“Oh, I can’t throw undocumented people off of Medicaid — that would make Americans so angry!”
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It's worse - they somehow convinced themselves that adding illegals to Medicaid was the right and moral thing to do. (And thus if you're against it, you're bad and immoral.) So now they CAN'T change course, even though the American people are solidly against them, because that would be admitting they no longer hold the superior moral position.
Most 20/80 positions of the Democrats are like this. They HAVE to demand boys in girls sports because they spent so long claiming that wanting to keep boys out of girls sports was a moral failing driven by backwards losers.
WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T WANT TO HELP YOUNG TRANS GIRLS TO SEVER THEIR TESTICLES AND HAVE A WONDERFUL SURGICAL VAGINA SEWED INTO THEIR CROTCHES
Surgical vaginas from their large intestines. I’ve been through three major surgeries, all were life saving, all diminished me physically, permanently. There is no way, in my experience, that these body modifying surgeries are not also permanently, physically diminishing these young peoples’ bodies. The promotion of these surgeries by our medical societies disgust me.
Also, if they live, nothing works, everything hurts, the pain goes on forever, they are tied to medical "care" for their entire life, however long that may be, and as you can imagine, there is something about being "neither fish nor fowl" that tends to be very depressing. So there's that.
It all stinks like "Intelligence Community" to me. I'm a 78 year old history bug. I was there when "Hippie" and "Cubes" and "Blotters" and "Acid" were buzzwords. Dave McGowan hit some nails on the head in his "Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon". L. Fletcher Prouty's "JFK" is the textbook.
These mutilated children are displayed before the world in order to psychologically torture the global majority. They are mutilated "sacrificed" children in exactly the same way and for the same purpose as the mutilated children of Gaza displayed on YouTube. It all stinks of CIA/MI6/Mossad to me. It stinks like MKULTRA. Is there a difference that makes any difference between Zionism and Nazism? There is NONE!
Is this is your personal experience? I feel helpless to even express my sympathy, as a man who cherishes his children. You were deceived and tortured and those who did this to you are the worst criminals I can imagine. Telling the truth at all cost. That's the only thing you can do and it's a mighty and courageous and valuable service to us all. Blessings and Peace be unto you.
Thank you for your kind comment, but no, I am merely compelled to publicize the horrors of the stories of individuals I have read about and seen. Minor children with psychological problems who were brainwashed in school and on the internet to believe they were the opposite sex. Many eventually came to their senses as adults, as most do, with spotty success in what they call "de-transitioning," trying to return to their biological sex, whether male or female. One, who represents many many more of course, kept going with surgeries, having complications, in a fruitless and heartbreaking quest to become male, which she could never become, of course. The final surgery led to various organ-compromising complications that eventually killed her. She was in her early 20s. It didn't have to happen, did it.
You remind me of a young actress ruined for life by the trauma-based identity destruction skilfully applied by Harley Pasternak. I think it is reasonable to assume that this evil man is an agent of the CIA/Mossad planted in Hollywood to enforce the Trans revolution.
The earlier vaginoplasty was inverting the penis but since transgender CHILDREN (were invented?) and the use of puberty blockers early, the penis does not grow larger and the surgery resorts to a section removed from the large intestine. Using the blockers has always been irreversible (and the ideologues have constantly lied about this). Further, and widely UNmentioned: early use of blockers will prevent any future possibility of orgasm AND the motivation for early use is that post transition the person is more likely to be able to pass as the opposite sex.
Someone in the industry (@ WPATH as I recall) said “we’re building the plane as we’re flying it” . I would love to have heard the audio but I’d wager at least some of those present found it amusing. The entranced delusion levels are severe and These people are quite pleased with themselves in the starkly disordered or psychopathic way. Meanwhile Dr. Mengele is drooling in his grave.
And many also DIE from the multiple surgeries and the final complication from the final traumatic surgery ---- the one that ends all complications, of ALL kinds, forever.
My father taught human anatomy to pre-meds and Nuclear Medicine to interns and residents and post-residents. I grew up with a healthy respect for the medical profession. That automatic respect is gone. There are still doctors that have earned my respect (the lead on my cancer treatment and of course the clinical team), but it’s been a precipitous fall from grace.
My mother was a nurse and I knew from that world many fine doctors long ago. I agree with you that the world of automatic respect is now gone, but I am so glad to hear that your own doctors have earned your respect. May God bless you for the very best outcome as you and they treat your illness. Best wishes to you.
Did Joseph Mengele rise from the grave or did he never die? Does somebody need to find his coffin and drive a stake through his heart? I have a rough idea where that coffin may be found; it's somewhere near Tel Aviv, maybe some spares in Brooklyn and San Francisco and London.
