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Texas -- a failed state
I'm guessing that law schools better not be woke or they will lose their accreditation. Honesty, I'm surprised that Paxton didn't take this power for himself. Not the AG role but him personally.
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Hey Oil Barons.......
Via a long ago relative, I have a small royalty share in a south texas oil field. It's far from life changing money. Covers my monthly bar tab type of money and I'm a lightweight at the bar. Or more precisely it previously covered the tab. With the dropping oil prices and some lower output, it's down about 60% the past few months. </first world problem rant>
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Things Not Going Well in Venezuela, 2.0
But will he ask for the $1.2m that comes with it? Separately I have to laugh at the oil execs that must go to the WH today to give Trump the good news how they’re going to increase production even if they don’t want to. They are now required to make his decisions look smart. Of course this is far from the first time that oil execs are required to make dictators happy.
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My 2026 Health Insurance Premium Increase
That's crazy that a company of 1K employees doesn't provide any health insurance assistance.
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2026 Midterms ...
Two recent updates from the oldest Dem congress members: Steny Hoyer of Maryland has announced that he will retire with this term. He's 86 and was first elected to Congress in '81 Maxine Waters of CA has announced that she's seeking another term. She was first elected in '91 and will be 88 during the November election. She's putting herself ahead of what's good for America and the Democrat party. She says that she has more to do. You had 35 years, how many more do you need? Pelosi (85) and Davis (84) have announced their retirement. The only other 84+ is Jim Clyburn and I haven't heard his plans.
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My 2026 Health Insurance Premium Increase
America isn't going for socialized medicine. We can also debate how the Horns are going to win the CFP for the next 20 straight years. Both situations are not impossible but highly unlikely and not worth discussing. When polled Americans say they hate the current system. But when people are asked about their personal healthcare, presumably insurance and care, they are generally satisfied with it. It reminds me how people hate Congress but they give their Congressman a decent grade, especially if they support the same party.
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Trump/MAGA has ruined sports
Blackjack is rarely blackjack now. They've changed a small rules to create a large advantage for the House. Yes, they had an advantage before but its much, much worse today. From my understanding, you can only get older (better) rules when you start playing $100 blackjack in Vegas. While I enjoy reading and watching tales of the blackjack card counters take down casinos, they've ruined blackjack for the rest of us. It should be criminal to call these new tables blackjack. Crazy looking back on it, but my parents in the 70s/early 80s had no problem with me playing blackjack all day on Atari. Maybe that wasn't a good idea in hindsight.
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My 2026 Health Insurance Premium Increase
I would flip your statement of "no ACA plan pays MD Anderson." MD Anderson has rejected ACA plans because they cannot pay enough to cover MD Anderson's costs. I'm not an expert about ACA plans but I assume they're prevented by law from paying more than a certain amount. Either by legal limits or in practice due to lower revenue. Also I would be careful about her joining a Medicare Advantage plan. Go with traditional Medicare to give her more options even though it will cost you more. She can always switch to MA plans later on. Its not the same the other direction. If your broker is only pushing Medicare Advantage, find someone else.
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My 2026 Health Insurance Premium Increase
Quality would drop because staff would be let go. The insurance through your work pays healthcare more than medicare pays. You take away the incremental difference and people will lose jobs. Also all hospitals will start to resemble the county hospital that honesty most here on this forum would look to avoid. If you have a job that provides you with decent/good insurance, you don't want Medicare for All. If we went to Medicare for All, below are my high level thoughts on the quality impact. I'm not talking about money. Poor - better care because today most doctors avoid Medicaid patients. The poor struggle to find care. They would now be on equal footing and will have more options. Lower to middle class - about the same, maybe better. Middle to high class - worse. This group currently has the best insurance through their jobs. They will now see the lower two groups taking more doctor times. nothing inherently wrong with this but its a reality. High to uber wealthy class - same to better. They will join (and pay through the nose) private concierge and priority care. This group always has law carve-outs to protect them and come out ahead. I'm not opposed to changes. I think that all children should be covered for free by the govt. Workers shouldn't be penalized with expensive health plans just because they had kids. Besides as a society I think we owe it to get kids to adulthood as healthy as possible. Just like how we decided to give free schooling. Parents could still opt for private healthcare for kids just like with private schooling.
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Mamdani's Mamdate
could you imagine how fast the impeachment hearing would start from the GOP if Obama had written this? But he did wear a tan suit one day and he's black. So there's that.
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Nancy Mace: Sexual assault survivor or cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs?
I don't understand why any witness engages with Mace. If she asks a question, answer any other question to burn out the clock. She will get upset but that will help run out her time even faster. Or reply that you don't understand the question. Or answer it as if she said that African Americans instead of Somali. Flip it into that she's asking if non-whites should be citizens.
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Trump/MAGA has ruined sports
I'm also part of the crowd that doesn't understand the appeal of sports gambling. I've placed bets at sports books and even won a few large parlays, but I've never experienced the appeal of sports gambling. I can play craps for hours, and sports? nah. And now that you add to the obvious fact that players, coaches, and refs are aware of lines, and there are cases where they act on the lines, it's practically a fixed game now. Now the fix may be on your side. You can get lucky. I don't agree much with Texas politicians, but I'm aligned with Dan Patrick that we don't need gambling here.
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My 2026 Health Insurance Premium Increase
Then quality of care will then drop. Doctors and hospitals will need to decrease staff to accommodate less revenue. And not just office staff but direct care. Someone above made a comment that the rest of the world has solved healthcare so why can't we. It's a bit simplistic to say that they've solved it when there is most likely 180 systems for the 180 countries. There isn't 1 solution out there, and each one of them has their deficiencies. Not to mention that the US indirectly subsidizes the rest of the world's healthcare since our model creates new drugs and treatment. And now that the US govt is out of research as of 2025, healthcare is even more dependent on the US capitalist system. I don't have the magic answer either. No one does. I've never even heard the Medicare for All side define if they mean traditional medicare or medicare advantage. They're not the same. Personally I think Medicare Advantage sucks.
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Greenland - Tassa Eller Asu !!!!
Does anyone not think that Russia is funding an information campaign to convince Trump to forcibly take over Greenland? Russia wouldn't even want Greenland or Denmark to agree to it, they want a conflict in NATO.
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Loser cunt Kari Lake is holding Trumpy rallies now
AZ wasn't her home? Am I missing something here?
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