Huh?!
Social Security has been taxed for years.
I think you are confused.
Or maybe you have really good weed.
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Huh?!
Social Security has been taxed for years.
I think you are confused.
Or maybe you have really good weed.
Bernie is a democratic socialist.
Democratic socialism is not communism.
Not even close.
Conflating one term for another with a completely different meaning makes you look like a complete moron.
Open a real book and Wake the fuck up.
Medfinder
Chemon 91
AGREE WIT DAT.
St. Phatty
Active member
people make fun of Bernie about "socialism"
as in, centralized Command Economy, where the Gov. creates Economic Demand.
and prints $3 Trillion to do it.
exactly what happened under Trump.
Bernie is no more socialist than Trump.
Bernie's just more honest about it.
Trump didn't start it, US economy has been centrally controlled since 9-11 (and even before).
if you don't think so, shut down all US gov spending & see what happens.
as in, centralized Command Economy, where the Gov. creates Economic Demand.
and prints $3 Trillion to do it.
exactly what happened under Trump.
Bernie is no more socialist than Trump.
Bernie's just more honest about it.
Trump didn't start it, US economy has been centrally controlled since 9-11 (and even before).
if you don't think so, shut down all US gov spending & see what happens.
100-year-old voter shares advice ahead of election, names favorite president in her lifetime
CHESTERFIELD – Mabel Cook is older than the right to vote, and in advance of her 101st birthday on Oct. 28, she exercised that right.
Last week, the still-spry centenarian cast the 15th presidential vote of a lifetime that has spanned 18 chief executives. That string began with a ballot for Franklin D. Roosevelt and has continued ever since. The only reason she did not vote for the other four — Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge or Herbert Hoover — was because she was just too young.
Now, at her advanced age, Cook is living up to her maiden name — Duty — by doing her civic duty and voting.
“I feel it is very important for people to vote,” said Cook. “And, those that don’t vote have no right to complain, because they should have helped a little bit by voting.”
Even though it was not officially added to the Constitution until 1920, the proposal to give women voting power was born in Congress in 1919 five months before Mabel Dorothy Duty was born on a farm in Russell County, Va.
Related: Dedicated voters brave heavy rain with no umbrellas
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“Mabel was the third out of 11 siblings,” said her daughter Joyce Boyd of Chesterfield.
Of the 11, Cook and two "baby" sisters are still living — a 94-year-old out in Abingdon and another in her 80s down in Atlanta."
About three months shy of when Cook turned one, the 19th Amendment was adopted on Aug. 18th, 1920.
Less than two weeks before turning 101, Cook happily cast her ballot in the presence of a portion of her four children, six grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren.
“There have been 18 presidents during her lifetime starting with Woodrow Wilson, and she’s voted for 14 of them,” said Boyd.
According to Cook, she has voted for the following presidents: Franklin D. Roosevelt [D], Harry S. Truman [D], Dwight D. Eisenhower [R], John F. Kennedy [D], Lyndon B. Johnson [D], Richard Nixon [R], Gerald Ford [R], Jimmy Carter [D], Ronald Reagan [R], George H. W. Bush [R], Bill Clinton [D], George W. Bush [R], Barack Obama [D], Donald Trump [R].
Chairwoman of the Chesterfield County Electoral Board Susan Beals provides voting instructions to Centenarian Mabel Dorothy Duty Cook of Chesterfield at the Registrar's Office in Chesterfield on Oct. 15, 2020. Cook's grandson Curtis Litton assisted her while his eleven-year-old son Jack watched his great-grandmother vote.
Chairwoman of the Chesterfield County Electoral Board Susan Beals provides voting instructions to Centenarian Mabel Dorothy Duty Cook of Chesterfield at the Registrar's Office in Chesterfield on Oct. 15, 2020. Cook's grandson Curtis Litton assisted her while his eleven-year-old son Jack watched his great-grandmother vote.
