Official 2020 Democratic Primary Debate Thread

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Yangs UBI gimmick is already getting stale :manny: Its not a panacea and presenting it as one for every single topic got tired quick.

His gimmick is a grift built on populist nonsense.

He wants to fund his UBI while getting rid of other safety nets and people opting out of other benefits.

The immediate problems I see are that 12000 doesn't make up for the loss of other benefits and most of them are based on children. So a parent gets 12000 and then a child is left without what a roof over their head, food, heat, and etc?


Maybe he would be getting pushback if he was polling over the single digits.
 

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His gimmick is a grift built on populist nonsense.

He wants to fund his UBI while getting rid of other safety nets and people opting out of other benefits.

The immediate problems I see are that 12000 doesn't make up for the loss of other benefits and most of them are based on children. So a parent gets 12000 and then a child is left without what a roof over their head, food, heat, and etc?


Maybe he would be getting pushback if he was polling over the single digits.

Its a legit criticism and he should be pushed back onto that Libertarian streak.

But no one else is talking automation or the idea of a basic income or a guaranteed minimum income or a negative income tax. Its definitely needed in these discussions and like him or not, he has a lot of out of the box ideas on his site.
 

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Its a legit criticism and he should be pushed back onto that Libertarian streak.

But no one else is talking automation or the idea of a basic income or a guaranteed minimum income or a negative income tax. Its definitely needed in these discussions and like him or not, he has a lot of out of the box ideas on his site.
WRONG

He has no IDEAS or POLICIES

All he's done is highlight the risk of automation and the related social malaise. He's better suited to be a guest on Tucker Carlson (again :stopitslime:)

THATS IT.
 

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I find Colorado interesting. From the outside looking in, seems like the Dems running the place have done a great job. Any insight from TheColi pundits?

Hickenlooper gets regularly attacked for his environmental record. He put no resistance on fracking. Colorado's air isn't great and I believe doesn't pass national standards from the EPA.
 

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I just used the average health care cost value, and I come up negative :francis:
Same. And it wasn't a small number. One of the hurdles here is in order for it to make sense for someone with Employer provided insurance is that employers would need to put the money they spend on my insurance into my paycheck, but I'm smart enough to know that's not guaranteed to happen. :francis:
 

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WRONG

He has no IDEAS or POLICIES

All he's done is highlight the risk of automation and the related social malaise. He's better suited to be a guest on Tucker Carlson (again :stopitslime:)

THATS IT.
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His website clearly has a lot of policy proposals. In fact, his gun control one is one of the best I've seen from a dem
 

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There's a small, but slight possibily that black women may begin to rally behind Harris if they feel she's being ganged up on by the other candidates/media, again small but slight
Nope not a chance... Black folk see right through that fake shyt... She can’t be for the civil rights struggle, attend hbcu and through all of that still marry a cac... That’s s conflict... if she was married to a brother and had black children her AG record in Cali would have been a lot better in respect to incarnation of black men because she couldn’t effectively look in the mirror and not see her husband and kids in those she looked up at a high clip...

She’s finished breh
 

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Nope not a chance... Black folk see right through that fake shyt... She can’t be for the civil rights struggle, attend hbcu and through all of that still marry a cac... That’s s conflict... if she was married to a brother and had black children her AG record in Cali would have been a lot better in respect to incarnation of black men because she couldn’t effectively look in the mirror and not see her husband and kids in those she looked up at a high clip...

She’s finished breh
Yeah I think she's done too, but if they see highlight reels of this Samoan chick humiliating a black women in front of the world and feel she's being unfairly treated, I dunno they might feel a certain way.
 
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