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Ghost of LL

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  1. 1 hour ago, Mojo Hand said:

    It strikes me as a good reason for her to be AG, but I want the next president to get us back to a place where the president leaves being a cop to the actual cops.  One of the biggest things the next president will have to clean up is Trump's interference with DOJ and the FBI, and the best way to accomplish that is by staying out of it. 

    The president is the leader of the executive branch and sets the agenda.  One needn't interfere in individual cases to set an agenda that the corruption of the previous administration is going to be fully investigated, and wrongdoers will be prosecuted.

    Joe Biden, in contrast, would pardon Donald Trump.

  2. 11 minutes ago, Doc Sam Beckett said:

    Is it bad that Kamala looking like a snake that will fight dirty makes me like her more? It sucks, but we are fighting for our future against a party that says don't believe what your eyes see and your ears hear... 

    That's why the attacks on her resume haven't really worked with me.  When the next president's primary task is going to be cleaning up the residue of a criminal administration, "Kamala's a cop" doesn't strike me as a reason not to vote for her.

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  3. 3 hours ago, bad_teammate said:

    Nope, watch it again. She's duplicitous as fuck.

    I am the LAST person in the world to defend or praise Joe fucking Biden, but she 100% attacked him for opposing federally-mandated busing. WHICH SHE ALSO FUCKING OPPOSES.

    "Do you agree that you were wrong to oppose busing in America?"

    - Joe says that he didn't oppose all busing, just STATE'S RIGHTS (a position that Kamala agrees with him on)

    "Well there was a failure of states to integrate public schools..."

    Kamala is 100% making a pro-forced busing argument against Joe Biden in the debate. Only later she reveals that she actually agreed completely with Joe's 1970s position and the only actual problem is that he was good buddies with racist segregationists.

    She's a snake.

    So here's what she needs to say: desegregation is the goal.  Busing is one tool available to reach that goal.

    Back in the 70's, busing was really the only tool available to achieve desegregation.  Joe Biden opposed that.  He was happy to leave desegregation as a matter of "states' rights."

    Today, we have other tools available to achieve desegregation.  Where they've been used, they've often been successful.  Things like magnet and specialty schools, revision of school-attendance zones, and transfer policies have all been developed since the 70's.  

    But if there is no other tool is available, I would favor busing as a tool to achieve the constitutionally mandated goal of desegregation.

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  4. 3 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

     

    TO THE HONORABLE UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE:

    COMES NOW the United States Department of Justice, counsel of record for the Defendant United States in the above-styled and -numbered action, and due to (1) irreconcilable differences of opinion as to the effect of legal authority and strategy for these proceedings going forward and (2) inability to communicate with and obtain coherent instruction from its client respectfully moves the Court to grant it leave to withdraw as counsel . . . .

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Note: I never begin pleadings with "TO THE HONORABLE UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE," and I damned sure as shit don't do any of the "COMES NOW" bullshit.  But it makes for a funnier post.  So there you have it.

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  5. 19 hours ago, longhornmatt said:

    He does a great job of acting like belongs and getting media coverage, but sometimes the juxtaposition of where he actually is and where the Senators are is striking and unavoidable.  

    Here’s Kamala grilling Brett Kavanaugh or some high level Trump administration official.  Here’s Warren and Bernie talking about their bills for healthcare and Wall Street reform.  Here’s Biden talking about how the Bin Laden raid went down and what the Obama Administration did domestically and in foreign affairs. Here’s Mayor Pete getting yelled at by some guy after a police shooting.

    I have thought for a long time that Pete's best play is to raise money, increase his national stature, and then drop out after Iowa/New Hampshire with plenty of time to register for the Indiana governor's race.

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  6. 9 minutes ago, Mojo Hand said:

    What is the rationale for abolishing private insurance that competes with MFA coverage?  Like, why not just implement MFA without such a provision and let competitors die on the vine rather than expressly banning them? 

    Yeah--I just don't get that.  B-t's explanation makes sense.  But that is at variance with Bernie's tweet above.

  7. 38 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:

    I'm not sure what you mean.

    When I say "in or out" I mean the provider being either in or out of the system as a provider. If I'm Doctor to the Oligarchs and I treat all their congenital defects from centuries of inbreeding, I'm free to keep taking that sweet sweet DuPont lucre, but I can't be a normal doctor who takes Medicare patients during the day and moonlights with the inbreds for cash. I have to choose.

    At least, this is my understanding according to my (lay) reading of this section.

    Oh, ok--I misunderstood.  That makes a lot more sense.  I thought you were talking about the patient.

  8. 2 hours ago, Patrick Bateman said:

    I handicapped the O/U 5.5% fall in the polls within 2 weeks.  What side you got?

    I'm taking the over.  I see the numbers that b_t just posted.  And that's fine.  Joe's not going to lose because of a lack of African-American support.  Joe's going to lose because whites are going to flee him.

