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Khan is a true American hero, regardless of where you stand. She is standing up for individuals.

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Go, Lina, go!

My office manager told me that she was unsure as to who to vote for, because of inflation. So I told her that Trump's tariffs are really a sales tax that will increase inflation. So, she said, milk is $8 a gallon at her local supermarket. So I said go to Trader Joe's, where it's $3.50 a gallon, and she said "I don't have time to go to Trader Joe's!" And I said, that's why your local supermarket can gouge you, look up the price again. Well, it was actually $4.50 a gallon and she was really surprised.

Prices are starting to come down, and who is better than a former prosecutor to take on the price gougers?

Really, I fear Harris has not sold herself well. Time is short, we'll keep our fingers and toes crossed...

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There is just so much Harris can or could do in such a short time. She's done amazingly well. This is unreasonable to say she has not sold herself well. She's been loud and clear. Who is paying attention? Who cares enough to look at the facts and the truth? (your example above)

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I agree. I'm sold. She's done very well, given the circumstances of her late candidacy (Jill Biden, are you listening?). Let's just hope she can pull this shit together in the next few days.

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AARP interviewed both candidates on their approach to reducing inflation. Harris: Go after the price-fixing, gouging corporations. Trump (he's stuck in this loop): More oil wells.

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Idiot he is

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I'm not sure why she hasn't mentioned the anti-trust enforcement when she is asked about inflation. Monopolies also reduce wages and allow poor working conditions.

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Carolyn, I think because the MONEY people would go crazy. I wrote to her VP email asking her to keep Lina Khan and to start a weekly fireside chat of some kind for all Americans to listen when she is elected .

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I think Harris has sold herself just fine, given that she has only been running since August. Plus she has had a huge circle of support. If she doesn’t win it not her. She has been brilliant in the time she has had to do so.

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There is only one market where I live and I use Pacific brand Coconut Milk, with my whole wheat biscuits.. It was $2.39 for a quart, I bought a quart today it iwas $3.39. Safeway (Albertson) is the supplier for my market, locally owned and not at all a price gouger, he lives in the community and customers know him, he is just passing on prices he pays.

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William, I'm talking about regular milk. There's a lot of to and fro in this crazy market. But, I really think you should get out more.

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Really Michael, I should get out more. Your response doesn't speak well of you.

I once held you in regard. With no effort you have changed my opinion.

I have always said that I arrive at, not acquire my opinions.

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Yep. It's not the little fish, it's the shark running the show.

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Harris is a dolphin swimming with the sharks.

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Milk is $2.99 a gallon at the local Krogers in South Bend, Indiana, where I live. Where is she shopping for milk: Neiman Marcus?

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100% agree!

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Me too!

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And she's also enforcing the laws that were put in place for a very good reason. As Justice Brandeis said we can have democracy or we can have great wealth in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. Well, right now we do have great wealth in the hands of a few and we don't have an effective democracy. What do we want?

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Far too many of us bend the knee to the golden idol of excessive wealth. When, through a constant barrage of get-rich ploys by the corporate media (Power Ball jackpot now at 50 billion broadcast on every conceivable media outlet) greed becomes the norm and the will of the people - the heart of democracy - our geese are cooked.

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Whereas musk and his lapdog, Bunkerboy, are THE bigliest anti-American villains IN HISTORY.

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Mush is even one of those dreaded immigrants. Has anyone dared check his status?

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He was an “ illegal, Visa transgressing “ “student” whilst developing his IT business. But gosh, somehow he didn’t “get deported”. 🤨

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Agree

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We must acknowledge potential heroes/heroines by testing the potential of young people such as response to oxytocin... it is young people that have historically gone to war and their heroism can be tested there but should be tested before if possible.

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My apologies, I don't follow with the oxytocin thing. Care to explain that?

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Power confused oxytocin with oxycotin, unless of course he was snared into a four year relationship when oxytocin flooded the zone. It takes about 4 years for the effect to wear off.

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Me too don't get.

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See my post above, he confused oxycotin with oxytocin.

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You mean oxycotin, oxytocin is the "love hormone", the hormone that gets people in trouble, that breaks up families, after the "victim", has a good role in the hay.

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Reid Hoffman and Mark Cuban should be ASHAMED of themselves. Of course populist fascism will thrive when GREED —not fair competition— is the operating system. We’ll all pay a horrific price—in a lot more than money.

