Classy concession speech
July 1st, 2018 at 4:04:38 AM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 | Joe Crowley after 20 years as a Congressman conceded the primary elections to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, age 28, who is on track to become the youngest congresswoman in history of the United States.The district which is in the Bronx and Queens is roughly 50% Latino. Acknowledging her youth, he sang "Born to Run" which is at least a decade older than Ocasio-Cortez. There are 21 Republican congresswomen and 62 Democratic congresswomen with record numbers of women running for Democratic seats this November. |
July 1st, 2018 at 11:26:47 AM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
She's running on the "I'm clueless" ticket. Free stuff for everybody. College, healthcare, it will all be paid for by Uncle Sam. When asked how she will pay for all this, she changes the subject because she hasn't a clue. Oldest political trick, promise a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage, with zero idea how you'll do it. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
July 1st, 2018 at 12:49:01 PM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 | A lot of emphasis on first bullets, but not so many on the final ones. "The Nordic Model – Embracing globalization and sharing risks" characterises the system as follows:[13]
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July 1st, 2018 at 1:01:13 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
That's all fine and well, but these countries have no race problems, have tiny populations compared to the US, and the average IQ of the citizens is among the highest in the world. It wouldn't work here. And they are mostly secular, which is a big advantage. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
July 1st, 2018 at 1:21:37 PM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 | I was in a small Swedish University town in 1984 and everyone got drunk and told ethnic jokes. First they made fun of people from Gotland. Gotland is an island of less than 60K inhabited since prehistory where people still speak Gutnish, a dialect of Old Norse which was used by their Viking forefathers during Medieval times. The main town in Gotland is still protected by a medieval wall. I figured that was OK as that would be a reasonable ethnic joke. Then they started telling Norwegian jokes, which seemed extremely funny to me. It was like Cabots of Boston telling jokes about the Lodges. I remember telling someone that my grandfather came from Castille and Leon in Spain in 1920 and married a woman whose parents came from Hungary, My other other grandfather was the son of Syrian immigrants who came at the turn of the century and married a woman whose male line had immigrated from Western Germany in 1750. She said, so your not a "true American". I was trying to figure out what she thought a "true American" was. But I guess if your relatives all came from the same peninsula for thousands of years, everyone else seems pretty mobile. |
July 1st, 2018 at 1:39:14 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
I look at that wall and marvel that for centuries that kind of technology actually worked to keep invaders out. Tech advanced at such a slow rate, until tech figured out how to do tech, and now it advances very fast. There had to be a pervasive attitude against tech advancement, not many were ever trying to improve anything. What was good enough for grandpa is good enough for me. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
July 1st, 2018 at 8:33:50 PM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18211 |
The Democrat Party is at a kind of split. They have a certain number who want all this free stuff, paid for by cuts to the military and taxes on the rich. They sound like a junior high mock candidate. What we have to see is how far left this pulls the party in general. 2020 is shaping up to be probably Hillary and a bunch of far-left loons. The primary debates should be funny and scary. They will all be competing to see who can give away the most. The President is a fink. |
July 1st, 2018 at 9:10:49 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
It really does not work anymore. Look at Bernie. People are wiser now politically. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
July 1st, 2018 at 9:30:17 PM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 | The Bronx is roughly the size of two congressional districts, however It is broken up into three districts, (13th,14th, 15th) with only the 15th entirely in the South Btonx Technically only the 15th is majority (over 50% ) Latino, but all three districts are minority majority. 13th White-non Hispanic 13.3% / Hispanic 48.8% 14th White-non Hispanic 24.6% / Hispanic 46.0% 15th White-non Hispanic 2.3% / Hispanic 60.3% Adriano de Jesús Espaillat Cabral (born September 27, 1954) is a Dominican-American politician. He is the U.S. Representative for New York's 13th congressional district since January 2017 and the first formerly undocumented immigrant to ever serve in Congress. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (born October 13, 1989) is an American political activist, educator, community organizer and politician. On June 26, 2018, Ocasio-Cortez won the Democratic primary in New York's 14th congressional district, defeating the incumbent, Democratic Caucus Chair Joseph Crowley, in what has been described as the biggest upset victory in the 2018 midterm election season. Ocasio-Cortez is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. José Enrique Serrano (born October 24, 1943) is an American politician who has been a member of the United States House of Representatives since 1990. Serrano, a Democrat from New York, represents a district that is one of the smallest in the country geographically, consisting of a few square miles of the heavily populated South Bronx in New York City. His district is also one of the most densely populated and one of the few majority Hispanic districts in the country. The 16 districts that compose south-eastern New York state have three Republican districts (two on eastern Long Island and Staten Island). |
July 2nd, 2018 at 2:45:14 AM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18211 |
It will always work on 20-25% of the population. Some people really believe the free-college thing will work. That one will get worse as it appears over the next couple decades that the bottom tiers of colleges will have to close, and even many state schools will need to consolidate. Trump is stand-up enough to call this our. But saw we get another Bush43 who went along and offered DemocratLite. It is very scary as look at what we joked about in the 1990s eventually becoming mainstream-liberal. 20 years from now who knows. The President is a fink. |