individuals that are unfortunate enough to get bumped from state to federal prosecution for drug offenses get screwed with lengthy mandatory minimum sentencing guidelines and a system that usually forces felons to serve 90% of their sentence. There is no reason a person should receive the same mandatory minimum sentence for trafficking a trunkload of pot that they would if they were trafficking underage sex slaves.

Quote :

"less than 5% of federal drug offenders are in for possession."

if our draconian drug laws weren't there to create a black market with artificially high prices for products that are obviously in high demand, then maybe we wouldn't have so much gang violence surrounding the drug trade.

4/2/2016 4:06:39 PM

Yuuge insight

4/2/2016 8:39:25 PM

I've heard bernie babies talking about how sanders actually won nevada for weeks now but now everyone is starting to report it is coming true at today's convention.

4/2/2016 10:45:23 PM

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/06/business/international/international-monetary-fund-christine-lagarde-inequality-protectionism.html

Inequality is feeding protectionism.

4/5/2016 3:28:22 PM

unicorn farts and rainbows:

Quote :

"Daily News: And then, you further said that you expect to break them up within the first year of your administration. What authority do you have to do that? And how would that work? How would you break up JPMorgan Chase? Sanders: Well, by the way, the idea of breaking up these banks is not an original idea. It’s an idea that some conservatives have also agreed to. You’ve got head of, I think it’s, the Kansas City Fed, some pretty conservative guys, who understands. Let’s talk about the merit of the issue, and then talk about how we get there. ... Daily News: Okay. Well, let’s assume that you’re correct on that point. How do you go about doing it? Sanders: How you go about doing it is having legislation passed, or giving the authority to the secretary of treasury to determine, under Dodd-Frank, that these banks are a danger to the economy over the problem of too-big-to-fail. Daily News: But do you think that the Fed, now, has that authority? Sanders: Well, I don’t know if the Fed has it. But I think the administration can have it. And this back-and-forth over the consequences of forcing the closure or fundamental reorganization of the big banks: Daily News: So if you look forward, a year, maybe two years, right now you have ... JPMorgan has 241,000 employees. About 20,000 of them in New York. $192 billion in net assets. What happens? What do you foresee? What is JPMorgan in year two of ... Sanders: What I foresee is a stronger national economy. And, in fact, a stronger economy in New York State, as well. What I foresee is a financial system which actually makes affordable loans to small and medium-size businesses. Does not live as an island onto themselves concerned about their own profits. And, in fact, creating incredibly complicated financial tools, which have led us into the worst economic recession in the modern history of the United States. Daily News: I get that point. I’m just looking at the method because, actions have reactions, right? There are pluses and minuses. So, if you push here, you may get an unintended consequence that you don’t understand. So, what I’m asking is, how can we understand? If you look at JPMorgan just as an example, or you can do Citibank, or Bank of America. What would it be? What would that institution be? Would there be a consumer bank? Where would the investing go? Sanders: I’m not running JPMorgan Chase or Citibank."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/05/this-new-york-daily-news-interview-was-pretty-close-to-a-disaster-for-bernie-sanders/?hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-main_wisconsinweb-825a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

shades of trump. avoiding specifics and talking his way out of empty answers to get back to nebulous bullet points

[Edited on April 5, 2016 at 7:11 PM. Reason : .]

4/5/2016 7:09:25 PM

At least he has a semblance of a plan and understands some basic steps and that he has to get legislation passed first. Sounds way better than: "I will work hard to make it happen." ~Hillary Clinton, answer to every "how will you do it" question ever.

4/5/2016 7:27:44 PM

lol ok.

[Edited on April 5, 2016 at 7:45 PM. Reason : .]

4/5/2016 7:44:20 PM

I don't know why he sat down with a tabloid pseudo-journalist. He loses credibility for that.

Of course he isn't going to make up answers for what he thinks countries and companies should do with their own management. Those questions are trying to paint him into a corner anyway. If you are bought and paid for, of course your corporate interests have already given you an answer for everything. Thats why he and trump don't have super specific answers.

We want a president who will choose the direction but listen to legal experts on how to get things done. Wall street is shaking in their pants because they don't know what to expect. They know they might get hit hard if Hillary doesn't win, but its worse because they don't know where that punch is even coming from.

[Edited on April 5, 2016 at 9:19 PM. Reason : k]

4/5/2016 9:17:32 PM

his primary campaign platform is to break up the big banks

but halfway through the primary season, he can't ask a simple question about how he would go about doing that

and before you get all "tabloid" perhaps you should look at the NYDN's record on covering Bernie. I think you'd find it quite positive for him up until this point. The interview was full of softballs that should have been in Bernie's wheelhouse. But when pressed for the slightest detail, he failed.

