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37 minutes ago, Red Five said:

The behind the scenes version of Biden sounds awesome.

We would be a lot less fucked if we had eight years of prime Joe instead of four years of declining Joe. He’s awesome. 

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15 hours ago, Shut up Lou Holtz said:

Fucking mind bottling. He’s never heard of a cat 5 hurricane… the best people 

Nothing the least bit surprising about that. He’s an unqualified moron who has no business in a position of power. He’s uninformed and incurious. 

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51 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

 

 

I like the concept but we're getting to the point of raising our credit card limit so we can go to the mall later today. I'm in favor of adding to necessary govt services but we never want to address the costs. Most likely the only way to get this proposal passed is to give the Republicans a tax break. Receive less in tax revenue and spend more. 

 

 

Hopefully this will be costs instead of money going to private equity companies nursing homes.

But man just giving money to Americans gets abused pretty fast. I would hope most of it would end up going to elder care.

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49 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

We'll see what the proposal actually looks like, but by its summary term, this is the key point: "The vice president will propose establishing a home care benefit through Medicare focused on helping families afford the cost of caring for seniors at home instead of in nursing facilities."

We already spend a shitload of Medicare dollars on elder care.  We just spend those dollars in nursing facilities.  If we can spend similar dollars on home health care, often with better care, outcomes, and dignity, that would be a really good move.  Even if it was a 1 for 1, and folks with even moderate means could supplement the benefit to pay for home health option, that would be big.

Exactly - I would guess when this is scored that it’s actually cheaper to care for Seniors in their homes as it eliminates all of the facility costs associated with nursing homes.

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On the "Trump sending Covid tests to Russia" thing, just to be clear, these were not the little litmus test strips.  These were the testing machines.  To the dictator of a country who was under heavy sanctions.  

 

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What Trump secretly sent to Putin

The book also contains new details about Trump’s relationship with the Russian president. In 2020, Woodward writes, Trump had “secretly sent Putin a bunch of Abbott Point of Care Covid test machines for his personal use.”

During the height of the pandemic, Russia and the United States did exchange medical equipment such as ventilators. But Putin — who infamously isolated himself over fears of Covid — told Trump on a phone call to keep the delivery of the Abbott machines quiet, Woodward reports.

“Please don’t tell anybody you sent these to me,” Putin said to Trump, according to Woodward.

“I don’t care,” Trump replied. “Fine.”

“No, no,” Putin said. “I don’t want you to tell anybody because people will get mad at you, not me. They don’t care about me.”

 

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Posted
1 minute ago, Valmy77 said:

Is that a real statement? Internet comment sections have become the standard for all communication.

They pretty much just confirmed it is all true.

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Posted
1 minute ago, Valmy77 said:

Is that a real statement? Internet comment sections have become the standard for all communication.

If so, Trump has instructed his communications' director to write whatever he says verbatim, no need to try to punch it up.

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Posted
1 minute ago, Js1 said:

They pretty much just confirmed it is all true.

Right?? Don't listen to the guy who we're suing because he's using our recordings!

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2 minutes ago, tbone_ said:


Goddamn this fucking infuriates me. As a resident of Scottsdale I’ve followed this somewhat. But reading this level of detail really pisses me off.

I knew Arizona was crazy, but that 60 minutes segment was fucking nuts. And the people these crazy Rs flock to and follow are such pathetic nobodys.

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15 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

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9 minutes ago, Horn Dog said:

If Trump wins, one thing I look forward to is Cheung getting round up and getting the leopard face eating treatment.

Fingers crossed!

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Just now, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Mind numbing that we have a ex-President/current candidate that communicates in this manner.

We really are well into the Idiocracy world.

Seriously.  Imagine the CEO of a publicly traded company who made such an infantile public statement.  The fucking stock price would drop 25% that day, with good reason.

And we're about to appoint that man to the highest position on planet Earth.  Fucking amazing.

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2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Seriously.  Imagine the CEO of a publicly traded company who made such an infantile public statement.  The fucking stock price would drop 25% that day, with good reason.

