It’s monkeys throwing poop. They don’t care who they hit, they just want attention.
I am unabashedly stealing this line. Thanks.
It’s monkeys throwing poop. They don’t care who they hit, they just want attention.
I am unabashedly stealing this line. Thanks.
This is disingenuous at best. While insurance companies may not offer to pay for "unnecessary" services, they also do not actively prevent doctors from doing them. Sure, someone might go bankrupt because of medical debt, but they aren't dying and no doctors are going to prison for doing what they think is in the best interest of the patient.
So what the government is doing here is more malicious than what insurance companies routinely do.
IT.IS.ALWAYS.PROJECTION.
You should still be nervous because he only won due to Electoral College numbers, not votes. He just needs to win in the right places and it's a done deal. And if anything, quite a few of those "right places" are firmly on his side already. He only lost last time because a few of the "right places" didn't go his way, which they still probably can.
Trump doesn't need his own policy objectives. He has republican think tanks to do that work for him. He just signs his name. It's not like it was his idea to pack the supreme court. That came from Heritage Foundation or some such place.
I think this is ultimately worse than DeSantis because Trump will allow ALL THE CRAZIES to get around him (Sydney Powell anyone?) and that is what he'll do. DeSantis will bring your average GOP talking points with extra racism on top, but he's probably not going to bring insurrectionists into the conversation.
Thinking they want sympathy or support is a mistake.
They want fear.
(I am US based and this is my US based argument - please do not EuroTroll me)
But herein lies the problem. "Progressive" often means new or novel. Conservative mostly means "preserve the status quo." (I'm over simplifying for the sake of making a point, I know).
Conservatives are willing to sit on the status quo and work against change as they can. Progressives want to right wrongs NOW and make effective changes for the future. Unfortunately, because our society grows and changes quickly, and what is right today can be wrong tomorrow and the target moves, so progressive goals also move. Meanwhile conservatives are still plugging away at keeping the status quo.
I'm trying to say that the nature of progressives is to change goals and make things better, which makes it harder to coalesce around one goal for 10, 20, 40+ years. When your target is the past, its easy to keep that in sight as you go forward.
There’s so much to keep track of, wasn’t he doing shady shit on Jan 6th?
Not that he can recall.
The worst part is Republicans are the first ones to trot out "mandate from the people" whenever they get elected...
If you have kids, the PBS Kids video app is pretty alright. And free (in the US of course)
This guy scams!
This story is from April, 2021.... so yeah nothing new here.