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  • AxtremusA Axtremus

    Single payer universal healthcare FTW!!!

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    @Axtremus said in Shutdown Length:

    Single payer universal healthcare FTW!!!

    Great! Just so long as you’re the payer. And I get every service that I want.

    The Brad

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      It’s interesting that she understands the Dems ask here, agrees with it, but still has to throw in the bit about illegals to stay consistent with the talking points. Or maybe to indemnify her coming vote with the Dems. .

      If you don't take it, it can only good happen.

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      • MikM Mik

        I don’t think so. I think he’d like to be the president who establishes universal healthcare. Very transformational.

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        @Mik said in Shutdown Length:

        I don’t think so. I think he’d like to be the president who establishes universal healthcare. Very transformational.

        I believe that way back when, President Trump was quite in favor of universal health care.

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        • taiwan_girlT taiwan_girl

          @Mik said in Shutdown Length:

          I don’t think so. I think he’d like to be the president who establishes universal healthcare. Very transformational.

          I believe that way back when, President Trump was quite in favor of universal health care.

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          @taiwan_girl said in Shutdown Length:

          @Mik said in Shutdown Length:

          I don’t think so. I think he’d like to be the president who establishes universal healthcare. Very transformational.

          I believe that way back when, President Trump was quite in favor of universal health care.

          Again. Trump is a Clinton Democrat. I’ve said it several dozen times.

          The Brad

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          • LuFins DadL LuFins Dad

            @taiwan_girl said in Shutdown Length:

            @Mik said in Shutdown Length:

            I don’t think so. I think he’d like to be the president who establishes universal healthcare. Very transformational.

            I believe that way back when, President Trump was quite in favor of universal health care.

            Again. Trump is a Clinton Democrat. I’ve said it several dozen times.

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            @LuFins-Dad said in Shutdown Length:

            Again. Trump is a Clinton Democrat. I’ve said it several dozen times.

            On healthcare, he is not. Bill Clinton launched childhood immunization initiatives during his presidency.
            On global trade, he is also not. Bill Clinton embraced globalization.
            On foreign policy, he is also not. Bill Clinton promoted NATO expansion, the UN, and multilateralism.

            Heck, how did you convince yourself that Trump is a Clinton Democrat?

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              His taste in young interns?

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                LOL

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                • AxtremusA Axtremus

                  @LuFins-Dad said in Shutdown Length:

                  Again. Trump is a Clinton Democrat. I’ve said it several dozen times.

                  On healthcare, he is not. Bill Clinton launched childhood immunization initiatives during his presidency.
                  On global trade, he is also not. Bill Clinton embraced globalization.
                  On foreign policy, he is also not. Bill Clinton promoted NATO expansion, the UN, and multilateralism.

                  Heck, how did you convince yourself that Trump is a Clinton Democrat?

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                  @Axtremus said in Shutdown Length:

                  @LuFins-Dad said in Shutdown Length:

                  Again. Trump is a Clinton Democrat. I’ve said it several dozen times.

                  On healthcare, he is not. Bill Clinton launched childhood immunization initiatives during his presidency.

                  Trump launched what would become the largest immunization campaign in history during his first term.

                  On global trade, he is also not. Bill Clinton embraced globalization.

                  Don’t be fooled for a minute. Trump is very much a globalist, he just believes that the US as the largest market is not getting the preferential treatment in trade agreements that he believes they should.

                  On foreign policy, he is also not. Bill Clinton promoted NATO expansion, the UN, and multilateralism.

                  In case you didn’t notice, NATO has expanded since 2016, adding four new nations. In addition and more importantly, NATO nations have expanded their spending and grown their military capabilities substantially.

                  As far as multilateralism, Trump has very much embraced it, from the Abraham Accords, to his efforts to get ME nations to proactively and publicly try to help with the Palestinian/Israel conflict, to his insistence that Europe has to be much more involved in the Ukrainian/Russian war.

                  Heck, how did you convince yourself that Trump is a Clinton Democrat?

                  By actually paying attention.

                  The Brad

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                  • LuFins DadL LuFins Dad

                    @Axtremus said in Shutdown Length:

                    @LuFins-Dad said in Shutdown Length:

                    Again. Trump is a Clinton Democrat. I’ve said it several dozen times.