And we're about to appoint that man to the highest position on planet Earth.  Fucking amazing.

It used to be a skill to put someone down but not be blunt about it. The type of insult that went over the head of a less intelligent person. Trump's insults are walking up to you and slapping you in the face.

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2 hours ago, Aqua Buddha said:

The Republican Party of AZ is batshit crazy.  They make Texas Republicans look moderate.  It's because those people like the in actual desert.  Not Phoenix, but the actual real desert middle of nowhere.

 

 

nascarman on X: "Random fact: in the 1997 film Vegas Vacation, Cousin Eddie  can be seen repeatedly drinking from NASCAR-edition Busch cans  https://t.co/stlPdp5nCO" / X

 

 

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Posted
3 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

Harris now talking about seeing U2 at the Sphere.  

....and...that vignette alone will lock up the Mrs. Brisket vote.  She thought the U2 show at the Sphere was one of the most incredible musical experiences of her life.

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Posted
Just now, Red Five said:

Hmmm, who to believe. Bob Woodward, or Donald Trump. I can’t make up my mind.

It’s just more to be undecided about 

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1 hour ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

We would be a lot less fucked if we had eight years of prime Joe instead of four years of declining Joe. He’s awesome. 

You get what you get and don't throw a fit.  

 

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Posted
1 minute ago, dcbc said:

Biden shut the classified briefings off some time ago.

See! It's Biden's fault that dotard has to call Putin and Bibi to get the news.

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Posted (edited)
9 minutes ago, tx ind said:

See! It's Biden's fault that dotard has to call Putin and Bibi to get the news.

At one point, Trump said he didn't want the briefings so that he wouldn't be accused of leaking classified information.

 

Really.  Just couldn't help himself.  He's the opposite of an intelligence asset.

 

https://www.axios.com/2024/08/22/trump-decline-intelligence-briefings-leak

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I heard someone say this probably six months ago and haven’t heard it since. “Trump is enemies with our friends and friends with our enemies.”

Add it to the pile of things that would work well in an ad, but we won’t see it because they can’t make a billion hours of ads trashing him.

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1 minute ago, Red Five said:

I heard someone say this probably six months ago and haven’t heard it since. “Trump is enemies with our friends and friends with our enemies.”

Add it to the pile of things that would work well in an ad, but we won’t see it because they can’t make a billion hours of ads trashing him.

Not a new statement, but I was reminded last week that if you begin with the idea that Trump is a Russian asset, nearly everything he does and says makes sense.

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36 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

It used to be a skill to put someone down but not be blunt about it. The type of insult that went over the head of a less intelligent person. Trump's insults are walking up to you and slapping you in the face.

He's too cowardly in person for this analogy to work. He's just and angry boomer key board warrior that can't stop whining.

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I knew Arizona was crazy, but that 60 minutes segment was fucking nuts. And the people these crazy Rs flock to and follow are such pathetic nobodys.

True. But the state did vote for a D governor and 2 senators for the first time in forever. So who knows.
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1 hour ago, Valmy77 said:

Hopefully this will be costs instead of money going to private equity companies nursing homes.

But man just giving money to Americans gets abused pretty fast. I would hope most of it would end up going to elder care.

Even if some abuse it, some won't. That alone likely a net benefit. And if the elder in question chooses to go into a home, well, that will still be an option too. We can't legislate to account for every shitty human out there. 

 

1 hour ago, Valmy77 said:

Is that a real statement? Internet comment sections have become the standard for all communication.

Tell me you haven't been paying attention to these threads and Trump's truth social statements without telling me. 

27 minutes ago, dcbc said:

Not a new statement, but I was reminded last week that if you begin with the idea that Trump is a Russian asset, nearly everything he does and says makes sense.

This is compelling, but at the end of the day I can't agree with it. Becuase it would ipmly that as an asset, he's actually excelled at being a Russian asset, and I just can't square that this motherfucker has done anything competent in his life. 

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4 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

Tell me you haven't been paying attention to these threads and Trump's truth social statements without telling me. 

Guilty as charged. It is shocking.



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