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I have faith in mankind's ability to solve problems just a little faster than we create them. Hopefully we keep up. That said, I follow a lot of this technology and much like the promise of "thinking" AI, it's not as "there" yet as some talk up.

Government played a huge role (setting aside the people who actually took the loans) in jacking up the tuitions and the free market is considering solutions. Going through the college process now (I keep dropping bags of money with my daughter’s name on them in admissions offices but now no one will pick them up...thanks Aunt Becky) and every campus is a cathedral built with money I loaned to poetry (!) majors. Shelling out 75K per year for college won’t make me salty at all.

It was political theater like build the wall. The next phase will strip out the least palatable of it but trust me, like athlete’s foot, it’s coming back baby.

“Funny how someone who claims to hate socialism has no problems with uber socialistic solutions that the global warming alarmists are offering.” Anything I don't critique, I have no problems with. That's solid logic. I'm active in a few threads, and not others. I'm sure the right-wing boyz have those threads under control. Do I need to be the 998th person to fight with Tibs and EII? No thanks. Welcome to the world of people who can't post 1000x a day.

I’ll happily take that as an admission that you were wrong, thank you. I do not believe in socialistic solutions to climate change.

You could just apologize and admit you were wrong about what you think I believe.

Assange seems like such a great guy. Hard to believe he could overstay his welcome.

So if he's alive in a week, then we can finally call this whole storm over soon? Thank god.

I invite you to back up that bit of fiction. I’ll be right here.

Who are you arguing with?

At least in 2008, there was an actual crisis.

There’s a million page thread here mocking climate change science. This board has it all figured out already.

Your one word insults no doubt lead him to the conclusion... O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills, For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding, For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck, You’ve fallen cold and dead. My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still, My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will, The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done, From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won; Exult O shores, and ring O bells! But I with mournful tread, Walk the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. -WW

Source?

Biden is leading in almost every poll. If he (or Kerry...I'll keep teasing that name) gets in, he's the one of the only people who could give Bernie a run for the prize because he knows how to run a national campaign and he could get money. The rest have almost no chance, with Beto a small shot because he could win Texas on Super Tuesday. This D primary for all the names, will be over in a flash because none of them can blow out Super Tuesday. Bernie will win Iowa (or come close enough), NH, and then 4 or 5 more states on Super Tuesday, which now includes CA where the looney left will carry him, and the D primary will be done in a month. If Biden gets in and has the energy to run, as well as some big $$ donors, he's the only guy who could mount a comparable campaign to Sanders.

Praise Jesus we are in complete agreement.

Not always accurate but not useless.

I wouldn’t vote for an empty suit. But Beto has gone by that nickname since he was a kid. Was that all part of his master plan?

He was stuck in an old deep state narrative loop. Too early. Choosing between Trump and the socialists on the far left, Trump is preferable if I could overcome the gag reflex and push the button for him. Choosing between Trump and a lot of others, probably the others. But the field is totally undefined now and I can’t say what other choices I may have in November 2020. Seems to be the case.

His ideology is a work in progress and he’s already blown in the wind a few times. I don’t have much faith in him.

That's a conspiratorial soundbyte--sounds good though. The DNC sueprdelegates play no role in the initial nomination at the convention. That was a change the DNC enacted after 2016. The smoke-filled rooms are smoke-free unless there's a deadlock at the convention. If that happens, then it's the wild west, to mix metaphors, like it has always been.

There won’t be anyone left to oppose him. He’s got mo money, mo in-place campaign, and he’s set up to have absurd momentum. CA moving up his primary on the heels of Iowa and NH will make him almost unbeatable. Who is going to donate to Booker and the rest when he’s got no states won and Sanders has about 6-7 including big hauls in CA and Mass on Super Tuesday? Unless someone with enough money and name recognition to fuel a big political machine enters the race, ie, someone who can win a lot of votes on Super Tuesday, Bernie’s candidacy is a piece of cake. Right now there’s no one. Biden might be able to put up a fight but he will need not just money, but tons of it. (Kerry is a wild card and could do it too.) We passed a mess of an attempt at socializing medicine. Again, note the trend, which is that anything passed at all, not its undoing.

My guess is that the wacky left shows up just fine for Bernie, but the middle, which the Dems need to win, does not. It’s not quite the same error as 2016 in that Bernie is not as dirty and doesn’t have Hillary’s baggage, but it’s a new way to fumble the ball. If a moderate Dem can somehow win the nomination (Biden, Kerry in the wings, as-yet politically undefined Beto), they would give Trump trouble. Winning the general election for Dems goes through the middle both politically and geographically. If they put up a far leftist, they are, I hope, screwed. Trump is a better choice than Bernie, and god does that hurt. It’s a trend, not a fait accompli. Winning a party nomination would be pretty significant.

Beat me to it!

You do realize that Rasmussen is always ~10% higher in favor of Rs than any other poll, right? It's always a Republican outlier and that's why Trump loves it. The poll average is pretty much unchanged since mid 2018, though it's up a bit from his lows in mid to late-2017.: