Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,
Okay, so let’s talk about Thursday’s debate. Apparently, every month the Democrats are going to subject us to at least one of these debates, and I suppose that this time around we should be thankful that they did not stretch things out over two nights. All of the big news networks are covering the debate as if it was some sort of political playoff game, but the truth is that Thursday’s debate probably won’t move the numbers much at all. Nothing of substance was said that wasn’t said in previous debates, and there were no defining moments that will significantly change the course of the campaign.
So that is really bad news for anyone not named Joe, Bernie or Elizabeth.
Real Clear Politics keeps a running average of all the recent major national polls, and according to them none of the other candidates is even close to double digits right now. It looks like it is going to be a three way race between Biden, Sanders and Warren, and Warren appears to be the one with momentum. Of course it is still possible that something huge could happen between now and the beginning of next year that could fundamentally shake up the race, but as it stands now the other seven candidates that were on the stage with them might as well pack up and go home.
So the truth is that the debate really wasn’t that important, but many Americans watch these debates for the sheer entertainment value. With that in mind, here is the most memorable quote from each of the 10 candidates during Thursday’s Democratic presidential debate…
–Cory Booker: “I’m the only person on this stage that finds (Justin) Trudeau’s hair very menacing”
–Joe Biden to Bernie Sanders: “For a socialist, you’ve got a lot more confidence in corporate America than I do.”
–Bernie Sanders: “It goes without saying that we must — and will — defeat Trump, the most dangerous president in the history of this country.”
–Kamala Harris: “But the bottom line is this, Donald Trump in office on trade policy, you know, he reminds me of that guy in “The Wizard of Oz,” you know, when you pull back the curtain, it’s a really small dude?”
–Amy Klobuchar: “What [Trump] has done here, has assessed these tariffs on our allies, he’s put us in the middle of the trade war and treating our farmers and workers like poker chips in one of his bankrupt casinos.”
–Pete Buttigieg: “Well, the president clearly has no strategy. You know, when I first got into this race, I remember president Trump scoffed and said he’d like to see me make a deal with Xi Jinping. I’d like to see him making a deal with XI Jinping. Is it just me or was that supposed to happen in like April?”
–Julian Castro to Joe Biden: “Barack Obama’s vision was not to leave 10 million people uncovered. He wanted every single person in this country covered. My plan would do that, your plan would not.”
–Elizabeth Warren: “I was in the United States Senate when 54 Senators said, ‘let’s do background checks, let’s get rid of assault weapons’ and with 54 Senators, it failed because of the filibuster. Until we attack the systemic problems, we can’t get gun reform in this country.”
–Beto O’Rourke: “We’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47. We’re not going to allow it to be used against our fellow Americans anymore.”
–Andrew Yang: “My campaign will now give a freedom dividend of $1,000 a month for an entire year to 10 American families”
“Are you forgetting what you said 2 minutes ago?”
“For a socialist…”
“I am Asian so I know a lot of doctors.”
“Hell yes we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47.”
“Hey, Joe…”
“We must and will defeat Trump, the most dangerous president in the history of this country.” https://t.co/UFLUcMEThS
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) September 13, 2019
Yes, we have literally gotten to the point where presidential candidates are trying to win votes by offering cash handouts. If he wins the election, Yang is promising to give $1,000 a month to everyone in America. Back during the founding of our nation, Benjamin Franklin warned that this would happen someday…
“When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic.”
Apparently Andrew Yang decided that he can’t wait until he is president to start handing out free cash, and his unusual announcement is making headlines all over the country.
While doing research for this article, I discovered that the Yang campaign has already begun running ads for this cash giveaway, and I was curious so I clicked on one of the ads.
I learned that you don’t have to actually donate any money to his campaign to qualify for the contest, and you don’t even have to be a Democrat to participate.
So I signed up.
If Andrew Yang wants to financially support my work for an entire year, I will gladly take his money.
Of course what I believe is diametrically opposed to just about everything he believes, and so he probably won’t be too thrilled if I win.
Personally, I think that Yang is making a mistake with his proposal to offer every American $1,000 a month if he becomes president. With the cost of living these days, $1,000 a month doesn’t really go that far.
If he really wanted to get votes, he should have set the bar higher. $5,000 a month would really start to get a lot of people excited, and $10,000 a month would be even better.