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Lina Kahn is doing a fantastic job! The fact that so many uber rich want her gone is evidence enough that she is doing what needs to be done! Do not fire Lina Kahn, instead hire more like her to get these companies and richy rich in line.

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UNLEASH LINA KAHN!

May she be the 21st Century FRANCES PERKINS ON STEROIDS, bc that is what is needed to provide all Americans with the equity lost since Reagan!

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Reagan didn't do me any favors

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Send Musk back to South Africa he’s a crook and always sounds stupid. He’s a sickening creep,

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founding

He may go. . . Washington Post apparently reported that he had a student visa when he arrived here, but lied to get a work visa. That is grounds for deportation.

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Dr. Sutherland, the only problem with that scenario is that he's transnational. He can go anywhere and do anything with impunity. We're already starting to see that behavior.

It would at least have some symbolic significance. what would reallly hurt him, and help all the rest of us is to nationalize Starlink and spacex. no single man should control communications, especially those used by the military

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That is enough for Biden, who now has guaranteed presidential immunity to cancel him and deport him, but he won't, because he also has Space X and Starlink. and basically has the Department of Defense by the balls.

In fact this is Musk's bid to take over the United States..

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Can't his hold on DOD be loosened? Idk how long his contracts run, but Bezos (you know, the WaPo wimp) would love to take over.

I know telecommunications are important, but do we really need to spend billions on space exploration while kids go to bed hungry? Much as I despise Trump and Muck, the Pentagon is pretty greedy too. I sometimes think most of Cong. is just a bunch of kids playing grown-up with our tax $$.

Wanting to take over the US is all the more reason to clip his wings.

Of course, the easiest way to do that is for Harris to win.

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Not only that, his Tesla plant in SE Austin was caught dumping their wastewater in the Texas Colorado River. He got a slap on the wrist and a hefty fine (sure it didn’t hurt his pocketbook); but this is Texass, where money talks and bs walks. He received his US citizenship in 2002, so he should have his citizenship revoked and be deported back to So Africa. He’s a creep, to say the least.

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I couldn't agree more.

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Lina Khan and yourself- Mr. Reich for keeping us educated about these important parts of our government 💙💙

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🏆Lina Kahn is my hero!!❤️

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Time to make Lina Khan's job easier. Let antitrust authorities restructure the boards of companies that abuse market power. Reserve 1/3 of their seats for owners, 1/3 for employees, and 1/3 for public-interest reps, meaning mostly suppliers and others affected by corporate decisions. If you're a monopolist and you don't like that idea, you don't have to abuse your market power.

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Musk is an extension of everything that is wrong with this country. Any human who has the wealth at his disposal that Mr. Musk has should be ashamed. Does he have any idea of the good his wealth could deliver to the people in this country who are in need. Why he even bothers with Trump is beyond me. During one's pursuit of wealth a person loses a little something that the rest of us have no problem retaining. Perhaps Trump and Mr. Musk are helping each other find what they will never regain, Our "Respect!"

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You're damn right!

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Biden was the closest we’ve gotten to reinstating FDR type legislation. I don’t know. Maybe we haven’t been clobbered enough by the 1% to vote for more of Biden type policies?

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I’ve had it with these oligarchs sucking all the oxygen out of the world. I don’t give a flying f what their opinions are anymore. Bring back the guillotine. It would do us more good than any stupid scheme.

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I like your way of thinking, Kerry.

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And guillotine 2.0 (live video feed) is fully tech compliant.

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Is that really what you guys want to see? I don’t.

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I want pushback against the rich bastards. I want them to experience fear. They prance around with impunity and order the rest of us to do their bidding. They escape the taxation they richly deserve and the rest of us suffer. It’s why the public health infrastructure in Europe is falling apart. I’m fed up with the Musks and Mercers and Mellons and Kochs and their supercilious bullshit.

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We need more Linas to fight Neoliberal policies. #Eat the Rich!

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Lina Khan’s credentialed past is way beyond reproach, unlike the wrestling coaches, talk show hosts and football players trump will probably put in his cabinet. There is nothing, nothing egregious about her performance. In fact, she’s probably disliked because she’s doing what her position requires so.

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Joe Biden's State of the Union speech was about changing the economy back from Corporate Democracy to the Citizen Democracy we had from Eisenhower until Reagan, America's most prosperous time. I expect Harris to continue that.

