The next Trump defense (actually being used RIGHT NOW by fuckbags Newt Gingrich and Sean Hannity)
YEAH IT IS ILLEGAL BUT THE PRESIDENT IS ABOVE THE LAW & CAN EVEN KILL PEOPLE WITH IMPUNITY.
We are approaching Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men. In a couple more tweets Trump will be saying you’re goddamn right I colluded with Russia.
DEFENSE LAWYER: “Would you punch this face?”
PROSPECTIVE JUROR: “I would not be able to help myself.”
DEFENSE LAWYER: “You’re excused!”
Several potential jurors in Shkreli trial excused after telling judge they couldn’t be impartial toward him https://t.co/7n8Ps5wG9L pic.twitter.com/AgoaAZpxjZ
— ABC News (@ABC) June 27, 2017
re: #3 The Vicious Babushka
DEFENSE LAWYER: “Would you punch this face?”
PROSPECTIVE JUROR: “I would not be able to help myself.”
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Why can’t they lie like those in cop trials do?
It is amazing that the uncouth one and his “team” are pointing out that collusion is not a crime. It is like him saying over and over again he is going to “Make America Great Again.” This sorry excuse of a human being is using the same “trick” he always uses. Keep repeating a good sounding phrase and keep saying it so no one can figure out what you are really doing.
re: #3 The Vicious Babushka
Ha! That would definitely be me.
Fraud Trial for Martin Shkreli, ‘Most Hated Man in America,’ Begins Monday
According to his attorney, Benjamin Brafman, Shkreli — who once claimed to be worth as much as $70 million — is now penniless and “doesn’t have any cash.”
Would that it were true, BUT:
Earlier this month, Shkreli posted on his Facebook page that he had donated $40,000 to a Princeton University graduate for solving a geometry proof, offered to “put up $100,000” for information that would solve a conspiracy theory and boasted that he recently dined at the same restaurant as Eric Trump.
Shkreli has also boasted that he owns a Picasso painting and an original Enigma wartime code-breaking machine valued at nearly $300,000, had purchased the domain names of reporters he didn’t like and had purchased secret albums by Wu-Tang Clan and Lil Wayne.
Joy’s got a good thread rolling.
When you look at what Republicans consistently do with power: cut taxes for the rich, try to dismantle the social safety net, attack voting,
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) June 26, 2017
Donald Trump’s presidency has had a major impact on how the world sees the United States https://t.co/5tEQBTXnlR pic.twitter.com/NYwIZeuVEO
— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) June 27, 2017
re: #3 The Vicious Babushka
DEFENSE LAWYER: “Would you punch this face?”
ME AS PROSPECTIVE JUROR: “I would definitely fix that malpractice plastic nose.”
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re: #10 Stanley Sea
Yeah, the rest of the world is alternating between laughing at us because of how stupid our leader is or being scared as shit for the same reason.
re: #9 JordanRules
Joy’s got a good thread rolling.
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I’m reading about Martin Van Buren and his shady campaign to get Andrew Jackson elected (most prominently the appeal to white supremacy). While the parallels can be taken too far, it’s interesting that one of Trump’s first acts was a pilgrimage to Jackson’s home.
re: #12 Backwoods_Sleuth
I would not call Shkreli’s nose job “malpractice.” I am sure he paid a premium to Michael Jackson’s cosmetic surgeon for the signature designer nostrils.
re: #1 The Vicious Babushka
The next Trump defense (actually being used RIGHT NOW by fuckbags Newt Gingrich and Sean Hannity)
YEAH IT IS ILLEGAL BUT THE PRESIDENT IS ABOVE THE LAW & CAN EVEN KILL PEOPLE WITH IMPUNITY.
You can sort of see this coming — as long as Trump can thwart investigations into crimes committed by Putin, why shouldn’t Putin arrange for some “accidents” to occur to American opponents, like he does elsewhere?
re: #14 Barefoot Grin
Yup. That symbolism was not lost on a lot of us.
re: #15 The Vicious Babushka
I would not call Shkreli’s nose job “malpractice.” I am sure he paid a premium to Michael Jackson’s cosmetic surgeon for the signature designer nostrils.
