Sure, I was rooting for Bernie in the primary. I'm not a "Bernie bro" though. I'm generally not one to get emotionally attached to politicians, nor do I demand ideological purity from them. I'm primarily concerned with secular liberalism winning out over religious conservatism. My main problem with Hillary was her vote for the Iraq war.
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I know you are asking Seabass, but I think the way Hillary cheated during the primaries should have disqualified her. It shouldn't have been about one or the other, once one showed themselves a villain.
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Who is not racist?
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Republicans shitting in pants, as polls are totally unreliable. Blame Trump!
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Many in the Trump/Republican party have adopted one of his primary tactics: the bald-faced lie.
"Republicans test whether ‘lying to the voter’ is a pre-existing condition"
'Hawley under fire on pre-existing conditions as pressure from Dems mounts'
"Republicans test whether ‘lying to the voter’ is a pre-existing condition"
The instance described above is just an example. Republicans up for re-election all over the country have created similar advertisements in which they piously affirm their support for non-discrimination against people with pre-existing conditions, directly contradicting their previous actions. Among them, several Republican politicians who are party to a lawsuit whose aim is repealing the Affordable Care Act and its protections for people with pre-existing conditions.The Affordable Care Act of 2010 banned the long-standing practice of health insurers discriminating against customers on the basis of their pre-existing conditions. The Trumpcare legislation that narrowly passed the House of Representatives last May would have repealed these protections and replaced them with a system in which insurers could charge much higher premiums to those patients. Now, vulnerable House Republicans who voted for the wildly unpopular bill have to defend their votes this midterm election. Several of these representatives have chosen an interesting strategy: lie to the voters about it.
Republican Rep. George Holding, who represents North Carolina’s 2nd Congressional District, voted for the American Health Care Act, the House GOP’s Obamacare repeal proposal. A July ad by the North Carolinians for a Fair Economy, an advocacy group that opposes Trumpcare, featured families who would be “devastated by Congressman George Holding’s vote to discriminate against people with pre-existing conditions.”
In a response spot posted a few weeks ago called “Answer,” Holding actually shows part of the spot misleadingly describing it as an “ad to elect Linda Coleman,” the Democratic nominee against him. On Holding’s behalf, an unidentified woman shakes her head and scolds, “Don’t be fooled. The fact is George Holding voted to make insurance companies cover people with pre-existing conditions. The ad is false and Linda Coleman knows it.” On the screen, the sourcing for the claim is revealed to be his vote for the Trumpcare bill.
The claim is false: Trumpcare bill did away with protections for patients with pre-existing conditions.
'Hawley under fire on pre-existing conditions as pressure from Dems mounts'
Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley won’t offer details about his role in the Republican lawsuit that could strike down insurance protections for people with pre-existing conditions.
The threat of a big change in the law governing pre-existing conditions is the biggest, arguably most effective weapon Democrats have in the extremely tight race for U.S. Senate in Missouri.
Hawley is one of 20 GOP state officials who joined a federal lawsuit earlier this year that could end Obamacare and those protections. But Hawley and his top aides have refused to explain any details of his involvement.
He proudly touted his role in the case in February, announcing in a news release that his office “will continue to fight to take health care choices out of the hands of bureaucrats and return them to the hands of Missourians and their physicians.”
Eight months later, Hawley’s decision to join the Texas-led case has become a political headache as Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill and her allies have launched a series of attacks on Hawley over the lawsuit’s impact on pre-existing conditions.
...
Hawley has previously stated on his campaign Twitter account that he supports protections for pre-existing conditions, but his campaign did not immediately make him available for an interview Thursday to discuss his health care positions more thoroughly and square this position with the lawsuit, which could strike down the Affordable Care Act.
The ACA bars insurance companies from denying people coverage based on pre-existing conditions.
After McClatchy posted a story online, Hawley’s campaign issued a statement reasserting his support for protecting pre-existing conditions that did not offer details on how to accomplish that if the ACA goes away.
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Since the most racially equal countries in the world are regularly accused of systemic racism, it seems there is not a 'non-racist' anywhere.
It's a good reason to ignore the accusation when it blurts out. It's as classy as common as calling people kike, wop or canuck.
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Several celebrities whose political views are on the left have invited scorn through their public endorsements of the anti-vaccination idiocy. Smarmy dipshit Republican Rand Paul also supports it and now there are other Republican politicians pushing that same idiocy. The title of the article is needlessly alarmist, but it's describing a genuine phenomenon.
'The Anti-Vaxxer Disease Is Now a Republican Epidemic'
'The Anti-Vaxxer Disease Is Now a Republican Epidemic'
A survey from a few years ago showed that Republicans were more likely to take an anti-vaccination stance than Democrats. No good will come if Republicans decide to politicize this issue the way that they have with climate science.What was once the provenance of a few fringe weirdos—mostly on the loony left—has now migrated into the mainstream. At least three Republican candidates for governor—in Oklahoma, Oregon, and Connecticut—are now open skeptics of requiring vaccinations for school kids.
