Interesting thought.
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Interesting thought.
Freedom - yup, the freedom to not be able to afford healthcare.
Individual responsibility - yup, why can't you afford it? and why do you have pre-existing conditions...tough luck bitch
I called this 'compassionate christian' a cnut and twitter put my account on 'restriction' for the next 12 hours
Hi, I'm a recovering addict and this is my retarded sister, can we have some freedom please?
Most definitely and it's time your mentally challenged sister took personal responsibility for her problems.
He'll wind up Governor or Senator. At 35, he's simply too good. I wouldn't rule out a Prez bid in the coming decade as well.
That midwestern area is going to be tough to break through in the near future though, unless they parachute him somewhere else which he doesn't seem the type for.
With the new wave of millennial politicians sweeping in, I don't see any reason why he couldn't do it in Indiana. Ultimately, Dems are going to have to fight for grass roots support in red states and Indiana is a great place to do it.
I'm actually up for those things for a laugh. Also just to see their reasoning when they're proven wrong.
Oh, jesus effing christ, that photo. He looks like he died in the 90s and has been decomposing since, I can see why he uses industrial sized fake tan.
Interesting background he has.
Still manages to look more alive than Eric does though.
Definitely a much-needed reality check, although the following is a little bit underhanded:
Reading this article, there seems to be a legitimate problem with some Somalis getting involved in this kind of thing - https://www.google.ie/amp/dailysign...ys-struggle-with-terrorism/amp/?client=safari
Actually there's another group, the conservative leaning young adults who are young and dumb enough to think that they're not at risk of major illness/accident, and that they can save money by just not having insurance. There's a surprisingly high number of them judging by the number I've spoken to in the past.
He got much love from r/sandersforpresident. Does he appeal to the Clinton/Obama people too? Because then that's the dream candidate (for something more than DNC chair).
He's also a mayor whose popularity crosses party who previously lost a state wide race, which has interesting echoes
Still don't really know much about him bar the formalities, always thought there was a pretty wide path forward to connect Sanders and Clinton wings in the near future though, wouldn't surprise me if there are some young progressive midwesterners ready to make the move (also why I also think it makes more sense for Ellison to get the chair job).He got much love from r/sandersforpresident. Does he appeal to the Clinton/Obama people too? Because then that's the dream candidate (for something more than DNC chair).
He's also a mayor whose popularity crosses party who previously lost a state wide race, which has interesting echoes
Thanks, I'll go through that later.
Back to your point though, considering the haphazard way the new administration has gone about things, surely cooling off on the ACA-front wouldn't be too jarring? Especially if you think they only opposed it to obstruct Obama's administration?
A president shouldn't use Twitter, considering his role. He runs the risk of getting misunderstood.
That is fair. I think there is a much bigger point to make.
Since 9/11 “Islamic terrorism” is probably the single most discussed political topic in the west. I am not suggesting that it is a non-issue and the death-toll alone is certainly not a good measurement of its importance, but it shouldn’t be in the top20. Probably not even in the top50. It also shouldn’t be seen as an existential threat to our security, but primarily as a challenge to foreign policy. On this topic, media, politicians and society as a whole just failed. It is quite mind-boggling how much time, money and attention are wasted to address a rather trivial problem. I don’t even blame the voters, who internalize this nonsense; they just assume that the problem is proportional to its coverage. It is not.
I am not in the camp that thinks that Trump is some kind of genius, who just doing all these things to appeal to the people. I think he is a very troubled and deluded man, who believes most of what he says (or starts to believe these things afterwards). But I can’t even fully blame him to think that hordes of Muslims are out there, trying to destroy Europe and the USA. Our own intelligence services foster and spread this view. “Foreign policy analysts” and “journalists” amplify it and politicians echo it over and over and over again.
If you’d give other problems (e.g. gang violence, organized crime, domestic abuse, death of traffic accidents, diseases) similar coverage, you’d think that Armageddon is coming any day now. Most people would probably end up being scared of themselves, if we’d have similar coverage about suicide rates. The sad part is that there is really no going back in the near future. These forms of collective delusion are often self-sustaining. It would be an interesting research topic to find out how these ideas emerge.
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Even if he doesn't get the gig Buttigieg has put his name in the ring for future candidacies. Should serve him well in 2018.
