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What's wrong with Castro?

 

Tell Secretary Castro: Stop selling our neighborhoods to Wall Street!

 

general election polls mean almost nothing right now when bernie hasn't been attacked by the right anywhere near the extent hillary has

 

Still feel Trump has no hope winning the general election

 

Oh, I agree. Just saying that Bernie's argument that he destroys Trump is flawed. Hillary's been attacked by Republicans for decades. Bernie hasn't.

 

This simply will not do.

 

I don't really get Trump choosing to pick fights with people like Warren. Seems like all it could do is push some progressives towards voting Hillary to stop Trump.

 

he has a fragile ego and needs to fight with anyone who says anything negative

 

Jill Stein AMA

I am Jill Stein, Green Party candidate for President, AMA! • /r/IAmA

 

A pretty substantive critique of the Affordable Care Act:

"Abundant data substantiate that the failure of Obamacare has become nearly inevitable. Even after the ACA is fully implemented, more than one-half of the previously uninsured population will remain uninsured—at least 27 million people, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office—and at least twice that number will remain underinsured.1Due to high deductibles (about $10,000 for a family bronze plan and $6,000 for silver) and co-payments, coverage under Obamacare has become unusable for many individuals and families, and employer-sponsored coverage is headed in the same direction.2 Private insurance generally produces administrative expenses about eight times higher than public administration; administrative waste has increased even more under Obamacare, and remains much higher than in other capitalist countries with national health programs.3 These administrative expenditures pay for activities like marketing, billing, denials of claims, processing copayments and deductibles, exorbitant salaries and deferred income for executives (sometimes more than $30 million per year), profits, and dividends for corporate shareholders.4 The overall costs of the health system under Obamacare are projected to rise from 17.4 percent of GDP in 2013 to 19.6 percent in 2022.5 A conservative projection shows that premiums and out-of-pocket expenditures for the average family will equal half of the average family income by 2019 and the full average family income itself by 2029.6"

Obamacare by Howard Waitzkin • Monthly Review

 

He must be trying his damnedest to not get elected. He is like a reddit troll let loose in the real world.

 

Poll: Trump more popular than cockroaches

Big accomplshment there. But sad for him, many more people have a higher opinion on lice and jury duty than Trump

 

Solid read. Thanks.

 

Remember how liberals were saying democrats are the best hope against regressive immigration measures:

Exclusive: U.S. plans new wave of immigrant deportation raids | Reuters

 

Why some African-Americans won’t vote in the 2016 election | Fusion

 

Debbie Wasserman-Schultz not only refusing to answer, but actually getting angry at questions about whether she'll debate her primary opponent Tim Canova.

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I hate that woman so much.

 

Trump says Washington Post owner Bezos has 'huge antitrust problem' | Fox News

 

This might be one area where Trump would have a significantly more progressive agenda than Clinton.

Also, did anyone else see that interview with Rand Paul last week in which he said that he wanted to repeal the Sherman Antitrust Act and every subsequent limitation on monopolies? Dude's a dipshit.

 

Of course he does, it's the Rand Paul way.

 

Can I just say if I hear one more elected and/or govt official say "social determinants of health" like its some new fangled idea I am going to end up losing it and pulling a Marge on the 5 o'clock news. IF YOU CARE ABOUT HEALTH, read!!!!

Can someone please insert the appropriate frustrated emoji here.

 

Not sure if this news fits here, but on the other side of the world, Manny Pacquiao is a presumptive-elect Senator in the Philippines.

...Yeah.

 

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence...-all-underrated-trump.html?mid=facebook_nymag

 

Chait is the worst.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/us/politics/donald-trump-women.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0