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I remember seeing some actors, who play 'leading lady' roles, cuddling, tonguing and lauding Harvey Weinstein. They are still taken seriously about womens issues...
Currently, the left loves Gwynyth Paltrow, and doesn't even know the name of Dr. Jen Gunther.
It's astounding how accepting the lefties are of aggressive stupidity. GP will not be vilified as much as she deserves for exploiting the public. Dr. JG will be continually vilified by those defending Goop and similar horseshit.
It recently occurred to me that while facebook et al say they want to address 'fake news', they sure don't mind accepting HUGE ad revenue from known pseudoscience cheats. It isn't all that hard to write an 'algorythm' to identify such nonsense (I use the venn diagram of irrational nonsense, and include anyone who shares office space with those known cheats)
Currently, the left loves Gwynyth Paltrow, and doesn't even know the name of Dr. Jen Gunther.
It's astounding how accepting the lefties are of aggressive stupidity. GP will not be vilified as much as she deserves for exploiting the public. Dr. JG will be continually vilified by those defending Goop and similar horseshit.
It recently occurred to me that while facebook et al say they want to address 'fake news', they sure don't mind accepting HUGE ad revenue from known pseudoscience cheats. It isn't all that hard to write an 'algorythm' to identify such nonsense (I use the venn diagram of irrational nonsense, and include anyone who shares office space with those known cheats)
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So, you imply that no one should ever be called racist.Cunt wrote: ↑Wed Oct 24, 2018 3:07 pmSince the most racially equal countries in the world are regularly accused of systemic racism, it seems there is not a 'non-racist' anywhere.
It's a good reason to ignore the accusation when it blurts out. It's as classy as common as calling people kike, wop or canuck.
KKK?
The neo-Nazis who chant "kill the Jews"?
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Not at all, JimC, but it is used so often, that it doesn't catch my attention anymore. It certainly doesn't convince me I am going to see racism.JimC wrote: ↑Wed Oct 24, 2018 8:05 pmSo, you imply that no one should ever be called racist.Cunt wrote: ↑Wed Oct 24, 2018 3:07 pmSince the most racially equal countries in the world are regularly accused of systemic racism, it seems there is not a 'non-racist' anywhere.
It's a good reason to ignore the accusation when it blurts out. It's as classy as common as calling people kike, wop or canuck.
Sure, but I'm not exactly sure where the line needs to be. For me, I think about actions, not beliefs. I'm used to lots of distinctions in life which are based on race. Some positive, some negative. Some against minorities, some against majorities.
KKK?
The neo-Nazis who chant "kill the Jews"?
I choose to think, for example, that Milo isn't racist. So many accuse him of it, I'm confident that many would call me racist for simply not seeing it.
I don't think Trump checks out as racist. How long do you think before Trump Derangement Syndrome causes someone to rush in to provide evidence, with no effort or willingness to show how to earn the label, or how one would acquit themselves if innocent?
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Don't mind me, I'm just listening to the deafening silence here.L'Emmerdeur wrote:Many in the Trump/Republican party have adopted one of his primary tactics: the bald-faced lie.
"Republicans test whether ‘lying to the voter’ is a pre-existing condition"
The instance described above is just an example. Republicans up for re-election all over the country have created similar advertisements in which they piously affirm their support for non-discrimination against people with pre-existing conditions, directly contradicting their previous actions. Among them, several Republican politicians who are party to a lawsuit whose aim is repealing the Affordable Care Act and its protections for people with pre-existing conditions.The Affordable Care Act of 2010 banned the long-standing practice of health insurers discriminating against customers on the basis of their pre-existing conditions. The Trumpcare legislation that narrowly passed the House of Representatives last May would have repealed these protections and replaced them with a system in which insurers could charge much higher premiums to those patients. Now, vulnerable House Republicans who voted for the wildly unpopular bill have to defend their votes this midterm election. Several of these representatives have chosen an interesting strategy: lie to the voters about it.
Republican Rep. George Holding, who represents North Carolina’s 2nd Congressional District, voted for the American Health Care Act, the House GOP’s Obamacare repeal proposal. A July ad by the North Carolinians for a Fair Economy, an advocacy group that opposes Trumpcare, featured families who would be “devastated by Congressman George Holding’s vote to discriminate against people with pre-existing conditions.”
In a response spot posted a few weeks ago called “Answer,” Holding actually shows part of the spot misleadingly describing it as an “ad to elect Linda Coleman,” the Democratic nominee against him. On Holding’s behalf, an unidentified woman shakes her head and scolds, “Don’t be fooled. The fact is George Holding voted to make insurance companies cover people with pre-existing conditions. The ad is false and Linda Coleman knows it.” On the screen, the sourcing for the claim is revealed to be his vote for the Trumpcare bill.
The claim is false: Trumpcare bill did away with protections for patients with pre-existing conditions.
'Hawley under fire on pre-existing conditions as pressure from Dems mounts'
Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley won’t offer details about his role in the Republican lawsuit that could strike down insurance protections for people with pre-existing conditions.
