Thursday Open Thread

21 thoughts on “Thursday Open Thread”

1. Putin loves puppies. Let's be more like Putin!

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2. check with Bennet's office……I'm preparing another brutal takedown of the Tower of Pudding who still has Republican talking points about the debt that ignore the very successful social safety net programs targeted by Republicans (and Op-Ed Pat-on-the-Head craving Democrats:

   As our economy continues to recover, Michael believes we need to work together and start making the tough decisions necessary to put our nation’s fiscal house in order. Putting the country on a sustainable, long-term fiscal path and bringing our debt under control is incredibly important to our economy and our standing in the world.

   Michael has been leading the fight for a comprehensive, bipartisan solution to our nation’s unsustainable debt since joining the U.S. Senate in 2009. He’s pushed for a balanced approach that materially reduces our deficit and demonstrates we’re all willing to make the sacrifices necessary to reduce spending and reform our outdated tax code.

   He should dump that bullshit and say without any question that he’ll stand with Bernie Sanders and DailyKos to fight to keep America’s social safety net in place.

   If he can’t do that then he’s a fucking coward.

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   1. Since you hide behind an alias on this web site, maybe you shouldn't be calling anyone a f….ing coward. 

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      1. I ain't making a cool Million in my next job. It's a baseless comparison.

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      2. Going with CHB on this one. There's nothing better than a post filled with facts and data and why I should lean one way or the other – you're good at that and I'm with you on a good many issues, Zap. But I personally draw the line at personal attacks via alias.  At that point I tend to forget the words preceding the attack and move on.

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   2. Your re-runs are fucking boring. 

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      1. FU2.

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3. He supports Blacks, or Browns, Canyon. He supports renegotiating your student loan interest rate (Bold!). 

   As we venture further into TrumpWorld® our Dear Senator Bennet's name never seems to be associated with anything too "librul" or "dummycratic":

   isn't West Virginia represented in the Senate by that highly influential Democrat, Joe Manchin, who's been running around telling every camera crew inside the Beltway that that his party has to get right with the workin' man? Yeah, he's got the juice, no question.

   Approximately 12,500 retired union miners and the widows of retirees stand to lose their pension and health care benefits across the nation. 

   Bennet proved you don't have to support unions or union members. He's a political genius! 

   There was a nifty provision in a bill to improve the nation's sorry-ass water infrastructure by which those improvements would be made with American steel made by American steelworkers. This surely would have provided a substantial job at good wages for American workers, who are the salt of the earth, and who abandoned Hillary Rodham Clinton because she did not "speak" to them, nor give them cookies, either.

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   Ah, my friends. You reckoned without our favorite zombie-eyed granny starver from the state of Wisconsin, as his congressional colleague Senator Tammy Baldwin informs us.

   Last Thursday night in Cincinnati, on the first stop of his "Thank You Tour," Trump said his infrastructure plan would follow two simple rules: "Buy American and hire American. We're going to do it ourselves." However, on Friday, the media reported that Speaker Ryan was leading a push to remove the Buy America reform from Water Resources Development Act (WRDA). Senator Baldwin joined a bipartisan a group of 25 Senators in sending a letter to House and Senate leaders calling for her Buy America provision to be put back into the final bill to support U.S. steel and iron workers and manufacturers.

   Was one of the 25 Senators our own Michael Bennet? Who has steel manufacturing jobs to think of in places like Pueblo, CO? No. 

   Why? Because he's a fucking coward who's busy determining how much he can support the policies of his BFF's in the senate and our duly elected soon-to-be President Donald J. Trump.

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   1. Like I said above, given that you hide behind an alias on this web site, maybe you shouldn't be calling anyone a f….ing coward. 

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      1. How do you know his real name isn't Zappatero? 🙂

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      2. Your criticism makes me even more resolute, yet I don't see you, or anyone here, refudiating (sic-palin) my contention of his cowardice with a recitation of his brave actions as a Democratic Senator. There are none, but I can wait………….

         And refinancing your student loan does not count.

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         1. My kid owrs $200,000 in student loans.  I say addessing that issue does count and you are a buffoon of Trumpian proportions.

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4. "We blame Russia……."  Are you sure it wasn't Colorado Peak Politics?

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5. I think Zap is really an alias for Bennet's campaign manager, positioning Bennet as middle of the road.

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   1. AC knows our secret Zappy.   Now we have to kill him

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   2. that is friggin' brilliant.

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6. Pols, I would just like to see some prove that Putin and the Republican Party are NOT the same. Yes, I'm asking someone to prove a negative – please.

    

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7. Putin isn't a climate change denier.

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   1. Not a denier, but not exactly a climate savior, either…but hey, it's not easy being (really) green.

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      1. The negative feedback loop from the methane releases of thawing Siberian permafrost is a monumental challenge to tackle.  That, coupled with the fact we've destroyed half the world's soil carbon in the last century is leaving us with fewer and fewer options.  Mathematically, if we hadn't destroyed that soil carbon we could absorb nearly all of the fossil fuel emissions in our GHG profile today.  So the ocean is doing the work the soils can't.   But isn't plankton over-rated? 

         Nearly half of our global food production depends on pollination, so if we got our soils back in shape we'd still have to address the chronic collapse of bee colonies, caused by our modern industrial farming methods that rely on chemicals containing neonicinoids.  

         Just try to explain all of this to the 30% of Moddy's friends who don't even know Trump lost the popular vote.   But hell yeah, let's #MAGA one anthropogenic ton of carbon at a time.

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      2. Gorbachev (2009): The parallels to the fall of Communism and the fight to stop climate change

         Not many events can claim their place in the collective memory as a watershed that divides two distinct periods. The dismantling of the Berlin Wall — that stark, concrete symbol of a world divided into hostile camps — is such an event. It brought incredible hope and opportunity to people everywhere, and provided the 1980s with a truly jubilant finale. That is something to think about as this decade draws to a close, and the chance for humanity to take another momentous leap forward appears to be slipping away.

         Today another planetary threat has emerged. The climate crisis is the new wall that divides us from our future, and today’s leaders are vastly underestimating the urgency, and potentially catastrophic scale, of the emergency.

         Mikhail Gorbachev was the Founding President of Green Cross International 

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