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June 27, 2019

Delaney is getting destroyed by Ali Velshi about universal healthcare claims

John Delaney has no idea what he talking about and he has said Ali is wrong, after Velshi explained the Canadian system he grew up in.
Delaney just blew up trying to make his outrageous claim work.
Ruhle keeps trying to stop it save the congressman but the directors just let it go through a planned commercial break too because it's a train wreck.

June 26, 2019

Any candidate on the stage in the next two nights can beat Trump, if...

we stick together, register lots of new voters, get out the vote on election day and early voting.
We need to work and vote like our country depends on it.
You know, because it does.

June 25, 2019

"I set fire to this house with all these people in it" said the fire chief

"and I need more money to fight fires like this"

"will you put this fire out?" asked the people

"No"

"Will you rescue the people in the house?"

"No."

"Will you at least stop setting houses on fire?

"No."

"Okay, here's your money."

June 11, 2019

The media just let Trump claim Democrats are criminals, live on TV without any proof or real charge

We need a better media.
Fuck you MSNBC and CNN.
No chyron to correct 30 minutes of lies?
Thanks for nothing.

His exact quote during the press gaggle on the way to Marine One June 11, 2019

"Now, look, Nancy is a mess. The Democratic Party is a mess. They're doing everything they can to win the election in 2020. They are guilty of many crimes. Many, many crimes -- what they've done. They're guilty of many, many crimes. And hopefully, in a short period of time, that'll be seen. They should never have done what they've done."

No follow up questions on this. The next one was about Mexico, which had already been talked about by Trump.



June 10, 2019

The media will do anything to avoid covering Trump's crimes and exposing his lies.

a local helicopter crash in NYC for example
There had no video on the thing for an hour then all they had was smokey rooftop in the rainy distance

Clearly not terrorism, which is the legit excuse for the first 15 minutes of live coverage.
Rainy shots of 1st responders on the ground. That's all they have for visuals.

They cut away from a helicopter crash in NYC faster that happened just last month!
One crashed on a pier in NYC in May, recall that?

This is a local NY story, and has been for a long time.

This just shows that cable news hates covering hearings.
They see them as a ratings killer and will do everything to hinder the full story of Trump's corruption being told to the public.
It's not their job.
They sells car and beer ads to make money.

June 8, 2019

Americans Spent as Much on Cannabis as Taco Bell Last Year

And that's without a drive-thru.

https://www.leafly.com/news/lifestyle/americans-spending-legal-cannabis-taco-bell-nfl?utm_source=SailThru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=buy_pickup&utm_term=global&utm_content=deals?sailthru_vars[user_click_news]=3

Americans Spent as Much on Cannabis as Taco Bell Last Year
"With the opening of more and more state-legal markets, cannabis sales are quickly catching up with that of more established products, brands, and services. New data compiled by Marijuana Business Daily shows that Americans spent an estimated $10.4 billion on cannabis last year—about as much as they dropped at the country’s sixth-largest fast food chain, Taco Bell.

That $10.4 billion in sales, which combines medical and adult-use markets, was nearly $2 billion more than in 2017. It was also nearly three times the $3.6 billion that Americans spent on e-cigarettes in 2018."

"The MJBiz analysis made a few other striking comparisons to help contextualize what $10 billion in sales looks like. For instance, it’s about 10 times the roughly $900 million that Americans forked out for Goldfish crackers. It’s just a sliver of the $72.2 billion spent on wine. And it’s more than twice what Americans paid to play the popular video game Fortnite."

more at link

June 7, 2019

The Language of Politics: A Tariff is a Tax. Donald Trump has raised taxes on Americans.

tar·iff
/ˈterəf/
noun: tariff; plural noun: tariffs

1. a tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports.
synonyms: tax, duty, toll, excise, levy, assessment, imposition, impost, charge, rate, fee, exaction;


Every Democratic candidate needs to use language like the Republicans do, because a tariff is a tax.

Call it that, every day, every hour.

Trump has raised taxes on imported products for all Americans.

Words matter.

So do Taxes.

June 5, 2019

When interviewed Donald Trump didn't like Vietnam and would rather have fought in WWII

I wonder which side he would have fought on?

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About ZonkerHarris

Nixon was a fucking crook. As a teenager I marched on the UN in 1982 with a million other people demanding we get rid of the threat of nuclear weapons hanging over our heads. Since then I've worked to get Democrats elected like John Aristotle Phillips, known as the A-Bomb Kid when he ran for Congress against Stuart McKinney in CT in the 80's (we lost twice) through the Obama campaign in 2008 and 2012. I want to legalize cannabis, reform our prison for profit system, cut our military budget, get out of Afghanistan and push solar energy panels into every building in the USA.
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