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[Aren't the market mavens wonderful?  They ascribe its latest dive to Yellen's keeping the interest rates unchanged (as I predicted), citing that this contributes to market uncertainty.  Well, it apparently didn't contribute to market uncertainty when it was uncertain whether the Fed would raise rates in September, but now that it's certain that they won't, it contributes to uncertainty.  How do these turkeys continue to draw a paycheck, and who believes a word they say about markets or the economy's future?  Most certainly the Fed has destroyed whatever credibility it once had – as posted here – in knowing enough about the economy to predict its direction (note their sterling job on forecasting the recovery).  So what do you think they now base their decisions on whether/when to raise interest rates?  gjr]

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188 responses to “Sandbox – 18sep15”

  1. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Gregory
    I was referring to contemporary countries. Georges blats are pretty worthless without at least an attempt to verify his positions with some kind of contemporary real world example. Otherwise it’s just a theory.

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  2. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Todd
    Since this country is on the way to bayonets in the street due to our collectivist direction I don’t think we qualify as an example an enlightened whatever George wants kind of country.
    By the way your guy Walker, the incredible shrinking man is drifting below 1% Republican support.

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  3. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Paul Emery, good luck you ingrate!
    Walker fades out I’ll pick someone else. No big deal. Your guy Johnson is a doper nut. Good luck with that.

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  4. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Todd
    “Johnson Doper Nut”….I’m sure the Libertarians who participate in this blog appreciate your deep insight into Gary Johnson, the two time governor of New Mexico.

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  5. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Todd, Gary has lots and lots on his daddy’s money. A 1%er’s little boy. Spend Gary spend all that money that should be given to somebody who does not work and is a total slacker/loser. Maybe Gary should house and fed all those starving artists to give them a place to finally express their talents after all these many years. Or pay for those who majored in Chicano Lesbian studies and who are burdened with unfair college debt due to the loans they applied for and gladly received at the time.
    Much better to give it all away than have it all away taken away like that 1%er Clinton is planning. Plus, it’s a good tax write off so your taxes do not go to The Military.
    Anybody here buy one of those $80.00 Bernie Teddy Bears he is peddling on his site yet? Cuddle it while you listen to The Bern rail against buying unneeded materialistic stuff because children in Bum, Egypt are starving. The Bern Teddy is absolutely to die for. I was going to donate to Utah’s Place, but I feel The Bern needs my money more and will spend it wiser,

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  6. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Come on Paul Emery, I have listened to him in numerous interviews and the man is nutty. Has to be dope. You deny that? And who cares if he was governor of a small state. Big deal. He is a libertarian loser. Why would you support the guy? Also, answer my questions about “what other country(s) are your preference.
    BillT, excellent observations about the loser Johnson.

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  7. Ben Emery Avatar
    Ben Emery

    I would vote for Gary Johnson before Hillary Clinton or Jeb Bush any day of the week. It will take an enormous movement to oust those two establishment candidates from their perceived rightful heir to the throne. We have two major parties and one establishment that controls both parties so no matter who controls the Executive Branch the establishment has control over our foreign policies, Supreme Court nominees, Congressional Committees, and Agency heads. in summary control of our federal government and by default/ supremacy clause or funding leverage our state governments who then control our local governments.
    The key of actually getting a functional democratic republic is wrangling the power from the establishment by electing candidates that openly campaign against it. Bernie Sanders is running an outsider campaign within the machine and is starting to make some oligarchs very nervous. Donald Trump in a very sick and twisted way is doing the same thing in the Republican Party.
    We are starting to see how the media(who is also controlled by the establishment)take down Trump and the signs of taking down Sanders are there as well.
    The two largest and most powerful public institutions in the US are the Democratic and Republican Party’s. They are controlled by big money special interests as is the mainstream media(6 companies control 90%).
    It will be a Hillary vs Jeb 2016 unless the people pull off a huge upset by coming out in such huge numbers the elections cannot be rigged and stolen.

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  8. Scott Obermuller Avatar

    from Paul at 10:28 – “Georges blats are pretty worthless without at least an attempt to verify his positions with some kind of contemporary real world example.”
    There are plenty of examples of what George espouses. Just because there isn’t an entire country that follows all of them and is just the perfect example doesn’t mean his views are worthless.
    All of the AGM alarmists have been proven wrong with all of their ‘predictions’ – but strangely enough they are still held in high esteem by the true believers.
    Our world is filled with realities that were ridiculed by the masses as nonsense when first proposed.
    What country did the founding fathers ’emulate’ when our nation was founded? They certainly couldn’t point to another country as an example back in the 1700s.
    So the founding fathers – according to Paul Emery’s twisted logic – all had worthless ideas.
    Or ‘blats’ as Paul calls them.

