Did you read the article?

For the first time ever, a majority of House Democrats have signed up to support “Medicare for all” single-payer legislation, a threshold crossed in the aftermath of the presidential election. A number of influential Senate Democrats have also expressed support for single payer

It’s not official party policy yet, the DNC aren’t on board, but there’s a lot more than Sanders calling for it.

Yossarian wrote:

Did you read the article?

For the first time ever, a majority of House Democrats have signed up to support “Medicare for all” single-payer legislation, a threshold crossed in the aftermath of the presidential election. A number of influential Senate Democrats have also expressed support for single payer

It’s not official party policy yet, the DNC aren’t on board, but there’s a lot more than Sanders calling for it.

Ok, that’s good news but still a million miles from ever being party policy. The fact that they’d rather defend Obamacare than seriously and officially propose a fairer alternative says a lot.

I guess I just think that the party leadership are all useless, self-interested cunts who are really no better than their republican counterparts that they apparently oppose. In the end it’s all about having power and wealth at any cost regardless of who has to get hurt on the way there.

Gremill wrote:

Yossarian wrote:

Did you read the article?

For the first time ever, a majority of House Democrats have signed up to support “Medicare for all” single-payer legislation, a threshold crossed in the aftermath of the presidential election. A number of influential Senate Democrats have also expressed support for single payer

It’s not official party policy yet, the DNC aren’t on board, but there’s a lot more than Sanders calling for it.

Ok, that’s good news but still a million miles from ever being party policy. The fact that they’d rather defend Obamacare than seriously and officially propose a fairer alternative says a lot.

I guess I just think that the party leadership are all useless, self-interested cunts who are really no better than their republican counterparts that they apparently oppose. In the end it’s all about having power and wealth at any cost regardless of who has to get hurt on the way there.

While I certainly understand a degree of cynicism, I think no better than the Republicans is giving the republicans far too much credit.

Look at the GOP positions on individual voting rights, gerrymandering, hyper-partisan voting records, dropping taxes for the wealthy while removing protections for the less well-off, on repeatedly violating the spirit of the constitution in order to get their own way in the face of a democratically-elected president from the other side who they simply dislike. Honestly, the Republican Party has reached a point where it shouldn’t be considered much more than a lunatic fringe, way outside of mainstream political debate, the fact that it isn’t is a failure of the US system. The dems, while self-interested and far too cosy with big business at least generally conduct themselves within democratic norms, as problematic as some of those norms can sometimes be.

As for single payer being party policy, the fact is that it’s a presidential system. When the primaries start, I guarantee that there will be at least one democratic candidate running on a platform of single payer. Should they win, it will be party policy, at least up until the point they lose (if they do). This is just how things tend to go under this type of system.

No big deal... It's all of 15 seconds.

Syrian state-run media said Israel struck a military outpost near the capital, Damascus, on Tuesday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the missiles targeted depots and rocket launchers that likely belonged to Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard in Kisweh, killing nine people.

Tensions between Israel and Iran are high over Iran's efforts to expand its military presence in Syria, where it is a key ally of President Bashar Assad. Repeated airstrikes attributed to Israel have killed Iranian fighters and prompted threats of reprisal from Tehran. President Donald Trump's announcement Tuesday that the U.S. would withdraw from the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran has triggered uncertainty and threatened to spark more unrest in the Middle East.

http://uk.businessinsider.com/ap-netanyahu-to-meet-putin-amid-new-round-of-syria-strikes-2018-5

In more typical American awfulness news.

That’s genuinely less readable than the original thread.

I disagree

Executive summary.pdf

with your assessment.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/09/iran-fires-20-rockets-syria-golan-heights-israel

Iran and Israel at it again.
Let's hope this doesn't escalate....

Aye, the Syrian civil war is now an all out shameless proxy war with neighboring countries/factions fighting for a foothold. Israel/US, Asad/Russia, the Turks, the Saudi's, IS and whatnot.
And yeah, civilians will suffer the most.

Gosh, that swamp is getting totally drained.... right into Trump's accounts! Bigliest business deals!

Saw on boing boing that one of the seeming Russian money routes was via the NRA leadership?!
If so, full lol.

I don't think he does know it, hence my pessimism

SpaceGazelle wrote:

I remain optimistic, in that I fail to see how Trump is doing as badly as most Republican Presidents have done in the last 30 years. He's too inept to get anything of significance done, and by that I mean foreign policy and invading some country stuff. He'd be shit at that and knows it.

He pulled out of the Paris climate agreement. That on its own is probably more harmful than every bad decision made by every Republican president over the past 30 years put together.

Well certainly no worse then, but I reckon he might.