Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Joined February 2009
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In the 1970s the average American worker had good benefits, could own a home and a car, could take a yearly vacation & send their kids to college; plus one parent could stay home if they wanted. And then we began the trickle-down nightmare. #TaxTheRich
Now is the time to think big, not small — that means restoring the corporate tax rate to 35%, cracking down on offshore tax shelters, and closing corporate tax loopholes. This would generate at least $2.3 TRILLION to invest in the long-neglected needs of the working class.
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"There is absolutely no justification, none, for looting. No justification for violence...”, Biden said.
SHOULD BE
"There is absolutely no justification, none, for POLICE KILLING UNARMED CIVILIANS . No justification for POLICE violence”, Biden said.
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Little bothers me more than men who were president for 8 years - wielding the most powerful office in the world - doing little to nothing about problems many of us were yelling about at the time, then pontificating afterwards like elder statesmen whose wisdom should impress us.
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We need a complete re-invention of policing in America.
Chicago is releasing bodycam video of the police killing of #AdamToledo, who was a 13-year-old boy.
Police claim there was an "armed confrontation" and shot him in the chest. The mayor says she saw "no evidence whatsoever" that Toledo shot at police.
(Photo: Elizabeth Toledo)
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I know people are going to laugh at me about this but it always strikes me how these birds never look in the mirror so they actually have no idea what they look like.
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Praying for the women of Afghanistan tonight. This book deeply moved me when I read it several years ago.thriftbooks.com/w/the-dressm…
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We’ve got to stop hearing about a $713 billion defense budget and going “Oh, OK.” We’ve got to stop hearing about a $23 billion arms sale to the UAE and going “Oh, OK.” We need to learn the meaning of the words “Hell no.”
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This is actually a big deal. Pat Robertson has tremendous influence.
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