Yes, if we could all get $10,000 a month from the federal government each month we could all retire and nobody would ever have to work again and we could all spend our days frolicking in our new socialist utopia.
Isn’t that how it is supposed to work?
Sadly, our politicians seem to get more disconnected from the real world with each passing day. We are 22 trillion dollars in debt, our nation is falling apart all around us, and we are rapidly steamrolling toward oblivion.
But most Americans continue to fall for the con game that our political system has become, and so the endless parade of clowns will continue.
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I didn’t watch…….went to a showing of the Downton Abbey movie in town. I thought that I would catch up with gang at morning workout and discuss in the whirlpool and sauna. Damned if no one else watched it either…..
Downton Abbey movie was in fact the best course of action here……
Is it $1,000/month for EVERY family or is it a lottery for just 10 families to win?
Yeah, that didn’t make a whole lot of sense to me either. I think what he is doing is giving the money to 10 families from his own campaign? If so, how the hell does that not violate election laws? It’s literally buying votes.
no, it wont buy my vote, I’d take the money and run
these morons are VERY entertaining, but the sad part, is Millions of Morons eat the lies and BS up, and can Vote, and DO.
check out this ad the republicans ran during the debate talking about aoc & socialism —
unfortunately it was only run in the d.c. market,hopefully it will go nationwide–
Don’t think that kind of scare tactic will work. People know that college is free in most of Europe. They know that Canada and Australia have government-paid healthcare. Even though it involves actual math, it might be better to point out the still-high unemployment rates in Europe, the lower average per capita GDP and what that means (living in a 700 square foot fourth floor apartment with a mini-fridge instead of having your own patio and backyard grill, etc.).
$10 gallon gas.
Boycott the following corporations. They want your guns and they’re lobbying and pleading for congress to do so while they all have armed VIP protection for themselves. Guns for me but not for thee. When laws get passed forcing you to bail them out and your bank account seized, you’ll be without your pitchfork to fight back.
Boycott NOW!
Organizations with more than 500 employees :
Brian Chesky, Co-Founder, Head of Community and CEO , Airbnb
KeithMestrich , Presidentand CEO , Amalgamated Bank
John Connaughton and Jonathan Lavine, Co-Managing Partners, and Josh Bekenstein
and Steve Pagliuca, Co -Chairmen, Bain Capital
Ethan Brown, Co-Founder and CEO , Beyond Meat
Peter T. Grauer, Chairman , Bloomberg LP
Ric Clark , Chairman, Brookfield Property Group
Fritz Lanman, CEO , ClassPass
Roger Lynch, CEO , CondéNast
Ken Lin , Founder and CEO , Credit Karma
Edward Stack , CEO, DICK ‘ S Sporting Goods
Tony Xu, Co -Founder and CEO , DoorDash
Doug Baker, Chairman and CEO , Ecolab
Richard Edelman, President and CEO, Edelman Julia
Hartz, Co-Founder and CEO , Eventbrite
Art Peck, CEO , Gap Inc.
Eddy Lu, CEO GoatGroup
Ben Lerer, Co -Founder and CEO, Group NineMedia
Yannick Bolloré, CEO, Havas Group
BillKoenigsberg, President, CEO and Founder, Horizon Media
Patrick O . Brown, MD, PhD, Founder and CEO , Impossible Foods
MichaelRoth , Chairman and CEO ,Interpublic
Rob Frohwein, Co- Founder and CEO , and Kathryn Petralia, Co-Founder and President,Kabbage Inc. and Drum Technologies
Chip Bergh, President and CEO , LeviStrauss & Co.
Logan Green, Co-Founder and CEO, and John Zimmer, Co -Founder and President, Lyft
Dev Ittycheria, Presidentand CEO , MongoDB, Inc.
HowardMarks, CoChairman Oaktree CapitalManagement
Todd McKinnon, Co -Founder and CEO, Okta
John Wren , Chairman and CEO, Omnicom Group
Ben Silbermann, Co- Founder and CEO, Pinterest
Bastian Lehmann, Co-Founder & CEO , Postmates
Hamid R . Moghadam , Chairman and CEO , Prologis
Arthur Sadoun, Chairman and CEO , Publicis GroupeSteve Huffman, CEO, Reddit
Richard Fain , CEO , RoyalCaribbean Cruises Ltd.
