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Old 07-16-2017, 10:40 AM
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Go out and find the average American, and peer into their brain bucket to see what information they take in on an average day.

Less than five minutes reading a newspaper.
Over two hours listening to a radio.
Over three hours watching TV.
Over four hours surfing on a computer/smartphone.
Hasn't read a book in over a year.

This means the below average person hasn't read a book in close to five years, gets all their news in snippets while eating dinner, and considers an intellectual conversation to be complaining about what illegal immigrants get, while ignoring what their handouts are.

Votes from the lower end of the gene pool count just as much as college educated, job creating votes.
A lot get their information through a Facebook filter imbedded in their "smart phone."
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Old 07-16-2017, 10:42 AM
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I am still in shock people voted for this clown.
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Old 07-16-2017, 10:46 AM
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No comment.
Yeh, I'd keep my mouth shut too if I voted for Jill Stein or wrote in Berrrnie on my ballot.
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Old 07-16-2017, 10:51 AM
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A lot get their information through a Facebook filter imbedded in their "smart phone."
Yes, which the Trump side took huge advantage of via fake "news". Facebook needs to do a far better job of filtering out this garbage; so many stupid, uninformed people out there who sadly are allowed to vote.
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Old 07-16-2017, 11:43 AM
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Latest poll: 2:1 preference for Obamacare over Senate's latest BS Bill. Trump's approval lowest in 70 years. Just resign, Orange buffoon!

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/month...lth-care/story
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Old 07-16-2017, 11:56 AM
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Yeh, I'd keep my mouth shut too if I voted for Jill Stein or wrote in Berrrnie on my ballot.
And if Democrats who claim to be for FDR's New Deal, LBJ's Great Society, and our other social advances had voted for Bernie ...
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Old 07-16-2017, 11:57 AM
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Yeh, I'd keep my mouth shut too if I voted for Jill Stein or wrote in Berrrnie on my ballot.
Yeah the Pied Piper of national health insurance has led us to two votes away from dismantling the whole medicare structure. Thanks Bernie.
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Old 07-16-2017, 12:08 PM
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Yeh, I'd keep my mouth shut too if I voted for Jill Stein or wrote in Berrrnie on my ballot.
No comment is a preference, not silence.
And if you really want to know whom I voted for (wrote in), ask the Trump Commission on Wayward Elections.
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Old 07-16-2017, 03:04 PM
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And if Democrats who claim to be for FDR's New Deal, LBJ's Great Society, and our other social advances had voted for Bernie ...
You appear to have forgoten who it was tried to introduce a healthcare plan back in 1994.
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Old 07-16-2017, 04:16 PM
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You appear to have forgoten who it was tried to introduce a healthcare plan back in 1994.
And she failed miserably at that if I recall correctly.
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