After all this years of GOP propaganda, the party (and Trump) can’t just walk away. At the same time, just repealing it would be quite unpopular. The “beauty” of the ACA is, that the benefits are visible, while the costs are hidden. So repealing it would create a lot of unfavorable coverage. I doubt that Trump fancies that; he is not an ideologue on this issue and not against “big government”.
My best guess is that the GOP and Trump are going to implement a sort of “ACA-light” law. A law that that tries to keep the benefits in place, while re-shuffling the costs.
more dehumanization of the poor - yes, of course everyone on welfare is on drugs and is a junkie.
Note, nothing will be said about how to help those addicts.
Note, nothing will be said about how to help those addicts.
Of course you never hear about mental health care for welfare recipients and the homeless which might be more appropriate in a lot of cases. That's only appropriate when they want to draw attention away from their precious tool-related deaths (guns).
That would be amazing.That's a very valid point, to be fair. Probably not too far off the mark either.
They can differentiate between drugs. And opioids are only in your system for a short amount of time.
I over generalized, but there's data to back it up: https://www.bostonfed.org/-/media/Documents/economic/conf/great-recovery-2016/Alan-B-Krueger.pdf
What's up with all the pain anyways? Is this what I should expect when I get old?
They can still be expunged easily if it's a urine test.Not if you take them morning, noon and night they aren't
It's ok, I understood what you were getting at. It's a problem in the UK too. But I've seen and read a fair few articles about it, and also, when Fox News goes off for a break, here in the UK the time is filled with various different segments, either recordings of live music from outside Fox HQ or health segments and the like. A couple of those segments are part of an investigation Fox did about prescription drug addiction in the UK, and it's a bloody good and very informative watch. Thanks for the link though, I will give it a read now.
I was only being daft mate.
the doublespeak continues
No, it'll be an orderly queue in single file.
Boehner: Republicans won't repeal and replace Obamacare
He says talk in November about lightning-fast passage of a new health care framework was wildly optimistic.
By DARIUS TAHIR
02/23/17 11:04 AM EST
Updated 02/23/17 11:46 AM EST
Former House Speaker John Boehner predicted on Thursday that a full repeal and replace of Obamacare is “not going to happen.”
Boehner, who resigned in 2015 amid unrest among conservatives, said at an Orlando health care conference that the idea that a repeal-and-replace plan would blitz through Congress is just “happy talk.”
Instead, he said changes to former President Barack Obama’s signature legislative achievement would likely be relatively modest.
“[Congressional Republicans are] going to fix Obamacare – I shouldn’t call it repeal-and-replace, because it’s not going to happen,” he said.
Boehner’s comments come as Republican lawmakers across the country are facing angry constituents at town halls worried that Obamacare will be yanked away without a suitable replacement.
President Donald Trump has said in recent days that he will release a plan by early to mid-March on how the administration plans to move forward on a repeal-and-replace plan.
On Thursday, Boehner said the talk in November about lightning-fast passage of a new health care framework was wildly optimistic.
“I started laughing,” he said. “Republicans never ever agree on health care.”
“Most of the framework of the Affordable Care Act … that’s going to be there,” Boehner concluded.
oh ok...
He says talk in November about lightning-fast passage of a new health care framework was wildly optimistic.
By DARIUS TAHIR
02/23/17 11:04 AM EST
Updated 02/23/17 11:46 AM EST
Former House Speaker John Boehner predicted on Thursday that a full repeal and replace of Obamacare is “not going to happen.”
Boehner, who resigned in 2015 amid unrest among conservatives, said at an Orlando health care conference that the idea that a repeal-and-replace plan would blitz through Congress is just “happy talk.”
Instead, he said changes to former President Barack Obama’s signature legislative achievement would likely be relatively modest.
“[Congressional Republicans are] going to fix Obamacare – I shouldn’t call it repeal-and-replace, because it’s not going to happen,” he said.
Boehner’s comments come as Republican lawmakers across the country are facing angry constituents at town halls worried that Obamacare will be yanked away without a suitable replacement.
President Donald Trump has said in recent days that he will release a plan by early to mid-March on how the administration plans to move forward on a repeal-and-replace plan.
On Thursday, Boehner said the talk in November about lightning-fast passage of a new health care framework was wildly optimistic.
“I started laughing,” he said. “Republicans never ever agree on health care.”
“Most of the framework of the Affordable Care Act … that’s going to be there,” Boehner concluded.
oh ok...
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