A measure sponsored by a woman who worked at a strip club passed Congress today

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I'm not the one throwing around sweeping generalizations about a profession. 
Yes. You are. You are making a very sweeping generalization that being a stripper is honest work.

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Would a teaspoon of rum somehow make it not a hustle? The profit goes to the owner, and the bartender controls the alcohol content, not the stripper. Is bartending a dishonest trade?
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Would a teaspoon of rum somehow make it not a hustle? 
Are you unfamiliar with a typical mixed drink and just being hyperbolic? It’s a shot, a shot of rum. Yes, then it would not be a hustle. Exactly.


The profit goes to the owner, and the bartender controls the alcohol content, not the stripper. Is bartending a dishonest trade?
Now you’re starting to understand, it’s a hustle involving several people that has been planned in advance. One might even call it a racket 


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Are you aware of the connection between strip clubs and organized crime? 

Still believe it’s honest work to participate in such a place?


In 1996, both men switched sides, but only after Federal and state authorities implicated them in the insurance fraud and the Scores case. Seeking reduced prison sentences, they worked undercover for a year, taping more than 100 conversations that prosecutors say contributed to indictments in January of several members of the Gambino family on charges of extorting more than $1 million from Scores. The defendants include John A. Gotti, 34 -- the son of John J. Gotti, 58, the family's imprisoned boss -- and other reputed soldiers and associates.
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Believe me, THAT I'm aware of. But that's not the strippers. That's the proprietors. And you still haven't answered:

if you've ever BEEN to a strip club, should you then be considered someone of poor judgement such that you should not be considered for elected office? 

This is dumb, bro. She was elected by a constituency of morons. This is who should represent them. But her status as a moron has no causal relationship to her employment history. Just like everyone else. Not everyone gets into Ivy League schools, not everyone follows the standard path, but they can still run, still get elected, and still do decent work (that's not what this person is doing, I'm saying it's POSSIBLE).  That's why this country rules.

Which is MORE disqualifying: working at a strip club or having a single DUI for which you did no jail time on your record? 
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Personally I count preforming or going to strip clubs as a tiny, negative in my evaluations of people,
But,
Way the internet is, and what people including myself browse,
Fair bit hypocritical of me,
Though I wouldn't say completely.

I 'do think a person's political vision, plans, actions,
Would matter 'far more than if they were a stripper in the past, present, or future though.
. . .

@NoOneInParticular
The profession just isn't held 'generally speaking in high moral regard,
In American society,

Though with how much people sell sexual imagery in pop culture,
'Bit false front regard maybe.

ZZ Top, Van Halen, various other artists music videos,
Attractive scanty dressed dancing women in em.

Lot of movies, rated R for sexual content.
. . .

Ah well,
There 'is a concept behind chastity, modesty, puritanism,
A history.

Course there's 'other concepts people appreciate,
In sexual liberation, I suppose.

And there's the argument of too much prudishness failing in the education of youth, regarding health and hygiene.
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if you've ever BEEN to a strip club, should you then be considered someone of poor judgement such that you should not be considered for elected office? 
No, of course not. Big difference between being a patron, especially a once a year patron, and a full time employee.

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But her status as a moron has no causal relationship to her employment history.
Of course it does. What you do is part of who you are.

Which is MORE disqualifying: working at a strip club or having a single DUI for which you did no jail time on your record?
They both indicate poor judgment and low moral fiber. Both are certainly nothing to be proud of and more likely to be ashamed of. The DUI puts other people at risk of death or serious injury, so I would say DUI is a worse indicator for elected office.

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Democrats tend to top those lists of culprits...a former stripper trying to make ends meet and becomes something more (ie., personal improvement), like a duly elected representative of her district, I'll take any day of the week and twice on Sunday over any POS democrat. 
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      Donald J Trump and Stormy Daniels?
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There's a lot of projected guilt on this forum.
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One person. 

I have lists of many democrats. 

Try again. 
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GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz investigated for possible sex trafficking of girl, 17?
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possible...
You never stop with the fantasies over facts do you?

I mean, no "possible transgression" really compares to actual juvenile castration. This is what you guys are willing to start a civil war over, and it's hilarious.
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Democrats tend to top those lists of culprits..
That’s a lie. Everything out of your stupid, disabled mouth is either a lie or simply false.

Denny Hastert, the longest serving Republican Speaker of the House molested teenage boys on his wrestling team.

There have been Republican Congressmen who molested their teenaged interns (same sex)

And of course Trump has raped women.

Name one Democratic Congressman, Senator or President who has been convicted of having sex with an under aged person of the same sex.

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Well, one can only imagine how low of an opinion you hold about Biden agreeing to being interviewed by a former stripper who had admitted to drugging patrons (ie “Johns”) and stealing their money.
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Well, one can only imagine how low of an opinion you hold about Biden agreeing to being interviewed by a former stripper 
Source and name?

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lol
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Source and name?
Google and Cardi B

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Possible is unproven. Speculation. Lies. Stories. Whatever. Until proven it’s gossip. 
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Cardi B stated that she became a stripper to escape poverty and domestic violence, having been in an abusive relationship at the time after being kicked out of her mother's house. - Wikipedia 
Thanks for citing an example of what we can expect to find in the background of a stripper like Anna Paulina Luna.

Well, one can only imagine how low of an opinion you hold about Biden agreeing to being interviewed by a former stripper
So you think being a former stripper is the same as being interviewed by a former stripper. 
Being a former stripper indicates low moral fiber and being interviewed by a former stripper, what? The same?

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Believe me, THAT I'm aware of. But that's not the strippers.
I’m starting to think you were once a stripper.

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Thanks for citing an example of what we can expect to find in the background of a stripper like Anna Paulina Luna.
Wait, now you’re implying Luna is a sympathetic figure?  You paint an incoherent narrative when challenged, but you’re hardly alone around here.

So you think being a former stripper is the same as being interviewed by a former stripper.
Biden wouldn’t interview with, say, an avowed white supremacist. It’s about the choice a presidential candidate makes when virtually all choices are available. Also, you chopped out the worst bit when you quoted me. Not that your shenanigans are surprising… to the contrary, they are expected.

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Wait, now you’re implying Luna is a sympathetic figure?  
Did I do that? Do sympathetic figures make good members of Congress? Perhaps we could get some homeless people in Congress too.

the worst bit
There was nothing about drugging and stealing in the Wikipedia write up. I have to assume you’re lying until you can cite a credible source, genius.

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I would assume that requirements for congress would imply that they could do the job I.E. Fetterman.  But, hey, what do I know?  Biden seems to be good enough for the job as president, why not a stroke victim who can hardly talk straight?
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I have to assume you’re lying until you can cite a credible source, genius.
If and when you are given that, you will do what, exactly?

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 in the Wikipedia write up

lol
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 “As a Republican I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. When you’re a Republican, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything.” 
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I'm guessing you got that off of Wikipedia? Maybe storytime with Schiff?