  9. 38 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:

    You are allowed to buy private coverage for additional services not covered by M4A.

    The 100% cash concierge doctors that the rich enjoy today will still be available in Sanders's Communist Helltopia, as long as they do not ever take Medicare money. In or out.

    Ok--I'm good with that.

    Except I do wonder why they shouldn't be allowed to take Medicare money out.  It's a minor quibble, but that restriction doesn't make a lot of sense to me.  If they pay in (and presumably at their income level, they should be paying a lot in), shouldn't they be able to take out irrespective of however else they spend their money?

  10. 2 hours ago, bad_teammate said:

    It was shorthand for "private insurance as the basis for runaday health insurance". MSNBC and the corporate whores who wrote the questions are very stupid and make things worse and less clear with their ineptitude.

    Sanders's M4A bill, which is a fully written and filed piece of legislation, allows private supplemental insurance.

    Ok.  So this is common in the UK.  There's the NHS.  But plenty of people have supplemental insurance that allows them to go to doctors who are outside the NHS.  They can still go to the NHS, of course.  But they can also go to a doctor that doesn't participate in NHS.

    Under Sanders' bill, that's not allowed?

    How about if we factor out insurance altogether.  Can I fund separate medical care out of my own pocket?  For example, there are plenty of concierge doctors now who charge $X/month and you go to them as your primary-care doctor (or, more precisely, they come to you).  Is that going to be illegal?

  11. 6 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:

    pAsS tHe ToRcH tO tHe FrEsH yOuNg MeSsEnGeRs

     

    I really don't understand this "abolish private insurance" drive.  If you're pushing for Medicare for all, doesn't that necessarily imply extending the current Medicare structure?  Medicare doesn't ban private insurance.  It expressly allows for supplemental insurance and Part B plans.

  12. 28 minutes ago, Longhorn94 said:

    so they should be turned away left to die on the street? what do you think we do now? 

    It's not even a matter of dying in the street.  People who have communicable diseases that go untreated run around and infect other people.  It's not an immigration issue; it's a public-health issue.  We need to treat people who suffer from illnesses, irrespective of their immigration status, in order to protect the public at large.

    Look--last year there was a resurgence in whooping cough.  Right wingers tried to claim that it was brought by illegal immigrants.  It wasn't.  That was just another racist lie. 

    But whatever--let's imagine that it was brought by immigrants.  What sense would it make to refuse to provide those immigrants medical treatment and instead leave them untreated to infect others?  That's not just vile; it's intensely stupid.

    Which is to say that it's completely within the GOP's wheelhouse.  "Vile and intensely stupid." might as well be the Republican Party's motto.

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  13. 26 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:

    Everyone is too quick to write Biden’s epitaph based on this one debate, but I don’t see that yet.

    I will say one thing, however, he looked old. 

    If Biden continues to perform like that, he will not be the nominee.

    Have you seen any indication that Biden won't continue to perform like that?

    Between now and the next debates, is he going to get younger?  Is he going to not have a questionable record on race, social justice, and combating economic inequality?  Is he suddenly going to be able to express succinct coherent thoughts?  

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  14. Bernie demonstrated last night just how much American politics has changed over the last four years.  He looked very 2016 up there talking about Medicare-for-all as though it were some new and revolutionary idea.  It's not.  It may not be an idea that everybody (or even most people) support.  But it's neither new nor revolutionary.

    So with no new or revolutionary ideas, Bernie just looked old.

    So good for Bernie for mainstreaming his ideas.  He should retire on that and be very satisfied with his career.  But now he just looks like an old ballplayer whom the game has passed by.

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  15. The entire raison d'etre for Joe Biden's campaign is "I can beat Donald Trump."  That is 100% the basis for his current support.  Nobody loves Joe Biden because his policy positions.  He doesn't have any.  Nobody loves Joe Biden because of his intense personal charisma.  He doesn't have that.  

    They'll vote for him because they think he is the best chance to beat Trump.

    Did he look like he would beat Donald Trump last night?  

    He couldn't put together a cogent two-minute thought.  On two separate occasions, he had to bail out of his own rambling with "oh, my time is up, ok."  No, Joe--your time isn't up.  Keep going.  Oh, you can't?  Ok, then.

    Harris just gutted a septuagenarian in front of a national audience.  Does anybody think she wouldn't do the same to another septuagenarian if she got the nomination?

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  16. 8 minutes ago, GringoSalado said:

    WaterloggedFlamboyantAmericanredsquirrel

    I can draw conclusions based on evidence.  It's not exactly a superpower.

    1 minute ago, TXLNGHRN10 said:


    Where did you see that I was supporting / defending him?
    JFC



    Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

    When you complain that this photo was published "because of who's in the white house," you adopt a right-wing meme that the media is out to get Trump.  You're certainly careful not to say it outwardly, but it is the undercurrent beneath all of your posts.

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