Fools and money…it never changes…
.”Collusion is not a crime” is simply the current political equivalent of the abusive boyfriends excuse “she asked for it” #TrumpDontCare
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) June 27, 2017
The numbers on Trumpcare are obscene. For example, the 400 richest households in America will receive, on average, an $82 million tax cut each, paid for by eliminating Medicaid coverage for 725,000 low income people.
Potential jurors on Pharma Bro: He’s ‘evil,’ a ‘snake’ and a ‘d-k’
“I think he’s a very evil man,” seethed the first juror to be dismissed, after flouncing over to speak to the judge with her frog backpack in tow.
Yet another recalled that, as she walked into the courtroom, she made eye contact with Shkreli, and, recoiled.
“In my head, I said, ‘That’s a snake,’” the woman told attorneys. She was promptly dismissed.
Another prospective juror even went so far as to mime wringing Shkreli’s neck, as she called him “a person who puts profit over everything else.”
Random folk from the jury pool wanting to murder the defendant. Not a good sign, Martin, not good at all.
re: #21 Shiplord Kirel
Potential jurors on Pharma Bro: He’s ‘evil,’ a ‘snake’ and a ‘d-k’
Random folk from the jury pool wanting to murder the defendant. Not a good sign, Martin, not good at all.
The only way he could get a fair trial is to not be in the courtroom.
In honor of #HarryPotter20, we’re asking you to sort world leaders into Hogwarts houses. 🎩
Where should Trump go?— AJ+ (@ajplus) June 26, 2017
Azkaban ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://t.co/knL9n6W11d
— Devin (@DeeRut) June 26, 2017
re: #23 klys (maker of Silmarils)
“Dementors hold no true loyalty, except to whomever can provide them with the most people to feed off.” harrypotter.wikia.com
My local PBS station has POV: Dalya’s Other Country on the air. It is very interesting.
whyy.org
re: #24 jaunte
“Dementors hold no true loyalty, except to whomever can provide them with the most people to feed off.” harrypotter.wikia.com
…so you’re saying Donald is a Dementor? Checks out.
CNN’s Chris Cillizza is here to remind you that when it comes to journalism, he’s consistently the worst thing in the world. pic.twitter.com/W3o1HpYcnm
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) June 27, 2017
I continue to believe that Chris Cillizza is the most loathsome pundit on CNN. Unlike the various Trump shills they put on the air, Cillizza has the veneer of being some kind of journalist.
re: #27 bratwurst
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Wtf.
Pres. Trump claims Obama ‘colluded or obstructed’ on Russia, without citing evidence. https://t.co/5sJAxtVJex pic.twitter.com/4skCOcFSMy
— ABC News (@ABC) June 27, 2017
Projecting like an IMAX in outer space! #TheResistance #TrumpRussia #TrumpRussiaCollusion https://t.co/05kS4tcHLC
— Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) June 27, 2017
Day 158
Wall: Solar
Meddling: Russian
Blame: Obama
Press briefings: Drawn
Middle East peace: No
Kushner: Squeaky
TV: Yelled at
So much win— President Bannon (@PRESlDENTBANNON) June 27, 2017
Behind the scenes we’re fighting off a major attack by spammers tonight.
Russia!! (& Israel)
Pew released their annual study of the rest of the world’s views of the US and its gov’t. The results weren’t pretty. What a crazy chart: pic.twitter.com/Cwlu6XcNz6
— Nick Gourevitch (@nickgourevitch) June 27, 2017
This is the biggest burning of illegal drugs in Myanmar’s history. pic.twitter.com/ew3rNJYENR
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) June 26, 2017
From 1999. Huge Quantities Of Primo Shit Incinerated By Feds https://t.co/ZvBxsk7MH8 via @theonion https://t.co/fiRP7RPY7J
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) June 26, 2017
re: #32 Stanley Sea
Trump is getting together with Putin at the G-20 meeting in 10 days. The negative numbers will get deeper.
re: #32 Stanley Sea
Russia!! (& Israel)
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Winning in the countries that matter .
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— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 27, 2017
The Gamergate Trolls tried to hijack VidCon last weekend.
themarysue.com
re: #39 The Vicious Babushka
WTF is wrong with Israel? :(
Some similar problems to this country: a lot of politicians who do nothing but pander to the worst elements in society, aided and abetted by off the rails right-wing media.
re: #31 Charles Johnson
Behind the scenes we’re fighting off a major attack by spammers tonight.
