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Bipartisan Senate group proposes ‘no fly, no buy’ gun measure
(11-19-2018, 12:56 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:
(11-18-2018, 12:30 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: This election was important to me as the choice between freedom and fascism. An economic elite that acts as if its gain and power is the duty of us all must be called to account before it starts killing people through hunger, war, and executions.

Senator Klobuchar won re-election by a landslide margin in a state that has been drifting R. She must be doing something right. She has a fine legal mind, which will keep her out of trouble (see also Barack Obama). Our current President holds the rule of law in contempt, and that is much of the trouble with this Presidency. Winning elections as she did suggests her ability to connect to people not core supporters of her Party. Republicans did what they could to stop any Obama agenda after two years, using gridlock for six years, until they got power that they used as if they held a single-Party dictatorship in which anyone not in line with them was irrelevant. We who voted for Obama and against Trump are still here. We have greater numbers because of young adults new to voting who find Trump an anathema who offers us nothing.

I do not want socialism. I want capitalism with a human face. I want full democracy and not government by lobbyists.

Amy Klobuchar beat a weak challenger who had little GOP support, little financial support and relatively no name recognition. So yes, she won by a landslide as she should have and I'm sure her campaign was supported and partly financed by the Evil Koch brothers that you used to hate so much and accuse me of supporting so much. Well, guess what, the Koch's are supporting your candidates these days along with the bulk of the elites that you folks are always expressing concerns about them having to much power and pointing your finger at us and blaming us for voting for them and their interests.

About like former Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana until he got defeated in a primary by right-wingers who did not think him adequately right-wing. One time he faced no Democratic opposition. Politicians who win states as decidedly Left as Minnesota and decidedly Right as Indiana in their political heritage with landslide margins even if for the more powerful Party in that state look  promising should they run for President.

Better Lugar than Dubya, but that is past.

...I question whether the Koch brothers ever liked Donald Trump. Too much a bull in a china shop. But I have doubts that the Koch brothers are free of ulterior motives. They might want Democrats to have the impression that the electoral process can work for them, only for it to be taken away in a short time. Giving the Democrats one step forward followed by two steps back looks better at the moment than being in constant retreat.

Quote:PB, you're a partisan hack as you say.  Well, at least you're honest and able to openly admit that to us. Well, you've pretty got socialism and that's about all you have to choose from from now on. I don't blame you for voting the way you do now. I mean what other choice do you have at this point in your life and the position you seem to be in financially as well as mentally.

What other position? Six feet under. A moron with more stamina than I might be happy holding onto a job tailor-made for dullards and getting paid just enough to sit in an easy chair to watch stock car races, professional wrestling, and vapid sitcoms -- a mass-market domestic beer in one hand, a bowl or bag of chips on my lap, and probably dropping dead of a heart attack due to obesity by age 50. I knew someone like that. He probably never opened a book after he dropped out of high school.

With medical miracles that could take away Parkinsonism that killed my mother and senile dementia that  killed my father, I might live into my nineties. A slow heart beat will not kill me.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist  but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.


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RE: Bipartisan Senate group proposes ‘no fly, no buy’ gun measure - by pbrower2a - 11-19-2018, 06:09 AM

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