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Dickies
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It's like Giuliani cracking down on low-level crime as a way to stop higher-level crimes and now saying that high level crimes are really not worth ruining peoples' lives over.
caustic
Footballguy
Poll: 81% of people support Green New Deal
That is...extremely high. Even conservative Republicans, the most hostile demographic to a Green New Deal, favor the policy 57%-41%.
Now, the massive caveat here is that 82% of respondents were totally unfamiliar with the policy - as it becomes mainstream and Trump/Fox/etc. begin smearing it, its support will inevitably decline a bit. Not a bad starting point, though.
That is...extremely high. Even conservative Republicans, the most hostile demographic to a Green New Deal, favor the policy 57%-41%.
Now, the massive caveat here is that 82% of respondents were totally unfamiliar with the policy - as it becomes mainstream and Trump/Fox/etc. begin smearing it, its support will inevitably decline a bit. Not a bad starting point, though.
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parasaurolophus
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Mario Kart
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TobiasFunke
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I hope conservatives continue to give the 72 year old white male billionaire president a pass for working 6 hour days while taking 4 day weekends and a three-week Xmas break while chastising the 28 year old Latina bartender/congresswoman-elect for taking a few days off around the holidays after spending the better part of the last year on campaigns and the transition. Definitely a good way to grow the base and plan for the future!
sho nuff
Footballguy
Yeah...I don't get the criticism here.
Are all of the other members of congress working every day?
bostonfred
Footballguy
She's going to get attacked from every angle about every misstep they can find.squistion said:
bostonfred
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General Malaise
Footballguy
Ohhhhh, I think you do.
The right is desperate for a new female punching bag and has chosen this one.
sho nuff
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Johnnymac
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Yep, it's the right wing playbook, full on demonization. They did it to the Clinton's, Obama, poor people, immigrants. I see a pattern here.
jonessed
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She isn’t poor.
If she feels anti-bribery legislation is too harsh for her to live the lifestyle she wants she can always work to change it.
life is hard when you can’t go to yoga class every day.
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jonessed
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Dickies
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???
Last I heard she is down to about $7,000 in liquid assets while also carrying student loan debt. I mean, it's more money than people who live paycheck to paycheck working retail jobs, but her current income and assets would put her in the lower class. That will soon change obviously.
Dickies
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jonessed
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TobiasFunke
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Dickies
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jonessed
Footballguy
Luckily, barista is not a New York City specific career choice.
She will be at six figures soon enough anyway.
TobiasFunke
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bostonfred
Footballguy
26 thousand dollars? Why when i was her age you could take a dame to the talkies for two bits and still have a nickel left over for the malt shop.
jonessed
Footballguy
Over half the country lives paycheck to paycheck. It’s a real problem.
Most of them aren’t lamenting missing yoga, creative writing time, and how harsh anti-bribery legislation is for those awaiting their six figure salary.
Dickies
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Ilov80s
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Henry Ford
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Henry Ford
Footballguy
It may not be yoga and writing in particular, but yes - they are lamenting missing things that recharge them. Almost all of them.
Missing date night or working out or beers with friends or swing dancing night or their kids’ recitals or their rec league baseball team or Sunday family dinners. The fact that you don’t like her activities has no bearing on whether they’re worthwhile to lament missing.
Ilov80s
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Henry Ford
Footballguy
Frankly, your derision toward yoga and creative writing is pretty gross.
TobiasFunke
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This might be my new favorite thread. A third of the country is absolutely terrified of a 28 year old first-term Congresswoman and I am 100% here for it. Their reaction to her is already making the tan suit, mustard and "hip-hop BBQ" incidents look normal by comparison.
Amused to Death
Footballguy
Well if she really didn't want to be poor she should have just been born rich. Like, her father couldn't float her a few million to get on her feet?
mcintyre1
Footballguy
I'm taking two weeks off between jobs (new one starts on Jan 2nd). I guess I must be completely burned out, too...
squistion
Footballguy
A living wage is considered $25-$26k but that doesn't go far in a major city.
Ever tried to live on $26k in NYC?
L.A. is cheaper than NYC but the average apartment rent here is $2265 (unless you want to live someplace lower income like Tujunga with a longer commute) and that doesn't leave much to cover food, utilities, car insurance, etc.
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Henry Ford
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Absolutely. Imagine a January 1, 2017 vacation for Trump.
Or taking a vacation in December of the next year (2017)
"For Trump, a Glittering Gala Ends a Winter Vacation Rooted in Routine"
December 31, 2017
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Henry Ford
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caustic
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Yeah, I’d say of all the possible insults to throw at her, “she’s lazy” is definitely one of the worst.
Gr00vus
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Henry Ford
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urbanhack
Fight The Power!
Henry Ford
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I'm trying to figure out what hobbies she should be allowed to miss while campaigning and starting a new job.
Knitting? Cooking? Pining for a husband? Sitting quietly with hands folded?
No exercise or writing for you, you liberal feminist elitist!
Knitting? Cooking? Pining for a husband? Sitting quietly with hands folded?
No exercise or writing for you, you liberal feminist elitist!
Dickies
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jonessed
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I have no derision towards either. I do both as often as I can. Apparently, she’s just used to doing them a lot more often.
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Henry Ford
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jonessed
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While simultaneously wining about how poor she is because her six figure salary hasn’t come due and anti-bribery laws are preventing her from taking money from people?
We all lament loss and/or get jealous. I just don’t think she has it nearly as bad as she seems to indicate.
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Ilov80s
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I don't think she was lamenting anti-bribery laws so much as lamenting that Congress has the power to write laws that impact the markets and businesses to a degree where those Representatives can makes thousands to millions off of their legislative powers.
Henry Ford
Footballguy
Yes, while whining about being broke after having to leave her job with a gap until her new one. Which is about to change, but hasn't yet. And she's not lamenting not being able to take money, she's lamenting not being able to sleep on people's couches or take a gift card. And she won't get a paycheck for, what, a month yet?
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