Said it before and I’ll say it again: like suicide, transitioning surgery plus puberty blockers is a permanent solution for a temporary condition. Before the trans medical industry took off, gender dysphoria was treated with counseling and compassion. Now, it’s addressed by mutilation and poisoning.
“First, do no harm” has been relegated to medical archives by the purveyors of this.
According to AI search, 100 million Americans have outstanding medical bills in the thousands and a smaller percentage in the tens of thousands. People who pay taxes. Where is their relief?
EXACTLY. For instance in my State Medicaid pays 100%, and 30 days in arrears and medications are free. No CO pay no deductible no premium.
(Every state could be different IDK for sure. I DO know both my working adult children in Cali have Medi-Cal and wouldn't qualify here for Medicaid because they make too much)Contrast that with Medicare $168/ mon premium for B, $1600 per hospital visit for A and$265 CO pay for B.
My private insurance is$450/Mon premium and 20% Co pay( up to 80%out of network),20% of total and a family deductible of 3500 or 1200indiv with an out of pocket max of $5700 a year per person.
I think if people realized that they'd feel differently about hand outs to illegals.
It’s a good point, however, it’s not out of the realm of possibility that this many people have outstanding bills. (Google search cites the same number).
My health insurance sucks. We buy it from the exchange and I am always hit with bills, like the $500 bill on my counter for blood work. The best that can happen for anyone with massive bills is a Go Fund Me because no government bailout is going to happen.
Who would want to have an intimate encounter with a surgical "vagina"? How could anyone possibly be turned on by that? But that's just my hate filled screed. What do I know.
Okay wait. Let's see how this actually works. A lesbian, who wants to have sex like a man, wears a strap-on dildo. A man, who wants to have sex like a woman, subjects himself to radical surgery that basically gives him another anus but this one made from intestine. And because gender and sex are social constructs, the lesbian can penetrate the shemale and this is somehow considered affirming.
Speaking of, I assume Jazz Jennings is on 24/7 suicide watch by a group of handlers, because you don't hear about Jazz much these days, even though JJ is doing glorious "normal" things such as attending college. They tried to revive JJ's show, but the revival only lasted a season or two.
Yeah! It's like Abraham finding 50 good people so that God won't destroy Sodom and Gomorrah. God had to bargain down to 10! And even that was not so certain.
I think these are Senators and so far they qualify to my lights and what I have seen of them: Kennedy, Josh Hawley, Ron Johnson and then Rand Paul unless he could have done more about Dr Faulsi
I (too) believe Fauci (and a whole host of big pharma shills, from lowly paper pushers to mad scientists to slimy lobbyists and hundreds of unworthy elected officials) are guilty of the greatest fraud and mass poisoning in human history. But, has congressional "testimony" ever resulted in justice?
The federal budget is a money pantry for the wealth that they can use to pay off the 'Little people' and assuage their guilt, to say little of sanctimonious virtue signalling.
These people want their nouveau slaves. And they want them in good health. Accordingly, other people, not the wealthy, must pay for the poor.
If illegals qualify for Medicaid, does that mean I can call the US Embassy in Stockholm and also receive Medicaid or do I first have to go onto US territory to be able to claim it?
Because that would be effing hilarious if I could sit on this side the Atlantic Ocean and collect benefits just for setting foot in one of your enbassies!
I just happened to be in NYC last week visting friends/family when the handsome Hamasnik won the Dem primary, so I was able to offer some moral support: Hey, cheer up, I told them, no matter how stupid, incompetent or malevolent he may be, he'll never be as bad as Karen Bass. She went to Castro's Cuba to learn how to govern and she proves it every day: what took Fidel decades to destroy, she may accomplish in a single term.
And just for the record, in case anyone is wondering: there is ZERO CHANCE our educated coastal ruling elites ever relinquish Social Justice ideology. ZERO. They will let every inch of their enclaves rot and collapse before admitting that their god failed and that the evil Orange Beast and his MAGAts may have been right here and there. They are going full Soviets to Chernobyl and beyond.
They'll leave their enclaves and blame the rot on something else. Anything to avoid introspection or accountability. I mean they just dropped 20 million to study the "syntax" of memes ostensibly to "learn" why the people they incessantly trash talk won't vote for them.
Their collective intellect will be devoted entirely to maintaining their self-image. Probably while using the most obfuscated language possible as a first line of defense against people with far more discernment but with a smaller vocabulary.
I don't know, I think the younger ones will leave once things get uglier (many of them are recent transplants anyway), but many older NYC Left-libs have a deep vested financial and family interest in NYC, and a deep psychological investment in being a New Yawker.
