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    Quote Originally Posted by Tedballgame View Post
    He just said this week that 120 million people have died of COVID. He claimed that 150 million people died of gun violence. He mixed up his wife and his sister. He said he is a candidate for the U.S. Senate. He is out of it. Great candidate. A person would have to be a complete moron to vote for Biden. Trump may be an A-Hole but he knows what is going on, he loves America and he can build an economy and keep the borders secure. The media and the Dems have been attacking him since before he took office. They want to destroy him and America. Pitiful.
    I want to destroy America? Damn man, I need to sit down and have a serious talk with myself and pull myself together.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SoxHop View Post
    They do it in some extremely successful Euro countries.
    It would shake up the college system as we know it, and many people would end up hating it IMO. You live in one of the largest college towns in America. Those Texas football games? Well if nobody has to pay to go to school there, nobody is going to donate money to the school. Schools everywhere will be less endowed, people will have less pride for their alma maters, sports will become less important/competitive, and the overall quality of education will deteriorate.

    There's a reason college soccer doesn't have a cult following in those European nations. In fact, I don't think they even have collegiate sports. If they invested in their schools, and had a much larger sense of pride, stemming from how much of an accomplishment it would be to graduate from those schools, everybody would know college soccer over here like Europeans know about our college football teams.

    No matter how you slice it, there has to be rich and poor in this world. We can't function as a society if everybody is equal from an economic standpoint. Colleges need to be for-profit. That's how the world works. Corporations need to make money. If we turned Walmart into a charity operation, they wouldn't last very long, and the quality of the goods on their shelves would get even lower. Same goes for colleges.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SoxHop View Post
    I want to destroy America? Damn man, I need to sit down and have a serious talk with myself and pull myself together.
    Great idea.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tedballgame View Post
    He just said this week that 120 million people have died of COVID. He claimed that 150 million people died of gun violence. He mixed up his wife and his sister. He said he is a candidate for the U.S. Senate. He is out of it. Great candidate. A person would have to be a complete moron to vote for Biden. Trump may be an A-Hole but he knows what is going on, he loves America and he can build an economy and keep the borders secure. The media and the Dems have been attacking him since before he took office. They want to destroy him and America. Pitiful.
    And let’s not forget the tax credit that he would enact that he claims would put 720 million women back to work.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tedballgame View Post
    Great idea.
    No seriously. You obviously have an amazing inside look at democrats and their motivations. Is there a pamphlet or something you could send me. How did you learn that those dumb ass democrats were so screwed up? I mean socialism, come on, what a joke. It would like ruin America, heck, we probably would've been speaking German if we were socialist during WWII.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Thunder View Post
    It would shake up the college system as we know it, and many people would end up hating it IMO. You live in one of the largest college towns in America. Those Texas football games? Well if nobody has to pay to go to school there, nobody is going to donate money to the school. Schools everywhere will be less endowed, people will have less pride for their alma maters, sports will become less important/competitive, and the overall quality of education will deteriorate.

    There's a reason college soccer doesn't have a cult following in those European nations. In fact, I don't think they even have collegiate sports. If they invested in their schools, and had a much larger sense of pride, stemming from how much of an accomplishment it would be to graduate from those schools, everybody would know college soccer over here like Europeans know about our college football teams.

    No matter how you slice it, there has to be rich and poor in this world. We can't function as a society if everybody is equal from an economic standpoint. Colleges need to be for-profit. That's how the world works. Corporations need to make money. If we turned Walmart into a charity operation, they wouldn't last very long, and the quality of the goods on their shelves would get even lower. Same goes for colleges.
    Jaw meet floor.

    What about if they only made Community College free? Then maybe people who couldn't afford a high paying college could go.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SoxHop View Post
    Jaw meet floor.

    What about if they only made Community College free? Then maybe people who couldn't afford a high paying college could go.
    I'm not opposed to that. I just want to make sure you know that Warren and Bernie were advocating for all public colleges to be free, not just community colleges.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SoxHop View Post
    They do it in some extremely successful Euro countries.
    They also send a lot fewer students (percentage wise) to college than the US does.
    The Yankees could go 0-162 and it wouldn't be enough

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    Quote Originally Posted by a700hitter View Post
    There is a reason that there are no nursing home ads in Ill., because the legislators are feeding from the same trough. The same thing in NY. Cuomo got the no fault legislation through the assembly with no problem on an emergency basis. They all get very generous contributions from the nursing homes.
    This is Illinois. We have corrupt politicians. We also have some of the best investigative journalists in the nation. I don’t think the ads are controlled by the legislature.

    Pritzker probably is less ethical than he appears. You don’t get to be governor of Illinois by playing by the rules. Heck we imprison governors more often than most states change them. I just want a link or story of what you’re referring to...

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    Quote Originally Posted by a700hitter View Post
    Obama got rid of whoever he could. Trump did not. That was a mistake.
    Where are you getting your information? (I'm not saying I'm right, but I'm getting different info.)

    I'm finding he axed all politically appointed ambassadors from Obama's staff- pretty much like every president does, in fact one source says Obama kept 12 of Bush's politically appointed ambassadors and Trump kept just 1.

    The career ambassadors are rarely fired, unless there is a good cause.

    https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tr...unprecedented/
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tedballgame View Post
    You are on fantasy island. Biden already said he is going to raise taxes. He said he is going to have AOC on his team in some capacity. He wants open borders and he is for giving free health care to illegals. Biden is pandering to the far left. He doesn't know what day it is. Yes, he is a great candidate to have the toughest job in the world.
    Raise taxes back to where they were on the rich.

    Not even Bernie was for open borders. That's clearly fake news.

    I don't see Biden doing much pandering, at all, right now. He's locked in his basement and only comes out to say nothing that will offend anyone on the fence from either side of his centrist position.

    Talk about fantasy Island. What about the other items on your list? You may be right on taxes, but you listed a lot of 100% BS.
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    Quote Originally Posted by a700hitter View Post
    And he will be putting socialist, Elizabeth Warren in charge of the economy.
    You don't even know what socialism is, if you call this career capitalist a socialist.

    She has clearly stated she is a capitalist. Just because she's pissed at Wall St and all the white collar criminals that continually get off scott-free doesn't make her a socialist.

    Universal medical insurance is a tiny blip in the grand scheme of socialism, and she even backed off that position even before Biden was handed the nomination by Dem insiders and schemers.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tedballgame View Post
    Exactly. Biden will never do a debate unless he has all the questions plus a teleprompter. Lamestream media will not ask him any tough questions. He has more racist quotes over the years than anybody.
    Better quotes than redlining blacks out of your apartments, putting full page ads in the NYT calling for the death penalty for 5 innocent black kids and still proclaiming them guilty after clear evidence and a confession by the actual rapist set them free. I got more, if you want. Plus, he's got plenty of racist statements, too, including just today.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tedballgame View Post
    If Biden wins, he won't last 6 months. The VP will become president. This will be a socialist/communist/Marxist country within a year. The left will destroy America as we know it. Biden is a puppet in their plan.
    Again, you guys have no clue what actual socialism is.

    Marxism...lmao!

    Not even Russia, China or Cuba are close to Marxism.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Thunder View Post
    I'm not opposed to that. I just want to make sure you know that Warren and Bernie were advocating for all public colleges to be free, not just community colleges.
    Yes they were for that (I think Warren had some limits), as long as you know Betsy DeVos has been wrongfully denying students loans and other services and advantages lawfully given to them, right?
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