“Mr. Jones, get a couple more men in the fighting tops to worry their crew with musket fire.”
re: #26 klys (maker of Silmarils)
…so you’re saying Donald is a Dementor? Checks out.
Explains why my soul feels sucked out since the election.
I’m really not in the mood to put with lectures from Trump followers about “leftist hate speech.” Talk about blatant hypocrisy.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 27, 2017
Just an odd cloud. You know me - I like the odd ones. :) @wxdam pic.twitter.com/VfWdLaFnb5
— Leesa Brown (@ReasonVsFear) June 27, 2017
I mentioned this earlier today, thought I’d mention it again. Since today was my day off and I was puttering with my guitar in between posts here. If anyone cares to listen to a bad recording made by putting my phone on top of my amp, I’ve got the first cut of the music for song I’m trying to write. The recording is poor & there are a bunch of hiccups in my playing as I’m still trying to get the rhythm and progression down (especially the shift from the key of G to C and back at the bridge) but if anyone wants to listen and comment, I’d not mind. It’s on my google drive:
drive.google.com
How to make Twitter bearable: block early, block often. You have no obligation to let right wing loons spew hatred at you.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 27, 2017
Beautiful view of Saturn from Casssini. https://t.co/FCRx9wD2Z9 pic.twitter.com/HDTrXN14HA
— The SETI Institute (@SETIInstitute) June 27, 2017
The cat does this every time he cleans the windows😂 pic.twitter.com/Mss3HDoL5R
— Ross McCulloch (@Rossmac212) June 23, 2017
Ford is paying for a massive fireworks display on the Detroit river with the GM building in the background.
Don’t miss the show! #detroitfireworks https://t.co/PX2YMVzfj1 pic.twitter.com/McFWRHrgAl
— The Detroit News (@detroitnews) June 27, 2017
Best weekend of the summer (for me, at least), comin’ up!
T MINUS 4 DAYS. @RedRocksCO or bust. https://t.co/eai5ux0aK2
— Umphrey’s McGee (@umphreysmcgee) June 27, 2017
re: #27 bratwurst
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I continue to believe that Chris Cillizza is the most loathsome pundit on CNN. Unlike the various Trump shills they put on the air, Cillizza has the veneer of being some kind of journalist.
I just had to…’cuz Chris is a guy I like so much…
…to make fun of like this.
re: #23 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Trump’s a squib. He doesn’t belong in any of the houses.
re: #47 Amory Blaine
This guy’s ready to rock.
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That movie is fascinating because the look was ahead of the technology. So much of that movie was hand tinted and the computer animation was a pain in the ass.
Our official statement on the #CBOScore for #AHCA: pic.twitter.com/Y6ch17zJg1
— NARAL (@NARAL) May 24, 2017
Our official statem’t for #AHCA #CBOScore applies for Senate #HealthcareBill, too. GOP is still pushing a dumpster fire for women & families https://t.co/PYybDPqO4K
— NARAL (@NARAL) June 26, 2017
jeebus
From @FoxNews “Bombshell: In 2016, Obama dismissed idea that anyone could rig an American election.” Check out his statement - Witch Hunt!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 27, 2017
re: #61 Backwoods_Sleuth
jeebus
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The desperation is showing.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) June 27, 2017
.@SenBobCasey just got here. He’s telling the truth about the GOP health care bill. Calls it “obscene”. pic.twitter.com/6FajX1f1FG
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) June 27, 2017
Senate Democrats should make you feel proud. They’re holding a hearing right now on the Capitol steps in the dark. https://t.co/wigMXhxsH9
— Topher Spiro (@TopherSpiro) June 27, 2017
From @FoxNews “Bombshell: In 2016, Obama dismissed idea that anyone could rig an American election.” Check out his statement - Witch Hunt!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 27, 2017
Our so-called president has been ranting away on Twitter all freaking day. Good grief. https://t.co/wkMq1wU6z9
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 27, 2017
From @FoxNews “Bombshell: In 2016, Obama dismissed idea that anyone could rig an American election.” Check out his statement - Witch Hunt!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 27, 2017
Well, looks like he was wrong and you were right! You COULD rig an American election, and you did. https://t.co/26AmiMbEuj
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) June 27, 2017
He’s watching Fox
From @FoxNews “Bombshell: In 2016, Obama dismissed idea that anyone could rig an American election.” Check out his statement - Witch Hunt!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 27, 2017
Minutes after press office puts out statement alleging a potential Syrian chemical arrack https://t.co/oTLssQ1Gwk
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 27, 2017
re: #32 Stanley Sea
Russia!! (& Israel)
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And the Philippines loves us too now…imagine that.