I think these people will mostly keep their heads down and blame Trump and the Republicans, no matter what. They simply have no other way to process the world. Maybe in the end it comes down to how much you believe in the State and its power—for people who believe that it's possible for the State to solve every problem and soothe every wound, they will always imagine their political opponents as the impediments to utopia. And now that politics has swallowed art, culture, family, sex and love etc, it's hard to find a single person who hasn't pledged their eternal soul to the news cycle, esp the upscale urban "educated". They will just have to live in the rubble and learn how to adapt and rationalize it. Either way, this is an experiment I can live without and I'm very glad I escaped.
I just happened to watch Escape from New York again last night. Considering the movie was made back in 1981, I was thinking that John Carpenter’s vision of a future New York wasn’t far off the mark from where it is today…except for the wall. Gotta build a wall…
Castro’s Cuba is not doing all that bad considering. I doubt that Karen Bass learned anything about governing while she was there. This level of incompetence is all home grown.
…to smaller flourishing conservative-libertarian communities, and in large enough numbers to take over politically and do exactly the same thing to those communities.
Parasites killing their hosts and then moving on to new ones (just like they moved from a devastated southern MD to a fresh northern VA)
Very first public land acknowledgment I ever heard was at a big event at the University of Texas at Austin. Lady got up and spoke of how the land-that-was-now-a-convention-center was once the home of (among others) the Tonkawa and Comanche peoples. I started laughing, because I knew the Tonkawa were notorious cannibals back in the day, and the Comanche (who came to the southern plains from somewhere near present-day Nevada) hated them. Great anecdote about the Comanche catching a band of Tonkawa eating a Comanche's leg, and the battle that ensued. When the Comanche finally won victory, they threw the enemy wounded onto a bonfire "and danced around in great glee as we saw the grease and blood run from their bodies, and were delighted to see them swell up and hear the hide pop as it would burst in the fire." America's first melting pot, so to speak.
When you have ZERO logic, facts, truth, & common sense in your arguments, all you have left is a screed that is “batshit hysterical to the point of psychosis.” It’s the jacked up on steroids version of the American traveler, who when realizing the citizen of the country he is visiting doesn’t understand English, just talks LOUDER AND SLOWER.
I strongly suspect they reject kicking illegal immigrants off Medicaid not because they feel a particular obligation toward the illegal immigrants but because their donors are the businesses that provide the medical care and pharmaceuticals that illegal immigrants use. It has little to do with "morality" and plenty to do with money.
Absolutely. The companies providing *start edit* Medicaid (thanks, Deborah!) *end edit* have built in the existence of illegal immigrants on their rolls into their forecast models. To keep them there, they made donations to public officials to get the votes they wanted.
Illegals will only get MediCARE if they have a Social Security Number and pay into the system the correct number of quarters in order to draw from the system.
This is different than Medicaid, which is available to all who qualify based on age, disability, or financial situation right now. There is a justification for illegals to have Medicaid coverage in certain cases, but it should be limited. It's complicated.
Yours would be a logical answer, but it is not correct.
That is not how most of today’s leftists think. Even if it is how the strategists and campaign folks think.
Although it’s possible for some of them it’s as simple as “in our state whatever Fed law says, some of the Medicaid money will be going to illegals. And we want to get as much Fed money as possible, and we got a lot of illegals.”
In that sense you are correct that it has to do with money.
But it ain’t caused in this case by campaign donors.
So the motive for congresscritters voting not to restrict Medicaid benefits from illegal immigrants is that each one wants to bring back more of the Federal money to their state, and they can get more if their state has lots of illegals?
I'm trying to square this vote with apparent passage of the Big Beautiful Bill, which all my DNC front group email sources are telling me is going to cut a trillion dollars from Medicare.
“So the motive for congresscritters voting not to restrict Medicaid benefits from illegal immigrants is that each one wants to bring back more of the Federal money to their state, and they can get more if their state has lots of illegals?”
The motive for Collins is likely her moderate “compassion” one.
The motive for the 4 Dem Senators who voted for it is likely that they are in swing states and face tough reelections. It’s of course possible that for one or more of them their motive is pure like yours (i.e. the basic idea of mandatory spending by federal taxpayers for illegals is insane), but not probable.
The motive for most of the Dems voting against is because they believe it would hurt their own chance of winning reelection - be it in primaries, or raising money, or whatever. Or because their leadership told them that if they didn’t vote with the rest of the Dems that they would face fundraising or committee seat consequences.
The fact that most of the Dems might kinda sorta think the “compassion” thing notwithstanding.
Your “square this with…” comment is an entirely different kettle of fish. Those “sources” are primarily doing that to raise funds from leftists. Perhaps partly they are doing it to harm some GOP politicians in the next election. Whether those “sources” statements are completely true, completely false, or somewhere in between is almost entirely irrelevant.
No question about the motives of the sources. But their message is so specific and widely repeated as fact in that sphere that I'm left wondering what the view of people outside that bubble is. Does the BBB actually cut Medicaid as they claim?