“I thought Eisenhower was a great president,” said Cook.
“Her dad admired him and had a picture of him on the wall,” said Boyd.
Does she favor one party over another? “I vote for who I think is going to do a good job,” said Cook.
“Sometimes I feel as if my dad would shoot me for voting Democrat,” added Cook wittingly.
Are there memorable elections she can recall? “After the Depression, of course, America was having debt and Hoover didn’t owe anything…I understand… as we do now,” said Cook. “It’s hard living in a Depression. We lived on a farm and had plenty to eat. God gave us all a good life.”
She tells her grandchildren and children to make informed decisions at the polls.
“You know…nowadays children are smarter than when we were little,” said Cook. “They know everything; they know more than I do.
“I would tell them to listen to the debates and decide who they think will do the best job,” said Cook.
“She’s excited to be alive and be able to go out and vote,” commented Boyd.
“I may not be around for four more years,” said Cook. “So, I’ll take advantage of today.”
The chairwoman of the Chesterfield County Electoral Board explained curbside voting.
“Curbside voting is available to anyone 65-years and older or who has a disability,” said Susan Beals. “Voters pull up to the orange cones at the Registrar’s Office, we’ll take your I.D., we’ll ask you to state your name and address, we’ll go inside and check you into the poll book, we’ll bring you out a ballot, you mark it, we take it inside and feed it into the scanner, and we’ll bring you an “I voted” sticker.”
The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 known as the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history happened in Cook’s lifetime. She said she worries about the current coronavirus pandemic.
“Oh, yes. I’m concerned because I understand it’s very dangerous,” said Cook. “I have been taking a flu shot for some time now. I’m not afraid of taking on the regular flu, but they say this one is so much worse. We don’t know until we try it, and I hope I don’t have to try.
“My mother believed in making all kinds of teas for colds and the flu,” said Cook. “Some of it tasted terrible. We always had to drink it whether it was good or bad, but they helped 90% of the time.
“If my mother was living today, she’d be making us all kinds of hot tea,” added Cook. “She’d make this one called boneset tea that was really bitter. I called it a weed.”
Cook said she knows what she is looking for in a president these days. “I don’t want him to raise taxes. Lower the taxes, and see that the price of medicine goes down," she said. "There are too many sick people that can’t afford the medicine.
The big moment arrived.
Cook did not have her reading glasses so her grandson Curtis Litton of Kingsport, Tennessee visiting on vacation signed an ‘assistance form’ which allowed him to help her vote.
Curtis Litton fills out an 'assistance form' to be able to help his grandmother Centenarian Mabel Dorothy Duty Cook of Chesterfield complete her ballot at the Registrar's Office in Chesterfield on Oct. 15, 2020 while Cook's great-grandkids Alexa and Jack Litton witness the monumental event.
“Are you ready young lady,” said Litton to his Grandma. “It’s your time to vote.”
Cook’s grandson read the list of candidates to her and filled in her choices.
Curtis Litton had difficulty pronouncing Spanberger and Freitas who are running for Congress, but his grandmother was familiar with the candidates.
Litton made his grandmother laugh when he said, “We can always write in Mickey Mouse if you choose.”
When finished, Curtis Litton handed the ballot to his grandmother without Beals touching it so there would not be any improprieties.
And her wish came true.
“Hey Granny, do you wanna walk in and carry it in for yourself, or do you want that lady to carry it in for you,” asked Curtis Litton. “I can get you in there if you want to go in there and put it in.”
“We’ll make it happen,” said Beals. “We can do it.”
The volunteers welcomed Cook into the poll room with a round of applause.
“In two weeks, she’ll be 101,” shared Curtis Litton. “She said she wanted to make sure she’s counted.”
“I’m proud of her,” said Registrar Office volunteer Rosa Johnson of Chesterfield. “She has a lot of wisdom and knowledge she could share with all of us.”
Each family member present had their phones ready to record the monumental moment.
