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General => Random => Topic started by: PonoBill on March 06, 2019, 10:14:27 AM
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But there's an easy way to find out what Schultz' effect might be.
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I agree, I don't think he'd be very popular. Nobody from Seattle will vote for him after he bought the Sonics (NBA team, basketball, round ball sport) and sold them off to Oklahoma City. He would have an opportunity for a good slogan--"Schultz in VentiVenti".
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I voted for Pat Paulson (Paulsen). Even though he's been dead since '97, he's got spunk...
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id vote for pat paulsen if the smothers brothers were to manage the campaign
here's a good ticket: ROWAN AND MARTIN--WITH GOLDIE HAWN instead of kellyanne
i crushed hard on goldie back then, as a 12 yo choirboy
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I voted for Pat Paulson (Paulsen). Even though he's been dead since '97, he's got spunk...
I heard he actually died in '94 but it took three years for anyone to notice.
I remember him saying he was outside a big hotel in DC once, and an empty limousine pulled up and Al Gore got out of it.
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He would have an opportunity for a good slogan--"Schultz in VentiVenti".
Damn, opportunity missed. He'd certainly have the barista vote. Maybe that's why I never go to Starbucks, irritated by the smug correction:
"I'll take the largest skim latte."
"Okay, Venti nonfat latte."
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Imagine Schultz at the first debate:
--Moderator: "And you are...?
--Schultz: "Howard Schultz, with a 'c' ".
--Moderator: "Alright then, Mr. Shultzc, our first topic is..."
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Imagine Schultz at the first debate:
--Moderator: "And you are...?
--Schultz: "Howard Schultz, with a 'c' ".
--Moderator: "Alright then, Mr. Shultzc, our first topic is..."
My kids listen/watch some comedy thing where all the bits are around 7 seconds. The above reminds me of one.
"Hi, my name's Michael with a B and I am deathly afraid of insects."
"Uhm, where's the B?"
"There's a bee ?!?!"...
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I voted left wing, but TBH I would prefer that a centrist run just because I think someone with my views could lose. The majority of people who could vote are left of center, but the majority of people who do vote not so much. The Trump faithful will go to the polls, boomers will vote and the youth vote is the sleeping giant. They are doing better but still have a long way to go to approach the % turnout of older people. If the kids turned out like that it would be the end of today's GOP.
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the kids will turn out when someone gives them a reason to...
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I voted for Pat Paulson (Paulsen). Even though he's been dead since '97, he's got spunk...
I heard he actually died in '94 but it took three years for anyone to notice.
I remember him saying he was outside a big hotel in DC once, and an empty limousine pulled up and Al Gore got out of it.
Okay, this made me laugh.
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Feel the burn?.... 8)
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totally feel the bern--not sure ill vote for him--
but his speech yesterday was awesome--
you know, the one about how we need to accept that discussion of Israeli policies in the middle east, where policies are identified as questionable or bad, does not make that discussion or its participants anti-semitic................
seems simple to me--gotta hand it to the bern for being up front and crystal clear on this.................
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/read-in-full-bernie-sanders-speech-to-j-street-conference-1.5442941
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Anti Zionist is not anti Semitic. That is a typical blurring of the lines.
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None of the above. I'm hoping Trumps croaks from erotic asphyxiation while in bed with Mike Pence just before 2020.
I'd vote for a centrist republican.
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It appears Schultz has brought on board, Steve Schmidt, a former Republican operative. I heard Schmidt defend his decision on a podcast 'Words Matter'. He had some points, but they were pressing him hard enough ...he walked off.
Bernie reminds me of those guys on the radio - always totally upset and can get under your skin talking fast ...but the big difference is Bernie has a track record: 12 years of being one of an 'elite political 100' and not getting a liquid-squat's worth done while there. The guys on the radio who are mostly draft dodgers can 'Support our Troops!' in words. Bernie could have done many things in 12 years to show leadership in actual deeds. He hasn't.
Jim
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I'd vote for a centrist republican.
Yeah, I chose "democratic centralist" from the choices above, but have to wonder if it's not so much the "republican" or "democrat" connotation that we're looking for or are after, but rather that it's the "centrist" in either choice that's appealing to us?
IOWs, where neither the whacky left-wing goofballs are not our liking, nor are the dangerous right-wing nutjobs that are just as (if not more) terrifying in their craziness? :o
"Centrist", "moderate", whatever...just not the lunatics from the extreme one side of the aisle or the other that we seem to only have as our choices nowadays. Just thinking out loud...YMMV.
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Of course a republican centrist would be as good or better, but we're not going to get to choose one of those in 2020.
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totally feel the bern--not sure ill vote for him--
but his speech yesterday was awesome--
you know, the one about how we need to accept that discussion of Israeli policies in the middle east, where policies are identified as questionable or bad, does not make that discussion or its participants anti-semitic................
seems simple to me--gotta hand it to the bern for being up front and crystal clear on this.................
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/read-in-full-bernie-sanders-speech-to-j-street-conference-1.5442941
I'd say it's a safe thing to say since Israel is about as polarized as the US is. Talk about vicious politics and a great divide on policy. Oy vey schmear!
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yet most americans think all israelis support continual west bank settlement expansion--where polls show that half of israelis are against, and also against ultra-right bibi---who has his own criminal bribery issues brewing
to call those who spk ill of israeli policy anti-semites, means half of israelis are anti-semites
and the israelis operate with great effect on the internet
google "black cube" for a lil taste
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Quite true. They make our polarization seem tame. I learned about anti Zionist ideas from an Israeli friend.
The funny thing I’ve come to see is travel any where in the world and the left right, conservative liberal split runs at about 50/50. No matter how mild or extreme the views represented, any democratic voting will not break the deadlock.
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yet most americans think all israelis support continual west bank settlement expansion--where polls show that half of israelis are against, and also against ultra-right bibi---who has his own criminal bribery issues brewing
to call those who spk ill of israeli policy anti-semites, means half of israelis are anti-semites
and the israelis operate with great effect on the internet
google "black cube" for a lil taste
Very true. That being said, even those who do support the WB settlements (or even Bibi himself) are in many cases unfairly vilified. I'm not a fan of much of Israel's foreign policy but as I've learned from some friends who are DEEPLY pro Israel, there really are two sides to the issue.
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yet most americans think all israelis support continual west bank settlement expansion--where polls show that half of israelis are against, and also against ultra-right bibi---who has his own criminal bribery issues brewing
to call those who spk ill of israeli policy anti-semites, means half of israelis are anti-semites
They probably are. One of my best friends growing up was Howie Barth, a very anti-semetic jew. I loved his mom, besides being spooky beautiful and always dressed perfectly, like she was getting ready to go to a play or a concert on a random Wednesday afternoon, she cooked all the great Jewish dishes with great skill and browbeat me almost as much as her son. She'd make a hamburger for him and feed me home made beef knishes, matzoh ball soup, brisket, pastrami, prune hamantashen. Geez, I just ate lunch and now I'm starving. I haven't had a hamantash in probably 50 years.