No, the BBB will still result in growth in real (inflation-adjusted) Medicaid spending. But it is in fact a meaningful cut in the rate of growth of that spending.
So it is decidedly NOT nothing, but it is a complete lie to claim that Medicaid spending is actually being cut.
In many local and state elections, anyone "residing or living" in the town, city, county, or state can vote in those elections. They are only prohibited from voting in federal elections. Since Medicaid is a "state-funded" benefit, it is to the benefit of politicians to extend it to as many people as possible, considering those who receive Medicaid also get lots of other benefits in addition to healthcare, which makes them dedicated voters in order to retain their "stuff".
How sad it is to have a play by Shakespeare, staged outside, for free, for anyone who wants to sip sanctity--goodness, truth and beauty--defiled by the preamble you described. Going on at length here serves no purpose. But I will say this: sex is not a brain, a theory, a feeling, a costume, a medical diagnosis, therapeutic or surgical intervention. It is a chromosome, in every living cell, produced via fertilization. XY = male, XX = female. Read that acknowledgement. That is science. Biology. What you do with it, well, that's up to you and your free will. Just keep off my free Shakespeare.
That is why i try not to get to sporting events early. And on the occasions i screw up and arrive early i try to spend the ten minutes before the actual start in a bathroom stall.
Is it hateful to point out that gender can either be socially constructed or lady brain is a thing, but both can't be true? Is hate just not being an idiot?
You have to consider who's staffing the offices of these Democratic senators. How many of them are 20-somethings from Oberlin, Sarah Lawrence, Georgetown, an Ivy, etc.?
From a fellow Angeleno , I’m not sure what we should do anymore. I’ve cancelled 30 years of theater subscriptions (Taper, Geffen ) because I was tired of being smashed in the face with the preaching bat. My once a week movie habit is dead. Either the movies are intolerable or the people in them have publicly shown us why they are only qualified to speak words others have written for them. I keep thinking it’s peaked and then I remember I don’t live in Kansas.
Job description: Open checking account, set up direct deposit from government agencies and NGOs. And perform occasional screeds. Also, it requires an advanced degree due to the complex nature of the work.
I don't know, and don't care to know, what misfortune has befallen you such as to drive you to this ruthlessly despicable language, ser. Your scurrilous accusations are an affront to all polite society! Especially so your scandalous, base and foul insinuation that things are as they appear to be, which claim is unbecoming of a modern gentleman to say the very least. Shame! Shame on you, ser, for assaulting me with this filth. Shame I say.
No wonder Elon is going to form a third party. The Dems are obviously around the bend, the Repubs are hopelessly weak where they are not corrupted. The fact that you can’t get a supermajority of the Senate to agree that we shouldn’t be paying billions of dollars to fund healthcare for illegal aliens is appalling.
Performative "justice": Also, the play was preceded by a greeting from the “associate artistic director for social justice,” and there was a pre-show drag queen storytime, and there was an acknowledgement of gay and trans artistry, and the artistic director took the stage to do a land acknowledgement, identifying the native people who used to live where the park is and also acknowledging that the park is now found in what used to be Mexico, and then the artistic director welcomed us to a public event in a time of trauma, and she rebuked ICE for harming the community. And then: the play.
Chris, did anyone volunteer to surrender their Malibu mansions to indigenous people and/or Mexicans? Perhaps the artistic director gave up her home to the Mexican crews who mow her lawn and do all the landscaping?
“Oh, I can’t throw undocumented people off of Medicaid — that would make Americans so angry!”
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It's worse - they somehow convinced themselves that adding illegals to Medicaid was the right and moral thing to do. (And thus if you're against it, you're bad and immoral.) So now they CAN'T change course, even though the American people are solidly against them, because that would be admitting they no longer hold the superior moral position.
Most 20/80 positions of the Democrats are like this. They HAVE to demand boys in girls sports because they spent so long claiming that wanting to keep boys out of girls sports was a moral failing driven by backwards losers.
WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T WANT TO HELP YOUNG TRANS GIRLS TO SEVER THEIR TESTICLES AND HAVE A WONDERFUL SURGICAL VAGINA SEWED INTO THEIR CROTCHES
Surgical vaginas from their large intestines. I’ve been through three major surgeries, all were life saving, all diminished me physically, permanently. There is no way, in my experience, that these body modifying surgeries are not also permanently, physically diminishing these young peoples’ bodies. The promotion of these surgeries by our medical societies disgust me.
Also, if they live, nothing works, everything hurts, the pain goes on forever, they are tied to medical "care" for their entire life, however long that may be, and as you can imagine, there is something about being "neither fish nor fowl" that tends to be very depressing. So there's that.
you have to give credit to the marketers who take that reality and came up with the name "gender affirming care".
