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2020 Democratic Challengers Vi: The Undiscovered Country

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dxmnkd316 said:
Yeah, but he's also thirty seven. He's not auditioning for VP, he's probably auditioning for 2028 when he'll probably have had at least two other federal jobs.
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Oh, he's definitely auditioning for 2028. It's obvious in those deep, sincere, dreamy eyes that are pulsating with ambition. He's Friend of Dorothy Tracy Flick.

If that's the case, he's not making a great case. Because the country is moving slowly to the left. In 10 years it's going to be a very different place. Ten years ago, Obama had just started to support marriage equality.
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Obama is the example of why you're wrong. Pete will ahem evolve. He's going where the votes and money are and for his center lane right now that's aw shucks centrism. Dude wants to be President worse than anybody I've seen since Bill Clinton; it pours off him like the steam coming off that black football player's head (LT?) in the iconic photo. He's got the fever. Paris vaut bien une messe.

If in 2028 Full Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism is hot that's what he'll be selling.
 
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Doesn’t Cillizza have one of the worst ratios in history?
 
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"It's the economy, stupid."

Slow news day at CNN and they decided to trigger the libs? :)
 
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Wasn’t there a better model put together by some professor that has called every election right?
 
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We don't need Medicare for all. The current system is working great!
When Medical Debt Collectors Decide Who Gets Arrested: Welcome to Coffeyville, Kansas

On the last Tuesday of July, Tres Biggs stepped into the courthouse in Coffeyville, Kansas, for medical debt collection day, a monthly ritual in this quiet city of 9,000, just over the Oklahoma border. He was one of 90 people who had been summoned, sued by the local hospital, or doctors, or an ambulance service over unpaid bills. Some wore eye patches and bandages; others limped to their seats by the wood-paneled walls. Biggs, who is 41, had to take a day off from work to be there. He knew from experience that if he didn’t show up, he could be put in jail.

Before the morning’s hearing, he listened as defendants traded stories. One woman recalled how, at four months pregnant, she had reported a money order scam to her local sheriff’s office only to discover that she had a warrant; she was arrested on the spot. A radiologist had sued her over a $230 bill, and she’d missed one hearing too many. Another woman said she watched, a decade ago, as a deputy came to the door for her diabetic aunt and took her to jail in her final years of life. Now here she was, dealing with her own debt, trying to head off the same fate.

Biggs, who is tall and broad-shouldered, with sun-scorched skin and bright hazel eyes, looked up as defendants talked, but he was embarrassed to say much. His court dates had begun after his son developed leukemia, and they’d picked up when his wife started having seizures. He, too, had been arrested because of medical debt. It had happened more than once.

Judge David Casement entered the courtroom, a black robe swaying over his cowboy boots and silversmithed belt buckle. He is a cattle rancher who was appointed a magistrate judge, though he’d never taken a course in law. Judges don’t need a law degree in Kansas, or many other states, to preside over cases like these. Casement asked the defendants to take an oath and confirmed that the newcomers confessed to their debt. A key purpose of the hearing, though, was for patients to face debt collectors. “They want to talk to you about trying to set up a payment plan, and after you talk with them, you are free to go,” he told the debtors. Then, he left the room.
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Remember when we had debtor’s prison?

Apparently we all do now.
 
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Sounds almost as miserable as living in Sweden or Norway.
 
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trixR4kids said:
I realize it’s Kansas but it reads like something you’d see in a paper from 1850.
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I had a great great uncle spend time in St. Cloud Correctional for debt. That’s how crazy insane and old this sounds.
 
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