Another round of applause broke out once Cook pushed the ballot in the machine.
CHESTERFIELD – Mabel Cook is older than the right to vote, and in advance of her 101st birthday on Oct. 28, she exercised that right.
Last week, the still-spry centenarian cast the 15th presidential vote of a lifetime that has spanned 18 chief executives. That string began with a ballot for Franklin D. Roosevelt and has continued ever since. The only reason she did not vote for the other four — Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge or Herbert Hoover — was because she was just too young.
Now, at her advanced age, Cook is living up to her maiden name — Duty — by doing her civic duty and voting.
“I feel it is very important for people to vote,” said Cook. “And, those that don’t vote have no right to complain, because they should have helped a little bit by voting.”
Even though it was not officially added to the Constitution until 1920, the proposal to give women voting power was born in Congress in 1919 five months before Mabel Dorothy Duty was born on a farm in Russell County, Va.
Related: Dedicated voters brave heavy rain with no umbrellas
Scroll back up to restore default view.
“Mabel was the third out of 11 siblings,” said her daughter Joyce Boyd of Chesterfield.
Of the 11, Cook and two "baby" sisters are still living — a 94-year-old out in Abingdon and another in her 80s down in Atlanta."
About three months shy of when Cook turned one, the 19th Amendment was adopted on Aug. 18th, 1920.
Less than two weeks before turning 101, Cook happily cast her ballot in the presence of a portion of her four children, six grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren.
“There have been 18 presidents during her lifetime starting with Woodrow Wilson, and she’s voted for 14 of them,” said Boyd.
According to Cook, she has voted for the following presidents: Franklin D. Roosevelt [D], Harry S. Truman [D], Dwight D. Eisenhower [R], John F. Kennedy [D], Lyndon B. Johnson [D], Richard Nixon [R], Gerald Ford [R], Jimmy Carter [D], Ronald Reagan [R], George H. W. Bush [R], Bill Clinton [D], George W. Bush [R], Barack Obama [D], Donald Trump [R].
Chairwoman of the Chesterfield County Electoral Board Susan Beals provides voting instructions to Centenarian Mabel Dorothy Duty Cook of Chesterfield at the Registrar's Office in Chesterfield on Oct. 15, 2020. Cook's grandson Curtis Litton assisted her while his eleven-year-old son Jack watched his great-grandmother vote.
Chairwoman of the Chesterfield County Electoral Board Susan Beals provides voting instructions to Centenarian Mabel Dorothy Duty Cook of Chesterfield at the Registrar's Office in Chesterfield on Oct. 15, 2020. Cook's grandson Curtis Litton assisted her while his eleven-year-old son Jack watched his great-grandmother vote.
“I thought Eisenhower was a great president,” said Cook.
“Her dad admired him and had a picture of him on the wall,” said Boyd.
Does she favor one party over another? “I vote for who I think is going to do a good job,” said Cook.
“Sometimes I feel as if my dad would shoot me for voting Democrat,” added Cook wittingly.
Are there memorable elections she can recall? “After the Depression, of course, America was having debt and Hoover didn’t owe anything…I understand… as we do now,” said Cook. “It’s hard living in a Depression. We lived on a farm and had plenty to eat. God gave us all a good life.”
She tells her grandchildren and children to make informed decisions at the polls.
“You know…nowadays children are smarter than when we were little,” said Cook. “They know everything; they know more than I do.
“I would tell them to listen to the debates and decide who they think will do the best job,” said Cook.
“She’s excited to be alive and be able to go out and vote,” commented Boyd.
“I may not be around for four more years,” said Cook. “So, I’ll take advantage of today.”
The chairwoman of the Chesterfield County Electoral Board explained curbside voting.
“Curbside voting is available to anyone 65-years and older or who has a disability,” said Susan Beals. “Voters pull up to the orange cones at the Registrar’s Office, we’ll take your I.D., we’ll ask you to state your name and address, we’ll go inside and check you into the poll book, we’ll bring you out a ballot, you mark it, we take it inside and feed it into the scanner, and we’ll bring you an “I voted” sticker.”