The threat of a big change in the law governing pre-existing conditions is the biggest, arguably most effective weapon Democrats have in the extremely tight race for U.S. Senate in Missouri.
Hawley is one of 20 GOP state officials who joined a federal lawsuit earlier this year that could end Obamacare and those protections. But Hawley and his top aides have refused to explain any details of his involvement.
He proudly touted his role in the case in February, announcing in a news release that his office “will continue to fight to take health care choices out of the hands of bureaucrats and return them to the hands of Missourians and their physicians.”
Eight months later, Hawley’s decision to join the Texas-led case has become a political headache as Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill and her allies have launched a series of attacks on Hawley over the lawsuit’s impact on pre-existing conditions.
...
Hawley has previously stated on his campaign Twitter account that he supports protections for pre-existing conditions, but his campaign did not immediately make him available for an interview Thursday to discuss his health care positions more thoroughly and square this position with the lawsuit, which could strike down the Affordable Care Act.
The ACA bars insurance companies from denying people coverage based on pre-existing conditions.
After McClatchy posted a story online, Hawley’s campaign issued a statement reasserting his support for protecting pre-existing conditions that did not offer details on how to accomplish that if the ACA goes away.
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Shows what weak candidates the Republicans had. Trump was not going to attract any from the middle, but had more appeal than Ted Cruz. Though it's all show, trump is no more human than Ted.I know you are asking Seabass, but I think the way Hillary cheated during the primaries should have disqualified her. It shouldn't have been about one or the other, once one showed themselves a villain.
Any of the Democratic candidates would have made rational leaders. Hillary probably the least likable. But I would trust her to run politics that she outlined. That nobody read as they did not fit into a tweet.
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Our case for survival before it's too late
Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...
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Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late
Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
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Echo... ...echo... ...echo... ...co... ...co...Brian Peacock wrote:Don't mind me, I'm just listening to the deafening silence here.L'Emmerdeur wrote:Many in the Trump/Republican party have adopted one of his primary tactics: the bald-faced lie.
"Republicans test whether ‘lying to the voter’ is a pre-existing condition"
The instance described above is just an example. Republicans up for re-election all over the country have created similar advertisements in which they piously affirm their support for non-discrimination against people with pre-existing conditions, directly contradicting their previous actions. Among them, several Republican politicians who are party to a lawsuit whose aim is repealing the Affordable Care Act and its protections for people with pre-existing conditions.The Affordable Care Act of 2010 banned the long-standing practice of health insurers discriminating against customers on the basis of their pre-existing conditions. The Trumpcare legislation that narrowly passed the House of Representatives last May would have repealed these protections and replaced them with a system in which insurers could charge much higher premiums to those patients. Now, vulnerable House Republicans who voted for the wildly unpopular bill have to defend their votes this midterm election. Several of these representatives have chosen an interesting strategy: lie to the voters about it.
Republican Rep. George Holding, who represents North Carolina’s 2nd Congressional District, voted for the American Health Care Act, the House GOP’s Obamacare repeal proposal. A July ad by the North Carolinians for a Fair Economy, an advocacy group that opposes Trumpcare, featured families who would be “devastated by Congressman George Holding’s vote to discriminate against people with pre-existing conditions.”
In a response spot posted a few weeks ago called “Answer,” Holding actually shows part of the spot misleadingly describing it as an “ad to elect Linda Coleman,” the Democratic nominee against him. On Holding’s behalf, an unidentified woman shakes her head and scolds, “Don’t be fooled. The fact is George Holding voted to make insurance companies cover people with pre-existing conditions. The ad is false and Linda Coleman knows it.” On the screen, the sourcing for the claim is revealed to be his vote for the Trumpcare bill.
The claim is false: Trumpcare bill did away with protections for patients with pre-existing conditions.
'Hawley under fire on pre-existing conditions as pressure from Dems mounts'
Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley won’t offer details about his role in the Republican lawsuit that could strike down insurance protections for people with pre-existing conditions.
The threat of a big change in the law governing pre-existing conditions is the biggest, arguably most effective weapon Democrats have in the extremely tight race for U.S. Senate in Missouri.
Hawley is one of 20 GOP state officials who joined a federal lawsuit earlier this year that could end Obamacare and those protections. But Hawley and his top aides have refused to explain any details of his involvement.
He proudly touted his role in the case in February, announcing in a news release that his office “will continue to fight to take health care choices out of the hands of bureaucrats and return them to the hands of Missourians and their physicians.”
Eight months later, Hawley’s decision to join the Texas-led case has become a political headache as Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill and her allies have launched a series of attacks on Hawley over the lawsuit’s impact on pre-existing conditions.
...
Hawley has previously stated on his campaign Twitter account that he supports protections for pre-existing conditions, but his campaign did not immediately make him available for an interview Thursday to discuss his health care positions more thoroughly and square this position with the lawsuit, which could strike down the Affordable Care Act.
The ACA bars insurance companies from denying people coverage based on pre-existing conditions.
After McClatchy posted a story online, Hawley’s campaign issued a statement reasserting his support for protecting pre-existing conditions that did not offer details on how to accomplish that if the ACA goes away.
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