It all stinks like "Intelligence Community" to me. I'm a 78 year old history bug. I was there when "Hippie" and "Cubes" and "Blotters" and "Acid" were buzzwords. Dave McGowan hit some nails on the head in his "Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon". L. Fletcher Prouty's "JFK" is the textbook.
I agree, this goes much higher than the lunatic fringe
It’s really painful to me.
These mutilated children are displayed before the world in order to psychologically torture the global majority. They are mutilated "sacrificed" children in exactly the same way and for the same purpose as the mutilated children of Gaza displayed on YouTube. It all stinks of CIA/MI6/Mossad to me. It stinks like MKULTRA. Is there a difference that makes any difference between Zionism and Nazism? There is NONE!
Is this is your personal experience? I feel helpless to even express my sympathy, as a man who cherishes his children. You were deceived and tortured and those who did this to you are the worst criminals I can imagine. Telling the truth at all cost. That's the only thing you can do and it's a mighty and courageous and valuable service to us all. Blessings and Peace be unto you.
Thank you for your kind comment, but no, I am merely compelled to publicize the horrors of the stories of individuals I have read about and seen. Minor children with psychological problems who were brainwashed in school and on the internet to believe they were the opposite sex. Many eventually came to their senses as adults, as most do, with spotty success in what they call "de-transitioning," trying to return to their biological sex, whether male or female. One, who represents many many more of course, kept going with surgeries, having complications, in a fruitless and heartbreaking quest to become male, which she could never become, of course. The final surgery led to various organ-compromising complications that eventually killed her. She was in her early 20s. It didn't have to happen, did it.
You remind me of a young actress ruined for life by the trauma-based identity destruction skilfully applied by Harley Pasternak. I think it is reasonable to assume that this evil man is an agent of the CIA/Mossad planted in Hollywood to enforce the Trans revolution.
Some detail to add:
The earlier vaginoplasty was inverting the penis but since transgender CHILDREN (were invented?) and the use of puberty blockers early, the penis does not grow larger and the surgery resorts to a section removed from the large intestine. Using the blockers has always been irreversible (and the ideologues have constantly lied about this). Further, and widely UNmentioned: early use of blockers will prevent any future possibility of orgasm AND the motivation for early use is that post transition the person is more likely to be able to pass as the opposite sex.
Someone in the industry (@ WPATH as I recall) said “we’re building the plane as we’re flying it” . I would love to have heard the audio but I’d wager at least some of those present found it amusing. The entranced delusion levels are severe and These people are quite pleased with themselves in the starkly disordered or psychopathic way. Meanwhile Dr. Mengele is drooling in his grave.
Thank you for this information. It needs to be spread far and wide!
And many also DIE from the multiple surgeries and the final complication from the final traumatic surgery ---- the one that ends all complications, of ALL kinds, forever.
My father taught human anatomy to pre-meds and Nuclear Medicine to interns and residents and post-residents. I grew up with a healthy respect for the medical profession. That automatic respect is gone. There are still doctors that have earned my respect (the lead on my cancer treatment and of course the clinical team), but it’s been a precipitous fall from grace.
My mother was a nurse and I knew from that world many fine doctors long ago. I agree with you that the world of automatic respect is now gone, but I am so glad to hear that your own doctors have earned your respect. May God bless you for the very best outcome as you and they treat your illness. Best wishes to you.
It's a crime against humanity and they are so sick that these so-called doctors convince themselves the patient will be better off.
Did Joseph Mengele rise from the grave or did he never die? Does somebody need to find his coffin and drive a stake through his heart? I have a rough idea where that coffin may be found; it's somewhere near Tel Aviv, maybe some spares in Brooklyn and San Francisco and London.
Said it before and I’ll say it again: like suicide, transitioning surgery plus puberty blockers is a permanent solution for a temporary condition. Before the trans medical industry took off, gender dysphoria was treated with counseling and compassion. Now, it’s addressed by mutilation and poisoning.
“First, do no harm” has been relegated to medical archives by the purveyors of this.
According to AI search, 100 million Americans have outstanding medical bills in the thousands and a smaller percentage in the tens of thousands. People who pay taxes. Where is their relief?
EXACTLY. For instance in my State Medicaid pays 100%, and 30 days in arrears and medications are free. No CO pay no deductible no premium.
(Every state could be different IDK for sure. I DO know both my working adult children in Cali have Medi-Cal and wouldn't qualify here for Medicaid because they make too much)Contrast that with Medicare $168/ mon premium for B, $1600 per hospital visit for A and$265 CO pay for B.
My private insurance is$450/Mon premium and 20% Co pay( up to 80%out of network),20% of total and a family deductible of 3500 or 1200indiv with an out of pocket max of $5700 a year per person.
I think if people realized that they'd feel differently about hand outs to illegals.
Ask the AI to provide a link to its source material. You’ll find the fraud behind most AI results.