ScottRechler, Chairman and CEO , RXR Realty
Jon Oringer, Founder and CEO, Shutterstock
Jack Dorsey, CEO, Square and Twitter
Anthony Casalena, Founder and CEO, Squarespace
Zander Lurie, CEO, SurveyMonkey
Arianna Huffington, Founder and CEO , Thrive Global
Blake Mycoskie, Founder and Chief Shoe Giver, and Jim Alling, CEO , TOMS
Jeff Lawson, Co-Founderand CEO Twilio
Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO , Uber
Mark Read CEO, WPP
Jeremy Stoppelman, Co-Founder and CEO, Yelp
Organizations with fewer than 500 employees:
Kevin P . Ryan ,Founder and CEO , AlleyCorp
Travis Truett, Co-Founder and CEO , Ambition
John W . Rogers, Jr ., Founder , Chairman and Co -CEO , and Mellody Hobson, Co-CEO & President, Ariel Investments , LLC
Mike Steib , CEO , Artsy
Sean Knapp, Co-Founder and CEO , Ascend
Andrei Cherny , Co -Founder and CEO , Aspiration
Abdur Chowdhury , CEO , Aura
Fahim M . Aziz , Founder and CEO , Backpack
Abrams, Chairman and Co- CEO, and Katie McGrath , Co-CEO Bad Robot
Ari Paparo , CEO , BeeswaxIO Corporation
Ryan Block , Co -Founder, Begin
John Borthwick , Founder and CEO , Betaworks
Raphael Crawford -Marks, Co -Founder and CEO , Bonusly
Darren Lachtman , Co- Founder , Brat
Trevor McFedries, CEO , Brud
Sameer Shariff, Co -Founder, Cambly
Analisa Goodin , Founder and CEO, Catch & Release , Inc.
Andrew Feldman , Founder and CEO , Cerebras Systems
George Favvas, CEO , Circle Medical
Alex MacCaw , CEO , Clearbit
Tyler Bosmeny ,CEO , Clever
MattMartin , Co- Founder and CEO , Clockwise
Othman Laraki, Co -Founder and CEO Color Genomics
Jager McConnell, CEO , Crunchbase , Inc.
Apu Gupta , Co- Founder and CEO , Curalate , Inc .
David Oates , Co- Founder and CEO, Curtsy
Brian Ree , Founder and CEO , DAILYLOOK
Saurabh Ladha, CEO , Doxel, Inc.
Andy Coravos, Co -Founder and CEO , Elektra Labs
Laurene Powell Jobs, President, Emerson Collective
Pradeep Elankumaran , Co- Founder & CEO Farmstead
Desiree Gruber, CEO , Full Picture
Jared Hecht, Founder and CEO , Fundera
Jude Gomila , Founder and CEO , Golden
Rick Nucci, Co-Founder and CEO , Guru
Kara Goldin , Founder and CEO , Hint, Inc.
Jeff Sellinger , Co -Founder and CEO , HipDot
Prerna Gupta , CEO , Hooked
Cyrus Massoumi, Managing Partner, humbition
Kristin Savilia , CEO , JOOR
Pierre Valade , CEO ,Jumbo Privacy
William Martino , Founder and CEO ,Kadena
Jake Perlman -Garr, CEO , Kanga
Warren Shaeffer, Co- Founder and CEO , Knowable
Jack Altman , CEO Lattice
Aaron N . Block , Co-Founder and Managing Director, MetaProp .
Afton Vechery , Co-Founder and CEO ,Modern Fertility
Dan Parham , Founder and CEO , and Tee Parham , Founder and CTO Neighborland
Shafqat Islam , CEO ,NewsCred
Sarah Friar, CEO , Nextdoor
Athan Stephanopoulos , President, NowThis
Varsha Rao CEO , Nurx
William E . Oberndorf, Chairman , Oberndorf Enterprises
Steven Rosenblatt , Co- Founder and General Partner, Oceans
Nick Huzar, Co- Founder and CEO , OfferUp
James Segil , Co -Founder and President Openpath
Jordan Husney , CEO Parabol
Doug Aley, CEO , Paravision
John Milinovich , CEO , Plato Design
Rajat Suri, CEO , Presto
Christopher Gavigan , Founder and CEO , Prima
Adam Regelmann , Founder and COO , Quartzy
Nate Maslak , Co- Founder and CEO , andNate Fox, Co-Founder and CTO , Ribbon Health
Zachariah Reitano , Co-Founder and CEO , Ro
Gary Beasley , Co-Founder and CEO , Roofstock
Stephen Ehikian , Co -Founder and CEO , Ruist
Brian Schechter , CEO , SelfMade
Olga Vidisheva , Founder and CEO , Shoptiques Inc.