The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 known as the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history happened in Cook’s lifetime. She said she worries about the current coronavirus pandemic.
“Oh, yes. I’m concerned because I understand it’s very dangerous,” said Cook. “I have been taking a flu shot for some time now. I’m not afraid of taking on the regular flu, but they say this one is so much worse. We don’t know until we try it, and I hope I don’t have to try.
“My mother believed in making all kinds of teas for colds and the flu,” said Cook. “Some of it tasted terrible. We always had to drink it whether it was good or bad, but they helped 90% of the time.
“If my mother was living today, she’d be making us all kinds of hot tea,” added Cook. “She’d make this one called boneset tea that was really bitter. I called it a weed.”
Cook said she knows what she is looking for in a president these days. “I don’t want him to raise taxes. Lower the taxes, and see that the price of medicine goes down," she said. "There are too many sick people that can’t afford the medicine.
The big moment arrived.
Cook did not have her reading glasses so her grandson Curtis Litton of Kingsport, Tennessee visiting on vacation signed an ‘assistance form’ which allowed him to help her vote.
Curtis Litton fills out an 'assistance form' to be able to help his grandmother Centenarian Mabel Dorothy Duty Cook of Chesterfield complete her ballot at the Registrar's Office in Chesterfield on Oct. 15, 2020 while Cook's great-grandkids Alexa and Jack Litton witness the monumental event.
“Are you ready young lady,” said Litton to his Grandma. “It’s your time to vote.”
Cook’s grandson read the list of candidates to her and filled in her choices.
Curtis Litton had difficulty pronouncing Spanberger and Freitas who are running for Congress, but his grandmother was familiar with the candidates.
Litton made his grandmother laugh when he said, “We can always write in Mickey Mouse if you choose.”
When finished, Curtis Litton handed the ballot to his grandmother without Beals touching it so there would not be any improprieties.
And her wish came true.
“Hey Granny, do you wanna walk in and carry it in for yourself, or do you want that lady to carry it in for you,” asked Curtis Litton. “I can get you in there if you want to go in there and put it in.”
“We’ll make it happen,” said Beals. “We can do it.”
The volunteers welcomed Cook into the poll room with a round of applause.
“In two weeks, she’ll be 101,” shared Curtis Litton. “She said she wanted to make sure she’s counted.”
“I’m proud of her,” said Registrar Office volunteer Rosa Johnson of Chesterfield. “She has a lot of wisdom and knowledge she could share with all of us.”
Each family member present had their phones ready to record the monumental moment.
Another round of applause broke out once Cook pushed the ballot in the machine.
You do not know shit. Keep posting your ignorance at every little post.
Looks like everyone but you agrees. Like I said people like you stay stupid. You should prob take your head out ur ass
.St. Phatty
Active member
https://www.marijuanamoment.net/joe...stify-his-opposition-to-legalizing-marijuana/
Biden is anti-legalization ?!
Could Trump throw the election down a different path,
by legalizing Cannabis Nation-wide Monday Morning ?
Biden is anti-legalization ?!
Could Trump throw the election down a different path,
by legalizing Cannabis Nation-wide Monday Morning ?
Incrementalism has led to the breakdown of our politics and the electing of donald trump.
Neoliberal incrementalism has failed. It's time for sweeping changes.
#bernie2021
Actually Bernie is a soc dem. Democratic socialism implies anti capitalist policies which he is not for.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said the U.S. Democratic Party is closer to the "Social Democratic ideas" that gave rise to communism -- but added that he’d work with whoever is elected president in November.*
He said the shared values of the Soviet Communist Party and the U.S. Democratic Party could form the “ideological basis” of a U.S.-Russia relationship if Democratic nominee Joe Biden is elected
Who would know better.....