re: #63 Backwoods_Sleuth
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But they’re not progressive enough.// seriously good for them.
Gators take game 1!!!!!
College World Series. Best of 3.
(LSWhooo?)
This is like a bad movie where your crazy uncle who watches nothing but Fox News becomes President.
Ad on Aspen CO TV shows middle-aged actor/couple alarmed about ‘age tax’ on the 50+ in GOP healthcare bill. ‘Tell Sen. Gardner to vote no.’
— Susan Page (@SusanPage) June 27, 2017
more jeebus…somebody take that phone away from him…
Great day for America’s future Security and Safety, courtesy of the U.S. Supreme Court. I will keep fighting for the American people, & WIN!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 27, 2017
re: #73 Backwoods_Sleuth
more jeebus…somebody take that phone away from him…
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I can’t wait for them to rule against him and for him to explode in anger. He really thinks he won this when he lost quite a bit.
There is absolutely no reason to give weight to @PressSec’s claim that Assad plans chem attack. Even @POTUS isn’t interested.
— Karoli (@Karoli) June 27, 2017
Great day for America’s future Security and Safety, courtesy of the U.S. Supreme Court. I will keep fighting for the American people, & WIN!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 27, 2017
He’s STILL ranting. Shouldn’t someone stage an intervention? https://t.co/9EmgzgDdSa
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 27, 2017
re: #38 DodgerFan1988
The Gamergate Trolls tried to hijack VidCon last weekend.
themarysue.com
Snarl.
Mr. Benjamin, like all MPAs (Men’s Power Activists), is just pissed that the power he believes men once had isn’t accessible to him anymore.
Plus he knows he’s got such a toxic personality that he’ll never get laid and so is trying to make it so he can order women to fuck him.
Loser. Weakling.
re: #74 HappyWarrior
I can’t wait for them to rule against him and for him to explode in anger. He really thinks he won this when he lost quite a bit.
indeed…he hasn’t won a damned thing yet.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 27, 2017
It’s hard to trust this White House. Where is the Authenticator tweet that tells us what’s really happening? https://t.co/OSzap4JCyO
— Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) June 27, 2017
Think wine……
Immigration Crackdown Expected To Increase Crops Left Unharvested In California Fields. Thx @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/CkKEh6j7sJ
— DaveT62 (@DaveoutofAustin) June 27, 2017
re: #9 JordanRules
Joy’s got a good thread rolling.
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— Mile Hi Budz (@jamesvicktory) June 27, 2017
re: #80 Dave In Austin
Think wine……
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So, California will have the first farms that pay a wage American’s will work for?
re: #78 Backwoods_Sleuth
indeed…he hasn’t won a damned thing yet.
It is just astounding how ignorant he is. He makes all his predecessors look that much better.
re: #82 Belafon
Growers are fighting over what’s available…
re: #84 Dave In Austin
Growers are fighting over what’s available…
I know, but, when labor is scarce, wages go up, which will attract people.
re: #77 Romantic Heretic
Snarl.
Mr. Benjamin, like all MPAs (Men’s Power Activists), is just pissed that the power he believes men once had isn’t accessible to him anymore.
Plus he knows he’s got such a toxic personality that he’ll never get laid and so is trying to make it so he can order women to fuck him.
Loser. Weakling.
That last point is common to all so-called MRA’s. They don’t understand that the reason they’re “finishing last” isn’t because they’re nice guys, but because they’re complete twatwaffles trying to pretend to be nice guys.
You’re destroying everything that is right and good about this country. I will keep fighting that you don’t achieve such destruction.
