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This is excellent writing... but it's really just what these people have been doing for 40 years. Prove that government can't work by taking it over and making it not work, thereby opening the window for private industry to take over everything and have absolutely no oversight on their incompetence/corruption. (They've wanted to do it for 70, only successful at it for 40).

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He didn't support M4A or ClintonCare because those weren't his idea. Bernie doesn't put his name on everything the same way Trump does but if he doesn't get credit he doesn't wanna play. He's made that pretty clear.

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Not the most socialist of clubs. Although blue is the Tory color over there so maybe that’s right

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This will be all over RWNJ crazyland in a week or two: https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

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Great piece, Robyn.

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You’re right, but it’s even worse than we think. Read “Democracy in Chains” for the full (ish) horror story.

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Mmm. “Fake world.” Makes sense to me.

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“People are saying we haven’t had numbers this high in decades!”

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Make the governors get their own?

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There are plenty of covidiot women on prominent display at these rallies. The one hanging out of the car with her freedum poster, screaming at nurses comes to mind. More recently, there’s the grossly obese chick with the roots hollering in the face of a TV reporter that hairstyling is ESSENTIAL!

Ironically, the latter chick is in the IT business (yeah, easy to look her up on the intertubes) probably talks to clients all the time about protecting themselves from viruses of a different sort. I mention her obesity only to point out the likelihood she has high blood pressure and diabetes at the very least, putting her in the category of high risk for having a tube shoved down her throat before she dies several days later without having been able to scream at the nurses about the essential touch-up she had to miss. And what a shame, the mortician will be too busy to fix that for the family viewing that won’t take place before she gets shoved into the crematorium, number 189 that day the end.

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Twits, in polite company, but yeah, they’re Twats.

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Go too far off the East coast you'll fall plumb off! :P

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Too funny. He never worked with others or signed onto M4A bills sponsored by others because he "doesn't wanna to play" collaborative policy creation. He voted for the Crime Bill, against Clinton's health care expansion, and went on Lou Dobbs opposing Biden's immigration reform is straight-up xenophobic ways. So he should get credit for those choices. And zero credit for health care because he has done nada.Cause he only wanna play grifting.

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Its appetite for attention and approval is never satisfied.

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"Golf clap." Way to knock down strawman arguments conservatives aren't actually making dude. Now if you were intelligent you'd actually listen to the arguments we're actually making.

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