The Democratic Party, he said, is “traditionally closer to liberal values, it is close to the ideas of social democracy,” and these positions could help build contacts with Russia. Mr. Putin noted that he was for 18 years a member of the Soviet Communist Party. “Ever since, I have liked many of the leftist values,” he said.
"Democrats traditionally closer to liberal values" to me implies that he knows the Dems are barely liberal lol. So yes they are obviously closer to social democratic values than the party that's further to the right than them. But that isnt saying much as the dems are still a center right party.
"Democrats traditionally closer to liberal values" to me implies that he knows the Dems are barely liberal lol. So yes they are obviously closer to social democratic values than the party that's further to the right than them. But that isnt saying much as the dems are still a center right party.
So much for using wiki.
Next time I’ll use youtube.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Bernie_Sanders
'Boogieman'
Well-known member
Doesn't matter how many people vote in California and New York, you get the same electoral college points.
Doesn't matter how many people vote in California and New York, you get the same electoral college points.
And that's another problem right there.
It's 'Fracking' ridiculous
Doesn't matter how many people vote in California and New York, you get the same electoral college points.
All states are using mail in and early voting this year. As I said to many have already voted no matter what trump does. Im pretty sure it wouldn't matter anyway. We know what a bribe for votes looks like.
Klompen
Active member
You openly admit that Trump doesn't represent you and that you resent being painted as being tied to one candidate, and then you ignorantly do the exact same thing to Biden supporters. Don't you realize they're in exactly the same boat as you are? The main reason you think leftist policies are so bad is because of people like Joe Biden who implement bastardized far-right versions of those policies. Ironically, since Bill Clinton the DNC has had far more in common with Ronald Reagan than they have with Eugene Debs, but simultaneously have advertised themselves as being extreme leftists. They're a complete fabrication and they are not leftist at all. Even Trump is far to the left of some of the DNC policies and he's an unhinged fascist idiot.
Klomp.....Don`t EVER construe me to be a Trump supporter and bring me into the mindless fool mostly po white folk followers you think they are , cuz if you`d actually read some of my posts that you`ve blown up about , you`d KNOW I`m an Independent and the ONLY reason I crack on nuthin ass Democrats is due to the mainstream media won`t squeeze Charmin to hold em accountable for ANY of their misdeeds and misgivings.....it`s all the Republicans fault.....Just ask Nancy Pelosi.....that said.....
Democrats and their left-wing radical base will put this country into a tailspin of bullshit trillion dollar programs that end up going nowhere with all the money gone down the drain with NOTHING to show for it except what they`ve padded their pockets with for as long as they can keep their hands in the till....bet on that shit Klomp.....and yeah.....Republicans have their Dinosaurs that need culled with term limits , but as a whole.....
Republican ticket is by FAAAAAAR the lesser of the 2 evils in my book , and again I`ll say better to be in bed with the devil you know than the 1 you don`t.....God only knows where this ends up with Kamala and the Squad with AOC pullin the puppet strings , cuz guaranteed Joe`s on the way out.....sooner than later.....and yeah Old Howlie.....
With the media spinnin this shit like they always do due to their blatant bias for the Democrats , YouTube`s prolly gonna be the only place this story will end up.....bottom line They`re all WHORES , Liars , and Thieves , and the sooner the American public realizes that all ANY of em want is in our back pocket the better off we`ll all be.....
Peace.....DHF......
i'm aware of what he calls himself but what he ran on was still capitalist. Democratic Socialists want to democratically replace capitalism as opposed to normal Socialists and Marxists who want an armed revolution of the workers to overthrow capitalism and the elite.So much for using wiki.
Next time I’ll use youtube.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Bernie_Sanders
Bernie wanted a welfare state or a mixed economy otherwise known as social democracy thats modeled after Scandinavia or FDR's 2nd Bill of Rights, which would still operate under a private capitalist market but some things like health care would be off the table and be guaranteed by the taxpayer/govt to all americans.
