internet as a utility eee
-a small (tenth of a cent) tax increase to provide general funding to non profits- culture, arts, animal welfare etc- in the county
and then two real-fucking-long ballot measures about the local school district jfc if i were a parent maybe i would bother trying to parse these impossibly long and complex debt/tax questions about schools
@emnmnme i have been talking about how this song seems to be a break down of typical pop songs while remaining a typical pop song. the lyrics are ridiculous and seem to imply some sort of meta-narrative. i do not understand it.
but dang this song is like. . it's a song i can not be ashamed of. but at the same time i realize it's just punching me in the pop music dick.
puppies are you voting for this coloradocares uhc thing? it is uh, a big expense. it would essentially double our state budget. it is a huge program. it would also be very comprehensive- no deductibles or copays whatsoever for basic or primary services, and specialty services would have copays waived for the impoverished. and everyone in colorado would be covered.
it is so much money tho. i have heard the argument that we should wait for UHC to go federal because when there's that much purchasing power/negotiating strength, it lowers prices. and if we implement UHC locally, we don't have that sort of leverage to lower costs.
@emnmnme i have been talking about how this song seems to be a break down of typical pop songs while remaining a typical pop song. the lyrics are ridiculous and seem to imply some sort of meta-narrative. i do not understand it.
but dang this song is like. . it's a song i can not be ashamed of. but at the same time i realize it's just punching me in the pop music dick.
puppies are you voting for this coloradocares uhc thing? it is uh, a big expense. it would essentially double our state budget. it is a huge program. it would also be very comprehensive- no deductibles or copays whatsoever for basic or primary services, and specialty services would have copays waived for the impoverished. and everyone in colorado would be covered.
it is so much money tho. i have heard the argument that we should wait for UHC to go federal because when there's that much purchasing power/negotiating strength, it lowers prices. and if we implement UHC locally, we don't have that sort of leverage to lower costs.
I speak from a position of privilege, of course
But I think there'd be a lot of trouble with doing it state-by-state whereas there'd be far fewer overall complications doing it federally / all at once
emnmnme i have been talking about how this song seems to be a break down of typical pop songs while remaining a typical pop song. the lyrics are ridiculous and seem to imply some sort of meta-narrative. i do not understand it.
but dang this song is like. . it's a song i can not be ashamed of. but at the same time i realize it's just punching me in the pop music dick.
@emnmnme i have been talking about how this song seems to be a break down of typical pop songs while remaining a typical pop song. the lyrics are ridiculous and seem to imply some sort of meta-narrative. i do not understand it.
but dang this song is like. . it's a song i can not be ashamed of. but at the same time i realize it's just punching me in the pop music dick.
Beck is stupidly talented as a musician and is pretty apt at breaking down songs/genres and reassembling them for his own ends.
It is absolutely a critique on pop music while still being a good pop song
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@emnmnme i have been talking about how this song seems to be a break down of typical pop songs while remaining a typical pop song. the lyrics are ridiculous and seem to imply some sort of meta-narrative. i do not understand it.
but dang this song is like. . it's a song i can not be ashamed of. but at the same time i realize it's just punching me in the pop music dick.
Beck is stupidly talented as a musician and is pretty apt at breaking down songs/genres and reassembling them for his own ends.
It is absolutely a critique on pop music while still being a good pop song
and it made it into a car commercial.
it's just like. . .beautiful.
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puppies are you voting for this coloradocares uhc thing? it is uh, a big expense. it would essentially double our state budget. it is a huge program. it would also be very comprehensive- no deductibles or copays whatsoever for basic or primary services, and specialty services would have copays waived for the impoverished. and everyone in colorado would be covered.
it is so much money tho. i have heard the argument that we should wait for UHC to go federal because when there's that much purchasing power/negotiating strength, it lowers prices. and if we implement UHC locally, we don't have that sort of leverage to lower costs.
I speak from a position of privilege, of course
But I think there'd be a lot of trouble with doing it state-by-state whereas there'd be far fewer overall complications doing it federally / all at once
a major pillar of UHC is the purchasing power of the federal government
it is a lot harder to do at the state level
that being said the price tag doesn't tend to include external savings such as not having to supply as great a volume of emergency services because of better preventative coverage
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
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I like how Bell was broken up into baby bells
and then decades later AT&T starts buying them back up and now time warner
and then decades later AT&T starts buying them back up and now time warner
This'll go though FTC (or FCC? ) review. I doubt it will survive.
