lmao
I have a love-hate relationship with Nancy. This is on the "love" side.
lmao
Ya.
You and me both, sis. I've been stanning for over ten years.I know sometimes people get mad at Pelosi, but I fucking stan.
Ya.
Trump will be the first pres ever successfully impeached. His shit show around Ukraine exploded over Syria and it gets worse and worse.
Oh, now you've done it. Three seconds until some enlightened thinker we all have on ignore anyway comes in here and posts that ~~~white feminism~~~ meme.
Oh, now you've done it. Three seconds until some enlightened thinker we all have on ignore anyway comes in here and posts that ~~~white feminism~~~ meme.
Warren campaign retooling the response on how to pay for M4A.
Man, you clearly know the fucking difference. The guy was saying Medicare for All was the compromise position and that we shouldn't fall into Republican talking points now he's fucking launching attack ads at Bernie and Warren for supporting... that same bill.Why does Pete's flip on Medicare for All (a fairly vague term that was being used to describe all major health care proposals earlier this year, single payer or otherwise) make him a slimeball and snake, but Warren pivoting from single-payer M4A to a public option in either the general or as president would be a good thing (something that a handful of people here have suggested)? Kamala also supported the Bernie M4A bill, until she launched her own not-single-payer M4A, does that mean she is also shit?
As someone who supports Warren, I find the growing "anyone who isn't Warren is a shit person" bubble here pretty not constructive. I think some of the criticisms Pete has lobbed recently have been stupid, but there are also posts in here booing and hissing for calling out on Warren on being evasive on whether or not M4A would raise taxes -- which is a completely fair thing to bring up! And it doesn't do any good to pretend that that won't also be an issue for if/when Warren is the nominee.
Pretty sure in the presser today Trump mentioned the letter and that he would release it.Okay, that letter is a hell of leak, regardless of its contents.
Because Pete acts like a dick about it.Why does Pete's flip on Medicare for All (a fairly vague term that was being used to describe all major health care proposals earlier this year, single payer or otherwise) make him a slimeball and snake, but Warren pivoting from single-payer M4A to a public option in either the general or as president would be a good thing (something that a handful of people here have suggested)? Kamala also supported the Bernie M4A bill, until she launched her own not-single-payer M4A, does that mean she is also shit?
As someone who supports Warren, I find the growing "anyone who isn't Warren is a shit person" bubble here pretty not constructive. I think some of the criticisms Pete has lobbed recently have been stupid, but there are also posts in here booing and hissing for calling out on Warren on being evasive on whether or not M4A would raise taxes -- which is a completely fair thing to bring up! And it doesn't do any good to pretend that that won't also be an issue for if/when Warren is the nominee.
I can't help but notice that Trump is the only one without any notes in that picture. Not that I'd ever expect him to give a shit, but this isn't a multimedia presentation, even! He's literally just showing up to argue.
Hehe
Last time his aides saw him with notes, the orange was scribbling nicknames for his political enemies.I'm sure that's not unusual. He's probably had other people take notes for him his entire adult life, including college.
Any notes he'd take himself would probably be completely incomprehensible.
I can't help but notice that Trump is the only one without any notes in that picture. Not that I'd ever expect him to give a shit, but this isn't a multimedia presentation, even! He's literally just showing up to argue.
I wish, but no:Ya.
Trump will be the first pres ever successfully impeached. His shit show around Ukraine exploded over Syria and it gets worse and worse.
That's the thing, you can't convince people to take a tax increase under any circumstances on this simply because most people are actively shielded from the actual cost of healthcare as they get it through their job as part of their compensation. Companies did this to get around salary caps back in the day, but now it's got the side-effect of making any sort of actual reform way harder than it would otherwise be.Warren needs a better answer, but there's also a reason she's talking about costs instead of taxes. She fundamentally rejects the framing about taxes. It's like how when faced with a lump sum or annuity, lottery winners almost always choose lump sum. There's a sticker shock that she's trying to avoid by reframe the way we talk about health care costs.
