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9 months ago | Tags: ThaPink TDE banks medicine wells fargo murder romney gop conservative republican hospital corporation people | Notes: 1

Dying Daughter's Health Insurance Cut By Wells Fargo? - The Young Turks

Just when you thought the banks couldn’t get any worse…and then THIS happens. The machine that is our corporate nation has run amok, and it MUST be stopped. They are allowing us to fucking DIE in order to preserve a bottom line that is li

ttle more than an arbitrary social construct. How much longer will we allow ourselves to be subjected to this insanity? HOW LONG?

How can our leaders possibly justify the existence of such ungodly, destructive entities, yet gleefully encourage institutions that promote removing the rights of women to save their own lives in the face of fatality risks from pregnancy? Or that eagerly encourage perpetual war against imaginary foes that we all can acknowledge are no real threat to our national security? Deplorable actions like this must NOT be tolerated. The TDE staff sends their sincerest condolences the Gonzalez family, and the hope that this killer corporate machine that people like Mitt Romney would call “people” receives the justice they so richly deserve.

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9 months ago | Tags: ThaPink TDE politics conservative republican gop liberal democrat free market free speech Chick-Fil-A In-N-Out deregulation FDA LGBT gay straight Bisexual transgender Christian Jesus religion discrimination family opinion

Rahm: “Chick-fil-A Values Are Not Chicago Values” - Fox News' Todd Starnes

When the Left responds to statements like Dan Cathy’s by boycotting establishments based upon their personal opinions and not their business practices, they’re actually giving the Right exactly what they want, which is the ability to do the same. For aren’t the “court of public opinion” and the “invisible hand” of the free market not one in the same?

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9 months ago | Tags: ThaPink TDE politics left right republican democrat liberal conservative gop rnc dnc obama Romney election

Who wins a “devil you know vs devil you don’t” election? - The Washington Post

As both presidential candidates roll up their sleeves and get ready to fight even dirtier in the last 100 days before the election, people on all sides of the partisan spectrum are getting increasingly fed up with just how ugly this race is getting. With both candidates start to look more and more like assholes every day, whomever claims victory in November will likely find it to be a very hollow one.

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10 months ago | Tags: ThaPink TDE politics Islam Muslim McCain Bachmann republican conservative GOP irony racism bigotry | Notes: 2

John McCain Slams Michele Bachmann's 'Unfounded' Attacks On Muslim-Americans - HuffPost Politics

“This is about who we are as a nation, and who we still aspire to be…When anyone, not least a member of Congress, launches specious and degrading attacks against fellow Americans on the basis of nothing more than fear of who they are and ignorance of what they stand for, it defames the spirit of our nation, and we all grow poorer because of it.”

-John McCain

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10 months ago | Tags: ThaPink TDE politics republican conservative GOP pundit money taxes income Romney election

Yeah…this pretty much sums it up.

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10 months ago | Tags: ThaPink TDE politics fox news republican conservative GOP climate change pollution CO2 global warming | Notes: 1

Fox News claims pollution is good for the environment - Examiner.com

Good lord, Fox News…just when I thought you’d lost the ability to make me raise an eyebrow to your bullshit… *sigh*

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10 months ago | Tags: ThaPink TDE politics election Romney Obama Bain republican conservative liberal democrat gop rnc dnc outsourcing jobs health care retirement insurance | Notes: 180

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Consider one of Mr. Romney’s most famous remarks: “Corporations are people, my friend.” When the audience jeered, he elaborated: “Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to people. Where do you think it goes? Whose pockets? Whose pockets? People’s pockets.” This is undoubtedly true, once you take into account the pockets of, say, partners at Bain Capital (who, I hasten to add, are, indeed, people). But one of the main points of outsourcing is to ensure that as little as possible of what corporations earn goes into the pockets of the people who actually work for those corporations.

Why, for example, do many large companies now outsource cleaning and security to outside contractors? Surely the answer is, in large part, that outside contractors can hire cheap labor that isn’t represented by the union and can’t participate in the company health and retirement plans. And, sure enough, recent academic research finds that outsourced janitors and guards receive substantially lower wages and worse benefits than their in-house counterparts.

Just to be clear, outsourcing is only one source of the huge disconnect between a tiny elite and ordinary American workers, a disconnect that has been growing for more than 30 years. And Bain, in turn, was only one player in the growth of outsourcing. So Mitt Romney didn’t personally, single-handedly, destroy the middle-class society we used to have. He was, however, an enthusiastic and very well remunerated participant in the process of destruction; if Bain got involved with your company, one way or another, the odds were pretty good that even if your job survived you ended up with lower pay and diminished benefits.

In short, what was good for Bain Capital definitely wasn’t good for America. And, as I said at the beginning, the Obama campaign has every right to point that out.
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Paul Krugman (NY Times)

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10 months ago | Tags: ThaPink TDE GOP republican conservative Sarah Palin racism black white discrimination | Notes: 12372

"If Sarah Palin were black, her daughter’s out of wedlock, “baby daddy drama” would have been presented as an example of both pathological behavior and a dysfunctional family that is symbolic of the social problems in that community. If Sarah Palin were black, never would the poor decision making by the Palin family be marked off as challenges overcome, or deeds to be valorized. If Sarah Palin were black, her neo-secessionist husband would have been the death knell for her political career, because as we all know you can’t trust “those people.” If Sarah Palin were black, her lack of intellectual curiosity, willful and cultivated ignorance, and lack of grace both written and spoken, would not be taken as “folksy.” Instead, Palin would be viewed as unqualified for any public office. If Sarah Palin were black she would be tarred and feathered as an “affirmative action baby."

If Sarah Palin Were Black (via azspot)

Just goes to show how far Palin’s whiteness can take her. Zero intellect, two high school drop-outs, an unwed teen mother, a quitter of the one major job she had. Master of hateful coded language targeting opponents as not “real Americans”. Belongs to a church outside of the mainstream. Still a top GOP candidate.

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Meanwhile, Michelle Obama, a Princeton and Harvard Law School graduate, lawyer, and university dean who made over $200K/year, gets called “ghetto” and a “welfare queen”.

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10 months ago | Tags: DaveTheFag TDE politics election POTUS NAACP Romney obama republican conservative GOP

This is actually political genius. Someone like CrossroadsGPS or Americans for Prosperity will put out an ad basically saying that Mittens has the courage to stand up to these folks. Some more fringe group is likely to put out some kind of racially coded ad too.

The folks this guy is trying to get out to the polls will be galvanized by this.

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10 months ago | Tags: ThaPink TDE politics POTUS election Romney conservative republican gop rnc

LOL

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