As Doctor Reich says though, American Capitalism is it's own worst enemy. Americans are hurting, that is part of why Trump got elected last time. He has persuaded people that he will help them. No, he will only help his billionaire buddies. If Trump is elected, Capitalism will not last. The pitchforks will come out because even now people can barely afford the H's - Health Care, Housing and Higher Education.. Then there is the F word - Family. If the Maga folks ever figure out what is going on, no Republican will ever be elected again. That is why the Republican leadership keeps then fighting the culture wars so that they do not see the economic war eating them and their families alive.

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You keep forgetting that Americans want to be as rich as these billionaires; they don’t want things to be moderated even if they’re suffering because they can still dream about being very rich. And for men can then the can afford to have arm candy which is what Trump has always had. Time to wake up!

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Joan, I never watche it, but heard plenty about "lifestyles of the rich and famous" it seemed an obscene idea then to glamorize wealth, and the brainwashing worked remarkably well. fill the hole with meaningless shiny stuff.

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I like that. The question then seems to be “Is the American Dream a trap?” or else “Does the American Dream need reforming?”.

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The American Dream needs re-stating. Zepher Teachout did that in her 2020 book Break "Em Up: It "is the dream that people, not kings or lords or dukes, should govern themselves. The basic dream of America is the fight against illegitimate power." p.252

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Although I agree with you Joan, I find myself annoyed, who can't develop their own lead in and thus start with the inane "You keep forgetting" I doubt that anyone has forgot that.

Starting with "you keep forgetting" sounds like a 3rd grade teacher chiding a student.

You should have opened with your second sentence.

Step up and take ownership of your opinions, especially when they are shared by so many.

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Atta boy Bob. Billionaires and corporate behemoths they control don't want to be regulated or taxed. They will shake every last nickel out of American pockets and every last hope for enlightenment out of the American psyche if you let them. For them to be able to spend $6-7 Billion on this election to convince a largely unsophisticated and easily brainwashed voting public that losing democracy, freedom of the press, equal justice, the dignity of man, and dominion over one's own body is going to make them better off is a marvel of modern technology and ancient evil, and a cheap price to pay to take over and what has been the greatest democracy and power in the history of civilization......

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I don’t think she’s going to be swayed by Mark Cuban just because he’s stumping for her. She did bank and student lender prosecutions, after all.

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Martha, you have a point with Cuban, but as regards her previous activities, she was a public official following the law.

I consider myself an AOC progressive, but in 64 I voted for Goldwater.. People do change.

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Bless you! Like Arianna Huffington, you are living proof that reasonable folks will always become Progressive, if they open their minds. Conservatism is just illogical. ♥️

But Cuban has been vocal about wanting a more relaxed anti-trust environment. Seriously, there has been scant enforcement until the past 3.5 yrs.

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My teen years were the McCarthy era. In that era there was only one enemy, communism. I was brainewashed by my mothers god mother who gave me a Xmas present every year of the Readers Digest. My mother never talked politics, she had no time,too busy providing for three children, I went from that environment to the cloistered environment of a 26 year military career, and the enemy of course was communism. I really didn't know any better. I lived in a bubble, in 1989 I was fortunate to find myself in a situation in which I got out of that bubble and met the real world.

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Wow. That is amazing! The arc of your thought vs experience is humbling. And (because my Dad and my husband both served too) Thank you for your service. 💙

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Martha, imo conservatism is at least partly a manifestation of a human characteristic of -- selfishness. The more selfish you are, the more you're tethered to your personal wants, needs, etc.

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My husband is a Psychologist. Arrested development is emotional, big feelings are just that. An open mind is less likely to be selfish.

There are some very interesting MRI studies of Conservative Brains vs Progressive Brains. They physically different. Aspects of brain chemistry that develop from stimuli and the response of the brain to those repeated stimuli - really interesting. Hard to say how one modifies that - but it seems possible.

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Martha, I don't quite understand what "big feelings are just that." All feelings are emotional, so that's not what you meant, is it?

I certainly agree that an open mind is less likely to be selfish. If there's more room for other ideas to get in, there's less room to give oneself. Not very scientific, but it seems logical to me.

I'd be interested to know whether brain development (not physical size except insofar as a brain grows as a child grows) is like learning a 2nd language. I've read that a child can easily become bi-lingual (or more), but by age 7-8 the capacity for that level of achievement lessens. One can still become highly competent, even excellent but may not be truly bi-lingual.

So, maybe the brain's capacity to "welcome" new ideas has a time element too. If your parents and early teachers don't nurture your intelligence, maybe there comes a time when your brain stops being able to reach out for new things itself. I have no idea, but imo the brain is endlessly fascinating.

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