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  9. Scott Obermuller Avatar

    “I would vote for Gary Johnson before Hillary Clinton or Jeb Bush any day of the week.”
    ooh – pretty strong support for Gary, there.
    I’d vote for the guy 3 doors down before I’d vote for them and I don’t even know who he is.

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  10. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    speaking of losers..
    Bye Bye Scotty Walker. Back to the Cub Scout troop in Wisconsin! Joining Rick Perry as the biggest GOP flops of the modern era. Overhyped and overrated from day one.

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  11. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    While Walker winding down his campaign is no surprise calling them the biggest GOP flops of the modern era would just be so much of the ‘jon’ scatology. Walker did bitch slap the Unions into line and won 3 elections in 6 years. Perry in his 13 years had staggering economic successes in TX but could never get past forgetting the 3rd Fed. department he would close in that debate. Whoever wins the GOP marathon they will be much tougher from the fray than the pampered and protected liar HRC.

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  12. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    Perry could not speak 2 sentences in a row without taking 2 minutes to finish.
    We heard all about his brainpower from Jim Hightower and other Texas progressives years before the nation heard him in 2012 and 2015. He did do one good thing though- he made GW Bush look intelligent. Scotty Walker did indeed damage Unions in his state, as well as the overall WI economy, which is one of the worst in that region. He only survived recall because of a very weak Dem opponent. So its back to his Scout Troop. Those guys can also hit the rubber chicken circuit now- if people want to pony up 50 bucks to hear Scott Walker or Rick Perry…LOL…have at it!

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  13. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    LOL “jon”. You are a troll so your opinions carry no weight. But keep trying.

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  14. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    I think Heidi Hall is going to get a surprise when she finds out who is going to oppose her. 😉

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  15. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    LOL Todd. That’s the best you can do in your avoidance of the honest truth about Walker and Perry? Phony puppets and props, shoved to the forefront by big money interests who thought they could pull the wool over voter eyes. If nothing else, big money is showing its not necessarily too smart with its billions of political money!

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  16. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    I won’t vote for Hillary nor Bush. I wIl not sit this one out, so I will vote for somebody in the end.
    Interesting to see who Hillary chooses to go after. Tells us who her campaign sees as a threat. She sure slammed Walker for 3 weeks straight. Now her campaign is going after that other woman with a vengeance. Choice between two gals in a cat fight is some wild scratching going on. Of course, Hillary is above the fray, it’s those unknown people on her payroll that are trashing the bimbos for her.
    Don’t think that other woman Carly will be sticking around to the end.
    Political side note: it is appearing that the old Clinton Machine Loyalists were loyal to Bill their boss, not to Hillary his bitchy wife. The old Bill defenders seem to go through the motions of defending Hillary half heartedly with no fire in their belly. Where is the spirited defenders of The Hill like the Ragin Cajun and Lenny? Probably mellowed with age. Just another biased opinion of mine.
    Bottom line. It ain’t who is the best or brightest or one’s #1 Draft Pick. It’s who is still standing after the Conventions. The rest of them go out to pasture until called.

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  17. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Not much room in the Pubbers pasture. It’s filled with Palins, Romnies, Ryans Bachmans McCains and others from previous popular rejections rejections. They won’t be called.

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  18. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Bessee use of “bitch slap”
    That’s classy Don.

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  19. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Oh Paul, I meant called to run errands. Seems nobody answered your question about who should we try to emulate. None of them I say. Maybe heaven or whatever place besides hell you visualize where you go after death. A place with no pain or sorrow is preferred. In a perfect world…..this is not or will ever be a perfect world as long as humans walk the face of the planet. Back to the Future #37 might hold some hope for ya. I just love those Hollywood endings, don’t you? Eh?
    Think James Madison had the best insight concerning your question posed. Letting the commoners have guns and arms for self defense and more importantly defense against a tyrannical domestic government in the future is what he saw as the most unique and most revolutionary idea of any society/country formed in history. He saw that single aspect as the unique Enlightenment of The Great Experiment and ALL other countries in existence as backwards because of our right to bear arms applied individually. It’s where the others fell short.
    Glad SCOTUS agreed and ruled that since we all do not have the right to join a milita, then it must mean we have a individual right to bear arms. Wish more countries were as enlightened as we are. They should try emulating us, but as Madison clearly remarked, they are all backwards.
    So, with that in context, I would emulate zero of them.

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  20. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Oh Don, you are so berry berry bad. Somebody should bitch slap you. Got a feeling that Paul is thinking about it. 🙂
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jF7MPS7YsH0

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  21. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Jon | 21 September 2015 at 02:51 PM
    Please troll, stop embarrassing yourself, well at least you have a bridge you live under. You really don’t know what you are talking about so responding to you is something real people don’t do.
    Walker quit today. So I may go for another after some though full analysis. So many good candidates. Paul Emery and Johnson, now there is a losing ticket. LOL!

