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what's nutty about a conversation on abortion? elaborate.

Other than the nation's top law enforcement officials, a former president and his cabinet, the nominee for president from the party that vowed to destroy him and political enemies that called him a traitor to the country, a complicit media that would have made Goebbels proud, all conspiring to be a major threat to him personally, and his family as well, yes? ?

Part of the problem is that the first time he did a speech like that, there was a zoot suit riot when he finished speaking. things changed pretty rapidly these last 47 years. I have to say, @transplantbillsfan, it's hard for a guy to look substantially older than his 77 years, there just isn't that much math left on the other side of the birthday cake. Joe pulled it off though, when his wife walked up and he thought she brought the jello from the retirement home commissary.

I think hes doing Spicioli in this clip? Its gibberish.

Here's the thing about that though. The president is on record many, many times over on the action undertaken, the resiliency of the American people and that we'll get through this. This big-headed douche is no objective reporter, he's been on the wrong side of the Russian/traitor/collusion/obstruction issues for 4 years. I know this because I watch him, have seen what he "reports" and how he reports it. Since I know what the president has said, this big dopey douche knows it. So, he knows what the president has said. What then is the purpose of the question whe the answer is known? Personally, I think the Trumpster got tired of answering trite and stupid phony questions that are wasting valuable time, and it's time he's taking away from one of the other hundred things he has to do.

We have a very nice little take out place near our house. They have been in business for as long as we have lived here, which is pushing 32 years. The family works hard, and are valued members of the community. It was indeed unfortunate that after one last delicious order of fried dumplings, I was forced to shun them and join the masses demanding they take their woks and go back to Wuhan. The mom explained that she’s actually from Louisville, her husband from Tokyo, which seemed confusing but plausible. We dispersed, for now. MATT DAMON???? He’s one of my he’s a lib but I’ll look the other way actors! Aww c’mon!!

I have considered it, and were I not a happily married man, and were I asked, I would shelter in place with her for up to 30 days. Maybe more.

Good luck my friend. That’s clearly the smart play, and very sorry to hear about your health issues.

That last one is the hottest centaur I’ve ever seen, and I’m not a young man.

Restricted list?

Jesus Christ, did they move Buffalo on me???

i'm a multi-billionaire and i reject his apology as shallow and pedantic.

It makes me sad to read things posted in support of a position that suggest the opposite of what you think. the hill article does indeed cite articles showing how WONDERFUL nationalized heath care would be. Having read the Sander's proposal, and the link provided to the Jayapal proposal, I can tell you they rely heavily on smoke and mirrors and the hope that you won't ask questions beyond such lofty projections as to save $300-600 billion on administrative costs, make broad and sweeping generalizations that members of the medical profession spend most of their day dealing with insurance companies and billing as opposed to practicing medicine, and of course CEO! pay by the kazillions. No details are provided, of course, but that's par for the course when making an emotional appeal for 100% government control of your health care. That's bad enough, but to cite a link to the "Mercatus Study" as if it supports the Sanders or Jayapal "proposal" is absurd. Did you read it? It makes the argument every first year high school student could make spending a few hours researching the current slate of entitlement programs offered in this country: 1. The revenue required to fund this scheme is roughly 50% of what would be required even using the aggressive (unrealistic) estimated savings; 2. Paying health care providers on a 'medicare for all rate' means paying them a lot less than they currently make, and that begs the question--why become a doctor to be a glorified employee of the state? 3. Prescription drug costs make up a relatively small percentage of the overall cost, and besides, the anticipated savings will likely be nowhere near the lofty predictions from our governmental overlords; 4. A significant percentage of the cost of private health insurance relates to detecting and fighting fraud, if for no other reason than fraud impacts the bottom line. On the government side, that's not much of an issue not because it doesn't exist, but because the people working in the program are mostly apathetic because the bottom line is irrelevant; 5. Pound for pound, government tends to overpay, and one can only assume that problem will be exacerbated should single payer come to be. Now, the Mecatus study does indicate a need for 'robust study' given all the questions, but I'm here to tell you good old Diane Archer from The Hill was betting you wouldn't read the study. I wonder what her agenda might be, and why she implies with sweeping grandeur that even 'right wing think tanks' agree? bull####. I appreciate your thoughts on your family, the struggles you have faced and your desire to see national single payor, but humbly suggest to you that a smaller, more focused and efficient government dedicated to reasonable regulation and enhanced competition is the answer you're looking for. And, also, consider that while your family might well benefit financially from such a system, there are always winner and losers. The losers in your game are people who work for private companies and ancillary businesses by the hundreds of thousands...doctors and other health care professionals working for a bureauacracy that would make the good folks at Aetna look like the most exceptional customer service representatives in the history of the world.