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) June 27, 2017
Buzzfeed: Officials at US Central Command have “no idea” what prompted the White House statement on Syria tonight.https://t.co/jR3uDHlYPw
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 27, 2017
White House statement: The United States has identified potential preparations for another chemical weapons attack by the Assad regime pic.twitter.com/60EugSsOcb
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) June 27, 2017
“Officials at US Central Command told BuzzFeed News they have ‘no idea’ what prompted the statement” from the WH https://t.co/SeFPRMyfLq https://t.co/QtQLgKLE8o
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) June 27, 2017
This is not good.
re: #88 Lidane
Buzzfeed: Officials at US Central Command have “no idea” what prompted the White House statement on Syria tonight.
Easy. Pretext for another “drool over the beauty of our weapons” military strike to distract from GOPDontCare.
If this is intended as a distraction, we’ve reached a new level of White House criminality.
re: #85 Belafon
I know, but, when labor is scarce, wages go up, which will attract people.
That thinking may get tested when it comes to the type of work required. I don’t think there are a lot of Americans that know the work and how to get it done, or actually want to learn and do it.
re: #89 jaunte
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Oh, come on, what could POSSIBLY go wrong?!
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[Prepares nuclear bunker.]
re: #85 Belafon
True, but pickers and packers with no experience or knowledge of what’s expected will be a challenge. I’m sure migrant families have been working the same fields for generations. Now they can’t get back over the borders to pick. Growers just aren’t prepared for this
I read a while back the Growers in the south wanted to prison labor. I’m not sure that worked out either.
MIlitary/civilian coordination rivaling that of the Spanish-American War
re: #96 jaunte
MIlitary/civilian coordination rivaling that of the Spanish-American War
He told us about the courier pigeons.
re: #88 Lidane
Kyle Griffin ✔ @kylegriffin1
Buzzfeed: Officials at US Central Command have “no idea” what prompted the White House statement on Syria tonight.buzzfeed.com …
10:42 PM - 26 Jun 2017
They may not have an idea, but I bet they have some pretty good guesses what prompted it.
Said it the other day, the discussions at The Pentagon these days have got to be very interesting. I wonder if Trump asked all the military to sign non-disclosure forms.
When a senator is calling for people to call their senators…
We can do so much better than this Republican #HealthcareBill. Now is the time to call and make your voices heard. pic.twitter.com/DkUEkLwgBY
— Michael F. Bennet (@SenBennetCO) June 27, 2017
The Far-Right Alliance Is Over
We were promised a showdown at high noon. Instead, Washington DC was host to two pitifully-attended competing rallies this Sunday, followed by a Twitter slapfight between two 39-year-old men. What was scheduled to be a single rally for free speech at the Lincoln Memorial was cleaved in two when several speakers became aware they were sharing the bill with an avowed white supremacist. With that split, any tenuous alliance that may have existed in America’s political far right is now rapidly waning, along with its membership.
Across from the White House in shady Lafayette Park, a who’s who of right wing Twitterati whom the vast majority Americans still have never heard of—Mike Cernovich, Laura Loomer, Jack Posobiec, Cassandra Fairbanks, Lucian Wintrich, Kyle Prescott—were posing for selfies with fans and taking turns at a makeshift podium. But despite over 600,000 Twitter followers combined and direct access to mid-level conservative outlets like The Rebel, Big League Politics, and Gateway Pundit, the Rally Against Political Violence managed to draw 150 people at most to the nation’s capitol. Gathering to cheerlead the president was the typical cadre of young, white, meme-fluent men, but families and veterans as well. Many on the outskirts claimed to be tourists, and Lafayette Park’s crowd was outnumbered by the anti-abortion gaggle in front of the White House gates. The event’s keynote speaker, former Trump advisor Roger Stone, was a no-show.
Buzzfeed: 5 defense officials didn’t know where potential attack would come from, were unaware W.H. was planning to release the statement. https://t.co/omiuhPTeZv
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 27, 2017
This is really bad. Trump is getting ready to stage a wag-the-dog attack on Syria to boost his popularity.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 27, 2017
re: #93 ObserverArt
That thinking may get tested when it comes to the type of work required. I don’t think there are a lot of Americans that know the work and how to get it done, or actually want to learn and do it.
Remember when McCain said no American would work a farm for $50/hr?