Dan Doctoroff , CEO , Sidewalk Labs
Jason Tan, CEO , Sift
Matt Cooper , CEO , Skillshare
Grant Jordan , CEO , SkySafe
Josh Guttman , Co- Founder and CEO and Florent Peyre, Co- Founder and President , Small Door
Michael Carvin , Co Founder and CEO SmartAsset
Aaron King, Founder and CEO , Snapdocs , Inc.
Neil Capel, CEO , Solve
Ben Hindman , Co- Founder and CEO , Splash
Evan Beard , Founder and CEO Standard Bots
Stanlee R . Gatti, Founder, Stanlee R . Gatti Designs
Bradford Oberwager, CEO , Sundia Corporation
Ross Feinstein , CEO , Sunlight Health
Paul Budnitz CEO Superplastic
Ron Conway, Founder , SV Angel
Heidi Zak, Co-Founder and Co-CEO , and David Spector, Co- Founder and Co- CEO ThirdLove
Yashar Nejati, CEO , thisopenspace inc .
Joshua Kushner , Founder and Managing Partner, Thrive Capital
Chris Wang, CEO , ThunderCore Inc.
Corbett Kull, CEO, Tillable
Meghan Jewitt, CEO , Uniform Teeth
Nicholas Goldner , Co- Founder and CEO , and Christopher Bulow , Co-Founder and COO Viosera Therapeutics
Ken Chong, CEO Virtual Kitchen Co
Irv Remedios, CEO , Voxer
Oliver Cameron , Co-Founder and CEO Voyage
Chase Adam , Co-Founder and CEO , and Grace Garey , Co- Founder and CEO
WatsiLiz Wessel , Co-Founder and CEO , WayUp
NeilWaller, CEO , Whalar
Bismarck Lepe, CEO , Wizeline
Dennis R . Mortensen , Founder and CEO , x . ai, inc.
Geoff Ralston, President, Y Combinator
Shan -Lyn Ma, Co -Founder and CEO Zola
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Corporate-Statement.pdf
They all want congress to ban guns, huh? Suddenly voting doesn’t seem as irrelevant after all.
The ones on the list are donors, not voters.
Donors set public policy, not voters.
Wake up and smell the totalitarianism and fascism.
The donated money goes toward advertising to woo voters.
Wrong:
The donated money goes toward the act of bribing the politician to pass laws that favor the donors and disparage the voters. That’s why they want to take the voters guns.
that looks like a hit-list to me. Get to work!
voter,
i saw that list last night & was gonna post it–
the thing is,who the hell are most of those companies and what do they make or sell so that we can pressure them?
edit–tampared,my name crapped out again 4 no reason–
I have never heard of most of those. Probably some kind of tech shit. I do not to my knowledge use anything from any of these entities except for EcoLab which has soap dispensers in public bathrooms so I do use that just because it is there. I actually held EcoLab stock, made a nice profit and sold it a couple of months ago.
in today’s mail(saturday) i received a letter which was sent to everyone in the neighborhood inviting us to join nextdoor.com–someone in the neighborhood is setting up a network for neighborhood “news”–
i thought it sounded familiar so i went online & checked out their website–yep,their ceo is the same sarah friar that signed the letter advocating gun control posted yesterday by vote harder just above here–
they portray themselves as free 4 the community but i believe that their $ comes from selling access to vendors,as their website had ads targeting real estate agents & was offering exclusive access to targeted zip codes-
i don’t know if there are ads targeted directly to the public because i wouldn’t give out my info to sign up 4 the neighborhood newsletter that goes out to people in the targeted neighborhoods–
how many of you are willing to & are able to remember to start asking every small business person with whom you have contact if they support nextdoor.com–
if they support them or are open to supporting them,let them know that this company supports gun confiscation and that you will not do business w/any company that does business w/nextdoor–
don’t just vote your values,spend your values–
Let’s just turn the whole presidential election into a game show while we’re at it–maybe a cross between “Running Man” and “Wheel of Fortune”. Democrats are the party of bumper-sticker slogans and the fewer words the better. The fact that their voter base feigns moral righteousness over everyone while spouting their stupid shit makes them that much more insufferable. They become more rabid and dangerous every day and are going to force the hands of reasonable people.
