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Dec 6, 2019Liked by Roy Edroso

Two words: Whipped Cream.

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"from a real paper, the Chicago Tribune:"

Slow down there, Roy. The Tribune may not be the right-wing rag it was in my youth, but it still employs the execrable John Kass. Also, having just had a 25% share bought by notorious newspaper rapists Alden Capital, the clock is ticking on its viability.

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Dec 6, 2019Liked by Roy Edroso

". . .Donald Trump is a creature that thrives on attention and impeachment is attention. . ." That's an awfully la-di-da way to describe someone with his finger on the nuclear button (and who is going to die in jail).

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Dec 6, 2019Liked by Roy Edroso

UBI is a nice talking point, I guess. It would be next to impossible to implement, especially for those who would most benefit from it, i.e. the poorest quartile of the population many of whom don't even have a bank account or are on the move frequently (migrant workers, others) or are imprisoned or any of a number of handicaps. I doubt Yang has thought about any of that. Take away his UBI proposal and he's just another tech bro without any particular qualification or experience to be president.

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Dec 6, 2019Liked by Roy Edroso

That whipped cream GIF should have ended his campaign. No serious candidate can do stuff like that, not even Trump.

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Seconded as to goofball candidates. I cannot believe Harris is out but a wackadoo like Yang is still running. Yeah, Harris is a cop, but she was my fourth choice after Warren/Bernie (who are tied for 1st place) and Julian Castro. I would take her in a heartbeat over Biden or Buttigieg, and even they don’t scrape the bottom of the barrel – that belongs to Gabbard, who needs to just sign on the dotted line as a Fox contributor, and to Bloomberg and Steyer, both of whom need to be guillotined.

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Now we should be defending that giving all Americans money would help our consumer-based economy? Hell, I'm still working on single-payer universal health care and why it's inevitable. (Hint: as more boomers go on Medicare, private insurance will have to absorb the difference in cost between what hospitals want to charge and what medicare pays; premiums, deductibles and copays will go up more and more; employers will shift costs to employees more and more; then when that reaches the breaking point in not too many years, everyone will want to be on Medicare where the government can control prices.)

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Speaking of Ross Perot, I once met an attorney who had a client who was Ross Perot's neighbor. They got into a dispute because every time Perot would ride by on his horse, his client's 12 year old son would throw rocks at him. Even at an early age, the kid had good taste. They finally settled the matter by building a high fence between the two properties.

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