It’s a good point, however, it’s not out of the realm of possibility that this many people have outstanding bills. (Google search cites the same number).
My health insurance sucks. We buy it from the exchange and I am always hit with bills, like the $500 bill on my counter for blood work. The best that can happen for anyone with massive bills is a Go Fund Me because no government bailout is going to happen.
And don't forget the colostomy swag!
US 2028 election:
"Surgical Vaginas vs Drill baby, drill"?
Who would want to have an intimate encounter with a surgical "vagina"? How could anyone possibly be turned on by that? But that's just my hate filled screed. What do I know.
Okay wait. Let's see how this actually works. A lesbian, who wants to have sex like a man, wears a strap-on dildo. A man, who wants to have sex like a woman, subjects himself to radical surgery that basically gives him another anus but this one made from intestine. And because gender and sex are social constructs, the lesbian can penetrate the shemale and this is somehow considered affirming.
The internet-joke that everything and anything is someone's fetish holds a kernel of truth, I sad to say.
For some, the very facts of its construction and the ritualised madness surrounding the whole idea, is the turn-on.
Speaking of, I assume Jazz Jennings is on 24/7 suicide watch by a group of handlers, because you don't hear about Jazz much these days, even though JJ is doing glorious "normal" things such as attending college. They tried to revive JJ's show, but the revival only lasted a season or two.
Like!
There aren’t 10 Senators with any morals at all.
Yeah! It's like Abraham finding 50 good people so that God won't destroy Sodom and Gomorrah. God had to bargain down to 10! And even that was not so certain.
Yeah, the numbers varies between 1-4, from what I can tell.
I think these are Senators and so far they qualify to my lights and what I have seen of them: Kennedy, Josh Hawley, Ron Johnson and then Rand Paul unless he could have done more about Dr Faulsi
Who else could we add?
Just saw Rand talking about forcing Fauci to testify again. Now that the GOP is in the majority they have more ability to compel testimony.
I (too) believe Fauci (and a whole host of big pharma shills, from lowly paper pushers to mad scientists to slimy lobbyists and hundreds of unworthy elected officials) are guilty of the greatest fraud and mass poisoning in human history. But, has congressional "testimony" ever resulted in justice?
The federal budget is a money pantry for the wealth that they can use to pay off the 'Little people' and assuage their guilt, to say little of sanctimonious virtue signalling.
These people want their nouveau slaves. And they want them in good health. Accordingly, other people, not the wealthy, must pay for the poor.
Though they don’t seem to care about good health when it comes to the results of trans surgeries.
If illegals qualify for Medicaid, does that mean I can call the US Embassy in Stockholm and also receive Medicaid or do I first have to go onto US territory to be able to claim it?
Because that would be effing hilarious if I could sit on this side the Atlantic Ocean and collect benefits just for setting foot in one of your enbassies!
OBVIOUSLY calling the embassy and getting in legally wouldn’t qualify you.
You’d have to *break* in…
What's the matter with Kansas...
I just happened to be in NYC last week visting friends/family when the handsome Hamasnik won the Dem primary, so I was able to offer some moral support: Hey, cheer up, I told them, no matter how stupid, incompetent or malevolent he may be, he'll never be as bad as Karen Bass. She went to Castro's Cuba to learn how to govern and she proves it every day: what took Fidel decades to destroy, she may accomplish in a single term.
And just for the record, in case anyone is wondering: there is ZERO CHANCE our educated coastal ruling elites ever relinquish Social Justice ideology. ZERO. They will let every inch of their enclaves rot and collapse before admitting that their god failed and that the evil Orange Beast and his MAGAts may have been right here and there. They are going full Soviets to Chernobyl and beyond.
They'll leave their enclaves and blame the rot on something else. Anything to avoid introspection or accountability. I mean they just dropped 20 million to study the "syntax" of memes ostensibly to "learn" why the people they incessantly trash talk won't vote for them.
Their collective intellect will be devoted entirely to maintaining their self-image. Probably while using the most obfuscated language possible as a first line of defense against people with far more discernment but with a smaller vocabulary.
I don't know, I think the younger ones will leave once things get uglier (many of them are recent transplants anyway), but many older NYC Left-libs have a deep vested financial and family interest in NYC, and a deep psychological investment in being a New Yawker.
I think these people will mostly keep their heads down and blame Trump and the Republicans, no matter what. They simply have no other way to process the world. Maybe in the end it comes down to how much you believe in the State and its power—for people who believe that it's possible for the State to solve every problem and soothe every wound, they will always imagine their political opponents as the impediments to utopia. And now that politics has swallowed art, culture, family, sex and love etc, it's hard to find a single person who hasn't pledged their eternal soul to the news cycle, esp the upscale urban "educated". They will just have to live in the rubble and learn how to adapt and rationalize it. Either way, this is an experiment I can live without and I'm very glad I escaped.
