2020 Democratic presidential primary

lol "The Border Makes America Great" was the title of Beto's TED Talk

https://preview.redd.it/jlas9dhep7631.jpg?width=1024&auto=webp&s=78255d870f88520ae5c652f335aff0a4529ed03a

okay lol

Josh is right, but it's still a dumb hat.

https://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/dems-hope-mexico-border-race-will-ease-tensions-121178

It's a super dumb hat

it was so dumb that I resisted sharing the image out of suspicion it was photoshopped

Is it dumber than any parody hat Ted Cruz could've come up with?

https://i.imgur.com/X4Y9Jlz.png

Oh, they're both equally stupid for completely different reasons.

Maybe he's talking about a decorative border, guys. A little fringe around the edges could really bring out this country's eyes.

All the GOP talks about is the so-called fringe around the edges.

Good morning!

Non-military households would pay a "war tax" to help cover the health care of veterans of newly-authorized wars under a plan Beto O'Rourke's campaign unveiled on Monday https://t.co/yHF2d79Qto

— CNN (@CNN) June 24, 2019

well everyone will just sign up for the military to avoid the tax

don't we already have taht

isn't it just called tax

This is so laughably bad and confusing that they thought it was a good idea.

I think I'd like my war tax to go into an individual spending account that I can invest in the wars of my choice

make sure to also set up a tax-free slaughter account

Only interested in a private war system.

can rollover my war spending account into the IRA?

could we also have a non-war tax to pay for the healthcare of the non-military families

I wonder if there's a distant chance that this might make non-military taxpayers more circumspect about getting into wars because of cost flagging? It's the only potential upside I can see, anyway.

The second part of Beto's plan is to federally legalize polygamy so we can all marry military personnel.

I would almost be for this if it meant that Congress would have to start declaring war again. No more "authorizing military actions."

But then, they'd start declaring war on countries every other week. And then where would I be? Trying to pay my war tax with war bonds?

Your War Taxes at Work!

TS: War Tax vs Tar Wax

wax trax! ftw

T/S: war tax vs 15 member supreme court vs new coke

Hint to dems who want to be prez: I don't think announcing dumb and completely out of left field policy ideas is going to distinguish you from your fellow candidates in quite the way you might prefer.

howbout putting the war tax on military contractors

Robert o’rourke is a goober

I wonder if Ian MacKaye is as disappointed with Beto as Springsteen is with Chris Christie. Greatest one-sided love stories of our time.

I think there is a type of politician that can’t decide if they wanna be cool or powerful bc buddy ya can’t be both

lolling hard @ P Keyes here

Like Paul Ryan talking about his RATM fandom, like shut the fuck up you narc, this band of communists would throat chop your dumbass if you tried talking to them in the cafeteria

It sure has been marvelous reading FB posts from old people commenting on Sanders' plan. The usual I-worked-my-ass-off crap.

i worked my ass off to hoard this wealth, how dare u

Too bad!

These greedy shitbirds should be ashamed of themselves for wishing a lifetime of crushing debt on today's young people. They profited from the system when it worked, now they don't want to fix it when it doesn't? TOO BAD FUCK YOU

i built this ladder, kid, it's my right to pull it up behind me

They need to lose. People like that just need to lose, again and again. Their entire worldview needs to be broken and the pieces scattered to the fucking wind

move in with your kids, old hoarding folx

hnnnnggggg yessssssss

If we could bail out Wall Street, we sure as hell can #CancelStudentDebt.

— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) June 24, 2019

Exactly, nobody gets to chat shit about the moral importance of honoring debts ever again. Sorry!

I think the reform of student debt should include radical changes in how (at least) public universities are funded in the usa, but I am on board with canceling student debt as part of that.

meanwhile, over at mayor pete's entirely legit online base

I thought this account had a suspiciously high number of followers, given its name and everything. Then I looked at who was following and LMAO pic.twitter.com/5np178f6gv

— GGAllinFans4Pete (@PeenerSweden) June 24, 2019

And also payments to all the people who decided to forgo college because they didn’t want the debt.

these people who got cheap educations decades ago wanting them to remain punishingly expensive for people today have a whole cloud of rhetorical constructions they teach each other but it's really just being a petty asshole. i'm reminded of how we learned in the Eagles documentary about how when the reunion tour happened, it was really important to don and glenn, not so much that they make a lot of money, but that everyone else in the band make less than them.

DON: Well, yeah.

The US flag really should just show a picture of crabs in a bucket.

said bucket would be on the backs of people of color

there’s not a single life lesson that cannot be found in the eagles doc