All_Pro_Bills

Most of those rich Republicans are in lockstep with most of those rich democrats protecting their interests by supporting the same polices. They don't like Trump or RFK Jr. or even a Bernie Sanders, or any other populist leaning candidates that might threaten their gravy train.

So now most faculty members don't want to attend staff meetings either. My workplace has a couple major HR initiatives. DEI and Common Culture. I'd argue they're conflicting objectives. Do you want differences or commonality? It's something nobody running the show cares to explain. Gone are the simplier days when you were just expected to do the best job you can and go home.

I hear your argument. I'm extremely healthy compared to my peers while not doing anything special to watch my health other than not smoking or drinking. In addition, no need for any medications. I'd argue there's a significant genetic component to good health as past generations of my family on both sides have with few exceptions lived into their 90's. I think there's always cost and benefit issues when it comes to pooled risk arrangements like health insurance. Some people pay and rarely use it while others are frequent visitors to doctors and hospitals. Personal behavior certainly contributes. But what vices to discourage through payment penalties, like smoking, is subject to many considerations.

Then you have nothing to worry about so why even raise the issue?

I knew somebody would be kind enough to point that out to me as soon as I hit the submit button. I'm paying for bad decisions? Sure I am but so what? I'm being forced to pay for lots of other bad decisions too. The alternative to freedom of choice is no freedom of choice. So are you advocating we should force people to be healthy? Or just "educate" them? But educated people are not immune to making bad decisions either. So what should be do? Cede our freedoms to rule by expert? Assuming experts have no bias maybe that's okay. But when you find an expert with no biases let me know.

Everything in life is now a political exercise and debate. I figure if people want to be unhealthy and slowly kill themselves through bad decisions about diet, exercise, drugs, alcohol, smoking, and other unhealthy activities which lead to bad health outcomes who am I to insist they do otherwise?

Just maybe it wasn't a real bomb and it was planted by someone working in an "official" capacity to manufacture an incident which could be used to generate political discussion and discourse while setting up some opposition group or person as the implied perpetrator?

Things are so ass-backwards the administration will probably threaten to send Federal law enforcement to force Texas state law enforcement to keep the border open. Imagine that happening in any other country. Insanity rules. House republicans looking to make a deal is appeasement. Give Biden a choice, either shut down the border or shut down the government. His choice. Make a stand, now.

There is no evidence, and you have no proof, Trump is a Russian asset no matter how many times its repeated. Mueller found no proof. His Trump-hating legal team found no proof. And filed no charges against anyone for collusion with Russians. You need to put this debunked conspiracy theory to rest. At this point, given what has transpired since the initial accusation, the premise is beyond preposterous.

I suggest it does matter because the lack of a logical explanation invalidates the ongoing conspiracy theory that Trump has some mutually beneficial quid pro quo arrangement with Putin.

A better question is why didn't Putin invade during Trump's term given the belief many hold that Trump was beholden to Putin?

So these 51 IC folks conspired to create and spread a lie in order to interfere with or influence in the election of 2020 (hiding the truth protecting Biden) so why aren't they all under charges? You know why! But I'll say it. Because these people are above and exempt from the law. Brew on that the next time somebody invokes the rule of law argument against everyday citizens or some unprotected political figure.

Fringe leftists. If it was anybody else they'd all scream and shout that's not fair!

The way I see it they're free to follow their own advice (sadly, we all know they're extreme hypocrites so that's not going to happen) and I'm free to tell them to F off. There's not a dumb idea these people won't rally around. They sit around feasting on steak and lobster getting drunk and stoned while asking each other "what's the most screwed up thing you can think of? Great, let's push for that one!

Get some new material. Do you recall your cult threw a 4 year hissy fit after the 2020 election? The resistances hands aren't clean either so you've got no claim on the moral high ground.

Your cult is comfortable with democracy as long as it allows liberals to acquire and maintain power.

So you're against democracy?

Not that you'd ever acknowledge or admit it, but no President has bumbled and fumbled the ball more than Biden which has resulted in Putin cementing his power domestically and internationally by pushing the Russia, China, and Iran alliance closer while sanctions encourage more countries to join the group. America has never been weaker, and both friends and enemies see us as leaderless. Its a damn shame your cult is too stupid and arrogant to figure it out.

The data supporting the contention health outcomes are related to party affiliation is purely anecdotal. I've worked in health care analytics since 2018 and I've yet to run across any data sets, electronic health records, claims, pharmacy, or any other source or type of data that support patient level data identifying the person's party affiliation or voting history. But the standard left victim theory is poor health outcomes in "Red" states is due to poor health choices while poor health outcomes in "Blue" states is due to under-served communities resulting from racism.

Biden's handlers know attacking Iran will result in oil prices jumping to $200 bbl which will result in the end of his re-election chances. His appeasement policy with Iran is purely self-serving. Its equivalent to no policy at all.

Based your lack of compasion for basic human decency regarding victims of government tyranny I can only believe when you watch Star Wars or Hunger Games you root for the Empire and President Snow.

Sure Biden, or any President, requires Congressional approval to wage war. But as Congress for a couple decades has not been willing to do anything to enforce the checks and balances on Executive power written into the Constitution, Presidents are going to keep doing it. To the point most citizens probably aren't even aware of such a requirement. They want to do more than complain? Impeach the rascal for infringing on the Article I powers granted to Congress by the Constitution. Its a pretty cut and dried case, guilty as charged. But we know the establishment in Washington and the power brokers wouldn't allow such a thing. So this is what we're left with, unilateral executive power to bomb and kill anyone they choose with no need to justify or make a compelling argument through the formal authority of Congress and the People.

I never voted for him either (or Hillary or Joe either) but anyone on the political or social spectrum to the right of the fringe contemporary liberal nutjobs is a MAGA member or supporter. They cannot comprehend that somebody that is apart from their "group" could have their own views, reach their own conclusions, or form their own opinions independent of some authority or group-think source telling them what to do, think, or say. How is the Left not the real cult? Just the words they use, equity, inclusions, safe space, equating the impact of words to physical violence, stuff like that. Tell me those terms don't sound and feel "cultish"?

Socialists everywhere are crapping their knickers at the rise of various national parties that have the audacity to represent the interests of their citizens.

Most certainly the GA special prosecutor did not discuss the Georgia case against the President's major political adversary with representatives of the President in the White House. That's obviously a MAGA conspiracy theory intended to discredit the administration and their 100% commitment to democracy. 🤣