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Bernie responds: Communal toilets for all!
Warren: Unveils toilet plan--providing billionaires' toilets to the poor, limiting number of toilets per household.
Biden: I was the first person in Washington to have indoor plumbing. I can get get it down to 13 flushes...
...with tax subsidies for toilet manufacturers.
Buttigieg: Whatever Joe said...but more articulate. Did I mention I was a Rhodes Scholar.
Klobuchar: I had a back up once and all I had was a hair comb...
Tulsi: Assad!
Booker: Hey, I was a Rhodes Scholar too. But no..not going there.
Bloomberg: I have someone to take shits for me.
Yang: I shit digitally.
Harris: I am so glad to be out of this!
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A woman came up to me in the street yesterday and said I looked like "Jack Gilford...like a handsome version of Jack Gilford." My first reaction was to step in front of an oncoming bus. Then I looked him up and realized I do look like him. Which is not how imagined growing older.
But you know, he had kind eyes. And he was a great character actor. And basically, that's what I am in my own line of work. So,I'm adjusting to it. People used to say I looked like Ron Liebman, a great actor who sadly died yesterday. I guess my only real ambition at this point...
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Donald Trump is a wimp. But there is more to this story than him or people making fun of him. More than how he has diminished the presidency and weakened the US. It shows world leaders are tiring of his show and have learned something about how to deal with him.
They once thought the key to managing Trump was stroking his ego. They then discovered that only encourages him to behave more badly and ultimately to remind everyone that he is loyal to no one but himself. But Macron learned as Merkel did first, that the key...
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Heard someone I respect yesterday say that taxing the rich will remove key incentives from our system. What, um...malarkey. The kind that is marinated in bullshit. Consider that a group so large as to be statistically indistinguishable from everyone has no chance to make a $1B.
Or $1MM. And yet the incentives are sufficient for all of them to thrive. How many hundred millions are sufficient incentive to be entrepreneurial, develop new ideas? For virtually all of history no one had a chance to make a fraction of that and progress took place nonetheless.
When the tax code was fairer--as during Eisenhower--we prospered and were the richest and most powerful nation in the history of the world, leading it in innovation. This line of argument--central to the anti-fairness pushback in the Dem debate--is just indefensible.
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Okay, I completed the first read of Elizabeth Warren’s Medicare for All plan and now the “no taxes on the middle class” language is making me really cringe.

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