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Jack Is The Biasss's avatar

You know, you're right. Just a few hours ago, I was talking to my wife about this very thing. I said I didn't agree with a lot of things Obama did. I mentioned the uptick in drone strikes, his hesitance to grant the LGBTQ community the rights they have fought for for over forty years, the compromises in regard to Social Security, basically everything you said. The difference, we agreed, was that we called him on it at the time. We didn't just pretend those things didn't happen and we didn't excuse then with "but Dubya. . ."

Early on, I actually wanted Bernie. When he wasn't the candidate and the only other real choice was 45, I voted accordingly. I went for what I thought was the best interest of myself and the country. I knew she was very flawed and don't make excuses for it. 45 was, even the, far more flawed. That's still reality. He is revealing more flaws by the hour and I am sure that later today (Saturday), he will tweet something insane and another layer will be peeled back. I am also sure that if Hillary had won, we'd have our saner weekends back.

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Retief of the CDT's avatar

First the first time in a while I begin to see some hope for this mess. While I was pulling for early impeachment (still haven't given up on that horse), the growing conflicts among the House republican factions may be the next best thing: a virtual deadlock on the worst of the regressive legislation.

The moment Trump took office we knew Planned Parenthood funding and the ACA were going to be high-profile targets, but the inability to produce any kind of functional replacement plan for ACA /PP services might make those moot.

The olds (like me) are getting increasingly agitated about their health care and might stop respecting party loyalties to protect their benefits. The AARP isn't real happy with any of the proposals being floated, and their members are both vocal and vote.

It's one thing to conceptually stick it to the blacks and illegal foreigners, and quite another when your mom's healthcare premiums just tripled.

Things like the wall and the general incompetence of the incoming administration are kabuki theater. The real fight is now in the House among the GOP. The mid-terms should serve to further divide them. I'll take stasis over regression any day.

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Leliel's avatar

So, literally one insurance company in desperate need of money came out in support, and Memory of a Goldfish McGee made an off-hand remark?

Assumes facts not in evidence.

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Leliel's avatar

Uh...no.

If people are making plans that are based on them not working and thus, pretending to do something, THEY are the ones fucked.

Assuming, of course, that David Brooks was a stopped clock today.

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Leliel's avatar

Yes, the short one shortly before he eats a sniper bullet.

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Keith Taylor's avatar

Come on. That's criticising Republicans unfairly. In fact they are the real sentimental, unrealistic socialists. So far as I know, they haven't even introduced a bill to tax everybody bar the richest ten per cent for breathing. Yet.

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Keith Taylor's avatar

Besides messing horribly with ordinary people's access to existing medical care, the GOP is likely to hamstring medical research too. Badly. Medical research takes immense medical centres and it is expensive. But like most research, it generally pays off, and in this area, it saves enormous amounts that would otherwise have to be spent caring for people after they become sick -- in ways that would have been preventable if the research had been done.No. I'm really stupid. I was forgetting. If women are constantly getting pregnant they won't have time to protest, and there will be lots of uneducated serfs to do the cheap labour no matter how many kick the bucket. And next month the GOP can start massive repeals of FDA safety regulations. The market will take care of that much more efficiently; if a product isn't safe it won't sell.Thalidomide? Never happened. Fake news.

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Bell the Blind Tiger MCD's avatar

umm...why are you responding to me as if I don't know that?

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Keith Taylor's avatar

Because I got carried away. I was furious about the whole planned repeal of the ACA, and then I started thinking about funded medical research which will get the axe too -- no doubt -- if Trump has his way, and then I started thinking about global warming research and evolution and all the other science that this crazy administration will cripple if it can, and I read your comment about ACA repeal and I just lifted off the Launchpad without really stopping to think if it was appropriate.Still seething. Love science. But I did not mean to patronise you at all. I apologise if it came across that way.

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Bell the Blind Tiger MCD's avatar

maybe more appropriateas its own comment and not a reply.

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Keith Taylor's avatar

You're right.

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Keith Taylor's avatar

Wait. I'm not a U.S. citizen, but ... Maricopa County, Arizona. Isn't it notorious as the county where Joe Arpaio was sheriff for about a quarter-century? And cost the taxpayers tens of millions in court costs because of lawsuits from, among others, officials and even judges he made harassment targets with false charges? And hangs on to the birther conspiracy like a deranged bulldog after even Donald Trump has let it go and admitted there's nothing to it? That Joe Arpaio? (Swiftly checks out Fascist Joe Arpaio online.) Omigawd. Yes it is.Then I suppose these opinions in Maricopa County needn't amaze me.

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Keith Taylor's avatar

Sounds as if you are one lucky man. I'm another. Cheers.

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Keith Taylor's avatar

So horribly depressingly fucking true.

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Jack Is The Biasss's avatar

I am! I'm very glad you are too! A toast to our partners in life! Cheers!

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lovelydestruction's avatar

Like a misplaced gill slit. https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

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