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  22. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    Yeah Todd, there are just tons and tons of good candidates in that Clown Car, albeit the Slowly Deflating Clown Car. Even Walker encouraged others today to do what he did. Lets see, Bobby Jindal is still breathing, Rick Santorum, Mike Huckabee…3 just off the top of my head! Then there’s always George Pataki or Scandal ridden Chris Christie if you fancy a Governor type. Just a veritable bounty.

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  23. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Jon | 21 September 2015 at 04:37 PM
    “jon” give it up. You are a troll. Head back to your underpass.

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  24. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Todd
    I think you should run. Honestly I’d vote for you before any of the current lot in either party. I can see it now
    “The Sierra Lizzard makes a comeback and goes for it all”

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  25. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Well, Todd, just stay in the top six for now. I see the Republican numbers are sliding down the slope. 1st debate 24 million viewers, the record for any non sporting event in cable history. Total of 54 viewers that night viewing all cable outlets. Half ain’t bad.. Second debate, only 23.4 million viewers, a CNN record in its 35 year history. I can see the Clown Car sliding into obscurity, can’t you? First, 24million plus viewers then a measly 23 million plus viewers. Heading in the wrong direction. Darn it, Jon is right again. Doom and Gloom lies ahead. Best to pack it in now.
    Can’t wait for the Democrat New Hampshire debate. It’s on the Saturday night before Christmas. Weekend before Christmad?? Should set viewer records as well….the lowest viewed debate since the invention of the Television. Oops. Make than since TVs where common in the American households, not when Biden said that FDR addressed the nation on the boob tube with his “Nothing to fear but fear itself” speech.

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  26. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Paul Emery | 21 September 2015 at 04:54 PM
    I am not familiar with The Sierra Lizard. What is that? Is that a sexual term? You are odd.
    BillT 4:59 AM
    I might try it. I am incredibly handsome and erudite. I’d get the women’s vote hands down. And my foreign policy of bomb the crap out of all those Muslims might just put me over the top.

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  27. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Oh PE you are just mad because that is the precise description of what Walker did to his unions. LOL

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  28. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    Demographics Billy, Demographics in the General Election. That’s all that matters. Mittster discovered that dynamic. Lots of angry right wing viewers tuning in to see The Clown Car Chronicles, starring Donald Trumpster, off his very successful engagement in the Catskills. Entertainment- yes, serious political debating? Not so much.

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  29. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Jon | 21 September 2015 at 05:41 PM
    Don Besse, the troll thinks we care about what it writes. Hubris. It is such an amateur.

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  30. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Todd. Helpful Hint: just utter these two magic words and you would get the Emergy Twins and Heidi Hall’s vote for sure,….and Curtis Walker and Annie and maybe even Jon. Plus some members of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy that left the reservation and turned purple to add icing to the cake. Now, take a breath, put your lips together and say “Two Americas” and you will be standing on The Bern’s neck in triumphal victorious rapture. Can’t wait till you roll out The Juvinall Jubilee Girls on YouTube.

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  31. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    LOL Todd.
    you do care. You are a very sensitive type guy.

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  32. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Jon @ 5:41 PST (I am not on the west Coast neither am I currently in N. America). Think Glowball. 🙂
    I can’t believe my Teddy Bear eyes. U.S. News and World Report? That biased rag is only found in the waiting room of doctors’ offices anymore. They really have gone off the deep end in this time. Sensational yellow journalism at its ugliest. Guess they are desperate for readers. I don’t trust this source and I bet Jon agrees with me. Bunch of horse pucky.
    http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/lara-brown/2015/09/21/democrats-are-headed-for-a-2016-crackup

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  33. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Yep, Todd, there are two Americas. One with an innie and one with an outie. Sure, some always fall through the cracks.
    http://www.vox.com/2015/9/21/9367327/transgender-shadi-petosky-twitter-orlando-airport

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  34. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    BillT, you are a hoot! The Juvinall Jubilee Girls. You know, we could have a bikini Hooters contest at the Rood Center and raise money for loony trolls. And for displace sock puppets! Excellent!

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  35. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Good afternoon.
    The Internet has changed the way we communicate and how we control speech. Shameful how some are attacking a poor sweet woman of color. She could be off limits as well as above the law I say. Afterall, being Rodham’s confident, employee, and Vice Campaign Manager places her above reproach. Shameful treatment of Hillary’s second daughter. In related news, Anthony Weiner got axed from his two month consulting job yesterday. Shameful how some treat women. There ought to be more laws and less speech.
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/09/22/huma-abedins-debut-on-twitter-on-ben-carson-draws-some-ugly-replies/

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  36. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    Remember to mark the tape- I reported that Trump peaked 2 weeks ago. Long, slow, gradual downward slide.
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/the-beginning-of-the-end-for-trump_b_8177692.html
    Really its Carson and Fiorina now, with Jeb! a very slim chance to come back if he and his long-time advisors can convince the Big Money. Regardless, all weak general election candidates with major flaws.