Does she need a better answer? yes. Will some of her critics never be happy until she says "Medicare for All will raise taxes"? yes. But is she being evasive for not saying that? no, I don't think so.
Jim Acosta
@Acosta
Pelosi went after Trump on Syria during WH meeting, accusing him of once again advancing Putin's interests: "All roads with you lead to Putin," Pelosi said, according to a senior Democratic aide.
Or eating them to destroy evidence of his Helsinki meeting.Last time his aides saw him with notes, the orange was scribbling nicknames for his political enemies.
While it would be cool to see, I'd hate for the first woman president to be because the previous president and vice president were removed from office.
yeah, for sure. it's severely warped up the way we discuss healthcare and the frame work of what people will accept for healthcare reform.That's the thing, you can't convince people to take a tax increase under any circumstances on this simply because most people are actively shielded from the actual cost of healthcare as they get it through their job as part of their compensation. Companies did this to get around salary caps back in the day, but now it's got the side-effect of making any sort of actual reform way harder than it would otherwise be.
It would be perfect imo.While it would be cool to see, I'd hate for the first woman president to be because the previous president and vice president were removed from office.
The idea that he flip-flopped on healthcare is bizarre and just shows that people don't understand the healthcare debate. He's been supporting a single-payer system since his Harvard days in the early 2000s, he supports it's now, he just doesn't think the Sanders bill is the way to get to M4A/single-payer. Like, this is a February interview, and what he said in the last paragraph is basically verbatim what he said in the 3rd debate last month.Man, you clearly know the fucking difference. The guy was saying Medicare for All was the compromise position and that we shouldn't fall into Republican talking points now he's fucking launching attack ads at Bernie and Warren for supporting... that same bill.
Flip flop. who cares. But don't launch attacks at people on positions you held months ago.
Question: I'm just wanting to ask the mayor...what he feels on Medicare for All and whether he supports it or not.
Buttigieg: Yeah, so, I'm supportive of Medicare for All for the simple reason that I don't think it makes any sense for pretty much everybody living in a developed country except us to enjoy some kind of universal healthcare. I also think it's a great example of how the debate got away from us because, you know, if you think about the right wing position on healthcare, you know the pure right wing position, it's basically all corporate, free-for-all, no regulation. If you think about the left wing position, again a pure left wing position, that would be nationalized healthcare, socialized medicine if you will, something like what you have in the UK where you have publicly owned hospitals and medical practices. The compromise, the middle ground, is a single payer system where you have private doctors and hospitals, but a public insurance plan, and somehow this middle ground has been portrayed in the American debate as if it were something from the furthest fringes of the left wing.
Now, I do think that we need to be realistic about how you get there, you can't flip the switch overnight. My take is that you implement something that I would call Medicare for All Who Want It. In other words, make something resembling Medicare available on the exchanges as a public option and then if people like me are right, that it's the better way to go, organically that will move you pretty quickly, just through the competitive process, toward a single-payer system.
Kamala also supported the Bernie M4A bill, until she launched her own not-single-payer M4A, does that mean she is also shit?
I thought that was because with low-risk investing and basic financial management the lump sum is the more lucrative one. Well, and also the "don't want to die with 10 years of money still left to payout" thing.Warren needs a better answer, but there's also a reason she's talking about costs instead of taxes. She fundamentally rejects the framing about taxes. It's like how when faced with a lump sum or annuity, lottery winners almost always choose lump sum. There's a sticker shock that she's trying to avoid by reframe the way we talk about health care costs.
Does she need a better answer? yes. Will some of her critics never be happy until she says "Medicare for All will raise taxes"? yes. But is she being evasive for not saying that? no, I don't think so.
He was the pastor who was imprisoned in Turkey.Who is Pastor Brunson in that bananas letter?
"I've already given you a little sample with respect to Pastor Brunson."
n October 2018, the Trump administration successfully secured the release of Brunson, after U.S. economic sanctions and tariffs were placed on Turkey. On October 12, 2018, Brunson was convicted, by Turkish authorities, on the charge of aiding terrorism, but sentenced to time served.[11] He was released from Turkish custody and immediately returned to the United States.