I just happened to watch Escape from New York again last night. Considering the movie was made back in 1981, I was thinking that John Carpenter’s vision of a future New York wasn’t far off the mark from where it is today…except for the wall. Gotta build a wall…
And his vision was more fun to watch.
They do not like inconvenience. They will move before they are inconvenienced but never ever will they admit that "social justice" ruined their city.
Handsome Hamasnik! That’s clever indeed.
lol thx
Castro’s Cuba is not doing all that bad considering. I doubt that Karen Bass learned anything about governing while she was there. This level of incompetence is all home grown.
She did the Ron Burgandy teleprompter thing. “Visit URL”
There will be some apostates among major supporters, if not the leaders of the elites. Bill Ackman won’t be the last.
" They are going full Soviets to Chernobyl and beyond."
Applause!
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Except that they’ll move
…to smaller flourishing conservative-libertarian communities, and in large enough numbers to take over politically and do exactly the same thing to those communities.
Parasites killing their hosts and then moving on to new ones (just like they moved from a devastated southern MD to a fresh northern VA)
Very first public land acknowledgment I ever heard was at a big event at the University of Texas at Austin. Lady got up and spoke of how the land-that-was-now-a-convention-center was once the home of (among others) the Tonkawa and Comanche peoples. I started laughing, because I knew the Tonkawa were notorious cannibals back in the day, and the Comanche (who came to the southern plains from somewhere near present-day Nevada) hated them. Great anecdote about the Comanche catching a band of Tonkawa eating a Comanche's leg, and the battle that ensued. When the Comanche finally won victory, they threw the enemy wounded onto a bonfire "and danced around in great glee as we saw the grease and blood run from their bodies, and were delighted to see them swell up and hear the hide pop as it would burst in the fire." America's first melting pot, so to speak.
When you have ZERO logic, facts, truth, & common sense in your arguments, all you have left is a screed that is “batshit hysterical to the point of psychosis.” It’s the jacked up on steroids version of the American traveler, who when realizing the citizen of the country he is visiting doesn’t understand English, just talks LOUDER AND SLOWER.
I strongly suspect they reject kicking illegal immigrants off Medicaid not because they feel a particular obligation toward the illegal immigrants but because their donors are the businesses that provide the medical care and pharmaceuticals that illegal immigrants use. It has little to do with "morality" and plenty to do with money.
Absolutely. The companies providing *start edit* Medicaid (thanks, Deborah!) *end edit* have built in the existence of illegal immigrants on their rolls into their forecast models. To keep them there, they made donations to public officials to get the votes they wanted.
Illegals will only get MediCARE if they have a Social Security Number and pay into the system the correct number of quarters in order to draw from the system.
This is different than Medicaid, which is available to all who qualify based on age, disability, or financial situation right now. There is a justification for illegals to have Medicaid coverage in certain cases, but it should be limited. It's complicated.
Thank you for correcting me. I edited my comment.
People, including the President and Dr. Oz, get them confused all the time. No worries. It's been my job to know.
Thats likely an underlying cause but I assume that 90%+ of the people that support this are true believers.
I don’t disagree really. It’s hard not to believe in something when your financial well-being rests on it.
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No.
Yours would be a logical answer, but it is not correct.
That is not how most of today’s leftists think. Even if it is how the strategists and campaign folks think.
Although it’s possible for some of them it’s as simple as “in our state whatever Fed law says, some of the Medicaid money will be going to illegals. And we want to get as much Fed money as possible, and we got a lot of illegals.”
In that sense you are correct that it has to do with money.
But it ain’t caused in this case by campaign donors.
So the motive for congresscritters voting not to restrict Medicaid benefits from illegal immigrants is that each one wants to bring back more of the Federal money to their state, and they can get more if their state has lots of illegals?
I'm trying to square this vote with apparent passage of the Big Beautiful Bill, which all my DNC front group email sources are telling me is going to cut a trillion dollars from Medicare.
“So the motive for congresscritters voting not to restrict Medicaid benefits from illegal immigrants is that each one wants to bring back more of the Federal money to their state, and they can get more if their state has lots of illegals?”
The motive for Collins is likely her moderate “compassion” one.
The motive for the 4 Dem Senators who voted for it is likely that they are in swing states and face tough reelections. It’s of course possible that for one or more of them their motive is pure like yours (i.e. the basic idea of mandatory spending by federal taxpayers for illegals is insane), but not probable.
The motive for most of the Dems voting against is because they believe it would hurt their own chance of winning reelection - be it in primaries, or raising money, or whatever. Or because their leadership told them that if they didn’t vote with the rest of the Dems that they would face fundraising or committee seat consequences.
The fact that most of the Dems might kinda sorta think the “compassion” thing notwithstanding.
