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If everything is worse for everyone, that is OK as long as everyone feels it equally. I think I referenced this way of thinking when I said we had a mediocre society.
Smart people reference it. Everything the Left touches has always turned to crap. It’s been true throughout history. This is communism. More importantly, this isn’t hope and it isn’t lifting the poor. It is the soft racism of low expectations, which brings everyone else down. We were told last night that the parties had switched who was racist. No. It’s always been the Democrats and they, the White liberals, are the worst of the bunch. They will vote for a person in his early 30’s, who AFAIK has never held a job in his life.
 

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Smart people reference it. Everything the Left touches has always turned to crap. It’s been true throughout history. This is communism. More importantly, this isn’t hope and it isn’t lifting the poor. It is the soft racism of low expectations, which brings everyone else down. We were told last night that the parties had switched who was racist. No. It’s always been the Democrats and they, the White liberals, are the worst of the bunch. They will vote for a person in his early 30’s, who AFAIK has never held a job in his life.
I attended a golf tournament kickoff party in my neighborhood last week. I was introduced to a guy that hung around my wife and I for awhile. I believe it to be because he thought my wife was attractive. I am not the jealous type and my wife is not interest in an 82 year old man. Anyhow, he and his wife are white liberals. His wife despises Texas and christians and refuses to even come into the state. Their main home is in FL and they have a few others. Anyhow, he kept referring to Texan citizens as redneck racists. He was rambling on about how generous he is to others. He was insinuating what a big heart he has for charity. He had been drinking quite a bit by the end of dinner and that is when he truly revealed who he is. He started telling us he has a mission to be generous to the other people that were not capable of creating wealth like he did. When I questioned who he was referring to (as I have a charitable heart for the disabled), he said black people. I was like, what??? I said, "you do realize we had a black president and there are a bunch of wealthy black US citizens??" He just looked at me shocked and said, "you Trumpy people watch too much Fox News". I had to leave at that point. When we hugged the host good bye, he said, " please don't judge us by my brother, he is old and he doesn't realize he is the racist".

I was like, oh boy :rolleyes: Luckily, we had to leave early. I thought about asking him if the term, Stoneaxe meant anything to him. j/k Stoney...sort of
 
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It’s sad. The Democrats aren’t the party of science. That much is certain. It’s an 80/20 issue. It’s hard to imagine how twisted a brain has to be to support biological males in female sports.
Issue; Men in women's sports

99 % against
1 % for
 
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Pop Warner Mom and I were discussing her Son on Mason's team.
He's real good and I was just advising her to keep his grades up AND his interest in football !
Been noticing him for several years !

Her response ! "Are there any colleges that admit home schooled kids ?"
Me in less than ten seconds; Stanford and USNA !

She was shocked ! But my next-door neighbors in NJ were home schooling their Son. They moved to Callie, Son got into and Graduated from Stanford.
USNA gives you where kids come from to be admitted; Home Schooling is a source.
 
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Pop Warner Mom and I were discussing her Son on Mason's team.
He's real good and I was just advising her to keep his grades up AND his interest in football !
Been noticing him for several years !

Her response ! "Are there any colleges that admit home schooled kids ?"
Me in ten seconds; Stanford and USNA !

She was shocked ! But my next-door neighbors in NJ were home schooling their Son. They moved to Callie, Son got into and Graduated from Stanford.
USNA gives you where kids come from to be admitted; Home Schooling is a source.
Yes. And that is also why the most bluest of states are coming after the home schoolers and trying to dictate (indoctrinate) what they teach.
 

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We have already been feeling this pain, and you did nothing to stop it. In fact, your only plan is to increase taxes on us, and to offer low quality universal healthcare. No thanks. We know you aren’t trying to put more $ in our wallet.


It is really easy to disparage ACA. What is your solution? Trump has had 8 years to come up with an alternative and all we hear is crickets.
I am tired of hearing people complain without offering any alternatives.
 

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It is really easy to disparage ACA. What is your solution? Trump has had 8 years to come up with an alternative and all we hear is crickets.
I am tired of hearing people complain without offering any alternatives.