                    On healthcare, he is not. Bill Clinton launched childhood immunization initiatives during his presidency.

                    Trump launched what would become the largest immunization campaign in history during his first term.

                    On global trade, he is also not. Bill Clinton embraced globalization.

                    Don’t be fooled for a minute. Trump is very much a globalist, he just believes that the US as the largest market is not getting the preferential treatment in trade agreements that he believes they should.

                    On foreign policy, he is also not. Bill Clinton promoted NATO expansion, the UN, and multilateralism.

                    In case you didn’t notice, NATO has expanded since 2016, adding four new nations. In addition and more importantly, NATO nations have expanded their spending and grown their military capabilities substantially.

                    As far as multilateralism, Trump has very much embraced it, from the Abraham Accords, to his efforts to get ME nations to proactively and publicly try to help with the Palestinian/Israel conflict, to his insistence that Europe has to be much more involved in the Ukrainian/Russian war.

                    Heck, how did you convince yourself that Trump is a Clinton Democrat?

                    By actually paying attention.

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                    @LuFins-Dad said in Shutdown Length:

                    By actually paying attention.

                    IMHO Trump isn't an anything philosophically. He mostly just has a lot of individual ideas, some of which change from week to week, or even I suspect hour to hour.

                    He could suddenly announce he's going to cancel the Green Card program, or he's going to legalize heroin, or he's going to build a massive fuck-off monument in Albuquerque NM paying homage to Randolph Scott, and a bunch of people would nod and say this was exactly what America needs right now.

                    IOW, he's all over the place. Whether this is by design or due to an increasing lack of cognitive ability is of course open to the reader.

                    I was only joking

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                      If all he does is move journalism back to presenting facts rather than opinions and propaganda he will have been a very consequential president.

                      "You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible." — Thomas Sowell

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                      • MikM Mik

                        If all he does is move journalism back to presenting facts rather than opinions and propaganda he will have been a very consequential president.

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                        @Mik said in Shutdown Length:

                        If all he does is move journalism back to presenting facts rather than opinions and propaganda he will have been a very consequential president.

                        And to think they said satire was dead.

                        I was only joking

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                          Take a look at CBS.

                          "You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible." — Thomas Sowell

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                          • MikM Mik

                            Take a look at CBS.

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                            @Mik said in Shutdown Length:

                            Take a look at CBS.

                            Right, they've got a new person promising to be Fair and Balanced. If I remember correctly, Jolly used to say the most objective news on Cable TV was Fox. I think that tells us something about human nature.

                            Personally, I think the most objective news is on the BBC, who by some massive coincidence also happen to be slightly left of center and British, just like me.

                            I was only joking

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                              Funny …this came up on my feed.

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                              "You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible." — Thomas Sowell

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                                #27

                                Ha

                                If you don't take it, it can only good happen.

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                                • jon-nycJ Online
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                                  jon-nyc
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                                  Does anyone care?

                                  Here’s a telling sign of where we are: On day 15, there are zero stories about the government shutdown in both the print NYT and print WSJ.

                                  WaPo too, apparently.

                                  If you don't take it, it can only good happen.

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                                    Can I just ask what the hell is going on?
                                    I mean, as I understand our UK system, we pay taxes for an appointed Civil Service which is trained and actions over years whatever our various elected governments asks of them.

                                    In the USA you have to agree on a budget annually to pay the equivalent people; a small amount is mandated but a huge amount is discretionary.

                                    Yet even when both US houses support Trump they can't agree on a budget, so start firing people?
                                    WTF?

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                                    • jon-nycJ Online
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                                      #30

                                      They need a certain number of votes that they can’t get by themselves. A simple majority in the senate isn’t sufficient, they need 60 votes which can only happen with democratic support.

                                      If you don't take it, it can only good happen.

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                                        AndyD
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                                        Ah.
                                        Still, surely isn't it ridiculous that your country can't give their necessary federal workers, including military(?), a steady job and salary?

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                                        • jon-nycJ Online
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                                          Yeah. It is.

                                          If you don't take it, it can only good happen.

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