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“I am so excited to be here.

artappraiser — Sun, 13 Oct 2019 23:33:01 +0000

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“I am so excited to be here. I had some apple slices backstage and they are hitting me like cocaine.”

Kate McKinnon has Elizabeth Warren down pat. Everything from the superhuman energy to the “I’m on fire” hand rub. #SNL pic.twitter.com/MESCAfywOg
— Adam Best (@adamcbest) October 13, 2019

Not on topic but on Liz

artappraiser — Sun, 13 Oct 2019 03:37:11 +0000

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Not on topic but on Liz Warren. SNL's opening just did a skit parodying CNN's LGBTQ-issues Town Hall for the Dem primary candidates. KateMcKinnon did a great line as Liz: ya know, I'm not a lesbian, but all the elements are there! I didn't think of her that way but I will now forever after.

Bernie agrees that Liz is a

artappraiser — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 22:22:21 +0000

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Bernie agrees that Liz is a capitalist and he is not:

This doesn’t strike me as a dig at Warren — Sanders was pressed to name a distinction between them and he picked an obvious one that they’re both comfortable with.https://t.co/ch1d7jFcu8
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) October 12, 2019

Actually I would have linked

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 05:09:26 +0000

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Actually I would have linked to the advisor letter direct, but she'd transcribed it?

The fracking issue still drives me crazy - we've gotten rid of much of our Mideast oil dependency, which Warren doesn't address, and gas/oil as a bridging solution for when new solar & wind comes online is hugely important.

Much of those studies about harm from drilling et al is from gas-based emissions which go away as equipment converts to electric.It'd be nice to assess the actual footprint.

Then we're back to this rather stark minimum wage equation - just because someone pulled $15 out of their ass doesn't mean it's a rampart we have to die on.

After a while, I get tired of what seems a slogans-and-wishlist approach to this stuff, designed to appease particular audiences, versus actually developing & communicating policy that addresses multiple sides to complex issues.

Donald Trump: Only I can fix

NCD — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 02:10:31 +0000

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Donald Trump: Only I can fix it!

Elizabeth Warren: Only I ~~can~~ ~~fix~~ it have a plan to fix it!

I think Rayne is reading

artappraiser — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 01:49:59 +0000

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I think Rayne is reading politics into the financial advisor letter and the financial advisor letter is speaking the truth when it says it is not political. They are advising that if Liz Warren becomes president, she's going to turn what was status quo for a long time upside down and everyone's going to have to rethink where they invest. Not that she should or shouldn't be president. And not that it's going to be impossible to make money off capital if she becomes president. It's warning: start thinking now about this as a reality and how things would change.

Not saying some of these people are not thinking: new tax shelters? You betcha they are, it's a whole industry that thinks about all of the economy all the time and where one might go with money to keep more of it. The higher the tax rate, the more incentive. It's just reality since capitalism started. Gets me nuts when lefties talk like it's a moral thing that can be rectified if we just eat the rich. Not realistic. Don't think old fuddy duddy WASP guy. Think: rock stars moving to another country because the taxes are too high where they are. It's just human nature.

Oh yeah and I saw this yesterday. She was a Republican until the Clinton years. They know she knows how to get where she wants to go, and also understands their world and how not to push things to the point of counter-productvivity, so it's not all pie in the sky when she says stuff: This advisor stuff is just basically "boy scout be prepared" to switch your modus operandi if she wins:

Whenever Warren is asked about her views when she was a republican she answers with “I don’t know, I don’t remember or I was just not too politically active”.

Liz you were 47 years old and still a republican! Don’t act like it was just a childhood thing. #EqualityTownHall
— Giovanny Verano (@Giovasummer) October 11, 2019

Furthermore, you will never convince me that Warren has been converted to an "eat the rich" type now. She's still a believer in capitalism. She just wants to see a return to the rising middle class scenario rather than "billionaires take all". Maybe wealthy people and investment funds will go back to investing in making actual stuff like infrastructure and robotics and green technology rather than trading pieces of paper. Making investment profit the old fashioned way, imagine that. Will be like a new thing for the millennial and GenX'er advisors, they'll find it exciting, not the same old same old trading programs having nothing to do with reality.