Your “square this with…” comment is an entirely different kettle of fish. Those “sources” are primarily doing that to raise funds from leftists. Perhaps partly they are doing it to harm some GOP politicians in the next election. Whether those “sources” statements are completely true, completely false, or somewhere in between is almost entirely irrelevant.
No question about the motives of the sources. But their message is so specific and widely repeated as fact in that sphere that I'm left wondering what the view of people outside that bubble is. Does the BBB actually cut Medicaid as they claim?
No, the BBB will still result in growth in real (inflation-adjusted) Medicaid spending. But it is in fact a meaningful cut in the rate of growth of that spending.
So it is decidedly NOT nothing, but it is a complete lie to claim that Medicaid spending is actually being cut.
Found a Megyn Kelley interview with Mike Johnson that gives some discussion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdk1hKWnnNM
In many local and state elections, anyone "residing or living" in the town, city, county, or state can vote in those elections. They are only prohibited from voting in federal elections. Since Medicaid is a "state-funded" benefit, it is to the benefit of politicians to extend it to as many people as possible, considering those who receive Medicaid also get lots of other benefits in addition to healthcare, which makes them dedicated voters in order to retain their "stuff".
How sad it is to have a play by Shakespeare, staged outside, for free, for anyone who wants to sip sanctity--goodness, truth and beauty--defiled by the preamble you described. Going on at length here serves no purpose. But I will say this: sex is not a brain, a theory, a feeling, a costume, a medical diagnosis, therapeutic or surgical intervention. It is a chromosome, in every living cell, produced via fertilization. XY = male, XX = female. Read that acknowledgement. That is science. Biology. What you do with it, well, that's up to you and your free will. Just keep off my free Shakespeare.
That is why i try not to get to sporting events early. And on the occasions i screw up and arrive early i try to spend the ten minutes before the actual start in a bathroom stall.
Men Women M/F Family Unisex All Gender
So many choices, so little time.
It's easy to embrace luxury beliefs when you don't have to deal with their outcomes.
Is it hateful to point out that gender can either be socially constructed or lady brain is a thing, but both can't be true? Is hate just not being an idiot?
You have to consider who's staffing the offices of these Democratic senators. How many of them are 20-somethings from Oberlin, Sarah Lawrence, Georgetown, an Ivy, etc.?
Yes. And John Fetterman's staff, for example, keeps punishing him for heterodoxy by quitting. There's a real enforcement mechanism.
It’s hard to get and keep good help these days.
Remind me what happened to the elites and politicians during the French Revolution? I always like to be reminded.
“It’s the guillotine for you, Monsieur Rabbit!”
From a fellow Angeleno , I’m not sure what we should do anymore. I’ve cancelled 30 years of theater subscriptions (Taper, Geffen ) because I was tired of being smashed in the face with the preaching bat. My once a week movie habit is dead. Either the movies are intolerable or the people in them have publicly shown us why they are only qualified to speak words others have written for them. I keep thinking it’s peaked and then I remember I don’t live in Kansas.
They always feel so clever when they come up with the same thing everybody else was already saying.
The associate artistic director for social justice...😅😄. Such a prestigious title. What's the job description?
Job description: Open checking account, set up direct deposit from government agencies and NGOs. And perform occasional screeds. Also, it requires an advanced degree due to the complex nature of the work.
creating patronage jobs for those with useless advanced degrees is a major function of the government.
Chris, you need to get back in the car and do some more camping with the real people agin.
I don't know, and don't care to know, what misfortune has befallen you such as to drive you to this ruthlessly despicable language, ser. Your scurrilous accusations are an affront to all polite society! Especially so your scandalous, base and foul insinuation that things are as they appear to be, which claim is unbecoming of a modern gentleman to say the very least. Shame! Shame on you, ser, for assaulting me with this filth. Shame I say.
No wonder Elon is going to form a third party. The Dems are obviously around the bend, the Repubs are hopelessly weak where they are not corrupted. The fact that you can’t get a supermajority of the Senate to agree that we shouldn’t be paying billions of dollars to fund healthcare for illegal aliens is appalling.
Performative "justice": Also, the play was preceded by a greeting from the “associate artistic director for social justice,” and there was a pre-show drag queen storytime, and there was an acknowledgement of gay and trans artistry, and the artistic director took the stage to do a land acknowledgement, identifying the native people who used to live where the park is and also acknowledging that the park is now found in what used to be Mexico, and then the artistic director welcomed us to a public event in a time of trauma, and she rebuked ICE for harming the community. And then: the play.
Chris, did anyone volunteer to surrender their Malibu mansions to indigenous people and/or Mexicans? Perhaps the artistic director gave up her home to the Mexican crews who mow her lawn and do all the landscaping?
I mean, I assume. "Here are the keys."
I mean, I assume. "Here are the keys."