Hey Sect--I appreciate your posts but at times I can't wrap my head around your view of the world. This thing about medicare for all...remove the commercial element from this (and virtually every other element of the medical system), entrust it all to the government and we end up with a clusterf*ck of major proportions. And the boogeymen...what's with all the boogeymen everywhere? The players referenced are generally multi-millionaires, and while I applaud what they do, the reality is that before a player ever dipped his hand into his pocket...the owner paid the people impacted to begin wth. In addition, as so often happens, when a wealthy person gives regularly, it's not huge news and it's not generally accompanied by a tweet. Like many individuals, some companies won't have the cash flow to sustain employees regardless of what you think might be the right thing to do. Honestly, even Cuomo's directive to require 75% work from home causes a small business like mine major hardship. It's just not as simple as "Send them home, and pay them". For what it's worth, I have paid my employees when out disability for extended an extended time (full pay, no deductions) for illness and injury, allowed folks personal time when going through difficult times at home--but it's typically done quietly and behind the scenes. I just don't understand demonizing people, and likely, hurting the employees of the companies you choose to blacklist when you can't be 100% sure they weren't doing something noble, decent, but not celebrated on twitter.

“It’s not your fault you embarrassed yourself by rushing headlong to the Avenatti For President campaign, nor that you organized the first Avenatti lipstick rainbow party, it’s actually everyone else’s fault for knowing he was a bad guy first. You had no investigative tools at your disposal, no access to information, no sources to check out who this guy was...I just don’t want you feeling bad about yourself. No one could have seen this coming.”.

Given the structure of our government, since the President was powerless to stop the process, the buck would stop with Pelosi, no? The government was near-singularly focused on an impeachment gambit that failed miserably, as everyone in America with integrity and a functioning brain knew it would. You can hate your President and still be critical of the people you entrusted with power. Ask more from your leaders. Expect more.

For some reason I think of Will Ferrell in “Old School” chucking her chin and vapidly saying “Cool Lucifer necklace”.

“Weenies”?? This is the sort of thing I would have said when I was 14. Yes... This is me in grade 9! I will give you 500 bonus points for dropping the wiggles in a Coronavirus thread. That is not easy.

Update. THIS is one of your best posts. @Foxx....send over an animated saluting emoji from your stash, will ya?

My goodness. You suddenly realize the game is rigged with taxes, raiding the treasury, Medicare, Medicaid and the like? And you think the guy who has been in office for 39 months is the problem? Get off your high horse. Trump supporters love their families and friends, pay their taxes and contribute to society for the future of the country...just like you do. Listen to the Rhino, get back to sleep Turkelstilskin.

May be one of your best posts yet.

Who would you vote for?

Look, I’ve tried to be discrete by asking innocuous questions, quizzing you about various things, liking posts and trying to get into your inner circle. I’m just going to get to it: Are you and your husband, or were you and your husband at one time, contractors for the CIA, the Department of Homeland Security, a shadowy government or quasi-government agency that operates beyond the prying eyes of Congress at the request of the President, and/or are you a specialist in anything that might loosely be described in a Ludlum novel as covert, deep cover, wet work, infiltration, or dark ops? Do you speak multiple languages, and are you that rare combination of sultry beauty and an everywoman style that allows you to pass from Kremlin dinner party to das Walmart noticed yet unnoticed? Can your husband kill me and make it look like I accidentally swallowed my own shoe lace in spite of the fact I was wearing loafers, and it’s 2020, so more importantly, can you? It’s either this, or you’re working for Amazon negotiating for warehouse space and massive tax breaks. There literally are only two possibilities based on your travel schedule.

Oh, then you’re definitely crazy. ? Carry on!

You’re likely arguing with someone who bought the “Trump is a Russian agent”” narrative spun and perpetuated by his political ruling class for 4 years. While many here correctly identified the nature of that early on, for those that didn’t, the evidence that the game was over very early on is available for public consumption. In essence, those that were fooled were duped by a modern day McCarthyesque plan, which goes to show you, there are no new ideas, just new simpletons that fall for them. I have most definitely considered that the Chinese intentionally created and released the virus, that they would willingly sacrifice their citizens to change the international narrative and hurt-or destroy their enemies. I could certainly spend a few minutes googling and provide examples of such behavior from the last 100 years or so, but I trust we would all agree that it’s a thing.