4/6/2016 9:10:54 AM

Quote :

"his primary campaign platform is to break up the big banks"

cool strawman bro

4/6/2016 9:26:39 AM

Here's Hillary agreeing with Bernie back in February on this exact issue, at least on where an administration can derive its authority for this kind of thing.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/02/04/clinton_agrees_with_sanders_we_now_have_power_under_dodd-frank_to_break_up_big_banks.html



It wasn't a great interview, but acting like Bernies positions are completely nebulous is just lazy. Especially when you consider how Byzantine the legislation to accomplish these goals would likely have to be, and then would further be vetted out through probably 50 different court cases. I'm not sure why anyone would expect him to lay out a bulleted play by play, except that it confirms their visionless take on politics. When I see the sweat beading up on the Blankfeins and Dimons of the world, it's all I need to confirm that Bernie is headed in the right direction on this issue.

4/6/2016 9:28:29 AM

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/07/upshot/yes-bernie-sanders-knows-something-about-breaking-up-banks.html

4/6/2016 12:29:07 PM

Bernie knew the Panama scandal was coming 5 years ago, and he tried to warn us:

4/7/2016 1:14:39 AM

Oof. Dude should just drop out now.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/bernie-sanders-is-even-further-behind-in-votes-than-he-is-in-delegates/

4/11/2016 9:08:07 PM

the guy who has won the last 7 states should drop out

4/12/2016 12:32:26 AM

^ you still don't get how math works, do you?

4/12/2016 11:34:51 AM

He shouldn't drop out, even if he loses, which is likely, his message is a necessary one.

4/12/2016 12:54:39 PM

keep going until the convention, fight in the convention

4/12/2016 1:25:07 PM

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/clinton-campaign-accuses-sanders-of-trying-to-win-nomination

Quote :

"^ you still don't get how math works, do you?"

yep. Clinton's losing popularity at an exponentially increasing rate. similar to the shape of this graph




[Edited on April 12, 2016 at 2:09 PM. Reason : reason]

4/12/2016 2:04:51 PM

five thirty eight is wrong; reddit is right.

4/12/2016 2:54:02 PM

The corporate media is doing everything they can to keep clinton feasible while the bottom drops out. For example, CNN didn't even both to report Wyoming as breaking news. It was hidden halfway down their homepage, buried under politics.

4/12/2016 2:59:28 PM

because it's NOT breaking news. 14,000 people showed up to vote. do you not get how delegates work?

4/12/2016 3:00:38 PM

Clinton is +10 to +18 in every NY poll I've seen and +6 to +14 in CA. Not to mention even more massively up in states like NJ and PA.

I'm so confused...

4/12/2016 3:04:50 PM

Quote :

"I'm so confused..."

By what exactly?

4/12/2016 3:09:19 PM

That the bottom is dropping out for her. In the big delegate states I fail to see it.

Oh. Wait. It's Earl.

4/12/2016 3:10:42 PM

^^^^Hillary riding the subway was breaking news. Paul Ryan (who was never running) announcing he isn't running was breaking news. You're really telling me a small states primary should not have been reported in the era of 24 hour news?

Sanders is +1 nationwide (statistical tie) and every single state trends in his direction as more people learn who he is. I think Clinton has won something like 2 or 3 states where Bernie competed. The tide turned several weeks ago and the media is just hiding it from you guys. Its been a month since her last win.

[Edited on April 12, 2016 at 3:14 PM. Reason : are you really going to argue that?]

4/12/2016 3:13:45 PM

Quote :

" That the bottom is dropping out for her. In the big delegate states I fail to see it. Oh. Wait. It's Earl. "

I don't blame you for not seeing it because the media is actively hiding it. Wisconsin 96 washington 118 even though he has destroyed her in all 8 of these recent contests.

Quote :

" State Clinton Sanders Alaska 18.4% 81.6% Abroad 30.9% 68.9% Hawaii 28.4% 71.5% Idaho 21.2% 78.0% Utah 20.3% 79.3% Washington27.1% 72.7% Wisconsin 43.1% 56.6% Wyoming 44.3% 55.7% "

bottom dropping out

4/12/2016 3:25:11 PM

What will your excuse be when Clinton wins New York by double digits? You do realize that's likely to happen, right?

4/12/2016 3:33:26 PM

Quote :

"Oh. Wait. It's Earl."

Yeah exactly. Hence my question.

4/12/2016 3:34:24 PM

Quote :

"What will your excuse be when Clinton wins New York by double digits? You do realize that's likely to happen, right?"

Notice how you said "when" and not "if". It always creeps me out a little bit when the establishment talks in absolutes about elections that haven't happened yet.

If Hillary gets a big win in new york, things will get interesting because i know the dnc isn't going to start pushing superdelegates towards bernie so I wonder how people will react to them attempting to roll out a candidate that has very little chance of winning in november all while most of their people are now supporting a different candidate. Very intriguing possibility especially considering trump's success was the main thing propping up the possibility of a clinton presidency and his bottom is also falling out. There are a lot of contests after new york, its still not over.
.
I won't make excuses, I will simply be able to fully explain how Cruz became president because democrats put wall street ahead of the voice of the people.

