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farvacola
United States18856 Posts
On June 30 2017 00:59 xDaunt wrote: It's only a matter of time before the GOP understands the full implications of its admission that the country must provide health care to everyone with preexisting conditions. Folks should have confronted that reality back when EMTALA and its relatives were passed. | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
On June 30 2017 01:08 KwarK wrote: Meanwhile Fox News is attacking the Democrats for alarmist rhetoric, insisting that there is no evidence that people die from lack of healthcare. They made the excellent counterpoint that nobody has ever died from lack of healthcare who wouldn't have died anyway eventually. I'm convinced. Fox News is state TV. Also the giant empathy gap shown by former anchors such as Megyn Kelly. Prime example her blasting maternity leave, till she pops out a brat of her own them demand it fully. | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
On June 30 2017 01:09 farvacola wrote: Folks should have confronted that reality back when EMTALA and its relatives were passed. I lost track of the number of times we have said the US has been moving towards single payer since we decided that people shouldn’t kicked out of the emergency room if they couldn’t pay. All paths lead to that conclusion. | ||
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WolfintheSheep
Canada14127 Posts
There's the American dream right there, no skills, training or qualifications, yet still given the chance in the highest seats of power in the nation. | ||
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Toadesstern
Germany16350 Posts
On June 30 2017 01:08 KwarK wrote: Meanwhile Fox News is attacking the Democrats for alarmist rhetoric, insisting that there is no evidence that people die from lack of healthcare. They made the excellent counterpoint that nobody has ever died from lack of healthcare who wouldn't have died anyway eventually. I'm convinced. and obviously a good dosis of "omg that's way too complicated to even think about. Noone knows how many people will die" | ||
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Velr
Switzerland10866 Posts
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NewSunshine
United States5938 Posts
On June 30 2017 01:14 {CC}StealthBlue wrote: Fox News is state TV. Also the giant empathy gap shown by former anchors such as Megyn Kelly. Prime example her blasting maternity leave, till she pops out a brat opf her own them demand it fully. Fox News has absolutely 0 credibility for me, it's just a panel of talking heads that seems more interested in emulating stuff like Sports Center than actually having even semi-objective news segments. There's a reason they're classed as entertainment, not news. | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
https://gimletmedia.com/episode/100-friends-blasphemers/ Reply All: #100 Friends and Blasphemers - Live Journal becomes weirdly becomes the center of activism in Russia after 2010's election of Putin. About 20 minutes and its pretty funny. Until the end when a Russian company buys Live Journal for way more than it is worth. | ||
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Nevuk
United States16280 Posts
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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TheTenthDoc
United States9561 Posts
On June 30 2017 01:35 Nevuk wrote: People seem especially freaked out by the facelift tweet for some reason. And by people I mean both GOP and others. Why? It is no worse than anything he's said in the past This is probably the farthest he's gone post-inauguration. They apparently had managed to choke down the idea he might be marginally improving in self-restraint and nastiness (mostly because all his lashing out has served their political agenda or just been stupidity lately). | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
On June 30 2017 01:35 Nevuk wrote: People seem especially freaked out by the facelift tweet for some reason. And by people I mean both GOP and others. Why? It is no worse than anything he's said in the past I think this might be the first time since taking office that he has gone after two specific people in the press, rather than the entire publication. Also there was that shooting at the congressional base ball game. It is normal for Trump, but not at all normal for the office. On June 30 2017 01:36 {CC}StealthBlue wrote: https://twitter.com/RepBarbaraLee/status/880454757999144960 Ok, congress is now getting in it. Some of them have clearly had enough and don't feel comfortable with the Generals running everything because Trump won't. | ||
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Doodsmack
United States7224 Posts
Ivana Trump’s assertion of “rape” came in a deposition—part of the early ’90s divorce case between the Trumps, and revealed in the 1993 book Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump. The book, by former Texas Monthly and Newsweek reporter Harry Hurt III, described a harrowing scene. After a painful scalp reduction surgery to remove a bald spot, Donald Trump confronted his then-wife, who had previously used the same plastic surgeon. “Your fucking doctor has ruined me!” Trump cried. What followed was a “violent assault,” according to Lost Tycoon. Donald held back Ivana’s arms and began to pull out fistfuls of hair from her scalp, as if to mirror the pain he felt from his own operation. He tore off her clothes and unzipped his pants. “Then he jams his penis inside her for the first time in more than sixteen months. Ivana is terrified… It is a violent assault,” Hurt writes. “According to versions she repeats to some of her closest confidantes, ‘he raped me.’” www.thedailybeast.com | ||
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On_Slaught
United States12190 Posts
On June 30 2017 01:35 Nevuk wrote: People seem especially freaked out by the facelift tweet for some reason. And by people I mean both GOP and others. Why? It is no worse than anything he's said in the past It's another instance of him attacking a woman based on her looks, which continues one if the worst looks for him. Iirc this is the first time he's done it since becoming President too. Plenty of Republican woman get face lifts and will not look kindly on this since I imagine being called out like this was a fear of theirs. Still, for Trump to insult anyone on artificialality is hilarious. | ||
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zlefin
United States7689 Posts
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
The congress members can't defend it. On top of that, I get the feeling we are at a tipping point with really aggressive political discourse. I am not sure if McConnell's promise/threat to work with Democrats would have been public if the congressional shooting had not happened. I might be reading to much into that, but he didn't need to say that on camera and he normally don't say much on camera. On June 30 2017 02:19 zlefin wrote: If I were president; my inclination would have been to use the AUMF much more sparingly; though I'd of course be reluctant to overturn the standards set by the predecessors in the office. It is a thing that needed to end a long time ago. Congress was happy to keep it in place during Obama because it let them second guess everything he did. Just think the discussions with generals and other security officials that lead that bill being drafted. | ||
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On_Slaught
United States12190 Posts
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Slaughter
United States20254 Posts
On June 30 2017 01:43 TheTenthDoc wrote: This is probably the farthest he's gone post-inauguration. They apparently had managed to choke down the idea he might be marginally improving in self-restraint and nastiness (mostly because all his lashing out has served their political agenda or just been stupidity lately). Its funny because just a week or so ago my aunt was arguing strongly that he is getting better and isn't tweeting like that anymore. | ||
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Velr
Switzerland10866 Posts
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DeepElemBlues
United States5079 Posts
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