If we could figure out a way to get coal miners from West Virginia to California and back each day? Maybe Musk’s tunnel would work.
re: #100 Amory Blaine
Thanks for that. When it was announced last week there was a split in the demonstration I was hoping it would be a big fizzle-out. Too funny, but yet sad and pathetic at the same time.
Nothing to see here, move along now…
Russian official who makes $75,000 a year reportedly spent nearly $8,000,000 on Trump condos.https://t.co/2MuTJWbaDC
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 27, 2017
re: #98 ObserverArt
They may not have an idea, but I bet they have some pretty good guesses what prompted it.
Said it the other day, the discussions at The Pentagon these days have got to be very interesting. I wonder if Trump asked all the military to sign non-disclosure forms.
He’s their boss in a way unlike at, say, the DOE. They can be worse than fired for speaking out against him.
re: #81 Interesting Times
Yikes! That is quite a pic. Great quote from the great Molly too!
re: #106 FormerDirtDart
Nothing to see here, move along now…
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And I think this is the difference between the left and the right. We say, “Nothing to see here, move along now,” maybe being sarcastic, maybe being defeatist, maybe both. The right would foam at the mouth and let everyone know about it, from their congressman to TV to newspaper.
Okay, I’ve been wanting to go an extended rant/commentary about Trumpcare all day long.
Typing such a thing up using the keypad on my iPhone would be time consuming, but I’m using an iPad with a keyboard now so here we go! *cracks knuckles*
It is no secret I am Canadian. I have experience living under a single payer system and while I will be the absolute first to admit it is not perfect by any stretch, it is miles ahead of a lot of what qualifies as “healthcare” here in the USA.
There’s a lot of reasons for that.
The White House issued a tweet/statement today basically mocking the CBO for getting the numbers so wrong on Obamacare, but here’s the problem with that:
The CBOs numbers were probably arrived at under three assumptions:
1) Pretty much every state would accept the Medicaid expansion
2) The vast majority of those Obamacare would help to cover would opt to get coverage vs. paying the penalty
3) The insurance companies would play fair game and create a somewhat competitive marketplace
Of course, we all know what ACTUALLY HAPPENED.
All the deep Red States hopped on the “Fuck Obamacare” bandwagon and never looked back, screwing their own residents in the process by refusing the Medicaid expansion out of principle because of scary black man, something, something.
To deal with the penalty, the GOP both weakened it legislatively as much as they could and convinced their followers that NOT getting covered and paying the penalty was a badge of honor as if to say “screw you government, I’m an American and you don’t get to tell me what to do!”.
Finally of course, the insurance companies acted like insurance companies and basically did as little as they could possibly get away with to comply with the law.
To use an analogy here, what the GOP did was like me saying I can beat you in a 200 M race. You accept the challenge, but before the race I put lead weights in your shoes and tie your laces together. Then, when I kick your butt in the race I say: “See? Told you I could beat you!”
Or, to use a different analogy, it’s like one person throwing gasoline on a fire another person is trying to extinguish.
It’s immature. It’s unfair. It’s incredibly stupid. And yet it’s what the GOP are doing again and again and again.
But here’s my major complaint about Obamacare and Trumpcare: Neither bill does enough to address the root causes of skyrocketing healthcare costs. Why don’t we look at things like making it illegal for a hospital to charge $200 for a single aspirin pill, or for a doctor to leave a business card by an unconscious patient and bill for a “consultation”, or for a maternity ward to charge a new mother a “skin to skin” fee for the privilege of holding her new baby, or doing something about this in network/out of network crap that makes costs even more confusing and inflated?
The lack of transparency in medical billing and costs of services is hurting all of us. Hospitals and doctors aren’t cutting rates or fees, we’re just paying more and more to have to keep up with it.
Trumpcare and Obamacare are pretty much only concerned with WHO is paying and not WHY the costs are so high. Until we take a long, hard look at that we’re never going to get it right on healthcare.
I support the right of Doctors, Nurses, Clinics and Pharmaceutical companies to make money, but I don’t believe they have the right to repeatedly and wantonly gouge Americans by inflating the cost of services and fees to incredibly ridiculous levels. We need legislation that will hold everyone involved in the process accountable, including the patient.