Increase funding for Medicare and Medicaid for the Americans that need it most. Cover Americans that are uninsurable. Don't require insurance companies to cover the uninsurable, because they can no longer assess risk, and have to charge high premiums on everyone.

Continue cutting down illegal immigration which will lower the services that hospitals need to bill the govt. Don't incentivize people to come here, use our hospitals to have babies, and never pay a dime for the services.

Put pressure on companies like Pfizer to lower the cost of their treatments.

ACA obviously drove companies to charge higher premiums. They were no longer able to do what insurance companies do, assess risk, and price coverage according to that risk.
 
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It is really easy to disparage ACA. What is your solution? Trump has had 8 years to come up with an alternative and all we hear is crickets.
I am tired of hearing people complain without offering any alternatives.
Ya, why didn't Trump fix Obamacare! Wait, I thought Obamacare was the fix?? I guess I am confused 🤪
 

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This is interesting. Bari Weiss was run out of the New York Times a few years ago (2020) by the left wing. At the time I thought it sad because she sounded like someone who actually supported journalism in the cesspool that was/is the NYT.

A few years later she is now the head of CBS News, with new ownership from Larry Ellison supporting her call for fairness to both sides and journalism. I think NBC is trying to move this way by jettisoning MSNBC, but not sure there really is any commitment to actual journalism.

I hope Bari succeeds, she sounds like a sincere and competent person. More liberal than me but the MSM has been so bad for so long she can only make things better.


ps. I've mentioned CBS and NBC but but not ABC. Disney is hopelessly woke on ESPN, ABC, its movies, etc. Not much hope for them as they are California. and Gavin Newsome is California....
 

rillaman

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But, old Jeffy demands solutions to solve this very intentionally destructive failure known as Obamacare.




Would have been even worse if Obama had his way. Most companies got rid of rich medical plans anyway, thinking it would eventually go through.
 

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I guess that is why 80% of Blacks vote for the Democratic candidate.
Great in depth analysis as usual. It used to be guaranteed +90%. Now you say it’s 80% and frankly it’s getting less all the time thanks to DJT and of course outreach by organizations such as TPUSA. Why do you think your party has brought in so many illegals, don’t want voter ID, and are furious that the 47 Administration is going through voter rolls and also sending as many potential illegal alien Dem voters back from whence they came?
 
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Great in depth analysis as usual. It used to be guaranteed +90%. Now you say it’s 80% and frankly it’s getting less all the time thanks to DJT and of course outreach by organizations such as TPUSA. Why do you think your party has brought in so many illegals, don’t want voter ID, and are furious that the 47 Administration is going through voter rolls and also sending as many potential illegal alien Dem voters back from whence they came?

He is a member of the party that believes Black people both live without identification and are too stupid to get IDs. Unreal.
 

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It is really easy to disparage ACA. What is your solution? Trump has had 8 years to come up with an alternative and all we hear is crickets.
I am tired of hearing people complain without offering any alternatives.
If Trump has had 8 years to come up with an alternative, he wouldn’t be in office right now with more than 3 years left in this term. I think it’s hilarious that the entire 45 admin, establishment Republicans tried to stop almost every single policy he wanted, yet you think in that environment (let’s add in the first BS impeachment proceeding and the Russian hoax nonsense, as well) Trump was going to come up with some grand healthcare plan. Laughable. He has now been in office for less than a year and magically even though Congress isn’t even affirming his picks with any sense of urgency, we should have a better plan. Would you like Trump to wave a magic wand?
 

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Again, why do they charge more for individual insurance than group insurance? It sucks to not be part of a group in insurance, but it also is not fair.

I get it if the individual has pre-existing conditions, but that is not always the case. If you are an individual you are in a group that includes risky individuals that they can identify and so you are screwed. Obama care embraced this insurance risk because they wanted to reduce costs for pre-existing conditions. OK, but not fair to the individuals who were healthy.

Bottom line, our health costs are the highest in the world and we need Doge.

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