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Biff Tannen

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  1. 8 hours ago, troph said:

    the top 5% of folks in society are on this board, no seriously we are going to rank very high on access and knowledge. it's not like that for most. the stats don't lie. our food is shit, our access to health care is shit. and the care is shit... for most of the population. yes at the highest levels of education and access you can get good care, including doctors that will get into diet and exercise beyond telling you to do it. but for the 95% yeah, no. what does that do? leave a breeding ground for misinformation, alt bullshit, etc. 

    but in the end I don't give a fuck. I'm fit, healthy, fine. so you guys can win, you're right, US food and healthcare system is top notch, no issues. 

    There are a ton of factors to consider on #bothsides, but I will say that humans have access to more information than ever in human history, so not sure how most of the blame from you falls on the medical community. 
     

    Why are we part of the 5%?  Do we have a better internet than everyone else?

  2. 12 minutes ago, MrBig said:

    All roads lead to Trump Tower Tehran

    And Gaza. For real, you know this sick fuck has it in his mind that once these places are ethnically cleansed, he can turn them into real estate deals. He literally already said that about Gaza. 
     

     

     

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  3. 2 hours ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

    I think she tries too hard to be different. Idk if that makes sense.  Just tok emotional, poignant too camera focused.   Padma was understated confidence that owned the screen

    Kristen gets emotional because she has been in their shoes. Padma has not. Also, Padma seems like just kind of a bitch sometimes. 

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  4. 57 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

    “President Trump had a great day at the G7, even signing a major trade deal with the United Kingdom and Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Much was accomplished, but because of what’s going on in the Middle East, President Trump will be leaving tonight after dinner with Heads of State,” Leavitt wrote on

    I would like to hear Starmer’s take on this. 

  5. JFC.  We are going to have another moment like Hawaii in the first term when everyone thought it was getting nuked for a minute.  Hopefully it will just be another false alarm.

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  6. 24 minutes ago, gofuckyourself said:

    Some of y'all are more defeatist than an alcoholic, suicidal Eeyore.

    The actual answer, other than "Ohhh, Pooh, it's helpless. Just lay down and die" is to get off your ass and make some noise. Send it to people you know. It's called a groundswell for a reason. From multiple personal experiences, it does make a difference.

    So here's the direct take action, followed from the link above. Takes 15 seconds.

    https://act.wilderness.org/a/may25budgetbill-web

    As for calls, @Biff Tannen and @Chewbacca, correct those work well.

    In my personal experience from past lobbying and legislative efforts, calls are great. The last info I had was that emails had to be printed and put on desks. In the dark ages, it used to be faxes were king because of piling them up. The email thing may no longer be true, since I haven't worked legislative efforts in a while.

    But hell you can also do both -- email and call.

    Send it out to some family, friends. Find organizations that would push back and call and ask what they need help with. Volunteer, etc.

    I agree and I’ve done these things. The link you provided is for the house, not the senate, but still good since they have to pass whatever version gets sent back to them from the senate.
     

    But living in Texas, it is very easy to be defeatist when my senators could give two fucks what their democratic constituents want. They only care what they can lie to the magats about so they stay in power. 

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  7. 45 minutes ago, Blotto said:

    Doctors are every bit as likely to think in their own best interests as judges, attorneys, etc.... Not at a VA hospital, but I am friends with a guy here in Austin whose wife had a miscarriage leading to life threatening complications for his wife, and my buddy seemed confident that it wouldn't have been an issue prior to the state's abortion ban. I didnt dig into the details with him, but I got the sense he felt the doctors could have done more for his wife and would have done more for his wife in previous years. Doctors and certainly the administrators of the hospitals they work for aren't immune to legal pressures, sadly.  They will cover their ass with the best of them. 

    Oh I agree in that case. Providers are leaving Texas so they won’t get sued for giving the care they should. This is different. It’s presuming that just because they have the option to not treat people based on political views that they won’t. It’s not mandatory. 
     

    So I see your point, but it’s not really apples to apples. 

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  8. After Elaine on the plane with Vegetable Lasagna says she hopes a giant mountain rises up out of the ocean and ends this whole thing, it cuts to Newman tending Kramer in the hot tub with the butter and he’s reading Alive. 

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  9. 2 hours ago, Chewbacca said:

    Yeah, this is far, far worse than the House version. Check out the map and article.  Basically all of the public lands in those 11 states will be up for sale. 

    https://www.wilderness.org/articles/media-resources/120-million-acres-public-lands-eligible-sale-senr-budget-reconciliation-package

    And the map: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/instant/basic/index.html?appid=821970f0212d46d7aa854718aac42310

    Nope.  This cannot stand. 

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  10. 23 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    Probably deserves its own thread, but what a fuck you after the 250th birthday of the Army

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/16/va-doctors-refuse-treat-patients

     

    ‘Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans

    Doctors at Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals nationwide could refuse to treat unmarried veterans and Democrats under new hospital guidelines imposed following an executive order by Donald Trump.

    The new rules, obtained by the Guardian, also apply to psychologists, dentists and a host of other occupations. They have already gone into effect in at least some VA medical centers.

    Medical staff are still required to treat veterans regardless of race, color, religion and sex, and all veterans remain entitled to treatment. But individual workers are now free to decline to care for patients based on personal characteristics not explicitly prohibited by federal law.

    Language requiring healthcare professionals to care for veterans regardless of their politics and marital status has been explicitly eliminated.

    Doctors and other medical staff can also be barred from working at VA hospitals based on their marital status, political party affiliation or union activity, documents reviewed by the Guardian show. The changes also affect chiropractors, certified nurse practitioners, optometrists, podiatrists, licensed clinical social workers and speech therapists.

    In making the changes, VA officials cite the president’s 30 January executive order titled “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government”. The primary purpose of the executive order was to strip most government protections from transgender people. The VA has since ceased providing most gender-affirming care and forbidden a long list of words, including “gender affirming” and “transgender”, from clinical settings.

    Medical experts said the implications of rule changes uncovered by the Guardian could be far-reaching.

    They “seem to open the door to discrimination on the basis of anything that is not legally protected”, said Dr Kenneth Kizer, the VA’s top healthcare official during the Clinton administration. He said the changes open up the possibility that doctors could refuse to treat veterans based on their “reason for seeking care – including allegations of rape and sexual assault – current or past political party affiliation or political activity, and personal behavior such as alcohol or marijuana use”.

    While this is fucked up, are we that concerned that VA workers are going to abide by these now that they are technically able?  Most people in medicine, especially doctors, take their oath very seriously to treat patients no matter the situation.  

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  11. 50 minutes ago, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

    Is this real or some sensor error. 5” in one spot and zeros around it?

     

    image.thumb.png.b47c30c6226702064da048cb388942f7.png

    Error.  That's more or less right over me and we certainly didn't get 5 inches.

  12. 1 hour ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    It’s my understanding that no demonstrations were planned for DC because of the military parade and that any protest(s) that happened there was/were truly spontaneous. 

    Yes, I was referring to lack of turnout for dotard’s dictator parade. 

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