The wealthy donate to both parties. Not equally for the most part.

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Republicans probably still spend more via Dark Money


http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/st ... rats-or-r/

Absolute bingo. It is much easier to argue about taxation of someone else (i.e. richer than you) and spend that money on people in need than to talk about free markets and economic growth that comes from lower taxes and less regulation.

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Yes, it's difficult to talk about less regulation considering less regulation fucked up the world economy ten years ago.

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No worries, the government's hands were all over the subprime crisis- Fannie/Freddie, FHLB advances, thrift charters. But the mortgage industry did a fine job of "financial innovation" that can easily be described as fraud. I'd call that mess a group affair.

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Anyway,

I don't know if anyone else here is familiar with Greg Morelli. He's one of my favorite curiosities of the Chicago media periphery (RIP Marty Zivin). He used to have a weekend talk show on CPT called "Family Values with an Oy Vey" where he and his brother would complain about George W. Bush and stuff like that, but it was all that very tedious mid-2000s MORE LIKE SHRUB DailyKos/Olbermann political commentary. They used to run a restaurant in Chicago called Joey's Brickhouse which I guess was just some kind of family restaurant sorta thing. Well, the show went off the air and the restaurant closed and now he runs a place in Highland Park called Max's Deli, which, if you look it up on Yelp, features him arguing with every single person who reviewed his restaurant. He is truly someone who understands that one must Never Stop Posting.

So I'm readin' the ol' fbook and who should come up on my feed but a post from Greg Morelli, where he is apologizing profusely for some grave transgression that, to hear it from him, was actually everybody else's fault. I got this because a former co-worker replied to him and said, I dunno, that he should die for what he said or something. Well, as you can probably intuit from me posting it in this thread, he seems to have said that everyone who died in Las Vegas deserved to die because they were at a country music concert and therefore probably Republicans, i.e., the same thing the person in the thread title said, more or less.

I tried to google him to see if this SHOCKING~! post made any news, but I didn't find anything to that effect. What I did find was the local article "Highland Park Jewish deli faces backlash over Facebook post featuring Nazi imagery," where he posted a Rosh Hashanah carry-out menu featuring Donald Trump wearing a swastika, because this a normal thing that normal people do and so of course you would get such a normal newspaper headline:



So yeah, bad thoughts all around, huh.

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It's just what girls say in the locker room guys. Don't get bent out of shape.

UPDATE



Never stop posting.

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Pre-Admin JoRR vibe.

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BTW, country music has crossed over big time. There are bad people (country music fans) on both sides. ON BOTH SIDES.

I feel like the country boom died down a little bit, coincidentally right about when Clear Channel flipped 95.5 from Spanish to country and laid bare that there wasn't a market for two country stations here.

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Just looked at the comments on Morelli's FB apology post. Oy Vey indeed.

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That Yelp page is fascinating, once you work through the 9 pages of spam.

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It's anudda shoah

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What a dickhead this guy is. His responses to criticisms are unbelievable. He might want to start selling things off.

Yeah, I think he thinks he's more famous than he really is.

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