They can all go take a flying fuck. I remember watching the RNC steal the nomination from Paul and hand it to Romney in 2012. I remember trying to convince everyone to give liberty a chance in 2008. Let it all burn to the ground. I’m never walking into another voting booth again.
You live in CA, so the presidential race is pre-determined. The local races are where you could help limit the crazy. The rent control scheme they’re about to enact out there should have some real fun unintended consequences.
Iska, El Ka-bongo-head is not EC. You can tell by how much smarter he sounds than me.
all el s are the same,no good worthless dopplers–
Still mad about that HR stuff, eh?
damn straight i am,on my way to tx to hit llpoh,over to mizzou,then hr & i together are going coyote hunting–
Ok. Thanks. You’re really El DeBarge, right?
It was outrageous how
Ron Paul was treated
In Election of 2008..
Four years later
Handing the Election
To Obummer.
What’s left to say
Time for moar Hope
And Moar Change
Then Trump comes along.
With a promise of a tonic
It’s MAGA to MainStreet
For the Hope
And lest we forget
The Change
And 3 years
Hope is gone
Its Left town
With the Promised Change..
Time to Burn it all
To the Ground
Cuz voting harder..
Well
It Doesn’t Matter…
When
The only Promise not Broken
Is another Promise of the same
And off in the distance
Can be heard
The symphony of destruction
brooding as it plays
no, it matters a little bit, supreme court appointees…that and commander in chief, are a Prez most powerful responsibilities. The rest is all bullshit rhetoric
Are you sure surf
maybe it matters a little bit
That the rest is all
yeah its just bullshit
Supreme court appointees
can be bought and paid for
The Case for ObamaCare
Just proved it..
A commander in chief
with responsibilities
pfft!
Here’s a question..
But to who?
You must know by now
The POTUS cares about
Corporate Interests
The Welfare Industry
The Military Industrial Complex
War and Destruction
He doesn’t give a shit
For the Common Man
Not you and certainly not me..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccAttbDGMz8
Voting for whoever can accelerate the decline is the best option now
I want BETO…aka Bugging Everyone To Often to go door to door and confiscate the weapon. As I’ve told gun grabbers before when you come to my door to get my guns please listen to the sound of my beautiful wind chime….it goes boom about 30 times in an instant .
So tell the truth.
Who actually bothered to watch this collection of lunatics on TV? I didn’t because nothing they have to say interests me.
I can’t think of worse torture than to be forced to listen to/watch that gathering of lunatic imbeciles. Not one of them has any idea what it is like to live in the real world.
You remember that sound that fingernails across a blackboard makes? I’d rather listen to that then listen to one second of these ass clowns. I caught some brief moments with the little Castro prick, it was ten times worse than the fingernail blackboard moment. The little creep is from San Antonio, he and his equally creepy brother doxed the donors who gave to republicans, those folks got death threats and yet the little prick made no apologies and instead bragged that what they did was not only acceptable but necessary. That’s the caliber of filth that stands up there, not one worth the powder to blow it to hell.
They are all sleaze-sacks as their hometown folks can tell you but the rest of the country is usually caught unawares.
Clown show. All of it.
Give it 15more years and those ass clowns will be running everything on a Federal level.
Lil’ Trucker Buddy…
I Hate ta
be breaking
it to ya
It ain’t gonna take 15 years
if Yang gets his way.
He stumbled on a winner.
Bribe the Breeding Stock
of the Welfare Industry.
And Do it today!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dll329ggLIY&list=RDZz6OPaQ78eY&index=24
you know what’s frustrating,rins could be right about this–
btw rins,how is the canadian election going,will trudeau get back in?
Not good…
Trudeau didn’t even bother to show up for first debate and he will probably still win the election…
not good…
tks–foxy said much the same a few weeks ago,was hoping momentum might have shifted–
very frustrating when you’re surrounded by idiots,isn’t it?esp. when some of them you love & care about–
We’d have to declare war on America.
“I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go Communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people.” – Henry Kissinger