Aioua on
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
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Well, it is a joke
But also completely true
Good ones are great. Shitty ones are really limited in what you can do with them. I have two: https://www.hamiltonbeach.com/all-indoor-grills-health-smart-indoor--outdoor-grill-31605n.html and https://www.amazon.com/Hamilton-Beach-25331-100-Square-Inch-Nonstick/dp/B001AQEPMM. The first one is great. The second one isn't as good - having the top makes it harder to clean, and I've never made a tasty steak with it. I'll use it now and again for steak tips but that's about it.
i think you know why.
edit: i consider it painfully bad.
That was a bit of a clown move, but not for momentum reasons, and he worked pretty hard to make up for it once he dropped out.
-get rid of caucuses, bring back open primaries (meaning you don't need to affiliate with a party to vote in them)
-increase taxes on cigarettes by $1.75 per pack, using the proceeds for roughly half health expenses brought on by smoking and tobacco education/outreach for youth, and roughly half various good causes (veteran re-integration, more mental health services for the underprivileged etc)
-an amendment to the state constitution that would, in effect, make it harder to alter the constitution
-limited euthanasia (from none at all)
-a mostly symbolic thing that involves a mention of slavery and indentured servitude in the constitution, and that some people say could eventually impact prison work programs
-minimum wage increase
-tax hike to fund UHC for the state
-a low threshold ($6,000) exemption for possessory for certain property-driven incomes
and then locally for me:
-.25 percent tax increase to fund treatment for mental health and substance addiction in the county
-giving the county/city permission to explore fiber internet as a utility eee
-a small (tenth of a cent) tax increase to provide general funding to non profits- culture, arts, animal welfare etc- in the county
and then two real-fucking-long ballot measures about the local school district jfc if i were a parent maybe i would bother trying to parse these impossibly long and complex debt/tax questions about schools
The 31605 is perfect for that. I've been using mine for more than 5 years now. I use it for burgers even in summer when I could use my gas grill outside 15 feet away.
Ugh your stuff is mostly cool and interesting.
Washington's proposals are all mostly sucky.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Fucking Netflix changed the color of my profile pic from cyan to shit green
It is disgusting
Why Netflix? Why did you do this?
And I stumbled on a hilariously good one some other kid wrote
@Vanguard
Because now they have all your money and money is green.
Ballot proposals are all fucking terrible
It is the worst kind of democracy
We?
I mean. I am.
Not this shade of green
This shade of green I most commonly see in toilet bowls and diapers and growing on cheese
@emnmnme i have been talking about how this song seems to be a break down of typical pop songs while remaining a typical pop song. the lyrics are ridiculous and seem to imply some sort of meta-narrative. i do not understand it.
but dang this song is like. . it's a song i can not be ashamed of. but at the same time i realize it's just punching me in the pop music dick.
it is so much money tho. i have heard the argument that we should wait for UHC to go federal because when there's that much purchasing power/negotiating strength, it lowers prices. and if we implement UHC locally, we don't have that sort of leverage to lower costs.
I recognize it's not even in the 'so bad it's good' category.
It's a mystery to me.
Her excuse was well they all went in there to eat dinner and then the kids left and they didn't.
Like what the fuck kick them out!
I speak from a position of privilege, of course
But I think there'd be a lot of trouble with doing it state-by-state whereas there'd be far fewer overall complications doing it federally / all at once
it's way better
i mean like beck is a music-maker and i think he has a legitimate understanding of melody and sound. so the question is
is he for real
or is this joke
Also I want to know what they were thinking when they designed the fairy lady who is always showing nipples.
"I got here from Gordon Ramsey. . . WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK."
best youtube comment i've seen this week.
Beck is stupidly talented as a musician and is pretty apt at breaking down songs/genres and reassembling them for his own ends.
It is absolutely a critique on pop music while still being a good pop song
Come Overwatch with meeeee
and it made it into a car commercial.
it's just like. . .beautiful.
a major pillar of UHC is the purchasing power of the federal government
it is a lot harder to do at the state level
that being said the price tag doesn't tend to include external savings such as not having to supply as great a volume of emergency services because of better preventative coverage
One of the cats is already draped around my neck.
I guess he wants to watch the animes.
Dude just go with your gut instinct on every single one.
I appreciated your question about the one prop earlier. I'm still kind of undecided on that. Got my ballot in the mail, haven't looked at it too hard.
So yes, tell me what to pick.
but what about my garbage intellect and conscience
You're in Colorado, try to channel Hunter S. Thompson
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Every day Shadowrun megacorps creep a little closer.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
and then decades later AT&T starts buying them back up and now time warner
I've now installed it in the silverware drawer
I'm hoping I'm there when somebody finds it
This'll go though FTC (or FCC? ) review. I doubt it will survive.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
this is the first step to riding yourself of both