[Edited on April 12, 2016 at 4:01 PM. Reason : if she wins ny, it doesn't clinch the nomination]

4/12/2016 3:55:43 PM

Quote :

"There are a lot of contests after new york, its still not over."

LOL

4/12/2016 4:01:20 PM

Well, a month ago Emerson polls had her up nearly by over 40. So I'd say she's moving in the wrong direction.

4/12/2016 4:18:10 PM

Eh that poll was clearly an outlier.

4/12/2016 4:22:52 PM

The real question should have been what excuses will these investment bankers make if Hillary loses NY? I guess we have the answer.

"The polls that had us winning all along were all outliers, but all of the polls that have us winning in the future are valid. "

4/12/2016 6:21:14 PM

http://thehill.com/policy/finance/276103-gao-many-companies-had-no-tax-liability

Quote :

"At least two-thirds of active U.S. corporations had no federal tax liability in each year from 2006 to 2012. About 42 percent of large corporations had no federal income tax in 2012, and nearly 20 percent of profitable large corporations had no liability that year, the GAO said in its report... The GAO report was addressed to Sanders (I-Vt.) in his role as the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee."

http://www.gao.gov/assets/680/676078.pdf

4/13/2016 5:49:29 PM

Sounds about right. We have an incredibly high corporate tax rate and we are one of only a handful (I think it might only be us and one other actually) countries that tries to tax income earned outside of this country as well.

This is why you see many companies not bringing cash back to the US, why there are so many "inversion" mergers, and why corporations regularly pay big bucks in legal and accounting fees to save even more money on their taxes. Maybe if we had a friendlier tax rate we might actually get the. To pay some taxes here instead of paying them elsewhere. The solution is not even higher corporate tax rates.

4/13/2016 6:04:59 PM

gald to see bernie has his wife out there making excuses for him now

4/13/2016 6:59:57 PM

100,000 people in washington square park right now. The entire square is full of people shoulder to shoulder and the raods that lead up to the square have lines of people about 50 wide across the street. Media keeping it on the hush hush.



The 2nd pic is from 11:30 AM. The event doesn't start until 8:00 pm.

[Edited on April 13, 2016 at 7:41 PM. Reason : probably one of the largest of its kind in our nations history]

[Edited on April 13, 2016 at 7:42 PM. Reason : cray]

4/13/2016 7:36:12 PM

rallies are a poor indicator of candidate performance. Rand Paul drew enormous crowds but didn't do shit otherwise.

[Edited on April 13, 2016 at 8:14 PM. Reason : .]

4/13/2016 8:09:57 PM

Attention black southern voters. Your voice isn't reality

http://time.com/4293069/bernie-sanders-says-democratic-primary-schedule-distorts-reality/?xid=tcoshare

Bernie is desperate. Making gaffes left and right.

4/13/2016 8:44:35 PM

No shiy it distorts reality. Many of those voters now support bernie but they voted before they knew who he was.

4/13/2016 9:40:52 PM

Quote :

"rallies are a poor indicator of candidate performance. Rand Paul drew enormous crowds but didn't do shit otherwise. "

I know having the people behind you is a poor indicator of candidate performance when the most important thing is missing. Wall street donations are the best indicator of candidate performance.

4/14/2016 12:28:15 AM

what is the gaffe in that link?

4/14/2016 7:44:04 AM

What, you're not buying goalie's strawman quote?

4/14/2016 9:37:19 AM

What's the deal with goalielax? I mean, I understand that he doesn't like Bernie for some reason, but he comes across as very hack-ish.

4/14/2016 10:45:07 AM

look at the replies to hillary's twitter posts and you'll understand

well maybe not understand but you'll see that there are a lot more like him

4/14/2016 11:07:51 AM

good rally, but not the 100K claimed earlier. about 1/4 of that.



i love how wounded you all get when people point out the obvious about Bernie's flaws. I won't even get in to how the ridiculousness of caucauses only helped him and eliminating superdelegates wouldn't matter one iota to someone losing the popular vote by 2.5 million votes.

at least he took time to disavow the "corporate whore" remarks that his supporters loved so much last night. of course, him being alarmed at them using that term after his recent rhetoric would be like trump being surprised that the KKK shows up to his rallies.

4/14/2016 11:15:46 AM

27k in the rally, 20k in overflow. Of course you shouldn't trust Earl's numbers

4/14/2016 11:19:07 AM

overflow? where are you getting that? nobody's reporting anything on an overflow nearly the size of the main rally. as i said before, the park isn't even full.

and don't go bashing earl. i don't trust your numbers either

[Edited on April 14, 2016 at 11:23 AM. Reason : .]

4/14/2016 11:23:05 AM

Quote :

"i love how wounded you all get when people point out the obvious about Bernie's flaws. "

I'm not wounded at all, haven't been involved in this discussion/argument, and I don't love Bernie nearly as much as you seem to hate him. I'm just wondering what your deal is. You kinda come across as mentally unstable.

4/14/2016 11:29:09 AM