Yossarian wrote:Gremill wrote:The Dems would rather blame Trump and the GOP for rates hikes than propose something useful like single payer.
That’s not entirely true.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/healthcare-congress-bernie-sanders-single-payer-obamacare/533595/
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
Yossarian wrote:Ta-Nehisi Coates on Kanye: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/05/im-not-black-im-kanye/559763/
I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior.
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.
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.
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.
Yossarian wrote:This short Twitter thread is well worth a read, it looks like Cohen may be on the hook for bank fraud in relation to the Stormy Daniels thing and money from a Russian oligarch (who has been interviewed by Mueller) is involved. https://mobile.twitter.com/renato_mariotti/status/993970201136902145
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.
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