B-Man Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 Sanders: hey… I’ve always been a big gun control guy, ya know Back at the beginning of the summer I predicted that Bernie Sanders was going to get hit on guns if he started becoming too much of a threat to Hillary Clinton. No matter all of the discussion of his socialist bona fides, Bernie is from a gun friendly state and he reflected that in his policies for years, taking several votes in past decades which put him firmly on the wrong side of history for the national, liberal base of the Democrat party. I suppose the polls finally have his opponents paying attention and it turned out to be Dannel Malloy, speaking on behalf of Hillary, who went after him on the subject. This morning, Bernie showed up on Jake Tapper’s State of the Union to explain himself. Bernie Sanders says he favors gun control measures just as strongly as his Democratic presidential rivals, touting his rural-state roots as key to his chances of enacting “real, constructive” legislation. In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper Sunday on “State of the Union,” the Vermont senator touted his career “D-” rating from the National Rifle Association. “I do not accept the fact that I have been weak on this issue. In fact, I have been strong on this issue,” Sanders said. “And in fact, coming from a rural state which has almost no gun control, I think I can get beyond the noise and all of these arguments and people shouting at each other, and come up with real, constructive gun control legislation which most significantly gets guns out of the hands of people who should not have them.” Right off the bat Bernie was on the defensive as Tapper pressed him. He was trying to point to his D- NRA rating, but was careful to point out that this is his lifetime average. More at the link. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireChan Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 I think it translates to reality just fine. Haven't you seen the latest polling numbers in Iowa? For those of you who are still curious about owner co-ops, Google "owner co-ops." That will provide some good basic information if you click on one of the search results. "Sanders, a Vermont U.S. senator, has become a liberal Pied Piper in Iowa not as a vote against Clinton, but because caucusgoers genuinely like him, the poll shows. An overwhelming 96 percent of his backers say they support him and his ideas. Just 2 percent say they're motivated by opposition to Clinton." Polling numbers support fantasy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Who is Yuri? Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 Polling numbers support fantasy? You think I'm fantasizing? I live in Buffalo, voted for Brown, Cuomo, Obama. The biggest impediment, as I see it, are the old, white, Conservatives, and now they are fractured and bickering. What's your political identity? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaska Darin Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 Good thing Terry Pegula is young and minority so Buffalo can have some resurgence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 You think I'm fantasizing? I live in Buffalo, voted for Brown, Cuomo, Obama. The biggest impediment, as I see it, are the old, white, Conservatives, and now they are fractured and bickering. What's your political identity? what's wrong with being white? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 Good thing Terry Pegula is young and minority so Buffalo can have some resurgence. The team should be taken away from Pegula and turned into a co-op. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaska Darin Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 The team should be taken away from Pegula and turned into a co-op. Keep in mind we're conversing with a Libertarian who voted for 3 of the most liberal Democrats in history. Dude is another braindead lemming who is full of ****. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 The team should be taken away from Pegula and turned into a co-op. It's only fair that Ronald Darby have a say in how the defense is run and is compensated no less than Marcel Dareus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 Keep in mind we're conversing with a Libertarian who voted for 3 of the most liberal Democrats in history. Dude is another braindead lemming who is full of ****. Libertariam = Liberal + pot. He probably just stopped getting high. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Who is Yuri? Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 Good thing Terry Pegula is young and minority so Buffalo can have some resurgence. He may be old. He may be white. But,http://www.wgrz.com/story/news/politics/2014/10/10/new-bills-owners-donate-25k-to-andrew-cuomo/17030575/ Libertariam = Liberal + pot. He probably just stopped getting high. I did stop. Coming up on 2 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 He may be old. He may be white. But,http://www.wgrz.com/story/news/politics/2014/10/10/new-bills-owners-donate-25k-to-andrew-cuomo/17030575/ I did stop. Coming up on 2 years. Good God, you're a !@#$ing idiot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaska Darin Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 He may be old. He may be white. But,http://www.wgrz.com/story/news/politics/2014/10/10/new-bills-owners-donate-25k-to-andrew-cuomo/17030575/ A billionaire giving $25k to a politician doesn't mean what you think it does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Who is Yuri? Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 A billionaire giving $25k to a politician doesn't mean what you think it does.It does cast some doubt on his conservative roots, though, that he gave 25k to Cuomo. What do you think it means? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 It does cast some doubt on his conservative roots, though, that he gave 25k to Cuomo. What do you think it means? NYS is a 1-party banana republic and sometimes you gotta grease the wheels of Democracy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaska Darin Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 It does cast some doubt on his conservative roots, though, that he gave 25k to Cuomo. What do you think it means? The same thing it meant when he gave over $300k to the sitting Republican governor of Pennsylvania. I know you live in a world of convenient thinking and subscribe to a failed ideology but try and give at least a modicum of effort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 It does cast some doubt on his conservative roots, though, that he gave 25k to Cuomo. What do you think it means? And he gave $100M to Penn State. So he's, what, 40,000 times more supportive of NAMBLA? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Who is Yuri? Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 NYS is a 1-party banana republic and sometimes you gotta grease the wheels of Democracy The same thing it meant when he gave over $300k to the sitting Republican governor of Pennsylvania. I know you live in a world of convenient thinking and subscribed to a failed ideology but try and give at least a modicum of effort. I just wanted to hear that it was a failed attempt at bribery. Your explanation is perfectly correct. It does cast some doubt as to Pegula's political leanings, though. Let me be clear: I don't see old and white as an impediment, but when they are also Conservative - my definition - impeding change, and leaning on their own myopic views on "tradition," and the "founding fathers," then I do see them as an impediment to progress. I'm glad with the job that Cuomo is doing. NYS isn't a "banana republic." Google (or Yahoo, I am guessing, in your case ) "banana republic meaning." Click on one of the search results. "Banana republic is a political science term for a politically unstable country, whose economy is largely dependent on exporting a limited-resource product, e.g. bananas." Banana Republic is a tortured metaphor for the great state of New York. Excelsior! Los Angeles sux. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 I just wanted to hear that it was a failed attempt at bribery. Your explanation is perfectly correct. It does cast some doubt as to Pegula's political leanings, though. Let me be clear: I don't see old and white as an impediment, but when they are also Conservative - my definition - impeding change, and leaning on their own myopic views on "tradition," and the "founding fathers," then I do see them as an impediment to progress. I'm glad with the job that Cuomo is doing. NYS isn't a "banana republic." Google (or Yahoo, I am guessing, in your case ) "banana republic meaning." Click on one of the search results. "Banana republic is a political science term for a politically unstable country, whose economy is largely dependent on exporting a limited-resource product, e.g. bananas." Banana Republic is a tortured metaphor for the great state of New York. Excelsior! Los Angeles sux. you're still feeling burned by that lmgtfy post earlier? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Who is Yuri? Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 you're still feeling burned by that lmgtfy post earlier? lmgtfy? I had to look that up - "let me google that for you." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TakeYouToTasker Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 (edited) I just wanted to hear that it was a failed attempt at bribery. Your explanation is perfectly correct. It does cast some doubt as to Pegula's political leanings, though. Let me be clear: I don't see old and white as an impediment, but when they are also Conservative - my definition - impeding change, and leaning on their own myopic views on "tradition," and the "founding fathers," then I do see them as an impediment to progress. I'm glad with the job that Cuomo is doing. NYS isn't a "banana republic." Google (or Yahoo, I am guessing, in your case ) "banana republic meaning." Click on one of the search results. "Banana republic is a political science term for a politically unstable country, whose economy is largely dependent on exporting a limited-resource product, e.g. bananas." Banana Republic is a tortured metaphor for the great state of New York. Excelsior! Los Angeles sux. It's truely remarkable to me that people like yourself can look at the economic system and philosophical beliefs that, over the course of 240 years has created the greatest cache of perpetual wealth in the history of the world, which has raised the standard of living of hundereds of millions of people, and financed the research and development of the overwhelming majority of all global innovations advancing our species in ways never fathomed; and your first inclination is to kill the golden goose for the sake of killing it. Stranger yet, you call this "progress". Edited August 30, 2015 by TakeYouToTasker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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