A Great Politics Podcast

[WI-Tom]

This sounds like you have no idea how rapidly the effects of climate change are accelerating. Or how fire season in the West now compares to fire season...

[WI-Tom]

Yep, bad stuff. All we've been able to do from Casablanca is blood drives at local hospitals, and donations collected by the school. Very little local...

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Other candidates got more votes than she did, obviously. It's pretty simple, eh? I'm confident you can understand that if you just give yourself a bit...

[WI-Tom]

You're the one who seems to be clueless. This (from Wikipedia on "wealth tax") might help you get started on becoming otherwise:

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[WI-Tom]

That's good--thanks for the link.

Tom...

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Congratulations, Tom!...

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A new one from Roger Barnes--haven't watched it yet:

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[WI-Tom]

Nope. Not when the proposed wealth tax doesn't start until wealth hits somewhere between $32-50 million, depending if it's Warren's or Sanders's plan....

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Since at least 12 European countries have done so in the past--and some of them continue to do so--I'm sure the answer is out there. If it bothers you...

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Alternatively...

It would lead to a USSC decision that corporations have voting rights, and thus continue to have the right to contribute...

[WI-Tom]

Yep. And as I pointed out, you were wrong about this:



Senator Warren's current polling numbers suggest that a large majority...

[WI-Tom]

Oops. Once again, right-wing talking points don't match well with reality. From March 2023:



Source

Tom...

[WI-Tom]

Better you than me! Here's to a long and happy reign as BROTM.

Tom

[WI-Tom]

I don't think Trump wins. But it sure ought to trouble the party that voters they have long taken for granted are leaving. As was obvious they would,...

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Sympathetic? Sure. But also critical.

The failure to remove the filibuster in 2020 was pure unprovoked cowardice, or stupidity, or both....

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Beatty's closing comment on Episode 3: "It's deeply ironic that Joe Biden has to suffer for the sins of generations of Democratic politicians who...

[WI-Tom]

Those who know the radio show "On Point" on NPR (out of station WBUR in Boston) might know Jack Beatty, the news analyst who used to be on every...

[WI-Tom]

This is a great thread--thanks for sharing details about your build. It's going to be a beauty of a boat.

Tom

[WI-Tom]

You definitely should do it!

Tom...

[WI-Tom]

I think any move to restrict access to books is contemptible.

That said, "banned" is maybe not quite what people think it means....