The other problem is that we can’t even agree as a people that every American has the right to healthcare.
Let me say that again: The so-called “Greatest Country in the World” can not agree on that EVERYONE DESERVES HEALTHCARE. That’s how crazy and polarized politics have become in this country.
It’s getting out of hand and it’s literally killing us.
I love this country and that’s why I’ve been so angry about this stuff lately.
America deserves better.
If we really want to make America great, it’s time we took our collective heads out of our asses and all agreed that helping ones fellow man was a very noble, very honorable and very American thing to do.
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…”
LOL, whatever you need to tell yourself bro.
i wish centrists would just admit that they’re ideologically hostile to everyone having healthcare instead of pretending theyre pragmatic
— psycho mantits (@KirbyPufocia) June 26, 2017
I wish Bernie Bros would just admit that all they want the law to say they get a free ponycorn and don’t give one single thought to how that’s actually supposed to happen.
re: #112 Eclectic Cyborg
Standing up and applauding loudly!
Article updated to now says “defense officials” rather than only Central Command. pic.twitter.com/9j8GIE4dbp
— Steve Kopack (@SteveKopack) June 27, 2017
Mitch, a short story. pic.twitter.com/KtR1vqBGuu
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) June 27, 2017
Huge, homely mastiff named Martha wins world’s ugliest dog: https://t.co/pa7SloP3gO pic.twitter.com/S1E2mz4Xey
— ABC 7 Chicago (@ABC7Chicago) June 24, 2017
What kind of idiot thinks Martha is “ugly?” https://t.co/sMV0C5PaTh
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 27, 2017
re: #113 goddamnedfrank
LOL, whatever you need to tell yourself bro.
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I wish Bernie Bros would just admit that all they want the law to say they get a free ponycorn and don’t give one single thought to how that’s actually supposed to happen.
I need to take a yr off of my job for health reasons, but my wife just keeps asking about bills.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) June 27, 2017
I’m not sure what world that person lives in, but it’s not mine.
Edit: Instead, I have a gym membership, and I’m trying to make myself go to sleep earlier.
re: #111 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
Didn’t last time (for more than five minutes).
All I remember from last time is Princess Ivanka’s supposed influence.
And an operational runway a day later.
So yeah.
re: #107 Stanley Sea
Stone was a no show? LoFuckingL
Cassandra must have cried.
Stone probably saw the low turnout and said his contract called for at least two thousand attendees minimum.
Hey, a man has got to have some standards.
re: #117 Charles Johnson
Charles Johnson ✔ @Green_Footballs
@ABC7Chicago What kind of idiot thinks Martha is “ugly?”Huge, homely mastiff named Martha wins world’s ugliest dog: https://t.co/pa7SloP3gO pic.twitter.com/S1E2mz4Xey
— ABC 7 Chicago (@ABC7Chicago) June 24, 2017
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Do you mean the Trump WH policy, the Tillerson State policy, or the Mattis DoD policy?
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) June 27, 2017
Its only been a month since Fox was forced to retract its Seth Rich story. pic.twitter.com/SBnRnXjhCb
— Jon Passantino (@passantino) June 27, 2017
I retracted NOTHING. I Rightly GAVE RESPECT to a grieving family that asked for it and was thanked by them. My investigation continues. https://t.co/e5w3Szvma2
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) June 27, 2017
A simple “I’m a scum ball conspiracy theorist” would be more concise https://t.co/oPA7lasf6i
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) June 27, 2017
Guys stupid question but with my trip this summer, I have a hour layover in Iceland. As long as I’m on the same airline, that’s okay right or did I royally screw myself over here?
re: #125 HappyWarrior
Guys stupid question but with my trip this summer, I have a hour layover in Iceland. As long as I’m on the same airline, that’s okay right or did I royally screw myself over here?
how would you screw yourself over?
re: #126 Backwoods_Sleuth
how would you screw yourself over?
Well I’m seeing online that a hour is too little time for a connecting flight. My flight lands in Iceland at 6:20 and departs for Munich at 7:20. Maybe I’m just being paranoid.
re: #127 HappyWarrior
Well I’m seeing online that a hour is too little time for a connecting flight. My flight lands in Iceland at 6:20 and departs for Munich at 7:20. Maybe I’m just being paranoid.
ok, if you are on the same airline, it probably isn’t a problem.