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  37. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Well, it is looking more and more that you are stuck with Hillary.

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  38. George Rebane Avatar

    Jon 952am – I like robust predictions, and you may have nailed it with Trump. Please make a note of your prediction’s URL so that when Trump is on the slide a month from now, we can all drink a toast to your prescience.

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  39. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Hey, how about a Dear Jon letter:
    Carly won’t make it. Has that HP thang and the Brian Williams’s memory. Rodham’s numbers are being skewed by the non contender Biden’s and Rodham has locked all the Big Big donors that count. Plus, the Debbie Factor of having the DNC in her hip pocket.. Rodham has the machine and all the machines at the ready. Hillary who bumped her head when fingers started pointing her way and abandoned State is stomping all Dem contenders in National polls and polls that matter.
    What does Joe have? Heck, he is the VP that never even donated 500 bucks to charity for years (many years 200 bucks or less) until the media caught on during Obama’s first term. How does it feel to donate more than Biden in 2000-2010 to charity? Feels good I tell ya.
    So the Bern has some momentum no doubt, but his base is with elitists and the 20% cracker libs. Numbers don’t add up. And many blacks will never never forget how “that’s just Joe’ sabotaged Anita Hill and refused to allow her credible witnesses testify at the Clarence Thomas hearings. Plus his disparaging words for the immigrants owning convince stores and calling Obama a clean Negro. Maybe you will get stuck with Biden afterall. Not. It’s Hillary now and tomorrow. As some remind me, follow the money, honey. Yep, Hillary does look better around closing time. But since all the attention and enthusiasm is on the Republicans almost to exclusion, I can understand why Jon is so focused and obsessed with being Right. That also works to Rodham’s benefit in a perverse way.

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  40. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    We will know something on Biden in the next 2-3 weeks. I think he’s coming in, right about October 1. Otherwise he will not be in the first debate, and that would close any chance for him. Its gotta be a Biden/Warren ticket if they want to take out Hillary and garner the big donor and party support.

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  41. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    Tozer, you mentioned a while back you were a Kasich fan at one time. He has a miniscule, but still technically feasible, shot of winning the nomination. Seems like a tough hombre who’s in it for the long haul with enough core money and base support to hold out for awhile. Would you support Kasich if he was to miraculously pull out the nomination, as he is on the record now with several moderate positions- ie. Iran?

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  42. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    LOL. Tozer, what is a “cracker lib”? That’s a pretty funny stretch..

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  43. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    Re: Carly, Tozer you may be right, but I would contend that if you read her bio with an honest eye, what she did to Lucent Technologies was far worse than HP, in terms of lost enterprise value to the company. I think Forbes had a really honest, in depth article about the Lucent fiasco.

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  44. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Well, Hillary has already grabbed the Big Money’s money so Biden is left with crumbs and no boots on the ground. Besides, who wants to take Hillary out???? Leave the Walking Wounded in so she and Chelsea can constantly remind us how hard Hillary is working for working families. Run, Joe, run. Can’t hurt or make him look like a bigger fool than he is now.

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  45. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    Joe’s favorability ratings (and favorable to unfavorable ratio) would FAR exceed anyone in the race, of either party, should he get in.

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  46. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    So Todd
    So you’re thinking of Running for District 1 Supes. Tell me it’s true. That would be so much fun. Heidi Hall-Todd Juvinall. It would be a great boos to local politics which have been very dull and predictable in recent years.

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  47. George Rebane Avatar

    A general question for ToddJ or any other knowledgeable reader out there now that NateB has decided not to run – Who is Darin Driscoll?

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  48. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    He is a friend of mine. Go to regular email.

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  49. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Jon. I will support anybody but Bush on the right, nobody on the left. Lib cracker? Just look at Bernie’s crowd. White liberals. A lot of dumb ones in the mix as well, but liberals nonetheless. I could have said white bead libs are his base or honkie far left extremist libs are the ones he appeals to, not the regular run of the mill Democrat, just that small minority of the Democrat Party and even smaller slice of the American electorate. You know, lib crackers. The white guilt crowd. The pinkos. The liberals trying so desperately for folks to call them progressives. You know, the “Please call us progressives, we don’t like being called liberals anymore, sob, sob. It’s so unfair! Hey, I forgot my wallet. Let’s do lunch” crowd.. That small percentage stuck on stupid, I.e., your people, Jon.

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