Okay, wait I’m an idiot. It’s a connecting flight. Duh. Sorry just a little antsy.
re: #128 Backwoods_Sleuth
ok, if you are on the same airline, it probably isn’t a problem.
Yeah I don’t think it will be. Phew. Sometimes I just overthink.
re: #131 jaunte
Martha’s a cutie.
The Today Show video at least made mention the Ugly Dog contest is about giving love to all dogs and raises money and awareness for rescue groups.
Meaning you either care about shit like actuarial math and consequences or you’re just jerking off your ideals to the detriment of society.
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) June 27, 2017
Such an abject failure, born of idealistic incompetence totally devoid of real world considerations, would only serve Republican interests.
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) June 27, 2017
19 of the coolest images from NASA’s Operation IceBridge https://t.co/8mptM10jNl pic.twitter.com/DfoMid8FVt
— Popular Science (@PopSci) June 27, 2017
NEW: No confidence in Trump
Mexico 93%
Spain 92%
Sweden 90%
Germany 87%
Turkey 82%
UK 75%
Canada 75%
Australia 70%https://t.co/KxElbgng4V pic.twitter.com/auVw84zr9n— Conrad Hackett (@conradhackett) June 27, 2017
re: #133 goddamnedfrank
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And it’s not like the CA Dem Majority Leader took the universal health care off the table. He wants to make sure it’s affordable. He’s doing gasp the fiscally conservative thing. And Sanders being Sanders immediately did the kneejerk thing as always.
re: #133 goddamnedfrank
Re the national Dems, why not propose a single-payer plan that’s costed out, even if it’s paid for by something the GOPer congress would never go for? (i.e. marginal tax hike on top earners)
US voters respond to grand gestures, not details. Look how much con-artist crap Pumpkin Pinochet got away with. To say things like “don’t bother proposing something that won’t make it out of committee” misses the point, I think - voters would respect you a hell of a lot more if you at least tried (and if your plan is scuttled, doesn’t that write the campaign ads for you? “We would have had single-player if it hadn’t been for R-Scumbag. Vote Dem next time”)
One reason turnout crashed in 2010 (which led to the GOPer majorities in a census year which led to the gerrymandering hell the US is in now) was because of disillusioned Dem base voters who didn’t think the ACA went far enough. Again, even if you know a bill won’t get anywhere, it’s worth proposing just so at least you can say you did.
re: #117 Charles Johnson
Exactly!
Homely my ass!
Its only been a month since Fox was forced to retract its Seth Rich story. pic.twitter.com/SBnRnXjhCb
— Jon Passantino (@passantino) June 27, 2017
I retracted NOTHING. I Rightly GAVE RESPECT to a grieving family that asked for it and was thanked by them. My investigation continues. https://t.co/e5w3Szvma2
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) June 27, 2017
It’s fun watching you implode, you fat sack of whale grease. https://t.co/9gv6zqO367
— Jebediah Springfield (@JebediahRBG) June 27, 2017
Titus 1:16 “They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.”
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) June 27, 2017
The GOP really should pay more attention to that book they’re always thumping https://t.co/2uIm0613B6
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) June 27, 2017
re: #139 Interesting Times
Re the national Dems, why not propose a single-payer plan that’s costed out, even if it’s paid for by something the GOPer congress would never go for? (i.e. marginal tax hike on top earners)
US voters respond to grand gestures, not details. Look how much con-artist crap Pumpkin Pinochet got away with. To say things like “don’t bother proposing something that won’t make it out of committee” misses the point, I think - voters would respect you a hell of a lot more if you at least tried (and if your plan is scuttled, doesn’t that write the campaign ads for you? “We would have had single-player if it hadn’t been for R-Scumbag. Vote Dem next time”)
One reason turnout crashed in 2010 (which led to the GOPer majorities in a census year which led to the gerrymandering hell the US is in now) was because of disillusioned Dem base voters who didn’t think the ACA went far enough. Again, even if you know a bill won’t get anywhere, it’s worth proposing just so at least you can say you did.
And it would help the Democrats gain power in 2020, and they could pass it through reconciliation in 2021.